Outcome Based Education from Capability Maturity Model Perspective

Akella Pathanjali Sastri, Jammula Lakshmi Narayana, Kamisetty Nageswara Rao

Abstract: Engineering colleges require their faculty to continue learning new things and enhance our quality of education. Engineering education should bring about new aspects, knowledge, and practices whereby transform the orientation of existing teaching and learning process and every engineering discipline should embrace other disciplines and perspectives in handling new challenges in a transdisciplinary approach. As it is obvious to all of us to understand what processes we have, and why we have them, the current Outcome Based Education (OBE) demands the engineering faculty to conduct more rigorous research to identify the good practices with strong theoretical orientations of OBE. So, through this research paper, we recommend that the engineering process of designing, analysis, implementation and verification & validation should be introduced from the earliest stages of the teaching and learning process, right from the first year to achieve excellence in Teaching and learning process.

Keywords: Outcome Based Education, Capability Maturity Model, Engineering Education, and Process Framework