 Good afternoon everybody. It gives me great pleasure to invite Professor Kanan Murugalya to take a seat and we will start the valedictory session immediately. I will also invite Professors Bahandarkar and Professor Gayathunde to please come and take a seat. Professor Fatta could not attend this session, so I am here on his behalf and I will take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to all the coordinators who have been extremely helpful and very very accommodating to all. We have had a lot of glitches on our part as well but everybody has been very accommodating and I thank you very much and I also like to take this opportunity to thank Professors Gayathunde and Bahandarkar in our own way by offering a floral bouquet just before Professor Kanan Murugalya starts his session. Professor Gayathunde, Professor Bahandarkar and thank you Professor Murugalya for coming deciding to come at the very last minute. Thank you so much. I will now hand over the mic to Professor Murugalya to make his valedictory remarks. Thank you. Good afternoon. So, it gives me great pleasure to be part of this valedictory function in an I believe extremely well organized program. This is let me just give a brief overview of some of the work we had to do to get this project running and then it will be clear why I am overwhelmed by the success of this. This work is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India and the main objective of that mission is to raise the levels of education in the country, not the top ranking institutes, not IITs, not NITs alone, not government colleges alone, but all colleges, not only engineering colleges, engineering colleges, science colleges, commerce colleges and so on and so forth. It is a mission started by MHRD to raise the levels of education in the country. As a part of this mission, this project is trying to do its bit to help improve the education levels in the country, essentially making available the good resources that we have at one place or at a few places make them all available to everyone who may be interested in. So this is a talk to a teacher project, talk to a teacher project has three institutes participating in it IIT Bombay, Dayalbhag Education Institute in Agra and Amrita University, these are the three institutions that are participating. There are a few types of projects that are supported by this talk to a teacher project. One is this, I would like, I call this as Thousand Teacher Training Program of Professor Fatak. He is the one who conceived this, said that we should make available such a training program through technology and make it available to everybody. Of course this is part of the live transmission or synchronous learning that it is possible to, for an instructor to teach and for many people to attend and also give the facility to ask questions live. And of course there is, there was always a concern as to whether such a scheme will work because what if all the 1000 teachers or 1000 participants start asking questions then question and answer would take up all the time. So of course when this work started here at IIT Bombay, this particular namely synchronous thing work started here in this very same room distance education program by Professor Fatak, Moodle was not available, Avu was not available but still the belief was that technology would help overcome the problems and it turned out to be the right guess and because we could see that when I saw that more than 700 people having written this quiz, may be it is more now, it is an incredible thing that we have a tool like Moodle that will provide the extra support required so that it is not required for all 800 people to ask questions simultaneously that if Professor Gaithonday answers the question of one or two people that might answer the similar questions that 50 others might have. So anyway this is the 1000 teacher training program of Professor Fatak, so in this lots of it started with computer science then electrical engineering, now mechanical engineering we have some photovoltaic cell and basic electronics to happen shortly. So the idea is that to make available the fundamental courses, basic courses to be made available by the best faculty members in the country to everybody and because this program started in IIT, the faculty members happened to be from IIT Bombay but in the future we hope that this program will expand and we would be able to locate good faculty members from all institutions, they would all be able to participate and deliver lectures and share their wisdom with other knowledge, hungry participants. So that is the overall framework of this project itself. So 1000 teacher training program is one of the things supported by this talk to a teacher mission, talk to a teacher project. The other very important activity funded by this project is something that we are using right now, namely A-View, A-View is fully supported by this project and then the third component is making available live classes of IIT Bombay to the outside world and it was done through that mode we have about 50 to 60 courses for us one course is a 40 hour subject those are in the process of getting created hopefully those will be available soon. So these are broadly some of the things that we this talk to a teacher project is supporting. I told you that I was overwhelmed because I am the national coordinator for this talk to a teacher project and I am