 And I am V.K. Thamanli, who have completed B.S.E. Psychology in B.S.J. Krishnamar College for Women Coimbatore. Currently, I am preparing for civil service examination. And I had been behind my NPTEL journey four years back and it is still following me. I had completed 13 courses till now and it is still counting on. My domain is Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a great domain to explore. And actually, it all started when the fight came between my brother and me. It was like, who will read more and who will go out like that it all started. And he is now saying, you went in flight to go and attend the meeting. So next I am going to start my NPTEL courses list. And he is just studying nine standard and he is asking me to enroll in some course and I wanted to start preparing for it. And I wanted to thank some members over here. First of all, I thank my mother, Mrs. S.P. Kumidam. She is an entrepreneur. She has encouraged me through my learning journey. And I thank my father, Dr. M. Vengdha Chalam, Director, Libraries and Student Affairs of K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tirsangot. He was the one who showed me this platform. When I was completing my 12th standard, he told me about this NPTEL and all the opportunities present over here. And thanks for him. And I thank Dr. M. Vengdha Chalam, Librarian. And he is the SPOC of Coimbatore Institute of Technology who helped me to know more about the domain scholar. And I thank Mr. Thangadurai. He is the SPOC of K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tirsangot who also helped me a lot throughout this journey. And I thank Dr. Jerish K. Elias and Mrs. K. Spave. They are my mentors throughout my journey. And last but not the least, I thank NPTEL for creating such an amazing working library to build enriched learners all over India. And to say some suggestions and feedback, first of all I suggest NPTEL to add more courses in this domain based on current affairs. It's like, for example, the beginning of this decade, it saw the 2020, it was full of pandemic. And the mental health was the one which was to be given importance more of. So some courses like importance of mental health, relationship management, positive life goals, it will be very helpful, I think so. And at the world level, if we see, it will be the LGBTQ problem which is going on. And our people, maybe if we say that we are going ahead but we are not so much and we don't have so much awareness about those problems also. So many countries have accepted it as a law but it's just in papers and not in reality. So I think the courses like gender psychology would do better. Which would be, if added in NPTEL, all the learners, the youth generation will be very fruitful with it. And in the morning in the SPOC meeting when I was attending a work, I heard the forum discussion how it could be made fruitful. I thought, actually I also don't attend the forum discussions but I thought if it was a fun part or fun activity like giving assignments or giving some basic ideas about how the classes went on. So then I think so it will be made engaging. The students feel that just a clearing of doubts won't help. If it is made like everyone want to interact like how we do it in a class or in a class WhatsApp group then it will be fruitful. Some persons may be interested in creative writing, some may be interested in art. So if we give them a chance, regarding the course they can say whatever they want. So if we give a platform like that for them they'll be able to enrich their skills and they can show their skills. Which other members also may be seeing over. And the second one about the course is many SPOCs told that our students are forced to take the course. Actually it is real in our college also they'll be saying take acts. Our department was the first set in Piyasya Krishnamal. So they didn't inform us about anything about NPTEL. My father was the one who introduced it to me. In other departments it was like forcing them to take the course. It was an advanced course. My juniors came to me saying that we don't know anything about it. We don't know a single term about it. How could we read about it? So a BBA student is taking something advanced which an MBA person would be doing like that. So I think so it should not be made mandatory to do these courses and all those things. So it will be helpful for them if it is like that. And finally I thank everyone for this opportunity. Selfishness ends where selflessness begins. So read today to lead tomorrow. Thank you. I am Mahapathy from Rajapalayam. I was introduced to the NPTEL platform during my diploma in 2014 I think. I was not so interested during that time. After that during 2015 or 2016 I was referring to the NPTEL videos for NPTEL videos and the CDP videos during my studies. But I don't know that there is something called the NPTEL exam that exists. Then during 2017 I came to know about the NPTEL exams and I took one course which is sustainability, lifecycle assessment that gave me more interest towards landing. I strongly believe that mere force forcing cannot make you land more things. Then I took many courses. The most favorite professor is from IIT Madras, Mr. Devdas madam is my favorite professor. I learnt a lot from him. He teaches about life. First class I took from him is Design of Reinforce Concrete Structures. Then I took those life structural analysis and he teaches about life for integral karma yoga and everything. After that I started taking courses more and more. I have completed about 20 courses with certificate and 28. And more than 60 courses without certification I have learnt from NPTEL. I am Arsakumaran. I am currently pursuing my MS in IIT Madras in