 Good morning everybody, and welcome to IIT Bombay for this workshop for coordinators in preparation of our main workshop for participating teachers across the country on introduction to research methodologies. I am Deepak Phatak, I teach here, I am the project coordinator for this empowerment of teachers program through workshops. For this particular workshop, I have my colleague, Professor Uday Gaitonde, who is the co-coordinator. We have one of the three faculty members, who will be the main faculty here, Professor Karamalkar, who is from IIT Madras, Professor Sahana Murthy, who is my colleague in the education technology. Both will be addressing you in absentia, but we have one person present, Professor Santosh Narona from Chemical Engineering. I would also like to introduce the chief guest of the function today, Professor Rangan Banerjee, our Dean of Research and Development under whose office all the sponsored and consultancy projects in IIT are conducted, including of course, these M.H.R.D sponsored projects. Tradition demands that I welcome the guest with a flower bouquet, so thank you so much. Professor Gaitonde, thanks for agreeing to coordinate this workshop. Thank you very much, Professor Narona, for being personally present here. While we do use e-learning mechanisms, there is still no method available to offer a bouquet to Professor Karamalkar in IIT Madras and Professor Sahana Murthy, who is in Europe somewhere, so we will skip that part. This particular inaugural function is a short function. The objective is twofold. First, to let you know the basics of why we are doing all of these work. Second, to get to know you all. And third, of course, to have some words of wisdom from our Dean regarding not only these projects, but the other things that are happening in IIT, particularly in the context of relating to and working together with other institutions in the country. So, without further ado, I would like to first tell you about these workshops. Some of you have been participating as remote centers in our plan. These workshops attempt to engage a very large number of faculty members simultaneously on a chosen subject. You would all be familiar with ISD workshops, which are typically conducted for one week or two weeks. But the attendance in this workshop or participation in this workshop is often limited to 35 or 40 people, 50 people, because these workshops are held at a specific place. When you organize these workshops, you have expert faculty either from your own institute or from other places who adjust the participants. We have always felt that this model, while it worked well in 70s and 80s, when the total number of engineering colleges were very few, when you have 5000 engineering colleges and a very large number of teaching faculty, actual or hypothetical because the need is very large, it is impossible to engage those faculty members in that number by this model. We attempted certain distance e-learning initiatives here in IIT, starting 10 years ago from this very place, which was then the school of IIT. Now, that activity has emerged as a center for distance engineering education program, which encompasses and provides an umbrella support for all of our distance education. But during that phase, we got a funded project from LIFAC to check whether we could engage faculty members at a distance with the same effectiveness with which we conduct these programs at our own places. This model envisaged establishment of certain remote centers, which were well identified institutions, which had the not only just the infrastructure, the internet bandwidth, etcetera, but also had a slew of expert faculty members in different subjects, so that one of them could become a workshop coordinator at the remote center. The model that we follow is, we enroll people across the country, enrollment happens centrally. In the main workshop, 30 to 50 to 100 people assemble at each of the identified remote center. The lectures are given from IIT Bombay, but the afternoon labs, tutorials, discussion sessions, etcetera, are held in the remote centers under the direct supervision of the workshop coordinators, a local workshop coordinator. Obviously, if you want to have the same level of engagement and to ensure the same kind of qualitative and quantitative coverage, it is important that all the designated workshop coordinators come together at least once to exchange ideas on how to run the labs, how to run the tutorials, etcetera. So, we started conducting coordinators workshops. Our mandate from the ministry of human resources a year ago was to conduct these workshops in the basic engineering courses. We started with a pilot course in computer programming. This was followed by a course in thermodynamics, which was conducted by, no, this was followed by a database course by Sudarshan. We have since conducted nine workshops. In fact, the tenth workshop is going on as we speak, which is on computational fluid dynamics and some of your colleges are actually conducting that program. The program has met with great success. The feedback that we have received has been absolutely excellent and the ministry is quite happy that a whole lot of funding which has gone into this project has actually