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Alumni Update: Parimala Alva (2004) secure admission in Robotics in UK University

2010-11-19T13:06:00.000+05:30

Hello Sir,

How are you? I enjoy reading your blog sir. Waiting for more. There is some good news from my end.

I managed to get offers from university of Leicester,university of Hertfordshire, Middlesex university,kingston university and university of Sheffield hallam for my MSc degree. I chose university of Hertfordshire because I was interested in the subject Artificial Intelligence and Robotics which they are offering in january. This has all been possible because of yourrecommendation letter and support. Thank you very much sir. I am very grateful.

Sincerely,

Parimala Alva

Samveshana Quiz

2010-11-16T17:13:00.000+05:30

This video is a PREREQUISITE View for Samveshana Quiz

Nikhil Kulkarni Visits SDM again

2010-11-06T12:07:00.001+05:30

Nikhil Kulkarni has visited SDM earlier and had shared his invaluable experience with our students. See comments by Vanishree and Pavan Here . Nikhil visited us again us on 4th and held a lively discussions with our VII semester students. Here are the highlights

Develop interest and passion for something and chase it. Try to explore each thing things u learn in the wider context of their use and application. Friends suggestions made in SNS is based on algorithms
How to plan u r career. Take it as a 30 year journey; break into 6 parts of 5 year each. For each part have some specific purpose

0-5 years – learn as much as possible about your work and domain
6-10 years – specialize in one or more domains.
10-15 try out different roles
15-20 – consider opening up u r own venture ( Mitesh Naik
20-21 become best known name in the field

Communication skills- contact people; read their blogs, comments on them, write small messages in email – not more than 7 sentences
Networking – find people and join their address list – get their cards etc

Amith and Divya make " Give it back to institute" Visit

2010-11-06T11:49:00.000+05:30

Today was one such special day where past meets the future in the present or experience meets the anxiety or a strong sense of “giving it back to my institution” propels a lively and interesting interaction.

The Narendra Couple – Amith and Divya, classmates , 2006 passouts interacted with the current VII semester students and shared their views and experience and answered many questions from the student audiences, Here are the key points enunciated by them.

Amith Narendra addressing VII semester students on 4th November, 2010

Don’t build walls; INSTEAD build bridges and Open Up: Narendra made a very observation to by asking students that why you – boys and girls still seat separately and stay away from each other. In industry such a separation or demarcation is not seen nor supported. One has to interact with all kinds of people and has be feel comfortable in interactions involving people of other genders, different age groups, geographical origins. So open up your minds, mingle with people and try to gain confidence in interacting with others.
Learn with purpose, contexts and relate your learning to future. “How of many of you are proficient in any one of the programming language you have studied” he challenged the students. While no one in the class took that challenge, he explained that this happens because – you study each course in “isolation” and with a very small purpose of completing it in a given semester. Instead of that one should try to see each subject in the context of entire engineering course and see it as a kind of foundation to the things to come in future.

Example: While studying a programming language say C a student may always keep asking himself “what features of this language might be needed during the future semesters where I will learn DATA STRUCTURE, OS or even carrying out project?” Such approaches provide a cumulative scheme in which you will be able to learn with an eye on current and future utility of that topic or course. Try to use backward and forward thinking and find out extended use of each topic in next course, next semester and even beyond that

Discuss Topics and Trends with others: Actively take part in the happenings of the world – at least in the fields related to your domain- what is happening in IT field, who is buying and what, who is acquiring whom? Such knowledge provides a wider perspective of real world which in turn helps you to make informed decisions.
Prepare for Interviews: Narendra being part of many recruitment events informed students about the thinking of selectors when they look at fresher CV and kinds of questions they pose. More than the academic records, the interview committee looks at candidates ability to approach a problem and different perspective he or she can bring to the company
Some of the other points highlighted were the needs for establishing networks, communication skills and how to develop them. He gave an example of a student who is to make calls to Vodafone customer help to learn English fluency.

CSE dept bids farewell to Devi Prasad Achari

2010-11-03T10:53:00.000+05:30

Mr Deviprasad Achari, who was working as attender in CSE department is leaving and moving to SDM Ayurvedic College, Udupi. The department bid a farewell to him on 2nd November, 2010. Wishing him all the best in his future life and endeavorer.

Mr Deviprasad receiving momento from Prof. J V Vadavi

Neha Hulkoti(2010): becomes TCS Associate.

2010-11-02T13:22:00.000+05:30

TCS took over SuperValu India. Now i am a TCS associate. Neha had earlier joined SuperValue in July this year. Here is the report

IBM RFT Certification Exam on 1st Novemberm 2010

2010-11-02T13:02:00.000+05:30

IBM conducted a certification exams on RFT for our students. About 60+ students took the exams. Here are snaps of the event.

Prof. S L Deshpande Assumes Office of the HOD

2010-11-02T12:52:00.000+05:30

On Friday, 29th October, 2010, Prof. S L Deshpande assumed the office of HOD, CSE. Here are some snaps,

From L to R: Prof Joshi S M, Prof. J C Karur, and Prof. S L Deshpande

Prof. S L Deshpande, HOD CSE

Alumni Update: Sahity Shetty(2010), Sarah ganihar(2010)

2010-10-10T09:52:00.000+05:30

Hi Sir,

I wanted to update u that today me and sarah are giving an presentation of our project in FACEBOOK DEVELOPER GARAGE", Banglore. Nikhil Kulkerni Sir gave us this opportunity. Just wanted

you to know about this. Have a nice day sir :-)

Regards,

Sahitya Shetty

ph :9535063753

Career Update from Neha Hulkoti(2010)

2010-08-01T11:03:00.001+05:30

How are you doing? I got job in SuperValu Services India . It is the 3rd largest US grocery retailing company. I am into infrastructure services. To be more specific , i am dealing with Service Management Tools . I joined on 22nd july . I would like to take this opportunity
to express my happiness and gratitude in having you as my mentor.

With best regards,
Neha Hulkoti

Prateek Shetty(2010): How my final year project landed me in Job

2010-07-27T10:26:00.001+05:30

Hi all,

It gives me immense pleasure to share my experience with all you juniors. Here is a small article on how my final year project helped me get a job! Ravindra Sir had asked me to write this long back, but due to my busy schedule I couldn’t. I believe it’s better late than never, so this is how it goes…

Once you enter your final year the search for the project group starts. And after the group is formed, starts the hunt for the project topic. Can say it as the most vital part of the project. Some think of the marks they are going to score if they take up a particular project and some think of the things they can learn while doing the project. This reminds me of what my friend Rohan Nayak used to say, “It doesn’t matter how much you score in your project, what matters is how much you learn out of it”. And remember, if all you want is to get some marks there are easy ways out. But we chose the hard way and under the guidance of Ravindra Sir and mentorship of Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni from Minglebox, we started our project ‘Social Network Aggregator’.

To say in brief about the project, we wanted to do something that has real world application, a product. We can call it as a WEB 3.0 application that aggregates data from different social networks. We aggregated data from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, through which one can upload his status simultaneously on all three networks. It’s been done using the API’s provided by these networking sites, protocol called OAuth for user authentication, and PHP. They say that getting a job off campus is nut cracking experience. But in reality, if you are good there are always people ready to hire you. I will be always thankful to Ravindra Sir for offering me an opportunity, and I made the best out of it. I proudly tell that I had got offers from two companies!! Out of which I chose InfoBridge Solutions, Pune. I was hired as a PHP developer. Learning experience and exposure a fresher gets in a small company or a startup can never be compared with that of the IT giants!!

