YEAR 1 | ISSUE 2 | APRIL, 2012
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A 5-day Mission 10X Faculty Empowerment Workshop was organized from 21st to 25th February, 2012 at GCET campus in collaboration with WIPRO Technologies. 20 faculties from Galgotias Universities and 8 from Ideal Institute of Technology participated in the said workshop. The objective of the workshop was to supplement faculties’ existing facilitation skills and enable them nurture student’s innovation, higher level of understanding of the subject being taught while developing key technical and behavioral skills in parallel. It helped to unleash faculty’s full potential and gave insight into Interactive Teaching Methodology & teaching aids. It also aimed to develop key employability skills in students. Mission 10X portal is a faculty community portal exclusively built for Indian engineering faculty that provides many learning material and continuous engagement plan. It also provides interaction forum and gives opportunity to share their experience. Inaugural session of the workshop was held on 21st at 9:30 AM and valedictory session was organized on 25th at 2:00 PM. Mr. Aaditya Sharma head WIPRO Technologies’ Academic Initiative (north India) was the chief guest of the valedictory session and Prof. D.K. Jha, Dean GU presided over the session. Certificates were distributed jointly by Dean GU and Mr. Aaditya Sharma to all the participants. Faculties also shared their 5 day experience and were delighted to be the part of the workshop. All participants enjoyed the workshop and it was a great learning experience for all of them. This 5 -day workshop will be followed by advanced workshop of 2 day duration for practice of the innovative approaches in subjects of one’s interest by the end of the current semester or early next semester.
Workshop on ‘Leadership Management and Total Personality Development’….3
Know Your Teacher...4
Global Pursuit………….5
Participation in EDEX-2012, Sri Lanka ………..6
Is it always rude to say 'No'?...................................7
Science & Technology…..8
Orientation of PhD Programme………………8
Cool Apps to hang out with ...powered by Android…………………...8
Launching of book on Anna………………………..9
FACEBOOK :The other side !...................................10
Importance of Lean in Building Professionals….10
Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s Teacher…...11
One Wish…………………...11
G-Quasar……………………12
Academic Excellence …..13
“Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can stand”…………….14
Outcast………………………...15
Inaugration of Clubs at Galgotias University…...15
Can Linguistics be considered as a Science?...16
Life under flyovers ……….17
Green World Green Talk….18
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