 Good afternoon and to come to this short validity function, I am told that the workshop has gone well rather rigorous as I personally found out and I have gone to the Goa remote center and as some of my colleagues have visited some other remote centers will of course I do not know whether the feedback has been collected or it has yet to come. Administratively, I would like to reiterate that we have decided that no certificate will be issued unless you have put in your feedback. Please remember that the feedback is anonymous so we do not know what is said by whom if you so choose but we definitely know whether every faculty member attending this workshop has given the feedback or not that is recorded. So kindly give the feedback you would recall that I had mentioned that this is first of the new series of workshops where we now have the mandate from the ministry to try and train up to 10,000 teachers in a single subject. This time we attempted to scale up we had about 167 remote centers we will increase this number in future for the other courses. We will also be setting up some nodal centers so that the interaction between the participants at the remote centers and the experts at these nodal centers could be perhaps more intense than what is feasible when you scale up to this magnitude. Most important point is that in a very fundamental course such as thermodynamics more than 5600 teachers have enthusiastically participated and my request to all of you would be that please add to whatever expertise you yourself have please add to whatever teaching methodology that you have been following please add to your expertise and your methodology whatever additional useful points that you find from this workshop and try to enhance the quality of teaching that you will undertake in coming years when you deal with the students. I am tempted to repeat once again the main point that in today's four year syllabus framework the basic engineering courses suffer for two reasons one the numbers have been reduced and therefore the coverage has been reduced and two students increasingly tend to neglect those subjects which are not perceived as directly relevant to their own field of study. I have seen this to be particularly true with computer science students but I think this would generally be true about other students as well it is all the more important therefore that when you teach your students tell them that fundamental subjects such as thermodynamics have no cast or creed like this discipline or that discipline they are just fundamentally important subjects connecting physics with engineering. I am sure that you would have now decided upon the assignment that you will be doing as a team a team have been formed already I guess. Professor Gaitonde has been quite enthusiastic about trying to introduce new models of assignment like repairing spoken tutorials and that could be a very very important and useful contribution. This is something by the way which was never feasible to be made part of any reference material in conventional course so because spoken tutorials cannot be printed in a book and cannot be read from a printed material you need modern technology for that most of our remote centers are also our Akash project partners and they will be attempting to use Akash for teaching some of their subjects I am sure that some teachers from these colleges who are participating might want to teach thermodynamics either in the coming semester or in the semester starting with July using Akash tablets I would encourage you to think like that and I will make sure that not by January but by July time frame every remote center college would have sufficient number of Akash tablets to try and teach courses of such fundamental importance but do please do take the team assignment very seriously and do not forget that whatever you do will be released in open source and therefore you have to not only ensure that the quality of the work that you submit is good and is appreciated to be good by others all over the world we will see it but very particularly avoid even a remote chance of somebody accusing us of plagiarism plagiarizing some material from some source without any appropriate credit being given to that finally before I hand over my to the coordinator and his colleague faculties here I would like to suggest that the colleges that you come from and most of you will not belong to the remote center colleges themselves you will be coming from different institutions please try to suggest to other colleague teachers in your colleges that in future when we conduct the remaining 14 workshops over the next 3 years many of them teaching different subjects might want to benefit from this endeavor although we have a slightly different funding model because this time the government has said that since the scale is large we will be restricting certain expenses still overall there is a substantial support available for conducting these workshops and for participating these workshops so I hope to see more and more of you and your other colleagues coming forward to benefit from these workshop model I must also compliment the workshop coordinators at these respective remote centers who for 2 weeks have been coordinating the activities of the workshop you will all agree that it is not an easy job to do a lot of work there maintaining even the infrastructure technical infrastructure working correctly right like audio and and video connections of the internet connections the moodle understand that there are some moodle problems when you people give the test yes so I wanted to assure you that in summer when we conduct the exercise we will most surely be moving moodle out of our own proxy servers setup so that there will be no scaling problem in future in any case I think both the participants and the remote center coordinators are to be complimented to have overcome these small glitches and how made this workshop successful and of course last but not the least there are two sets of people in IIT Bombay itself whom I must compliment first is our team here the workshop team can you just there are some of them at least here not all but some so anyway whatever