 I passed out from VIT University last year, 2015. So right now, I'm working at Yamamoto's R&D. It's in Shri Paramidram. I took the exam in simulation and analysis of welding. I chose this exam because my final project was on welding, and I have pretty good interest in this area. And the professor who was teaching this course is from IIT Madras. I've been following his research lately. It gives me the opportunity to learn from him directly. The portal was very accessible. I think the forum was not everybody participated much on the forum. And the responses on the forum were very limited. So if that is one scope for improvement. I think you can use it in your resumes. It depends how an individual wishes to use it. But I think it is good from a resume point of view. Plus it is a kind of a testament that you have this basic knowledge, and then you can go to an advanced course. So it is that sort of a thing. It's on Dr. V Balaji. I'm working as an associate professor in self-financing knowledge. I estimate estimation in wireless communication or OFDMA for cellular networks. I have a more passion towards my doctorate degrees also in the form of a cellular network. So I went with an adopt routing for a manual. So I thought of going for a in the process of doing for PDFM, I'm trying for that. So that I thought of gaining some sort of knowledge. So as you know that in the initial we put up a more interesting learning for at least five modules, but last three modules we couldn't get it up because of our work pressure. And the thing is it's fine. So that's why I said that we are working in a self-financing knowledge. We couldn't find any time to have an active discussion. But whenever the time is there, we as a colleague will discuss among us all the people who are registered for the course in our college. The five modules I find it very easy. The last three modules, it is cat on the work. I'm Dr. Lakshmi, I'm a pediatrician. I'm working in Mehta Children's Hospital. We also have academic program there. So I took the online research methodology course. I took the research, health research fundamental. If you are going pursuing academics, we have to go through all that because we tend to guide so many students in research facilities. So for that use, we have a master's degree program in neonatologist. I'm a neonatologist basically. I've never taken an online exam like this. I found it very cool as against what descriptive exams we keep writing all the time or the clinical exam we deal with the patients all the time. But this is very cool. Ramesh, okay, I guess. I did well. I'm Dr. Siddharth. I'm working in the ADR Cancer Institute in Chennai. So I did the health research fundamentals. Found it very useful because nowadays, doctors are expected to do a lot of research also apart from seeing patients. So this course helped me to learn a lot and it has benefited me a lot. So I hope in the future it will help me to make trials and experiment and learn new things. The portal was very user-friendly. I had no problems in accessing the portal. The exam was also well conducted and I had a very comfortable experience and everything was within the portions which were taken during the course. I've already recommended to all my students and friends. I hope they also do it in the future. I'm Har Mondaz. I'm a faculty member in the mechanical department at Raja Lakshmi Institute of Technology. This is the first time I am attending this NPTEL online certification program. Being a mechanical engineer, I first of all I would like to congratulate IIT Madras for taking this initiative because giving all those information and open source manners first of all, being a technical person, I'm congratulating them, I'm thanking them. And moreover, here everything is good. But from my point of view, they can increase the number of questions from my point of view because they have given three hours and only 42 questions they have given. If they are increasing the number of questions means it will be a competitive for me also to compete because I completed all the questions within 45 minutes. Remaining hours I'm just simply sitting. So my suggestion is they are doing a wonderful job. Let it be, let them continue. I will support them. But try to increase the number of questions and give some more competition for the students. They are ready to face the competition. I'm from IIT Madras. I just took up the course introduction to research from January to March. I found the course quite interesting. And so like in order to improve my knowledge on that, I took up the exam. And I found the exam experience quite interesting. I have already taken up an exam last semester. Foundations of Computational Fluid Dynamics. I wrote the exam. So like I was quite familiar with the portal already. I ask questions sometimes. So I was able, the portal was also useful. And I was able to find the examination, navigation and usage also quite. My name is Akash. I have done engineering graphics. It was easy. It was good in the test. The time was correct. The chair was not right. There was no water facility to drink. That was good. My name is Murli Prasad. I am also from EG. This is the third exam. It went well. The course gives a good basic foundation. It will be better if there are animation videos. The assignments are good now. I work at the same engineering graphics. It was very useful to me. Some concepts have been taught well from the videos they give me. But the college center facilities are not good. The restrooms are not