The Second Ever Green Branch

 Civil engineers are members of one of the oldest engineering disciplines and can specialize in many things , including water management, construction, transportation and geo-technical, structural, or environmental engineering. Civil engineering projects can focus on the design and supervision of the construction of roads, buildings, dams, bridges, airports, tunnels, or water treatment and sewage systems. This specialized profession can easily be turned into a lucrative career with predictable hours, making it easy for civil engineers to provide time for their families. Here are the top five reasons for one to become a civil engineer to help him/her decide this as right career for him/her.

Start Work with Just a Bachelor's Degree
      A civil engineer can start career with just a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and no additional education. New graduates will work with more experienced engineers to receive the job training in their specialized field allowing one to better relate the theory learned in the class room to more real and tangible world situations..

Great Pay
      Most civil engineers work 9 to 5 hours at a firm or government agency for 40 hours a week, though some jobs require more time from their employers depending on the phase of the project. The basic pay, even for a fresher who pursued civil engineering is more compared to other branches. Benefits will vary from one employer to other, but most will receive basic benefits such as paid vacation, sick leave, and health 
insurance. Many government agencies also offer retirement packages to their employees.

Growing job Market

      The need for additional civil engineers on public works and private projects will create many new job opportunities in these rocky economic times. In a recent poll, the demand for civil engineers is projected to grow from 278,000 employees in 2009 to 3, 45,000 employees in 2019. That is a 24 percent increase in the demand for civil engineers in ten years!

Exciting Work
      Civil Engineers must take on many responsibilities that can make them work, exciting, engaging, and never tedious. Many civil engineers do such tasks as calculating construction costs, designing infrastructure, forecasting opportunities how long a project will take from start to finish, monitoring potential natural disasters and their effect on the project, and checking the city and state regulations.
Enlightens on leadership qualities
      Civil Engineers are the only professionals who work hand in hand with both the extreme classes namely uneducated labor class .
The highly educated professionals which will enlighten them on the leadership qualities vested in an individual.                                                         

Job Profiles and Responsibilities       Civil Engineers are employable in the following areas * Construction * Highway * Water supply

• * Infrastructure
• * Space Research
• * Aeronautical
• * Railways
• * Mining and exploration
• * Geology
• * Ground water
• * Geotechnical researches
• * Agricultural Sector
• * Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Refineries
• * Educational institutions

  The sample job profiles and responsibilities are as follows:

Design/ Site/ Quality Control/ Maintenance Engineer

Should be able to prepare for

• * Undertaking technical and feasibility studies and site investigations
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• * Developing detailed designs
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• * Assessing the potential risks of specific projects, as well as undertaking risk     management in specialist roles 
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• * Supervising tendering procedures and putting together proposals
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• * Managing, supervising and visiting contractors on site and advising on civil  engineering issues
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• * Overseeing the work of junior staff or mentoring civil engineers throughout the charter ship process
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• * Communicating and liaising effectively with colleagues and architects,
     sub-contractors, contracting civil engineers, consultants, co-workers and clients
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• * Thinking both creatively and logically to resolve design and development problems
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• * Managing budgets and other project resources
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• * Managing changes because the clients may change their mind about the design    and ensuring them of the changes in the project
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• * Meading teams of other engineers from other organizations or firms
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• * Compiling, checking and approving reports
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• * Reviewing and approving project drawings
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• * Using computer-aided design (CAD) packages for designing projects
• * Undertaking complex and repetitive calculations
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• * Scheduling material and equipment purchases and delivery
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• * Attending public meetings to discuss projects, especially in a senior role
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• * Adopting all relevant requirements around issues such as building permits, environmental regulations,
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•  sanitary design, good manufacturing practices and     safety on all work assignments
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• * Ensuring that a project runs smoothly and that the structure is completed on time and within the budget
• * Correcting any project deficiencies that affect production, quality and safety requirements before final evaluation and project reviews
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• * Undertaking technical and feasibility studies including site investigations
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• * Using a range of computer packages for developing detailed designs
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• * Undertaking complex and repetitive calculations
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• * Liaising with clients and a variety of professionals including architects,  sub-contractors
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• * Compiling job specifications and supervising tendering procedures
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• * Scheduling material and equipment purchases and delivery
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• * Create and edit simplified process flow diagrams or Equipment Control Develop;     equipment maintenance procedures and description manuals 
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• * Develop operating procedures and troubleshooting exercises

