Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Activity Report
Two-day workshop on "Introduction to Robotics” through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) on
2nd & 3rd August 2019
Department of Computer science & Engineering had organized a 2-day workshop on "Introduction to Robotics” through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) on 2nd & 3rd August 2019 in association with IIT Bombay. The department had also invited a Principals' meet to know more about this initiative. e-Yantra is a project supported by MHRD through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) to spread Embedded systems and Robotics education in colleges across India.
Shri KamalKishor Kadam felicitating Dr. Kavy Arya
For the inaugural function we were blessed with Dr. Kavy Arya, Principal Investigator, e-Yantra Project, IIT Bombay alongwith Mr. Vivek L. Sabanwar and Mr. Avijit Pandey as a resource person.
Around 40 teachers from different engineering colleges have participated in this workshop.
Group Photo of participants with Dr. Kavy Arya , Shri KamalKishor Kadam, Dr. Geeta S. Lathkar, Dr. Shrish Kotgire, Dr. A. M Rajurkar.
Participants Keenly Listening to the Speaker
Expert Lecture on Under-Graduate Fellowship Opportunities
Further, the students were also made aware with the fact and stats of the ratio of employed engineers to the number of engineers passing out every year in India. Why is there a large gap between the ratio, and how this gap could be filled with a better educational system was yet another main part of this seminar.
The students had excellent interaction with the speaker and raised questions enthusiastically. Their curiosity, with the application of project based approach in learning and understanding concepts, and a vision for higher studies, was an achievement from this seminar.
Members of Team “ARCANA”:
Pratiksha Walbe, Shivani Vaidya, Dhanashree Kulkarni, Nikhil Thakare, Jayesh Ukalkar, Omkar Deshpande.
Mentors of Team “ARCANA”:
Sangamesh Somawar (Alumni, currently working in Rently Systems, Pune) and RahulsinghBisen (Assistant Professor, Department of CSE).
VICTORY MOMENT
SIH is initiative by AICTE, MHRD, i4c and Persistent systems across India for developing innovation solution to solve challenges faced in the country.
Smart India Hackathon 2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving.
Initially, in this competition there were 4 Lakh Teams who have submitted their solution to respective Ministries or Companies, out of them 11,000 Teams where shortlisted for Grand Finale which makes it World Largest Hackathon.
Problem Statement:
“Knowledge sharing platform for problem solving”.
“Labour” being a Concurrent Subject, States too have Labour Institutes which also operate with near similar objectives. A lot of knowledge and expertise is generated by these institutions on a day to day basis and a common IT platform (interactive) is required to share the same on a real time basis. To do so we need to have an interactive platform.
Innovative Solution Proposed by Team “Arcana”:
The team “Arcana” build a data analytics based portal for ministry of labour and employment, which will help them to address particular set of labours and employees for awareness via email subscription, SMS alerts, WhatsApp for business.Currently every state of India has different sites and databases. This portal will be single website and it will manage only single database for India to sync data across nation.
SIH 2019 GRAND FINALE
WORKING TIME
Two-week workshop on
Trainer during session
The main focus of this workshop is on IDS (Integrated Development Suite). In this workshop students are learning Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports and Graphics.
Students attending the session
Oracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE including an object navigator, property sheet and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in character mode terminal sessions.
Oracle Reports Builder is the report-building component of Oracle Reports, a powerful enterprise reporting tool that enables you to rapidly develop and deploy sophisticated Web and paper reports against any data source.
Dr. Y. V. Joshi in his speech addressed all the audience by his precious words. He started with the evolution of computer hardware and software. He continued to revise the change in technology and its importance. Later he discussed the needs of latest programming languages such as Python, R-programming etc. Our second guest of honor Dr. S. K. Chidrawar spoke about the importance of FDP conduction. And the later session was continued by Mr. Tushar Kute who started the FDP with the basics of R-language.
The day 02 of FDP started with the introduction of data frames. The session included creation of data frames, accessing those, expanding that is adding columns and rows to data frames etc. After this the connectivity of R- programming with Databases was covered in which participants used My-SQL as a database to connect with front-end. Later session was continued with data analysis in which drawing graphs and charts for the existing data was taught.
GLIMPS OF INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF FDP
AUDIENCE PATIENTLY ATTENDING THE SESSIONS
On this day we had Dr. S. S. Sane Professor, K. K. Wagh College of Engineering, Nashik. He discussed with us different types of Classification techniques and explained the concepts of single-label and multi-label learning. The different approaches of Multi-label learning were discussed in detail along with live examples by Dr. Sane. The further sessions were continued by Mr. Kute in which
he covered the topics like Basic Data Analytics, Data Pre-processing and exploratory data analysis.
