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Dr. Sunil Kumar S. Manvi Dean-R&D,Head of the Department E-mail: sunil.manvi@revainstitution.org

VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT

To prepare the youth of the universe to have a blend of technological excellence in Electronic Communications Engineering and human values to meet the ever emerging challenges of technical arena in the world.

MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT

To produce engineers having good understanding of Electronics and Communication Engineering, ethical practices, automation design and innovation skills and entrepreneurship abilities.
 
This will be achieved through following: state of art infrastructure, constant knowledge up-gradation of faculty, quality policies, student and society need centric teaching and learning, and imparting value addition skills.

Long Term Goals

• To establish Advanced Electronics and Communication Technology corporate training center.
• To establish centre-of-excellence for research in Micro electronics, Embedded Systems, Communications and Signal Processing.
• To offer consultancy services to industries.
• To establish and strengthen industry-institute interaction and be industry solution providers.
• To take up sponsored projects from private and government organizations.
• To have more number of publications and patents in the emerging areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
• To be among top ten leading institutes in India and abroad and be recognized as the best department in terms of research and innovation.
• To create better entrepreneurs in the area of Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Short Term Goals

• To strengthen the department infrastructure and human resources.
• To depute faculty and staff regularly for skill up-gradation.
• To conduct programs for students to acquire soft and hard skills and inculcate leadership qualities, research orientation and technical skills.
• To conduct continuing education programs and workshops/conferences for knowledge sharing with outside world.
• To encourage research activities.
• To improve academic performance of students using innovative and creative methods of teaching.
  

INTRODUCTION OF THE DEPARTMENT

The department was established in the year 2004 with an aim of developing human resources in the area of Electronics and Communication Engineering. The department offers under graduate (UG) and post graduate (PG) courses along with research programmes. It has experienced and qualified faculty (about 25) in various areas such as communications, VLSI, signal processing, embedded systems and computer engineering. There are about 7 laboratories catering to the development of experiments and projects in the aforementioned programmes.

The department has state of art computing facilities and softwares to keep the students in pace with the technology. Department’s association, FORCE (Forum of Reva Communication and Electronics), has been set up to conduct various extra curricular and co-curricular activities to build overall personality of the students. IEEE student branch opening and activities are initiated by the department.

The department faculty are involved in organization of workshops/conferences for constant up gradation of skills and knowledge. The faculties have contributed in research publishing about 200 papers in journals/conferences. The  other important features of the department are: department library, individual counseling of students for academic performance, additional coaching classes for important subjects, theme based mini projects at lower semesters, soft skill development classes, scientific and student centered teaching-learning process and providing browsing facilities after working hours.

COURSES OFFERED

B. E. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) - 120 intake
M.Tech (VLSI and Embedded Systems) Full time – 36 intake (Duration 2 Years)
M.Tech (VLSI and Embedded Systems) Part time – 25 intake (Duration 3 Years)
M.Tech (Digital Communications and Networking) – 18 intake (Duration 2 Years)
M.Sc  Engg. and  Ph.D

About the Course M.Tech (VLSI and Embedded Systems)

The course is offered by the department of Electronics and Communication by highly qualified and experienced teaching faculty. Intake to this course is 36 for full time course and 25 for part time course, under Visvesvaraya Technological University.

The course covers the following subjects and Labs

In the First semester students study

• CMOS VLSI Design & lab
• SoC Design
• Advanced Embedded System Design & lab
• VLSI Design Verification
• Digital System Design Using Verilog

In the Second semester students study

• Design of Analog and Mixed Mode Circuits & lab
• Low Power VLSI Design
• Real Time Operating Systems & lab
• Advanced Microcontrollers
• Design of VLSI Systems

In the Third semester students study

• CMOS RF Circuit Design
• Synthesis and Optimization of Digital circuits
• Advances in VLSI Design and also

During the III (V sem -part time) semester the students should define their project titles related to the field of VLSI and embedded system and have to undergo the prerequisite training for the same.

In the IV (VI sem -part time) semester students will continue with their projects as per the title defined in the 3rd semester.

