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DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

News Letter: Volume 2, Issue No. 1 FEB - JULY 2018

CHIEF PATRON

Dr. G K Narayana Reddy

President, JES, Bengaluru

PATRONS

Sri. S.T. Narayana Gowda Vice President, JES, Bengaluru

Sri. H G Balgopal Secretary, JES, Bengaluru

Sri. I Narayana Reddy Joint-Secretary, JES, Bengaluru

Sri. Nagaraj N Treasurer, JES, Bengaluru

Sri. B P Muniraju Internal Auditor, JES, Bengaluru

& In-charge, VKIT Campus

CHIEF EDITOR

Dr. M.S. Bhagyashekar

Principal, VKIT, Bengaluru

EDITOR

Dr. Vidya A

Professor & HOD,

Dept. of Information Science & Engg.,

VKIT, Bengaluru

STAFF CO-ORDINATORS

Mrs. Snehalata

Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Information Science & Engg.,

VKIT, Bengaluru

Mr. R C Ravindranath

Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Information Science & Engg.,

VKIT, Bengaluru

STUDENT CO-ORDINATOR

Ms. Diksha Menda

7th Sem, Dept. of Information Science

& Engg., VKIT, Bengaluru

Vivekananda Institute of Technology pioneers the Department of Information

Science and Engineering in the year 1998 with the sanctioned intake of 60 students.

The department is well equipped with highly qualified dynamic faculty members.

The department aims to achieve quality in education and excellence in knowledge

management through innovations, problem solving, inter disciplinary collaborations

and continuous improvement to meet the changing needs of society.

VISION

To achieve quality in education and excellence in knowledge management through

time bound goals, innovation, problem solving, interdisciplinary collaboration and

continuous improvement to meet the changing needs of society.

MISSION

• To impart quality education in information Science and Engineering for

evolving software professionals with technical competence, strong character,

professional ethics and holistic approach to manage ever expanding knowledge

horizon.

• Disciplined and Integrated Development of Personality through Academic

Excellence, Sports and cultural activities.

• To strive for student achievement and successes, preparing them for life and

leadership.

OBJECTIVES

• To prepare graduates to practice Information Science/ Technology in a broad

range of industries.

• To prepare interested graduates to pursue Post graduate education In

Information science related fields or other professional degrees.

• To prepare graduates to contribute to their profession and society.

Upcoming Events:

Website design

OUTCOMES

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• Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering

fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering

problems.

• Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyse complex

engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of

mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.

• Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and

design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate

consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental

considerations.

• Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and

research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and

synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.

• Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and

modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modelling to complex

engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.

• The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to

assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities

relevant to the professional engineering practice.

• Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering

solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and

need for sustainable development.

• Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and

norms of the engineering practice.

• Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or

leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.

• Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the

engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and

write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and

receive clear instructions.

• Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the

engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member

and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.

• Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage

in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

Program Specific Outcomes

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• Design and implement network and web based computational systems under realistic

constraints.

• Design, Develop and Test software systems/products to provide solutions to real world

problems.

• Design efficient algorithms and develop effective codes.

• Able to use and analyse the appropriate IT tools for the effective implementation of the

projects.

• To achieve excellence in education by obtaining very good results in university

examinations.

• To promote faculty and students to present and publish papers in conferences and journals.

• To arrange national conferences and personality development workshop for students to

improve technical and communication skills.

• To establish research centre in the department to promote in house research and to get

funding from various funding agencies.

• To improve industry interaction programme to collaborate with industries.

• To start postgraduate programme in information science.

1. Mentoring system for academic, carrier and personal guidance.

✓ Keep informed about their wards regularity/Irregularity to parents.

✓ Everyday Monitoring of Students Discipline (Dress Code, ID) and Sending Progress

Report of students to their parents

✓ Preparing students with right soft skills henceforth building confidence in them to

face interviews and competitive exams.

2. Department association isoft to promote co-curricular and extracurricular activities to

inculcate working in groups and to develop leadership skills.

