Master of Computer Applications
| Course Type | Post Graduation |
| Duration | 3 years (6 semesters) |
| Department | Master of Computer Applications |
| Intake | 60 |
| Affiliation | VTU |
| Approvals | AICTE, GoK |
About the Course
The Department of Master of Computer Applications was started in the year 1997. This course is a three year Post-Graduate program in Computer Applications. MCA program is affiliated to VTU. The MCA Program at RVCE has been accredited by National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. The students of MCA are motivated to take up research activities. Being exposed to quantitative and qualitative analysis skills which are built into the curriculum and training provided by the department the students are equipped to be innovative and creative. The graduates of this discipline will also have adequate mathematical and software skills.
Mission
Achieve professional excellence through quality teaching and training in computer applications for an all-round development of individuals who can excel in their profession with a high degree of integrity and ethical standards, capable of responding to the changing needs of industry and the society.
Vision
- Educate and train students to gain the ability to work creatively, communicate effectively and become technologically competent.
- Provide a supportive environment that encourages faculty and students to engage in research and development activities.
Academic Program:
The MCA course consists of core subjects like Operating systems, Ethics, Databases, Digital Electronics, Mathematics, system software etc. The chart shown below represents the blending of subjects of different skill area in the curriculum. The Master of Computer Application curriculum spreads over 6 semesters which includes courses aimed at transmitting the broad spectrum of knowledge as follows:
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The department has on its rolls highly qualified teaching and technical staffs, exposed to the latest developments in their fields, to impart technical and practical skills to the students. The Faculties and students have enrolled in various professional bodies like IEEE, CSI, ISTE, IETE etc. The ratio of faculty to student is 1:12.
Infrastructure
The Department library is well stocked with books, magazines and journals. It has more than 900 book titles for the benefit of the students. The department also has a CD-Library with more than 50 CD-Titles.
The department is spread over a area of 2036.05 Sq. M.
- The whole department is Wi-Fi enabled.
- There are three well-equipped networked computer labs with 130 high end Computer Systems and peripherals.
- A Project lab has been set exclusively for 6th Semester projects.
- Internet Lab has been setup in the department, apart from the common browsing center facility available in the College, in order to enable the students to do quality projects.
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A research lab has also been established with high-end computer systems and peripherals with internet facility for executing research projects funded by various agencies like, Naval Research Board, AICTE, Armament Research Board, etc.
- There are three well equipped classrooms with audio visual facility.
- One Hi-tech classroom with multimedia setup.
- One Air-conditioned seminar hall with multimedia facility.
The laboratories are well equipped with powerful servers, computer systems, peripherals, Networking facility, Powersupply etc. The details are as follows: -
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Project Lab:
10 high end machines with Graphics Card facility and MEMS Simulation software Intellisuite 8.5 Version is available in the project lab, dedicated for carrying out funded research projects i n the department.
Currently there are 2 funded projects with 4 research assistants working on it.
RVCE Establishes IBM Center of Excellence
R V College of Engineering entered into a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with IBM Academic Initiative, on 30th March, 2010. Under this MoU a Center of Excellence has been setup in the MCA department. The IBM Center of Excellence was inaugurated by Mr. Jim Corgel, General Manager, ISV and Developer Relations, IBM Software Group. The center will conduct certification courses and training programs on IBM technologies to the faculties and students of RVCE. The other highlights are – Free IBM software facilities, Free IBM certification programs, Free IBM Red Book Library.
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Placements
The students of MCA course have got job opportunities in software companies like Oracle, Intel, Accenture, TCS, IBM, Wipro, Infosys, Honeywell, Mindtree, Tesco, Amazon, etc.. The highest salary is about 8 lakhs and average around 3.87 lakhs.
MCA students are also exposed to excellent technical environment, with courses being conducted by companies like Oracle, IBM, Dell, TCS, Accenture etc.
