The Department Organizes both Technical and Co-curricular events to motivate the students to showcase their talents every year.

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2021

1.Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2021

• Career Orientation for 10th Standard students of RV Public School, RV Girls High School and RV School IEEE WIE RVCE forum conducted at RV Girls High School on 27^th February 2021, conducted by Dr. Usha J , Dr Usha Rani KR  Resource Persons : Likhita P, Kushal SL, Aishwarya J

• Five day FDP workshop was conducted to RV School faculty - numbering 12 on Digital tools for Teaching on 1^st to 5^th February 2021 conducted by

  Dr. Usha J, Dr Ashwini KB, Mr. Kumaraswamy, Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Rajesh

• Eight day "Connect With Work", Skill & Employability Development Program for RVCE 3rd Sem MCA and Engineering students of RVITM,on

  10^th to 19^th Jan-2021, conducted by  Coordinator: Dr.Mohanaradhya, RVCE,  Resource person: Dr.Durgaprasad, RVITM

 

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2020

1.Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2020

• Five Days Workshop on Big Data Analytics & Digital in Agriculture, was organized by ICAR SC-SP by Skill and Development Center & Department of Agricultural Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru on 21st to 26th December 2020, conducted by Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. B.H.Chandrashekar, Dr.Vishal C,  Dr.Deepika K. and Prof. Priya
• Five Days Virtual hands-on workshop on “Augmented Reality” was organized by National College, Jayanagar -IEEE Student Branch in association with IEEE Bangalore Section on 26^th to 30^th November 2020, conducted by Dr.Ashwini K.B and Dr. Preethi N Patil.
• Five Days  FDP on "IoT Application Development" (Online) as part of TEQIP-3  organized by PES College of Engineering, Mandya on 2^nd to 6^th November 2020 conducted by Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. B.H.Chandrashekar, Dr.Vishal C,  Dr.Deepika K.
• Three Days Workshop on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Online) organized by Department of CSE, Dr.T.Thimmaiah Institute of Technology, KGF, on 11^th to 13^th November 2020, conducted by Dr.Andhe Dharani and Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.N
• A Technical Talk on Introduction to AP and its applications(Online) oranized by National College Jaynagar on 20^th October 2020 by Dr.Ashwini K.B and Dr. Preethi N Patil.
• A Technical Talk on Big data and its Emerging Trends sponsored by TEQIP-III  Webinar Series (3 days)- by Department of Computer Science and Engineering,JSS Science andTechnology University,SJCE,Mysuru (Online) on 15^th to 17^th Octoberr 2020 by Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.N and Shaila.H.Koppad
• A Seminar on Interfacing Sensors and Actuators with Arduino & Raspberry Pi using Google Meet for BEL Employees on 8th July 2020 using conducted by Dr. Renukaprasad B
• A Seminar on Data to Bigdata & Decision making using ML using Google Meet for students  on 10th July 2020 using conducted by Dr. Andhe Dharani
• A Seminar on Preparedness and Outcomes - 5Ts to crack PGCET using Google Meet for students  on 1st July 2020 using conducted by Dr. Andhe Dharani
• A seminar on Introduction to  Content Management System using Wordpress using Google Meet for students and staff of National College of Engineering, Bengaluru on 26th May 2020 conducted by Dr. BH Chandrashekar and Prof. Vishal C
• Two Day online sessions on using Raspberry Pi for Building IoT Applications on 23^rd and 24^th May 2020 for students of SJR College of Arts & Science by Dr Renuka Prasad B organized by SJR College of Arts & Science, Bengaluru
• One Day Workshop ‘Software Automation Testing using Selenium’ for 4th Semester MCA students under IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter, RVCE was conducted on 22^th February 2020 - Mr. Rijo Varghese, Automation Engineer, Cerner Health care Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru Co-ordinated by Dr. Jasmine KS and Dr. Ashwini KB
• Orientation on Cisco-RVCE IoT Application Development  for Dept of E&I Students under the banner of ISA RVCE Student Chapter was conducted on 24^th February 2020- Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H., Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Deepika K, Mr. Kumaraswamy K.S and Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V
• Event Exceptions powered by 8^th mile sponsored by “The Hackers Institute” consisting of 9 technical rounds was conducted on 28^th February 2020 - Department of MCA Main Coordinators Dr. Vijayalakshmi M N, Mrs.Savitha Sheelavanth, Ms.Shaila HK
• Hands-on workshop on Modern Application Development for Android enabled devices was conducted for IV Semester A & B Students on 8^th and 9^th February 2020 - Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Prof. Deepika K.
• Orientation on IoT Application Development was conducted for faculties of Sri Jagadguru , Renukacharya College of Science Arts And Commercem, bangalore on 2nd Jan 2020, - Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H., Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Deepika K, Mr. Kumaraswamy K.S and Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V.
• Dr. Jasmine KS was honored by Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust (RSST) on 26​ th January 2020, for receiving the honour titled “100 Most dedicated professors -2019”, organized by World Education Congress, Mumbai on 4th July 2019

2.Expert Lectures and Invited Talk 2020

• Online Expert Talk on Future of Progressive Web Application for 4th Semester MCA as a part of "Modern Application Development (18MCA42)" on 25th April 2020 was conducted by Dr. Renuka Prasad B & Prof. Deepika K
• A Talk on 4th Semester MCA students on "Entrepreneurship as a hobby for Students". The talk was coordinated by Dr. Chandrashekar B.H. and Prof. Deepika K was conducted on 12th Feb 2020 by Mr. Rohit. K.N.Founder, Peer-Mentor.com
• A Technical Talk on "How to write a Research Paper" for 4^th Semester A & B Students. The talk was coordinated by Prof. Jayasimha SR was conduted on 4^th February 2020 by Dr. Jasmine K S, Associate Professor, Dept of MCA, RVCE
• An Invited talk on “Importance of Computer Science” at SGM Composite PU College on 25^th Jan 2020
• An Expert Lecture on Web Programming - Industry Perspectives Seminar was conducted for 1st semester by Mr. Vijayakumar S Technology Specialist, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bengaluru on 2^nd January 2020

1.Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2019

• Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, Mangalore on 11^th to 13^th December 2019- Dr Andhe Dharani and Ms. Shaila H Koppad 
• Five Days workshop on  IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for RV Institute of Technology and Management was conducted on 15^th, 16^th , 29^th , 30^th November and 1^st December 2019- Dr. Renukaprasad B,Dr. Chandrashekar B.H.,Prof. Deepika K,Mr. Kumaraswamy KS & Mr. Santhosh Kumar GV
• One day Orientation for  IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for M.Tech in Bio-Medical Signal Processing, Instrumentation,M.Tech in Software Engineering,M.Tech in Information Technology M.Tech in Bio-Medical Signal Processing, Instrumentation,M.Tech in Software Engineering,M.Tech in Information Technology was conducted on 26^th November2019 - Dr. Renukaprasad B,Dr. Chandrashekar B.H.,Prof. Deepika K,Mr. Kumaraswamy KS & Mr. Santhosh Kumar GV
• Six Day Workshop on  IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for JC Bose University for Science & Technology, YMCA, Faridabad was conducted on 18^th - 23^th November 2019 at MCA Department RVCE - Dr. Renukaprasad B,Dr. Chandrashekar B.H.,Prof. Deepika K,Mr. Kumaraswamy KS & Mr. Santhosh Kumar GV
• One Day Workshop on "Machine Learning using Python' was conducted on 23^rd November 2019 at Department of Computer Science, Applications & Animation, St. Aloysius College, Mangalore - Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.N    Dr.Divya.T.L
• One Day Workshop on Design thinking workshop for the 3^rd sem MCA Students in association with Ananya foundation and SPDP, AICTE was organized on 26^th October 2019 by Roopa Ravikumar, Ramya Nagaraj,Nadeem from SAP labsMahalakshmi from Ananya foundations
• Two Day Faculty Development Workshop under AICTE Margadarshan Scheme on  “ICT for Teaching-Learning” was conducted on 25^th & 26^th October 2019 at Dayanadasagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru - Dr. Sandhya S, Dept of MCA, Prof. Rajith, Dept of ECE, RVCE.
• Two day Workshop on Soft Computing  for 5^th Semester MCA Students was conducted on 19^th September & 21^st October 2019 - Dr Anala,Associate Professor, Dept of CSE, RVCE & Ambassador, NVDIA Solutions, Co-ordinated by Dr. S Anupama Kumar
• Three Day IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for Final Year BCA Students of Soundarya Institute of Management and Science was conducted on 6^th - 8^th September 2019 - Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Deepika K, Mr.Kumaraswamy.K.S, Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V
• Two Day IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for UG Final Year - ‘A’ Section Mechanical Students RVCE was conducted on  27^th - 28^th August 2019 - Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Deepika K, Mr.Kumaraswamy.K.S, Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V
• Two  Day IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for UG Final Year - ‘B’ Section Mechanical Students RVCE was conducted on 29^th - 30^th August 2019 - Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Deepika K, Mr.Kumaraswamy.K.S, Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V
• Two Day IoT Application Development Training under CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE for UG Final Year - ‘C’ Section Mechanical Students RVCE was conducted on 21^st - 22^nd August 2019 - Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Deepika K, Mr.Kumaraswamy.K.S, Mr. Santhosh Kumar G.V
• Two day Training Program on Intelligent Analytics under Cisco-RVCE CoE-IoT for BCA Students of National College, Bengaluru was conducted on 13^th and 14^th September 2019 - Dr. Vijayalakshmi.M.N,Dr.  S.AnupamaKumarDr. Divya. T.L
• One day workshop on  R for Analytics was conducted for Vth Semester MCA students on 5^th September 2019 - Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.NProf. Shaila.H.K    
• One Day PMGM Training program for Goals Management for faculties of Department of MCA was conducted  on 31^st August 2019 - Dr. Usha J &Dr. Jasmine K S
• A  Two day ICT workshop on the Ingress Interactive White Board usage and ICT Arena for the Teaching Learning Process was conducted on 19th -20th August 2019 - Prof. Sandhya S and Prof. Shaila H K, Department of MCA, Prof.Prapulla B S from Department of CSE, RVCE  
• A proficiency course on Cyber Security and Software Testing based on Industry Standards was conducted on 10th to 15th June 2019 -  Dr. Jasmine K S Departments of MCA, ISE & CSE in association with LDRA at R.V. College of engineering, Bengaluru.
•  IoT Application Development training was conducted as part of "Internship Program on Full Stack IoT Application Development"  was conducted at RV College of Engineering  for CSE students of K.S. School of       engineering and Management was conducted on  8^th July 2019 to12^th July 2019-   Dr. Renuka Prasad B,Dr. ChandrashekarB.H,Prof. Prashanth K  Supported by Mr. Kumaraswamy KS Mr. Santhosh Kumar GV
• Internship on Intelligent Analytics under CISCO-RVCE CoE-IoT  was conducted at Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi for CSE and EC students on 1^st July2019 to 3^rd July 2019 - Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.N, Dr. S. Anupama kumar, Dr. Divya.T.L
• Proficiency course on “Cyber Security and Software Testing Based on Industry Standards” Organized by: Departments of MCA, Information Science and Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering in association with LDRA on 10th to 15th June 2019
• Orientation on “IoT Application Development” for RV Institute Of Management, Jayanagar was organized on 12th June  2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renukaprasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H., Prof. Deepika K, Prof. Prashanth K, Mr. Kumaraswamy K.S.
• One day workshop- Hands on session on “Data Analytics using R” was organized at Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru on 9^th April 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr S Anupama Kumar and Dr Sandhya S
• Orientation on "IoT Application Development" at Mechanical Department, RVCE was organized on 27^th February 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Deepika K, Prof. Prashanth, Mr. Kumarswamy KS, Mr.Santosh
• Workshop on “IoT based Transport System for Smart Mobility” conducted on 8th to 10th and 15th to 17th Febuary 2019, under the aegis of CISCO-RVCE Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things, the ITS team. The Dr. Andhe Dharani from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the event.
• 20 Hours of Learnathon - Two Day IoT Application Development Training was organized on 15^th and 16^th February 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth, Mr. Kumarswamy KS, Mr.Santosh
• Orientation on IoT Application Development at ISE, RVCE was organized on 12^th February 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth and Dr. Savitha R
• Orientation on IoT Application Development at CSE, RVCE was organized on 11^th February 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B.H, Prof. Vishal C, Dr. Savitha R
• Orientation on IoT Application Development at Gogte Institute of Technology for CSE and ISE, Belagavi was organized on 8^th February 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B and Dr. Chandrashekar B.H
• Orientation Program for SJRC for Women’s College(BCA,BSc) was organized at RV College of Engineering on 23^rd Febuary 2019. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Andhe Dharani, Dr.Vijayalakshmi MN, Dr.ChandraShekar BH, Dr. Ashwini KB, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Jayasimha SR, Prof.Prashanth K,  Prof. Shaila H Koppad Mr. Kumarswamy KS and Mr.Santosh Kumar GV
• Training Program on "Intelligent Analytics" was organized and conducted on 8th to 10th and 15th to 17th Febuary 2019 under Cisco-RVCE, CoE-IoT. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Vijayalakshmi M N, Dr. Anupama Kumar S,  Prof. Divya T L, Dr. Sandhya S, Prof. Chandrani C, Mr Devananda Guptha from MCA Dept
• A Orientation Training on "IoT Application Development using Arduino, Python on Raspberry Pi" was organized and conducted at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangaluru  on 21^st to 24^th  January 2019. The faculty Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H and Prof. Prashanth K from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course
• Public Talk by Richard M Stallman was organised by R V College of Engineering in association with Free Software Foundation of India and support of RVCE-IQAC and CODING CLUB of
• RVCE on 19^th  January 2019. The faculty Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H Prof Vishal C, Prof Deepika K Mr. Kumaraswamy K S and FOSS Community Members were involved in organizing the event
• A certificate course on "IoT Application Development" was organized and conducted at "Natinal College", Bangalore on 7^th - 11^th January 2019 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H, Dr. Manjunath M, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth K, Dr. Savitha R, Mr. Kumaraswamy K S and Santhosh Kumar G V
• TEQIP-3 sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Applications of Data Science and Internet of Things” at Department of Information Science and Engineering, PES College of  Engineering (PESCE) Mandya on 11^th to 12^th January 2019. The faculty Dr.Vijayalakshmi MN and Prof. Shaila H Koppad from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course

