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Freshers @ CA 2

Workshop on Collaborative learning In C++

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Expert talk on Diluting Stress 3

Engineer’s Day-A tribute to Bharat Ratna Sri. M. Visvesva-raya

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Industrial Visit to Infosys 4

Expert Talk on Mobile Applica-tion Development

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Reminisce of ancient manage-ment: Panchatantra

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Stimulus for Higher Education: A Paper Club Activity

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Workshop On Tally 6

Techtrendz: Hostel Activity 6

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Newsletter 28 December 2016

This newsletter is edited and published by Department of Computer Applications

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Orientation @ CA A formal Induction and Orientation Program for CA students of Batch 2016 was organ-

ized by the Department of Computer Applications on August 19, 2016.

Mr. Vikram Mangla, Associate Professor ,

Deputy Dean, Department of Computer

Applications, welcomed the freshers and

their parents to the folds of the Chitkara

University, and gave an overview of the

Department.

This was followed by an inspirational ad-

dress by Dr. Madhu Chitkara, Hon'ble

Vice Chancellor,Chitkara University, Pun-

jab through which she guided the students

in the direction of becoming a successful

professional and wished the students a

fruitful learning experience at the University.

Prof. Harkiran Kaur, Director, Interna-

tional Studies, enlightened the students

about the various opportunities in the in-

ternational exchange programmes avail-

able at Chitkara University.

Wg. Cdr. R.S. Gill, Vice President

(University Affairs) gave out the general

instructions regarding the code of con-

duct to be followed by the students while

at campus.

Dr. S.N. Panda, Director Research,

CURIN gave an overview about the re-

search opportunities available for students

at the University and motivated the stu-

dents to explore their potential in the field

of research and development and think out

of box.

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Research and publications @ CA

Student Achievements

Patents & Copyrights are one of the most challenging areas in the field of research and development. Universities and other public research organizations are increasingly protecting their inventions , helping raise additional funding for research and spurring new start ups . Department of computer applications has also contributed to this area by filing patents and copyrights in different areas of science and technology.

Patents

Mr Naveen kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications and Mr Rajesh Kaushal , Assistant Profes-sor, Department of Computer Applications , filed a patent titled “PORTABLE AND SMART INTENSIVE CARE UNIT”. The inventors developed a prototype for portable intensive care unit (PICU) capable of operation even during the times when a patient is in transit, e.g. between patient room, examining room, operating room, etc. This system is capable of not only monitoring but of administering vital life-saving medicine.

There is a need of equipment or a system which has the ability to interact and transmit the data in real time to the user for effective monitoring and surveillance in crowded area. On these lines, Mr Naveen Kumar and Mr Rajesh kaushal filed a patent titled “SMART HELMET/HAT WITH SOLAR PANEL FOR SECURITY SURVEILLANCE “. The inventors of the present invention have designed a smart wearable device for security surveillance.

Copyrights

A Parameterized Software Approach to Deal with Sock Puppets, Dt. 4/3/2015 Docket Ref. No. 1-218983919, by Dr. Jaiteg Singh, Deepak Thakur and Tanya Gera

'Safe Miner: A Fine Grained Aspect Level software for Resolving the Sentiment' dated 7/5/2015 Docket Ref. No. 1-2117871821, by Dr. Jaiteg Singh, Deepak Thakur & Tanya Gera

Research and Development (R&D) is a key element of many organizations and, when well planned and used, enables a

business to generate increased wealth over a period of time. To keep up with the growing pace of Research and Devel-

opment, Faculty of Department of Computer Applications is also giving notable contributions in this area by giving vari-

ous research papers and book publications from time to time. Some of these publications are:

Research papers

Chaudhary Deepika, “Comparison of Rule based Semantic Web Reasoners for Ontologies in OWL2 Profile”. Interna-tional Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science,Volume 5,No.3,March-April-2014,ISSNNo.0976-5697

Singh Jaiteg,“An Open Source ETL Tool - Medium and Small Scale Enterprise ETL (MaSSEETL)”. International Journal of Computer Applications 108(4):15-22, December 2014

Singh, Jaiteg, Analysing OpenStreetMap data for topological errors. Int. J. Spatial, Temporal and Multimedia Infor-mation Systems, Vol. X, No. Y, xxxx 1 INDERSCIENCE xx 2015

Kaur Amandeep“ Use case Model of QOS with extensible registery protocol” in IEEE Xplore April 2015

Singh Jaswinder, “Use of CK Metrics to Analyze Complexity of JAVA Project Modules” published in International Journal of Advance Foundation and Research in Computer (IJAFRC),Volume 1, Issue 6, july 2015.

