CET Code - E129
PGCET Code : MBA - B300 MCA -C484

About Master of Computer Applications Department

The Master of Computer Applications (MCA) programme was started in the year 2008 with an intake of 60 students. The Department offers a two years course approved by AICTE, Government of India and is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka.

Computer Applications at St Joseph is composed of core classes organized around the study of design and analysis techniques used to write software in various application domains along with details about the internal workings of computers and networks. Elective classes in areas such as Rich Internet Applications, mobile computing, Advanced computer networks, graphics, Unix System programming, Artificial Intelligence and others allow students to explore areas of individual interest

  • 240

    NUMBER OF STUDENTS

  • 19

    NUMBER FACULTY

  • 4

    NUMBER OF LABS

  • 82

    PLACMENT

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Dr Hareesha B

Academician having 11 Years of Teaching experience with a specialization of computer applications and 9 years of computer hardware and networking experience. The research interests in the field of image processing applications.

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QualificationDEC, BIT, MCA, Ph.D

Emailsharsh2000@gmail.com

"To be recognized as a department with research environment empowering computer professionals with a strong sense of service and human values at the core."

  • Inculcate professional behavior with strong ethical values and innovative research capabilities among faculty and students.
  • To meet the global needs and challenges through training of professionals who can work with interest to support the society.
  • Encourage faculty to have continuous progress in their teaching skills and self-development.

Graduates will be able to:

  • Have appreciation for, Professional and Ethical responsibilities through strong commitment to values.
  • Acquire essential fundamentals and adopt techniques and skills to critically identify, formulate and solve computational problems
  • Effectively design, develop and manage computer applications, using modern tools and techniques.
  • Develop confidence for self-education and innovative entrepreneurship.

Graduates will have the ability to:

  • Apply knowledge of mathematical, algorithmic, and computing principles.
  • Analyze and interpret data, make inferences from the resulting data and apply technical skills to solve real time problems
  • Design a system or module, to meet desired needs, which undergoes various phases of software development lifecycle.
  • Investigate, design and conduct experiments, by applying critical thinking to solve complex problems.
  • Make effective use of modern tools and techniques to develop a software system.
  • Inculcate Professional and Ethical attitude.
  • Understand the need for, and have an ability to inculcate quality, timeliness and continuous improvement.
  • Develop managerial skills in multidisciplinary approach.
  • Prepare technical documents and make effective presentation.
  • Design and construct a system, component or process to meet desired needs, within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental and social sustainability.
  • Develop teamwork, and leadership skills necessary to function productively and professionally to undertake a common goal.
  • Develop as an Entrepreneur in the software domain through innovative approach.
  • Work on research activities.

Dr Hareesha B Associate Professor, HOD

Qualification DEC, BIT, MCA, Ph.D

Emailsharsh2000@gmail.com

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Dr. Rio D'Souza Professor & Dean

Qualification B.E, M.Tech, ADAB, Ph.D.

Emailriod@sjec.ac.in

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Dr Anand Rajendran Professor

Qualification B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D

Emailanandr@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Sumangala N Assistant Professor

Qualification B.Sc, M.Sc, PGDCA, (Ph.D)

Emailsumangalan@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Sathyendra Bhat J Assistant Professor & Head-Training & Placement

Qualification B.C.A., M.C.A., (Ph.D)

Emailsathyendrab@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Gururaja S Assistant Professor

Qualification B.Sc., M.C.A., (Ph.D)

Emailgururajs@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Sunith Kumar T Assistant Professor & I/C CCC

Qualification B.Sc., MCA

Emailsunitht@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Murari B. K Assistant Professor

Qualification B.Sc, M.C.A., M.Tech(IT)

Email murarib@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Rakshitha P Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A.,M.C.A.

Emailrakshithap@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Amita Roshan Vakil Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A., M.C.A

Emailamitarv@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Jayashree M Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A., M.C.A

Emailjayashree@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Brill Brenhill Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A, M.C.A

Emailbrillb@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Prakriti Bhandary Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A., M.C.A

Emailprakritib@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Nishmitha J Assistant Professor

Qualification B.C.A., M.C.A

Emailnishmithaj@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Nitheesh Kumar B S Lecturer

Qualification B.Sc., MCA

Emailnitheeshk@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Jyothi Priya Dsouza Lecturer

Qualification B.C.A., M.Sc.

Emailjyothip@sjec.ac.in

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Mr Shylesh B C Assistant Professor

Qualification B.Sc, M.C.A., M.Tech(IT)

Emailshyleshb@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Shruthi K Anchan Lecturer

Qualification B.Sc., MCA

Emailshruthik@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Aishwarya R Acharya Lecturer

Qualification B.Sc., MCA

Emailaishwaryar@sjec.ac.in

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Ms Priyadarshini P Assistant Professor

Qualification B.Sc, M.Sc, (P.hd)

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Designation Name Qualifications
Lab Instructor Ms Divya Sujith Kumar Diploma CSE, BCA
Lab Instructor Ms Divya P Diploma CSE
Lab Instructor Ms Riola Rebello B.C.A.
Attender Ms Asha Lavina Flores PUC

Laboratories

Four well established laboratories, to meet the computing needs of the students.

IOT and Object Oriented programming laboratory

Unix and System Software Laboratory

Networking Laboratory

Web and Internet Computing Laboratory.

Department Library

An independent Library cum reading room provides students’ access to the latest Titles, journals, Conference Papers, Question Papers and Placement supporting material. In addition, traditional and digital references are available in the Central Library.

Internship

The MCA programme includes a 6 month internship cum project study in different companies to enable students to gain practical experience and make a transition into the industry. Our students have done a number of the outstanding projects well appreciated by their managers and companies.

Industry interaction with the Department enhances students internship, consultancy projects and placements. Students are trained under I-Point, which helps in placements and highly focus on the overall Personality Development of every individual. The Placement Training Activities are also conducted for the students by the Departmental staffs to qualify them for placements.

There are numerous opportunities to participate in projects and postgraduate research. There is no shortage of exciting career opportunities available to graduates.

Batch 2024

Sl No. Name of the Company No. OF STUDENTS
1CodeCraft Technologies2
2Comviva1
37Edge1
4Access Research Lab4
5Academic Counsellor-Teachnook3
6Invenger Technologies3
7Skolar17
8Skillwinner3
9Rinex Technologies8
10BlueFlame Labs1
11KodNest Technlogies14
Total Offers57

Batch 2023

Sl No. Name of the Company No. OF STUDENTS
1Code Young8
2Comviva1
37Edge3
4SYX Services4
5CodeCraft Technologies1
6Upskillz29
7InMovidu Tech6
8Unschool1
9Intellipat11
10Acess Research Lab2
11bitLabs10
12Acmegrade Pvt Ltd11
13Rinex Technologies15
14TCS(Ninja)2
15Invenger Technologies3
16ESAF Small Finance Bank4
17QSpider6
18Ethnus12
19Sonata Software1
20Academor6
21Jaro Education1
22Robosoft Technologies2
total Offers139

Batch 2022

Sl No. Name of the Company No. OF STUDENTS
1TCS5
2Cognizant11
3Hexaware Technologies1
4VRIZE4
5Palle Technologies6
6Cognitive Cloud7
7Mavericks Education2
8Tayana Software Solution1
9Sonata Software4
10BNP Paribas1
11Tele performance5
12Cognitive Cloud20
13Q Spider1
14Upskillz EduTech Pvt2
Total Offers68

Batch 2021

Sl No. Name of the Company No. OF STUDENTS
1TCS NQT1
2Impelsys1
3Diya Systems6
4Persistent Systems4
Total Offers12

Batch 2020

Sl No. Name of the Company No. OF STUDENTS
1TCS1
2Robosoft Technologies1
3Federal Bank1
4Infosys6
5DXC Technology1
6Urjanet Energy1
7Diya Systems1
Total Offers13

PG Courses Inauguration 2023-24

St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru inaugurated its PG Courses for the year 2023-24 on 07th March 2024 at Kalam Auditorium, Vth Floor, Academic Block II of the college.

The program began with a prayer song, invoking Almighty's blessings.

Ms. Ananya Hebbar, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, MResult Services, Mangalore was the Chief Guest for the program. Dr. Prakash Pinto, Dean, Department of MBA welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest.

The lamp was lighted by the dignitaries on the dais.

Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal SJEC, addressed the gathering and welcomed all the first-year students. He spoke about self-discovery and the need to understand oneself. Self-discovery helps in tuing defects into opportunities through constant hardwork and commitment. Students must create value and contribute to the family, corporate and society as a whole. 

The rank holders from MBA and MCA through PGCET who joined SJEC in this academic year were felicitated by the Chief Guest.

 Ms. Ananya Hebbar in her inaugural speech inspired the gathering by briefing on her experience. She emphasised the role of faculty as a guide and a mentor. She urged students to explore life beyond academics and build connections. 

 Dr. Rio Dsouza, Principal, SJEC felicitated the Chief Guest.Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash Dsouza, Director, SJEC addressed the gathering and gave Presidential speech. He welcomed all the new students to the college and encouraged them to try their level best to excel, not only in academics but also in extracurricular activities.

Fr Kenneth Crasta, Asst Director, SJEC and Dr Harish B., Head of Department of Computer Applications were also present.  Dr. Shakila B, Associate Professor, MBA, Convener of the program rendered the vote of thanks. Mr. Nelson Feandes, Asst. Professor, MBA compered the programme.


 

Orientation Program for MCA 2023-25 Batch

The orientation program for the newly admitted MCA students was organized from 29th January 2024 to 31st January 2024 for the 2023-2025 Batch. The main objective of the orientation was to assist the students in developing an understanding of the department, and its teaching-leaing processes, and to familiarize them with facilities available on the campus. Distinguished resource persons from the college and industry participated in this program to enlighten the vision and mission of the department. The fresh batch of students actively participated in the event.

Dr. Hareesh B, esteemed Associate Professor and Head of the Department, warmly greeted the incoming students to the MCA Department. In his talk introduced the Department of MCA to the new batch of students. Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal, SJEC delivered a lecture on Professional Approach to Life. 

Ms. Sumangala N, Assistant Professor spoke on outcome-based education and the graduate attributes used to assess student performance using the measurable course outcomes. She briefed me about the semester-end examination and the eligibility criteria for passing, the inteal evaluation system, and the evaluation methods followed in the Department.

Ms. Nisha Shriyaan, Associate Lead - Full Stack, Microland Limited Alumnus 2013-17 Batch During her presentation, she shed light on the pivotal role of ethics and work culture within industries, drawing from her own extensive experience and expertise. Ms. Shriyaan provided invaluable insights into the ethical frameworks and workplace dynamics that contribute to a transformative and sustainable organizational culture. Her discourse not only inspired but also guided attendees toward fostering environments of integrity, collaboration, and excellence within their respective professional spheres.

Ms Vaneesha V Rodrigues, Physical Education Director of the Institution addressed the students about the facilities of the Physical Education Department. She also briefed them about the rules and regulations to be followed to avail the sports facilities. 

Dr. Sudheer M, Dean of Academics of the college presented the complete Academic Regulations and MCA Curriculum Structure. He highlighted the curriculum structure, credit system, and also very importantly the academic evaluation plan in the presentation. 

Mr. Sunith Kumar T, Assistant Professor, shared invaluable guidance on navigating the enrolment and registration process for MOOC courses on Coursera, enlightening students on the seamless procedures to access a wealth of knowledge and skills online. Additionally, he shed light on the comprehensive resources and amenities offered at the Central Computer Centre(CCC).

Dr. Ramananda H S, Dean of Student Welfare, explained the importance of the mentoring process. He spoke about the facilities available in the college for student grievances. He also highlighted the basic academic and other rules of the college and requested students to follow them accordingly.

Ms. Preetha Aroza, the college counsellor, spoke about counseling and its importance in real life. She presented the counseling facilities available in the college for students to use this facility whenever required. She spoke on the activities conducted under Jagruthi committee.

Ms Priyanka Kamath, PrimeSophic Technologies, Mangalur, through her insightful presentation, she provided attendees with practical strategies and techniques to enhance their communication, interpersonal, and presentation abilities, while also offering valuable guidance on structuring compelling resumes that effectively showcase their talents and experiences.

Mr. Tharun S, the Co-Founder of Headway Technologies based in Mangaluru, conducted an insightful session focusing on the importance of hobbies both cultivated and developed during one's college years. He encouraged students to explore their passions and interests, emphasizing the significance of nurturing hobbies as a means of personal growth and skill enhancement. Furthermore, Mr. Tharun urged students to delve into freelancing opportunities, highlighting how such endeavors can serve as valuable platforms for honing technical skills and gaining practical experience outside the traditional classroom setting. His guidance aimed to inspire students to actively engage in self-directed leaing and pursue diverse avenues for professional development. 