Day-04 started with the advanced topics like Statistical- Regression, Time series analysis, KNN- learning and Association Rule Mining. For each and every advanced topic the suitable examples and applications were taken.
Mr. Mukesh Jain took a Use Case study on FOREX Predictions in R. His next session included a discussion on Data Driven Product Innovation and End to End Cycle of Analytics. Later in the session Mr. Mukesh Jain headed the discussion on Practical aspects of using Analytics in Product Innovation with Real Case-Studies from Industry.
The valedictory ceremony for the 5 days FDP on “Data Science using R” had eminent guests like Dr. V. G. Gaikar (Vice Chancellor, DBATU, Lonere), Mr. Mukesh Jain (V. P., Head Insights & Data Technology at Capgemini). Mr. Mukesh Jain continued the session, in which he took some company application and case studies for R-programming.
A SESSION BY Mr. MUKESH JAIN
Dr. V. G. Gaikar started his address with the gap between the corporate system and the academics that are taught in the institutes these days. He explained the gathering that the FDP programs are conducted so that faculty colleagues should go in the industry to train the industrial employee. His motivational words impressed all the audience and encourage the faculty members to be a resource person some day.
GLIMPS OF VALEDICTORY CEREMONY
Two-week workshop on
DBMS
by
Mr. Sameer Dehadrai
2nd August to 16th August 2018.
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In today’s digital world the most important element in the industry is data. In every organization we find lot of information in different format and the challenge is to manage it. To manage this important piece of information we have to apply various techniques of Database management systems.
For the better understanding of the concepts and importance of databases a two-week workshop was organized in the campus on DBMS. MGM family was privileged to have Mr. Sameer Dehadrai as the resource person for the workshop.
In the journey of this two-week all the concepts of database right from the basics to higher level RDBMS, along with the hands on session were covered.
Aptitude and Soft Skills Training on 2nd Aug - 16th Aug 2018
by
Universal Education, Bangalore
Two week workshop on Aptitude and Soft Skills Training was conducted by Universal Education, Bangalore for the Third and Final year students of CSE and IT departments.Total about 360 studnets attended the workshop from 2nd August 2018 to 16th August 2018. The workshop aimed at motivating the students to acquire the soft and aptitude skills, which is prime need of time. Students learn to overcome the fear of public speaking to speak fluent English without using boring grammar. A student was informed to talk at least for five minutes on the stage on any topic like best moment of their life, turning point of their life, what makes them different from others & so on. After performance of every participant, they were asked to share their experience of public speaking. Few of them said while delivering on the stage they faced some problems. Then the trainer explained the reasons of it to them and main reason is they felt fear & they are not used to public speaking activity. This session, she started with psychological & reasoning tests & went on explaining its decisive role in developing interpersonal relationship. They also trained on fundamental apitude skills, cosmic mathematics and logical reasoning.
Valedictory function:
For valedictory function, we had Mr. Shivprasad Jaju and Mr. Pravin Soni as chief guests and Director Dr. Mrs Geeta Lathkar and HoDs of CSE and IT Dr. Mrs. A.M.Rajurkar and Prof. S.A.Hashmi as special presence. Students have expressed their views through wonderful role plays.
Expert Lecture by Mr. Mukesh Jain, Adjunct Faculty
Mr. Mukesh Jain, CTO, VFS Global, Mumbai, an alumnus of 1996 CSE batch, has conducted an expert lecture on latest trends in the Technology as Adjunct Faculty on 14 July 2018 at 11.30am. He elaborated the latest trends in corporate world such as Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the students of third and final year. He started with the importance of data analytics in which Mr. Jain explained with the help of different examples about how the field of data analytics is applicable in various application software. He then talked at length about how data analytics can be linked with machine learning. He mentioned in his talk that there is lot of scope of research in this area. Artificial Intelligence is at the top of the data analytics and machine learning. Concept of machine learning helps machines to take the decisions intelligently. As a concluding note he suggested our students about few online websites such as courser.org, hackerrank etc that would help them to learn the advance topics and the content beyond the syllabus in detail.
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in the field of computer science that often uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed.
Machine learning is closely related to (and often overlaps with) computational statistics, which also focuses on prediction-making through the use of computers. It has strong ties to mathematical optimization, which delivers methods, theory and application domains to the field. Machine learning is sometimes conflated with data mining, where the latter subfield focuses more on exploratory data analysis and is known as unsupervised learning. Machine learning can also be unsupervised and be used to learn and establish baseline behavioural profiles for various entities and then used to find meaningful anomalies.
