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Implementation of ICT in engineering education involves use of ICT for delivery of classroom lectures,

demonstration and conduct of laboratory experiments, course and class management and administration. Classroom

teaching is assisted by presentations that contains sufficient material, circuit diagrams, network diagrams, process

diagrams and flowcharts. Softcopies of the books prescribed in the syllabi may be used while delivering the lectures.

While explaining a circuit or program simulation software and compilers may be used in classrooms for better

understanding of the lessons. Animations and visualizations can be used to demonstrate the working of a

component, functioning of a circuit or process. ICT equipment like visualizers, or digital still and video cameras can

be interfaced to projectors in absence of visualizers to demonstrate experiments in laboratories to cover entire class

in one go and thus save time which otherwise may require repetition for each group of students of a particular class.

Simulation software, engineering design and evaluation tools, mind-mapping tools e.g. MatLab, Mathematica,

MathCad, Octave, OrCAD, SPICE, AutoCAD, Solid Works, Inspiration, MindManager, etc. can be used in

networked computing laboratory to demonstrate and carryout experiments which otherwise could have not been

carried out in hardware laboratories due to non-availability of relevant or sufficient instruments or component(s) or due to time constraints. There are numerous such computer based tools that support engineering laboratories for

each branch of engineering. Various experiments in engineering laboratories employ direct or indirect use of

computers as many laboratory equipment are nowadays operated via some computer based interface. E-learning can

further augment engineering education by use of e-resources, online courses, blended learning, lecture management

systems, and other communication and collaboration tools. A typical lecture management system has facilities for

content delivery, e-mail, tasks/exercises, forums, mailing lists, exams, self-assessment, surveys, group work, chat,

calendar, FAQs, wikis, blogs, glossaries, videoconference, notebook, whiteboard, learning paths, student portfolio,

podcast, student tracking, and podcast. In absence of lecture management system Team viewer, MS Lync or other

similar tools may be used to deliver short online lectures, simulations, etc. Such tools often have an online white

board for narrations during the delivery. Other web tools like SkyDrive, MS Office 365 for education, Google Docs,

etc. can be used to work in collaboration on seminar papers, project reports, experimental write-ups, etc. Online

tools and Social Networking websites such as Google Talk, Skype, etc. can be used for AV and text Instructions,

sharing relevant news and notices, etc. A recent study (Banday, 2012) has reported positive impact of the use of

these tools on the learning outcome in some courses of electronics engineering.