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The renovated IIITM : the Infrastructure: Labs

Past one year in IIITM has witnessed many changes in all sectors and within departments. Here in a series of analytical posts we are throwing some lights on these changes. The first in this series is
The Infrastructure:Labs
Here are some pics clicked just before visit of UGC team(20-21, July'09):

communication skill lab


communication skill lab


VLSI lab


VLSI lab

Networking lab


Networking lab


GD/PI Room


Placement Cell


GD/PI Room


Modeling and Simulation lab


BPI lab


CNTL lab


CNTL lab


CNTL lab


IIITM Incubation center


Basic Electronics lab


Basic Electronics lab


Microprocessor lab


Electrical lab


Physics lab


Physics lab

8th Aug'09: Prof. VARUN ARYA in Campus!

The SH2 Syndrome:

SH2 during lecture

around 143 chairs, 3 sofas, 1 podium, 1 LCD projector, fully wired echo proof sound system, one white board, 2 markers with a spare duster in 50'x60' syndicate hall with one Balkishan (:P) have witnessed many speeches on various issues from interfaces of every walk of life. Podium remains the same, people keep changing.

'The SH2 Syndrome' once again witnessed the presence of an eminent personality of education sector in India. Prof. Varun Arya graced the gathering of budding managers on pious evening of Saturday 8th Aug.

Prof. Varun Arya, a product of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad has over 16 years of experience in the senior positions with the leading companies. He holds a strong expertise in Sales & Marketing, Business Development and Profit Centre (SBUs) Management. For the last eight years he is associated with the shaping up of Aravali Institute of Management as a world-class management institute at Jodhpur in Rajasthan. In this capacity, he has also been the member of the Consultative Committee of FITT (Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer), the Institute-Industry interaction wing of IIT Delhi and the Academic Council of Global Business School, New Delhi. He has also been a part of the advisory committee in leading educational institutions and NGO’s. He also imparts his educational and industrial experience to the young minds through his lectures and workshops. Prof. Arya sincerely believes that people who have done well in their career and life should go back to their roots at a suitable time to do something constructive and substantial for their home state. This led to the birth of Aravali Institute of Management (AIM) in April 2000 which is the first management institute in Rajasthan having affiliation to the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the prestigious IIMs.

Prof. Arya giving lecture

The jammed jamboree of SH2 was hypnotized by inspiring lecture of prof. Arya.The way he was presenting the things with his reallife experiences, we rarely see.

Yesterday when i saw a guest lecture notice in mess notice board, i thought this is going to be another normal boring lecture and hence erased the schedule from my mind just after noticing the notice.

In the evening, around 4 a phone call disturbed me with intimidation to attend the gathering.(Don't ask who intimidated !)
Anyhow i was brought.
Believe me or not the effect of the session on me is so mesmerizing that now I'm feeling happy in spoiling my weekend in silly writing for IIITM blog.

Even if an idealist would remain abuzz on seeing a person for whom president of India make exception. A man who made J.M Lingdoh to do exception for him; A man whose educational initiative has got F.M as no. 4 in BoG members. :O ; A man who has gone everywhere from nowhere; A man who has a novel for every question; A man who bent the tide each time he tried; A man who adamantly says 'no' to a chief minister; A man who made Rahul Bajaj to wear formals for his occasion; A man who used to spent times with Kiran Bedi during her troubled times; A man when her daughter went to an US university for higher education and during introduction she said my name is *** Arya and I'm from Jodhpur, then she was interrupted with reply, "are you daughter of Varun Arya ?".

Director, Prof. S.G Deshmukh presenting the memento to prof. Arya

Prof. Varun Arya is the man of Values, a true face of ethical networking, a man with whom PM wish to spent his spare time, a symbol of simplicity. On entering in SH2 i thought he might be a parent of some newly admitted student :) .

Gosh! i'm on way to finish a novel !
I think i should take a brake.

Keep updating...
Gud nite!

UGC Review Committee in Institute :20-21st July,09

IIITM is one of the first IIITs, established by GoI and a brain child of MHRD in promotion of IT and Management in India. IIITM is also the first IIIT to be granted as Deemed University status. To review it's functioning team of UGC comes here time to time.

UGC Review Committee recently visited the campus to review the functioning of the institute on 20-21st July, 2009. Following are the UGC committee:

S.No.	Name	Designation
1.	Prof. V. Ramachandran Vice Chancellor Anna University, Tiruchirapalli-620024	Chairman
2.	Prof, Manohar Lall Deptt. Of Computer and Information Sciences Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068	Member
3.	Prof. L. Venugopal Reddy (Former Vice Chancellor and Prof. of Management) 10-2-289/208, Sai Vihar Aptts. (Oppositte Food World), Shanti Nagar Masab Tank, Hyderabad-500034	Member
4.	Prof. R. K. Singla Deptt. Of Computer Science Punjab University, Chandigarh	Member
5.	AICTE nominee	Member
6.	Dr. K. P. Singh Joint Secretary, UGC	Member Secretary

Tree Plantation by Team inside campus:

Source: Registrar office, IIITM Gwalior

Student Exchange Program with Ecole Centrale, Paris

IT companies decide to hire only in last semester: The IIITM perspective

NASSCOM has already given a clear indication of moving placement activities to last semester few months back, this week's IT companies' unanimous decision has abridged supplementary brainworks.

“All our member companies have unanimously taken this decision. The change is not only for this year, it is permanent,” said Som Mittal, president of software industry body Nasscom. The decision taken by Nasscom is unlikely to be reversed even if demand picks up. In fact, the trend may even catch up with companies outside the IT industry.(source:ET Bureau).

