Electronics For You- Skill Development Centre (ESDC)

Coordinator: Mrs. A. S. Sarika

EFY is an Indian technology-oriented publishing organisation, based in New Delhi. The EFY Group’s first magazine, Electronics for You, was launched in January 1969, when the Indian electronics industry was still at an emerging stage. Today, it has grown into South Asia’s most popular electronics magazine. The company provides hands-on training courses, and manufacture and market Do-It-Yourself electronics projects and kits. EFY also conducts a set of major events on a regular basis, targeting design engineers, developers, technologists and technical decision makers. The biggest among these is EFY Conferences, under which comes Electronics Rocks as well as the iotshow event. These events also have short-term technical courses that are designed to provide students with practical hands-on training. In order to train and fine tune the talents of the Electronics and Communication Engineering students, an ESDC centre was started at Amrita College of Engineering and Technology in the year of September 2019.

Objectives of ESDC

The main objective of this initiative is to educate ECE students and ensure that the future engineers are well equipped with the latest technology skills that the growing Indian industry employers’ value. The initiative includes setting up a special skill development centre namely Electronics for you-Skill development centre (ESDC) to enable students to Create Design Build Operate (CDBO) innovative projects involving the use of modern technology. Such projects will make the students industry ready with advanced skills.

Benefits to the students

All the student members of the EFY group has access to the following resources during their course of study:

  • Online courses on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Robotics etc.
  • Monthly subscription of EFY magazine
  • Best project publication in EFY magazine.
  • DIY (Do-It-Yourself) kits like Firm Alarms, Sensors, Doorbell etc self-learning kits like Microcontroller, Arduino ,Raspberry Pi etc. , books and electronic components.
  • Monthly Webinars and course certifications
The following are the online certification courses are offered by ESDC to the student members at free of cost:
Beginner Level Courses (BLS)
  • Introduction to Raspberry Pi
  • Master Arduino without coding
  • Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT) using Raspberry Pi 2
  • Exploring the ESP32
  • Intermediate Level Courses (ILS)
  • Automation with Raspberry Pi zero
  • Raspberry Pi meet Arduino
  • Raspberry Pi robotics
Advanced Level Courses (ALS)
  • IoT enabled Aeroponics using raspberry Pi 3
  • Arduino for biometrics
  • Humanoid Robotics using Raspberry Pi
  • Advanced home automation using raspberry Pi 3
  • Facial recognition using Raspberry Pi and opencv
The following DIY Self Learning electronic kits are provided by EFY using which hands-on training is provided to the EFY-ESDC student members
  • Fire Alarm
  • FM Booster
  • Musical Door Bell with Memory
  • Sunset Lamp
  • Burglar Alarm
  • Parallel Telephone Ringer
  • Cordless FM MIC
  • Design Your Own Remote
  • Wireless TV Headphone
  • Battery Low Indicatore
  • Luggage Security System
  • Power Failure and Resumption Alarm
  • Simple Code Lock
  • Water Level Controller cum Motor Protector kit
  • Timer for Students
  • Two door bell
  • Remote control for Home Appliances
  • Anti-bag snatching alarm
  • Anti-Theft Alarm for Vehicles
  • AT89C2051 based countdown timer
  • Microcontroller based Tachometer
  • Microcontroller based code lock
  • Temperature Indicator using ATC Microcontroller
  • Raspberry Pi Self learning kit
  • Arduino self-learning kit
  • PIC self-learning kit
  • AVR Microcontroller Self learning kit
Faculty and Students:
Announcement
  • INAUGURATION OF CDBO (Create-Design-Build-Operate)-ESDC centre powered by EFY, 4 October, 2019 In order to promote Industry-Institute-Interaction, Amrita College of Engineering and Technology inked MoUs with (1) MI Measuring Instruments, Madurai, (2) VI Microsystems Pvt. Ltd., Perungudi, Chennai and (3) EmCog Solutions, Chennai
  • EFY ESDC MENTOR MEETING, 21 January 2020, 11:00 AM
Event Organized
Sl. No Event name Name
1 MoU signing ceremony 10-04-2019
2 EFY Mentor meeting 21-01-2020
3 Three days Virtual Hands-On Training on Image processing using MATLAB and Arduino programming 11-01-2021
4 Workshop on Power Electronics Lab using PSPICE 12-05-2021
5 “ABHOGA 2K21 Circuit Debugging Competition” 21-05-2021
6 One day Hands on training on Sensors and Transducers 07-09-2021
7 Mini Project Expo - Intra Colleges 11-04-2022
Upcoming Event
Sl. No Event Proposed Date
1 Hands on training on Arduino for EEE and ECE students 15/5/2022
2 Innovation contest 2/6/2022