Facilities Provided

The department provides well equipped laboratories and two Seminar halls exclusively for PG students.The labs are as follows

VLSI Lab : consisting of 50 Computers, supporting software tools : Electric,Xilinx 9.1, FPGA Kits, Mat lab, simulink.
SoC (RTOS)  : consisting of 50 Computers, 25 PsoC-3 kits from CYPRESS semiconductors.
Advanced Embedded Lab : consisting of 50 Computers, Tools: FEDORA, Red hat Linux, Open suse.

Workshops

• A one day workshop on ARM CORTEX II processor was conducted for the students to their course subject Knowledge was held in april 2011.
• A one day workshop on Linear Algebra by Prof.Ashok Rao from IISC was held in april 2011.
• A two day workshop on electric tool was conducted for the students by Dr.Siril Prasanna,MSRSAS in march 2011.
• A two day workshop on Free Software Movement Karnataka to explore the various Open Source Tools available for the students of VLSI.Key guest speakers were Prof Gopinath IISC, Dr.S.S.Manvi REVA etc.. was conducted in february 2011.
• A two day workshop on PSoC was held for the students by CYPRESS Semiconductor in august 2010

RESULTS

The performance of the first year students was very good with a pass percentage of 94. Among them 23 have secured distinction and 9 have secured first class.
Toppers
          Ms.Manjula k-82 %
          Ms. Divya.S.Das- 79.62%
          Shwetha.N.A- 78.60%

About the Course M.Tech (Digital Communications and Networking)

The course is offered by the department of Electronics and Communication by highly qualified and experienced teaching faculty. Intake to this course is 18 for full time course under Visvesvaraya Technological University.

The course covers the following subjects and Labs

In the First semester students study

• Advanced Digital Communication and Lab
• Antenna Theory & Design and Lab
• Advanced Computer Networks
• Probability and Random Process
• Multimedia Communication

In the Second semester students study

• Wireless Communication and Lab
• Linear Algebra
• Modern DSP and Lab
• Protocol Engineering
• Cryptography and Network Security

In the Third semester students study

• Error control coding
• One of the Elective subjects and also

During the III semester the students should define their project titles related to the field of Communication/ Networking   and have to undergo the prerequisite training for the same.

In the fourth semester students will continue with their projects as per the titles defined in the 3rd semester.

Facilities Provided

The department provides well equipped laboratories and two Seminar halls exclusively for PG students.The labs are as follows

Advanced Digital Communication  : consisting of 50 Computers, supporting software tools : MAT LAB, SCI LAB.
Antenna Theory  : consisting of 50 Computers, supporting software tools :FEKO, MATLAB
Wireless Communication : consisting of 50 Computers, supporting software tools :NS2
Modern DSP : consisting of 50 Computers, supporting software tools :MATLAB

Workshops

• A one day workshop on Linear Algebra by Prof.Ashok Rao from IISC was conducted in april 2011.
• A two day workshop on Free Software Movement Karnataka to explore the various Open Source Tools available for the students of DCN. Key guest speakers were Prof Gopinath,IISC, Dr.S.S.Manvi,REVA etc.. was conducted in february 2011.
• A two day workshop on NS2 Simulator was conducted by eminent people from IISC & our college in january 2011.
• A two day workshop on LABVIEW software was held for the students to explore the opportunities using it in November 2010.
• A workshop is to be held on Cryptography and Network Security by Prof Bhat,Nagurjuna college of engineering in may 2011.

RESULTS

The performance of the first year students was very good with a pass percentage of 94. Among them 23 have secured distinction and 9 have secured first class.
Toppers
          Mr.Bharath Kumar Gajula-75%
          Ms.Sowmya.K.M-72%
          Mr.Vinod.M.S-72%

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FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE

The department is constantly modernizing the infrastructure and laboratory facilities. The department is equipped with Six UG Class Rooms, Three PG Class Rooms,Seven laboratory halls, Two Staff Rooms, One Seminar Hall, Departmental library etc. Total carpet area of the department is about 2000 sq. mtrs. The department is also equipped with modern teaching aids like LCD’s, OHP, smart boards etc.