Note: the placement figure for 2008-09 is old, the latest is 85%

This news has many implications for IT institutes. Being an apex IT and management institute in the country, IIITM Gwalior owes larger responsibilities.


"As being a research oriented institute, placement was never a big concern for us. We should focus on imparting a quality education in knowledge economy and should strive together towards global excellence", says Prof S.G. Deshmukh, director ABV-IIITM Gwalior.

IIITM Gwalior is ingrained for its distinguished 5-year integrated postgraduate program. So, it may work in both directions for the institute.

"Here companies start visiting the campus in IXth semester, so shifting the placement activities to Xth semester won't affect the whole process,rather it would provide an extra time for students to focus on their thesis and different electives and ably be prepared for placement activities in the last semester", prof. S. G. Deshmukh trails off.

On the other hand Dr. Santosh Rangnekar,Training and Placement coordinator of ABV-IIITM Gwalior says ,"we will keep continuing with the placement activities like arranging various seminars of eminent speakers, CEOs, ; conducting mock GDs/PIs; taking different personality development sessions."

"In this case we will try to contact non IT companies and will invite them for campus recruitment. we have different programs running here like two year MBA/M.Tech courses which demand multi-sectors ", shrugs Dr. Rangnekar.

Meanwhile the student community here in IIITM are a bit apprehensive about their future.They are in constant touch with their Alumni mentors. Some are taking audacious decision of taking various certification courses like CISA, CFA, FRM, PRM or writing GRE, GMAT, CAT in the penultimate semester.

Whatever might be the final implications, one thing is certain that too much hyped recession and Nasscom recent directives have disturbed the student community in their hibernation. Eventually it's providing much waited positive shift in the higher education in India.

Team from IIITM won the 1st position in Lord of the code 2007-08

Team comprising of Rahul Kala,Chandra Prakash,Dhirender Sharma and Rahul Khandelwal secured 1st position in Lord of the code. The competition was organized by Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT), IIT Bombay and Red Hat.
Their software was titled "Central System for Admission to Universities (CSAU)" The project is available under Creative Commons License at the project site.

This is the 2nd time consequitivetly that IIITM has won the first position in this competition.

For details please visit the project site :-
http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/showRhsResult2007.do


Brief Project Report of the team:

Abstract:

We are very much acquainted with the fact that looking at the diversity of courses offered in each university and the number of colleges per university, it is very difficult for both the students and the university officials to co-ordinate.We propose to make a central system ‘Central System for Admission to Universities (CSAU)’ that can be used by the universities and other organizations like CCB/AIEEE for having end-to-end solutions to every phase of the admission right from the application submission to the allotment of the college, branch and hostel..The main idea is to automate the entire task, making it a lot more time-saving, cost-saving and easily accessible by the students, officials and Universities.

Objectives:

• Use of modern technologies in the admission procedures
• Transparency of the system
• Security of the system from illegal intrusions
• Security from lost/lack of internet connectivity at crucial times (alternative measures provided)
• Time-saving, cost-saving measures
• Ease of adaptation to diverse systems being implemented presently
• Provision of integration with manual work at every step
• The system has a very strong back-end design which has been especially designed and analyzed exhaustively with a lot of time and effort.

Purpose:

Project Features

• Online (and offline) Selling of form
• Online form filling
• Online form updation
• Online form verification
• Offline verification of things not verified online, or which cant be verified online
• E-Exam
• E-Counselling
• Online preparation of question paper
• Online admin control for paper setting
• Online declaration of exam, counseling and hostel allotment results
• Central admin control at all levels for every official to monitor/control/manipulate data at any level according to privilegesCentral place for all sorts of static and dynamic information to be available online, like seats/contact information/procedure/updates etc.)

Components from other projects:

• Database Server: DB2 (v9.1, IBM)
• Web Server: Websphere (IBM)
• Application Server: WAS (Websphere Application Server, IBM)
• WSAD: Development Tool
• IDE: Eclipse, Rational Application Developer
• J2EE: Application Architecture (Sun Microsystems)
• Language: J2EE, SQLJ
• XDoclet
• Sun Mail APIs

Innovation:

The system has a very strong back-end design which has been especially designed and analyzed exhaustively with a lot of time and effort. At the time of design we had come to know of enumerable number of ways in which an examination/counseling can be conducted (eg. Counseling procedures for CAT MBA, counseling patterns for MP PET, examination system of IIT JEE(screening and mains), examination system for AIEEE(one paper, fully objective)). The back-end design needs no modification whatsoever to adapt to any of these changes, only modifications to the front-end and business logic are required.

The market which consists of Indian Universities, organizations like AIEEE/CCB and IIT-JEE, university like IIITM, Gwalior which takes students from outside examinations like CAT admissions for MBA. Because of the use, the software is likely to be sold directly to these organizations

Saving paper, resources, manpower, money is a social cause. Since government is the major customer, the govt. money would be saved which can be used for development.

Practical Application:

The University Admission System is mainly dedicated to facilitate all procedures of Admissions ,online in Universities. So that Man power could be reduced in all admission procedures and time could be saved.

The project consists all admission procedures Online.

• · Admission Form fulfillment by candidate
• · Form checking & Identity verification.
• · Examination center allotment
• · Admission cards distribution.
• · Examination conduction
• · Result (Merit list)declaration
• · Score card & counseling letter distribution.
• · Counseling procedure.
• · College allotment.
• · Hostel allotment.

University Admission System is undoubtedly Applicable in all universities which provides higher education.

Declaration

We hereby declare that the project described above is an original work of our team and all help taken from external sources has been duly mentioned.

--Team spiritIIITM

S/W snapshots.