Department Mechanical Engineering, Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management Bantakal has organized One day Hands on workshop on “MS Excel and Minitab” on 20 March 2018 for final year mechanical engineering students. In the first two sessions, Mr. Vijendra Bhat, Senior Assistant Professor of the mechanical
department conducted hands on sessions on Basics, Calculations by inserting formula and plotting the graphs in MS Excel. Dr. Sudarshan Rao K, Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department took the last two sessions. He covered the topics of Design of Experiments, Taguchi Analysis, ANOVA and Regression Analysis. Finally, Minitab 17 software was demonstrated to the students and they performed the Taguchi Analysis using Minitab software. Students were found enthusiastic throughout the sessions in learning various concepts of both the software.