Dr. Purushotham Chippar, Vice Principal of SJEC, led an enlightening session on the crucial topics of Research and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Drawing upon his wealth of expertise, Dr. Chippar provided valuable insights into the realm of research methodologies, highlighting the importance of innovation and scholarly inquiry in academia. Additionally, he delved into the intricacies of Intellectual Property Rights, empowering participants with knowledge on safeguarding their original ideas and creations. Through his comprehensive session, Dr. Chippar inspired a deeper understanding and appreciation for research and IPR among the attendees, fostering a culture of academic excellence and innovation within the institution.

Dr Felcy D' Souza, Librarian gave an orientation on resources, services, and facilities offered by the Central Library. She also familiarized the functional divisions of the library membership, timings, library online catalog, and digital library. She also demonstrated other e-resources offered by SJEC.

Mr Gururaja S, Assistant Professor gave a session on the Technocrats Student Association of MCA Department. He also briefed about the activities and events conducted under the Technocrats and Library facility of the Department.

 

Joshiana 12.0, a 2 day National Level IT Fest

"The Technocrats” - The Students Association of MCA of SJEC is hosting Joshiana 12.0, a 2-day National Level IT Fest for the students of MCA, M Tech, MSc, BCA, and B.Sc(CS) The fest is being organized under the aegis of the Department of Computer Applications. 

Joshiana 12.0 was inaugurated on Thursday, 21st September 2023 with lighting the lamp by the dignitaries. Mr Bharath Nidpalli, Senior Tech Lead, Iron Service Global, was the Chief Guest of the Inaugural Function. The other dignitaries present on the dais were Rev Fr Kenneth Rayner Crasta - In-charge Director, SJEC who presided over the ceremony, Dr. Rio D'Souza - Principal, SJEC, Guest of honour, Dr. Hareesh B - HOD MCA, Mr Gururaja S - Staff Coordinator for Joshiana 12.0, Mr Brill Brenhill - Co Coordinator for Joshiana 12.0, Mr Anvith Shenoy - President of TechnoCrats and Mr Rahul J - Secretary of TechnoCrats.

The function began with the invocation song followed by the lighting of the Lamp by the dignitaries which officially declared Joshiana 12.0 open. The gathering was welcomed by Dr. Hareesh B - HOD MCA, and the Chief Guest was felicitated by the In-charge Director of the Institution.  Mr Anvith Shenoy, the President of the Technocrats, briefed about the events that would be held over the 2 days. The unveiling of the trophies for which the participants were competing against each other was done by the Chief Guest. 

The Chief Guest Mr. Bharath Nidpalli addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. 

The curtains were drawn on the Inauguration Ceremony with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Mr Gururaja S, Convenor of Joshiana 12.0. The MC's role for the inaugural ceremony was done by Ms Benadecta Jacob from I year MCA.

The events are being conducted by the MCA students over 2 days and the judges have been invited from in and out of the college. All in all, 22 teams have registered for Joshiana 12.0 and around 269 participants are being a part of the fest. 

The fest is comprised of 10 events namely - CYBER WARFARE (Coding), WEB WIZARDS (Web Design), STRATEGIST (IT Quiz), RECONNAISSANCE (Photography & Videography), TECH REBUTTAL (IT Debate), FRONTLINE (Gaming), TACTICIAN (Product Launch), CAPOEIRA (Variety Contest), EMPEROR (IT Manager) and ONE PIECE (Treasure Hunt). The events are designed to test the technical mettle of the participants.

 

Technical Talk on Introduction to Machine Learning

Department of MCA in association with IEEE SJEC Student Branch, organized a Technical Talk on the topic "Introduction to Machine Leaing on Saturday, 22nd July 2023 at 2.00 pm to 4:00pm in Webinar Hall 6th floor CSE Department, Academic Block - II.

Resource Person: Dr S Kanchana, Assistant Professor, SRM University Chennai

Event Outcomes:

The Audience were able to realize on the Machine Leaing concepts, its importance and the

usage. The session started with the brief insights on Machine Leaing with the basic terminologies and the applications of Machine leaing.

Then the speaker discussed on different models of Machine Leaing techniques like logistic regression, KNN, Decision tree etc. She elaborated how the ML model is being built using the said techniques. She concluded the talk by explaining the dataset and the tools used to collect the dataset. The technical talk emphasized on the Machine Leaing algorithms to recognize pattes using training sets. The students are actively participated in the session including question and answer session and discussed the machine leaing applications.

 

MCA, MBA : PG Courses Inauguration 2022-23

St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru inaugurated its PG Courses for the year 2022-23 on 21st February 2023 at Kalam Hall, Vth Floor, Academic Block II of the college. The program began with the prayer song followed by lighting of the lamp. Mr Ryan Lobo, Country HR Lead, EGDK India Private Limited was the Chief Guest for the program. Dr Hareesh B, HOD, Department of Computer Applications, welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest.

 Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal SJEC, addressed the gathering and welcomed all the first-year students. He spoke about how students need to utilize the time. He explained about the facilities available in the college like the Infrastructure, library facility, Coursera courses, Inteet services etc.

The rank holders from MBA and MCA through PGCET who joined SJEC in this academic year were felicitated by the Chief Guest.

Mr Ryan Lobo in his inaugural speech inspired the gathering by briefing on his experience.  He spoke about relevancy of subject in job, emotional stability, flexibility, fungibility, and how students should reset their mind. He explained that students should lea to bounce back quickly. He added that there is only one religion once you enter the corporate world which is "Corporate Religion” and treating everyone equal as well as respecting others are some of the qualities that should be inculcated in each one of us.

 Rev Fr. Alwyn Richard D'Souza, Asst. Director SJEC felicitated the Chief Guest and gave Presidential address. He welcomed all the new students to the college and encouraged them to try their level best to excel in their academics. He said that the institute will provide any amount of facility and opportunities but students should utilize it in a proper way.

Mr Roopesh, Assistant Professor, MBA, Convener of the program rendered the vote of thanks to the gatherings.

 

 

MCA: Technical Talk on “Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)”

Department of MCA in association with IEEE SJEC Student Branch, organized a Technical Talk on the topic "Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) " on Thursday, 13th October 2022 at 10.00 am to 12:00 noon in Fr Fred Memorial Hall, Basement, Academic Block - I.

Target Audience:

II Semester MCA Students. 

Resource Person: Dr Purushothama Chippar, Vice Principal, SJEC Mangaluru

Event Outcomes:

The Audience were able to realize on the Intellectual Property Rights, its importance and protection.

The session started with the brief insights on Intellectual Property Rights(IPR). Then the speaker discussed on different aspects of Intellectual Properties like Patent, Patent Rights, Trademarks, Industrial Design, Geographical Indication. He concluded the talk by explaining the rationale of protection and the nature of IPR . IPR are monopoly rights. The technical talk emphasized that IPR have to be renewed from time to time for keeping them enforced except in case of copyright and trade secrets.

 

MCA: “The Technocrats” hosts Joshiana 11.0, a National Level IT Fest

"The Technocrats” - Students Association of Department of Computer Applications of SJEC conducted Joshiana 11.0, a 2 day National Level IT Fest for the students of MCA, M Tech, MS BCA, B.Sc (CS) on 6th and 7th September 2022. The fest was organized under the aegis of the Department of Computer Applications and we have witnessed it over the last two days.

Joshiana 11.0 was inaugurated with the lighting the lamp by the dignitaries which included Mr. Mohammed Aymen, SAP Architect, SAP Labs, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Function. This was followed by the unveiling of the trophies for which the participants were competing against each other.

Chief Guest, Mr. Mohammed Aymen, addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology.

The fest comprised of 10 events namely - CODEBLANCA (Coding), DORTWEB (Web Design), Seoul (IT Quiz), L'Objectif (Photography &Videography), Cairo Conflicts (IT Debate), NukeTown (Gaming), Vlog of Fame (Vlogging), Takeshis Castle (Team Event), IT Pharaoh (ITManager) and Harlem Shake (Dance).

The events were conducted by the MCA students over 2 days and the judges were invited from in and out of the college. All in all, 11 teams participated in Joshiana 11.0 and we had 110 participants visiting our college and being a part of the fest.

Some of the exteal judges called from outside included, Sanket Udaya Kumar who judged the final round of the event Photography &Videography and the final round of the event Vlogging judged by Girish Shet.

The final round of the event Web Designing was judged by Mr. Harish Neermarga CEO Accolade Tech Solutions. The final round of the event Mega Event was judged by Anvitha Acharya, Founder and CEO of Craft Scientist, Mangaluru.  The final round of the event Best IT Manager which concluded just a few moments ago was judged by Mr Abishek Shenoy and Ms Prithvi Shet, both experts in the field of Stress Interviews. The judges for all the events were felicitated by the respective Event Managers by handing them a memento as a token of appreciation.

Joshiana 11.0 came to an end with Valedictory Function and the Chief Guest for the ceremony was Dr. Rio D'Souza- Principal SJEC, Mangalore. and picking up crucial aspects of programming which would help them achieve great things in life.

The Runners-Up and Overall Championship of Joshiana 11.0 UG Category was awarded to St Aloysius College, Mangaluru. The Runners-Up for Joshiana 11.0 under PG category was bagged by Srinivasa Institute of Technolgoy, Pandeshwara and Overall Championship was bagged by Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru

 

MCA: Prize Winners at EPITOME 2022

The Department of Information Technology, AIMIT, Beeri conducted their annual National Level Technical and Cultural Fest on  4th and 5th August 2022.

The programme was inaugurated on August 4 by Prashanth Shenoy Katpady, director, CEO, Mangalore InfoTech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All in all, 9 teams participated in the fest which comprised of 12 events namely: IT Manager, Web & code, Gaming, IT Quiz, Photography and Videography, Dance, Style the outfit, Logo Creation & IT Mems, Treasure Hunt, Collage Making, Model Presentation and coding.

A team of 13 students from the Department of Computer Applications of SJEC participated and ended up by winning the following prizes. 

 

Event

Position

Participant Names

Photography and video Graphy

I

Geethesh  B U

Web and Coding

II

Deepak Boniface Cardoza and Sarath Pavithran

Gaming

 

II

Diyon Rithvi Saldanha  and Rahul Bhaskar

 

MCA: Overall Champions at Medha 2022

The Department of Computer Applications of SDIT, Kenjar conducted their annual Intercollegiate Technical Fest Medha 2022 on 2nd July 2022.

 

The Fest is inaugurated by Shreeja P K, delivery manager Infosys Mangalore. Overall, 9 teams participated in the fest which comprised of 10 events namely: Web Designing, Coding, IT Quiz, Gaming, IT Parliament, Treasure Hunt, Photography BGMI, IT-Manager, Google -it, Tech Host and Cultural.

 

A two team of 34 students from the Department of Computer Applications of SJEC participated and ended up by winning overall champions. The team secured the following prizes:

 

Event

Position

Participant Names

Best Manager

II

Santhosh N

IT Parliment

I, II

Nikhil, Varshitha,Anutha,Divesh,

Quiz

I , II

Akash,Sarath Pavithran,Mahima Shenoy, Nithin,Yashaswi

Google-it

I

Divesh,Anutha.

Coding

I

Deepak Cardoza, Sarath Pavithran

TechHost

II

Lia John, Suraksha M

Dance

II

Manisha,Mahamayi,Preethi Jayachandra, Shraddha and Josna Feandes

 

MCA: Prize Winners at Shells 2022

The Department of Computer Science (PG) of Kristu Jayanti college, Bengaluru, conducted their annual National Level IT Fest on May 25th 2022 in online mode.

 The formal program is started around 9:30am on May 25th.The fest which comprised of 6 events namely: IT Manager, Product Launch, Coding and Debugging, IT Quiz, Tech Talk & Debate, Web Design.

A team of 6 students(II Sem)  from the Department of Computer Applications of SJEC participated and ended up by winning the following prizes. 

  

Event

Position

Participant Names

IT Quiz

III

Akash and Nithin Nayak

 

MCA: 2021-23 Batch Orientation Program

The orientation program for the newly admitted MCA students was organized from 31st January 2022 to 3rd February 2022. Distinguished resource persons from the college and industry participated in this program to enlighten the vision and mission of the department. The fresh batch of students actively participated in the event.

Mr Hareesh B Assistant Professor introduced the College, Department, Faculty, and staff members to students. He also spoke about the central computing facilities and department facilities provided to the students.

