General norms for institutes for the conduct of

B8. MULTIUSE OF FACILITIES
To make maximum use of available facilities (resources), sharing of resources among the institutions closely located should be encouraged. However such sharing must exclude basic facilities and include only specialized faculties which are exclusive to MET. Such as Drydocks, Shipyards, Diesel engine plants.
It goes without saying that similar facilities should not be duplicated within one institution by different departments. Facilities existing in one department should be freely available to another within the institution. Central facilities could be established for teaching/research/consultancy work. There should be a proper MOU with the facility providers to that effect .
It will be desirable to have a consortium-approach of having centralized laboratories of sophisticated instrumentation by mobilisation of funds from the group of departments / institutions and share those facilities. This scheme can be adopted where the institutions can form themselves as a group to, achieve both optimization of resources and also overall fiscal economy. Simulator facilities is one such area where multiuse can be encouraged. A central sophisticated and multiuse simulator facility, such as full mission Engine room simulator, Towing tank simulator, ship motion simulator should be as far as possible be of multiuse.

B9. INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND PERIODIC REVIEW

In cooperation with the academic head / GM / Principal Dean or other appropriate administrative official, each MET department should participate at regular intervals in a process of periodic planning and evaluation. Participants in the process should include faculty, students, alumni, client departments, external MET reviewers, and deans or other administrators. The faculty and any external consultants directly involved in this review should adequately reflect both the program mission and the faculty of the MET program or department being reviewed. The process should lead to a strategic plan, acceptable to the department and to its head , for enhancing strengths and remedying deficiencies identified in the planning and evaluation process.

The major components of the planning and evaluation process should be :

B.9.1. A statement that clearly defines the mission of the undergraduate MET department.

B.9.2. A delineation of the educational goals of the program as well as a statement of how attainment of these goals is expected to fulfill the mission of the program.

B.9.3. Procedures for measuring the extent to which the educational goals are being met. These measures will, of necessity, be multi-dimensional since no single statistic can adequately represent departmental performance with respect to most departmental goals. Measures of trainees learning and other trainees outcomes should be included in the procedures.

B.9.4. A process for regularly reviewing (and revising, if necessary) departmental and academic program components in light of measurements of program success.

B.9.5. A departmental and institutional plan to allocate, over time, the resources needed to implement the strategic plan agreed to by the department and its dean.