The Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a one-day workshop on “IEEE Xplore-Digital Library” on the 12^th of January 2023. The programme was organized on the occasion of National Youth Day celebrating the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in association with Library committee and VTU Consortium. The programme was organized for the students of the pre-final year of the Department in the third floor seminar hall. The resource person of the event was Mr.  M S Srinivas, EBSCO Training manager, Bengaluru. The Honorable Secretary of Kodava Education Society, Sri C P Rakesh Poovaiah was the Guest of Honour. Students of 5^th semester Ms. Disha welcomed the gathering, Ms. Thasmiya Naghma introduced the resource person , Ms. Thangamma delivered vote of thanks, Ms.  Chondamma was the Master of Ceremony. Prof. Daina K K, the Head of the Department was also present in the programme.

As it was the special occasion of National Youth Day, the programme began by offering a floral tribute to Swami Vivekananda. Ms. Vivina and Ms. Prarthana M R threw light on the importance of National Youth Day and spoke in length about the principles followed by Swami Vivekananda.

Morning Session 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

The resource person started the session by stating that IEEE Xplore is a digital library which provides global access to millions of research papers. He explained about the different features of IEEE Xplore. The resource person also mentioned that the digital library provides access to code of the implementation carried out in the papers. This will be extremely useful for the students for implementing the base paper as projects in their final year. There will be a separate section focusing on the different equations that is used in the paper.  The resource person also informed that the reference section of the paper is very important as it reflects how many people have referred to the work of a particular author.

Afternoon Session 2:00PM-4:00PM

In the afternoon session hands on session about how to use the different features of IEEE Xplore was conducted. The students were taught how to download papers from IEEE Xplore. The resource person also informed the students that our institute has free access to many papers as it has association with VTU Consortium. All the students were able to create an account in IEEE Xplore. The resource person also educated students about the types of papers to refer to implement their projects. At the end the resource person conducted a quiz on the aspects of IEEE Digital Xplore discussed with the students in the workshop. Mr. Darshan B R, Mr. Preetham and Mr. Srujan emerged as the first, second and third winners respectively.

Prof. Daina K K, Head of the Department presented a memento to the resource person during the valedictory programme.

Dignitaries on the dais during the Inaugural Programme, Group photo of the students with resource person