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Post subject: Portable unit for engineering students 
CHENNAI: Engineering students will no longer have to grapple with aging microprocessors in their college labs. Wipro has developed a laptop-sized
portable unit called the Unified Learning Kit (ULK), which can be used to conduct digital experiments and handle projects.
Most engineering colleges use Intel 8086 microprocessors that were developed about 25 years ago and do not match current industry requirements. Students, therefore, face a handicap when they join work. To enable them overcome it, Wipro decided to develop the kit, equipped with open source hardware and software tools. The kit evolved out of deliberations during training given to engineering faculty under the Mission10X programme (a non-profit trust was created to bridge the industry-academia gap to make engineering graduates employable in 2007).
The ULK unit can be used by undergraduate students in electronics and electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, electronics and instrumentation engineering, computer science engineering and information technology streams. It is currently programmed to be used for 12 courses, although it is compatible for all courses using digital technology. The 12 courses are: digital electronics, microprocessors or microcontrollers, signals and systems, digital signal processing, computer architecture, operating systems, systems programming, embedded systems, VLSI design, digital communication systems, digital control systems and multimedia systems.
"A prototype has already been developed. The kit is aimed at cutting the academia-industry gap and will be introduced in some of the engineering colleges as a pilot project in a year," said S Nagarjuna, general manager, Wipro, at a leadership workshop organised on Thursday for principals of engineering colleges under Mission10X.
"We are planning to get intellectual property (IP) rights for the product and then release it in the market. Initially, it will be given to colleges and then made available in the market. Once mass production starts, the unit will become affordable for students," said a Wipro executive.
Under the Mission10X programme, Wipro plans to train 10,000 faculty members by 2010, according to Nagarjuna; 1,034 members have already been trained.
"My teaching now includes role play and an innovative quiz instead of a boring 60-minute lecture. I had a student who used to sleep through the classes. But after I introduced the interactive lessons, he started to show interest," said Sara Joseph, who teaches microwave and radar at the SCNS School of Engineering Technology in Kochi.
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