2.Expert Lectures and Invited Talk 2019

•  An invited talk on ‘Application of Python Programming language in Industry’ under CSI Chapter for I semester ‘A’ & ‘B’ Section students by Mr. Chetan Deshpande,Senior QA Engineer & Mr. Aniket Prabhu, QA Engineer at Commvalult, Bengaluru on 14^th December 2019
• An Orientation programme on "Free and Open Source Information and IoT Applications" for the I^st Semester MCA Students by Dr. Renuka Prasad B,Associate Professor and Associate Dean on 11^th November 2019
• An Orientation programme on "Choice Based Credit System(CBCS) and Autonomous Examination  Evaluation Procedure" for the I^st Semester MCA Students by Dr.Vijayalakshmi M NAssociate Professor on 11^th November 2019
• Expert Lecturer on "User Interface design and User experience" - by Vinay Narasimhamurthy, An industrial perspective for V^th Semester Elective Students of Principles of User Interface Design was organized on 20^th September 2019
• An invited talk on "Computer Applications with Current Technology" by Mr. Jayasimha S R was organized on 1st August 2019
• Expert Lecture on "AWS Expert Talk' by Mr. Shashi Kiran, Director- Sales and Customer Success, Nuvepro was oranized on 2nd July 2019
• An invited talk on "Operating System on ARM Processors" by Dr. Andhe Dharani was organized on 30^th April 2019 at RNSIT Bengaluru
• An invited talk on "Big Data Analytics" byProf. Shaila H Koppad was organized on 4^th April 2019 at P.C.Jabin Science College Vidyanagar, Hubballi
• Expert Lectures on "A Motivational talk was conducted for the II^nd semester MCA Students" by Mr Rohith Saraswathi, Pursuing Master in Engineering Management in RVCE, Bengaluru was organized on 26^th April 2019.
• Expert Lectures on "Interview" for 4^th Semester MCA Students by Mr Sudesh, Alumni Department of MCA was organized on 23^rd April 2019.
• A Technical Session for 2^nd Semester MCA Students on "Industry Perspectives – Core Java Practices and Projects" by Mr. Suhas, Software Developer, i-Exceed Solutions, Bangalore and Alumni of MCA Department was organized on 13^th April 2019
• An invited talk on "Current trends & Challenges in Big Data using Hadoop Framework" by Dr.Vijayalakshmi.M.N and Prof. Shaila H Koppad was organized on 27^th Marth 2019 at Information Science and Engineering students & Staff of Don Bosco Institute of Technology Bengaluru
• Expert Lectures on "Introduction to on Progressive Web Apps (PWA) Technology" by Mr. Hemanth HM, SSE at PayPal & Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies was organized on 8^th march 2019. The Event was coordinated by Prof. Deepika K and Dr. Renuka Prasad B
• Expert Lectures on "Career opportunities in information and communication technology for MTech, MCA Students" by Mr. Vaitheeswaran, Consortium for Technical Education, Chennai was conducted on 6^th march 2019. The Event was coordinated by Dr. Andhe Dharani, Dr.. Divya T L and Dr. Sandhya S

Graduation Day 2019

9^th Graduation Day ceremony of RV College of Engineering was held on 27^th July 2019. The ceremony graduated Students under of the Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Architecture and Post Graduate Students under the Autonomous Scheme. The Chief Guests were Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi and Dr. M.K. Panduranga Setty, Chairman, Governing Body, RV College of Engineering and President, Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust. The ceremony included the trustees from RSST, the BoS Chairpersons of the respective departments, Governing body members, faculty, staff and students of RVCE. Prof. Deepika K was the Master of Ceremony.

Department of MCA proudly graduated its 1^st Batch of Autonomous Scheme in this ceremony. Dr. Andhe Dharani, Chairperson – BoS, Department of MCA to announced the list of Graduates who obtained the Provisional Degree Certificates of the Department.

Conferences conducted 2019

COMSAP-2019

Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects (COMSAP 2019) The Department of MCA organized a Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects (COMSAP 2019) on the 25th May 2019. The conference was inaugurated by Principal, Dr K N Subranmanya and the Chief Guest for the Inauguration was Ms. Anitha Sukumar, Associate Manager, Accenture, Alumni Department of MCA (2000-2003) Batch. The various developments in the college were disseminated by Principal to all the Alumni and students during the conference. The Proceedings of the Conference with ISBN No. 978-93-5361-456-0 were released in a CD during the inauguration.

Drishya 2019

The Annual Department Magazine, Drishya 2019 (11th Edition) was jointly released by Dr K N Subramnya, Principal, RVCE, and Ms. Anitha Sukumar, Associate Manager, Accenture, Dr Andhe Dharani, Director, MCA Department, RVCE and other Alumni who were present. It was released on 25th May 2019 at MCA Department, RVCE.

Industry Visit:

• Thirty Third Semester MCA Students visited JPMorgan Chase & Co on 22^nd November 2019
• Thirty two participants ,  As part of CISCO-RVCE IOE-COE IoT Workshop for JC Bose University for Science & Technology, YMCA, Faridabad visited Telematics-Rane t4U Private Limited and Workbench Projects on 21st Nov 2019
• Fifty eight students of CSE/ISE/MCA/ECE & M.Tech Students ,RVCE visited Cisco Systems, Inc  on 6^th November 2019

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2018

1. Events Organized 2018

Industry Visit:

• Fourth Semester MCA 35 Students visited Cerner Healthcare Solutions Private Limited, Manyata Tech Park, Nagawara on 8th March 2018
• Thirty students from fourth sem MCA visited Infosys Ltd. Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bengaluru to attend Foundation Programme FP5.0 on 23^rd February 2018
• Fifty students from fourth Semester MCA Students visited Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited - SEZ Unit, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli VillageVarthur Hobli, Sarjapur Marathalli Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru on January 31^st and February 1^st 2018

2. Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2018

• A technical talk on "Research Methodology (Phase I )" has been conducted for 3rd semester A and B section students on 20th September 2018 between 11.30am to 1.30 noon by Dr M Krishna , Head of Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
• Mrs. Savita Sheelavant and 10 students from 4^th Semester MCA attended One day National Conference "Jagruti- 2018 All India Student Conference" organized by Student Council, Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bengaluru in association with Think India on 17^th January 2018 at Satish Dhawan Auditorium, IISc, Bengaluru,
• Prashant Hegde, Lekhak M.V, Janardhan B. V., Arti Kumari, Arpitha Prasad H M, Abhishek Singh, Rakshit Acharya and Roshan from 2^nd Semester MCA attended live webcast of the Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi’s address on "Handling Examination Stress and Making Exams Fun" arranged in the ISE Seminar Hall, RVCE at 12.00 noon on 16^th February 2018.
• Archit Jha, Anand Kumar K, Gagan Prakash, Mahipal Singh, Goutham A, Shashikumar K. L, Guruprasad M K, Varun Bhat, Sagar Patil and Venkat Ram from 4^th Semester MCA participated in a National Level Inter-Collegiate IT Fest “EPITOME-2K18”, organized by St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), Mangalore, from 15^th - 16^th February 2018.
• Conference on MCA Students Academic Projects (COMSAP) was Organized on 27th May, 2018 by Department of MCA, RVCE, 107 students attended the conference and presented their papers
• National Conference on Security, Privacy and Analytics–SPA was organized on 4th-5th May, 2018 by Department of MCA, ISE and CSE, RVCE,  24 participants participated at the conference
• Personality Development Courses (PDC) classes were conducted for 4th Semester MCA students from 5th to 7th March 2018 Organized by 10 Seconds Pvt. Ltd and 115 students participated
• Fusion of Talents was conducted on 25th March 2018 for 5 teams by MCA Departments
• A technical talk on “Text Processing and Analytics using R” was conducted by Mr. Ankit Velani Data Scientist, Trendwise Analytics, Bengaluru for 4^th semester Information Retrieval Elective students on 17^th February 2018 under Computer Society of India, RVCE Chapter. The event was coordinated by Dr. Anupama Kumar S
• A certificate course on "IoT Application Development" was organized and conducted on 17^th - 18^th February 2018, 23^rd to 25^th February 2018 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculty and students from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H, Dr. M Manjunath, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth K, Dr. Savitha R, Mr Kumaraswamy KS Mr. Naresh (Alumni), Mr. Amar Prem 6^th Sem, Mr. Vijay Babu 4^th Sem and Mr. Varun Bhat 4^th Sem
• A certificate course on "IoT Application Development" was organized and conducted at Shaik Engineering College, Belagavi on 5th to 9th February 2018, February 2018 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculty and students from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H, Dr. M Manjunath,Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth K, Mr. Naresh (Alumni), Mr. Amar Prem 6th Sem, Mr. Vijay Babu 4th Sem, Mr. Varun Bhat 4th Sem
• A certificate course on "Intelligent Analytics" was organized and conducted on 10^th to 11^th February 2018, 17^th to 18^th February 2018, 24^th to 25^th February 2018 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculty from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course –Prof. NarasimhaSwamy, Prof. Divya.T.L, Prof. Chandrani C, Dr. Sandhya S, Dr. S. Anupama Kumar and Dr. Vijayalakshmi. M.N
• A certificate course on "IoT Application Development" was organized and conducted on 16^th - 20^th January 2018 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculty and students from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course – Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Chandrashekar B H, Dr. M Manjunath, Prof. Vishal C, Prof. Prashanth K, Dr. Savitha R, Mr Kumaraswamy KS Mr. Naresh (Alumni), Mr. Amar Prem 6^th Sem, Mr. Vijay Babu 4^th Sem and Mr. Varun Bhat 4^th Sem MCA.

Conferences conducted 2018

COMSAP-2018

The annual Conference on MCA Student’s Academic Projects (CoMSAP 2018) was conducted on May 26th 2018 at the MCA Department, RVCE. The event was inaugurated by Dr. K.N. Subramanya, Principal, RVCE and Dr. Shanmukha N Dean Student Affairs, RVCE along with Dr. Usha J, Director MCA. 15 Alumni of MCA Department, RVCE judged the papers and students presented 107 papers. The proceedings of CoMSAP 2018 (with ISBN number) were released during the event with papers 136 pertaining to the final semester project.

3. Alumni Activity

Department of MCA organized an Alumni Meet on 30th June 2018 at MCA Seminar Hall, RVCE. The event was graced by Dr. N. K. Srinath, Dean Academics, RVCE and Mr. Gopal Bengari, Vice President of Alumni Association, RVCE, Mr. Amit Vashist, Senior Manager responsible for Global IT, Symantec Antivirus & Alumni 2000 Batch and Dr. Usha J, Professor and Director MCA. 33 Alumni from the 1999- 2014 batches participated in the event. A presentation about the department achievement was given by Dr. Andhe Dharani, followed by outcome based education and 2018 scheme & syllabus by Dr. M. N. Vijayalakshmi.  Feedback on the scheme and syllabus were obtained from the Alumni and discussion about the achievements was undertaken. This was followed by games and lunch at Cauvery Mess.

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2017

1. Events Organized 2017

Skill & Personality Development Centre for SC / ST Students funded by AICTE, New Delhi was inaugurated on 24^th Oct 2017 and the lab was opened by Dr. Ramesh Unnikrishnan, Regional Officer and Director, South West Region, Bengaluru and Trivendrum who was the Chief Guest on the occasion, Dr. K. N. Subramanya, Principal RVCE, delivered the Presidential Address. Sri Krishna Reddy, Registrar, RVCE addressed the gathering. Dr. Usha J, Co-ordinator of the Centre and Director, Dept of MCA spoke about the Centre activities. Dr. Bindu Ashwini, Placement Department welcomed the gathering. Dr Ashwini K.B was the MoC for the inaugural programme and Ms Mythilli sang the invocation song and Mrs Divya TL delivered the vote of thanks.

Dr. Ramesh Unnikrishnan, Inaugurating and opening Skill & Personality Development Programme Center for SC/ST Students

 

    a. 8th Mile Fest 2017

 A Technical Event INNOWIZ was conducted on 26^th March 2017 in MCA department, which contained 4 rounds to explore participant’s technical skills, quantitative ability, IT knowledge, creative thinking and time & stress management. Brand Factory, RR Nagar Branch were main sponsors for this event with total contribution of Rs.10000 cash and Rs. 10000 worth Vochure. The event was coordinated by Dr. M. N. Vijayalakshmi, Mr. Vishal C and Ms. Chandrani C, Mr. Kumarswamy S, Mr. Devananda Guptha, Mr. Ganesh C. Other faculty coordinators were Dr. Andhe Dharani, Dr. Jasmine K. S, Dr. Anupama Kumar S, Dr. Ashwini K. B, Mr. Mohanaradhya, Dr. Preethi N Patil Dr. Manjunath M, Dr. NagamuttuKrishnan SS, Dr. R. Savitha, Mrs. Deepthi T. R. Tejas Kumar C.M and Jones Zacharaih Noel N of 4^th Semester MCA were students coordinators. Rajath Patil, Aditya B, Krishna Moorthy, Chetan S, Ashwath, Amrutha, Chaitra, Nagaraj, Monisha, Mishal, Prathamesh, Abin Pai, Vikas, Anirudh, and Suhas coordinated various rounds of the INNOWIZ Event.  Total 15 Teams (30 Participants) from various colleges had participated in this event. Sharat M and Satwik Kumar from CSE, RVCE won 1^st prize and Vinayak S and Anusha M Rao from ISE, RVCE won 2^nd prize in this event.

• Dr. Usha J, Professor and Director was a member of the Disciplinary committeeDr. K. S. Jasmine:  Cordinator for Amphitheatre event
• Dr. M.N. Vijalakshmi- Coordinator for Rangoli and Mehandi event
• Dr. B. Renuka Prasad -  Member of Hospitality committee and Sports Events Coordinator: Mini Cricket, Mini Football, Rapid Chess, Lagori, Tug-of-War
• Dr. B.H. Chandrashekar- Sports Events Coordinator: Mini Cricket, Mini Football, Rapid Chess, Lagori, Tug-of-War
• Mrs Deepika. K – Coordinator for Harry Potter Quiz and Bollywood Quiz events

   b. Industry Visit

• Fifty students from 4^th Semester MCA Students visited Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited – SEZ Unit, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli VillageVarthur Hobli, Sarjapur Marathalli Outer Ring Road, Bangalore on January 31^st and Feburary 1^st 2018
• Ten students from 2^nd and 4^th Semester MCA Students attended Foundation Programme 5.0 at Infosys Software company Plot No.44, Hosur Main Road, Electronics City in January 2017.

   c. Entrepreneurship Development Cell

An invited talk on " Classroom to Market: an alternate approach for product development" by Mr.Ganesh Shankar, Managing Director, FluxGen Engineering Technologies, Bengaluru was organized for 4^th  semester MCA students on 22^nd April 2017 at Department of MCA, R.V. College of Engineering Bengaluru. The Event was coordinated by Dr. M. N. Vijayalakshmi.

2. Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2017

• Workshop on – “Software Testing Using Selenium – An Industry perspective” by Mr. Chetan Deshpande, Software Engineer & Mr. Venu Das, Sr. Team lead, Commvault, Bengaluru on 14^th October 2017 for 3^rd Semester MCA students. The event was coordinated by Dr. KS Jasmine and Mrs. Dipti R Takalkar
• Technical talk on – “UML in Real world and Industry Applications" by Mr. Siddarth Shanbhogue, Sr Software Engineer, Cerner Technologies, Bengaluru on 13^th October 2017 for 5^th Semester MCA students. The event was coordinated by Dr. Ashwini K B, Mrs. Savita S and Ms. Chandrani C.
• Workshop on Mean Stack Application was conducted by Mr. Sanjay Prasad and Mr. Rahul L from IQSolutions, Bengaluru, for 3^rd semester MVC architecture elective students on 23^rd September 2017. The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Savitha R, Chandrani C.
• Hands-on English Classes using EL-Client Software was conducted for 3^rd Semester MCA ‘B’ Section students on 18^th September 2017 in English Lab, Cognitive Centre, RVCE 
• A technical talk on “How to write Research Paper” by Dr. Jasmine K.S, Associate Professor, Dept. of MCA, RVCE is conducted for 3^rd Semester MCA ‘B’ Section students on 21^st September 2017
• A technical talk on “Applications of Parallel Computing - An Industry Perspective” was conducted by Mr. Narasimha Prasad, Application Developer, Thought Works Inc, Bengaluru for 5^th semester Parallel Computing Elective students on 9^th September 2017 under Computer Society of India, RVCE Chapter. The event was coordinated by Dr. Anupama Kumar S
• A technical talk on “Service Oriented Architecture - An Industry Perspective” was conducted by Mr. Shiva Charan, Associate Software Engineer, Accenture Technologies, Bengaluru, for the 5^th semester Service Oriented Architecture Elective students on 9^th September 2017 under alumni forum. The event was coordinated by Mrs. Divya T. L
• Workshop on Software Testing and Practices (16MCA32) for 3^rd semester MCA students was Conducted by Dr. Jasmine KS and Mrs. Dipti R Takalkar, Faculty Department of MCA, Under RVCE-CSI Chapter on 31^st August 2017
• Workshop on Computer Networks(16MCA31) for 3^rd Semester MCA students Conducted by Dr. Renuka Prasad B, Dr. Manjunath M, Faculty Department of MCA, and Industry Expert Mr. Abhas Abhinav CEO, DeepRootLinux Pvt Limited Under RVCE-CSI Chapter on 30^th August 2017
• Workshop on Content Management Systems (16MCA331) for 3^rd semester MCA students, Conducted by Dr. Chandrashekar BH, Mr. Vishal C and Mr. Kumarswamy KS, Faculty Department of MCA, Under RVCE-CSI Chapter on 29^th August 2017
• Workshop on Advanced Object-Oriented Program (16MCA332) for 3^rd semester MCA students, Conducted by Mr. Prashanth K Under RVCE-CSI Chapter on 29^th August 2017
• Workshop on Model View Controller (16MCA333) for 3^rd semester MCA students, Conducted by Dr. Savitha R, Faculty Department of MCA, Under RVCE-CSI Chapter on 29^th August 2017
• Workshop on ASP .NET (13MCA53) for 5^th Semester students, Conducted by Mr. Vivek Simon, Software Engineer, Cerner, Bengaluru, Mr. Emil Joshua MCA Alumni on 12^th august 2017. The workshop was coordinated by Chandrani C and Dr. SS Nagamuthu Krishnan
• A certificate course on "Intelligent Analytics" was organized and conducted from 14^th June 2017 to 5^th July 2017 under CISCO-RVCE Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. The following faculties from Department of MCA were involved in organizing and conducting the course –Prof. NarasimhaSwamy, Prof. Divya.T.L, Prof. Chandrani C, Dr. S. Anupama Kumar and Dr. Vijayalakshmi. M.N
• Invited talk on 'Agile Methodologies' by Mr.Sudesh kumar S, Sr.Operation Engineer, Akamai Technologies, Bengaluru, for 2^nd semester MCA students on 26^th April 2017 at Department of MCA, R.V. College of Engineering Bengaluru The Event was coordinated by Dr. Jasmine K S and Ms. Chandrani C.
• An Interactive discussion session on “Employability Enhancement Skills” by Mr. Sudesh Kumar S Senior Operation Engineer, Akamai Technologies, Bengaluru and Alumni, MCA, RVCE for 4^th Semester MCA Students on 8^th April 2017 in MCA Seminar Hall from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm. The Event was coordinated by Ms. Chandrani C and Mr. Vishal C.
• One Day Workshop on ‘Software Testing using Selenium with Python’ by Mr. Rijo Varghese, Test Analyst, Cerner, Bengaluru, on 18^th March 2017 for 2^nd Semester MCA students at Department of MCA, R.V. College of Engineering Bengaluru.
• One Day Workshop on “Exploring of Mongo DB in NOSQL with Hands on Sessions”, by Mr. Abhishek Annigeri, Associate Platform Operation Engineer, Akamai, Bengaluru, on 11^th March 2017 for MCA 4^th semester NoSQL Elective students at Department of MCA, R.V. College of Engineering Bengaluru. The Event was coordinated by Mr. Jayasimha S. R and Mr. Narasimha Swamy S.
• An Orientation programme on SWEBOK was conducted by Dr. Andhe Dharani, Mr. Krishnan R, Mr. Saravanan C and Mrs. Savita S, faculty of MCA, RVCE, for 2^nd and 4^th  semester students on 13^th February 2017 at MCA seminar hall.
• One day workshop on core python was conducted by Mr. Mohanaradhya and Dr.Manjunath for 2^nd semester MCA on 11^th February 2017 in MCA seminar hall.
• An expert lecture on “MIS & E-Commerce Perspectives, Principles and Practices” by Dr. Subramanya K. N, professor & Principal, RVCE, for 2^nd semester MCA students on 10^th February 2017 at MCA seminar hall from 12.00 pm to 1.00 pm.
• Workshop on Mobile Application Development for Enhancement of Employability for PG Students, TEQIP II Initiative was conducted from 6^th – 25^th February 2017. The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Andhe Dharani, Prof. Deepika K, Prof. Krishnan R. & Prof. Savita Sheelavant
• Six days Faculty Development Programme on “Data analytics for IoT Applications”, TEQIP II Initiative was organized by ISE, MCA and CSE Departments, RVCE from 30^th January to 4^th February 2017.