That’s all I got to say fellas, all the best for your project and future. Thank you Ravindra Sir, for giving me this opportunity.

Regards,

Prateek Shetty

Jr Software Developer,

InfoBridge Solutions, Pune.

Email: prtek.shetty@gmail.com

Himanshu explains the importance of Internship and how to find one

2010-07-20T12:33:00.000+05:30

Few steps to get internships during summer vacations. Drafted from my own experience.

1.) If you want to work in months of June to august, start looking in last December-January itself.

2.) The IT sector is so huge, so decide a domain in which you would like to work and learn some related

technologies.

e.g. Web-Design/Development - Php, Java, Javascript, Ajax etc

App-development for iphone, blackberry, etc - Java, Objective C etc

Enterprise Solutions - VB, VB.Net, DBMSs

3.) Now search on the internet about the companies which suit your domain. Get the contact info

of their HR department.

4.) Send them a mail writing that why would you like to work for them. Your interest, and what period

of time you would be available, preferred location etc. Attach your RESUME.

5.) Do this for all companies which suit your domain.

6.) If you have any relatives/contacts working in such companies, feel fere to ask them to refer you.

Dont hesitate. At the maximum, they will say a NO to you.

7.) Register yourself on the websites specifically for internships. Currently I know 2 of them.

http://www.hellointern.com/

http://www.twenty19.com/

There may be many more.

8.) Even if you dont get an internship, dont worry. At least join some courses related to your domain.

Or get involoved in some personal project of your own.

9.) If you wish to pursue post-graduate courses, this is the best time for joining any full time institute for

GATE/GRE/CAT etc. Many institutes run vacation specific courses.

10.) At last, to include, only 1 point, 3 months is huge amount of time. Dont waste it sitting ideally at home.

Himanshu Sarawagi

Preeti Hedge VII Sem - Internship at Total Computer Software

2010-07-20T09:04:00.000+05:30

Preeti Hedge, current VII semester is undergoing internship at Total computer softwares, Bangalore. Her intership includes technical writing stuffs, lik srs and documentations and now m learning .net simultaneously. Good to know this

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

2010-07-14T08:45:00.000+05:30

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

I am very keen on sharing my final year project experience with my you all because I do understand the difficulty in choosing the right topics and even I was once in a dilemma like you guys not aware what kind of topics to be chosen for. The final year projects are not just gonna add to your academic brilliance but most of the times decide your career. So the topics for the project must be chosen very very carefully.

I am tech savvy and I had a great appetite for learning and staying updated about the latest and upcoming technologies.Before I decide any thing regarding my final year, I had two objectives that has to be fulfilled by project.Firstly it should be helpful to a group of people or a community like Education, Healthcare etc.Secondly it should possess a strong business objective, so that I should be in a position to promote it has product. Since the word “cloud computing” was in the buzz, I felt this could be one such interesting topic which i could take for my career deciding project. So I and my team approached ‘ happy-to-help-anytime’ Dastikop Sir, who gave us a clarity of the subject.

“CLOUD BASED TEACHING SYSTEM”(CBTS) was my final year project. The objective of this project is to bring the traditional class room teaching system a new dimension. Utilizing the resources which are already available in web, we are able develop a new product which can be managed effortlessly.By cloud-based teaching-learning system we mean a method of teaching where web is the point of contact between teacher and learner. This system may be used independently or in conjunction with class room teaching.

CBTS harnesses variety of cloud resources to design, develop and deploy teaching courses and delivers them over the web. By end-to-end we CBTS covers all aspects of teaching process such as Course registration, content delivery, monitoring of students progress, assignments, tests and final certification culminating with warding grades to registered students. The CBTS will be accessible to teacher and students at a web-interface and acts as a dashboard.

Suprizingly “Cloud Based Teaching Sytem” is not just our final year project, it is going to be a research activity soon as “Cloud Learning Environment”. People across the world(US/UK/Canada) are showing keen interest.Thanks to Social Networking sites.

I would suggest you to go for upcoming technologies since the industry prefers such projects rather than the conventional age old concepts. Lot many developers and Engineers are already working on traditional systems, to make different identity in the industry, its very important to up with a OUT OF BOX thinking and start working on cutting edge technologies.Finally its your interest all which matters.Prioritize your interests and strengths and do thorough searching before you choose the topic.

Vijay Sali: How my project won me the job

2010-07-12T16:45:00.001+05:30

Hello,

Its my immense pleasure to share my experience about “ How my project helped me to get my first job”.... Firstly my heartily thanks to Prof.Ravindra Dastikopa, for giving me an opportunity to share my views & experience in getting my first job...

During 7th semester myself with my team were thinking to do something which is new , innovative, and helpful to society , this was our main objectives.... As we approached Professor he suggested his idea's which will be helpful for the education system i.e “CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.

Here started our journey to think in the direction of "CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.... With this in mind we started searching more information with respect to this and during this session lots of brainstorming sessions happened on requirement collection, constraints, and choosing domains (Like java, python and .net)..... Finally we where al set & started our work in this .....

We understood the entire system environment and stepped into executing the plans what we had.. We took java as platform to develop a system. In between we faced lots of errors and constraints , that we fixed it .. And finally done with the project successfully ....Here , I would like to mention one more person Mr. Earlence Fernandes from PUNE , who helped & guided us during the time of project development....

In the entire process i have really learn' t lot many things which polished me to transfer myself from normal student to become a Professional and i'm very happy & satisfied with the work i have done so far ...... A Knowledge gained from our project really helped us to get a job which i'm in now.... Project really made us to enter into the Corporate world that too soon after my engineering without much delay ......

Finally coming to the job, offcourse the most important thing ....

I have applied to the job where I can apply my skills and get more knowledge about the industry.. They called for face to face interview.. I was confident in my work & on myself ...... Interview went nearly 6 Hrs .. It was pure technical session, in that they had asked on some basic concepts of Computer Science field , java and offcourse abt GAE (Google App Engine , i.e , based on my project ) .. And after 2 days of my interview I got my OFFER LETTER to my mail joining was on 5th July .... All this happened and stil our 8th sem results were not announced yet & i had an OFFER LETTER for my FIRST JOB in my hand....

If i just turn back & see, feels like all this happened like a miracle even though there were lots of ups & downs until the completion of my project ..... Finally my project helped me to get near to my destiny.....

by VijayKumar Sali, Jr. Software Developer ,Inkorus Solutions,Pune, India

THINK 10: Workshop on Web Tools for Learning and Teaching

2010-03-22T15:51:00.001+05:30

THINK-10

A Hands on Workshop
on
Web Tools for Learning and Teaching

Introduction

We have been often told that this is an age of life long learning. In fact it more than that, this is also an age of life long working and living too. In this technologically advanced age, tools are integral part of our life and WEB has become a powerful companion of learners and professionals and a veritable resource.

The purpose of this HANDS ON WORKSHOP is to sensitize the user about the true potential of web resources- information and tools and introduce some of the important ones. During the workshop the participant will be introduced to various web tools, their features and how to use them purposefully.

HIGHLIGHTS of the workshop: In addition to general introduction to tools such as email, search engine, blogs, the participant will understand how to

Create, submit ,share and publish docs online
Collaborate project work using online docs
Create, and publish a quiz using docs
Create and publish a blog
Using Search engines effectively and creating Custom Search engines
Harness community tools such as groups, social networking
use web tools for personal and professional purposes

Pointer to education resources such as open ware

Projects with web tools

and MUCH More !!!