Job Opportunities (List of Companies)

• * GMR
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• * Hindustan Construction Company
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• * PUnj Loyd 
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• * Nagarjuna Construction Company
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• * Larsen & Turbo
• * Shapoorji Pallonji & Co
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• * DLF
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• * Gammon INDIA 
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• * Sobha Developers Ltd

Government Companies

• * Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
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• * Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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• * Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
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• * NMDC
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• * Survey Of  India
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• * NGRI
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• * IBPS
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• * Defense Research & Development Organization
• * NTPC
• * Indian Space Research Organization

Important Courses

• * AutoCAD 2D & 3D modeling
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• * STRAND 7 
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• * ASCAD 
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• * Auto TURN 
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• * GEOPAK 
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• * STAAD PRO 
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• * PRIMAVERA

Higher Studies             Civil Engineering is one of the primitive engineering fields which involves projecting, scheming and implementing structural bodies. Amongst all branches of engineering, the range and application of civil engineering is the broadest and the most visible. From being a less fancied branch of study some years ago, civil engineering is back in the spotlight

          Civil Engineering is the key to many of the issues affecting our lives today. They solve problems, design, build and maintain our living and working spaces. You might design a new stadium, work on a local by-pass or railway line, assess a damaged structure, provide immediate and safe drinking water to a refugee camp, or manage a multi-million pound construction project.
      In fact, the entire infrastructural framework of a modern nation is the creation of civil engineers. The credit of building mighty power plants, dams, airports, sea ports, highways, inland waterways and industrial plants goes to civil engineers. These professionals are also engaged in building an unending array of urban structures such as commercial complexes, skyscrapers, tunnels, bridges, roads, urban rapid transport systems, sports stadium, aerodromes, water works, harbours.
      A good Civil engineer must have a strong engineering knowledge combined with excellent supervisory and administrative skills. The planning part of their work involves site investigation, feasibility studies, creating solutions to complications that may occur and the actual designing of structures.
      Opportunities are aplenty for higher studies also, which also has many takers. One could go for M.Tech. or MS abroad after B.Tech. Students who have passed both B.Tech. and M.Tech. are appointed as consultants in construction industry. A structural consultant should have higher qualifications. Entrepreneurship is another area where civil engineers could try their hand.

Working domain
       Most of the times, civil engineers work in teams or in coordination with many other engineers. They can find work as a supervisor of a construction site or a managerial position or in design, research as well as teaching in government services or private concerns. They can also work as independent consultants.

Eligibility
      The minimum eligibility for doing undergraduate program i.e. BE/B.Tech in Civil Engineering is + 2 Science with Physics, Chemistry and Math’s. The selection is generally made on the basis of entrance tests (e.g. IITJEE, AIEEE, BITSAT etc.) conducted at both national and state level. One can also continue his/her study further by joining ME/M.Tech programs offered by various engineering colleges/ universities including the IITs and NITs.

Job Opportunity
     Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it was defined to distinguish it from military engineering. It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering. Civil engineering takes place on all levels: in the public sector from municipal through to federal levels, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies.

The First Ever Green Branch Mechanical

The research areas and their key subjects of focus are:

Mechanics
    Modelling, experimentation, and computation (MMEC) – Advances the formulation of physical and mathematical theories for representing the thermo-mechanical response of natural and engineering materials (solids and fluids) at the Nano, micro, and macro-scales using modelling, experimentation, and computational methodologies. Develop novel computational tools for the robust design and optimization of the variety of thermo-mechanically coupled processes used to manufacture components and devices from these materials.

Design, manufacturing, and product development

    Advances the designs and methods used to manufacture products, to precision consumer products.

Controls, instrumentation, and robotics

    Develop automated systems and the robotic technologies which might be used in medicine and in space and sea exploration.

Energy science and engineering

    Fundamental and applied research in thermodynamics, reactive flows and combustion, heat and mass transport, micro and nanotechnologies, photovoltaic, off-shore wind energy, engines and transportation, cryogenics, and efficient buildings. Focus on high efficiency low emission systems, CO₂ capture and renewable energy.

Mechanical engineering varies from Industrial engineering and Production Engineering
 
    Mechanical engineering aims to technical or machine-oriented aspects such as design, operation and maintenance. Industrial Engineering aims at human resources in companies in areas such as planning, production, organization, methods.
 
    Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complexprocesses or systems It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain business-oriented disciplines such as operations management, but the engineering side tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative methods.
  
 Depending on the sub specialties involved, industrial engineering may also be known as, or overlap with, operations management, management science, operations research, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, ergonomics or human factors engineering, safety engineering, or others, depending on the viewpoint or motives of the user. For example, in health care, the engineers known as health management engineers or health systems engineers are, in essence, industrial engineers by another name.
  
  Production engineering is a combination of manufacturing technology with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and is aware of the management challenges related to production. The goal is to accomplish the production process in the smoothest, most-judicious and most-economic way.
   
 Production engineering encompasses the application of castings, machining processing, joining processes, metal cutting & tool design, metrology, machine tools, machining systems, automation, jigs and fixtures, and die and mould design and material science and design of automobile parts and machine designing and manufacturing. Production engineering also overlaps substantially with manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering.
    In industry, once the design is realized, production engineering concepts regarding work study, ergonomics, operation research, manufacturing management, materials management, production planning, etc., play important roles in efficient production processes. These deal with integrated design and efficient planning of the entire manufacturing system, which is becoming increasingly complex with the emergence of sophisticated production methods and control systems.
    Every branch of engineering has its own specific importance in industry and to the development of it.

Mechanical Engineering Good for girls?
     Mechanical engineering is good for girls as good as for boys.It is a common misunderstanding that mechanical engineering requires hard physical work and women are not up-to the mark. Well as it is said it is a misunderstanding.
     The thing is that some times during your engineering course you may be required to put some physical efforts in practicals. After completion of course you may proceed in your career where no physical efforts are required, for example in the education sector as lecturer or as design engineer, or as an analyst etc.
Don't Hesitate. If you love it, do it. 

Higher Education

     The department of Mechanical engineering always empowers students to pursue higher education both in our country and abroad.The major tests for higher education in INDIA are Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). GATE is an all India examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in Engineering and Technology.  Being conducted by IISC and the IIT’s, GATE is proven to be the toughest exam in technical education in INDIA.
     The GATE score of a candidate reflects the relative performance level of a candidate. The score is used for admissions to various post-graduate programmes (eg. M.E., M.Tech, direct Ph.D.) in Indian higher education institutes with financial assistance provided by MHRD and other Government agencies.  The score may also be used by Public sector units for employment screening purposes.
     Having good professors in the department who have studied abroad,will also aid in building the confidence and the mind-set of the student.to prepare them for higher education to countries like USA, UK, Australia and Germany. Their support to the students to prepare for  exams like GRE, TOEFL, IELTS etc. will aid the students to reach greater goals.

Placements & Career

     
Placements play a major role in for any student. Emphasis laid right from the initial stage to train them for the changes in the latest technologies and its applications in use. All the major companies in the country look forward to hiring the apt engineer for the organization. Every manufacturing company be Maruti UDYOG LTD., Mahindra& Mahindra, TATA, SUZUKI, Volks Wagon, Indian Railways, ISRO, BHEL, DRDO, BRAHMOS Industries Ltd., Dr.Reddys, Abott Ltd., ADANI Steel, ABG Shipyard,Semb-Marine Shipyard, L&T Shipyard etc..Come to hire engineers for their ever growing needs.
     
 Mechanical engineers provide efficient solutions to the development of processes and products, ranging from small component designs to extremely large plant, machinery or vehicles. They can work on all stages of a product, from research and development to design and manufacture, through to installation and final commissioning.
     
Most industries rely on a form of mechanical systems and mechanical engineering is thought to be one of the most diverse of all engineering disciplines. There are employment opportunities available in a wide range of sectors, such as the manufacturing, power, construction and medical industries.Mechanical engineers can also be involved in the management of people and resources, as well as the development and use of new materials and technologies.

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  Importance of Electrical and Electronics Engineering EEE

  
  

  
  

         Our life would be unthinkable without the use of electrical energy. The growing utilization of the latter is a decisive prerequisite for a rapid development of industry and agriculture.  The progress of the country nowadays is measured in terms of electrical energy generating capacity of that country.
         

