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Faculty Development Programme is an effort to enrich engineers, architects and people involved in research and development activities including planners, decision makers, academicians and research scholars with research literacy in general and recent trends in scientific and technical communication in particular. The FDP aims to impart skills to handle different tools and technologies useful during entire process of research and scholarly communications.
This faculty development programme was organized from 21’st to 25th February, 2023 at KCG College of Technology on the above mentioned topic. This was a five days Faculty Development Programme where various related subtopics were discussed in detail by eminent experts from Industry and academia guided the participants on various aspects of research in Wireless communication.
The faculty development programme was inaugurated on 21’st Feb 2023 at 09:30 am. There were 36 external participants from different colleges and institutes and around 25 participants from KCG College of Technology. The dignitaries on the stage were Mrs. Jalaja Madan Mohan – Head TCPAS IGCAR, Dr. Kavitha Balamurugan – HoD/ECE, Dr. Jose Anand, Professor, Dept of ECE, KCG College of technology.
Inaugural session of the FDP
The programme commenced with a Prayer song by KCG choir team, the inaugural lecture was delivered Mrs. Jalaja Madan Mohan – Head TCPAS IGCAR in which she mainly focussed on the research going on 5G Wireless communication
Mrs. Jalaja Madan Mohan – Head, TCPAS, IGCAR delivering inaugural lecture
The next lecture was given by Mr. J. Santhana Krishnan, DY. General Manager (Retd), BSNL in which he gave highlights of IoT in the Era of 5G its significance over conventional techniques. This marked the end on first day programme.
Session 1: Mr. J. SanthanaKrishnan, DY. General Manager (Retd), BSNL
On second day technical session 2 and technical session 3 were organized. The day started off with the lecture of Dr. C. Shyam Anand, Principal Engineer, Oppo Mobiles, Hyderabad. His talk was on Aplication of AI in Edge Devices. Participants discussed over various aspects with the speaker and the discussion until 11:45 am, thereafter we left for tea break.
Session 2: Dr. C . Shyam Anand, Principal Engineer, Oppo Mobiles
The next lecture (session 3) was given by Dr. Pandiyarasan Velusamy, Professor – IIITDM in the area of 5G and Wearable Technologies. Participants interacted with the expert during the session. This marked the end of second day program.
On third day technical session 4 & 5 were addressed by Dr. Uma Kumari C.R & Dr. B. Venkatalakshmi. Dr. Uma Kumari C. R, Assistant Professor (SG) enlightened the participants about Role of Optical Sensors in 5G/6G. Various case studies were discussed and the skills required were elaborated. Dr. B. Venkatalakshmi , SME, L&T TECH, delivered a
talk on Mobile Clouds, She also made it interactive by logging onto Menti.com for surprise quiz session for participants . In all, the technical sessions provided a good learning experience
Session 4: Dr. Uma Kumari C.R , Assistant Professor (SG), KCG College of Technology
Session 5: Dr. B. Venkatalakshmi , SME, L&T TECH
On the fourth day the technical session 6 & 7 were organized. Participants were fortunate to listen to Dr. Ganesh Madhan, Professor & Head – MIT, Chennai. Prof. Ganesh Madhan discussed on the Optical technology available for 5G. The various competencies that need to be developed and the preparation required from the side of the researchers were discussed. Session 7 was addressed by Dr. Kavitha Balamurugan, Professor & Head – ECE, KCG College of Technology, Chennai. The topic of discussion was on FSO in 5G. She provided various case studies and doubts of the participants regarding the same were clarified. The session was followed by lunch.
Session 6: Dr. Ganesh Madhan, Professor & Head – MIT, Chennai
Session 7: Dr. Kavitha Balamurugan, Professor & Head – ECE, KCG College of Technology
On day Five the morning session was addressed by Mr. J. Santhana Krishnan, DY. General Manager (Retd), BSNL where he talked Cyber Security Implications in 5G, various questions were raised on the topic by participants which made the discussion very lively. After tea break the last session of the FDP i.e. the valedictory session was held. Report of the FDP was presented by Mrs. R. Maheswari, Assistant Professor, ECE, KCG College of Technology.
Session 8: Mr. J. Santhana Krishnan, DY. General Manager(Retd), BSNL
Participants sharing their experiences
Participants shared their experiences, Most of them talked about their enriching experience at the FDP. Distribution of E- Certificates were discussed to the participants and votes of thanks was given by Dr. Kavitha Balamurugan, Head- ECE and concluded the Five days faculty development programme.