Proposal for a pilot National Mission in Education through ICT

for Large scale faculty quality enhancement with

Collaborative development of digital teaching/learning contents

Submitted to Ministry of Human Resource Development

Shastri Bhavan New Delhi

By Prof. D. B. Phatak

Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Submitted on 27 February 2009 _________________________________________________________________________

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PART-I Information relating to department/Institute

1. Name of Institute with complete address: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076.

2. Title of the Research Project: Large scale faculty quality enhancement

with Collaborative development of digital teaching/learning contents. 3. Department/Broad Area: Department of Computer Science and

Engineering. 4. Major areas of research in the Department:

Algorithms Algorithms and complexity, Combinatorics and graph theory, Geometric algorithms.

Programming languages and Compilers Theory of code optimization, Optimizing and parallelizing compilers, Analysis and implementation of functional and logic programming languages, Theory of programming languages.

Database and Information Systems Object oriented, temporal and parallel databases, Query optimization and transaction management. Real-time databases systems, indexing multidimensional data, Wide-area distributed database systems, data dissemination systems, data warehousing and database and application security.

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing Image processing, Pattern recognition and Computer vision, Intelligent systems and their applications–tutoring systems. Natural language understanding, Machine learning and Neural networks. Machine translation, Semantics Extraction, Document understanding, Cross lingual information Retrieval, Intelligent interfaces.

Software Engineering Object oriented software development, Component architectures. Re-engineering of software. Systems analysis and design, MIS systems, Project management, Quality assurance.

Formal Methods Formal specification, design and verification of hardware and software systems. Logic, automata theory and their applications in reasoning about systems. Automated theorem proving, Model checking, Reachability analysis of large and infinite state spaces: exact and approximate techniques.

Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation, fault tolerance and scalability issues in distributed systems. Distributed object-based systems, Programming models and Runtimes for generic agents, Parallel Computing, High performance cluster computing, Distributed operating systems. Self-configuration using abstract performance and capacity models of distributed component based applications, Topology based problem detection and root cause isolation in enterprise environments.

Computer Networks Performance modeling, analysis and design of wired and wireless networks. Implementation and verification of network security protocols. Deployment, data

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management, communication and energy-efficiency issues in Sensor Networks. Design of content distribution networks for data dissemination. Architectures and protocols for metro optical networks, Network algorithms, Utility and Pricing models. Quality-of-service protocols, Mobile Computing, Voice Routing, Voice over IP, RFID networks, Enterprise networks, Access and Broadband networks.

Affordable IT solutions Thin clients, smart card based payment systems, ICT for digital and financial inclusion

IT Enabled education Distance education paradigms, VSAT based synchronous lectures across multiple resource centres, creation and dissemination of digital contents in open source.

Data Mining Data integration models and algorithms, Graphical models, Information extraction and retrieval, Forecasting and smart e-business, Sensor and Bio-informatics data mining, Text and Web data mining. Integrating mining with relational DBMS, Temporal mining, Integrating mining with OLAP.

Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Image Understanding Computer-aided graphics design, Multimedia, High Performance computing, Visualization, Rendering, Animation, Image and video retrieval, motion capture, point based methods

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Functional Programming Applications, Reconfigurable computing, Automobile Telematics, Embedded control units, Design and development of robots and sensor platforms.

Formal Languages and Bio-inspired Computing DNA, Membrane and Quantum Computing, Combinatorics on Words.

5. Names & Designation of Principal Researches in the major areas and

list of publication during last 5 years based on work done in the Department:

i) Principal Investigator: Prof. Deepak B. Phatak, Subrao M Nilekani Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

ii) Co-Investigators: (a) Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Department of Chemical Engineering and Head, Centre of Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP), IIT Bombay (b) Prof. Sridhar Iyer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Bio-data enclosed as Annexure – I, also available on the Institute website.

6. Is it Inter-disciplinary Project?: No 7. Is it Inter-Institutional Project?: Yes

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8. Is any Industry/User agency participating?: AICTE, ISTE, IITs and NITs, other colleges and universities, ISRO EDUSAT centres.

9. Brief of completed and or ongoing research projects supported by

MHRD/AICTE in the Department during last 5 years: The department has participated in several important MHRD led projects in the past including the CLASS and IMPACT projects. Faculty from the department has been involved in the NPTEL initiative on a continuing basis.

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PART-II Information relating to Investigator 10. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR a. Name: Prof. Deepak. B. Phatak b. Designation: Chair-Professor, Department

of CSE., IIT Bombay

c. Age: 60 yrs

d. Educational Qualification: BE, M Tech, Ph.D.

e. Areas of specialization: Databases, Information systems

Performance evaluation, ICT

Enabled education

f. Experience (Teaching & Research): 37 years

g. Selected list of papers published : Included in annexure I

11. In case it is a joint project with other Institution, research labs and industries, name(s) of participating investigators.

Senior officials from ISTE and ISRO will provide background support.

Coordinators from ISRO centres will help conduct the workshop 12. In case industry/user agency is participating, whether a MOU has been

signed or letter of intent given. IIT Bombay has an MoU with ISRO for exclusive use of a channel 13. Present commitments of the Principal Investigator (a) Teaching 2 courses per year (b) Ph.Ds registered under him/her 1 (c) Sponsored research: 2 projects, one is nearing completion (d) Consultancy : several projects. All of these are With PSUs. The total time spent is Well within Institute time norms. 14. Other members of the Research Group to work on proposed Projects: Name and Designation:

(a) Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Department of Chemical Engineering and Head, Centre of Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP), IIT Bombay (b) Prof. Sridhar Iyer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Experience and publications Bio-data enclosed as Annexure – I, also available on the Institute website