3. Arranging seminars and workshops on cutting edge technologies to create awareness on

recent happenings in IT-Industries.

4. Regularly arranging industrial visit and promoting internships.

5. Encouraging students to take up MOOCS to imbibe continuous learning.

6. Use of ICT tools in teaching, learning and assessment.

7. Arranging regular Parent Teachers Meet.

8. Feedback system to assess the quality of teaching, facilities, institution from parents and

faculty performance from students.

9. Department library and EDUSAT facilities for students.

10. Conducting bridge courses and remedial classes for slow learners.

11. Students with good percentage will be identified and rewarded in each subject.

Short-term Goals

Long-Term Goals

Good Practices of the Department

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Dr. Vidya A BE (CSE), ME (CSE), Ph. D(CSE) MISTE.,FIE

Dr. Vidya A has 18 years of teaching and 6 years of research experience. She received her Ph. D in

Computer Science and Engineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad. M.E in Computer Science and

Engineering from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, B.E in

Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University. She has published research papers

in International Conferences and refereed International Journals. She has also received best

presentation award for her research paper.

She is the reviewer for few Journals. Her name is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and

Engineering from 2011 till date. She is the Life Member for ISTE, IAENG and CSI. She is a Fellow

of Institute of Engineers. Her research interest includes Data mining, Bioinformatics, Pattern

Recognition and Image Processing. She is the Member of Board of Examiners for Computer

Science and Engineering (Postgraduate Studies), Bangalore University, Bangalore 2010 to till date.

She is also member of Board of Examiners for Information Science and Engineering, Dr. AIT

(Undergraduate Studies), Autonomous Institution Affiliated to VTU, Bangalore.

Email id: isehod.vkit@gmail.com, vkitise@vitb.ac.in.

Mobile: 9986011084

Faculty Name Qualification Designation Working Since

Dr. VIDYA A B.E., M.E, Ph. D Professor & HOD 24/04/2000

Dr. N P NETHRAVATHI B.E., M.TECH, Ph. D Associate Professor 16/06/2001

Mrs. HAMSA V B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 11/08/2011

Mr. R C RAVINDRANATH B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 08/06/2012

Mrs. SNEHALATA B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 08/10/2012

Mrs. KUSUMA C B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 25/07/2016

Mrs. PRIYANKA HV B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 25/07/2016

Mr. PRASHANTH P B.E., M.TECH Assistant Professor 01/08/2016

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY LIST

NON TEACHING STAFF

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Faculty Name Qualification Designation Working Since

Mr. TEGARAJA Diploma, B.E. System Analyst 06/07/2000

Mr. GOVARDHAN G R Diploma, (BE) Instructor 03/02/1999

• Advanced JAVA and J2EE /15CS553

• Cloud Computing /15CS565

• Data Mining and Data Warehousing/15CS651

• Python Application Programming/15CS664

• Unix System Programming/15CS744

• Storage Area Networks/15CS754

• System Simulation and Modeling /15CS834

• Department has taken initiative to deploy E-Content Programme for CBCS Scheme & to

carry out e-Shikshana Programmes organised by VTU.

• Our Recruiters: Sunquest Information Pvt. Ltd, Hinduja Global Solution, Grid India, NIIT,

Mindtree, CPMG, IBM, Aris Global, Amazon, BOSCH, Think Soft, Epsilon, Unisys,

Mphasis, HP, HCL, Good Thought, Cognizant and Micro Land etc

• A Mega Job Fair-2018 was arranged on 19/05/2018 at VKIT campus.

• Placement training has been given to 2nd, 4th and 6th semester students from J V Global

Services during even semester-2018.

• Two-week placement training was arranged for 8th Semester students from J V Global

Services during even semester-2018.

• 10 students of 8th sem are shortlisted for various companies during Mega Job Fair – 2018

• Kavyashree & Hemalatha are selected for Tikona Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore during Mega Job Fair

2018

• Soundarya has been selected for Spectrum Pvt Ltd, Bangalore.