Major Equipments

• Digital Storage Oscilloscopes - 400 M Hz
• Digital trainer kits
• Microprocessor and MSP 430 Kits
• Microcontroller and PSOC kits
• Digital Signal Processor starter kits 
• Communication trainer kits
• Power Electronics modules
• LCR Meters and CROs
• Microwave Test Benches
• 100 Computers and 2 Servers
• HDL Kits
• Power Scopes  

Major Softwares

• E- Lab
• Matlab, Octave, Scipy
• Xilinx Ver 9.1i
• Keil
• Labview Ver 7.1 & 8.0
• VLSI Cadence Tools, Synopsis Tools
• Network Simulator NS-2 Ver 3.34

Library

Department of ECE includes around 600 book titles and 3200 book volumes in the main Library. Department has access to online journals and transactions through IEEE and ACM online subscriptions. Apart from on-line subscription, department also subscribes hard copies of some of the National and International Journals/ Magazines like Embedded Systems Programming, Embedded for You etc. Digital library facility is available in main library to facilitate information access from Internet & Intranet.

Departmental Library

Department of ECE library is having around 350 books. The library is established under FORCE. It includes books of different components used in the laboratories, R&D activities, mini-projects, etc. The library subscribes technical magazines and bulletins. 

Campus Network

The institute and all department are well connected through a campus network with an Internet access at data rate of 4 Mbps. All the machines in the laboratories are connected to campus network.

Core Competence

The Department's strength lies in following areas of competence.

• Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
• Wireless Networks
• Signal/Image processing
• VLSI and Embedded systems
• Bio Medical Instrumentation
• Communication systems
• Computational Intelligence Applications

HUMAN RESOURCES

Department has well qualified and experienced staff with an average teaching experience of more than 10 years. Some of the faculty members have registered for Ph. D in the areas of computer networking, signal processing, bio-medical instrumentation etc. There are well qualified technical staff members, who maintain the various laboratories and are responsible for smooth conduction and maintenance of laboratories. The following is the list of teaching staff of the department.

Non-Teaching Staff

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The faculty in the department are actively involved in research and development. The areas of research are Ubiquitous/Pervasive computing technologies, Intelligent Agent Technologies, Computational Intelligence applications, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Bio medical Instrumentation, Communication and Networking, VLSI and Embedded systems etc. Department faculty have published around 200 technical articles in International/National Journals and National/International conferences.

Books Published

• P. Venkataram and S. S. Manvi, Communication Protocol Engineering, Prentice Hall, India, 2004.
• B.S. Anami, S.A. Angadi and S.S. Manvi, Computer Concepts and C Programming, PHI, 2007.
• S.S.Manvi, B.P.Vijaykumar, Computer Networks, Narosa Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2009.
  
• S. S. Manvi and M. S. Kakkasageri, Wireless and Mobile Networks Concepts and Protocols, Wiley, India, 2010.

RECENT JOURNAL PAPERS

• R. C. Biradar, S. S. Manvi, "Agent driven in backbone ring based reliable multicast routing in MANET”, International Journal IET Communications, Accepted for Publication.
• Anupama Nandennavar, M.N.Birje, S.S.Manvi,  Shridhar, “Mobility impact  on wireless grids”, Int. Jl. Computer  Science and Information Security, vol. 7, no. 1, June 2010.
• R. C. Biradar, S. S. Manvi, "Multicast Routing Scheme  in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Link Stability Based Approach”, International Journal of  Computer and Electrical Engineering, (IJCEE), Singapore , vol. 2, no.2, pp. 371- 379, 2010.
• Kiran B., A. V. Sutagundar, S. S. Manvi, “Energy efficient multicast routing in wireless sensor networks”, International  Journal on Computer and Electrical Engineering,  vol.2, no.3, 2010.
• R. Deshpande, B. Kumar, S. B. Jain, “On the design of multi notch filters” (Accepted by International journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Wiely Intersciences)
• R. Deshpande, B. Kumar, S. B. Jain, “Design simplifications for bi notch filters” (Accepted by International journal of Analog integrated circuits and signal processing, Springer)  
  
