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Activities

JDBC Drivers and API

CIPHER in association with the Department of Computer Science organized a session on JDBC drivers and API by Dr Shrisha HS held on 14-08-2023.

Target Audience:

2nd year B.E. Students of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

Objectives:

The objective of a session on JDBC drivers and APIs for students is to provide a comprehensive understanding of how Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) works, including the role of JDBC drivers and the usage of APIs to interact with databases.

Outcomes:

By the end of the session, students should be able to know students will have a clear understanding of what JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is and its significance in enabling Java applications to interact with databases. They will also have an idea about how to establish connections to databases using JDBC drivers and connection URLs, including handling authentication and database-specific configurations.


 

Report on “LATEX”

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with ISTE SJEC Student Chapter organized a session on 'LATEX'. Dr Harivinod N, Associate Professor, Department of CSE conducted two sessions for 2nd year A and B section students on 11th August, 2023 from 10:00AM to 1:00PM and 2:00PM to 5:00PM in Room No-2103. Dr Saumya Y M, Associate Professor, Department of CSE conducted one session for 2nd year C section students on 11th August from 2:00PM to 5:00PM in Room No-2306. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD, Department of CSE welcomed the gathering. This was followed by the brief introduction of LATEX, by the resource person. They briefed about how to create a template which can be used to prepare a report for Mini- project and Major-project work. The students were given a hands-on session. The session ended with Dr Sridevi Saralaya proposing the vote of thanks

 

Topic preparation for hackathon and Placements

Department of Computer Science in association with Cipher organized a session on Topic preparation for hackathon and Placements for second year students by Praveen Kumar an alumni 2019 on 21-07-2023 at Prerana Hall,AB III block SJEC. His talk began by emphasizing the importance of hackathons in honing problem-solving skills, fostering teamwork, and showcasing one's talents to potential employers. He shared experiences from his own jouey, highlighting how participation in hackathons during his college years had contributed significantly to his career growth. The talk concluded with an interactive Q&A session, during which students had the chance to ask specific questions related to hackathons, placements, and career development. Mr. Pravin Kumar's thoughtful responses provided further clarity and guidance to the audience, leaving them inspired and motivated. Finally, program was ended with vote of thanks to Mr. Pravin Kumar.

 

Career opportunities in general and Armed forces

Computer Society of India - the student association of Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a session on 'Career opportunities in general and Armed forces' by the Commanding Officer of 5KAR NCC Unit, Commander Claudy Lobo in Spoorthi Hall on 16 June,2023 from 3 pm to 5 pm.

The talk began with welcoming the gathering by Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD of CSE Department. Commander Claudy Lobo spoke about schemes and websites provided by Govement of India, he also spoke about the job opportunities in Union Public Service commission, Indian Foreign Services, Indian Revenue Service and Kaataka Public service.

The session ended with Ms Prajna M, CSI Coordinator, Assistant Professor Department of CSE, proposing the vote of thanks.

 

Two Days Hands-On Session On “Process Mining Using Execution Management System"

SESSION 1(11:00AM - 1:00PM)- The event commenced at 11:00 AM with the prayer and 3rd year CSE student Mr. Prem Iniyan welcomed the resource person Mr. Manjunath Chandrashekar-Senior Academic Alliance Manager in Celonis and introduced him to the students(CSE) registered for the session. Mr. Majunath Chandrashekar began the session by giving a brief introduction to Celonis and explained what is Process Mining. He also presented how it is different from Data Mining. He enlightened the audients by highlighting about how the Execution Management system is beneficial to the industries to perform Process Mining. He explained the Basics of Applied Process Mining.

1.00 PM to 2.00 PM - Lunch Break

SESSION 2(2.00 PM to 4.00 PM )- Mr Manjunath Chandrashekar began the session by explaining about Event Logs. He described with examples of how event logs are very much required and stored as structured data. Later he briefed about what a Happy process means. He spoke about the Execution management System and gave the demo of Execution Management System (EMS) tool. The students and faculty were instructed on how to register and use the tool.

SESSION  3(11.00 AM to 1:00 PM)- Mr Manjunath highlighted the importance of Data Pipeline. He briefed about the various stages of Data pipeline.  He also discussed and gave the hands-on session on the case study on- Order to Cash entry Level Case in the EMS tool.

1.00 PM To 2:00 PM - Lunch Break

SESSION 4 (2.00 PM to 4.00 PM )- Mr Manjunath gave the Case study and asked the students to implement it. The list of tasks to be performed was given. The students performed the tasks using the EMS tool with great enthusiasm. He also solved the doubts of the student and faculty arise during the hands-on session.

At the end of the session, he gave us the insight on the courses that are available to students and Faculty. Also, he briefed about the inteships that are provided to the students. He also spoke about how Celonis can assist Faculty who are interested in research in the area of Process Mining which includes providing data, or any subject matter experts help etc. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD of CSE thanked the Resource person for agreeing to spend his time at SJEC and delivering Hands-on session on Process Mining. She presented him with a token of appreciation. She also thanked the participants for attending the two-day session.


 

SIGNOUT-2023

The department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a department farewell Signout 2022 for the outgoing students of 2023 on 11 May 2023 at kalam Auditorium from 9AM - 12PPM Dr Sridevi Saralaya , HOD of CSE Department wished the outgoing students well for their future and raised the Toast. 

The informal function began with a video that revised the glimpses of memories they made in the last 4 years. The mementoes were distributed to the outgoing students from the Department of Computer Science. Various games were conducted for the outgoing students. The students of 3rd and 4th year entertained the audience with various dance and song performances. Meanwhile refreshments were served.


 

TECH-IT-OUT

Cipher, a student organization, organized a Tech it out quiz competition on April 3, 2023, at 1.30 pm in Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall and final round held on 5-4-2023 at 1.30PM onwards.The quiz aimed to test the knowledge and skills of students on various technological advancements and innovations. The competition had a cash prize of 3000, which added to the excitement of the participants.

Participants: The quiz was open to all students of the college, and around 20 teams, consisting of two members each, participated in the competition. The participants were from various streams and backgrounds, including computer science, electronics, and engineering etc.

The competition had two rounds - preliminary, and finals. The preliminary round had multiple-choice questions, which were to be answered in 20 minutes. The semi-finals consisted of two rounds: visual round and buzzer round. In the visual round, the participants were shown images related to technology, and they had to identify them. In the buzzer round, the participants had to answer questions related to technology in the shortest possible time. 

The team Phonix from CSE won first prize with cash prize Rs. 2000.The runners-up were team Isaec from the ICBS department. The winning team received a cash prize of 2000, and the runners-up received Rs,1000.

The Cipher presents Tech it out quiz was a successful event, and it provided an opportunity for students to showcase their technological knowledge and skills. The competition was well-organized, and the participants had a great time. The quiz helped the students to enhance their technical knowledge and encouraged them to stay updated with the latest technological advancements.