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Course Content
I - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | ||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | ||||
| IA | Exam | Total | |||||
| 07MCA11A | Accounting & Financial Management | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA11B | Mathematics | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA12 | Discrete Mathematics | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA13 | Fundamentals of Computer Organization | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA14 | Problem solving using C | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA15 | Professional Communication & Ethics | 04 | 50 | 100 | 150 | ||
| 07MCA16 | Accountancy Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA17 | C Programming Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA18 | IT and Digital Electronics Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 24 | 09 | 450 | 750 | 1200 | ||
II - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | ||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | ||||
| IA | Exam | Total | |||||
| 07MCA21 | Business Data Processing with COBOL | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA22 | Introduction to UNIX | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA23 | Data Structures using C | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA24 | Management Information Systems | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA25 | Operations Research | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA26 | COBOL Programming Laboratory | -- | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 | |
| 07MCA27 | Data Structures using C Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA28 | UNIX Programming Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 20 | 09 | 400 | 650 | 1050 | ||
III - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | ||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | ||||
| IA | Exam | Total | |||||
| 07MCA31 | Systems Programming | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA32 | Computer Networks | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA33 | Object Oriented programming with C++ | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA34 | Database Management Systems | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA35 | Operating Systems | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA36 | Systems Programming Laboratory | -- | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 | |
| 07MCA37 | OOP with C++ Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA38 | DBMS Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 20 | 09 | 400 | 650 | 1050 | ||
IV - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | ||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | ||||
| IA | Exam | Total | |||||
| 07MCA41 | Topics in Enterprise Architectures-I | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA42 | Software Engineering | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA43 | Web Programming | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA44 | Design and Analysis of Algorithms | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA45 | Elective I | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA46 | Java & J2EE Laboratory | -- | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 | |
| 07MCA47 | Web Programming Laboratroy | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA48 | Algorithms Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 20 | 09 | 400 | 650 | 1050 | ||
Elective - II |
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| Sub Code | Group - B | |||||
| 07MCA541 | Information Retrieval | |||||
| 07MCA542 | Data Mining | |||||
| 07MCA543 | Supply Chain Management | |||||
| 07MCA544 | Principles of User Interface Design | |||||
| 07MCA545 | Advanced Software Engineering | |||||
| 07MCA546 | Software Architectures | |||||
Elective - III |
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| Sub Code | Group - B | |||||
| 07MCA551 | Information & Network Security | |||||
| 07MCA552 | Software Testing | |||||
| 07MCA553 | Services Oriented Architecture | |||||
| 07MCA554 | Mobile Computing | |||||
| 07MCA555 | Artificial Intelligence | |||||
| 07MCA556 | Decision Support Systems | |||||
V - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | ||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | ||||
| IA | Exam | Total | |||||
| 07MCA51 | Object-Oriented Modeling and Design Patterns | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA52 | System Simulation and Modeling | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA53 | Topics in Enterprise Architectures-II | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA54 | Elective II | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA55 | Elective III | 04 | -- | 03 | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 07MCA56 | Software Design Laboratory | -- | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 | |
| 07MCA57 | Net Laboratory | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| 07MCA58 | Mini Project | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 20 | 09 | 400 | 650 | 1050 | ||
Elective - I |
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| Sub Code | Group - B | |||||
| 07MCA451 | Computer Graphics and Visualization | |||||
| 07MCA452 | UNIX system Programming | |||||
| 07MCA453 | Multimedia Computing | |||||
| 07MCA454 | Pattern Recognition | |||||
| 07MCA455 | Network Management | |||||
VI - Semester - Master of Computer Applications |
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| Sub Code | Title | Teaching Scheme Hrs/week | Examination | |||||
| Theory | Practical | Duration | Marks | |||||
| IA | Exam | Viva | Total | |||||
| Project Work | -- | 03 | 03 | 50 | 125 | 75 | 250 | |
| Note | Students have to register for one Elective for each of the five Elective Groups. | |||||||
Events and Seminars
CONFERENCE CONDUCTED
National Conference on Network Security and Information Retrieval (NCNSIR09) was conducted in the department on 14th December 2009.The Conference was Jointly organized by the Department of Master of Computer Applications, R.V.College of Engineering, Bangalore and Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam University for Women Coimbatore. The Conference coordinators were Chandrashekar BH and Renuka Prasad B.
Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director, JSPMS Jayawant Institute of Computer Applications, Pune and Dr. Andhe Pallavi, HOD, Department of Instrumentation Engineering, RNSIT, Bangalore delivered expert talk on the theme of the conference and judged the technical papers. There were two tracks: Paper Presentation and Poster Presentation and the proceedings of the conference was released by the dignitaries. The conference attracted over 100 technical papers from all over India, which were scrutinized by a team of judges and 20 of the papers were selected for oral presentation at the conference. The best 2 papers out of the 20 were presented awards.
Inauguration of the conference and releasing of the Conference Proceedings by Prof. K.N Raja Rao,
Dr. Ajay Kumar,Dr. Sumithra Devi.K.A
National Level Symposium on "E-waste management & Re-cycling"- jointly organized with the department of Biotechnology, RVCE ,sponsored by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board ( KSPCB) was held on 20th May 2010. The symposium comprised of 3 main events: Paper Presentation, Project Presentation,E-Waste Bin Designing.