Within the field of data analytics, machine learning is a method used to devise complex models and algorithms that lend themselves to prediction; in commercial use, this is known as predictive analytics. These analytical models allow researchers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to "produce reliable, repeatable decisions and results" and uncover "hidden insights" through learning from historical relationships and trends in the data.
In the two days session Students learned how to implement code in python for machine learning technology. The course started with the basics of python programming language and continued from Artificial Intelligence to machine learning. Major part of deep learning was also covered in these two days sessions.
The Internet has served to connect computers and humans in the world and enabled them to share data and information. Now, time has come to connect anything, living or non-living, to the Internet. It is expected that about 50 billon devices will be connected to the Internet by the year 2020.
This integration of humans and things with the Internet is called IOT (Internet of Things). It is creating a different kind of connected world. IOT based next generation systems and services will encompass several domains such as e-Governance, Health Care, Transportation, Waste Management, Food Supply Chains, Energy, Insurance etc. IOT is helping in optimization of consumption of energy and other resources which are decreasing day by day. The IOT is also helping company owners, office managers and business people to increase productivity of their organizations by getting access to real time data. Company giants like Microsoft, CISCO, Intel, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, GE, Google are vigorously working in the IOT field. The current revolution of IOT requires manpower skilled in IOT technology. Thus, there is a pressing requirement of skilled manpower all over the world.
Salient Features of the Workshop
1. Step-by-Step Teaching and Learning Methodology
2. Real Life Examples
3. Hands IOT Activities
4. Domain Specific Applications
5. Technology enhanced Lectures
6. Certification
Theory Topics
Intelligent sensing system is the one of the latest technologies that we use in our day to day life. Intelligent sensors are present around us in various small household things like automatic tap that senses human hands and lets the water flow, Smart phones locks, laptops etc.
Mr. Mukharjee introduced this technology to our students with the help of some familiar examples and then he actually explained the technical details of all such technologies. Further in the session he added the upcoming gadgets which will use this kind of technology and he also explained its importance.
We have organized the Orientation program on Recruitment Opportunities By Mr. Miller Kandar, CEO, Treezec Educational Services, (Pehlajob.com) Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai. On 4th July 2017. Mr Miller mentioned in speech to final year students that recruitment and selection refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a position while incorporating employment equity principles and practices. The purpose of this section is to assist those involved in hiring to apply best practice recruitment, selection and orientation procedures and techniques which help ensure: selection of the best possible candidate in terms of meeting the specific requirements of the role, through the elimination of bias, the competition process is conducted fairly (and perceived as fair) in terms of applicants’ individual rights and the college’s goals for achieving diversity and employment equity among its faculty and staff are realized through equity outreach and due consideration of qualified candidates.
We have organized workshop on Android mobile App development and PHP web development from 20th June to 14th July 2017 for third year students as a part of internship in our campus. Total 106 students have participated in this workshop. Android App Development and PHP web development Workshop mainly focuses on how to use Android OS for building your own Android Application. Only the basic knowledge of programming is required for Android App Development. The workshop has started from the basics like designing layouts and building complex layouts. Once the basics of Android are done we will begin with building Apps.
The duration of this workshop was more than week for each course, with eight hours session each day, properly divided into theory and hand on practical sessions. At the end of this workshop, a project competition was organized among the participating students where each participating student has got Certificate of Participation.
Highlights of Big Data & Hadoop workshop was to implement a Hadoop Project, Learn to write Complex MapReduce programs, Perform Data Analytics using Pig and Hive, Understand Data Loading Techniques using SQOOP and Flume, Master the concepts of Hadoop Distributed File, System and MapReduce Framework, Work on a Real Life Project on Big Data Analytics and gain Hands on Project Experience.
A benefit to the participants was that they learnt & Interacted with renowned Industry Experts, received the Certificate of Participation in association with Cognizance IIT-R and Got free CD/DVD containing Software Resource Toolkit
We have organized expert talk on “Improvement in Research and Development” by Professor Ashwatha Kumar on 25th March 2017. He suggested the faculty members of CSE department that while selecting the topic of research one should be very particular about the interest and knowledge about the particular field. He emphasized on the fact that these days it’s easy to get knowledge about any area through internet and one should make the maximum use of this boon. Before starting research it is very important to have an overall knowledge of the topic and a clear idea of the aim to be achieved. Prof. Ashwatha also told about some key points and techniques of writing a research paper. He also explained how to select a good journal to publish our valuable research work.
