Academics
Students are provided with an academically rich, and flexible learning system blended with abundant provision for skill practice that he/she could learn in depth, with room for creativity. Below are some of the best practices inculcated at HITS.
Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Choice Based Credit system was introduced from 2015 in the curriculum to provide students a balanced approach to their educational endeavour. CBCS is currently applicable to students for all the programmes offered by HITS from 2018–19 onwards. Every student must compulsorily go through the academic regulations for their respective programmes which is available in the Institution Website.
Salient Features: ▪▪ Enabling interdisciplinary approach to integrate concepts, theories, techniques, and perspectives from two or more disciplines to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems for which solutions are beyond the scope of single discipline. ▪▪ Bridging the gap between professional and liberal education which would greatly improve the employability of students. ▪▪ Promoting students’ mobility – horizontal as well as vertical. ▪▪ Collaboration with industry and foreign partners to foster innovations that go a long way in capacity building of students. Under CBCS, the degree programme will consist of the following categories of courses: 1. General Core Foundation courses (CF) ▪▪ Humanities courses ▪▪ Basic Sciences (BS) including Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics ▪▪ Engineering Sciences (ES), including Basic Engineering courses such as Material Science, Basic Workshop, Engineering Drawing, Engineering Graphics, Digital systems, etc.
2. Compulsory Courses (CC) ▪▪ Professional Core (PC) courses introducing students to the foundation of Engineering topics related to the chosen programme of study comprising of theory and Practical/ Field Work/Design Project/Project. ▪▪ Departmental Elective (DE) courses enabling the students to take up a group of courses of their interest in the area of specialization offered by the parent Department/School. 3. Non–Departmental Electives (NE) ▪▪ These are courses offered by Engineering and Non-Engineering departments (across disciplines) other than their parent Department. Two groups of Electives are available under NE namely, Engineering Electives offered by Engineering Departments and Open Electives offered by Non–Engineering departments. 4. Indexed Journal/Conference Publications ▪▪ If a student publishes a paper in indexed Journal / Conference as main author, the same can be considered as equivalent to one two credit course under NE. 5. Non-CGPA ▪▪ Courses offered in certain semesters which are compulsory, but are not used for calculation of GPA and CGPA. However, the credits will be mentioned in the grade sheet.
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