National Programme on Technology Enhanced
Learning
(NPTEL Phases II and III)
Project duration: July 2007 to June 2012
Proposal
Under the National Mission on Education Through ICT
By
Professor M. S. Ananth
Chairman, Programme Implementation Committee, NPTEL Project
Phase I
Director, IIT Madras, Chennai
and
Professor K. Mangala Sunder
National Web Courses Coordinator, NPTEL Project Phase I
Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, Chennai
Submitted to
The Joint Secretary, Distance Learning
Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Executive Project Summary Project Period: July 2007 – June 2012
Budget: Rs 96.0 crores
Partner Institutions: Seven IITs and IISc Bangalore Number of faculty likely to participate: 600 or more.
Beneficiaries: All engineering and physical sciences undergraduates/postgraduates in the country; all teachers /faculties in science and engineering Universities in India.
Project goal:
To build on the engineering and core science courses launched previously in NPTEL Phase I by the Ministry for Human Resource Development, Government of India on September 03, 2006 and create online course contents and interactions between faculty members in science and engineering using the best academics in India.
Project Deliverables:
1. Conversion of NPTEL phase I video courses in streaming video lecture format and setting up eight distributed national video servers for delivering lectures on demand in each of the eight partner institutions (PI).
2. Creation of additional 600 web and video courses in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level.
3. Integration of College curricula in engineering education with NPTEL contents through a large number of course specific workshops and interaction with Colleges in India for improving TEL infrastructure.
4. Creation of discussion forum for each course created under the NPTEL using a grid of computer servers and setting up FAQ’s for each course.
5. Indexing of all video and web courses and setting up powerful search engines to enable content and keyword search on all topics in science and engineering developed under NPTEL.
6. Setting up internal infrastructure in each IIT for implementing virtual online certification programmes in science and engineering.
Budget Proposed:
Creation of 600 web and video courses in 15 disciplines and enabling streaming format for all video courses developed:
Rs. 7 lakhs per course and Rs. 2 crores for preparation of streaming media content for courses from Phase I
Rs 44 crores
Storage of raw video files size between 300 TB to 500 TB Rs. 5.0 crores Servers for 24/7 access throughout the country with large
bandwidth.
Rs. 5.0 crores
Infrastructure up-gradation for eight participating Institutions Rs. 12 crores
Travel, coordinator Honoraria and the conduct of 300 workshops in four years for approximately 50 participants in each workshop (duration 2-3 days) Rs. 4 lakhs per workshop
Rs. 24.0 crores
Web support services to enable effective usage and creation of digital supplementary indexes (like Wiki)
Rs. 6.0 crores
Total budget for five years for all seven IITs and IISc Bangalore Rs. 96.0 crores
Year IITB IITD IITG IITK IITKgp IITM IITR IISc Funds I Inst 364.00 474.00 283.50 304.00 314.00 486.50 288.50 308.00 2822.50 II Inst 233.00 283.00 206.50 273.00 273.00 457.50 201.50 285.00 2212.50 III Inst 268.00 283.00 206.50 273.00 273.00 517.50 201.50 285.00 2307.50 IV Inst 268.00 243.00 196.50 273.00 273.00 517.50 201.50 285.00 2257.50 Grand Total 1133.00 1283.00 893.00 1123.00 1133.00 1979.00 893.00 1163.00 9600.00 Breakup Phases II and III
The allocation of budget per Institution is tentative. The fine tuning of the institute-wise distribution of the budget will be done in subsequent meetings of the TEL coordinators on receipt of sanction of the proposal. (Inst: Installment)
1. Introduction:
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was initiated by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore in 1999 through a joint workshop organized by IIT Madras with participation from four other IITs, four Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), industry and Government officials and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. The workshop proposed four major initiatives on digital library, core curricula or core courses development on the web, joint Ph. D. programmes using distance education and a virtual University. The core curriculum development was later approved under the NPTEL programme and funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2003 for a total budget of 20.5 crores of Indian rupees for the creation of 120 web based course supplements, 115 video courses and encapsulation/conversion of existing 110 video courses. Each web course developed comprises of supplementary learning materials for 40 hours and video courses contain approximately 40 one-hour lectures per course. The (115) new video courses were prepared in a broadcast format and are currently telecast through the Eklavya channel made available by the MHRD exclusively for this purpose. The project has ensured a near complete coverage of all core courses of undergraduate curriculum in five major engineering branches, namely, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical engineering. These were supplemented by the core science and management programme, languages and other basic courses such as electronics, numerical methods etc. which are mandatory for all engineering students. The model AICTE curricula in engineering adapted by major affiliating Universities such as Anna University, Visweswaraiah Technical University and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University were used to design the course content. With more than 80 percent of content designed and developed for dissemination through the Web, the Programme was formally launched by the Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh, on September 3rd, 2006 in IIT Madras. The contents are currently made available free to everyone in India and abroad through the
currently being broadcast through the Eklavya channel and approximately 50 engineering institutions in the country have set up their own receivers with a dish antenna to receive the signal in their own campuses.
2. Programme Implementation so far:
• In order to ensure that the courses were made available on the Internet in a form most suitable for the users, the following activities were carried out by all the eight Partner Institutions (PI):
• Identifying a group of faculty members from all IITs / IISc as TEL Coordinators at the national level, responsible for the overall management of content development process in each branch of engineering.
• Identifying one or two faculty members in each PI in each discipline as the discipline coordinators to steer the content development programme.
• Identifying core subjects / topics in each discipline and distributing the development of content between PIs with minimal duplication between contents developed across the institutions and disciplines.
• Evolving common minimum requirements for a web / video course and ensuring that all courses under this programme adhere to them.
• Identifying suitable Subject Matter Experts (SME) for each course and interacting with them regularly to ensure smooth and satisfactory progress in content development.
• Conducting workshops for user faculty from representative colleges in each region for collecting feedback during intermediate stages of content development and applying mid-course correction required.
• Creating suitable IT support infrastructure in the form of studios /web content development labs (web studios) and software, ensuring the training of project staff in software skills who would assist the faculty in content creation in
electronic form and updating the faculty on technology developments in the area of e-learning / distance education from time to time.
• Reviewing contents developed under this programme to ensure error-free and quality learning modules suitable for students and teachers at large.
• Updating the release of these materials periodically and ensuring constant usage by faculty and students for whom they were intended.
• Creating a suitable distribution package for institutions which do not have dedicated high bandwidth internet connectivity, for example, in the form of CDROMs/DVDs for the web courses.