ELECTIVES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT

PLACEMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES

TOPPERS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-18

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

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Department Topper

Toppers

Sanjay G 1VK16IS019 Thanuja L 1VK16IS023 Divya S N 1VK16IS006

SGPA-8.7 SGPA-7.81 SGPA-7.6

Akshatha N 1VK16IS001

SGPA-7.15

1st Year

Sahana C M 1VK15IS022 Sanjiv Shrirang Joshi 1VK15IS025 Chaitra D N 1VK15IS005

SGPA-8.29 SGPA-8.15 SGPA-7.85

Sanjeeva Basavaraju D 1VK15IS024

SGPA-7.5

2nd Year

Kruthi N 1VK14IS013 HEMALATHA A1VK14IS008 KALPITHA 1VK14IS011

73.44% 70.16% 67.60%

K S Pooja 1VK14IS010

63.44%

3rd Year

BRUNDA.S.P 1VK13IS008 SHRUTHI.N 1VK13IS039 HEMA.D 1VK13IS015

79.15% 78.41% 76.85%

JYOTHI.R 1VK13IS017

75.70%

4th Year

STUDENTS PARTICIPATION

Technical Event/Quiz from isoft

• To make students aware about the books available in a college library, an event “Technical

Library Scavenger Hunt – Who am I” has been arranged. Book related images will be

provided as a hint, each group have to find out the name, an author & the location of a book

in library on 09/02/2018 at VKIT Library & the event was coordinated by Asst. Prof.

Snehalata and Asst. Prof. Kusuma C

• VI semester students have participated in “IEEE-Technical Quiz” on 9th April 2018 at

ECE Dept.

Research Paper Presented/Published

• Adithi S, Anitha M, Gagana G M & Srinivas G from 8th sem have presented a paper on

“User Interest Based Recommendation Filtering in Online Social Media” in National

Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering Science & Technology at CBIT, Kolar on

24/05/2018.

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• Chethan M Jadhav, Manoj Kumar K & Sharath Chandra from 8th sem have presented a

paper on “Adhaar Card Based Voting to avoid Fake Votes” in National Conference on

Recent Trends in Engineering Science & Technology at CBIT, Kolar on 24/05/2018.

Project Exhibition

• Department has Participated in intra-college Project Exhibition for final year students on

23/05/2018. The exhibition was coordinated by Dr. Vidya A, HOD along with Mr.

Prashanth P and all project guides at the Dept.

• Kalpitha & Rohini from 8th semester have participated and exhibited their final year project

on “Detecting Stress Based on Social Interaction in Social Networks” in state level

Project presentation-SRISTI-2018 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore

from 22/05/2018 to 24/05/2018.

• Kruthi N, Poorvi V, Reema Priscilla & Shivani Shetty from 8th sem have participated and

exhibited their final year project on “Scene Recognition using Hybrid CNN and

Dictionary based Models” in Mega National Dr.AIT Techno Project Exhibition-2018.

• Adithi S, Anitha M, Gagana G M & Srinivas G from 8th

semester have participated and exhibited their final year

project on “Collaborative filtering based Recommendation of

Online Social Voting” in state level Project presentation-

SRISTI-2018 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering,

Bangalore from 22/05/2018 to 24/05/2018.

• Hemalatha A, K.S Pooja, Kavya.L & Sowjanya S from 8th

semester have participated and exhibited their final year

project on “Batch Identification Game Model for

Detection of Invalid Signatures” in state level Project

presentation-SRISTI-2018 at Dayananda Sagar College of

Engineering, Bangalore from 22/05/2018 to 24/05/2018.

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Workshops Attended

• VI semester students have participated in a two-day Hands-on Faculty Development

Program on “File Structures” on 15th -16th February 2018 at ISE Dept.

• IV & VI semester students have participated in a 4-Day Workshop on “Computer

Communication Network” from 2/05/2018 to 5/05/2018 at CSE Dept. VKIT jointly

organized the event with JetKing Sadashivanagar.

