Workshops & FDPs
37 titles in five tracks, each labelled as hands-on, demo or lecture, with what participants learn and what each side brings. Every programme can be run as a guest lecture, a short workshop, a skill lab or a full FDP.
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Workbook and companion website with calculators, simulators and all code.
Build a solar charger stage by stage: MPPT on the panel side and CC-CV charging on the battery side.
How power flows from the 48 V rack bus to GPU point-of-load converters, and why efficiency and transient response matter.
All titles
Lecture titles cover the subject without claiming project experience. Hardware appears in a title only where a working demo exists.
Participants learn: Size the inductor and capacitor from a specification, build the power stage and close the voltage loop on a microcontroller.
Participants learn: How wide-bandgap devices switch, how gate drive and layout shape the edges, and how to probe them without misleading readings.
Participants learn: Generate PWM, sample voltage and current, and run a digital PI loop on FPGA and DSP hardware.
Participants learn: Trace ringing, noise and hot spots to their cause with a scope, a thermal check and a methodical fault list.
Participants learn: Probe grounding, deskew, current measurement and efficiency tests that give repeatable numbers.
Participants learn: Model a converter and its controller, simulate them, and run the same controller on real-time hardware.
Participants learn: Build a solar charger stage by stage: MPPT on the panel side and CC-CV charging on the battery side.
Participants learn: How a dual active bridge moves power both ways through a high-frequency transformer, shown on a working SiC DAB.
Participants learn: Cell chemistries, charging methods, state of charge and the job of a battery management system.
Participants learn: How EV motors are driven: motor types, inverter switching and the basics of speed and torque control.
Participants learn: How a bidirectional charger lets an EV supply a home or the grid, and what the converter has to do.
Participants learn: Scheduling loads, solar and battery storage to cut a home's peak demand.
Participants learn: Sizing solar water pumps and farm energy systems, and the converters that drive them.
Participants learn: The stages of a two- and three-wheeler charger, why power factor correction is needed and how a charger is specified.
Participants learn: How used EV batteries are tested, graded and reused for stationary storage.
Participants learn: Structure firmware, read sensors and debug on real microcontroller boards.
Participants learn: Read energy meters over Modbus, publish the readings with MQTT and view them live.
Participants learn: Add over-current, over-voltage and watchdog protections, then test that each one actually trips.
Participants learn: Send machine and energy data from an ESP32 to a cloud dashboard with alerts.
Participants learn: Soil and weather sensing, automatic irrigation control and solar-powered field nodes.
Participants learn: Size robot batteries, choose motor drivers and protect the power distribution.
Participants learn: How small machine-learning models on microcontrollers can flag faults from sensor data.
Participants learn: Write Verilog, set pin constraints and run a first working design on an Artix-7 board.
Participants learn: Take a circuit from schematic to a fabrication-ready board in KiCad, with AI as an assistant and an engineer's check at every step.
Participants learn: Prepare fabrication files, assemble the board and bring it up safely on the bench.
Participants learn: Use AI tools for circuit calculations, firmware and documentation, and verify everything they produce.
Participants learn: The path from a working prototype to a product: certification basics, bill of materials and costing.
Participants learn: Rework a student PCB for manufacture: component choice, layout rules and test points.
Participants learn: How power flows from the 48 V rack bus to GPU point-of-load converters, and why efficiency and transient response matter.
Participants learn: Build a constant-current LED driver, add dimming and control it over IoT.
Participants learn: How a switching amplifier turns PWM into sound, and what the output filter does.
Participants learn: Build a constant-current electronic load, a programmable supply or a power meter, and calibrate it.
Participants learn: 48 V DC power plants, battery backup and solar hybrid systems for telecom sites.
Participants learn: Coupled coils, resonance and the converters behind wireless charging.
Participants learn: Isolation, low-noise supplies and patient-safety requirements. Lab: ripple and noise measurement on a basic converter.
Participants learn: Why aircraft and defence systems need light, rugged converters. Lab: efficiency against switching frequency and inductor size.
Participants learn: Drive a BLDC motor, understand commutation and build a basic ESC.
Formats
One topic for a department or a conference session. Online or offline.
One building block taken from specification to a measured result.
The core system built and tested by every team.
The full Build · Measure · Explain programme with a final design challenge.
The skill lab plus a project day, with outcomes mapped for NAAC/NBA.
Titles from different tracks combined to suit your audience and dates.
Consumable kits are provided by me. Kit details are discussed when you enquire.
How my training works · Build · Measure · Explain
Participants take a working system from specification to tested hardware, and learn the habits industry expects: design to a spec, measure before trusting, debug methodically and report clearly.
| A typical workshop | Build · Measure · Explain |
|---|---|
| Teams watch a demo or assemble a ready-made board | Every team builds the complete system, block by block |
| Assembly and soldering | Design to a specification, then build |
| Mostly lectures with a short lab | About 75% of the time at the bench |
| Readings noted without a reference | Predict → measure → compare → explain |
| Slides end with the session | Workbook and companion website stay with participants |
| Everyone repeats the same exercise | Final design challenge on each team's own specification card |
Start from numbers the design must meet, not from a circuit to copy.
Each block is proven before the next one is connected.
Right probe, right ground, right settings, and a reading you can repeat.
Form a hypothesis, test it, and change one thing at a time.
Current-limited first power-up and a checklist before every test.
A filled lab record and a short report of what was found.
Instruments, safety, the specification and the first calculations.
Each block of the system built and tested on its own.
Blocks joined into the full system and the first complete test.
Control or intelligence added, the design challenge, and a review.
1-day taster: Day 1 plus one building block2-day core: Days 1–2 condensed with the core build5-day FDP: the four days plus a project day
Proof
4-day hands-on Skill Lab. 15 teams, 45 participants, one kit per team. The lab's companion website was built for this training.
Hosting a programme
Consumable kits are provided by me. Kit details are discussed when you enquire.
FAQ
Teams of three, with one kit per team.
Hands-on programmes run offline at your venue. Lectures can also be delivered online.
Yes. Programme outcomes and CO/PO mapping are part of the NAAC/NBA documentation pack.
Participant certificates are issued by the host institution.
Yes, anywhere in India and internationally.
Consumable kits are provided by me. Kit details are discussed when you enquire.
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