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Medical devices and IVDs are an upcoming area and there are lots of new developments. It is important to know the right information as regulations can be misinterpreted. This knowledge when disseminated by the regulators themselves along with subject experts and experienced trainers, will have a profound impact. Being an online course will address a larger section of the public. Making it a ‘free course’ will allow many to acquire knowledge in the comfort of their home without paying any money. Demonstration of safety, efficacy, and performance of the medical device and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) kit for use in humans is essential before the product can be approved for import or manufacture and marketing in the country. Medical devices are currently regulated under the definition of ‘drug’. Recent amendments made in the Rule by incorporating specific rules i.e. “Medical Devices Rules 2017’’ [G.S.R. 78 (E) dated the 31st January 2017] are published and are mandatory with effect from 1st January 2018. These Rules provided requirements for import, manufacture, clinical investigation, medical device and in vitro diagnostics. All these had been effectively addressed in this course launched in early 2019 with 10 lectures as a four-week course. This online course (version 1.0) was attended by 657 participants (Jan - Mar 2019). A brainstorming series of discussions were steered by CDSA with CDSCO for incorporating the new updates. The feedback received from version 1.0 participants were sought. Also, the deliberations from various face-to-face programs on medical devices and IVDs that were conducted by CDSA and CDSCO were incorporated to decide the content for version 2.0. This now had 12 lectures spread over 4 weeks (online course). This will involve 4 weekly assignments and a final exit assessment. 4 new lectures have been added in version 2.0INTENDED AUDIENCE : • Medical device industry• in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers• Innovators or start-ups involved in either medical device or IVDs• Regulatory affairs personnel• Human ethics committee members• Clinical trial/research team members• Any person interested to acquire knowledge in this areaPRE-REQUISITES : There is no pre-requisite to undertake this course.INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Medical devices, IVD companies,Research/Academic Institutions, Biomedicalresearch organizations, Regulatory authorities, Medical colleges, Contract research organizations
This course assumes that the student knows how to develop a typical monolithic desktop single user application. We gradually morph such a desktop app into a web app that uses distributed components and serves multiple users at the same time. In this process, we see how familiar ideas like user interfaces, data storage, and front-end vs backend distinctions get reformulated in the new web aware distributed context. We discover how the assumption of multiple users via multiple access points adds new concerns such as identity management and security, and learn techniques for addressing them. At the end of this course you should be able to build a basic distributed web app and analyse constituent elements of the web and mobile applications that you use daily.INTENDED AUDIENCE :B.E/B.Tech, B.Sc, M.E/M.Tech, M.S, M.ScPREREQUISITES : Undergraduate Programming ExperienceINDUSTRY SUPPORT : All Industries that use Computing
This course is designed with the purpose of making the participant an effective user as well as a builder of Decision Support systems (DSS). The course is application oriented and particularly focused towards solving semi-structured decision problems faced by managers in manufacturing and service organizations.INTENDED AUDIENCE:Management, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and related disciplines. PREREQUISITES:No Pre-requisitesINDUSTRIES SUPPORT :Tata Group of Industries, Multinationals, L&T, and similar such manufacturing and service organizations including IT companies
This course aims to introduce the constitutional law of India to students from all walks of life and help them understand the constitutional principles as applied and understood in everyday life. The pedagogy is precise and unique, as per week, the lessons shall be in the form of questions instead of being in pure theoretics. Accompanied with light reading and weekly exercises, the objective of making the Constitution of India, familiar to all students, and not only to law students, this course aims and objectifies legal understanding in the simplest of forms. INTENDED AUDIENCE:Law, Non-Law PREREQUISITES:Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree and / or Ph.DINDUSTRIES SUPPORT:Public Policy, Human Resources, Think-Tanks
The objective of the course is to understand the behaviour of structure especially building to various dynamic loads: such as wind, earthquake, machine vibration and ambient vibration.INTENDED AUDIENCE :NILLPRE-REQUISITES :Basic understanding of structural analysis and knowledge of engineering mathematics.INDUSTRY SUPPORT : NILL
In order to improve the research skills of Indian medical postgraduate (PG) students and teachers in medical institutions, the Board of Governors (BoG) in supersession of Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended a uniform research methodology course across the country. The online course, “Basic Course in Biomedical Research”, will be offered by ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai (www.nie.gov.in).The course will explain fundamental concepts in research methodology. The course includes 23 Lectures covering conceptualization of a research study, epidemiological and bio-statistical considerations in designing a research study, planning and conducting a research study, writing a research protocol and publication ethics. The learning materials will include video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials and assignments. INTENDED AUDIENCE:• Medical Postgraduate (MD, MS, Diploma, MPH) of academic year 01 July 2019 onward)• Teachers in Medical institutions INDUSTRY SUPPORT:Course approved by Board of Governors - in supersession of Medical Council of India, for medical postgraduates and teachers in medical institutions of India
This course will introduce the students to basics of signal processing and systems analysis. We will focus on continuous-time signals and systems, but also give an introduction to discrete-time signals and systems towards the end of the course. This is a very important course for all engineers working in the electronics and communications domain.INTENDED AUDIENCE : 2nd year undergraduate studentPREREQUISITES : Mathematics at 10+2 levelINDUSTRY SUPPORT : All companies dealing with signal processingNOTE:In this course, the explanationwill be in Hindi, but the scientific terms, assignments and exams will be in English.
The course introduces the student to basic principles of geosciences, geological hazards and their applications in civil engineering. The first 4-week modules of this course will help the student to have a better understanding of the interior of the earth, the earth system, and its process. The next 4 week modules will cover geological hazards and environmental impact, active faults and its related hazard in India, the importance of geological structures in dams and tunnels, fluvial geomorphology and groundwater, tsunami, landslide and flood hazard, mapping, monitoring and management of hazards.
This is a basic course in Real Analysis which is a back bone of any course on pure & applied Mathematics and Statistics. This is a very useful course for any branch of science and engineering. The present course has been designed to introduce the subject to undergraduate/postgraduate students in science and engineering. The course contains a good introduction to each topic and an advance treatment of theory at a fairly understandable level to the students at this stage. Each concept has been explained through examples and application oriented problems.
Coordinators: Dr. Sharwan Kumar Shukla Agricultural Biochemistry, IIT Kanpur; Dr. Vinod Kumar Agriculture Economics, IIT Kanpur; Prof. J. R. Yadav Horticulture CSA University, Kanpur.COURSE OUTLINE: Course content encompasses Kharif & Rabi season crops, and gives a detailed description of the general practices for the maintenance of crops. The course has been designed on the basis of class 11& 12 syllabus for agriculture subject of UP Board.
This is a design oriented course. There are many dc-dc converter topologies that are used in power supplies. This course emphasises learning and understanding converter topologies through the aid of open sources tools like octave, gEDA and ngSpice. The course starts with a discussion on rectifier circuits and leads on upto multi-output dc-dc converters. Discussions on various topologies are strengthened with the aid of simulation demonstrations and design exercises.