the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. But when I did those NPTEL, I actually completed 11 NPTEL courses. When I completed those 11 courses, I was a student of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, pursuing my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. So I took my first NPTEL course that is Fluid Mechanics. The course was conducted by IIT Guwahati in 2019. I took that course in 2019. But then during this COVID pandemic time, I started learning a lot of courses in NPTEL. That is in a single semester I started taking 3 courses, 4 courses, like that. So the most important thing what I feel is, obviously by NPTEL courses I learnt a lot, but more than that I learnt the art of learning new things. That is the important thing which I feel I could. Because by learning NPTEL courses, I learnt how to efficiently learn new things, within a short span of time. Because during that time, during my first NPTEL believe I got in 2020 by completing 4 courses. At that time what I felt is, I felt that I was also able to perform well in my academics, in my college. Because I thought when I take NPTEL courses, it may be a diversion so that I may not score well. But the vice-versa had. The other thing happened, that is I scored well in my academic exams also. So that thing continued. So I took more courses in NPTEL. At the same time I also scored well in my college also. At last I became a top in my university. So one more thing in NPTEL is, I didn't take courses which are only specific to my domain, that is mechanical engineering. Because NPTEL offers a variety of courses. And so I also took courses from a variety of domains. For example, apart from my course of this, I took a course in Introduction to History of Architecture India, one course connected by SCR Pune. And I took another course in Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture, conducted by IIT Kanpur. Then I took a course of Toyota Production System, connected by IIT Rootkey. So like this, I took many, because NPTEL offers a plethora of courses, so that we can learn whatever we want. Because the approach what, then I told, it made me learn efficiently. To give a small example, before NPTEL, what I used to do, before I came to know about NPTEL, what I used to do is, if you want to learn some new things, means I'll go to library, or I'll take some books, I'll read about that. So it consumed a lot of time. But nowadays what I'm doing is, nowadays means after I started learning in NPTEL, what I decided to do is, whenever I want some doubts, I'll immediately go to YouTube and I'll search the, for example if you want to know thermodynamic cycles, immediately I'll search thermodynamic cycles in NPTEL in YouTube. So I will get a series of lectures in that. And so that, not only that thing, but I was able to learn even a lot of things. So, by this way, I think I got benefited. And not only me, some of my friends also took NPTEL courses, by getting inspired from me. So I think NPTEL is a good initiative and it can be continued further. Suggestions is, actually, I, okay, the one unique thing what I found, not unique thing, one thing what I found in NPTEL is, because I attended NPTEL exams also for a particular subject. And similarly I attended GATE exam also in that subject. So I think the level of difficulty in NPTEL is not that as of GATE exam, because GATE exam's difficulty is very high. But I think it is a good stepping stone to go there. Because initially I felt that if a student directly attends GATE exam, he may, if he doesn't do well, he may get frustrated, or he may feel sad. So NPTEL serves as a step before it. So if he attends, because I did that, I attended a NPTEL exam in a particular course. And the same, in a GATE exam also when I attended, I felt it very useful. So NPTEL serves as motivating everyone. That is initially not giving a very too difficult thing, because we have discussion forums. Yeah, discussion forums were very helpful to us. Not only to me, but many of my fellow students. So suggestions means when we ask, yeah, we can arrange for more in-person interactive sessions, because that is the only thing I felt that I was lacking, but that also was made possible today. So when every student attends a course, at least once during the course duration, we can arrange for in-person meeting. We already have online meetings, but we can arrange for in-person meeting so that I think it would be helpful. And we can also build our context. I think this is the answer. I am S.P.A. Dasini from Kadalu. First of all, thank you for NPTEL for the recognition as NPTEL Discipline Star and also for the opportunity for sharing my words. My journey with NPTEL was started on the first day of my college days. In the orientation program, they have stated that there is something about Honours Degree. For pursuing Honours Degree, I have set it as a goal and started learning in NPTEL. And in four to five semester, I have completed nine courses by earning 23 credits. But although my thought has since fulfilled by the universities, but the knowledge which I have gained from the NPTEL has explored me a lot towards the academics. So I have gained lots of knowledge and exposure beyond my academics. And at current, they have stated that my Honours Degree would didn't be passed by R&D University. But although it doesn't satisfy my goal, but the knowledge which I have gained from the NPTEL has been boosted up and encouraged me to continue, still continuing the courses towards the NPTEL. Thank you. And be civil engineering final years. From my final year from IFT College of Engineering. Sustainable transportation system, safety in construction, earth science in civil engineering, part one and two, GPS surveying, yes sir. I have developed my domain knowledge through this NPTEL lots. That's the thing I am still thinking on sir. Because I have, last year I have cleared the gate with eligible criteria scope. But now I am currently trying for gate exam. If I cleared it, I would place in IIT. If not, I have to go for any other options sir. Good afternoon everyone. I am Shweta. I am from Coimbatore. First of all, thank you very much for your professors for conducting this workshop. This actually means a lot to me. Coming to IIT Madras, like wow, it's a big thing. And I am actually embarrassed to say that I only completed four NPTEL courses. 