• Two committees were constituted to coordinate the activities of the national project: the National Programme Committee (NPC) and the Project Implementation Committee (PIC). The former was concerned with policy matters and funds allocation to PIs while the latter was concerned with all the technical issues associated with the development and implementation process. The NPC includes representatives from AICTE, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, University Grants Commission, Technical Teachers Training Institute, Indira Gandhi National Open University and representatives from IITs and is chaired by the Joint Secretary for Technical Education in the HRD Ministry. The PIC consists of TEL coordinators from all PIs and representatives from three User Institutions and was chaired by Professor M. S. Ananth, Director IIT Madras.
Converting the video courses developed in Phase I to MPEG4:
In NPTEL Phase I, 110 courses with approximately 4800 one hour lectures were developed. Apart from the well known and popular Open Courseware (OCW) Initiative by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA , which has provided access to
in the world with a similar academic programme. The video courses are therefore of high resolution and are large in storage space. In addition, a large majority of 110 courses from the earlier recording of lectures in the Educational Technology Cells of IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi for the past several years have also been converted to the digital form. Thus in Phase I the total number of video courses is far more than the number of web courses as it was felt in the year 2003 that TV medium was still the most accessible medium to students and teachers outside of IITs and IISc. The Internet bandwidth for network connectivity using broadband in most colleges was about 512 Kbps then which is abysmally low. A large number of these institutions are slowly enhancing their network bandwidth to about 2 Mbps at present which is still less than that needed for incorporating developments in web technology and assuring effective delivery of visual and audio content worldwide in class rooms. Video courses are made available in a form that can be accessed ”on demand”, the advantages being:
User requirements for different courses differ with place and time.
The display of video lecture segments relevant to the class needs to coincide with class scheduling in colleges.
Colleges can set up a local area network in their libraries or computer centres and stream the video lectures on demand for students.
More than 40 percent of NPTEL website access is by working professionals who are interested in updating their knowledge in specific areas related to their work. They would be benefited by the availability of video lectures either through video streaming on demand or in the form of DVDROM.
It is therefore important to convert all the video lectures in MPEG4 format with a streaming speed of 512 Kbps to ensure easy and wide access to all NPTEL courses through the Internet.. The Video On Demand (VOD) facility must be accessed through a distributed and networked system of computers housed at various locations with dedicated connectivity. For colleges it is proposed to make the contents available in the streaming format in the form of a hard disk which can be installed in local servers in the respective colleges. The video courses to be developed in Phase II must factor this additional expense in the budget for Phase II.
The programme on Eklavya TV channel needs to be continued with the addition of a CAS system for effective delivery. This will enable those without sufficient internet bandwidth to access the video contents.
So far more than 1100 lecture hours have been converted into MPEG4 format and uploaded in YouTube Channel which hosts free academic sites from several North American Universities.
The video channel has been integrated with the official NPTEL website. Many of these videos are also being published as DVDROMs for students and teachers to obtain them for their personal use. The charges levied will cover only DVD and shipment and copying costs. It is expected that the process of making all courses available as DVDs will be completed by July 2008. Taking into account both comments of Planning Commission, the IT Ministry and Finance Ministry, there will be a charge for private institutions and industries which want to use the NPTEL as an in-house digital repositories. The contents will however, continue to remain available through the internet as part of the open and free access.
3. Proposed Activities for NPTEL Phase II (Summary):
The following activities are proposed to be carried out in NPTEL Phase II starting from April 1, 2007 for a period of three years.
Converting the video courses developed in Phase I to MPEG4 format and setting up streaming of video courses through a distributed and networked website management. (All IITs and IISc Bangalore will host the streaming content for the video courses). The DVDROM distribution of the courses to users may be taken up at a much later stage when a large number of video courses are complete.
Assisting in the effective use of all the courseware developed in phase I through constant interactions with user institutions and registered users. Feedback forms and
cannot and should not be handled by any bookseller in my opinion but IITs must find their own way of distributing.
Creating 500 new courses in a number of disciplines not covered in Phase I and widening the intellectual, open access resource base of the IITs to ensure the role as global players in the knowledge dissemination process. The course base will cover at least 10 disciplines for which an undergraduate degree programme is offered by the IITs and which are accredited by the AICTE as well in Institutions in India.
Creating 100 additional courses on elective subjects in the five disciplines covered under phase I (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical) to ensure that content repository in these five disciplines is complete.
Encouraging faculty to design question banks, add more case studies and illustrations and update course contents.
Setting up physical infrastructure in each IIT, creating a permanent team in each IIT for ensuring quality of content as per internet standards. The storage requirement for video files (raw is about 75-100 terabytes for a total of about 600 terabytes. The raw files are of broadcast quality and enable us to prepare files for the Internet in different bandwidths to cater to the variations in broadband connectivity worldwide. It is important to make the video files accessible in different formats in order to ensure wide reach and availability. Hence the storage requirement is a must.
Providing a range of web enabled services to the courses developed under NPTEL with associate partners such as the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITMK) and enabling development of IT tools for online dissemination of contents.
Conducting 240 course specific workshops for all courses developed in NPTEL Phase I with teachers throughout the country and using the feedback for building courses of Phase II.
Research in online education, open resources and open standards for design of educational processes through the Internet are very important in the immediate future. It
is desirable to create a team of at least one full time faculty member who is a specialist in instructional course design and cognitive learning, two full time technical managers who are IT specialists and office staff in each IIT. However separate additional funding will be required.
4. Details of the Proposal:
4. 1 Designing Feedback and Interactions among Content Developers and Users for Effective Implementation of NPTEL Courseware:
The development of web and video supplementary materials in 239 new courses and 110 existing video courses in NPTEL Phase I jointly by PIs in India is a unique nation-wide exercise, it is important to ensure that course contents are effectively used by the target group of teachers, students and working professionals This has to be done in several ways simultaneously and each of those processes must be implemented for a long period of time as there is no clearly defined or unique process for effective utilization by users at a distance from the traditional class room. Some of those methods are described here. However, prior to implementation of various strategies for effective usage, information dissemination must happen and the requirement of the target audience must be understood.