the one who made presentation on behalf of all the component projects at the ministry before funding came and to tell you the truth I was really worried well this 1000 teacher training program work and finally people will say that it is Kandan Maudgaliya who made the presentation but it did not really work out I was really worried I am really delighted to see that it worked out very well I mean this is when I see 800 people or 700 people writing the quiz I am pretty sure this is the first time that this is happening for and everything is open source it is possible that there are some commercial institutions that offer such services for large number of people but to do it completely as a open source that whatever you create will be made available to the whole world that you can continue to use it you can continue to you can continue to use it for a year for now but hopefully we can even make it available for longer period and that you will also you will use it you will also contribute that is something incredible I believe that this is the first time such a thing has happened I would like to take this opportunity to present not sure whether we can show this show the tablet so you can see the map here Prasad Gaitande has created this you can see the the centers that participate in this course are indicated here and Prasad Gaitande was remarking in the morning that you see Jaipur, Jabalpur, Nagpur and to some extent they are supposed to cater to I would say more than half of the country it is we have a good coverage of the regions in the western zone and in the southern zone although Karnataka is not represented much Andhra is not represented much and of course if you go to north India only Jaipur and then may be Jaipur to some extent but there is not much coverage in that sense we it is it is still not become national level activity because we still do not have centers in for example in the eastern part of the country I was told that some of you had to come all the way from West Bengal, Guwahati and so on all the way to either Nagpur or Jaipur or places like that in the next workshop which is which will start on 28th Tuesday we have I think a center in Srinagar we have a center in NIT Kurukshetra and we probably have a center in Guwahati as well it it helps improve but it doesn't I would we would really like to have lot more representation in the northern part and particularly not eastern part of the country the reason why I am mentioning this is in case we have representatives we have faculty members from any of these regions either from north India or eastern part northeast we would really like to have you participate through your colleges as remote centers we have you would have seen how this workshop was conducted you would see how the you would have seen the role of the remote centers there is a lot of work to be done there is a lot of responsibility placed on the remote center coordinator in fact we are really thankful to all the remote centers the coordinators of the remote centers who work very hard not only now but also from the time the remote center coordinators workshops started there is a lot of work to be done we are really thankful to the people who did this work during this interim period that kind of commitment and contribution is required for this to be a success and we would request the faculty members from northern part of the country and also northeast northeastern part of the country to come forward and if you want us to talk to your college principal or head of the department or directors vice chancellor and so on we will be delighted to do that as a matter of fact some of our staff members have traveled to many centers as a part of this to just to make sure how things worked out what I would like to do is as a part of this inaugural function this valedictory function I would want some of the people who played an active role in giving support from behind to maybe say a few words about what they did and what is their input to the teachers I think that will be very good some of their feedback so with that maybe I will I will not take too much time I am really thankful for the cooperation extended by all of you for putting in a lot of effort in fact and also you know putting in effort I have seen some of your feedback comments that I have seen the excellent comments that you have given on the way this material was delivered the way professor Gaithonday delivered and in fact if I am not mistaken some of some of you had mentioned that professor Gaithonday is a god okay you know god of thermodynamics you know I am really I am really delighted obviously if you didn't put in the time you will not appreciate so I am really thankful to you if there are no students then there is no role for teachers so as a result for this program to succeed the students are required the student in this case I you know keep keep using the word student we are all students we believe that the best way to learn a subject is to teacher course so in that sense all teachers are also students I am putting it in a positive way so I am really delighted that all the participants have shown interest lot of interest and that makes it when I am sure when professor Gaithonday gives a lecture for 800 people his enthusiasm level will be much higher than teaching a class for five students or ten students twenty students whatever so the kind of work that the that the instructor is