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 INDEX
12 WEEKS
Biomedical Ultrasound: Fundamentals of Imaging and Micromachined
1 7-8
Transducers
2 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence 9
3 Numerical Methods for Engineers 10
4 Risk-Based Engineering 11-12
5 Learning Analytics Tools 13-14
MULTIDISCIPLINARY

6 Solar Energy Engineering and Technology 15

7 Sustainable Power Generation Systems 16-17
Carbon Accounting and Sustainable Designs in Product Lifecycle
8 18-20
Management
9 Research Methods in Health Promotion 21
An Integrated Approach to Common Childhood Diseases and Developmental
10 22
Disorders in India
11 Bandit Algorithm (Online Machine Learning) 23
12 Thin Film Technology 24
13 Neuroscience of Human Movements 25

08 WEEKS
14 Research Methodology 26
Current Regulatory Requirements for Conducting Clinical Trials in India for
15 27-28
Investigational New Drugs/New Drug (Version 3.0)
16 Basics of Health Promotion and Education Intervention 29
17 Introduction to Biomimicry 30
18 Intellectual Property Portfolio Management 31-32
19 Manage TB 33
20 Accreditation and Outcome Based Learning 34
21 Canning Technology, Value Addition of Seafood (Fish Processing) 35
22 Food Packaging Technology 36-37

04 WEEKS
23 Electrocardiogram - Interpretation and Application in Clinical Practice 38
24 Teaching And Learning in General Programs: TALG 39
25 Technical Communication for Engineers 40-41
26 Making Learning Engaging Through Interactive Games 42-43
27 Designing Learner-Centric E-learning in STEM Disciplines 44
28 Intelligent Feedback and Control 45
29 Adolescent Health and Well-Being : A Holistic Approach 46

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 BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND: FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGING
AND MICROMACHINED TRANSDUCERS

MULTI FACULTY
PREREQUISITES: UG third year students in ECE, Instrumentation, Physics, MMBS, can take this course.

INTENTED AUDIENCE: Engineering Students, Research Students, Faculty from Engineering Colleges, Medical
Students, Faculty from Medical Colleges

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: MathWorks, Phillips, Siemens, GE, Samsung, Fujifilm, Canon, Verasonics

COURSE OUTLINE:
Ultrasound is growing rapidly as a diagnostic modality due to its low cost, non-ionizing nature, and portability, and
has the potential to significantly impact healthcare delivery. This course will provide the conceptual foundations and
practical insights for the use of ultrasound imaging, encompassing physics, instrumentation, signal generation, image
reconstruction, and clinical applications. There is great interest in cutting edge research on biomedical ultrasound
electronic system development and validation. Microfabricated transducers represent a new frontier in ultrasound,
promising better performance and reduced complexity and cost. However, to employ microfabrication
multidisciplinary expertise is necessary. This course offers exposure to the right mix of concepts in biomedical
ultrasound along with microfabrication for techniques to develop transducers.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR:
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering
and the Co-coordinator for the Centre of Biomedical Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar. She co-leads the Medical
Ultrasound Engineering (MUSE) Lab, which focuses on developing and translating ultrasound techniques to aid in
the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical
Engineering from Boston University, U.S.A. (2009) and her Masters (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) in Biomedical
Engineering from the University of Rochester, U.S.A., as a Provost’s Fellow. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (2014-2019) and a recipient of a postdoctoral research grant from the
U.S.A. National Institutes of Health. Prof. Mercado-Shekhar joined IIT Gandhinagar in 2019. Her research group
focuses on integrating the understanding of biological and physical mechanisms with technology to address
healthcare challenges. Her group is actively exploring advanced ultrasound imaging techniques, such as shear wave
elastography, ultrafast Doppler imaging, and quantitative backscatter imaging, to characterize diseased tissues
synergistically based on their stiffness, vascular hemodynamics, and acoustic response. Prof. Mercado-Shekhar
serves in the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium and the Biomedical
Acoustics and Education in Acoustics Technical Committee of the Acoustical Society of America.

Prof. Himanshu Shekhar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar, India, where he co-leads the Medical Ultrasound Engineering (MUSE) Laboratory. He obtained a
bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India (2008),
and a Master’s (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, U.S.A. Prof.
Shekhar trained as a postdoctoral fellow (2014 – 2019) at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, U.S.A. His
research is focused on ultrasound mediated therapy, molecular imaging, and sensing. His research has been
recognized with the F. V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Med-into-Grad
Fellowship, best paper awards from the Acoustical Society of America, the Har Govind Korana Innovative Young
Biotechnologist Award, and the Star Ambassador Lectureship Award from the IEEE UFFC Society. Prof. Shekhar
currently serves on the Technical Committee on Biomedical Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of America and the
IEEE International Ultrasonics Syposium Technical Committee (Group 2).

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Prof. Hardik J. Pandya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Division of
EECS, and Associate Faculty, Department of Design and Manufacturing, Division of Mechanical Sciences, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Pandya heads three laboratories in ESE focused on developing a new class of
biomedical devices and technologies. Before joining IISc, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Maryland Robotics Center, University of Maryland, College Park (2012- 2016) and in
the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital–Harvard Medical School (2016-2017). He obtained
his Ph.D. in microengineering systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2013). His lab comprises
twenty- eight scholars (twelve Ph.D., ten M.Tech., and six project assistants). In the last six years and nine months,
he graduated five Ph.D. scholars and fifteen M.Tech. scholars, in addition to guiding three postdoctoral fellows and
several research staff. Alums from his lab have pursued roles in academia and prominent industries, joining
esteemed institutions and companies like A*STAR, IMEC, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Intel, NVIDIA, MAXLINEAR,
Texas Instruments, Samsung, IIT Gandhinagar, and Delft University. His current research focuses on minimally
invasive and non-invasive technologies with an emphasis on but not limited to cancer diagnosis (brain, breast,
head, and neck), e- nose (diabetes, breast cancer screening), and Neuroprotective Therapies for Acute Stroke and
Epilepsy. He received the prestigious Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research
Board, Government of India 2017. Dr. Pandya received the prestigious ISSS Award 2020 under the Young Scientist
Award category for the work done in India in micro and smart systems. He also received Indian National Academy
of Engineering (INAE) and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and
Technology (DST) Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship in 2023. His work has resulted in five
granted patents, eleven Indian patent applications, five international patent applications, three book chapters, and
around sixty-five publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including journals like Nature
Microsystems and Nanoengineering, IEEE TBioCAS, IEEE Sensors, Journal of Biophotonics, and IEEE TBME. His
work has been highlighted as "Breaking Research News" by The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
The work on a portable cancer diagnosis tool was also featured in Science Translational Medicine as an Editorial
Choice, Breast Cancer Diagnosis, March 2016, and has been highlighted on the CapeRay blog as "Biochips and
Diagnostic tools" in April 2016. Dr. Pandya is a non- executive Director (Technical advisor) to two Indian MedTech
companies. He is also the founder and Director of Scilogic Applied Research Private Limited, a Startup focused on
translating biomedical devices and technologies to market.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Week 1: Basics of wave propagation, acoustic impedance

Week 2: Spatial intensity metrics, attenuation, reflection
Week 3: Scattering, refraction, focusing, speckle
Week 4: Piezoelectricity, electrical and mechanical modeling, matching and backing layers, effect on impedance,
material properties, piezopolymers, composites, Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers
Week 5: Introduction: Clean Room Classification, Clean Room Protocols, and Clean Room Lab Demonstrations
Week 6: Microfabrication: PVD, CVD, Wet Etching
Week 7: Microfabrication: Lithography and Micromachining
Week 8: Transducer arrays, apodization, array beamforming, delay-and-sum, basics of Doppler processing
Week 9: Imaging modes, Image reconstruction
Week 10: Imaging artifacts, bioeffects of ultrasound, Safety, New Frontiers (eg. Elastography)
Week 11: Lab Experiment Demonstrations: Thermal Evaporation, E-Beam Evaporation, and Sputtering for
Transducer Fabrication
Week 12: Photolithography Tool Demonstrations and a complete process flow demonstration for the fabrication of
pMUTs

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 FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE

PROF.SHYAMANTA M. HAZARIKA
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Guwahati

PRE-REQUISITES : Basic Course in Probability and Linear Algebra

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Final Year B.Tech/M.Tech and PhD students

COURSE OUTLINE :
What does automatic scheduling or autonomous driving have in common with web search, speech
recognition, and machine translation? These are complex real-world problems that span across various
practices of engineering! Aim of artificial intelligence (AI) is to tackle these problems with rigorous
mathematical tools. The objective of this course is to present an overview of the principles and practices of
AI to address such complex real-world problems. The course is designed to develop a basic understanding
of problem solving, knowledge representation, reasoning and learning methods of AI.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Shyamanta M Hazarika is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati and
leads the Biomimetic Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interest is in Rehabilitation
Robotics. This translates into interest in Artificial Intelligence, Biomimetic Robotics and Robotic
Neurorehabilitation. Prior to joining IIT Guwahati, he was with the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, Tezpur University. He has been a Vertretungsprofessur of Cognitive Systems and
NeuroInformatics, University of Bremen, Germany. Prof. Hazarika holds a B.E. in Mechanical
Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, India; M.Tech. in Robotics from Center for
Robotics, IIT Kanpur, India. He completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation
and Reasoning) from School of Computing, University of Leeds, England.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: AI and Problem Solving by Search
Week 2: Problem Solving by search
Week 3: Problem Solving by search (contd)
Week 4: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Week 5: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Contd)
Week 6: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (contd)
Week 7: Reasoning under uncertainty
Week 8: Planning
Week 9: Planning and Decision Making
Week 10:Machine Learning
Week 11:Machine Learning (contd)
Week 12:Machine Learning (contd)

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 NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS

PROF. NIKET KAISARE

Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Madras

PRE-REQUISITES : 12th standard Math background

INTENDED AUDIENCE : First or second year undergraduate students in any branch of engineering (or
science)

COURSE OUTLINE :
The development of fast, efficient and inexpensive computers has significantly increased the range of
engineering problems that can be solved reliably. Numerical Methods use computers to solve problems
by step-wise, repeated and iterative solution methods, which would otherwise be tedious or unsolvable
by hand-calculations. This course is designed to give an overview of numerical methods of interest to
scientists and engineers. However, the focus being on the techniques themselves, rather than specific
applications, the contents should be relevant to varied fields such as engineering, management,
economics, etc.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Niket Kaisare is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in IIT-Madras. He works in the area of
modeling, design and control for energy applications. He has over ten years of research/teaching
experience in academia, and three-year experience in Industrial R&D. He uses computational software,
including MATLAB, FORTRAN, Aspen and FLUENT extensively in his research and teaching.

COURSE PLAN :

Week-1: Introduction & Approximations

Motivation and Applications
Accuracy and precision; Truncation and round-off errors; Binary Number System; Error propagation
Week-2: Linear Systems and Equations
Matrix representation; Cramer’s rule; Gauss Elimination; Matrix Inversion; LU Decomposition;
Week-3: Linear Systems and Equations
Iterative Methods; Relaxation Methods; Eigen Values
Week-4: Algebraic Equations: Bracketing Methods
Introduction to Algebraic Equations
Bracketing methods: Bisection, Reguli-Falsi;
Week-5: Algebraic Equations: Open Methods
Secant; Fixed point iteration; Newton-Raphson; Multivariate Newton’s method
Week-6: Numerical Differentiation
Numerical differentiation; error analysis; higher order formulae
Week-7: Integration and Integral Equations
Trapezoidal rules; Simpson’s rules; Quadrature
Week-8: Regression
Linear regression; Least squares; Total Least Squares;
Week-9: Interpolation and Curve Fitting
Interpolation; Newton’s Difference Formulae; Cubic Splines
Week-10: ODEs: Initial Value Problems
Introduction to ODE-IVP
Euler’s methods; Runge-Kutta methods; Predictor-corrector methods;
Week-11: ODE-IVP (Part-2)
Extension to multi-variable systems; Adaptive step size; Stiff ODEs
Week-12: ODEs: Boundary Value Problems
Shooting method; Finite differences; Over/Under Relaxation (SOR)

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 RISK-BASED ENGINEERING

PROF PRABHAKAR V VARDE

Department of Engineering Sciences
Homi Bhabha National Institute(HBNI)

PRE-REQUISITES :B.Tech. in Engineering Sciences

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Ph. D. students and researchers in engineering sciences
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) - that is at the core of risk-based engineering) for complex
engineering systems like nuclear plants, process and chemical industry, Space and aviation
systems forms an integral part of design and operations safety evaluation. Risk-based engineering
has been design as an integrated approach to these applications.

