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List of Presentations held on 2nd February 2012
1.NITTTR, Chennai ..................................................................................................... 1
2.E--Yantra ................................................................................................................. 13
3.IIT, Kharagpur ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26
4.Bhavnagar University, Gujarat …………………………………………………………………………. 40
5.ITBHU, Varanasi ...................................................................................................... 51
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E-Yantra
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An initiative by MHRD
www.e-yantra.org
Introduction: Project E-Yantra• Started in ERTS Lab (CSE, IITB) to teach Embedded Systems • Now prominent open source robotic platform for education
and research• 2009, MHRD project takes this nationwide through workshops,
open source content and community building
Present Team:Prof. Kavi Arya (PI), Prof. KrithiRamamritham (Co-PI)Rama Naidu, Piyush, Pawan, Akshar, Saurav and Bhuvana
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E-Yantra Project: Objectives, Status, Next StepsProject Objectives:•Create a robotic revolution in educational domain • Conduct workshops, • Deploy low cost open source robotic platform nationwide • Create course content for embedded systems & robotics
Original objectives:
1. 12 Workshops a Year2. Create Open Source Content 3. Deployment of 300 Robots 4. Website Features Development
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Status: Targets vs Achievements•Target 1: 12 workshops, train 240 participants•Achieved: 30 Workshops trained 1055 in this period• Many more workshops in pipeline
•Target 2: Create open source content•Achieved: 38 Robotics/automation projects•Manymore in pipeline
•Target 3: Deploy 300 Robots•Achieved: Order placed for 300 ROBOTS and funds committed
•Target 4: Website and features development•Achieved: Launched Q&A Portal, Moodle Portal + new site
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Funds: Year 2011- 2012Present Rs.(L)
Received: (latest round) 61.80 In March’2011
Present Balance: 3.98 As on Jan 2012
Budget needed forremaining work Rs.(L)Est. budget for Ekalavya Program 45.00Estimated Outreach (50 coll. robotic Labs) (40% E-Yantra/ 60% by beneficiary Inst.)
40.00
100 internships Programs 15.00
National level robotics competitions with E-Yantra colleges 8.00
Workshops +TA+ Equipment 10.00Total needed for next steps 118.00
Remaining Funds Requirement
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E-Yantra Web Presence Overview:
E-Yantra Portal (http://www.e-yantra.org/)• ALL project information• Students /teachers communicate via portal• 1500 registered users as on 01-01-2012• 11,000 + page views per month• 69 projects released under Creative Commons 3.0• SMS integration with students/ faculty members• Faculty members register for workshops via the portal
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E-Yantra Web Presence Overview:E-Yantra Interns (http://www.e-yantra.org/interns)Students register, answer online tests, post queries and receive guidance from E-Yantra experts related to projects and internships.
1) 11,000 page views per month2) Over 300 registered students3) 22 Students doing their internship via this portal4) 72 students receiving final year project guidance via portal
E-Yantra YouTube Channel (http://www.e-yantra.org/eyantra/)All project, competition, tutorials published on YouTube
1) 87 different videos2) 11,000 views
E-Yantra Facebook PageFor outreach and having light hearted discussionsTo keep in touch with people who come in contact with project19
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Beyond Targets
Internships / BE Projects:How do we measure the effectiveness of this program? By survey? Or a feedback? Or analytical tools?
Answer: Conversion of workshop into student projects
Workshops inspire participant to do project based on local reqs.This academic year we are helping 66 students doing their BE final year projects - aiming for 100s next year!
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Beyond TargetsE-Yantra at Robocon 2012 Event (http://www.roboconindia.com/)
•Robotic Contests (Robocons)•Offer young engineers a platform to for creative thinking•Organised by Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
+ member countries + Doordarshan (Prasarbharati)
• This year, E-Yantra invited as judge in prestigious Robotics Event
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The survey / feedback summery of workshops
31%
64%
5% 0%
Q1. THE CONTENT COVERED IN THE WORKSHOP WAS...
VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND
EASY TO UNDERSTAND
DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
NO COMMENTS
47%
51%
2%
Q2. THE CONTENT COVERED IN THE WORKSHOP WILL BE...
