IISc Challakere offers College Teachers Refresher Course in PHYSICS

Applications are invited from college/university faculty teaching BSc Physics. There is no registration fee for the College Teachers Refresher Course in PHYSICS. The last date to apply for the course is September 28, 2023.

The IISc at Challakere Campus offers a great opportunity for college faculties who are teaching BSc Physics. The College Teachers Refresher Course in PHYSICS is a three-week residential training program. 

A unique feature of this training is learning Physics by doing experiments and computational methods and thinking for teaching aid.

The contact hours of the program will be over 140 hours including 64 hours of lectures, 76 hours of experiments, and 3-5 experiments per day.

The lectures of the College Teachers Refresher Course in PHYSICS will be delivered by IISc faculty members. The training program includes three main parts - Orientation to general physics, Quantum and Condensed matter physics, and hands-on experiments.

How to apply

The candidates must apply using the available format. They will be responsible for the correctness of the information provided in the application. A statement of purpose (SOP) explaining the broad reasons for your interest in this program should be submitted in not more than 500 words.

IISc Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023

On Teachers Day (5 September 2023), several faculty members received the IISc Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023, for their contributions to promoting a deeper and engaging learning experience for students. 

The faculty members who received the award include - Durga Prasad Hari (Assistant Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry), Pratikash Panda (Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering), Vishwesha Guttal (Associate Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences), Sushobhan Avasthi (Associate Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering), Ashwini Ratnoo (Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering), and Sanjiv Sambandan (Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics).

At the awards ceremony, a panel discussion was also organised, which included faculty members Arindam Khan (CSA) and Sumilan Banerjee (Physics) – winners of the Priti Shankar Teaching Award – as well as Kuruvilla Varghese (DESE) – one of the winners of the Jaya Jayant Teaching Award along with Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay (MS). The panellists answered questions related to the role of teaching, balancing teaching with research and other responsibilities, effective teaching methods, learnings from the pandemic, and more.

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