Industry - Academic Interaction

An industry visit was organized to Unisys Data Centre, Bangalore on 3rd March 2020 and 4th March 2020 to the students of 6th Sem. and faculty members Mrs. Sowmya M. R., Mrs. Supriya P., and Ms. Impana P. visited the Data Centre. Ms. Rashmi, Mr. Rahul, and Mr. Ashok from Unisys took them on a tour to the data centers and the work area within the Unisys campus. They were exposed to the working of data centers and research labs of Unisys. They learned data handling, remote computation infrastructures associated with the data centers.

The Department of CSE has signed an MOU with SUBEX Limited, Bangalore, to establish the Center of Excellence(CoE) in the domain of Security in Cyber Security and IoT.

Thrust Areas are: Embedded Systems. Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big-data Analytics, Cyber Security AI, ML and Deep Learning

Objectives of the COE:

• Creation of an Innovation Hub to enable the development of state of the art products and solutions in the emerging domain of “Internet of Things and Cyber Security” with appropriate Infrastructure &expert guidance.
• Exposure to Industry-standard practices
• Support for the realization of Prototypes and Deployment
• Encouragement for Creation of Solutions to address specific Societal needs:
  o Water Management
  o Agricultural Productivity
  o Health
  o Security
  o Privacy of Data
• Build Talent suitable for the Industry
• Encourage and Nurture eco-system for initiating “Startups”
• Access to Comprehensive Tool Chain for addressing issues of IoT SECURITY
• Security Threat Assessment Tools - Evolution of Comprehensive IoT System security
• Access to Experts for Security hardening of IoT devices & Systems

Department provides opportunities to students to work on projects proposed by companies in the various domain under the guidance of the executives of the company.

Industry-Academia Project:

Name of the Company	Title of the Project	Research/Competition	Students working on Project	Mentors of the Project
Unisys	Social Media Analytics	Unisys Cloud 20/20 (Selected for the final round)	Dhanraj, Pavan N. Sanjiv M. C., Ramkishor	Dr.Thippeswamy M. N. Ms. Impana P.
Unisys	Digital platform for ClearPath	Unisys Research Project	Akanksha M. S., Gaurav Saha Gribesh Dhakal, Uday Srivastav	Dr. Thippeswamy M.N. Dr.Venkatesh K.
Unisys	Predicting Flight delays	Unisys Cloud 20/20	Arun Pratap, Avinash Rath Ayush Raj Mathur, Dolly Upmandewn	Dr. Thippeswamy M. N. Dr. Vasanth Kumar  G. U.
Unisys	Speech to text API	Unisys Research Project	Sushruth P. Vilas M. Arpit Giri Saket Prag	Dr. Thippeswamy M. N. Ms. Impana P.
Unisys	Cloud Security	Unisys Research Project	Nikita Srivastava, Vrinda G Bhat Vivek Ghosh, Bivav Raj Satyal	Dr.Thippeswamy M. N. Dr. Venkatesh K.
Unisys	Consent management using blockchain	Unisys Cloud 20/20	K P Gaurav, Shrey Ambesh Anoop Pakki, Dheemanth Gowda	Dr. Thippeswamy M. N. Dr. Mohan B. A.
IBM	Business process prediction using modified LSTM networks	IBM Research Project	Sushruth P.	Dr.Thippeswamy M. N.

Proposed Projects

Name of the Company	Title of the Project	Students working on Project	Mentors of the Project
Pinaacle	App development for IoT system UnBox Mobile App	Avinash, Gaurav SajanPoude, Harsha Arihant, Nikhil Raj Koti, Aditya, Bhivav, Jhanavi, Shreya Hegde, Karthik	Dr. Thippeswamy M. N., Dr. Mohan B. A. Mr. Muthuraju V., Mrs. Supriya P. Ms. Impana P.
Pinaacle	Mediate India App	Gaurav, Shrey, Anoop	Dr. Thippeswamy M. N., Dr. Shivadarshan S. L., Mr. Muthuraju V.

Unnath Bharath Abhiyan( Work carried out for MHRD, Govt. of India)

The main objectives under the ‘Unnat Bharath Abhiyan 2020’ program are:

• To engage the faculty and students of Educational Institutions in understanding rural realities.
• To identify & select existing innovative technologies, enable customization of technologies, or devise implementation method for innovative solutions, as per the local needs.
• To leverage the knowledge base of the institutions to devise processes for effective implementation of various government programs.

Proposed Projects
Unnath Bharath Abhiyan	To Develop Real-Time Health and living conditions monitoring systems using the Internet of Things (IoT) using Sensors and Mats.	6th  sem Students CSE, Mech, Civil	Dr. ThippeswamyMN Dr. Vasanth Kumar G. U. Dr. Mohan B. A. Mr. Vinay T. R. Mr. Muthuraju V. Mr. Bharath(Mech) Mr. Punith(Mech) Mr. Shreyas (Civil) Mr. Chethan D. Ms. Impana P. Ms. Varsha(Civil) Mr. E. G. Satish and Dr. Srinivas N.
	To upgrade the School Computers, Train the stakeholders and to convert into Digital Classrooms.
	Design and Development a system that filters unwanted waste and makes an easy flow of water in the drainage system.

Memorandum of Understanging with Industries

The Department of CSE has signed MoU with few reputed companies with the objectives  to provide an opportunity to the students to work on projects proposed by the company in various domains under the guidance of the executives of the company and the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.

