Electronic System Design, Manufacturing, and Human Resource

Abstract

The goal is to make younger generation in India, globally competitive design engineers in Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM). Karnataka government and IESA (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association) are taking major initiative to bring out working policy in ESDM. According to the mentioned ESDM policy, the plan is to bring up 28 million and make them ready for the global product design market. K-Pages provides methods and apparatus to train engineers for the ESDM industry. K-Pages is built on the 4 Quadrant learning method (used in NPTEL) and extends from there on. Quadrant I of K-Pages provides synchronous and asynchronous lectures on OSCAD tools which are free and available in http://www.oscad.in/. It is carried out by using online resources and access device like Aakash tablet PC (from MHRD) with OSCAD tools (runs in Ubuntu 13.04). Quadrant II of K-Pages is using learning and collaboration tools such that engineers are having option of asking questions on a given online content (via spoken-tutorials http://spoken-tutorial.org/) or lectures. It is providing collaborative learning option by integrating others questions and answers with respective technique of board design and analysis. Quadrant III of K-Pages provides training on “product design and product making” to learning students by using hardware and associated software infrastructure. Quadrant IV of K-Pages provides test environment and also certification options to learning engineers.