2023 International Conference on Network, Multimedia and Information Technology (NMITCON) 979-8-3503-0082-6/23/$31.00 ©2023 IEEE A MATLAB GUI for Engineering Education for Undergraduate Laboratory Courses in India 1 st Sundari Tribhuvanam Department of ECE Atria Institute of Technology Bengaluru,India stribhuvanam@yahoo.co.in 4 th Chandan K R Department of ECE Atria Institute of Technology Bengaluru,India chandanschandus16@gmail.com 2 nd B R Srirangaraju Department of ECE Atria Institute of Technology Bengaluru,India brsrirangaraju10@gmail.com 5 th Golla Harikrishna Department of ECE Atria Institute of Technology Bengaluru,India harikrishnanaidu8096@gmail.com 3 rd Bhanu Prakash K S Department of ECE Atria Institute of Technology Bengaluru,India bhanusurya2001ah@gmail.com Abstract—In India, the National Education Policy (NEP) has brought a paradigm shift in the field of Engineering Education. Understanding the entire flow of the syllabus from the first to final year of any programme itself is a task for any citizen. The main focus of this work is to build a virtual tour of the syllabus flow for the under graduate engineering program. A GUI-based virtual tour is developed for the laboratory courses for a better understanding of the curriculum by the user. A database of laboratory manuals is generated that works with MATLAB software. For easy access of the laboratory manuals and to conduct experiments, a MATLAB GUI-based tool is created with satisfactory results. The qualitative approach is incorporated to display the results of experiments of the database. This work presents a mini encyclopaedia of Laboratory manuals of Electronics and Communication Engineering programme with instructions for checking any experiments that run on the MATLAB platform and facilitates easy understanding for the user. Keywords— Engineering, graphical user interface, MATLAB, National education policy, virtual tour. I. INTRODUCTION Education is fundamental right to achieve full human potential, and promoting national development. Globally accepted high-quality education is the best way for developing and increasing the country's rich human resources and talents for the betterment of the individual person, the society, the country at large, and the world. National Education Policy (NEP) of India has a vision of a new education system rooted in Indian ethos that has direct contribution to transform the country to an equitable and vigorous knowledge society, by providing high-quality education opportunities to all, thereby making India a superpower of knowledge. Students are the prime stakeholders in the education system. The current focus is on outcome based education (OBE). An educational outcome is what the student should be able to do after successfully completing an academic programme, course or instructional unit. The main benefits of OBE are potential of discourse, the explicitness in its relevance, accountability, inherent clarity, flexibility, self-directedness, including an integrated framework for teaching-learning, and assessment process. OBE accommodates various learning styles to support innovation in teaching [1]. A crucial component of scientific research and development, laboratory procedures are used across a broad range of disciplines, including chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering. These techniques, equipments, and methods of data analysis are complicated, and require specialized knowledge and experience to carry out effectively. As technology develops, researchers increasingly use digital tools to improve and automate laboratory procedures. The main objective of NEP in the context of higher education is to close the disintegration of higher education by transforming higher education institutions into large interdisciplinary colleges, universities, and higher education institution (HEI) clusters/Knowledge Hubs, where each aim to have more than 3000 students. Numerous subjects to develop practical coding abilities have been offered by the NEP 2020 in the engineering curriculum [2]. MATLAB software can be utilized to put many concepts into practice. The main aim of this work is to build a data structure that will be used to visit the laboratory virtually and carry out the experiments thereby generating a process to conduct laboratory experiments. This work considers the syllabus of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at the undergraduate (UG) level incorporated by the Karnataka State of Indian subcontinent. MATLAB, mathematical computing software provided by Mathworks, can be used for skill development in more than eight courses of the ECE programme. Hence there is a need for the design and implementation of a virtual laboratory process adding to already existing printed manuals using MATLAB GUI [3]. The independent desktop or web programmes and apps that are used inside MATLAB are portable. A strong platform for implementing lab procedures and data analysis is provided by MATLAB, a computer language and environment that is frequently used in scientific and engineering applications [4]. However, efficiently using MATLAB can be difficult for those who are not programmers and necessitates substantial coding and command-line execution, restricting its usability and accessibility. In this work, an interactive environment for comprehending the various functionalities, a GUI is