numbers you see here at least three times as many are working in the back-end labs and so on so thank you very much for helping us to conduct this workshop properly and finally the three faculty members who agreed to take this step please remember that when when we said we will conduct this mega workshop of 10,000 teachers we had no approval from the ministry to conduct it so we had a lot of problems what would happen if the sanction does not come in time and so on and yet Professor Gayathondey, Professor Bandarkar and Professor Puranik agreed to take this step and prepared accordingly and they have delivered so thank you very much the good news is that the formal sanction later from the ministry for extension of this program has been issued not exactly before the course began but before the course ended the later is dated 20th of December which was exactly one day before the course end so whatever we have done has the formal approval of the ministry not just for expenditure but for our certification program from ISD and so on so I think all is well that ends well I will conclude by once again thanking profusely Professor Gayathondey, Professor Bandarkar, Professor Puranik so let me at least shake hands with you for doing a marvelous job thank you thank you very much may I request my colleague professors to say a few words in conclusions so I would like to thank everyone who made this possible so I am still not I would say I am still not that convergent with thermodynamics to answer a variety of questions that professor Gayathondey is able to answer and but however with you know hopefully with more practice I would be able to you know get myself more absorbed in this so I would say that these small lectures that I have taken have really helped me also because I do try my best to prepare much better and during these preparations I definitely learn something new each time and this has been a good learning experience for me and I hope that people do put in effort when they teach their students so that I mean students can ask various types of questions and it is not very always very easy to answer all these questions and what it makes us do is that we go back and try to figure out what is being said whether this makes sense and always try to come up with better and better answers and during that process each time we learn something and I think that is something that I would probably ask all of you to do that each time you try to make the course new and different and even learn something new each time and you will realize during the course of time that you have learned quite a lot so this is all I have to say because finally all of your teachers and maybe this is something that I have been trying to do all this time and I hope you can do the same too and ensure that the students feel that something good is being taught or some reasonable amount of stuff is being taught so that is my all that I have to say so I will just pass on the mic now thank you yeah actually I would like to thank Professor Gaithondaya and Patak and not really a thermodynamics person but fortunately Professor Gaithondaya realized that I suppose and he asked me to handle a very small part that too is not really a thermodynamic per se part as some people can say in any case I have similar comments to what Professor Bandarkar has said it's been a good learning experience for all of us this is the second work that I am involved in even in the first workshop which happened about six months back it was again exactly the same sort of an experience in the sense that while delivering these lectures and interacting with participants we end up learning sufficient amount and I can right away tell you that while the interactions were going on over the last two or three days I have already come up with a few new ideas for problems in my next semester's class so I would like to thank some of the participants whose questions have prompted those ideas and this is precisely what we would like to convey in my opinion that you have to constantly keep thinking about this this subject hardly ever it is going to happen that you attend a workshop or attend a course and you think that you have understood sufficient amount of it it never happens so what we have to do is we keep going back to the same material again and again and try to think it in different fashions in doing so invariably you will go through different books and one thing about through different books is that different flavors or ideas conveyed by different people you can try to put together in your own world and eventually what happens is it helps in delivering a class lecture once you have gone through these things so my suggestion and request to you is that a very large amount of material has been transferred to you over these last 10 days and quite honestly I do not expect that everyone will be sufficiently comfortable with this kind of material the only way to get comfortable with this material is to again as I said keep going back and keep working on it so in that sense I would like to wish you all the best and hopefully you will be able to incorporate as much material as you can from these past 10 days in your course so thank you and thanks for an excellent interaction so after 10 days of interaction the final interaction first vote of thanks from my side and then some instructions the instructions will never end first thing I should thank professor Patak in for personally putting his confidence in me in being able to teach thermodynamics again within two years over 10 days and again the ease with which my colleagues Vandarkar and Puranik agreed to be a part of this I know that when I took the poll they were wishing that hardly anyone would pick these up but there was a reasonable response the only topic which got deleted or was not included was kinetic theory then I think I myself agreed to do this again for one major reason in that region reason is the environment which is made available to us for conducting these courses we are teachers we are technical people I think only of thermodynamics when it is thermodynamics and all the other had been related activities are taken care of by the excellent team