12 January, 2022

An expert talk on “Important Aspects of Experiential Learning” was organized by Chemical Engineering Department under the banner of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) for students of Semester-6 of Chemical Engineering and IIChE student members from other government engineering colleges across the Gujarat State.

The main idea of this expert talk was to create an understanding of experiential learning among students and to develop competency through experiential learning and apply it to resolve technical problems of Chemical and allied industries.

Key features:

• Expert: Harshadkumar Patel (Commissioning Coordinator, SPIE Oil & Gas Kuwait)
• Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Ujvala Christian
• Platform: Microsoft Teams
• No. of Participants: 70

Discussion Points:

• Concept of Lock out and Tag Out
• Styles of Experiential learning
• Skill v/s Will, Resolving technical problems through experiential learning
• Importance of competency development
• Resolving technical problems through experiential learning
• Action priority matrix

A Quote by the Expert:

• "Adopting proper learning style and building competency is essential for an engineer to solve many technical problems."   –  Shri Harshadkumar Patel