  Based on understanding the importance of electrical energy for sustainable evolving society, the students of EEE will learn the fundamental knowledge and technologies of generation, transmission, control, storages, measurements, and applications of electrical energy. It also helps you acquire fundamental knowledge and techniques on the semiconductor devices, CMOS, analog circuits, optoelectronics, sensors, and their interdisciplinary applications. The students trained in this course will take an important role as engineers and researchers in the various industrial fields including electrical and electronics, environment and energy, communications, materials and nanotechnology, machine and mechatronics, medical care, primary and tertiary industries.

   
  EEE FUTURE SCOPE
          The future prospects of the EEE graduates are very wide and bright. The demand for environmentally friendly power generation, more sophisticated electrical and electronic devices, and cheaper and smarter products mean there is a lot of work for Electrical Engineers. There are a wide range of challenging paths available to an Electrical engineer. The areas they can fit in are Design and Development, Manufacturing, Automation, Production and Maintenance, Operation and Control of any equipments or products which work on electricity.
          Electrical and Electronics Engineering graduates can work in various fields as Power engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Communications engineering, Computer engineering and Media. The graduates from this discipline can pursue higher education in IITs, NITs, Deemed Universities and almost all State Universities and Private Engineering Colleges offering Specialized Courses, and also can write TOEFL and GRE for pursuing studies in abroad.
  
  

  Some of the PG courses offered by different IIT’s/NIT’s and Universities for Electrical and Electronics Graduates in India: *

• * Power Systems with Emphasis on H.V. Engg. / Electrical 
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• Power Systems (HV) /H.V.Engg.
• * Advanced Power Systems
• * Instrumentation and Control Systems
• * Energy Systems
• * Power System Control and Automation
• * Industrial Drives & Controls
• * Power Systems & Power Electronics
• * Power Systems Engg.
• * Power Electronics
• * Power Systems & Automation
• * Control Systems
• * Systems & Signal
• * Digital Systems Engg
• * Embedded Systems
• * VLSI Design
• * Computer Science Engineering

   There are a number of good opportunities for getting jobs in India as well as abroad like in  design and construction of power lines, in the control and management of power stations or in the design and installation of electrical systems and machinery, such as transformers, electric motors, power electronics and various private sector organizations. Career opportunities include

 

* Industrial research and development labs

 

* Energy supply corporations

 

* Software and Services companies

 

* Civil Services

 

* Technical Monitoring Agencies

 

* Research Institutes and Educational institutions

   As the electrical power generating sector is rapidly getting enhanced, the job prospects in power grid corporation of India, National thermal and hydro electric corporations, NEC, power stations run by  private power corporations is very bright in the years to come.
     The EEE students who have inclination towards Research and Development have fair opportunities in the R&D departments of the ministry of science and technology like ISRO, DRDL, DRDO.

  Softwares and Certifications
      Students of electrical engineering can learn advanced software’s, certification in these software’s increases job opportunities in designing. Apart from job opportunities these software’s help students in analyzing different circuits and motivate them to go for Research.
List of popular software’s

• * MATLAB
• * PSpice
• * Ecad
• * Labview
• * Keil
• * PScad
• * ETAP

Electronics Engineering ECE

Opportunity in this highly sophisticated and advanced branch of engineering is just immense.Electronics is now a part of our everyday life, from your pocket FM radio to televisions, computers, mobile phones and even the high-end satellites that process and sends images.
   
  Electronics and Communication Engineering is a field that deals with the design, manufacture, maintenance and operation of various electronic devices and communications equipment. As we are living in the age of advancements in electronics, plenty of career opportunities are available in this field for aspiring engineers.
 
        In the field of electronic engineering, engineers design and test circuits that use the electromagnetic properties of electrical components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes and transistors to achieve a particular functionality. The tuner circuit, which allows the user of a radio to filter out all but a single station, is just one example of such a circuit.
 
        In designing an integrated circuit, electronics engineers first construct circuit schematics that specify the electrical components and describe the interconnections between them. When completed, VLSI engineers convert the schematics into actual layouts, which map the layers of various conductor and semiconductor materials needed to construct the circuit. The conversion from schematics to layouts can be done by software (see electronic design automation) but very often requires human fine-tuning to decrease space and power consumption. Once the layout is complete, it can be sent to a fabrication plant for manufacturing.
 
