VC Innovation fund and its contribution to developing the future of the students

The NorthCap University provides a broad curriculum for students to acquire knowledge and guides to develop skills for the corporate world. The Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Scheme is one such initiative from the university to encourage the shaping of innovative ideas and to carry out basic research. Ten million Indian rupees fund is offered under this scheme aiming to encourage innovative ideas amongst research workers, faculty members, and students to seed research activity. The funding from the VC Innovation Fund acts as an initial grant to nurture ideas, passion & convert products into startups. The funded projects may also attract industries for commercialization of the product so made. The outcome of the scheme will be the nucleation of new ideas that can be transformed into commercial applications which are beneficial to society.

The scheme benefits students get to jump-start their career. The project ideas that students develop over the duration, sharpens the essential technical skills that students require in corporations.

 Furthermore, the scheme also promotes students to learn communication and management skills as the projects are regularly monitored. This opportunity also initiates the filing of a patent based on the idea/prototype made, provides support in participating in various National or International competitions and other methods of interacting with the outside world. The university not only provides financial support to realize the idea but also provides space to incubate and technical support to design and implement the idea to come up with a product of social cause and other related thrust areas.

EECE Dept. is one of the Dept. in The NorthCap University, which aims to earn a maximum of the funds under this scheme wherein the projects are mainly an amalgamation of hardware and software aiming to deliver a product for further commercialization. Some of the sanctioned projects under this scheme include power generation using speed breaker, smart car management system, Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) Disciplined Oscillator, Security box, Design and Development of low power WSN Mote, etc.

In conclusion, the VC innovation scheme has provided all the appropriate opportunities for a student to gain practical knowledge and thus helping them shape their careers.

Written by:

Dr. Anjali Garg, 

Associate Professor-EECE Department

Ms. Ritika Sharma, 

Student-EECE Department

The Importance Of Final Year Projects For Engineering Students

As per IEEE:

“Engineering is that profession in which knowledge of the mathematical, computational, and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop economically effective use of matter, energy, and information to the benefit of humankind.”

Engineering is deficient without hands on involvement on the different ideas which are learnt during the classroom sessions. Practical orientation and developing hardware, software prototypes that aides in building better engineers. Project work is an extension to free learning for students. The bridge between the theoretical aspects and real world is project based learning. In engineering curriculum, projects are for the final year students. Wherein, NCU provide the students with a unique salient feature of making projects throughout their curriculum, as a result of which the final project is the blend of hardware and software prototypes wherein students get appropriate guidance from the industry experts. Projects enable us in understanding the subject better which thus prompts recalling what we to have contemplated for a more extended duration of time. I belief, the same applies to different fields of study as well. The skills that we learn during the project prepare us for the industry.

On the likelihood that you are a last year engineering student, the biggest challenge for the students is to choose a topic on which they can make a project, as you to have just a single year left to redesign your aptitudes and improve your employ ability. Your project gives you a chance to put theoretical learning to genuine practice.

We at the EECE Department of The NorthCap University, Gurugram guide the students through each aspect, right from the beginning, from choosing the project to the final presentation to documentation, students are assisted at each stage of project making. The students are offered with every possible kind of help, be it presentation, support documents or tools, each assistance is given to them at whatever point required. Students while making their project will have an improving learning background and they will increase tremendous certainty through the information procured while making the project.

The practical experience picked up won't just help with interviews yet additionally enable you to be a superior engineer and have a higher chance of getting a job. These experiences enable you to work in a group, to be a problem solver, create innovative ideas and discover the enjoyment in engineering. This is on the grounds that when you turn into a professional engineer, you don't simply need to manage one subject. Catch up on all nuts and bolts of engineering and it will enhance your certainty to take up future roles in industry. Selection representatives look for the major projects made by the students as a benchmark at the time of placement.

We additionally help students to comprehend the approach of converting their projects into a complete product which promptly acceptable into the market. For any guidance, feel free to contact us at amanpreet@ncuindia.edu. 

Written by Ms. Amanpreet Kaur, Assistant Professor, Department of EECE, The NorthCap University

How To Empower Students To Secure Good Jobs?

The engineering education in India is going through a very challenging phase.  One of the potential reasons for the current scenario is due to unemployment and lack of employment opportunities after completion of their 4-Years B.Tech degree. Survey shows that there are 1.5 Million Engineering Students Pass Outs in India Every Year but fewer of them are getting hired by the Core and IT Sectors. The reports say, in 2016-17, there were no takers for nearly 54% seats in the engineering institutions. According to the chairman AICTE, 275 engineering colleges applied for a closure this year. 75 engineering colleges were closed in in 7 states only. As a remedial action, the India’s technical education regulator may cut the total number of undergraduate engineering seats by as much as 40% over the next few years. This can prove to be a positive step towards strengthening of the quality education, employment and issue of vacate seats.

