 So, good afternoon all of you and welcome to this valedictory session. So, to formally begin the proceeding I am Deepak Phatak by the way I teach here in IIT Mumbai for donkeys years as they call it about 40 years. I also happen to be the coordinator of this empowerment of thousand teacher program that we have undertaken. To begin with I would like to welcome our faculty members who helped us conduct this program. So, Professor Prabhu, thank you so much, Professor Arun Kumar the entire initiative in the general field of engineering rather than computer science and such things alone which are our areas of expertise was initiated by Professor Gaitonde when he when we when I told him that look we want to take this program to the broader part of core engineering subjects in all engineering topics. So, he said for mechanical engineering I will start off and it is entirely due to his initiative that we see all of you assembled here for this program. So, let me welcome Professor Gaitonde. Thank you so much. So, without any further ado let me do the pleasant task of distributing certificates. I understand that these certificates do carry a small set of brownie points in your own careers. However, you will agree that that is the least of our purposes here main objective is that you work as the carriers of the great feeling that we were trying to contribute to other colleague teachers lives. So, I will I will just read out the names and I will request the participant to come over here. Professor Arun Sukumaran, oh you have come from Kerala all the way good I hope you enjoyed this. Thank you so much. Professor G. Nagarajan, thank you so much, oh Anna University. Anna University has been a remote center for us for time immemorial quite some time. Thank you. Mariyappan Vailavan Tiruchirapalli, thank you so much. Dr. Baluswamy, thank you so much for coming. Sibleyamon KV Sibleyamon Apalai Kerala, a lot of presents from Kerala. Good. Kemen Mehta from SVNIT. You did not have to travel far for this. Rupesh Tiwari, my place indoors. Good afternoon. Thank you. Parashuram Chitragarh from VPCI, thank you for coming. Professor K. Kannan, another old and renowned institution, Ph.D. Coil Tour. Thank you so much for coming. Mohammad Abdul Samad from Hyderabad. Osmania. Osmania, thank you so much. Professor Vittal used to be a good friend of mine. Thank you. Ramaswamy Chandramawali from Shastra. I happened to pass by REC 3C, I mean NIT 3C and Shastra University. No, I was travelling, so I just passed by. I could not come in. Next time I visit there, I will come in. M. Sinevash from NIT Calicut. Koikor is called, isn't it? Thank you so much. Vijay Patil, KK Var. Another fine institution in Nasik. It's a long record of sending people for M.Tek and Ph.D. programs. You still continue there? Yes. Good. Thank you. Vivek Kode. Vivek Kode from Jaswanta Achawan. Thank you Vivek for coming. Dr. Kumar Swami Gupta from JMTU. Which place in JMTU are multiple occurrences now, right? Hyderabad. Thank you. Mangesh Chaudhary from Vishwakarma. Is a banker still around or has he retired? He has retired. He has retired. He has retired. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Rashad Ali from Pillai College. Oh, that is nearby. Thank you so much for coming. You had to travel at least, I think. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Vijay Daya. That is nearer. But you don't know where they live. Anil Kumar Agarwal from Jaipur, Kukas. That is another institution which has been participating for quite some time. But you have to gather more participants at your place. Scores around the entire Rajasthan. Get everybody there. Devi Parvati S from Amruta. It is the Amruta technology that we are going to use later. I hope you had a demonstration or something like that. Yes. Thank you so much. Sunil Divyakar from Kameen's College, Pune. It is very funny. The college is essentially a girls' college. But they don't mind keeping boys to teach them. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Somebody may say, outright dangerous. Dinkar Gevade from Kolhapur. Oh, KIT, the Kolhapur Institute. Yes, yes. In my Bharat Yatra, I had gone there once. We were taught. Oh, you remember? Good. Yes, Suresh from NIT, Bhopal. So, how is Bhopal doing? No strikes by students anymore? No. Good, good. I remember 1969, 1970 when it was fun there. Dinesh Kumar Pasi from HGSIT, Sindhore. That is my college. So, what do you teach Dinesh as your regular hobby? Design. Vikas Lakhera from Nirma University. You have a fine infrastructure and fine students. I hope all teachers are fine too. Good. Dr. Nitin Ghulane from Vijay T.I. That's the nearest spot. We expect a lot from Vijay T.I. for all Bombay colleges. Thank you. Prashake Balamurgan from IIT, E-Road. Prashake Praveen Savarkar from VNIT, Nagpur. Does Nagpur have a full-time director now? Who is it? Gokhale. Gokhale. Okay, okay. Thank you. Give me my regards. This is Bhanuprakash S. from Amruta, Bangalore. Sama, I visited all Amruta establishments except Bangalore. Maybe I'll come someday there. I'll come there. Thank you very much. Professor Alok Chaube from Jabalpur. Oh, Jabalpur Indian College, Nexet presence there. Thank you. Professor Atul Patil from RC-PIT, Sherpur. Sherpur is another institution which has been with us. Somehow, although you are in a very small town, you do manage to assemble a lot of teachers from Jalga, Dhulia, wherever. How do you do that? It's quite easy because Sherpur is nearby 50 kilometers from Dhulia, 50 kilometers from Jalga, 50 kilometers from Sharda, 50 kilometers from… So, although you are a small point, you are the… you are the… Okay, good. Or I'll sit here and talk. This is better. It's called Angad Asan. Those of you who know the story here, Angad was not offered any seat in Ravana's Darbar when he went there