        Integrated circuits and other electrical components can then be assembled on printed circuit boards to form more complicated circuits. Today, printed circuit boards are found in most electronic devices including televisions, computers and audio players.
 
         Electronic engineering has many subfields. This section describes some of the most popular subfields in electronic engineering although there are engineers who focus exclusively on one subfield, there are also many who focus on a combination of subfields.
 
Signal processing deals with the analysis and manipulation of signals. Signals can be either analog, in which case the signal varies continuously according to the information, or digital, in which case the signal varies according to a series of discrete values representing the information.

         For analog signals, signal processing may involve the amplification and filtering of audio signals for audio equipment or the modulation and demodulation of signals for telecommunications. For digital signals, signal processing may involve the compression, error checking and error detection of digital signals.
 
Telecommunications engineering deals with the transmission of information across a channel such as a co-axial cable, optical fiber or free space.
 
        Transmissions across free space require information to be encoded in a carrier wave in order to shift the information to a carrier frequency suitable for transmission, this is known as modulation. Popular analog modulation techniques include amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. The choice of modulation affects the cost and performance of a system and these two factors must be balanced carefully by the engineer.
     Once the transmission characteristics of a system are determined, telecommunication engineers design the transmitters and receivers needed for such systems. These two are sometimes combined to form a two-way communication device known as a transceiver. A key consideration in the design of transmitters is their power consumption as this is closely related to their signal strength. If the signal strength of a transmitter is insufficient the signal's information will be corrupted by noise.
 
Control engineering has a wide range of applications from the flight and propulsion systems of commercial airplanes to the cruise control present in many modern cars. It also plays an important role in industrial automation.
 
        Control engineers often utilize feedback when designing control systems. For example, in a car with cruise control the vehicle's speed is continuously monitored and fed back to the system which adjusts the engine's power output accordingly. Where there is regular feedback, control theory can be used to determine how the system responds to such feedback.
 
Instrumentation engineering deals with the design of devices to measure physical quantities such as pressure, flow and temperature. These devices are known as instrumentation.
 
        The design of such instrumentation requires a good understanding of physics that often extends beyond electromagnetic theory. For example, radar guns use the Doppler effect to measure the speed of oncoming vehicles. Similarly, thermocouples use the Peltier-Seebeck effect to measure the temperature difference between two points.
 
          Often instrumentation is not used by itself, but instead as the sensors of larger electrical systems. For example, a thermocouple might be used to help ensure a furnace's temperature remains constant. For this reason, instrumentation engineering is often viewed as the counterpart of control engineering.
 
Computer engineering deals with the design of computers and computer systems. This may involve the design of new computer hardware, the design of PDAs or the use of computers to control an industrial plant. Development of embedded systems—systems made for specific tasks (e.g., mobile phones)—are also included in this field. This field includes the micro controller and its applications. Computer engineers may also work on a system's software. However, the design of complex software systems is often the domain of software engineering, which is usually considered a separate discipline.
 
VLSI Design Engineering VLSI stands for very large scale integration. It deals with fabrication of ICs and various electronics components.

Career Prospects
         Electronics and communication engineering course give enormous job opportunities in electronics and software companies. All electronic devices need software interface to run and come with one other or other device controlling programs architected and developed by electronics and communication engineering. It also gives great opportunities for  research and development, as everyday consumer need new devices to support them in daily life.
 
Core companies offering jobs to Electronics and Communication Engineers:
         Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Intel, Samsung Electronics, Sony, Toshiba, Philips Semiconductors, Texas Instruments, LG Electronics, Nokia, AMD, CISCO, Nvdia, HP and IBM are just few to mention.
 
Career in Computer & Mobile Communication
         Includes companies which provide data and voice communication facilities between computer Networks , individuals & organizations. Companies developing networking products & Cellular Mobile equipment will recruit ECE engineers. Major companies include BSNL, Reliance Infocom, Bharathi Communications, Tata Teleservices & Tata Communications.
 
Career in Automotive domain
 
         Includes companies which develop electronic control units (ECU's) for vehicles, If you end up in this domain, you will possibly be designated as a Embedded software engineer and will be developing RTOS applications for microcontrollers which control the fuel injection, the speedometer display, tyre pressure monitoring units etc. Companies which can be included in this domain are Robert Bosch, Delphi.
 