For a Preview of workshop Visit

Web Tools for Learning and Teaching

for further details contact

Ravindra Dastikop,

Workshop coordinator
email: ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com
Cell: 99808 73130

http://wtlt.blogspot.com

Openings at Bluecoat

2010-03-10T21:29:00.001+05:30

As you already know that S7 software is acquired by BlueCoat ( www.bluecoat.com).. and it is a product based company
now i am an employee of BlueCoat...

Sir, there are lot of opportunities in the field of networking., in our company.

looking for :

3+ experience candidates with experience on networking.

sir, please ask our seniors to contact me if they are planning to hop to another company and to those who are planning to work in a product company.

my email id : sameer.kathawate@bluecoat.com

Openings at CTS

2010-02-23T16:28:00.000+05:30

Dear All

We propose to organize combined campus (off-campus) recruitment drives across select locations for 2009 batch freshers ONLY. Towards this, we have opened up registrations in the Cognizant Careers Portal (https://careers.cognizant.com), under the “Freshers” section. Interested students, as per the criteria mentioned in the portal, can log onto it and submit the relevant details.

If found suitable as per eligibility criteria, they shall be invited to participate in the off-campus recruitment drives. Details of the drives will be shared with the eligible candidates, as and when it is scheduled.

Kindly share the information with interested students of the 2009 batch ONLY.

Thanks and regards

Cognizant Campus Team

SDMites Break their own record: 76 selected in Infy campus

2010-01-14T12:22:00.003+05:30

The college is happy to announce the news that 76 students from the college have been selected in yesterday's campus recruitment by software service giant Infosys. There can be no better way to start a new campus season than this. We congratulate each of these selected student who has set a good trend. The number 76 beats the previous highest 58 selected by CTS some time back.

Rashmi Kanchi(2009) Selected at Huwai

2009-12-21T10:17:00.004+05:30

CSE department is happy to share the news that Rashmi Kanchi (2009) is got selected for Huawei. She is joining as software engineer in the development stream

Congrats Rashmi Kanchi

2009-12-16T12:03:00.005+05:30

My Subex Experience By Shruti Lokapur

Miss Shruti Lokapur became the first student to be placed this year 2009-10. Here she has shared her unique experience. Department thanks her for this contribution.

more details on interview proceedings

Here I go with my Subex experience.

Well it was not any other company but Subex and hence the placement was bound not to be very easy. They conducted 2 pre-tests on C before the actual interview at Subex Bangalore. There were 11 students shortlisted from our college to attend the interview. It was a pool and there were also students from other colleges attending the interview. When I got to know that I was shortlisted for the interview, I had no intentions of getting into Subex and rather, I wanted to go for it as an experience.

Coming to preparations, I had just scanned through the subjects C, OOPS and Data Structures only. This was all with subjects. Rather I was banking on my listening to lectures in college. But yes, other preparations like working upon my confidence in presenting myself in front of the interviewer, clearly communicating what you want to communicate and knowing some minimum interview etiquettes also helped.

Even though there were no intentions of getting into Subex, I would give my best there and yes, I gave my best and today am going to be a SUBEXIAN

Finally it was 7th Dec. and we were in Bangalore to attend the interview for Subex. There were 3 rounds of technical interviews and 1 round of HR interview to be conducted. It was really a great feeling when we entered the building of Subex in Bangalore. We all were like wow, Subex!!!. Eventually the interviews started.

I got call for 1st round. It was all about my basics. How strong I was with my basics in C, C++, Data Structures etc. mattered. The projects I had worked on and the ones I am working on also had a great share in my interview. Then, there were also questions like, “what are your weaknesses?”, “What is your aim in life?” etc. This went on for about more than half an hour. When it was over, I was really satisfied with my performance and probably this was a great boost for me to move ahead with confidence. Thanks to my friends there who were the real source of confidence to me.

Then it was announced that I was shortlisted for the next round of interview. I was almost sure that it would be the case. There were totally 5 students from our college attending this round. In the next round of interview, it was practical knowledge than theory. I had to explain everything with a diagram or a flow chart. Every question was expected to be answered with a pen and paper. Here there were questions on OS, Networks along with C, OOPS and DS. I was also asked about various projects I had worked on and my contribution in them. I was asked about my aim in life and how Subex would help me in reaching to it. At the end when I was asked if I have any questions, I asked him about my performance. He said, “Well Shruthi, from my perspective you are a best fit for Subex, but let us see, you have two more rounds to go”. That was one moment I would always cherish. I came out and just could not stop smiling. That moment I felt very proud of myself.

Next round started and 3 from our college attended this round. I was called in soon (it was with V.P. of Subex, Bangalore unit). Here it was less of subjects and more of testing our management skills. However, there were questions asked on DBMS, OS and OOPS. I was tested for my team management skills and being a leader. There were some questions to test my attitude and approach when a problem arose. I was asked about my aim in life. When I was asked if I have any questions other than feedback, I preferred to say something rather than asking. I just expressed my impression of Subex to her. Thanked her and left. It was really a great experience talking to somebody who manages the whole Bangalore unit of Subex and trust me it was not easy facing the interview.

Then, it was HR round. Two from our college attended this round. Here I was tested for my patience, my stress taking ability, my communication skills when trying to explain something to people with different levels of understanding. I was given some puzzles to solve. Rather than solving or not solving, it was my approach and attitude that mattered. The thing is with all this brain-storming I never lost patience, never broke-down or showed that I was under stress and probably this is what led to my success in HR interview. I was happier with my technical rounds than HR and hence had a doubt if I would be selected. Thanked him and came out and it was a great relief.

I had the satisfaction of giving my best that day. That is it and the interview was over. I was just thinking if I can ever come back again and walk this way back to Subex when leaving the campus. Left Bangalore and came back to my home (Sharavati hostel, SDMCET). Then, it was a tough time waiting for the results. But still, enjoyed it. Thinking of that interview day, that nervousness, friends wishing each other, calling up to parents and friends after each round and telling them that am moving ahead to the next round, it was awesome. I was ready to accept whatever comes to me.

Finally the most awaited results were out (on 12th Dec, 2009) and I was just too happy to know that I was PLACED. It feels really great on having achieved something like this. This achievement was not easy and I had to be the best at everything there. Having got the glimpse of what success may look like, I can proudly say that “Nothing Succeeds like Success”.

At this point, I should be thanking many people. First of all my parents and my sister for having confidence in me and blessing me, the staff CSE Dept. for their help and support, my friends who were always there for me, some of my seniors who guided me through the interview process. Thank you. It was not possible without you all.

At last, I would just say, believe in yourself and keep moving ahead in life. Be open to criticism and you will continuously grow. All the best.

Our Students Launch a Professional Website: CareerHelp

2009-12-16T09:11:00.001+05:30

We are very happy to note that a team of current V semester students- Himanshu, Shashak , Divakar and Aditi have launched a professional web site CareerHelp. This site intends to be a comprehensive source on Indian educational choices for all. The site outlook. layout and appearance is good. It will be useful from day 1, although some parts of the site under construction.

Good Luck and a Great beginning

Recruitment commences: Shruti Lokapur selected at SUBEX

2009-12-12T20:53:00.001+05:30

The department congratulate Miss Shruti Lokapur, VII semester for being the first student to be placed this year. She is being selected for Subex company. Hopefully this marks the heralding new trend of more and more students getting placed.