motivated to put in becomes enormous if there is a good response in that sense I want to really thank you for participating and keeping professor Gaithonday busy by asking him questions and of course in turn professor Gaithonday also kept you busy by conducting quiz the quiz went on getting more and more difficult and of course this professor Bandarkar if I am not mistaken was the one who put together the quiz and then apparently they were there till late last night and possibly they were doing some in the morning also I think they got it done just in time so that you could the quiz could start in time but I will give the phone to professor Gaithonday so this is perhaps the last formal in interaction between us first for for about ten minutes may be there are three hands raised but next ten minutes there is going to be no technical interaction but if there are a few colleges or few remote centers who want to say something by remotely participating in this validity function they are welcome doctor Brahmara over to you. Good afternoon sir everyone presented IIT Bombay all 31 coordinators and participants in all the remote centers including JNTU College of Engineering. The vision of professor Phatak is extraordinary and we are glad that we could now reap the benefits of the vision. Sir's passion is exemplary and his lecture on teaching and research is really inspiring sir. One thing I would like to say that in the coordinators workshop whatever the feedback we had given regarding the way the topics are dealt with regarding the way the topics can be discussed all those feedback was well taken and implemented in this workshop. Another thing is coming to this workshop in this big chain of links from the supporting team from there to us here. Two links I found are the best the first one is you as a teacher who had made the thermodynamics totally put in a new perspective and in a very conceptual way and made us feel that you are here in JNTU and the second best link I felt is our participants who are the best and really willing to learn and very enthusiastic. Overall to our JNTU College of Engineering two weeks at a stretch for the first time we have been conducting the workshop and we were very apprehensive about how it is being conducted and all and finally it's very fruitful satisfying experience interacting with you in each and every aspect correcting ourselves at each and every step and finally coming seeing this day sir over to you. Thank you Dr. Brahmara. Thank you Dr. Brahmara. Now let me try a few other centers PhD Koimtur a quick comment and be brief please thank you. Good afternoon sir on behalf of PhD College of Technology Koimtur and on behalf of participant I would like to thank you and Professor Bandarkar for organizing workshop on thermodynamics and mechanical engineering and there is a good response from our side and even participants they were expecting some more subject from mechanical engineering to be handled by IIT Bombay Professor so the same you classroom that's all sir. Thank you very much NIT Trichy over to you now. Thanks on my humble gratitude to Professor Pathak who has been the brain behind this event and who took sheer interest in conducting a novel program throughout the nation on behalf of the participants. I thank Professor Gaitonday and Professor Bandarkar who has been the tireless teaching the subject for two weeks. My sincere thanks to Dr. Mukta madam Gaya Gaitonday madam Mr. Sandan Bixit and Sushant for extending the helpful hand in supporting me from testing to the conduction of the workshop. I also thank our director, registrar and deans of our institute for helping me in conducting this workshop. I personally thank Professor Kumarajan network coordinator teaching assistants and technical assistants did everything in and out and had been a successful one for two weeks workshop. Also thank the participants who had meticulous involvement in participating and interacting in all its sense throughout the workshop. Thank you one and all. Over to you sir. Over and out. Pillai Panvel. Over to you. Good afternoon everybody. On behalf of all 900 participants I salute Professor Gaitonday and Professor Bandarkar for their commitment and sincere efforts towards giving new view to all the teachers. Thank you very much sir and thank you to all supporting team members of entire e-outreach family. Thank you very much sir. SVNIT Surat. Over to you for a brief comment. Good afternoon sir. We enjoyed all the sessions and perhaps after the huge success of this program I believe it is more responsibility on to the part of Mukta Atre and Professor Patak and the team because I believe that the success it depends or 85 percent of the credit goes to the resource person who is conducting this lectures. We also expected I expect that in heat transfer and CFD Professor Sukhatme as well as Professor AW Datte should take few more few lectures and another thing is today with me is our head of department Dr. H.B. Naik. I will hand over him the mic to him. Good afternoon Professor. It's privileged to listen to you here also as well as the CDs I have at my own pace and I'm saying that I'm also relearning the subject of thermodynamics and from next semester onward I will make some big changes in the way I am teaching the thermodynamics to second year student. Thank you. Thanks to IIT Bombay as usual. Thank you sir. Over to you. K.K. Vagnashik over to you. Thank