Career in Automotive domain

          You must be good in embedded systems programming and if you want to work in these companies. You need to work on your operating systems concepts as they will be using some kind of RTOS for controlling the ECU's on the vehicles. You may be designated as an Embedded software engineer and assigned work to develop(if lucky) or fix applications or test applications written by others. You will be programming the microcontrollers to control the functions of these ECU's and once you start working on an ECU, that will become your specialty. You may also get to work on the multimedia functions of the vehicle, like the audio deck or radio of the car.
  Career in Consumer electronics domain
        Includes companies which develop a complete electronic product. These companies drive the design starting from the concept of the product, hardware, software, mechanical panel, marketing, after sales service. Lucky will be the guys who will get a job in these companies as you can witness the whole show starting from the

• * Conceptualization of the product
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• * Hardware/PCB design, Software design
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• * Testing the product(Hardware and software)

         
These are the companies which innovate new products and Samsung, Apple, Sony all come under these categories.

Career in a Consumer electronics company
        Well, if you end up being in a product company you will be recruited as an Hardware engineer or a Software engineer. If you are appointed as an Hardware engineer you may be designing the hardware boards for the product including the PCB layout design. If you are designated as Software engineer then you may be developing software for the product's hardware (microcontroller). Other than developing you may also be put to test the hardware / software to make the product robust and meet the quality guidelines.

Embedded hardware/software design services domain
 
         Some consumer product companies may not have all the units efficient enough for developing all the hardware and software for their product. In such case they will outsource the PCB board design work or Software development work to another company called design services companies. These design services companies design the hardware or write the software according to the requirement of their client and charge money. This is how they survive, India's IT industry is comprised mostly by Services companies. Some of the embedded services companies are Wipro, Mindtree, Sasken.

Career in Embedded Services domain?
 
         Nature of work will be same as the product companies, if you are hired as an hardware engineer you will be designing circuits and PCB's and as an software engineer you may be programming the clients hardware to make it work.
VLSI / Chip design domain
 
         As the name suggests these companies are also called Semiconductor companies which design the integrated circuits used by almost every domain in the industry. These companies design chips and manufacture them in large quantities and sell them. Companies which do this work include the Texas instruments, Analog devices, Microchip, Analog devices. This domain also includes VLSI design services companies which only do the design work.
 
Career in VLSI domain
           If you chose your career in a chip design company you may be working as an layout engineer, where you will be designing the digital and analog circuits inside the chip, say oscillator units for a microcontroller, or timer modules for a microcontroller. You may also be made to work on testing the designs for speed, noise etc and be called a test engineer. Alternatively you can be a RF engineer and be designing Wireless modules, antennas, RF amplifiers.
 
Software domain
         These companies are totally out of the domain for electronics and communication engineers. This domain is for Computer science engineers, but still E&C engineers get into these companies and end up developing software applications, developing websites, testing applications written by others. This domain contains both Software product companies and services companies too. TCS, Infosys come under this domain.

Career in Software domain
           If you unluckily end up here, you will be developing software applications using some programming language like JAVA, C, C++ etc. You can be employed for website development and maintenance work . For web development you may be working with web programming languages like PHP, VB, Javascript, HTML. You can also be put for mobile application development as an Android developer or Symbian or iOS developer.
 
Government sector
         Final destination for all job seekers. Safest domain of all and you may end up being an officer or a head of some organization and take care of the design work outsourced by the government by tenders. Only place where the design work happens is in organizations like ISRO, DRDO, BARC. Most of the government organizations outsource the design work to outside services companies


Entrepreneurship
         You can become an entrepreneur and start your own company as soon as you finish your college. But most of the people take this route after working in the industry for a few years and when they have made some money to invest. 
 
Before you become an entrepreneur
 
            Work in a product company for few years and gain experience about how a product goes through its life cycle until it reaches customers hands. You may get to know what are the hurdles faced in the process.
Make some money as any entrepreneurship venture will need money and you will not be earning money until you get some work or your product starts selling. So be safe and have some money in hand.
 
           An electronic engineer can find job in Consumer electronics manufacturing organizations, Telecommunication industry, IT industries, Health care equipment manufacturing industry, Mobile communication, Internet technologies, Power Electronics, and Other industries like steel, petroleum and chemical industry, directing control and testing production process.

