The Department of Engineering organized a two-day workshop as part of the community outreach program to 26 staff members of Ministry of Education on March 10-11, 2019.

The workshop entitled “Robotics Assembly and Programming” which was facilitated by Mr. Michael Dalisay, Mr. Donnie Solano, Mr. Markandan and Mr. Sivakumar covered the following topics: Robot C installation and motor set-up configuration, testing of motors, ultrasonic and line follower sensors and autonomous and non-autonomous demonstration of robots.

In the Electronics Circuit Assembly Workshop, the participants learned the different electronic components, how to make connections and test the circuit on the breadboard. Mr. Gulam Wahid and Mr. Khalid Al-Harthi were the workshop facilitators.

Participants also undergone the training related to basics of Arduino Programming which was presented by Dr. Jamaludeen. He discussed the Arduino Uno board and its parts, the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and demonstrated some examples.

This program helped the participants to improve and strengthen their skills and keep them updated with the current technology which they can apply in their current job.