as the emissary of Ram. Emissaries are supposed to be treated well. So, he used his own tail and made a seat higher than that of Ravana and sat there. The self-made Asan is called Angad Asan. Teachers, this self-made, has an important connotation. So, I'll begin my sharing of my thoughts with this paraphrasing. You know, all life species in the world, human beings, of course, are special creation of God. They have been given more intelligence and they have evolved genetically or whichever way to add an emotional layer and add a cultural layer. Observe that no other species have an institution called a teacher. Only we are privileged. And we are not privileged. Humanity understood this long, long time ago when they realized that the human knowledge was growing in leaps and bounds and it was not possible for that knowledge to be automatically transferred genetically as it happens in other species. For example, who teaches birds to build a nest? Birds don't have a teacher except for the hypothetical Jonathan Livingstone Segal if you have read that. They don't have teachers. We created an institution called the teacher. We said that since the human knowledge cannot pass genetically, that would have been nice, right? Your children and grandchildren will automatically be experts in heat transfer and everything. Or my grandchild should be writing Java programs now at the age of five. It doesn't happen that way. Not as yet. So, we can't do it that way. So, we had this. To provide support to this institution called teacher, we created support structures. In India, traditionally, they were called ashrams. But if you look at the entire human history, you take all the religious places, churches, mosques, temples. They were all essentially structures to support learning. And the priests, whatever religion, whatever it is, they would be primarily endowed with this responsibility, disseminate knowledge, disseminate good thoughts, tell people what is right, what is wrong, tell people what skills are required. These support structures in modern day, in modern avatar have become what? Schools, colleges, universities. But there is one sad thing that has happened. These support structures are now called institutions, national institute of technology, Indian institute of technology. Such and such universities, such and such colleges. And the original institution of a teacher has become a paid employee of these support structures. There is a subtle but extremely crucial difference in that nomenclature. You see, when I am a paid employee, my entire ethos, my entire approach to the problem is that of a paid employee. I get so much money, I will do this much work. But an institution, if you are an institution as a teacher, you will never think like that. Whether you are paid zero rupees or whether you are paid one crore rupees a month, your commitment, your allegiance to that great responsibility that humanity has bestowed in you will be of a different kind. Fortunately, there are many amongst us who take that approach. You would have seen them. I was fortunate enough to study in 14 different schools when I was studying. In every school I found, without absolutely exception, at least one or two teachers who made a difference to my life. They were not paid employees. They were trying to make a difference to my life. Others probably were trying to emulate them, not so successfully. Some were clearly committed to the salary that they got. We have had teachers say itna pagar mein itnai palaum. So, that is the extreme. Why I say this is, I think the time has come again to rekindle this kind of passion and commitment amongst all teachers. And we have to tell teachers that, look, whether you are going to teach for one day, one month, one year, one decade or one lifetime, whatever you do, do it with this passion and commitment. Not only you will make a difference to others, but you will make a difference to yourself also. Why I said one day, one month, et cetera, et cetera, is that you will find that many of the younger people who are joining the academics today, this would be happening even in your colleges. They do not seem to have lifelong commitment to academic problems. Many have come to your colleges because probably they are not getting better jobs elsewhere. So, it is a part of second choice. So, they may go. They regard this as a stepping stone or as a temporary parking lot. As we say, jobs these days, and this is true for all younger generation by the year. There is no reason to shout at these chaps who come to you, but a person who joins Tata Consultancy Services or Infosys at four times our salary is also not committed to stay beyond whatever time it takes for somebody else to offer him twenty thousand rupees more, whether it is six months, one year or something. As I call it, a job today is not like old-time lifelong investment. It is called mark-to-market investment. You discharge that investment the moment you get some more money elsewhere. I do not blame the younger generation for this because they come out of extremely competitive environment. They have been fighting a rat race for marks throughout their early life and then for money, for positions, for fame, rest of their life. Whenever I speak to students, I try to tell them that look, every rat race will produce some winner rats and lot of loser rats. Winner rats will have some overconfidence. Sometimes it borders on arrogance. You would have seen that. Some people who come to your college as students, you know doing fantastically in some competitive exam, they will be sort of flying in air. We get a lot of them every year. So, when I teach a first-year course, one full semester has to be spent in bashing their egos, saying look, you may be great, but everybody around you is equally great. But I am more worried