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PART-III About Research Project 15. (a) Summary of the project (in brief) and (b) Justification, importance of project, etc. Over 3,000 Indian engineering colleges today admit about 7,00,000 students annually in undergraduate programs. More than 2.5 million students are being taught needing over 1,50,000 faculty members to teach them. A large number of faculty members, especially in disciplines of high demand like CS, IT, ELX, are only first Degree (BE) holders. They stand to benefit significantly, if assistance is provided for adding to their knowledge and understanding of at least the core courses and critical electives. This will have a huge multiplier effect for students. Efforts like NPTEL are making major contributions in this direction. Workshops and sequential summer/winter schools under QIP/CEP programs have also been vital in this respect. These need to be significantly scaled up. This proposal is being made to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to achieve strategic intervention in this critical area of faculty quality enhancement, together with the collaborative development of digital teaching/learning contents. Synchronous and asynchronous modes of learning are two important and complimentary aspects in every educational process. In particular, delivery of live interactive lectures using satellite has been an activity practiced in IIT Bombay over last eight years. This experience has resulted in a lot of refinement in technology, methodology and teaching pedagogy using this mode. A methodology has been developed and perfected to deliver the captured contents of our synchronous interaction in a usable and modifiable format to the end-recipients under the open source creative commons India license. In the context of engineering college faculty, this approach permits the teachers to modify and use such contents to suit their respective syllabi. This modifiability aspect coupled with license-free access to useful learning/teaching material in open source, are considered vital for adoption on large scale across all our engineering colleges. The EDUSAT program of ISRO offers an unprecedented opportunity to scale up these efforts. During our Golden Jubilee, our Ekalavya project, CDEEP, and QIP/CEP office together have significantly scaled up the QIP style faculty quality enhancement in science and Technology using these practices developed at IIT Bombay. The ISRO program for synchronous delivery will permit us, depending upon the number of active remote centres, to engage from 500 to 1500 teachers in one go, simultaneously across the country, for every subject. Workshops for up to 5 subjects during Summer/Winter can be conducted every year by IIT Bombay, from the selected ISRO centres. We have the potential to positively impact about 15,000 teachers in three years. The novel approach of engaging these teachers over four weeks, to develop the contents in a collaborative manner to suit the individual syllabi and examination pattern of different universities, including a substantial bank of problems and sample solutions, will ensure adoption of these open source contents for actual use. This will make a significant impact to the quality of students over the coming years. Initial funding support of Rs 1.80 Crores will permit IIT Bombay to set up and run a pilot for this program. Sum of Rs 60 Lakhs out of this budget is needed to fund the remote centres for supporting the conduct of workshop labs and tutorials of the ISTE workshop to be delivered jointly with IIT Bombay to about 1000 teachers across the country. Our project methodology has been designed after interaction

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with a large number of faculty, institutions, and universities, and after validating the main approach through the e-OUTREACH project supported by TIFAC. (c) Details of the work already done by Principal Investigator in this area : Principal investigator has extensive experience in ICT base educational process. He was involved in the CLASS project, and was the resource centre co-coordinator at IIT Bombay. He pioneered the satellite based distance education at IIT Bombay for advanced post-graduate courses in IT eight years ago. His interest in technical education is best exemplified by the fact that he spent an year long sabbatical in visiting different colleges in the country giving talks to teachers and students. He visited a total of 67 colleges and collected valuable feedback on the problems faced by educations engaged in technical education. His expertise and experience in CSE is detailed in the enclosed bio-data. 16. Total amount required for pilot:: 180 lakhs 17. (a) Recurring budget (not more than 30%) of the proposal along with item-wise

breakup (Man power, Contingency, Consumable, Travel, Miscellaneous year wise breakup.

S. No. Item Amount Lakhs

per year (pilot) Duration Total

Amount

1. Research Assistant (Manpower)

30 30

2. Contingency 5 5 3. Travel 10 10 4 Miscellaneous

(Consumables) 10 10

Total 55 55 (b) Detailed breakup of non-recurring items (with the equipment to be procured along

with cost)

S. No. Item Amount (lakhs) 1. Equipment

45

2. Collaborative creation of audio-visual and textual subject contents with a question bank and launching of a portal

20

3. Conduct of ISTE workshop at up to 30 remote centres

60

Total 125 lakhs

• no building construction is envisaged.

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18 Summary sheet (common for all the 3 schemes)

1. Name of the Institution: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Powai,

Mumbai – 400 076. 2. Title of the Project: Large scale faculty quality enhancement with

Collaborative development of digital teaching/learning contents. 3. Name of the Department: Department of Computer Science and

Engineering

4. Cost of the Project: 180 lakhs 5. Amount released earlier if any: No

6. Utilization position in respect of grants released earlier (upto-2001) for various projects (Details to be given project-wise)

(i) Fully spent: ----Not applicable------ (ii) Unspent, proposal to utilize it: -----NA------- 7. Reasons for unspent balance: ----NA-------- 8. Name of the Principal Investigator responsible for implementation of

the Project: Prof. D. B. Phatak

s/d

(NAME & SIGNATURE OF THE PRINCIAPAL INVESTIGATOR) (Prof Deepak B Phatak)

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For Office Use Only 1. Name of the Area : 2. Recommendations:

a. Approved b. Not approved c. Deferred Amount (Rs._____________ in lakhs) d. Transferred to area

3. Remarks, if any

(common for all the 3 schemes)

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19. Certificate 1. Certified (i) that the Principal Investigator is not due to retirement during the currency of this project.

(ii) that the Principal Investigator is a regular employee of this Institution. However in case he/she proceeds sabbatical/resigns/proceeds VRS etc., the Institute will ensure to replace PI by a compatible academician to ensure that without any brake whatsoever, project will be completed within the stipulated period of 2 years.

(iii) that it will be ensured that the implementation will be carried out on mission mode with no time or cost over run and we are aware that ministry will neither provide any extension of time nor additional funding.

(iv) that no over heads will be charges by the Institution for this project and all facilitation including other essential/infrastructure support like air-conditioning etc. will be provided by the Institution.

s/d Seal of the Institution Signature of Head of the Institution (Name)

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Detailed Project Report 1. Objective: The existing mechanism of upgrading faculty through QIP/ISTE workshops, conducted for 20 to 40 teachers at a time, is clearly inadequate for the large number of engineering colleges in the country. We can reach out only to a minuscule percentage of more than 1,50,000 teachers required to be engaged in the education process at this level. This project proposes a technology-based intervention for faculty quality enhancement. The proposal is unique in scalability. Up to 1000 or more teachers can be involved simultaneously in one go. Further, the proposal envisages a collaborative development of digital teaching/learning contents incorporating specific needs of teachers and students as per the syllabi and examination pattern followed at different colleges and universities. This will ensure that the contents are meaningful for each locale, and are thus likely to be adopted for actual use. These contents will be released in open source under creative common India license, which will encourage actual adoption of these contents and of the teaching methodology developed in each subject. Additionally, a teaching/learning portal will be developed and launched for each subject, which will further encourage millions of our students to remain engaged and benefit on a continued basis. The project would thus have a significant qualitative impact on the engineering education in the country on a very large scale. This methodology proposed has evolved over years of similar activity at IIT Bombay and has been recently validated through a project sponsored by TIFAC. This specific pilot proposal is to execute one complete life cycle for a subject covering all aspects of the designed methodology. The subject chosen for the pilot is “Effective teaching and learning Computer Programming’. This course is taught in all engineering/MCA colleges in the country. An estimated 7,00,000 students study this subject every year, taught by about 7000 to 10000 teachers, typically in the first year of all branches of engineering. 2. Methodology: 2.1. Preamble: Enabling faculty to handle technical education more effectively has different connotations to different people. It is interesting to ponder over views and expectations of different stakeholders of the system: the students, teachers themselves, college management, university administration, industry and business, educational thought leaders, senior government officials, political leadership, Indian society, and the global community at large. Some of the measures planned to meet these expectations may be less relevant, some others may be more difficult to implement. However, most of these would require a coordinated effort on part of all stakeholders to obtain what Dr Chidambaram famously describes as 'coherent synergy'. Briefly stated, all our component effort-engines must fire in proper synchronization for the quality-rocket of our technical education to reach the moon. Negatively stated, if any component of these efforts is below a critical threshold,