enabled a lot of teachers to improve their own teaching methodology and so on. About three months ago, the secretary H.E. when she was visiting here, the then secretary H.E. Ms. Viva Puridas, she announced that they will be asking IIT Bombay to train one lakh teachers in next one year by enlarging the scale on a logarithmic level by one unit by say order of magnitude. So, they said you engage ten thousand teachers at a time. I had then told her that we will possibly do this workshop in December, but I was told by the ministry that if you could do it earlier, then the lessons learned from this scale up could be used to improve things further and in the next year, we could conduct these workshops more in. We have then extended the total number of remote centers that we had earlier engaged with. We had a total of seventy eight remote centers so far and mostly thirty five to forty remote centers would participate in any one subject, depend upon the availability of an expert faculty in that subject in that way. This time, the subject we have chosen is introduction to research methodologies. I will speak more about this particular subject why it is chosen and how do we propose to do it later, but the idea is that this is the first time we are ever attempting a engagement of ten thousand teachers. Some of you who have seen the website might know that more than six thousand four hundred participants have already enrolled. That was yesterday evening, so I do not know what the status is today. Fortunately, the website was down in the night because of some IIT connection problem. I say fortunately because I am now worried that if more people enroll, of course I have promised people that we will conduct this workshop again if necessary. There are a whole lot of logistics issues that need to be taken care of plus there is requirement of what we call a frequency match between how IIT Bombay wishes to conduct this program and how the respective workshop coordinators look at this. As far as we are concerned, we treat workshop coordinators as our image in the local remote centers because thirty five fifty hundred people who assemble there are connecting to you on a day to day basis on an instant to instant basis not to us. They do listen to our lectures, they do interact with us, asking questions, but the main task is as if you are conducting that course and that is why when the IIT certificates are given, the certificates are signed not only by the workshop coordinator here and the project coordinator here, but also by the workshop coordinator at the local remote center. We will discuss these details later, but the fact is that amongst you a large number of people are actually becoming a remote center for the first time and that means that you will have to imbibe not only what we wish to discuss in this particular course, but you also have to imbibe the usage, the right usage of the technology that we use. We shall have sessions here which will expose you to all such things. So with this I would, before I begin the introductions of all the participants here, I would like to request my Dean of Research Professor Rangan Banerjee to kindly share his thoughts. Good morning to all of you. It is a, I am delighted to be here on behalf of the institute. It is my pleasure to welcome you all and to see that we are beginning some of you already have a partnership with us, but we would like to have a stronger partnership with all of you and with all of your institutions. I would just like to say a few words on, I see that the topic is research methodologies. I was not sure whether I am going to be talking in the CFD or research methodologies. I saw that the topic is research methodologies. I just want to tell you a few things about why research and why is it important to all of us and so if you see any engineering or science educational institute as it matures, we started, for instance you look at the IITs. We are now a 50 year old organization of 50 plus 52 years. In the initial phase our focus was on establishing our educational programs. That is typically the undergraduate education program. As we started evolving after about two to three decades of our existence, we started emphasizing the postgraduate program. Over the last two decades our emphasis has increasingly been on research and if you look at it today in IIT about more than 50 percent of our students are postgraduates. We have about every year 180 to 200 PhD students degrees being awarded and increasingly the emphasis is on research. When you look at research, you can look at the difficult metrics whether you look at publications or patents or revenues and all these metrics are instituted on a very significant growth path. But we had some internal discussions with all our stakeholders and we feel that the focus is now on seeing that our research makes a difference, makes a difference and an impact in society. And if you see today India is one of the few countries in the world where science and technology is a preferred choice at the 10 plus 2 level. We also have a very significant demographic advantage because we have a very young population and we have the advantage of having the best students coming in for science and engineering. Now