Vasavi College Of Engineering CSE NEwS BullEtiN Department of Computer Science & Engineering Ibrahimbagh -500031 VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2 DECEMBER 2013 Students Internships A total of 23 students of BE 4/4 CSE were offered Internship Program by eminent IT Industries. Manoja Soumitri, Sindhu, Rasvitha , Poornima, Avinash were 5 student of B.E 4/4 CSE A & B who were offered internship by Oracle ,India. Amani Gogula student of B.E 4/4 CSE was offered internship by TEREDATA,INDIA. Anvesh Pagadala , Jagadish Miriyala, Lakshmi Vaagdevi were 3 students of B.E 4/4 CSE who were offered internship by Cognizant,Hyderbad. Raviteja Gunda ,Shivakumar Sivarathri, Vijay Kumar V , krishna chaitanya, k. Balaraju chary,anees Sultana student members of B.E 4/4 CSE belongs to separate two teams who were offered internship by CSC, Hyderabad. Shiva Jyothi Vijayarao, Sravya Rani Thatipally, Tanuja Rani Nagapuri are 3 student of B.E 4/4 CSE who were offered internship by COPY, Hyderabad. Abhinav T student of B.E 4/4 CSE who was offered internship by CloudGust, Hyderabad. Mounica G, Sameer Shaik, Aakash Jaswal, Nikhil V are 4 students who were offered internship by Capital IQ,Hyderabad Campus Placement As per the latest placement updates out of 202 eligible students of BE 4/4 CSE, 93 students have succeeded to get placed in MNCs and major placements were offered by following IT Industries. 45 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by cognizant 43 students of4/4 CSE were selected by Infosys Pvt Lmt 29 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Teradata , persistent Software Pvt Ltd, HSBC, Net Cracker, ADP, Pega systems, Oracle India Pvt Lmt. 23 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Wipro PAGE 2 CSE NEWS BULLETIN 4 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Capital IQ 2 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Factset 6 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Capgemini India 2 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Cybage Software Pvt 3 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited. 6 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by iGate Global Solution 10 students of 4/4 CSE were selected by Deloitte, India CSI Student Chapter Department of CSE have organized “Windows 8 App Contest - 2013” in association with Microsoft Pvt , Ltd under CSI student Chapter on Oct 07th,2013. Apps Titled “Ping Pong Ultimate” Developed by Mr . Ballari James was identified for the first best App. App Titled “Pix Puzzle” Developed by G.Srikiran was identified for the second best App. App Titled “iExpense” Developed by Sri Harsha was identified for Third Best App of the contest. A Technical Quiz Competition was organized on Sept 13th, 2013 for all BE 2/4 , 3/4 , 4/4 CSE students and students with the remarkable performances were awarded with attractive Cash Prizes. On the occasion of Engineer’s Day Celebrations few Technical events were organized in the Department of CSE under CSI in order to inculcate the competitive spirit among the budding engineers. Technical Essay Writing Competition on “Windows 8 Vs Android Os” was organized on Aug 22nd ,2013. A JAM (Just a Minute) session was organized on Sept 12th,2013. Student Achievements CSI-Student branch received 2 prestigious awards. Ananya Mukharjee student of B.E 4/4 CSE was nominated for Highest Committed student Branch Activist during the CSI 48th Annual Convention conducted at Hotel Novotel,Vizag on Dec 13th,2013. 27 Students of BE 3/4 CSE are selected for Mission R&D programme( 60 hours of programme, students will be trained in the areas of C, C++, Data Structures and Software product development application. Chittaranjan Reddy Gutha, Navya Yenugant , Venkata Sai Sriharsha Sammeta students of B.E 3/4 CSE have participated in Infosys Aspirations Programming contest – State level and won 2nd prize in contest held at Infosys Development Centre, Hyderabad on Oct 17th ,2013 Sandeep & Shreyas Students of B.E 2/4 CSE have participated in Ekalavya Sports Tournament organized by M.G.I.T Hyderabad during Oct 3rd - 5th , 2013. CSE NEWS BULLETIN PAGE 3 K.Spoorthi & K.Raga Shalini of B.E III Year participated in the “Firefox OS AppDays Hackathon” SNIST in which developers code for 24 hours. Their Firefox OS app “ Colour Splash” was awarded as the First Best App. A total of 131 students were certified as Microsoft Technology Associates. James Ballari, Sai Madan Mohan Reddy P and Sravani.V of B.E. III year were selected in the First round online programming contest conducted by ACM International collegiate programming contest hosted by Amrita University S. Kavya of B.E III Year ISEED’s Idea Champion for innovative business ideation at iCUBE-The National Youth Idea Challenge 