FOSSEE (Free & Open Source Software in Education)

Faculty Training Programme - Basic Programing using Python by FOSSEE FOSSEE team conducted a Faculty-Training Program - a hands on Python Workshop at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Karnataka from 21 to 23 August, 2017. Faculty from various colleges affiliated to the VTU actively participated in this 3 day program. Python programming session at VTU The workshop comprised of introductory Python videos by Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran (PI FOSSEE) that gave the teachers an insight to the applications of Python programming in various other domains. This was followed by hands on session with Python programming wherein the participants got a chance to write the code themselves as they watched the videos. Faculty watching the Python videos by FOSSEE FOSSEE's Python instructors Arun KP and Binson Babu guided the participants throughout the workshop. Quizzes, intense practice sessions and fun exercises taken up by the participants on the onl

Chasing your area of interest is by far the infallible trait one can have. "Super Critical Fluid Extraction of Essential Oils using Carbon dioxide" is one thing that made me curious - be it the multi phase flow, solubility limit constraints as the driving force, extensive thermodynamic modelling of solubility of solutes in critical state of carbon dioxide. Extensive literature survey, Design of experiments using Response Surface Methodology were some areas explored in my under graduation. A book by Prof. Mamata Mukhopadhyay was my initial reference to begin with. IIT Bombay and the people involved could boast of working on that "Zero Waste and pure product" area, procuring a pilot plant and propose applications in the realm of nuclear power plants too. It took more than 2 e-mails, samples of my previous work, a month duration, casual talks between Prof. Kannan Moudgalya (CO PI of FOSSEE Project) and Mamata ma’am to convey my willingness to work