the challenge before us is to see that we retain this interest in science and engineering and see that this interest turns into something which gives, we go into the research and we add value to the society that we are in so that we can really provide a competitive advantage for our economy. And this has been recognized nationally by our policy makers and administration where you see that the prime minister has said that from the 0.9 percent of our GDP we want to increase quickly ramp up to 2 percent of GDP that means the R and D spending. But how will this happen? This will only happen if our people like us, all of us who are in the academics emphasize on research and emphasize and build the capacity and the capability amongst our students and our staff to carry out research effectively. In order to do this it is important that we must have a link with the real world. We must understand what are the kind of problems that are there. We must understand what is the motivation. Choosing the right problem is a very critical thing when you start, when you look at research. Of course we may do me to research, something is being done somewhere and that may be a way of learning but also to see the context, see that if we solve this problem what is going to happen. So in almost every field of science and technology there are many, many unresolved issues and if you look at your environment around you, you will see several problems which need solutions. Some of them need just development, some of them need research and the way to understand and identify where we would focus to get groups of people cutting across the different disciplinary boundaries, putting them together to see that what we are doing when we look at research adds value to society. And I think one of the things that we are delighted about this kind of workshop is to, you know, we are reaching out and creating a multiplier effect. We are linking up with other engineering and science colleges, we are linking up with you and then together we can make more of a difference. So we would like to encourage these kind of courses but in addition we would like to encourage the linkages that are required to facilitate and enable this. That means tomorrow you start doing this and in a particular theme you say okay I need to have this kind of infrastructure facility and you find that this facility is available let us say at IIT Bombay or at some other place. Then your researcher should be able to come and spend some time here, use that facility, do the research or you have a problem you are stuck somewhere where you want someone to verify it, we identify a person who can act as a resource. So together we can see how we can make more of an impact and more of a difference. We must understand that we are a poor country and our resources are limited. So we need to make sure that whatever resources are deployed have a multiplier effect and for this we have to have a spirit of cooperation and a long term vision. We must have an idea of what we are doing the research for and of course we must see this step where we look at the different methods of research and the different goals. And another important point in this is when we look at research and even an exposure to research even undergraduate students can get motivated and enthusiastic about their core subject engineering and science. So what we find and this is true in almost all countries of the world that at the undergraduate after doing a basic initial degree in engineering many students prefer to go to finance or marketing or but if we can enthuse them and if we can excite them about the challenges that are there in their field through some kind of research exposure that would also be very exciting. So there are lots of challenges and every challenge is an opportunity and I think we would welcome working together with you in overall looking at research metallurgies overall looking at how to enable research across the country and then in specific fields having courses and having even laboratory sessions, you have virtual laboratories or actual physical laboratories and please feel free to interact, give your suggestions and see how we can together make sure that we make a greater impact in research and this way all of us would be fulfilling the role that we are supposed to fulfill in society. So once again I would like to say that I am really delighted to have the opportunity to say a few words to you and I hope you have very interesting three day workshop and then finally you actually the other interaction than the actual workshop that you have for your faculty members is the beginning of a long term relationship which will enable all your faculty and your students to get the research exposure and fulfill their aspirations with some help from colleagues here at IIT Bombay. Thank you. Thank you very much Professor Banerjee. Towards the end I will tell you one very special provision in our Aakash project which Professor Banerjee has approved which permits a larger engagement on research front with most of you will briefly mention it in elaborated later but first we would like to know a little bit about you. Of course some of us will interact with you over the next three days but it is