Internship

Textbook Companion Internship

The Oscad Textbook Companion project is managed by the FOSSEE project, IIT Bombay.

Textbook Companion internship is an internship programme for college students who want to undertake an internship. The project will require a teacher as a mentor. The mentor must have taught the specific subject for at least one year. The mentor will guide the student through the project and will be responsible for the student's/intern submissions.

The procedure is as follows:

1. You should know or learn Oscad. Resources are provided at Oscad Resources. Learning Oscad is easy and if someone listens to and practices the Spoken Tutorials on Oscad, it can be learned in 2-3 days. For use of any software package other than Oscad, contact us at textbookcompanion@oscad.in

2. You should propose three books in the order of your preference, using the proposal form available here. You have to create a new account and log in to access the proposal form. You must ensure that the books you are proposing have not been been completed or undertaken under this project. Click on Completed Books and Books in Progress to see the respective lists.

We will try to allot one of the three proposed books to you. Along with the book proposal, you are required to send a typical chapter's solved examples project file using Oscad from one of the three proposed books to textbook-companion@oscad.in in a .zip or .tgz file. We will not contact you to send the code.
It is suggested that you propose the book as early as possible, and not wait for the last date as your preferred book may be assigned to someone else.

3. You will be intimated about the approval or rejection of your proposal via email within 3 days. If you are selected, then your name along with the proposed textbook will appear under Books in Progress.

4. After final allotment, you will start creating schematics and perform simulation of only the solved simulation examples from the entire book. You are required to upload the project files on the interface. Also, send the code to your mentor.

Note: Lack of regularity on your part may force us to cancel your internship and the book will be assigned to another intern. Simultaneously, you should fill the IITB registration form and post it to us. All the required forms are available at Required Internship Forms

5. The time-frame for completion of the book coding will be decided together by you, your mentor and us.

6. Review of the book - The review of the book will typically take approximately 10 days to finish. If any code is found to be not producing the desired result during review process, the student will have to recheck and resubmit all the codes.

7. Candidates who finish the report as per specified procedures will get an internship certificate: "Certified that the work completed is equivalent to six weeks of training under the supervision of the concerned faculty of IIT Bombay".

8. You will be awarded an honorarium of ₹ 150 per example and your mentor ₹ 100 per example for completing this work. For details please click here.

For any further query or clarification, please contact us at the following email address: textbook (at) oscad(dot) in.