Two days faculty development program on Remote Sensing & GIS held at AVCE

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering in association with AVCE student branch of IEEE and IEEE ADSF SIGHT conducted two days faculty development programme/ workshop on remote sensing and GIS on 14th and 15th of September 2018.  Dr. Alaguraja, Assistant professor, Department of ECE, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai was the resource person for  the  program.

This program aimed at exposing remote sensing methodologies, tools and GIS software to the faculties, research scholars and students. It enabled them to understand the close relation between remote sensing projects and social development. More than sixty participants including faculty and students from various departments got benefited from the program.

There were totally six sessions such as remote sensing concepts, satellite image processing, remote sensing projects, GIS concepts and case studies, Demo on ENVI software and hands on session on QGIS software.

The program was convened by Mr. G. Gaswin Kastro HOD, ECE and coordinated by Mr. J. Arockia Prince, AP, ECE and other faculties of ECE department of AVCE.

"Learn How to Learn" FDP program held at AVCE

Dr. Mythili interacting with students

A two day workshop on “Learn How to Learn” was conducted at Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering on 9th and 10th June 2017. The workshop was arranged to provide an opportunity to the faculty members to acquaint themselves with new teaching methodology relevant to the current scenario and thereby enhance their teaching skills. Dr. Mythili, HOD, Centre for Career
Development, Ms. Revathy Balakrishnan and Mr. Priya Anand, Soft skill trainers of SRM University served as the resource persons. The Workshop was inaugurated by Mr. D. Peter Jesudhas, the Chairman of AVCE. In his address he stressed the importance of updating knowledge on the subject to be taught, failing which the teacher would become outdated.
 

Mrs. Revathy Balakrishnan interacting with students

In her keynote address Dr. Mythili pointed out that the teacher should follow three essential components of teaching namely knowledge of subject matter, practical communication and attitude which comprises of environment, education and experience.

Ms. Revathy Balakrishnan stressed the need for motivating the students to develop them hard as well as soft skills. According to her the class room teaching should be based on SHAPE, S for stories, H for humour, A for activities, P for presentation skill, and E for real time examples. She also emphasized the importance of self evaluation on the part of the teacher and guided the teacher as to how they should evaluate themselves.

Mr. Priya Anand Interacting with students

Mr. Priya Anand explained in detail as how teacher can acquire knowledge skill and attitude. Teacher should be proactive and follow it win – win approach. Also they should follow alternative teaching methodology using questionnaire, Pro and con grid, debates, guided analysis and case studies. The student is essentially a worker and it is the responsibility of the teacher to assign him the task.