28, 8, 13, wow. In my college people actually asked me how many NPTEL courses you have completed. I was like, wow, you completed four courses. I mean, it's actually a complexity for us to complete two courses in NPTEL. So four in one semester, wow. And now I come here. So my, I started doing NPTEL courses by 2021. PSG and Krishnamal in Karnataka. By Jan, in the beginning of Jan, I got this WhatsApp message from NPTEL. And it came like candidate, you are considered a stock candidate for NPTEL. And Shweta, you are invited to IIT Madras. I was like, yeah, I want to come in here. And I applied it. Actually, I was first, conscious whether it's real or not and it's NPTEL. And then I got the even confirmation message and it's like awesome. My background is commerce. So human resource development, working capital management. And I did one in psychology, brief introduction to psychology. And I didn't see you staffs in that because most of them for IIM, Ruruki and Karakpur. So my suggestion is that please continue doing your job. It means a lot. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. My learning staff in 2008. After that, this COVID brought me back to this education. UGP and PGTOP in the University of Vancouver. But I couldn't do anything. So what I did is I started a small lab working in it like a micro algae. I'm a fish science graduate and I am a specialist in fish biotechnology. So when I started working I thought I can do a PhD. So when I came here, everyone I'm busy in doing their works in the field. So one of my statistics staff said you can go there and even learn. So one year I was learning or whatever I have have a gap I gained the knowledge through this one. So my topic on research is to find a few for enhancement in micro algae. So for that what I learned is to how to promote metabolic engineering. So I did a course on that. So I want statistics and I did a course on that. Then I want to be an entrepreneur after my PhD. So I did legal and IPR. I want to know about it. So I learned a course on that. Then about environment engineering, biotechnology industrial and fermentation. I work on a fermenter to raise my micro algae. So I did a course on that. Then bioinformatics I want to find algae's DNA and its back outing and everything. So I did a course on that. All what the course is what I chose. I am applying now and I got a result of that and PFI enhancement program is successful. So metabolic engineering is working well there. Next the same thing. I designed a media which is of industrial scale. It may be useful in bio diesel in the future. So I am working on IPR teams and going for a patent application to file it and I also signed two natural food colorant. I have developed my lab and I have enhanced that through my media. That is also three products I am doing in biotechnology and I am working on it and through experiment biotechnology, I did an NPTEL and I am applying that in HPLC and I got a technology to identify the PUPA and DHA with the basic goal. So a lot of application I have done through this NPTEL. So thanks to NPTEL. I am A. Rajalakshmi. I did my UGNPG in biotechnology and currently I am pursuing Ph.D. in biotechnology and I submitted my thesis and waiting for my IVA and recently I have joined as assistant professor and before going to share about the NPTEL details I would like to if you permit I would like to introduce my guru my Ph.D. professor Dr. B. Ramesh and I would like to introduce him to you because he is the one who motivated me to do this NPTEL actually he introduced me this NPTEL course and initially we didn't know about any stars or domain categories and everything. We just started with CAD computer designing and we both were learning this course together and he is a professor and head of the department. He used it along with me. He used to sit beside me and he will do the assignments with me and we both written the exam at the same center and it's on the same date. So he is very down to it. So I would like to mention him and after knowing about his discipline stars and he motivated me to do courses in a single discipline. Don't go here and there and we chose the biotechnology and we started selecting courses from that and I completed 11 courses in biotechnology and I got the discipline star certificate and in the last semester I obtained the domain certificate too in computational biology. So he is the one he motivated me and actually he stopped my PhD work. During the examination times he asked me to stop the lab work go and complete that course and not only last semester he used to ask me are you writing the assignments? Are you preparing or not? When is the examination? If I tell the examination he will remember that he will ask me. The dates are nearing no lab work. Don't do the thesis work now go and do the designments. So he is motivating me often. So I would like to thank him here and my first course was with Prof. Mukesh from IIT and my professor Dr. B. Ramesh he asked me to search for the courses taught by Prof. Michael Grumihasar and he asked me to search the courses for that and we did bioinformatics algorithms under his guidance