The Department of Computer Science & Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College inaugurated their department association CIPHER and CSI-SJEC Student Chapter for the academic year 2018-19 on 7th September 2018 at 10:00AM in the Kalam Auditorium, Academic Block-II.
The inaugural function was compered by Ms. Fiona Saldana, it commenced by calling upon the college choir to invoke God’s blessings through a prayer song.
A power point presentation of the Annual Report of CIPHER 2017-2018 was presented to the gathering.
Dr. Sreekanth N S, Scientist ‘D’ / Principal Technical Officer, C-DAC, Bengaluru was the Chief Guest of the program. Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director–SJEC presided over the function. Rev.Fr. Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC and Dr. Rio D’Souza, Principal-SJEC were the Guests of Honor. Dr. Sridevi Saralaya HOD- CSE, Mr. Carlton Rodrigues, President-CIPHER, Mr. Naren Bhandary, President –CSI, were also present on the dais.
Dr. Sridevi Saralaya HOD- CSE, welcomed the dignitaries and introduced the chief guest to the gathering after which the program was inaugurated by lighting the lamp. The chief guest inaugurated CIPHER association for the year 2018-19 innovatively by displaying LED cube developed by 3rd and 4th year Electronics and Computer Science students to symbolically inaugurate the CIPHER and CSI Student Chapter of SJEC. The roadmap of activities planned by CIPHER and CSI for the current academic year were presented by Mr. Carlton Rodrigues, President-CIPHER and Mr. Naren Bhandary, President-CSI, respectively.
Ms. Sasha Rodrigues, Secretary-CIPHER read out the names of meritorious students for their outstanding performance in the previous year and also the student achievers who cleared the TCS Global Coding Contest-Codevita, were honored by Chief Guest and Assistant Director. Students who came up with most creative masquerades and the creative writing winners were also honored.
Principal, Dr. Rio D’Souza addressed the gathering with his inspiring words and congratulated the students for securing good results each year.
The Chief Guest, Dr. Sreenkanth N S, encouraged the students by talking on various research works and to participate in a variety of competitions and tech-fests and procure experiential leaing in the form of projects and inteships. He described the importance of Computer Science as a profession.
The honorable Chief Guest was felicitated with a memento presented by Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza.
Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC delivered the Presidential address wherein he motivated the students to focus on their goal and reach greater heights.
The formal event concluded with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms. Shreema, Joint Secretary- CSI, and a dance performance followed by the College Anthem. A technical talk with an informative presentation on “Human Computer Interaction“ was conducted for the audience by the chief guest and was followed by honoring of students who successfully completed their web application projects in Django framework.
Lunch was served to all students and staff present. An informal function was conducted by 3rd and 4th year students to welcome the 2nd Year students into the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Games were conducted for students and faculty as well. The CIPHER inaugural function marked its end with flash mob followed by baila.
