Quality education must transmit human values to students in keeping with the essential professional requirements. The ongoing technological advancements have brought sea change in the life styles of human race. The new technologies have brought many more comforts, easy earnings even to a common man but at the cost of human values.

While quality assurance has always been a matter of concern and significance in technical education, the recent quantitative expansion of technical education in India to an unprecedented nature has caused educators to devote careful attention to the quality aspect.

Today in this competitive world the technocrats are very much subjected to stress and struggle for survival in a driven economy. In the present system of education proper attention is not accorded to all around development of the individual. Hence it is essential to bring about a healthy balance between the intellectual perception and value perception.

THEME:
      The broad outline of the discussion is as follows:

• Nature & Scope of Quality Assurance
• Perception of quality in higher education
• Characteristics of quality assurance applicable to services
• Implementation of TQM for engineering education of the future
• Is academic quality quantifiable?
• Basic criteria to be adopted for varying academic quality
• Innovative practices to be adopted for defining new criteria on quality assurance
• Nature and  scope of quality assurance in technical education
• Merits and limitations of present day practices of quality assurance in technical education.
• Necessary modifications to present day practices & implementation of new methodologies