Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CS) was established in 1984. The CS Department is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi for 3 years and Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka . Top ranking students from CET opt for Computer Science. The CS Department has highly qualified faculty and has excellent state of the art hardware and software resources. Hundred percent eligible students are placed in high profile companies with good packages. Students of the department have been securing top ranks in VTU examinations. Students are offered scholarship by various companies like Infineon, Packet Motion, TCS, and Cognizant. The Department provides in-house Edusat facility for viewing distance learning programmes beamed by the VTU.

Mission
Empower every student to be creative and productive in the field of Computer Science and Engineering / IT by imparting quality education and inculcating human values.

Vision

• To establish as a Center of Excellence in offering quality education in computer and allied subjects.
  
• To promote collaboration with Industry for constructive interaction, for better integration of theory and application.
  
• To build and update infrastructure, to create an environment to facilitate research and skills enhancement for the staff.

Academic program:
Courses offered:

• B.E. Programme in computer science and engineering.
  
• M.Tech Programme in Computer Science and Engineering
  
• M.Tech Programme in Computer Network Engineering
  
• M.Tech Programme in Computer Science and Engineering Part time (QIP)
  
• MSc(engg) by research
  
• PhD program

There are thirty four faculties in the department. In which there are three Ph.D holders, nine faculties have registered for Ph.D and four faculties are sponsored for M.Tech course.

The department has a Staff ratio 0f 1: 12, for both UG and PG programs.

Students of B.E. program study core subjects like: Digital Electronics, Analysis Design of Algorithm, Microprocessor, O.S, Programming languages, Computer networks, DBMS, System software, Cryptography and network security, Mobile communications, Ad-Hoc Networks, Performance Evaluation etc.

Pie chart of the Courses conducted.

There are 5 labs in the CS Department . They are listed below with their Number of systems, servers and area. Total area for the labs is 678.64 Sq.Mt.

Category of the software available in all the labs:

• Microsoft license (MSDN) Microsoft windows server 2003, MS windows XP professional with service pack 2, Microsoft Visual studio 2008, Red hat Linux, Microsoft Office 2003, Symantec Endpoint protection antivirus v11.
  
• Visual Age for java 4.0
  
• IBM DB-2
  
• Universal Developer edition version 7.1
  
• Network Version 5.0 (25 Users)
  
• Auto-Cad
  
• SCO open server enterprise system (15 Users)
  
• Oracle 7 workgroup server 7.1.3.3.3 and Oracle 9i
  
• Personal oracle version 7.1.4.1.0
  
• Norman Virus control network version server (25 Clients)
  

The Department of CSE has organized many conference and workshops. These events were very successful and have got lot of appreciation for the same. Following is the list of conference and workshop conducted by the department :

• Conducted National conference on Computing, communication and Technology (CCT-2010)
  
• National Conference on “Wireless Network Security – Issues & Challenges” and “1st CSI Regional Students Convention”.
  
• Intel Multicore Programming
  
• State level Conference “20th CSI Karnataka Student Convention”.
  
• workshop on “ Research Initiative Program”
  
• Short Term Workshop on “Software Testing”

Seminars were conducted by the department and many talks were given by the delegates from the top most companies and colleges. The response to these seminars was very good. Following are the list of seminars conducted by the department:

• “Network Security & Challenges”,
  
• “ Business Intelligence” ,
  
• “Cell Processors” ,
  
• “Effective web search techniques” ,
  
• “Virtual Graphics” ,
  
• “Preview for Advanced studies” ,
  
• “Post Graduate studies abroad” ,
  
• “Quad Core Programming”
  
  

Faculty:

• Dr.N.K.Srinath received “Best Faculty Award” by Cognizent Technologies.
  
• The faculties of the department have published papers in thirteen International journals, thirty seven in international conferences, twenty one in national journals and twenty one in national conferences.
  
• Dr. Shobha G. received “Best Teacher Award” from AICTE
  
• Dr. Viswanatha has co-authored “Programming Languages “ book by Ravi Sethi , for Indian Universities.
  