you very much for teaching us the subject thermodynamics in a very simple and very good manner. We came to know that why mathematics is so much important in the branch of engineering. So this is very helpful for us. You have made very nice presentation for the workshop. So being a participant from K.K. Vagnashik we all are very thankful to you Professor Bhandarkar and all the teams of IIT Bombay. Thank you very much sir. Hope the next session will start soon. We are waiting for that. Thank you sir. Over and out. Amrita Coimbatore over to you. Hello sir. Good evening sir. I am Ravindran one of the participants from Annamalai University. I would like to say my heartfelt and very deep thanks to you sir. And we are very very we are enjoying the course. We learnt much more thing from you. We would like to say thanks to you and your co partner Dr. Professor Bhandarkar. We learnt the basic things which will be very useful for us and not only that we will we already got a very good knowledge regarding thermodynamics. Very basically particularly the way in which you are explained everything is very nice. Each and every question you accept the question in a pleasant manner with pleasant mind and the face. The face is the index of mind everyone knows that. Your face which tells the clear cut idea regarding thermodynamics before you are delivering the answer. We got a nice things from you. And it is a great psychological approach for us to treat the students while they are asking the question to us. It is the great things apart from our subject. And particularly sir particularly the illustration sir that is a very interesting one. Whatever the question whether it is asking from the basic side or it is from the higher level. Whatever it may be the question you simply take the paper and you take the pen and everything explained in a great manner. Sir nice sir we are enjoyed. We got a hundred percent knowledge from your side. It's a new way and new things. Everything the credit goes to you sir. The one sentence which already quoted by other center the god of thermodynamics. Yes it is truth. A hundred percent. Thank you. Thank you very much sir. Thank you sir. Over to you Mepkosh Lang Sivakasi. Sir this Palani Chami coordinator from Mepkosh Lang Engineering called Sivakasi. Sir some of the participants our participants wants to give feedback. I hand all the mic to them. Put up and do it everyone. So it is a well organized and wonderful teamwork program. Those who are involved in this program. I personally thanks to them at the meantime it would be a very helpful to us to improve the our teaching methodology. I really surprised professor Keitante teaching methodology. Whatever questions asked the even if it is the repeated question. With the smile face he answered to that. It is really surprised to me. I never seen like this person. But thanks to you. Once again I thanks to my in this remote center and talk to Palani Chami also. One of my colleague Mr. Satyasa Prabhagar will give the feedback. Good evening to the god of thermodynamics there. And of course all the purposes there. Sir we do not know how to explain the give the feedback for this. But we do not know whether after 20 years in the near future if we are able to achieve half the way mark of your way of teaching that is that is more than enough for us in this career. So even after 20 years it is very doubt for us whether we can be able to achieve your level of way mark. That is that is what we can say so far whatever the thermodynamics we have taught and the past 10 days whatever we have learned it is nothing what we have taught is nothing that is what we have learned from this. Thank you sir over and over. Amal Jyothi College Kerala over to you. Good afternoon. It is a great occasion to thank you very much for this particular course. It is a great occasion to thank you for the course you have conducted at IIT Bombay. And it is a good thing feather on your head. I can say because such a wonderful class it is attended by around 1000 people all over the country. I request you people to further enhance this opportunity for many other subjects so that many of the teachers and the students in the country will be benefited. I personally request a question to the professor how you keep so cool when you are talking thermodynamics which is okay called hot on cold but you are so cool to the questions as a professor. So I thank each and every one of the team work team and teamwork which you have shown to the country as well as the students as well as the teachers together. I say congratulate you are a venture. I hope you will continue it further. Thank you. Over. College of Engineering Pune over to you. Good afternoon sir. Indeed this is my pleasure to give the feedback regarding this two week workshop on the thermodynamics. Specially Gaitunde sir you are a hero for us. I referred you for my subject like heat transfer. But regarding this thermodynamics again you prove that you are ideal for us and this gives us inspiration like me young teachers who entered in this field of teaching. And you are a great motivation for us to you can keep behind before us as an ideal teacher. So thank you very much sir for great inputs in this 10 days sir. Thank you very much. Sir I hand over my mic to professor. VNIT Nagpur please be brief in your comments. Our subject of your interest in future. So kindly keep this sir. And without any getting