Brief about the Department

Department of Information Technology was established in the year 2008 with an annual intake of 60 students. The Department provides an outstanding research environment with the aid of qualified faculty. The faculty in the department consists of senior and well experienced Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors with Ph.D./M. Tech and B. Tech Qualifications. Besides, theoretical research, faculty in the department also network with many reputed national and international societies and are involved in a number of projects in the areas of cutting edge technologies. The department deals with career focused attributes to empower students to excel in their fields. It nurtures the students with quality education, pre-placement training, add-on courses, internships, and industrial visits which will help them to acquire all the employability skills and make them industry ready.

The Department has well-equipped laboratories consisting of the state-of-the-art servers & computers - used by the students of second, third and the final years. The infrastructure and lab facilities are upgraded from time to time and provide good practical learning and innovative environment for the students and researchers.

Students are nurtured with a variety of learning activities including and not restricted to class room teaching, presentations, video lectures, experiential learning, Swayam NPTEL and other MOOC online courses by faculty in the institute and across the globe. Students are encouraged to take up industry oriented projects, participate in hackathons and coding competitions.

Highlights of the Department

1. High qualified and experienced faculty
2. Enrollment of high caliber students.
3. MS Program with Campbellsville University, Kentucky, USA
4. Excellent pre-placement training for students from 2nd year onwards.
5. Digital Library Facility for students as well as faculty members
6. Conducive environment for Academic Excellence
7. Effective Teaching & Learning Process
8. State of the art computing facilities for R&D and innovation
9. Centres of Excellence
10. Industry training and campus placements
11. Add-on Courses
12. Organizing extra-curricular and co-curricular activities.

Vision and Mission of the Department

VISION:
To be a leading department of Information Technology by providing high quality holistic education in an inspiring environment.

MISSION:

1. Provide high quality education to nurture young individuals into knowledgeable, skillful and ethical professionals in their pursuit of Information Technology.
2. Provide contemporary environment that endorses engineering, research and innovation practices of students and faculty.
3. Develop Industry-Interaction to promote innovation and product development and notch the employability, leadership and entrepreneurial skillset of students.
4. Establish collaboration with leading foreign universities to enhance innovation through knowledge exchange.

PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The Graduates of the Information Technology programme after three to five years of Graduation will acquire the ability to
PEO1: Become entrepreneurs, employees of reputed organizations and pursue higher studies and research for developing advanced skills in Information Technology.
PEO2: Possess managerial skills, maintain ethical conduct, sense of responsibility to serve the society and to protect the environment.
PEO3: Design and develop interdisciplinary and innovative systems with life long learning skills.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES:
Engineering Graduates will be able to:
1. Engineering Knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
2. Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics natural science, and engineering sciences.
3. Design / development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or process that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, society and environmental consideration.
4. Conduct Investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
5. Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
6. The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
7. Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
8. Ethics: Apply ethics principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice. 9. Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
10. Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
11. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one's own work, as a member and leader in an team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES:
Graduates of Information Technology will be able to:
PSO1: To demonstrate basic knowledge in the areas such as Software Engineering, Data
communication and Networking, Data base management, Web Technology and Operating
Systems for building IT applications.
PSO2: To analyze common business functions and identify, design and develop appropriate
information technology solutions and integrate into the user environment.
PSO3: The ability to develop software projects using standard practices and suitable
programming environment and to apply knowledge in exploring and adopting latest
technologies.