Ms Sadhana Kumble, Assistant Professor oriented students on the topic 'Outcome Based Education & Research at SJEC'. The talk was focused on how OBE emphasizes the curriculum, to measure the student expectations and the eaed knowledge after finishing the course and curriculum. Awareness was given to the approach of Outcome-based education in which decisions about the curriculum are driven by the outcomes the students should display by the end of the course- professional knowledge, skills, abilities, values, and attitude- rather than on the educational process. It highlights the fact that students have to know the final destination of their jouey before they start voyaging. At the end of the session, a glimpse of the Research Strategy at SJEC and its operations were discussed. Students are also made acquainted with the research areas focused at MCA Department.

Dr. Vincent Crasta, Dean of Academics of the college presented the complete plan and schedule of academic activities for this new autonomy batch. He highlighted the curriculum structure, credit system, and also very importantly the academic evaluation plan in the presentation. Dean motivated the students to take up the MOOC courses and also welcomed them to MCA Program.

The Director of the Institution Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D' Souza welcomed students to the campus by giving a clear picture of the structure of the Institution including campus facilities that support teaching, leaing, and other operations and also campus rules. He also spoke about values in life that help us grow and develop and the importance of decision making which reflects the values of our life.

The Assistant Director of the Institution Rev Fr Alwyn Richard D'Souza addressed the students. He welcomed students to the campus with some innovative activities which is part of the continuous leaing required for the life. He also spoke about facilities on the campus and requested the students to best use of the same.

Mr Gopala Krishna Bhat, Kakunje Software Pvt. Ltd., Mangalore briefed about his industrial experiences and the opportunities and trends in the market for young developers through real life examples. This industry-institute interaction is an initiative by the Department helping students grow beyond the curriculum and also to get awareness about entrepreneurship.

Dr. Ramananda H S, Dean of Student Welfare, explained the importance of mentoring process. He spoke about the facilities available in the college for the student grievances. He also highlighted the basic academic and other rules of the college and requested students to follow them accordingly.

Ms. Preetha Aroza, the college counsellor, spoke about counselling and its importance in real life. She presented the counselling facilities available in the college for students to use this facility whenever required. She spoke on the activities conducted under Jagruthi committee.

Mr Sathyendra Bhat J, Placement Head of the college presented the placement and the training process of the college. He also showed the road map of the college placement and training activities of the college. He also motivated the students to enhance their personal profiles. The placed student details and the company for which the students placed were presented.

Ms Vaneesha V Rodrigues, Physical Education Director of the Institution addressed the students about the facilities of the Physical Education Department. She also briefed them about the rules and regulations to be followed to avail the sports facilities. A brief report on the achievements of all SJEC teams in the year 2020-21 was presented

Technocrats and activities conducted under the banner of this association were given by Mr Gururaja S, Assistant Professor. Students were made aware of the opportunities in terms of networking and strengthening their leadership skills by conducting and attending Technical Fests and other activities.  He also briefed about the Department Library facility.

Mr Yathish Kumar K, Manager, NAIN Incubation Center, SJEC conducted activities to explore the innovative skills which we have. He also showed how we can be an entrepreneur by transforming our innovative ideas into products. The activities are ended with good results as students finally came with some product prototypes.

Dr Sudheer M, Dean R&D spoke about the research opportunities for the MCA students. He also presented a road map for the research initiatives which can be adopted by students.

Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal _SJEC welcomed the students to the campus. His lecture gave a glimpse of professionalism which is a combination of values, qualities, and ethics that employers look for in their potential candidates. He advised students on being reliable and that they should be capable of shouldering major work responsibilities. They should be highly responsible for managing and accomplishing all their tasks. The principal motivated students to become good professionals in their careers and to be successful in life.

Mr Ragesh Raju, Assistant Professor enlightened students with an activity-based session on Active leaing by introducing some of the techniques and strategies used for implementing active leaing in the classroom which is practiced in the Department. He also spoke about the importance of MOOC courses, especially Coursera.

Ms Sumangala N, in charge HOD- MCA briefed about the Department. She explained the curricular and co-curricular activities conducted for the benefit of students. Students were told about the mentoring system followed in the Department.  In her presentation, she spoke on outcome-based education and the graduate attributes used to assess student performance using the measurable course outcomes. She briefed about the semester-end examination and the eligibility criteria for passing, inteal evaluation system and the evaluation methods followed in the Department.  Ms Sumangala N has ensured that students will be exposed to quality education with a focus on the overall personality development of students. In charge HOD also highlighted the senior student's achievements in academics. She has advised them to be focused on academics along with co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

Dr Felcy D' Souza, Librarian gave an orientation on resources, services, and facilities offered by the Central Library. She also familiarized the functional divisions of the library membership, timings, library online catalog, and digital library. She also demonstrated VTU consortium and other e-resources.

 

Alumni Talk: The Journey from Campus to Corporate, Pocket Money to Hard Earned Money

Department of MCA in collaboration with SJEC Alumni Association organized a webinar titled "The Jouey from Campus to Corporate, Pocket Money to Hard Eaed Money" on Saturday, 22 May 2021, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. The webinar was delivered by Mr Cedan Christopher Misquith, Team Lead of Mobile Dev Team at 7EDGE Private Limited and an alumnus from the MCA Class of 2015. The webinar was exclusively for the students of the MCA department.

The event began with Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA, introducing the resource person and welcoming all participants.

Mr Cedan spoke about his experiences ever since he stepped out of the portals of the college. He took the participants through his professional jouey from the days he began exploring mobile application development to where he is today. He said that the students should not shy away from leaing new things and aspire to lea much more than what is there in the syllabus. He called upon the current students to be tech savvy and experiment with multiple technologies instead of gaining mastery over one.

The webinar was attended by students and faculty members of the MCA department. Mr Sathyendra Bhat, compered the event and proposed the vote of thanks.

 

Orientation program for MCA students held from 18th January 2021 to 22nd January 2021

The orientation program for the newly admitted MCA students was organized from 18th January 2021 to 22nd January 2021. Students were formally welcomed and introduced to the campus, Department and the Department academic system.

The orientation program began with a session by Ms Sumangala N, in charge HOD- MCA. Initially she introduced the College, Department, the faculty and staff members to students. She gave the detailed structure of 2 year MCA Program including evaluation criteria and attendance requirements. She told about the continuous inteal evaluation system and the evaluation methods used in the Department. She briefed about the University level semester end examination and the eligibility criteria for passing. She has also explained the curricular and co-curricular activities conducted for the benefit of students. Students were told about the mentoring system followed in the Department.  In her presentation she spoke on outcome based education and the graduate attributes used to assess student performance using the measurable course outcomes.   Ms Sumangala N has ensured that students will be exposed to quality education with a focus on overall personality development of students. She has advised them to be focused on academics along with co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

The day progressed with a session conducted by Mr Sathyendra Bhat J, Assuistant Professor and the college level Placement coordinator.  He described the normal placement process and the placement activities conducted for students in the Department.

On the next day the session started with a talk on Central Computing Facility(CCC) and other facilities in the campus by  Mr Hareesh B, Assistant Professor and CCC In charge of SJEC.

The Director of the Institution Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D' Souza addressed the students on 19th January 2021 at 10 am. He welcomed students to the campus by giving a clear picture about the structure of the Institution including campus facilities that support teaching, leaing and other operations and also campus rules. He also spoke about values in life which help us grow and develop and told that the decisions we make every day are reflection of our values. 

The third session of the day was by Ms Vaneesha V Rodrigues, Physical Education Director of the Institution. She addressed the students about the facilities in the Physical Education Department. She also briefed them about the rules and regulations to be followed to avail the sports facilities. A brief report on the achievements of all SJEC teams in the year 2019-20 was presented 

The last session of the second day of the program was by Dr Felcy D' Souza, Librarian who  gave orientation on resources, services and facilities offered by the Central Library. She also familiarized the functional divisions of the library membership, timings, library online catalogue and digital library. She also demonstrated VTU consortium and other e- resources.

The first session on 20th January 2021 was conducted by Ms Sadhana Kumble, Assistant Professor  on the topic 'Outcome Based Education & Research at SJEC' from 9 to 10am. The talk was focused on how OBE emphasizes on what is expected from the student to finally achieve when they complete their course rather than how they achieved it. Awareness was given on the approach of Outcome based education in which decisions about the curriculum are driven by the outcomes the students should display by the end of the course- professional knowledge, skills, abilities, values and attitude- rather than on the educational process. It highlights the fact that students have to know the final destination of their jouey before they start voyaging. At the end of the session a glimpse of the Research Strategy at SJEC and its operations were discussed. Students are also made acquainted of the research areas focused at MCA Department.

The details about the student association of the Department- Technocrats and activities conducted under the banner of this association were given by Mr Gururaja S, Assistant Professor. Students were made aware of the opportunities in terms of networking and strengthening the leadership skills by conducting and attending Technical Fests and other activities.  He also briefed about the Department Library facility.

Mr Ragesh Raju, Assistant Professor enlightened students with an activity based session on Active leaing by introducing some of the techniques and strategies used for implementing active leaing in the classroom which are practiced in the Department.

The last day of orientation program on 22nd Jan 2021 began at 10 am with a session by the Principal Dr Rio D' Souza on the topic

 

Technical talk on "Machine Learning and its Advantages in Medical Imaging"

A Technical Talk on "Machine Leaing and its Advantages in Medical Imaging" was organized by the Department of Computer Applications in association with ISTE- SJEC Chapter, for the third year students of MCA on 23 rd November 2019 at 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in Engineering Graphics Lab (3313), Third floor, Academic Block III. The talk was delivered by Mr Kartik Mohan, Data Scientist, Techspiritz, Mangalore.

The technical talk was a beyond syllabus activity for the final year students and was organized by Ms. Sumangala N,  incharge HOD- MCA and Mr. Gururaja S, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications. The technical talk aimed at providing knowledge of the Machine Leaing and its applications in Medical imaging in Computer Applications, current trend of world innovation, student contribution towards innovation and innovation approach. The technical talk with hands on provided a deep insight on Machine Leaing and was highly appreciated by students and faculty members.

 

SJEC hosts an FDP on "Google Suite for Education" for Faculty of Father Muller Medical College, Mangaluru

The Department of Computer Applications of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Google Suite for Education for the faculty members of Father Muller Medical College (FMMC) on 22 & 23 November 2019.

The program was aimed at empowering the teachers and doctors of FMMC with technical skills in order to enhance the content delivery and bring in transformations in the teaching-leaing process. The training was focussed on the application of Google Productivity tools and Google Classroom concepts. The sessions were designed specifically to suit the day to day requirements of faculty members through hands-on experiences.

The FDP was inaugurated by the dignitaries which included the Chief Guest, Rev. Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho, Director of Father Muller Charitable Institutions. The other dignitaries present on the occasion were Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Director of SJEC, Rev. Fr Ajith Menezes, Administrator of FMMC, Dr Uday Kumar K, Medical Superintendent and Professor in the Department of Forensics at FMMC, Rev. Fr Rohith D'Costa and Rev. Fr Alwyn Richard D'Souza Assistant Directors of SJEC, Dr Sudheer M, Incharge Principal of SJEC and Ms Sumangala N, HOD of MCA at SJEC.

Dr Sudheer said that the FDP provides a perfect opportunity for the people from Health Sciences to interact with their peers from Physical Sciences. He also expressed the need for both the branches of Science to work collaboratively in order to make this world a better place.

Fr Richard Coelho addressed the gathering and expressed happiness on the conduction of this FDP which is intended to make the faculty of the Medical College get a taste of using technology at their workplaces. He thanked the management of St Joseph Engineering College for taking this initiative to bridge the gap between the two domains of Science.

Ms Sumangala welcomed the gathering. Ms Nisha Jenifer Roche, compeered the inaugural.

Fr Wilfred Prakash DSouza spoke about the usefulness of Google Suite for Education and said that it will facilitate the teaching-leaing process at FMMC. He went onto say that the present generation is quite tech-savvy which expects a lot from their teachers and by leveraging Google Suite, the teachers of FMMC are certain to meet their expectations.

The two-day FDP was attended by 30 participants from Father Muller Medical College. The resource person for the sessions was Mr Ragesh Raju, Assistant Professor in the Department of MCA at St Joseph Engineering College who is also a Google Certified Educator.

 

MCA: Swachatha Abhiyaan by the MCA Department at Mallur Village

On the eve of Kaataka Rajyothsava celebrations, the MCA Department and Community Engagement Group of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, organized Swachatha Abhiyaan in the villages of Mallur Grama Panchayat on Thursday, 31 October 2019.  Mallur is one of the villages adopted by the institution for community services.

