Faculty Development Programme at VNRVJIET

Hyderabad: A Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on "Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (IoT)" is being held at Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNRVJIET). This FDP will be a 6-day hands-on training programme, which is sponsored by the MEITy under the Ministry of ICT of the Government of India, is being organised jointly by the Electronics & ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal and the Department of ECE along with the Professional chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

Dr. R.R. Rout, Associate Professor-CSE at NIT-Warangal and one of the Coordinators of the programme, inaugurated the FDP and initiated the programme with an introduction to IoT and its applications and spoke about the communication protocols for sensor networks.

Speaking at the occasion, Dr. C.D. Naidu, Principal-VNRVJIET, said that IoT will impact our future and the participating faculty members must work towards innovations in this domain. Dr. B. ChennaKesava Rao, Director for Advancement, advised that all faculty members must necessarily update themselves with technological advancements and that it is impossible for teachers to sustain a good career without such knowledge. Dr. Y. Padma Shayi, Professor and Head-ECE, said that participants must develop shrewd knowledge with the guidance of the Resource Persons of the programme.

Dr. Y. Chalapathi Rao, Associate Professor-ECE and one of the Coordinators for the FDP, said that this course is designed to provide an exposure to the fundamentals of Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (IoT) and help the participants work with IoT devices, through hands-on training and practice sessions that teach Arduino architecture, IoT applications and devices, and other practical knowledge pertaining to working with IoT such as protocol stack, sensor cloud, Python programming, security and privacy, and data communication.The sessions will be delivered by experts from Depts. of ECE and CSE at NIT-Warangal and by industry experts from ORL Industries, ADRIN Department of Space, and FoGR Technologies, so that people get industry-oriented exposure to the subject, Dr. Chalapathi Rao added. The programme is being attended by about 50 faculty members and PhD scholars from various Departments.