USEFUL TO US IN FUTURE
VERY USEFUL TO US IN FUTURE
NOT SURE 87%
0% 13%
0%
Q3. WAS THE WORKSHOP FORMAT VERY INTERACTIVE?
YES
NO
CAN BE IMPROVED
NO COMMENTS
75%
2%12%
11%
Q4. WERE THE THEORY AND PRACTICAL SESSIONS WELL BALANCED?
YES
NO
THEORY COMPONENT CAN BE INCREASED FURTHER
PRACTICAL COMPONENT CAN BE INCREASED FURTHER
89%
3% 8%0%
Q6. WILL THE CONTENT COVEREDSERVE AS EXTENDED MATERIAL TO
TEACH YOUR COURSE IN YOUR COLLEGE?
YES
NO
NOT SURE
NO COMMENTS
Detailed feedback at http://www.e-yantra.org/home/events/workshop-feedback22
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Next Steps: Discussions
Course 684 (Emb. Systems) via Ekalaya Program
1000 - 1200 faculty in one shotEvery semester.
Outreach ProgramBasic E-Yantra Labs in 50
Colleges this year
Selected Insts. get upto 40% fm E-Yantra for ROBOTICS LAB
1. Students get right tools & we build community of this open source platform
2. Today we manage 30 projects a year, with this program we expect 100s of engineers doing projects every year.
3. Number of workshops multiply, as these centers conduct at least 2 wkshp/yr
4. At cost of 1 workshop (1L), we fund a robotics lab per Institute.
1. All centers hosts 30 participants (faculty) –we have 30+ centers under EKALAVYA.
2. Each semester we train at least 1000 faculty members, based on registrations
3. To start with, we can fund all these centers / Institutions (of EKALAYA) program under “Outreach Program”.
How do we build community of this platform? How do we scale this open source platform?How do we increase number of workshops at low-cost?How to build an ecosystem?Some ideas:
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Feedback from Professors & Students
“I want all the engineering colleges of MU to start Robotics lab and encourage students to do BE final year projects in embedded systems. Thanks to E-Yantra for their guidance and content” Prof. Ukarande, DEAN IT, University of MumbaiProf. R Welukar, Vice Chancellor, MU
"It is great that the Government of India is taking so much interest in Kashmiri students" Prof. FoziaQazi, Head of Math Dept., IUST, Kashmir.
“Workshop on Robotics under the E-Yantra was success with very good response from students. It was enlightening & useful.”Prof. VivekYakkundi, Mechanical Engg at LokmanyaTilak College of Engineering , Navi Mumbai
Some Student comments on E-Yantra Facebook page
It was awesome....was not just a workshop...it was like guidance to our future which gave a more clear thought to our career..!! Thanks a lot e-Yantra team..!! ChinmayGadre
It’s rare to find People imparting knowledge which is selfless in nature...a heartiest thanks to –E- Yantra team...Madhura Joshi
Rather an amazing arrangement n an amazing experience for us..... Thanks a ton....Parth Shah
A Successful workshop and learned basics of embedded system and robotics. SwapnilShinde,
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Creating Accessible Study Material for Print Impaired Students
(Pilot Phase)
Review Meeting: February 02, 2012
Nodal Agency
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur(In collaboration with DFI, CIS and SNLTR)
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Principal Investigator:Partha Pratim ChakrabartiDean, SRIC and Professor, CSEIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Co-Principal Investigator:Anupam BasuProfessor, CSEIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Objective To solve the problem of non-availability of reading materials
for print impaired students pursuing higher educationcourses
To be achieved by converting and distributing required booksinto an accessible e-text DAISY format
The e-text content can also be used to generate text booksin Braille, large print and audio formats
The content will be saved on DVDs and distributed to allregistered Universities in India
It was decided to create about 200 DAISY books forEnglish (50), Hindi (50), Assamese (25), Bengali (25),Marathi (25) andTamil (25) languages
To generate trained manpower resource for DAISYconversion
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Project Summary
Starting date:April 01, 2010Completion date: March 31, 2011Extension till: March 31, 2012Funds received: Rs. 53.00 lakhsFunds utilised: Rs. 31.86 lakhs (As on 31.01.2012)
Committed: Rs. 8.00 lakhs
URL: http://www.cel.iitkgp.ernet.in/asm/
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Milestones / Activities1. Project Managers recruited – July 2010 – December 20112. Website launched and kept updated regularly 3. Identification of books in the different languages for
conversion – Completed 4. Contacting the Authors/Publishers for Copyright permission –
Completed5. Creation of specifications for DAISY conversion – Completed 6. Identification of agencies willing to take part in the conversion
job (through open tender) – Completed 7. Formation of details of training method – Completed8. Training at different centres for the regional languages –
