 Welcome back after lunch. I hope you all had a good lunch. So the session now will be Professor Vashne. I invite Professor Vashne from IIT, Kharagpur. He'll be talking about NME ICT activities in IIT, Kharagpur. Professor Vashne. So good afternoon to all of you. And on behalf of NME ICT, IIT, Kharagpur, I hardly welcome all of you to the, for the next 30 minutes what we are going to discuss that's going to show, not discuss, going to show of the, our progress, the journey so far at IIT, Kharagpur. Right in training, T10KT program. And Professor Rajaratha actually, who is the PI of the, this program at IIT, Kharagpur. He is currently out of India for some academic conference. And Professor PK Biswas was in mourning. So he will be joining very shortly. And myself, I'm here. And Mr. Subrata Naik is the technical team is here. Right, so we started just to tell you about the, I think objective we already know about this one. So to conduct some kind of like a, to conduct a technical teacher's workshop. So aim is to mainly the training the manpower and to make it to the advanced courses. And to especially we have been having looking in the task on to the greatest participation from the northern eastern part of India. Right, so we'll show you some kind of like a set that we have over the last few. So the, we started the enemy, enemy city office in 2013 with the instrumental, the person was late Professor Somnaseyan Gupta. Actually who somehow actually it's like during the course on to the signals and systems. I think why he was got sick very sick and then, and we couldn't, I think he left us. So that was he started. So he was instrumental person in having a setting of the enemy city office at IIT Kharagpur. And then in March the first we started with the workshop on analog electronics where we have the 221 remote centers. And in the main workshop we could reach, we had a 7,427 participants. And subsequently in September 2013 that was from the electronics again. We had a, again the course was from the electronics again. It was signals and systems where 236 were the remote centers. And then we had the participant around 8,730 figures. That's the participant. And in 2014 March, we had a course in fluid mechanics by Professor Suman Chakravarty and other two, I mean professors. So where he had the remote centers were 229. And the main workshop we had a 7,451. So then we moved to the electrical engineering domain where we had a successful course on control system where we had a 239 remote centers. And within a, I think this was an highest figure that we had around 8,886 in control system. And then in 2015 March again we had a course which was mainly design of algorithms which was taken by the, our director, honorable director of Professor Partho Pratim Chakravarty itself. And there we had a remote centers around 229 and the participants were around 7,000. So later on we moved into the civil engineering domain where we had a course on the structural engineering and where the number of participants were around 4,000. There's a 3,800. And latest, the recently one, we have finished the course on the CMOS mixed signal and RF VLSA design where we had the participants of around 4,633. So that was till the February as Professor Parthak has mentioned that because of the some, the, the financial support. So there was some delay. Of course, now we are coming up with the workshop. The workshop is on electric power system again from the electrical engineering. We had also thought from the manufacturing technology but due to the non-ability of the teachers during this time we couldn't make it. That's, we kept in mind for the probably later on. So that's the course which is an electric power system. So where the main, the coordinator workshop would be held in from the 1st May to the 5th May 2017. And then the main workshop would be the blended model. It would be from July 10th till the July 14th. And we have three different, you can see the spectrum. We have one in the faculties, one from IIT Kharagpur, one from IST Calcutta and one from IIT Bombay. So three different, from three different institutes we have right now in the faculties who would be giving a course on the electric power system to just give you a feeling. What are the things that we have planned is looking to start from the components of the power systems and renewable energy resources, basic tools of analysis and then power system analysis software, control of power systems, application of ICTs, smart grid system, protection and access management. So these are the some of the course models. The details are already onto the web. I think it's NME ICT.IITKZP.RNET.N. You can have a look into the details. And to give you the feel the stat that we have gathered for all the courses that has been conducted so on average we right now I think we have does more than 50,000 numbers of participants that we have trained till now. That's more than 50,000 teachers have been trained from IIT Kharagpur side on these courses. So if you look into the gender ratio, I think we had quite nice participation from the woman side. From the female we had more than 40, around 40% of the participation from the female and the 60% is male. So I think it's quite good number. And if you look into the qualification part, so what you see that most of the percentage that the people who attended all these courses are mostly we have the master's level. Right, so with the highest figure of around 73%. If you look into the age group of the participants, so what you see that between 25 to 30 is the most of the participants, because we have the more around 40% of the overall the participant that age group of the participant were roughly between 25 to 30. So if we look into the overall rating, overall rating for all the courses, so I think we had done very well with the 44, 5% says in excellent courses and 42% is very good and the good is 13% and not so good 0.6 and 0.6 number so it's 0.12. So I think we have done fairly very very good in terms of the on these workshops. Right, if you look into the contents, so what the people have given the feedback, if you look into that one the very good is more than 65% is very good or to the workshop contents and then good is 0.25%. Right, so what we have taken the initiative in Eastern region, so we had started conducting the few new remote centers that has been conducted this time. So that was in the Jharkhand BIT Meshra. In West Bengal region, the five these centers, Silicon Institute, J.S. Kallani, Kalsi, Kalkpollaghat, Bankura and then you have Supreme Knowledge Foundation, in Urisa we had College of Engineering Bhooneshya CEB, NIT Rao Kehla in northern eastern part we had the NIT Manipur and NIT Meghal as our remote centers. Right, so if you look into the stat, so what's