Electromechanical Systems Design with Semiconductors: Building a Drone

Dates: May 28, 2025 to June 10, 2025 (10 Days, No Lectures or Labs on Saturdays and Sundays).
Venue: Makerspace Lab, First floor, Transit Building (near BETIC and Electric Power House), IIT Bombay Academic Area
Course Eligibility:
- Undergraduate engineering students who have finished their first or second year of study
- Faculty members teaching in engineering colleges
Course fees: (includes GST, lunch, and snacks)
- Rs 25,000 for students
- Rs 50,000 for faculty
Registration: Registration to this course will be done in two stages.
- Stage 1 Registration: Fill the Google form at https://forms.gle/uUSK7ieYMHgyjHJs8s. Scan the below QR code to load the form.
  
  Applicants will be screened to ensure that they have the required background. Selected applicants will be informed by email and through mobile.
- Stage 2 Registration: If you are selected in stage 1, you will be asked to pay the course fee on the IIT Bombay CEP portal.
Last Date for Registration: May 15, 2025
Accommodation: Limited accommodation at IIT Bombay hostels will be available on payment basis. The accommodation charges are not included in the course fees.
Contact: For queries, please email makerspace.outreach@gmail.com
Course brochure: Click here to download the course brochure

Introduction

All major universities worldwide have established MakerSpace Labs to impart hands-on experience to their students to conceptualize and build interesting student projects. Three years ago, IIT Bombay started MS101 MakerSpace as a first-year undergraduate compulsory course for all its first-year UG students. Expert faculty members from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering departments lead the course. This program has been an enriching academic experience for IIT Bombay. As a result, the UG students in their first year get a flavour of engineering design. It has enabled students to conceptualize and build better projects in their senior years.

India is currently seeing a lot of industrial growth in semiconductor technology. Presently, Micron, Tata and CG Group have initiated IC packaging. With Tata embarking on an ambitious journey into IC manufacturing, India stands at the threshold of a remarkable transformation. This pioneering effort is poised to propel a surge in demand for a talented workforce in the semiconductor industry. The future looks bright, and the potential for growth is limitless!

IIT Bombay-MakerSpace and the IIT Bombay Centre for Semiconductor Technology (SemiX) are organising a two- week summer outreach course on Electromechanical Systems Design with Semiconductors: Building a Drone. This course is for students from other engineering colleges who have finished their first year of engineering. The course includes lectures and hands-on laboratory experiments in basic mechanical engineering and electronics (including semiconductor technology). Students will also visit the IIT Bombay Nanofabrication Facility to learn about semiconductor research and development.

Course Objective

To give hands-on experience on basic Electronic circuits, Arduino interfacing, Mechanical design and fabrication skills, finally culminating in a drone project.

Course Content

Electrical Engineering: Lectures on basic electric networks, diodes, unregulated DC power supply, regulated DC power supply, logic gates and multiplexers (MUX), flip-flops, Arduino platform and basic interfacing, Battery-Operated (BO) motor control.

Laboratory experiments on familiarization with bread boards, digital multimeter (DMM), digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO), Arbitrary Function Generators (AFG), RC filter, half wave and full wave rectifiers, unregulated and regulated DC power supplies, Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL) IC interfacing, implementation of logic circuits using MUX, Synchronous counters, LFSR circuit, Arduino familiarization, analog and digital I/O, BO motor control.
Mechanical Engineering: Lectures on introduction to Fusion 360, sketching and visualization, orthographic projections, 3D solid modelling, components and assembly, generative design, simulation, and manufacturing.

Laboratory experiments on 3D modelling, generative design, mechanism modelling, prototype fabrication and assembly.
Course Project: Building a drone and flying it using a Joystick. This will involve soldering the Joystick PCB, making 3D printed landing gears, and assembling the drone, calibrating the Joystick and drone, and finally flying it. Last four days of the course will be devoted to the project. Course participants will be doing this project in groups of three.
Semiconductor Technology: Lectures on semiconductor fabrication and packaging technologies, followed by a visit to to the IIT Bombay Nanofabrication Facility.

Course Faculty

Faculty from the Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments of IIT Bombay.