The following steps have already been taken:
All the user institutions (more than 1500 at present) have to be informed about the objectives of the NPTEL programme, the target audience it is meant for, and the ease of use of contents by various teachers. With this objective, a detailed programme document was made for circulation to all colleges and University departments. The Indian Society for Technical Education has been requested to carry feature articles on NPTEL and announce periodically the updates of course contents that are available. The website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in was officially launched on September 5, 2006, and it has been updated with course materials periodically. Visitors to this website have been requested to register themselves free of charge. The site is being continually updated
More than 70 percent of the users are from India. The users outside of India are mostly from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada United Arab Emirates and Singapore with the remaining being distributed globally. The number of registrants to this website has been seeing a steady increase on a daily basis and the trend is only likely to continue. However, in view of the number of students currently enrolled in engineering programmes throughout
available at a bandwidth of 512 kbps across all IIT / IISc websites in a distributed manner. This is possible if each IIT / IISc is given an adequate Internet bandwidth (50 Mbps) dedicated for this purpose. In addition, a large number of working professionals who are interested in specific courses should be able to get them in DVDROMs.
It has been a year since the site was registered with Google to provide extended data on users. The following figures suggest that the site (both the web and the video courses) is used quite well by students and teachers worldwide. The data on video through exposure to a limited number of the video courses and on all web courses for a short period indicate that the access rate has also enormously improved in the last few months. In the Appendix the comments by the viewers of the video channel are enclosed.
NPTELHRD - youTube.com Channel Summary
Channel http://www.youtube.com/iit
Channel created on November 27, 2007
Videos uploaded 3558
Number of courses 95 Number of Channel views 3,75,417 Number of Video views 6,968,578 Number of subscribers 10,492
LIST OF VIDEO COURSES
Subject S.No Course Name Videos
Biotech
1 BioChemistry I 28
2 Enzyme Science and Engineering 28
Civil
3 Environmental Air Pollution 39
4 Fluid Mechanics 40
5 Pre-stressed Concrete Structures 40
6 Water and Waste Water Engineering 40
7 Water Resources Engineering 28
8 Structural Analysis II 40
9 Surveying 40
10 Strength of Materials 40
11 Introduction to Transportation Engineering 41
12 Engineering Geology 40
13 Civil Engineering - Building materials and Construction 41
14 Mechanics of solids 39 15 Soil Mechanics 57 Computer Science 16 Computer Graphics 43 17 Discrete Structures 40 18 Computer Graphics 35
19 Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming 24
20 System Analysis and Design 40
21 Artificial Intelligence(Prof.P.Dasgupta) 28
22 Computer Networks 40
23 Computer Organization 33
24 Internet Technology 40
30 Software Engineering 39
31 Artificial Intelligence 40
32 Data Communication 41
Core
33 Basic Electronics and Lab 40
34 Engineering Chemistry I 10
35 Mathematics I 32
36 Numerical Analysis and Computer Programming 38
37
Concept of Management and Evolution of Management
thought 40
38 Engineering Physics II 9
39 Engineering Mechanics 31
40 Quantum Physics 11
41 Classical Physics 2
42 Physics I - Oscillations & Waves 44
Electronics and communic-ation
43 VLSI Circuits 55
44 Digital Circuits and Systems 40
45 High Speed Devices and Circuits 41
46 Solid State Devices 42
47 Transmission Lines and EM Waves 42
48 Wireless Communication 39
49 Digital Signal Processing 43
50 MEMS and Microsystems 32
51 Probability and Random Processes 40
52 Digital Communication 32
53 Electronics for Analog Signal Processing - I 38 54 Electronics for Analog Signal Processing - II 39
55 Basic Electronics 13
56 Digital Voice & Picture Communication 40
57 Digital Image Processing 40
58 Broadband Networks: Concepts and Technology 28
59 Digital Systems Design 40
60 Adaptive Signal Processing 41
Electrical
62 Electromagnetic Fields 42
63 Intelligent Systems and Control 32
64
Power System Generation, Transmission and Distribution
(Encapsulated from earlier Video) 35
65 Power Systems Operation and Control 35
66 Basic Electrical Technology 39
67 Industrial Drives - Power Electronics 37
68 Embedded Systems 37
69 Circuit Theory 51
70 Networks Signals and Systems 36
71 Industrial Automation and Control 40
72 Networks and Systems 50
73 Power Electronics 43
74 Digital Integrated Circuits 40
75 Power Systems Analysis 40
76 Industrial Instrumentation 40
77 Control Engineering 47
78 Analog ICs 28
79 Illumination Engineering 20
80 Energy Resources & Technology 40
81 Chaos, Fractals & Dynamic Systems 40
Mechanical
82 Advanced Strength of Materials 40
83 Dynamics of Machines 44
84 Finite Element Method 38
85 Kinematics of Machines 39
86 Mechanical Measurements and Metrology 50
87 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning 46
88 Project and Production Management 41
NPTEL Website Analytics Summary
Overview
Number of Visits 1,041,218
Average number of Visits per day 2845
Page views 7,549,020
Average number of page views per visit 7.25
Average Time on site 6.05 minutes
Top 10 web courses
94 Heat and Mass Transfer 35
Ocean 95 Performance of Marine Vehicles at Sea 40
Channel url http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Analytics tracking Period January 25, 2008 – January 24, 2009
Number of Web courses 126
Traffic sources
The data clearly indicate that the NPTEL project and the contents are being received very well and that a majority of its users (about 85 percent) are residents in our country.
Designing a message (bulletin) board or a course workspace specific for a given course is a logical next step. This space must be continuously updated with information relating to the course contents, other sites which offer similar materials, advances happening in the area and industry requirements as seen by industrial experts. In addition to providing an extended knowledge workspace as above, the board must permit threaded discussions by the users through questions and answers. Moderators for the board need to be appointed from the research scholar pool and from among the bright M.Tech students attending
programmes in each PI under the SME for that course. The SMEs will be encouraged to take an active part in the discussion related to their content from time to time, but given the responsibilities of faculty in PIs to do teaching, research, student guidance and consultancy all at the same time it is necessary that one or two Ph.D. scholars and those M. Tech students who aspire to become faculty are nominated as moderators for each course space. They will be encouraged to organize queries and discussions into a repository of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with appropriate answers. Providing a direct, interactive response to user queries is the first and foremost exercise in encouraging the use of NPTEL contents. The whole process for each branch can also be moderated by a separate group of faculty members from among the retired faculty from IITs/IISc/Universities whose experience in teaching and learning environments of user institutions can be a valuable supplement.
