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Department of Information Technology ( IT )

Department of Information Technology ( IT )

Information Technology is one of the best emerging branches in the engineering education. Information Technology is a fast growing discipline and is full of rigorous practical analysis. Information Technology refers to the management and use of the information using computer-based tools. It can refer to both hardware and software. Mostly, it is the term used to refer to business applications of computer technology rather than scientific applications. Information Technology (IT) can be used potentially in every sector of the economy. Information Technology has been a dynamic sector in many developed economies and India has stood out as a developing country where IT sector has grown indefinitely. Information Technology jobs in India are the first choice career for the bright brains who are innovative. Hence, IT jobs in India are also booming with increasing demand for information technology professionals. The IT industry has great scope for people as it provides employment to technical and non-technical graduates and has the capability to generate huge foreign exchange inflow for India. India exports software’s and services to approximately 95 countries in the world. Since all the engineering sectors need the basics of IT and so the IT students have a best future to settle down in any of the engineering sector.

Future of Information Technology :

IT will continue to gain momentum. The immense expansion in networking technologies is expected to continue into the future decades also. IT will bring about an improvement in the quality of life as it impacts on global competitiveness. Technologies that are emerging are Data Warehousing and Data Mining. They involve collecting data in normal research. Software services that are being used will go a long way.

Year of Establishment :

Sridevi Engineering college is established in the year 2001 and sponsored by Sridevi Educational society. The Department of Information Technology was established in the year 2001 with an intake of 60 students. The first batch of students left with flying colors and made their own mark in the corporate world.

Head of the Department :

Mr. Ramakrishna.K received B.Tech in Computer Science and Information Technology from JNT University Hyderabad, M.Tech. in Software Engineering from JNT University Kakinada. He is Pursuing Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering in the area of Information Retrieval in JNTU Hyderabad. Currently he is working as Associate Professor & Head, Department of Information Technology, Sridevi Women’s Engineering College, Gandipet, Hyderabad. He is also a member of IEEE, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM-SIGIR), Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Computer Society of India (CSI), International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Academy & Industry Collaboration Canter (AIRCC), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Member of Forum for Information Retrieval (FIRE) and few more. He is an Editorial member of International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering (IJECCE) and Guest Editor of InterScience Open Access Journals (IAOJ) IJCCT & IJCSI. He is also a reviewer for various International Journals/conferences including IEEE, WARSE, IJML, IJCL, IJECCE, IJCSI, IJCCT, IJSWIS, IJAC International Journal of Computer and Engineering Research, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and few more. For his credit he has published 25 papers in International Journals and International Conferences. He involved in Organizing two National Conferences and three International Conferences as an Organizing Chair, Special Organizing chair, Session chair, conference chair. He gave couple of guest Lectures on “Research Trends in Information Retrieval and Data Mining Techniques”. He also participated and organized various FDPs, National / International level Seminars & Workshops. He guided 20 B.Tech Projects, 4 M.Tech and 2 M.C.A. Projects in the area of Software Engineering, Data Mining and Information Retrieval. His area of Interest includes Information Retrieval Systems, Information Security, Web Mining, Automata & Compiler Design, Operating Systems, Web Technology, Linux Programming, Software Engineering, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic etc.

Resources available :

This department has well equipped laboratories and logical reasoning is stressed in all practical applications.
The Department has the following laboratories

  • System Programming (including C, C++) Lab
  • Operating Systems lab
  • UML Lab
  • Multimedia Lab
  • Web technologies Lab
  • Computer Networks lab
  • Language Processors Lab
  • Database Management Systems Lab
  • Data Structures Lab
  • Advanced UNIX programming Lab
  • Network Programming Lab
  • JAVA Lab

Achievements/Placements :

Majority of the eligible candidates have secured Campus Placements in various National and Multi-National Software Companies including Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Motorola and Satyam. Many students who passed out are also pursuing post-graduate programs in India and many more have topped GRE, Toffel and pursuing their MS in  USA and some have settled down in IT industry thru out the world. The department has encouraged the students to participate in sports events at College, University and State Level.

Recent Placements :

2011-12 & 2013 Continued ...

S.No Name of the Studnet Roll No. Company
1 M Aparna 06D21A1206 IBM
2 Harshitha Gundi 06D21A1209 IBM
3 Viswamitra K 06D21A1258 IBM
4 Ankita Chintha 06D21A1204 iNFOSYS
5 Deepti Rsp 06D21A1208 INFOSYS
6 Kavya Putreddy 06D21A1216 INFOSYS
7 Pratyusha Tripathi
06D21A1228
INFOSYS
8 Puja Marda
06D21A1233
INFOSYS
9 KALYANI A 05D21A1213 PEOPLE SOFT
10 AISHWARYA S 06D21A1201 PEOPLE SOFT
11 SAMYUKTHA A 06D21A1239 BLOOM SOFT TECH
12 HIMABINDU N 06D21A1211 BLOOM SOFT TECH
13 HARSHITHA GUNDI 06D21A1209 BLOOM SOFT TECH

Memberships with Professional bodies :

It students have a membership with Computer Society of India (CSI) and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).

Industrial Visits Organized :

The IT department conducts industrial tours every year to different parts in India (where ever the IT industry is strong) to update with the students art of technology in the IT industry

Workshops / Conferences Organized :

The department has organized a two day workshop on

    • Workshop on "Data Mining with Weka Tool" on 23rd March 2013 in collaboration with SNIT,Hyderabad
    • Guest Lecture on "Advanced Compiler Design " by Dr.B.Padmaja Rani, Head, Dept. of CSE, JNTUHCE
    • Invited Lecture on "Latest Web Technology trends" by MR.Prataap, Director, NeoApps
    • Workshop on Cloud Computing on 10th& 11th Sep’2012 in collaboration with Veriscent Technologies, Delhi
    • AICTE Sponsored FDP on "Automata and Compiler Design" on 21 st july 2012 in collaboration with Dept. of CSE
    • Software requirement Engineeing by Prof ML Sai Kumar Director IPE
    • Software Testing and Quality Assurance by Prof ML Sai Kumar Director IPE
Career Opportunities
  1. Telecom Software Engineer
  2. System Engineering
  3. Network Administrator
  4. Project Manager
  5. Software Analyst
  6. IT Manager
  7. Software Developer
  8. Project Engineer
Potential industries
  1. Telecom
  2. Commerce
  3. Defence
  4. Software Industries (Wipro, Infosys, TCS etc)
  5. Embedded
  6. System Consultancy.
  7. Airlines.
  8. Space research.