 

Demo on Mini Project of Computer Graphics Projects, and Mobile application and Development

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College in collaboration with student association CIPHER organized an event on Mini Project Presentation on Computer Graphics Project by Final year students to the students of VI th semester on 13/03/2023 from 9.00A.M to 10.00 A.M , in Webinar Hall.

During the session, Sharan Kumar, a student in his eighth semester of C section, presented a comprehensive guide for setting up OpenGL in CodeBlocks IDE for Windows users. He provided a step-by-step explanation of the process and also demonstrated the terminal setup for Linux users. In addition, he gave a detailed overview of Mobile Application Development using Android Studio.

Sharan also emphasized the importance of virtualization and the role of Linux-based distributions in the development process. He highlighted the benefits of using Linux and its various tools for efficient and effective software development. Overall, the session provided valuable insights for both Windows and Linux users interested in OpenGL and mobile app development.

Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD-CSE thanked the student for conducting a wonderful session. Students participated enthusiastically for the whole duration of the session.

 

TCS tech bytes preliminary round

Industry and Innovation Group SJEC and TCS Tech bytes in association with Computer Science Department organised the TCS tech bytes preliminary round on 21-02-2023. The selection round was conducted at 3.30PM in lab number 3610

The quiz was mainly focused on application of Technology across various sectors and aspects such as: the technology environment, the business, its people, new trends, legends etc. It also focused on emerging areas eg: cloud computing, IoT, telecom, mobility, social media, biometrics, robotics, etc. World of inteet, and unique websites, IT buzzwords and acronyms. IT Personalities - inteational, national and local.IT and communication companies' software products, brands and history of IT. Areas where IT has made an impact - education, entertainment, books, multimedia, music, movies, inteet, banking, advertising, sports, gaming, social networking, cell phones, etc. The College has selected 25 Best students out of 31 participants and list was mailed to TCS for the next round

 

Report on “GitHub”

Computer Society of India - the student association of Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a session on 'GitHub' by Mr Sharan Kumar, VII semester student of SJEC in webinar hall on 3rd February from 11 am to 1 pm. The talk began with welcoming the gathering by Dr Sridevi Saralaya. Mr Sharan Kumar spoke about the uses of GitHub. It was a hands-on session. The session ended with Dr Sridevi Saralaya proposing the vote of thanks. Ms Prajna M, CSI Coordinator, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Dr Sridevi Saralaya CSI Member HOD - CSE.

 

Technical Talk: Advances in Computer Networking and Security

Department of Computer Science & Engineering organised an expert  talk on "Advances in Computer Networking  and Security ” by Dr Mohit P. Tahiliani  Assistant  Professor Computer Science and Engineering Department, NITK Surathkal. The talk was held on 14th January  2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM to 5th semester  students of CSE in Prerana  Hall Academic   Block -III.

Dr Chandra Naik, Associate Professor, Department of CSE welcomed the gathering and introduced the speaker Dr Mohit P. Tahiliani and his students to the audience. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD of Computer Science and Engineering Department florally welcomed the resource person. More than 124 students of the 5th semester were present and benefited from this session.  The highlights of the talk are listed below.

  1. Introduction to HTTP and its different versions
  2. Understanding HTTP codes
  3. Introduction to Web APIs and Postman
  4. Demonstration of API usage and testing using Postman tool
  5. Introducing Postman Classroom Program

"Postman Classroom Program" is a Certification course (no charges, it's free) which contains two courses and is supposed to be done in self-study mode (it takes about 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can be done by the students on their own working from home). Any student who completes this program gets two things: (1) a digital badge from Postman which can be attached to Resume, used in a LinkedIn profile, etc., and (2) a Certificate (hard-copy) from NITK. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD-Computer Science and Engineering Department presented          


Dr Mohit P. Tahiliani with a memento for sharing his knowledge with our students. The event ended with a vote of thanks by Dr Chandra Naik.

 

Branch Entry

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with CIPHER Association organized a Branch Entry programme for III rd Sem Students on 22nd November 2022. This event was organized by the third and fourth years for the new joiners.

The theme of the day was "BallRoom". The programme began with a grand welcome for the juniors. The emcees for the event were ,Ms Apeksha  and Ms. Serena. The first event was the Welcoming dance Performed by the seniors. 

A couple of games like and some spot games were conducted. Refreshments and snacks were served to everyone present. The juniors were surprised by a Flash Mob by few of the seniors. The event ended with everyone moving their feet to the grooving music.

The event was indeed a colourful and an energetic one.

 

Branch Entry

The Branch Entry 2022 was organized on 22 th November, at 10am. It is an event organized by the department  to welcome the Second Years to their respective branches and give information about all the Departments and their associations or groups. Encouraging the students to join and participate actively in activities and competitions conducted.

The Chief Guest for this event was MsRochelle Noronha Cyber Security- Goveance, Risk and Compliance | ACS | WiCyS| ISO Lead Auditor Sekuro.  She was welcomed with a bouquet by the Co-ordinator of CIPHER.

The programme began with the Prayer and the lighting of the Lamp. This was followed by an introduction of the chief guest by Dr.Sridevi Saralaya. The achievers in various fields were felicitated by Ms.Rochella. The chief guest gave a talk on Cyber security and Higher education abroad for the students.


 

Awareness on Certification Courses offered by CSE

The Department of CSE under the Cipher Student Association organized a webinar on the various Certification Courses that were offered by the Department on February 1, 2021 from 2.00 pm to 3.00pm. The Resource Persons for the event were Ms. Lavina Dsilva  and Ms. Supreetha R, Assistant Professors, Dept of CSE, SJEC. They explained about the Robotics Process Automata course and  Cisco Certification Course which was offered in the department.

The webinar was then continued by Ms. Alonie Crasta, Student of the final year CSE, who spoke about the benefits of taking these certification courses and how it had helped her crack placements. 84 students from all the engineering branches of SJEC participated in the event. Ms. Nisha Roche Faculty coordinator of Cipher Association compered the event. The session concluded with Q & A session and a Vote of thanks

 

CSE: Session on "Introduction to GIT"

A session on "Introduction to GIT" was organised by Cipher

 

CSE: Intra-Departmental fest Aurora-2019

CIPHER –the student association of Computer Science Department of St. Joseph Engineering College hosted an Intra-Departmental fest ‘AURORA-2019’ on 26th October 2019. The fest comprised of three events that were categorised into technical, semi-technical and non-technical.

Technical event

Lights Out:

·         A Blind Coding event

·         Three members form a team

The first place was bagged by Mr G Sunil and Mr Calvin Dsouza of third year. The second place was won by Mr Raksharaj Shetty, Mr Novin Misquith and Ms Laureen Maria Feandes of third year.

Semi-technical event

Enigma

·        4 members in a team,

·         Round 1: 13 reasons why

·         Round 2: Gold Rush

·         Round 3: Hunt for the prize

The first place was won by Mr Keith Monteiro, Mr Aaron Lobo, Mr Jenol Pinto and Mr Denson Dsouza of second year and the second place was won by Ms Andrea May Feandes, Mr Jayasurya, Mr Mohammed Ashir and Mr Mohammed Jasim of third year.