Different levels of teacher training workshops will be conducted for each course. Each PI will be encouraged to identify 3-5 principal user (nodal) institutions in their region and will offer intensive training to their faculty in all the NPTEL contents, who may be trained in the use, adaptation of the contents to their teaching requirements and also make new modules for their own environment. The technology for doing this needs to be made available to them for a short period at least until the nodal institutions themselves set up the necessary infrastructure. The institutions will be encouraged to host the contents in their own mirror sites and will be encouraged to offer training to faculty from institutions in the vicinity. The process will have to be carried out for all the courses developed in Phase I within the first year of Phase II and must begin for courses being developed in Phase II in the last year of Phase II.
SMEs (Faculty) from PIs will be requested to design detailed online and face-to-face feedback from users of specific courses, which might include inputs and expectations of the users (differentiated as teachers, students or professionals) and request the users to identify the specific strengths/weaknesses of every course. The parameters that may be considered are from among the following primarily.
• Content level
• Adequacy of case studies
• Relevance of contents to University examinations • Relevance of content toward career placement
• Relevance of content towards professional entrance examinations for higher studies such as GATE, Advanced GRE, etc.
• Relevance of contents towards industrial practices in the area • Suggestions for improvement
In video courses, in addition to the above, the quality of the video, the suitability of the video as substitute for expert teaching that may not be available in the user institution etc. must also be assessed. The feedback must be done for all the three years of phase II with different samples for each year and the data collected must be analyzed in a cumulative fashion.
One of the most important parameters for effective utilization of coursework of any kind is the design of questions and examinations which are relevant from the user’s perspective. In the present instance, the relevance of NPTEL content to University examinations must be addressed, even though from the outset, it must be recognized that NPTEL contents are not examination centric. They are in principle, designed for technology enhanced learning and for providing uniform and standard modules for science and engineering curriculum in India. However, use of the contents of NPTEL by students and teachers in university affiliated institutions is unlikely to have a major impact unless the process includes well-designed question templates and a sufficient number of question banks for each course. In fact, such questions can be used as models for University examinations over a period of time as the Universities revise and update curricula. The course contents must be used as a major source of learning/preparation for the GATE examination, to begin with. In addition, question templates must be made available, with solution manuals wherever possible to benefit college teachers for their internal use in improving the quality of their students.
4. 3 Creating additional courseware in the five disciplines from Phase I:
The five branches of engineering for which contents were developed in phase I are among the branches that attract the largest number of students. In these areas, a majority of colleges also have difficulty finding suitable number of well qualified faculty and the attempt in Phase I was to provide assistance in the form of modularized and accurate supplements through web and video. However it is equally important to develop many more courses in
these disciplines and pay attention to the increasing demand for highly specialized courseware in many sub-areas of these branches in which M. Tech. programs are offered. An estimate of this over several specialized branches in each discipline for M. Tech curricula led to the necessity of developing at least twenty more courses in each branch covering many electives. There are several benefits when this is accomplished in Phase II.
A majority of teachers in engineering institutions who are not well trained in highly specialized elective courses will have the opportunity to improve themselves by using these supplements.
The Indian industry for manufacturing and infrastructure development requires skilled engineers and technologists in several specialized areas and will stand to benefit considerably from courseware in elective subjects.
Core competence of faculty in special areas is a rarity and the specialists in all areas are not present in all IITs and IISc. Therefore, development of courseware in special areas will permit students from institutions of higher learning to be benefited by the expertise available from other institutions.
Many leading industries have experienced individuals whose expertise in a chosen field can be made available to the student and teacher through content development process for advanced courses in which they can contribute through case studies and special skills relevant to their employees. This will enable postgraduate engineering students to acquire skills relevant to the industry they may choose to work with after their degree program.
The other important factor is the inability of IITs to increase the student intake into their B. Tech and M. Tech programmes drastically over a short period of time despite the increasing demand for more employable engineers than are available at present. Development of a complete set of supplements for all B. Tech and M. Tech programmes in these branches currently offered by IITs and IISc, in the form of web and video supplements is a much awaited solution for IITs to offer online degree programmes using technology through the
A total of 100 courses is proposed for the above with approximately 20 (10 web and 10 video) courses in each of the five branches (Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering).
4.4 Creating additional courseware in other disciplines:
In the current phase, it is proposed to create web supplements and video courses in the following disciplines in addition to the course contents already proposed. The objective is to provide a comprehensive suite of coursework in all major branches of science and engineering by the end of Phase II. The Table below contains the branches and the number of courses in video and web format which will be prepared in Phase II.
S. No. Branch No. of Web
Courses
No. of Video Courses
1 Aerospace Engineering 15 15
2 Chemical engineering 30 30
3 Chemistry and Biochemistry 35 35
4 Mathematics 30 30
5 Physics 30 30
6 Materials and Metallurgical Engineering 30 30 7 Management, Social Sciences and
Design 30 30 8 Biotechnology 15 15 9 Ocean Engineering 10 10 10 Textile Technology 15 15 11 Nanotechnology 10 10 Total 250 250
* Some more departments may be included depending upon the willingness of the faculty to develop courses.
The existing organizational structure of discipline coordinators and Principal Discipline Coordinators will be extended to ensure that there is overall coordination in each of the above subjects. The detailed list of courses will be prepared after the committees are constituted in each of these branches. It is proposed that the faculty expertise available outside of IITs/ IISc be utilized in both the formation of these monitoring committees and in seeking SMEs for content development.
The course contents to be developed in these areas will have the following as the main guiding principles:
E-Learning material in the form of web supplements are being created so that it can be expanded and updated continuously. Initially it consists of one or more of the following:
• Localization of examples
• Elaboration of key concepts and theorems to facilitate clearer understanding
• Case studies to provide more comprehensive design experience than that offered by simple numerical examples
• Examples that require the use of different categories of engineering knowledge under different sets of assumptions.
• Question banks to assist instructors to design good tests and examinations
• Additional reading material for underperforming students, especially those with difficulties with English
• Simulation of concepts through graphical interfaces standardized within a course using open source tools and plugins
• Animations of concepts using two and three dimensional tools in engineering and science and in an output form that does not require commercial or proprietary software tools
• Additional reading material for over-achievers
• Historical information and anecdotes related to specific topics
• Creation of the e-learning material in those formats which ensure that the content creation and course management platforms are decoupled.
• The material to be suitably organized to create CDs/DVDs to meet the needs of students of different universities.
• The same material can be suitably restructured for printing if needed.