created by after having said so I would say that there are my own colleagues apart from Vandarkar and Puranik who have directly or indirectly have helped me out and finally I should go back in time and I should acknowledge the contribution of a large number of my teachers both of thermodynamics and others who have helped me reach this stage in the understanding of thermodynamics where I can make a reasonably neat effort in trying to explain thermodynamics to other college I would prefer not to list names because the names are too many but there are a few who have directly contributed to my understanding and the learning process as well as the teaching process of thermodynamics the direct teachers of thermodynamics and applied thermodynamics where professors Sundar Rajan and Viladkar from the department of physics and professors Achyuthan Sukhatmi Jagdish and Jagan Mohan from the department of mechanical engineering and also professor Dinkardhi Beshpande of physical chemistry of IIT all of them have retired some of there are no more with us but I think their contribution I should acknowledge every time I teach thermodynamics to any group of people there are other teachers for example professor Vartak of mathematics from him I learned how to use the bold in a very very disciplined way and professor Parulekar of mechanical engineering who taught me refrigeration how to sketch simple figures as you talk to students on the board simple figures just go on modifying them one small bit at a time this is what I learned from professor Parulekar after having said so let me say I should thank all of you for participating but this participation has been made possible by my TA team the five students which you see here they are all students of mechanical engineering one of them is the blue shirted person Ratan right he is in second year just finished learning his thermodynamics from my colleagues the other three here that is the Akshit Markan, Debajyoti, Nandi and Bansal Shah they are my students last year of thermodynamics and I am happy that even after the course is over they do not hate thermodynamics anymore and were more than willing to help out with the TA's task creating solution structures and doing some additional stuff for me has been their task I also have a postgraduate student Ajinkya Zoshi whose interest was in Akash and continues to be in Akash and one small regret I have is that the parallel project of distribution of Akash and its implementation in various engineering colleges could not proceed as quickly as our thermo course and hence I could not integrate it nicely in this course otherwise I was ready with quick quizzes on the clicker application of Akash and we are playing around with a Sylab based team tables on Akash so now it is only a time before that will happen and once that happens I think first us teachers will have a perhaps a more young generation friendly environment for teaching and our students perhaps will take better interest in thermodynamics because perhaps they will think that doing steam tables and thermo solutions on Akash tablet is the in thing to do rather than working with some archaic printed steam tables. So now let me come to some instructions before I pass on to Professor Patak and maybe some interactions with some centers who may want to say something nice or otherwise for this course. The assignment has been uploaded, the tasks has been informed, all that I have to do is put in some details about what is the final form of the assignment which is expected. Our friend Abhilash tells me that the assignment registration module is already up on Moodle. So please form teams of typically four people but we will accept a few teams of three and a few teams of five. One of them should be elected or selected as the team leader and the registration is the job of the team leader then it will be the duty of the team leader to drive the team and submit the final assignment before the deadline. Some questions have already been asked about the assignment. One question is can we have teams of our colleagues who stay near us but may not belong to the same center. I think I do not want to do that because let us take this opportunity to widen your friends and colleagues circle. So even if you are not so friendly with people with your centers I think for this purpose of assignment you should not mind working with them. I have also been told that some people say that we do not have the facility to create the spoken tutorial. I will not accept that because all you need is a PC or a laptop with a simple microphone attached. I have found out from the local people that a simple microphone does not cost you more than 100 or 200 rupees and it will last long enough till the deadline of this assignment and you will notice that these days even the simplest of laptop will have a built-in microphone so you do not really have to buy one. The final thing I want to say is about interaction. This is the second time I am teaching this thermodynamics course to teachers. Last time there were 31 centers and I am sure we visited each one of these 31 centers twice or thrice during that 10 day workshop and I almost got used to various people at various places. This time there were 167 centers and I am sure that there are quite a few centers which we just did not visit or could not visit and that has left some sort of a lacuna in the implementation of this. I think when you have a large number of centers and large number of participants the interaction tends to become more of a one-way interaction rather than a two-way interaction. Of course we have the Moodle discussion forum and I hope anybody who wants to continue the interaction should make use of that. Please follow the protocol which I have laid down that do your homework before asking a question. Large number of questions have been asked, statements have been made which have already been made on Moodle by someone else. So just do not repeat those and clutter up the Moodle discussion forum and because what we receive on Moodle is just a series of characters, the sentences which you write. I want all of you to put some identity on it by signing off with your name and your