An expert lecture On Ergonomics and Internet of Things By Mr. Basavraj C. H., Director of BCS Innovations, Pune on 29th January 2016. He talked at length about what Ergonomics is all about. He said that Ergonomics is the process of designing or arranging workplaces, products and systems so that they fit the people who use them. Ergonomics (or ‘human factors’ as it is referred to in North America) is a branch of science that aims to learn about human abilities and limitations, and then apply this learning to improve people’s interaction with products, systems and environments.
Ergonomics aims to improve workspaces and environments to minimise risk of injury or harm. So as technologies change, so too does the need to ensure that the tools we access for work, rest and play are designed for our body’s requirements.
Why is Ergonomics important?
In the workplace: According to Safe Work Australia, the total economic cost of work-related injuries and illnesses is estimated to be $60 billion dollars. Recent research has shown that lower back pain is the world’s most common work-related disability – affecting employees from offices, building sites and in the highest risk category, agriculture.
Ergonomics aims to create safe, comfortable and productive workspaces by bringing human abilities and limitations into the design of a workspace, including the individual’s body size, strength, skill, speed, sensory abilities (vision, hearing), and even attitudes.
A highly energetic Expert Lecture we all experienced On Recent Research in Feature extraction and Pattern Recognition Dr. Mr. D. S. Guru, Professor and Nodal officer at University of Mysore, Mysore. Prof. D. S. Guru introduced us about the origin of feature extraction and pattern recognition. He explained the changes and increasing need of feature extraction and pattern recognition. Prof. Guru explained us that feature extraction has played a very important in the field of research and yet today the technologies such as machine learning use SVM methodology that is based on feature extraction only. On the other hand he said that pattern recognition focuses on the recognition of patterns and regularities in data. According to him terms such as pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) are hard to separate, as they largely overlap in their scope. Later in the session Mr. Guru explained us some latest researches done by using these two techniques.
Android App Development Workshop was mainly focused on how to use Android OS for building your own Android Application. Only the basic knowledge of programming is required for Android App Development, you do not have to be a geek for it! The workshop was started from the basics like designing layouts and building complex layouts. Once the basics of Android were done they began with building Apps.
The duration of this workshop was two consecutive days, with eight hours session each day in a total of sixteen hours, properly divided into theory and hand on practical sessions. At the end of this workshop, a competition was organized among the participating students where each participating student was given Certificate of Participation and the Winners were given Certificate of Merit.
An expert lecture on CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) training was organized in the department on 15th October 2015 by Mr Rahul Shedge from RS Networks. RS networks is a Pune based well known organization which provides exclusive training on Networks, specially installation of switches and routers. He made our students aware the importance of CCNA Certification and kind training required to pass this exam. He also talked about how this exam provides more job opportunities. He said it is an information technology (IT) certification from Cisco. CCNA certification is an associate-level Cisco Career certification.
To receive the CCNA certification, one must pass either:
New Certifications
The rapid advances in information technology (IT) in recent years have without question generated tremendous benefits. However, they have created significant and unprecedented risks to society. Computer security has become much more important to all levels of an organization. In a professional courses like engineering, it becomes neccesory to make the students aware of these concepts. Keeping this in mind, we have organized the two ethical hacking workshops for our students by Mr. Rahul Tyagi, one of the leading experts in Internet and hacker networks at Lucideus Traing institute New Delhi.
Lucideus has advanced training tools and systems which help students grasp the skills required in an enterprise information security. Lucideus is an IT Risk Assessment and Digital Security Services provider. It’s a trusted standerd for companies that that needed to protect their brands, businesses and dignity from cyber attacks.
Ethical Hacking Workshop mainly focuses on the students eager to be a White Hat Hacker. It features a brief introduction to the world of hacking starting with the importance of ethical hackers and their need in today's world scenario, including to the basics of networking that will help you have a deep understanding of the working of internet.
Later, windows hacking using various methods will be introduced and in the module of steganography you will learn how to hide files in other files in order to protect sensitive data. After the end of the aforementioned module, phishing is covered, in which we learn how to hack Facebook Accounts and Gmail Accounts and thus how to avoid it.
We have organized n expert lecture on on “C, C++,.Net” by Mr Mukesh Jain, working in Microsoft and Mr Pravin Mukhedkar, working in IBM, on 20th March 2015. The made our students aware of the fact that the fundamental knowledge of C and C++ in recruiment process. They told the students that the knowledge of C and C++ are checked if you are applying for an IT and software related profiles within a company.
Following reaons they pointed out:
C and C++ are the general purpose programming language which is broadly applicable across various application domain from embedded micro controllers to supercomputers.