about people who develop diffidence. That diffidence sometimes gets into discordance. That is where you find somebody failed and he committed suicide. There is no emotional strength. So, what we need to remind these youngsters is that while you fight your rat race, some winners will emerge. So, there will be some winner rats. There will be large number of loser rats, but a rat race will produce only rats. What we want you to become is humans and humans have something else to do and these youngsters have stopped asking one question to themselves because they are always asking the following question. Have I done better than him? Have I done better than her? They are only doing everything relative to someone else. The right question that they should be asking is, having done some task, independent of comparing with someone else and saying, oh, I have done it better, the right question to say is, could I have done it better? Comparison with others will eventually sting. Comparison with yourself will help you discover more and more within you and you can do it better. Unfortunately, they do not ask this thing because nobody has ever told them to ask. If they did, the answer to this question is, by the way, I would always have been able to do it better. Whatever way I have done, if I really think an introspect, I could find some flaw in whatever I did and I could say, this is what I tell the youngsters. Now, here is a larger question. Don't you think it is also necessary to tell the same thing to our younger teachers today? Don't you think it is necessary to remind all of us also that we should continue to do this introspection because over the years, when we find the mahol to be like this, sometimes we also stop asking this question. Of course, everybody is happy, I am happy. One thing we learned very early in life when I used to teach programming to a large number of students, you get 100, 200, 300 course evaluation forms by students. We are given those forms one semester later so that we, you know, supposedly it will not affect on the grades of students. And students give very frank opinion. So, initially we used to be thrilled. Oh, so many people saying excellent teaching. Fantastic. Yes, good. Then you notice some 15 or 16 out of those 300 forms where somebody has taken the trouble, you have not done this properly. You should have given more examples. You should have returned the answer books corrected in time. And then you reflect and you say, my God, these 15 forms contain the most important lessons. All other 250 are the good. They make you feel good, but that's it. They don't add anything to it. We learned very early because we had great mentors who told us, you read this, find out what you need to do. That is how we have been able to improve a little bit every time we make an offering. You know, when I said that teacher is an institution, IIT is one environment which retains that institutionality of a teacher to maximum extent. When we teach here, we have the complete freedom to decide what we teach because that becomes the syllabus. We decide what questions to ask in the exam. That becomes the examination paper and we decide what student gets what marks. That becomes the final grade. No questions asked. This is the true academic training. There are many autonomous colleges and NITs which are either got this or about to get it or in the process of getting it. But there is one thing beyond that autonomy of a teacher, the autonomy of the learner. Which we still have to establish everything. There is a lot to be done in education and there is an additional challenge. The numbers that we have to deal with now are just mind boggling. You just see the growth of engineering education in the country. In till about 1980, 81, there used to be what about 70 to 100 colleges in the entire country. Compressor did not exist then. There used to be electronics. And roughly we produced about 5,000 electronics, BE, BTECs across the country. Today what are those numbers? 50% of all people entering engineering colleges is electronics, IT, computer science. Call it by some name because they all want jobs in imposes and whatever. To cater to these numbers, particularly cater to mindset of the students where they are now convinced that the only thing in their life is to do better than others. You have to change their mindset. And the only mechanism available to human society today to do that is teachers. Because parents have no time. That is what I would like you to carry back to those 30, 35 teachers who will come at your place. Because the number of teachers that we wish to empower not only in the subject matter but in their overall thinking is mind-boggling. More than 2 lakh teachers. Most of them, large majority of them are fresh people. Many of them have not even done their masters. Forget PhD. Opportunities are less for doing that kind of activity. But you have to somehow tell them that look whether you like it or not the future of this country's youth depends upon what you do. You better do a good job and hopefully you will also enjoy doing it. So I am telling you something which has absolutely nothing to do with heat transfer better to do with a lot of value transfer. And since heat has a lot of value after all things run because the heat is transferred I think this could further energize that heat. So I would request you to keep that in mind. This is a completely new paradigm. I had thought of this long time ago when we started the distance education program. Originally we were trying to do it for students directly. Then we decided that it cannot reach a million students. But can I reach teachers? Perhaps yes. Earlier it was never thought possible that you could reach thousand teachers at a time. In fact people laughed at me when I originally said this. We