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Goal Of Embedded Technology Basic course

To pioneer a revolutionary method of transforming students into industry-ready & highly skilled professionals.

Course Content

The following topics are covered under this course, to various extent, and will not only greatly enhance the technical knowledge of the students but also, it will boost the problem solving as well as critical thinking skills by a significant extent.

Basic Electronics

Foundational concepts such as voltage, current, ohm's law, conservation of energy & matter, DC/AC sources, analog to digital conversion, pulse width modulation etc.

Essential circuits such as voltage & current dividers, first order filters, and I/O drivers

Utilizing EE Lab Equipment

DMM, Power Supply, Oscilloscope, Function Generator

I/O Devices (Labs)

Thermistor, LEDs, Buzzer, Potentiometer, DC motors with Drivers, Hall Effect Current Sensor, Relays, LDR, Photo Transistor, Servo Motor, Accelerometer

Navigating the data sheets & reference manuals to extract useful information quickly

Coding in C

From thoughts to flow chart consisting of logical blocks and finally to lines of C language

Data types, typecasting, order of mathematical operations, coding practices

Designing, Building, and Debugging Embedded Systems

Step by step approach, important considerations, subsystem & component level verifications

Analog & Digital interfaces, communication protocols, inter MCU comms, open/closed loop systems, interfaces with physical reality

System analysis such as sensitivity, tolerances, component selection criteria (e.g. power dissipation), strategy comparison/evaluation/critical thinking/selection, attention to detail, noise behaviors & improvement in UX by effective filtering

Safety limits & protections such as rate/acceleration limits, over current protection

Precision vs accuracy and methods to evaluate it

Troubleshooting various problems with the setup, hardware, and software components as well their interactions

What's Problem & Solution

Problems

The skill gap between the supply of specialized engineers and demands of the industry has spiraled out of control & has not shown any signs of even slowing down
rustration is growing on both sides, job seekers are left without employment while companies & their existing workforce keep finding themselves under more pressure
Taking embedded systems as an example, since it’s a fusion of multiple disciplines (electrical engineering, computer science etc.) the issue is magnified even further
From Bangalore to San Francisco, from startups to established companies, hiring strong embedded engineers is a struggle that keeps getting more and more difficult by the day
While the age of information & technology has brought numerous benefits, it hasn’t been properly integrated into the education systems yet
It has also drastically changed the skill requirements due to increased automation of certain tasks, while the existing education methods & contents haven’t evolved
Understanding of engineering first principles, problem-solving mindset, communication skills, and strength in fundamentals of physics have been found to be severely lacking

Solution

A new method for education has been devised after extensive observations & careful considerations of multiple factors that lead to the above-mentioned problem
The whole concept is flipped upside down - instead of focusing on theories and then putting some of them at test in a lab setting, practicals & projects form the core
These projects are carefully crafted to maximize all 3 key criterias: (1) Igniting natural human curiosity, (2) Direct link to an industry application, and (3) Incorporating a number of valuable & widely practiced engineering fundamentals
For the first criteria, a focus has been put on physically interactive systems, a very potent way of capturing attention of students to the project (and away from virtual world)
For the second criteria, the architecture, instructions, tasks, and outcomes of each project has been crafted in a fashion that they map 1:1 with the way industry functions
For the third criteria, core engineering principles have been prepared with explanations that have strong logical connections to the well-known physical reality to students
Pragmatic approaches, creative thinking, curious ventures, meticulous documentation,effective communication etc. are not only encouraged but also rewarded by the system