A total of 40 students of the MCA Department along with 4 faculty members participated in the program. Grama Panchayat officials of Mallur village extended their full cooperation to the team from SJEC in conducting this program. PDO of Grama Panchayat along with President and members of the village thanked the institution for conducting Swachatha Abhiyaan at their premises.

 

PG Courses Inaugurated at SJEC

St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru inaugurated its PG Courses for the year 2019-20 on 30th September 2019 at Spoorthi Conference Hall of the college.

The program began with the prayer song lead by the MCA choir followed by lighting of the lamp.

Dr K Sankaran, Director of Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management (JKSHIM) was the Chief Guest for the program. Dr Prakash Pinto, Dean of MBA at SJEC welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest.

A compendium of research publications of SJEC faculty members was released by Rev Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC. Dr Felcy D’Souza, Chief Librarian of the college briefed about the research papers published in the national and inteational jouals by the faculty members of SJEC.

Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, spoke about various training programs conducted by the departments of MBA as well as MCA to improve the student’s leadership skills and various fests conducted to get students to inculcate organizing skills. He also mentioned the sessions on data analytics for MBA students who were conducted to improve their technical skills.

The rank holders from MBA and MCA through PGCET who have joined SJEC this academic year were felicitated by the Chief Guest.

Dr K Sankaran in his inaugural speech mentioned few important points which included having great respect for teachers, to unlea the leaing so as improve oneself, ask questions to clarify doubts, open multiple fronts for leaing and to always have positive thought.

Rev Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza welcomed all the new students to the college and encouraged them to try their level best to excel in their academics. He also thanked the team for organizing the event.

Ms Acharya Chitralekha J, Convener of the program rendered the vote of thanks. Ms Donita D’Souza, from final year MCA compeered the event.

 

Decennial Edition of National Level IT Fest Joshiana

The Department of Computer Applications of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, hosted 10th edition of its Mega Event Joshiana, a 2-day National Level IT Fest on 26th and 27th September 2019.

Joshiana 10.0 was inaugurated in the presence of dignitaries which included Mr Shripada Hebbar, Principal Technical Architect at Robosoft Technologies, Udupi, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural. The other dignitaries present on the dais were Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC who presided over the program, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa and Rev. Fr Alwyn Richard D’Souza Assistant Directors of SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, Ms Sumangala N, HOD of MCA at SJEC, Mr Gururaja S, Convener of Joshiana 10.0, Mr Prajwal B, President of TechnoCrats and Ms Aishwarya-Secretary of TechnoCrats.

Mr Prajwal B briefed the gathering of the events that would be held over the 2 days. This was followed by the unveiling of the trophies for which the participants were competing against each other.

Dr Rio D’Souza spoke about the importance of the jouey from being performers to reformers and to go on to become transformers. He mentioned the exemplary Josh shown the staff of the MCA department and asked the students to inculcate some of it.  

The Chief Guest, Mr Shripada Hebbar addressed the gathering wherein he said the youth of today should take care of their health, exercise regularly, get proper sleep and maintain a healthy lifestyle. He mentioned some of the key technologies that are evergreen in the industry and urged the students to master them.

Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza spoke about the importance of competitions and called upon the participants to compete well while playing fair. He congratulated the department of MCA for having hosted Joshiana for a decade and wished all the participants fruitful time at SJEC.

The Inaugural was compeered by Ms Diona D’Silva from 3rd year MCA.

All in all, 16 teams registered for Joshiana 10.0. The fest comprised of 10 events namely: IT Quiz, IT Manager, Coding, Web Designing, Mega Event, Mad Ads, Photography & Cinematography, Gaming, Talk Tech and Treasure Hunt.

Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru ended up as the Runners-Up of Joshiana 10.0, while the Overall Championship was bagged by Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal.

 

8. WORKSHOP ON SCOPUS & MENDELEY: TOOLS FOR EMPOWERING RESEARCH

The Library Advisory Committee in association with Department of Computer Applications organized a one day workshop on "Scopus & Mendeley: Tools for Empowering Research" on 21st September 2019 at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall.

Prof Shivaram B S, Information Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratory (CSIR-NAL), Bengaluru was the Resource Person of the workshop.Dr Felcy D'Souza, Librarian introduced the resource person and highlighted the objectives of the workshop i.e., to empower the research scholars and faculty members to keep track of the current developments in their research/interest and to organize their references during their research study or writing papers for publications in the jouals/conferences/seminars.

There were three sessions namely, Publication Metrics for Researchers, Information Discovery: Tips, Tools & Techniques and hands on training session on Reference Management Tool-Mendeley by Prof Shivaram B S.

The topics covered in the first session are: Importance of publication metrics for researchers & NIRF ranking of the Institute, sources of publications metrics, citation analysis, Joual Impact Factor, author metrics, H-index calculation, analysis of citation profile, author profile and publication profile of the Institute by SCOPUS.

In the second session the topics covered were as follows; Joual selection tools for publishing research work, research language, author name ambiguity, copy right & its infringement etc.

The Third session was on hands on experience on Reference Management Tool: Mendeley.

The above sessions concluded with an open discussion and feedback from participants. At the end as a token of love and appreciation the Resource Person was presented with a memento by Ms Sumangala N, Chairperson, Library & Leaing Committee. Ms Soumya Asst Prof and Coordinator of the workshop proposed the vote of thanks. The programme was compered by Ms Avila Pinto, Asst Prof, E&C Department.

A total of 65 research scholars and faculty members from SJEC and exteal research scholars pursuing research under SJEC Research Centre participated in the workshop.

 

MCA: TechPrints 7.0 Inaugurated at St Joseph Engineering College

TechPrints 7.0, a National Level Technical Paper Presentation Competition organized by the Department of Computer Applications of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, was inaugurated on 4th April 2019. The event was open for the students of MCA, MTech, MS, MSc (Computer Science) and BE (CS & IS). Papers were called for the topics under the broad categories of Intelligent Information Processing and Networks & Computing.

TechPrints 7.0 was inaugurated with the lighting the lamp by the dignitaries including Mr Praveen Udupa, Founder & Technical Director, A1 Logics, Mangaluru, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Programme. The other dignitaries present on the dais were the President of the Programme, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director of SJEC, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Chief of R&D at SJEC, Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA and Mr Gururaja S, Convener of TechPrints 7.0

The Chief Guest, Mr Praveen Udupa, addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. He called upon the youngsters to be implementers instead of just being end users. Inaugural programme also saw the release of the proceedings of TechPrints 7.0, by the Chief Guest along with the other dignitaries present during the occasion.

The conclusion of the formal programme was followed by the keynote address on Current Trends in IT by the Chief Guest after which, parallel presentations were held at 2 different venues simultaneously. The presentations under Intelligent Information Processing were judged by Mr Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor-CSE and Mr Hareesh B, Assistant Professor-MCA, whereas the presentations under Networks and Computing were judged by Mr Sunil Kamath, Associate Professor, CSE and Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA.

The details of the prize winners are as follows:

Track

Prize

Participant Names

“Title of the Paper”

Affiliation

Intelligent Information Processing

I

Jishi B Nair

“A Novel Technique for Steganography using LSB Method

JNNCE, Shivamogga

II

Pranesh Kulkai

“A Novel Technique for ATM Security by Image Processing

JNNCE, Shivamogga

Networks and Computing

I

Ms Divya Raj K & Ms Nijeesha

“Comparative Study on Service Brochure Algorithms in Cloud Computing”

AIMIT, Beeri

II

Ms Devadiga Shriya & Mr Nair Akhil Udaya Bhanu

“IR Based voice Automated Appliance Control”

SDIT, Kenjar

 

MCA: Tiara 2019 Report on Gaming

The event had three rounds. Each round duration was 50 minutes. Games were PUBG Mobile and Rocket League.

14 students( 7 Teams ) participated in the event.

 

Round 1

Game in this round was PUBG Mobile.

There was no elimination in this round.

 

Round 2

Game in this round was PUBG Mobile.

5 Teams were eliminated.

 

Round 3

Game in this round was Rocket League.

There were 2 teams in this round.

Winners:

·         First Place: Harsh and Wilton of SJEC

·         Second Place: Karthikey and Sairam of SJEC

The winners were awarded with certificate and cash prize.

The prize distribution was done by Ms Sumangala N, HOD of MCA Department and Ms Sadhana Kumble, Assistant Professor- MCA Department

Event Coordinators:

·         Akshith Y, IV Sem MCA

·         Royston Alvares, IV Sem MCA

 

MCA: Guest Lecture on Software Test Automation

A guest lecture on “Software Test Automation” was organized by the Department of Computer Applications for the students of MCA by Mr. Shrikrishna Bhat, Associate Manager – Quality Control, Glowtouch Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mangaluru on March 9th 2019 at Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The objective of the talk was to give an idea about the practices of Software Testing at an IT organization and understand the basic Test Concepts with respect to organization requirement. The incharge HOD of MCA Department, Ms Sumangala N welcomed the gathering and introduced the guest speaker. Ms Sadhana Kumble, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications gave a floral welcome to the speaker. The speaker Mr Srikrishna Bhat began the session with a brainstorming activity and made an attempt in bringing a common understanding of the scope of testing activity. He also covered the topics Software Development and testing life cycles and introduced the terminologies used in the testing work. He showed students how to write test cases manually and showed sample test cases generated using automation tool. He made students understand the required test skills of developers. Finally he gave a quick introduction to automation including the automation tools Selenium and Smartbear test Complete. 

 

SJEC MCA Wins Overall Championship Award in SHELLS 2K19 at Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru

The students of the Department of Computer Applications of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Vamanjoor, Mangaluru won the Overall Championship at the National Level Inter-collegiate IT Fest, SHELLS 2K19, conducted by the Department of MCA of Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru, on 26th and 27th February 2019.

A team consisting of 12 students from the Department of Computer Applications of SJEC participated in this National Level IT Fest and Team SJEC-MCA emerged as the Overall Champions.

The following prizes were secured by the team:

Event

Position

Participant Names

Mega Event

I

Nigil D’Souza, Diona D’Silva, Fiona D’Silva, Swathi B N, Akshith Y & Donita D’Souza

Multimedia-Photography

I

Jeethesh HK & Royston Alvares

IT Manager

I

Prajwal Mascarenhas

Multimedia-Videography

II

Jeethesh HK & Royston Alvares

Tech Monologue

III

Diona D’Silva

Web Designing

III

Nigil D’Souza & Askhith Y

 

The winning team members were as follows:

Prajwal Charles Mascarenhas

D’Silva Diona Daniel

D’Silva Fiona Daniel

Donita Jane Theresa D’Souza

Karthik

Nigil Antony D’Souza

Akshith Y

Royston Joshua Alvares

Syed Afwan

Sushan

Swathi B N

Jeethesh HK

The management of St Joseph Engineering College is proud of this achievement and congratulates the students of the MCA Department on their outstanding efforts

 

FDP: Integra & Cornea Series January 2019

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organised a two day Faculty Development Programme INTEGRA-2019 on the 22nd & 23rd of January, 2019. It was held in Spoorthi Conference Hall.

DAY 1:

Session 1: Curriculum Gap Analysis, Modalities for DAB & PAC Meetings, Framing Effective Action Items.  Dr Shreeranga Bhat, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person.  Dr Shreeranga Bhat shed light on Gap Analysis and its relevance to SAR.  He mentioned the key steps to follow regarding gaps in syllabus as: Identify the Gap, Create the syllabus, Get approval from the HOD and Stakeholders, Implementation and finally Assessment.

Session 2: Question Paper Review using Bloom's Taxonomy.  Mr Keith R Feandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication was the resource person.  He stressed upon student centric leaing cycle and urged us to spend more than an hour’s time to prepare a question paper having the first four levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

Session 3: CO-PO Mapping and TLOs.  Mr Rolen Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics was the resource person.  He clarified the various doubts that arise in the mind of the course instructor while preparing a course plan. Furthermore, he provided guidelines that a course instructor could follow to formulate assessable and measurable Course Outcomes.

Session 4: Effective Lecture Delivery, Design Thinking for OBE, Quality Circles.  Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal, was the resource person. He said that course planning includes the study of course goals and objectives, to identify specific sections that can be used for independent study and collaborative projects, to identify textbooks and multimedia resources for the course and to recognize class projects that will be relevant to the industry.  Tips on how to introduce the course to the students on the first day of class were highlighted. The session concluded with a brief discussion on the implementation of ‘Quality Circles’ and its importance in institutional growth.