Completed
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Milestones / Activities (cont.)9. Processing of Work Order for conversion in different
languages – Completed10. Procurement of books – Completed11. Conversion of books – Completed (details later)12. Formation of Quality Control procedure and Coordinators –
Completed13. Procedure for conversion of books to audio format (for
Assamese, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil) – Completed14. Conversion of sample books to full audio, full text format –
Completed15. Conversion of sample book with mathematical symbols and
equations – Completed16. Distribution to Libraries – Pending
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Conversion StatusLanguage Initial Target
Text Only / Full DAISYActual Conversion
Text Only / Full DAISY
English 50 books 50 books 52 books 52 books
Hindi 50 books 50 books 42 books 42 booksBengali 25 books 5 books 25 books 1 book
Tamil 25 books 5 books 25 books 5 books
Marathi 25 books 5 books 12 books Nil
Assamese 25 books 5 books 10 books Nil
Mathematics Nil Nil 2 books 2 booksTotal 200 books 120 books 168 books 102 books
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Approximate cost estimate for conversion of Print books to DAISY format
For full text, full audio DAISY books(All for sample books with 250 no. of pages)English: Rs. 11,000/= (Using TTS)
Hindi: Rs. 11,500/= (Using TTS)
Tamil: Rs. 24,500/= (Recorded audio)
Other languages: Rs. 26,500/= (Recorded audio)
When TTS becomes available for other regional languages, audio recording would not be needed, thereby reducing cost.
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Difficulties Faced Selection of books was done based on requirement of
print impaired students and permission sought fromCopyright holders
Response from Publishers – not favourable or notreceived in many of the cases
Permitted books – many were not available Identification of agencies for conversion – very difficult for
this type of specialised work (unicode standard) Alternative books were selected – lost time, conversion
work started very late (February 2011) Conversion – One agency could not deliver and some
were slow (low infrastructure problem) Audio conversion – Difficult to find agencies (manpower)
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Recommendations Many publishers already have digitised versions of many books Awareness among publishers may be created and required
training arranged for DAISY conversion The cost of conversion may not be very high A few competent agencies are available who may be used by
the Publishers Books may be selected based on requirement by adequate
number of students Government may take the initiative to make it mandatory for
publishers of text books to create those in DAISY format too In future, publishers may follow Epub/DAISY and Unicode
standards, to avoid need of special conversion
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Conclusion Targeted about 200 books, could assign 178 166 books completed by 31.12.2011 (in addition 2
NCERT Mathematics books with symbols, formulas, equations)
Compilation of all converted books are under progress for distribution to Libraries (to be completed by 31.03.2012)
Recommend termination of Pilot Phase by 31.03.2012
Some trained manpower resource has been generated for DAISY conversion
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Agencies for Conversion National Federation of the Blind (NFB), Guwahati for Assamese - Training
provided, order placed, books assigned, could not deliver
Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), Kolkata -Bengali and later Assamese - Training provided, order placed, books assigned, work satisfactory
National Association for the Blind (NAB), Mumbai for Marathi - Training provided, order placed, books assigned, work very slow and poor communication
Indic Institute of Typing and Other Services, Lucknow for Hindi - Training provided through e-mail and internet, order placed, books assigned, work satisfactory
RCMCT-Worth Trust Rehabilitation Centre, Chennai for English and Tamil, did not need training, order placed, books assigned, worked well
Shwaas Enterprises, Pune for Marathi - Training provided, order placed, books assigned, work slow
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Coordinators for Quality Control
Shamit Patra, IIT Kharagpur for English Sibansu Mukhopadhyay, Society for Natural Language
Technology Research (SNLTR), Kolkata for Bengali and Assamese
Dipendra Manocha, Daisy Forum of India (DFI), New Delhifor Hindi
Nirmita Narasimhan, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore for Marathi and Tamil
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Thank You
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In the project
e content development of marketing management.
