Achievements

Innovative projects, academic and industry recognition, and translational impact from students and staff at WEL.

WEL cultivates a vibrant community of highly capable and passionate engineers and research assistants who continually demonstrate excellence through developmental activities. Students and staff working at WEL have made numerous contributions through innovative projects, academic and industry recognition, and translational impact.

Course hardware

Hardware kits for lab courses

Product developer: Vivekanand Dhakane

Hardware required for laboratory courses at WEL is primarily designed and manufactured in-house. This tradition has been in place for more than 10 years, and numerous students and staff have participated in developing and benefiting from such hardware for courses and projects. Notable examples include Krypton (Intel MAX V CPLD), Xen-10 (MAX 10 CPLD), PT-51 (Microchip AT89C5131), the IQ modulator board and PicoIRIS, an all-in-one lab-on-board under development.

Outreach

Nirmiti

Product developer: Vivekanand Dhakane

Making electronics affordable, simple and language-independent — from schoolchildren to engineers and hobbyists.

Alumni product

ACPAD

Product developer: Amaldev V

A mountable, wireless, ultra-thin MIDI controller that puts hundreds of instruments, effects and loops on the guitar itself.

Open source

WEL PCR

Low-cost DNA thermal cycler

A standalone PCR thermal cycler for DNA amplification, built for under ₹10,000 and released as an open design.

Research instrument

QMagPi

Developed with PQuest Lab, IIT Bombay

A compact, portable magnetometer built on an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond, developed with the PQuest lab.

Translational R&D

inSPEC CS100

Commercialised by Nirixense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

On-demand measurement of rebar diameter and cover thickness in reinforced concrete structures, being commercialised through a SINE-incubated startup.

WEL Publications

Papers based on the pedagogical activities at WEL, along with the R&D done by students, research assistants and staff working at the lab — each linked to the publisher.

See the publication list