Why FDI?

Today most of engineering colleges in country are in acute shortage of quality faculty, the various reasons are:

• The Technical education in country is experiencing such an unprecedented demand outstripping the supply of good faculty members.
  
• The quality institutes offering masters and doctoral programs are limited and produce only a fraction of what this sector requires.
  
• There is a huge demand for the industry for well qualified engineers.
  
• Teaching as career is considered a last option since it is not as rewarding financially as industry.
  
• Teaching is considered less challenging than professional career.
  
• Teaching also associate with lower social status.

In the teaching-learning process colleges are not complete unless it covers all the three dimensions i.e. Creation of Knowledge (Research), Assimilation of Knowledge (Use in practical situations) and transmission of Knowledge to next generation (Teaching). The huge paucity of quality manpower in academics has forced colleges to put fresh graduates straightway on the job of teaching. They have little or no experience in handling the teaching process nor college have enough number of senior teachers to guide them resulting into the poor quality of teaching.
Sharda group of Institutions under the visionary chairmanship of Mr. P. K. Gupta has come with an innovative solution to develop a Faculty Training Institute to groom faculty, utilizing the potential of professors retiring from the top Institutions like IITs and NITs, Scientists from research institutions and laboratories and professionals from industry. The main objectives of using such resources are to develop new ideas and make innovations in teaching-learning process. The expertise of the Sr. professors and ex-corporate professionals can be clubbed to transform the learning process from knowing of subject to understanding the subject. The Faculty Training Institute will conduct one-three months programs with the following objective in mind.

Objectives

• Development of following skills in trainees
  - Teaching methodology,
  - Teaching content development and management
  - Communication skills
  - Leadership and command skills
  - Subject knowledge
  - Research aptitude
• Inculcate thinking based education practice
  
• Reduce the time period to develop a quality teacher.
  
• Standardization and quality management in teaching.
  
• Motivation to excel in teaching and research.
  
• Application of knowledge to real life problems even at learning stage.
  
• Generate integrity and belongingness for the organization
  
• Extra academic activities

Scope of FDI

FDI is currently focusing on development of faculty for professional colleges (Engineering/Management/Medical/Paramedical/Education). It is not a degree awarding institution, rather it is providing short term skill up-gradation programs for those who wish to make career in teaching in professional colleges. This program is also aimed in up-grading the skills and knowledge graph of existing faculty members of a college

Focus Areas of FTP

Currently FTP is conducted in following areas

Electronics/Communication/Instrumentation/Electrical/Computer Science/Information Technology/Mechanical/Management/Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry