• Then Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mr.S.M.Krishna, inaugurated the EDUSAT pilot project on January 28, 2004 at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore in the august presence of Dr.K.Kasturirangan, Member of Rajya Sabha, Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, Chairman of ISRO, Dr.K.Balaveera Reddy, Vice chancellor of VTU, Mr.C.K.Jaffer Sharief, MP and Mr.V.Dhananjaya Kumar, MP. A demo lecture was transmitted from the studio established at DSERT, Bangalore.
  
  
• In association with the service provider of EDUSAT pilot project, VTU conducted a 3-day operational training for the coordinators and technicians of the colleges from March 26 to 28 2004 at DSERT, Bangalore.
  
  
• The first dry run of the EDUSAT pilot project, consisting of four live lecture sessions, was conducted for captive audience of students of six select engineering colleges across Karnataka from April 5 to April 8 2004.
  
  
• The second dry run of the EDUSAT pilot project covering all the colleges were conducted for four days from 15 to 19 April 2004.
  
  
• Feedback report of the dry runs was submitted to Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO by Dr.K.Balaveera Reddy in presence of Mr. S.Prabhakaran, Adviser, Mr. Bhatia, Director, ISRO and Dr. H.Honnegowda, Director, KSRSAC on April 30, 2004.
  
  
• ISRO and Association of Indian Universities jointly organized a one-day Conference of Vice chancellors on EDUSAT on July 23, 2004 at St.John's Medical College Auditorium, Bangalore, Hon'ble President of India His Excellency Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam inaugurated the conference and His Excellency Mr.T.N.Chaturvedi, the Governor of Karnataka and Mr.Dharam Singh, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, were the Guests of Honour.
  
  
  On this occasion, the President of India released an educational compendium titled 'EDUSAT - Indian Satellite in Education', edited by Dr.K.Balaveera Reddy. This compendium, authored by Dr.G.L.Shekar, Special Officer, VTU e-Learning Centre, Mysore with a foreword by Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, Chairman ISRO, provides an overview of the EDUSAT project and illustrates the successful implemenetation of the project.
  
  President of India Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam,who released the book titled 'EDUSAT - Indian Satellite in Education'at one-day Conference of on EDUSAT organised by Indian Space Research organisation in Bangalore on July 23, 2004, is handing over a copy to its author Dr.G.L.Shekar, Special Officer, VTU e-Learning Centre, Mysore. The Karanataka Governor, Mr.T.N.Chaturvedi is also seen in the picture
  
  Dr.K.Balaveera Reddy, gave a presentation on VTU's experience of EDUSAT pilot project - Karnataka in the afternoon session.
  
  
• The e-Learning Centre conducted the satellite-based on-line counseling of admission to MBA programme of all the universities in Karnataka from 24.8.2004 to 31.8.2004 by creating video-conferencing facility at two stations - Bangalore and Belgaum.
  
  
  
  
  Students selected the MBA seats of their choice through satellite link. This enabled the students in and around Bangalore to select their seats from Bangalore while those who were in and around Belgaum select seats from Belgaum. The students at both ends were able to know what is happening on the other side in this videoconference link. This was the very first experiment under VTU-ISRO collaboration.
  
  
• The full-semester distance education through satellite started from September 15, 2004. 120 live lecture sessions, 3 Q & A classes and 3 "CXO Speaks" sessions were transmitted from VTU Studio at Bangalore. The concluding session was held on December 20, 2004.
  
  
• The Special Officer, e-Learning Centre, visited Kinst-Bosch Rexroth Training Institute (K-BRTC), Kyonggi, South Korea, during the first week of March 2004 to study the technical feasibility of establishing the state-of-the art Training Centre on Industrial Drives and Control in Karnataka, akin to K-BRTC, the only centre of its kind in the world.