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 Innovative and productive individually as well as through team work in the area of CSE by imparting sustainable quality education and inculcating human values.

Vision

• To evolve continually as a Centre of excellence in quality Education.

• To build and update infrastructure for research and to create environment to facilitate students to carryout do research and enhance skills that could also lead to entrepreneurship.

• To promote collaboration with industry to achieve constructive interaction for better integration of theory and application.

• To produce high standard quality Engineers who are disciplined, ethical and socially concerned.

• To inculcate innovation and development of Technologies that are sustainable and inclusive, which benefit all section of the Society.

• To Collaborate with Institutions at national and international level to offer high end Information Technology education and training.

 

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 Eight faculties in the department. In which there are six Ph.D holders, Ten faculties have registered for Ph.D and two faculties are sponsored for M.Tech course.
The department has a Staff ratio 0f 1: 15, 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 :

• 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"
• 25TH CSI Karnataka Students Convention , R V College of Engineering
• National Conference on Recent trends in Computer Technology (RTCT 2011)
• Work shop on LaTex
• CISCO training program for the Faculties of the college
• Workshop on Network Technology
• Workshop on PC Interfacing using Parallel port programming
• Orientation programme for WIPRO selected students (Jump Start - II)
  
  

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:

• "Technological Innovations"
• "Employability is the need of the hour"
• "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:

• The faculties of the department have published papers in seventy International/ National journals, One hundred and twenty five in international/ National conferences.
• Best Faculty Award" by Cognizant Technologies
• Dr. Shobha G. received "Best Teacher Award" from AICTE
• Various Conferences, Workshops and Seminars were attended by the faculties: Train the Trainer" – Language Lab Faculty Training Progarm, work shop on Research Methodologies & Techniques in Control Communication and Signal Processing, Content Based Image, Workshop on Software Engineering by cognizant Technologies, ISTE sponsored Tutorial on Cryptography seminar on Mobile Communications, Wireless LAN and Security", Training Programme on "Human Resource Development, Workshop on Latex, Women in Technology, Women in Technology, sponsored training Programme for faculty of engineering colleges and management institutes, Autonomic and Ubiquitous and Computing", National Symposium on "Research Methodologies and Techniques in Control, Communication and Signal Processing" , "emerging trends in soft computing"., Workshop on "Wireless sensor networks", Mission 10X Workshop by Wipro Technologies, Leadership Development, Web Programming, A Two day workshop on "Arts and Science of Counseling", Graphics and Visualization, Embedded Computing Systems, outward Bound Learning Program on " counseling" at Pegasus Institute For Excellence , Java and J2EE, Statistica and Data miner, "Bio Inspired computing, "Ph.D in Computer Science : A Perspective", Seminar on 'Current Trends and Future Directions in Computer Science', Seminar on "Capacity Building in the institutional environment on entrepreneurship education" , Course on "Awareness Program on Quality Assurance in eGovernance", a certification course, Talk on "Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, A seminar on "Maintaining software in the billions, A workshop titled "Girls in Technology", Intelligence and security Informatics, IUCEE software course, Intellectual Property Rights , "Recent trends in software quality and reliability , Cisco Innovations Expo 2011etc.
  
  

Students:

• Students have secured many prizes over past three years in Quick coding, Mock Placement, General quiz, Cryptic cipher, Improving performance of Matrix Multiplication on GPU , paper presentation, stree interview , Dumb Charades, Robotics , Anti Chess, Tech debate, Dota Warcraft II, in inter college fests like IOTA, CSI Karnataka Student convention Aatmatrisha ' 11th annual Technology Cultural fest, Utsav 2011, BMS College of engineering, Udaan 2011, Mansarovar Institute of science and technology, Legala 2010,National Law school's Annual Literal and Cultural fest, Tech Quest 2010,SJB Institute of Technology, Incident 10, Exceptions 2010, Sanskruthi 10,Dr Ambedkar Institute of technology, INCIDENT '10, NIT,Surathkal, Cultural fest, NIT Trichy, Aisri,10th Annual VTU Youth Festival at Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering. Students have won many prizes National and International Level. The have secured prizes in Mind-Kick(Puzzle Contest), Tech Debate, Sci-Tech, Technical Paper Presentation, rapid chess. On spot programming,Cluedo, Pot Purrie, Elocution, sports quiz, Extempore, treasure hunt, photography contest, Quiz, Mock placement, FIFA quiz, Bheja Fry, Nobel Quiz, paper presentation, Quantum Dot Cellular Automata(best presentation) conducted by the following institutions Open Day 2011,Indian Insitute of Science, Saarang 2011, IIT Madras, Browse 2011,Siddaganga Institute of Technology,Tumkur, Utsav 2011,BMS College of Engineering, CMR Cultura 2011, Udaan 2011,Mansarovar Institute of Science and Technology, Quark 2011, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, Legala 2010,National Law school's Annual Literal and Cultural fest, IMPETUS 2010, Tenth Annual National Level Technical Fest, Rendezvous 2010,IIT Delhi & Accenture, Deccan Herald-Prajavani World Cup FIFA Soccer Safari Quiz contest, LASYA, Swedan India Nobel Memorial Grand Finale Quiz 2010, Natioanal Conference on Computing, Communication and Technology CCT-2010, National Student Conference ,kagada 2010, DR M.S Ramaiah Memorial National Level Quiz Fest, B.I.T Manthan 2010 etc.
  • Four teams of undergraduate students were selected for ATOS IT worldwide challenge.
  • Activities undertaken Under Entrepreneurship initiatives are –
  o product design and innovations
  o Tarantula Web Studio and
  o Business plan competition: BPC 2009
  • Published many papers for national and international conference/Journal.
  • Under Graduate students have got nine ranks under VTU and PG students have secured three ranks.
  • UG students have got many scholarships from 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:

The department has MOU with CISCO and they have set up a lab in the department. An initiative is taken to conduct industry oriented network program.
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.

Faculties of the Department have the membership of ISTE, CSI, IEEE . Edusat programs are conducted by one of the faculty regularly.
Students are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular and social activities by organizing fest such as CSI-student convention/IOTA/Vrithant/8th Mile/NSS/Conferences
Activities under "Vrithanth".

• In 2010-11 organized a talk on "E-Week Global marathon 2011, " Woman IT".
• In 2009-10 organized IBM Technology Day conducted by IBM.
• In 2009-10 A Pre-placement training was conducted for Pre Final Year students

Activities under IOTA Fest.

• Work shop on Android
• Workshop on Python
• Other Cultural activities.

Alumni Contribution

1. Aluminies from IBM are conducting workshops and seminars.
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).