traditional in our short inaugural events to let every participant tell us his or her name, the institute one comes from and the particular subject or discipline that one is engaged in. So just a short 30, 40 second introduction you need not stand up because we are recording from this camera so we will have ultimately all the video recording incidentally I would like to remind you that everything that we say and talk to each other is recorded and the edited audio video recordings are made available in open source it applies not only to the main workshop but it applies to all the workshop that we conduct including this one. Of course these recordings will be useful only to you and people like you who will be co-ordinators later but that has been the tradition. So could we start Malin please you can keep sitting sir but just tell us your name and the institute you come from and the field that you are in. Good morning I am Dr. R. K. Sello Kumar I am working as a professor and vice principal K. Pinchott technology Lavanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. I was working at a visiting professor at M. S. University and that time I was handling research methodology two times for M. Tuxford. Good morning. My name is Dr. Koudar Bhairi. I came from National College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, Department of Computer Science. I am working as a professor. My area is digital image processing. Good morning. I am Dr. A. Shorjin Arknam from Noor Luslam University. I am working as Director at M. Kaffeyas and Provost of Computer Science and Engineering department. Good morning sir. I am Murli Idar, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Tandai Periyar Government Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. I am Suresh Babu from National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Chennai. I am working as a scientist B and it is more of a research kind of organization. It comes under Ministry of Communication and Electronic Information Technology. Thank you. Good morning. I am Arun Vinod. I am working as an assistant professor in Royal College of Engineering and Technology. My area of interest is digital image processing. Which place? Thirushur Kerala. Good morning. I am Professor Sandeep Mani. I am working as assistant professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Rajarambabu Institute of Technology, Sangli, Maharashtra. Good morning. My name is Vittal Kamath. I am coming from Anand Gujarat. I am an IIT Mumbai alumni. I am the principal of Madhuban and Banubai Patel Women's Engineering Institute. It is the first women's engineering institute in Gujarat. Myself Sundar Raj from PAG College of Technology. I am from Mechanical Department. Last four years, I am coordinator for teaching research materialized subjects, especially for research scholars. Good morning already. I am Prabhat Patel, Associate Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication in Jabalpur Engineering College, Madhya Pradesh. Good morning. I am Neelam Jaudhary in Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department. My institute is Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Jayashree Kundaragi, KJSOMAYA College of Engineering, Mumbai. Area of interest is signal processing, particularly image and video processing. I am Dr. Sudha, Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tacharapalli. My area of interest is information extraction. Good morning, everybody. I am Dr. Y. J. Inti, Sastra University, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. And my areas of, I belong to the School of Management Studies and my areas of interest are Human Resource and Organization Behavior. Good morning to all of you. I am Hitesh Mehta. I am representing Sarojini College of Engineering, Technology, Surat. And I am in a Department of Electrical Engineering. Thank you, sir. Good morning to all. Myself, Ramneva School, sir. From Saint Margaret Engineering College, Nevdana, Alvar, Rajasthan. And I am from Computer Science and Engineering Department. Good morning, all of you. Myself, Dr. K. C. Roy. I am from Pacific Institute of Technology, Udaipur, working as a professor. My field of interest is Digital Signal Processing. Thank you. Good morning, sir. I am Darshana Hooda. From Deenbandu Choturam University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonipatharyana. I am System Analyst and Head Computer Center and also teach as Computer Science and Engineering Department. Good morning. I am Dr. Smita Chandran. From Amrita Vishwathya Pedam, Kerala. I am working as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering Department. Now, I am engaging classes for all research scholars in all disciplines in our university, research methodology. I am engaging. Thank you. I am Nandagoba. From Sasuri College of Engineering, Tirupur, in Department of Information Technology, Area of Interest is Image Processing. I am Chathish Kumar. From Hero to Builder Educational Trust Group of Institution and I am serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and my field of Interest is Digital Image Processing. Good morning. Myself, Varsha Zokarbhavan. I am from KCB Technical Academy, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. My