One Week ISTE Workshop for Coordinators On Engineering Mechanics

Introduction

An important initiative has been taken by IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur to work with Engineering Colleges in the country to enhance the teaching skills of our faculty colleagues in core Engineering and Science subjects. This is the second phase of Teach One Thousand Teachers programme run successfully earlier by IIT Bombay under the project called "Empowerment of Students and Teachers through Synchronous and Asynchronous Instruction". Two-week ISTE workshops are conducted during the vacation periods in summer and winter. Participating teachers attend live lectures delivered by IIT faculty at a remote center close to their own college, and also attend tutorial and lab sessions conducted in the same centers. The lecture transmission and live interaction takes place in distance mode using the AVIEW technology through internet, at selected remote centers across the country. This initiative is part of the `National Mission on Education through ICT,` which is supported by MHRD. Faculty coordinators are appointed at each remote centre to handle the technology infrastructure and other operational logistics. Additionally, for each workshop there will be a workshop Faculty Coordinator for that subject, who will help in the conduct of labs and tutorials at each center.

We invite expert faculty from various remote centers for a five-day Coordinators` training workshop which is held in IIT Bombay, before the main workshop. These Coordinators then act as Workshop Coordinators during the main workshop, liaising between the participants at their Remote Centers and IIT Bombay from where the workshop is transmitted live. During the main workshop, the Workshop Coordinator at every center supervises the conduct of tutorials and Labs. All the lectures and tutorial sessions are recorded. The final edited audio-visual contents, along with other course material will be released under Open Source. These contents can be freely used later by all teachers and students.

Since December 2009, we have conducted two-week ISTE workshops on "Effective teaching/ learning of Computer Programming," "Database Management Systems," "Basic Electronics," "Thermodynamics," "Software Development Techniques for Teachers of Engineering and Science Colleges," "Heat Transfer," "Solar Photovoltaics", "Computational Fluid Dynamics," "Introduction to Research Methodology", "Engineering Thermodynamics" and "Analog Electronics." We have reached more than 35,000 teachers and helped them to enhance their teaching skills at around 324 distinct Remote Centers across the country.

In the backdrop of the success of these workshops, IIT Bombay now announces another two-week ISTE workshop, on Engineering Mechanics, to be held in December 2013.

Course content

Essentials of Engineering Mechanics:

• Introduction: Fundamentals Concepts and Principles, Review of Vector Mechanics
• Equivalent System of Forces: Reduction of System of Forces to One Force and One Couple, Resultant of Distributed Force System
• Equilibrium of Rigid bodies: Equilibrium in two and three dimensions, reactions at supports and connections, Equilibrium of a two force body and a three force body.
• Analysis of Structures: Equilibrium of Trusses Method of Joints, Method of Sections Compound Truss, Equilibrium of Frames and Machines
• Friction: Laws of Dry Friction, Coefficient of Friction, Angle of Friction, Problems Involving Dry Friction, Belt Friction
• Energy Methods: Work of a Force, Principle of Virtual Work, Application of Principle of Virtual Work to Real Structures
• Potential Energy and Equilibrium, Stability of Equilibrium
• Dynamics and Vibrations: Free Vibrations of Mass-Spring Systems, Simple Harmonic Motion, Equation of Motion, Natural Frequency of Vibration, Free Vibration of Rigid Bodies.

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Mandar Inamdar, Department of Civil Engineering
http://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~minamdar/

Prof. Sauvik Banerjee, Department of Civil Engineering
http://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~sauvik/

Who Should Attend

The workshop is likely to benefit faculty colleagues, who are willing to be prospective Workshop coordinators for the larger main workshop to be held from 25 November to 05 December, 2013. It is mandatory that the prospective coordinators should have taught a course on Engineering Mechanics or Solid Mechanics or Structural Mechanics at the UG level. Furthermore, they should be either from Mechanical, Civil, Applied Mechanics or Aerospace engineering departments. He/she should be familiar with the syllabi and examination pattern of their own college or university. It is preferable that they should have at least 3 years of teaching experience with some experience in conduct of ISTE, QIP workshops.

Duration and Venue

The duration of the workshop is one week (16 - 20 September, 2013), and it will be conducted in IIT Bombay.

Criteria for Certification

NONE

Course Fee

Since the workshop is funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India), there is no course fee for participation. Travel fare reimbursement will be made for up to A/C 2-tier or lowest return airfare, as per GOI entitlement. Please click here

How to Apply

Those wishing to attend this course should register online at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict

Some Remote Centers have been made inactive, because of issues relating to conduct of workshops. Faculty from these centers will be allowed to register for this workshop only after the issues are settled, with IIT Bombay.
The Last date for this settlement is 10th Aug 2013.
Please find the link for the inactive centers here

Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. Enrollment will be strictly online. Multiple registrations from a Remote Center are not allowed. We will consider only the officially nominated participant as the Workshop Coordinator.

Accommodation

Shared Guest House accommodation with standard boarding will be provided free to the participants depending on availability.

Note

Please note that this workshop is conducted under the eOutreach project of IIT Bombay. Live recording of the course and other created contents would be released under Open Source, through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures would be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/institution. All participants are required to sign a No Objection certificate for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the workshop. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr. Mukta Atrey,
Sr Project Manager,
Department of CSE,
Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989/ 4987