Electronics & Communication Engineering
Brief
Profile
Electronics and Communication Engineering Department was Established in 1997 with an initial intake of 60 students. The Department at VKIT has evolved into a premier center of academic excellence, now accommodating 120 students annually. The department is distinguished by its superior infrastructure, encompassing cutting-edge laboratories, advanced equipment, high-performance computing systems, industry-relevant software tools and well-equipped e-classroom facilities. A team of highly qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty members drives the department’s mission, combining academic rigor with a deep commitment to student success. In addition to delivering a robust curriculum, the department places a strong emphasis on the development of employability skills, nurturing both personal and professional growth to prepare students for thriving careers in the ever-evolving technological landscape.
Good Practices
- Providing dedicated remedial coaching
sessions to support and uplift students
requiring additional academic assistance.
- Encouraging academic excellence and holistic
development through a structured system of
recognition and rewards. - Delivering Value-Added programs aimed at
enhancing technical competencies,
industry readiness and soft skills beyond
the standard curriculum. - Fostering a culture of collaboration and
mutual respect by actively promoting
teamwork and peer recognition.
Vision
To become a distinguished department by imparting quality technical education, fostering innovation and research to cater to technological advancements for industry and societal growth.
Mission
- Nurture excellence in the field of Electronics and Communication Engineering to meet the needs of the industry.
- Facilitate students by promoting multidisciplinary skill development, certification courses suitable for industry, innovation, and research.
- Foster overall personality development of students and faculty by providing behavioral, professional attitude, and ethical values through state-of-the-art science and technology.
Program Educational Objectives
- PEO 1 Continuously enhance knowledge by pursuing higher studies in multidisciplinary areas and thrive in multicultural environments.
- PEO 2 Pursue successful careers utilizing education to develop as excellent employees or entrepreneurs.
- PEO 3 Be responsible members who understand the human, social and environmental context of their profession and contribute positively to societal needs.
Program Specific Outcomes
PSO1:
Specify, design, build and test analog, digital and embedded systems
for signal processing
PSO2:
Understand and architect wired and wireless analog and digital
communication systems as per specifications, and determine their
performance.
Short term goals
- Upgrade the department towards achieving A++ accreditation from NAAC.
- Conduct Value-Added programs for students that promote domain skills through MOOCs and NPTEL.
- Organize Seminars, Workshops, Student Development Programs (SDPs), Conferences, and Industrial Visits.
- Assist students in securing Internships and Placements.
Conduct regular Faculty Development Programs for skill upgradation
Long term goals
- Encourage Research and Development to achieve significant publications and patents through multidisciplinary research.
- Establish and strengthen Industry-Institute interactions to provide industry solutions.
- Undertake sponsored/consultancy projects from private and government organizations.
- Upgrade the department towards achieving A+ grade accreditation from NBA.
Laboratories
- Analog Electronics Circuit Lab
- Digital Circuit Lab
- Microcontroller Lab
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Lab
- Hardware Description Language (HDL) Lab
- Embedded Systems Lab
- Computer Networks Lab
- Communication Lab
- VLSI Lab
- Research Lab
Head of the Department
Dr. Bhagyalakshmi N B.E, M.E, Ph.D, MIE, MISTE
Email id: ecehodvkit@gmail.com,
Mobile: 9480261129
Dr. Bhagyalakshmi N has 22.9 years of teaching and research experience altogether. She received her B.E in Electronics from Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Bangalore University, MTech in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems from UTL Technologies, Bangalore-VTU and Ph. D in VLSI Design from Jain University. She has published research papers in International Conferences and refereed International Journals. She has also received best paper awards. She is guiding Ph.D. students under Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi. She is the reviewer for International Conferences and Journals. She is the Life Member for ISTE and MIE. She is the Member of Board of Examiners for VTU during year 2017 to 2018. She was conferred with “Women Achiever Award” by Institution of Engineers (India), Karnataka State Center, Bengaluru as a part of International Women’s Day Celebrations. She has received grants for various projects from various organizations like KSCST, VTU-FOSS, DST-NIMAT and AICTE/ISTE.
Department Newsletters: ABHIVYAKTHI
ABHIVYAKTHI - 2020
ABHIVYAKTHI - 2019
Distinguished Alumni
Department Activities
· Leelavathi H P and Dr. J Prakash, ” Fast Discrete Curvelet Decomposition With Gradient Fusion Based Technique for Pansharpening of Multispectral Image“, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)’, Volume-9 Issue-5, Page No. 892-901, June 2020. |
· Leelavathi H P and Dr. J Prakash, ” Two Stage Fusion Scheme Based on a Curvelet with Gradient Technique for Integration of SAR Image on PAN Image to Improved the Spatial Resolution “, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 4041 – 4053, Apr 2020. |
· Reshma S Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RRC, ’‘Maximizing Network Lifetime using Fuzzy Based Secure Data Aggregation Protocol (FSDAP) in a Wireless Sensor Networks”, in International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), ISSN: 2277-3878 (Online), Volume-8, Issue-4, Page No.: 5989-6001, November 2019 under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
- Mrs.Manasa P, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC, “TCHCN: Trust Computation for Hierarchical Clustering Network to Reduce Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Network”, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience(accepted) under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE.