area of interest is Wireless Technology. Good morning, sir. I am Nazia Hussain. From IPS Academy, Indore, working as an Assistant Professor. Thank you. Good morning. I am Jomal Joseph. From Mar-Beselio's Engineering College. It's a college in Trivandrum, Kerala. I am from the Electrical Department. Good morning. I am Prasik. I am working as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering. From Government Engineering College, Sri Krishna Miram, Palakkad, Kerala. My area of interest is Linguistic Technology. Good morning. I am Justin Jor from Tokajin Institute of Science and Technology. I am working as Assistant Professor in Department of Trivandrum, from Ernakulam, Kerala. Good morning. I am Jay Krishna, from Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, working as Assistant Professor in Government Science and Engineering Department. Good morning. My name is Bibin Jor, from Feingis College of Engineering, Gautam. My area of interest is Thermal Engineering. Good morning. Myself, Arvindas. I came from Vishu Jyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Vailakulam, Kerala. And I belong to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Balaram. I came from Indur Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sidhipet, AP. I belong to CSC department. My interest subject is Computer Networks. Yeah, I am Dr. Edwin Raj. I am a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. From Sensevesh Kathali College of Engineering, Nagar Kveli Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari District. And I head the Research and Development Center of our College. Good morning, all of you. I am Dr. A.P. Hivurekar from Vidyapathistan College of Engineering, Bharamati. I belong to Mathematics Department. Good morning to all of you. I am Sanjeev Saihani from API ITS in India, Panipat, Haryana, in Electronic Science Department, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department. Good morning, everybody. I am Dr. A. Kovalan from Priyar Maniyam University, Vallam Tanjavu. Department of Computer Science and Applications. I was taking a research methodology for the first one year. Good morning to all. I am Suresh Kumar, Ascent Professor in IT department, Sona College of Technology, Salem. My area of interest, Open Source Technology. Good morning, everybody. I am Vishnu Murthy, working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad. I am the resource person for Institute of Electronic Governance and Willow of Campus Programs. Now, my area of interest is Array Grammets, Image Processing, and Computer Networks. Good morning. I am Dr. Jayanand B. belonging to Government Engineering College, Idkhi, Kerala. I am a Professor in Electrical Engineering Department. My area is Power Electronics Engineering. Good morning, all of you. I am Dr. Rajan Murgis, working as Dean in KME Engineering College, Aliva, Ernakuland District. I belong to Mechanical Engineering Department. I have been guiding students for EMTEC in various business mechanics. Good morning, everybody. I am Dharanjay Ikhar, from Dattamagiri Institute of Engineering, Technology and Research, Varadhamarastra. I am Assistant Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department. And besides, I am the R and D coordinator for the Institute. My area of interest is Human Factors and Economics. Good morning, everybody. I am Jayangiri from Ashwantaro Jaan Golyav, Engineering, Nagpur. I am working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. And my area of interest is Automation and Robotics, as well as Advanced Optimization Techniques. Good morning, all of you. Myself, Dr. Alke Saini, SV90 Surat, and I belong to Department of Applied Physics. And my area of interest is Photonics and Applied Optics. Good morning, sir. I am Dr. B. Mathusudan, I came from LRAD College of Engineering Technology. So, I am working as Associate Professor of Physics. So, I am working on Nanocomposites and Polymeral Chloride from Hyderabad, sir. Good morning, this is Swami Bukhya from Prasad Engineering College, working as Assistant Professor in EC department. And my interested area is Wireless Communication. Good morning. I am Vijay Kumar, working as Assistant Professor, LRAD College of Engineering, Ratchamundry. And I am interested in area is Network Programming. Thank you. Good morning. It is myself Narayadar Kumar. I am working as Assistant Professor in BRC College of Engineering and Technology, Bahel Bihwani Haryana. Hello. Good morning. Myself, Kurdveji, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Department from Sanjay Godavath Group of Institutions, Atthi Gre Kallapur. My area of interest is Structural Engineering. Good morning. Myself, Professor Diyusha, Head of the EC department of School of Engineering, RK University, Rajskot. My area of interest is Image Processing and Microprocessors. Good morning, everyone. I belong to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Goa College of Engineering. And my name is Millen Sakharadand. I am Dr. C.V.S. Moorthy, Principal, Mechanical Institute of Engineering and Technology, East Kodori District, Andhra Pradesh. Earlier, I worked as a scientist for 35 years in the Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, which is