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the resultant vector may not move in the desired direction at all, and the rocket may just land in the Indian Ocean! This project attempts to address the critical subset of important issues, and adopts an approach to address these using a holistic intervention using modern technology. It uses and ICT enabled process involving both synchronous and asynchronous mode to actually reach out and engage a large number of our teachers, and through them, a much larger number of students. Indeed, actual involvement of these important stakeholders in the entire process, scaled to very large numbers using ICT, can be said to be a major contribution of the project. 2.2 Issues addressed: 2.2.1 Scale: Growth of Indian technical education sector has been unprecedented in last 25 years. Today we need to handle over 2.5 Million students studying in about 3000 colleges, (presumably) being taught by over 1,50,000 teachers. Assuming one teacher teaches a modest 3.5 courses per year (the actual load is 4 courses per year plus laboratories), we need expertise development in 5,25,000 subject-teacher pairs. 2.2.2 Educational background of teachers: A majority of teachers in our colleges are just graduates with 0 to 3 years of experience. In high-demand programs such as CS, IT and ELX, this percentage is more than 90%. There is a small percentage of teachers with postgraduate qualifications, and a miniscule percentage with Ph D. This situation is unlikely to improve significantly in less than a decade. 2.2.3 Mindset of students: Most students in all educational systems have always focussed on passing examinations with good grades. Increasingly, (at least) the engineering students believe that attending classes, tutorials, and labs are not very meaningful in achieving this main objective. Guide-books, coaching classes, and private tuitions, all of which explicitly emphasize examination oriented studies, are far more popular today. Unchanging syllabi of our university system, set patterns of examination questions papers, de-emphasize on testing problem solving abilities, are some of the reasons behind this visible mind-shift. 2.2.4 Mindset of teachers: There are wide discrepancies between the remuneration packages offered by industry and academia, which are far more glaring in the high-demand disciplines. As a result, the aspiration of joining the academia as a career is at its lowest ebb today in India. This is particularly proving to be a hindrance in attracting the academically more inclined and better performing students into the ranks of our teachers. A larger number of young teachers today are openly treating a teaching job as a temporary stepping-stone, rather than a career path. This considerably reduces their teaching effectiveness, even for whatever limited duration they are engaged in teaching. 2.2.5. Limitations of educational administrators: Most college administrators are struggling with financial limitations imposed on them. Profit making motive behind some private managements is often sited as the main reason for inadequacy of academic infrastructure. This is only partially true. Most lack the adequate resources, for example, to attract the best qualified

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teachers at double or triple the salary, or to keep their laboratories modernized by making regular investments. Since this is the direct result of regulating the fee structure, things are unlikely to change in a hurry. Often there is a lack of proper planning and timely execution, which can be corrected to some extent. Most important and relevant to current topic, it is the lack of adequate number of faculty, which often forces them to either increase the teaching load per faculty or engage visiting faculty who have no long-term commitment to the institution. In the process, they face a perpetually downward moving spiral of woes, which continues to worsen the quality metric of the institution. 2.3. Background of efforts at IIT Bombay: Since 2002, IIT Bombay has been offering courses through Distance Education program (DEP) using VSAT based live and interactive lectures to students/ teachers/ working professionals from multiple Remote Centres in the country. The Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program (CDEEP) now handles all the distance education related activity in IIT Bombay. The centre has set up studio plus classroom infrastructure for live recording and transmission of courses. Currently, there are 15 remote centres connected to IIT Bombay, who can receive live courses. So far, around 75 semester long subjects has been transmitted and more than 6000 students have received certificates from IIT Bombay through distance mode. The centre also offers Continuing Education Program (CEP) and Quality Improvement Program (QIP) through distance mode. From January 2008, IIT Bombay has started transmitting the courses live through the EDUSAT. These are accessible to about 50 Centres, which have been set up by ISRO, and more centres are planned. Each centre is in a town that typically has multiple engineering colleges located nearby. Additionally, from January 2008, CDEEP has also started live web casting of some of the courses. This web streaming is done live, as well as from a recorded version later using a web server on the internet specially set of for this purpose. There is a fee to be paid by participants if they wish to be evaluated and to get certificates from IIT Bombay. However, if anybody merely wishes to tune in to the lectures being delivered, and has a ISRO receiving station, even at home, this facility is completely free without any charge. The eOutreach project was started in May 2006 with funding from TIFAC to create and disseminate the recorded and edited audio-visual contents of these programs, These contents are created through organization of workshops, courses and nutshell lectures, and are released in Open Source for the benefit of students, teachers and professionals. The content created is available for free-download from the eoutreach website (http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/eOutreachHome.do) under the Creative Commons India license (by attribution 2.5). We examined the participation of college students in the courses transmitted by IIT, or the utilization of these contents in actual teaching of subjects in various colleges and discovered very little adoption. There is nothing wrong with the quality of courses or in their technical depth since these are regular IIT courses. We analysed the situation further to discover that the teaching learning mechanism followed in most colleges, discussed in the ext section, precludes any great usage of these efforts in the present form. 2.4. Teaching/learning of a subject in a typical engineering college: Any core or elective subject has a defined syllabus and a rigidly defined pattern of evaluation, comprising internal (quizzes, assignment, mid-semester examination, lab sessions), and external (written examination of 3 hours) examinations. It is

