when I came out my lab after getting my output verified my joy spell no bounds... Its not just the matter of completing yet an other subject in my Engineering, but also it is a LAB!!! Every engineering student knows the real worth of pain in completing a single laboratory. On the very first lab class one may be so curious to know everything that lays front of them. The touch of the transistor and resistors for the first time would make them feel like a life time achievement. The days will pass by and on one fine day the pressure starts mounting when you fail to record your reading in your observation. This in future will extend to records. The person who felt pride to do the experiments by touching new kits will feel it as a shame to do then after.
What turns the tale?
Its just the lecturer who handles us the laboratory. This may sound funny and you may think it is the propensity of every student to blame teachers. But the truth lies in it. When a student asks a professor "Sir/Madam could we do this in other way ?"..... The answer he gets straight away is " Do what I say !!"
From that the student will train himself not even to touch the components other than the things mentioned in the circuit diagram .
And if he dares to do that, he will be the least scorer in that particular laboratory !!
I am not here to blame the lecturers. They have to wrap up the syllabus...Show themselves as the best and first to complete the things in the syllabus. Not only that..every student must keep in their mind that the same lecturers would have been under the very same syllabus and would have been trained by the lectures of the same kind.
If one wishes to change anything....He/She must change the education system of our country. It is not that easy as the education has become more of business now. If the government is not capable of revising the fee of school, how come a citizen trust a government to change the education system of the future ?
Let us get back to the business...
What is the use in making us learn equation when we doesnt know the application of it?
What is the use of the high cost instruments installed in labs where students are restricted to use it ?
I know that practical demonstration of each and every engineering concept is not possible...but is it too difficult to show us the transistor when the mechanism of radio is explained ? In my view, there is no worth in having theoretical classes for hours. Instead have one practical lab explaining the concept and that will do the rest. A mere count of twenty labs during the entire four year course in engineering is not at all fair to make an engineering student to solve the practical difficulty he is going to face later. How come the core companies recruit a student who has a mere practical experience of 60 hours during his entire course of engineering ? Eventually every one who studies different branches fall into IT company... Then what is the use of dividing engineering students into branches !!!
Atleast by now the government to take measures to promote more practical engineering.
Let the government distribute proper components to demonstrate the concept to students instead of free books....
ONE MINUTE !!!!
It is not over here !!! One kind request to the lecturers... No student will hate the practical class unless he is forced to come and asked to submit records.To be honest records are of no use. What is the necessity to draw resistor to 2cm and transistor to 3cm ? No student will keep that record for his future reference. Don't torchure the student to submit his record or to come with the dress code. Instead make him feel that lab is the place where he could learn something through visualization.Make him understand that he is not brought to lab to reduce his confidence rather to increase his knowledge.
And
If you(lecturer) doesn't know something please admit it and when the student comes out with the solution appreciate it. Education is continual learning process and that has to be done by both.