• IV & VI semester students have participated in a 3-Day Workshop on “IoT using

Raspberry Pi” from 19th April to 21st April 2018 at ECE Dept. VKIT.

• IV semester students have participated in a 3-Day Workshop on “ARM CORTEX M3

CONTROLLER” from 26th March to 28th March2018 at ECE Dept. VKIT.

Blood Donation Camp

Cultural Events

• 80 Students have participated in College Annual Fest VIBHIN-2018 actively.

• Sheetal John from 6th semester has won 1st place in Campus Pictures, during Cultural

Events VIBHIN-2018.

• Sumanth D N from 4th semester has designed the College cultural logo “VIBHIN” and

sports logo “AKHAADA” for the year 2018.

Sports

• Sumanth D N from 4th semester has won 1st place in Sports LOGO DESIGN for Akhada-

2018 and also designed the College cultural logo “VIBHIN” for the year 2018.

• Prajeetha from 6th semester participated in a team VTU Bengaluru Zone Kabaddi

competition held at CIT, Gubbi on 05/07/2018 and the team has own 1st place.

• 4th & 6th semester students have won 1st place in Cricket (Women), during Annual sports

Events- Akhaada-2018.

• Radhika J from 8th semester has won 1st place Chess (Women) during Annual sports

Events- Akhaada-2018.

• Ganesh R Bhardwaj from 6th semester has won 2nd place Chess (Men) during Annual sports

Events- Akhaada-2018.

• Sowjanya S from 8th semester has won 2nd place in 1500Mts Running Race (Women)

during Annual sports Events- Akhaada-2018.

• 10 Students have participated in Blood Donation

Camp on 23rd April 2018 at VKIT campus.

• Varsha & Soundarya from 8th semester have participated

and exhibited their final year project on “Detecting

Stress based on Social Interaction in Social

Networks” in Mega National Dr.AIT Techno Project

exhibition-2018.

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• Sajeena Choudhary from 4th semester has won 1st place in 800Mts Running Race (Women)

during Annual sports Events- Akhaada-2018.

• ISE Girls Volleyball Team has won first place during Annual sports Event.

Extra Co-curricular Events

• Dr. Vidya A, Prof. and Head along with team, Dept. of ISE has taken the responsibility of

conducting Annual Inter collegiate Technical Fest- “ScImagination-2018” on 23rd and 24th

of April 2018 and was successfully conducted the event.

• A team of 6 students along with faculty have participated in an awareness workshop on

“Smart India Hackathon-2018” held on 11/01/2018.

• Ten teams have been selected for regional level Engineering IT Quiz – “TCS TechBytes”

which is organized by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Board for IT Education

Standards (BITES), an autonomous agency promoted by Government of Karnataka in

association with IT industries and educational institutions for engineering students in

Karnataka held at SJCE, Mysuru on 08/03/2018.

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• Dr. Vidya A, Prof. and Head, has been participated in “Tv9 Education Expo” on 5th& 6th

May 2018 at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru for promotional activities.

• Mr. Ravindranath R C has been participated in “Tv9 Education Expo” on 5th May 2018 at

Palace Grounds, Bengaluru & on 26th & 27th May 2018 at Huballi for promotional activities.

• Dr. Vidya A, Prof. & Head, has participated in “Faculty Knowledge Program” on 20th

July 2018 at Indian Business School, Kengeri, Bengaluru.

• Mrs. Kusuma C and Priyanka H V, have attended a one-day workshop on “Implementation

of AICTE Model Curriculum” arranged by VTU, Belagavi, on 14/05/2018 at MSRIT,

Bengaluru.

• Dr. Vidya A, Prof. and Head, attended a one-day workshop on “A-VIEW Demonstration”,

Organized by VTU E-learning centre, Mysuru on 19/02/2018 at BIT, Benguluru.

• Mrs. Snehalata, Asst. Prof, attended a three-day workshop on “Python Application

Programming” on 22nd -24th January 2018 @SJBIT, Bengaluru.

• Mrs. Priyanka H V, attended a three days Faulty Development Program on “Cryptography,

Network Security & Cyber Law” at VVCE, Mysuru on 22nd Jan 2018 -24th Jan 2018.