Conferences conducted 2017

COMSAP-2017

The Department of MCA, RVCE organized the One Day Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects -2017 for VI Semester MCA Students on Saturday, 10^th June 2017. The proceedings of the conference (COMSAP – 2017) and the Department magazine " Dhrishya – 2017" were released during the conference by Dr. K N Subramanya, Principal, Dr. Usha J, Director, MCA, R V College of Engineering and the Industry experts present during the conference. The technical paper presentations scheduled in different venues were presented by the VI Semester students and judged by industry professions, Alumni of the department.

The session chairs were the alumni of the department form various industries:

1. Mr. Adnan Shamir Ahmed, Founder & CEO HouseSkill Educational Solutions LPP
2. Mr. Shirshandu Bhattacharjee, Software Engineer, Cerner Healthcare Solutions
3. Mrs. Vidya Sharma, Senior Test Analyst, Cerner Healthcare Solutions
4. Ms. Pratiksha Shetty, Senior Test Analyst, Cerner Healthcare Solutions
5. Mr. Kishan J S, Senior Test Analyst, Cerner Healthcare Solutions
6. Mr. Viratayya Salimath, Software Engineer, Livserv Lab
7. Mr. Shiva Charan C, Associate Software Engineer, Accenture Technology
8. Mr. Bharath R, Associate Software Engineer, Accenture Technology

The presentations titled “Development of Web of Things Application for Home Automation System” done by Mr. Nakul N K (1RV14MCA47) and “Development of Web of Things Application for Hydroponic system” done by Mr. Naresh M (1RV14MCA50) won the best paper prizes awarded by the principal in the event.

 

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2016

1. Events Organized 2016

a. RVCE 8^th MILE 2016

Department of MCA conducted two days technical event “X-PERT” as part of 8^th Mile Event (Techno Cultural Fest) during 20^th to 21^st February 2016. The event was co-sponsored by KMF Nandini. This event was conducted by 4^th semester MCA students. Around 30 students Teams from other colleges participated in this event. 

                                  Mr Harish GM addressing gathering during the Fest                                                                                                        

Mr.Sundar Raj, S/w Engineer, ComVault, Alumni MCA RVCE was invited as Chief Guest for the X-PERT. Judges Invited for the event: Mr. Raghu (From Informatica), Dr.Usha J (Professor and Director Dept .of MCA,RVCE), Mr.B.H.Chandrashekar (Associate Professor RVCE MCA), Ms.Sandhya S (Assistant Professor RVCE MCA), Mr.Sudesh kumar (VI sem MCA RVCE), Mr.Pradeep (Alumni MCA RVCE), Mr.Munazir (Alumni MCA RVCE), Mr. Abhishek (Alumni MCA RVCE). Faculty Coordinators for “X-PERT” Event: Dr. M. N. Vijayalakshmi, Ms. Chandrani C and Mr. Harish G. M.

b. Industry Visit

One Day Industrial Visit to Infosys, Bangalore was conducted for MCA students on 1^st February 2016. 25 students from 4^th semester MCA along with faculty coordinator Mrs. Sandhya S visited the industry.

c. Entrepreneurship Development Cell

An invited talk on “10 things I wish someone had told me before I started the journey to become an entrepreneur" on 12^th March 2016 by Mr. Rohan Khara, Alumini RVCE, Co-founder Jabbercast, Bengaluru, was conducted for 4^th semester MCA students in MCA Seminar Hall by EDC co-ordinators Dr. Vijalakshmi M. N. and Mrs. Divya T. L

2. Seminars/Workshops/Technical Talks Conducted 2016

• A technical talk on “Web Technologies Concepts for Designing web applications” by Mr Vijaykumar Selvaraj , Senior software Engineer, CTS , Bengaluru through Video Conference was conducted for 5^th semester MCA Web 2.0 Elective students on 24^th September 2016. The event was co ordinated by Mr Vishal C
• An invited talk on “Relevance of Networking in Current Computing Scenario” was conducted for 3^rd semester MCA students by Mr Kedar N Kulkarni , Lead Networking, CAP Gemini, Bengaluru on 21^st September 2016 and the event was co ordinated by Dr NagamuthuKrishnan , Mr Jayasimha SR and Dr Manjunath M
• An invited talk on “Software Engineering-An Industry Perspective” by Mr Pramod Jayaprakash , Project Manager , WIPRO Technologies, Bengaluru for 3^rd semester MCA students on 7^th September 2016 and the event was coordinated by Dr Jasmine KS and Mrs Rekha Nagaraj
• Workshop on C# with .NET was conducted for MCA 5^th Semester students on 6th August 2016 at Department of MCA, RV College of Engineering. Resource Persons were Mr. Shirshandu B, Mr. Anand T.A and Ms. Megha Gupta - Alumni RVCE MCA
• A Faculty Development Programme on "Advances in Web Intelligence Techniques" was organized by the Departments of ISE, CSE, MCA, R. V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru under TEQIP-II(Sub Component 1.2) from 27^th June to 2^nd July 2016.
• A technical talk on Industry Perspective on System Software-An Overview was conducted for 2^nd semester MCA on 2^nd May 2016 by Mr.Gaurav Sethi, Associate s/w Engineer, Accenture Services, Bengaluru
• A Two Day Workshop on " Data Analytics Using R Tool - hands on " was conducted for 4^th semester Data Warehouse and Data Mining Elective Students on 23^rd and  24^th April 2016 at MCA Lab 07 by Mr. Ankit Velani,Data Analyst, Trend Wise Technologies and  Mr, AmitKumar , Software Engineer Coordinated by  Dr.Anupama Kumar, Dr Vijayalakshmi MN and  Mrs Divya TL
• A two day workshop and hands-on session on "Digital Image Processing using Matlab tool" was conducted for IV semester DIP elective students on 23^rd and 24^th April 2016 at MCA Lab 03. Resource Person: Preethi N. Patil, Asst. Professor, Dept. of MCA, RVCE, Bangalore. coordinated by: Preethi N. Patil, Savita S. Sheelavant and Chandrani Chakravorty
• A two day workshop and hands-on session on “Mobile Ad-hoc Networking patterns using Glomosium” was conducted for IV semester Mobile and Adhoc Sensor Networks elective students on 23^rd and 24^th April 2016 at MCA Lab 03. Resource Person: Dr. V. Subburaj Faculty Coordinators:Dr. S. S. Nagamutthu Krishnan and Dr. Srinivasan P
• A technical talk on "Creation and Usage of Virtual Machine " using free and open source tool has conducted for II sem A & B section students on 11^th April 2016 at MCA seminar hall.Coordinators: Mr.Kumar swamy, Mr.Krishnan R and Mrs.Divya TL
• A hands on training on “Cryptography and Network Security" was conducted by Mrs. Sandhya S and Mr. Jayasimha S R for 4^th semester Cryptography and Network Security Elective students from 19^th - 20^th March 2016 at MCA Lab 1.
• A hands on training on "Mobile Application Development (MAD) - Open Source Software Tools - Android " was conducted by Mr. Darshan Dwarakanath, Consultant, BOSCH. The Session on "Programming Concepts on Android" was delivered to the 4^th semester Mobile Applications elective students on 19^th – 20^th March 2016 at MCA Seminar Hall. The workshop was co-ordinated by Mrs. Deepika K.
• A two-day workshop was conducted on "Installation and Configuration of Hadoop and Hive" by Chandrashekar.B.H. and a session on "Interfacing Interaction of MongoDB using PHP, Python, Ruby Rails and Java" by Abhishek Annigeri, 6^th semester student on 19^th and 20^th March 2016.
• A Technical Seminar was conducted for 4th semester Cryptography and Network Security Elective Students on the topic " Information Security - Requirements and Defenses" on 11th March 2016 by Mr. Antony Felix, MCA Department Alumni and Software Engineer at Harman Technologies, Bengaluru 
• Mr. B. H Chandrashekar, Mr. Vishal C, Dr. Renuka Prasad, Mr. Harish GM, Mr. Sandeepa Pateel, Mr. Kumarswamy and Mr. Ganesh conducted One Day Workshop on “Drupal in a Day” on 13^th Feb 2016 in MCA Lab for 2^nd Semester MCA students.
• Aptitude training sessions were conducted for 4^th semester students from 9^th to 11^th February 2016 by Ethnus Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.
• English Training sessions were conducted for 2^nd semester students from 8^th to 10^th February 2016 by Ethnus Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

Conferences conducted 2016

International Conference - CSITSS 2016

The department of CSE,ISE and MCA jointly organized International conference on Computational systems and Information technology for sustainable solutions 2016 (CSITSS 2016) between 6^th-8^th October 2016.