affiliation, the college and the place to which you belong. If you do that I am sure either me or my colleague as appropriate will look it up and provide a rejoinder. The Moodle site of the last time's thermodynamics course is on. This Moodle site for this course will also be on tentatively indefinitely. If it is going to be closed down or it is going to be moved to some other place you will definitely get a notice of that. There has been some criticism of enforcing spoken tutorials but I want to do that because I think a good set of spoken tutorials will be very good for all of us and also for our students and hence if we come up with a reasonably good set of spoken tutorials on various aspects of basic thermodynamics and condition procedures for the typical problems that we have it will make our life easier and our students life easier. One participant in the afternoon session today asked me whether I have written a book on thermodynamics or whether I will write a book on thermodynamics. I have not written a book on thermodynamics and I do not think I have any immediate plans of writing one. However through this spoken tutorial we will have some sort of an audiovisual book being formed on this site and if that really becomes a good set I am sure Professor Patak will make available to us a site on which it will be available to anyone because just now all that is on Moodle is in the open domain but currently is accessible only by us that is the teachers, the associated administrators, the coordinators and the participants and something good if anything good which comes out of this there is no reason why it should be restricted to this and should not be made available to the full student community at least that community which is interested in thermodynamics. So I think that is enough from me now do fill up the assignment registration form as well as the course feedback form and now control is back to Professor Patak. Well since we have agreed that we will keep this function very short what I will do is as a just sort of courtesy sample I would like to go over to just a couple of remote centers I have NIT Richie yes I can see the video of NIT Richie people what I will do now is I will go over to a few remote centers quickly and request for a short comment from any participant of the coordinator at that point so over to you NIT Richie. Good evening sir yeah it's fine it is very useful to us. Hello please at least let us know your name and which college you come from. Sir I am Vaithyanadan from Shivani Institute of Technology NIT Richie. Thank you very much let me go over to VNIT Nagpur now yes I can see some friends from VNIT Nagpur may I request someone for a very short comment please. Professor P.S. Gilgarni remote center coordinator and 29 registered participant for this over to workshop coordinator Dr. Kayankar. Good afternoon sir we are having 29 participants for this workshop and 5 participants were from outside station nearby and for last 10 days they have enjoyed this engineering thermodynamics workshop particularly the lectures taken by professor Gaitonde sir and all the participants are very happy and definitely they will get benefited through this workshop and they will teach the concepts given by professor Gaitonde as per as the thermodynamics of this concept thank you Thank you very much I would like to take this opportunity to also make an announcement which is meaningful only for some of the institutions you remember I said in my opening remarks for this function that we will be setting up nodal centers amongst the within the country from amongst our remote centers I will be holding a meeting of such prospective nodal center coordinators and their directors on 10th of January 11th of January in IIT Bombay will be sending the invite letters we are of course finalizing the list but I can very quickly tell you from amongst the remote centers which are participating in this workshop NIT Trichy, NIT Varangal, NIT Nagpur, NIT Surathkal, NIT Surath, MA NIT Bhopal and College of Engineering Pune I think these are the centers which you have identified I don't remember the 8th one but will will be soon writing yeah so the request to those remote center coordinators is that one they should be willing to become now nodal center coordinators with larger responsibilities and second they themselves should keep themselves free to visit IIT Bombay on 11th of January and also advise their directors to come here along with them let's continue with our interaction and let's go to there is a college in Haryana and this is Ohm Institute of Technology and management Hissar Haryana I can see people from Hissar may I request someone to make a brief comment please over to you Thank you very much there is an institution Avinashalingam University for Women let me see yes there are some participants there may I request someone to make a brief comment please over to you good evening sir good evening sir good evening please go ahead I'm feeling very nice to see you again sir and I thank you so much for giving us this opportunity sir and we carried it very very well with all your support sir and we had 18 participants from our center and we have been doing it very well with all your tests and interactions went on very well and we sincerely thank you for all the support given to you sir well thank you very much the real test madam is not just attending this workshop and benefiting for which I compliment you for pestering us no end till we agreed to permit you to become a remote center but the real test is when our participating colleague teachers go back and complete the assignment that they have given in the same spirit and with the same enthusiasm with which they have participated here I am sure they will do that I see that someone else wishes to make a comment over to you and the RC coordinator Lakshmi Priya and just as we did for the research methodology workshop we will keep in constant touch with our participants and make sure that they will upload their assignments on time thank you so much we just go to maybe two or three other institution is one St. Peter's engineering college at Hyderabad on the place let's go over to Hyderabad yes