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common for most colleges to have about 40 hours of teaching within a semester, which includes tutorials, labs, and internal evaluation. A major part of the syllabus is very similar in most universities, being often based on AICTE/IIT/NIT syllabi. But there are non-trivial variations. The prescribed textbooks differ in many cases. What is significantly different from the IIT system is the examination and evaluation paradigm. In most systems, students have to optionally solve, say, 6 out of 10 questions. At many places, questions are repeated from older examinations. Except in some autonomous colleges, the teacher who teaches the subject neither sets the question paper nor evaluates it. Both, the students as well as teachers, have to thus necessarily depend upon the prescribed syllabus, and the set examination pattern. Since courses, lectures, workshops given by IIT faculty do not explicitly address these concerns, students, and by implication, the teachers are not interested in using these contents as primary or even secondary source for actual adoption. High quality digital contents so created will thus only add to the digital library of the colleges, their actual usage being limited to curious occasional perusal by a handful of students and teachers. An additional and important factor is that the majority of teachers have never participated in these workshops and thus have no sense of involvement which might otherwise prod them to use these somehow. 2.5. Our approach for engaging teachers and collaborative content creation. Engaging teachers and students requires that they all get something, which they perceive as being immediately useful. It is only then that they will look at other parts of the contents, which will enhance the quality of their education. Their minds need to be challenged with technical problems with graded difficulty level. This requires creation of a collaborative portal where the participation of peers and experts may shake them out of slumber. To enthuse the teachers, two mechanisms of encouragement are possible. ISTE conducts workshops for teachers, typically of one-week duration, for which the participating teachers get some point credits counted towards their promotion. There is sufficient enthusiasm amongst teachers to attend these. Additionally, if they are also involved in a collaborative manner in contributing to contents, which can be meaningfully used in their own colleges, the adoption of such contents is far more likely. To achieve the scale, We propose the use of ISRO EDUSAT, and recommend a 4-week workshop to be jointly conducted by one instructor from IIT and each of up to 30 coordinators at ISRO centres. Up to 35 teachers can participate in each of these centres, This permits 1000 teachers to be simultaneously engaged. Each participating teacher works for four weeks. Each centre coordinator works for a calendar period of 4 months devoting four weeks to the workshop coordination. The Instructor at IIT Bombay works with experts and a large team of supporting technical and administrative staff for a period of about six months. Details for conducting these workshops are outlined below: 2.6. Methodology of conducting ISTE Workshops.

i. IIT Bombay is termed the 'Subject hub'. The hub chooses expert faculty for the subject. These must be minimum two in number, supported if necessary by a few additional experts to deal with specific topics. One amongst these would be named 'instructor-in-charge' for the subject.

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ii. Choose subject coordinators at each of the ISRO remote centres (typically 30). These coordinators should have taught that subject at least a few times in the local college and should be generally familiar with the syllabus and examination pattern. These are invited to participate in a weeklong workshop at the hub. Before attending this workshop, they should collate and electronically submit the syllabus and question papers of past few years to the instructor at hub.

iii. The one-week workshop is conducted to finalize the following: (a) Definition of common syllabus to be covered.

(b) Graded coverage from simple to difficult levels for each topic and subtopic. (c) Nature of tutorials and lab sessions, keeping the above gradation and the typical examination pattern in mind, but leading to the typical advanced levels reached in such subject teaching at the top institutions of the world. (d) Discussion of laboratory environment and the experiments to be conducted. (e) Use of the learning management system, audio-visual equipment, editing tools.

(f) Other logistics details for conducting the main workshop. iv. In the next two to three months, the instructor completes the content development jointly with other experts, interacting electronically with centre coordinators. The coordinators, in turn, complete the preparations at their centres, setting up the requisite lab environment, gearing up the Edusat hub, arranging classroom for lecture/tutorial sessions, etc. Enrolment of teachers for the main workshop is completed during this period.

v. The actual 2-week workshop is then conducted, with about 1000 participating teachers from these centres. The instructor and the experts at the hub deliver all lectures. Centre coordinators will facilitate the interaction during these lectures, and also conduct tutorials labs, and evaluation through quizzes/tests locally, under general supervision of the hub.

vi. The participating teachers complete this 2 week portion of the workshop, and are assigned work for the remaining two weeks to be carried out at their respective colleges. The assignment would include at least one activity from the following: (a) Augmenting audio-visual contents. 1. Preparing a video-clip of interaction with some students on any one

lecture using a simple webcam. The question answers may be in local language whose English transcript must be prepared and enclosed.

2. Preparing additional examples and slides for a chosen topic and preparing a lecture video clip.

3. Preparing a suitable animation to illustrate a chosen theme or concept discussed in a lecture or a lab experiment.

(b) Contribution to written contents.

1. Preparing a written transcript of an assigned module of a lecture. 2. Preparing explanatory solutions to selected tutorial problems. 3. Preparing supplementary write-up for a lab experiment, high-lighting

local constraints and suggesting a mechanism to overcome these.

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(c) Contribution to question bank.

1. Questions and answers for one quiz (4 short questions) on assigned topic.

2. Questions and answers for two questions in a mid-semester examination.

3. Question and answer for one question for the final semester-end examination.

2.7. Concluding activities at the remote centres. The centre coordinators will interact with the participating teachers at their centre, collect and collate all submissions, and will upload these on the subject portal and send a CD recording to the hub. 2.8. Concluding activities at the hub. The instructor will supervise the final editing of all contents and release these in open source. The instructor will also certify the ISTE workshop participation of all individual teachers, jointly with the corresponding centre coordinator. The subject portal will then be thrown open for access and participation by all interested students and teachers across the country. All can then use these contents, and further contribute collaboratively for subsequent revisions. Indeed the portal should become a thriving discussion forum across the nation for that subject. 3. Deliverables year wise and its possible contribution to major objectives of mission. In this pilot project the methodology proposed will be executed for the complete life cycle for one subject. This will involve training of about 30 centre coordinators of ISRO edusat centres, conduct of the 4 week ISTE workshop for up to 1000 teachers across the country, collaborative creation of teaching/learning material, dissemination in open source, and launching of the subject portal. The subject chosen is “Effective teaching/learning of Computer Programming” Direct measurable benefits of this pilot will include: (a) Up to 1000 teachers of the subject trained extensively in this core subject. Each of these teachers will receive a certificate from ISTE, given jointly by IIT and the corresponding coordinator at remote centre, for having undergone a 4 week workshop. (b) Creation and dissemination of exhaustive material including topics which will cover the representative syllabi of major universities across the country, tutorial/lab exercises, question bank covering all aspects, and final edited audio-visual lectures. (c) The subject portal which will have all the created contents. Additionally, the portal will become a collaborative environment for all the teachers/students of the nation for interaction over the future years. It is expected that the contents will continue to get enriched as time passes. The portal will also serve as a mechanism to monitor the actual adoption and usage of the contents. (d) The material is likely to be adopted by teachers of most participating Institutions. Assuming just 250 distinct participating colleges with an average enrollment of 400 students each studying this subject, this pilot will directly benefit

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a minimum of 100000 students annually. Potentially the number of students benefiting is much more. 4. Time schedule (year wise) The duration of execution of the proposed pilot is six months. However, it is necessary to monitor the extent of actual adoption, usage and effectiveness of the project by participating and other colleges and teachers of the nation. It is proposed that such extensive monitoring and continuous update to the released contents will be carried out jointly by ISTE, IIT and all participants over the next six months. The detailed time lines are as follows: April 2009: - Putting together the execution team and ordering the requisite equipment. (Equipment available with the institute will be used to support initial activities. - Conduct of the coordinators’ workshop (20 April to 25th April) - Preliminary design and prototype launch of the portal. May – June 2009: - Enrollment of up to 1000 teachers and collection of syllabi, lecture/tutorial, and question-paper pattern of respective institutions. - Finalization of workshop contents and schedule, including the tutorial and lab sessions to be conducted at remote centres - Detailed subject content development at IIT Bombay July 2009 - Conduct of the ISTE workshop for all 1000 teachers at remote centres. - collection of content contributions from participating teachers. August – September 2009 - Collation and editing of final contents and release in open source - Launching of the nation wide subject portal. October – March 2009 - Monitoring the subsequent usage by participating teachers and students jointly by IIT Bombay and ISTE - Continuous updates and additions to the contents for making these more useful based on the feedback received.