COMSAP 2016   

The Department of MCA, RVCE organized the One day Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects -2016 for VI Semester MCA Students on Saturday, 11^th June 2016. The proceedings of the conference (COMSAP – 2016) , symposium of mini projects carried out by MCA students during their IV and V semester and the Department magazine " Dhrishya – 2016" were released during the conference by the Director and the Industry experts present during the conference.

The session chairs were the alumni of the department form various industries: Mr. Puneeth Krishna - TechTrop Solutions Pvt. Ltd , Mr. Deepak Narendra – Cerner, Mr. Abhilash – Cerner, Mr. Rahul B. L. – Accenture, Mr. Gaurav Sethi – Accenture, Mr. Mani Bhushan Kumar – Mobilium India, Mr. Siddharth Shanbhogue – Cerner, Mr. Vishnu Makam Guptha - Informatica and Mr. Rajshekar Ijantkar- Informatica

Best paper was awarded to Ms. Jyothi S. Gowda (1RV13MCA37) who excelled in the presentation and won the first prize. The best student award was conferred to Mr. Narasimha Prasad (1RZ13MCA03).

3. Alumni Activity

The Department had organized Alumni day on Sunday, 26^th June 2016 at IEM Auditorium Hall, R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru. Alumni from different batches (1998-2014) attended the meet and shared their experience with the students , expressed their willingness to help them for Internship and Placement. Prof Raja Rao, Advisor addressed about Alumni role in the development and growth of RVCE and invited them to actively participate and make the institution stronger. In his address, RVCE Alumni Association Secretary and Dean Student Affairs Dr Srinath gave an open call for the Alumni to be part of the Alumni Association.

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2015

1. Events Organized 2015

The department has organized both technical and co-curricalar events to motivate the students to showcase their talents. The following events were conducted during the year 2015.

a. RVCE 8TH MILE 2015

Department of MCA conducted two days workshop on "Devops Week" as part of 8th Mile Event(Techno Cultural Fest) on 27th - 28th February 2015 FROM 9 am - 1.30 pm. This event was conducted for 4th semester students and student participants from other colleges.
Resource Person Involved : Mr Vaibhav Todi, Mr Ashish K Singh, Mr Nitish Aithal, Mr Sujith K. S and Mr Sharath K. Faculty Coordinators for Devops Event: Mr. Vishal.C and Mr. Sandeep pateel GC

b.FOSS Open Source Forum

• A two day Workshop on "Free and Open Source Software Workshop was conducted for the Faculties of Little Rock School, Brahmavar, Udupi District, Karnataka on 25th – 26th May 2015. Little Rock School, Brahmavar, Udupi District, Karnataka
• A talk on "UNIX PROGRAMMING" was conducted for the for 6th Sem BCA students of Vidyavahini First Grade College, Tumkur on 30th Jan 2015

c. IBM CoE activities

• A technical seminar on the topic " IBM BlueMix Platform and Initiatives" was conducted for 3rd and 5th semester MCA students by Mr. Sachin Kumar R S , Community Manager, IBM at the MCA Seminar hall on 12^th August 2015
• “IBM Bluemix Platform Initiatives " meeting was held at the Deaprtment of MCA in which Mr. Sachin Kumar R S, Community Manager IBM, participated and discussed with the faculty about the Bluemix features. Partipants were: Dr. Usha J, Dr. Renuka Prasad , Dr. Andhe Dharani, Dr. Vijayalakshmi M N, Dr. Jasmine K S, Mr. Saravanan, Mrs. Divya T L, Mrs. Sandhya S, Mrs. Sudha M, Mr. Krishnan R, Mr. Vishal C.
• A Session on Blue Mix -Cloud Environment of IBM was conducted by Mr.Sachin, IBM on 9th March 2015.

d. Entrepreneurship Development Cell

An invited talk on "Entrepreneurship: CVP(Compulsion,Volition, Preseumption) Framework" by Ms. Asha.K, Co-founder of Forte Catalyst Talent Management Services and Alumni, RVCE, Bangalore was conducted for 4th Semester MCA students on 15th April 2015 at Dept. of MCA, R.V.College of Engineering.

                                       Student's presenting their activity during the talk                                                                                             

e. TEQIP-II Programmes

• Ms Deepika K participated in Five day workshop on 'pedagogical Skills Development Training' organized by RVCE, Bangalore under TEQIP-II initiative between 29th June 2015- 3rd July 2015.
• Mr Jayasimha SR and Mr Narasimha Swamy participated in National level workshop on 'Innovations in Renewable Energy Technologies and its integration with smart grid' organized by Dept .of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at RVCE, Bangalore under TEQIP-II initiative on 22nd and 27th June 2015.
• Mr Jayasimha SR , Mr Narasimha Swamy, Ms Deepika and Dr Srinivasan P participated Two day workshop on 'Outcome Based Education[OBE]' organized by RVCE, Bangalore under TEQIP-II initiative from 18th to 19th June 2015.
• Mr Jayasimha SR participated in One Day workshop on 'Sensors, Systems for ICT Enabled agriculture' organized by the Centre of Excellence[Macro Electronics], at RVCE, Bangalore under TEQIP-II initiative on 27th March 2015.

2. Seminars Conducted 2015

• A technical Seminar and Hands-on-Session on “Openstack” by Mr. Siddharth Shanbhogh, Cloud Systems Engineer, Cerner HealthCare, on 15^th October 2015 from 12:00 am to 2:00 pm and 17^th October 2015 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm respectively, for the students of 5^th Semester MCA (Cloud Computing Elective).
• Mr. P. Narendra Kumar, Chief Manager, Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore, has given an expert lecture on ‘UML Concepts and Stages of object oriented methodology' for 5^th semester students on 16^th October 2015 from 9am to 10.30am at MCA Seminar Hall, Department of MCA, RVCE.
• A technical Seminar on “Virtualization Techniques and Management Tools” by Mr. Nandan A, OptIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd., on 8^th October 2015 from 11:50 am to 1:30 pm for the students of 5^th Semester MCA .
• A technical Seminar on “Amazon Web Services” by Mr. Ravi Theja M R, Cloud That Technologies, on 1st October 2015 for the students of 5th Semester MCA .
• A session on Aptitude training was conducted by Business Solutions, Bengaluru for the 3rd semester students on MCA on 15th September 2015.
• An expert lecture on  "MIS in a Practical Perspective" has been conducted for the 3rd semester students by Mr.Bhanu Prakash, Managing Director & CEO, Automed Systems, Bangalore, on 31^st August 2015.
• A workshop on “Network Simulator -2” has been arranged for 3^rd semester MCA students on 21^st August 2015, Friday, at MCA seminar Hall. The workshop was coordinated by Mr. Jayasimha S. R and Dr. Srinivasan P.
• A Technical Seminar on "Cloud Computing" by Mr.Nataraj P, Senior Data Center Architect, Wipro Technologies, was organized for the students of V Semester (Cloud Computing Elective) on 20^th August 2015 from 11:45 AM to 1:30 PM. The Seminar was coordinated by Mrs. Sudha M.
• A session on "Placement Preparations" by Mr. Shashidhar Paragonda, Senior Software Engineer, Cerner, Bangalore was organized for the student of V Semester on 18^th August 2015 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
• The ISE ,CSE, MCA Departments of RVCE jointly organized a Technical talk and Awareness session on “Cyber Security -Threat, Defence and Response”, Guideline for Happy Surfing , in association with Global Cyber Security Response Team on 19^th August 2015, Wednesday at 2.00 pm in TCE seminar Hall, RVCE, Bengaluru under CSI student chapter .The resource persons who have the talk includes Mr. Shubhamangala Sunil, Founder and Chairperson GCSRT and Ms.Sowmya Anand, Director-Training and Development GCSRT.
• Dr. K. N. Subramanya, Vice Principal, conducted a seminar on “Projec
• Department of MCA conducted two days technical event “X-PERT” as part of 8^th Mile Event (Techno Cultural Fest) during 20^th to 21^st February 2016. The event was co-sponsored by KMF Nandini. This event was conducted by 4^th semester MCA students. Around 30 students Teams from other colleges participated in this event.
• Faculty Coordinators for “X-PERT” Event: Dr. M. N. Vijayalakshmi, Ms. Chandrani C and Mr. Harish G. M.
• ts Identification and Development” to the students of 5^th Semester on 28^th July 2015.
• Mr. Viren Patil, Chief Creative Officer, Xentrix conducted a session on " Oppurtunities for MCA students in Animation Industry" on 20^th July 2015 . The session was coordinated by Dr. Renuka Prasad B.
• Dr. D Ranganath, Placement Dean, conducted a seminar on “Placements Preparation Process” to the students of 5^th Semester on 29^th July 2015.
• Three days Hands on “NS3” Workshop was conducted from 2^nd to 4^th July 2015 from 9.30am to 4.30pm in MCA Department by the resource person Mr. Deepak Nadig Anantha, Solutt Corporation. Workshop was co-ordinated by Dr. Usha J, Dr. RenukaPrasad B, Mr. Jayasimha S.R, Mr. Narasimhaswamy S and Dr. Srinivasan P. Mr. Mohanaradya, Ms. Chandrani C, Mr. Harish G.M, Mr. Jayasimha S.R and Mr. Narasimhaswamy S attended the workshop.
• A One Day workshop was conducted on "Building Real Time IoT Applications Using Open Source ZettaJS" on 17th April 2015 for Staff and students of MCA Department. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Anil Sagar and Vishawadeep from APIGEE at MC213-Multimedia Class Room, MCA department and was co-ordianted by Mr. Chandrashekar B.H., Dr.Renukaprasad B, Mr.Kumarswamy K.S. and Mrs.Amudha T. Around 25 participants attended the workshop.
• An Expert Lecture on "Importance of C++ in Real World Applications" by Mr. Elvis Antony, Architect for SCL Plus Complier Project, Siemens, Bengaluru was organized on 15th April 2015 at MCA Seminar Hall from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm for 2nd Semester MCA Students and was coordinated by Mr. Krishnan R and Ms. Chandrani C.
• Hands-on Workshop on "Android" (Phrase - II) was conducted on 11th April 2015 by the resource person Mr. Darshan Dwarakanath, consultant, BOSCH for 4th semester students of Mobile Applications Elective at MCA lab and was co-ordinated by Dr. Usha J and Mrs. Deepika K. Case studies and deployment of Android were covered in the session.
• A Technical Seminar on the topic "Network Security - Industry Standards and Perspectives" by the resource person Mr. JeyaSabarinath K, Module Lead at CenturyLink Pvt Ltd , Bengaluru, was conducted on 9th April 2015 for 4th semester MCA students and was coordinated by Mrs. Sandhya S.
• An Expert Lecture on "Importance of Algorithms in Real world application " by Mr. Deric John Mathew, Software Engineer at National Instruments [R&D] Bengaluru on 8th April 2015, for 4th semester MCA students at MCA Seminar Hall, Department of MCA, RVCE and was coordinated by Mrs. Anupama Kumar S and Mr. Jayasimha S. R.
• A Workshop on "Apache Cassandra" was conducted by Vishwadeep Anshu, Sanjoy, Sumanth, Jai & Balaji, APIGEE. The sessions were delivered for the Elective III - NOSQL students of 4th Semester MCA on 17th March 2015 from 11.50AM to 6.15PM at MCA Lab 5. The workshop was coordinated by Mr. B. H. Chandrashekar.