For video lectures:
• The course consists of around 40 video lectures. • Each video lecture is of one hour duration.
• To enhance the longevity of the video lectures, it was suggested that they should not be too specific to syllabi but should be confined to core concepts. Its content were suggested to be distinct from text book and web support material.
• The video lectures should fully utilize the facilities of the video medium and might contain interviews with professionals from industry as appropriate.
• The lectures should motivate the student by emphasizing why he/she is studying a topic in a subject and should be related to industrial practice as appropriate.
• Creation of video lecture units need not be tied necessarily with the scheduling of regular courses in the Institution.
The video lectures need to be supplemented with lecture notes and text materials along with animations and all presentation slides used in the video for incorporating them as web supplemented video lectures. In addition, problems, quizzes and assignments need to be included so as to make the learning a complete experience.
Budget:
Content Development:
Streaming video content preparation from Phase I video lectures (approximately 8,000 lecture hours at a unit cost of Rs. 2500 per lecture and includes a real-time encoder and a server for each PI)
Rs. 2 crores
Web and video courses 600 (Unit cost Rs. 7 lakhs per course)
Rs. 42 crores
Infrastructure up-gradation
Infrastructure up-gradation of the video studios / AMC + Spare parts, Additional software (Rs. 1.5 crore per institute for a period of five years)
Rs. 12.0 crores
Storage of raw video files for sizes between 800 TB and 1000 TB (2.5 crores) for the Coordinating Institute and 100 TB each for all other participating Institutes (2.5 crores)
Rs. 5.0 crores
Streaming video servers in each PI as mirrors to provide adequate intranet/VPN bandwidth to users on demand (approximately Rs. 0.65 crores per Institute for all five years)
Rs. 5.0 crores
Workshops, Honoraria, Travel
Workshops (300 workshops) (Unit cost Rs. 4 lakhs per workshop with 40-50 participants)
Rs. 12 crores
Coordinator Honoraria (7.5 percent of total courseware production costs)
Rs. 3 crores
Travel (Rs.1 crore per Institute plus 0.5 crore additional to the Coordinating Institute) + NPTEL Office (0.50)
Rs. 9.0 crores
Other Services
Web services to enable effective usage of NPTEL Contents Hiring of retired faculty and professionals for query management for all NPTEL courses (800 of them including Phase I)
6.0 crores
Break-up of the Budget in terms of Unit Costs:
Web / Video
Courses Unit Cost for one Course: Rs. 7 lakhs
Project Assistant salary (1/3 Assistant for four years) Rs. 2.0 lakhs + 25 percent HRA (IIT norms)
Honoraria to faculty for producing content for 40 lectures or more
Rs. 2.50 lakhs (Rs. 2.0 lakhs was sanctioned in 2003 for NPTEL Phase I) Consumables and Contingencies for the
Web Studio for four years
Rs. 1.0 lakhs
Upgradation of web Studio hardware and software for four years
Rs. 1.0 lakhs
Infrastructure upgradation:
Purchase of newer state-of-the-art cameras and digital video mixer, audio, and cables for a new studio = Rs. 100 lakhs (Rs 65 lakhs was sanctioned in Phase I and the rest was taken from the video course allocation as was discussed in the meeting in March 26, 2003)
Salary for three to four technical editors, camera crew and onsite recording crew for three years (Rs. 1 lakh per person for 12 man years) + 25 percent HRA = Rs. 15 lakhs
Purchase of video editing stations, video storage (approximately 13 GB is required for raw storage of one lecture and 0.25 gb required for MPEG 4 file of a lecture) for 25 video courses per Institute ---15 TB storage + 25 percent for RAID architecture = Rs. 25 lakhs
Power / UPS and Air conditioning = Rs. 5 lakhs for three years.
Contingency and consumales –video tapes and video master hard disks for recording and transmissions = Rs. 5 lakhs
Storage solution for each IIT and retrieval for video encoding—requires storage to be integrated with the video encoding server through fibre channel and through a RAID architecture. The minimum projected cost is Rs. 1- 1.25 lakhs for 1 TB storage (after RAID
5) on SATA /SCSI systems. Each Institute will need a server with the capability for large storage for video and interactive contents.
Total cost for eight servers with 32 – 64 nodes and sufficient storage + RAM = Rs. 500 lakhs
Workshops:
Unit cost: Rs. 4.0 lakhs.
Number of participants: between 30 and 50 per workshop. Number of Days: 2-3
Travel expenses: Rs. 2.5 lakhs.
Boarding and lodging charges: Rs. 0.8 lakhs Stationeries and contingencies: Rs. 0..4 lakhs
Proposed Timeline of activities for NPTEL Phase II
Activity Deadline
1 Streaming media conversion (of all video courses developed in Phase I to MPEG4 format )
March, 2009
2. Up-gradation of Studio and online videoconferencing facility in all PIs
March, 2009
3. Setting up Discipline Coordinator Committee and formulation of syllabi for all new courses (web and video) – a parallel activity across 15 disciplines
September 2009
4. Course Development team:
Identification of faculty teams for all 500 courses (a parallel activity along with activity 3)
September 2009
5. Development of content in three phases: Phase I (25 percent completion)
Phase II (50 percent completion)
Phase III (100 percent completion) and feedback obtained
March, 2010 October, 2010 June, 2011 6. Updating all websites hosting NPTEL contents with streaming
media, web contents
Continuously from September 2006 (ongoing activity) 7. Workshops in each PI: Completion of ten workshops by each
PI and training of teachers using phase I content both web and video (total: 80 workshops)
December 2009
8. Completion of ten workshops by each PI December 2010 9. Completion of all remaining workshops March, 2012 10. Setting up Web portals for course support and appointment of
faculty and student team for management of each discipline through online support and building up FAQs for Phase I
June 2009
11. Web portals for online support for NPTEL Phase II courses December, 2009 and continuous monitoring
The allocation of budget per institution (pages 30 - 37) is tentative and gives a representative allocation only.
