ahmedabad students and faculty from across the country have arrived at indian institute of technology gandhinagar iitgn to learn basic engineering courses the fourweeklong summer school at the institute took off on monday with almost 50 percent of its participants coming from outside gujaratthe summer school which is offered under technical education quality improvement programme teqipii initiative by mhrd and government of gujarat aimed to provide the participants with better understanding and effective teaching methodology for the first three years of engineering educationthe summer school has received 190 participants including faculty and students of various institutes from across the country out of this 90 participants have come from various other states including andhra pradesh karnataka maharashtra madhya pradesh rajasthan uttar pradesh kerala and othersan engineering student of peoples education society in bangalore nitish swamy who is taking part in the summer school said i came here as this was a very good opportunity to revise and enhance what i have studied in college i am taking part in two courses and i am enjoying ita faculty of government engineering college patan ghanshyamkumar shah who was also a participant of the summer school said i am participating in this to understand how iitgn is teaching the engineering courses this will help me by enhancing my skills as a teacherthe program covers a set of 15 courses including electrical machines control systems geotechnical engineering laboratory structural analysis fluid mechanics data mining and machine learning analog cmos integrated circuits soil mechanics and foundation engineering water resource engineering thermodynamics signals and systems algorithms design and analysis power electronics parallel computing and semiconductor devices fundamentals and applications