part of CSR system. And my area of interest is Modeling and Simulation. Good morning. I am Vishwajit Gaiquad from Tehranajin College. I am working as Associate Professor in Computer Department. I am handling MEC auditor as a part of the job. Again, my area of interest is Neural Network and Image Processing. Thank you. Good morning, all. I am Dr. B. Prishlishan. I am Professor Sangeet Sancho's College of Engineering and Technology in Koteam. Actually, I am the Professor of Postgraduate Studies in that college. My area of interest is Signal and Image Processing for Biomedical Applications. Thank you. And good morning to everyone. I am Dr. Sanjay Goa from Bila Institute of Technology, District Durg, State of Chhattisgarh. I am Professor and Head in the Department of Management. Presently, I am also taking the course of Research Metallurgy for PSG scholars. And my area of interest in the management is Brand Choice, Branding and Consumer Choice. Thank you. Good morning. I am Suril Maitre from Textile and Engineering Institute, District Maharashtra. I am Associate Professor in Textiles. And my area of research is Studies in Thermal Behavior of Textile Materials. Thank you. Good morning, sir. Myself Manavarkali, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University BDT College, Dhawan Gere from Karnataka State. My area of interest is Digital Image Processing. Good morning. I am Dr. Suha Sarawath. I am working as a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering in Arcade College of Engineering at Sholapur. I am working as a PhD guide also at Sholapur University and Shivaji University. Incidentally, I am alumni of IIT Bombay. And my both MTech and PED guide is sitting in front of me, Dr. D. B. Fatuk. I am still happy to keep learning from him. Thank you. Good morning. I am Dr. Emily Ghosh from Theme College of Engineering, Bhosia. I work in Applied Physics Department. Good morning. This is Abdul Majid from Theme College of Engineering. I am working in an IT department. Which place? Bhosia. Bhosia Thani. Good morning. I am G.P. Bhule from VJTA and I am from IT department. Good morning. I am Lalit Vadwa from ENTC department, Padam Shri Dr. D. Y. Partible Institute of Engineering, Pune. Thank you. Good morning. I am myself Bahasa Balkar. I am working as Assistant Professor in Bharti with Deppit College of Engineering, Khargarh, Ney Mumbai. Thank you. Good morning, respective faculty. I am Jainish Rana from Vidya Bharti Engineering, College of Institute of Technology and Research Center, Umrakh Badoli. I am working as an Assistant Professor in EC department and my area of interest is Industry Electronics and Digital Signal Processing. Thank you. Good morning all of you. I am Professor Neerja Jain, College of Engineering, Pune. And my area of interest is Cloud Computing. Good morning. I am Dr. Sreedhar from Theraja College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. I am working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. Good morning all of you. I am Dr. R. Palanichwamy, Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Sudarshan Engineering College, Pudukottai. Previously, I was in Web Coastal Engineering College. Shivagasi, where I was the Coordinator for the Thermodynamics in Mechanical Engineering. I was very much inspired by Professor Gaitan Dalek sir. We called as God of Thermodynamics. Thank you. Good morning. I am Dr. E. Gopinathan. Personally, I am working at Wales University, Chennai. Formerly, I was with NIT Calicut for the last 40 years I worked there. Now, last year, I joined Wales University as Dean School of Engineering. Myself, Dr. P.S. Mani. I worked in ISRO for 32 years. After retirement, I joined teaching. Dean of Mechanical Engineering, Rajal Achu Engineering College, Chennai. I am my area of interest are accidental techniques, fracture mechanics, image processing. Good morning, one and all present here. Myself, Dr. P.S. Santosh Kumar Patrao. I am from Agni College of Technology, Chennai. I am working as a professor and head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. And my area of interest is Artificial Intelligence and Computer Network. Good morning. I am DG Sogule. Working as a Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, TKIT Varnanagar District Collabor Maharashtra. My area of specialization is sub-computing and signal processing. Good morning to everyone present here. I am Dr. R.K. Janamurthy, working as a Professor and Principal in Vivekananda College for Engineering for Women, Tiruchakumudu, Namakal District, Tamil Nadu. My area of interest is computer networks and mobile attack networks. Thank you. Good morning. Ramesh, Department of ECE SRM University, Chennai. Area of interest is distal communication. Good morning. Myself, Arun. Assistant Professor of ECE Department. Anand, Chef Technology, Madurai. And my area of interest is reconfigurable antenna. Good morning. I am Dr. P.C. Gupta from Jaipur Engineering College, Jaipur, Professor of Chemistry over there. Thank you. Good morning. I am Santosh Deshpande, working as Head of Department, instead of management career courses, Pune. My research area is Computer Simulation and Modeling. Good morning. I am Munir Ahmed Dar from