Currently, the engineering education system is India is undergoing a massive overhaul due to the adaptation of outcome-based education across the country by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) which is responsible for improving the quality of technical education. Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE), an autonomous government organisation in the highly industrialised state of Maharashtra in the Western region of India is responsible for ensuring the quality of technology education in the 550 technical colleges (called polytechnics in India) producing technologists. The currently offered technology curriculum called 'G' scheme launched in 2012 includes the curricula of over 18 engineering diploma programmes of various occupations, comprising of about 450 courses. Due to the anomalies and lacunae of these curricula vis-a-vis outcome-based education MSBTE needed to re-design these curricula. To effectively plan, design and implement outcome-based curricula for different occupations in large number of institutes is always a daunting challenge for any organisation. Since NITTTR Bhopal has been undertaking curriculum development for the past several decades for various technology programmes, MSBTE entrusted NITTTR Bhopal to undertake this task. Therefore, the authors evolved the innovative outcome-based "Engineering Diploma Curriculum NITTTR-MSBTE Model 2016" for these 18 technology programmes, the salient features of which are presented in this 'work in progress (WIP)' paper. © 2016 IEEE.
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