Chennai
SEEK can be used to conduct basic experiments in electronic circuits, digital electronics and linear integrated circuits for second year electronic syllabi. SEEK has 41 devices, including multimeter, bread board, transistors, operational amplifiers, regulators, logical gates, comparators, multiplexers, flip-flops and shift registers.
Explaining the objective of their initiative, Dr S Vaidhyasubramaniam, Dean (Planning & Development) at SASTRA University, said that the objective of this new lab intervention (SEEK) was to make students go beyond the regular syllabus list of experiments to understand theoretical concepts.
“It also gives students a sense of ownership to this mini-lab that they will feed with their ideas and in return increase their intellectual output. It also reduces wastage of time by eliminating unnecessary lab transactions and gives students more time for experimentation,” he said.
Dr John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan, Associate Dean (Research), School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at SASTRA University, said that once the student does an experiment using the kit they could bring it to the laboratory to test it with the equipment fixed in the sophisticated test bench. “We have 20 sophisticated test benches in our laboratory, loaded with power supply and other equipment. Students are expected to design and construct circuits before coming to the lab. The faculty will help if anyone encounters a problem by troubleshooting it,” he said.
Pointing out that such innovations in lab courses, which stretch beyond regular classrooms would be test beds for creative experimentation, Dr Vaidhyasubramaniam said that this would be a sandwich model between a regular lab experiment and an advanced facility, besides an ideal tool to stoke students’ practical skills.
“Breaking stale academic convention is the new norm and such positive disruptions will elevate the quality of graduate output,” he added.
The University has planned the lab curriculum for various electronic courses in such a way that it has students design, construct and execute the circuits. Student can redesign the circuit for different applications.
Students say that this motivates them to do more projects, and they can conduct the experiment at any time to understand theoretical concepts. They also say that students could now teach circuit design concepts to their friends in other branches in the hostel or at home.
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