Report on Two-Day Workshop on Latex

The Department of Science & Humanities of Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda organized a workshop on “LaTeX for Beginners” on 30 April & 25 June 2022. The aim was to provide hands-on practice to the first-year students on the aspects of doing documentation work on the open-source, scientific tool. Mr. Yeshudas Muttu – Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication, Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda was the resource person for this workshop.

Dr. Kala Nayak, Head of Department of Science & Humanities welcomed the students and briefed them about the importance of LaTeX. The coordinator of the workshop Mrs.Vaishali Parakhi introduced Mr Yeshudas .

Students experienced hands-on practice learning sessions through which they got a better understanding of the LaTeX tool and its applications. The content delivery was as per the needs of every student along with interaction. As part of the practical session, Mr. Yeshudas explained how one can write mathematical equations easily in LaTeX. He explained in detail about the Basics of Equations, Math mode, Mathematical Symbols, Sample codes, Brackets and braces. He also explained how the sections, tables, bibliography, etc are created in LaTeX and how Beamer can be used for preparing the power point presentation. Every student edited an IEEE research paper on LaTeX and gained insight on how to insert images, sub-images, equations, tables, and cross references in a research paper.

Towards the end of the session, students were given an assignment on LaTeX which they had to upload on the provided Google drive link. Sixty students took advantage of this workshop.