and Prof. Ganesh from IIT Kanpur and actually I tried the course but it was very difficult for me so I didn't write the exam under him. I think I tried MATLAB and the one thing I want to know is many of the students in our college we are from Sri Shankara Watson College, Kanchipuram and many of the students ask is there any credits or if they are involved in considering for these courses if you go for a job or any career opportunities. So if it is made clear in the websites or through any mode I think many students will enroll. In the very first year I think 200 students enrolled from our college this examination but after years many students they stopped dropping these courses. So I was continuing this till now so this is the one thing many students want to know from our college so thank you NPTEL for team for offering these courses and it will be more useful if you conduct any interactive lab sessions as the students to come to your IIT labs and if you interact with the lab people. Thank you sir, thank you everyone. I am from Sri Lanka so my name is Thiruvannamalai sir no one has ever enrolled so I asked my friends to come with me to the Vedu Centre I asked them to come and I wrote it Thiruvannamalai Government Arts College that's how I studied then I passed 4 or 3 courses NUCLEAR physics solid state physics Pradaparitha sir I don't know where he was I studied NANA technology then Chemistian surface physics IIT and IIT I passed all the courses and all of them failed then how did you select a star from our college there was a chair he said it's okay if you select a star it's IIT I didn't believe in it I said it's okay sir it's 1000 rupees test we can make it a little less it's very difficult for students we want to do exams like this now I think when we do this we can also study NUCLEAR physics you can make it a little less it will be useful for us I was the first year so we had not gone to the departments yet we were still learning the basic physics department called a meeting and they said look there's this thing called NPTEL all our seniors were present they were like you have to go you have to go apply give it a shot it'll be nice they tried I was like okay what is this I'll give it a shot I am from KCT one of my seniors they applied soon deadline is coming I think the deadline was in January it was December deadline is coming I'll do it that was basically given all this pressure from the mechanical department they said take some course subject very naturally I'd effective writing they were like okay we'll go try something else I don't think I've taken any mechanical course I just tried to explore as much as I can go for all the different courses and now I stopped at one I had time it was online so I was like okay we'll take two more basically that happened for two more semesters so that's how I ended up here so yeah I tried to primarily focus on design thinking and I think my favourite course was design thinking a primer by one of the IIT Madras I forgot his name I am Akash it's been a long time I came up to the stage because I am from college from Panimula Institute there'll be no cultural events or water it maybe so we don't go to the stage you know you are being recorded in it I am this it doesn't matter what's that about our college no I am doing final year since I am final year it's not it so I am doing final year mechanical engineering so basically in first year I was introduced to NPTEL by some of our professors but it was not informed to everyone we just went to the website and the first time I was not aware much about how to use NPTEL and how to access so I just joined in the computer science department I did I think introduction to 4.2 and later on I just came to know NPTEL gives a variety of courses even to other domains like mechanical engineering and I did 10 courses and I passed out 8 and even failed 2 in 2 of the courses in mechanical engineering and later on now I am not able to concentrate much more because in covid period I had time and I was able to concentrate a lot of things into the courses and some I have even done additional 5 courses but I have not done any exams for that I just did in my free time so this was the NPTEL course Tony for me yeah almost 6 to 7 courses from NPTEL mechanical and favourite course favourite course was Power Plant Engineering which was from my domain I do not know the professor name I do not remember him assignments I used to complete if there is 8 week course I will try to manage 6 or 7 courses because we can skip one right so I will skip one Myself Abhinav from Prathisha Engineering College Prathisha Engineering College from Thiruvallur in my college also many cultural activities they only forced for academics only no major cultural activity to stand and talk anyway they only focus on academics only they compelled to take NPTEL courses compelled to take they compelled to take the current semester courses to manage the courses but I will not take that course and I will take only difficult course to challenge these courses and I have completed 6 courses in that I am Ashwin Kumar from VIT Vellore and currently I am pursuing my mechanical engineering and I am in my second year right now actually everything started in June when I got an official mail from my college that I can take one course from NPTEL that is smoke, massive open online courses and that credit will be transferred to my current BTEC credit list so I was allowed to take only one course but I mean it's an open elective where I am asked to complete 12 credits so I wanted to complete the whole 12 credits in one semester so what I did I registered for 6 courses and I checked the dates properly that the exam date student class and I planned everything perfectly and