            Mr Vishwadeep Anshu, Sanjoy, Sumanth, Jai & Balaji, APIGEE addressing the students during the workshop

• A hands on training on "Android development" was conducted by Mr. Darshan Dwarakanath, consultant, BOSCH. The Session on "Programming concepts of Android" was delivered to the 4th semester students of Elective II - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications on 14th &15th March 2015 at MCA Lab3. The workshop was co-ordinated by Dr. Usha J, Mrs. Deepika K. Mr. Vishal C, Mr. Sandeepa Patel and Mr. P. Srinivasan are the faculties who attended the session.
• An expert lecture on "software testing trends and practices in a real world scenario" was delivered by Mr. Poreddy Venkata Nagendranatha Reddy, Lead Engineer – verification and validation, Siemens, Bangalore, on 31st March 2015 for 4th semester MCA students of Elective II- Software Testing and Practices ,at MCA Seminar Hall, Dept.of MCA, RVCE. The event was coordinated by Dr. Jasmine k.S. and Mrs. Manju Geogy.
• A talk on "Protecting privacy in our digital communications (Part of diaspora Yatraa)" by Mr Praveen, working as debian developer as a free lancer, was arranged on 2nd March 2015, Monday, at MCA Seminar Hall, from 4:00 PM – 5:00PM for students of 4th and 2nd Sem students, MCA RVCE. The event was coordinated by Vishal.C and Harsish GM.
• A workshop on "Emerging Opportunities in the Era of ICT for Employability, Entrepreneurship and Higher Education" was organized on 14th March 2015, Saturday at IEM Seminar hall for Final year (BCA / BSc /B.Com / BBM) students of various colleges in Bangalore.
• A workshop on "Ruby and Rails" was conducted and coordinated by Mr. Harish G M and Mr. Sandeepa Pateel for 3rd semester MCA students from 23rd to 30th January 2015 at the department of MCA RVCE.
• A Seminar on "6th Semester Project Guidelines" by Dr. K. N. Subramanya, Vice Principal RVCE, was organized for the faculties of MCA department on 20th January 2015 from 10:00 AM to 11.00 a.m. The session was coordinated by Dr. Usha J.

• Industry Institute Interaction : Mr. Viren Patil, Chief Creative Officer, Xentrix visited the MCA Department on 20^th July 2015 at 11:00 am to explore possibilities for placements/ projects/internships with MCA students. The session was coordinated by Dr. Renuka Prasad B.

3. Alumni Activities 2015

Alumni Forum of MCA department organized “Alumni-Student Interaction” on 10^th October 2015. The students of 3^rd Semester MCA interacted with the alumni and discussion were around placements, skills development, projects etc. The alumni who took the initiative and lead were: Mr. Siddharth Shanbhogh, Cloud Engineer, Cerner HealthCare , Mr. Rajshekar Ijantkar, Software Engineer, Informatica, Mr. Deepak J, Software Engineer, Accenture , Mr. Ujwal Adiga, Software Engineer, Accenture and Mr. Chetan Parishwad, Software Engineer, Accenture

The Annual Anulmi Meet was held on 15 th August, 2015. The meet began with the flag hoisting cermony and cultural events by the NCC Team. It was followed by Alumni Forum Meeting. MCA Alumni attended the meet followed by discussion with the faculty and students regarding placements and suggestion for improvment of the MCA program. Mr Shashidhar and Mr Gaurav Wanjare from Accenture Health care, Mr Arun Patil from Xolo R&D Lava International, Mr Mani Bhushan Kumar from Mobileum India Pvt. Ltd., Walton Orda, Sezan Lavelle, Mr Thathagatha Gowtham from Bank of Baroda, Mr Syed Dasthagiri from Offeo Happiness Bhive Workspace and many others graced the occassion.

                                                                       Alumni Activity  - Department of MCA

The Alumni's, Dept of MCA were invited Judge's during symposium on extramural projects for 4th and 6th semester MCA students to evaluate the technical papers presented by the 6th semester students on on 28th March 2015. The Alumni's present were Mr. Uthkarsh, Mysis, Mr Sunder Raj, Commvault, Mr Deepak J, Accenture, Mr Thirthadeep Roy, Cerner, Mr Steven D'souza, Metric Stream , Mr Ujwal Adiga, Accenture, Mr Derrick Mathew, National instruments, Mr Darrel Almeda, Cerner, Mr Prathiksha, Cerner and Mr Siddharth, Cerner.

The Alumni's, Dept of MCA were invited Judge's during COMSAP 2015 to evaluate the technical papers presented by the 6th semester students on 13th June 2015. The Alumni's present were Mr. Uthkarsh, Mysis, Mr Sunder Raj,Commvault, Mr Deepak J, Accenture, Mr Thirthadeep Roy, Cerner, Mr Steven D'souza, Metric Stream , Mr Ujwal Adiga, Accenture, Mr Derrick Mathew, National instruments, Mr Darrel Almeda, Cerner, Mr Prathiksha, Cerner and Mr Siddharth, Cerner.

Conferences conducted 2015

COMSAP 2015

The Department of MCA, RVCE organized the One day Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects -2015 for VI Semester MCA Students on Saturday, 13th June 2015. The proceedings of the conference(COMSAP – 2015) and the Department magazine " Dhrishya – 2015" were released during the conference by the Vice Principal, Director and the Industry experts present during the conference.

 Dr K N Subramanya addressing the students and Release of Department Annual Magazine Dhrishya during COMSAP 2015

Best papers were awarded by the Vice Principal to students who excelled in the presentation. Mr Aby Ben Rajan (1RV12MCA05) won the first prize, Mr. Roshan(1RZ12MCA17) won the Second prize, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Suman(1RZ12MCA25) and Mr. Shashenka Athreyasa(1RZ12MCA32) won the Third prize in the COMSAP-2015.

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2014

1. Events Organized 2014

a. RVCE 8TH MILE 2014

• RVCE MCA Foss Team conducted One day workshop "Drupal" during 8th Mile fest for students from various colleges on 20th March 2014. A total of 120 students participated in the workshop. Mr Sadanand and Mr Nandan from VU Soft, Mr Chandrashekar BH, Mr Vishal C, Mr Sandeep Pateel , faculties, Department of MCA jointly organized the workshop.
• A competition was conducted to design a web portal using Drupal. Mr Somu from Tatva and Dr. Renuka Prasad B jointly evaluated the web portal and to students from BMSIT were declared as winner and SIT college, Bangalore were the runnerup in the competition.
• The department of MCA conducted an Technical event on "Reverse Coding" during 8th Mile fest for students from various colleges on 21st March 2014. Around 70 students participated in the event. The event was judged by Mr Dinesh and Mr Harish GM.

b.FOSS Open Source Forum

• FOSS Open Source Forum conducted 2- day workshop on "PYTHON" for RVCE-ECE branch UG- Students and 2nd semester MCA students at Cognitive Center RVCE on 5th and 6th April 2014 in association with Industry experts.
• A seminar on "Programming using Python workshop" was conducted by Dr Renuka Prasad B and Mr Jayasimha, Faculties, Dept of MCA for the 2nd semester students on 15th April 2014.
• A Workshop on "Advanced routing and firewalls using Linux" was conducted by Abhas Abhinav, CEO, Deeproot Linux Pvt Ltd for the 4th semester students on 12th and 13th March 2014.
• A Drupal Workshop was conducted by Mr B.H. Chandrashekhar and Mr. Vishal , Faculties, Dept of MCA for the 4th semester students on 12th and 13th March 2014.

c. IBM CoE activities

Award

Dr. Sumithra Devi K A , Director, MCA Dept - RVCE was awarded TGMC 13 Mentor Award by Academic Initiative Team, IBM during TGMC 13 Felicitation Ceremony for significant contribution towards the success of TGMC 13 on 15th October 2014 , Wednesday at CMRIT, Bangalore.

Activities

• Anujith singh, Abyben Rajan and Sujith, 3rd Semester MCA Students attended "The TGMC Session" held on 24th Jan 2014, Friday from 11.00 am to 2.30 pm in IBM office, Embassy Golf Links, Bangalore.
• The Great Mind Challenge(TGMC) – 2013 Face to Face Enablement session with IBM experts was held on 21st March 2014, Friday, from 4.00 PM – 6.00 PM in Mechanical Seminar Hall, RVCE. The 4th semester MCA students who have registered for TGMC-2013 contest attended the session, Coordinated by Mr. Saravanan.C and Mr. Jayasimha S. R
• Siddharth, Sharth Kanthi and Vishwanath of 4th Semester MCA participated in a one day event "IBM WorkLight Codeathon Event" held at M.S Ramaiah Institute of Technology ,Bangalore on 28th March 2014.
• Seventeen TGMC-2013 Mobile App Contest projects DVDs was submitted to IBM on 2nd April 2014.
• Abhijith R, Raveesh and Sagar Naik, Pooja , 4th Semester MCA have participated in "IBM Watson Mobile Idea Challenge contest" by submitting their ideas on Crime Investigation APP and Campus Connect APP on 15th April 2014.
• Twenty Students from 4th Semester MCA have attended "Bluemix -Cloud Environment of IBM" Event held on 25 April 2014, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm at IBM EGL Office, Bangalore.
• Dr. Sumithra Devi K. A, Director MCA, and 4th Semester MCA Students –Anujit Singh, Aby Ben Rajan, Vishwanath J and Vinutha K participated in Round Table Discussion on "How to engage academia towards involving latest and trending Technologies" with Mr. Mauricio Sucasas ,Director - Ecosystem Development - Asia Pacific on 20th May 2014 at IBM Innovation Center, IBM India Pvt Ltd, EGL, Bangalore.
• Around 58 Students from 3rd semester and 1st Semester MCA attended TGMC 13 Felicitation Ceremony and "Inspirational Talk" by Mr.Chethan Bhagat organised by IBM Academic Initiative Team on 15th October 2014, Wednesday from 10. 00 am to 2.00 pm at CMRIT, Bangalore. Coordinated by Mr. Saravanan.C
• A Workshop on "Mobile Application Development" using IBM WorkLite was organized on 11th October 2014, in MCA Department for 3rd Semester students from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm in MCA13, Coordinated by Saravanan C and Harish G .M
• A Session on "Blue Mix - Cloud Environment of IBM " by Mr. Sachin Kumar Academic Initiative Coordinator, IBM was arranged for 3rd semester MCA Students on 6th November 2014, Thursday in MCA Seminar Hall. Coordinated by Saravanan C and Harish G .M

d. Entrepreneurship Development Cell

• A talk on "The charm and Perils of becoming an Entrepreneur" was conducted on 29th March 2014 by Mr. Faizan Aziz, CEO, MetaRain Technologies, Bangalore for 4th semester MCA students

e. TEQIP-II Programmes

• A three days TEQIP- II Initiative FDP on " Autonomic, Green and Cloud Computing" was organized by the Departments of ISE, CSE and MCA from 6th – 8th February, 2014.
• The students of 4th semester have attended a five day workshop on ' Advanced Android Programming - learn to teach Android' under TEQIP-II , from 6th to 10th January 2014, held at MCA Seminar Hall, jointly organized by the departments of IS,CS,ECE and MCA RVCE