persisted. We did our experiment with V-SATs. EJU-SAT was made available to us. As an experiment in one of our workshops we tried to use the A-View software which Amruta has developed on a trial basis at four to five places. When we are about to conduct a workshop with EJU-SAT at one remote center we got a frantic message two days before the beginning of the workshop that their antenna has collapsed. Since we had introduced to the coordinators this A-View we said would you like to try with A-View? They used A-View and it worked perfectly. Then as luck would have it the entire EJU-SAT stopped working. We got a love letter from ISRO saying I do not think they said we are happy to tell you but they said we have to inform you that EJU-SAT is not working and the next satellite may be made available to you around March 2011. I think we could guess that the year was wrong which is what is done. We then assembled our interaction with Amruta very quickly. Got it done. Sajjan who is the in charge of manager of my video team he and his people were very very regularly interacting with the people in Amruta and we got it to a level where now in fact the other day I addressed about 200 universities so 200 remote centers. We are only talking about 30-35 remote centers. There are a few things that you have to keep in mind that at your remote centers the audio video quality has to be excellent. So please ensure whosoever is the remote center coordinator looking after these aspects that the internet bandwidth does not fluctuate during this power supply everything everything is in place because you see we are physically here but at that time those 35 teachers assembled at your place will be in different places. There is a slight place to that interaction but believe me it is possible it is possible we have almost perfected that model our colleague teachers from here can give lectures in the morning but the essential interaction with those 35 teachers with us will happen via you in the afternoons when they sit down and do their assignments do their tutorials do their labs and you have to make them feel as if they are in IIT doing those things that is the challenge because I want you to take you to imbibe not just the technology aspects here but the ethos of this place the place bubbles with enthusiasm the place bubbles with questions is a place where we do not at all mind when the student tears us apart and tells us this is wrong this is wrong this is wrong we are perfectly happy with it because that we feel that we also have to learn a lot and that is how we all know this ethos I want you to take back the other angle is that over the years because of this huge separation of knowledge into various you know we have built boundaries we divide first of all science engineering commerce et cetera in engineering now what mechanical engineering electrical engineering civil engineering traditional now metallurgy chemical and now you have this new phenomena called computer science IIT and so on and these people do tend to believe our students that all they need to learn is this now this is the first thing that you have to bash out of the heads of teachers first and request them that they should emphasize this to their students in whichever course they are taking because the real life problems do not come with attack have you ever seen a problem which says I am a civil engineering problem or I am a mechanical engineering problem the real world says I am a problem that problem may require engineering knowledge that problem may require knowledge of accounting that problem may require knowledge of sociology that problem may require anything and we have to have confidence that whatever we know will contribute maximally and we have to have humility to say that I do not know I will learn from him or him or him and it is still solved now this message if it has to go to students it has to first to go to teachers and young teachers are no different from these two there is nothing new by the way the silos at the cost of two minutes I will give you an example which occurred in my own lab in 1983-84 many many years ago we had just started computer science program when people were transferred after they got admitted to electrical engineering computers and then and we had got the first PC in my lab and that PC was the ordinary PC that was this vertical boxes here one year later somebody decided to make those horizontal line PCs into vertical models they were called tower models you see all of them vertical what this genius had done is he had taken those four base rods and put them on the other side or Skolta Kerkera nothing else so they had opened this up and that I went into the lab for two days my boys were working on it first of all the way they had done it Ulta the power supply which is the which is the heaviest element was on the top so I asked my students don't you see anything wrong with this they circled around it once and said no no sir it is working fine for last two days said what is the center of gravity so one of the students was called Chumka immediately this is heavy it should have been at the bottom then I also found that the fan which was supposed to put cool air along with all the cars because of this the first car was blocking the air flow so then I asked them so what about the heat flow these are we take computerized students of IIT Bombay some of the cleverest chefs remember I told you arrogant people they are the winning rats so they again circled and this time they were fox so I had to repeat so what about heat flow one chef says who sir so I said look these cars will get hot and they will have to be cooled that is why there is a fan how the fan will flow how the air will flow air will circulate then the other chef ha sir but that is mechanical engine problem so look at it a