then I completed the courses and I got the portal on the website that Ashwin it's time for you to upload your certificates which you have completed in NPTEL since only one certificate was allowed what I did I merged all the 6 certificates made a single PDF and uploaded that on the site next day the academy coordinator called me and said Ashwin you are smart but we are not full you cannot upload 6 certificates for 3 credits I mean I asked him why can't I complete the whole 12 credits in a single semester so after little arguments I was forced to upload only one certificate and coincidentally the course for which I chose to submit was entrepreneurship which was offered by IIT Madras and it was really one of the best courses which I had done and once I got the mail that I had been selected as NPTEL star and got invitation from IIT Madras and again I said that I will be doing more than 4 courses this semester and I have registered 4 courses again I am going to argue with my academic coordinator but let's see will he allow or not but really it was a fantastic journey completing 6 courses in a single semester gave me the idea that what I am going to face in my third year so because I mean in mechanical engineering as I am said right now I mean just my second year my seniors tell that third year is fully application based courses so right then I need to focus a lot on my courses offered by VIT right then I guess I will be able to manage them because I had already managed 6 courses in NPTEL so thanks a lot I had no proper idea that my college won't allow me to make great transfer for all the 6 courses I mean all 6 courses were in entirely different directions one was AI the other was patent drafting third one was entrepreneurship fourth one was developing soft skill fifth one was body language and sixth one I don't remember thermodynamics yes thermodynamics in fact my professor said how were you able to do all these courses they are not all correlated and all these courses are prerequisite but it's God's grace that I completed all these 6 and I have topped in 2 also but I guess I got 81 in body language if I would have done little hard work I could have got 85 or 86 and then I could have topped that as well so my domain would have changed then I think it's NPTEL superstar for after qualifying 3 after qualifying 3 courses so that's my journey and hope that this semester also I will be able to do 4 courses and we shall meet next time as well if IT Madras calls us again My name is Varunmuthi I am a civil engineering well tech engineering college I am a structural engineering street Krishna college of technology Coimbatore I have done 12 courses in NPTEL I have done 12 courses Motivator learners, Discipline star believer recently I got Domains Color Certificate in Construction Materials and Technology one of my favorite courses is Advanced Concrete Technology Ravindra Githsar's Modern Construction Materials IIT Kanpur has many courses in Advanced level Development Application of Special Concrete Hydration Porosity of TCS Material Those courses are very advanced level It will be good to study Thank you for giving me a lot of opportunity IIT Madras I don't know if we should meet IIT Madras IIT Madras Thank you so much for coming What are you doing? I am working as a project associate at NIT Richie Yes So okay like sir said many have been taken this course accidentally same happened with me also before I am basically from Mumbai I have done my graduation and post graduation from Mumbai University I am biotech background After coming to Chennai I came here to pursue my PhD and now I am doing my PhD in stem cells and regenerative medicine So after coming to here we have four mandatory courses to complete by NPTEL So I took one is research methodology then next is bioengineering which is from IIT Bombay So third one is bioinformatics and biostatistics both are from IIT Madras So I selected these four courses because okay I came to know we have to learn something we have to take some courses so I decided I will take something which I am weak in which I don't know anything at all so obviously for bio background people maths will be little bit hectic we don't want to study we don't understand anything so that's why I went to biostatistics then same with computer that's why I took bioinformatics So I really from these four subjects I really want to thank Mukesh Doble sir from IIT Madras he took biostatistics course and he taught it very well in detail with like maths is there but maths why bio people are learning where we have to apply it so how we will come to know that was very helpful for me so now I have an idea during completing my PhD I will come to know like what bio data I have to apply where I can even publish one extra paper with that so that is very useful so thanks for that purpose and I would like to thank you all for like she said it's very wow to come to IIT Madras so even I didn't visited IIT Bombay so after coming to Chennai this is the first thing which has happened best thing in my life so thank you for that opportunity one suggestion will be that ok we are NPTEL stars so whoever our PhD scholars it will be very grateful if you give opportunity to collaborate with you so it will be very great and we receive NPTEL learners receive some notification email related to workshops so I am receiving meals but it's not related to my subject it will be related to so it will be helpful it's best specific so we can come here and we can do that's it thank you everyone I am Sian Baswapatil I graduated my PG from Central University of Karnataka currently I am pursuing my PhD in Savita University so in our college it's mandatory to do our coursework in NPTEL only for that sake I selected NPTEL courses