Non-Technical Event

Counter Strike

·         5 members per team

The first place was bagged by Mr Gavin Wilson, Mr Naxatra, Mr Nireekshith, Mr Wenzel Audrin Barboza and Mr Shaun Stephen D'Souza of second year and the second place was won by Mr Karthik Gowda, Mr Job Alexander, Mr Manish, Mr Shashank Reddy and Mr Colin Feandes of fourth year.

The winners received certificates and gift vouchers that were sponsored by the college.

 

CSE: Workshop on LaTex

The workshop on LaTex which was organised by the Cipher Association was conducted on August 31, 2019 at St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor. A total of 132 students of 5th semester CSE attended this workshop.

The resource persons for the workshop were Ms. Chaitra and Ms. Sona Mundody, Assistant Professors, Department of CSE, SJEC. The session started with Ms.Chaitra and Ms.Sona guiding the students about overleaf an online LaTex editor and already installed document preparation system. Instructions were given to create a report for the project. Students were given the knowledge of how to create the front page, insert heading, sub headings, and insert images. Brief explanation was given about how to insert equations and to create a simple table, combining rows and columns and about captions, labels and references. Further explanation was given to create cover page, add page numbers and templates.

The hands-on session helped the students to get a better understanding of LaTex. The students interactively participated in the workshop. The overall aim of providing knowledge of Document typesetting using LaTex to the students was successfully accomplished. 

 

CSE: Tiara 2019 Report On Trojan Spartans

The event named TROJAN SPARTANS was held on second day of Tiara 2019 that is on 14th March 2019.The event consisted of two rounds namely Mind Sweepers and Maverick Helpers. There were a total of 22 teams that registered for the event that began by 9:45am.

The first round Mind Sweepers was divided into two sub-rounds. The first sub-round consisted of quizzes from technical and non-technical fields that was conducted through audiovisual medium. The second sub-round was crosswords that were handed out on sheets to each team. The participants were eliminated based on the total score of the two sub-rounds with the top ten teams making it through to the second and final round. The final round was named Maverick Helpers.

This round began with teams having to debug programs, solve flowcharts and assemble jumbled code to find out a particular phrase in order to win. The fastest two teams were selected as winners. The first place was awarded to Anurag D Shetty and Glen Ignatius Lobo from 3rd year Computer Science Department.

The second prize was bagged by Nasil Saniah and Shravan Baliga K again from 3rd year Computer Science.

The prize and certificates were presented to the winners by Mr.Bola Sunil Kamath, Associate Professor at St.Joseph Engineering College. The event along with prize distribution concluded by 12pm, marking the end of an extremely successful event.

 

CSE: Tiara 2019 Report On Bazzinga

The event started with a total of 15 teams at 11:30 am in class 3503. The first round was “Tech Buzz” which was divided into 2 parts. Part 1 was a quiz round based on general knowledge, latest movies, series, riddles, etc. Part 2 was based on logos and famous personalities. All the questions were displayed on the screen for a minute. The students had to write down the answers on the given sheet of paper. The students were asked to wait for a while till the papers were corrected. At the end, the questions were displayed once again. A total of 5 teams got disqualified in this round.

Second round began at 12:15 am. In this round, “Oh My Bug”, teams were asked to go around the campus, find some significant spot and take snaps of themselves with a creative pose. They had to then send the pictures to one of the coordinators. There only given 30 minutes. All the students assembled back in the classroom at 12:45 am. Five teams were selected on the basis of the most creative pose and good photography.

Third round, Code Warriors, started at 2:00 pm. Here, one of the teammate was taken to a lab and was required to code a small and simple program using either C, Python or Java language. 2 sets of question papers were prepared. The other teammate was asked to take a chit which guided them where to go. No mobile phones were allowed. One volunteer was present at each of the spot to ensure nobody used their phones. Once the team member in lab executed the code correctly, he was given a riddle to hint him where his other teammate was. They were supposed to find their teammates and come back to 3503 classroom.

Everyone took part in the event enthusiastically and the volunteers and faculty members helped in the smooth coordination of the event.

The first winners were Nasil Saniah and Shravan Baliga from St Joseph Engineering college. They won a total of Rs 1500.

The second winners were Oliva Sharol Correa and S B Shubha from St Joseph Engineering college. They won a total of Rs 1000.

Ms Gayana from the department of Computer Science was called for the prize distribution ceremony. 

 

CSE: Tiara 2019 Report On Papyrus

Accompanying other pumped up events in the CSE department, students were set ablaze to showcase their presentation skills in a versatile manner. Yes, this is in context to the overwhelming event coined Papyrus. This events cynosure was, delivering knowledge on recent technical topics they thrived on. The faculty coordinators were Ms. Smitha V George, Assistant Professor-CSE, and Ms. Apaa K, Assistant Professor-CSE. It commenced at sharp 11 AM in Academic block III, sixth floor, room number 3504. This event was compered by Ms. Divyanjalin A Soans. She initiated with a welcome speech and wished all the participants their streak of luck. Mr. Gerald H Feandes, Assistant Professor-CSE, Mr. Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor-CSE, Ms. Sumangala N, In-charge HOD-Computer Applications, Mr. Gururaja S, Assistant Professor- Computer Applications, were the judges of the competition. There was a total of 28 teams that participated. Students from inter-colleges were also allowed to participate and put-forth their anonymous ideas. Ms. Dynita Pinto then briefed about the rubrics for the event. Since massive students showed tremendous interest in this event, they were split into two classrooms. The remainder were carry-forwarded in the neighbouring classroom.

All the teams showed great enthusiasm and performed well. The winners were Ms. Deekshitha from SJEC and the second prize was bagged by Ms. Divya and Ms. Khateeja Rukshana from Srinivas School of Engineering. Mementos were given to all the judges and the faculty were falicitated by Dr. Sridevi Saralaya, HOD-CSE department.The student coordinators for the event were Ms. Deekshita and Ms. Christal Lobo from fourth year CSE department. 

 

CSE: Tiara 2019 Report On Adroit

The Mega event for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for Tiara 2019 was conducted on 13.03.2019, day 1 of the fest. The event was conducted by the student event coordinators Elrica Costa and Jaanhvi Hehar. A total of 64 participants took part in this event. The event began at 11 a.m. and consisted of 3 rounds.

The first round was conducted in Academic Block 3 in rooms 3602 and 3603. This round consisted of riddles, mysteries and logical reasoning problems that the participants had to solve using their wits. The top 12 teams qualified for the next round.

Round 2 consisted of each team being divided into two sub teams. One sub team solved riddles to obtain clues and directed the other half of their team to corresponding locations based on the clues. This round took place all across the campus. The first 8 teams to complete this round qualified for the next round.