computer science and engineering student of IIT Bombay saying that the way computers are designed I have nothing to do with it I shared this with Professor Gayathodand and he was so mad he put up in his lab I think some 13 or 14 sensors inside it put everything in a transparent environment and asked an M.Tech student to do a detailed analysis of what portion of that body collects what temperature and how the temperatures will be different based on where you put the air where you put the fan if you ask me this is simple commences engineering but our students are not getting this simple commences back in old times when I did an engineering course it was a five year program so first two years were common and I remember when I could not understand some concepts in Cochran boiler and such thing they were trying to teach and I tried to tell them that not the teacher we did not have guts to shout at him but one of the technical assistants in the lab says I am going to become an electrical engineer and he says no matter what engineer you become you will still be called an engineer and you have to know these things that is when we were told by other people that look this is the reason why mechanical engineering is called the mother of all engineering the fundamental engineering unfortunately we as teachers are singularly failing to convey this to our students across boundaries now my humble request is at least convey this to all the thousand teachers we will assemble let them think and in their own courses in their own lectures in some way let them point out that independent of what subject you are studying you have to keep the larger picture in mind so this is the message I would like you to take back there is a lot that we can talk about but as far as these thousand teachers are concerned empowering them primarily in this subject that we are studying for two weeks they will be there so today it is heat transfer tomorrow there could be some other subject in chemical engineering etcetera etcetera that subject you have to make sure that they are not only able to teach it better but they are able to keep these ethos in mind that no matter what exam questions are there in the university after all many of you many of them in fact definitely will be mired by the exam system and the exam system in many universities you know the question paper this year is not very dissimilar from question paper that appeared two years ago in IIT we have been conducting J E and gate for how many years not a single question has been repeated in my own subject when I teach if I ever repeat a question my colleagues will snide at me that question you have asked two years ago how can you ask it now that is the ethos I would like you to take back tell them that their quality and their work will define how good the students will be let us not underestimate the students just as I was telling you about some teachers that I made I had taken a sabbatical leave for a year and gone around the country and visited some colleges smaller places without exception in every college I found some brilliant students without exception smallest college I would interact with the final year students who will be doing their project and teams of four or something so I would spend about half a day and one or two teams will impress you with the amount of thinking that they have done amount of work that they have done they may not be polished in English they may not be as well prepared as some of the better places but you could see that they are passionate about what they are doing you could see that they have worked these are the kids who will change their own fate and who will change the fate of the nation but they are all spread they are not in IIT at all I mean not all of them are in IIT not all of them are in your institution they are there in the small place whether it is Jharsupudayanurisa Khaachalodin Madhya Pradesh or wherever now that is the set of people who we teachers have to reach so tell them that in a class while you will be teaching a subject while you will be teaching as per the syllabus keep track of two sets of people one for doing exceedingly well give them some better challenge give them some harder problem and the second is a set of weak students ensure that they at least understand basic principles of this subject rest will follow the harder problems are very important I hope you have given them some hard problems this time not yet not yet given they are not living up to the IIT Bombay's reputation so in conclusion I will tell you one more story which has taught me a lot of lessons I was a young teacher then and one of the students who was a student when I was a master student before just one year before he used to be on the chess team so he came to me one day he had a mid-same paper mid-same examination during the and he gave me that paper it says how do you solve this question 3 that question paper was on electrical fields colleague of ours late professor Mukherjee used to teach that subject there so I looked at that question paper I could get no clue on how to solve that question 3 I promptly returned it to him saying I am a computer science professor he says no your basic degree is electrical engineering so I again spent some 5 minutes could not solve it both of us since I was a teacher now both of us decided to approach professor Mukherjee we went to his game the moment he saw that question paper in our hand he started smiling and as we approached so he looked at him then he looked at me he did not recognize him because he was a student among 60 and he looks at me so question 3 so I said yes sir he kept smiling but did not say anything so this friend of mine asked me sir what is the solution and he turned to him and said I do not know and he was shocked then he turns back to me and says