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5. Details of permanent assets to be procured from the project with estimated cost. The list of equipment supplied in the next section 6, will constitute the permanent assets to be procured under this project. 6. Details of financial outlay in year wise for recurring and non-recurring funds. The recurring outlay for the project is required for the following items 1. Manpower Rs 30 Lakhs 2. Contingency Rs 5 Lakhs 3. Travel Rs 10 Lakhs 4. Miscellaneous (consumables) Rs 10 Lakhs The total recurring budget required for this project is Rs 55 Lakhs The non–recurring budget is required for procurement of equipment at IIT Bombay, for the collaborative creation and consolidation of all contents, with design and development of the subject portal, and for the conduct of ISTE workshop for 1000 teachers at 30 ISRO centres. Out of this, the budget required for the equipment is given in the following table:

Equipment Amount in Rs. lakhs High-end production servers (Database, Application, Web)

8.00

Streaming server with Large capacity storage

25.00

Networking equipment 2.00 Audio-visual equipment and edit stations 5.80 Desktop PCs 2.50 Racks, Disks, other ancillary equipment 1.70

TOTAL 45.00

The non-recurring expenditure for the remaining two items is as follows: 1. Collaborative creation of audio-visual and text contents for the subject including a large question bank; design development and launch of the subject portal Rs 20.00 Lakhs 2. Conduct of ISTE workshops at 30 ISRO remote centres Rs 60.00 Lakhs The total non recurring outlay for the project is Rs. 125 Lakhs

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7. Management of Deliverables & IPR etc. All deliverables under this project will be released in Open source using the Creative Commons (India) license. Extreme care will be taken not to violate any existing IPR. All participating teachers, including the experts and instructor at IIT Bombay will ensure that even the presentation slides used do not step over any existing IPR. Appropriate undertakings will be taken from all concerned. IIT Bombay has been managing this methodology for last few years and is conversant with all the relevant aspects. Additionally, a set of CD/DVDs which will be available at cost to any interested user. 8. Justification of the projection with clear cut statement about outcomes

if the project contributing to mission objective The project methodology has been tried and tested at IIT Bombay. We have about 8 years of experience in conducting such education through synchronous and asynchronous modes. Our CDEEP has been beaming such courses live over last several years. The proposed methodology of creation and dissemination of digital contents in open source has also been followed at IIT for several years. This has recently been validated through a major project sponsored by TIFAC. We believe that there is no other viable approach, which can train and engage thousands of teachers in a single attempt, and can directly benefit all teachers and students of a subject. Additionally, due to contents meaningful for every college and university, there would be significant contribution to the mission objective.

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Annexure - I

BREIF BIO-DATA OF CHIEF AND CO-INVESTIGATORS

Prof. Deepak B. Phatak

Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor

Kanwal Rekhi Building, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

IIT Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076 E-Mail : dbp@it.iitb.ac.in

Phone : +91-22-25767747 Fax: +91-22-25720022 / +91-22-25723480

Born on 2nd April 1948, Dr. Deepak B. Phatak graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indore and then completed his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Computer Science. He is with IIT Bombay since 1971. He served in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering till January 2000 and was the Department head from 1991 to 1994. He also served as the first Dean of Resource Development for IIT Bombay from 1995 to 1998. He was the founding head of Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology set up in October 1998 at the Institute. He was appointed to the Subrao Nilekani Chair in the School in January 2000. He headed the S J Mehta School of Management from July 2004 to June 2005. His research interests are in the areas of Data Bases and Information Systems, Software Engineering, System Performance Evaluation, IT enabled Education and IT strategy planning. His primary research inclinations are in Technology application and deployment areas. He has been involved with several initiatives for adoption of state-of-art technology in different organizations. He is actively involved with initiatives on Smart Cards by the Ministry of Information Technology aimed at proliferate use of these cards in India and was chairman of the national subcommittee that defined the multi-application smart card standards for Indian payment system. He currently leads the Smart Card research group in KReSIT working on future multi-application smart cards. He has been involved with curriculum development efforts for the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Indian Universities and has worked on several AICTE and ISTE Committees. He was invited to the working group of the National IT Task force on Human Resource Development. He was chairman of the national board of IT at AICTE At IIT Bombay, he participated in the initial conceptualization and planning of the School of Information Technology with a clearly defined applied research focus of an interdisciplinary nature. The school has developed two unique programs. One is in the form of an IT Business Incubator, which permits young start-up teams to build technology companies of the future. The other program offers IT courses to a very large number of people in the country through a unique Distance Education Program using VSATs. Both these initiatives have now matured as regular activities in these two spheres through the Society for INnovation and Entrepreneurship, and the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program (CDEEP), set up by IIT Bombay.

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In 2002-2003, Dr. Phatak set up the Affordable Solutions Lab in the school. The lab is engaged in R&D towards development of innovative technologies, applications frameworks, applications, and appliances using which the cost of Solution is significantly reduced. The lab has already produced some innovative solutions adapted by some Indian companies. The lab proposes to extensively use Open Source Software to build such solutions. He believes that in near future, India should become a net “Giver” to the Open Source community. Towards this end, he is setting up a web portal that will facilitate coordinated participation of 30000 student developers across the country in making useful contributions through their final year project work on an annual basis. He is currently engaged in an exercise to set up an Indian forum comprising industry, academia and user organizations to buttress these efforts. He was on a year long sabbatical leave during July 2003 to June 2004 during which he extensively toured the country giving talks to Engineering college students and teachers, and interacting with them to understand the grass root level pulse of the Indian CS and IT education. He is currently writing a book on this experience titled “Indian IT professional for the 21st century”. Dr. Phatak has a long association with Computer Society of India (CSI) spanning over two decades. He was awarded the CSI Fellowship in December 1999. He has also been elected fellow of IETE in March 2000. He is currently the chairman of the Academic committee for CSI. He works closely with NASSCOM on many of their initiatives related to innovation and education. He is a member of the NASSCOM committee for domestic markets and chairs the education subcommittee. He has been a consultant and advisor for IT related issues to many organizations such as State Bank of India, Reserve Bank of India, Unit Trust of India, Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India, New India Assurance, United India Insurance company, etc. He works on several committees advising Government departments on issues related to IT strategy planning and deployment, and various e-governance projects. Dr. Phatak is currently on the boards of HDFC Asset Management Company, Bank of Baroda, National Institute of Bank Management, Institute for Banking Personnel Selection and National Insurance Academy. Dr. Phatak's dream is to see a resurgent India catching up with the world using Information Technology as the springboard. He hopes to make IT work for the millions of Indians so as to enable them to lead an honorable, comfortable and peaceful life full of love and harmony.