The final round of Adroit was conducted in the college football ground. It was divided into two sub rounds. The first sub round was an obstacle course that was created using tires, bricks and tables. One participant from each team had to navigate through this course blind folded while his team mates guided him through the course. 6 teams qualified for the 2nd sub round which was the deciding round for the event. The final round was a human X and O game where each team had to place their team members tu by tu in a 3 by 3 grid of 9 chairs. The round and event was won by Prasanna Kumar P., Manikanta, Abhishek Suresh and Hussain Salman from A.J Institute of Engineering and Technology and the runners up were Mohammed Yake Ruknaddin, Zuyufullah Manna and Siddique from Anjuman Institute of Technology and Management.

The event concluded with the prize distribution where the winning team and the runners up were handed certificates along with a cash prize of rupees 2500 and 1500 respectively by Ms. Sujatha M., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. 

 

CSE: Tiara 2019 Report On Pubg

Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with Tiara-2019 organized Pubg which is a gaming event on 13th March 2019 in Academic Block III, 6th floor, Webinar Hall from 11:30 a.m. onwards. A total of 54 teams participated in the event. The event was conducted by the student event coordinators, Crystal Fay Dsouza and Shreema Simran. Manjesh G and Errol D’Mello spearheaded the event.

Pubg is a game where you start with nothing and have to scavenge and collect weapons and equipment. The game is ultimately a battle to the last player standing, with 100 players on an 8*8 Km Island.

Each team comprised of 4 members who actively participated in this gaming event and in tu this event provided a platform for enhancing their sills. The participants had to get their own mobile for participation. The teams were divided into slots of 3 with each slot consisting of 25, 15 and 14 teams respectively. Top 5 teams were selected from each slot and they competed in the finals to become the ultimate champion.

The details of the event are as shown below:

·         Finally, only 15 teams made it into the final round

·         The event ended at 5 p.m.

The first prize was bagged by Ajanth kotian, Chethan Shetty,Shivaraj and renson Dsouza from 2nd year, St. Joseph Engineering College and the second prize was won by Manjunath, Ashwin R S, Mazin and Muhammad Rumaiz from 3rd year, St. Joseph Engineering College.

The event concluded with the prize distribution where the winning team was handed over certificates and also a cash prize of Rs. 1500 and Rs. 1000 respectively.

 

CSE: Industrial Visit to Infosys, Mudipu

CSI – SJEC Chapter and CIPHER - student association of CSE department, organized an industrial visit to the campus of Infosys at Mudipu, Mangaluru on 12th March 2019 for the sixth semester students of CSE department. A total of 123 students participated in the industrial tour. Ms Sunitha Guruprasad – Coordinator of CSI chapter, Ms Gayana M N – Coordinator of CIPHER and Mr Sunil Kamath – Department Coordinator of CSI, accompanied the students.

After an hour-long commute to the campus, the person in-charge, Ms Veena Amrith, Senior Member - Education, Training & Assessment at Infosys Limited, welcomed the students and the faculty.  Students were made to gather in an auditorium and given a brief introduction about the company which involved overview about the wide range of products as well as services, work culture and CSR activities carried out by Infosys. This was followed by a brief power point presentation about the path traversed by Infosys. 

The technical session was covered by Mr Raviraj Belma, Senior Project Manager at Infosys. He elaborated on transition from college campus to the corporate life and briefed about the recent and popular trends in IT industry. He also stressed upon the importance of communication skill, thinking out of the box, willingness to lea and adopt new technologies and working in teams by sharing ideas. Students were given an opportunity to put forward their queries and get information about how the industry works.

The sessions were both informative and entertaining and the students leat a great deal, about how the industry works. This was followed by a campus tour where the Training Center, meeting rooms and other benefits offered to the employees were shown.

The industrial visit gave all the students an insight about the working of the industry. It also gave them an idea about the work environment of the employees and the various facilities available. The visit was a memorable and encouraging experience for the students.

 

CSE: Blockchain Workshop

A workshop on block chain technology was organized by CIPHER, A student association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the students of VI Semester on 23rd February 2019 from 10:00 am to 05:00 pm at Bishop Aloysius Hall, followed by CSE webinar Hall.  Mr. Marimuthu C, Research Scholar, Department of CSE, NITK, Surathkal was the resource person.

Initially, a pre-assessment was done to just gauge the knowledge of students on Block Chain Technology. Then, the session began with an introduction on the basic ideology of block chain technology. The resource person highlighted the cutting edge technology by giving some real world examples.

Through analogy, different use cases, he explained the wide applications of blockchain which includes energy sector, supply chain management, e-voting, real estates, data storage etc.

The speaker also told about the various end users and terminologies used in block chain. Mr Marimuthu also made awareness on overall adoption rate of block chain technology. Furthermore, he made it an interactive session discussing the merits and demerits of the block chain process. The group dispersed for lunch at 1 pm.

The workshop resumed at 2 PM. The post session was hands-on. In this afteoon session, the presenter told about ethereum which is a blockchain based application.

The participants were instructed to install ethereum and configured it according to the directions given by the speaker. He also told about the various commands used in establishing the connection and data mining. The students worked in pairs and performed data mining by sharing their IDs. As a parting advice, the resource person mentioned that one should update their technical skills by attending such workshops. The workshop concluded at 4:30 pm by felicitating the resource person with a memento by the staff coordinator, and Ms Jahnavi Hehar delivering the vote of thanks.

 

CSE: AURORA-2019

CIPHER –the student association of Computer Science Department of St. Joseph Engineering College hosted an Intra-Departmental fest ‘AURORA-2019’ on 21st February, 2019. The fest comprised of three events that were categorized into technical, semi-technical and non-technical.

Technical Event

Condense:

Three members form a team and three rounds in total

Round 1: Technical quiz based on computer concepts         

Round 2: Debugging

Round 3: Coding

The first place was bagged by Mr Ivor D’Souza and Deepesh Bhat of third year. The second place was won by Mr Krishnakanth Upadhyaya and Mr Deepesh Bhat of third year.

Semi-technical Event

Sacred Games

Three formed a team. There were three rounds in total,

Round 1: Fun quiz on random topics

Round 2: Treasure hunt

Round 3: Coding and audio visual round

The first place was won by Ms Pragathi, Ms Pramatha and Ms Poojitha of final year whereas the second place was won by Mr Preetham, Mr Shravan and Mr Nithin of third year.

Non-Technical Event

Connexity

This non-technical event comprised of  team of 3 members with 4 rounds

Round 1: General knowledge quiz

Round 2: Logo quiz and audio visual quiz

Round 3: Treasure  hunt

Round 4: One minute talk on a given topic. The last round was judged by Ms Evita Coelho and Mr Gerald H F, Assistant professors of CSE Department.

The first place was bagged by Mr Aronstun, Mr Jayasurya and Ms Andrea of second year whereas, the second place was won by Mr Winston, Mr Bryan and Ms Deeksha of second year.

The winners received certificates and gift vouchers that were sponsored by the college.