Books

Khanna Maninderjit, Sharma Shweta, Chopra Sandeep, “Management of Financial Systems”, (ISBN: 978-93-5163-

151-4), Edition 2014, Thakur Publisher, Jalandhar

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Freshers @ CA

Freshers’ Party -2016 was organized under the banner of Matrix Club by the Department of Computer Applications to

welcome the new students of MCA and BCA programs. The party commenced with a ramp walk, Quest Royale, wherein the

students participated in best of their attire. The senior students presented an array of cultural events to welcome their juniors to

the campus. Ms Bhavya and Mr Sahil, were adjudged as Ms. Fresher and Mr. Fresher for MCA and Ms. Teena Gaba and Mr.

Shivam Sharma grabbed the respective titles in BCA.


Workshop on Collaborative Learning In C++ Department of Computer Applications organized a workshop

on "Collaborative Learning in C++" under Student Chapter of

Computer Society of India (CSI) on September 26, 2016 with an ob-

jective to stimulate programming skills among students using collabo-

rative learning. The workshop was unique in the sense that it involved

collaboration between the faculty members and the students. The

workshop provided an opportunity to some of the students to step

into their teachers' shoes, and deliver lectures to their peer group,

under observance of the teachers. The workshop concluded on a

successful note with students getting to the depth of the topics

discussed by them in the class


Engineer’s Day - A Tribute to Bharat Ratna Sri M. Visvesvaraya

Computer Society of India (CSI) under the aegis of Department

of Computer Applications, commemorated Engineer’s Day on

September 15, 2016 as a remarkable tribute to one of the finest

engineers of India - Bharat Ratna Er. M. Visvesvaraya . The

event took off with lamp lighting ceremony by Colonel Rakesh

Sharma (Associate Director, Administration), Mr. Pawan Mehta

(Associate Director, Office of Information Technology) , Mr.

Vikram Mangla (Deputy Dean, Department of Computer Appli-

cations), and Mr. Preetinder Singh Brar (Program Incharge , De-

partment of Computer Applications). This was followed by pres-

entations by students of the department, wherein they shared in-

formation on the theme topic of “Skill Development for Young

Engineers to Reform the Core Sector: Vision 2025”. Another presentation on Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

that was presented by students received appreciation from the audience. The student presentations were followed by an expert

talk by Mr. Pawan Mehta on ICT wherein he discussed about the impact of information and communication technology on work

productivity at offices and homes, and how it can have a lasting impact on the personal lives of the users. The event was quite

successful and was taken on a positive note by the guests and the audience.

Stress management is life management. If you take control

over your stress, your life will thank you for it! … And that's

the lesson the audience learnt as an outcome of Expert Talk

on Diluting Stress that was organised by Department of

Computer Applications on September 27, 2016 . A few stu-

dents from other departments also attended the talk. With Ber-

noulli Hall packed to capacity, the talk was delivered by Prof.

E.V. Swaminathan, who is an eminent teacher, trainer, coun-

sellor and consultant, and an awardee of the Sunrise Peace

Award, Award of Excellence and Nation Builder Award. He

has conducted sessions on stress management, emotional en-

gineering, the art of leadership, empathic communication, etc. for students and teachers of over 150 universities and colleges across

the country, and has also conducted such sessions for the Indian Armed Services. His talks are aimed at making the people under-

stand the purpose of their lives. Prof. Swaminathan, in his talk highlighted that attaining happiness should be the most important

desire of one’s life. With narration of a few anecdotes, he kept the session quite interactive, and the students, as well as the faculty

members participated with enthusiasm.


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Industrial Visit to Infosys An industrial visit was organized by Department of

Computer Applications, School of Computer Sci-

ences, under CSI Student Chapter on September 19,

2016 wherein 52 students and 3 faculty members Mr.

