Date: 20th July 2024
Participants:: Physical sciences faculty members of Sardar Patel college, Secunderabad.
A full day workshop on Material Sciences’ organized by Osmania Graduates Association and held at Golden jubilee hall, exhibition
grounds, Osmania University on 20th July, 2024 was attended by all the 16 faculty members of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer sciences.
The workshop comprised of three lectures on computer science, mathematics and NEP. Prof. G. Prasad's (Department of Physics)
lecture focused on the integration of computational science with physics. The lecture covered fundamental concepts and practical
applications of computational methods in solving complex physical problems.The key topics were role computational methods
in computational physics, applications of computational science in various fields of physics, simulators, software tools
and programming languages used in computational science that can be applied in other fields. Prof. Prasad helped us realize
that a great onus lies on teachers and being a visionary greatly helps in the long run. He explained how simulators could
help learning of difficult and abstract things He mentioned that simulation tools and coding programs etc could be the topics
of interest and relevance in the next 20 years.
The second lecture was given by Prof. Surender Reddy from Department of Mathematics in a chalk and talk pattern.. His lecture
on group theory that included finite and infinite groups, symmetry groups enabled us to realize the relevance of group theory
in explaining symmetry in physical systems and helped us know about the application of group theory concepts to solve mathematical
and scientific problems and understand the use of mathematics in online shopping.
Prof. Shivraj from Department of Chemistry, OU delivered the third and the final lecture on Quality education-Quality teachers-perspectives
from NEP-2020 in the the post lunch session. The lecture was on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 with a focus on
quality education and the role of teachers in achieving this goal. The lecture highlighted the reforms proposed by NEP 2020
to enhance the educational system in India. The session highlighted the main aims of National education policy (NEP), which
are to encourage and promote creativity and innovation, leadership qualities, research ability, values and good attitudes,
social exposure and physical education. The lecture also highlighted about pedagogy and its role in evolving education into
and enjoyable and experiential learning with conceptual clarity through field visits, promoting learning activities and making
it more discussion based.
Although the chemistry component was missing in this material science workshop, a few points like NRF(National Research
Foundation), ‘update yourself if you do not want to be outdated’ were a few nice take aways from prof. Shivraj’s lecture.
We look forward to attend more such workshops in the future, with lectures on nanomaterials, advancements in nanotechnology,
their role in sustainability etc which are more pertinent to the theme of the workshop and the present day scenario.
