Incorporating Innovative Teaching-Learning for Analog Circuit Design Course

The course, Analog Circuit Design is compulsory professional basic core course for engineering majors such as Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, which aims to cultivate students' innovation ability and engineering practice ability, stimulate their interest and motivation in learning, and help them appreciate the spirit of teamwork. When following the conventional teaching methodology, most of the students find difficulty in understanding the concepts of circuit design specially in applying the concepts into real problem solving. It happens due to the coverage of a wide topic in insufficient time frame, where teacher mainly focuses on the lecture based theoretical teaching. But traditional teaching method can't enable maximum students to effectively master the knowledge of analog circuits. To solve this issue, along with the lecture parts, teacher-student interactive activities have been followed. In view of the issues existing in the conventional teaching mode, this paper addresses a few teaching-learning methodologies adopted like word cloud preparation, Think-pair-share activity, question-answer writing skill development towards a question-answer-bank, technology based learning (mini-project) etc. At the end of the course, a student feedback analysis has been done which shows that more than 60% students responded positively about the innovative teaching learning methodologies incorporated for this course.