Ms. Aditi Saini is the Head of the Department of the Civil Department of the Institute of Technology Roorkee. She has completed her B.Tech and M.Tech from Uttarakhand Technical University. After completing her M.Tech, She joined the education industry and has been serving it for the last 4 years.

Institute of Technology Roorkee

What are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

“To maintain discipline, conduct classes, and exams on a regular basis”

My roles and responsibilities towards the students are as follows:

  • Maintaining the decorum and discipline of the class and creating an environment where students can learn properly
  • Conducting classes as per the schedule prescribed by the Institute.
  • Conducting practical Sessions for better understanding of theories and gaining exposure to instruments.
  • Conducting exams and other evaluation tests to monitor the performance of the students and providing feedback to students regularly. 

How do you establish healthy relations with the students and fellow faculty?

“Providing students with interactive doubts clearing sessions at regular intervals”

We try to create a bond with students which makes the students comfortable with faculty and hence, they do not hesitate in asking their doubts or sharing their problems with the faculty. We interact with the students daily and support them in their problems while maintaining the boundary of Teacher-Student relations.

Do you have any extracurricular activities to expose students to real-world challenges?

“Providing students with various co-curricular activities to enhance their knowledge”

We conduct mentoring, guiding sessions where we help students to explore various career options available to them, we also explain to them what are their weak areas and how they can improve upon them. Along with all these, we also conduct motivation sessions to boost the morale of the students. We provide students with a variety of changes through various activities to showcase their abilities and skills. Along With all these, we encourage our students to conduct various social activities like Freshers Party, Plantation drive, etc which are managed by the students, which help them to develop their soft skills by inculcating management skills, leadership skills into them.

How do you make the curriculum of your institute industry-oriented?

“Providing students with both practical and theoretical knowledge”

After explaining the theory in class, we conduct practical sessions regularly to help them gain experience and understand the practical application of the theories. It helps them to co-relate the theories which they have been taught in classes with the practical application, which prepares them for industry work. Apart from this, we also have value-added courses right from the beginning of academic sessions that enable them to learn additional micro-disciplines, apart from the prescribed course. We try to make the students do as many industrial visits as possible in the nearby region so that they can get enriched knowledge not only in theory but also in practical training. We also organize guest lectures and seminars from the industrial people so that they can give the knowledge of what is happening in the field to the students.

What are the interventions you bring in apart from the curriculum to train the students?

“Conducting Civil Survey Programs to train the students regularly”

Along with teaching and conducting practice sessions. we have a program in our Civil Department i.e. Civil survey wherein we select a village and conduct a survey in the village, wherein students visit the village and conduct surveys of the building of the village and gain experience. We also conduct industrial visits and guest lectures on a regular basis to encourage our students to constantly work hard and become successful in their life

What do you see as the department’s greatest strengths?

“Civil Department’s Facilities devotion and expertise are unparallel”

The Civil Department's main strength is its faculty members. Their devotion and expertise are unrivaled. They constantly provide a welcoming environment for the students. The department also features a solid infrastructure and well-functioning equipment for hands-on learning.

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What valuable advice would you like to give to the students?

“Dream big and work hard to achieve it”

Never forget your goal and constantly toward achieving it. You will face hardships in your life but only if you are dedicated enough, then you will be able to achieve your goal. Hence, dream big and work hard to achieve it.