Session 5: Performing Impact Analysis.  Ms Supriya Salian, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was the resource person.  She highlighted the importance of obtaining impact analysis for any of the events/workshops being conducted by the departments.  She also stressed upon the importance of conducting impact analysis for industrial training and technical talks.

Session 6: Collaborative Activity in Class.  Mr Vijay V S, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person.  The basic element of collaborative leaing which is accountability of individuals working in a project team was touched upon. The advantages of adopting collaborative leaing in a classroom were highlighted and the audience was also informed that it helps in attaining higher order PO’s.


DAY 2:

Dr R.C. Hiremath, Former Principal at K L E Society’s S.Nijalingappa College, Bangalore conducted a half day session on NAAC Accreditation.  The Session started with the resource person comparing the NAAC with NBA and the functioning of NAAC. He also mentioned that before applying for NAAC, it is very important to understand NAAC’s vision and relate our institute vision with theirs.  He listed the various benefits of NAAC Accreditation and also the NAAC marks distribution patte, the seven main criteria’s and their sub criterions were presented.



The Department of Master of Computer Applications organised a two day Faculty Development Programme “CORNEA-2019” on the 23rd and 24th of January, 2019.  It was held in Spoorthi Conference Hall.

DAY 1:

Session 1: Useful Apps for Education/Profession.  Mr Akshay N H, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person.  The recent teaching methodology called as gamification was highlighted upon. Various fields in which gamification are presently being used were explained such as such as business, education, recruitment, marketing. Gamification is using game dynamics in non-game applications. A hands on session was conducted as to how to create a mobile app using the MIT App Inventor.

Session 2: Emotional Intelligence.  Dr Anjali Ganesh, Professor, Department of Master of Business Application was the resource person.  She said that EI is a gateway to better leaing, friendships, academic success and employment. One technique to impart EI in the classroom could be the use of

techniques such as Design Thinking, Flipped Classroom, Self Leaing, Gamification and Story Telling.

Session 3: Customizing Google Apps with App script.  Ms Vijetha U, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was the resource person.  The hands on session started by the resource person highlighting the importance of knowing scripting using google apps since it makes our work much more effective and time efficient.  She showed how app script can reduce the work in searching multiple documents for a specific task.

Session 4: Effective Use of Social Media.  Mr Ajeeth B, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering was the resource person.  A hands on session was conducted where in the audience had to create theri own Twitter and Instagram accounts.  The resource person shared the effectiveness of using hashtags and how these can be used for the upcoming events being held at our college for publicity.

DAY 2:

Dr Manohar Pai M M, Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology, and Dr Manjunath K N, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, MIT, Manipal, conducted a full day session on “Writing Good Research Papers”.  The moing session started with Dr Manohar Pai enlightening the audience on the difference between invention and innovation and how to apply for patents. He gave us an idea about where to publish

research paper and how to make research visible.

The session was then continued by Dr Manjunath who briefed the audience on the structure of a technical paper.  A hands on session was held in the afteoon where the audience were taught how to edit the IEEE format paper template

 

MCA: Joshiana 9.0, A 2-day National Level IT Fest

“The TechnoCrats”, the Students Association of Department of Computer Applications of SJEC hosted Joshiana 9.0, a 2-day National Level IT Fest for the students of MCA, MS, MSc, MTech and BE (CS & IS). The fest was organized on 27th and 28th September 2018, under the aegis of the Department of Computer Applications.

Joshiana 9.0 was inaugurated on Thursday, 27th September 2018 with the lighting the lamp by the dignitaries which included Mr Dikshith Rai, Founder & CEO, CodeCraft Technologies Pvt Ltd, Mangaluru, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Programme. The other dignitaries present on the dais were Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza-Director, SJEC who presided over the ceremony, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa-Assistant Director, SJEC, Dr Sudheer M-Incharge Principal, SJEC, Ms Sumangala N-I/C HOD MCA, SJEC, Mr Sathyendra Bhat J, Co-Convener of Joshiana 9.0, Mr Prajwal Charles Mascarenhas-President, TechnoCrats and Ms Poojary Harshitha Ashok-Secretary, TechnoCrats.

The programme began by the invocation of the Divine by MCA students. The gathering was welcomed by Ms Sumangala N-I/C HOD MCA, who extended warm wishes to all the people present during the Inaugural. Mr Prajwal Mascarenhas, the President of the TechnoCrats, briefed the gathering of the events that would be held over the 2 days. This was followed by the unveiling of the trophies for which the participants were competing against each other.

The Chief Guest, Mr Dikshith Rai addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. He urged the budding professionals to develop skills and be skillful in all aspects of life. The Incharge Principal and the Director also spoke conveying their best wishes to the participants as well as the organizers.

The curtains were drawn on the Inauguration Ceremony with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms Poojary Harshith Ashok, the Secretary of TechnoCrats, thereby declaring the fest open to all. The MC’s role for the inaugural ceremony was donned by Ms Donita Jane Theresa D’Souza from II-year MCA.

The events were conducted by the MCA students over 2 days. All in all, 18 teams registered for Joshiana 9.0 and 170 participants were a part of the fest.

The fest comprised of 11 events namely: WEBPHENOM (Web Designing), CODE-A-THON (Coding), IMAGINO (Video Editing), NEXPLORA (Mega Event), HYPER MAZE (Treasure Hunt), THE BRAIN GAME (IT Quiz), THE HEADHONCHO (IT Manager), THE STRIKE OF WAR (IT Parliament), TECHNO BUZZ (Product Launch), DRAMEBAZZ (Mad Ads) and BATTLEGOUND (Gaming).

The events were designed to test the technical mettle of the participants. There were eminent personalities judging the events from in and out of the college. Some of the judges called from outside included RJ Anurag from 93.5 Red FM, who judged the final round of the event Best Manager. The judges for all the events were felicitated by the respective Event Managers by handing them a memento as a token of appreciation.

Joshiana 9.0 came to a closure with the Valedictory Programme held on 28th September 2018. The Runners-Up award of Joshiana 9.0 was awarded to Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil and the Overall Championship was bagged by Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru.

 

MCA: Interactive Session on Industry Practices on Software Project Delivery

The Department of Computer Applications in association with Industry Interaction and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IIEDC) organized an interactive session on “Industry Practices on Software Project Delivery” for the MCA students on Wednesday, 8th August 2018 at 11:00 AM at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall of the college. The resource person for this session was Mr Hari S, Lead-Education Training and Assessment (ETA), Infosys Trivandrum Development Centre.

 

The session began with the HOD of MCA, Ms Sumangala N, introducing the resource person and welcoming the gathering. The interaction was being arranged owing to the gap between industry and academia as indicated by Mr Hari S.

 

During the interaction, Mr Hari S interacted passionately with all the students. As the audience was predominantly from Computer Science background, he emphasized on the need to be good programmers. He raised conces over the students recruited by Infosys during the year 2017-18, who are currently undergoing training at Infosys Global Education Centre, Mysuru. He pointed out that most of the recruits are unable to write code for any scenario posed in front of them. This was quite alarming from the point of view of Infosys as they will have to put extra efforts to train the fresh recruits.

 

Mr Hari urged all students to take up coding more seriously and try to perfect it. He said that there are no shortcuts to being a good coder and practice is the only way to go forward. He asked all the students to code beyond what is prescribed in the syllabus. He said almost all will be able to write code but it is more important to write good coder. He mentioned a few of the best practices followed in the industry and named some of the open source tools to check the quality of the code. He stressed on the fact that due care must be taken to make sure that all coding standards and conventions are adhered to when writing codes. This makes the code more readable and ensures better understanding, if and when the code has to be reused in future. He mentioned that reusing and scaling is the essence of coding and the coding standards ensure these aspects.

 

The session came to an end with Mr Hari S taking on a few of the queries posed by the students. 

 

Infosys Campus Connect Faculty Enablement Program on Foundation Program 5.0

The Departments of Computer Applications in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering hosted Infosys Campus Connect Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) on Foundation Program (FP) 5.0 from 6th to 10th August 2018 at our campus. The main objective of this FEP was to enable Infosys Campus Connect partnering colleges to grab FP 5.0 and offer it to students with greater effectiveness and rigor.  Also, it offered a networking platform to partner colleges leading to a mutual leaing experience.  

It was a proud moment for SJEC as it was hosting first Infosys Campus Connect event since being associated with Infosys from the year 2007. All in all, 55 faculty members registered for this 5 day FEP. The participants for the event were the faculty members from the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Kaataka, covering almost the entire South India.

The FEP was inaugurated on 6th August 2018 in a formal Inaugural Programme at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall wherein Mr Hari S, Lead-ETA, Infosys Trivandrum Development Centre was the Chief Guest. He inaugurated the event alongside other dignitaries including Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director of SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA and Mr Sathyendra Bhat, Single Point of Contact (SPoC) of Infosys Campus Connect program at SJEC.

The chief resource person for this FEP was Mr Hari S, who was assisted by Ms Kaplana Balaraman from Infosys Chennai Development Centre who took up a few of the sessions in online mode via webinars.

The Inaugural on the first day was followed by hands on sessions at CAED Lab. All the sessions for this event were hands on where the participants had to undergo all 5 modules of FP 5.0. The 5 modules were as follows:

Module 1: Programming Fundamentals

Module 2: Database Fundamentals

Module 3: Python DB Integration

Module 4: Object Oriented Programming using Python

Module 5: Advanced Database Concepts

All the participants had to religiously attend to all modules and work on the projects given at the end of each module. On the last day, the participants had to present the work done by them in teams which was assessed by the resource person from Infosys.

The FEP came to a closure on 10th August 2018 with a short Valedictory Programme where Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa was the chief guest. The participation certificates were distributed on the occasion. Mr Sathyendra Bhat proposed the vote of thanks to officially conclude the FEP.

 

ICSC3-2018 - Inaugural

The Inaugural Ceremony of the First Inteational Conference on Smart Computing, Communication and Control (ICSC3-2018) commenced at 10.00 AM on Monday, 11th June 2018, at the Spoorthi Conference Hall, Academic Block-III of St Joseph Engineering College. The conference was jointly hosted by the Departments of CSE, ECE, EEE and MCA. The ceremony began with invocation of the Almighty lead by the college choir. This was followed by the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries and the delegates. The dignitaries on stage included Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC and President of the Ceremony, Dr L M Patnaik, Adjunct Professor-IISc and INSA Senior Scientist who was the Chief Guest of the Ceremony, Mr Ramakrishna Bidri, Senior Agile Coach-SWET CoE, Alliance Technology Unit, TCS, Bengaluru, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Asst Director-SJEC and Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal-SJEC. The dignitaries were escorted by the Conference Conveners Mr Shreenath Acharya, Asst Professor, Dept of CSE and Mr Gandhimathinathan A, Asst Professor, Dept of ECC.

Mr Shreenath Acharya delivered the welcome address and introduced the guests to the audience. All the guests and dignitaries on the dais were florally welcomed. This was followed by the Principal, Dr Rio D’Souza addressing the audience. Dr Rio appreciated the effort put in by the conveners and the organizing committee for organizing an Inteational Conference at SJEC. He also said that these are the baby steps we need to take in order to bring quality in the education we deliver.

The Chief Guest, Dr L M. Patnaik along with all the other dignitaries on the dais then, released the conference proceedings. This was followed by the Guest of Honor, Mr Ramakrishna Bidri addressing the audience. In his address, Mr Bidri said how he started his career as a teacher which was his passion. His thirst to explore more in the field of research, lead him to become an agile coach and mentor in software engineering technology. He also said that he was glad to be a part of the conference which enabled him to interact with budding engineers and scientists and reunited him with his passion for teaching.

The Chief Guest, Dr L M. Patnaik in his address, congratulated the management and the organizers for hosting such a wonderful event, which provided a leaing platform to young students and faculty members. He was deeply impressed by the achievements of the student community and the college, in spite of coming into existence just 16 years ago. He encouraged conducting more such activities and getting feedback which helps in long term qualitative growth and sustainability of the organization.

The Guest was honor, Mr Ramakrishna Bidri was felicitated by Asst Director, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa with a memento and the Chief Guest, Dr L M. Patnaik was felicitated by Director, Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza with a memento. The Director, Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza in his presidential address appreciated the work put in by the conveners and the organizing committee in successfully organizing the Inteational Conference.  He also acknowledged the contribution made by both Dr L M Patnaik and Mr Ramakrishna Bidri to the society and the industry and thanked them profusely for accepting the invitation and gracing the ceremony.

