1. Objectives

The nurturing of girl students potential is one of the bedrock of The SMIT creed. Encouraging Girl students to pursue their higher education in Engineering and Management stream is one of the cornerstones of SMIT. Empowering women is crucial for nation building. It is significant to note that 60 % of the total enrolled students are girls.

 

  1. The Context

Our motto is to ensure gender-neutral conducive academic ambience, nurturing the spirit of innovation and creativity to achieve standards in professional education. Technical education can support women to develop their knowledge and skills in engineering field, which in turn lead to better employment opportunities and improve their leadership qualities.

 

  1. The Practice

Our training focuses mainly to hone their programming skills, communication skills and provide knowledge on latest software  tools and cross cultural engineering technical know-how.

The holistic education encompasses not only curriculum based education but also involves the overall development of student’s personality, self-confident skills and leadership qualities. Our Institution plays a vital role in providing these skills to girl students to get more confident and self-reliant.

Many training programs and seminars are conducted through various committees and clubs related to women empowerment, and awareness programs related to various welfare schemes related to women’s’ knowledge and financial enrichment.

Our Institution encourages women faculty to take up the leadership position as Vice-Principal, HOD, SPOC and as head of many committees, conferences and symposiums.

Our institute encourages girl students to participate in various activities such as sports and cultural activities, to present papers in various forums and to take up many leadership roles, inspired by their women faculty members working in many leadership roles.

To boost their morale and to build their self-confidence we train them in Yoga, martial arts skills and in various self-defense skills.

We train the students to appear for many competitive exams and as a result many students  enrolled for higher education and successfully passed the competitive exams.

 

  1. Evidence of Success
Best practiceNumber
Number of Women Staff40
Number of Women Staff in Leading Role8
Number of Women Staff Published Papers10
Number of Girl Students Enrolled400
Number of Girl Students Passed390
Number of Girl Students got Placed300
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  2. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

As Many of our girl students happened to be first graduates they  were very timid and fearful about the engineering education.  It took lot of counseling, mentoring and persuasion to build the confidence in them and instill a feel of innate potential in them. They develop systematically by getting inspiration by the influence of their women faculty members and senior female students.