Departmental activities

Workshops and Seminars:
 
     Seminars/Conferences and Trainings attended by the Faculty: 
 
  • All the Faculty of the Department attended and participated in the Workshop organized by Kerala Education Grid Centre IIITM-K on Analysis and Design of Algorithms - Part II held on August 26-27, 2005.
  •  Biju Varghese, Shibu Vishwam and S. Asha attended a one month Training on Computer Networking (CCNA) in August 2005.
  •  Prof K.O Koshy, S Asha and Anita John participated in the Workshop organized by Kerala Education Grid Centre IIITM-K on Analysis and Design of Algorithms - Part I held on April 2-3, 2005.
  •  Prof K.O Koshy, Paul Raj, Biju Varghese and S Asha attended a one day seminar on CISCO products in June 2005.
  • Prof K.O Koshy, S Anila and  S Asha participated in the Workshop organized by Kerala Education Grid Centre IIITM-K on Database Management Systems held on November 20, 2004.
  • Biju Varghese and S Hari attended a 2 month Training on Java and J2EE during November, December 2004.
  • Prof K.O Koshy and Biju Varghese participated in the one day Workshop organized by the Computer Society of India - Trivandrum Chapter on Web Services held on 9th October 2004.
  • Biju Varghese and Anu Joseph attended a 2 month Training on Linux Administration and Networking during November, December 2003.
  • Ann Dickson and Tessy Mathew attended the one week Workshop (Mission 10 X) organized by Wipro - Part I held on December 13-18, 2009.·    
  • Ann Dickson and Tessy Mathew attended the 2 days Workshop (Mission 10 X) organized by Wipro - Part II held on April 19-20, 2010.
 
INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION:
 
Our students underwent Industrial Training to get familiarized with the latest technological trends in the software industry. Our final year batch students visited IBS, Bangalore in the year 2008-2009.
 
Industrial Training:
 
Our students underwent Industrial Training in the following industries
  • Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)
  • Center for Digital Imaging Technology (CDIT)
  •  InApp Information Technologies, Technopark
  •  Trans Software Solutions
  •  BSNL
  •  Electronics Regional Test Laboratory
  • Travancore Titanium Products
 
Industrial Visit
 
Our students visited the following companies as part of Industrial Visit:
  •  Microsoft, Bangalore
  •  Infosys, Bangalore
  •  eFunds, Chennai
  •  TCS, Hyderabad
  • Wipro, Pondicherry
  •  IBS, Bangalore
Projects Guided by the Department
 
Each year, the department is guiding 15 main project groups of the final year students as well as 15 Mini projects of the pre final year students. The students are encouraged to use the latest software tools available. This empowers the students to gain advanced knowledge and ability to work in team which are essential to excel in today's competitive climate.
 
The final year students will also have to present Seminar topics based on recent developments in the Computer Science and Information Technology fields.
 
CAMPUS CONNECT
 
Campus connect is an industry-academia partnership initiative launched by Infosys. The Campus Connect initiative aims to enhance the education level of engineering students, nationwide and thus increase the employability of these budding engineers. MBCET is one of the institutes that Infosys has selected to conduct the campus connect program. Our students will be trained with the latest technology trends needed for the software industry. The campus connect program was introduced in MBCET during the year 2008-2009 and is still continuing in full fledge.
 
Foundation Program

          
          Foundation Program (FP) is the training program designed for entry level students who on completion will be better prepared to work on real-life projects. Enabling teachers of the partner colleges to deliver FP is the most important task of this initiative. The training programs will be administered at the Campus Connect partner colleges. These programs enhance the IT industry specific basic knowledge and skills of the students of the partner engineering colleges.
The Foundation Program is designed by the Education & Research department of Infosys, primarily to train and prepare fresh engineering graduates who join the company, to take up challenging projects. It consists of courses in various streams such as J2EE, .Net, Mainframes, OS and other IBU specific streams. The Campus Connect (CC) initiative brings this well tested and successful training courseware and methodology in the generic stream to the partnering colleges. The generic stream courses will be taught directly by the partner college faculty, who are enabled by the Campus Connect team. Campus Connect also provides the necessary courseware and support to implement and sustain the program.
The generic stream courses cover the basic knowledge required for software professionals. Considering the college scenario, the same training program is to be delivered by college faculties with typical duration of 90 to 130 classroom hours.
 
The following is the list of Generic Courses of the Foundation Program:
 
Generic Courses of the Foundation Program
 
Computer Hardware and System Software Concepts (CHSSC)
Programming Fundamentals (PF)
Relational Database Management Systems
Programming and Testing 
System Development Methodologies
 
Foundation Program Deployment Process
 
The Foundation program deployment process consists of 3 sections - Pre Deployment, Deployment and Post Deployment. Pre Deployment involves planning and preparation for the rollout .Deployment involves course delivery and student performance assessment Post Deployment involves student counseling, reporting and feedback
 
We had started the Deployment phase of Campus connect Foundation Program on August 2009. A batch of 60 students was selected for the program. By the end of this program, the student develops a good knowledge and understanding of the concepts and thus they get fully prepared to be software professionals. 
 
Faculty Empowerment Workshop –Mission 10X
 
Few faculty members from Computer Science and Engineering Department have participated in the “Mission 10X Faculty Empowerment Workshop” organized by Wipro Technologies from 14th to 18th December 2009 and they received the ‘Dale Carnegie’ certificate in ‘High Impact teaching skills’.
 
National Convention, Conferences:
 
The 26th National Student Convention of Computer Society of India, was held at MBCET from 2nd to 4th September 2010. This National Convention was organized by Computer Society of India (CSI) Trivandrum Chapter and hosted by Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology during Sep 2-4, 2010 and the theme for this year’s convention was “IT for Nation Development”. The three days event was inaugurated by Capt. Raghu Raman, Head, National Intelligence Grid.
The various events included Paper presentations, project presentations, technical quiz, elocution competition etc. Some novel events like ‘Dream Big’ – presenting innovative ideas about technology and ‘Open Mind’ -  an event which challenges the participants to capitalize on the advantages of open source software were also present. ‘My Company’ was another event for future IT entrepreneurs. ‘Technology shoot’ was a newsreel video about a technology to prepare a brief 5 minute video on Technology/Product/Service.
Two workshops were also arranged. One is FOSS Workshop on “Getting started with Word press development in LAMP environment” and the other is a workshop showing “how to become a Mobile Application developer” with the knowledge of HTML, Java Script & CSS.  This has helped the participants in acquiring knowledge on the architecture of Nokia Web Run Time Widgets.