so actually four courses I have to register in order to complete so I registered for five subjects if I fail in one subject at least I can clear one or four I can show to my dean research so after selecting those courses I was topper in two subjects and three I got silver so what I want to say is like this is something new they initiated started and it is good for all of us because all these are from they are they are good in their basics so they are going to start every first chapter first week from the basics basic concepts for us the development and application of special concrete or Sudhir Mishra sir what is concrete actually started from basic what is concrete as we all are familiar here actually so in concrete we are going to use cement, sand, water and course aggregate this is all familiar but the way they are going to explain that is actually you know we used to go in depth in that one especially that concrete when it comes as we all are familiar now all constructions are going you metro constructions and other things they are all build up with concrete itself so I am very interested in that one so after that I selected three other courses also so totally I completed five subjects but here they have completed 11, 12, 18 courses so currently I registered for two more subjects it is very interesting only sir myself Boubalan from Savita School of Engineering so I am doing PHD I am doing PHD a full time research in Savita School of Engineering before I started my research work they insisted me for insisted me for doing register four courses as NPTEL courses first I registered two courses one papers one is research methodology in sorry research methodology I got passed and one more paper is material characterization that paper but before registering NPTEL paper I know that the exam is online but the material characterization alone is offline mode exam I got much more a problem for that paper a professor Dr. Shankar and IIT Madras have taken that paper but it is that paper is good for mechanical engineering curriculum as well as for my research domain also it is very important for many aspect many number of tests are testing methods they are included in that paper material characterization after that I worried much more for got failed in material characterization but even though my guide supported me for many number of papers for further time but I have registered five papers for the last semester I got passed for all five papers three papers I got silver two papers also one paper is light and one paper is normal but other friends they are much more excited why because of I have completed five papers at the time somebody they got passed one paper one paper and two paper they struggled much more they are excited and giving motivation for me but even though for what is the importance for NPTEL exam for all courses especially for me it is very important to my research work it is composite material is my domain zone that all those papers are very important for me especially for introduction to composite and then mechanical gear of materials and then advanced machining process those papers very useful for us to go in-depth for my research work I also gain a lot more knowledge from those NPTEL papers I also insisted for beginners NPTEL beginners are registering many number of courses to get more knowledge as well to gain more knowledge in future thank you so in here thanks a lot for NPTEL team I am really proud to be here this is the first experience for me IIT Madras I thank very much sir I know that the university of CIG building as well as the directorate of technical education I visited many times and then I don't know IIT Madras where is there I don't know the clear location sir but it may be there opposite to the university now only I am really proud sir to be here thank you very much I am Kishan R I am a bachelor's of engineering computer science engineering student department in RMD engineering college in third semester I started a single course that is the joy of competing using Python I completed that and I got a silver medal so I thought the next semester we will try to so I completed these two courses in next so what we can do is we have an agreement here and we can try the three courses in the last semester so I actually didn't know about these disciplines stars or any stars actually then when I completed these courses I received a mail that I have selected as an influence discipline star then only I know what is the criteria or other things about that sir so I am planning to take four courses in this semester as an agreement I will present here I am Yashwant Kumar from I am currently doing my BE civil engineering at RMK engineering college I came to know about NPTEL through my college I started doing my NPTEL courses from first semester first they insisted us to do courses forcefully then later on I developed interest doing much more courses then after few courses I gained much more knowledge and it was very much useful and came to know about many real life scenarios especially in my domain so thank you NPTEL for providing this opportunity and my actually I have completed seven courses out of which five are from civil sir the guest who I have done in science and humanities the course which I like was basic construction materials which was taken from IIT Madras so that was the only course where I saw each and every video completely personally I am so that was the course which I personally liked it and I found it very interesting so once again I thank NPTEL for inviting us to IIT Madras which is a wonderful campus and thank you good evening to one and all present here I am Jashwin Thasar from RMD Engineering College I am pursuing BTEC computer science and business system third