• Rohini Deshpande, B.Kumar, Shail Bala Jain, “Highly Narrow rejection bandwidth FIR Notch     filter for communication”, IET Communications, accepted for publication.
• Rohini Deshpande, .B.Kumar, Shail Bala Jain, . “Narrow Rejection Bandwidth Comb Filters, International Journal on Scientific Computing (IJSC)(ISSN: 0973-578X, Vol 3, Number 1 pp - 1 - 4 January - June 2009.
• S. S. Manvi, M. S. Kakkasageri, Jeremy pitt, “Multiagent based information dissemination in VANETs”, Mobile Information Systems Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, 2009.
• R. C. Biradar, S. S. Manvi, “Link stability based multicast routing in MANETs”,  Elsevier International Journal on Computer Networks,  vol. 53, no. 7, 2010.
• Aravind H.S,  H.D.Maheshappa, Ranjan Moodithya “Implementation of the six channel Redundancy to achieve fault tolerance in testing of satellites”  International Journal of Computer science and information security, vol. 8,no.1, April Issue, 2010.
• K.M.Sudharshan, K.M.Rudrappa, H.D.Maheshappa, , H.D.Nataraj Urs, C.M.Patil, “Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) Transmitter Using Utopia, International Journal of Computer Science & Knowledge engineering (ISSN: 0973-6735, Vol – 3, No.1, PP – 79-83, dated January & June – 2009.
• Akkamahadevi.D.H,  Narasimha Kaulgud, “Embedded Zero tree wavelet coder  based image color image compression using error free coding technique  ”, International Journal of Computer Science and Knowledge Engineering (ISSN: 0973 - 6735) Vol 3, Number 1 pp - 63-67 January - June 2009.
• K.M.Rudrappa, H.D.Maheshappa, K.M.Sudharshan, H.D.Nataraj Urs, C.M.Patil, “Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) Transmitter Using Utopia, International Journal of Computer Science & Knowledge engineering (ISSN: 0973-6735, Vol – 3, No.1, PP – 79-83, dated January & June – 2009.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

• M. N. Birje, Dr. S. S. Manvi, “Monitoring and    Status Representation of Devices in Wireless Grids”, IEEE  Conference on Grid and Pervasive  Computing, Taipei, Taiwan, May  10-14  2010.
• R. C. Biradar,  S. S. Manvi, “Choosing neighbour nodes based on mobility and channel   conditions for routing in MANETs”, International Conference on Advances in Computer  Engineering,  Bangalore, India, June 20-21  2010.
• Rohini Deshpande, B.Kumar, Shail Bala Jain, “FIR bi Notch Filters as harmonics eliminators”, ACM sponsored international conference & workshop on emerging technology  (ICWET-10), Mumbai, India,  Feb 27th & 28th, 2010.
• A. V. Sutagundar, S. S. Manvi, “Agent based context aware image fusion for military sensor networks”, Int. Conf. IEEE  Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, Allahabad, India, Dec. 2009.
• V.R. Budhiyal, S. S. Manvi, “Intelligent agent based NDMR routing in MANETs”, Int. Conf. ADCOM, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2009.
• Geeta D., S. S. Manvi, R. C. Biradar, “Temprature monitroing using Zigbee in wireless environments”, Int. Conf. Electronic Design and Signal Processing, Manipal, India, Dec. 12-13 2009.
• K.M.Rudrappa, H.D.Maheshappa, K.M.Sudharshan, H.D.Nataraj Urs, C.M.Patil, “Implementation of Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) transmitter using UTOPIA  ” ,  Int. Conf.  VLSI and communication (ICVCom) 2009,   16th  to 18th April 2009, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
• Akkamahadevi.D.H, H.D.Nataraj Urs, “A Low Power Skew Tolerant domino digit serial multiplier”, International conference on advances in Computing , control & Telecommunication Technologies (ACT 2009), 27th – 29th Dec 2009, Trivandrum, India.
• K.M.Sudharshan, H. D. Nataraj Urs, “Implementation of Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) transmitter using UTOPIA,  Int. Conf. VLSI and communication (ICVCom), 16th  to 18th April 2009, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Research Grants and proposals

Industry and Institution Interaction

The institution has signed MOU with Seer Akademi (through channel partner Phlox Technologies, Bangalore) and Synopsys university programme to offer Bachelor certification programme in VLSI and Embedded Systems. It has also setup a Regional Centre of Excellence in VLSI and Embedded Systems, a Remote Learning Centre.

