Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Rourkela has organized the ATAL Faculty Development Program (FDP) offline sessions on Hardware Security for Internet of Things from 04th Dec 2022 to 08 Dec 2022. The course is sponsored by AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy. This is a platform for conducting online/offline FDP on various thrust areas and emerging areas for faculties, research scholars, and PG students throughout India.
Today the department held the inaugural session of the program with the physical participation of 35 faculties/scholars from all over the country. On this occasion, coordinator of this departmental event, Prof. Kamalakanta Mahapatra (Chairman, IEEE, Rourkela Subsection) welcomed all and gave the introductory speech. He said, “This is a follow-up program after a 6 days online course conducted from November 21st till 26th, 2022. The objective of this course is to impart quality Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CPDP) for faculties/scholars so that they get sound domain knowledge and associated skills of the subject and its application with the prevailing practice scenario in real life with industry connect. This is a challenging course and carries a huge demand in the market as the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a part of life and every system is embedded with it. IoT comes with a security system and the protection of this system cannot be compromised. I am happy that distinguished speakers from IIT, NIT, IIIT, PESU Bangalore, and University of North Texas are on-board today with us to lecture on the topic.”
The Director of the institute, Prof. K. Umamaheshwar Rao virtually graced the program. Motivating the gathering to take maximum benefit out of this program, he said, “ ATAL is in line with NEP-2020 which envisages the empowerment of higher education teachers with a series of capacity-building training and workshops. Today we live in an era of connected devices based on the Internet of Things. The domain of hardware security mainly covers the protection of these connecting physical devices from different security threats posed by information leakage, machine learning attacks, etc. This course will give a hands-on experience and knowledge to deal with hardware security-related aspects of IoT design. I congratulate the department for disseminating the knowledge across to create a safer world for data transmission”
Prof. Santanu Paria {Dean, SRICCE, (Sponsored Research, Industrial Consultancy and Continuing Education), NIT Rourkela} also joined the event as a guest and shared his insights on the different schemes of central and state government for sponsoring these kinds of the development program. He congratulated the department for efficiently utilizing the assistance provided by the SRICCE department and frequently organizing these kinds of programs. Further, in the session, Prof. D P Acharya who joined the event as a distinguished speaker on the topic “IoT Protocols” interacted with the attendees and said, “Internet of Things (IoT) has become the prime medium of realization of modern electronic systems. Today, IoT is facing two measure challenges. One is security and the other is energy harvesting. There has been a great thrust to train professionals in the IoT and Security area to meet the requirements of the electronic industry. This course focuses on IoT concepts and covers the development of Internet of Things (IoT) prototypes including devices for sensing, actuation, processing, and communication to help in developing skills and experiences.”
Day one of the Program will cover a variety of topics such as ‘Security in IoT’, ‘Blockchain in IoT’, IoT Applications in Smart Cities, Healthcare, Agriculture, “Industrial IoT’, ‘Web server development’, and ‘IoT in Teaching Practice’ along with industry interactions and hands-on lab session. The inaugural session also included another address by a distinguished speaker, Prof. U C Pati who shared his knowledge on ‘Sensors & Actuators for IoT’. He said, “IoT is an anytime, anywhere and anything network of interconnected physical devices. According to the statistics, the total number of connected devices globally is estimated to be around 25 billion and this figure is projected to triple by the year 2025. Considering the rapid growth in this field, the Faculty Development Programme on ‘Hardware Security for Internet of Things’ is a timely and appropriate program to train the faculty and scholars in IoT design and its security.”
The inaugural session witnessed a sound gathering of interested students, scholars and faculties of the department along with the participants. Concluding the session, Prof. A. K. Swain who is the co-coordinator of this 5-day FDP, briefed on the schedule of the upcoming sessions and gave a vote of thanks to all for marking their valued presence in the inaugural session.