C and C++ are a programming language that is implemented on a wide variety of operating system platforms and used for hardware design. They contains both high level as well as low level language features. Besides its importance, C and C++ are used by the interviewer to judge the programming capabilities of a candidate.
These programming languages do not contain vast libraries unlike JAVA or Python for implementing data structures. Though C++ has standard template library but interviewer would be more interested to see the candidate themselves implementing complex data structures.
If there is no specific demands for the IT profile you are applying such as web development, android application development or any specific technology is not demanded like JAVA, python or C#, then they may go for asking C and C++ related question or even JAVA (if you have mentioned it in your resume).
Apart from knowledge of C and C++ for campus recruitment for IT and software profiles, they also check subjective knowledge in Database Management System, Operating System, Object Oriented Programming or sometimes compiler design. So alone knowledge of C and C++ may not lead you through the interview. So it would be better if you prepare above subject.
We have organized a Pre placement talk of Persistent Systems Limited on August 20, 2014. It discussion befor the recruitment process began in the campus. Mr Sachin Telkikar met and learnt more about the fresh yet-to-join students on campus as well as introduced them to the company, their rules, and regulations, code of conduct. The company presented pictures of the workplace, the premises to give an insight into the work ambiance. This was quite an interactive event, involving two-way communication between the company’s presenter and the aspiring employees. The students also got an idea regarding whether the company’s offerings are up to the benchmark of their requirements or no. Through this Pre placement talk, the company has projected itself in the most positive and progressive light, to be able to ascertain, approximately though, as to how many candidates are really interested in the company, and also, if anyone fails to get recruited, to ensure that given a chance, they would come back.
A well known faculty from IIT Delhi, Dr. Sumantra Datta Roy, delivered an Expert Lecture to faculty on “Image Processing” on 3rd March 2014 Dr. Sumantra Datta Roy started his lecture with the need and importance of Image processing. He then one by one covered different topics of Image processing such as Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Image processing in Biometrics. In the same lecture he also discussed his journey in research using image processing.
Expert Lecture on “Linux OS” By Mr. Uday Khedkar on 8th November 2013.
Mr. Uday Khedkar started with definition and origin of linux as,” Linux is a name that broadly denotes a family of free and open-source software operating systems (OS) built around the Linux kernel. Typically, Linux is packaged in a form known as a Linux distribution for both desktop and server use. The defining component of a Linux distribution is the Linux kernel an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.”
He later on covered the topics such as the design, working and programming of linux. The comparison between Linux and Windows was the most informative part of this session.
The department of CSE has organized an Expert Lecture on topic “Effective Executives” by Mr. R. R. Manthalkar, a well known Professor, from Electronics & Telecommunication Department, SGGSIT, Nanded, on 20th November 2012. Prof. Manthalkar, said that Effective executive is a demand for capital rather than supply thereof which sets the limit to economic growth and activity. His views were that we can hire people but not their time and this fact will affect the total productivity of the company. According to his discussion he said that a person should be able to make right decisions, he should be able to diagnose time, he should be able to restrict himself from wasting his time in useless things and when he achieves these things then he will become an effective executive. Later in the session he told about few key points to achieve all the above listed things.
We have organized an Expert Lecture on “DBMS and Data mining and data warehouse” By Prof. Dr. Somayajulu NIT, Warangal. on 25th September 2013. Dr. Somayajulu explained that Data mining is the computing process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. It is an essential process where intelligent methods are applied to extract data patterns. It is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science. The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use. He discussed that the actual data mining task is the semi-automatic or automatic analysis of large quantities of data to extract previously unknown, interesting patterns such as groups of data records (cluster analysis), unusual records (anomaly detection), and dependencies (association rule mining, sequential pattern mining). This usually involves using database techniques such as spatial indices. Later on he explained the methodology, use and research importance of datamining, datawarehouses and DBMS.
A Pre placement talk of Synechron Technologies which was formal and informal meeting arranged by the company HR Mr Amit Chilka and his team , in order to meet and learn more about the fresh yet-to-join students on campus as well as introduce them to the company, their rules, and regulations, code of conduct. The company presented pictures of the workplace, the premises to give an insight into the work ambiance. This was quite an interactive event, involving two-way communication between the company’s presenter and the aspiring employees. The students also got an idea regarding whether the company’s offerings are up to the benchmark of their requirements or no. Through this Pre placement talk, the company has projected itself in the most positive and progressive light, to be able to ascertain, approximately though, as to how many candidates are really interested in the company, and also, if anyone fails to get recruited, to ensure that given a chance, they would come back.