this is part of an unsolved research problem for last 10 years but you know this batch so smart I thought somebody will solve it if that had happened at my own place where I did my bachelors in Indore GSITS college would have gone on strike syllabus ka bhar ka soval kuchar e master ko paila nikalo but you see that is when we learn that in real life there is no syllabus syllabus is actually reflection of what human knowledge has been accumulated so far real life will pose different problems there is no syllabus there the best part of the story and this is what I like about IIT Bombay I would like this kind of ethos to be created in every college that evening in hostel 4 I think it was these kids there were large number of students from that batch and apparently this fellow had spread the news so they were having a milkshake party a milkshake party in IIT hostels in those days at least used to be a very special affair a hostel wins inter hostel hockey tournament or somebody in the hostel gets a trophy for debate some special thing happens then there is a milkshake party so in the milkshake party was going on the general secretary of hostel he says what is happening he didn't know anything special that has happened so what has happened so one thing you don't know great professor Mukherjee says that he thinks we can solve unsolved such problem so we are celebrating see that is the ethos that is why I said problems my most favorite example to emphasize this notion of difficulty and how it is important is to ask people to speculate what would happen if they play a three game match with me in any let's say outdoors most badminton all of you know how to play badminton suppose you are playing a three game badminton match with me you start playing your normal game you will suddenly find me not moving at all you see my role model is ganpati stay at one place so if the shuttle comes my way you will find it returned if the shuttle falls there I will walk very slowly like ganpati you will realize that in first two minutes you will win hands down first game you will win hands down we start the second game I am still same ganpati follower do you agree that in the second game you will run a little less because you are far more confident and maybe in the second game I may get across a couple of shots on you I will still lose so I may score some points you will go back home very very pleased I am professor's wife what would have happened to your game it would have deteriorated now imagine you playing the same best of three match with the world champion some of you may be great players but you agree that world champion will make a mincemeat of you the first game the world champion plays you will struggle with all your minds the world champion but still you will lose but don't you agree that in the second game you will run a bit faster and you will atleast get one shot on his head no matter whether you lose you may go back home dejected but your game would have improved if you agree with the principle behind this hypothetical story then you must also agree that solving ten simple problems in any subject can give you lot of pleasure but no additional knowledge attempting to solve attempting to solve ten very difficult problems and not getting the correct solution for any one problem may leave you dejected but greatly add to your knowledge that is what IIT occasionally tries to do and that is what I would like you to do first to these teachers and then to these students there should not be a single day when they are opposed to them then they are not expected to think atleast for ten minutes maybe they will not be able to solve it after all what is learning learning is about thinking applying your mind getting new things this is the message I would like you to take back there is a lot more that I can talk of I am trying to make some difference to the Kali community of teachers as has been the passion of life most of us here you have seen how my young colleagues have put their time in this workshop do not forget that the semester is on do not forget that like you all of us here are busy but we think that this is something special that we have to do and together with you we believe that we can make a difference to these thousands in conclusion I will make only two requests we still have time to assemble try to maximize the number of participants who can come believe me many teachers will apply or not apply thinking it is a normal IST workshop they may not even understand what we are trying to do here try to use your personal what should I say circle try to use any mechanism to convey to them here this type of the first time in the nation we are trying to make a difference you see in spite of all everything that we do if you assemble thousand teachers maybe sixty percent will be charged more forty percent will not be charged so six hundred will be affected four hundred will not be but you do not know which six hundred so you have to work with all thousand maybe more so that is the request thanks again for taking time off one week is not a small time God bless you you want to tell something about the course or anything what you want to share you are welcome to come and tell thank you sir the first I had a professor taking really I am proud of those and really they had made a lot of difference in my thought process when I come here and through one week course what professor Professor Anuguma really they have touched subjects very nicely and they have made us to think a lot on various issues in all the modes of heat transfer and really they have contributed definitely and you have charged us a lot today before leaving this institute definitely we will take your message to all other teachers who will be participating in it we will try hard to collect more teachers at the remote