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Prof. R. Mahadevan, IEEE Senior Member & ABET IDEAL Scholar Vice Chair, IEEE Education Society, India Council |
Biography
Mahadevan Ramachandran is the Principal Advisor & ED, at AassaaneduCareand CEO at Kredo Systems, Chennai, India. As Principal Advisor, Mahadevan specializes on the implementation of processes and systems towards quality engineering education; national accreditations like NBA & NAAC; ISO 9001:2008 certification; and MalcomBalbridge Quality Model. More than 150 plus Institutions have availed his advisory services towards the same since 2004. R Mahadevan has trained more than 20,000 faculty members on Quality Systems towards Accreditations , Outcome Based Education, PEOs, POs & COs, Assessments etc. And conducted various workshops on Accreditations, Best Practices for Strategic Growth, All India Council for Technical Education’s(AICTE) e-portal etc. for Principals/Deans/Directors/Senior Professors at Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Nagpur.
Mahadevan commenced his career as R&D Engineer at CMC Ltd., Hyderabad. He became a techno-entrepreneur in 1986 and catalyzed the development of innovative software and hardware products in Indian IT Industry. During 1999-2003, Mahadevan became an adjunct Professor in Computer Science Engineering, on invitation, and then got fascinated with academics and quality systems. From 2004 onwards, he is actively involved in quality initiatives at engineering and professional institutes. In 2014, he has ventured again into software development through Kredo Systems.
Mahadevan has more than 31 years of professional experience in software industry and in academics. Mahadevan has to his credit a number of papers on Accreditation and Total Quality Management and had given session presentations at both 2014 and 2015 ABET Symposiums, in USA. Mahadevan has become an ABET IDEAL Scholar (Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership)in August 2014.
