Universal Testing Machine

Apr

2024

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DST Secretary Prof. Abhay Karandikar inaugurates SATHI facility at IIT Kharagpur

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Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST) visited Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institute (SATHI) facility, a flagship programme of DST, GOI, hosted at IIT Kharagpur and inaugurated the highly sophisticated R&D infrastructure: Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) and High-Resolution Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Micron (HRTEM), one of its kind, on 12th April, 2024 in the presence of Prof. V K Tewari, Director; Prof. Amit Patra, Deputy Director; Prof. Rintu Banerjee, Dean, R&D; Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee, Chairman, SATHI of IIT Kharagpur along with the students, faculty and staff members of the institute and other officials of…

Apr

2023

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By Poulami Mondal

Virtual Reality – The New Tool for SMART Education

Collaborations, Institute, Research & Innovation, Study@IITKgpAcademic Collaboration, Augmented Reality, Chemical, Civil, Collaboration, Ed-Tech, Electrical, Innovation, iVAR Lab, iXRLabs, Knowledge, Mechanical, Mixed Reality, Real-time Feedback, research, Skills, Start-up, Thermal Power Plants, Universal Testing Machine, User-Friendly Technology, Virtual Reality, VR modules

iVAR Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur has joined hands with a Gurugram-based ed-tech startup iXRLabs to explore the use of VR as a pedagogical tool in higher education. Under this collaboration, iVAR lab will share students’ experience of virtual reality modules across branches such as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical developed by iXRLabs. The collaboration will enhance students' learning experiences through immersive VR modules. The modules will cover a wide range of industrial settings which include machinery, plant tours, and experiments such as a jet engine, thermal power plant and universal testing machine. This will promote…