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Bombay
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst
1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 70.00 140.00 175.00 175.00 3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 6 Workshops 16.00 48.00 48.00 48.00 7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
364.00 233.00 268.00 268.00
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Delhi
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst
1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2 Web and video courses (new) 35.00 140.00 140.00 100.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 16.00 48.00 48.00 48.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
9 Eklavya Channel feed and maintenance 145.00 50.00 50.00 50.00
474.00 283.00 283.00 243.00
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Guwahati
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 10.00 140.00 140.00 130.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 8.00 24.00 24.00 24.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 7.50 7.50 7.50 7.50
283.50 206.50 206.50 196.50
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Kanpur
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 20.00 180.00 180.00 180.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 16.00 48.00 48.00 48.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
304.00 273.00 273.00 273.00
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Kharagpur
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 20.00 180.00 180.00 180.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 16.00 48.00 48.00 48.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
314.00 273.00 273.00 273.00
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Madras
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 35.00 175.00 175.00 175.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 100.00 40.00 40.00 40.00
5 Streaming video servers 29.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 20.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 7 Travel 20.00 50.00 40.00 40.00 8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 9 NPTEL Office 12.50 12.50 12.50 12.50 10 Web Service 10.00 100.00 170.00 170.00 486.50 457.50 517.50 517.50
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IIT Roorkee
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 15.00 135.00 135.00 135.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 8.00 24.00 24.00 24.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 7.50 7.50 7.50 7.50
288.50 201.50 201.50 201.50
Breakup of Budget for phase II of NPTEL
Yearwise and Institutewise (Amounts indicated in Lakhs of rupees)
Budget for IISc Bangalore
I Inst II Inst III Inst IV Inst. 1 Video streaming (MPEG Conversion) 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 Web and video courses (new) 20.00 180.00 180.00 180.00
3 Infrastructure upgradation 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 Storage Requirement 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 Streaming video servers 33.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
6 Workshops 20.00 60.00 60.00 60.00
7 Travel 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00
8 Coordinator Honoraria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
308.00 285.00 285.00 285.00
Annexure 1
Comments on Video lectures streaming through http://www.youtube.com/nptelhrd
Annexure 2
List of Courses developed under NPTEL Phase I.
NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
(NPTEL)
July 2003 – June 2007
Institute-Wise List of Courses
Executed by
Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur,
Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee)
And
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Department of Secondary and Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development
List of NPTEL courses by the Institute and Discipline
Discipline - wise list of total number of web and video courses
Institute
IIT Bombay IIT Delhi IIT Guwahati IIT Kanpur
IIT Kharagpur IIT Madras IIT Roorkee IISc Bangalore Total
Web Video Web Video Web Video Web Video Web Video Web Video Web Video Web Video
Core Sciences 3 2 3 3 4 3 1 5 5 3 1 33 Civil 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 5 4 1 3 6 47 Computer Science 1 2 2 4 3 2 4 4 5 6 4 5 1 43 Electrical 2 2 2 4 2 3 5 7 3 5 2 2 39 ECE 4 5 1 3 4 1 4 3 3 6 1 7 2 2 1 47 Mechanical 2 3 4 3 3 2 6 4 3 3 4 6 3 3 3 52 Ocean 1 1 Biotechnology 1 1 2 Total 15 15 14 20 16 5 21 20 18 27 24 31 6 9 18 5 264
Discipline Web Video Total
Core Sciences 17 16 33 Civil 27 20 47 Computer Science 23 20 43 Electrical 16 23 39 ECE 21 26 47 Mechanical 28 24 52 Ocean 1 1 Biotechnology 2 2 Total 132 132 264
IISc Bangalore
Civil Web
1 Materials Science Prof. Satish V. Kailas
2 Computational Hydraulics Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar
3 Composite Materials Prof. P. C. Pandey
4 Reliability Engineering Prof. G. L. Sivakumar Babu 5 Fundamentals of Environmental Geotechnology Prof. T. G. Sitharam Prof. P. V. Siva Pullaiyah 6 Optimization Methods Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar
Comp
Video 7 System Analysis and Design Prof. V. Rajaraman
Web
8 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Prof. Krishna Kumar
9 Digital Systems Prof. N. J. Rao
10 Operating Systems Prof. P. C. P. Bhatt
11 Data Communications Prof. H. S.Jamadagni
12 System Analysis and Design Prof. V. Rajaraman
Core Video
13
Concept of Management and Evolution of
Management thought Prof K B Akhilesh
Ece
Video 14 Basics of VLSI Prof. H.S. Jamadagni
Web 15 Information Theory and Coding Prof. Pavan S Nuggehalli
16 VLSI Design Prof. H.S. Jamadagni
Electrical
Video 17 Industrial Drives - Power Electronics Prof. K. Gopakumar 18 Basic Electrical Technology Prof. L. Umanand Web 19 Non-Conventional Energy Systems Prof. L. Umanand
20 Numerical Analysis Prof. Vittal Rao