National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology. It was previously called as Dwight Center. And we have conducted all the workshops, right, starting from the programming which Professor Fatak has coordinated. Thank you, sir. I am Dr. Lakshmi Priya, Faculty of Engineering, Avnashlinga University. I head the Printing Technology Department. My specialization is Eco-friendly Printing. Good morning. I am Dr. Kanimoli Chilvi from Konga Engineering College, Tamil Nadu District, My area of interest is Data Mining and Databases. Good morning. Myself Radhika Joshi from Electronics and Telecommunication Department, College of Engineering, Pune. And my area of interest are wireless communication and mobile ad hoc networks. Good morning, sir. Myself Mahesh Parwal, working with Electronics and Commissioning Department at Srinath District Technology in Nandwara, Rajasthan. Good morning. I am Om Prakash Dhawe, working as Assistant Professor in Dungarpur College of Engineering and Technology, Computer Department. Dr. T. S. Rathore, I was in IIT as a faculty in Electrical Department, retired in 2006. And I joined San Fransi Institute of Technology Burivali as a Dean and as a HOD of ECE Department. I published one paper, one book, Digital Measurement Techniques, which has been translated in Russian also. We bring out from the college a technical magazine called Alshina. My areas of interest are basics in electrical engineering, analog and digital circuit, digital instrumentation, signal processing, C-square set filters, etc. Thank you. It is my privilege to mention that when I was a student in SGS ITS Indore, I think 64 to 69, Professor Rathore was my teacher for some time. Good morning all. Myself Viral Kapadia. I am from Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalai. I am from Computer Department. My area of interest is Distributed System and Processor Design. From Gujarat. Good morning everybody. I am Jeena Agapan from Savita Engineering College, Chennai. And I work for CSC department as Associate Professor. Morning. I am M Prabhakaran, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. I am from Perumal Manmal College of Engineering, Ozu, Tamil Nadu. And my area of interest is Machine Design and Composite Myth. Good morning. I am Dr. Devasis Niyogi from School of Management, National Institute of Technology, Agartala. And I teach research methodology in the first semester of PhD coursework. All right. I am Dr. K. Visawil from Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu. I am Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering. My area of specialization is Heat Transference here. Good morning to all of you. I am Sanjay Sharma, Working as Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shri Matavashwindevi University, Katraj, Jammu and Kashmir. My area of interest is Distributed Computing and Digital Image Processing. Good morning to all. I am Ashok Kumar Sharma, Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yagwule Khan, School of Technology, Raipur. I am Dr. Shashik Anguilkar. I am working as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. And presently I am in charge principal in Phinulix Academy of Management and Technology. I am alumni of IIT Bombay. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Hirani, Harish Hirani and Anil Ban Goha. I got a lot of help during my PhD work from Ben Regisseur and Professor Gaitunde Sir, especially the boiler from the Steam Power Engineering Lab. And I am very happy to contribute in this research methodology workshop. And I am very thankful to the IIT, the research methodology coordinators for giving me a chance to work for the workshop. Thank you. Where is this academy located? Is it Ratnagiri? It is in Ratnagiri. Yes sir. Ratnagiri. Good morning to all of you. Myself Rakesh Kewail. I am from Chitkara University Rajapura, Punjab. I am in Mechanical Engineering Department. My research area is Carbon Nanocomposite mixed with some coatings in surface modification techniques. Good morning. My name is Dr. Arun Sharma. I am from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. I am a professor and head in Computer Science Department. Good morning. I am Dr. Saurabh Channa from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. I am working as Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department. My area of interest is Power System Operation and Control. Very good morning, sir. This is Mayur Patil, serving for Department of Computer Science and Engineering for S.D.M College of Engineering Technology, Dharavad, Karnataka. I, on behalf of college, express sincere thanks for choosing our college as remote centers. I am interested in data winnings. Thank you. Good morning to all of you. My name is Mohammad Ari Fuddin Sohail. I belong to the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Mukhamja College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. My area of research is analog and mixed signal IC design. Thank you. I'm Gopal Rista from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka. I'm basically a mechanical engineer, slowly a migrator to a management side. We are having an open elective in UG and it's a compulsory subject in M.Tech as well as in Ph.D. program. We need a lot of research