Two Days Workshop on “Arduino for Physics Experiments” inaugurated at SMVDU

School of Physics, SMVDU is organizing an ICT based Two Days Workshop on “Arduino for Physics Experiments”, in collaboration with IIT Bombay from 18-19^th January, 2024.  The workshop participants are faculty members, technical staff, Research scholars and students from science and engineering disciplines of SMVDU. The main objective of this workshop is to introduce the use of Arduino to the participants of various schools in the institution which will enable them to learn to use this versatile platform to explore and perform desired Physics experiments. The workshop includes lectures/ hands-on-experiments. A number of hardware demonstrations and Arduino on cloud were introduced by resource persons from the Free & Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) project under the leadership of Prof. Kannan M. Moudgalya, Head of Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay.  The participants also came across quizzes, assignments and discussions at various intervals throughout the first day of the workshop. The coordinators of the event are Dr. Pankaj Biswas and Dr. Jitendra Sharma, Assistant Professors from School of Physics and Mr. Dinesh Sharma, audio/ video coordinator, SMVDU. The resource persons were Rajesh Kushalkar along with his other team members who conducted hand-on-sessions on Arduino programming, Arduino on Cloud. The coordinators of the workshop extend their gratitude towards Prof. Pragati Kumar, Honorable Vice Chancellor for his valuable support and encouragement in smooth conduct of this workshop and Dr. S. K. Wanchoo, Head, SoP and Dean FoS, SMVDU for facilitating the organizing process as and when required.