Virtual Labs | IIT ROORKEE

I am very excited to share with you some of the highlights from Bootcamp 3.0. An online boot camp is a virtual training program that offers an intensive and immersive learning experience. These boot camps are designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in a particular field of industry.

Online Bootcamps typically feature a combination of lectures, projects, and assessments, delivered through a variety of online platforms and tools.

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1. Flexibility: online boot camps allow participants to learn from anywhere in the world, at their own pace and on their own schedule.

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Online boot camps have emerged as a popular and effective way for individuals to gain skills and advance their careers. With the rise of remote work or Work from home(WFH) and digital learning, online boot camps offer a flexible and accessible way to acquire in-demand skills and knowledge, without the need for in-person or traditional academic programs.

Bootcamp 3.0 was organized from Virtual Labs IIT Roorkee dated November 1st, 2022 to January 31st, 2023. There were two participating institutes GNDEC, Ludhiana, and the COT, Pantnagar. With the collaboration of the IIT Virtual lab team and all the participants, we have developed the Basic Electrical Science lab consisting of 10 experiments.

From the Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team there were 3 members involved in the boot camp and from the GNDEC, Ludhiana there were 6 participants and from COT, Pantnagar there were 2 participants.

Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team:

1. Rajeev Kumar (SRF, Electrical engineering)

2. Piyush Rawat (Project Associate)

3. Rahul Saini (Project Associate)

GNDEC, Ludhiana Participants:

1. Raghav jit

2. Ekuspreet singh

3. Amrinder singh

4. Sangam arora

5. Nishant Khanna

6. Chandanbir singh

COT, Pantnagar Participants:

1. Shalu rani

2. Sneha bisht

Timeline

During the first week of our Bootcamp, we had a small welcome session with the instructors and the participants where we showcase an overview of the curriculum and expectations of the program. During the first week, we were more focused on team-building activities to help each and every participant get to know their fellow participants and also help them build their soft skills. Then, later on, the task was assigned to the students to evaluate their technical skills. Based on the evaluation, we divided all the students into three teams:

TEAM 1: Front-end team

TEAM 2: Back-end team

TEAM 3: Developed a basic Template and Provided the needed content

The development of the experiments started in a stepwise manner which includes the below steps::

Plan the structure -> Design the user interface -> Develop the Back end part-> Merging the front end with the back end -> Test the experiment -> Refine and improve the experiment(Updation part)

We focused on the theme of our experiments and we had an amazing lineup of talented experts in the electrical department as well as in the Computer science department who shared their insights and expertise on the topic. The sessions were very informative and inspiring. Our boot camp program covers front-end and back-end development, and deployment of the final product.

Fig. 1 Participants attending the meeting.

Throughout the 12-week program, students/participants will have access to a variety of learning resources including Coding exercises, projects, and assessments. They also received feedback and support from experienced instructors and a community of peers.

The program was designed in such a way that it allows all the participants to learn at their own speed. However, weekly milestones and assessments are provided to ensure that all the students stay on track and make progress toward their goals.

At the end of the boot camp, participants will have the skills and portfolio to pursue a career as a Software developer. They also received a certificate of completion to showcase their achievement.

These projects were designed to help the students apply what they have learned and gain practical experience in their field of interest.

Some of the topics covered included :

1. Github, Html, CSS, and Javascript

2. Deployment and scaling

Furthermore, when we were starting our second week the students got to connect with each other and build meaningful relationships with each other. We believe that one of the most valuable aspects of this boot camp is the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and a supportive group. We kicked off the second week with a series of interactive sessions on the coding basics.

Now, till now all the students were familiar with the theme of the experiments so our main focus shifted to the backend part of the experiments.

Fig 2: Participator demonstrating the experiment in the final meeting

During the third and fourth weeks of the Bootcamp, we started working on refining our ideas (updation of our experiment) so we take the full week to update any pending thing we left.

Fig 3:Demonstration of the Two wattmeter method experiment

Below are some of the screenshots of the final product::

Fig 4: Participants explaining the workflow of the experiment

Fig 5: Participants discussing the experiments

Fig 6: Workflow of the KVL experiment

On the final day of the bootcamp, we held our pitch day event. All the participants presented their Final projects to prof. R.S. Anand and to our team. All were impressed by the creativity of the project and finally, we end the day and the meeting with good wishes from our prof. R.S. Anand.

fig. 1 Bootcamp 2.0

The main objective of the bootcamp is to develop new experiments related to identified gap areas as per the AICTE curriculum.

It also help students to increase their knowledge and to up-skill, to expose to resources, to generate ideas, and to network.

Currently, labs have been developed by participating institutes in accordance with the various syllabi across different universities. However, there are some gap areas, many labs do not fully cover with the curriculum of a particular technical course prescribed by the university.

In order to fill the gap areas, each participating institute is aiming to engage the local nodal center's and carry out the syllabus mapping exercise based on identified gap areas in the respect domains.

These gaps are proposed to be filled by developing additional experiments. In this process is meant to involve Regional nodal center's (RNCs), Nodal center's (NCs) and participating institutes are being involved together to achieve the above task.

The Bootcamp 2.0 was organized from Virtual labs IIT Roorkee dated 15th Feb 2022 - 30th Mar 2022. The whole bootcamp was divided into 6 phases. The participating institute was COER (College of Engineering Roorkee) and Nodal coordinator Anuradha of Electrical discipline was also present from her institute.