 

CSE & IIEDC: One Day Workshop on IP Security

A one-day workshop on the topic IP Security was conducted by CIPHER- student association and IIEDC for the students of Department of Computer Science and Engineering for pre-final year students. The session was conducted at Bishop Aloysius Hall, St. Joseph Engineering College – Vamanjoor, Mangalore on 27th of October, 2018.  The programme commenced at 9:30 am with a welcome address given by Ms. Darly Saldanha followed by a silent prayer.

The resource person for the day was Mr. Rahul Dutta, an Associate Engineer in J P Morgan, Hyderabad. The HOD of the Computer Science, Dr Sridevi Saralya welcomed the resource person and addressed the gathering, following which Mr. Dutta commenced the workshop.

Initially, a pre-session assessment was conducted to judge the calibre and knowledge of the students. This was followed by the moing session on the topics Data Encryption Standard, Deffie-Hellman Algorithm, DoS attack, User imitation attack and how to overcome them. In the afteoon, a hands-on session was conducted on Creation of VPN tunnel for Secure Data transmission for Linux and Windows along with the implementation of the topics covered in the moing session to help the students inculcate practical knowledge on this domain. The faculty in-charge and student coordinators were also present for the session.

The workshop ended with a post-session assessment at 5:00 pm following which Ms. Darly Saldanha proposed the vote of thanks. A memento was presented by Mrs. Gayana M N to Mr. Dutta as a token of appreciation. The entire workshop was coordinated by IIEDC coordinator Dr Usha Divakarla in co-ordination with CIPHER association.

 

CSE: Intensive Workshop “Tips to Crack Campus Placement Interview”

A workshop on “Tips to Crack Campus Placement Interview” was held for the students of  V Semester Computer Science on 28.09.2018 at 10 AM at Bethania Hall, St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor. Mr. Anil Kumar H., Senior Software Engineer, BOSCH was the resource person. The workshop began with a silent prayer followed by a brief welcome of the guest and the gathering by Ms Elrica, Vice-President, CIPHER .The Head of the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Sridevi Saralaya introduced the guest to the gathering.

The first session began with tips on cracking the technical round in interviews. The resource person highlighted the importance of obtaining an offer letter from a company before graduating from the college. He briefed the students on the basics of C programming and highlighted the importance of C programming knowledge in technical interviews. Furthermore, he gave a reference list of textbooks and apps for students to improve their programming skills. He also stressed on the importance of being technically sound before being hired as that would ensure job security. The group dispersed for lunch at 1 pm.

The workshop resumed at 2 PM. post lunch with a session on various important and frequently asked programs such as Fibonacci series, factorial of a number computing GCD of two numbers etc.

The last session had the speaker giving tips to students on cracking the Group Discussion round as well as Human Resource interview. He highlighted the relevance of eye contact at all times as well as the positive impact of initiation, listening skills and positive attitude in group discussions.

Mr. Kumar stressed on the importance of etiquette during interviews. He also spoke about exposure to examinations like AMCAT, eLitmus and the like which could also provide broader options in taking jobs in various streams such as Healthcare, Automotive, Telecom, Embedded, etc. As a parting advice, the resource person mentioned that one should gain experience for at least two years before considering post-graduation as that would provide a stronger ground for gaining a foot-hold in Universities. The workshop concluded at 3:30 pm by felicitating the resource person with a memento by the staff coordinator, Ms Gayana M N and Carlton Rodrigues, the President of CIPHER delivering the vote of thanks.

 

CSE: Student Association - CIPHER Inaugural

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College inaugurated their department association CIPHER and CSI-SJEC Student Chapter for the academic year 2018-19 on 7th September 2018 at 10:00AM in the Kalam Auditorium, Academic Block-II.

The inaugural function was compered by Ms. Fiona Saldana, it commenced by calling upon the college choir to invoke God’s blessings through a prayer song.

A power point presentation of the Annual Report of CIPHER 2017-2018 was presented to the gathering.

Dr. Sreekanth N S, Scientist ‘D’ / Principal Technical Officer, C-DAC, Bengaluru was the Chief Guest of the program. Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director–SJEC presided over the function. Rev.Fr. Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC and Dr. Rio D’Souza, Principal-SJEC were the Guests of Honor. Dr. Sridevi Saralaya HOD- CSE, Mr. Carlton Rodrigues, President-CIPHER, Mr. Naren Bhandary, President –CSI, were also present on the dais.

Dr. Sridevi Saralaya HOD- CSE, welcomed the dignitaries and introduced the chief guest to the gathering after which the program was inaugurated by lighting the lamp. The chief guest inaugurated CIPHER association for the year 2018-19 innovatively by displaying LED cube developed by 3rd and 4th year Electronics and Computer Science students to symbolically inaugurate the CIPHER and CSI Student Chapter of SJEC. The roadmap of activities planned by CIPHER and CSI for the current academic year were presented by Mr. Carlton Rodrigues, President-CIPHER and Mr. Naren Bhandary, President-CSI, respectively.

Ms. Sasha Rodrigues, Secretary-CIPHER read out the names of meritorious students for their outstanding performance in the previous year and also the student achievers who cleared the TCS Global Coding Contest-Codevita, were honored by Chief Guest and Assistant Director. Students who came up with most creative masquerades and the creative writing winners were also honored.

Principal, Dr. Rio D’Souza addressed the gathering with his inspiring words and congratulated the students for securing good results each year.

The Chief Guest, Dr. Sreenkanth N S, encouraged the students by talking on various research works and to participate in a variety of competitions and tech-fests and procure experiential leaing in the form of projects and inteships. He described the importance of Computer Science as a profession.

The honorable Chief Guest was felicitated with a memento presented by Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza.

Rev.Fr. Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC delivered the Presidential address wherein he motivated the students to focus on their goal and reach greater heights.

The formal event concluded with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms. Shreema, Joint Secretary- CSI, and a dance performance followed by the College Anthem. A technical talk with an informative presentation on “Human Computer Interaction“ was conducted for the audience by the chief guest and was followed by honoring of students who successfully completed their web application projects in Django framework.

Lunch was served to all students and staff present. An informal function was conducted by 3rd and 4th year students to welcome the 2nd Year students into the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Games were conducted for students and faculty as well. The CIPHER inaugural function marked its end with flash mob followed by baila.

 

AURORA - 2017

The student association CIPHER of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering organized an Intradepartmental fest 'AURORA' on November 4th, 2017. The fest comprised of three events - Technical, Semi technical, Non-technical.


Technical events - Poster presentation and 'Game of Codes'

Poster presentation:
The participants were asked to prepare a poster presentation on any technology of their choice. Mr Sreenath Acharya and Mr Sunil Kamath, Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering judged the competition. Mr Nikitha and Ms Riona won the competition for their presentation on 'Iris Scanner'.

Game of codes:
The event consisted three rounds which comprised of a Quiz, Solving technical crosswords, Debugging the code given, Technical treasure hunt and Programming. Mr Raghavendra Bhat, Mr Prajwal D'Cunha and Mr Royden Rego of third year won the competition.

