The two week Faculty Development Program on “Integrating Geographical Information System (GIS) into E-Health and Telecommunication” had been organized from 20 Nov 2017 to 03 Dec 2017. The Program was inaugurated by the chief guest Prof. N. Sivagnanam, Former Professor and Head, Department of Geography, University of Madras, Former Col.Colin Mackenzie Chair Professor, Anna University and the Guest of honor Prof. R. Jaganathan, Professor and Head Department of Geography, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai – 05. More than 60 participants from various colleges were registered for the program and it was shortlisted to 40 participants. The list of colleges who have participated in our program is listed below:
Priyadarshini Engineering College, Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu
Excel Engineering College, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu
TRP Engineering College,Irungalur, Tamil Nadu
Central Polytechnic College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Government Polytechnic College, Cheyyar, Tamil Nadu
Jeppiar Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Jeppiar Maamallan Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
S.A. Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Sridevi Women’s Engineering College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Karunya University, Coimbatore
SRM University, Ramapuram, Tamil Nadu
SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu
University college of Engineering, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Anna University, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Dr.Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engineering, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu
University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Sathyabama University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
Experts from eminent universities delivered a technical talk and hand on experience in QGIS tool. The list of resource persons are listed below:
- Prof. R. Jaganathan
Professor and Head
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
- Prof. N. Sivagnanam
Former Professor and Head, Department of Geography,
University of Madras
Former Col.Colin Mackenzie Chair Professor, Anna University,
Chennai.
- Dr. D. Surendran M.Sc., Ph.D.,
Guest Lecturer
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
- Dr. P. Shoba, B.E., M.Tech., Ph.D.,
DST Inspire Fellowship Awardee,
Research Assistant Professor,
SRM University, Chennai
- K. Annaidasan M.Sc., (Ph.D.)
UGC-CPEPA Project Fellow
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
- S. Stephen Jayaseelan M.Sc., M.Tech, M.Phil. (Ph.D.)
DST-PURSE Fellow
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
- N. Manikandan M.Sc., M.Phil. (Ph.D.)
DST-PURSE Fellow
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
- RupaRajanM.Sc., (Ph.D.)
University Research Fellow (URF)
Department of Geography
University of Madras
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
The program is conducted with the following seven major topics with hands on session.
Basics in GIS
GIS in Telecommunication
GIS in E-Health
Remote sensing basics and its applications
Pollution mapping
Web Mapping
Open Source Tools in Research
At the end of the program, all participants had learnt the open source tool QGIS, integrate GIS into E-Health, GIS into Telecommunication and how to do various research work with GIS.