Department of Informa�on Technology, PES’s MCOE, 06/01/2016, Issue No. 2, 2016

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COGNIZANCE...

Progressive Education Society’s Modern College of Engineering, Pune

C ollege is a journey, not a destination. A student may spend a good part of the year learning how to manage his responsibilities and independence. He may navigate changes successfully, he may make mistakes and less than

perfect choices. It is the year of experimentation and exploration and discover new areas he has never considered before. It is not about the race to the end, but instead what you learn from each step in the journey. Here we believe that Information Technology has the potential to shift the boundaries from logic to magic throughout the journey.

COGNIZANCE - A YEAR’S JOURNEY

To encourage research and innovation

This year has seen many tremendous achievements by our students. They have organized, coordinated and designed

various competitions, seminars and guest lectures. I am proud of the fact that we get to publish all this in this issue

of the newsletter. I thank all those responsible for giving the student a platform to showcase their achievements.

- Prof. Ajeet Pathak

STAFF IN-CHARGE VIEWS

I am thankful to the Department of Informa�on Technology for giving me the opportunity to issue this newsle�er. It has been a very fulfilling experience for me. I hope the newsle�er serves its purpose well and the readers are able to benefit by it. - Janki Joshi(B.E.)

STUDENT IN-CHARGE VIEWS

Engineers are not born, they are made. We are indeed living in information technology (IT) age. Our commitment to the students is that they will definitely honor two words “INFORMATION” with “TECHNOLOGY”. Department’s primary objective is to ensure good academic environment for all the students. With bright academic, students can excel with excellence in their professional career. Department is carrying out number of activities which will shape the professional career of the student as a technocrat/techno manager. We welcome you to our department by taking the first step of success. - Prof. S. D. Deshpande

MESSAGE FROM H.O.D

U nconventional GPS - A GPS tracking unit is a device, normally carried by a moving vehicle or person, that will use the Global Positioning System to determine and track its precise location, and hence that of its carrier, at

intervals. Now-a-days Data tracking software is available for smartphones with GPS capability. Scientists have declared GPS tracking as a breakthrough technology. Enterprises in all walks of life are trying to use this break-through technology to their greatest advantage in the most creative ways. Listed below are a few uses of GPS that could be labelled as somewhat unconventional, yet these are brilliant examples of application of such a technology:

I.T. BY I.T. OF I.T.

Begin Your Future With I.T.

Department of Information Technology

To Develop proficient IT engineers for the industry and society

VISION

To develop students for being competent in dynamic IT environment

MISSION

Lower car insurance : A comprehensive recording of a driver's habits allows insurance companies to provide "pay-as-you-drive" car insurance.

Be prepared always, to welcome your guests : People have been using GPS tracking of their friends’ and relatives’ car to ensure that they are notified whenever the car is in the vicinity of their house.

Driver’s assessment (For driving license) : A car GPS tracking system that integrates with traffic information would give drivers the ability to select routes in real time that were more fuel efficient, less congested, faster or shorter.

Use fuel efficiently : Eventually, such a system would replace gasoline tax since these revenues will decline as more vehicles become less dependent on fossil fuels.

Deliver safe, healthy food : Vehicle tracking systems used in food delivery vans alert the owner if the temperature of the refrigerated compartment moves outside of the range of safe food storage temperatures. It allows them to avoid late deliveries.

To Achieve academic excellence

To inculcate moral and professional ethics.

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“W e should dream of a Digital India. Digital India is a dream for the poor, with broadband connectivity, we can ensure long-distance education. Digital India is a plan not for the benefit of the rich, but the poor.

e-governance is easy governance, efficient governance, and that is important”–Mr. Narendra Modi, P.M. of India. The Digital India initiative seeks to lay emphasis on e-governance and transform India into a digitally empowered society. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (deitY) anticipates that this program will have a huge impact on the Ministry of Communication and IT. It is to ensure that government services are available to citizens electronically. Modi’s government is focusing on providing broadband services in all villages of the country, tele-medicine and mobile healthcare services and making the governance more participative. Out of the nine pillars of Digital India programme, one of them is IT for job. This pillar focuses on providing training to the youth in the skills required for availing employment opportunities in the IT/ITES sector. IT training will be provided to people in smaller towns and villages for IT sector job over 5 years. BPO’s will be set up in every north-eastern state. Training will be given to service delivery agents as part of skill development to run businesses delivering IT services.

Apps for Digital India are Digital India Portal, MyGov Mobile App, Swachh Bharat Mission App and Aadhaar Mobile Update App. Digital Locker facility will help citizens to digitally store their important documents like PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates. It is aimed at eliminating the use of physical documents and enable sharing of verified electronic documents across government agencies. Digital Locker provides a dedicated personal storage space in the cloud to citizens, linked to citizen’s Aadhaar number. Global Indians educated in Indian universities like IITs and IIMs have used foreign soil to make inventions and innovations that have benefited the world. With the right impetus it is quite possible to create the next Google, Facebook and WhatsApp out of India. The budget makes a big start by starting a fund for promoting product led startups, a much desired innovation in the thinking of government. The success of India is intrinsically linked to its ability to keep pace with technology. The world has seen an unprecedented change in the technology landscape over the last decade and innovation has become more important than ever before. Technology can help build a Digital India – a knowledge-based society and economy – by empowering, connecting and binding everyone.

DIGITAL INDIA

S atya Nadella, Shiv Nadar and Sundar Pichai are the 3 Indians those who made India proud, establishing India as

leadership brand worldwide. All of them have already been the driving force in their company.