2. Seminars Conducted 2014

• A Workshop on "DRUPAL" was conducted on 11th October 2014 in MCA Department for 3rd Sem Students on 11th October 2014 , Saturday from 9.00 am – 4.00 pm at MCA01 by Mr.B.H.Chandra Shekar and Mr Vishal.C .
• A Session on "Time Management for Quality Learning" by Ms. Srividya, Learning Facilitator, was organized for the students of I Semester MCA on Tuesday, the 21st Oct, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the MCA Seminar Hall.
• Mohanaradhya and Chandrani.C co-ordinated a TEQIP-II workshop on "Emerging Trends in IT-Technology, Services and Education" jointly organized by R.V College of Engg. and BITES(Board for IT Education Standards), Bengaluru on 11th October 2014.
• An invited talk titled "Quality as expected in Enterprise Application" was arranged for 5th Semester MCA students & ISE 7th Sem students on 17th September 2014 at MCA Seminar hall. Resource persons - Ms.Manpreet Kaur Kalra & Ms. Anusha Dixit from SAP Labs Bangalore, coordinated by Mrs. Manju G.
• Workshop on Exploratory Testing was conucted for 5th Sem Software Testing elective students and ISE students, on 10th October 2014 at MCA Seminar hall. Resource persons - Ms Nithya Sairaj & Ms.Thripura Tekuru, coordinated by Mrs. Manju G.
• A Talk on " Literature Survey and its Needs" was delivered by Dr. Andhe Dharani and Dr. Vijayalakshmi M. N. , Associate Professors, Department of MCA, RVCE, Bangalore for 3rd semester student on 23rd September 2014 at MCA Seminar hall from 4:00 -4:50 PM.
• A Seminar on "Agile Software Process" was organized for 3rd Semester Students on 29th september 2014, from 2.00 to 4.30 pm in MCA Seminar Hall.Resource Persons - Sheetal Singh, Aparna Vohra, and Srividya from SAP Labs, Bangalore, and Coordinated by : Saravanan.C and Chandrani C.
  8. Personality Development Training in association with the Placement Process had been conducted for 3rd semester MCA students from 25th to 27th September 2014 by "Seventh Sense Talent, Bangalore". Co-ordinated by Mr. Mohan Aradhya., Mr. Krishnan R, Mr. Saravanan C, Ms. Chandrani C, Mr. G.C. Sandeep, Mr. Jayasimha S.R. , Mrs. Divya Jyothi, Mr. Narasimha Swamy S, Mr. Manju Prasad
• Invited talk on "Quality as expected in Enterprise Application", by SAP Labs, Bangalore resources – Mr. Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Ms Anushu Dixit on 17th Sept 2014 at 2.30 – 4.00pm at MCA Seminar Hall, RVCE. for 5th Sem MCA A & B sections and ISE department students , Coordinated by Mrs Manju Geogy
• An technical talk by the resource person Mr.Liju Varghese, Software Engineer at Cerner Technologies, Bangalore and RVCE-MCA Department Alumni, on the topic " OOMD & UML - Significance from Industry Perspective" was conducted on 10th September 2014 for 5th semester MCA students at MCA Seminar Hall
• A invited talk on "Listening Skills and Attitude" by Dr.Sathyanarayana Babu, Alumni, RVCE was conducted on 10th September 2014 for 1st semester MCA students at MCA Seminar Hall.
• A Seminar on "Agile Software Process" was organised for 3rd Semester 'A' and 'B' Sec Students on 29th September 2014, Monday from 2.00 to 4.30 pm in MCA Seminar Hall. Resource Persons were from SAP Labs, Bangalore: Sheetal Singh, Aparna Vohra, Srividya. Coordinated by : Saravanan.C and Chandrani C
• A Talk on " Literature Survey and its Needs" was delivered by Dr. Andhe Dharani and Dr. Vijayalakshmi M. N. , Associate Professors, Department of MCA, RVCE, Bangalore for 3rd semester student on 23rd September 2014 at MCA Seminar hall from 4:00 -4:50 PM. Co-Ordinated by : Mr. Krishnan R, Chandrani C
• Dr. Renuka Prasad B conducted 2 days workshop on " addressing the need of 13MCA38 - ( ns2 ) " along with students of III semester MCA students ( Abhishek Annigeri, Mohammed Riyaz, Sudesh and Basawana Gouda Pateel ) on 22nd August 2014 and with Sudha M on 3rd September 2014 at MVIT, Bangalore
• A seminar on "Industrial practices in development using TDD, Agile and Feedback" was delivered by Mr Suhas V, Consultant S/W developer, Though works, Bangalore , Alumni, MCA Department on 26th April 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A guest lecture on "Introduction to PL-SQL' was conducted by Mr Rajesh Pasupuleti, Accenture, Bangalore on 24th April 2014 for the 2nd semester students
• An invited talk on "Agile in Project Management and Requirements gathering" was delivered by Mr. P. Narendra Kumar, Siemens Technology and Services , Bangalore on 23rd April 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A hands on session on "PRAM Algorithms" was conducted by Ms Priyanka Sharma , CDAC Bangalore on 15th April 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A special lecture on "Big Data Analytics using Hadoop" was delivered by Mr Mohan Kumar, Trendwise Analytics, Bangalore on 9th April 2014 for the 2nd semester students
• Students of II semester, Mohammed Riyaz, Karthik M S and Sushmitha K S attended one day workshop on Computational Science, at Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 21st March 2014
• A workshop on "JSFramework" was conducted by JSS Channel Community on 15th March 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A talk on "Verification and validation" was given by Mr. Parimal Agarkhed, Test Manager, IBM India on 14th March 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A Hands on Sessions on "Computer graphics using OpenGL" was conducted by Mr. Krishnappa, Asst Prof, dept of CSE, RVCE and Mr. Narasimha prasasd, Dept of MCA, RVCE on 12th and 13th of March 2014 for 4th semester students
• A lecture on "Own Your Future" was delivered by Shri. Nandan Nilekani on 3rd March 2014 for the 4th semester students
• A seminar on "Professional Android Development" was delivered by Mr Dheeraj Bhaskar, other side of the wall. Co. Bangalore on 28th February 2014 for the 2nd semester students
• A Knowledge Sharing session on "Architectural Thinking" was conducted by the CSI-Student branch for the 2nd semester students on 19th February 2014
• A Knowledge Sharing session on "Information Security-threats and challenges" was organized by the CSI-Student branch for the 2nd semester students on 12th February 2014

3. Alumni Activities 2014

• Mr.Suhas, Developer, Thought Works, Bangalore, Alumni, Department of MCA was invited as chief guest for MCA IT Forum Annual function on 26th April 2014.
• Mr. Adnan Shamir Ahmed, Mr. Srikanth B, Mr. Sujay Kumar, Ms. Babitha N from Cerner Bangalore, Alumni, Department of MCA were invited as judges for the One day symposium of 5th semester MCA Mini Project paper presentation on 29th March 2014.
• Mr Darell D, Mr Sreekanth B, Mr Kishan JS, Ms.Vidhya G Mr Abhishek KS, Mr Avinash HT, Mr Vinay Singh, Mr Liju , Ms Prateeksha Sheety , Alumni Department of MCA were invited as judges for the One day symposium of 5th semester MCA Mini Project paper presentation 29th March 2014.

EVENTS & SEMINARS 2014

1. Conference Conducted 2014

COMSAP 2014
The Department of MCA, RVCE organized the One day Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects -2014 for VI Semester MCA Students on Saturday, 28th June 2014. COMSAP -2014 an Annual event provides a unique opportunity for the students of 6th Semester MCA to showcase their projects. The students are given a unique platform to demonstrate their presentation skills and self learning capabilities which are vital for their professional growth. The Conference was inaugurated and the proceedings of the conference were released by the Alumni's present during the inauguration. The key note address was given by the Chief Guest and the technical paper presentations scheduled in different venues were presented by the students. The papers were judged by industry professions, the Alumni's of MCA department.
Best papers were given to students who excelled in the presentation. Mr.Vishnu Makkam Gupta 1RZ11MCA59 won the first position, Mr Rahul Shaw 1RZ11MCA09 won the second position and Mr Chetan Parishwad , 1RV11MCA24 won the third position.

COMSAP 2013

The Department of MCA, RVCE organized the One day Conference on MCA Student Academic Projects -2013 for VI Semester MCA Students on Saturday, 13th July 2013. COMSAP -2013 an Annual event provides an unique opportunity for the students of 6th Semester MCA to showcase their projects. The students are given a unique platform to demonstrate their presentation skills and self learning capabilities which are vital for their professional growth. The Conference was inaugurated by chief guest Mr.SriHari, Team Lead, AmaDeus Software labs, Bangalore , Alumni MCA Department and the proceedings of the conference was released by all the Alumni's present during the inauguration. The key note address was given by the Chief Guest and the technical paper presentations scheduled in different venues were presented by the students. The papers were judged by industry professions, the Alumni's of MCA department.

Best papers were given to students who excelled in the presentation. Mr.Ravi Chandra C.N , 1RZ10MCA18 won the first position, Ms.Swetha R, 1RZ10MCA46 won the second position and Ms.Shetty Prathiksha , 1RZ10MCA27 won the third position.