Semi technical event - 'Tech Roadies'

The event consisted three rounds - Crossword on general topics, Dinchak hunt (Treasure hunt), Break up (Arrange the jumbled code). Mr Shravan Baliga, Mr Preetham Rai, Mr Nigel D'Costa won the competition.

Non-technical event - 'Counter Strike 1.6'

A non-technical event 'Counter Strike 1.6' was held. Mr Anoop, Mr Mcanroe, Mr Merwin, Ms Lasya Hegde, Mr Rufford of final year won the competition.
















 

Webinar on "Python-The language of tomorrow"

A webinar on "Python-The language of tomorrow" was organized on 7th October 2017 in Sophia Chamber of Academic Block-III for the third year Computer Science and Engineering students by CIPHER, the student association of CSE. The webinar was conducted by Mr Deepak Singh, a core member of the Monkfox team.


Monkfox is a startup company founded by a group of IITians and works in the domain of education. Monkfox conducts workshops and training on various technologies for engineering students and faculty. 

The webinar highlighted the need of Python programming language, it's history, features, advantages, why is Python the language of tomorrow and areas of the IT industry that use Python. Mr Singh also gave ideas regarding the final year projects that can be carried out using Python. The webinar ended with a brief question and answer session.

 

CSE: Engineers' Day Celebration 2017

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering celebrated the Engineers’ Day - 2017 on 27th September 2017. Four events were conducted as part of the celebrations: Paper Presentation, Technical Event (Think.Predict.Code), Non-technical event (EXPODIAN), Semi-Technical event (TECH-TANA-TAN). The Details of the events are provided below.

Paper Presentation

The program began with a welcome speech. Mr Prathviraj, Assistant Professor-CSE and Ms Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor - CSE were the judges of the competition. There were a total of 9 teams that participated and the topic given was 'New technology related to Computer Science'. All the teams showed great enthusiasm and performed well. The winners were Ms Nasil Saniyah and Ms Archana KL of II year CSE and the second prize was bagged by Ms Mranali and Ms Merin of II year CSE.

THINK.PREDICT.CODE

The technical event Think.Predict.Code gave a platform to students to exhibit their technical knowledge in Computer Science and also gave an opportunity for the students to interact with each other, Teams of maximum three members were accepted. The event was held at Room No. 3603 from 2.00p.m. to 5.00 p.m. 19 teams participated in the event. The event consisted of 3 rounds. In the first round a set of 20 questions were given related to the Computer Science field. 16 Teams moved on to the second round. In the second round a set of 15 questions of C/Java code were given where the teams had to predict the output, 10 teams moved to the 3rd round. In the last round, the teams had to code in C/Java. The first place was bagged by Mr Hansen D’silva, Mr Harold, Mr Balasubramanian 4th Year - CSE and the second place was bagged by MsJoslinD’cunha, MrRaghavendra and Mr Prajwal 3rd Year – CSE. Mrs RenukaTantry and Mrs Pramila, Asst. Professor of CSE Department handed over the Certificates to the winners.

EXPODIAN

Expodian was a mega event and also a non technical event, it consisted of three rounds. This was an event with each team having four members in them. Students of first, second and third year participated in the event.

First round was a quiz in which 32 teams participated. Each team had to answer 20 multiple choice questions based on logical reasoning, general knowledge and Math. They were given 20 minutes to answer them. 12 teams were qualified for the next round. The qualified teams were about to find the treasure that was a way to the last round of this event. Treasure Hunt had 6 clues which were all around the campus. The teams had to solve the riddles which were the clues and go to that location and get another clue. Out of 12 teams 6 were selected for the next round.

Stress interview was the last round in which the teams were asked to select one representative who will be facing the interview. These 6 representatives were given few questions which they had to answer and based on these answers they were interviewed. Dr Binu K.G., Associate Professor  -  Mechanical Engineering Department and Mr Gerald Feandes, Assistant Professor - Computer Science Department were the judges who interviewed the participants.

First place was bagged by Mr Vishal, Ms Siya, Mr Floyd and Mr Suhas of 1st year G section who were given away their certificates and prize by Dr Binu K G. Second place was bagged by Mr Ranson, Mr Ravi, Mr Royson and Mr Sagar of 1st year B section and their prize and certificates were given away by Ms Anusha MM of Computer Science Department.

TECH-TANA-TAN

The semi-technical event of the Engineers’ Day 2017, Tech-Tana-Tan, was conducted on 27th September 2017. The event encompassed technical aspects like the knowledge of prominent technology personalities, typing ability and general computer knowledge along with non-technical topics which included current affairs, famous brands and trademarks and a common knowledge of the college and its facilities.

The first round was called QuizUp which saw twenty-six teams of three participants each, participate in a quiz whose questions tested their general knowledge and awareness. Fifteen teams moved on to the next round, named Fastest-Finger-First where one member of each team was tested on their tying abilities and once the first phase of the round was completed, the entire team had to answer questions whose answers were hidden in a daily newspaper. The final round saw the final five teams run around on a treasure hunt, ultimately arriving at a laboratory where team members were made to type out a simple message based on the clues found out during the hunt on a desktop whose display was flipped and on keyboards whose keys had been switched up. The round was rightly called Flip-It-2-Win-It.

Ms Vaishnavi and team of Fifth Semester computer Science won the first prize, writing the passage the quickest, followed closely by Mr Nigel and team who bagged the second prize.

 

 

CSE: CIPHER AND CSI INAUGURAL 2017-18

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at SJEC inaugurated the activities of their Department Students Association CIPHER and CSI-SJEC Chapter for the academic year 2017-2018 on 18th September 2017 at 11.00 a.m., in the Kalam Auditorium of Academic Block–II.

The inaugural function was compered by Ms. Lasya Hegde and the event commenced by calling upon the College Choir to invoke God’s blessings through a prayer song which was then followed by a Welcome Dance. A power point presentation of the Annual Report of CIPHER 2016-2017 was presented to the gathering. Dr Udaya Kumar Reddy, Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NMAMIT -Nitte was the Chief Guest of the programme. Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director–SJEC presided over the function. Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC and Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal-SJEC, were the Guests of Honour. Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal & HOD- CSE, M. Smitha V George, Staff Coordinator-CIPHER, Ms Renuka Tantry, Staff coordinator-CSI, Ms Deeksha S Alva, President-CIPHER, Mr Manjesh Guluwadi, President-CSI, were also present on the dais.

Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal & HOD-CSE welcomed the dignitaries and introduced the Chief Guest to the gathering after which the programme was inaugurated by lighting the lamp. The Chief Guest inaugurated CIPHER Association for the year 2017-18 innovatively by displaying the word CIPHER via an App developed by 3rd and 4th year students on a rotating LED display based on the concept of Arduino and POV which was then followed by the display of CSI plaque to symbolically inaugurate the CSI Student Chapter of SJEC. The roadmaps of activities planned by CIPHER and CSI for the current academic year were presented by Ms Deeksha S Alva, President-CIPHER and Mr Manjesh Guluwadi, President-CSI, respectively. Mr Shawn D’Souza, Secretary-CIPHER read out the names of meritorious students for their outstanding performance in the previous year and also the Faculty achievers, who were then honoured by the Chief Guest. Students who came up with most creative masquerades and those who technically described themselves innovatively were honoured too. Principal, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis addressed the gathering with his inspiring words and congratulated the students for securing good results each year. The Chief Guest, Dr Udaya Kumar Reddy encouraged the students to participate in a variety of competitions and tech-fests and procure experiential leaing in the form of projects and inteships. He described the importance of Computer Science as a profession. Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director-SJEC delivered the Presidential address wherein he motivated the students to focus on their goal and reach greater heights. The honourable Chief Guest was felicitated with a memento presented by Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza. The formal event concluded with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms Fiona Saldanha, Vice President - CIPHER, followed by the College Anthem.

An informal function was conducted by 3rd and 4th year students to welcome the 2nd Year students into the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Games were conducted for students and faculty as well. The CIPHER inaugural function concluded with a flash mob act followed by baila. 

 

CSE-CIPHER: ESR Activity - Visit to Orphanage

CIPHER the Students’ Association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SJEC visited Bhagini Samaj Orphanage, Jeppu – Mangalore on 29th July 2017.

Mr Prathviraj N and Ms Pramila R.M., Coordinators of CIPHER handed over clothes, stationary items and an amount of ₹ 5130/- to the institution for the betterment of its inmates. The amount was collected by CIPHER through the Departmental Stall of TIARA 2017. 

 

CSE: Talk on Financial Management

CIPHER, the Students’ Association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SJEC, for the academic year 2016-17, organized a talk on Financial Management by Dr Prakash Pinto, Dean – MBA at SJEC - Mangaluru.

Dr Rio D'Souza welcomed the gathering and gave a brief background of why Financial Planning is important in the early stage of a career. Ms Namratha Bhat hosted the stage programme and introduced the resource person to the gathering.

More than 120 students of the IV Year were present and benefited from this session. Dr Prakash Pinto shared information like financial requirement at different stages of life span and how one can be ready for different types of financial problems. Students raised queries about different modes of saving options and were offered expert advices by the Resource Person.

 

CSE: Technova – 2017 Project Exhibition

The Academic Project Exhibition and Competition for the final year students of Computer Science and Engineering Department under the banner of TECHNOVA 2017, was conducted on 26 May 2017. There were 36 teams who participated in this event.

The projects were evaluated by a panel of exteal and inteal judges. The three exteal judges were Dr Balasubramani R, Professor of ISE Department at NMAMIT - Nitte, Mr Radhakrishna, Associate Professor of CSE Department at NMAMIT – Nitte, and Mr Manjunath Kotari, Professor & Head of CSE Department at Alvas College of Engineering & Technology - Moodabidri. The team of inteal judges consisted of Ms Sunitha Guruprasad, Assistant Professor of CSE Department, Ms Supriya Salian, Assistant Professor of CSE Department and Ms Sujatha M, Assistant Professor of CSE Department.

The first prize was bagged by the project titled: Interactive Touch Screen Projector by Mr Akshay Kumar Crasta, Mr Arvind Hebal, Mr Arvind Prabhu, & Ms Namratha Bhat under the guidance of Ms Sona M, Assistant Professor - CSE. The second prize was bagged by the project titled: Android Operated Home Automation using IOT by Mr Clintan Joyan Roche, Mr Gareth Conrad Soares, & Mr Able John under the guidance of Mr Sunil Kamath, Assistant Professor - CSE. The award for the most innovative project went to the project titled Voice Controlled Smart Mirror System using Raspberry Pi by Mr Kenneth Gomes, Ms Nanditha Hegde & Mr Rayas Rahiman under the guidance of Mr Shreenath Acharya, Assistant Professor - CSE.

The event concluded with a Valedictory Function at 1:00 pm.

A few Parents of 2nd year and 3rd year students visited the Department to view the Projects.

 

CSE: Signout-2017 Farewell Ceremony

The Department Of Computer Science and Engineering along with the students of 3rd year organized the Farewell Ceremony Signout-2017 for the outgoing students of 2013-2017 batch under the guidance of Mrs Ushadevi, Assistant Professor. The program was scheduled on 15-05-2017 at Bishop Aloysius Hall, 2ndFloor, Academic Block-II from 2:00 PM-5:00 PM. The program began with the prayer from the College Choir. The Gathering was welcomed by Mr Shawn D’Souza from 3rd Year.

The Head of The Department Dr Rio D’Souza addressed the gathering. Associate Professor Mrs Sridevi Saralaya raised the toast on behalf of the Department. On behalf of the students of 3rd year, Mr Hansen D’Silva raised the toast, which was later replied by Ms Daphlyn from the 4thyear.

The mementoes were distributed to the outgoing students from the Department of Computer Science. Ms Lasya Hegde took charge as the Master of Ceremony. The Vote of thanks was delivered by Ms Dhanashree from 3rd year. The formal function ended with the College Anthem.

The refreshments were served later. The informal function was mastered by Mr Nachi Abdul and Ms Runa Veigas from 3rdyear. Various amusing games were conducted for the outgoing students.

Meanwhile glimpses of memory were revised through number of video clippings. 

 

CSE: Technical Talk on Applications of Microcontrollers and Microprocessors in Space Systems

CIPHER, the Students’ Association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SJEC in association with ISTE Students’ Chapter organized a technical talk on Applications of Microcontroller and Microprocessor in Space Systems by Mr Kiran Desai, Project Manager at ISRO - Bengaluru .The talk was held on 29th April 2017 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at Spoorthi Conference Hall Academic Block -III.

Ms Fiona Saldana, from 4th semester, welcomed the gathering. Dr Rio D'Souza, HOD-CSE introduced the speaker Mr Kiran Desai to the audience.

Mr Kiran Desai is currently working as a Software QA Project Manager for ADITHYA-L1, ScatSat-1 and ResourceSat-2A Space crafts. He is involved in the designing and developing of Generic Microprocessor simulators for various targets like SparcV8/LEON3FT, Power PC etc.

Ms Chaithra, ISTE Coordinator florally welcomed Mr Kiran Desai.

More than 150 students of the II year were present and benefited from this session. The students were given information on ISRO's past and on-going projects and motivated students to join ISRO.

After the talk, students had an interaction with Mr Kiran Desai where they discussed about satellites and manned moon mission of ISRO.

Dr Rio D’Souza, HOD-CSE Department presented Mr Kiran Desai with a memento for sharing his knowledge with our students.

The event ended with vote of thanks by Ms Fiona Saldana.

 

CSE: CGV PROJECT DISPLAY SESSION

On the 28th February and 1st march 2017, the students of the third year CSE were treated with a surprise. The fourth year CSE students decided to demonstrate various projects that were done in their third year in order to inspire their juniors with something new. As third years have to do a mini project in the sixth semester, it was only natural that they took the help of their seniors.

