An Impact of Human Value Course in Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Dr. Kumari, L., Dr. Joshi, R.Abstract: The humanities and engineering are contradictory ends of a learning spectrum. However, now a days the human values are an important part and parcel of engineering education. Recent, one of the pioneer university in imparting technical education in India “Visvesvaraya Technological University” has been integrated the culture of human values and humanities in the course curriculum of their engineering programmes. The objective of the inclusion is to provide students with a humanitarian approach to technical education. The purpose of the course is to implant universal values in students so as to make them responsible human beings. With this, the present paper is an attempt to explore the significance of human values in the Engineering institutions. Human society may not meaningfully sustain without human values. Hence, it is essential to talk on the subject and bring about awareness of human values into the present engineering institutions. There is no denying the fact that the contemporary society is facing a lot of crises. Human values crises are a known fact of the modern society. In the present work, two groups of undergraduate students were chosen from an engineering college to test the efficacy of the course. One group was not exposed to the contents of this subject, while the other group undergone the same in their curriculum. Our objective is to evaluate the changes in values-understanding among the students who had been taught the Universal Human value (UHV) course. The influence of the UHV course was estimated by giving the same set of value-based questions to both groups. It was observed that the group of students who had learned the UHV course has marginally more clarity about human ambitions, targets, actions, and the purpose of life on the basis of frequency distribution analysis. The future aspirations of the present generation can be expected to be high human valued humans as the implant of values in the young minds. This would eventually lead to a more harmonious society in the course of a couple of decades.