the plan ahead because Professor Patak has mentioned that we have to and we have to move further further some kind of like a self sustained mode. So we are going to have some kind of discussion we had discussion with our director and then we are working on to the method release how can we make a self sustained for example you can have utilization of these facilities what we have at the IT Kalkpoll on the some kind of floating some at the weekend ICT based workshops or the student workshops so to generate kind of like some you can think of generating revenues and how does this impact kind of assessment analysis part. So these are the three things that we look into the downward next to the line and if you look into the northern eastern report stat we see that around 30% of the there are the female participants from the northern eastern part and roughly 73% we have from the female participants and if we look into the ACE group so roughly 30, 34% is between 25 to 30 again that group which mostly take let's say participants are we have from this age group if you look into the qualification again is the same as an AMTAC level even if you look in northern eastern part if you look into the overall but you have presented just before so if you look into this still the highest gainer is the the people who had the basic like say degrees the AMTAC right so that has been the so far so if you have some questions so I am is open for the questions or discussions thank you very much for your attention sir different areas are covered as in your workshops I would just to highlight that so far the engineering mathematics I think that is not concentrated for example application of Fourier series or Laplace transformation we have thought of some kind of algebra course that can be useful basic that will be better I think I make a note for that one I noted down mathematical modeling of the general systems for all basic mathematical foundation that we like to okay hello that is foundation like use of differential equations and other type of models we can form that I am saying if the PD start from the PD towards the advanced level look being a mathematician I will request to you sir operational research it plays a very a vital role in not only in applied senses operations and statistical I just noted down and then we discussed at the back at home and then definitely it is in the electrical power system excuse me sir idea forthcoming workshop electric power system will it be possible to add a high voltage engineering area maybe few lectures high voltage engineering high voltage engineering yes actually that we will discuss definitely with the faculties there and it can be included I think it is not in a problem right so we put up just put up send an email that these are the topics that you whatever the models we have this is a kind of like maybe definitely modification can be done but just put up an email just send an email this is the topic that we like to high voltage engineering yes few lectures excuse me sir say in the last meeting that is 29th November 2014 it was decided most of the workshop will be conducted in the month of December and June now again you are conducting this workshop in July from our that is the main workshop you mean to say the main workshop in July right yes yes that is in July yeah true it was decided the workshop will be in the month of December and June only because in our site in month of July we are having the classes and peak periods yeah so I make a note of this one that I think the issue probably might be because of the availability of the faculties may not be available during that time so that is probably the dates have come up after the due discussion with the faculties sir I have a suggestion over here for the previous workshop which has been conducted by IIT Mumbai that was based on research methodologies in that we have found that every field any faculty belonging to all the fields they participated generously so I want to that if IIT Kharagpur will conduct the similar type of workshop which can benefit the overall community of teachers okay we are more general kind of like research method not very very focused but kind of research method because research is the need of the I think what already IIT Mumbai has doing is if some added flowers can be added to that yeah that is true course on power systems what lab activities are you proposing okay for this I don't have the answer at the moment for you because you have mentioned the PSCAD and here application of ICD so actually probably I am not very suitable person to talk on the electrical power system so probably I can discuss back to with the concerned faculty professor Keshore of IIT Kharagpur and then you can I can reply to you you can send an email for that one one of the lab component you like to include into you want to have a lab visit something like that you want to have no no the suppose you are mentioning PSCAD then the remote center should have that software so that's why I am asking true hello sir my request is you have said that power system course is included any possibility of power electronics and drives course sir power electronics yes sir this is mostly related to power systems okay you want power electronics and drives and drives I just I am noting down your suggestions so probably I won't be giving any confirmed answer to you at the moment but definitely sir here let me first thank Kharagpur for providing excellent courses in excellent way and all our participants are very much happy with the way in which is being conducted as well as they are getting the certificates as well as the funding is released so quick properly even now we have received the funding and certificates for the recent workshop which has happened thank you so much and I request you to conduct few more workshops on computer science and IIT related topics and let it be advanced topics which are there computer sign like this IT related advanced topics not basics we want to hear the best from IIT okay advanced in advanced level yes sir artificial intelligence something like that latest architecture no no no okay thank you sir can I talk sir excuse me excuse me sir similar thing I would like to continue what my colleague remote center coordinator was saying that courses from cloud computing or from wireless communication or embedded systems these should also be taken up in your future from IIT Kharagpur thank you thank you sir is it possible to arrange one course on internet of things that is the huge requirement today in industry and it is interdisciplinary course we have the expert faculty definitely we can look into it embedded system and image processing you can merge together probably that will be better sir hello sir sir I understand T10KT is basically for training