This also reminds me of a time, way back in 2004, when Anagha Paranjape became the first student to be campus recruited by Mindtree. It was a welcome development then as the previous year's recruitments were affected by 2001 dotcom bust. With that began a spree annual of campus recruitment by companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Mindtree and many more. Of course that was punctuated by recession in last two years. Now it looks things are changing.

Department welcomes this new trends and hopes everyone finds a placement.

5th Sem CSE rock GIT, Belgaum

2009-11-15T10:15:00.004+05:30

5th Sem CSE rock GIT, Belgaum

Paanchajanya, or the one who having control over the five classes of beings

was the name of competition held at Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum.

And our people from "5th" Sem, Computer Science Engineering, SDM College of

Engineering & Technology, showed they really are "paanch"janyas. With

overwhelming performance, they won in all fields be it technical, research,

programming or creativity and made us proud.

The list of achievements made is

1. Manasa S R

Lakshmi P K 1st prize for Paper presentation.

2. Varsha R B

Dhanyata Hegde Best Research Paper

3. Preeti Hegde 3rd prize for "Image Mash-Up."

4. Pavan S

Naveen B

Darshan M

Ravi N 1st prize in Software project competition.

All of us must be thankful to Raghunath Sir, who stood by these people

all the time, helped them around, and finally led them to victory. To conclude,

congratulations to all the winners on the behalf of our batch.

Thanks.

RAD training and Certification: 7-10 November 2009

2009-10-06T11:59:00.005+05:30

RAD Certification TEST Dates is Finalized: 07-10 November, 2009

TGMC registration is required for underdoing RAD training.

In case u want to regsiter for TGMC, u can do it here http://tgmc.in/

and last date for registration is 29.10.2009

The department of is arranging a 4 day training program on RAD during 11-14 October, 2009. RAD is a powerful tool and RAD certfication may improve your employability to a great extent. However, training is possible only if there are 60 registrations.

So in case u r interested in undergoing training, type "yes" in comments to this blog.

The last date for registration is 7th October, 11 AM

IBM DB2 Certification: 06.11.2009 at 9 AM

2009-10-05T16:14:00.004+05:30

DB2 CERTIFICATION test are schdeuled as follows

Date: 06.11.2009

Time: 9 am

Venue: TBA

All of u who appeared for MOCK TEST are eligible for taking the certification test

GOOD Luck

IBM DB2: Mock Test & Certifcation dates are Finalised

2009-09-24T15:31:00.000+05:30

As you know it too well about 130+ students enthusiastically registered for the IBM DB2 training and successfuly underwent three day training program. Now is the time to take up mock up test and get prepared for certfication test. Here are the respective dates

Mock up test on 29th September 2009

Certification Test: 3rd and 4th October, 2009

Start preparing !!!

All the best

Fresher's Day 2009: A Fantastic Event

2009-09-17T22:43:00.001+05:30

It was one of such evenings which in its “happenings “go many miles beyond your widest expectations. I am talking about today's fresher’s day that was arranged for the newly admitted first year students. Thanks to Prateek Shetty, I was made one the judges for event along with Prof. Kamalapur from Electrical Engineering department and Prof. Tejaswini Bhagawat, from Civil Engineering department. The function started at 4 .30pm. Ever since I accepted the invitation, I was cursing myself for accepting this drudgery.

But once the program started, every bit of apprehension was replaced by delightful evening of very interesting events. A total of 9 classes i.e A-I division students showcased their talents of various forms. Our work of assessment of events as judges was divided into determining winners in three categories: best MOC, best performance and best overall class.

Each class showed its best talent in a very colorful manner. The C division was best in overall performance. It got almost full marks for each event and was bale to entertain audience to the full. The best MOC prize went to Division I.. Using the idea of puppet show, they made MOC an impressive item of their whole show. There was a tough competition in best performance category. The amazing Akbar of D division delivered a great piece of solo dance which made audience to shout “once more” which he obliged very promptly. An equally amazing but well co-ordinated skit by F division won te finall approval of judges. Titled “ Dostana Bollywood” the skit was so nicely conceived, crafted and performed that, it may take stay in the minds of audience for long time to come. Each of actor in the skit was perfect “fit” and appeared have practiced a lot to bring put such a comprehensive show. In sum, it was great evening spent on wholesome entertainment.

With this event , every first year new entrant remains fresher any more. But he or she has become a proud member of SDMCET family. Welcome again

IBM DB2 training completed Successfully

2009-09-08T16:51:00.002+05:30

Today a 3 day training program on IBM DB2 is completed. Mr. Sunny Narang, of WebTekLabs, New Delhi conducted all the sessions for the last three days . More than 130+ students attended the training sessions.

We thank,

We thank Sunny for delivering excellent sessions
Shiddique, IBM Bangalore for his role in conducting this training here.
CSE department also thanks students for taking full benefit of training session and hopes that they are now ready for taking up certification test.

Now we look forward for certification exams

IBM DB2 training 6-8 September 2009

2009-08-19T12:04:00.007+05:30

IBM has renewed its offer to conduct DB2 training in our institute as for the following schedule

Training date(s) is

CONFIRMED 6-8 September, 2009

Certification Test: One week after training

Students having the following criteria:

1.Participated in TGMC '08 (if not students who are passing out in 2010)
Must have good knowledge of RDBMS
Branch: CS/IS/MCA 4.Min 60 Students We can have 3 days training from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM followed by Mock test and Online Test after a week
Course Details: DB2 9 Fundamentals IBM Certified Database Associate for DB2 9 Test
Details: Objective type exam No. of questions : 64 Passing % required : 59 % Duration of exam : 90 minutes Please find the Agenda and course details in the attached file. I will send the coursewares once the training dates are fixed.

Those who are interested may register by typing "Yes" in comments to this blog.

Last date for registration is 20.08.2009 5PM

CSE department bags 3 Performance Awards in Non-Teaching categroy

2009-08-15T10:18:00.003+05:30

The SDMCET has instituted best performance awards in the non-teaching category covering all technical and administrative jobs. Today during Independence day function, Principal announced the winners for the year 2009. CSE is happy to share the news that three of its members have won the awards

P.R Tadas
Vidyasagar
Shaik

Department congratulates them all

PhD Studentships in Financial Text Analytics...

2009-08-15T08:10:00.002+05:30

Dear Student,

Here is invitation for four PhD studentships in financial text analytics to commence in 2009 and 2010.

Possible research areas
include information retrieval, information extraction, text summarisation, network analysis, visualisation and adaptive adaptive
systems with applications in surveillance, compliance management and trading. The positions will be based at the Capital
Markets CRC (http://www.cmcrc.com/) and Macquarie University (http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/).

Please see the attached PDF file for details.

Applications:
CMCRC application forms can be downloaded from
http://www.cmcrc.com/index.php/scholarships/phd-scholarships

Completed forms should be sent to:
Capital Markets CRC, PhD Scholarship Selection Committee,
GPO Box 970, Sydney, NSW 2001

Good luck and thank you for your attention.

Placement and Internship Programme (PIP)
Career and Placement Task Force
Faculty of Engineering
https://pip.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/jobs/

CSE department bids farewell to Prof Meenaxi Raikar

2009-08-14T15:03:00.002+05:30

The department of computer science and engineering arranged a farewell function for one of its senior faculty Prof. Meenaxi M Raikar. Prof. Meenaxi is leaving SDMCET for nearly a decade of service. She joined department way back in 2001. She is moving to BVB CET, Hubli. One of the accomplished faculty , Meenaxi was known for her teaching and lab sessions.

