Newsletter_2024

Department of Computer Applications

Message from HoD’s Desk

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The Department of Computer Applications is dedicated for ensuring great careers for its students. For us, this means forging deeper industry linkages than ever before, creating a research culture from day one and ensuring seamless education using the best technology available anywhere. The excellent infrastructure, teaching faculty of the best kind of the Department ensuring quality education such as interaction among students, parents and staff, along with a Training and Placement Cell ensures a bright future to its students. We strongly encourage innovation in research, in teaching and in service to the profession, the local community and industry. Our faculty and students are constantly striving to excel and to advance the state of the art in Computer Applications. I invite you to be part of our efforts as we propel the department of Computer Applications to ever-greater heights. In closing, I wish all the students and faculty a good academic career.

Sincerely, and with best wishes,

Prof. Jasbir Singh Saini
Associate Professor and HoD
(Department of Computer Applications)

Department at Glimpse

The Master of Computer Application Program was started in the year 2009. The M.C.A. is bestowed with an experienced team of members with excellent academic records and proficiency. Excellent infrastructure, state-of-the-art computers with the latest advances in technology and comprehensive study material make a class apart. The M.C.A. helps in providing the I.T. and Computer Industry with world-class talent and creating some of the finest software professionals year after year. By providing concept-oriented subject knowledge through a high quality teaching that is supplemented with practical training, the aims to bring out some of the brightest minds into the world of computers and technology. The success of the M.C.A. is attributed to its motivating and inspiring faculty members who handle subjects like Artificial Intelligence, Software Quality Management, Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing and much more.

Faculty Achievements

Publications

Events Organized

Sr. No. Name of Event Faculty Coordinator Duration Date(s) Sponsor(s)
1 A One-day seminar on Drug De-addiction and Stress Management Prof. Jasbir Singh Saini and Prof. Dinesh Anand 1 day 23 November, 2023 GNDEC

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Under the guidance of HoD, Prof. Jasbir Singh Saini, the Department of Computer Applications organized a seminar on the topic “Drug De-Addiction” and “Stress Management” on 23/11/23 as a part of BCA first semester curriculum of HVPE. All the faculty members along with HoD were present in the seminar. The guest of honor was Ms. Shaffy Makkar. The Program Coordinator Prof. Dinesh Anand addressed the students and welcomed the expert. The seminar took place in two sessions. The first session started at 9:30 am in which Ms Shaffy threw light on various aspects of drug abuse and impact of drugs on person’s health as well as on the society. After that, the second session was held from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. In this session, the expert discussed about stress management and how friends and family can support a person suffering from depression. Further, the expert advised the students to spend some time with nature away from the mobile phones. The expert gave various examples which could guide the students better. Overall, it was a very interactive session where the expert answered students’ questions regarding drug abuse. The seminar ended with a vote of thanks to the expert and best wishes to all the students.

FDPs/Seminars Attended

Sr. No. Name of Faculty Name of Event Duration Date(s) Organizing Institute
1 Prof. Jasbir Singh Saini Quantum Computing 6 Days 18-23 December, 2023 AICTE ATAL Yojna,GNDEC
2 Prof. Jasbir Singh Saini NBA Accrediation and Teaching-Learning in Engineering 6 Days 1-6 January, 2024 AICTE ATAL Yojna,GNDEC
3 Prof. Dinesh Anand NSQF Aligned Curriculum Design and Implementation 1 week 18-22 September,2023 NITTTR, Chandigarh
4 Dr.Manreet Sohal Building Advanced Data Analytics Applications With Cloud 5 Days 16-20 October,2023 Edunet Foundation and AICTE
5 Dr.Manreet Sohal Designing Course Outcomes and Outcomes-focused Questions 1 Day 09 August,2023 InPods Ed-tech
6 Dr.Manreet Sohal Workshop on Communication Skills 1 Day 07 August,2023 Dept. Of Applied Sciences& IQAC, GNDEC
7 Prof.Preeti Aggarwal Machine Learning & NLP using Python 5 Days 24-28 June, 2024 Infosys Springboard
8 Prof.Kamalpreet Kaur Workshop on Communication Skills 1 Day 07 August,2023 Dept. Of Applied Sciences& IQAC, GNDEC
9 Prof.Harmandeep Kaur Role of Techical Institutions in Rural Infrastructure Development 1 Week 24-28 April,2023 Rural Development Department NITTTR, Chandigarh
10 Prof.Amanpreet Kaur Workshop on Communication Skills 1 Day 07 August,2023 Dept. Of Applied Sciences& IQAC, GNDEC
10 Er.Vandna Innovative Teaching and Learning Pedagogy 5 Days 27-31 May,2023 Research Founadtion of India
11 Er.Vandna Artificial Intelligence and Punjabi Language:Recent Trends and Challenges 3 Days 6-8 June,2024 GNDEC