The audiences were faculty members and final students of SJEC, along with delegates from other institutions, who were given a platform to showcase their research and technical work.

Mr Gandhimathinathan proposed the vote of thanks that marked the end of the Inaugural Ceremony. The Inaugural was compered by Ms Evita Coelho D’Silva, Asst Professor, Dept of CSE. The ceremony was followed by tea break.

The Inaugural was followed by a Keynote Address on Inteet of Things (IoT) by Dr L M Patnaik which provided insight to how IoT can be used as a platform to provide automated solutions to socially relevant problems. Dr Patnaik introduced the talk with describing the need for smart computing. He also briefed about the various sensing devices, networking technologies used and future trends in the field of computing and control. Dr Patanik, also spoke about the enormous amount of data generated by the Inteet applications, showed the scope of big data analytics, how relevant tools process that data and intelligently manage users’ needs based on such analysis. The keynote address was followed by Q&A session. Dr Patnaik was felicitated and presented with a conference kit by Dr Rio D’Souza. The address was well appreciated by the audience and was followed by lunch.

 

ICSC3-2018

SJEC hosted its first Inteational Conference on Smart Computing, Communication and Control (ICSC3-2018) on 11th and 12th June 2018. The conference was jointly hosted by the Departments of CSE, ECE, EEE and MCA.

Dr L M Patnaik, Adjunct Professor-IISc and INSA Senior Scientist, graced the inaugural ceremony as Chief Guest. Mr Ramakrishna Bidri, Senior Agile Coach-SWET CoE, Alliance Technology Unit - TCS-Bengaluru was also present on the dais for the event. Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Asst Director-SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal - SJEC, and Conference Conveners, Mr Shreenath Acharya, Asst Professor, Dept of CSE and Mr Gandhimathinathan A, Asst Professor, Dept. of ECE were the other dignitaries on the dais. During the course of the event, the dignitaries’ released the proceedings of the conference.

The Inaugural on the first day was followed by a Keynote Address on Inteet of Things (IoT) by Dr L M Patnaik which provided insight to how IoT can be used as a platform to provide automated solutions to socially relevant problems. The afteoon session saw a workshop on Agile Methodologies and SCRUM anchored by Mr Ramakrishna Bidri.

The conference was livened up on the second day with a talk on “Polyglot Approach to Mode System Engineering” by Dr Peter (Pjotr) Kourzanov, Senior Researcher at NXP Semiconductors, Netherlands. This talk had important implications for attempts to build autonomous vehicles and also to encourage Systems Thinking among the students. Dr Kourzanov was accompanied by Mr Oswald Sunil, Architect at NXP Semiconductors, Netherlands.

The conference tracks were as follows:

1. Communication Networks & Inteet Technologies

2. Intelligent Systems & Knowledge Management

3. Micro Electronics & VLSI

4. Power Electronic Drives & Energy Management System

5. Smart Environments

 

All in all, 75 papers were shortlisted for oral presentations at ICSC3-2018 and 66 papers were presented in parallel during the conference, across all tracks.

 

Day 1: 11th June 2018

Track: Communication Networks & Inteet Technologies

Session: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Venue: Fr Fred Memorial Hall

There were 13 papers that were presented under this track. The judges for this session were, Dr Shreesha Chokkadi, Professor, Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering, MIT Manipal and Ms Dayakshini, Associate Professor and Head, Department of ECE, SJEC. The best paper award under this track was awarded to the paper titled "Power and Audio Control using Smart Automation", authored by David John Saldanha, Adlen D'Souza, Kottari Ashwini V, Madhushree T Chavan and A Gandhimathinathan, from the Department of ECE, SJEC.

 

Day 2: 12th June 2018

Track: Intelligent Systems & Knowledge Management (1)

Session: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Venue: Spoorthi Conference Hall 

There were 14 papers that were presented under this track. The judges for this session were, Dr Jyothi Shetty, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NMAMIT, Nitte and Dr Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor & Head, Department of CSE, SJEC. The best paper award under this track was awarded to the paper titled “'Remote Patient Health Monitoring System” authored by Murali K A, Abdul Raheem, Kaushik B U, Conred Sequeira and Priya S Miranda, from the Department of CSE, SJEC.

 

Day 2: 12th June 2018

Track: Smart Environments

Session: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Venue: Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall 

There were 13 papers that were presented under this track. The judges for this session were, Dr Pushparaj Shetty D, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, NITK and Dr Kavitha Mahesh, Associate Professor, Department of CSE, SJEC. The best paper award under this track was awarded to the paper titled “Smart Car” authored by Runa Veigas, Rickson D’Cruz, Shubham Kumar, Ambareesha and Lavina D’Silva, from the Department of CSE, SJEC.

 

Day 2: 12th June 2018

Track: Intelligent Systems & Knowledge Management (2)

Session: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Venue: Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall 

There were 12 papers that were presented under this track. The judges for this session were, Dr Antony P J, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, AJIET, Mangaluru and Ms Sumangala N, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of MCA, SJEC. The best paper award under this track was awarded to the paper titled “Experimental Characterization of DWT and CS Compression Algorithms for Multi-Resolution ECG Data in WBAN" authored by Rajashekar Kunabeva, Dr Manjunatha P, Kirankumar GH and Komalakumari, from the Department of ISE, GMIT, Davanagere.

 

Day 2: 12th June 2018

Track: Power Electronic Drives and Energy Management System

Session: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Venue: Fr Fred Memorial Hall

There were 13 papers that were presented under this track. The judges for this session were, Dr Nagesh Prabhu, Professor & Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NMAMIT, Nitte and Mr Sathisha K, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, SJEC. The best paper award under this track was awarded to the paper titled “PCB Printing using Automated PLOED Machine” authored by Winston Vishal D’Souza, Dacklin Prajwal Pinto, Meghna Prakash, Adithi S Rao and Prasad S M, from the Department of ECE, SJEC.

 

MCA: Farewell Function for 2015-18 Batch

The Farewell Function for MCA 2015–2018 batch was conducted on Friday, 20th April 2018 in Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall. The function was organized by I and II year MCA students of SJEC.

The event began with the formal function at 12:00 P.M. Rev. Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC presided over the function and Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal-SJEC was the Chief Guest of the occasion. The other dignitaries present were Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director – SJEC and Dr Rio D’Souza - Vice Principal/Dean QA, who graced the occasion as Guests of Honour, and Ms Sumangala N – I/C HOD-MCA, along with Ms Sadhana Kumble – Staff Coordinator of the Event.

The formal function began with the invocation of the Divine. Ms Donita Jane Theresa D’Souza, I year MCA welcomed the gathering. As a token of memory, the outgoing students were presented with the mementos. Students from the outgoing batch who had exhibited appreciable performances in academics, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities were recognized and rewarded with Special prizes.

The President of the function, Rev. Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza advised the outgoing students to be disciplined, responsible and have a thirst for knowledge. He complemented students for their achievements. The other dignitaries inspired the students to take up challenges and responsibilities with confidence, reminded them of their social and moral responsibilities and wished the outgoing students for all their future endeavors.

With the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms Asthika, I year MCA, the curtains were drawn on the formal function Ms Nagma G, II year MCA anchored the event.

The formal function was followed by lunch and informal function thereafter. Various interesting games were conducted for the outgoing students by the I and II year MCA students and exciting prizes were given to the winners. The outgoing students were whole-heartedly bid farewell from the SJEC-MCA family.MCA: 

 

MCA: TechnoPrints 6.0

TechPrints 6.0 - National Level Technical Paper Presentation Competition under the banner of TechnoCrats, organized for the sixth time in the Department of Computer Applications, was held on Wednesday, 11 April 2018 at the Spoorthi Conference Hall, 7th Floor, Academic Block-III. The event was open for the students of MCA, M.Tech., MS, M.Sc. (Computer Science) and BE (CS & IS). Papers were called for the topics under the broad categories of Intelligent Information Processing, which included Image Processing, Patte Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leaing, Neural Networks and Data Mining as one track and Networks and Computing, which included Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Computing and Inteet of Things on the other side.

There was an overwhelming response from the students of neighboring colleges, which saw papers being received by the Department. At the end, 43 papers were shortlisted and were called for presentation on the occasion out of which 19 were under the track of Intelligent Information Systems and 24 were under the track of Networks and Computing.

TechPrints 6.0 was inaugurated with the lighting the lamp by the dignitaries including Dr Karuna Pandit, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NMAMIT, Nitte, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Programme. The other dignitaries present on the dais were the President of the Programme, Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director, Rev Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal, Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal and Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA.

The Chief Guest, Dr Karuna Pandit, addressed the gathering wherein she voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. Inaugural programme also saw the release of the proceedings of TechPrints 6.0, by the Chief Guest along with the other dignitaries present during the occasion.

The conclusion of the formal programme was followed by the keynote address on Data Compression by the Chief Guest after which, parallel presentations were held at two different venues simultaneously. The presentations under Intelligent Information Processing were judged by Dr Kavitha K Mahesh, Associate Professor-CSE and Ms Sunitha Guruprasad, Assistant Professor-CSE, whereas the presentations under Networks and Computing were judged by Dr Sridevi Saralaya, Professor & Head, CSE, Mr Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor-CSE. 

The details of the prizewinners are as follows:

Track

Prize

Participant Names

(Title of the Paper)

Affiliation

Intelligent Information Processing

I

B Pavithra Shet & Deeksha Nayak

(Health Monitoring and Management using IoT Sensing with Cloud based Processing: Opportunities and Challenges)

CEC, Benjanapadavu

II

Sridevi & Vidyashree

(Vision based Human Computer Interaction for Movement Impaired People)

SMVITM, Bantakal

Networks and Computing

I

S Raksha & Pooja

(Underwater Wireless Communication using PWM)

MITE, Moodbidri

II

Namdev Nayak & Narendra Kini K

(“Suarez”-Smart Jacket for Soldiers)

SMVITM, Bantakal

 


 

TIARA-2018

The  National Level Tech Fest TIARA-2018 was held on the 21st  and 22nd  February 2018 at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru. TIARA-2018  was inaugurated at the Kalam Auditorium of SJEC. Mr Ivan Feandes,  Managing Director and Promoter of Regent Technologies, Dubai and  Mangalore Inteet City Pvt Ltd. was the Chief Guest of the  programme. Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, principal, SJEC welcomed the  gathering and introduced the chief guest.

Ivan  Feandes in his address complimented the students for developing the  innovative inaugural

contraptions  and mentioned that India, being a country of youngsters, its future  depended on the

achievements  of present day youngsters. He called mode day India as a land of  opportunities and spoke about how young entrepreneurs are elevating  their life style with innovation and creativity. He spoke of how  India could assume the role of a leader in technology. He highlighted  few areas such as environmental solutions, sustainable energy,  banking and finance, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and life  sciences that holds potential for growth and mass impact.  Congratulating the students in showing interest to participate in the  various technical events, he hoped that the fest would help them  develop innovations for tomorrow. He asked the students to have big  goals, plan well, and work without fear and with passion.

Fr  Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, director, SJEC, presided over the ceremony  and in his presidential address highlighted the need to use  technology wisely and to use technology to bring about harmony and  peace. Highlighting the colossal damage to life style by technology,  he requested the students to keep an eye over the ill effects of  technology.

Fr  Rohith D’Costa, assistant director, SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza,  vice-principal, SJEC, along with the conveners of the fest, Franco  Menezes and Reshma K J, were present on the dais. The two-day fest  witnessed the participation of students from across the region in a  series of technical events displaying their technical skills and  competencies.


Department  of Computer Science and Engineering:

The  Department of CSE conducted five events.


PAPYRUS  – PAPER PRESENTATION ON INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY


20  teams participated in the paper presentation competition PAPYRUS.


Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Adikeshavamurthy and Sachin who presented on the topic-  Network Based Severity Prediction System for Potato- Alvas College of  Engineering, Moodabidri.

2nd  place - Shraddha Kamath who presented on the topic-Bat Algorithm  Scheduling Workflow Application in Cloud- Canara Engineering College,  Mangaluru.


EXODIA  – MEGA EVENT

The  mega event EXODIA consisted of 4 rounds which included quiz, treasure  hunt, memory test, and games.