COURSE OUTLINE :

Risk based approach is integral to design, operation, maintenance and regulation of engineering systems. Traditionally risk and
reliability aspects were addressed employing qualitative and experience-based approach which tends to be, at times, arbitrary and not
based on qualitative notions of safety and reliability. This course on ‘Risk-based Engineering’ extends the science of probabilistic risk
assessment and reliability engineering and integrates with physics-of-failure approach, human factor engineering, application of
prognostics and health and uncertainty prediction such that a systematic and rational based system can be established that is designed
to address real-time engineering and management aspects with sound quantitative and rational basis, while optimizing risk and
reliability such that safety as well as business objectives are not compromised. This is an applied subject that has been developed
based on the R&D experience of over 10 years that captures the concept, fundamental, techniques and methods. of ‘Risk-based
Engineering’. A book Co-authored by Prabhakar V Varde and Michael Pecht has been published through Springer in 2018.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Prabhakar V. Varde, Outstanding Scientist retired as Associate Director, Reactor Group at BARC, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
Mumbai. Presently se is Hon Professor of Practice at IIT Madras, Raja Ramanna Fellow, at BARC and Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha
National Institute, Mumbai. He is also a Visiting Professor at Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, University of Maryland, MD,
USA. He has been actively involved in the area of reliability and probabilistic risk assessment for over 25 years. He has developed PRA
model for the nuclear plants at BARC as also worked a vice chairman of the AERB committee for PSA for DAE facilities for over 15 years.
He took classes for Reliability Engineering for four terms at BARC Training School and University of Maryland. He has set up four labs,
viz, Nuclear reactor simulator, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering, Prognostics and Health Management and Accelerated Life Testing labs,
to support for advanced research in the area of risk and reliability engineering. He is the lead founder of Society for Reliability and
Safety in India and the lead Chief-Editor for SRESA’s Int. Journal Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He organized four
international(ICRESH) and 5 national conferences (NCRS) in last 17 years. Based on his research he has over 250 publications at
national and international level that includes peer reviewed journal. This also includes 17 edited- referred conference proceedings,
authored books and Technical Volumes. His google scholar 1100 citations and H-Index is 11, I-Index-11. He is consultant to International
Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna and OECDs NEA-WGRISK, Paris in the area of Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He is a Ph.D. and M. Tech.
guide and Ph.D. examiner at IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT-DMG, Jabalpur, Delhi University and in many national institutions
and universities. Presently he is also working as President, SRESA for spreading risk and reliability awareness not only in academic
circles, but engineering students and developing means a method to develop tools and methods to support national programs. One of
these initiatives is development of engineering codes and standards in the area of safety and reliability, working on setting up Indian
Institute of Risk and Reliability (IIRR).

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction: Historical Perspective on Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Risk-based applications, Integrated Risk-based
Engineering Approach, Factor of safety and uncertainty, Basic Framework for Integrated Risk-Based Engineering, Major Elements of
Integrated Risk-Based Engineering.

Week 2: Risk characterization: Background, Definition of “Risk”, Risk Characterization Policy and Principles, Major Elements of Risk
Characterization, Roles of People and Organizations, Risk Assessment Techniques, Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA),
Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), Quantitative Risk Assessment, Other Risk Assessment
Approaches, Risk Metrics.

Week 3: Probabilistic approach to risk and reliability: The Bathtub Curve, Probability Theory: Main Concepts, Reliability,
Derivation of Reliability Function from the First Principle, Reliability Characteristics, Mean Time to Failure (MTTF), Reliability, Availability,
Probability Distribution Functions, Poisson Distribution, Joint Probability and Marginal Distribution, Statistical Estimation of Failure Rate,
Point Estimate, Method of Moment, Maximum Likelihood Estimate, Bayesian Estimator, Confidence Interval Estimation, Goodness-of-Fit
Tests.

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Week 4: Systems Reliability Modelling and Analysis: Reliability Block Diagram, Fault Tree, Event Tree Analysis, Markov Modelling,
Series, Parallel, Standby and complex configuration modelling, Bayesian updating. Confidence interval analysis, Importance and
Sensitivity Analysis, Availability and Maintainability Analysis, Data Modelling and Analysis,

Week 5: Probabilistic Risk Assessment - I: Definition, Level 1, 2 and 3 PRA, Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Initiating Event Selection,
Accident Sequence Modelling, System modelling, Data collection, analysis and management requirements, Quantification, Uncertainty
and Sensitivity Analysis, Evaluation of risk statement for the plant / system. Special Features of PRA: Common Cause Failure, Human
Reliability, Risk Ranking of System Structure of Components,

Week 6: Probabilistic Risk Assessment – II: Introduction to Low-power and shutdown PRA, Flood and Fire PRA, External Event PRA :
Seismic & Flood, PRA applications in design, operation and regulation as part of risk-informed strategy.

Week 7: Human Reliability Analysis: A review of the current HR techniques and methods, limitation and advantages of each. Role of
various stress inducing factors, role of cognition, consciousness and conscience in HR. Human Reliability requirements in PRA,
Estimation of Human Reliability for normal and emergency conditions. Role of Plant simulator in human reliability evaluation.

Week 8: Physics-of-failure approach: Power and Limitation of PoF based approach to risk and reliability, role of operational and
environmental stresses, Framework for PoF, Failure Mode Mechanism and Effect , Life testing for simulation the load. Role of intelligent
approach to feature extraction, Canaries,

Week 9: Prognostics and health management: Definitions, traditional approach to life / reliability prediction, Fundamental
concepts in prognostics and risk management, role of physics of failure in PHM, Data driven, Physics-of-Failure and Fusion approach to
PHM. Degradation modelling, Accelerated Life testing, PHM Metrics. PHM standards.

Week 10: Risk-conscious operations management operations risk management, dependability engineering, Risk scenario
simulation, human-factor in RCOM, Intelligent methods, Human root cause analysis.

Week 11: Uncertainty Analysis: Conventional approaches to capture uncertainty, sources and uncertainty, Epistemic and Aleatory
uncertainty, Uncertainty characterization in reliability and risk analysis. Monte – Carlo Approach for uncertainty. Assessment of
Confidence bounds.

Week 12: Applications / Case Studies on Risk-based Engineering: Risk-based design, Risk-based Inservice Inspection, PRA based
Operator Support Systems, Risk-based Maintenance Management, Safety System Test Interval optimization, Insurance Liability
evaluation, Risk conscious operation Management. Risk- informed decision making in regulatory framework, Risk-monitor

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 LEARNING ANALYTICS TOOLS

PROF. RAMKUMAR RAJENDRAN

Department of Educational Technology
IIT Bombay

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any Interested Learner

COURSE OUTLINE :
Learning analytics is a method to collect, measure, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their interactions with a
learning environment. Learning analytics is applying analytics on educational data to infer the student learning process and to
provide support. Learning analytics is important course in the data era and it will help the learner to apply analytics on data
from education domain and help the students to learn.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof.Ramkumar Rajendran is an Assistant Professor in IDP in Educational Technology at Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Mumbai. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT
Bombay and Postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University, USA and NEC Central Research Laboratories, Japan.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1:Lecture 1:Intro To Data Analytics
Lecture 2:What is LA! Definition
Lecture 3:Academic Analytics, and Educational Data Mining
Lecture 4:Four Levels of Analytics
Lecture 5:Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Week 2:Lecture 1:Data Collection from Different learning environment
Lecture 2:Technology Enhanced Learning, Classroom and MOOC environment
Lecture 3:Preprocessing
Lecture 4:Ethics in Learning Analytics, Student Privacy
Week 3: Lecture 1:Intro to Machine Learning
Lecture 2:Supervised and Unsupervised learning
Lecture 3:Regression, Clustering and Classification
Lecture 4:Metrics for ML algorithms –Recall, Precision, Accuracy, F-Score and Kappa
Lecture 5:Demo of ML algorithms using Orange
Week 4:Lecture 1:Descriptive Analytics
Lecture 2:Data Visualization
Lecture 3:Data visualization using Excel
Lecture 4:Dashboard Analytics
Lecture 5:Dashboard of Youtube, MOOC
Week 5:Lecture 1:Intro to iSAT
Lecture 2:iSAT Demo with example
Lecture 3:Diagnostic Analysis
Lecture 4:Correlation
Week 6:Lecture 1:Sequential Pattern Mining
Lecture 2:SPM tool Demo
Lecture 3:Process Mining
Lecture 4:ProM Tool Demo
Week 7: Lecture 1:Predictive Analytics
Lecture 2:Modeling – Feature Selection
Lecture 3:Linear Regression
Lecture 4:Demo of Linear Regression using Weka
Week 8:Lecture 1:Decision Tree
Lecture 2:Demo of Decision Tree using Orange
Lecture 3:Naïve Bayes algorithm
Lecture 4:Demo of Naïve Bayes
Week 9:Lecture 1:Clustering in predictive algorithm
Lecture 2:K-Means clustering
Lecture 3:Demo of K-Means clustering

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Week 10:Lecture 1:Text analytics
Lecture 2:Words, Token, Stem and lemma
Lecture 3:Minimum edit distance
Lecture 4:Develop algorithm to automatically grade subjective answers
Lecture 5:Demo of Word embedding
Week 11:Lecture 1:Intro Multimodal Learning Analytics
Lecture 2:Eye-gaze data collection
Lecture 3:Affective computing
Lecture 4:Aligning and analyzing data from Multiple sensors
Week 12:Lecture 1:Advanced topics in LA
Lecture 2:How to apply LA in our class
Lecture 3:Data repos, Research papers to read, and where to present your work

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 SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

PROF. PANKAJ KALITA

Department of Energy Science and Engineering
IIT Guwahati

PRE-REQUISITES : Basic knowledge of heat transfer, thermodynamics and fundamentals of physics

INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG, PG and Doctorate students
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : This course will be very much effective for the engineres working in the
solar industries.

COURSE OUTLINE :
The course content is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge on solar radiation, analysis of
solar radiation data, fundamentals of the solar thermal and photovoltaic system along with storage of
energy required for effective design of efficient solar energy conversion devices. The concepts will be
illustrated with practical examples, schematics and block diagrams wherever required. A sufficient
number of numerical problems with solutions will be discussed in the course. This course is specifically
designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Energy Engineering and Technology.
Further, the course will be very much useful for students and researchers from varied academic
backgrounds for the synthesis of novel energy conversion devices and processes.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Pankaj Kalita is Associate Professor in the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has completed his master degree in Mechanical Engineering
(specialization: Fluids and Thermal Engineering) and PhD in Energy from IIT Guwahati. He worked as
Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam before joining at IIT
Guwahati. He has more than 10 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience in various field
of renewable energy. He has published more than 100 articles in various peer reviewed journals and
conferences. He has also contributed one book and 16 book chapters in different books. He is a
recipient of India Distinguished Visiting Fellow awarded by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
in the year 2010. He has guided many PhD and master students. He has successfully implemented
eight research projects and several consultancy projects funded by different government and private
agencies in the fields of energy generation, energy management, energy modelling, solar power plant
design, engine testing etc. At present three research projects are in progress in the areas of clean
energy technologies for power generation, and hybrid (biomass and solar) drying technologies. His
current areas of research include solar energy conversion, thermochemical and biochemical conversion,
energy management, energy storage (li-ion and thermal energy) and integration of renewable energy for
remote electrification.