I can see participants there over to you for some brief comment please good evening sir my name is Shyamal Rao I am a remote center coordinator so this is the first workshop we are conducting here so it will be successfully we have completed so but one thing we have required myself remote center coordinator is that content of our subject you can give and send remote center coordinates mail also because it was not related to only you are sending into the workshop coordinator so how can we can give a response to other participants and others for remote center coordinates just it will be a request from my side I am sorry can you repeat the request because the contents are made available on Moodle in which even the remote center coordinators are members I suppose they are not not given into the remote center coordinates Moodle that's why because I see I see what thank you very much for pointing this out what we will do is for all future workshops we will also make remote center coordinators as non-editing teachers so that they will also have access and not only to the course material but everything that is happening in the workshop thank you for this suggestion we definitely take care of this Mahendra may I request you to note it down and pass it to our teams here I think it's a very useful point that has been made let's go over to MNIT Bhopal they seem to be there I can see the Bhopal participants may I request someone to offer a brief comment please over to you hello hello sir yes we can hear you ma'am please go ahead sir good afternoon very much very thank you very much thank you on behalf of all the participants for this nice workshop sir here one of the participants he is very much interested to thank you by his own hello good afternoon sir we all thank you to we all thank you to professor Gaitonde who taught very well as Indian thermodynamics and professor B.C. Pranek too and professor Bandarkar too and we also request to organize such type of workshop from machine design portion two machine design portion two thank you very much but let me ask you one question before you go away no no please leave the mic with him one of the questions that I want to ask you is that we are concerned about the number of teachers who will be teaching these different courses we were concerned about thermodynamics itself if we embark on machine design teaching I would like you to answer two questions one do you think there will be a large number of faculty members teaching machine design in various engineering colleges in your region and second what kind of experimental facilities would be required in order to teach that course and whether the remote centers will have those facilities over to you okay sir thank you sir oh he is not taking me hello I think somebody else is answering that question yes sir yes sir yes sir he is workshop co-ordinated Dr. Avin Kumar he wants to yeah sure good evening sir I am thankful to you and your team for organizing such a good workshop and I am particularly thankful to professor you guys understood who has very cool and calm throughout the say about a 10 to 12 hours he has been spending and we get exhausted but he didn't get exhausted I can say like that regarding the question you have asked regarding the machine design subject in our college or in our particular region of the university we are having we are having a machine design courses in second year as well as in third year so basically we do some drawing work is involved some design work is also involved in that for and no particular separate infrastructure is required I think that's a the way you have organized the thermodynamics work you can also organize machine design workshop over to you sir thank you so much very useful information I will now request the professor Gaitonday to try and enthuse some people to maybe teach that course or consider teaching that course because we already have some very enthusiastic suggestions from other colleagues in mechanical engineering department other departments to repeat some of the courses which they are given earlier and which were very well received such as computational fluid dynamics for example and some other courses I can I can see some enthusiastic prospective faculty members sitting here which is good news but you might want to consider this let me go to Bihai Institute of Technology in Durga may I request someone to make a brief comment please over to you Bihai or sorry over to you Durga this workshop was very nice in this we had learned a lot the new methods and for me it was the first experience to have to the internet what we had studied online that was excellent only the problem what we are facing that the most rather I say four days we had a delayed between the lecture and the writing thread so that has made that particular subjects of no use to us otherwise it was very excellent and we got a good experience of this thank you let me ask you one more question because now I am able to see you very clearly I am also able to get your audio very clearly and I suppose there is no further delay so was there an improvement somewhere in between the course can you please comment on that over to you actually what is happening generally in the first quarter I will say from up to 1130 or 11 o'clock we were most of the time it was just okay we are getting online everything and it was clear to us but after that in the second session before the lunch that is the problem most of the time we were facing that it was so delayed that it is of no use that what we are listening and what we are seeing on that board thank you very much for pointing this out but may I point out that unfortunately the problem is with the internet connection both the stability of the internet connection and the bandwidth that your service provider is providing to you in actual practice because everything else is bandwidth related at our end I assure you we are more than 200 megabit per second kind of bandwidth dedicated to this workshop so you may want to get back to the technical team of the remote center and who should then question seriously the internet supplier at your end what may be happening is that as the internet load increases