Working Conditions
           Electronics and communication engineering graduates can work for electrical utilities, communications companies, manufacturers, the military, government, or in the processing and transportation industries. They are also extensively involved in the manufacturing of electronic gadgets and devices. The work of an electronic engineer is varied and depends upon the industry they are working in.
 
           An electronics engineer can get a job in Central Government, State Governments and their sponsored corporations in public enterprises and the private organizations like All India Radio, Indian Telephone Industries, MTNL, National Physical Laboratories, Civil Aviation Department, Post and Telegraph Department, Co-ordination Department, National Physical Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Limited, Development Centers in various States etc., dealing in manufacture, sales and services of electronics consumer goods and appliances.
 
            Electronics engineers are also absorbed into the entertainment transmission industry, research establishments, and defense. They can also take up teaching and research in one of the many engineering colleges in India or abroad.
 
Course Content

• * Mathematics
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• * Electronic Circuit Analysis
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• * Digital design
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• * Control system
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• * Network Analysis & Synthesis
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• * Electronics Devices & Circuits
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• * Analog ICs
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• * Microprocessor & Microcontrollers
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• * Analog & Digital Communications
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• * Signals and systems
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• * Electronic Measurement & Instrumentation
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• * Antenna & Wave Propagation
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• * Digital Signal Processing & DSPA Architecture
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• * Applied Electronics
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• * Digital Electronics
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• * Electromagnetic & Transmission Lines
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• * Linear Control Systems
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• * Virtual Instrumentation & Data Acquisition
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• * Total Quality Management
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• * Programmable Logic Controllers & Applications
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• * VLSI Design
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• * Computer Control of Industrial Process
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• * Cellular & Mobile Communications etc.,

  
 
Hands on practical in

• * Analyzing of Electronic Circuits with simulation Softwares.
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• * Designing of Electronic & Communication systems.
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• * Processing of Signals & Images.
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• * Techniques for the transmissions Analog & Digital Signals.
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• * Techniques for Designing & Fabrication of Chips.

Salary & Pay packages after engineering in E C E          
Depending upon the performance and the type of the organization an ECE graduate can earn upto 2.4 L to 4.8 L per annul. Even higher salaries can be earned if got selected in some reputed private and government organizations.

Computer Science & IT An Ever Green Field


Research in Computer Science aims at developing innovative solutions to the most daunting challenges. Computer Science and Engineering has its roots deeply into the research areas like: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Networks, Information Security, Algorithm Analysis, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, bio informatics, neuro-science to name a few.

Skills to be developed by student

       Computer Engineers will be expected to develop skills in designing high performance system architectures, effective algorithms that reuses the resources in an optimized way, administering huge networks, dedicated servers, financial databases and warehouses, designing fault tolerant applications and systems following best practices, automated agents that do work for the stakeholder, blending mining techniques with data security aspects for fine-level predictions and classifications, developing huge knowledge graphs which helps in finding results to various unanswered questions, animations and graphics that helps in viewing the virtual reality etc.At the completion of this course of engineering, students with these skills enter into the industry and can take a huge leap forward in their respective careers.

Job Prospects or Career Options

       Computer Science graduates, for getting job opportunities, should have expertise in languages such as C, C++, Java, Operating Systems like Windows and LINUX, various Database Management Systems like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase etc, Web Designing and technologies like HTML, JSP, ASP.NET, PHP and project management skills etc.
      To boost up the job recruitment process by any individual of these field students additionally need to go for writing various Technical Certification Courses examinations like Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCJP), Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Oracle Database Administrator Certified Master (OCM).
    Computer Science and Engineering graduates are offered attractive salaries by various multi-national companies like TCS, Infosys, WIPRO, Tech Mahindra , Google, Yahoo, Amazon, IBM, Facebook, Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft.
      CS Engineers has good scope in Data Analysis jobs offered by Central Government Organizations like CBI, Forensics Department etc. Full time Statistician Government jobs are also asking for CS graduates. Also, DRDL, ISRO, ECIL and BEL are offering jobs. Computer Science and Engineering graduates having a good chance in Web Technology and data handling related jobs offered by various banking industries like UNION Bank, Vijaya Bank, SBH  etc.
       When talked about Inter-Departmental job opportunities, Robotics (Mechanical Engineering), Radar Systems (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Embedded Systems (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), Microprocessors (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering) are the areas of wider scope.   Salary ranges for fresh Computer Engineer would be : 3 – 8  Lakhs INR per year and may be more based upon the skill set and quality.