2013. She has been shortlisted among the top 500 participants in iCUBE- National Youth Idea Challenge 2013. S. Kavya of B.E III Year received Microsoft Azure Champion Certificate of Appreciation from Microsoft in recognition for her passion and work towards successfully developing/ hosting applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. Two ideas were selected out of Five ideas presented in BITS Idea Carnival at TiE SmashUP -Early stage startup enablers seminar held on Oct 09th,2013. Mobile Application Idea “Smart Pic” submitted by Koka Raga Shalini, students of B.E. 3/4 CSE year as part of CELKON-COIGN Innovative mobile application idea contest conducted across Andhra Pradesh is selected as the best Idea among all the participants. S.Prathyusha, student of B.E. 3/4 CSE has been selected as the Google Student Ambassador for the academic year 2013-14 Guest Lecture / Seminars / Workshops Organized for students A Guest Lecture on “Software Testing and Searching Algorithms” was delivered by Mr. R. Mohan for the students of M.Tech, CSE on 20th Dec ’13 organized at PG - M.Tech lab J C Bose block in the forenoon. A Seminar on “ ”Mobility and its Impact”“ was delivered by Mr. Jason D. Williams, IT Manager, Microsoft, Hyderabad on Nov 22nd, 2013 for the student of M. Tech (CSE) I year, I Sem. The most interesting part of the seminar was regarding an app developed by him titled as "WIFI IN THE BUS" which is a big hit and now every organization have started adapting the “WIFI in their Transport Facilities” for employee of their organization. A Guest Lecture on “ Introduction to BIG DATA and HADOOP“ was delivered by, Mr. Ankam Venkat , Big Data Architect , Cloudwick , Hyderabad on November 11th,2013 for the students of M- Tech (CSE) I -& III-Sem. The speaker is identified as well known industrialist and has more than 15 years of global professional career in the field of Information Management. The speaker has stressed more on HADOOP by using Map Reduce frame work. A Guest Lecture on “Markov Random Fields for Machine Learning-Applications in Image Segmentation ” was delivered by Dr. Suryaprakash Kompalli , Applied Researcher, Microsoft, st nd st Hyderabad, India for the students audience of M-Tech (CSE) 1 and 2 year on Oct 21 ,2013. PAGE 4 CSE NEWS BULLETIN A Guest Lecture on “Advances in Software Engineering” was delivered by Mr. Vamsi Krishna .K.V for the students of M.Tech (CSE) on Nov 1st ,2013. Mr. Vamsi Krishna .K.V is Sr. Test Lead at Persistent Software Pvt, Ltd and has more than 9 years of experience in development and testing. Speaker has emphasized on different agile models such as XP , SCRUM and also explained how they are using in software development and why they are very much popular now a days. A Career Guidance Session was delivered by Mr. Prudvi Pathi Rao .K for the students of BE 4/4 CSE, M.Tech 1st & 2nd year CSE on Oct 10th ,2013. A Guest Lecture on “Insight into Relational Databases” was delivered by Mr. G. Venkata Rajesh, Technical Specialist, IVY Comptech for the student audiences of BE 3/4 CSE on Sept 28th, 2013 in the seminar Hall, Ramanujan Block . Speaker Mr. G. Venkata Rajesh has worked for 13 years in IT Industry as Database Specialist. To add further to his credits he has trained numerous IT employees and students in Data base Management. A Guest Lecture on Mobile Application development” was delivered by Mr. M. Chandra Shekar Reddy, Program Manager, TCS for the students of BE 3/4 CSE on Sept 23rd, 2013.New technology called PhoneGap Framework, which is an open source framework for building cross platform mobile applications with javaScript and how PhoneGapworks with its API’s were emphasized by speaker during the lecture. A Career Guidance Session was delivered by Mr. Ravi Chandra Produtturi for the students of BE 3/4 CSE on Sept 21st ,2013. The objectives of the session were to convey the action plan an ideal engineering student has to follow, to convey what crucial decisions are to be taken up by students for an ideal career, how to prepare an effective resume with effective cover letter and to convey interview mannerism. A 2 day Student Training Program on “Android “ was organized on under TEQIP –II for the student audiences of BE 2/4 CSE on Sept 21th& 23rd , 2013 in CSE labs in College Campus. Mr. Rajini Kumar & Mr. Sujith from CoignEdu& IT Services Pvt. Ltd have delivered the sessions collectively during student training program. The objective of the training program was to acquaint the students with Android Architecture Framework required to develop an Mobile Applications for Android Phones. A Guest Lecture on “ Hadoop- Managing Big Data ”was delivered by Mr. A. Ashish, Lead, ERP Operations, at TCS Hyderabad, Executive Committee Member at Swecha (NGO) and Mr.