The institution has established a Nokia Research Lab sponsored by Nokia, Finland, under VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University) industry interaction programme. The aim of the project is to develop MaeMo (a open source for mobile operating system) platform based application development through UG/PG/Research students. The institution has signed MOU with Cranes for setting up Texas microcontrollers lab based on MSP 430.

As part of industry and institution interaction activities list of some distinguished persons from industries/institutes visited the department/institution are as follows

• Dr. David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA
• Dr. S. S. Iyenger, Lousiania State University, USA
• Dr. Rich Goldman, Vice President, Synopsys, USA
• Dr. Vasgen, Professor, University of Armenia
• Dr. Balkrishanan N., IISc, Bangalore
• Dr. Y. Narhari, IISc, Bangalore
• Dr. Sudeep Mishra, IIT, Khargapur
• Dr. Chandramurthy, IISc, Bangalore
• Dr. K. Chandrashekhar, NITK, Surathkal
• Mr. Shrikant Jadcherla, CEO and Chairman, Seer Akademi
• Mr. Suresh Chande, Nokia, Finland
• Mr. Jerome, Nokia, Finland
• Dr. T. Srinivas, IISc, Bangalore
• Dr. P. Vijaykumar, IISc, Bangalore
• Mr. Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductors, USA
• Mr. Karthik Mahalingam, Cypress Semicondcutors, India
• Mr. Yatin Trivedi, Synopsys, USA
• Mr. Paul Kaundos, Kasper Technologies, India
• Dr. C.B. Akki, Wipro Technologies, India
• Dr. Chadrshekhar, IBM, India
• Dr. Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore
• Dr. Debabrata Das, IIIT, Bangalore
  

WORKSHOP/SEMINAR/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

The faculties of the department are encouraged to attend conferences, workshops, short-term courses to upgrade their knowledge. The department also plans to organize STTP (proposal submitted to ISTE) on "Wireless Communications" and National conference on "Computer Networks and DSP" during coming semesters (proposal submitted to AICTE and CSIR). The department encourages Technical staff to attend laboratory related workshops that are required to upgrade their knowledge. Faculty and Technical staff are also encouraged to pursue their higher education with salary and leave benefits.

Recent workshops organized are as follows.    

• AICTE/ISTE STTP ‘VLSI Design Flow: An industrial Practice Using Standard Tools” and FACE Program, conducted by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, from 23rd to 30th June 2008. This programme is funded by ISTE.
• AICTE/CSIR sponsored conference on Computer Networks from Feb 20 t0 21, 2009.
• An STTP on “DSP Architecture, algorithms and Implementation” was conducted from 12-13 August 2009 in association with Cranes software and VTU, Belgaum.
• A workshop on “Documentation using Latex” was organized during 27-28, January, 2010.
• One day PSOC workshop was organized on 15 February, 2010.
• One day workshop on Python and Scipy was organized on 19, February, 2010.
• 3 days workshop on “DSP and MSP 430” in collaboration with BITES and Cranes software on 18-20, March, 2010.
• A 3 day workshop on “SoC Design & PSoC Programming” is organized from 26th to 28th of July, 2010.
• A 2 day workshop on “VLSI Design Verification” is organized from 29th to 30th of July 2010.
• A 2 day workshop on “CMOS RF Design” is organized from 5th to 6th of August, 2010.
• A 3 day workshop on “WIMAX and LTE” is organized from 11h to 13h of August, 2010.

National Conference /Staff development Programme proposed

DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION (FORCE)

The Forum of Reva for Communication and Electronics (FORCE) is the association of the students of electronics and communication engineering department whose main objective is to nurture the talents of the students in both academic and non academic matters. The association organizes different types of extra curricular activities and co-curricular activities like arranging workshops, seminars, invited talks by people from industry and academic institutions. FORCE also conducts blood donation camps annually as part of social activity by the students and faculty.

Apart from student representatives for the FORCE activities, the faculties also are coordinating the activities.

Recently IEEE Reva ITM student branch is initiated for the institution by ECE department. FORCE in collaboration with IEEE student branch would like to organize many more technical and cultural activities. 