tired continuously you are interacting for the 10 days that helps us and that keeps us young teachers to you are just like a benchmark for us to do that and do the things in continuously as you are doing. Thank you sir. Come in Pune over to you. But please brief. Thank you. Good afternoon sir. In the morning you told that I didn't see the body language of the participants. This is the body language of participant from Cummins College. Thank you very much sir. So all of us are very impressed about your teaching. So I will hand over the mic to one of my participant. Thank you sir. Nice to hear you. From 9 to 5 30 you are at the same tone. We don't know how you manage it. Now there is a problem of number of students coming out. Industries taking a serious transition and he is not good. But I think if we all teachers inculcate at least one percent of your habit in all of us. I think we can produce very good engine. That is what I think we should learn from you as far as the overall approach to any subject is concerned. Thank you sir for your kind guidance over the entire 10 days. That has been a fascinating experience. Thank you sir. Vidya Pratishthan College, Baramati over to you. Sir this is Imran Kureshi from Baramati. Sir I would like to thank of course you and your partner Gaiton Deser. I would also like to thank Vandarkasar and I would also like to thank definitely my coordinator and head of the department of mechanical institution here Baramati. Sir I have seen that you was dedicated last 10 days. I am seeing that you was dedicated for us for the students only so that you were explaining all the ambiguities that we were having sincerely and I am also glad to have workshop like this even though I am not from the region of Baramati or Pune. I am from Aurangabad region and this is very good for me to attend this kind of workshops. Again I thank you and definitely your whole team of IIT Bombay and thank you very much sir. College of Jabalpur College, Jabalpur over to you. Good afternoon sir. I congratulate you on the successful completion of this course on thermodynamics in mechanical engineering. We hope that in future you will organize course on CFD and heat transfer. Heat transfer demand is much more from our participants. Somaya College over to you. Sir I would like to thank you first for conducting this first course in thermal area and I would like to continue in this program of heat transfer and CFD maybe as a coordinator participant or maybe as a teaching assistant. So it was really good course and it's good that in thermal series all courses you are going to conduct one by one and all participants are very happy and satisfied after attending this program. Thank you sir. Over to you. Periyar Mani Ammai College Tanjavur over to you. Hello sir. Very good evening. I am Mari Muthu from Periyar Mani Ammai New City Tanjavur. Thank you very much for your effortful and successful workshop for us for the first two weeks sir and also we are greetings to you to contact to more useful workshop by the distance mode which will be more beneficial for us and also we are very happy and satisfied about your workshop for the first two weeks. Thank you very much sir. Over to you. Government College Selam over to you. Sir I am Professor Jaydev and the Principal Government College of Engineering Selam. See our team is very much happy about the presentation and the way in which you have explained the things and your dedication and your enjoyment in your way of expression and attracting and the body language are we are all are very much happy now I hand over the mic to the science teacher who enjoyed the thermodynamics. Sir I am sir I am one of the participants from Government College of Engineering Selam would like to give our feedback sir. You know it is really an opportunity to hear from you of this highly resourced person and the delivery was excellent and we appreciate your confidence and clear discussion. We are then answering all the questions with a smiling face and we also appreciate your punctuality, slow and sequential lectures with a good illustrations. There is no words we have to express our gratitude sir and in other side our coordinator and principal have made all the arrangements in a comfortable manner. The audio and video are also very clear the hospitality is good so we are like to thank the team and you as well for organizing this lecture successfully sir and we have been exposed to IIT style of teaching and so I assure there will be definitely our method of teaching will also be better and our students will also be benefited. Okay now that brings me back on to the stage and I have to do a few things as we wind up this course formally. The second part it is something if Professor Fatak were where here he would definitely have done and this is the vote of thanks for personnel and teams which have made this workshop possible. There are a number of teams involved in this workshop working under various managers and the list is pretty long so thank you very much for making this a success the studio team of Sajjan, Dixit and others the software team of Dinesh, Rajnikant and others system administrators Abhilash and Ranjit the admin team of Mukta, Mahindra and Sarita the content team of Kalpana, Tanushri and others then the local accounts and funds being arranged by Jaya Gayatondi and Ujwala the AVU team from Amrita which made all this linking and it was a