Free and Open Source Softwares for Engineering Education

Why Free and open source softwares required? 

One student is studying M.Tech second in year college in a college. There will be no subjects for him to read in the second year. He will only do one project and publish his project paper and submit his thesis report to the university.

The project he was working on should never have been done by anyone. If done as a prerequisite, you should get a better output. Or they may have to create a new method. The project itself is worth it.

For a student to do his or her project in real time is very difficult and expensive. For example an EEE student wanted to create a device to reduce power loss on high voltage transmission lines, but he did not go to the transmission lines to make the corresponding exponential work that could not be done artificially creating a HV transmission. Most of the experiments can be done with some software on the computer.

These are called simulation software, which is used by the ECE / EEE modeling of different differential circuits in engineering to look at their outputs. Similarly, some branches in engineering have supplementary software, other than engineering and other streams such as Arts, Commerce, Science, Management, ... Etc.Some of these streams contain some software related to education, and students have to experiment on them. The country needs to develop in technology, so students have to work well in these softwares.

Importance of Free and open source softwares: 

Students will, however, have to purchase software to practice personal or project work on these softwares. Some of these cost thousands of software and some cost in lakhs.

It is impossible for students to buy software with high much amount. Not only Students it is also difficult to colleges. Buying software for any Indian student and any research scholar should not be a burden.

If that happens India's potential will be reduced. It destroys the country's progress.. Indian students' talents remain in poverty.

Benefit should happen to all the people in a country with a population of billions, which means that we have to go to the IT into people.

In 2010, the idea of APJ Abdul Kalam, The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) through National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Carried out a Project. The Project name is FOSSEE (Free / Libre and Open Source Software for Education)

 

Fossee Main Website Interface

The purpose of this project is to provide all free software on a single platform and also provides spoken tutorials on free softwares , how to install, use , educate the students on open source softwares, in our country. This increases self-learning.

As well as the project aims to develop new open source software and develop Indian students skills.

If you are using some other licensed software you may change it with free and opensource software . Developers will tell you how to transfer files.

This FOSSEE is being run by IIT Bomby.

To learn about this fossee, open any browser on your mobile or computer and type https://fossee.in/ in the search bar and press enter. The FOSSEE website will open, here you can find complete information about FOSSEE.

Free (open source) software promoted by FOSSEE :

Free (Open Source) softwares promoted by fossee

Let's look at the free (open source) software promoted by FOSSEE.

These are all free softwares, and you can download and use the software which you need.

1.     Scilab (which is similar to simulink software). Clicking on this will redirect to https://scilab.in/, the website Looks like this.

Scilab.in Website

Click on Download

 then it shows as follows

Download Scilab

click on the file that supports the OS, download it

Click on it, your computer will click on the file that supports the OS, download it, click on the next one and install it.

You can Learn how to use the tools with the help of spoken tutorials.

spoken tutorials.

As well as Next Python Software,

2.     Python

Python is also said to download and install the same,

Python Fossee Website

Next

3.     eSim (This is a software called OrCAD, which is an alternative to it). This software was developed by the IIT Bombay FOSSEE team in India. It is used for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design.

eSim fossee website

4.     Osdag (used for designing steel structures with 3D visuals)

 

Osdag Fossee Website

5.     DWSIM ( it is an Chemical Process Simulator)

 

DWSIM Fossee website

6.     OpenFOAM (This Software for Numerical Analysis of Fluid Flow in Fluid Mechanics)

OpenFOAM 

7.     OpenModelica (used for modelling, simulating, optimizing, and analyzing complex dynamic systems.)

 

OpenModelica 

8.     OpenPLC (which is a programmable logic controller, used to control any process using logical operations)

 

OpenPLC 

9.     Scilab Arduino (experiments with embeded systems are done in this software)

Scilab Arduino 

10.    SBHS (Single Board Heater System) is used to learn about control systems

Single Board Heater System)

11.    R (R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics)

R Website

12.    QGIS (Quantum GIS) Quantum Geographic Information System. This is software for Geography,

Quantum GIS

13.    FOCAL (free and open-source creative art library) is a software for computer graphics.

 

free and open-source creative art library

Using this fossee platform, we can learn as one.

If any of these softwares offer training in Software Courses Colleges, college must pay 25,000 FOSSEEs.

On this site we have our correspondent, who will give you full details of contact.

 

State correspondents

Also FOSSEE Team conducting Fellowships, they give some Tasks. If we complete them, we paid with Money + Certificate. Money is also paid for who prepared textbooks with solved examples for a particular software they given.

For More Deatils to know about the Free and open Source softwares Click Here