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Some Recent Journal and Conference papers (These are not in chronological order, but in the order of Research students with whom I have co-authored these) Satish Devane, Madhumita Chatterjee and Deepak Phatak, “Secure E-Commerce Protocol For Purchase Of E-Goods”, The Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security, 2007, Manchester, London. Satish Devane and Deepak Phatak, “Introducing MMA in CEPS for Indian business Scenario”, Proceedings THE FUTURE OF SMART CARD , e-smart 2003, Sofia Antipolice, France. Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, and Deepak B Phatak. Algorithms and Approches of Proxy Signatures: A Survey. International Journal of Network Security. (accepted) Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, and Deepak B Phatak. Proxy Signature Scheme with Effective Revocation using Bilinear Pairings. International Journal of Network Security, Vol. 4, No.3, pp.312-317, 2007. Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, V. P. Gulati, and Deepak B Phatak. A Novel Remote User Authentication Scheme using Bilinear Pairings. Computers & Security, Elsevier, Vol. 25, No.3, pp.184-189, 2006. Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, V. P. Gulati, and Deepak B Phatak. Hierarchical Key Management Scheme Using Polynomial Interpolation. ACM System Interest Group (Operating Systems Review), Vol. 39, No. 1, pp.40-47, 2005. Ashutosh Saxena, Manik Lal Das, V. P. Gulati, and Deepak B Phatak. Dynamic Remote User Authentication. In Proc. of International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, India, pp.313-315, 2004. Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, V. P. Gulati, and Deepak B Phatak. A Key Management Scheme Based on Collision-resistant Hash Function and Polynomial Interpolations. In Proc. of International Conference on Number Theory for Secure Communications, India, pp.164-166, 2003.

Manik Lal Das, Ashutosh Saxena, Deepak B. Phatak. Algorithms and Approaches of Proxy Signature: A Survey. Computing Research Repository - CoRR abs/cs/0612098, 2006.

Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \Advantage of Elliptic curve cryptography for wireless networks"Presented paper at International conference on Emerging Technology,pp.122-129, Dec 19-21, 2003,at Bhubaneswar. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \Mobile data Networks security issues and challenges". Presented paper at Interna- tional conference on Emerging Technology ,pp.137-148,Dec 19-21, 2003,at Bhubaneswar. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \wireless data networks lack inherent security". Presented paper at National Workshop

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on Cryptology ,pp.67-75, October 16-18, 2003, at Chennai. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \Security issues in wireless Local area Network" at the proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2nd to 5th2004 pp 108-111 Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N.\Security is- sues in Mobile Data Network." IEEE Vehicular Technology International Conference 2004-Fall "Wireless Technologies for Global Security" ,pp.45- 49,September 26-29, 2004, Los Angeles, CA. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \Various types of attacks in wireless Local area networks" Presented paper at the Na- tional conference on HSeCNET - January 20-22, 2004, at Hyderabad or- ganized by CSI and IDRBT (Reserve bank of India),pp.102-109,. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N, Presented pa- per on \Modeling and Evaluation of Security Architecture for wireless Local area Networks" in Proceedings of Advanced computing and com- munication, pp.281-285,International Conference on Dec 16th to 19th2004, at Ahmedabad. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, " Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Security Architecture for Wireless Local Area Networks"Transaction on Engineering computing and Technology vol 3,December,2004. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, \Modeling and Evaluation of Security Architecture for wireless Local Area Networks by Indexing Methods: A Novel Approach." at the The First Information security and practice and Experience conference (ISPEC { 2005). April 11th to 14th2005. The paper has appeared at Lecture Notes on computer science (LNCS)no.3439 ,pp.25-35,April 2005. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, \Performance Evaluation of security Architecture for wireless Local Area Networks By Security policy method. 2005 IEEE Sarno® Symposium 18-19,pp.37-40, April 2005,Nas- sau Inn in Princeton NJ, USA. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \ Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Security Architecture for Wireless Local Area Networks" International journal of computational intelligence. ,vol 3 ,pp.13-16,Istanbul, Turkey 2004. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P, Rajendran. N \Policy based Performance Evaluation of Security Architecture for Wireless Local Area Networks" 6th world wireless congress,pp.51-57, May 24th to 26th San Francisco USA 2005. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, Gulati V.P \Security Analysis of 802.1X Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks". Presented paper at Inter- national conference on Information Technology ,pp.133-138,Dec 20-24, 2005,at Bhubaneswar.

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Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B \An Adaptive and Optimised Security Policy Manager for Wireless Networks " 2007 IEEE Asia Modelling Sym- posium March,27-30,pp.155-158, Phuket, Thailand. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B, \A Proposed two factor authentica- tion method for Wireless Local Area Networks" 8th world wireless congress,pp.41-47, May 21th to 23th San Francisco USA 2007. Nayak Debabrata, Phatak D.B ,Saxena Ashutosh \Evaluation of Secu- rity Architecture for Wireless Local Area Networks by Indexed Based Policy Method: A Novel Approach" International Journal of Network security" vol.7 No.1 ,pp.1-14,July 2008. Important Honours - Elected Fellow of the Computer Society of India (CSI) in 1999. - Elected Fellow of the Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) in 2000. ---------- o O o ----------

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Prof. Sridhar Iyer Associate Professor, IIT Bombay

Areas of specialization : e-Learning; Wireless Networking; Distributed Systems; Mobile

Computing; Software Verification

Current areas of research : Technology Development for Distance Education; Wireless

Networking for Rural Communications Academic record:

Degree College / University / Institute Year of Joining Year of Leaving Ph.D IIT Bombay 1992 1997

M.Tech IIT Bombay 1989 1991

B.Tech IIT Bombay 1985 1989 Employment:

Employer Position held Date of Joining Date of LeavingIIT Bombay Associate Prof. 22-03-03 ---

IIT Bombay Assistant Prof. 24-06-99 22-03-03

IIT Guwahati Assistant Prof. 13-04-98 18-06-99

IIT Guwahati Lecturer 15-12-97 13-04-98

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd, Pune (on leave from IIT Bombay)

Consultant 01-06-04 30-11-04

A brief summary of work done at IIT Bombay so far, is as follows: Activity Total Details 1. Courses

3 per year (approx.)

About 50-60 students per course offering. Offered at least one course per semester for the Distance Education Program, since its inception.

2. Students

5 Ph.D 44 M.Tech 60+ B.E

Ph.D: 2 graduated; 2 submitted; 1 ongoing. M.Tech: 39 graduated; 5 ongoing. B.E : Mostly from other colleges.