year actually my story also same Accidential but I want to thank my HOD because I don't know about the domain studies domain based NPTEL courses I just want to know there are courses we have to study we have to get credits that's all but she insisted me to travel towards the domain because many students do not know what to do next in your future if you decide to get a path towards any domain for example any front end or data science or machine learning or programming whatever it is we will get a certainty about our future and also we will feel secured about our future like that I decided to go towards data science this is also one of the interesting story because first year fully it's online courses online courses only during that time my Max Dr. G. Ganapathy who took linear algebra that was a very interesting course in my life because actually till my 12th standard I had Max and chemistry especially chemistry if chemistry circums I will that much I had chemistry but after I started to get engaged with linear algebra I had more interest towards mathematics unknowingly and also I got engaged towards python programming also so I decided I get travel towards data science so I completed three core courses and one elective course and I need to complete two more courses to get data science domain and also I have achieved NPTEL believer and NPTEL enthusiastic within one year my suggestion is to reduce the cost of NPTEL courses because all the students are fearing that how it is possible and in my first actually I started to write this only in fourth semester only at that time when I passed five exams all the students asked how much so that's the case so they are passing passing passing and also for paying the fees 5000 5000 only now so they are afraid of the cost so if possible based on the financial I am working as an assistant professor and I am from Thiruvallur one thing I regret about NPTEL is I came to know about NPTEL in my PGDs only if I came to know about UG maybe I would have completed more than now I have completed 30 courses in NPTEL I started it in 2019 when I started it I couldn't register I registered I tried to register but then I didn't so I thought of taking three courses in the next semester registered for three courses and I passed in all the courses then again in the following semester I registered for six courses then it still continuing and initially I didn't know anything about the categories believer, Achiever, NPTEL Achiever and Discipline Star and Domain Scholar after getting my believer certificate and enthusiast certificate only I came to know about ok things are there, categories are there so I can work for it so you are all from it most of you are all from engineering background and I am from literature background yes the first course which I was Victorian short story it was by Professor Divya IIT and I have done courses of all the humanities I mean humanities professors here one thing I like about NPTEL is I mean for my discipline I really admired their way of teaching especially their methodology methodology that really inspired me a lot and the way they offer interpretation to the texts that was really interesting you know these things it has helped me and my ample research so thank you for this wonderful opportunity for visiting IIT because though I started in Chennai this is the first time I am coming here thank you NPTEL and thank you professor and I would like to ask one thing how will you design a course I mean 12 weeks course because the content it's very vast and you have to refer a lot of materials and books how long it will take you to design a 12 week course good evening everyone I am Vijay Shankar I am doing my PhD in Amrita Aishwarya Pidam University in Kerala so I assigned myself to these NPTEL courses when I was doing my MTech in Amrita Aishwarya Pidam University Coimbatore campus so I have got I have received two NPTEL one Motivator learner and one NPTEL Discipline Star and I got two of these very nice t-shirts so thank you for that I am Rakshi I am in my final year of B Tech Biotechnology from Sathya Verma Institute of Science and Technology I got to know about this course from my senior when I was in my first semester because the portions that I studied my college seemed to be very less for me so I wanted to do something more so I asked her about this she told me NPTEL is a platform for doing this so I started doing right from my first semester one thing that I interested in doing about NPTEL courses is that it helps me to switch my domains and learn and that is when I participated in Biohackathon and got a prize national level prize it was because of this NPTEL course I learnt bioinformatics apart from what biotechnology is I learnt python data science and all of that and that is something this gives a impactful to switch your domain and learn more and this acts like a bridge in that way I would like to thank NPTEL one suggestion would be I would ask NPTEL teachers to upgrade their courses something that updated knowledge should be added up when it comes to biotechnological domain I couldn't find related to what is happening right now something related to CRISPR or related to our DNA technology and all is a bit missing so that can be added more that's it thank you what about your favourite courses my bioengineering was my favourite course which was by Dr Sanjeev sir I suppose yeah so that course was very favourite for me and I am right now writing one book chapter on it so that has made a very big impact in me so I would like to bachelors I am planning to do my masters so again that is the main reason I told it is bridging bio and data science I have already done courses in artificial intelligence also so this has given me a platform to