Winners  of the event:

1stplace: AdithyaShetty, DeekshithRaj, AmithD’Silva from Alva's Institute  of Engineering &  Technology,  Moodabidri

2nd  place: NikithaShetty, Rakshitha, Rajarajeshwari from Alva's Institute  of Engineering &  Technology,  Moodabidri


ENIGMA-TECHNICAL  EVENT

The  technical event ENIGMA consisted of 3 rounds which included coding,  technical questionnaire and treasure hunt.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Rakshith and Achal from Mangalore Institute of Technology &  Engineering

2nd  place: Pratibha and Adline from St Joseph Engineering College


BLACK  HAWKS – SEMI TECHNICAL EVENT

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which tested the teamwork, effective  communication capability and the ability to solve mysterious cases.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: AkarshD’Mello, Sahana  M Angadi, Yuktha Raman GU from St  Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Arjun Nayak, Reuben Sequeira, Shreya RK from St Joseph  Engineering College, Mangaluru


COUNTER  STRIKE

The  event tested the gaming skills of the participants.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Shobith Shetty, Gowtham, Athish Shetty, Shravan Shetty and  Sushanth Kotian

2nd  place - Nahid, Harshith, Sandeep, Masood and Vinay


Department  of Electrical and Electronics

The  Department of E&E conducted 6 events.

THE  JOURNAL

This  was a technical paper presentation event. The topic for the paper  presentation was ‘Recent Trends in Electrical and Electronics  Technology’. This event focused on bringing out the research and  presenting skills of the engineering students and enabling them to  lea new concepts, which are beyond the syllabus. Some of the topics  presented in this event were solar rains, smart quills, lifi,  nanotube fountain pen, wireless power transmission etc.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr Mohammed Arfa & Mr Mohammed Shehzan, AITM ,Bhatkal

2nd  place - Ms  Athira Lakshman SIT, Valachil


INQUISITION

This  was a quiz event. This event aimed at testing the knowledge of the  students on various topics and in various fields.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr. SundeepKamath, Mr. VedanthShenoy & Mr. Nirbhay,Canara  Engineering College, Benjanpadavu,  Mangaluru

2nd  place - Mr.  Karan Gupta , Mr. Garry Leroy Pinto &Sujay L Karinja, SJEC,  Mangaluru

 

RACE  YOUR RC’S (MEGA EVENT)

Race  your RC’s is the mega event of Electrical and Electronics  Department. This event is a remote controlled car-racing event in  which the participants fabricate their own car or use a readymade car  and race it against time. This event brings out the ability of the  students to design their own car and encourages teamwork.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr Rajath C Kotekar,Shrinivas School of Engineering, Mukka

2nd  place - Mr   Rahul S, Varun Urs &Glenn Shawn, SJEC Mangaluru

 

BOT  HOCKEY

Bot  Hockey is an exciting event featuring bots, which play hockey and try  to score maximum goals to win the event. Teamwork is put to test in  this event.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place – Mr IrfanAziz  & Mr Adham Noushad , KVG , Sullia

2nd  place – Mr Jevish  Feandes , Mr Zayan Azad  and Mr Alstan Lewis, SJEC, Mangaluru


PICK  MIX FIX

Pick  Mix Fix was a semi technical event. This event aimed to test the  technical and logical skills of the participating teams as well as  their creativity.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place -  Krishna Ganapathy, Richard mannil Thomas & Nihaad  Mohammed, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place - Asheeq Khalid, Achyuth Diwaker & Karthik M, SJEC,  Mangaluru


SECONDS  OF SURVIVAL

This  event was a series of time management challenge. This event focused  on testing the team spirit and time management qualities of the  students.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Akhil Nair &  Darshan Ail, SIT, Mangaluru

2nd  place - Akash Lobo & Chirag I P, SJEC, Mangaluru


Department  of Electronics and Communication Engineering

The  Department of E&C conducted 5 events.

ANVESHA

This  was a technical paper presentation competition.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Sneha G N, Varshita P J (Alvas Institute of engineering and  technology)

2nd  place: Chaithanya S P, Haripriya R (Alvas Institute of engineering  and technology)


CRAZIOSTACKERS

The  event was semitechnical. The event consisted of 3 rounds which  included audio-visual questions, mathematical puzzles, general  knowledge and aptitude questions and a task, minute to minute task,  technical and memory games.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr Sai Sagar and team, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place – Mr Ashish Bellur and team, SJEC, Mangaluru


TECH-KNACK

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which tested the participant’s  observation skills and knowledge on digital logic and coding.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place – Ms Akshatha and team, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place – Mr  Shrijith P and team, SJEC, Mangaluru

 

LOOP  HOLE

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which included general knowledge quiz,  fun tasks and treasure hunt.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr Sandeep and team, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place - Mr Darrel and team, SJEC, Mangaluru


aMAZEing  (MEGA EVENT)

Winners  of the event:

1st  place - Mr Vrashab R, Mr Winston Joel Sequeira, Mr Wilton Daniel  Pinto, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place - Mr Akshay Kumar  and team, SJEC, Mangaluru

 

Department  of Basic Science

The  Department of Basic Science conducted 6 events.

TATVA

The  event was based on the principles of Physics consisting 4 rounds.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Chetan Pinto, Ms Chrystle Pinto, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Mr Raghavendra Bhat, Mr Siddhartha N, SJEC, Mangaluru


CHEMSTORM


This was a  project/model exhibition based on the theme “Science (Chemistry)  and Society”.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Deepak Nayak, Mr Yahya Asadi, SMVITM, Bantakal

2nd  place: Mr Aldrich Rasquinha, Mr Bryan Caldeira, Mr Winston Pais  ,SJEC, Mangaluru


CHEMHUNT


This  was a treasure hunt event, which started from the chemistry lab, and  the hunt ended in the sports field finding the treasure.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Royston D’Cunha, Mr Naveen Feandes, Mr Prajwal UK,  SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Ms Katherine D’Souza, Ms Deeksha Rao, Ms Melanie D’Souza,  SJEC, Mangaluru


MATHART


This  was a Collage competition.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place – Ms Deekshtha,Ms Christal Lobo, Ms Greshal Shalma,  SJEC,Mangaluru

2nd  place –Ms Jaahnavi, Ms Elrica Neha Costa and Mr Jonathan Dsa  SJEC,Mangaluru


CHANAKYA (Mega  event – Quiz)

This  event tested the knowledge of the participants in Physics, Chemistry,  Mathematics, general knowledge, Current Affairs and engineering  field.

 

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Mohammad Sinan A S & Mr Sumanth Pai, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Ms Zian Shafi & Ms Sharanya P, SJEC, Mangaluru


PRAYATNA

This  was a paper presentation competition.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Astrid Jane Feandes, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Mr Akash Lobo G, SJEC, Mangaluru



Department  of MBA:

The  Department of Master of Business Administration conducted 3 events.


NEURON

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which included defending the  personalities given to them, creating their own product and promoting  it on Facebook and stress interview.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Ms Nishmitha Menezes, SDM College, Mangalore

2nd  place: Mr Adriel Feandez  of SJEC, Mangaluru


NEBULUS

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which included face painting on the theme  “Global Warming”, making a short film on the theme TIARA-2018 and  presenting a PPT on a product.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Adarsh M P and Mr Rohith K, SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Ms Tasniya and Ms Swathi M.S, SJEC, Mangaluru



NEXUS

The  event consisted of 3 rounds which included solving puzzles, guessing  the correct answer by connecting pictures, treasure hunt.

Winners  of the event:

1st  place: Mr Mythri & Ms Reena dsouza ,SJEC, Mangaluru

2nd  place: Ms Ashwika D.K. and Ms Nidhi S, SJEC, Mangaluru



Department  of Civil Engineering

The  Department of Civil Engineering conducted 4 events.


CENTRE  LINE MARKING

The  technical event was open for civil engineering students each team  with three participants. They were asked to mark the centre line on  the ground for the given plan. Judgement was based on the accuracy,  time taken and for the neatness.


Winners  of the event:

First  Place: Mr Jagadeesh, Mr Damodar Shenoy and Mr Rakshith R Shetty of  AIET Moodbidri

Second  Place: Mr Praveen S, Mr Thanesh Shetty and Mr Ashwath H of SSE Mukka


CID  (CIVIL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT)


The  event had two rounds, which included puzzles and solving a crime  scene.

Winners  of the event:

First  Place: Ms B Ishwarya, Mr Sayed Aseem and Mr Mohammed Salman Kachhi of  SJEC, Mangaluru

Second  Place: Mr Melroy D'Souza, Mr Madhusudhan and Mr Akarsh of SJEC,  Mangaluru


INNOVATIVE  MIND

This  was a paper presentation on the topic environmental aspects in  engineering or smart city.

 

The Second SJEC Distinguished Lecture Series

The second SJEC Distinguished Lecture Series was held on 25th November, 2017 at Spoorthi Hall located in Academic Block III.  Mr. Praveen Kamath, General Manager & Head of HR for Technology Practice Units, Wipro Limited addressed the students of Business Administration and Computer Applications. Ms K. Manjula, faculty coordinator from the Department of Business Administration introduced the resource person to the audience.
Mr. Praveen Kamath spoke on ‘Preparedness in the Digitalized Organizational Set-up’. He stressed that hard work and being proactive is the only mantra to acquire success. He also advised the students to use social media as a tool to interact and network with people of prominent work profiles. Further, Mr Praveen Kamath shared his own life experiences on how he faced challenges and overcame them. The students were extremely motivated by his talk.
Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal felicitated Mr Praveen Kamath with a memento and Ms Shakila B. from the Department of Business Administration delivered the vote of thanks.

 

MCA: Mini Project Exhibition-2017

“TechnoCrats” - Computer Applications Association of SJEC under the aegis of the Department of Computer Applications organized a Mini Project Exhibition and Competition for V Semester MCA students on Friday, 24th November 2017 at 11:00 AM in the MCA Laboratories, Academic Block-II. The main intention of this exhibition was to provide a platform for the MCA students to showcase their projects to the staff and students of the department as well as interested students of other departments. The exhibition also allowed the students to interact with their peers and enhance their technical skills.

The event began with an informal congregation in the presence of the dignitaries which included Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal-SJEC along with the judges for the exhibition Prof Sudheer Shetty, HOD-CSE, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management and Dr Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor-CSE. Ms Nagma G from III Semester MCA welcomed the gathering and the judges were welcomed florally. The judges then unveiled a booklet consisting of a compilation of all the Mini Project abstracts. This was followed by short spotlight demonstrations by the members of each group to introduce their projects with poster, which was evaluated independently by the 2 judges. The occasion witnessed 17 groups each comprising of at the most two students exhibiting their work. At the end, the judges were felicitated with a memento as a token of appreciation and gratitude.

The best project award was bagged by the project titled “Virtual Classroom” which was the work carried out by Mr Joel Neel Martis and Ms Megha Shenoy. The second place was shared by the projects titled “Efficient Graph-based Image Segmentation” carried out by Ms Deeksha Shetty and Ms Prarthana K & “Online Bookstore” carried out by Mr Abhishek K J and Mr Likhith B R.

 

MCA: Joshiana 8.0 - The Inauguration

“The Technocrats” - The Students Association of Department of Computer Applications of SJEC organized Joshiana 8.0, a 2-Day National Level IT Fest for the students of MCA, MS, MSc, M.Tech. and BE (CS & IS). The fest is being organized under the aegis of the Department of Computer Applications.

Joshiana 8.0 was inaugurated on Thursday, 21st September 2017 with the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries including Dr. Niranjan U.C Director-Research and Training, Manipal Dot Net Pvt. Ltd, Manipal, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Function. The other dignitaries present on the dais were Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D Souza-Director, SJEC who presided over the ceremony, Rev Fr Rohith D’Costa-Assistant Director, SJEC, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis-Principal, SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza-Vice Principal/Dean-MCA, SJEC, Ms Sumangala N-I/C HOD MCA, SJEC, Mr Hareesh B- Convener of Joshiana 8.0, Ms Nagma G - President, TechnoCrats and Ms Shwetha Vatsa-Secretary, TechnoCrats.

The function began with the invocation of the Divine by the College Choir. The gathering was welcomed by Ms Sumangala N-I/C HOD MCA, who extended warm welcome to all the people present during the Inaugural and dignitaries were then felicitated by the staff members.             

Ms Nagma G - President of the Technocrats, briefed the gathering about the events that is going to be held over the 2 days. This was followed by unveiling of the trophies for which the participants were competing against each other.

The Chief Guest, Dr. Niranjan U.C addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. The Principal and The Director of the Institution spoke conveying their best wishes to the participants as well as the organizers.

The curtains were drawn on the Inauguration Ceremony with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms Shwetha Vatsa-Secretary, TechnoCrats, thereby declaring the fest open to all. The MC’s role for the inaugural ceremony was donned by Ms Prithvi V Shet from III year MCA.

The events are being conducted by the MCA students over 2 days and the judges have been invited from in and out of the college. All in all 20 teams have registered for Joshiana 8.0 and around 170 participants are being a part of the fest.

