KCL-IMT organized a seven day Faculty Development Programme on “Emerging Trends and Challenges in Management & IT Education” in collaboration with IRD India & Indo Global Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture. The objective of this programme is honing the teaching and research skills of faculty members of Management and Information Technology education. It is an endeavour intended for teachers and researchers working in various colleges and professional institutes. The major focus of the FDP is on upgrading the teaching, training, and research skills of the teachers with recent developments and advancements.
In this program a large number of faculty members with diverse academic background from various Institutes of the region participated with great enthusiasm and benefited from the learning’s and the experiences shared by the various resource persons.
The details of the resource persons along with the topics delivered is given below:
| S. No. | Name of Expert | Designation | University /Institute | Topic |
| 1. | Dr.Neeraj Kaushik | Professor | NIT, Kurukshetra | Research (Factor Analysis, ANOVA & Regression Analysis using SPSS) |
| 2. | Dr.S.K Chadha | Chairperson | UBS, Chandigarh | Team Building |
| 3. | Dr.Rajesh Verma | Professor & Dean | LPU | Case Analysis |
| 4. | Dr.B.P Gupta | Director | Rayat Bahra Group | Role Play & Management Games |
| 5. | Dr.Ravi Kiran | Professor | Thapar University Patiala | Data Collection Methods & Sampling |
| 6. | Dr.Amit Kauts | Dean Faculty of Economics & Education | G.N.D.U | Research Design |
| 7. | Dr.Sandeep Viz | Associate Prof & Head | DAV University | Simulation Techniques |
| 8. | Dr.Dinesh Gupta | Professor | PU,Chandigarh | Spirituality in Management Education |
| 9. | Ms.Neeru | MD | Forging Chemicals Ltd | HR Techniques in Management |
| 10. | Dr.Maytree Datta | Prof essor | NITTR,Chandigarh | Digital Image Processing & its simulation using MATLAB. |
| 11. | Dr.Gurpreet Jasan | Assistant Prof | Punjabi University, Patiala | Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning using Java & MATLAB |
| 12. | Dr.Jaswinder Singh | Assistant Prof | Punjabi University, Patiala | Digital India |
| 13. | Dr.Balwinder Raj | Assistant Prof | Dept of ECE,NIT,Jalandhar | Nano Electronics & Its Research tools & Research Directions |
| 14. | Prof Mala Kalra | Assistant Prof | NITTR,Chandigarh | Cloud Computing, Scheduling,Security Oriented Concepts & Cloud Sim Simulation. |