good. The course is not a problem. I'm Lavanya. I'm from RMD engineering college doing my BTEC second year. It will enable me for a certification for placement. It gives more weightage to the placement. Actually, in my college, we are planning to take forward design and analysis of algorithms. So we may take that. Myself, Shalini, and I'm from RMK Engineering College, Guamdi Pundi. This examination was really very useful. At first, I didn't prepare well for this examination. But afterwards, when I was going through the assignments, I really felt it was interesting. So that I was started preparing by seeing many of the videos. And finally, I did good preparation. And I thought when I'm entering into the exam hall, the most of the questions will be inappropriate to the videos. But actually, it was not. Most of the questions were asked during the assignments. And most of the questions were from the videos. So I felt really it was interesting and good. And I did my best. Of course, for placements, it will be very useful. And since it is from my IIT certification, so that the name itself indicates that it is really useful for our further career. I'm Ilyas. I'm coming from Namakal. My college is RMK Engineering College, which is located in Kaurapetai. I'm doing Bachelor of Technology IIT. I did design and analysis of algorithm in NPTEL exam. It's nice. I will score good marks. I asked questions, but some answers came. But it is not related to me. I have what I asked. This certificate is useful for me for my placement or for placement purposes. Hi, friends. I'm Dinesh Kumar. I'm coming from Kaur. I'm studying in RMK Engineering College, which is located in Kaurapetai. I written a programming and data structure. The question was somewhat difficult. But the questions asked about only with the programming and the data structures. So if you know more about the data structures, we can write easily. Moreover, the question is somewhat easy, so we can write easily questions. Hi, I'm Lokesh. I'm coming from Chennai. I'm doing my B Tech degree in RMK Engineering College. And this online course is very useful to me for my placement and jobs. And the questions are a little bit difficult and not easier to answer. But overall, this is good to me. Hi, everyone. My name is Ashwin. And I'm studying in RMK Engineering College. I'm doing my B Tech IT. And I'm coming from Chennai. The NPTEL exam was somewhat difficult. But I attended DIA, which is a decent analysis for algorithm of algorithm. And it was a bit difficult for me to attend. But I attended all the questions. I think this NPTEL certificate will be useful for my campus and placement purpose. Time was not sufficient for viewing the videos. But whenever I get time, I'll use to watch the videos. Hi, I'm Lokesh. I'm coming from RMK Engineering College. I did my D course here. The exam was quite difficult. Half was easy and half was difficult to answer. This certificates play a major role in placements. We picked and choose the content which we don't know. Hi, I'm Arvind. I'm doing B Tech at IT in RMK Engineering College. Came to attend the NPTEL exam in DIA course. And it was somewhat difficult to me. And something easy to me. It plays a major role in the campus interview. My name is Ashok Babu, actually. I'm from IIT Madras. I'm a student of MTech second year. Actually, I'm a sponsored candidate from L&D. So actually, in our curriculum, that's actually a taken course called Project Planning and Control from Koshy Varghese. So actually, that subject is there in our curriculum earlier in first semester. So I just taken this course to just explore the more things. Because I've seen the syllabus and contents. So seeing that, I thought it will be interesting if I take this course. And it will be helpful when I join the company also. So it's a good course. Actually, I will be mostly joining as planning engineers in the company. So this course is also project planning and control. So what are the different tools used? And it has a little bit up on the softwares also. I have just graduated from SRM Medical College. I took the Health Research Fundamentals course by NYSER. Actually, I work for an organization, Medical Student Association of India. So they had told us that there's a good course coming up by NPTEL. So a bunch of us took this course. It was easy to use. It was good to understand. It was quite informative. I was looking for such a course for a long time. And I finally found it. A couple of errors were there in the scoring. But that was fine. All of it was a good experience. Right now, I'm working only part-time. But I think even for people who are working full-time, this should be fine because the lectures were not too long or the questionnaires were not too long. So it was quite manageable. For me, I am interested in health research. So this was quite a good informative course. So in the future, I would be able to use all this in my research experience or whatever. It was a good experience, actually. I found it easy to go through all the questions and easy to use and everything, no problem at all. Actually, for now, it was quite good. We would love if there were more such courses coming up and on various other topics. Because in health, under health, this was the only one available. So for now, this was a good experience. I'm Dr. Balaji. I work in SRM Medical College, Potheri. I'm a pediatrician. I took on Fundamentals of Human Research Methodology. Previously, we didn't have much idea about research methodologies. So it was taken