Prominent Personalities who gave Expert Talk :
• Dr. Jaiprakash, Director, Academy Of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (ACHMM)
• Mr. Parthasarathy, Director, EParisara, Bangalore
• Mr. Kumara swamy, Environmental Officer, KSPCB
• Ms. Bineesha, Chief Environmental Advisor, GTZ
• Mr. Jaganatha Rao, Director, E-Waste Agency, Bangalore.
WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / TRAININGS CONDUCTED
Three day workshop on "Managing and Securing Compute Labs using Free and Open source Softwares", Supported and Facilitated by Department of M.C.A, R.V.College of Engineering and FSUG-Bangalore at RVCE for technical staffs from various engineering colleges in Bangalore from 18th - 20th January 2010 .
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3 day Workshop on FOSS at RVCE 18th - 20th January 2010
One Day Workshop on "Software Validation" By Mr. Mruthyunjaya, Trainer from MindMeet Inc,Bangalore for MCA Students on 26th February 2010.
Seminar on "SAP & ERP" by Mr. Sai Pratap, Operations Manager and Mr. S Anand Technical lead, SAP Tree consutations, Bangalore for MCA Students on 3rd March 2010.
One Day Workshop on "Lab View Simulation Tool" by Denver D'Souza, National Instruments, Bangalore for research lab scholars on 4th March 2010.
Two Day Workshop on "Free and Open Source Software for Primary Education" jointy organised by R.V Educational Consortium, Bangalore and R.V.C.E Bangalore on 29th -30th March 2010.
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2 Day workshop on "Free and Open Source Software for Primary Education"
on 29th -30th March 2010.
Seminar on "Soft Skills" by Mr.Anand, Zen School, Bangaore, for 2nd semester MCA students on 15th April 2010.
Seminar on "Technical Aptitude Skills", by Mr.Lakshmi Narayan, T.I.M.E, Bangalore, for 2nd semester MCA students on 15th April,2010.
Seminar on "Service Oriented Architecture", by Mr.Balachandra.V.Kamat, WIPRO, Bangaore, for 4th semester MCA students on 17th April 2010.
Seminar on "Network Security and Cryptography", by Mr. Vishwanath, WIPRO, Bangalore, for 4th semester MCA students on17th April 2010.
Seminar on "Web 2.0", by Mr.Amith Das, WIPRO, Bangaore, for 4th semester MCA students on 17th April 2010.
One Day Workshop ( Refreshing Course ) on "IBM DB2" by Mr.Bharath from IBM ,Bangalore for MCA Students on 24th April 2010
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IBM DB2 Workshop on 24th April 2010
Department Level Technical Fest 2010
"Exceptions" an inter-collegiate technical fest was held in the Department of MCA, RVCE on 12th and 13th of March 2010. With the theme as "Recycling of E-Waste"- It marked the confluence of knowledge, fun in various kinds of events and games to bring out the talents in the students. It was a fun-filled fest where students not only got a chance to expose their creativity, talent but also enjoyed in that arena and won attractive prizes.
Sponsors: -Tally, N-Power, Appin Technology, Aptech, WonderLa, SAPTree, Wipro
Prominent Personalities who graced the occasion:
Mr. P.N. Pappanna, Retd Deputy Commisioner of Police, Karnataka
Mr. Arun, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
Mr. Ananda Varadhan N.C., Senior Software Engineer,HP
Mr. Sanjeev Paul, Carrer Forum Bangalore
Mr. Raghavendra, Sr. Market Analyst, Thomson Reuters, Bangalore
Number of external participants: 180
Number of college participants: 276
Number of colleges: 26
RVCE Participants 34
Total individual participants – 62
Team members -101
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Inauguration of the Department Technical Fest – "Exceptions 2010"
Faculty
Master of Computer Applications - Faculty Details |
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| Name | Designation |
| K.A. Sumithra Devi | Director |
| Usha J. | Assistant Professor |
| Andhe Dharani | Assistant Professor |
| K.S. Jasmine | Assistant Professor |
| Vijayalakshmi M.N. | Senior Lecturer |
| B. Chandrashekar | Lecturer |
| B.H. Chandrashekar | Lecturer |
| B. Renuka Prasad | Lecturer |
| Mohan Aradhya | Lecturer |
| Divya T.L. | Lecturer |
| Saravanan C. | Lecturer |
| Preethy Maya Menon | Lecturer |
| Sandhya S. | Lecturer |
| Krishnan R. | Lecturer |