The fest is comprised of 10 events namely - Interfaccia(Web Designing), Alchemy(Coding), TechTwirl(IT Quiz), RenderIt(Video Editing), Tech Supremo(Best IT Manager), Unflustered(IT Parliament), FreeBooters(Treasure Hunt), Melioration(App Development), Tech-Combo(Mega Event), TechVibe(Cultural) The events are designed to test the technical mettle of the participants.

 

NCSCC-17: Tutorial on IoT and Smart Environments by TCS at SJEC

A tutorial on Inteet of Things IoT and Smart Environments by TCS – Bengaluru was organised at SJEC. The tutorial was part of the ongoing Two Days National Conference on Smart Computing and Control NCSCC-17. The tutorial was delivered by Dr Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Scientist at TCS Innovation Labs – Bengaluru. Inteet of Things IoT is a widely applicable concept revolutionizing human interactions with the world around. It is a worldwide network of interconnected objects, uniquely addressable based on standard communication protocols. Dr Panigrahi explained the basic technology behind IoT and offered insights into IoT’s potential applications and research avenues that could be pursued at SJEC. Considering the recent initiative of Mangalore being declared India’s Start-up district by the GOI, IoT offers great opportunity for the young graduates at SJEC and Mangalore in general to develop innovations that will help Mangalore truly become a Smart City.

Dr Panigrahi began by describing the Inteet of Things IoT as the next in line following the revolutionary invention of the Inteet and Cellular networks. He mentioned that; heterogeneity, interoperability, intercommunication, and automation as the areas of influence of IoT. He provided the data of 1% of ‘things’ in the world are connected currently and from 10 billion things of today, around 50 billion things will be connected by 2020. Companies across the globe have invested 14 Trillion Dollars over the past 10 years on IoT, and this signifies the interest in IoT and its integration on human life in the future. From, Industrial Automation, Health Care, and Smart Homes, to Agriculture, Defence, and Smart Cities, IoT find applications everywhere. Research on IoT related technologies, such as, IoT devices, Network Architecture and Protocols, Fog Computing, Inteet of Everything, and Security & Privacy, are currently being pursued worldwide. Dr Panigrahi also explained about the ongoing IoT related activities at TCS – Bengaluru and concluded with a video of a Smart Home demonstrating all the applications of IoT that were explained. 


 

NCSCC-17: Inauguration

NCSCC-17, a two days National Conference on Smart Computing and Control, jointly organized by Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Applications of SJEC in association with Tata Consultancy Services – Bengaluru and Scientific and Academic Publishers – United States, was inaugurated on 29th June 2017 at 10:00 am, by Dr Anirban Basu, President of Computer Society of India.

Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director – SJEC, presided over the inaugural ceremony. Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant  Director – SJEC, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal – SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal – SJEC, Ms Sridevi Saralaya, Conference Chair – NCSCC-17, along with Dr Sheryl Colaco, HOD of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Ms Sumangala N., HOD of Computer Applications were present on the dais.

Dr Anirban Basu, who graced the occasion as the Chief Guest, in his address mentioned that, with an easy access to sensors, there is more scope for IOT based projects in India. He spoke about the idea of smart cities in the Indian context and the policies put forth by the Indian Govement on IOT. He also highlighted the importance of data analytics in the context of big data and the various issues in classifying and clustering big data.

Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza appreciated the Departments for taking initiative in conducting this National Conference and suggested to use technologies in a smarter way. Dr Joseph Gonsalvis spoke about the necessity of integrating technologies to aid research and development activities. Dr Rio D'Souza, Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, welcomed the dignitaries and introduced the Chief Guest to the gathering. Ms Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Conference Chair of NCSCC-2017, briefed about the conference.

Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Organizing Chair of NCSCC-2017 conveyed the vote of thanks.

The inaugural ceremony was followed by the Keynote Address by Dr Anirban Basu on IoT and Big Data Analytics

 

NCSCC-17: Final Report

The Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Applications of SJEC in association with Tata Consultancy Services – Bengaluru and Scientific and Academic Publishers – United States organized a two days National Conference on Smart Computing and Control NCSCC-17, on 29 - 30 June 2017. The conference was well attended by eminent academicians, faculty members and students from reputed technical and educational institutions from different parts of the country.

 

The conference was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Dr Anirban Basu, President of Computer Society of India, on 29th June 2017 at 9:30 am. Dr Anirban Basu released the proceedings of the conference and delivered the keynote address on 'IoT and Big Data Analytics'. In his address, Dr Basu mentioned that, with an easy access to sensors, there is more scope for IOT based projects in India. He spoke about the idea of smart cities in the Indian context and the policies put forth by the Indian Govement on IOT.  He also highlighted the importance of data analytics in the context of big data and the various issues in classifying and clustering big data.

 

Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Director - SJEC presided over the function and appreciated the Departments for taking initiation in conducting this National Conference. Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal-SJEC spoke about the necessity of integrating technologies to aid research and development activities. Dr Rio D'Souza, Vice Principal and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, welcomed the dignitaries and introduced the Chief Guest to the gathering. Ms Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Conference Chair of NCSCC 2017, gave an overview of the conference.

 

The technical session titled Communication Network & Inteet Technology was conducted on the first day of the conference at 2:00 pm at the Spoorthi Conference Hall, Academic Block III. The session was chaired by Dr Pushparaj Shetty D, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, NITK - Surathkal and Co-Chaired by Ms Sunitha Guruprasad, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering-SJEC. Six papers were presented during the session. The paper titled Development of Android based application ASKresults by Gopika G, K K Gayathri Ramesh, Kripa M L, Likitha U B, Shashidhara Kulal and Alwyn Edison Mendonca of Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangaluru won the best paper award.

 

The second session titled Power Electronics drives & Energy Management Systems was conducted simultaneously at Fr Fred Memorial Hall, Academic Block I. The session was chaired by Dr Rajalakshmi Samaga B L, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Canara Engineering College, Mangaluru and co-chaired by Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - SJEC. Ten papers were presented during this session. The paper titled Superlative Vehicle by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jackson Ivan D’Souza, Puneeth G Suvaa,Theju kumar JP, Sheryl Grace Colaco of SJEC was awarded the best paper.

 

The proceedings on the second day started with a tutorial on 'IoT and Smart Environments' by Dr Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Scientist, TCS Research & Innovations, Bengaluru.  Dr Bighnaraj in his address traced the evolution of IoT from Wireless sensor Networks and briefly presented the history of IoT, its architecture, IoT applications and networking for IoT.  Dr Panigrahi also explained about the ongoing IoT related activities at TCS – Bengaluru and concluded with a video of a Smart Home demonstrating all the applications of IoT that were explained.

The tutorial was followed by the third technical session titled 'Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Management'. The session started at 11:00 a.m at Spoorthi Conference Hall, Academic Block III. The session was chaired by Dr Radhika M Pai, Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology, MIT - Manipal and co-chaired by Ms Sumangala, Assistant Professor and In-charge HOD, Department of Computer Applications, at SJEC. Ten presentations were made during the session and the best paper award was won by the paper titled Smart Cane for the visually impaired by Muriel Pinto, Veena Parvathi, Sheetal Malagi, Denzil Rose, Ajinthajaya Kumar M K of SJEC.

 

The final session on Smart Environments started at 2:00 pm at Fr Fred Memorial Hall, Academic Block I. The session was chaired by Dr Thyagaraju G S, Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SDMIT, Ujire and co-chaired by Mr Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering - SJEC. Fourteen participants presented their paper during this session. Best paper award was given to the paper titled Portable Functional electrical stimulator for post-stroke: An emerging rehabilitation tool for stroke patients by Rahul V A, Subramanya K, Ajithanjaya M K of SJEC.

 

This conference provided a platform to all the researchers, faculty members and students across the country to share their ideas and research in the emerging fields of Smart Computing and Controls. Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Organizing Chair of NCSCC 2017 conveyed the vote of thanks


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Alvida 2017

Alvida 2017, the Farewell Programme for the final year PG and UG students of SJEC was organized on Saturday, 13th May 2017, at 10:00 AM in Kalam Auditorium, 5th Floor of Academic Block-II.

Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal-SJEC was the Chief Guest of the programme. Rev. Fr Joseph Lobo, Director-SJEC, presided over the programme. Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC and Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal-SJEC were the Guests of Honour. Rev. Fr Joseph A Cardoza, Campus Counselor-SJEC and Dr Prakash Pinto-Dean MBA were Special Invitees to the programme. Ms Supriya Salian, Convener-Alvida 2017 was also present on the dais.

The function began with a presentation of motivational videos followed by the invocation of the Divine by Rev Fr Joseph Lobo. Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal-SJEC, welcomed the dignitaries and extended a warm welcome to the gathering. The traditional raising of the toast was performed by Dr Prakash Pinto, Dean-MBA and Ms Eden Rose Feandes from III Year ECE on behalf of Faculty Community and Student Community respectively. The replies to the toast were delivered by Ms Megha Rachel Kuriyan, IV Civil and Mr Roger Michael Pereira, IV Mechanical on behalf of the outgoing Class of 2017.

This was followed by the presentation of Farewell Video. The Chief Guest, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis addressed the gathering wherein he complemented the students for their achievements in SAE, sports, placements and accreditation. He also advised them to be disciplined, responsible and have a thirst for knowledge. On this occasion, all representatives of final year classes were called on stage by the Director to offer bouquet of flowers to the Principal as a surprise birthday wish. This was followed by the addressing of the gathering by the Director who motivated the outgoing students with his words of wisdom.

The outgoing students were blessed by Rev Fr Joseph A Cardoza, Campus Counselor –SJEC. The curtains were drawn on the programme with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms Supriya Salian. Ms Viola Pinto, Assistant Professor-E&C compered the programme. 

 

MCA: TechPrints 5.0

TechPrints 5.0 was a National Level Technical Paper Presentation Competition under the banner of TechnoCrats, which was being organized for the fifth time in the Department of Computer Applications at SJEC. The event was held on Wednesday, 26th April 2017 at the Spoorthi Conference Hall, 7th Floor, Academic Block-III and was open for the students of MCA, M.Tech., MS, MSc (Computer Science) and BE (CS & IS). Papers were called for the topics under the broad categories of Intelligent Information Processing, which included Image Processing, Patte Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leaing, Neural Networks and Data Mining as one track and Networks and Computing which included Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Computing and Inteet of Things on the other side. There was an overwhelming response from the students of neighboring colleges which saw 30 papers being received by the Department. At the end, 24 papers were shortlisted and were called for presentation on the occasion out of which 11 were under the track of Intelligent Information Systems, and 13 were under the track of Networks and Computing.

TechPrints 5.0 was inaugurated with the lighting the lamp by the dignitaries including Dr Vasudeva, Professor & Head, SMVITM, Bantakal, who was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Programme. The other dignitaries present on the dais were the President of the Function, Rev Fr Joseph Lobo, Director, Rev Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director, Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal/Dean-MCA and Ms Sumangala N, I/C HOD-MCA.

The Chief Guest, Dr Vasudeva, addressed the gathering wherein he voiced his opinion on coping up with the growth in technology. Inaugural programme also saw the release of the proceedings of TechPrints 5.0, by the Chief Guest along with the other dignitaries present during the occasion.

The conclusion of the formal function was followed by the keynote address on Social Network Analysis by the Chief Guest after which, parallel presentations were held at 2 different venues simultaneously. The presentations under Intelligent Information Processing were judged by Mr Sunil Kamath, Assistant Professor-CSE and Mr Hareesh B, Assistant Professor-MCA whereas the presentations under Networks and Computing were judged by Mr Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor-CSE and Mr Athokpam Bikramjit Singh, Assistant Professor-MCA.

TechPrints 5.0 came to an end with Valedictory Programme on the same evening. The Chief Guest for the ceremony was Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal - SJEC and the President of the Programme was Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal/Dean-MCA at SJEC; who was present on the dais along with the other dignitaries.

The details of the prize winners are as follows:

Track

Prize

Participant Names

(Title of the Paper)

Affiliation

Intelligent Information Processing

I

Shwetha H & Sindhu Rani

(Agri-Copter)

SMVITM, Bantakal

II

Saiyed Mohammed Arshad & Devdatt Sawant Saudagar

(Fake Indian Currency Detection using MATLAB Program)

AIMIT, Beeri

Networks and Computing

I

Sushin PV

(Mozhi Android Application: Local Language Text-to-Speech Converter)

PACE, Mangaluru

II

Nishanka S & Rishikesh Patel

(A Study on Workflow Scheduling Algorithms in Cloud)

AIMIT, Beeri

 

 

 

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