Mechanical Web
21 Materials Science Prof. Satish V. Kailas
22 Basic Thermodynamics
Prof. K. Srinivasan Prof. Pradip Dutta
IIT Bombay
Civil
Video
1 Fluid Mechanics Prof. T. I. Eldho
2 Soil Mechanics
Prof. B. V. S. Viswanadham 3 Structural Analysis II Prof. P. Banerji
Web
4 Structural Analysis I Prof. R. S. Jangid 5 Transportation Engineering I Prof. Tom V. Mathew 6 Foundation Engineering Prof. Deepankar Choudhury
Comp
Video 7
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade Prof. Ajit A. Diwan
Prof. Sundar Viswanathan
8
Software Engineering
Prof. Rushikesh K. Joshi Prof. Umesh Bellur Prof. N. L. Sarda
Web 9
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade Prof. Ajit A. Diwan
Prof. Sundar Viswanathan
Core Web
10 Mathematics I Prof. Inder K. Rana
11 Engineering Chemistry I
Prof. B. L. Tembe
Prof. K. Mangala Sunder 12 Engineering Physics II Prof. D. K. Ghosh
Ece
Video
13 Digital Communications Prof. Manjunath
14 Digital Communication Prof.Bikash Kumar Dey 15 Transmission Lines and EM Waves Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar 16 Information Theory and Coding Prof. S. N. Merchant
17
Broadband Networks: Concepts
and Technology Prof. Abhay Karandikar
Web
18 Transmission Lines and EM Waves Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar
19 VLSI Design Prof. A. N. Chandorkar
20 Optical Communication
Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar Prof. D.K.Ghosh
21 Signals and Systems Prof.V.M.Gadre Electrical Video 22 Control Engineering Prof. S. D. Agashe
23 Power Electronics
Prof. B. G. Fernandes Prof. Kishore Chatterjee
Web 24
Power Systems Operation and
Control Prof. A. M. Kulkarni
25 Power System Protection Prof. S. A. Soman
Mechanical
Video
26
Heat and Mass Transfer
Prof.U.N.Gaitonde
Prof.S.P.Sukhatme 27 Advanced Strength of Materials Prof. S. K. Maiti
28
Robotics
Prof. C. Amarnath Prof. B. Seth
Prof. K. Kurien Issac Prof. P. S. Gandhi Prof. P. Seshu Web 29 Robotics Prof. C. Amarnath Prof. B. Seth
Prof. K. Kurien Issac Prof. P. S. Gandhi Prof. P. Seshu
30
Dynamics of Machines
Prof. P. Seshu Prof. K. Kurien Isaac Prof. C. Amarnath
IIT Delhi
Biotech Video 1 Enzyme Science and Engineering Prof.Subhash Chand
Civil
Video
2 Structural Analysis I Prof. Ashok Gupta
3
Civil Engineering - Building materials and
Construction Prof. B. Bhattacharjee
Web
4 Strength of Materials Prof. Ashok Gupta
5 Mechanics of Solids Prof. Y. Nath
6 Environmental Air Pollution Prof. Mukesh Khare
Comp
Video
7 Data Structures And Algorithms Prof. Naveen Garg 8 Principles of Programming Languages Prof. S. Arun Kumar
9 Computer Architecture Prof. Anshul Kumar
10 Computer Graphics Prof. Prem K. Kalra
Web 11
Introduction to Problem Solving and
Programming Prof. S. Arun Kumar
12 Computer Graphics Prof. Prem K. Kalra
Core
Video 13
Applied mechanics Prof.R.K.Mittal
Prof.Sanjeev Sanghi
14 Management Science I Prof.Anuradha Sharma
15 Material Science Prof. S. K. Gupta
Web 16
Environment and Ecology Prof. Anuradha Sharma Prof. V. B. Upadhyay
17 Engineering Chemistry II
Prof. H. M. Chawla Prof. R. N. Ram
Ece Video
18 Digital Signal Processing Prof. S.C. Dutta Roy
19 Wireless Communication Prof. Ranjan Bose
20 Principles of Communication Prof. Surendra Prasad
Web 21 Semiconductor Devices Prof. G. S. Vishveshwaran
Electrical Video
22
Power System Generation, Transmission and
Distribution (Encapsulated from earlier Video) Prof.D.P.Kothari
23 Embedded Systems Prof. Santanu Chaudhary
24 Circuit Theory Prof. S. C. Dutta Roy
25 Bio-Medical Engineering Prof. S. Anand
27 Industrial Drives Prof. K. Rajagopal
Mechanical
Video
28 Kinematics
Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee Prof. A .K. Mallik (IITK)
29
Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
Prof. Anoop Chawla Prof. P. V. Madhusudan Rao
30 Project and Production Management Prof. Arun Kanda
Web
31 Kinematics
Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee Prof. A .K. Mallik (IITK)
32 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing II
Prof. P. V. Madhusudan Rao
33 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing I Prof. Anoop Chawla
34 Project and Production Management
Prof. Arun Kanda Prof. S. G. Deshmukh
IIT Guwahati
Civil
Video 1 Hydraulics Prof. Arup Kumar Sharma
2 Design of steel structures Prof. Damodar Maity
Web
3 Soil Mechanics Prof. Baleshwar Singh
4 Fluid Mechanics
Prof. Subhashisa Dutta Prof. N. Sahoo
5
Construction Planning and
Management Prof. Arbind Kumar Singh
Comp Web
6
Theory of Automata and Formal
Languages Prof. Diganta Goswami
7
Data Structures and Program Methodology
Prof. S. V. Rao Prof. Pradip K. Das
8
Computer Organization and
Architecture Prof. Jatindra Kumar Deka
Core Web
9 Mathematics III
Prof. M. Guru Prem Prasad Prof. Durga C. Dalal
10
Engineering Physics I (Experiment)
Prof. Alika Khare Prof. Pratima Agarwal Prof. S. Ravi
11
Engineering Physics I (Theory)
Prof. Alika Khare Prof. Pratima Agarwal Prof. S. Ravi
Ece
Video 12 Basic Electronics Prof. Chitralekha Mahanta
Web
13 Digital Circuits
Prof. Anil Mahanta
Prof. Roy Paily Palanthinkal 14 Electromagnetic Fields Prof. Ratnajit Bhattarcharjee 15 Probability and Random Processes Prof. Prabin K. Bora
16 IC Technology
Prof. Roy Paily Palathinkal Prof. Indrajit Chakraborty
Mechanical Video 17 Vibration Engineering
Prof. Rajiv Tiwari Prof. S. K. Dwivedy 18 Engineering Mechanics Prof. U. S. Dixit
Web
19 Fluid Machinery Prof. Anoop K. Dass
20 Mechanical Vibrations
Prof. Rajiv Tiwari Prof. S. K. Dwivedy 21 Engineering Mechanics Prof. U. S. Dixit
IIT Kanpur
Civil
Video
1 Environmental Air Pollution Prof. Mukesh Sharma
2 Water Resources Engineering
Prof. Rajesh Srivastava Prof. P. Mohapatra
3 Surveying Prof. Bharat Lohani
Web 4
Advanced Transportation Engineering
Prof. Partha Chakraborty Prof. A. Das
5 Modern Surveying Techniques Prof. Onkar Dikshit 6 Water and Waste Water Engineering Prof. P. Bose
Comp
Video