CSE wishes all the best wishes to Prof Meenaxi in her future career.

Techstart

2009-08-12T17:05:00.002+05:30

Here is some information shared by Praveen Lokur (2006)

Sir i'm sending you below link which provides some info abt internship program for students who don't have a job rght now, because they weren't recruited on campus or due to the deferred joining dates. I dont knw how much it will be useful as the dates mentioned in this link are of last month

http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=62&contentid=20090716200907160352548908a84f98e&sectxslt

Ignore the mail if you would have already come across this program

--
regards
PHL

Ranganath Yadwad enters wedlock

2009-08-12T12:26:00.002+05:30

The department has a happy news to share with you all. Ranganath Yadwad is engaged and is getting married. His choice of life partner is Miss Sharada who is doing her final year BBA in Hubli. Marriage is fixed in the month of November, 2009

Department wishes him all the best

openings for 2009 passedout

2009-08-06T21:06:00.002+05:30

Respected Sir,

Kindly forward this mail to concerned people.

Greetings from Hewlett Packard!!

This is with reference to your profile posted on Job Board.

We have Fresher openings in HP STSD.
What we have for you!
You can look forward to a fulfilling and enriching career with HP. At HP, we encourage employees (after a minimum of 18 months in the current roles) to explore career opportunities across different business units, customer segments and functional roles within HP itself.

Eligibility Criteria:
1. Education – B.E/Btech.
2. Stream – ISE, CS, EEE, E&C.
3. Aggregate – 70% & above(Mandatory) with no backlogs.
4. Year of pass out – 2009.
Candidates who meet the above Criteria please revert with your updated resume & the following details ASAP –
The below details are mandatory else will not be processed.
Name:
College Name:
Education:
Stream:
Aggregate Percentage:
Year of pass out:

Regards,
Prabhu LV
prabhu.lv@hp.com
HP India – Human Resource.

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H.D.Aparna

Department Welcome New Faculty

2009-08-01T12:20:00.002+05:30

CSE department welcomes the following newly joined faculty.

Anand Pashupatimath
Mayur Patil
Vishal Kulkarni
Sushma Nadagouda
Indira Umerji

Hong Kong PhD fellowships

2009-07-31T16:49:00.003+05:30

Hello ALL

Here is some educational opportunity at Hongkong University

Please visit this URL. If you know any student(s) who could apply to this scheme, please forward this mail to him/her.
http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/hkphd/

Regards,

Ravindra Dastikop

Invoking Innovation: Intellectual property Rights event Planned: Seeking your suggestions

2009-07-31T09:29:00.003+05:30

These are days of innovations. Innovators are ruling business; driving economy and prospering companies. Be it Google’s search algorithm or Guruji’s propriety search system or even Zimblee’s a patent pending self-service digital advertising platform are all but examples of productive innovations at work.
As such it has become imperative for engineering college to prepare its students for innovative world. However a sustainable innovative world demands a system for protection of innovator’s invention. Such a system of protection is generally known as Intellectual property Rights or IPR. SDMCET has set up a IPR Cell to help educate its stakeholder on issues of IPR.

IPR Event Planned for 05-09-2009
IPR Cell @ SDM has planned an IPR event on 5th Sepetmber, 2009 and the focus of the event is students. We have tentatively planned the following sessions.

Session on Basic IPR
Session on student research and how it benefits students in their career and personal growth
Session on importance and use of patent literature
Inviting students to submit their inventive ideas and screen the same and select say 5-8 good ideas prior to the event. Resource persons could present their quick view on best form of protection and further steps needed to commercialize the same.
A student presentation giving their perspective on conducting research and the inventing process could also be included.
(Tentative) a session on invention related to teaching may be included. An example may be US3,382,592 “Apparatus and method for teaching handwriting to children”.
A panel on a relevant topic

Seeking Your Inputs:

In this regard, we request you all to send your comments, suggestions. Your experience in industry may help us fine tune this

At SDM Since 1987: Twenty Two years at SDMCET

2009-07-30T08:23:00.004+05:30

It was this day in 1987. I came to Dharwad to join as a computer operator in the department of Computer Science and Engineering. At that time CSE was part of E & C department headed by Prof. B N Devraj and Principal Prof. G.Purushothama. The CSE department had just started B E in computer science and engineering affiliated to Karnatak University, Dharwad and the first batch had just completed first year and had entered department for thier second year. The current BSL( Basic Skills Lab) was the computer centre housing 7-terminal NELCO system running on Unix OS.

The first assignment given to me was to set up login account creation for students and then class strength was just 27. Pascal was the programming language.

Immediately after the joining, I was sent for a training on UNIX system at NELCO, Mumbai. Thus began my professional career, since then I have undergone a number of training and presented papers in various conferences. I have visited to countries such as Nepal, Singapore, Scotland, Switzerland and visited homes of many alumni in those countries: Rasika Deshpande ( in Orlton, Switzerland, Harish Katti , Singapore, Nikhil in Kathmandu Nepal) to name few. It has been great experience and eventful 22 years in this esteemed institute.

Priyanka Shetty(2009) Ventures into Teaching

2009-07-26T13:40:00.001+05:30

Dear Sir,
I am happy to inform you that i have been working for the past 1 week. I am now a lecturer/assistant professor for BSc(IT) students in Anna Leela College in Mumbai. I have already taken 10 classes. I teach them 2 subjects Introduction to Information Science and Digital Computer Fundamentals. They cover subjects like Computer Organization,Networks ,Microprocessor and such topics.My students are learning quick and enjoying my class.

The joy at the end of the class when my students solve the problems by themselves is really something huge. I have been teaching them like they are small kids,so i start from the basic and make them understand. I have always liked your teaching sir,so like how you used to teach us with latest information and with the examples,I too teach them by giving examples of the latest technology. I have to go just 4 days a week that too for 2 to 3 hrs a day. But the preparation before the class is the hard work. I make sure i study from 3 to 4 textbooks before i teach them. I am not missing college life now i feel I'm back to college. The pay too is good.

All in all I am really happy. I had a technical interview where there were 10 to 15 people who were interviewing us.There were experts on various topics and members of the Mumbai University Board present for the interview.I answered all the technical questions they asked me as they asked about my project.The next day they tell me that out of the 30 to 40 people they interviewed they liked only 3 of them and i was one of them.That was one of the happiest days of my life.They have asked me to think about further studies and i have assured them that i will do my masters.
I have always enjoyed teaching my younger cousins and my friends,but i never realised this could be a good career option for me.But now i don't want to ask for anything better. Thank you sir for being such a good teacher.All my student life i have had a favourite teacher in the different schools i studied,in college you were one of them.I will contact you when i need any help if its OK sir.

Thank you again sir,

Techstart: An Openings Opportunity in Recession Times

2009-07-17T17:43:00.000+05:30

Persistent along with some software companies (Microsoft, WebSym, Soft Corner and a few others), has started an initiative named ‘Techstart’, that will offer training and short-term projects to recession-hit aspirants, increasing their employability. This programme will help students utilize their precious time effectively. They will not be wasting their time waiting for their date of joining after recruitment through campus.

You can find more details in yesterday’s Pune Mirror or through the following link:

http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=62&contentid=20090716200907160352548908a84f98e&sectxslt=

You can find more details about “Techstart” at www.techstart.in.

