Curriculum Design for Technical Institutions -An Expert System Approach

This paper presents the development of expert system to assist technical institutes, universities curriculum developers, experts to analysis the gap between competencies developed in student through existing curriculum and the competencies required by the industries and the gap between competencies required to perform a specific job and competencies developed in student thro which emphasize on various steps involved in the process of relevance based curriculum design. The knowledge acquisition to develop this expert system involved an exhaustive literature revi experienced industrial persons and observation by a curriculum designer by visiting various types of industries. This system will help to develop relevance based curriculum which can overcome most of the problems encou designing a relevant curriculum which can be implemented in educational institute and also it will be at par with the latest requirement of competencies by industries.