The college has signed MoU with Unisys, Bangalore. The objectives of MoU are: To establish Unisys Thought Leadership in NMIT campus to strengthen the relationship by imparting advanced training to the members of our faculty & students through a series of value-added activities and programs. To increase faculty-industry interaction to pursue academic research, conducting faculty training programs and providing an opportunity to crowdsource projects To improvise academic curriculum (being a part of the Board of Studies) & provide the necessary industry exposure in the form of guest lectures, webinars, workshops/ seminars.

List of Companies signed MoU with the Department of CSE, NMIT, Bangalore

1. Unisys India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore 2. Subex Ltd. Bangalore 3. IBM India Private Ltd., Bangalore 4. Infosys Ltd., Bangalore 5. KPIT Technologies Pvt Ltd., Bangalore 6. Sakha Global Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore 7. Mahindra Comviva Ltd., Bangalore 8. Cisco Academy of Training, Bangalore 9. Pinaacle Technologies, Bangalore 10. GiGlue, Noida, New Delhi 11. COMVIVA Navigem, Bangalore, 12. Spectru Infotech Pvt. Ltd, 13. SakhaTech-Global Ltd., Bangalore 14.ITC Academy , a worldwide company 15. Spline, AI technologies, Startup Company 16. Google Developers Student Club (DSC)

During MoU Signing with Connaissance IT in the presence of Dr. N R Shetty, Advisor NMIT, Bangalore

The College has signed MoU with ICT Academy, in association with the Government of Karnataka, for providing training on the emerging technologies for members of our faculty and students.

The Department has collaborated with Spline, AI technologies, Startup Company; Bangalore to work on AI-based real-time projects. Three of our students have completed their assigned works.

Google Developers Student Club (DSC): Lead developer student club by Google’s Applied CS with Andriod program is designed for computer science pre-final and final year students and enhances various concepts from their current curricular work. Students will be allowed to develop projects by forming their teams and they will be trained through various workshops

The department organizes workshops that facilitate interaction with experts from the industry. The experts and representatives of senior leadership from prestigious organizations participate in these workshops.

Examples of a collaborative project between Industries, Institutions, and the Department are:

Infosys: Campus Connect Program

Wipro: Under Mission10X program - training for faculty members and student

Kore Fabrik is a US Based startup company that has been envisioned to provide a platform for meaningful interactions between educational institutions, current students, alumni, industry professionals, and prospective students.

• For instance, current students may want to know which teachers to approach for a specific project they are passionate about.
• The Alumni might want to know what happened to projects of which they were a part of when they were in college. They may want to donate money to the project or sponsor the project through their organization or recommend a few other students to join and continue the project.
• The prospective students might want to know how the current students feel about the institution.
• The institution might want to know who the most popular teachers are and where their alumni are making a mark in the industry.
• Such information is possible to be collected, processed, analyzed, and presented through Kore Fabrik.

They were looking for interns from the CS and IS streams who could help them develop the software platform they needed. Dr. Sanjay, Dr. Thippeswamy, Dr. Manjunath, and Dr. Harish Babu teamed up together to coordinate the selection process. Shri Rohit Punja facilitated the entire effort by interfacing with them. As a result of this eight interns were chosen and two people were offered a job opportunity among which 4 students were from the CS Department, were given the offer letters for Internships. All of these students accepted the offer and since July they have been working with Kore Fabrik

Infosys Technologies Ltd. bangalore

The following are the activities conducted on behalf of Infosys- Campus Connect program in the department of CSE during the academic year 2016-17.

Sl.No	Company	Topic name	Duration
1	Infosys	Webinar Campus Connect Webinar Series On “UI Technologies” like HTML5, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, TypeScript, Angular JS	20/9/2017 to 5/10/2017
2		Webinar on Overview of Cloud Computing w.r.t. IoT	4/9/2017
3		IoT Platform	29/8/2017

Wipro

NitteMeenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore has a tie-up with M/S WIPRO Technologies for training its faculty members to cater to the needs of the industry based on their perspective. Our students are also provided with the opportunity to pursue their final year project in their organization thereby providing them exposure to “live” projects and consequently enhancing their employability.

Following are the activities in association with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore

Sl.No	Training Name	Duration
1	Webinar Session on “TALENTNEXT from Wipro”	1 day
2	Core Java and Advance Java Training to registered faculty. Training Schedule is shown below	1 Month, 16-May to 17-June

Other activities with Wipro:

• Three Faculty members were trained on Advance Java in Wipro Technologies for 1 month and cleared Online Certification Exam.
• Faculty members who cleared the Wipro certification Exam are eligible to train Wipro placed students in the college campus and put on live projects in Wipro without any additional training.
• M/S Wipro has tie-up with our college and regularly train selected members of our faculty on new technologies used by them which can in turn be imparted to the students by offering appropriate courses as “Electives”.
• M/S Wipro has recruited 206 students in the last Academic year from all streams and been given opportunities to work in domains such as Cloud computing, Android App development, and IOS App development.

KPIT, Bangalore

• A three-day training from KPIT SME’s at NMIT to the KPIT Placed students by Suleman Saudagar and Noorin Lakhani was organized covering the topics SDLC, RDBMS, UML, JAVA, C#.NET, UI etc. from 16/5/2017 to 18/5/2017
• PACE program "Overview of ORACLE Ecosystem" from KPIT, Pune was attended by the Faculty Members of CS & E.
• Also, for the year 2016-17 PL/SQL syllabus is added in the core DBMS subject and PL/SQL programs in the DBMS laboratory