Welcome to FOSSEE -- Free and Open source Software for Science and Engineering Education.
Project Goal
The goal of this project is to enable the students and faculty of Science and Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use open source software tools for all their computational needs, thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.
Duration
April 2009 -- May 2012
About the Project
This project is based at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB).
It is funded by MHRD as part of the National Mission on Education through ICT with the thrust area being "Adaptation and deployment of open source simulation packages equivalent to MATLAB, ORCAD etc."
The Principal Investigator is Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay.
The three major components to this project each spearheaded by different Investigators are:
- Python for scientific computing -- Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran
- Scilab -- Prof. Mani Bhushan, Prof. Madhu Belur and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya.
- Multimedia authoring tool -- Prof. G. Sivakumar
