Events and Seminars

One Week Coordinator’s Workshop on Control Systems under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) was organized by IIT Kharagpur during 15th - 19th September, 2014. Mr. Raj Ranjan Prasad (Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Greater Noida) attended the workshop.240 participants from different colleges all across the country attended the workshop. Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur) and Prof. Tapan Kumar Ghoshal (Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata) were the resource person for this workshop. The objective of this workshop was to provide an orientation to the Faculty members who will act as Workshop Coordinators during the main workshop which will be held from 02nd to 12th December, 2014 to enhance the teaching skills of faculty members in core Engineering and Science subjects under the project called “Train Ten Thousand Teachers Program” (T10KT Program)". The trained coordinators will act as Workshop Coordinators during the main workshop, liaising between the participants at their Remote Centers and IIT Kharagpur from where the lecture will be transmitted live. During the main workshop, the Workshop Coordinator at every center will supervise the tutorials and laboratories.

The workshop was inaugurated on 15th September, 2014 at 9:30 AM at Kalidas Auditorium, Vikramshila Complex by Prof. Souvik Bhattacharjee, (Deputy Director, IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Sunanda Dasgupta (Dean (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Raja Datta (Principal Investigator ‘T10KT’ NMEICT, IIT Kharagpur), Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay, Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal and Prof. O.P. Sha (Dean, Continuing Education, IIT Kharagpur).

The inaugural session was conducted by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal, who delivered a lecture on Control Systems Engineering and Education and discussed Module objective, Early History of the Control System, Evolution of Control Education and its application.

The Course Content discussed during the five days workshop is as follows:

1. Pedagogy, Programme, Educational Objectives, Evaluation by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal and Prof. S.  Mukhopadhya.

2. Introducing Basic Concepts of Control by Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

3. Linear system time and frequency response by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal.

4. Approximate Linear Modeling of Practical Systems by Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

5. Stability by Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

6. Controllability/Observability/Observer by Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

7. Controller Design for SISO Systems State and output feedback by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal.

8. Controller Design for SISO Systems by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal.

9. Control System Engineering Design Implementation by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal and Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

10. Control Laboratory by Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal and Prof. S.  Mukhopadhyay.

The workshop concluded on 19th September, 2014 with a valedictory ceremony. Prof. Deepak. B. Pathak (Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay), Prof. T. K.  Ghoshal (Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Prof. N.R. Mandal (Dean (SR), IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Siddhartha Sen (HOD, Electrical Enginnering, IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Raja Datta (Principal Investigator ‘T10KT’ NMEICT, IIT Kharagpur) shared their thought on initiative taken by NMEICT to “Train 10 Thousand Teachers” and elaborated how IIT Kharagpur and IIT Bombay are working as partner institutes to improve the teaching skills of engineering college teachers of the country in core Engineering and science subjects.They congratulated everyone for the successful completion of the workshop and distributed Certificate of Participation to all the participants.