in modules. And they made and ensured us that we learned every week. So there was assignments. And finally, since we had a certificate exam, we prepared even better. And this MCQ-based online exam was a very good experience. Only thing is, the video-based lectures, it could have been made more interactive. It could have been made more interactive. Like, instead of lectures, we can prepare some small, small concepts followed by questions and answers whether we understand those concepts. Rather than 20 minutes video, which was very difficult to be attentive. But otherwise, the remaining part was good. My name is Naveen Murugu. I am from RMK Engineering College, Mechanical Third Year. I take Phenomenal Analysis. And the exam is easy. And it's most of the exam questions were coming from assignment. And our college encouraged us to do this exam. And the portal was very easy. It's very interactive. My name is Sethu Madhavan. I'm from REC, Rajalakshmi Engineering College. Actually, this NPTEL helps me a lot in improving my career. Wireless communication and sensor networks. Actually, it's a very interesting course. I actually like the faculty who taught this course. It was very useful, actually, because I want to do my highest studies in communication systems. And I think it should be developed furthermore about in the 4G, 5G networks. So I had my own interest in selecting this course. It was easy and it was very interesting, actually. It's not like dry. It's full of theories, derivations, something like new we can find in this course. No, actually, I didn't ask. Because I could understand everything whatever he taught. I allotted a separate time for this course. And I just took my own interest and I did this course. This is my second course, actually. First course I did the basic of this wireless communication. Now this is the advanced application of this wireless communication system. Compared to last time, this time it was very easy. Actually, for improving my resume, when I approach for a company, maybe I think I'm specialized in this. So they can easily select me like I'm specialized in, I want to be something, do something specific in my course. I'm Pradeep. Actually, I'm not a student. I'm working in a particular research organization. I took aircraft performance. So basically I have some feedback, like my background is the mechanical department. So I have some passion enough to do what are the things behind going on. I want to know like in aircraft performance and that technology and all. So somehow I found an NPTEL. So it's one of the really fantastic organization to help all of the peoples like who want to learn more and more the things about the worlds going on. So I hope you guys also can enjoy, can just join it and enjoy the course. Pretty easy, but I have some suggestions like in previously you have something, but now you guys, I think you guys updated the portal things in websites, I mean. So it might be still you can easily be able to access. It could be there. Not that much, not that much easy. Say for example, to be frank, I'm not wrote the exam just for the certificate. It's just for the skill, what is just for the knowledge, what I'm going to have. So that is one of the main thing. It doesn't mean once you have a certificate, you got the things and all. Want to know apart from my department, that is the main stuff of this course. So that's why I took this. Time is one of the log for not only for me, the people like you and me, for every one time is one of the lacking thing. Of course, we have to manage in somehow. So like a weekdays or somehow I even last and yesterday and day before yesterday and all, I took leave from my company. So then somehow I managed. Hi, my name is Aditya Krishna and I opted for basics of finite element analysis one from NPTEL online certification course. I'm from RMK Engineering College. I thought it will be useful for me because in this current semester, I have the course finite element analysis. But even though this course doesn't cover the whole of the finite element analysis which I have in the semester, but it strengthened the basic concepts of my subject. So I opted for that course. Yeah, the experience was nice, but from my point of view, it could be nice if I get an like a theory, like if the audio is converted into a theory like PDF, it would be good for me because every time we can't see the video we could have. So if we, at that case, if we see the PDF, we will get some, yeah, we will be matched the time. The exam was good. It was mostly from the course material and mostly like from what we were asked in the initial assignments in the website. Hi, my name is Ilan Jalian and I took up project control and planning and I'm from RMK Engineering College. It has a lot of industry relevance and since most of the companies like, since I am a civil student, most of the companies like L&T and of course use these principles in their work. So it would be useful if I had to choose work as my future project. In my college, they insisted to take up any one of the courses. So for civil, there were three courses and I took up this course. More than the certificate, it's a knowledge, which is very important. Since we are using the same concepts like in project control and planning, we are using the industry relevant software and how it is working, we are learning here. It will be very helpful if I'm able to go for a job for this. This course is very nice and I have to especially thank Mr. Jacob Koshy, sir, who is the course