during the daytime the supplier may be actually supplying you lesser bandwidth than what your contract says this often happens and you should definitely cross check with your internet bandwidth provider because anywhere where the internet bandwidth is perfectly working there has been no such problem but thanks for pointing this out I think you with your center and we will take it up later independently thank you so much we will go to an institute in Udaipur now this would be perhaps the last institute which will visit this is NJR Institute of Technology in Udaipur yes I can see their video may I request someone to make a brief comment please over to you yeah good evening professor it was very wonderful experience for all the participants here at Udaipur there are few comments that I want to make first is one thing that all the participants and we discussed and that is many a time when professors could not answer the question online they would easily say that I don't know about this question and I can answer or I'll answer this later so that idea actually is very new for many of the faculty members here and I am sure that they'll take it positively because many a time teacher don't know the answer but they'll tell something which is not correct so I hope that this will be taken very positively by many of the teachers thank you thank you one more comment yes sir good evening sir I want to bring your attention to the previous work workshop in fact about research methodology actually we participated in workshop as M Tech student though we were faculties at the institution and we did not get certificate so could anything be done regarding that thank you very much for raising this issue so let me assure you that if you are a faculty member all that we need is a letter from your institute which you can even send by email to our e-outreach program saying that you were a faculty member at that point in time and if you are a faculty member by all means you deserve to get a certificate and I'll personally ensure that you get a certificate but we cannot do that without getting a letter from your institute you see use yourself register as a M Tech student now we did not know whether you are also a faculty member or not and our system has record showing you as student if you were also a teacher you must say that this is quite likely to happen there was a time in IIT when we were teachers and we are also pursuing our PhD so in that sense we are students is nothing wrong in it so that's perfectly fine we send us a letter as it has the first observation I think it was very well observed by our colleague that people from IIT find it very easy to admit that there is some question which they don't know the answer of and yes I also since in the I also come from a small college that teachers are not willing to say I don't know so let me tell you after 40 years of teaching I have found that the easiest thing to do for a teacher should be that look this is one question I don't know the answer I will look back again and get back to you and quite often in IIT Bombay I have seen this practice the student who raises the question and the teacher who can't answer it often work together to find an answer and then announce that answer to the whole class see that is how knowledge grows there is nobody in this world who knows everything perfectly and there is no student who knows nothing and that is what is the collaboration IIT system not only permits and encourages that collaboration but all of us teachers live with that spirit we have never absolutely any problem in saying oh the good question I have no clue on what this answer is the only important requirement is that if for every question asked by my students if I keep saying I don't know then there is some serious problem with me but if it happens occasionally it is very good in fact that means that my students are alert and they are asking some serious question so I take this opportunity to compliment you for pointing this out and I would request as you have requested your colleagues at your center not only at your center but all of us teachers all 6,000 teachers who are here please adopt this attitude I will tell you from personal experience not only my personal experience but the personal experience of my colleagues here that this is an extremely useful attitude and this enhances both the collaboration and actually students respect the teachers much more when the teachers are freely admitting something which they do not so thank you very much for pointing this out I think with this we have exactly one more minute before 5 o'clock so because what we have decided is we would like to conclude our common validity session at 5 o'clock so that between 5 to 5 30 locally the participants and the coordinators could have a photo session incidentally I would like to request that if the participants and the coordinator get a photograph of all the participants together and upload it on the moodle I will ask them will ask to put up a link and we will also have a good photographic memory for all the participants coming here so let me just go to one remote center here I have one college in Varnanagar and that is Rathya Sahib Kora Institute of Engineering and Technology at Varnanagar I can see the participants in Varnanagar may I request someone to offer some brief comments please over to you with the subjects the the depth of coverage of the subject and we are very much thankful for all this and also I am just I was the one more participant from Bhopal he suggested that to conduct some of the workshops on machine design but for here in Shivaji University we have machine design 1 2 3 actually the mechanical system design as a machine design 3 so there are a lot of teachers teaching the subject and we hope some of the workshops will be conducted on machine design sir my our vice principal Dr. S. S. Joshi would like to mention some points one minute sir most welcome good afternoon Professor Joshi my sir Dr. S. S. Joshi vice principal of Kata Sahib Kora Institute of Engineering Technology I am very much thankful to you and your team HRD for providing this facility I would like to say that compared to last two