After the brief on Computer Graphics by Mr Aatash, the seniors showcased a variety of interesting projects. From Monopoly to a social media page, these students put in a lot of time and effort to make their projects a great success.

A team comprising of 2 members Aatash and Divina did a project on the popular board game, Monopoly. This was a very new and interesting concept which involved the pegs moving and buying property. Mr Shravan made a project related to passing a ball through a maze. The maze was randomly generated through an algorithm. The maze also featured a movable camera and as well as a night mode.

Along with them, a team comprising of Daisy and Anvitha made an animated project using a female superhero. With colorful animations, it shows how the heroine saved the day by punching the bad guys to space. Mr Arvind Prabhu made an online social media site. This was complete with a profile, status, news and even an interactive game of X-O.

Overall, this gave the third year students a great sense of wonder for what their seniors have done. This gives them the motivation to get to the same level as their seniors or even better. 

 

CSE: Session on - Writing an IEEE Research Paper

CIPHER, the student association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a session on - Writing an IEEE Research Paper, conducted by Ms Sridevi Saralaya on 17th February, 2017.

Ms Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor in the Department of CSE has worked for 12 years at SJEC with a total experience of 18 years. She has submitted over 10 Research papers and is currently pursuing her PhD.

More than 20 students of the 3rd Year were present and benefited from this session.

The students were taught the guidelines to remember while selecting the topic and going about with it. The different parts of any research paper were discussed. Tips on formatting a research paper was discussed too.

Mr Prathviraj, Staff coordinator of CIPHER, presented Ms Sridevi Saralaya with a memento for her effort in enlightening the students with her knowledge on IEEE Research Papers.

 

CSE: Aurora Intradepartmental Fest

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering association CIPHER conducted an Intradepartmental Fest AURORA on Thursday, the 27th October 2016.

The event was hosted by the master of ceremony – Ms Manasa Rao. The inaugural commenced by first invoking the almighty which was then followed by a presentation on the concluded Cipher activities.

The dignitaries on the dais were Dr Rio Dsouza, Vice Principal & HOD-CSE, the Chief Guest Dr Thyagaraju G.S., HOD-CSE, SDMIT Ujire, Ms Pramila R.M. & Mr Prathviraj N, the staff coordinators & Ms Daphlyn Valento, President- CIPHER.

The welcome speech was given by Ms Kavya Acharya. The dignitaries were called forward to begin the auspicious function by lighting the lamp. The HOD and the Chief Guest both addressed the gathering with their delightful words after which the students, Mr Loel Sequeira & Mr Nathan Clive Rego were felicitated by Mr Thyagaraju G S for their efforts on conducting an Android Workshop.

The Vote of Thanks was delivered by Ms Sharanya Aithal and the program ended with the rendition of the College Anthem.

The inaugural ceremony was followed by a talk on Inteet of Things, delivered by the Chief Guest Dr Thyagaraju G S.

The talk was followed by Four Events conducted in various laboratory and class rooms.

Following are the overall reports of the events. 

MINDSPARK

MINDSPARK was a semi-technical event organised for all the students of the CSE Dept. It tested patience, time-managing skills, team-work and knowledge in C programming. Three made a team. The participants of the event were welcomed and invited by Hansen D’Silva, the Student coordinator for the event.

It consisted of four rounds:

1st Round    : “Down the memory lane” where participants were given 10 minutes to play 3 classic games and set their high scores.

 

2nd Round   : “Ancestral Line” where the participants were required to draw the file-system hierarchy of a given file system. Special files were added to delay and disturb the work.

 

3rd Round   : “Fragmentation” was divided into two parts in which first section was the individual tasks to each participant and the second section was the scavenger hunt as a team

 

4th Round   : “Final Showdown” was a digital treasure hunt in which hidden code was to be found. First to execute won the event.

A total of 45 teams registered. 1st Place was secured by Alister Lewis, Iona D’Souza and Megha Bhaktha from IV year ‘B’ and 2nd Place was awarded to Deeksha Alva, Harold Amin and Mahesh Gadiyar from III year ‘A’. Participation certificates were given to the other 6 teams who qualified to the 4th Round. All participants enjoyed the event and have given a positive feedback.

JUSTCODE IT

 

The event was scheduled to begin at 11.00 am in the Database management system lab organized by Rohit K Rao and volunteered by S Dhanashree, Ranjith Kumar, Priyanka, Sharanya P from 3RD year and special management of the event by Aatash Sengupta from 4TH year.

A total of 11 teams participated in the competition, each consisting of 6 members per team.

The event had 3 simultaneous round, the three rounds were as follows:

1. Programming with Data structures in C.

2. Queuing with Database in SQL.

3. Web Design using HTML.

 The competition was held for duration of one hour.

The competition thus came to end at 12PM.

The judges for the day were Mrs. Ushadevi and Mrs. Gayana, who guided the competition with their fair and unbiased judgment.

The event came to an end with the announcement of the winners for the competition  where the 1st prize was bagged by AK Rizwan, Hashhash, Shreejith, Pawan, Siddhartha and Raghavendra and second prize was bagged by Nathan, Loel, Tanya, Shreyas, Rigel Glen and Roidel.

 

COUNTER STRIKE 1.6

The event Counter Strike 1.6 consisted of 8 teams with 5 members per team battling it out on the console turf to win the grand prize.

The game kick started with a bang and showed a massive display of talent in the first person shooter genre.

Hosted by Gowtham from 4th year CS and organized by Shawn and Shad from 3rd year CS, the game proved to be a challenge to the contestants as they gave it their all on the de dust _map

Ultimately the grand prize of 1st place was bagged by the 4th years, wining a grand total of Rs. 1000. This was handed over to the wining team by Mr. Prithviraj, consisting of Chinmaya, Abin, Gowtham, Hashhash and Abdul.

Overall, this was a fun filled challenge to both the players and the audience who had come to witness the event. Truly, it was an event to be remembered.

 

MINI PROJECT

Students from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years stepped away from their normal schedule to take part in an event that allowed them to showcase their projects that they’ve been working on. “Mini Project” was a glimmer in the Aurora fest after the unprecedented success last year.

Mr Thyagaraju was the featured chief guest, inspiring students to find a stream they were passionate about.

The presentations struck a chord with the viewers. There were 15 participating teams in total who presented their projects regarding various fields of computer science and electronics.

They were judged by Mr. Thyagaraju on the basis of the following criteria:

      Design -15

      Implementation/working-15

      Presentation -10

      Application -5

      Queries -5

 

With a total of 50 marks covering all aspects of the projects.

The students were given 5 minutes to present their respective projects and 3 mins to answer the follow up queries. All the teams displayed epic enthusiasm during the event. There were projects related to C, C++, web development, Arduino, home automation, graphics and other various areas of computer science engineering.

The event took place in M.Tech Lab. It was organised by Athiya Marium and Shreyas Shet.  The event was a great success which ended with the prize distribution ceremony where Arun and Siddesh secured the first place and  Shad, Shreyas, Shawn and Shannon secured the 2nd place.

 

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