From the Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team their were 4 members involved in the bootcamp and from the COER team their were 5 Participants involved and in the end Prof. R.S. Anand addresses the participants and send them with well wishes.

Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team

Rajeev Kumar, Nipun Jain, Piyush Rawat ,Jasbir Singh

COER Team

Vansh Rohan, Anmol, Vishu and Tannu

The following are the details of the bootcamp in a weekly manner:-

Timeline

In the first week of the bootcamp, the task was assigned to the students to evaluate their technical and communication skills . It also helped them to learn and practice the basics of Lab development.

After that, the students and the experiments was divided into two teams. Below are the details of the experiments assigned to the teams.

Team Details

Team 1 : Vansh and Vishu
Team 2: Rohan, Anmol and Tannu

fig. 2 Introduction on Development Program

In the second week, the development of front end and back end of experiments started .The development of simulator was done in a step wise process started from.

Creating canvas🠆Arranging the components🠆 Writing the scripts🠆 Merging the front and backend🠆 Lastly inserting it in vlab template.

fig. 3 Demo of Development of experiments

In the third week, as the development activities was in his last stages, so the teams started working on development of supporting files like storyboard , pedagogy and lab manuals which are as important as other activities in the bootcamp.

Fig. 4 Discussion with the team members

In the fourth week, as all the development goals was achieved so the teams started deploy the experiments into lab template.

In the fifth week, presentation was given from the teams and other activities was also taking place like review and updation of lab as per the comments of domain experts.

In the sixth week, In the presence of our Prof R.S. Anand final presentation was held from both the teams where each team described their projects in detail and we also discussed about some updation that has to be made in the projects. After that the final product was submitted and distribution of certificates was also done successfully.

Fig. 5 Distribution of Certificates to Participants

5th workshop on "Virtual Labs" at Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru | Virtual Labs IIT Roorkee

Virtual lab is an initiative of Ministry of Education under the National Mission on Education through ICT. It provides a complete learning management system where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web sources, video lectures, animated demonstrations and self - evaluation. Virtual lab provides remote access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering.

The 5th workshop on “Virtual Labs” was conducted from 17th -31st January 2022 by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru in collaboration with Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee.

The objective of this workshop is

To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to first year students at the undergraduate level of ECE, CSE/CT, AE, and Mech.
To enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosity. This would help them in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation.
To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.
To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distance.

The mode of conduction of the workshop was Webex platform with YouTube live streaming. The number of Active participants for the sessions were 950 first year students and faculties of DSU.

The workshop consisted of sessions handled by eminent resource persons: Mr. Chetan Dhiman, Mr. Amit sharma, Mr. Jasbir Singh, Mr. Rajeev Kumar from IIT Roorkee and Dr. Pushpa P V, Dr. V. Revathi, Mrs. Anna Merine George, Mr. Sripad Kulkarni, Mr. Srinath R from SoE, DSU, Bangalore who shared their expertise on the topics of Virtual Labs followed by Demo of Physics, Chemistry, Basic Electronics, Basic Electrical, Aerospace basic Labs, Python Basic Lab, Digital Electronics, Mechanical Workshop related experiments.

The workshop was organized by Dr. Saara K, Nodal coordinator of Virtual labs for DSU and Mrs. Anna Merine George of ECE Department.

Students quoted

I found out that virtual labs are very resourceful than physical labs and the fact that's available 24*7 and can be numerous times is itself awesome,

It's very useful in studies and exams like CBT I liked it very much and it's easy to understand and learn Thankyou

This is very use to me to understand the things much better way we can do only by internet high quality content more knowledge gain for future use also.

This was so helpful for students who are not able to attend their physical labs and also for all students it helps in a fluent way, and it was very helpful thank you.

The demonstration of how to use virtual labs was very helpful. Virtual labs plays a major role in Today's world because of the pandemic. We can perform the experiment related to our studies in a very easy and convenient way.

4th Workshop on Virtual Labs at Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru Virtual Labs IIT Roorkee

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The 4rd workshop on “Virtual Labs” was conducted on Aug 30th – 31st 2021 and September 1st 2021 by School of Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru in collaboration with Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee.

The objective of this workshop is :

To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level of ECE, CSE/CT, AE, and Mech .

To enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosity. This would help them in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation.

To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.

To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distance.

The mode of conduction of the workshop was Webex and google meet platforms. The number of Active participants for the sessions were 445 Students from various branches of DSU.

The workshop consisted of sessions handled by eminent resource persons: Prof. R. S. Anand, Principal Institute co-ordinator, Virtual Labs, IIT Roorkee, Mr. Chetan Dhiman, Mr. Amit sharma, Ms. Priyanshi Agarwal, Mr. Jasbir Singh, Mr. Rajeev Kumar, from IIT Roorkee who shared their expertise on the topics of Virtual Labs followed by Demo of Digital Electronics, Basic Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Tools, Dynamics of Machine, Fluid Mechanics, Python Programming, Image Processing and Soft Computing Tools in Engineering related experiments on virtual labs.

The workshop was organized by Dr. Saara K, Nodal coordinator of Virtual labs for DSU, Mrs. Anna Merine George of ECE Department, Mr. Ravitej Y P of Mechanical Department, Dr. Revathi V of CSE Department and Mr. Sripad Kulkarni of AE Department.

Students quoted “Great session-it was very informative, it is very important in today's situation to switch to online virtual labs to provide greater accessibility,” “It was great attending this virtual lab as I’m working on the same topic for my projects it helped understanding the concepts and in what way we should work with those concepts”, “ Virtual lab is the future”.