COURSE PLAN :

Week 1:Energy Scenario, overview of solar energy conversion devices and applications, physics of propagation of
solar radiation from the sun to earth
Week 2:Sun-Earth Geometry, Extra-Terrestrial and Terrestrial Radiation, Solar energy measuring instruments
Week 3: Estimation of solar radiation under different climatic conditions, Estimation of total radiation
Week 4:Fundamentals of solar PV cells, principles and performance analysis, modules, arrays, theoretical
maximum power generation from PV cells.
Week 5:PV standalone system components, Standalone PV-system design.
Week 6:Components of grid-connected PV system, solar power plant design and performance analysis.
Week 7: Fundamentals of solar collectors, Snails law, Bougers law, Physical significance of Transmissivity –
absorptivity product.
Week 8:Performance anlaysis of Liquid flat plate collectors and testing
Week 9:Performance anlaysis of Solar Air heaters and testing
Week 10:Solar thermal power generation (Solar concentrators).
Week 11: Thermal Energy Storage (sensible, latent and thermochemical) and solar pond
Week 12:Applications: Solar Refrigeration, Passive architecture,solar distillation, and ermeging technologies.

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 SUSTAINABLE POWER GENERATION 
SYSTEMS

PROF. PANKAJ KALITA

Department of School of Energy Science and Engineering
IIT Guwahati

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG, PG, Doctorate students and renewable energy professionals

PREREQUISITES: Basic knowledge of thermal science

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: This course will be very much effective for the engineers working in the various renewable energy
based companies/industries. Some of the following companies that will recognize this course are

• Renergy Solutions Pvt limited

• Susconnect Pvt Limited
• Suzlon Energy Limited
• Vikram Solar Pvt. Limited

COURSE OUTLINE:
The course content is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge of various renewable energy systems. Specifically, in this
course, the design and analysis of renewable energy power plants will be discussed. The concepts will be illustrated with
practical examples, schematics and block diagrams wherever required. A sufficient number of numerical problems with
solutions will be discussed in the course. This course is specifically designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
Energy Engineering and Technology. Further, the course will be very much useful for students and researchers from varied
academic backgrounds for the synthesis of novel energy conversion devices and processes.

ABOUT INSTRCTOR:
Prof.Pankaj Kalita is Associate Professor in the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati. He has completed his master degree in Mechanical Engineering (specialization: Fluids and Thermal Engineering)
and PhD in Energy from IIT Guwahati. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy at Tezpur University,
Assam before joining at IIT Guwahati. He has more than 10 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience in various
field of renewable energy. He has published more than 100 articles in various peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has
also contributed one book and 16 book chapters in different books. He is a recipient of India Distinguished Visiting Fellow
awarded by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in the year 2010. He has guided many PhD and master students. He
has successfully implemented eight research projects and several consultancy projects funded by different government and
private agencies in the fields of energy generation, energy management, energy modelling, solar power plant design, engine
testing etc. At present three research projects are in progress in the areas of clean energy technologies for power generation,
and hybrid (biomass and solar) drying technologies. His current areas of research include solar energy conversion,
thermochemical and biochemical conversion, energy management, energy storage (li-ion and thermal energy) and integration
of renewable energy for remote electrification.

COURS PLAN:

Week 1: Module-1: Introduction to power generation

Global and Indian scenario, an overview of current technologies available for power generation, Concept of the renewable
energy- based power plant
Week 2: Module-2: Solar Thermal Power Generation
Fundamentals of Solar thermal energy conversion, solar thermal based power plant design and analysis (flat plate and
concentrator), ORC, RC, and Stirling engine.
Week 3: Module-3: Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation
Fundamentals of Solar photovoltaic energy conversion, Solar PV power plant design, Performance analysis of standalone and
grid connected PV systems.

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Week 5: Module-5: Hydro Power Generation

Introduction to hydro power plant, overview of micro, mini and small hydro power plants, hydraulic turbines,
Selection and design criteria of pumps and turbines, Brief theory, design and analysis of hydro power plants

Week 6: Module-6: Biomass Power Generation

Fundamentals of bioenergy production technologies through different routes, design and analysis of
biochemical and thermochemical reactors for clean power generation and value- added products, IGCC.

Week 7: Module-7: Hydrogen energy and fuel cells

Importance, various routes of hydrogen generation, basic principle and design of different types of fuel cells
and thier applications, future prospects, IGFC

Week 8: Module-8: Geothermal Energy

Fundamentals, classification, theory, design and analysis of geothermal power plant

Week 9: Module-9: Ocean Thermal Energy

Fundamentals, classification, theory, design and analysis of ocean thermal power plant

Week 10: Module-10: Wave and Tidal Energy

Fundamentals, classification, theory, design, and analysis of wave and tidal power plant

Week 11: Module-11: Energy Storage

Different modes of energy storage; design and analysis of different technologies for thermal, mechanical,
and electro-chemical energy storage systems

Week 12: Module-12: Energy Economics

Cost analysis, interest, Accounting rate of return, Payback, Discounted cash flow, Net present value, Internal
rate of return, Inflation and life cycle analysis of energy systems.

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 CARBON ACCOUNTING AND SUSTAINABLE
DESIGNS IN PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

MULTI FACULTY

PRE-REQUISITES : The student should have completed two semesters of UG Engineering or Science program.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students of all Engineering and Science disciplines
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : TCS, Accenture, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini India Pvt Ltd., Genpact.

COURSE OUTLINE :

This course offers an overview of Product Lifecycle technologies and Carbon Capture and Storage. This content is designed for a wide-
ranging audience with a keen interest in energy, sustainability, and climate change. The objective is to identify carbon-negative
solutions, therefore achieving a state of carbon balance in the 21st century. Carbon Capture and Storage guarantees the security and
feasibility of affordable and easily obtainable fossil fuels while adhering to the guidelines set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Change
agreement. The first part of the course talks about the emission of the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by firmly and permanently
sequestering it beneath. This course acts as a bridge between the latest breakthroughs in science, engineering, geology, policy, and
economics and the wider public. A practical approach in designing, developing, and running the DSS models in order to track, store and
account the Carbon is presented. A working prototype is demonstrated for the better understanding of the students. The aim is to
encourage further exploration of possible strategies to alleviate climate change.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Deepu Philip is a faculty of Industrial & Management Engg. Department and Design Programme of IIT Kanpur. He
works in the area of Production and Operations, Systems Simulation, Product Life Cycle Management, Unmanned Aerial
Systems, and Systems Engineering. He holds bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering with his doctorate in Industrial &
Management Engineering from MSU Bozeman. He has both academic and industrial experience with leading organizations of
the world. He has experience in designing and implementing complex system of systems in different fields including
defense, aviation, fertilizer, strategic chemical plants, transportation, banking, automation, health care, energy, and
communication.

Prof. Amandeep Singh is working as Research Scientist in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and Design Program,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He holds PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and a
bachelor degree in Production Engineering. Dr. Singh has ten years of industrial and academic experience. His research
interests are Sustainable Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Simulation of Manufacturing Systems, Product Design and
Manufacturing, Applied Ergonomics and Engineering Metrology. He has traveled in countries like US, Canada, and Australia
to present his research in various international conferences organized by reputed bodies like CIRP and IEOM. His research is
also published in various international reputed journals.

Prof. Prabal Pratap Singh is a Senior Project Engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. As part of his doctoral
research at the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, he specialized in Data Science and conducted his
dissertation research in counterterrorism, peace, and conflict studies. His works on Data Sciences and Counterterrorism
have been published & presented at prestigious international journals and conferences. In 2014, he earned a Bachelor of
Technology in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Master of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from PDPM IIIT D&M
Jabalpur in 2016 by researching Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP), and Optimization
Techniques. He received the Best Paper Award for his work in CAD and Counterterrorism

COURSE PLAN:

Week 1:

• Productivity vs sustainability

• Transformation process and SDGs

• Carbon Accounting principles

• Carbon Footprint

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Week 2:
• Direct Carbon emissions

• Indirect Carbon emissions

• Carbon Dioxide Utilization

• Carbon Negative Technologies

Week 3:
• Green Product Development

• Connected Development Process

• Carbon Sequestration - 1

• Carbon Sequestration technologies

Week 4:
• Carbon Sinks

• Carbon Sequestration examples

• Carbon neutral processes

• Carbon neutral product/process design

Week 5:
• Introduction to Product Lifecycle Management(PLM)

• Manufacturing Process

• PLM components

• Levels of PLM

Week 6:
• Ecosystem in PLM

• Meetings of PLM and SLM

• Digitalization in PLM

• PLM Data Analytics

Week 7:
• Carbon Transformation Process

• Traceability of Carbon

• Carbon Traceability in PLM - 1

• Carbon Traceability in PLM – 2, Software demonstration

Week 8:
• ESG Frameworks

• Carbon Footprint Assessment

• Emission Reduction Strategies

• Carbon Accounting Strategies

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Week 9:

• Capturing emissions data

• Decisions on 6R – Reduce,Reuse,Recycle,Refuse,Repair,Re-innovate,

• Examples of 6R initiatives in SDG

• Modeling Global Warming Potential (GWP)

Week 10:

• Energy System Modelling

• Prototype Models

• UI of Energy Modeling

• UI characteristics,with Visual Demonstration

Week 11:

• Carbon Accounting and Databases

• Auditorial database features

• Creating Database-1

• Creating Database-2

Week 12:

• Models rendering

• Capture Model

• Grid Model

• Summarizing the results

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 RESEARCH METHODS IN HEALTH
PROMOTION

MULTI-FACULTY

PRE-REQUISITES : Graduate degree in health sciences

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Post-graduate (medical) students in Community Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Social
Science, Nutrition, Health Promotion; Post-Graduate Nursing students; and also students from
allied disciplines.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : NGOs working in health and development sector, public health organizations, Health services
sector of state and central governments (It will be beneficial for the Medical Officers also, who are
involved in Public Health system)

COURSE OUTLINE :

This course is designed to provide the learners a comprehensive understanding about the research techniques in Health Promotion and
Education. Apart from general research methodology in Health Sciences, the research techniques in Health Promotion are an essential
competency for public health professionals. After completion of this course the participants will be able to understand the different
research techniques and methodology in health promotion. The participants will also be able to plan, implement, and evaluate Health
Promotion research and programs.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Dr. Arista Lahiri is a medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. He is a public health researcher who works primarily in the domain of health
promotion and education, and non-communicable diseases, AMR and 'One Health'. His field expertise is on integrating health behavior
models with health promotion intervention contents.

Prof. (Dr.) Madhumita Dobe, former Director Professor and Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Education, All India
Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata is an international personality in Public Health and Health Policy research. She
specializes in Health Promotion intervention research and integration with health policy related research. Prof. Dobe actively promotes
evidence-driven health behavior research.

Dr. Sweety Suman Jha is also a medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. She works in the domain of adolescent health, health promotion, AMR,
'One Health', and non-communicable diseases. Her research focus is on using qualitative research to develop a valid health promotion
tool.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction to Research Methods in Health promotion
Week 2: Theories and Models in Health Promotion and Health Behavior - part I
Week 3: Theories and Models in Health Promotion and Health Behavior - part II
Week 4: Quantitative Techniques in Health Promotion: Research designs
Week 5: Qualitative methods in Health Promotion
Week 6: Mixed methods techniques in Health Promotion
Week 7: Study T ool development in Health Promotion
Week 8: Designing interventions in Health Promotion
Week 9: BCC and SBCC
Week 10: Community-Based Participatory Research in context to Health Promotion
Week 11: Data analysis in Health Promotion
Week 12: Research Proposal Writing and Reporting the Research Findings

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 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COMMON
CHILDHOOD DISEASES AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IN INDIA

MULTI FACULTY

PRE-REQUISITES : Background knowledge of-- Medical (both UG and PG), Nursing (both UG and PG), Paramedical, Health
and allied Sciences

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Medical (both UG and PG), MBBS students preparing from NEET PG, Post-PG students preparing for
NEET SS and FNB Super-specialization, Nursing (both UG and PG), Community Health Workers,
Paramedical, Health and allied Sciences, Social Welfare and NGOs working on Child Health

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Health Sciences and Medical fraternity.