Jaswinder Singh, Ms. Vandana Bajaj and Ms. Preetjot

Kaur from Department of Computer Applications,

and Computer Science & Engineering visited Infosys,

Chandigarh Centre. The students attended the Infosys

SPARK session, conducted by Resource person

Mr.Kanwarpreet Singh on the topic “Software and

Automation Testing”. Mr. Kanwarpreet talked about

various testing principles and methodologies which are being applied at

Infosys nowadays. The speaker emphasized that Software Testing has

emerged as one of the key areas where students can build their career in

industry. He also discussed regarding current IT trends, how to get

placement, mantras for success and answered number of queries posed

by the students. Students enjoyed the visit and gained new experience by

learning the industry culture and trends. The visit was planned & coordi-

nated by Ms. Deepika Chaudhary

Expert Talk: Mobile Application Development An Expert Talk was organised for the students of MCA and BCA on

September 23, 2016. Ms. Anuradha Bhardwaj, Android Developer,

SLR Infotech, Chandigarh, had been invited as the resource person.

The speaker touched upon various technologies and platforms avail-

able today, their market share, and also the opportunities and job

openings available in those technologies. The speaker brought to the

fore the key differences and similarities between the two most

widely used

mobile ap-

plication development platforms, viz. the Android and the iOS

platforms, and shared her experiences and views on the potential

of mobile app development as a career option. The session

proved to be quite fruitful. Being an interactive session, the stu-

dents had a chance to interact with the mobile app developer

from the industry, who provided reasonable replies to the queries

posed by the students regarding the choice of technologies as

career options.



Reminisce of Ancient Management: Panchatantra


Department of Computer Applications, Chitkara University, Pun-

jab, organized an expert talk on the topic Panchatantra- Practicing

Ancient Wisdom Of Indian Management on October 05, 2016.

The talk was organized with an objective of inculcating vedic val-

ues in the students and to make them understand the significance of

our ancient wisdom in the present scenario. The keynote speaker,

Dr. Sangeeta Pant, Dean, College of Education, Chitkara

Unversity,

Punjab,

gave an

insight into

various Panchatantra epics and highlighted the teachings of Pandit

Vishnu Sharma, the author and creator of Panchatantra. The talk was

primarily organized for first year students of both MCA and BCA

who enjoyed and learned from the same.

Stimulus for Higher Education:Paper Club Activity

Department of Computer Applications, Chitkara University, Punjab

Campus organised an expert talk on Policies and Procedures for

Pursuing Higher Education on August 06, 2016. The talk was deliv-

ered by Prof. (Dr.) Pankaj Kumar, Coordinator, Ph. D. Programme,

Chitkara University, Punjab, and Prof. (Dr.) Jaiteg Singh. The talk

was organised with an aim to bring about a sense of awareness

amongst the faculty members of the

Department of Computer Applications regarding the various rules and

procedures set up at the Chitkara University, Punjab for pursuing

Ph.D. and Master of Engineering programmes. The basic require-

ments for the same were discussed and the queries of the participants

were addressed to by the speakers.

Ms. Deepika Chaudhary, Associate professor, felicitated the speakers. The session turned out to be quite informative and the

attendees expressed their desire to explore the aspect of taking up further research programmes at Chitkara University.

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Department of Computer Applications, Chitkara

University, Punjab Campus organized two-day

workshop on “Understanding Tally.ERP9”on

23-24 September, 2016. Mr. Maninder Jit S.

Khanna, Associate Professor, Department of

Computer Applications conducted the session.

The workshop was attended by students of BCA

and BCA-MCA Integrated. The workshop was conducted for

commerce background students with an aim to empower

them with the knowledge of ERP Accounting Module:

Tally.ERP9. Students were given hands on training in crea-

tion of company, ledgers and groups, and posting Voucher

entry in Tally.ERP9 so as to create various accounting Re-

ports. The session was indeed informative and the partici-

pants were quite receptive to the ideas shared by the speaker.

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Computer Society of India (CSI) student chapter,

under the aegis of Department of Computer Ap-

plications, organized an event named

'TECHTRENDZ' for hostellers on 4th Oct

2016. Being a technical event, speak-

ers provided information about latest trends and

innovations in information technology. Mr. Dalveer Singh

and Mr. Himanshu Singh, BCA , gave an interactive talk

on the topics of Wolfe, Biometric, Six Sense. Event held

with gathering of around 60 students of various streams.

Presentations were followed by a quiz and prizes to the

winners were distributed by the wardens and event organ-

izers. Students participated with enthusiasm and really

appreciated the event.

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