- Mr.Sanjay K N, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC, “Performance Evaluation of MAC Layer using LA-ANA based Architecture for Bluetooth Dynamic Environment”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, (Communicated and awaiting for acceptance) under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE.
- Leelavathi G, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC. Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture of Public Key Crypto Processor for Wireless Sensor Nodes. Inderscience International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, 5(1):11-25, 2020 under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE.
· Mrs.Manasa P, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC presented a paper entitled “FTRAT: Fault-Tolerance Routing based on Aggregation Tree Formation to improve the QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in 4thWorld Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security & Sustainability (WorldS4-2020) held during 27-28, 2020 via digital platform under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
· Mr.Sanjay K N, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC presented a paper entitled “LA-ANA based Architecture for Bluetooth Environment”, in 4th World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security & Sustainability (WorldS4-2020) held during 27-28, 2020 via digital platform under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
· Mr.Sanjay K N, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC presented a paper entitled ” LA-ANA Based Data Transmission in UWB Tx-Rx “, 2019 IEEE 16th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp 1-3, March 2020 under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
· Mrs. Manasa P, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC has communicated a paper titled “Maximizing the Network Lifetime Using Supervisory Node in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in the 16th IEEE India Council International Conference INDICON 2019, Marwada University, Rajkot, Gujurat, India 13th -15th December 2019 under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
· Mr. Sanjay K Nagendra, Research Scholar, VKIT-VTU-RC has communicated a paper titled “LA-ANA based Data Transmission in UWB Tx-Rx” in the 16th IEEE India Council International Conference INDICON 2019, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujurat, India, 13th -15th December 2019 under the guidance of Dr. Shaila K, Professor-R&D, Dept. of ECE. |
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A technical exhibition was organised for 6th Semester ECE students by inviting Resource persons from Samtec Trading India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore on 11.03.2020 at VKIT Campus.
The exhibition started with introduction to Samtech products, optical connectors and various other connectors. Students gained knowledge about heat exchangers. There was Questionnaire session where the students actively participated and won prizes. Exhibition was about various Samtec products and different types connectors.
Three days “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-III” for Second year students of ECE 17th February – 19th February 2020. |
Three days “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-IV” for Prefinal year students of ECE and Mechanical branch students on 09th March – 11th March 2020. |
Participation of all Sem students of ECE Dept in One day Webinar on “Forensic Crime Detection-Signature Verification Process”on 12th June 2020 |
One day webinar on “VLSI Verification”on 26th June 2020 |
Online Quiz on “Electronics Companies in India” for all Electronics Branch students on 13th July 2020 |
One day webinar on “LabView and its applications” on 27th July 2020 |
- Maitri.S of 5th Sem ECE dept has attended one day workshop on Machine learning in ISE dept at VKIT,Bangalore
- Gowtham.M.C of 7th Sem ECE dept won prize at Essay Competition held by IIC,VKIT.
- Participation of all Final Year students of ECE Dept in Three days “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-I” from 25th September to 27th September 2019
- Participation of all Final and Prefinal Year students of ECE Dept in Five days “Certification Course on IoT” for Prefinal and final year students from 24th October to 26th October and 30th to 31st October 2019
- Participation of all Prefinal Year students of ECE Dept in Three days “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-II” for Prefinal year students. From 07th November to 09th November 2019
Name of the Teacher / Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Year of Sanction |
Funding Agency |
Total Amount Sanctioned |
Amount utilized during current year |
Dr. Jyothilakshmi P | The design of a smart medicine box | March 2020 | Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) | 4,500.00 | 4,500.00 |
- Session chair, Fifth IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering which is held between 15th & 16th November 2019 at the Sterlings Mac Hotel, Bengaluru.
- Sangam P Gowda, Shreekanth B N, S P Abhilash and Umesh H R final year student received second prize for the project titled “CAN Based Automatic Drunk and Drive Detector” under my guidance 2019.
- Dr. Bhagyalakshmi N, Assoc. Prof was felicitated at IEI, Bengaluru on 8th March 2019 on the occasion of Women’s Day
- Three Day “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-I” in association with EDII, Gujarat, India from 25th – 27th September 2019 was conducted under department technical association ‘Electronics Forum’ with an objective to create awareness among faculty and students of Engineering and Science courses about various facets of entrepreneurship as an alternative career option as also to highlight the merits of pursuing such an option.
Three days “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp-II” from 07th – 09th November 2019, in association with EDII, Gujarat, India was structured under department technical association ‘Electronics Forum’ with an objective to create awareness among faculty and students of Engineering and Science courses about various facets of entrepreneurship as an alternative career option as also to highlight the merits of pursuing such an option.
Five days “Certification Course on IOT” from 24th – 26th and 30th – 31st October 2019 was organized under department technical association ‘Electronics Forum’ with the following objectives:
- To Develop Industrial Products.
- To inspire age group of all.
- Public discussions on Research Product.
- Activities and Fun Events to think and to aspire Industries.