 Difference between IT & CSE     CSE lays emphasis on foundation on computing. It deals with various aspects of computation like analysis of algorithms, formal grammer, programming languages, program design, software and computer hardware.
     IT focuses on satisfying the computing technology needs of organisations. IT deals with the application of computing technology to real life processes for solving problems. IT professionals perform a variety of tasks that range from applications development to designing complex computer networks and information databases. They are suited for data management, networking, web development, database and software design as well as the management and administration of entire systems.
     Opportunities are open to students of both the fields. If you have to choose a field between IT and Computer Science, you can go for the field which captures your interests. Also if we compare the syllabus between IT and CSE in different engineering institutes in our country, the difference between the two branches is not significant. Most of the top Indian institutions like IITs, IIITs, most of NITs offer either CSE or IT but not both. In the institutions that offer both CSE and IT, the differences in the course structure are minimal.

Scope for Higher Education

      
 As a trendy, ever-changing field of Engineering, the education in Computer Science cannot be forcibly halted at the graduation level. Computer Science graduates should and must go for opting various higher degree programmes like M.S. offered by foreign (FULL TIME) as well as Indian Universities through GRE and TOEFL scores, M.Tech. through Entrance Examination popularly called GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers), and altogether a different filed, MBA through CAT and GMAT scores.
Tasks and Responsibilities for Computer Science Engineers        
       They carry out the task of developing algorithms, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining various applications from the industry to the clients. With the available IDEs, Frameworks, Toolkits these engineers develop systems which runs on par with on the fly requests (complexity of any kind) which also talks about merging with other computer science areas. Within one word, “They make Flexible 1s and 0s according to requirements”. This leads to an obvious day-to-day research which no other field offers.
 
The following are the major tasks

• * Continuous Engagement in Research
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• * Design 
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• * Development
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• * Maintaining and Modifying
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• * Managing Operations
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• * Servicing
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• * Purchasing and Marketing

        
Working collaboratively with system design architects, coding teams, Testing and Debugging teams, continuous interaction with clients, these engineers can deliver the goods within cost and time constrained environments. Also, understanding and ensuring compliance with the best industry practices, quality standards and policies make the industries rely upon our engineers.
Also, our graduates can choose from design, development and testing fields as their career.
Some Areas under Computer Science and Engineering Databases:

• * Advanced Databases 
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• * Distributed Computing
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• * Distributed Databases
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• * Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
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• * Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing
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• * Code Optimization
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• * Digital Image Processing
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• * Distributed Operating System
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• * ERP & Supply Chain Management
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• * Human Computer Interaction
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• * Information Retrieval 
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• * Network Security
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• * Object Oriented Software Engineering
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• * Advanced Computer Architecture
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• * Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
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• * Advanced Unix Programming 
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• * Bio-Informatics
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• * Computational Geometry 
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• * Fault Tolerant Systems
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• * Machine Learning
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•  * Scalable Parallel Computing Architectures
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• * Secured Data Base Application Development 
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• * Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Industry Overview
      Computer Science… A much sought after course among the youth leading their way to a software job. Certainly, computer science and Information technology are the addresses of college to company where seats and corresponding jobs are plenty. With the recovery of the software sector from the recent slump, CSE and IT have regained their lost glory and are in demand among the aspirants.
     Though there is great demand for professionals in this field, companies are looking for only the top quality candidates. This could be due to the rapid technological changes that are occurring in the field. A huge requirement in terms of Technology Tutors is also in demand for the Multi National Companies.    
New Courses and Future Scope
     As already said, continuous updating of subjects as well as technologies is the heart of this branch. Various new courses are available like:

• * Social Networks and Semantic Web
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• * Cloud Computing
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• * Big Data Analysis
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• * Social Engineering
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• * Budding Research topics: Feature/Aspect level Opinion 
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•    Mining, Cognitive Radio     Networks
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• * New Topic and Technology: Selenium based Web Applications Testing

        These courses are challenging to work on in the current period and one can guarantee that these courses can be upgraded with a new course altogether in mere future. A challenging area that has its future from now is: Web Science. Also, job opportunities can never be the same as this is the only field that hugely depends on Outsourcing and Revenue Generation.