The Department of Freshmen Engineering opens a lucid gateway for the young B.Tech aspirants through laying a strong foundation to the major Engineering Courses like CIVIL, EEE, MECH, ECE, CSE, IT, CSE(AI & ML), AI&DS,AI & ML and CSD.
The Department comprises nine disciplines namely, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Basic Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming, Electronic Devices & Circuits, Engineering Graphics, and Management Sciences. The courses offered, bridge between basic sciences and engineering and its implementation through their applications. This provides a strong platform for the students to use fundamental concepts for developing the skills and to solve the problems. As an integral part of the institute, the prime focus of Freshmen Engineering Department strives hard to provide a conceptual foundation in Basic Sciences. Apart from this, the department is instrumental in grooming the students into competent Engineers and individuals through training in Soft Skills to compete for global opportunities.
The efficient team of Freshmen Engineering Department is further strengthened by Faculty Members. It has 15 Doctorates, 2 Professors, 8 Associate Professors and 66 Assistant Professors. To add to the credit of the faculty, the department has published 300+ papers in various National and International journals/ Conferences.
To enhance the practical knowledge of students, improvised infrastructure and equipments are provided in the Applied Physics, Applied Python Programming, Engineering Chemistry, Engineering Graphics, Python Programming, Engineering Workshop, IT Workshop and BEE labs. The laboratory sessions help the students to widen their practical knowledge. Communication Skills are inevitable for professional education and thus there is no stone left unturned in the Freshmen Engineering department. To enrich the working knowledge of English, the activity based English Lab (Interactive Communication Skills Lab) help the student community whereas the software based language lab (Computer Assisted Language Learning) aims to familiarize the learners to the nuances of English speech sounds and to neutralize the influence of the regional accent and to bring about a consistent accent and intelligibility in their English and enhance their performance at Placement Interviews, Group Discussions and other recruitments.
In addition to the regular subject knowledge, students imbibe the essential qualities of Human Values, Professional Ethics through classroom teaching and counseling which form the crux of the Department. Counseling plays a key role to the Professional students and this aspect is also given prime importance in the department with the help of cordial staff members. The students are counseled to perform better and have a strong grip over the subjects. Attendance is monitored regularly to improve the results. Weekly tests are conducted on a regular basis to recall their progress.
The dedicated faculty members of Freshmen Engineering have addressed themselves to orient the students towards the ultimate goal of relating their knowledge to the reality of life situations. Well-Designed courses in the First Year can help to bridge the gap between the profession and avocation, a student eventually wants to practice and the necessary preparation for their profession. Faculty are Convenors of various clubs in the college like Literary Club, Science Club, Language Laboratory., These clubs are responsible for making the students confident, competent individuals and give the students creative space.
The Freshmen Engineering department also conducts various FDPs/Seminars/Workshops/ Conferences for the benefit of faculty and to the student community. The faculty members consistently strive for professional development by doing quality research, attending and conducting seminars, presenting and publishing papers. The department staffmembers play a pivotal role in undertaking responsibilities to conduct various curricular and co- curricular programs of other departments also.Thus, they work towards the goal of students’ progress.