Sumant Deshpande Joins Tata Technologies, Pune

2009-07-12T18:47:00.002+05:30

Sumant Deshpande is happy to share some good news that he has joined Tata Technologies Ltd, Pune. He got job through reference. The selection process consisted of two level of interviews. Now he is put on training

Congrats Sumant

It is a good sign for all of us. May be jobs are opening up to all

In Forum with Former Students

2009-07-11T21:18:00.010+05:30

List of people who were present at FORUM

It was one of great days in recent times. I was to meet many of my former students in one of Bangalur's best known landmark FORUM. Since, I am here in Bangalore for a month long training on e-learning and e-teaching , I had thought of meeting some of my former students on weekends. With the help of always helpful Vivek Kamath(2008) this was to come true today. As planned, I left IIITB ( where I am staying for training) at about 9.3o am and reached Forum by 10.15am. Just before, I started, Brahmachaitany, a 2006 passout had called me saying that he was also just leaving home and would be reaching the Forum by 10.30am and he did. For about an hour or so, we chatted over many things- his job, company, future prospectus etc. We did strolled through forum and had coffee. Although many had promised to come, no one appeared there even by 12.oo NOON. I was getting worried. Then all of a sudden started the inflow of students. First came Tejaswini(2008) and Sweta(2008), followed by Naumaan(2009) . Promod Wadappi joined us and sent sms to Bipin and Nagaraj. Closely followed Vicky Adhikari (2004) and Anshul. Slowly but surely we were having encouraging numbers. At about 1.30pm we decided to move to restaurant for lunch and it was Vicky Adhikari who led us to a great dinning place. Next one hour was all but having food and talking to each other. Mean while, Anusha Shetty(2006) and Giridhar(2006) joined us in the hotel. While Anusha made a hurried return, Giridhar stayed for longer. We returned to Forum again and happy to find few more students : Aditya Agarwal, Akshata Kulkarni. Then we waited a long for the arrival of Keerti Kulkarni who joined us at almost 3.30pm. Still more surprising was the arrival of Karthik, who passed out from Mechanical department. I was not able to recall his name, later I recalled that he was a volunter for one of the cultural event for which I was in charge. In the end we had another round of coffee and disbursed. May be we meet other alumni next week.

Congrats on U R Individual and Group Success in VIII semester Exam

2009-07-07T23:04:00.002+05:30

VTU results for the VIII semester are out and we are happy to note that most of you have come out with flying colors. I just noticed that some of u have scored in excess of 80 which needs special appreciation.

On this success, I congratulate each one of u and wish you a very successful future life.

Sayonara-2009

2009-06-22T11:01:00.010+05:30

It is official now. With the successful completion of ongoing and forthcoming project Viva you all have become technically bachelors of engineering in computer science and engineering. And more importantly you are ready to enter the wonderful world of work. And there you are expected to stay, survive and thrive for next couple of decades. Yes , you are entering working world at a rather difficult times. It is true that some of you have earned placement already, but most of you haven't. But remember difficult times are temporary and as history of railways says that whole phenomenon is transitory. Also remember tough times do not last but tough people do and I believe most of you have it in you all elements to succeed in future times. While most of you may be looking for jobs and working for others, also do consider going on your own- becoming entrepreneurs.

Like always our wishes are with each one of you. On behalf of myself and the entire department , I wish you all the best in future: every thing you do and pursue. Keep pinging me at (ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com) from wherever you are, whenever you want and for everything you need. Finally also take note that now on you are our proud alumnus and you have a special place a web site for SDM Alumnus to come together and share

All Final Year students.. Update u r resume regularly

2009-06-04T11:38:00.002+05:30

Dear ALL
Here is a message for you all from Suma ( 2008) pass out. She just got a job in a small company.

Tell all final year students to update der resume in all possible job sites.
Tell them to update atleast twice per a week So that der profile comes up when company people see the job sites and may get a call

SDMCET Alumni

2009-06-02T16:53:00.002+05:30

We are happy to share a good news that a new site has been built for SDM Alumni. Here is the link for the same

http://sdmcet.ac.in/alumni

Inauguration of Sliver Jubilee Alumni Block in SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad is scheduled on 4th June, 2009

Microsoft Proficiency Test= Model Questions

2009-05-20T20:31:00.001+05:30

The type of questions u can expet in the MPT -

1) which ms tool enables you to copy text from picture?

2) The windows mobile os uses which framework?

3) The codename of Windows7 OS?

4) Pick the odd now out notepad, paint,calculator,excel.

5) The physX properties supported by mrs(1.5) belongs to?

These are just sample questions. But in the main test you will have 30 0BJECTIVE type questions and the test will be for 30mins.

Microsoft Proficiency Test on 22.05.2009

2009-05-19T17:54:00.003+05:30

A " Microsoft Proficiency Test" will be held for all students of CSE & ISE on 22/05/2009 at 10AM.
The winners will recieve a free MCP examination vocher worth more than Rs. 5000

Last date for registration is 5pm on 21.05.09

Contact Ravindra Dastikop

For Venue check comments

Ravindra Dastikop

Candle Light Farwell: A Class Act by Batch'06

2009-05-14T21:13:00.011+05:30

Farewells are recurring feature in college life. But they are not repetitions. Every year the ingenuity of organizers make them more refreshing and for that reason are always eagerly awaited. Today's farewell'09 was worth the wait. It took almost a week's time get permission to organize this .Sometimes many of us feared that we might not get permission at all. But when they did get the permission, the batch 06 showed that they to can bring something special for the ocassion.

For most of the part evening, I was personally feeling that this year's send off looked lackluster affair compared to last year's. Although it started on a sober note, it picked up so well that I changed my feeling very soon and started enjoying. The games offered for seniors and their sequence was superb. The distribution of mementos in phases ( an example for division of labor lesson learnt in M & E) left no one yawning.

But the culmination of the evening, the candle light event was best of all and it was indeed a surprise which I guess every senior enjoyed wholeheartedly.

Thanks Batch 05 for wonderful work manifested through Bidaai

H.D. Aparna( Batch 2008) is getting engaged

2009-04-11T10:18:00.003+05:30

H.D. Aparna, a 2008 pass out, currently undergoing training at Chennai, CTS is getting engaged on coming Sunday. She served the department for a brief period of one semester and taught "Software engineering" to the current VI semester batch.

The department of CSE wishes Aparna all the best on this occasion.

Shruti & Aparna Win A Bundle of Awards

2009-04-07T19:56:00.001+05:30

It was last year (2008), that we ( myself and my friend Aparna Bhat of ISE Dept.) had sent a paper to Sukriti (Paper Presentation Competition), at BVBCET, Hubli and were very much disappointed that it was not even selected for presentation leave aside the prize…
This failure of last year is what made us strong. And this time, we decided that we should be winning there in BVBCET and we are happy to say that we did it. We bagged 2nd prize at National level Paper Presentation Competition (in Networks Stream). And it was not only in BVBCET, we also managed to win prizes at the State Level Tech Fest, Technomania2k9 in UBDTCE (2nd Prize), and at National Level Tech fest, Wiztec 2009 in GMIT (3rd prize), at Davangere.