In order to maintain student’s interest in the engineering as a lucrative career option, the quality and skill based education is coming as a main course of concern. It is exemplifying the C. Darvins theory on the survival of the fittest for stake holders, the students and technical institutions, both. One major factor in this direction is updated curriculum which serves the need of industry practices. As a result, the country has grown in the numbers with private university players to address the requirements of industry by their updated syllabus and value added education model.  

Seeing the students coming from diversified background and different part of the country, most of the universities are continuously improving their course structure by giving space to the courses like aptitude, English language, software language, personality development, etc. along with their domain subjects, as a part of their regular curriculum. At the same time universities are hiring more qualified and skilled faculty members with good academic and research background to address the expectations of students in terms of education, research, and employability with good companies.

As per study, the highest paying jobs available for ECE graduates in the market are in the Semiconductor Industry. A skilled fresher on VLSI Design skills, e.g, Basic VLSI Design Flow, Basics of Digital Electronics, Basics of Analog Electronics, Computer Programming Language C/ C++, Linux and Scripting, VerilogHDL, SystemVerilog, and Projects, can secure a good job with a very handsome salary package of nearly 10LPA in a good company.

The Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department (EECE) of NorthCap University Gurugram has a strong base of qualified and experienced faculty which is engaged in educating its students on project and research based learning. And as an outcome to this the department has the best placement opportunities and records year after year. 

Further, the upcoming market of IoT (Internet of Things) is going to create a huge number of jobs in the core electronics and software sectors, both in coming years. It will need a huge talent pool of fresh and experienced talent pool of engineers to make things happen and connected together. As being engineering university, we all need to get ready with updated curriculum and skill sets to address the huge requirements of the market.

The author is an Associate Professor at the Department of EECE, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India

For further information, contact at neerajkshukla@ncuindia.edu

How to Empower ECE Students to Secure High Salary Jobs?

The engineering education in India is going through a very challenging phase. One of the potential reasons for the current scenario is due to unemployment and lack of employment opportunities after completion of their 4-Years B.Tech degree. Survey shows that there are 1.5 Million Engineering Students Pass Outs in India Every Year but fewer of them are getting hired by the Core and IT Sectors. The reports say, in 2016-17, there were no takers for nearly 54% seats in the engineering institutions. According to the chairman AICTE, 275 engineering colleges applied for a closure this year. 75 engineering colleges were closed in in 7 states. As a remedial action, India’s technical education regulator may cut the total number of undergraduate engineering seats by as much as 40% over the next few years. This can prove to be a positive step towards strengthening of the quality education; employment and issue of vacate seats. 

In order to maintain student’s interest in the engineering as a lucrative career option, the quality and skill based education is coming as a main course of concern. It is exemplifying the C. Darwin’s theory on the survival of the fittest for stake holders, the students and technical institutions, both. One major factor in this direction is updated curriculum which serves the need of industry practices. As a result, the country has grown in the numbers with private university players to address the requirements of industry by their updated syllabus and value added education model.  

Seeing students coming from the diversified background and different part of the country, most of the universities are continuously improving their course structure by giving space to the courses like aptitude, English language, software language, personality development, etc. along with their domain subjects, as a part of their regular curriculum. At the same time universities are hiring more qualified and skilled faculty members with good academic and research background to address the expectations of students in terms of education, research, and employability with good companies. 

As per study, the highest paying jobs available for ECE graduates in today’s market are in the Semiconductor Industry. As an example, a skilled fresher in VLSI Design (especially in Verification Domain) shall equipped with Basic VLSI Design Flow, Basics of Digital Design, Basics of Analog Electronics, Computer Programming Language C/ C++, Linux and Scripting, VerilogHDL, SystemVerilog, and Projects. This may help him/her to secure a good job with a very handsome salary package upto 10LPA or even more in a good Semiconductor company. This segment has a huge potential for career building. A good university with state of the art curriculum in VLSI Design and experienced faculty with industry exposure can be the passport for the career.

Further the upcoming market of IoT (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics, etc.  is going to create a huge number of jobs in the core electronics and software sectors, both in coming years. It will need a huge talent pool of fresh and experienced talent pool of engineers to make things happen and connected together. As being engineering university, we all need to get ready with updated curriculum and skill sets to address the huge requirements of the market.

Dr Neeraj Kumar Shukla 

Associate Professor, The Department of Electrical, 

Electronics and Communication Engineering 

The NorthCap University