• Dr. Vidya A, is a Technical Programme Committee member for ICDMAI 2019, 2018 and

2017, International Conference on Data Management, Analytics & Innovation to be held at

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Date: 18 - 20 January, for the year 2019.

• Dr. Vidya A, was a Technical Programme Committee member for National Conference on

Recent Trends in Engineering Science and Technology NCRTEST-2018 held at CBIT,

Kolar, on 24th May 2018.

• Dr. Vidya A, has selected for the “Marquis Who’s Who 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis

Lifetime Achievement Award”

• Dr. Vidya A, has Listed in directory of Marquis Who’s Who in the World, New York from

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

• Dr. Vidya A, was a Technical Programme Committee member for, 13th National

Conference on “Recent Trends in Computer Science and Engineering” - NCRTCS-2018

held at SJBIT, Bangalore on 9th May-2018.

• Dr. Vidya A, Professor and Head, being a First PROUD VKITIAN, presented a topic on

“Role of Ranking and Accreditation for Quality Assurance in Technical Education” on

09/06/2018 at Seminar Hall, Admin Block, VKIT Campus during PROUD VKITIAN Day.

AWARDS/REWARDS/HONOR

TALKS/SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

WORKSHOPS /SEMINARS/FDPS ATTENDED

COLLEGE PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITY

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• An invited talk on “Holistic Technology Development-The Role of Professional Bodies”

was organized on 24th April 2018 & was delivered by Dr. Shantharam Nayak, Prof. Dept. of

ISE, RVCE, Bengaluru.

• An invited talk on “Technology Advancement and Importance of Intellectual Property

Rights” was arranged on 23rd April 2018 & was delivered by Dr. S Rama Murthy, Senior

Advisor ORIGIINIP SOLUTIONS, (Former Professor-Jain University).

• A pre-placement talk has been delivered for BE final year students, regarding preparation

for test and interviews by Dr. M S Bhagyashekar, Principal, VKIT on 12th March 2018.

• Dr. Vidya A, Prof. and Head, arranged Yuva Yuga – to encourage and promote skill

development of the youth of Karnataka through various schemes of GoI/GoK and ICT

Initiative for industry aligned courses to develop Industry ready skilled work force in

IT/ITES, Electronics, Life Science, Banking and Financial Investments and other such

sectors by T Santosh Kumar, Key Accounts Manager, Trans Neuron Technology for SC/ST

students on 12th March 2018.

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• A two-day Hands-on Faculty Development Program on “File Structures” was organized on

15th -16th February 2018. The resource persons were Dr. P. Jayarekha, Associate Professor,

Department ISE, B M S College of Engineering, Bangalore and Dr. Kiran K, Mr. Santosh

Pattar from UVCE, Bangalore

• A two-day Bridge course on “C++” was organized on 17th to 18th 2017. The resource

person was Mr. Ravindranath R C and Asst. Prof, Dept. of ISE, VKIT.

• Students of 4th, 6th and 8th semester have registered for Youth4Work.

• An Industrial Visit has been arranged to ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru for 4th

and 6th semester students on 16/03/2018.Visit was Coordinated by Dr. Vidya A, Prof. and

Head and Snehalata, Asst. Prof.

• “National Technology Day” was celebrated on 11th May 2018, in remembrance of the

anniversary of Shakti. Shakti is the Pokhran nuclear test which was held on 11th of May,

1998. The day highlights the important role of Science in our daily lives and encourages

students to embrace Science as a career option.

NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS

INDUSTRIAL VISIT

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• World Environment Day was celebrated on 5th June 2018 & Dr. Vidya A, has highlighted

the importance of saving our environment and also illustrated with a video clip how plastic

usage is going to affect our lives and marine lives with the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”.

• The department is conducting regular PTM to discuss about academic performance and

overall growth of students with their parents.

ALUMINI TESTIMONIAL

PARENT –TEACHERS MEET (PTM)

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