3. Publications

50+ 7 Journal papers and other Conference papers

4. Consultancy Projects

10 8 completed; 2 ongoing

5. Sponsored Projects

10 8 completed; 2 ongoing, P.I or Co-PI for 5 of these projects.

6. Other Major activities

3+ WiFiRe: Led an effort across IITs and IISc, for writing a standard for wireless communications in rural areas. Project OSCAR: Managed a team of 20+ people for developing animations and authoring tools to supplement teaching. SSRVM: Designing the Computer Science curriculum and developing the textbooks/teaching material for ICSE .

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Kannan Mani Moudgalya IIT Bombay Department of Chemical Engineering Powai, Mumbai 400 076 India +91 22 2572 4003, 7213 kannan@che.iitb.ac.in http://www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/km.html/ B 110, White House IIT Powai, Mumbai 400 076 India +91 22 2572 0601 _ [2006 Aug.-date] Head, Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, IIT BombayExperience . _ [1998 Oct.-date] Professor, IIT Bombay. _ [2004 July-2005 Aug.] In-Charge, Application Software Cell, IIT Bombay. _ [2003 July-2004 June] Visiting Professor, University of Alberta. _ [2001 May-2003 May] Associate Dean, R&D, IIT Bombay. _ [1997 June-1998 Nov.] Lovraj Kumar Industrial Exchange Fellow, NOCIL, Mumbai. _ [1994-98 Oct.] Associate Professor, IIT Bombay. _ [1988-94] Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay. _ [1985-87] Research Associate, Chemical Process Modelling and Control Research Center, an NSF sponsored Industry-University cooperative consortium located at Lehigh University. Education _ Rice University, Houston, TX. Ph.D, Chemical Engineering, May 1985. Master of Electrical Engineering, May 1985. _ IIT Madras, Chennai, India B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, June 1980. PhD’s _ A. V. Manickam, RK methods for DAEs resulting from the spatial discretization of some Guided nonlinear evolution equations, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay, August 1998. _ S. Hanumantha Rao, A software architecture for modelling and simulation of continuous engineering systems, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, September 1998. _ V. Ryali, Performance analysis of uncertain nonlinear systems, Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, June 2000. _ V. Ramesh, Modelling and simulation of emulsion polymer reactors, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, May 2003. _ J. Agrawal, Equivalent dynamics and efficient algorithms for a class of discontinuous differential algebraic equations in sliding mode, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, November 2003. Awards _ Best Paper Presentation Award for “Control of a high index DAE system through a linear control law”, American Control Conference, Anchorage, 8 May 2002. _ Lovraj Kumar Industry-Academia Exchange Fellowship, April 1997. _ Best Poster Award for “An Integrated Simulation Environment”, International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, 11-13 Dec. 1996, IIT Madras. _ Rice University Fellowship, Aug. 1980 - June 1984. Kannan Mani Moudgalya _ National Merit List, Government of India, May 1974. (K. M. Moudgalya), “Digital Control”, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, Book July 2007. (M. C. Joshi and K. M. Moudgalya), “Optimization: Theory and Practice”, Narosa Publishers, New Delhi, 2004, _−Interscience, London, 2004. Journal _ (A. M. Katariya, K. M. Moudgalya and S. M. Mahajani), Non-linear dynamic effects in

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Papers reactive distillation for synthesis of TAME, I&EC Research, Vol. 45, 4233-4242, 2006 _ (J. Agrawal, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), Sliding motion of discontinuous dynamical systems described by semi-implicit index one differential algebraic equations, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 61, 4722-4731, 2006. _ (J. Agrawal and K. M. Moudgalya), An accurate and efficient integration algorithm for a class of discontinuous dynamical systems in sliding motion, Chemical Engg. Res. and Design, Vol. 82, pp. 796-805, 2004. _ (J. Agrawal, K. M. Moudgalya, A. K. Pani), Sliding motion and stability of a class of discontinuous dynamical systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 37, pp. 151-168, 2004. _ (S. A. V. Manickam, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), Higher order fully discrete scheme combined with H1-Galerkin mixed finite element method for semilinear reaction-diffusion equations, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Vol. 15, pp. 1-28, 2004. _ (N. Turale, A. Devulapalli, R. Manchanda, K. M. Moudgalya and G. Sivakumar), Simulation framework for electro physiological networks: effect of syncytial properties on smooth-muscle synaptic potentials, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol. 41, pp. 589-594, 2004. _ (K. M. Moudgalya, S. K. Singh, K. P. Madhavan and G. Jain), A class of discontinuous dynamical systems IV. A laboratory air-water system, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 58, 3973-3983, 2003. _ (N. M. Rao, P. Vora and K. M. Moudgalya), PID control of DAE systems, I&EC Research, Vol. 42, 4599-4610, 2003. _ (K. M. Moudgalya and V. Ryali), A class of discontinuous dynamical systems I. An ideal gas-liquid system, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 56, 3595-3609, 2001. _ (K. M. Moudgalya and S. Jaguste), A class of discontinuous dynamical systems II. An industrial slurry high density polyethylene reactor, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 56, 3611-3621, 2001. _ (K. M. Moudgalya), A class of discontinuous dynamical systems III. Degrees of freedom analysis, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 56, 5443-5447, 2001. _ (V. Ryali and K. M. Moudgalya), Robust Temperature Control of a Semibatch Polymerisation Reactor: Frequency Domain Specifications, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physiochemical and Engineering Aspects, 133/1-2, pp. 63-68, 1998. _ (S. A. V. Manickam, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), “Second order splitting combined with orthogonal cubic spline collocation method for the Kuramoto Sivashinsky equation”, Computers Math. Applic., 35, pp. 5-25, 1998. _ (Y. Makwana, K. M. Moudgalya and D. V. Khakhar), Modeling of Industrial Styrene Polymerization Reactors, Polymer Engineering and Science, 37, pp. 1073-1081, 1997. _ (K. M. Moudgalya, W. L. Luyben and C. Georgakis), “A Dual-Pulse method for Modelling Processes with Large Time Constants”, I & EC Research, 26, pp. 2498-2501, 1987. _ (K. Zygourakis and K. M. Moudgalya), “Discrete Fourier Transforms and Their Application to the Pulse Chromatography Method”, Chem. Eng. Comm., 61, pp. 107-125, 1987. _ (K. M. Moudgalya and K. Zygourakis), “A Coal Pyrolysis Reactor System with Fast On-line Composition Analysis by Gas Chromatography”, Chem. Eng. Comm., 49, pp. 165-179, 1986. Kannan Mani Moudgalya _ (K. M. Moudgalya), Discrete time control: a first control course?, Advances in Conference control Papers education, IFAC, Madrid, 21-23 June 2006. _ (S. Nigam, K. M. Moudgalya and K. M. Moudgalya), Equivalent dynamic solution of an industrial HDPE slurry reactor, PSE/ESCAPE, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9-13 July 2006. _ (H. V. Kulkarni and K. M. Moudgalya), A novel procedure to compute Smith form, National Conference on Control and Dynamic Systems, IIT Bombay, 27-29 January 2005. _ (H. V. Kulkarni and K. M. Moudgalya), A novel procedure to compute Smith form, National Conference on Control and Dynamic Systems, IIT Bombay, 27-29 January 2005. _ (V. Ryali and K. M. Moudgalya), Practical stability analysis of uncertain nonlinear systems, National Conference on Control and Dynamic Systems, IIT Bombay, 27-29 January 2005. _ (A. Katariya, S. Mahajani and K. M. Moudgalya), Dynamic simulation of reactive distillation column for TAME synthesis, Indo - US Joint Conference, Mumbai, December 2004.

