A two-day Faculty Development Programme on ‘Electromagnetic Fields’ (FDP-2018) was successfully conducted in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, on 29th & 30th November 2018, arranged by the department of Faculty Development, Paavai Engineering College (Autonomous), Namakkal. The FDP programme received an overwhelming response with overall 21 participants from Paavai group of institutions.The programme was inaugurated in the forenoon by Dr. K.K. Ramasamy, Director-Admin, Paavai Institutions in the presence of Dr. M. Premkumar, Principlal, Paavai Engineering College, Dr. K. Selvi, Dean-Academics & Dr. R. Kasthuribai, Dean-Faculty Development. The inauguration was followed by the welcome address by Dr. K. Selvi. Dr. K.K. Ramasamy delivered his presidential address on the pedagogical aspects of FDP and how it becomes more effective towards student learning among faculty to create the curiosity on pedagogical approach in teaching centric teaching learning. Dr. M. Prem Kumar delivered his special address on the importance of continuous among the participants. Dr. R. Kasthuribai concluded the function with her motivational speech on knowledge enhancement for faculty which is like the ‘balancing pole for the tightrope walker’ to enrich their teaching pedagogy. Dr. R. Arangasamy, HOD/ECE/PEC and Mr. Immanuvel, HOD/ECE/PCE and the faculty members from PEC, PCE and PCT were present.The first session was handled by Professor C. Vanaja on the topic ‘Electrostatic fields’. In this deliberation, Professor C. Vanaja discussed in detail about the co-ordinate systems, vector differential operators and various laws of electrostatic fields. The applications of those laws were also discussed in detail. This session ended with tutorial on mathematical problem solving of vector analysis, static electric field and its associated laws. The next session on the same day was handled by Dr. T. Loganayagi about electric fields in material space. Electric properties of conductors and dielectrics and its associated laws were explained along with various application aspects. Assignments on this topic were given to the faculty participants for more understanding. The next day started with the discussion of the previous day assignments and a doubt clearing session and it was handled by previous day resource professors. The actual session started on the scheduled time and it was handled by Prof. A. Samundeeswari on the topic of ‘Maxwell Theory and Equations’ with clear steps how Maxwell concluded his four equations from Gauss’s law, Faraday’s law and Ampere’s law. The afternoon session was allotted to deal with the application of electromagnetic fields in various types of antenna and its working. The FDP was concluded with a session on sharing the views of the participants N.Thenarasu, M.Punitha, S.Vimalnath & R.Boomidevi about how the electromagnetics concepts are applied in transmission lines. The FDP was validated with a lot of positive feedback from participants and it paved the way for the participants to improve their teaching in order to reach the students on the subject ‘Electro Magnetic Fields’. The two-day FDP ended with the vote of thanks given by Dr. T. Loganayagi ASP/ECE/PEC.
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