Seminar on Professional Awareness for IT Career

AESICS-CSI Student Branch has organized the seminar on 20th August, 2011 at AES Institute of Computer Studies. The objective of the Seminar is to make students aware about the IT Industry work environment, technical documentation and industry practices followed. The speaker of the Seminar is Mr. Amal Derasary, Vice President, V & V services, Gateway Technolabs Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad.

The contents of the Seminar are as follows:

• Organizational structure of IT company, various designations and job roles and responsibilities,
• IT Project team structure, Communication and technical writing skills required for IT project teams
• Professional resume preparation, contents, format and impact on IT interviews
• Some Case Study Examples and real life situations in IT company related to professional awareness
• Question and Answering Session

Workshop on Oracle Database Administration

Mr. Darshan Panchal, Sr. Oracle Consultant conducting the workshop

A workshop on Oracle Database Administration was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 17th August, 2011 at AES Institute of Computer Studies. The workshop provided hands on practical exposure to MCA students on Oracle 10g database technology and Oracle database administration. Ms. Aashika Champawat, Coordinator, Oracle University Partner gave introduction of Oracle Company and its technology portfolio,  Oracle 10g technology and its certification programs, popular job roles-DBA and developer, global trends and opportunities in database field. The workshop provided hands-on exposure to creating and configuring Oracle database, managing Oracle instance, table space management, administering user security, Database auditing and SQL performance diagnosis & tuning. The technical sessions were followed by interesting question and answering session. The workshop was attended by sixty students and one faculty member. The workshop received very good response and feedback from participants.

Blood Donation Camp

Blood Donation Camp was organized by HLICA/AESICS and AESICS CSI-Student Branch in association with Indian Red Cross Society on 6th August, 2011 as a social contribution to the society. Students, faculty and staff members participated with full enthusiasm in this event and donated 89 bottles of blood for this noble cause. Mr. B.M. Shah, Registrar, Ahmedabad University attended the blood donation camp and complementary gifts were provided by Lions Club of Shahibaug.
The event was coordinated by Mr. Aniruddhsinh Parmar and Mr. Sandeep Vasant with the support of Mr. Vinay Vachharajani, Mr.  Pratik Thanawala, Mrs.  Siddhi Shah, Mr.  Jagdish Vaghela, Mr.  Nimay Desai and student volunteer of MCA and BCA Course.

Seminar on Ethical Hacking and Information Security

Mr. Vidit Baxi, Security Analyst delivering the seminar on Information Security

A seminar on “Ethical Hacking and Information Security” was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 04th August, 2011. The purpose of the seminar was to create awareness about increasing cases of cyber threats, cyber crimes and their counter measures.

Mr Baxi started the seminar with interactive session on information security, its need, hacking and its types, cyber crimes and law enforcement as per IT Act 2000 and Trojan attacks. He quoted several recent examples of security attacks from Chinese Hackers on US and India government websites using Trojans. Mr. Baxi explained the various issues in web application security, anatomy of an attack, SQL injection and countermeasures, Cross site scripting and countermeasures. Mr. Baxi also discussed the case study of cyber crime investigation of Ahmedabad bomb blast case done by Mr. Sunny Vaghela, Director, TechDefence Pvt Ltd. The seminar create very good interest and awareness among students about cyber security threats and was followed by interactive question and answering session. The seminar was attended by around hundred and fifty students of MCA, final year BCA and faculty members.

Workshop on Photography

A workshop on Photography was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 4th May, 2011. The workshop focused on giving practical exposure to types of the photography, basics of the photography, types of cameras and use of photo editing software. The workshop provided a good platform for interaction and experience sharing among participants for the basic rules and art of photography, compositions and how to take photographs from creative angles.  Mr. Darshan Kansara, Research Associate, AESICS gave introduction to the history of photography, types of cameras, basic fundamentals of camera, image processing, types of lenses, types of compositions, and types of photography.  Mr. Chirag Chitvan Parmar, Professional Photographer covered advanced concepts of photography and made aware the students about the more fundamentals of photograph compositions, how to imagine the photograph and implementing it through the lens of the camera. He showcased his compositions covering vast range of photography from landscapes, portraits to macro photography. The workshop was attended by around 20 participants from various colleges.

Work Shop on “Shell Programming Using Linux”

Mr. Pratik Thanawala delivering the session on Shell Programming during the workshop

A workshop on “Shell Programming using Linux” was organized by AES Institute of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University and AESICS-CSI student branch on 3rd April, 2011. Mr. Pratik Thanawala and Mrs. Siddhi Shah, faculty members at AESICS conducted the workshop. In first session Mr. Pratik Thanawala explained the concepts of Operating System and Linux Shell Programming with practical implementation of various topics such as shell scripts, vi editor, general utility commands, file systems concepts, different types of loops, conditional statements and environment variables.  In second session Mrs. Siddhi Shah covered topics as shell offering, redirection: the standard files, simple filters and filters using regular expression with practical implementation.