COURSE OUTLINE :

This course intends to create awareness & impact knowledge regarding common Childhood diseases in India. A great number of child
death and sufferings can be prevented by timely diagnosis and management. Starting from the clinic-biochemical aspect, diagnosis,
management and existing relevant National health programmshas been elaborated for better understanding of our intended audience
regarding health-care seeking options.Healthy Child will build a healthy nation. This holistic approach in this course will increase
awareness and bring down mortality & morbidity from common Childhood diseases in India.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Clinico- Biochemical Aspects of Neonatal Screening - Part I

Week 2: Clinico-Biochemical Aspects of Neonatal Screening- Part II

Week 3: Comprehensive Integrated Approach to Common Congenital Disorders in India

Week 4: Comprehensive Approach to Developmental Disorders in Children

Week 5: Comprehensive Approach to Developmental Disabilities in Children

Week 6: Comprehensive overview of Common Childhood Nutritional disorders and relevant National Programs

Week 7: Comprehensive Integrated Approach to PEM (Protein Energy Malnutrition)

Week 8: Programmatic Approach to Common Infectious Diseases of Indian Children

Week 9: Common Paediatric Cardiac Diseases

Week 10: Common Paediatric Hematological Disorders

Week 11: Other Common Systemic disease in Children

Week 12: Vaccine preventable diseases and National Immunization Schedule

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 BANDIT ALGORITHM (ONLINE MACHINE
LEARNING)

PROF. MANJESH HANAWAL

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operation Research
IIT Bombay

PRE-REQUISITES : Basics of Probability Theory and Optimization

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Computer Sceince, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics
and Statistics
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : All companies related to Internet Technologies (ex. Google, Microsoft,
Flipkart, Ola, Amazon, etc.)

COURSE OUTLINE :
In many scenarios, one faces uncertain environments where a-priori the best action to play is unknown.
How to obtain best possible reward/utility in such scenarios. One natural way is to first explore the
environment and to identify the `best’ actions and exploit them. However, this give raise to an
exploration vs exploitation dilemma, where on hand hand we need to do sufficient explorations to
identify the best action so that we are confident about its optimality, and on the other hand, best actions
need to exploited more number of times to obtain higher reward. In this course we will study many
bandit algorithms that balance exploration and exploitation well in various random environment to
accumulate good rewards over the duration of play. Bandit algorithms find applications in online
advertising, recommendation systems, auctions, routing, e-commerce or in any filed online scenarios
where information can be gather in an increment fashion.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Manjesh hanawal received the M. S. degree in ECE from the Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India, in 2009, and the PhD degree from INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, and the University
of Avignon, France, in 2013. After two years of postdoc at Boston University, he is now an Assistant
Professor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the IIT Bombay, India. His research
interests include performance evaluation, machine learning and network economics. He is a recipient of
Inspire Faculty Award from DST and Early Career Research Award from SERB.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction to Bandit Algorithms. From Batch to Online Setting
Week 2: Adversarial Setting with Full information (Halving, WM Algorithm )
Week 3: Adversarial Setting with Bandit Information
Week 4: Regret lower bounds for adversarial Setting
Week 5: Introduction to Stochastic Setting and various regret notions
Week 6: A primer on Concentration inequalities
Week 7: Stochastic Bandit Algorithms UCB, KL-UCB
Week 8: Lower bounds for stochastic Bandits
Week 9: Introductions to contextual bandits
Week 10: Overview of contextual bandit algorithms
Week 11: Introduction to pure exploration setups (fixed confidence vs budget)
Week 12: Algorithms for pure explorations (LUCB, KL-LUCB, lil’UCB)

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 THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY

PROF. SAMIT K RAY

Department of Physics
IIT Kharagpur

PRE-REQUISITES : UG course on Solid State Physics, Introduction to Materials or Basic Electronics

INTENDED AUDIENCE : PG and UG students of Electronics engineering, Metallurgical & materials engineering, Chemical
engineering, Bio engineering and PhD and M.Sc. students of Physics, Chemistry and Materials
Sciences
INDUSTRY SUPPORT :
1. Applied Materials
2. SCL Chandigarh
3. Micron Technology
4. BHEL
5. Tata steel

COURSE OUTLINE :

Thin film technology is the backbone for building monolithically integrated semiconductor devices, modern computers, energy and
healthcare systems.Varieties of metallic, semiconducting, superconducting and insulating materials with controlled mechanical,
electrical and optical properties are integrated today to form hetrostructures and superlattices for advanced functional devices and
systems, Theis an interdisciplinary elective course suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate engineering and science students
covering the technologies forfthin film deposition, characterization and fabrication of nanoscaledevices.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Samit Kumar Ray is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur. He has previously served as the
Director S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, Dean (Post-graduate & Research Studies), Head, Department of Physics
and founder Head, School of Nanoscience and Technology, IIT Kharagpur. His research interests are in the area of semiconductor
quantum technology, low dimensional materials, photovoltaics and nanophotonic devices. He has served as a visiting faculty/scientist at
the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, University of Delaware, USA, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Queens University of Belfast,
UK and Chang Gung University, Taiwan. He serves as an editorial board member of the journal Nanotechnology and Nanofutures
(Institute of Physics, UK), Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Materials : Optics and Photonics.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Course introduction with a review on materials science

Week 2: Physical vapor deposition of thin films-I : Thermal and electron beam assisted deposition

Week 3: Physical vapour deposition of thin films-II : Plasma, Ion beam and laser assisted deposition

Week 4: Pulsed laser deposition and hybrid methods

Week 5: Chemical vapor deposition of thin films

Week 6: Epitaxial growth of thin films for device applications including MOCVD and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)

Week 7: Theory of nucleation and growth of thin films

Week 8: Mechanical, structural and optical characterization of thin films

Week 9: Surface and interface characterization of films and heterostructures

Week 10: Thin film nanofabrication technology

Week 11: Thin film electronic, optoelectronic and energy devices

Week 12: Emerging nanoscale and quantum devices

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 NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN MOVEMENTS

PROF. VARADHAN SKM

Department of Biomedical Engineering
IIT Madras

PRE-REQUISITES : Motivation & open-mindedness is the only pre-requisite

INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : This course will prepare individuals with no knowledge of neuroscience
to become knowledgeable about neuroscience of movements.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students with an interest in Neuroscience

COURSE OUTLINE :
Neuroscience of Human Movement will focus on the neural system responsible for movement
generation, movement control and learning of actions. The course will start from the very basics of
neuroscience and build theory to understand the movement control system in relatively good detail and
depth. The successful student of this course will be able to appreciate in-depth, the brain processes
that control movement.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Varadhan SKM is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engg at IIT Madras. His research
interests are in the area of Neural control of movements, Motor learning, and Dexterous object
manipulation in the presence of static and dynamic perturbations (See website for more details). He
teaches courses on Biomechanics, Neuromechanics, Engg Mechanics, Biomedical
Instrumentation, Quantitative Physiology.

COURSE PLAN :

Week 1 : Introduction, Membrane Physiology, Nernst Equation, GHK Equation, Action potential

Week 2 : Neuromuscular Junction, Skeletal Muscles

Week 3 : Skeletal muscles, Motor Units

Week 4 : Receptors, Muscle Spindles, Golgi Tendon Organs, Spinal control

Week 5 : Monosynaptic, Oligosynaptic & Polysynaptic reflexes,

Week 6 : Preprogrammed reactions, Spinal control, Overview of motor control system, Primary Motor
cortex – Part 1

Week 7 : Primary Motor cortex – Part 2, Lesions, Brain Machine interfaces

Week 8 : Primary Motor Cortex – Part 3, Role of Cerebellum in movement control

Week 9 : Role of Cerebellum in movement control

Week 10 : Parietal & Pre-motor cortex

Week 11 : Role of Basal Ganglia in movement control

Week 12 : Role of Basal Ganglia in movement control

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

PROF. EDAMANA PRASAD

Department of Multidisciplinary
IIT Madras

PROF. PRATHAP HARIDOSS

Department of Multidisciplinary
IIT Madras

PRE-REQUISITES : Students who have completed undergraduate studies (in Engineering or Science) will be
in a better position to benefit from this course
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students of ME/MTech/MS/MSc/PhD can benefit.

COURSE OUTLINE :
Large numbers of students are actively considering and taking up research and associated higher studies.
This course aims to introduce students to the important aspects of research. The intent of the course is to
make students aware of the details associated with formal research and to help students overcome common
misconceptions that may be present in their minds. By going through this course, students are likely to be able
to take up research activities in a more systematic and formal manner right from the beginning.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. E. PRASAD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600
036, INDIA Phone: ++91-44-2257 4232 ; Email: [email protected]. Educational Qualification: BSc., & MSc. From
Calicut University, Kerala, India during 1990-1995; Ph.D. from NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in
Photophysical Chemistry in 2000.Post Doctoral Research Experience: (2001 to 2006) Texas Tech University
& Lehigh University, USA and University of Bonn, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow) .Professional
Experience (11 years): Faculty at Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras since 2006; (8 years): Head, Teaching
Learning Centre, IIT Madras; (6 years): Core team member, Teaching Learning Centre, IIT Madras (7+ years).
Specialization and Expertise: Chemistry: Photophysical Chemistry, Design and Synthesis of organic and hydro
gelators for various applications; Education/Teaching: Designing Learning Outcomes for Courses, Conducting
Classes using Active and Collaborative Learning Techniques. Awards and Distinctions: AvH Fellowship
(2002), Young Faculty Recognition Award (IIT Madras, 2011). Research Publications in Peer Reviewed
Journals: 65.Conference Paper: Development of a Teaching Learning Centre and Ongoing Faculty
Development Programs - A Case Study, Prasad Edamana, Ajith Kumar Kolar, Pramod S Mehta, Sujatha
Srinivasan and Jeffrey Froyd, American Society for Engineering Education, USA, June, 2012.​

Prof. Prathap Haridoss is a Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT
Madras. He works in the areas of Fuel Cell and Carbon nanomaterials. He has a B.Tech in Metallurgical
Engineering from IIT Madras, and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Before he joined as a faculty at IIT Madras, he served as a Senior Scientist at Plug
Power, a Fuel Cell company in New York. He has 3 US patents, several International Journal publications,
and has published a book titled “Physics of Materials, Essential Concepts of Solid State Physics”

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1 : A group discussion on what is research; Overview of research;
Week 2 : Literature survey , Experimental skills;
Week 3 : Data analysis, Modelling skills;
Week 4 : Technical writing; Technical Presentations; Creativity in Research
Week 5 : Creativity in Research; Group discussion on Ethics in Research
Week 6 : Design of Experiments
Week 7 : Intellectual Property
Week 8 : Department specific research discussions

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 Current regulatory requirements for conducting clinical
trials in India for investigational new drugs/new drug
(Version 3.0)

MULTI FACULTY
INTENDED AUDIENCE : The course is suitable for individuals, both from industry (pharma, biotech,
contract research organization) and academia who are involved or interested in Clinical trial and new drug
development (R & D/manufacture/ import) in India. This includes investigators, regulatory affairs personnel,
human ethics committee members, clinical trial team members/researchers.
PRE-REQUISITES : There is no pre-requisite to undertake this course. It is suitable for personnel with
scientific/medical background (BSc/MSc/PhD/B Pharm/M Pharm/BAMS/BHMS/BDS/MDS/MBBS/MD/DM).
Personnel working in the area of drug development/clinical trials/research may benefit from this course.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT:
Pharmaceutical companies, Research/Academic Institutions, Biomedical research organizations, Regulatory
authorities, Medical colleges, Contract research organizations.