The paper is on “Avoiding Accidents as Road Intersections Using the Concept of IP Surveillance.” It is our own proposal, our own idea, which we are proud to say…

The feeling of having successfully executed a plan and also getting the results as expected is great… It is like you know what is going to happen to you… We have learnt to be OPTIMISIC in spite of failures in life… It is rightly said “failures are the stepping stones of success”… Even though it is not a great achievement, but the lesson we have learnt out of it is priceless…

We had worked hard for this and we have done it… Great sense of satisfaction… More than winning prizes, this journey of three days (2nd Apr, in BVBCET, 3rd Apr, in UBDTCE and 4th Apr, in GMIT) has enriched our experience of learning process and we have learnt a lot in these days…

I would like to thank my teammate and one of my best friends, Aparna for everything… Thank you Aparna…

It was not possible without the help of the faculty members of CSE and ISE Dept. and some of our seniors who encouraged us and assured us that our idea is worth presenting. Thank you all.

DB2 Training for SDMCET

2009-03-31T22:26:00.003+05:30

Dear Sir,
As discussed, we can have the DB2 Training at your institute for the
students having the following criteria:

1.Participated in TGMC '08 (if not students who are passing out in 2010)
2.Must have good knowledge of RDBMS
3.Branch: CS/IS/MCA
4.Min 60 Students

We can have 3 days training from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM followed by Mock test and
Online Test on fourth day.

Course Details:
DB2 9 Fundamentals
IBM Certified Database Associate for DB2 9

Test Details:
Objective type exam
No. of questions : 64
Passing % required : 59 %
Duration of exam : 90 minutes

Please find the Agenda and course details in the attached file. I will send
the coursewares once the training dates are fixed. Kindly confirm asap.

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Think 2009: Invited to participate

2009-03-31T11:03:00.003+05:30

SDM CET is happy to announce the conducting of Think 2009 = during 18th and 19th April, 2009 -a mega event consisting of Technoscope, Automata, Robotricks and Troubleshoots. It is a State Level Paper Presentation to improvise on the different skills of the students. The events and topics for the respective branches is provided in here
Student are encouraged to take up active participation and share your interests and shine among the audience.

Good Luck and Great Participation

Yelling for Yashmin

2009-03-23T21:21:00.003+05:30

Before today, I never imagined that an accident could be so sudden and so brutal and so devastating. Yes, I am mourning the death of Yashmin, who until later afternoon today was alive, walking with her classmate and in a brief moment fell into her friend's agonising hands and slipped away from our world, forever. I feel doubly sad because fate didn't give her even a second to realise that she was ending her life in next split second. I don't even pray heaven, for it has shown its ugliest face ever.

BLOG ROLL :Student & Alumni

2009-03-22T06:13:00.002+05:30

I have noticed that some of our current students and alumni are active blogger. In order to help others to know about them- we have just started a Blog Roll- a list of blogs by our current and past students. Please see on the right panel. In case u wish to get your blog listed here, kindly let me know

Cognizant Transition'09: Kavith Archarya Shares her experience

2009-03-18T06:10:00.001+05:30

Cognizant transition 09 was a very gud experience..I learned a most valuable worldly lesson that day..In our personal life, experience is often the best teacher.it was the first time i had been to some IT company..i took part in movie making..there were too many competitors for this event..the event i liked most is quizwhich was ultimate and really a unforgettable moment..we got to know where we stand..transition 09 built some kind of inspiration in my life..we got to know how is professional life..Needless to say,transition 09 has adopted a professional approach. It has a team of highly qualified, experienced and committed members.. so i suggest to all my friends to grab the opportunity and take part in the upcoming events..

GATE 2009: 2008 batch students come out with Flying Colors

2009-03-16T19:01:00.004+05:30

The department of CSE congratulates the following students who are successful at the GATE 2009.

Sumant V Purohit percentile: 98.27 rank : 717 sumant_v_p@yahoo.co.in
Prasanna Kulkarni my percentile is 98.88 Rank :469 prasannaklkrn@yahoo.co.in
Manish Kulkarni 87 percentile manishkulkarni08@gmail.com

Congrats Again

Sridutta a VI Semester CSE student attends MS Boot Camp

2009-03-16T11:53:00.003+05:30

Sridutta B, VI SEM CSE attended Microsoft Student Partners Boot Camp, Microsoft Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
This camp had given us immensely to retrospect upon - the depth of knowledge, the exposure, and the experience was just tremendous!

This is how Sridutta sumps up “ One of the most important days of my entire life, because on this very special day I got the recruitment letter to be Microsoft Student Partner – to be one among the only 1445 MSPs in the whole world representing 91 nations. Oh! What a sense of achievement to be among the elite!

mingleboxER speaks to us

2009-02-14T13:03:00.007+05:30

Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni- Manager Key Accounts, Minglebox made a very interesting, impressive and engaging presentation to our students today. He packed his lively presentation with his personal anecdotal references, be it his travel with American students across India or his interview with a bollywood star. Our students identified him as one among themselves- for Nikhil Kulkarni is just 24 years old but seems to have seen so much of personal exploration and professional exposure. He advised students to set target for a 30 year career- divided into 6 test match format -each test running for 5 years. He advocated for a five year stay with any one company because that helps in understanding crucial aspects of company, industry. He advised students to

experiement heavily in the first 3-5 years of career as it may help them identifying their "real passion" and build a career around it.
Find a mentor who can show them the possible "futures" and lead them to there.
to remain grounded to realities all the time, it is OK to get excited for some time- but get back to realities at the earliest
Think big- keep focusing on how big can your idea or project become
Find out career models - think and act like them
later part of the presentation he covered more technical aspects such as Web 2.0 and how to go about product managements with illustrations. Finally he spoke about personal initiative- http://wegetahead.blogspot.com/ which is offering mentoring for needy people in north karantaka

In all the talk was refreshing, containing wealth of experiences and more. Thanks Nikhil

Where Does Management Fit in With Engineering Career?

2009-01-10T11:53:00.001+05:30

Engineering students in general fail to appreciate the importance of management discipline in their "future" career and as a student regard management course as something "foreign" and an "unrelated" to the chosen profession. This attitude of course is understandable given their parochial exposure to real world. As a student you might also have entertained such an attitude and within a short span of time after entering the world of work, you might have felt that " I should have taken management course bit seriously for my own benefit."
Students are always students and the current batch of students(2009-10) who will be studying a course in Management & Entrepreneurship are no different. However they are lucky in a sense to have alumnus like you who can help them change this (rather undesirable) attitude by way of advice, anecdote etc. So kindly tell your juniors what is the "Importance of Management in Engineering career?". More specifically you may describe one or more management principles you came across in working life that you can relate back to management course that you studied ( say annual appraisal meeting etc) and impress upon them. Please put your inputs as comments to this post

Using Web Tools for conducting Seminar on Project

2008-12-29T16:42:00.004+05:30

Background
Seminar on Project or simply Seminar is an integral part of VIII semester engineering course. The idea behind this academic activity is to encourage student to come up with an interesting topic connected to academics and make a presentation to an entire class. The entire process of seminar is expected to help student on how to choose a topic; research references to prepare the content for presentation and finally help him get rid of "stage freight" by making presentation to the class.
Choosing a topic is one of the most defining moment of seminar process. It is so because there are too many topics to choose from. Additionally for a faculty to see the there is no overlap or duplication of topics is a daunting task. Just imagine a class strength of 120 and the process of checking for duplication and even after choosing a topic each student has to come out with an "abstract" of his seminar topic to be approved by the concerned faculty. A seminar abstract to be approved must indicate two or more references consulted during the preparation of the abstract. So far students were asked to submit the seminar abstract on paper and it was very difficult for a faculty to check all reference.
Our Experiment
For the year 2007-08 we adopted a web-based approach to conduct the entire process of seminar. We asked students to submit seminar abstract along with references via email. We insisted that references must be URL's so that we can verify them at once. Submitted abstracts were read in email form only and references were checked by clicking through them. Duplicate Seminar topics were detected using "search within mail" feature thus reducing the work usualy assocaited with paper based abstract submission.
Once the seminar abstracts were accepted students were asked to prepare upto 15 slides using freely available online presentation tool and submit. Faculty went through the presentation and made suggestion if any and asked students to make the final presentation in the class. Thus paper work was eliminated to 100%.
While our approach simplified our work, it also gave our students to learn using email as means of submitting academic work and also learning using presentation software. The database of all such seminar is maintained is the next batch students are using it as reference.