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_ (K. M. Moudgalya), Modelling for control and performance improvement of an industrial high density polyethylene reactor, Invited paper, IEEE international symposium on intelligent control, Taipei, 2-4 September 2004. _ (K. M. Moudgalya and S. L. Shah), A polynomial approach based first digital control course, IEEE conference on computer aided control systems design, Taipei, pp. 190-195, 2-4 September 2004. _ (V. Ryali and K. M. Moudgalya), Transfer function modelling and robust control of Chylla- Haase challenge control problem, Dynamics and Control of Chemical Processes (DYCOPS), Boston, July 2004. _ (R. K. Majumdar, K. Ramamritham, R. N. Banavar and K. M. Moudgalya), Disseminating dynamic data with QoS guarantee in a wide area network: a practical control theoretic approach, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Toronto, 25-28 May 2004. _ (R. K. Majumdar, K. M. Moudgalya and K. Ramamritham), Adaptive Coherency Maintenance Techniques for Time-Varying Data, The 24th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Cancun, 3-5 December 2003. _ (N. Rangaraj, A. Ranade, K. M. Moudgalya, R. Naik, C. Konda and M. Johri), A simulator for estimating railway line capacity, Conference of Asia Pacific O. R. Societies, New Delhi, 8-10 December 2003. _ (J. Agrawal, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), Sliding Motion of Discontinuous Dynamical Systems Described by Differential Algebraic Equations, SAFEPROCESS, IFAC 2003, Washington DC, 8-10 June, 2003. _ (A. G. Rapsang, A. Saha, K. M. Moudgalya and G. Sivakumar), A software environment for modelling and simulation, Proceedings of International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and Control, pp. 247-252, 3-4 Jan. 2003, IIT Bombay. _ (V. Ryali and K. M. Moudgalya), An improved nonlinear robust control scheme, Proceedings of International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and Control, pp. 361-364, 3-4 Jan. 2003, IIT Bombay. _ (J. Agrawal and K. M. Moudgalya), Equivalent dynamics for soft drink process described by discontinuous differential algebraic equations in sliding mode, in Proceedings of ICIWIM, IIT Bombay December 2002. _ (J. Agrawal, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), An efficient integration algorithm for a class of discontinuous dynamical systems in sliding motion, in Proceedings of American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 698-703. _ (P. Vora, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), Control of a high index DAE system through a linear control law, in Proceedings of American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 465-470. Kannan Mani Moudgalya _ (J. Agrawal, K. M. Moudgalya and A. K. Pani), Nonlinear gas-liquid system in sliding motion, in Int. Conf. on Recent Trends in Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, IIT Kanpur, December 2001. _ (V. Ryali and K. M. Moudgalya), Robustness analysis of uncertain nonlinear systems, Presented in Session FA-06, American Control Conference, 28-30 June, 2000, Chicago. _ (A. Tihaya, M. Rao, V. Goyal, K. M. Moudgalya and R. Rengaswamy) “Automatic generation of Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) models”, CHEMCON, Chandigarh, 1999. _ (R. Manchanda, K. Venkateswarlu, S. Sourav and Kannan Moudgalya), “Theoretical Analysis of Mode of Heptanol Action on Smooth Muscle Synaptic Potentials”, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Meeting, Hong Kong, pp. 3100-3103, Oct. 1998. _ (V. Ramesh, V. Ryali Kannan Moudgalya and J. Giridhar), “A dynamic model for MWD in emulsion polymerization”, World Congress on particle technology, Brighton, UK, July 1998. _ (V. Ramesh, V. Ryali Kannan Moudgalya and J. Giridhar), A dynamic model for conversion in emulsion polymerization, 5th IFAC Conference on Dynamics and Control of Process

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Systems, Korfu, June 1998. _ (Kannan Moudgalya and R. Goyal), Modelling an industrial ethylene oxide reactor, 5th IFAC Conference on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, Korfu, June 1998. _ (with V. Ramesh and V. Ryali), “A Dynamic Model for MWD in Emulsion Polymers”, in Advances in Chemical Engineering, Ed. Y. B. G. Varma and others, pp. 411-416, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1996, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, 11-13 Dec. 1996, Madras. _ (with S. Hanumantha Rao, G. Sivakumar and K. V. Nori), An Integrated Simulation Environment, in Advances in Chemical Engineering, Ed. Y. B. G. Varma and others, pp. 307-312, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1996, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, 11-13 Dec. 1996, Madras. _ (with V. Sreenivas, H. B. Aradhye and G. Sivakumar), Quantifying Goodness of Initial Guesses for Automatic Selection of Nonlinear Algebraic Equation Solvers, 14th IMACS World Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, July 11-15, 1994, Atlanta. _ “Application of Regulator Theory in Control of a Simulated Distillation Column”, paper presented in the National Symposium on Modelling and Simulation, I. I. Sc., Bangalore, July 1989. _ “Mathematical modelling of a High Density Polyethylene Reactor”, Mathematics in Industry, A Workshop organised at IISc, Jan. 5-9, 1998. _ “Mathematical modelling in chemical engineering”, International Conference on Numerical and Stochastic Modelling, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Jan. 5-7, 1997. _ (with V. Sreenivas and R. Patwardhan), “A Priori Estimation of Effort Required to Solve Nonlinear Algebraic Equations”, Chemcon 94, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 14-17 Dec. 1994. _ (with V. Ryali), “Modelling of a Semibatch Polymerisation Reactor for Robust Control”, Chemcon 94, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 14-17 Dec. 1994. _ (with N. Bhaskar, V. Seshukumar and A. S. Moharir), Towards an Integrated CAPE Environment for the Entire Life Cycle of Chemical Plants, Chemcon 94, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 14-17 Dec. 1994. _ (K. M. Moudgalya), Polynomial Computations in MATLAB, Technical Report, IIT BombayTechnical , Report Nov. 1996. Last updated: 20 September 2007