centers we will try to do the maximum but with your help thank you sir good afternoon sir all of you sir since Monday till today we had gone through the ocean of this heat transfer so today I am able to say that when I came over here with an opinion yes I know something but it is false so I will say I was not knowing anything so it is so I will assure professor and Sridharan sir from all of my participants side saying that we will take great efforts to make this heat transfer workshop very successful for all teachers of all relevant colleges thanks for providing this opportunity to us thank you myself I am from NIT Siddharth I have never been taught these subjects in my UG life because I think that the training makes the man perfect and I have never been gone through that type of training but it's been fortunate enough by this workshop that I am been trained by the IIT's professors and in a word I would like to say that you have made us life very simple no actually we need to thank you a lot why because you are the guy who was asking maximum number of questions perhaps others wanted to ask but they didn't have the courage or they were diffident enough not to ask but you were always you promoted asking questions maybe slowly everyone opened up so that was really nice although we were little impatient on and off but for the lack of time but nevertheless you asked a lot of questions that was really good that was really good finally you have satisfied us also thanks for the hospitality what we have been given during these five years over here thanks for everyone sir and I would like to carry the very cherries and good memories to the Surat and I will be planning together more and more teachers from fraternity and try to make them assemble in the hall and maybe they will be trained by the IIT's ITN's and by you by you definitely definitely it makes so much of impact to my students because I have been teaching the subjects for since long and they have given us the reason the subject how to introduce the topics and how to introduce yourself being a subject teacher in front of the students so they have I can say that they have changed our reason how to introduce and how to interact with the students how to motivate the students and what an individual should be very much prepared while going for the conducting and lectures thank you sir I forgot that I must take this opportunity to thank my own colleagues you might have interacted with only some of them Mr. Sajjan Kumar Dixit Sajjan is here he is the in charge of our video team and you will see his contribution in a full blown way when the actual workshop is conducted the entire logistics of this and other workshops is managed by a separate team headed by Dr. Mukta Atre Mukta is there they know you all I think well and next to her is the finance minister of our project Jaya handles all the financing accounts so make sure that you remain in her good books otherwise the money transferred to your institutions etc could be blocked anytime and believe me she is a no-nonsense lady she blocks me from spending some money if she does not approve the process so be careful about the process but she has been extremely useful sorting out all issues all problems and we had never had any problem with that where large team Mahendra is here he actually works closely with Mukta to get these things done we have a large team of people we have seen the video team in action but we have a lot of background people we also have a lot of interesting technology developments that is happening I don't know whether you have heard of a clicker device anytime Kaun Banega Karoda Pati uses this we had developed clickers we used them in some of the workshops but the first version was not good enough only today morning I saw the version 2 actually getting assembled I will be testing it in my class 101 course and I will be requesting my colleagues to set quizzes like that so the idea here is they will flash a quiz here and say your time starts now in 2 minutes you have to answer if you are physically here you can click and the signal will come here but we will be sending these clickers to your institutions and you will be distributing them to the participants and we will be setting up a receiver station in one of the the logic is they show a quiz people those 30-35 teachers at the center answer it using the clicker the clicker responses are collected by that pc immediately the file is ftped here and in one minute he will be able to show the entire audience what percentage of people said A what percentage said B what percentage said C you will agree that this also works as a very important and a quick feedback to the teacher whether I need to spend more time in explaining this concept of that so that will become fully operational December there has been completely developed here from scratch I actually wanted to purchase it so the Americans have been using it for 5 or 7 years I called one fellow and I came to know that the cost was about 30 dollars but when he came he said 2500 rupees for ordinary clicker and 5000 rupees for a clicker with LCD panel he gave me a cup of tea said thank you then went to my lab and said develop it in 250 rupees we have a lab called affordable solutions lab they could not do it first version they did it in about 700 rupees this version cost about 1100 rupees but you will agree that 1100 is much cheaper than 5000 rupees we are releasing even the entire hardware design the embedded software and the back end software in open source by the next month we will have the documentation so we want people to talk about engineering and manufacturing my dream is that some people in India start manufacturing that and sell it to phirang at half their price and still make money so hopefully we will do that some day thank you so much