Course

Syllabus

The students shall visit villages or rural sites during the vacations (after 6th semester) and if they identify a worthwhile project, they shall register for a 3-credit Live-in-Lab project, in the fifth semester.

Thematic Areas

• Agriculture & Risk Management
• Education & Gender Equality
• Energy & Environment
• Livelihood & Skill Development
• Water & Sanitation
• Health & Hygiene
• Waste Management & Infrastructure

Course Objectives

• Proposal writing in order to bring in a detailed project planning, enlist the materials required and propose budget
• Use the concept of CoDesign to ensure User Participation in the Design Process in order to rightly capture user needs/requirements.
• Building and testing a prototype to ensure that the final design implementation is satisfies the user needs, feasible, affordable, sustainable and
• Real time project implementation in the village followed by awareness generation and skill training of the users (villagers)

Course Outcome

CO1: Learn co-design methodologies and engage participatorily to finalise a solution

CO2: Understand sustainable social change models and identify change agents in a community.

CO3: Learn Project Management to effectively manage the resources

CO4: Lab scale implementation and validation

CO5. Prototype implementation of the solution

CO-PO Mapping