2. Events Organized 2013

a. One day Dissemination workshop on "Wireless and Adhoc Sensor Networks"

An one day dissemination workshop titled "Wireless and Adhoc sensor networks" was organized by the departments of MCA and Mechanical Engineering ,RVCED on 26th April 2013 funded by Naval Research Board, New Delhi. the workshop was inaugurated by the chief guset, Prof.Veni Madhavan,Scientific Computing Panel Head, IISC, Bangalore , Commander Vijay Singh, Dy Direcotr, Naval Research Board, New Delhi and others. The function was presided by Prof. K.N.Raja Rao, Advoisor, RVCE, Bangalore. The key note address was delivered by the chief guest.
The workshop was conducted in two sessions. In the first session, Dr.Andhe Pallavi delivered a talk on WSN and explained about 10-15 simulators including its license types with their built in protocols with basic programming techniques of these simulators. In the afternoon session, a hands on session on NetSim simulator was presented by the developers of Tetcos, Bangalore. Finally, Dr.Andhe Dharani, the Principal Investigator of the project, described the objective of the project, design and implementation mechanism for Under water Sensor Networks.

b. Technical Fest - EXCEPTION 2013

A National Level Techno Cultural Fest "Exceptions 2013" was held during 15th - 16th March 2013. The theme of the fest was "Road Safety". A public awareness initiative on "Road Safety" was conducted on 14th March 2013 by Dr M.A.Saleem, D.C.P, Traffic Police, Bangalore. Students from 26 Colleges participated in the fest. Mr. Ali Azhar Amin , National Instruments, Alumni MCA department was the chief guest for the inauguration. Dr. Jaganathan, Incharge Principal, RVCE, Dr. Sumithra Devi, and Student Coordinator Mr. Vishnu Makkam Gupta were also present on Dias and graced the occasion. During the inaugural function, the dignitaries released the Department Magazine "DRISHYA V". Mr. Shivanandan Gupta, Alumni, MCA Department was the chief guest for the valedictory function. CMR Institute of Technology won the overall Championship Trophy and Sambram Institute of Technology, Bangalore won the Runner up Trophy in Exceptions 2013.

c. Industrial Visit

• The students of 5th and 3rd semester MCA, 7 students from ISE department along with Dr.Sumithra Devi and Mrs.Manju Goegy attended a conference in SAP Techniversity, Bangalore 2013 on 28th September 2013
• Mr Vishal.C, Asst. Professor, Department of MCA, attended a one day Hands-on Workshop on "ONT Oracle Application Development Framework" organized by the Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore on 27th August 2013 held at TAJ VIVANTA MG Road, Bangalore
• Mrs. Sandhya S, Assistant Professor, attended 1 Day Workshop on "SAP HANA Startup Forum" at SAP Labs Bangalore on 29th July 2013.
• An one day industrial visit to Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), at Manyatha Tech Pack, Hebbal, Bangalore was organised for 4th semester MCA along with faculty coordinators Mr. B H Chandrasekhar and Mrs. Sandhya S on 9th March 2013. The visit included a technical talk by Mr. Narendra, Associate Director, CTS, Bangalore on the topic " UNIX System Programming & Current Industry practices".
• The girl students of 2nd Semester MCA participated in a workshop "Women Empowerment in the field of Engineering And Technology" conducted by RBEI, Bosch on 7th March 2013 on the eve of Women's day celebration at REBI. The workshop comprised of two technical talks and a panel discussion on "Opportunities and Challenges for Women in Engineering Career".

d. FOSS Open Source Forum

• Dr.Renuka Prasad, Mr. Chandrashekar BH, Mr.Kumaraswamy, Mr. Vishal C and Mr. Sandeepa Pateel, faculties conducted TWO-DAY WORKSHOP on "Free and Open Source Software in Day to Day Computing" at the Department of Master of Computer Applications in Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology from 25th October 2013 to 26th October 2013.
• Mr.Harish GM and Mr. Sandeepa Pateel, Asst Professors, Conducted session on Free and Open Source Tools, for carrying mini project work using these tools on 31st October 2013 at 9:00 Am to 11:30 AM in MCA Seminar hall for 3 rd Sem MCA Students.

e. IBM CoE activities

• The Dept of MCA, under IBM CoE, RVCE has organised a 3 day workshop on DB2 Certification Training Program from 25- 27th October 2013 in MCA Seminar hall and MCA labs. Around 90 RVCE students attended this workshop.
• RVCE , Nodal Centre for IBM TGMC 12 Face to Face Evaluation Round
  • R.V.College of Engineering was chosen as Nodal Centre for The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) 12 Face to Face Evaluation Round in Karnataka. Around 48 Teams from different states (Orissa , Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh )Pondicherry have participated in the contest. The Contest was conducted for 4 days from 26th - 29th August 2013 in Bio Tech Seminar Hall ,RVCE,Bangalore
  • 8 Teams have submitted The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) projects to IBM and two teams from MCA Dept were qualified in the first round of IBM TGMC 12 contest.
• The Department of MCA under IBM CoE conducted IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 System Administration Operating Fundamentals Certification exam for RVCE Students on 26th March 2013. 92 students from various departments appeared for certification exam and 77 students successfully received the certification.

f. Entrepreneurship Development Cell

• A seminar on "Unix and its Varients " was conducted on 21st Nov 2013 for the students of I semester by Mr. Varuna E, Eudaemonic Systems, Mysore
• An Invited talk on "Entrepreneur Development Skills" was delivered by Mr.Hemant Chandani CEO, Outfit technologies and Alumni MCA, RVCE, Bangalore, on 31st August for V semester students.
• Mr. Subramanya , Senior software engineer, Accenture, Bangalore and Alumni MCA delivered talk on "Entrepreneurship skills" for 4th semester MCA students on 27th April 2013.

3. Seminars 2013

• A Motivational talk on "Self learning and Development "was organised on 23rd Nov 2013 for the I semester students by Mr.Sivananju BN Research scholar, IISc Bangalore.
• An expert lecture on " Graph theory and applications" was conducted on 28th Nov 2013 by Dr.Annamma Abraham, HOD, Dept of Mathematics, BMSIT, for the 1st semester MCA students .
• A technical talk on "BIG DATA" was delivered by Mr. Mohan Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of Trendwise Analytics,Bangalore, for 3rd semester students on 19th, Tuesday, November 2013.
• A seminar on "Introduction to S.A.P." was delivered by Mr. Anand Aithal, SAP Lead Consultant , LSI India R & D Pvt Ltd, for 3rd Semester M.C.A. students on 12th November 2013 .
• An expert lecture on the topic "OOMD & UML" was delivered by Mr. Narendra Kumar P, Chief Manager at Siemens technology and Serivces Ltd., Bangalore at the MCA Seminar Hall, to the 5th Semester MCA students on October 31st 2013 .
• Four day workshop on Soft Skills was conducted for 3rd sem A and B section from 30 th Sept to 3rd Oct 2013 in MCA Seminar hall by M/s Zen School for Skills Bangalore.
• Mrs.Ashwini B.M and Mr. Jayasimha S.R jointly conducted a technical session on "Database connectivity using C#" as part of Part B Project in Dot Net Lab, to the students of 5th semester MCA on 23rd October 2013 .
• A Two day workshop " Learn English Easily" was conducted for 3rd Sem Students on 12th and 13th August 2013 by Mr.Anand Rao ,Director, M/S Zen School for Skills,Bangalore.

TEQIP Programmes Coordinated

• A workshop on "Sustainable solutions for E-Waste Management" 2nd edition of " A Process towards Zero Waste and Energy Independent Campus" organized jointly by the Department of MCA and ISE on 20th and 28th September 2013.
• A 5 day Faculty Development Program on 'Applications of Operations Research in Transport and Logistics Sector' jointly organized Jointly Organized by Departments of IEM , MCA and Mathematics, RVCE, Bangalore
• A 5 Day Faculty Development Workshop On 'Quality Engineering And Testing For Software Intensive Systems' Jointly Organized by Department ISE/CMCA/CSE Under TEQUIP II Initiative from 26th - 30th August 2013.
• A 5 day TEQIP- II Initiative FDP workshop on "Cyber Security and Forensics – Building awareness and competence in cyber crime law and technology" organized by the departments of CSE,ISE,TE,ECE,EEE and IT from 29th July – 2nd August 2013.
• A 3 day TEQIP- II Initiative FDP on " Stochastic Processes in Engineering and Technology" organized by the Department of Mathematics, IEM and MCA from 18th – 20th July, 2013.

4. Alumni Activities 2013

• Mr Utkarsh BT, Mr.Naveen A, Ms. Vidhya Rao, Ms. Babitha Naidu Alumni's , Department of MCA were invited as evaluators for reviewing the V semester Academic Mini Projects on 26th October 2013.
• Mr.Hemant Chandani CEO, Outfit technologies and Alumni MCA, RVCE, Bangalore, was invited to give a talk on "Entrepreneur Development Skills" on 31st August at MCA Seminar Hall for V semester students.
• Mr. Subramanya , Senior software engineer, Accenture, Bangalore and Alumni MCA was invited to deliver a talk on "Entrepreneurship" for 4th semester MCA students on 27th April 2013.
• Mr. Subramanya, Software Engineer, Accenture, Bangalore, Mr. Shashidhar, Software Engineer, Carl Zeiss India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore , Mr. Keshav, Software Engineer, Saber Holdings, Bangalore and Mr. Vinay B M, Software Engineer, Mysis Software Solutions, Bangalore were the invited as judges for evaluating the 5th semester technical papers based on Extramural projects.
• Mr. Vivek S, Software Engineer, Cerner Corporation, Bangalore , Mr. Hemanth Chandani, Enterpreneur, OutWit Technologies, Bangalore , Ms. Prerana P, Biztime IT Solutions, Bangalore and Ms. Anjana Umarani, IAS Aspirant, Bangalore were invited as judges for evaluating the 3rd semester technical papers based on Extramural projects.
• Department Alumni's were invited as judges for technical paper presentations for COMSAP 2013 conducted on 13th July 2013. Mr. SriHari from AmeDeus Software lab was invited as the chief guest for the conference. The other judges for the day were
  • Mrs.Kadambini Informatica Business Solutions
  • Mrs.Indumathi , Informatica Buseness Solutions, Bangalore
  • Mrs.Deepika , Informatica Bangalore
  • Mr.Utkarsh , MiSyss Software Solutions, Bangalore
  • Mr.Sashidhar , Carl Zeiss India Pvt LTd, Bangalore
  • Mrs.Gauri Bachani , CEP team, Informatica, Bangalore.
    The Alumni's judged the technical papers presented by the students and shared their experience with them regarding the placement issues across the company.
• As a part of Exception 2013, Mr. Ali Azhar Amin from National Instruments was invited as a chief guest for the Inauguration and Mr.Shivanandan Gupta was invited as a chief guest during the valedictory function. Many Alumni's judged various events in Exceptions 2013.
• For the SYM3SEP 2013, the student's presentation were judged by the Alumni's of the department, Mr. Derick J Mathew, from National Instruments, Mr. Ashok Kumar from Redknee solutions, Mr. Vinay B M from Misys, Mr. Aniruddha Biswas from Cognizant Technologies and Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Entrepreneur (Alumni).

 

 

 

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