ABSTRACT
The engineering curriculum includes core courses, projects and elective courses. Students need to register for courses and earn credits in their four years of the degree. Face-to-face teaching, laboratory assignments, course projects, mini, minor and capstone projects are essential components that provide a holistic view of courses studied and practical hands-on experiences. Teachers' course delivery plan as per the schedule, contact hours, discussion, and continuous assessment are vital practices that make students on the learning wheel complete degree completion successfully. But, the COVID-19 pandemic has created the most significant disruption of education systems in human history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200 countries. Lock down in schools, institutions, and other learning spaces have impacted more than 94% of the world's student population. This scenario has brought far-reaching changes in all aspects of our lives. Social distancing and restrictive movement policies have significantly disturbed traditional educational practices. In this paper, authors discuss challenges faced by students and faculty in the project space. We propose a novel collaborated approach for monitoring and carrying out projects during the pandemic in engineering at Under Graduate (UG) level. The success of this approach is based on collaboration and coordination between faculty and Students. Our proposed method uses tools and pedagogy approaches such as Learning Management System (LMS), MS Team (Microsoft), and Google Apps for documents to administrate student activities and communication. Also, phase-wise reviews helped to monitor the progress of projects. Significant challenges during this online monitoring and assessment were internet bandwidth and follow-up of individual contributions. The main advantages of this approach are improvement in communication skills, time management, distantly work in a team, sharing the code and project management. Student's and faculty's feedback, semester-end results speak positivity of the approach followed.