COURSE OUTLINE :
The course is developed by Clinical Development Services Agency (CDSA) in partnership with the Central
Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The course is developed with NPTEL.

CDSA is an extramural unit of the Translational Health Science & Technology Institute (THSTI). THSTI is an
autonomous institution under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology,
Government of India. CDSA has a national mandate to enhance the capacity and capability of clinical
development in India.

CDSCO is the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of India. It is under the Directorate General of Health
Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. CDSCO along with the state regulators
are jointly responsible for grant of licenses of certain specialized categories of critical drugs such as blood
and blood products, intravenous fluids, vaccines, and sera.

It is a pre-requisite for anyone carrying out a clinical trial or involved in new drug development or research
for the purpose of seeking regulatory approval in India to know about the current regulatory requirements.
This is even more pertinent given the many changes and amendments in the clinical trial and new drug
approval rules and regulations in India in recent years.

Version 1 of this online course was launched in early 2019 with 12 lectures as a four-week course. It was
attended by 1047 participants during Jan - Mar 2019. On March 19, 2019, the New Drugs and Clinical Trials
(NDCT) Rules, 2019 were released. The current online course (Version 2) incorporates the changes and
amendments that are part of these latest rules. A series of brainstorming sessions were conducted by CDSA
with CDSCO for incorporating the new updates and the feedback received from version 1 participants. It
also includes key issues that surfaced during the discussions at the six face-to-face programs (National
workshop on regulatory compliance for accelerating innovations) that were conducted by CDSA (Dec 2018-
July 2019) under the aegis of DBT, CDSCO, NITI Aayog, and BIRAC-NBM and inputs from the interactive
session on NDCT Rules conducted by CDSA with CDSCO at THSTI (May 2019).

This course (version 2) has 24 lectures spread over a period of 8 weeks. This course also involves 8 weekly
assignments and a final exit assessment. Only those wishing to undertake the certification exams (which
requires payment of a fee) need to opt for the latter. This online course is free. The exam is optional for a
fee.

COURSE OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOME

Upon completion of this online course, the participants will understand:
• Current New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules 2019 for conducting clinical trials of the new drug or
investigational new drug (IND) to be manufactured or imported in India
• Essential documents required for the conduct and approval of clinical trials, new drug/IND
• Essence and purpose of important trial-related guidelines, such as Good Clinical Practice (GCP),
national ethical guidelines for biomedical & health research for human participants (2017), etc

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ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
1. Dr D. K. Sable, Assistant Drugs Controller (India), CDSCO HQ, New Delhi
2. Dr Rubina Bose, Deputy Drugs Controller (India), CDSCO, West Zone, Mumbai
3. Professor Y. K. Gupta, Principal Adviser (Projects), CDSA, THSTI, DBT
4. Dr Nandini K. Kumar, Former Deputy Director General Sr. Grade, Indian Council of Medical Research
(ICMR), Adjunct Faculty, CDSA, THSTI, DBT
5. Late Shri Arun Kumar B. Ramteke, Former Joint Drugs Controller (India), CDSCO; Consultant, Regulatory
Affairs, CDSA, THSTI, DBT
6. Dr Sucheta Banerjee Kurundkar, Director Training, CDSA, THSTI, DBT
7. Dr M. Vishnu V. Rao, Scientist G & Director, ICMR – National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS);
Administrator, Clinical Trial Registry - India (CTRI)
8. Dr Atul Juneja, Scientist E, ICMR-NIMS; Coordinator, CTRI
9. Dr Tulsi Adhikari, Scientist E, ICMR-NIMS; Coordinator, CTRI
10. Dr Mohua Maulik, Consultant, ICMR-NIMS

COURSE PLAN :

Week 1 : Lecture 0: Course overview

Lecture 1: Overview of Indian drug regulatory system
Lecture 2: Overview of drugs & cosmetics Act and Rules thereunder
Lecture 3: Overview of New Drug and Clinical Trials Rules Rules, 2019

Week 2 : Lecture 4: Pre-clinical data requirements

Lecture 5: Rules governing clinical trials
Lecture 6A: Phases of clinical trial, forms, and fees
Lecture 6B: Regulatory pathway and data requirements for NDCT, 2019

Week 3 : Lecture 7: BA/BE study and study centres: Legal provisions

Lecture 8: Guidelines to conduct BA/BE studies
Lecture 9: Ethics Committee registration and re-registration

Week 4 : Lecture 10: Ethical considerations

Lecture 11: Good Clinical Practice
Lecture 12A: Requirements for import/manufacture of new drug/IND for conducting clinical trials in India
Lecture 12B: Requirements for import/manufacture of new drug/IND for sale/distribution and unapproved new
drug for patients

Week 5 : Lecture 13: Important issues

Lecture 14: Special concerns
Lecture 15: Clinical trial related guidelines (NDCT Rules)

Week 6 : Lecture 16: Content of proposed clinical trial protocol

Lecture 17: Content of a clinical trial report
Lecture 18: Post marketing assessment and clinical trial compensation

Week 7 : Lecture 19: Common observations during submission of CT/BA/BE protocol

Lecture 20: Common observations during CT/BA/BE centre inspections
Lecture 21: Drug development process: Overview

Week 8 : Lecture 22: Salient feature of NDCT 2019 (What's new in NDCT?)
Lecture 23A: Online submission (SUGAM)
Lecture 23B: Online submission (CTRI)
Lecture 24: Tables given in NDCT 2019 and its content

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 BASICS OF HEALTH PROMOTION AND
EDUCATION INTERVENTION

MULTIFACULTY

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Post-graduate (medical) students in Community Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health
Promotion; Post-Graduate Nursing students; and also students from allied disciplines.
PREREQUISITES: Graduate degree in health sciences
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: NGOs working in health and development sector, public health organizations, Health services sector of
state and central governments (It will be beneficial for the Medical Officers also, who are involved in Public Health system).

COURSE OUTLINE:
This course is designed to provide the learners a comprehensive understanding about Health Promotion and Education
Interventions. Health Promotion and Education Interventions are key competencies for public health professionals. After
completion of this course the participants will be able to define and understand the needs for health promotion and education
interventions. The participants will also be able to plan, implement, and evaluate Health Promotion and Education Interventions.

ABOUT INSTRCTOR:
Dr. Arista Lahiri is a medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. He is a public health researcher who works primarily in the domain of health
promotion and education, and non-communicable diseases, AMR and 'One Health'. His field expertise is on integrating health
behavior models with health promotion intervention contents.
Dr. Sweety Suman Jha is also a medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. She works in the domain of adolescent health, health
promotion,AMR, 'One Health' and non-communicable diseases. Her research focus is on using qualitative research to
develop a valid health promotion tool.
Prof. (Dr.) Chandrashekhar Taklikar is the Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Education, All India Institute of
Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata. He is an expert in Health Promotion and Education and is the course coordinator for
Diploma in Health Promotion and Education.
Prof. (Dr.) Madhumita Dobe, former Director Professor and Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Education, All India
Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata is an international personality in Public Health and Health Policy research. She
specializes in Health Promotion intervention research and integration with health policy related research. Prof. Dobe actively
promotes evidence-driven health behavior research.

COURSE PLAN:
Week 1: Concepts of health promotion including history
Week 2: Health behavior, health communication and Health Literacy
Week 3: Information Education Communication (IEC), Behavior Change Communication (BCC), and Social and Behavior
Change Communication (SBCC), and their applications in different settings (including role of social determinants of health)

Week 4: Need assessment for health promotion (including health behavior models)
Week 5: Planning and implementing a HPE intervention
Week 6: Designing of messages and pretesting
Week 7: Materials and methods
Week 8: Evaluation of HPE intervention

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 INTRODUCTION TO BIOMIMICRY

MULTIFACULTY

INTENDED AUDIENCE : All interested learners

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : All companies interested in research, innovation and entrepreneurship

COURSE OUTLINE :

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human challenges. Examples of biomimicry
include everything from energy-producing solar cells that mimic tree leaves to antibacterial paints that emulate sharkskin to highly
profitable businesses that improve their organizational structures based on redwood groves. Biomimicry is based on the principle that
nature, with 3.8 billion years of wisdom, offers time-tested solutions to all our problems. We do not need to reinvent the strategies that
are already here. We just need to learn how to adapt them.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Shiva Subramaniam is a life skills coach and consultant, specialising in innovation, entrepreneurship, and cross-cultural skills. In his
career spanning over 3 decades, he has worked with a multitude of organizations, teams, and individuals, helping them with new ways
of thinking, exploring connections, expanding their vision and realizing their potential. As a life skills coach for young engineering
students, he is particularly interested in looking for connections between STEM skills and non-STEM skills and how one set of skills can
enhance the other. Shiva is a biomimicry evangelist. He teaches biomimicry to young students with the intention of transforming them
to become not just innovators but also sustainability champions. With his penchant to look for connections, he is exploring how coaching
can be enhanced through biomimicry. He is a lawyer by training and was practicing at the High Court at Chennai.

Prof. Sivakumar Srinivasan, fondly called Anbudan Siva, is a Professor of Applied Mechanics at IIT Madras specializing in the area of
Active Material Structures and Systems. He holds a B.Tech (1985) and an M.S. (1987) both from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. degree (1993)
from the Louisiana State University for his thesis in the area of plasticity. He has been with IIT Madras as a faculty since 1994. As Dean
of Students at IIT Madras, he holds pride of place in creating and anchoring several new initiatives to enhance the emotional and
professional growth of students. He established MITR - a network to provide students with emotional and counselling support. He is the
midst of anything to do with the welfare of students.

Prof. Satya Seshadri is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at IIT Madras. He has a PhD from Texas A&M
University in aerosol science. His research focus is on indigenous technology development and translation of technology from lab to
market in the domains for energy recovery and industrial emission monitoring. He has 4 granted patents and 5 patent filings in these
domains. He is also the coordinator for the energy committee of the Centre for Technology and Policy at IIT Madras and member of the
energy committee at the South Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI). He is the faculty advisor for Centre for Innovation
(CFI) and the Nirmaan pre-incubation center at IIT Madras.

Prof. Mrinalini is the co-founder of the Biomimicry Compass that enables companies, educational institutions and other organizations use
the practice of biomimicry to solve problems and innovate on products, processes and services. She has held many executive positions
throughout her career in technology, product management, strategy, innovation and knowledge management, and has headed cross-
disciplinary teams locally and globally. She graduated in engineering from BITS, Pilani and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1:Introduction
Week 2:UN Sustainable Development Goals
Week 3:Systems Thinking, Curiosity
Week 4:Creativity tools, Design thinking
Week 5:Biomimicry essentials
Week 6:From problem definition to solution
Week 7:From problem definition to solution
Week 8:Biomimicry and the future of innovation

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 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT

PROF. RAJAT AGRAWAL

Department of Management Studies
IIT Roorkee

INTENDED AUDIENCE :
• Students of B. Tech, M.B. A, M. Tech, M. Design and Pre-PhD whose course curriculum includes study on various aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights
• Students of other discipline who are interested in learning Intellectual Property and its management role in Nation’s economy
• Students of B. Tech who wish to opt Career as Patent Agent and Patent Examiners
• Working Professionals who want to use IPRs as a strategic tool for their career growth and advancement

INDUSTRY SUPPORT :
1. All leading companies in area of R & D, Technology Management, IP Management and IP evaluation
2. Course is also suitable to SMEs as some of the modules are designed keeping Intellectual property needs of SMEs needs in mind.

