FDP on “Operating Systems” Organized by Dept of CSE, on 01 - 05 Dec 2014

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Manimangalam arranged a five day Faculty Development Program in the topic “Operating Systems” from 01.12.14 to 05.12.14. The Principal Dr. S.SivaSubramaniam of Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering inaugurated the FDP. Dr. T.Amitha, the Head of the department presided over the function. The objective of this FDP is to understand essential concepts in the Operating System. Dr Ponsy R.K. Sathia Bhama M.E., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, MIT Campus, Anna University, was the chief guest and started her session with an overview of computer system and she elaborated on memory hierarchy, memory management and evolution of operating system. In the afternoon session, Dr Radha Senthil Kumar, Associate Professor, MIT Campus, Anna University elaborated on concepts of Linux system. The next day FDP continued with focus on disk management, disk scheduling and file concepts by Dr P.Varalakshmi M.E., Ph.D. Assistant Professor [Sr, Grade], MIT Campus, Anna University. On 3rd December 2014, in the morning session, Dr V.Masilamani, Assistant Professor, DCSE, IITM Campus had an interactive lecture on process concept, process scheduling, operation on process and thread overview. In the afternoon session, Mrs. R.Kayalvizhi, Assistant Professor, MIT Campus, Anna University delivered a lecture on virtual memory, demand paging and page replacement algorithm. On 4th December 2014, the session started with an informative lecture on VMware on Linux host and Adding Guest OS by Dr Ponsy R.K. Sathia Bhama M.E., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, MIT Campus, Anna University. Then the session was preceded with hands on session. On 5th December 2014, the faculty members Ms.M.Kalaivani, Ms.K.Revathi, Mrs.C.Kayalvizhi, Ms.G.Divya, Mr. P.Vijayaraghavan, and Dr.R.Samydurai explained about the various concepts of Operating Systems FDP on Operating Systems helped us to understand the overview of computer architecture, basic concept of Linux and Xen, memory management, paging techniques, disk scheduling, and process synchronization. The faculty members from CSE and IT department of DCE and other Engineering colleges benefited by this program The faculty from department of IT and CSE thank the management for their support and guidance.