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Outcome Based Education aka OBE is one of the de-facto standards for modern educational system. An outcome is a culminating demonstration of learning that the students should be able to do at the end of a course, and in process at end of the degree program. Therefore, OBE is an approach to education in which decisions about the curriculum are driven by the exit learning outcomes that the students should perform in their professional life. The curriculum thus defines all the learning outcomes clearly and unambiguously, along with the contents, teaching/learning methods, assessment strategies and academic quality control process to ensure all-round development of the students. An engineer is a unique combination of different skill sets that must be mastered to resolve nontrivial reallife engineering problems. Consequently, the adoption of OBE in engineering education is the compelling necessity. This study offers a comprehensive, ready to adopt OBE framework for tertiary level engineering programs complying with the benchmark mandates of the OBE and the guidelines of Washington Accord. Additionally, the framework is successfully deployed in the department of CSE, IUB for the design and implementation of the undergraduate CSE program, a transcript of which is also documented. This will assist the concerned institutions to design their program in OBE model to gain international academic equivalency and accreditation.

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This work focuses on the delineating a performance modeling framework for a communication system that proposes a translation process from high level UML notation to Stochastic Petri Net model (SPN) and solves the model for relevant performance metrics. The framework utilizes UML collaborations, activity diagrams and deployment diagrams to be used for generating performance model for a communication system. The system dynamics will be captured by UML collaboration and activity diagram as reusable specification building blocks, while deployment diagram highlights the components of the system. The collaboration and activity show how reusable building blocks in the form of collaboration can compose together the service components through input and output pin by highlighting the behavior of the components. Later a mapping between collaboration and system component identified by deployment diagram will be demonstrated. Moreover the UML models are annotated to associate performance related quality of service (QoS) information for solving the performance model for relevant performance metrics to generate performance evaluation results.