combine both and bring up a good research out of it so thank you for that I am Priyanka, I am doing my third year biotechnology in Rajidekshmi engineering college and I think it is a part of NPTEL's locus chapter my college a lot of people do NPTEL courses in my college and they kind of promote it in my college and I have to confess something I have never watched even one NPTEL video in normal speed so I took a biotechnology because of three reasons one, I didn't want to look cliche taking computer science two, I wanted to do my PG abroad so it is kind of like a good course to ask my parents to let me do my PG abroad and third thing is I loved molecular biology in my 12th grade so these are the reasons I took biotechnology and in my first year we had all other courses in engineering basically we don't have our core courses and we have computer science and max which I am very good at so I thought I will rock my college days but in second year we came into the department and I was filled with existential crisis I my memory is very bad so I wasn't very good at biology and I am a very restless person I probably have ADHD so I couldn't sit down in my classes I used to sleep all the time and I am good at self learning rather than sitting in classes so that's how my second year started and that's when my professor started promoting the NPTEL courses and I thought I will look into how I could motivate myself and make myself make myself look better than the other people in the crowd so I looked into the domains and then as I am good at math and programming bioinformatics gained my eye and I thought I will give it a try and so I took up three courses I am not studying at college anyway so let's take three courses and do this better than that and I took up three courses and then once I started learning at my own pace I started to love the subjects and the bioinformatics course was a really good one and it was focused more on the algorithms on which the websites and databases were based on rather than the biological part of it so I completely loved it and sometimes I was pretty lazy to watch the videos every week so I looked into the text transcripts and finished my assignments but at nearing the exams I somehow finished all the portions and attended the exam I also received 5% in one of the subjects like data analysis I did three courses in my 4th sem and in the 4th sem I got 2% in one of the courses and for which I was also given an opportunity to do an internship under and I am waiting for the results I think it would be an opportunity for me to even do my final year project in IIT which I would love to and I am planning to do my PG abroad and also I heard many of you that as a negative feedback that the cost is too high but as my college is part of the local chapter they give us a particular refund for the medal we get so I used to pay for the courses from my dad's account and NPTEL gives me pocket money as cash so and I don't have any negative feedbacks either Myself as one a pre-final year student in the beta biotechnology from Satya Bama as everyone said I also accidentally fell into the NPTEL and also I completed at the first time I have just chose 3 subjects and I passed in 2 in which I wasn't steady for 3 also but I don't know how I passed in 2 subjects itself yes I was busy with other works and I forgot that the exam is coming I was just going written blindly but I passed in 2 exams God's grace and at the next semester I just took 5 examinations and I wrote 5 also but I failed in one through which I lost my domain certificate in a biosciences but other than that I get 2 I guess NPTEL NPTEL it helps me to search various domains other than seeking into the biology I just passed to the psychological domain and also German language yeah German one yeah German and also various subjects I have just studied but I have not just for examinations organ bioprinting I have just studied completely but I have never registered for examination and also I guess mathematical modeling in a dynamics biology I completed it really but I have not opted for examination like that I have studied many interdisciplinary subjects but I have not opted everything for examination the main reason is for the financial stuff if I keep on asking for everything the restriction is maximum 6 of 5 semester and also in the same days 2 examinations too tough to study at the same day because I am like how I see the videos was if today is the exam I will just sit at the yesterday's night and I will completely watch the 12 weeks video at the stage I have been watching as serious and also thanks to NPTEL as I enter the IITM for the first time during my school itself I was like I have really decided to study in the IIT but I can't so right now I entered and I also like during the December I went to IIT I say NIT NITT for our workshop then in the time I was just saying like this 2022 is going to over so by the way by the end of the 2023 I must go to IITM for any workshop but at the starting of the 2023 itself I resolved the mail we are inviting you to IITM I am Vasanth final mechanical student from I have done 7 courses in mechanical engineering I have done 7 courses mostly in design and manufacturing I started doing in 5th semester so I could credit transfer papers and bunk the classes I have done product design and inspection quality and control then introduction to composites, programming data success using Python CM he was sitting there for a while did you not see him? what are you going to do after finishing work for 1 or 2 years you already have a job I got in Zoho but I didn't go I wanted to go for core jobs so I rejected core placement and final looks so you are doing now or you yeah final 8 semester you are looking for jobs