The
certified three-day workshop was conducted by the EE-Tech Student Club, College
of Engineering, in coordination with the Renewable Energy Lab to benefit the
students to grab knowledge in MATLAB and Simulink. A total of nine students
registered and attended this workshop, and all the students were successfully
trained by Dr Maged Esmail, Dr Mahajan Sagar Bhaskar, and Engr. Sivakumar
Selvam. On the first day of the workshop, the topic "Introduction of
MATLAB, Desktop Overview, MATLAB Commands, Matrices, Arrays, Saving and
Importing Data, M-file Script, and User Functions, Data Visualization, MATLAB
Help, if statements and loops, Projects" are covered with hands-on
practice. On the second day of the workshop, "Introduction to Simulink,
Simulink libraries, SimPowerSystems tools, circuit simulation, and analysis of
circuits" were discussed, and students were instructed to handle the MATLAB
Simulink platform. The third day started with the introduction to Arduino and
digital controllers. The hardware support package in MATLAB Simulink, installation,
and configuration of hardware design in the Simulink environment, C - code
generation, demonstration in interfacing Arduino microcontroller and
programming from MATLAB, live code execution and tuning, additional demos on
Arduino and peripherals were discussed with hands-on practice. On the same day,
students were given a brief introduction to the application of MATLAB in a
real-time application in the Power Electronics Domain. The knowledge gained in
this training will help the students while working on academic or industrial
projects, internships in companies, and careers after graduation.