Dr. J. M. BadiyaniDept. of Business Admn.,
Bhavnagar Uni., Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
Presentation for budget modification.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 Dr. J. M. Badiyani
Control no. JE – 20071011105.
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Project progress.
• On the recommendations of standing committee, in the 19th meeting of Project Approval Board on 15th march, 2011, the project is approved.
• 16th june 2011, Bhavnagar university received the letter of approval and immediately sent the undertaking to the N. M. E. I. C. T..
• On 14th october 2011, Bank account is opened and money is transferred.
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• The two subjects are of 11 and 9 chapters respectively.• Since last three and half months, tried for getting right
kind of persons for video recording and editing with animation which is not possible in small city like Bhavnagar.
• Thus, need to change my budget for getting the work outsourced.
• Second reason for changing the budget is not allocation for books in the previous budget. The thinking was to get the books from various libraries.
• However, books required on the regular frequent basis and thus, request to allocate budget for the same.
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• Out of four quadrants, three is progressed and some content is ready in o Content.o Self assessment questions.o Bibliography / webliography.
• Need to put the content on the website too for which approval for budget is required and thus requested.
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Comparison between previous approved budget and new proposed budget.
Capital expenditure.1. Laptops : instead of 3 laptops 1 is required as
working without any research associates.2. Internet data card : same is the reason, 1
required instead of 3.3. Cell phone : because of price rise and new
model arrived in the market.
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Comparison between previous approved budget and new proposed budget.
Capital expenditure.4. Printer, photocopier, scanning and fax : small
one is enough. So, less costly is required.5. Books : books were not mentioned in the
previous budget which is mentioned in the new budget.
6. Video camera : video camera is not mentioned in the previous budget.
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Comparison between previous approved budget and new proposed budget.
Revenue expenditure.1. Workshops : since online workshops require less
money, cost is reduced.2. Honorarium to PI : cost is reduced to 10 %.3. Hiring services videoshooting : As people are not
available for working as research associate, this is outsourced.
4. Hiring services video editing and animation : As people are not available for working as research associate, this is outsourced.
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Comparison between previous approved budget and new proposed budget.
Revenue expenditure.5. Website space : this is proposed in the new
budget.6. Website design : this is proposed in the new
budget.7. Travel and field work : as more money is
required in video shooting and animation, this is reduced to adjust.
8. Contingency : contingency is adjusted against total budget.
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Comparison between previous approved budget and new proposed budget.
Revenue expenditure.9. Internet connectivity : instead of 3, 1
connection required and thus, cost is reduced.
10. overhead charges : this is reduced to adjust with the total.
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Requests to the standing committee.
1. Please approve the modified proposed budget.
2. Please provide more time to complete the project.
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Thank you.
Dr. J. M. Badiyani.Dept. of Business Admn.,
Bhavnagar Uni., Bhavnagar, Gujarat.9426460369, [email protected]
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A Progress Report:Design and Development of an E-content for the subject Digital Image Processing and Machine
VisionBy
Dr. Rajeev SrivastavaAssociate Professor, Dept. of Computer Engg, ITBHU,
VaranasiEmail: [email protected]
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Work done
• Website developed for the course.• E-Content for the subject “ Digital Image
Processing and Machine Vision” developed for following parts:
1. Theory part (60%)2. Practical (100%)3. Student Projects (100%)4. Research (100%)5. References
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Contd..
• Website developed using:Java Script, PHP etc.• Requires Apache and XAMPP control running.• Theory part e-content developed using:MS-PPT converted to flash swf/flv formatVideo LecturesQuestions References
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Main Point
• Requesting extension of pilot project up to 31.3.2012.
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