The Departments of Computer Applications in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering hosted Infosys Campus Connect Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) on Foundation Program (FP) 5.0 from 6 th to 10 th August 2018 at our campus. The main objective of this FEP was to enable Infosys Campus Connect partnering colleges to grab FP 5.0 and offer it to students with greater effectiveness and rigor. Also, it offered a networking platform to partner colleges leading to a mutual leaing experience.
It was a proud moment for SJEC as it was hosting first Infosys Campus Connect event since being associated with Infosys from the year 2007. All in all, 55 faculty members registered for this 5 day FEP. The participants for the event were the faculty members from the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Kaataka, covering almost the entire South India.
The FEP was inaugurated on 6 th August 2018 in a formal Inaugural Programme at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall wherein Mr Hari S, Lead-ETA, Infosys Trivandrum Development Centre was the Chief Guest. He inaugurated the event alongside other dignitaries including Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director of SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA and Mr Sathyendra Bhat, Single Point of Contact (SPoC) of Infosys Campus Connect program at SJEC.
The chief resource person for this FEP was Mr Hari S, who was assisted by Ms Kaplana Balaraman from Infosys Chennai Development Centre who took up a few of the sessions in online mode via webinars.
The Inaugural on the first day was followed by hands on sessions at CAED Lab. All the sessions for this event were hands on where the participants had to undergo all 5 modules of FP 5.0. The 5 modules were as follows:
Module 1: Programming Fundamentals
Module 2: Database Fundamentals
Module 3: Python DB Integration
Module 4: Object Oriented Programming using Python
Module 5: Advanced Database Concepts
All the participants had to religiously attend to all modules and work on the projects given at the end of each module. On the last day, the participants had to present the work done by them in teams which was assessed by the resource person from Infosys.
The FEP came to a closure on 10 th August 2018 with a short Valedictory Programme where Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa was the chief guest. The participation certificates were distributed on the occasion. Mr Sathyendra Bhat proposed the vote of thanks to officially conclude the FEP.
