B.Tech. Insights @NCU #ECE

With the motto of Independent, Inspire and Innovate, The NorthCap University (NCU) provides freedom in a disciplined environment to pursue students’ passion and innate Skills.

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Want to play with technology? Go to the Tinkering lab and blend innovation, creativity and hands-on learning by working over the best inter-department equipment.

If you have a budding start-up idea, go to Innovation and Incubation center, and we’ll issue funds to achieve your mission.

Want to do research? You’re in good company: our under-graduates and post-graduates work alongside faculty to make the discoveries that improve life and make a better world for everyone. MoU between ISRO, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, Ahmedabad, and The NorthCap University for IRNSS Navigation Receiver Field Trial and Data Collection is one of the major research areas at department of EECE.

Want to build your own course of study? Our Industry Driven flexible curriculum with different tracks of elective subjects will globalize your learning.

Want to have fun and explore your creativity? Come, be a part of our fests Momentum, Cerebration and join various club and society activities like Music Club, Photography Club (Lumiere), Debating Society, Dance Club, Dramatics Club (Abhimanch), SPIC MACAY concerts.

If you are Sports Fanatic, then football, basketball, table tennis, lawn tennis and night cricket are big attractions.

Want to work for the society? Yukti Social Club would help you in team building and working for a cause.

Need hygienic food to boost energy in a lively environment? A state-of-the-art Cafeteria (Café 10) is there in addition to a separate Nestle outlet and small café.

Want to channelize your thoughts to avoid distractions? Experience the Thought lab environment and explore the world inside.



Happy Learning at NCU!

Dr Shaveta Arora
Assistant Professor
Department of EECE

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

Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) graduates at NCU have best of both the worlds in campus placements

Students graduating from the department of EECE, NCU enjoys the best of both the worlds in terms of campus placements as they not only have placement opportunities in well-known electronics and communication engineering companies such as Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Intel, Samsung, Ericsson, Orange, Airtel, Qualcom, Exicom Telesystems, Luminous Power, Lutron, Horiba etc.  but also in premium computer software and information technology companies like TCS, Deloitte, IBM, Fidelity, Postdot and the list goes on. This is evident from the record of 19 years that nearly 100% students who have graduated in ECE are offered attractive annual packages. Many of our students are opting higher studies in the reputed universities of US, Europe, Canada and India. Some of our students are now successful entrepreneurs and have set up their own thriving ventures.

Keeping the industry demand in minds, the department has introduced two new specializations - Internet of Things (IoT) & Embedded systems and VLSI design. India is a growing market in IoT sector which is leading to the requirement of skilled IoT professionals. In the last three years, the demand the talent has been accelerated by 300%. This is why IoT is seen as the next big thing in technology, which will transform the employment landscape in the industry and we want you ready to grab that opportunity. Specialization in Embedded systems and VLSI design will offer you better career and research prospects in India and abroad in core domains.

This has been possible due to the progressive and innovative approach of the department of ECE to upgrade and keep the course curriculum and the teaching learning processes aligned to the emerging industry trends. With an advent of new technologies in ECE such as Internet of Things (IOT) and 4G and 5G mobile phones and Chip industry revolution, an ECE engineer is expected to have a sound foundation in software and computer engineering subjects too. In  fact today’s mobile phone  is no longer just a phone but a mini computer, capable for many functions like internet browsing, e-mail, searching information online, watching movies, playing video games, running software programmes to do small scientific and engineering problems, Google mapping, controlling home in the aspects of security and other appliances, the list is endless. Therefore, to match up to  these multifold industry needs, an ECE student at The NorthCap University  is not only given a strong knowledge of core electronics and communication engineering subjects but also many software and computer engineering subjects  like C++, Java, Python, Webapps, data base management systems,  mobile apps, Linux, cloud  computing, cybersecurity, big data and so on and the list is reviewed on yearly basis. 

Dr. Sharda Vashisth
HOD, The Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering
The NorthCap University, Gurgaon