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Recent activities conducted by FORCE

• Mr.Basawaraj Patil, Sr.Technical Specialist, IBM, Bangalore, delivered a talk on “Technology development and society” on 30.08.08.
• A Technical Talk on "Awareness on Embedded Systems" was delivered by Mr.Satish Murthy, Head, Cranes Varsity on 30.08.08.
• A Technical Talk on "Computational Intelligence; where we are at Present" was delivered by Dr. T. N. Nagabushan, Special Officer, E-learning VTU Belgaum, on 30.09.08.
• Engineer's day was celebrated on 15.09.08. Dr.K.N.Venkata Krishna Rao, Director, East Point Group of Educational Institutions, Bangalore, was the chief guest.
• Reva Cricket Championship was conducted between 24th & 26th October 2008  by the Department of ECE.
• Teachers Day Celebrations were organized on 05.09.08 by students of ECE.
• On September 8th 2009, a blood donation camp was organized as part of FORCE activity in association with Sankalp foundation, Bangalore. Total of 348 blood bottles were donated from students and faculty of college for various blood banks of the city.
• A technical talk on “PSOC” by B.R.Guttal, Cypress consultant, Bangalore on 13, November, 2009.
• A technical talk on “MEMS” by Dr. T. Srinivas, Professor, IISc, Bangalore on 14, November, 2009. Mr. Dattatreya Prabhu Sharma, Founder, Guru prevails, delivered a technical talk on “MACHINE LEARNING” on 29.08.2009.
• Blood Donation Camp was organized with Sankalp India Foundation, Bangalore on 08.09.2009.
• A technical talk on “Zigbee Technologies” was delivered by Mr. OmkarBidave, Director (Technical), Embedded technologies & Mr. Anand, Project Engineer, Embedded Technologies, on 13.10.2009.
• A technical talk on “Programmable    solutions” was delivered by Mr. B.R. Guttal, consultant, Cypress semiconductors on 12.11.2009.
• A talk on “MEMS” was delivered by Prof. Srinivas, IISc. Bangalore as a part of IEEE Student branch on 10.11.2009.
• Seer Akademi, Bangalore, conducted student workshop on Cypress PSOC Kits and  VLSI trends  on 15.02.2010 The resource persons were Mr. B.R.Guttal, Mr, Ramesh Doddamani, Mr. Ramesh Jaganath from Phlox Tech, Bangalore.
• Conducted student seminar on “Introduction to VLSI and Low power VLSI Design Management” on 08.02.2010.  Resource persons were Mr.Shivan and Koteshwar,    Synopsys, Bangalore, and Mr. Debabrata,     Synopsys, Bangalore,
• Mr Siddu S Laute, LLB, MSR College, gave a  inspirational talk about his life on 20.02.2010.
• A technical talk on “Nano Electronics” was delivered by Dr.B.P. Harish, Asst. Prof., EEE Dept. UVCE, Bangalore, on 18.03.2010.
• IEEE Student Branch has been started from 1st March 2010 and college student branch code is 05221. There are total No. of 115 student members and 7 professional members.
• Seminar was held on “VLSI careers and IEEE standardization” on 08.03.2010, Resource person was Mr. Yatin Trivedi, Director, Interoperability programme, Synopsys, USA.
• A Talk by Dr.S.S.Manvi “How to read and write the technical papers” was organized on 13.03.2010.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

The faculties of department are actively participating in National / International Conferences at various capacities such as Programme committee members, Reviewers, Organizers, etc. Some of the faculty are reviewers for reputed National / International Journals (Elsevier, IEEE, World Scientific, Kluwer, IOS, Inter science publishers, etc.), Member of Board of Studies, Members of Board of Examiners, etc., Invited talks and seminars are given by department faculty at various places during short term courses, guest lectures and conferences.