What Next

We are now pondering over the merits and demerits of approach we adopted last time. What were its good aspects/bad aspects; to what extent was our approach helped students. Please send u r feedback

Tackling ETM

2008-12-04T19:32:00.000+05:30

In recent days I have been often asked by some students on how best to prepare for the Engineering Technology and Management (ETM). As you probably well there are 13 chapters and some of students want to find what are the important chapters to cover to ensure reasonable success. In particular the request can be summed up as follows" please can you guide us about how many chapters to be done and the important ones to be covered in ETM for final exams."

Just last year around this time you might have had a similar situation and found you way own way out. So In case you have some tips to offer, please do it. Please add them as comments to this blog

SDM CET celeberates Dr. Veerendra Heggade's 61th Birthday

2008-11-26T09:58:00.009+05:30

SDM College of Engineering & Technology, Dharwad celeberated the 61st birthday of Dr. Veerendra Heggadeji today. A function was organized in college auditorium on 25th November which was fully packed with students and staff. Prof. V. N Sukumar, Dean adminstration chaired the event. Also present were SDME secretary, Mr Jeenendra Prasad Ariga, Prof. K .Gopinath, Prof. Karjagi and Dr Shivapur. Prof. Parvati spoke about the eventful career of President and highlighted his contribution in the spheres of education, social upliftment.The faculty, staff and students took a oath admininstered by Prof. Sukumar, rededicating themselves to the vision of President and work towards realising the social goals set by him.

The function was ended with vote of thanks by Prof. Gopinath

Anagha Paranjape: Alumnus(2004) : Wedding Invitation

2008-11-24T12:46:00.001+05:30

Dear Friends,

I request your gracious presence at my wedding with
Manish
On
7th December, 2008.
Venue: Pooja International, PB Road, Davangere, Karnataka
Time:Reception and Dinner 7 pm onwards,

Please make this special moment even more special by your presence.
Thanks,
Anagha Paranjape

Using Web Tools for conducting Seminar on Project

2008-06-07T16:16:00.004+05:30

Background

Seminar on Project or simply Seminar is an integral part of VIII semester engineering course. The idea behind this academic activity is to encourage student to come up with an interesting topic connected to academics and make a presentation to an entire class. The entire process of seminar is expected to help student on how to choose a topic; research references to prepare the content for presentation and finally help him get rid of "stage freight" by making presentation to the class.

Choosing the topic is one of the most defining moment of seminar process. It is so because there are too many topics to choose from. Additional for a faculty to see the there is no overlap or duplication of topics is a daunting task. Just imagine a class strength of 120 and the process of checking for duplication and even after choosing a topic each student has to come out with an "abstract" of his seminar topic to be approved by the concerned faculty. A seminar abstract to be approved must indicate two or more references consulted during the preparation of the abstract. So far students were asked to submit the seminar abstract on paper and it was very difficult for a faculty to check all reference.

Our Experiment

For the year 2007-08 we adopted a web-based approach to conduct the entire process of seminar. We asked students to submit seminar abstract along with references via email. We insisted that references must be URL's so that we can verify them at once. Submitted abstracts were read in email form only and references were checked by clicking through them. Duplicate Seminar topics were detected using "search within mail" feature thus reducing the work usualy assocaited with paper based abstract submission.

Once the seminar abstracts were accepted student were asked to prepare upto 15 slides using freely available online presentation tool and submit. Faculty went through the presentation and made suggestion if any and asked students to make the final presentation in the class. Thus paper work was eliminated to 100%.

While our approach simplified our work, it also gave our students to learn using email as means of submitting academic work and also learning using presentation software. The database of all such seminar is maintained is the next batch students are using it as reference.

Indira Umarjee: Bidding Farewell

2008-06-03T09:50:00.000+05:30

Immediately after bidding farewell to our final year students last week, CSE department had to arrange for another farewell. This time it was for one of department’s well known faculty Miss. Indira Umarjee who is engaged and as a consequence leaving her job.

All farewells are undesirable and emotional. And this was no exception. Indira is admired by students and appreciated by colleagues a lot. Although she served the department for two short years she is leaving a lasting impression in the minds many students and colleagues.

Indira had a very impressive beginning as a teacher. She had just completed her degree when she joined the department and took up the challenge of teaching to the final year students. What is more interesting is that she voted by the student as the best teacher and had scored more than 90 points in annual student feedback. It is an achievement still eluding most of us in the department.

She is getting married on 11 July 2008. We thank her for all that she did for us- students and faculty and wish her a happy married life.
As fortunate students to have her as your teacher in the last two years, you are requested to record your comments here

Tackling CIP

2008-05-29T08:11:00.000+05:30

In recent days I have been often asked by some of you on how best to prepare for the Constitution of India and Professional ethics (CIP) examination. Here are some tips.

Study one of the text books - Chakrasali/Phaneesh. While studying text book do not read it like a novel- instead for each sentence you read in the book - form possible questions and know answers.
Example: " Government of India Act, 1935" -
Possible question based on this are ? 1. Name of act passed in 1935? . 2. When was Government of India Act Passed ?
" Cabinet Mission 1946"
"Indian Independence Act 1947"
Study all Chapter end questions thorougly
Collect few old question papers (4-6)- either from library or E.C students ( they had CIP in VII semester or current I/II semester
Make a focussed prepartion towards exam pattern: Know answers to as many as possible and do not try to Master Constitution.

Good Luck

CSEBRATS'08: Juniors: You Made Our day

2008-05-26T08:32:00.000+05:30

It was one such day wherein an unexpected event makes you extremely happy and merry. You feel elated, honored and start feeling deeply grateful for people who did it. The feeling becomes stronger and you become closer to them when you come to know that whole event was designed specially for YOU and PRESENTED with zeal.

I guess you know by now, I am talking about The CSEBRATS’08 happened just the other day. And whole event is still ringing in our ears and moving our minds.

Personally I rate CSEBRATS’08 one of the best Farewells accorded to seniors in recent living memory. I have attended a dozen of such events in the past, but had never seen such a well planned and meticulously executed event Each one of the skits was remarkably good. Be it the V channel or Laxman Rekha or even Tip Tip Barasa Pani all skits with no exception were impressive enough. They will be treasured in my memory for long. I also think that most seniors feel the same way.

Thanks a lot juniors for an extravaganza.

Regards
Ravindra Dastikop

Welcome to The World of SDME

2008-03-21T09:21:00.000+05:30

We are happy to announce the lauch of the following.

SDM Search- A search Engine for SDME Institutions
SDMWorld - a Blog for SDME Institutions

Through these service we wish to connect the entire fraternity of SDME familiy across the world. The faculty, student community ( current and alumni), parents may take take advanatge of this service to know the beat of institution.

For any additional information contact us at sdmsearch@gmail.com