Faculty Conference Publications

Sr. No. Title of Paper Name of Authors Name of Journal/ Conference Level Year Organized by
1 Prediction of Smart Building and Smart City Resources using AI-techniques Prof.Jasbir Singh Saini 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Technology(INOCON-2023) International 2023 IEEE

Students’ achievements

Sports Day 2024- Held on 22-23 Feb,2024

List of winners:

S.No. Name Roll No. Class Event Prize
1. Satleen Singh 2191050 BCA 3rd Shot put Throw 1st
2. Satleen Singh 2191050 BCA 3rd Discuss Throw 1st
3. Devinder Kumar 2191001 BCA 3rd 10 km Race 3rd
4. Devinder Kumar 2191001 BCA 3rd 1500 m Race 2nd
5. Devinder Kumar 2191001 BCA 3rd High Jump 2nd

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Winners from Sports meet 2024

Sports Day 2023- Held on 2-3 March,2023

List of winners:

S.No. Name Roll No. Class Event Prize
1. Satleen Singh 2191050 BCA 2nd Shot put Throw 2nd
2. Satleen Singh 2191050 BCA 2nd Discuss Throw 1st
3. Devinder Kumar 2191001 BCA 2nd 10 km Race 2nd
4. Devinder Kumar 2191001 BCA 2nd 1500 m Race 2nd
5. Girls   BCA 1st 4 X 400 Relay Race 2nd
6. Girls   BCA & MCA Tug Of War 1st

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Winners from Sports meet 2023

Students of CA participated in IKGPTU Inter College Tournament

Positions held by students:

S.No. Name Class Event Prize
1 Nishant Kumar BCA 2nd Cricket Winner
2. Sourav Kumar BCA 2nd Cricket Winner
3. Minaz BCA 3rd Basketball Winner

Youth Festival

Positions held by students:

S.No. Name Class Event Prize
1 Gurbhej Singh MCA 2nd Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra (Zonal) 1st
2 Gurbhej Singh MCA 2nd Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra (Inter-Zonal) 3rd
3 Gurbhej Singh MCA 2nd Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra (Inter-University) 3rd
4 Gurbhej Singh MCA 2nd Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra(North Intervarsity) 5th
5 Jaspreet Kaur MCA 2nd Group Song (Zonal) 1st
6 Jaspreet Kaur MCA 2nd Group Song(Inter-Zonal) 2nd
7 Jaspreet Kaur MCA 2nd Shabdh 3rd
8 Jaspreet Kaur MCA 2nd Indian Solo Vocal(Zonal) 1st
9 Manjit Kaur BCA 3rd Punjabi Folk Dance Giddha (Zonal) 1st
10. Inderjeet singh BCA 3rd Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra ( Zonal) 1st
11. Jagjot Singh BCA 3rd Indian Group Song (Inter Zonal) 1st
12. Jagjot Singh BCA 3rd Classical Percussion (Inter Zonal) 1st Runner up
13. Minaz BCA 2nd One Act Play (Inter Zonal) 1st
14. Minaz BCA 2nd Skit (Zonal) & Mimicry (Zonal) 2nd

Technical Events/Cultral Events

S.No. Name of students Class Event Organized by Date Prize
1. Surya Dev & Vishal MCA 1st Java Maestros(Coding using JAVA) Tech Disha,Arya College, Ludhiana 16-02-23 2nd
2. Simranjeet Kaur & Rajan MCA 1st Photography Tech Disha,Arya College, Ludhiana 16-02-23 2nd

Events conducted by Department of Computer Applications under Computonics Club

S.No. Name of event Event type Date
1. Recruitments Interview 31-01-2024
2. Linkedin Link Up Technical 22-01-2024
3. LINUX Unleashed Technical 05-02-2024
4. Application Oasis Technical 13-02-2024
5. Recapitulate Technical 27-02-2024
6. Cyber Security Technical 15-03-2024
7. Fresher’s Day Celebration Cultural 02-09-2023
8. Recruitment Interview 15-09-2023
9. Programming Contest Technical 18-09-2023
10. Mock Interview Interview 21-09-2023
11. Quiz Technical 06-10-2023
12. Group Discussion Technical 16-10-2023

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