workshops which you have conducted the audio and video facility which you have provided there is certainly there is an improvement and I hope that in committing future in other workshops or seminars like this which you are going certainly there will be a lot more improvement the lectures conducted by Gayathandesar and all other colleagues we didn't feel it is a distance mode we feel that they are in front of us and we enjoyed it thank you very much sir thank you thank you very much I am I am so happy that the audio and video links have improved I have only one pleasant duty to perform before I announced this session closed I would request my colleague Professor Kannan Malkalya who is actually the principal investigator of the second phase of this project and who is also the creator of open or spoken tutorials so like me is also a passionate person concerned with improving the quality of education in the country and since he is present here I would like to request him to say a few concluding words and then we will close this thank you for Sir Patak good afternoon everyone I am really delighted that this workshop has gone on extremely well and the useful suggestions and also the interest in doing more courses and one of the things that we want to do what Professor Patak said to establish nodal centers and through the nodal centers we could have many courses may not be possible from IIT if only one institution is doing there is a limit to which this can be done but the idea of this nodal center is to elevate other centers or provide the required technology the faculty members are there there are good faculty members who know the subject but the point is can we also provide them with the know-how of this technology so that they can share what they have if you do that then then we can do this in a big way of course the director of this mission Mr. N. K. Sinau is a big dreamer he thinks that all the 500 remote centers that we will establish eventually will also become nodal centers and hubs and which will disseminate this kind of through this technology disseminate all kinds of things to neighboring schools other colleges for example science arts commerce colleges and so on so anyway I'm really delighted to see this I'm glad to know that some people pointed out that the audio video quality improved one of the problems we have from our end is to convince the funding agencies that the course is effective I have made presentations on behalf of this project to get funding one of the things that people always asked was what is the guarantee that the course is effective what is the guarantee that the people are learning so it is important from that point of view this becomes a serious problem because there are a lot of people when we have a smaller number of people then we can be reasonably sure that most people who attend the workshop would be interested when we scale this up to a larger number let's say 5000 or even 10000 what is the guarantee that all the people who participate in this are interested unless we can demonstrate that we will get into problem because there are questions from audit questions from third party evaluation from the ministry from the auditors who release our funds so we have actually promised the government MHD that we will institute procedures to ensure that whoever undergoes this workshop is actually interested of course this will happen through the you know if you do this properly then what will happen is we will get enough number of people who are motivated participating in the course we will know that from the marks they score in the tests we will know whether they submit the assignments on time and things like that these are important measures that we need to institute immediately whatever may be the course whether it is fluid mechanics course or some other course of course I see that there is a lot of enthusiasm to do many mechanical engineering courses there are also other subjects as this project organizers we would like to make this available for also for other departments other engineering department now there are couple of other things that I want to talk about one is for computational fluid dynamics most of you would be using the software called fluent we have been promoting an equivalent open source software called open form and as a matter of fact there is a new faculty member in the mechanical engineering department by name Shiva the professor Shiva has been using open form for many years seven eight years and he is the local expert we have also created spoken tutorials on open form and those are available on our webpage spoken dash tutorial dot org all of those are available in case anybody wants to organize these workshops please send a note in Moodle please note that these workshops are conducted with our through our events team we will not come in person immediately people start responding we want to organize a two-day workshop now we are not doing any of those these workshops can be done in two hours and whoever is interested can learn on their own so the as the methodology evolves as our technology improves we will also be introducing methods that will allow interested people to learn on their own that we will facilitate learning but then the learning have has to happen by you directly okay and of course Sylab is another thing that we have been promoting quite a bit for open form you need to know C and C++ we also have spoken tutorials on C and C++ which you may want your students to know anyway so that they can clear the IT entrance exams of companies like Infosys TCS and so on so this students also can get good jobs IT jobs so it has been a great experience working on this project and so in case there are any mistakes we are just like you we are also learning and we are improving our mistakes and our mistakes actually help us improve so do send us feedback and I want to congratulate all of you for having gone through this workshop successfully in fact I was really delighted to see that even after 10 days at 5 o'clock on a Friday evening there are quite a few people in far corners of the country so I wish you all the best Jai Hind once again thank you very much and thank you all