From The HOD's Desk

 

Dr. Soumyabrata Saha

Department of Information Technology started the journey in the millennium year 2000 with 60 intake capacity for the under graduate program of Information Technology. The UG program has been affiliated by All India Council of Technical Education and approved by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formally known as West Bengal University of Technology). Dept. has framed the outcome based curriculum and syllabus under the Autonomous framework and the same has been practiced since the inception of the Autonomous status (2011) of JIS College of Engineering. In the line of thought of the JIS Group "Igniting Minds Empowering Lives", IT department has been working with the goal of Industry Institute Initiative upon a strong foundation of learner centric environment. Department is predisposed to its stake holders to provide 'Excellent Teaching Learning in Technical Education' and to foster the Engineering Knowledge among all the students. Dept. has been practiced 'NextGen' Teaching Learning methodologies for imparting the excellent quality teaching learning to the students' community. Dept. has proud for the 'Team-IT' comprising of Students-Staff-Alumni and highly motivated and learner faculty members, where every stake holders have taken important role for the betterment of the departmental activities whereas more than thousand JISCEITians consistently excelled in the fast changing IT industry since 2004. The department is very actively pursuing research in diverse fields of Information Technology world ranging from Security, Mobile Applications, Wireless Networking, Machine Intelligence, Image Processing and lots more. Amidst a relatively young department, faculty members contributed their works collectively in important research forum like IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier etc. Continuous encouragement from the Authority of the Institution enabled the young faculty members of the department to attend and contribute in various International and National Conferences, Symposiums, Seminars and workshops. Our students have participated in different Inter-Intra Institutional events and bagged different prizes. Faculty members are associated in establishing- participating-conducting different value addition programs such as, NPTEL, IIT-Bombay Spoken Tutorial Program, QEEE program, SWYAM program and lots more. The department is eagerly expect advice- guidance- suggestions from everyone to work out our deficiency and can satisfy the required needs-desires in a better way. On behalf of TEAM-IT, I welcome you all to the Department of Infromation Technology, JIS College of Engineering!!!