• Prof. R. C. Biradar acted as chair person for International conference on Advances in computer engineering-ACE2010,organised by Association of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ACEEE), during
  June 21-22,2010, Bangalore
• Dr. S. S. Manvi delivered a talk on “VANETs” at National conference on Wireless networks conducted by Dept. CSE, RLJIT, Doddaballapur, Aug 2009.
• Acted as chair person for international conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communications and Computing (ARTCOM 2009)(IEEE Sponsored), Kottayam, India, October 27-28, 2009.
• Mr. K.M.Sudharshan delivered expert lecture series for EDUSAT VTU Programme on “CMOS VLSI”, August 2009.
• Dr.S.S.Manvi, Advisory Committee Member, National Conference on Engineering Technologies, Shiradi Sai Engineering college, Bangalore, June 2009.
• Prof. R. C. Biradar delivered a talk on “Routing techniques in Adhoc Networks”, 21st March 2009 in two day workshop on Wireless and Adhoc Networks organized by Dept. of CSE/ISE, Sri Krishna Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

The department believes in the overall development of the student personality by encouraging them for participating in extra curricular and co-curricular activities. The activities are conducted by department student association FORCE. The students are also encouraged to participate in various activities conducted outside college.

The following are the achievements of our students in various activities in the last year

    Academic

• Rohith Kumar Tiwari, Vikas Kumar Shyam and Satish, “Harmful waves affecting us”, ‘REVAMP’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Triveni, Nandini and Ramya, “Digital Signature”,  REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Chandrakala and Aryashree, “Opto Coupler” REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Priyanka and Divya.S, “Claytrons”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Darshan Pandey and  Jyothi Agarwal, “Renewable  energy resources”, REVAMP ’10 - A Technical Fest , Reva ITM Bangalore,  25.03.2010
• Pranay Krishna, Neha Yadav and  Lavanya, “Next  generation wireless Networks”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A  Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Anurag Kumar and Nithin Malik, “ LEDs for solid state lighting status trends in challenges”, REVAMP  10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Madhusudhan, Deepak Kumar, Naveen  and     Madhuprashanth,  “ Design of rectangular patch  antenna with EBG Substrate for increasing  gain”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Manjula, Ranjitha and Punnushree Ramadevi, “Cepstrum”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest,    Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Narendra Reddy,  “ BDI agents and applIcat   ions”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva    ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Om Prakash Mishra, Devesh Kumar and Aditya    Anand, “ White LED: the Future lighting”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Ekta Deshpande and Abhinav Bagalwadi,    “Smart  Dust”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Seema, Yasmin and Shilpa, “ NANOWIRES” ,  REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Naren and  Brijesh, “ OFDM”, REVAMP ’ 10 – A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25th March 2010.
• Deepak Kumar, Madhuprashanth, Madhus- udhan and Naveen, “Fault Tolerance”, REVAMP ’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.
• Devi D, Devesh Kumar, Divya. G, and  M. Sindhuja, “Semiconductor devices inside microstructure optical fibers”, REVAMP’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM Bangalore, 25.3.2010.
• Manasa.C and Miriam, “Human Energy Harvesting”, REVAMP’ 10 - A Technical Fest, Reva ITM, Bangalore, 25.03.2010.

Prizes won

• Madhusudhana.U and Batch of VIII Sem won 1st prize in Technical Paper presentation title “ Fault Tolerance ” in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010.
• Priyanka V Patil and Batch of IV Sem won 2nd prize in Technical Paper presentation title  “  Claytrons ”  in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010.
• Ekta Deshpande and Batch of  VI Sem won 3rd Prize in Technical Paper presentation title “  Smart Dust”   in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010.
• Eshwar & Sunil R of VIII Sem  won 1st Prize in HDL Design competition in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010.
• Mahesh N & Bhaskar.K.M of  VI Sem won 2nd Prize in HDL Design competition in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010.
• Shyam Prasad Jogi & Sunil Kumar S.H   won 3rd  Prize in HDL Design competition in Revamp-10, RITM, Bangalore on 23.03.2010

