Professional Body memberships of Engineering and Polytechnic Teaching Faculties and its effect on Teaching Learning Process

Abstract

various scientific or professional societies and bodies claim that there are number of benefits of getting their free or paid memberships. Yes it is evident that faculties get benefits such as discounts for conference publications, free literature access, Annual meeting where they can meet various eminent person from their fields of interest etc. It is important to have various memberships from the faculty professional development point of view but very few literatures available about linking between faculties memberships and student learning enhancement or teaching style of faculty. Hence it was important to study this relationship. In this paper we are reporting a survey made on faculties of engineering regarding their professional society memberships and its relationship with their teaching approach. This is a sample survey and could be used in future for large scale survey.