Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

Sustainable Development (SD) competencies are an important area in engineering education. Engineers play a major role in working and adapting the latest technology sustainably. Undergraduate students who the future individuals are taking the engineering education towards the development of a modern sustainable world must exhibit certain objectives. The implementations of two of the objectives are being highlighted in this paper. The first is to make the students undergo self and sustainable learning through illustrations and activities which results in the enhancement of knowledge there by improvising the competence levels in acquiring skills and knowledge. The second objective is to reduce the burden of stress by integrating learning with real-time human values through the approach of right thinking, peaceful thoughts, and emotional balance. Applying the activity-based assessment through the course called Universal Human Values is considered which further makes the students learning more joyful through presentation sand interactions in a group which results in enhancing communication skills and finally submitting the report. A very important outcome of a student-centric system is a continuous internal evaluation of student performance. Compared with the last two decades, the internal assessment was based only on class tests which resulted in a lack of a teaching-learning process. In this paper, the continuous assessment through activities-based self-learning is presented with the documented results considering the case study. Exploring the social values at the macro-level and paying attention to the overall development of human values. Finally, the analysis shows the transformation of learning from a teacher-centric to a student-centric method. This helps in improving overall academic performance.

Keywords—Activity based Assessment (ABA); Engineering Education; Human Values; Higher Education; Sustainable Development (SD), Universal Human Values, (UHV)