COURSE OUTLINE :

In today's ever-changing and competitive business environment, the effective management of intellectual property is crucial for
maintaining a competitive edge. Moreover, Effective management of IPRs is the necessity for survival in the market. IP Portfolio
management is gaining popularity worldwide as IP forms the base of manufacturing sector as well as for the knowledge economy. The
objective of this course is to provide the audience with an in-depth comprehension of the strategic elements of IP portfolio management,
enabling them to optimize the value of intellectual assets. The course will furnish the learners with the necessary tools and insights to
navigate from basics of IPR to effective strategies in managing IP Portfolios. Accompany us on this enlightening journey if you wish to
explore the fundamental principles, tactics, and exemplary methods that form the foundation of IP portfolio management in present
world full of competitiveness

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Rajat Agrawal is Professor and Head of the Department, Management Studies, at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee. Prof Agrawal is winner of the Ram Kumar award for outstanding Teaching and Research, which is the most prestigious award
given in the domain of teaching and research at IIT Roorkee. Prof. Agrawal has worked in various crucial role for building an IP and
Entrepreneurship centric ecosystem at IIT Roorkee. Some of which include, Associate Dean of Innovation and Incubation, Coordinator
for IPR Cell, Coordinator for DPIIT IPR Chair. He is also Joint Faculty at Department of Design, an associate Faculty at Centre of
Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management, an associate Faculty for Centre for Transportation Systems at IIT Roorkee. Prof.
Agrawal is member of various Expert committees/Think Tank formed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade,
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India on issues related to IPR. Prof Rajat Agarwal has attended various international
courses on IPR and allied areas, which include Training Course for IP Trainers by Japan patent Office at Tokyo, Danida Fellowship
Centre (DFC) Scholarship Programme on Innovation and Commercialization of Intellectual Property Rights in Denmark.
Prof. Agrawal is a visiting fellow to Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. His area of interest is innovation and IPR
Production and Operations Management including Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Strategy and World Class Manufacturing.
He has guided twenty-five Ph.D. thesis in these areas. Currently, ten students are working under him for Ph.D. thesis. He has more than
150 research papers in refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has developed more than 20 case studies on
various aspects of supply chain management, organizational development, natural resource management, social entrepreneurship, and
value co-creation. He has developed more than 15 Programmes for All India Radio on various subjects of rural development and
technical, management education.
He has completed 12 research and consultancy projects. He was also involved in some of the international projects funded by Danish
Innovation Council and European Union. He has more than 400 hours of corporate training experience with organizations like BHEL,
THDC India Ltd., Power Finance Corporation Ltd., Syndicate Bank, Everest Industries, and Rockman Industries etc. He is reviewer of
various national/ international journals. He is a member of Academy of Management, USA; All India Management Association, New
Delhi and ISOL, New Delhi. He has contributed chapters in seven different books published by IGNOU, Delhi, NIOS, Delhi, IGI Global,
and Springer. He has co-authored a book titled “Masters Speak: Management Education in India” published by Bloomsbury India
Publications.
He received Best Teacher Dainik Bhaskar National Education Leadership Awards-2013. He received Noel Deere Gold Medal for paper
in management stream in 71st and 72nd annual convention of STAI, consecutively. One of his paper was considered one of the best
articles of the Year 2014 by Business Standard. He was also awarded ISOL Research Award 2015 at 5th International conference at
Chicago USA. He was also awarded ICCR chair professorship at Indonesia.

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COURSE PLAN :
Week 1:

1. Understanding various Portfolios Nature and Scope of Innovation

2. Understanding Basics of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
3. Types of Intellectual Property Rights and their application

Week 2:

1. Various IP Strategies
2. Understanding importance of Competitive Strategies and IP Strategies
3. Aligning IP strategy with R&D and business strategies
4. IP SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis

Week 3:

1. Generation of inventions
2. invention portal
3. invention disclosure form
4. submission of inventions, Screening; novelty search; review processes, Invention assessment

Week 4:

1. Patent Filing Strategies

2. Country selection for Patent filing
3. Country Selection for Patent granting Strategies
4. Ranking Based Tier Strategies

Week 5:

1. Budgeting and organizing patent portfolio management

2. General cost-saving measures
3. centralization of patent renewals and translations
4. Monitoring-based countermeasures,

Week 6:

1. Ensuring quality and extracting value from the patent portfolio

2. Criteria for a valuable patent portfolio, identifying valuable patents
3. Strategies for patent portfolio review
4. Inventor review questionnaires, third party product searches, Patent intelligence tools

Week 7:

1. Analyzing and confirming value of identified patents: ranking systems; claim charting,
2. dynamically adapting prosecution to value: ranking and target-based prosecution) Pruning the IP Portfolio
3. Monthly/yearly pruning of IP Portfolio
4. Pruning Recommendation Tool criteria, scores, recommendations,
5. Understanding the logic of strategy maps and balanced scorecards for IP management

Week 8:

1. Critical Success Factors for IP Portfolio Management

2. The Value in a Well-Managed IP Portfolio
3. Significance of IP Audit
4. Case Studies

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 MANAGE TB

MULTIFACULTY

COURSE OUTLINE :

The National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai is one of the premier institutes of the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR), Department of Health Research (DHR) of Govt. of India. It is an internationally reputed institution for tuberculosis (TB)
research and a WHO Collaborating Centre for TB Research and Training. Worldwide, there were 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases
and 1.7 million deaths due to TB in 2015. India contributed to nearly 2 million new TB cases. According to the End TB Strategy adopted in
2014, the global milestones relative to 2015 data are 50% reduction in TB incidence, 75% reduction in TB deaths by 2025 and 90%
reduction in TB incidence and 95% reduction in TB deaths by 2035. Early diagnosis and treatment of TB by engagement of public and
private care providers are identified as important components to achieve these milestones. In India, TB patients seek care both in the public
and private sector. Physicians play a vital role in the early diagnosis and treatment of TB patients. They must be aware of the approved
technologies for TB diagnosis and appropriate TB treatment regimens Studies have reported poor prescription practices among physicians.
This is a major concern and threat for development of drug resistance and mortality in TB patients. Physicians have to be educated and
appraised about the evidence-based approach in diagnosis, treatment and public health standards in the management of TB. ICMR-NIRT
is offeringan online course for Physicians on TB. Manage TBis an online course designed to provide basic information about TB and its
management. The participants will be provided with an overview of the extent of the TB burden globally and nationally, its pathogenesis,
diagnostic modalities, treatment regimens, prevention strategies and efforts towards TB elimination. National and International guidelines
will be elaborated on and new TB drugs, vaccines and diagnostics will be introduced. We expect this course to be very useful to Physicians
in their day-to-day practice in diagnosing and treating TB patients according to recommended standards.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

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COURSE PLAN :
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 ACCREDITATION AND OUTCOME
BASED LEARNING

PROF. ANUP KUMAR RAY (RETD.)

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
IIT Kharagpur
PROF. SHYAMAL KUMAR DAS MANDAL
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
IIT Kharagpur

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any Interested Learners

COURSE OUTLINE :
Globalization, changing demographics and technological advancements are some of the key driving forces of the future. Our students
will have to be prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities brought about by these forces. In Twenty-first Century
Learning, students use educational technologies to apply knowledge to new situations, analyze information, collaborate, solve
problems, and make decisions. Twenty-first century education structured should be outcome based which developed certain critical
core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving, self learning. The curriculum should
incorporates higher order thinking skills, multiple intelligences, technology and multimedia, communication skill and self learning
methodology along with authenticated scientific assessments and evaluation. Curriculum should provide direction so that student can
learn by themselves and work both independently and interdependently. The curriculum and instruction are designed to challenge all
students, and provides for differentiation. So the curriculum is not a syllabus or textbook-driven or fragmented, it should be set of
Specific, Measurable, Appropriate, Challenging but Achievable educational objective or Skills (outcome) which students will be
acquire at the end. Evaluation of student achievement can be made more valid and reliable as the benchmark of achievements is
explicitly stated.The course equips the learner with the tools and techniques for effective teaching and hand on practices through
specially designed software with appropriate pedagogic framework for design outcome based curricula. Course outcome
• Identify and write down the outcome based course, module and unit objectives based on Bloom Taxonomy
• Develop appropriate test items for all outcome based objectives for both summative and formative evaluation.
• Plan an outcome-based curriculum document to meet NBA and Washington Accord requirements.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Anup Kumar Ray did his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University and
PhD from Essex, UK. He has more than 45 years of teaching and research experience in the Industry and academic
institutions in India and abroad. He has served as a Faculty member of TTTI Chandigarh, IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur
spanning a period of more than 36 years. He was an expert member of/advisor to numerous regional, national, international
committees/organizations and played a significant role in in getting the Educational Technology recognized as a Thrust area by the
Planning Commission in 1986 and persuading MHRD to include it as key policy tool in the National Policy on Education -1986.

Prof. S K. Das Mandal was born on October 1975; He received the B.E degree in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering in
1998 and Ph.D degree in 2007 from Jadavpur University, India and currently working in Indian institute of Technology Kharagpur as
an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and computer
assisted spoken language acquisition.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Graduate attribute and accreditation (Washington Accord, NBA etc.)
Week 2: Introduction to Outcome based Learning
Week 3: Taxonomies and Instructional Objectives
Week 4: Assessment and Evaluationb
Week 5: ICT for Assessment and Evaluation
Week 6: Outcome-based Curriculum Design framework
Week 7: Outcome-based Curriculum Design
Week 8: Mapping of outcome based curriculum with Graduate attribute,Outcome-based Curriculum
Design framework,Learning style and learning approaches,What is good teaching and its
Attributes,Good teaching practices

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 CANNING TECHNOLOGY, VALUE ADDITION
OF SEAFOOD (FISH PROCESSING)

PROF. ABHILASH SASIDHARAN

Department of Fish Processing Technology
KUFOS Panangad
PROF. MAYA RAMAN
Department of Fish Processing Technology
KUFOS Panangad

PRE-REQUISITES : Diploma/ Degree in basic science or Food Science

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students, Researchers and Industrialists

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Food and Fish Processing Industries

COURSE OUTLINE :
The course will provide a comprehensive knowledge on the concepts of canning technology, types of cans, machinery, canning
process and quality issues. This will also give insights on thermal process calculations. Various value added food products and
its quality management will also be covered in this course.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Abhilash Sasidharan , Currently working as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Fish ProcessingTechnology ,
completed his graduation in BSc. Industrial Fish and Fisheries St. Albert's College, Ernakulam and his post graduation in MSc.
Industrial Fisheries from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He did his Ph.D. in Seafood Waste Management under
the Faculty of Marine Sciences, CUSAT. He has received the Young Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science &
Technology, Government of India, New Delhi. He has also served as the State Coordinator & Thematic Expert ( Fisheries) of
Reliance Foundation Information Services, Kerala and as founder Director, Green Allies Organics Pvt. Ltd. He has also worked
in different R&D positions at Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin. His subject interest areas include seafood
waste management and valorization, seafood product & byproducts development and RTE food products development and
process standardization.
Prof.Maya Raman , Currently, working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology ,Graduated
with Masters in Industrial Fisheries and Ph.D. Degree from School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science and
Technology, India. Thereafter, worked as post-doctoral fellow at Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Centre for Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, Lund University with the scholarship from Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows Lot 15
Programme. Also worked as Women Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology Madras with the Women Scientist Scheme
(WOS-A) Funding by Department of Science and Technology, India. Also worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of
Food Science and Technology, School of Biosciences, MACFAST for a period of 4 years. She has also won several awards.
Her area of expertise includes food chemistry, processing and packaging technology; nutrition and health (cancer), marine
bioactive compounds, molecular modelling and dynamics, gut simulation techniques, drug encapsulation, hydrogels.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction & the concept of Canning Technology and History of Canning Technology
Week 2: Containers used for canning and their properties
Week 3: The Canning Process and Thermal process calculations
Week 4: Bacteriology of canning and Defects and spoilage in canning
Week 5: Canning procedure for various seafood products
Week 6: Standards for canning operations
Week 7: Value Addition in thermally processed seafood products
Week 8: Quality Standards for Seafood Value Added Products