Non – academic

• Ms. Archita Aravindakshan of VII SEM won II Prize in JAMMING at SAVYASAACHI – 2008 Cultural Fest Held at Nagarjuna College of Engineering, Devanahalli on 14th November 08.Ms.Divya Anandan of VII SEM won I Prize in Collage at SAVYASAACHI – 2008 Cultural Fest Held at Nagarjuna College of Engineering, Devanahalli on 14th November 08.
• Mr.Shreyas D Souza of VII SEM won I Prize in Collage at SAVYASAACHI – 2008 Cultural Fest Held at Nagarjuna College of Engineering, Devanahalli on 14th November 08.
• Rahul Vishwakarma of VIII Sem won III Prize in Reporting and Photography AISIRI – 10th VTU Youth Fest held at Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain  College of Engineering, Bangalore, From 15th  to 21st  February 2009.
• Subhayu Mukherjee of VIII Sem won III Prize in Reporting and Photography AISIRI – 10th VTU Youth Fest held at Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain  College of Engineering, Bangalore, From 15th  to 21st  February 2009.
• Rekha.S of IV Sem won I Prize in 5 km walking and III prize in 10 km running VTU 11th Athletic Meet – 2008, held at Reva ITM From 06th to 09th November 2008.
• Nagesha.B of VI Sem selected for 12 Km cross country run in  all India inter university sports selection held at Shravanabelagola.
•  Guruprasad & Ravindra of VIII sem won I Prize in Reporting and Photography in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Pappu Sneha of VIII sem won II Prize in Face Painting  and II Prize in Sketching in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Akshay  & Satish of VIII sem won II  Prize in Gaming  in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Deepa B Mer of VI sem won II Prize in Solo Dancing in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Gaurav of VI sem won II Prize in Group song in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Anupama & Aditi of VI sem won II Prize in Rangoli in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Shraddha and Miraiam of VI sem won II Prize in Collage in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Shraddha and Durga of VI sem won II Prize in Mehendi in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Shraddha and Durga of VI sem won II Prize in Mehendi in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Moumita Das of VI sem won I  Prize in Solo Dance in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Punnushree of VI sem won I  Prize in Kannada Debate in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Manjunath Islampure and Vedamurthy of VI sem won II  Prize in Kannada Debate in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management
• Veena of IV sem won II  Prize in Kannada Debate in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Abhinav Bagalwadi of IV sem won I  Prize in English Debate in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Kavya B.S. of IV sem won I  Prize in Face painting in Revamp 2009 held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management.
• Mr. Amith Kumar Yadav from 7th semester, who is selected for All India National level Inter University Boxing championship tournament.

TEACHING - LEARNING PROCESS

• Teaching for the entire semester for a subject is planned meticulously and implemented using lesson plan.
• The internal assessment and conduction of Co-curricular and extra curricular activities are planned and scheduled for the semester in advance. This is communicated to faculty and students as 'Calendar of Events' which helps them to plan their studies and other activities properly.
• Teaching aids include black board, OHP, Power point presentation using LCD.
• Regular Tutorial classes are used to discuss and solve numerical problems and assist them to apply knowledge to real-time problems.
• Subject-wise assignments and study guides are given to students to solve and enrich their knowledge.
• Extra classes are conducted in the identified subjects for weak students.
• For value addition, other than university- prescribed syllabus, student training programmes are conducted within the campus.
• Regular seminars are conducted in most of the subjects prescribed apart from classroom teaching which improves their presentation skills & also better understanding of the subject.
• Teaching is made student centric by getting regular (every fortnight) feed back from the students.

Faculty undergoes self appraisal in order to improve teaching skills and up grade in subject knowledge.

STUDENT COUNSELING

A student counseling mechanism is setup in the Department in order to understand the problems of students both academic and personal. One faculty advisor for every 15 students is allocated, who is responsible for conducting regular meeting with students to get suggestions for improvements in academic and Laboratory facilities. The information obtained from students through faculty advisors is utilized to enhance the quality of academics and laboratories and also solve personal problems of the students. Faculty advisor sends the progress of a student to the parents for information and guidance every month.

PLACEMENT

Department supports training and placement cell of Institute to conduct programmes on latest technologies, Personality Development and training for competitive exams. Students of the department are placed in reputed companies such as L & T, Infosys Technologies, Perot systems, Nano Cell, Pagul Guy dot Com, Cambridge solution Mphasis, Tech Mahindra, N.R. switch Radio services, Scorpos Corp, Assurgent Technology Solution etc. 90% of the eligible students are placed in the campus interviews. Students are also encouraged to pursue Master’s and Research Programmes. In this direction, students are advised to take up GATE, GRE and TOFEL exams. 5% of the students have already enrolled for higher studies in India and abroad.

RESULTS

It is constant endeavor of the department in bringing excellent results in all the semesters. Overall passing percentage for VIII semester for the year 2009-10 is 92%.