The Department of Electronics & Communication, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology organized a five days Faculty Development Programme on “RECENT ADVANCEMENT IN ELECTRONICS, COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS” . More than 55 members from various institutions nationwide participated in the FDP. The FDP programme was convened by Dr H.Mangalam, Professor and Head of the ECE department. The programme was coordinated by Dr S. Anila, Professor/ ECE and Dr .S.Mary Praveena, Associate Professor /ECE and also Co-Coordinated by Mr.S.Thiyagarajan, AP/ECE and Mr.R.Ramakrishnan, AP/ECE.

The resource person and the topics discussed by them are as follows:

Dr Karthi Balasubramanian, Assistant Prof.(Selection Grade), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore- Information and data science: Tools for interdisciplinary research.

Dr P.Rajasekar, Professor, Department of ECE, Narayana Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh- Security algorithms for communication.

Dr R.Sudarmani, Associate Professor/ECE, School of Engineering, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore- Wireless sensor networks and their application.

Dr Kamarulzaman Kamarudin, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Technology, University Malaysia PerUs(UnlMAP), Malaysia Research Issues In Development of Application Specific Electronic Nose.

Dr Fathinul Syahir Bin Ahmad Saad (Sr. Lecturer, UniMAP, Malaysia) – Research Issues in Mobile olfaction.

Dr Shazmln Anisa Abdul Shukor, Associate Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Technology, University Malaysia Perlis(UnlMAP), Malaysia- Utilizing Today’s Technology to Preserve the Past.

Dr Sebastian Terence, Assistant Professor/CSE, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore- Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT).

Dr P. Karthikeyan, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jain Deemed to be University, Bangalore- Hands-on Deep Neural Network.

Dr V.Prithivirajan, Professor/ECE, CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad- Research challenges In RF and MEMS.Dr.D.Veera Vanitha, Associate Professor /ECE, Avinashilingam University-Faculty of Engineering, Coimbatore. – Challenges in Communication Protocols.Mr.S.Kalidasan, Senior Project Head-AXIS Global Automation, Coimbatore- Recent loT Communication Technologies.