pleasant surprise to us that the third quiz and the second quiz we could absolutely smoothly conduct with hardly any hiccups for approximately 800 candidates then we also thank C.D. for making this seminar hall available to us and for general support and upkeep and running around all of professor Fatah's office staff and team members. After that there is something that I want to say and then I will give my personal vote of thanks to a few people that will be a technical one. I have enjoyed these two weeks of interacting with you although I have complained once or twice about the lack of body language the feedback I have received today near the end including a mini demonstration of the body language from a distance that I think I will take my complaints back many of you have given feedback through Moodle and also through the formal feedback raising me to the status of a god thank you very much for that but there are a few people many of you have considered yourself to be ekalavya's may be taking the hint from the ekalavya project of professor Fatah what I want to say is you may consider yourselves to be ekalavya's but I am not really dronacharya and we do not expect the dronacharya ekalavya type of link here. In particular banish the thought that I would like you to donate your thumb or any other finger or any part of you to me and anyway the similarity is not really proper although I have no complaints against complaints on the ekalavya name when ekalavya developed its skills dronacharya did not even know that there was a distance engineering distance education student called ekalavya trying to learn from him here we know I am conscious of you through the remote mode that you are my students you are seeing me as your teacher or a guru from here so I think I would like you to be not really ekalavya's but hope that you soon convert yourself to Arjuna's of some kind after having said that I think I will conclude by saying that I am grateful to my teachers who started my interest germinated the interest in thermodynamics and may be accidentally may not be consciously and sustained it over the years consciously when I joined on the faculty here some names I will specifically take all of these are teachers from IIT Bombay professor Sundar Rajan and professor Vilatkar of physics and professors Achyuthan Jagadish Jagan Mohan and Sukhathmi from the department of mechanical engineering thank you very much much of my thoughts much of the way that I have thought has been inherited imitated and built over from these people that brings us to the end of this session SGSITS Indore over to you I am providing you the opportunity to say the last word over good afternoon sir we are thankful to you for providing the conceptual knowledge for in the thermodynamics this will definitely us using methodology to our student and some modifications of question which we used to ask in the examination thank you thank you and we appreciate to you sir we welcome to next workshop also sir and thanks a lot from the our side over to here so that brings us to the formal end of our 10-day interaction professor Kannan wants to say something yeah this is a response to in response to you know further activity I want to talk about some of the related activities for example I see that there is interest for subsequent courses CFD and heat transfer and so on there are certain things we believe of interest will be of interest to mechanical mechanical engineers in the country I would like to talk about just in a few words about some open source software packages useful to mechanical engineers see we work on a software called silab which is a good equivalent to commercially available software called matlab now matlab is very expensive for commercial organizations in case your students want to become entrepreneurs or they want to try some software in companies they will find matlab to be unaffordable silab is the one and then the second one I want to mention is collab CAD so we are trying to popularize collab CAD this is a product developed by NIC national informatics center BARC and ISRO and this is a good substitute for AutoCAD unfortunately most people seem to think that design means AutoCAD actually these two are two different things for design you can use other software packages also collab CAD is something that we are trying to popularize the third one I want to mention is the software called open form this is a good soft equivalent to fluent so this is open source this is open source collab CAD it is not completely open source but for the student version is available completely free of cost and we are working with the government agencies to provide maximum available maximum benefits available so these are three software efforts happening at IIT Bombay and we would like your participation there is another effort we have it is called ask a question ask a question series it is right now we are making this program available only in electrical engineering where students ask their doubts through a forum and one hour a week faculty members come and answer the doubts if there is enough interest in mechanical engineering I am pretty sure that our faculty will be interested in participating and answering questions so these are all the things that IIT Bombay is interested in is working on if there is any interest if you can write to the coordinators organizers here we can provide more information so thank you