The 40-40 Code: Ravi Ram Ahuja’s Second Shift

Ravi Ram Ahuja – NPTEL STAR As the sun set on another workday and colleagues powered down their laptops to embrace work-life balance, Ravi Ram Ahuja quietly began his personal second shift of work-study harmony. A corporate manager in international business at a manufacturing firm, he had stumbled upon NPTEL during the 2020 lockdown’s anxious hush, …

Decade of Discovery : Pruthvee Mamidikuduru’s NPTEL Journey as a Lifelong Learner

Pruthvee M – NPTEL Believer, Elite + Silver Awardee, Elite Awardee On most days, Pruthvee Mamidikuduru could easily pass for the archetypal busy technologist, managing high‑performance computing clusters at ONGC, coordinating with Geoscientists, and leading development of in‑house applications that keep a PSU running. Yet if you look a little closer, the label he chooses for …

NPTEL Courses Propelled an Engineer’s Research in E-Governance for Process Safety

Dheerajkumar R Narang is a seasoned corrosion, reliability, and process safety engineering specialist. He is presently employed with the integrated asset management department and digital manufacturing services unit of L&T Technology Services Limited. DheerajKumar is also a PhD Student at the Information Systems Engineering & Management Department of Harrisburg University of Science & Technology, Pennsylvania, …

DRDO, IIT-Madras and more – How NPTEL courses helped Raghavendra in his accomplishments

DRDO and IIT-Madras are dream places for most people that they hope to work or study at, one day. But for Raghavendra Chowdery, these are already impactful points on his resume. He completed B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering from Guru Nanak Institute Technical Campus, Telangana and graduated in 2019. After completing his final year project with …

From being a Motivated Learner to motivating everyone with her journey – A Tale of how Dr Swagata Sarkar has dabbled in multiple fields while doing over 20+ courses with NPTEL

With two Masters, a Doctorate, a Diploma, an MBA degree and an MSc in Psychology in her list of accomplishments already, Dr. Swagata Sarkar insists that it is her good fortune that has given her opportunities to learn more and more. Her passion for delving into subjects and learning in depth and hard work are …

Gaining Competitive Advantage With Continuous Learning

Though Abhijit Sinha completed his MBA from Pune University in 2003, it was not until 2017 that his “bring up-to-date” journey began. When his IIT-Kharagpur alumnus brother made Abhijit understand the need and importance of upskilling and updating, it made him thinking. The first step was an Executive Development Programme in Human Resources Management from …