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 FOOD PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY

PROF. MAYA RAMAN

Department of Fish Processing Technology
KUFOS Panangad
PROF. JENNY ANN JOHN
Department of Fish Processing Technology
KUFOS Panangad

PRE-REQUISITES : Diploma/ Degree in basic science or Food Science

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students, Researchers and Industrialists
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Packaging Industries and Food Industries

COURSE OUTLINE :
Food is a highly perishable commodity hand need a suitable packaging for extending the shelf life and preserving
the nutritional quality. In this course, the various types of packaging materials and its properties and applications
will be covered. The course will also cover the regulations and standards associated with it.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof.Maya Raman , Currently, working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and
Technology ,Graduated with Masters in Industrial Fisheries and Ph.D. Degree from School of Industrial Fisheries,
Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. Thereafter, worked as post-doctoral fellow at Applied Nutrition
and Food Chemistry, Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University with the scholarship from
Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows Lot 15 Programme. Also worked as Women Scientist at Indian
Institute of Technology Madras with the Women Scientist Scheme
(WOS-A) Funding by Department of Science and Technology, India. Also worked as Assistant Professor in the
Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Biosciences, MACFAST for a period of 4 years. She has
also won several awards. Her area of expertise includes food chemistry, processing and packaging technology;
nutrition and health (cancer), marine bioactive compounds, molecular modelling and dynamics, gut simulation
techniques, drug encapsulation, hydrogels.
Prof. Jenny Ann John , Currently, working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and
Technology, Graduated with Masters in Food Technology from G.B. Pant Agricultural University, Pantnagar,
Uttarakhand with ICAR-JRF scholarship. P.G. Diploma in Food Analysis and Quality Assurance from Defence Food
Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore. Completed her Ph.D. (Dairy Technology) from National Dairy Research
Institute (NDRI), Karnal and thereafter worked for five years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Food Science
section, Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University, Canada. She has also worked as Assistant Professor
(on contract) in the Department of Food Science and Technology, KUFOS, Panangad, for a period of two years
before joining as a permanent Faculty. Her research interest includes extraction and analyses of bioactive
compounds from different agricultural and food products. She has also worked on decontamination of pesticides
from fruits and vegetables. Her research focus includes nutraceuticals and functional foods.

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COURSE PLAN :
Module 1:
• Introduction of Food packaging
• Need of food packaging
• Role of packaging in extending shelf life of foods.
• Introduction of packaging materials, Types of packaging materials their characteristics and uses.
• Use of paper as a packaging material-Pulping, Fibrillation, Beating, Types of papers ,Testing methods.
• Use of glass as a packaging material-Composition, Properties, Types, Methods of bottle making.
• Use of metals as a packaging material-Tinplate containers, Tinning process, Components of tinplate, Tin
free steel (TFS), Types of cans, Aluminium containers, Lacquers.
• Use of plastics as a packaging material-Types of plastics, Plastic films, laminated plastic materials, Flexible
film and container manufacture.

Module 2:
• Food packaging systems, product characteristics and package requirements.
• Introduction of food packaging system.
• Different forms of packaging.
• Rigid, semi-rigid, flexible forms of packaging.
• Different packaging system for-Dehydrated foods, Frozen foods, Dairy products, Fresh fruits, Vegetables,
Meat, Poultry, Sea foods, beverages, microwave food products

Module 3:
• Designing of package materials.
• Testing of package materials.
• Testing of package performance.
• Principles in the development of safe and protective packing.
• Transport worthiness tests
• Safety aspects/assessment of food packaging materials

Module 4:
• Package accessories and advances in Packaging Technology-Introduction, Active packaging, Modified
atmosphere packaging, Aseptic packaging, Biodegradable plastics, Edible gums, Coatings.

Module 5:
• Packaging equipment and machinery- Vacuum packaging machine, CA & MA packaging machine,
Gas packaging machine, Seal and shrink-packaging machine. Form & fill sealing machine, Aseptic
packaging systems, Retort pouches, bottling machines, Carton making machines, Package printing
machines.

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 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM - INTERPRETATION
AND APPLICATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

MULTI-FACULTY

PRE-REQUISITES : Medical and Paramedical – Students & Faculty.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Health care centres and Hospitals; Medical, Dental, Paramedical colleges – National
and International; Research centres – National and international.
COURSE OUTLINE :

Electrocardiogram, a hallmark investigation even in modern days, has its utmost importance in day to day
clinical practice. The knowledge about electrocardiogram is extensive ranging from the genesis and physiology
behind it to the deviations. It is crucial to have an extensive knowledge of ECG for clinical practice and research
and it requires deliberate practice and expertise. The knowledge of ECG is important to all medical,
paramedical fraternity and research scholars, hence a learning module on the interpretation and application of
ECG in clinical practice is the need of the hour. In this training module, we are going to walk you all through the
basics of ECG, techniques on recording and also about the interpretation of ECG in many clinical scenarios with
more practical illustrations. This could make reading and interpreting ECG facile and apprehensible.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

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COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Physiological principles – ECG basics
Week 2: Pathology
Week 3: General Medicine – Identifying dysarrythmias (With case scenarios)
Week 4: Cardiology – ECG application (With case scenarios)

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 TEACHING AND LEARNING IN GENERAL
PROGRAMS: TALG

PROF N J RAO
Department of Management Studies
IISc Bangalore

PRE-REQUISITES : PG Degree in any HSS

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Working and aspiring teachers of General Program ( BA, B.Sc, B.Com)
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : Educational Institutions, Corporate Training

COURSE OUTLINE :
The quality of Teaching And Learning in General Programs (Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences)
(TALG) has come to be an important issue in India to all stakeholders including teachers, students,
parents, Managements, Universities, UGC, AICTE, NAAC and Employers. Undergraduate programs of
three or four year duration are offered in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. 40,000 Degree
Colleges provide most of the graduate level workforce to Government and Private Organizations in
India. The quality of learning of their graduates will make a major difference to the wealth generating and
service providing abilities of these organizations. Courses in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences
(nearly 30 credits out of 160 credits) are also offered in all undergraduate engineering programs in more
than 4000 higher education institutions. The quality of learning of the graduates of these programs
determines the quality of their placements. While there has been significant increase in the last few
decades in our understanding of how people learn, there has not been much intersection of this
knowledge with the instructional practices at institutions of higher learning. The dominant instructional
method still remains lecturing/one-way information transfer. Employers, Regulatory Bodies and
Accreditation Agencies in India want the graduates attain a set of Program Outcomes (knowledge, skills
and attitudes) to be identified by the Institutions offering the General Programs. These Program
Outcomes need to be discipline agnostic. The curriculum of a program decides the nature of learning
experiences including the courses, projects, field work, internships, and co-curricular and extra-curricular
activities. The focus on students attaining a certain set of outcomes requires a shift from teacher centric
approach to student centric instruction. While good teachers, in any era or in any part of the world, were
and are always student centric in their approach the process of designing and conducting a course
remained informal in nature. The contexts of instruction including quality and background of students,
teacher expertise, physical environment and the system in which instruction takes place, available
resources, regulatory and accreditation mechanisms, and assessment and evaluation mechanisms are
extremely varied. There is no unique method that leads to good learning in all contexts. The course
TALG addresses many of the common issues of teaching and learning in Humanities, Social Sciences
and Sciences Courses in the Indian context and tries to provide a complete solution to the process of
design and conduct of a general course leaving all the academic freedom the teacher wants to have.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. N.J. Rao ,Previously the Chairman of CEDT (Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, IISc
during 1981 1996, and Chairman, Department of Management Studies during 1998 2006, and
superannuated as Professor at CEDT in July 2006. Presently a Consulting Professor at International
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore, a member of several committees associated with
NBA, and a member of the Core Committee that defined the new Accreditation processes of NAAC.
Research areas included Control Systems and System Dynamics. Present research interests include
higher education, pedagogy and education technologies, particularly assessment and metacognition.
Presently working with Department of Higher Education, Kerala for improving quality of learning in
Higher Education Degree Colleges, and several engineering colleges for curriculum design, pedagogy
and quality of learning. Has designed and has been conducting a wide range of faculty development
programs on NBA Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Course Design, OBE, and Assessment. Offered
MOOC programs TALE (Teaching and Learning in Engineering) and TALG (Teaching and Learning in
General Programs) through NPTEL.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: OBE and Accreditation
Week 2: Outcomes and Cognition
Week 3: Knowledge Categories, and Affective and Psychomotor Domains
Week 4: Course Outcomes

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 TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION FOR ENGINEERS

PROF. ARUN K. SARAF

Department of Earth Sciences
IIT Roorkee

PRE-REQUISITES : Current students of engineering, post graduate science students and PhD students should have basic
knowledge of English and computers

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Under and post-graduate engineering, post graduate and doctoral students
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Technical Communication skills are useful for every student / all types of professionals

COURSE OUTLINE :

The proposed course provides comprehensive understanding about Technical Communication abilities and its applications for
Engineering and Science students and professionals. All aspects starting from Introduction to Plagiarism would be deliberated in this
course. Further, in the proposed course several modern methods of technical communications would also be discussed.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Arun K. Saraf is Ph. D. (Remote Sensing) from University of Dundee, United Kingdom. Presently he is working as Professor (High
Academic Grade at Level-15, Sub-level-08) in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee since
December 1989, and teaches courses on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Digital Elevation Models and
Applications, Digital Image Processing of Satellite Data, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Geomorphology, Advanced Technical
Communication etc. and teaching to under- and post-graduate students of Integrated M. Tech. (Geological Technology) and MSc
(Applied Geology) respectively. He was also been Head of Department of Earth Sciences between Jan. 2012 – Feb. 2015. He was first in
the country to introduce GIS course to post-graduate students in the year 1990. In 1986, he was awarded “National Fellowship to Study
Abroad” by Govt. of India for his doctoral degree. Further, in 1993 he was awarded “Indo-US S&T Fellowship” and worked in Goddard
Space Flight Centre, NASA, USA for Post-Doctoral Research. He has been also awarded “National Remote Sensing Award-2001” by
Indian Society of Remote Sensing and “GIS Professional of the Year Award- 2001” by Map India 2002 for his outstanding research
contributions in the fields of Remote Sensing and GIS. Earlier, he has also been given Khosla Research Awards and Prizes by then
University of Roorkee. For four consecutive years, he as Star Performer in IITR. Three times he has also been awarded Indian National
Science Academy (INSA) Bilateral Exchange Fellowships. So far Prof. Saraf has published more than 100 research papers in journals of
repute (ISI) and supervised 15 Ph.Ds. Between 2003-2015, he was also Associate Editor of International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Through funding from DST, Min. of Earth Sciences, CSIR, Prof. Saraf has been able to establish and operating NOAA-HRPT Satellite Earth
Station at IITR since Oct. 2002, first in any educational institute in the country. Recently, Prof. Saraf has conducted five online video
courses (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Introduction to Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing of Remote Sensing
Data, Digital Elevation Models and Applications, Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing of Satellite Data and Global Navigation
Satellite Systems), under NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) (a project funded by MHRD, Govt. of India).
Recently, Prof. Saraf has been recognized among Top 2% Scientists of the World (based on analysis done by Stanford University, USA).
His research work in the fields of remote sensing and GIS and its applications in groundwater, earthquakes, fog etc. has earned him
very high citation

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1:

Introduction to Technical Communication

Title and an abstract
An abstract vs extended abstract
Keywords and Introduction sections
Background and review work

Week 2:

Data inputs and methods

Results and discussion
Conclusions and acknowledgement
Letters, Email, SMS and Whatsapp message
Key components of a chart and types of plots -01

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Week 3:
• Key components of a chart and types of plots - 02
• Tables and Captions
• Key elements of a map figure
• Power Point Presentations1
• Power Point Presentations2

Week 4:
• Power Point Presentations-3
• Project Proposals
• References and bibliography
• What is Plagiarism-01
• What is Plagiarism-02

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 MAKING LEARNING ENGAGING THROUGH
INTERACTIVE GAMES

PROF. KARTIC VAIDYANATHAN

Department of Applied Mechanics – Guest Faculty
IIT Madras

PRE-REQUISITES : Anyone who has completed senior secondary school (Class 10) can take up this course

INTENDED AUDIENCE : The intended audience includes teachers from middle school onwards up to PG
faculty in colleges. Another section includes students who have done class 10 and above until PG students.
This course is about making teaching interesting using games and both teacher and learner have roles to
understand and contribute to this process. Hence teacher-student combinations would also hugely benefit from
this course.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Gamification is increasingly becoming popular and adopted in many industries. This course can
help get the learner get foundation of concepts in building gamified training materials.