7 Bioinformatics Algorithms Prof. Somenath Biswas 8 Parallel Algorithms Prof. Phalguni Gupta
9
Introduction to Problem Solving and
Programming Prof. D. Gupta
10
Theory of Automata and Formal
Languages Prof. Somenath Biswas
Web
11 Compiler Design Prof. Sanjeev K. Aggarwal
12
Computer Organisation and
Architecture Prof. Bhaskaran Raman
Core
Video 13
Mathematics I
Prof. Swagato K. Ray Prof. Shobha Madan Prof. P. Shunmugaraj
14 Engineering Physics II
Prof. V. Ravishankar Prof. S. Raychaudhuri 15 Engineering Mechanics Prof. Manoj K. Harbola
Web 16
Numerical Analysis in Computer Programming
Prof. Rathish Kumar Prof. V. Raghavendra Prof. M. K. Kadalbajoo Prof. P. B. Sunil Kumar
17 Basic Electronics
Prof. Y. N. Singh Prof. Joesph John 18 Engineering Mechanics Prof. Manoj K. Harbola
19 Mathematics II Prof. P. Chandra Prof. A. K. Lal Prof. V. Raghavendra Prof. G. Santhanam Ece Video
20 Optical Communication System
Prof. Yatindra N. Singh Prof P. K. Chatterjee 21 Signals and Systems Prof. K.S. Venkatesh
22 Analog Circuits Prof.B.Mazahari Prof.J.John Prof.R.N.Biswas Web
23 Digital Signal Processing Prof. Govind Sharma 24 Microcontrollers and Applications Prof. S. P. Das 25 High Speed Semiconductor Devices Prof. Anjan Ghosh 26 Digital Image Processing Prof. Sumana Gupta
Electrical
Video
27 Intelligent Systems and Control Prof. Laxmidhar Behra
28 Modelling and Simulation
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera Prof. Devendra Chaturvedi
29
Power Systems Operation and
Control Prof. S. N. Singh
Web 30 High Voltage Engineering Prof. Ravindra Arora 31 Power Systems Analysis Prof. Arindam Ghosh
Mechanical
Video
32 Dynamics of Machines Prof. Amitabha Ghosh 33 Finite Element Method Prof. C.S.Uppadhay 34 Kinematics of Machines Prof. Ashok K. Mallik
35
Fluid Mechanics
Prof. Rajesh Srivastava Prof. Debopam Das Prof. Sanjay Mittal
36
Fluid Machinery
Prof. Gautam Biswas Prof. S. Sarkar
Prof. S. K. Som (IITKgp) Prof. Gautam Biswas
40 Introduction to Turbulence Prof.G.Biswas 41 Finite Element Method Prof. P. M. Dixit
IIT Kharagpur
Biotech Video 1 BioChemistry I Prof. S. Dasgupta
Civil
Video 2
Introduction to Transportation Engineering
Prof. K. S. Reddy Prof. Bhargab Maitra 3 Engineering Geology Prof. Debasis Roy
4 Strength of Materials Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya
Web
5 Design of Concrete Structures Prof. J. N. Bandopadhyay 6 Water Resources Engineering Prof. Dhrubajyoti Sen
7 Structural Analysis II
Prof. L. S. Ramachandra Prof. Sudhir Kumar Barai
Comp
Video
8 Computer Networks Prof. Sujoy Ghosh
9 Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Anupam Basu Prof. S. Sarkar 10 Artificial Intelligence(Prof.P.Dasgupta) Prof.P.Dasgupta 11 Internet Technology Prof. Indranil Sengupta 12 Data Communication Prof. Ajit Pal
Web
13 Software Engineering Prof. Rajib Mall
14 Artificial Intelligence
Prof. S. Sarkar Prof. P. Mitra 15 Computer Networks Prof. Ajit Pal 16 Real Time Systems Prof. Rajib Mall Core Video 17 Physics I - Oscillations & Waves Prof. S. Bharadwaj
Ece
Video
18 Digital Systems Design Prof. D.Roychoudhury 19 Digital Image Processing Prof. P.K. Biswas 20 MEMS and Microsystems Prof. Santiram Kal 21 Digital Voice & Picture Communication Prof. S. Sengupta 22 Adaptive Signal Processing Prof. M. Chakaborty
Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti
Electrical
Video
27 Power Systems Analysis Prof. A. K. Sinha 28 Networks Signals and Systems Prof. T.K.Basu 29 Chaos, Fractals & Dynamic Systems Prof. S. Banerjee 30 Energy Resources & Technology Prof. S. Banerjee 31 Illumination Engineering Prof. N. K. Kishore
32 Industrial Automation and Control
Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay Prof. S. SenÂ
33 Industrial Instrumentation Prof. Alok Barua
Web
34
Basic Electrical Technology
Prof. G. D. Roy Prof. N. K. De Prof. T. K. Bhattacharya 35 Power Electronics Prof. D. Kastha Prof. D. Prasad Prof. N. K. De Prof. S. Sengupta 36 Illumination Engineering Prof. N. K. Kishore
37 Industrial Automation and Control
Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay Prof. S. SenÂ
38
Embedded Systems
Prof. Amit Patra Prof. Rajib Mall Prof. A. Routray
Mechanical
Video
39
Design of Machine Elements I
Prof. S. K. Roychowdhury Prof. B. Maiti
Prof. G. Chakraborty
40 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Prof. R. C. Arora Prof. M. Ramgopal 41 Manufacturing Processes II Prof. A. K. Chattopadhyay Prof. A. B. Chattopadhyay Prof. S. Paul Web 42
Design of Machine Elements I
Prof. S. K. Roychowdhury Prof. B. Maiti
Prof. G. Chakraborty 43 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Prof. M. Ramgopal
44 Manufacturing Processes II Prof. A. K. Chattopadhyay Prof. A. B. Chattopadhyay Prof. S. Paul Ocean Video 45
Performance of Marine Vehicles at Sea
Prof.S. C. Misra Prof.D.Sen
IIT Madras
Civil
Video
1 Pre-stressed Concrete Structures
Prof. Devdas Menon
Prof. Amlan Kumar Sengupta
2
Water and Waste Water Engineering
Prof. Ligy Philip Prof. C. Venkobachar Prof. B. S. Murty
3 Construction Planning and Management
Prof. K. N. Satyanarayana Prof. K. Ananthanarayanan
4 Mechanics of solids Prof.M.S.Sivakumar
Web
5 Pre-stressed Concrete Structures
Prof. Devdas Menon
Prof. Amlan Kumar Sengupta 6 Infrastructure Planning and Management Prof A. Veeraragavan
7 Hydraulics
Prof. B. S. Thandaveswara Prof. B. S. Murthy
8 Design of Steel Structures I
Prof. A. R. Shantha Kumar Prof. S. R. Satishkumar
9 Design of Steel Structures II
Prof. A. R. Shantha Kumar Prof. S. R. Satishkumar
Comp
Video
10 Database Design
Dr. S.Srinath(IIIT Bangalore) Prof. D. Janaki Ram
11 Discrete Structures Prof. Kamala Krithivasan
12 Computer Organization Prof.S.Raman
13 Computer Graphics Prof. Sukhendu Das
Web
14 Principles of Communication Prof. Hema A Murthy
15 Computer Networks Prof. Hema A Murthy
16
Introduction to Database Systems and
Design Prof. P. Sreenivasa Kumar
17 CAD for VLSI Design I
Prof. Shankar Balachandran Prof. V. Kamakoti
