ISTE Chapter, FISAT
The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is the leading National Professional non-profit making Society for the Technical Education System in our country with the motto of Career Development of Teachers and Personality Development of Students and overall development of our Technical Education System. Being the only national organization of educators in the field of Engineering and Technology, ISTE effectively contributes in various missions of the Union Government. The strength of ISTE is the strong base it has in technical education institutions in the country. At present, the ISTE has a very large and an effective membership base consisting of 124024 Life Members, 5 lakh Student members, 2734 Institutional Members, 1369 Faculty Chapters, 1479 Student Chapters at institutional level and 17 Sections at State level.
The major objective of the ISTE is to provide quality training programmes to teachers and administrators of technical institutions to update their knowledge and skills in their fields of activity and to assist and contribute in the production and development of top quality professional engineers and technicians needed by the industry and other organisations.
FISAT became an Institution member of ISTE in October 2004 with Institutional membership no: IM1202. Subsequently, a Student Chapter was formed in the college with chapter no: KER 031. This student chapter has been identified as the Best Student Chapter of ISTE Kerala Section in the year 2006. A Faculty chapter was also formed in the college in the year 2014 with chapter no: KE 076. The inauguration of the chapter was organized on 9th July 2015 by Shri. V.A. Shamsudeen, Deputy Director, SITTTR. Currently ISTE Faculty Chapter of FISAT comprises around 100 life time members. ISTE chapter of FISAT is regularly organizing FDP’s, Invited talks, webinars, workshops etc for the benefit of staff and students.
Office bearers:
Chairman: Dr. P. R. Mini, Vice-Principal
Secretary and Treasurer: Dr. Asha Joseph, Associate Professor, Dept. of CE.
Faculty Advisor to Student’s Chapter: Mr. Soumya S Raj, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE.
FISAT’s ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education) Faculty Chapter is awarded the Best ISTE Faculty Chapter of Kerala Section.
Dr Jacob Thomas V. , Principal FISAT receiving the award from Dr Saji Gopinath, Honorable Vive Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.