teachers but the assets of the institution is also the technical and non-teaching staff if you can focus on few of the workshop orienting towards our technical staff maybe the best practices followed in IITs could be in Kharagpur or Bombay if you want hands on something like that technical training experience of the technical staff either way the best practice is what you follow in the IITs could be embedded in our institutions too I am noting down thank you for suggestion sir in the beginning as you mentioned that you were interested to conduct on manufacturing science in future you have any plans to conduct on that actually we had these two options because of non-ability of the faculties during this summer so we have launched to the electric power system probably manufacturing technology might be the next next means Dr. Patak has mentioned in the morning that you are going to conduct two FTPs next will be on manufacturing science yeah that's we are targeting that's we say actually because of the non-ability of the faculties we couldn't finalize manufacturing technology but then we had the electric power system so probably the next would be your manufacturing technology right sir thank you sir I am just giving you that but not assurance but I am just giving you the words sir I have a topic over here as my friend mentioned regarding the computer science and IIT there is the future computing that's called pervasive computing if you can arrange one workshop on that I mentioned I just noted down advance pervasive computer pervasive computing my computing as well sir the need of research in image processing area demands that we should have a workshop on soft computing techniques because now it is moving rather from computer vision it is going to civil engineering and electrical engineering also so few techniques of classifications in depth and specifically with practical analysis and practical approach because once the students study the theory they will understand but the application part is difficult so they cannot say suppose SciLab or MATLAB if we give them a particular problem then they will be finding it difficult thank you I have noted down soft computing I have noted down but sir in that course we require more lab hours I can just put your suggestion in an email this is a that like to see some of the contents into this course just put an email sir from mechanical side IIT Kharagpur has already conducted for related to fluid mechanics I would like to suggest for the related to design if you can arrange our shop actually what we are next is from mechanical manufacturing technology we thought actually so design I am not but I am just noting it down sir kindly include some lab sessions for all the subjects whichever subjects you are taking for fdp or hgp lab session may be possible when like on coordinates of workshop that might be possibility but not for the probably the main workshop those who people who go there probably they can have the probably can do some of the hands on experience that's the thing but how you can do it in the main workshop in virtual mode because we have a virtual labs and all facilities with us we have some of the virtual labs and if you look into the virtual we have do have but I am not sure about the in every course you can have actually yeah yeah sir have you finalized the content for manufacturing technology for the content for manufacturing technology not at we actually we discussed with the experts actually and then we because they were not available during this summer so we moved further then we finalized electric power system can we suggest to some definitely most welcome we just send an email to NMEACT that email ID definitely sir we have observed that the faculty members of IIT Bombay conduct courses from IIT Bombay and faculty members from IIT Kharagpur conduct courses from IIT Kharagpur sir is it possible for you to call faculty members from other IITs to conduct courses from your centers probably I think that's answer your question we have the three different from the three different institute yeah okay IIT Bombay IST Calcutta and then IIT Kharagpur itself yeah that is very nice so that's the I think that's the answer for you right now Karish actually I am person from Kurshetra University so do you have some curriculum on VLSI design tools or nano simulation tools yeah we have I think we those who attended VLSI definitely must have seen it tool design tool is there but it is not freely available I mean it is not open source okay yeah there are some software commercial software are there do make it so if we would like to organize such workshop yeah so are you not planning to organize such because we need the advanced type course basically so we do have MTech in nano science MTech in VLSI technology in our department okay we do want to means some courses on means advanced VLSI tools like add-ins, synopsis and nano simulation tools like theoretical knowledge definitely can help you but unless the software is there at your desktop at the computer is that is you cannot go together right so definitely person who can give the course sitting let's say I suppose I can definitely describe but it won't help unless you do practice right definitely we can have look into that part but what the software uses on to the like add-ins or those things definitely okay and workshop on nano technology etc yeah we can think of nano technology definitely I noted down we should emphasize on advanced techniques basically yeah definitely it would be good sir yeah from here here yeah please yeah regarding the promotion of this any FDP program to the nearby colleges are you providing any materials actually or some funds for promoting to nearby college actually that is not demarcated for that purpose promotion of this FDP goes to the nearby colleges I got a point but I'm not the right person to really give the answer on the financial part some pamphlets, some posters so that we can we can post to that's possible but regarding giving us some kind of support financial support I'm not the right person to not the major amount small materials as well as any kind of a very small amount also I'm not the right person to give you the any answer on that okay so any more suggestion we have or any other questions I got very broad spectrum from the manufacturing to the IOT so I think it's fine anything else from nano to macro actually I should say sir but there was one suggestion for conduction of such workshops for support staff technical support staff so I just want to reinforce that suggestion okay I have written that one so any other questions you have fine can I send an email this fine what are your suggestions all the content you'd like to have definitely you can write an email and we'll do it back thank you