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Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Greetings from CFI!
Hope everyone is enjoying the winter holidays. We are conducting the series of Online Courses to utilize the winter with
some tech-fun activities. You can register on CFI website and utilize the resources.
Please register for these courses here .

Club

Course Name

No. of
lectures

Topics Covered
Intro to flight & Avionics
How to make a Rubber Band Powered
Glider
Hovercraft
Foam Plane
Quadotor

Aero

Intro to RC
Modelling

Animation and Basics of 3d design

Design
and animation

10

Introduction to
Automotive
systems & Vehicle
dynamics

3 /4

Auto

Vehicle Dynamics (Steering, Suspension,

Brakes)

Finding direction in the night-identifying

Polaris
3-4 Northern constellations each week
locating planets
some interesting objects visible with the
naked eye
observational tips

Astronomy

A beginner's Guide
to the Sky

3/4

Electronics

Introduction to
Arduino

BT

Introduction to
Synthetic Biology

3/4

Computer
Vision

Document
Processing using
Computer Vision

Basics of 3d modelling
Animation
Materials
Rendering

Arduino basics

Introduction to engineering of Biological

Systems

From installation of OpenCV to

processing images of documents

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iBot

Intro to RoboticsBasics to Advanced

WebOps

Different
approaches to
setting up a website

Start from basics of building a bot

Building a line follower
Advanced topics- ROS, Signal processing,
Solidworks

Different approaches to setting up a

website

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Details about each club sessions are as follows:

Aero: Intro to RC Modelling

Content:

Intro to flight & Avionics

How to make a Rubber Band Powered Glider
Hovercraft
Foam Plane
Quadotor

Learning Objective:
To be able to make something fly sitting at Home , following the procedures given in the Tutorials
Start with the basics , make a glider , and finally learn to make a Multi-rotor
Contact: Anil Kumar, 9498098056, anil316619@gmail.com

Animation and Design: Basics of 3D Design and Animation

Content:

Basics of 3d modelling
Animation
Materials
Rendering

Learning Objective:
Complete knowledge of designing and animation
Contact: Ashish Solanki, 9962879051, ashishsolankirocks@gmail.com

Auto: Intro to Automotive Systems and Vehicle Dynamics

Content:

Vehicle Dynamics (Steering, Suspension, Brakes)

Learning Objective:
To understand the basics of vehicle dynamics of a passenger car
Learn about the longitudinal, lateral and vertical dynamic aspects of vehicles

Contact: Anil Parsi, 9043808618, anilparc@gmail.com; Sai Akhil Matha, 8056128354, akhilhussey@gmail.com

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Astronomy:
Content:

Finding direction in the night-identifying Polaris

3-4 Northern constellations each week
locating planets
some interesting objects visible with the naked eye
observational tips

Learning Objective:
To know the basics of star gazing and observation of the sky with naked eyes
To be able to identify stars by their name by knowing their relative position with respect to the others
To know where to look for messier objects
Contact: Anup Borade, 9884180124, boradeanup@gmail.com; Sunil Simha, 8682842342, ph13b011@smail.iitm.ac.in

Electronics: Intro to Arduino

Content:

Arduino basics

Learning Objective:
To be able to learn the basics of working with an Arduino by sitting at home and going through tutorials and
testing out the sample programs
Contact: Sachin Nayak, 9498073869, sachinnayaklris@gmail.com

BioTechnology: Intro to Synthetic Biology

Content:

Introduction to engineering of Biological

Learning Objective:
Analysis of few related projects - IGEM Projects
Applications of synthetic biology in research and industry
Contact: Avisek Barla, 7845743009, avisek.iamonly.barla@gmail.com;
Prathyusha, 7200631666, prathyushakonda81@gmail.com

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Computer Vision: Document Processing using Computer Vision

Content:

From installation of OpenCV to processing images of documents

Learning Objective:
Learning the basics of computer vision and image processing
Contact: Adarsh A Tadimari, 9789091025, adarsh.tadimari@gmail.com

iBot: Intro to Robotics- Basics to Advanced

Content:

Start from basics of building a bot

Building a line follower
Advaced topics- ROS, Signal processing, Solidworks

Learning Objective:
Diving into the world of robotics, different topics al in one place to provide an introduction to getting to learning
Contact: Kunal Grover, 9043807241, kunalgrover05@gmail.com; T K Balasaravanan, 9840892717, balatk95@gmail.com

Web Operations: Easiest Way to Websites

Content:

Different approaches to setting up a website

Learning Objective:

At the end of the course, one will be aware of various ways to set up website for themselves/business.

Contact: Tejaswin, 9176493426, stejasvin@gmail.com

Cheers!

Core Team,
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