COURSE OUTLINE :

In an era where engagement and interactivity are key to effective learning and productivity, our proposed Massive Open Online Course
(MOOC) on "Games and Gamification for Learning" aims to revolutionize traditional education. This course is designed to provide a
comprehensive understanding of how game principles and gamification strategies can be leveraged to enhance educational
experiences in classrooms.

The course's primary purpose is to equip educators with the tools and techniques needed to integrate game-based learning and
gamification techniques into their teaching and training methodologies. By embracing the principles of play, competition, and rewards,
participants will learn to create dynamic, immersive learning environments that captivate audiences and drive meaningful outcomes.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Kartic Vaidyanathan is the founder of LetsPlayToLearn www.letsplaytolearn.com , an initiative that enables joyful learning through
the power of play for corporates and educational institutions. The play-based solution offerings span across industry segments and
domains and across multiple levels of the organization. He also conducts workshops for corporates and FDPs for educational institutions
on tools and techniques for gamified interactive learning.

He has published 2 research papers on Play/Game-Based Learning for NTSC in Dec 2018 and in FOL (Future of Learning Conference) in
Jan 2019 and was invited to present at the MASAGA (Malaysian Gaming Conference) in Sept 2019. He has been teaching a course at IIT
Madras called “Let Us Play to Learn” to help students build games for engineering subjects. He also has done several FDPs across
educational institutions training more than 5000 faculty + students across several institutions over the last few years

He has authored a book “Power of Play in Audience Engagement”

He graduated from IIT Madras in 1996 and completed his exec MBA in IIM Bangalore in 2009

COURSE PLAN :

Week 1: INTRODUCTION and MAKING A CASE FOR INTERACTIVITY

Need for interactive gamified learning.
Learnings from the Master Class titled Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" by Prof Eric Mazur
Understanding Play and its context in learning in the 21st century
Benefits of Game-Based Learning - Scientific Evidence
Learning Stoichiometry calculations using board game - Case Study
Benefits of Game-Based Learning across age groups and subjects
Benefits of Puzzle Games
Game-Based Learning - Adoption by Countries - Overview
Yu Kai Chow - Psychology of Gamification

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Week 2: BOARD and CARD GAMES
Board/Card Game Activity Game Sources
Board_Card_Game_Mechanics_Across_Subjects - Part 1
Board_Card_Game_Mechanics_Across_Subjects - Part 2
Game Play of UNO adaptation
How Play/Game Mechanics Enhance Learning in the UNO Game
Tools for building Board/Card Games - Snake and Ladder
Sample Games Created Inspired by Snake and Ladder Mechanics
Sample Card Games Created Across Subjects and Different Mechanics by Students
Tools for building Bingo Games
Puzzle Game Design Tools

Week 3: DIGITAL GAMES

Mentimeter
Quizizz
Wordwall
GIMKIT - Part 1
GIMKIT - Continued
Raptivity Digital Tool Demo
Example scenarios of student and faculty-created digital games across topics

Week 4: PRACTITIONER INTERVIEWS

Prof Preeti Aghalayam (UG/PG - Chemical Engineering)
Prof Anuradha Prashant (UG/PG - Marketing Management)
Prof Ankur Gera (UG - Pharma)
Prof GK Suraish Kumar (UG/PG - BioTech Engg
Prof Jacey (UG - CS and IT)
Prof Kirupa(PSG - Management)
Prof Silviana Falcon (Management)

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 DESIGNING LEARNER-CENTRIC E-LEARNING
IN STEM DISCIPLINES

PROF. SAHANA MURTHY

Department of Multidisciplinary
IIT Bombay

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Teachers, students of any discipline, E-learning industry professionals.

INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : E-learning companies

COURSE OUTLINE :
Instructional designers today have tremendous access to a variety of technology tools while designing
e-learning. An important role for instructional designers is to integrate effective pedagogical strategies
to promote students’ engagement and learning. This course focuses on learner-centric principles and
practices in the design of e-learning in STEM disciplines. Effective strategies and processes based on
research from the learning sciences and educational technology will be discussed. Course participants
will explore the application of e-learning design in various STEM topics in K-12 and higher education.
The course will expose participants to some examples of basic and advanced technologies involved in
designing e-learning.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Sahana Murthy is Professor in the Educational Technology interdisciplinary program at IIT Bombay.
Her research interest is in developing students' problem-solving, design thinking and inquiry practices in
STEM domains via interactive technology enhanced learning environments. Another area of focus is
Teacher Use of Educational Technologies, which has led to the design of models and large-scale
professional development workshops for for instructors. One such model, the learner-centric MOOC
(LCM) model has formed the basis for several online and blended courses on NPTEL and IITBombayX
platforms. Before joining IIT Bombay, she was a post-doctoral researcher in Physics Education Research
at Rutgers University and MIT, USA. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai,
Master’s degree in physics from IIT Bombay, and PhD in physics from Rutgers University.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Overview of Learner-centric Approach in e-learning
Week 2: Pedagogical Design: Learner Engagement and Active Learning
Week 3: Pedagogical Design: Conceptual Understanding and Learner Connect
Week 4: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy and Learner Experience

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 INTELLIGENT FEEDBACK AND CONTROL

PROF. LEENA VACHHANI

Department of Systems & Control Engineering
IIT Bombay

PRE-REQUISITES : Control engineering topics covering transfer function, state-space model and stability

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Community interested in learning advanced control design concepts with strong basis in practical
problems.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Control and automation, process, automobile, robotics

COURSE OUTLINE :

In practice, achieving 100% control objective is not the aim and allows bandwidth to achieve multiple objectives using well-known PID
controller design. However, it is important to understand where is the possibility of satisfying control objectives using PID control. The
course connects modern control techniques with the classical PID control approach wherever possible. This approach recognizes the
strength of PID control design and suggests that it should be the preferred choice when the control objectives are not overly stringent.
The systematic approach of learning applicability and limitations of PID control and their advanced variants through this course makes it
beneficial for the students/professionals developing controllers for practical applications.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Leena Vachhani is a professor at the Systems and Control Engineering Group of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai,
India. She has been affiliated with IIT Bombay since Dec 2009. She has contributed in the areas of embedded control and robotic
applications that include topics on multi-agent mapping, exploration, patrolling, and coverage. She has developed laboratories on
embedded control systems, and autonomous robots & multi-agent systems (ARMS) with unique concepts. Her current research interests
are perception modeling for single and multi-agent applications, edge computing for IoT, and multi-agent applications for IoT framework.
She is currently leading the activity of establishing the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) at IIT Bombay under the National Mission on
Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (NM-ICPS).

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Standard approach for practical controller design: PID structure and tuning methods; when to apply which tuning method.

Week 2: Conventional practical controller design for complex systems: The emphasis is to simplify the system model using standard
methods of decoupling. The emphasis is to simplify the system model using standard methods of decoupling for designing PID
controllers with feasible control objectives.

Week 3: Feedback and Control design for large-scale system: Controller designs for simplified and minimized system models

Week 4: Machine learning method for PID tuning: Data-driven methods for PID tuning, especially when the system is unmodeled

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 ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING : A
HOLISTIC APPROACH

PROF. SUMANA SAMANTA

Department of Community Medicine
IIT Kharagpur
PROF. PARMESHWAR SATPATHY
Department of Community Medicine
IIT Kharagpur

PRE-REQUISITES : Graduate degree in any health science discipline or allied discipline

INTENDED AUDIENCE : PG students in Community Medicine, Students from Health and Allied Disciplines, Nursing students,
Researchers working in food sciences, Fitness coaches, Public Health Professionals, Health and Nutrition Professionals,
Professionals of Developmental
Institutions and IITs, Frontline health workers, Families having adolescent as family member etc.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : NGOs working in healthsector, public healthorganizations, Health service sector of state and central governments (It
will be beneficial for the Medical Officers and frontline health workers who are involved in Public Health system).

COURSE OUTLINE :
Adolescence is a significant transformative phase in the development of an individual. The current generation of Adolescents is growing up at a
time of unprecedented change in Food Environments and Technology. Regular physical activity has a major role in holistic development of an
individual. Not only the physical health but also catering to the mental health of Adolescents is equally important. As we are in the growing phase of
innovations and technology, there is a real place for Adolescent’s immunisation.
Adolescence is a unique period of nutritional vulnerability. Even if the nutritional problems of micronutrient deficiency and undernutrition persist,
overweight and obesity are increasing rapidly. Nutritional status in adolescent development extends beyond musculoskeletal growth to
cardiorespiratory fitness, neurodevelopment and immunity. High rates of early Adolescent pregnancy in many countries hampers the growth and
nutrition of female Adolescents, which affect the nutritional status of next generation.
Adolescence is a critical point of intervention for current, future and intergenerational health. Based on this thought, our course will provide a basic
concept of nutrition and wellbeing, normal physiology and metabolic demands of Adolescents, special needs of this age group, high risk behaviours
among Adolescents, behavioral modifications to acquire healthy habits and a guide to get optimum growth and development during this period. It
will encompass a holistic care of Adolescent age group.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Sumana Samanta is a Medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. She is a Public Health Specialist who works mainly on maternal & child health,
communicable & noncommunicable diseases, evaluation of National Health Programs. Her research area of interest is Nutritional Intervention in
Health Promotion and Prevention of Diseases.
Prof. Parmeshwar Satpathy is a Medical faculty at IIT Kharagpur. He is a Public Health Specialist who works in the domains of Risk
Communication, Non-communicable diseases, Mental health and Qualitative research. His research areas of interest are Adolescent Health, Health
promotion, Digital Health and Medical Education

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Foundation of Nutrition and Wellbeing in Adolescence
Lecture 1: Adolescent Health Statistics
Lecture 2: Introduction to Nutrition and Dietetics
Lecture 3: Role of Macronutrients
Lecture 4: Role of Micronutrients
Lecture 5: Basics of Adolescent Mental Health

Week 2: Special Requirements during Adolescence

Lecture 6: Physiological and Psychological changes during Adolescence
Lecture 7: Special nutritional requirements during Adolescence
Lecture 8: Malnutrition during Adolescence and their effects in later life
Lecture 9: Adolescent Immunization
Lecture 10: High risk behaviours in Adolescents

Week 3: A Comprehensive Guide for Nutritional Support during Adolescence

Lecture 11: Nutrition Care Process
Lecture 12: Dietary Counselling and Nutritional planning
Lecture 13: Common Micronutrient Deficiency in Adolescents
Lecture 14: Eating-disorders in Adolescents
Lecture 15: National Initiatives related to Adolescents

Week 4: Behavior Modification for Weight Management and Wellbeing

Lecture 16: Behavior modification for Weight management
Lecture 17: Adolescents and Physical Activity
Lecture 18: Combating Special Situations
Lecture 19: Legislations for Adolescents
Lecture 20: Innovations for Holistic Wellbeing of Adolescents

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