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  • National FOSSEE Awards:

    The FOSSEE Awards Ceremony, dedicated to celebrating brilliance, excellence, and the unwavering spirit towards open-source contribution, was conducted on 17 July 2025 at Prof. B. Nag Auditorium, Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay. The event honoured, all the contributors who have done extraordinary work through various activities, the existing FOSSEE Clubs, the mentors who have guided students.

    The awardees were selected from those contributors who have contributed in the last 2 years (2023 - 2025) to FOSSEE and its activities.

    The criteria for shortlisting were:

    • 3 or more contributions from a student, faculty, or institute.
    • Using FOSSEE-supported software in the institute.
    • Including FOSSEE-supported software in the curriculum.
    • Significant contribution to any FOSSEE-supported software.
    • FOSSEE Clubs that have extensively promoted FOSSEE-supported software and its activities.

    The details of the awardees can be found on: https://fossee.in/awards.

  • INAE-CEEE-IITB Faculty Training Programme:

    The ‘Centre for Engineering Education Excellence (CEEE) Programme for Engineering Teachers’ in Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Bombay, conducted a faculty training programme at IIT Bombay on 8 July 2025. The faculty participants received hands-on training in Osdag, the free and open-source software developed for the design and detailing of steel structures (and their teaching) by FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. This session was a part of the broader CEEE programme, supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and the Infosys Foundation. There were 30 faculty participants who underwent the training. This training aimed to generate awareness amongst faculty members on how to teach concepts effectively with Osdag. 

     

  • INSDAG STTP Workshop, Nirma University, Ahmedabad:

    INSDAG, in collaboration with Nirma University, had organised a short-term training program on Recent Developments in Structural Steel Design on 20 June 2025 at Nirma University, Ahmedabad. The programme had 55 participants. As a part of this STTP, the participants explored Osdag while also learning other commercial alternatives.The Osdag team demonstrated Osdag and imparted training on the design of various components of steel structures using Osdag. This training helped in to generate awareness amongst professionals, faculty members and students about Osdag and explore Osdag as an alternative to commercial software.

  • Faculty Development Program on OpenFOAM :

    FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, conducted a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on CFD-OpenFOAM during 10-13 June 2025. We had an overwhelming response from the Faculty community of CFD from India and abroad. 

    We were glad to welcome over 85 participants for the FDP. The FOSSEE team is grateful to the OpenFOAM Faculty Partners Prof. Dr. Harikrishnan S, Prof. Tushar Chourushi, Prof. Dhiraj Garg, Prof. Manimaran R, Prof. Naren P.R, and Prof. Anirudh Kulkarni for their support in the theory sessions. We thank Prof. Chandan Bose for leading the CFD-OpenFOAM project of FOSSEE. Prof. Janani Srree Muralidharan and Prof. Manaswita Bose from IIT Bombay took interactive sessions during the program. The CFD team members of FOSSEE, Mr. Evan Fernandes, Mr. Manjil Sitoula, Mr. Pranay Pandey, Mr. Nikhil Chitnavis and Mr. Diptangshu Dey took hands-on training sessions during the program. 
     
    All the participants were issued participation certificates. FOSSEE got an overwhelming response for the program with requests for more such FDPs in future.

     

  • MumbaiFOSS 2025:

    MumbaiFOSS, a conference that aims to bring software developers, policy makers, communities and enthusiasts together to learn and inspire. FOSSEE project was the organising partner for this conference. The conference was conducted on 27 April 2025. The eSim team under FOSSEE conducted a hands on session on eSim. Osdag, a cross-platform free/libre and open-source software for the design (and detailing) of steel structures, following the Indian Standard IS 800:2007 developed by FOSSEE was also showcased in the conference. The Osdag team members gave a talk on the same. More than 200 FOSS enthusiasts participated in the conference.

  • CE3618-2024: Advanced Structural Design Course at IIT Bombay:

    As part of the course CE3618-2024: Advanced Structural Design (Design of Steel Structures) tutorial on Osdag was conducted at the Department of Civil Engineering (CE), IIT Bombay on 4 March 2025. There were 30 students in the class. The students learnt concepts like Tension Member Design and Connection Design through Osdag. This was a step towards integrating Osdag in the curriculum of CE at IIT Bombay.

     

  • Osdag hands on workshop at INSDAG STTP workshop, IIT Roorkee GNEC Campus:

    INSDAG, in collaboration with IIT Roorkee, had organised a short-term training program on Structural Steel Design - Limit State Design and IS:18168, on 24 January 2025. As Osdag was envisioned with the objective of familiarising practitioners, students and educators with the limit state design of steel structures, the Osdag team was invited. The Osdag team demonstrated Osdag and imparted training on the design of various components of steel structures using Osdag. There were 30 participants who used Osdag to design steel structures. This training was well received and helped to generate awareness amongst professionals about Osdag. 

  • Scilab Case Study Hackathon:

    The Scilab Case Study Hackathon was organized by the FOSSEE project at IIT Bombay to promote the use of Scilab, an open-source platform for numerical computation, through practical and innovative case studies. The event was conducted in an online mode between 24 December 2024 and 20 February 2025. The objective of the hackathon was to encourage participants to apply Scilab to solve real-world engineering and scientific problems and document their solutions in the form of detailed case studies. These case studies are aimed at helping future learners understand how Scilab can be used in various technical applications.

    The event received around 100 proposal submissions. Some participants were guided to revise their proposals to ensure clarity and relevance. Finally, 20 case studies were shortlisted. The hackathon offered a platform for students and professionals to enhance their understanding of Scilab while also improving their technical writing, documentation, and presentation skills. These contributions will be reviewed and refined further to be hosted on the FOSSEE Scilab website, benefiting the broader community.

    The hackathon concluded with a Result Declaration and Interaction Session, where selected participants were recognized for their efforts. The participants also shared their experiences. The event also served as a step forward in building a repository of practical, application oriented Scilab case studies for academic and self learning purposes. The event received positive feedback from participants.

    The event details can be found here: https://scilab-hackathon.fossee.in/. The Completed case studies are published here: https://scilab.in/case-study-project/completed-case-studies.

  • One-Day Online Workshop on Arduino on Cloud:

    A one-day online workshop on Arduino on Cloud for the students of BSc. and MSc. Physics at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai was conducted on 18 December 2024. The workshop aimed to introduce the students to the integration of Arduino microcontrollers with cloud-based platforms to facilitate real-time data acquisition, monitoring, and control of Physics experiments.
    Objectives of the Workshop were to:
    Familiarise the students with Arduino and its cloud-based applications.
    Demonstrate practical examples of Physics experiments using Arduino.
    Enable students to apply technology for real-time data analysis and project development.
    Bridge the gap between theoretical learning and hands-on experimentation.

  • First 'Industry-Academia Interaction' on CFD-OpenFOAM:

    FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, organized the first Industry-Academia Interaction to foster Research & Development as well as Learning/teaching of Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) using OpenFOAM. Seven members of the advisory board of CFD-OpenFOAM were also present. More joined us online. They comprised of faculty members from India and abroad and people working in the industry. This was an endeavour to synergize the ongoing developments in the field of CFD in academics and the corporate sector. The faculty and industry partners suggested various measures that can be implemented so that the FOSSEE activities can help the corporate sector to augment their R&D effort which in turn can result in well-trained potential employees. The Academia can benefit by connecting their research to the problems that the CFD industry is focusing on at present. The event took place on 29 November 2024, from 10 AM in the conference room of Van Vihar guest house.

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