methodology teachers also. I've been given next semester this subject. So this workshop will be very useful thing to me. Thank you. First of all, I want to say thanks a lot to you for giving such good opportunity. Myself, Atil Kumar Sivaisav. I am from Tobacco College of Science and Technology, Bhopal. M.P. Last time I have attended Feb, March. I have attended your workshop in MIT, Bhopal. That was very good. I got very much from them and thanks. Myself, Keshav Misra, working as assistant professor in SIRT excellence, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. I extend my thanks to IIT Bombay on behalf of my institute for choosing as a remote center. My area of interest is communication engineering and another area of interest is overall development of my group as a research center. SIRT excellence, Bhopal. All right. Thank you so much. Slightly late but we can make up by reducing the tea break. I just wanted to say a few things in concluding remarks. First of all, I would also like to introduce some of my colleagues who have been the key supporters of this event from the technical and administrative management side in IIT. First of all, Dr. Mukta Atre Mukta is there. Well, she is the one who must have been corresponding with you. She handles all the logistics of the workshop. Mrs. Jaya Gayatmande. Jaya is what I call her my finance minister. So, she handles all finances diligently. She is the one who is going to collect your P.I. bills and hopefully give you a check before you leave. Then we have Prakash right there who has been our advisor for these workshops for almost eight years now. We have Kalpana Kannan who is the content management side when all the contents are created to get them weighted and put them on the website and so on. Rajna is my secretary but another important person is Mahendra Parmar who is the in charge of all the registration processes of all the ten thousand teachers and he is completely inundated with work because what could be done as a manual intervention in case of emergency cases for thousand teachers. We choose to be 100 at most and now he is finding out for the first time that things are not hunkied over. I forgot the key element. Sajjan Dixit is our, oh you are familiar, all AVU, all AVU actually. Professor Banerjee he was curious to know the spread of our centers. I am sure all of you are. So, Professor Gayatmande has prepared a map. Please notice that we have a very, now some of you may say it is natural because we as IIT Bombay are located in the west coast but technology has no concern for where you are located but you can see the spread is like this with something added right up to Jammu. Technically we span the country from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and from west coast to Agartala but you will agree that we have a long way to go for the ten thousand mega workshops. I have an approval from the ministry to identify up to three hundred remote centers and even more not all of which may participate in all but I am thankful to all of you. It is my request that when you go back try to identify colleges by talking to your friends in areas such as these to get more and more coverage. The last one I would like to mention is that you might have heard that IIT Bombay has been given the responsibility of carrying out the Akash project, the Akash tablet project about two and a half months ago the project was transferred to us and the proposal that we have made the this project is by the way for procuring one lakh tablets and use them for empowerment of teachers in engineering colleges and students in engineering colleges. So, these this particular project has nothing to be school education directly but the project proposal which I submitted and which as Dean R. N. D. he has approved it from within the institute and ministry has approved it involves the engagement of multiple engineering colleges in the country where we will be distributing for the research purposes they will never be given away to students they will continue to be property of IIT Bombay because there is no cost for these tablets to be collected from students or teachers. So, we propose to use these tablets sixty or seventy tablets for a particular subject that will be taught at the selected engineering college plus we will be giving about fifteen to twenty additional tablets for final year students and ME students to do research on which will involve development of new applications and development of contents not necessarily for engineering college education but for school education for Indian local language education for signal processing etcetera. So, this proposal has been approved by the Dean we will also be providing some additional funding to each selected institute where we will provide funding to set up a server and some Wi-Fi connectivity points etcetera etcetera. So, those institutions which are interested will be seeking request for proposal and the first set of institutions which I have in mind to request for proposers is all our remote centers. So, those of you are interested in participating the Dean has kindly approved this proposal to engage all of. So, this is our way of continuing the engagement on larger thing. Thank you so much.