coordinator for this. He was very helpful in understanding many of the concepts. My name is K. Murthy. I'm working in Chennai Port. I'm presently working in the marketing department, so I opted for a marketing management course. My organization has sponsored already to IIT, Metra. There I did my IIT, sorry, M-Tech in Ocean Engineering. So through that, from the Alumni Association, I got the information about the NPTEL. It's fantastic. I never experienced such a coordination. I can surf to any level, I mean from section one to section three very easily. So I feel comfortable with that. It's a very good experience, but the number of questions is very less. So I would have finished half an hour earlier. Actually, our around 60 questions have been raised in MCQ type, which is each got three marks. If that is increased to 60 for one mark each, it will be comfortable for the student to get more marks. My name is Arvind Adid. I'm doing mechanical and the exam I wrote was on basic computer science algorithm programming. This was the second exam I'm taking in NPTEL. The first one was in the first semester. It was in the basic mathematical stuff. The second step was computer science. Since I wanted to have in touch with the computer, I chose this. And the questions were quite challenging. The first two questions were actually a bit easier and easily findable in the algorithm, but the last two questions, the third was in the medium level and the fourth was really testing my knowledge to the core. It was if we take it to the end, if we manage the time perfectly, we can easily find. During the weekdays, I take care of the school, college stuff and during the weekends on the Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, I do the video stuff. It was actually good, but the debugger was crashing at some times. While I was doing the program, all of a sudden the debugger just crashed and it was not responding. So I have to wait for around 10 to 15 minutes to the issue to be solved itself. It was resolved and again, it was constantly happening and for every half an hour or sometime. I was just surfing through the night and while I was searching, first I was watching lectures of the Harvard and Stanford universities. Then I came to know that exams are available in our India. So I just, I have taken mechanical engineering so it doesn't deal with computer science at all. So if I take, this actually keeps in touch with the computer science as well as the other courses enhances the core subject of mine. In mechanical engineering also, computer is being a major part in designing, et cetera. So if I, these programming is, when I searched to our analysts to it, it was very important in computers and major part of the mechanical course. So I opted to. My name is Guru Venkatesh. I'm from RMK Engineering College. I take information technology, BTEP. Our HOD told about this, programming and data structure. Since I'm first year, now only I'm learning basics, so I'm doing programming and data structures this time. Portal is very easy to use, but at first I couldn't understand what, how to use that compiler. After that, after half an hour only I have, I am understood. Then only I used it. I want to develop my programming knowledge so only I selected this course. After doing this course, I'm feeling very comfortable in programming. I am understand the concepts very clearly through that completing that assignments. By completing today exams, I'm feeling very glad. It is very different from what I'm learning because there I'm studying simply algorithms. Here I'm itself doing algorithms. That's what the difference between there and here. You know, in Joseph, I'm an andis. I'm working as a lecturer in Panama Engineering College. I selected introduction to research because I want to do research. I completed my ME and after that I want to do research. For that case only I selected this course. It's easy only, but I found somewhat difficult to that is if it is of a text version. Given only the videos and that is very difficult to go with that video. So if the text version is available, it means it will be very easy for us. It's very, very helpful only, but the difficulties I'm basically computer science, but the research, they are giving the general manner. If it is so far, our subject oriented means it will be very helpful for us. Since it is online, so anytime I can access that phone. So regular classroom means at that time only if I attend the class, then it is easy for me. Since it's online though, so anytime in the home also I can access that phone. My name is Sriharsha. I'm from VIT Chennai campus. I'm studying triply, triply. So I've attempted for data structures and algorithm. So for just for trying how the different course will be, the questions are very qualitative and a little improvement needed is in the compiler that is working. It is working a bit slow. Rest of all the questions, the quality and everything is very nice. And even the location is also very appropriate and it is very easy to travel and look it. I think overall the course is very nice. Our college provided, gave us a mail regarding this course. Not exactly entire time was available, but as far as I can, I have seen the videos. Belonged to a triply branch, so I thought just how will the data structure course, to see how the data structure course will be, just attempted, I just gave a trial. So it's very qualitative. Next time I'll try my own core course, then I can, it will be something like I can prove myself. It is very nice.