The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College in association with CSI-SJEC Student Chapter organized a three-day online Faculty development programme (FDP) on "Blockchain Technology & its Applications" from 4th to 6th March 2021. The three day FDP was inaugurated virtually on 4th March 2021 at 9:30 AM. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, Head- Department of CSE and Convener of the FDP welcomed the management, resource persons and participants. Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal and Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Director, SJEC spoke about the importance of blockchain technology and also wished the participants a happy leaing. This was followed by the introduction of all the session topics, schedule and the respective session speakers.
Dr Manish Kumar gave introduction about Blockchain technology and explained the concepts of Public Ledgers, Bitcoin, Smart Contracts Transactions, Distributed Consensus, Public vs Private Block chain, Hyperledger Fabric- Architecture, Identities and Policies, Membership and Access Control. This was followed by a hands-on session on Hyperledger Fabric.
Mr. Raghavendra started the session by explaining the architecture of blockchain and how distributed ledger works. He briefed about consensus algorithm, proof of work, proof of stake and various applications of blockchain technology. This was followed by a hands-on session on Ethereum and IPFS.
Dr Manish Kumar took up the sessions for the first two days and Mr Raghavendra engaged the session on the last day. Participants enthusiastically participated in all the sessions which included hands-on sessions, quizzes and assignments.
Ms Sunitha Guruprasad and Ms Renuka Tantry were the coordinators of the FDP.
