5th workshop on Virtual Labs at Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru

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.