• Various Conferences, Workshops and Seminars were attended by the faculties:
  Research Methodologies & Techniques in Control Communication and Signal Processing, Content Based Image Processing, IT for Defense, Embedded systems, Mobile Communications and Computing, Virtual Instrumentation in Engineering Education”, on Unstructured Data Management UDM, Software Test Engineering, Process and Automation, Web 2.0, Applications of Graph Theory, Next Generation Networks NCNGN, Autonomic and Ubiquitous Computing, Management and Entrepreneurship, Algorithms and Complexity, Multicore Processor Programming, OOAD & UML,PM & ECM, Agnostically learning Decision Trees, Wireless Sensor Networks, Electronic Circuits and Logic Design with Emphasis on pspice and VHDL, Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications, Mastering the Art & Science of Teaching Engineering and Research, Relative Grading System, Intel Multicore Programming for Academia, Communication and Network Security CoNSec.
  

Students:

• Students were awarded as “Cognizant Best Outgoing Student “, Secured Second Place in” Programming and Debugging Event”,Secured First Place in “Launch Pad Event”. Awarded Innovative project of the department for their project ,“Morphological Analyzer “ for Kannada Language by CSI. Students have secured many prizes in technical quiz conducted by KSIT,DBIT BMSCE ,CSI ,GAT and MVJ . Won First prize in Programming in C / C++ by DBIT, Secured Second place in the event Debugging In C / C++ held at Dr. AIT.Won Second Place in the event Algorithm Design, won First prize for the project work entitled “Software to Convert English Text to Sign Language for Deaf”. Selected as Microsoft Student Partner. Presented paper in many National and international conferences and journals. Won National Young IT Professionals award for Southern Region Of CSI.
  
• Students have got twenty nine ranks under Bangalore University and thirty two ranks under VTU under UG category. In PG category students have secured three ranks.
  
• They have also got many scholarships by Infineon and PacketMotion India Development Centre Pvt Ltd

Following are the research areas on which the department focuses:

• Programming Languages and Paradigms
  
• Radar Data Processing
  
• Univalent Functions, Fuzzy Logic
  
• Data Mining
  
• Pattern Recognition
  
• Wireless Sensor N/w & Adhoc N/w
  
• Genetic Algorithms for Routing
  
• Network Storage
  
• Autonomic computing
  

The following are Industry sponsored projects for Faculties:

• Center for Airborne Systems, DRDO – Extra Mural Research ,ISRO – Respond Programme , AICTE – New Delhi, General Motors India (P) Ltd

The following are Student projects sponsored by the Industry:  

• IISc, Yahoo, HP,LRDE,NAL,SUN, MICROSYSTEM,,NI, ADE,J. P. Morgan Chase and ARCOT R&D

1. Infosys “Campus Connect” programme was initiated by the faculties in the department.
2. Conducted Collaborative program in “Diploma in Information Technology” for students from KONYANG University, South Korea.
3. During last three years as a part of industry institution interaction, HP has initiated HP chair. Prof B.I. Khodanpur has been designated as HP chair for all M.Tech and B.E projects carried out in HP. Every year almost ten projects are given in Open Source by HP to our B.E and M.Tech students. The students are paid stipend during the project work.

Faculties of the Department have the membership of ISTE, CSI, IEEE . Edusat programs are conducted by one of the faculty regularly. Department also has a club called “Vrithanth”. Following are the events conducted by it.

• Vrithanth (IT Association of CSE Dept.) organized a talk on “Powering PlayStation 3 - The Next Generation IBM Cell Processor”
  
• Vrithanth organized IT-related quiz.
  
• INTEL as part of their Blue Buddies program gave a seminar on Quad Core Programming
  
• Vrithanth conducted a C programming contest for 3rd sem B.E., students and M.Tech students.
  

Alumni Contribution

1. A Semester-long Training Programme for the students of our college in the areas like Programming Skills, Communication Skills, etc., conducted by Alumni of our institution working in Yahoo Groups.
2. 3-days programme for faculty of various VTU affiliated engineering colleges on C# and .net Technologies conducted by Alumni of our institution working in National Instruments (NI).