Satya Nadella : Known for his recent promotion as the CEO of Microsoft, Satya was born in Hyderabad. He has

graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology. Satya then pursued his MS in

Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, followed by an MBA from the University Of Chicago

Booth School Of Business. With 22 years of experience with the inner-workings of Microsoft, serving under both Bill

Gates and Ballmer, the only two CEOs the company has had in its 38-year history. “Relevance comes with innovation

and marketplace success”, he added. “The marketplace will speak so clearly that it will not be ambiguous.” He will

have the Nokia handset unit to grow, make Windows Phone a serious contender, continue growing the Xbox unit’s

place in the living room, make windows attractive and grow the cloud services and enterprise business.

Shiv Nadar : Shiv Nadar the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation, born in Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu. Shiv Nadar did his diploma from The American College, Madurai and degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. The first company Shiv Nadar along his partners began was Microcomp, a company which mainly sold teledigital calculators in the Indian market. HCL was founded in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000. After making a mark in IT and education, he is now hoping to impact the public healthcare system in India. While Nadar has been mulling a healthcare foray for a while now, people familiar with the development told ET NOW that he has worked out a blueprint for the same. Shiv Nadar has often made daring forays based on his conviction of the future. Albeit a more recent entrant in the software services space, HCL is already a Indian force to reckon with for global technology giants.

Sundar Pichai : Sundar Pichai born in Madras, Tamil Nadu was recently named as CEO of Google. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering. He did his MS from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering and later on pursed MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different apps such Gmail and Google Maps. Pichai has become a familiar face at Google’s events, and is often the one on stage introducing new stuff. He's considered an empathetic and caring person, and has helped resolve internal managerial and political issues. He's also an effective and reliable manager, delivering products on time.

SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PORTAL

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I.T.S.A.

InDigitPixel Club : From this year I.T. Department has formed Art Club with a name –“InDigitPixel Club” for all students .The club provides platform for students to express their hobbies in Art and photography. The club is inaugurated by honorable Principal Mrs.K.R.Joshi madam, Vice-principal Mrs.Itkar Madam, Mrs.S.D.Deshpande HOD IT and in presence of all staff member and students.

Organized a seminar on YOGA session: Mind Relaxing for today’s Life on the

International Yoga Day for all students. Helped in improving flexibility, the importance

of yoga in day to day life.

Organized a seminar on “Motivation and its impacts”. During session speaker showed

various videos on today’s life which inspired people.

Arranged a UML workshop for B.E students’. Helped in understanding the usage of

various UML diagrams for building a model.

Organized a seminar on “Big Data (Hadoop) and SMAC” on the day of GURUPORNIMA.

Provided information about cloud computing, basic information about Hadoop.

Organized a guest session on “Art of Parenting”. During session speaker showed various

activities on how to handle the children and students too.

Organized “Ganpati Idol Making Workshop” under InDigitPixel club. In this workshop

we were taught to create an idol of Lord Ganesha by Aniket Warade a student of TE.

Organized a seminar on Machine Learning for B.E. Learned about real time applications

of Machine Learning, theory of generalization.

Organized “Art & Photography Exhibition” under InDigitPixel club. Created 3D

photography image & photography techniques to show different visual effects.

Organized a Guest Lecture on Seminar on ‘How to prepare for GATE and PSUs’. Learned

benefits of GATE exam.

Participated in webinar series – Internet of Things, Bridging the Industry – Institute gap,

Google classroom, imparting knowledge using SmartTool Presentation, Agile

Development.

Along with the above activities, our department organized WEB-MASTER (Web page design competition) to provide open platform for students to present their skills in web designing. Provided guidelines to students to develop web applications, Seminar on Information and Cyber security. Students were given a live demonstration of various security attacks, Seminar on Network security. Purpose was to expose students to a broad range of current research topics in the area of information and system security.

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PEAK PERFORMERS

8 students got selected at TCS for the 2015-2016 batch. Pandurang Sonar, Sanket Shahane, Janki Joshi, Pooja Jain,

Pranita Shinde, Divya Mehta, M.Mohita Rao and Amita Deshpande have taken a step in TCS. Mayank Daga,

Manish Bhagat and Pratiksha Bhoite succeeded to enter in L&T Infotech. Kunal Chitale, Devashish Rayate & Sonali

Rothod got placed in Bitwise. Aditya Chaphekar got selected for NTT. More companies waiting to recruit the

remaining students this year.

PLACEMENT CORNER

T here is a continuous performance evaluation of the students by conducting unit tests for all subjects, regular

tests, subject tutorials as well as mock practical assignments along with monitoring the attendance.

SALIENT FEATURES

If my fingers can type it and computer can understand it then I can program it.

In IT to win IT

Don’t just meet your goals, destroy them.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision

pulls you.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Computing is not about computers anymore. It’s about living.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

A vision is all that’s required to build up the future.

Programming is like you are telling world’s stupidest thing to do the smartest job.

On the internet, if you are not paying then you are product.

THOUGHTS TO BE LIVED ON

Faculty coordinator : Prof. Ajeet Pathak

Student coordinators : Divya Mehta (Editor)

Girish Tiwale (Designer)

Satyajeet Deshmukh

EDITORIAL TEAM All data and information provided in the newsletter is correct

and is for information purpose only. We have tried to provide

concise and complete information about the Department. The

information in the newsletter is true to the best of our

knowledge. We are not responsible for any discrepancy in the

said information.

- Editorial Team

DISCLAIMER

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