Electronics & Communication Engineering

Vision

To be a renowned department for education in Electronics and Communication Engineering in Karnataka state, moulding students into professional engineers.

Mission

To provide teaching – learning process in Electronics and Communication Engineering that will make students competitive and innovative to adapt to needs of industry and higher learning.
To imbibe professional ethics, team spirit and leadership qualities to succeed in changing technological world.
To inculcate empathy for societal needs and concern for environment in engineering design and practice.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

After 2/3 years of graduation, the students will have the ability to:

Analyze, design and implement solutions in Electronics and Communication Engineering and adapt to changes in technology by self /continuous learning.
Engage in higher learning and contribute to technological innovations.
Work with professional ethics as an individual or as a team player to realize the goals of the project or the organization.
Work with respect for societal values and concern for environment in implementing engineering solutions.

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

ECE graduates will be able to:

Analyze and design analog & digital circuits or systems for a given specification and function.
Implement functional blocks of hardware-software co-designs for signal processing and communication applications.

Program Outcomes (POs)

Engineering Graduates will be able to:

Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

About the Department:

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, established in the year 2001, has a present intake of 120 students and staff student ratio of 1:16. It has well experienced and dedicated faculty with qualifications obtained from premier research institute like the Indian Institute of Science. The average experience of the faculty members is 15 years.Many of them possess a rich industrial experience from organizations like ITI, Mindtree, ISRO and Infosys. The faculty members execute integrated efforts to groom students in a good academic and research ambiance. Measures are also taken to develop students with abilities for life-long learning

The propitious environment of the Institution has enabled most of its students to pass with distinction and to maintain high pass percentage. The placements have been excellent with several reputed companies like National Instruments, Mentor Graphics, TCS, Accenture etc, visiting us for campus recruitments. The outstanding performances have enabled a large number of students to acquire admissions in M.S degree programs in reputed international universities as well.

Workshops, Seminars and Invited Talks for students and staff are regularly organized in the department for continuous learning and updation of knowledge. Skill development programmes and industrial visits are organized for students. To make the learning process interesting, innovative teaching methods have been adopted by the faculty. For overall development of the students, the department conducts soft skills and personality development classes. Academic performances of the students are excellent with thirteen university ranks since the inception. The students engage themselves in innovative projects in the lab, internship training in industries and academic projects in reputed organizations. The students regularly participate in Technical, Cultural and Sports events at intra-college and inter-college level and they have regularly bought laurels to the department.

About the Head of the Department:

Dr. P A Vijaya obtained BE degree from MCE Hassan, ME & Ph.D from IISc Bengaluru. She has 32 years of teaching experience with 112 publications in reputed International Journals & Conferences. Three research scholars have obtained Ph.D degree & one industry expert has obtained M.Sc Engg degree from VTU under her guidance. She is currently guiding 6 research scholars in the area of Pattern Recognition, Image Processing & Real Time Embedded Systems. She is a member of IEEE, ISTE & IACSIT. She has worked as BOE chairman, BOS & LIC member in VTU. She joined as Professor in the Department of ECE, BNMIT on 1.2.2013 and is heading the department since 23.1.2016. She has given more than 20 technical talks in conferences, workshops and FDPs and has chaired the technical sessions in more than 20 international conferences. She is a reviewer for reputed international journals

Courses Offered:

- - B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering (120 Intake)
  - M. Tech in VLSI Design and Embedded systems (24 Intake)
  - Ph.D and M.Sc (Engg), broadly in the areas Sensors,Communication, Image processing,Pattern recognition,Real time embedded systems and VLSI Design

Staff Details:

Number of teaching staff – 33 (Prof: 05; Associate Prof: 9; Assistant Prof: 19)
PhDs – 09
Pursuing Ph.D. – 16
Average experience of staff – 15 Years
Staff with industrial experience – 08
Technical, supporting & Maintenance staff – 19

Research Activities:

The department has an R & D center recognized by VTU. It is empowered by 3 research guides with rich industrial and academic experience.

The thrust areas majority include Conductive Polymers, MEMS, VLSI Optical Fiber Communication, Image processing, Pattern recognition, Real-Time applications, Wireless Sensor Networks & Advanced Instrumentation. Several years of research has resulted in a large number of publications in National & International Journals & Conferences.

Dr. Yasha Jyothi Sirur, Dr. Veena S Chakravarthi, Dr. M S Suresh have applied for patent with patent no. 201641022110 for the research titled” Method, System and Apparatus for Asynchronous SOC testing and Validation”.
Research publications [From 2015 till date]
- International Journal: 76
- International Conferences: 17

Technical books authored: 10

Research Grants:

Sl.No.	Research Area	Research Topic	Funding Agencies	Amount & Year of Sanction
1	Low Power VLSI	Low Leaky Standard cell development	VTU	17.07 Lakh 2011-2014
2	Optical Fiber Communication	Dispersion measurement & Compensation	VGST	K-FIST 10 Lakh/Year for 2 years 2012-2014

Ph.D Guides in Department:

Sl.No.	Name of Faculty	Area of Research
1	Dr. P.A.Vijaya	Pattern Classification, Image Processing, Embedded & Real Time Systems, Cryptography &Computer Network Protocols
2	Dr. Veena S Chakravarthi	VLSI Design & Testing
3	Dr. Basavaraj.INeelgar	Antennas & VLSI

Faculty who received Ph.D degree during 2018:

Sl.No.	Name of Faculty	Guide Name	Research Topic
1	Yasha Jyothi. M Shirur	Dr. M. S. SureshDr. Veena.S Chakravarthi	DFT techniques for Asynchronous dominate SoC.
2	Bindu.S	Dr. M. S. Suresh	Characterization of PEDOT-PSS for its usability as flexible strain gauge material
3	Subodh Kumar Panda	Dr. M. S. Suresh	Evaluation of quality of peppers(chillies) using electronic sensors
4	Rekha.P	Dr. M. S. Suresh	Study of PEDOT:PSS sensors for evation of quality of Jasmine aroma.
5	Bhuvana Suganthi	Dr.Manjunath	Fault Tolerance Communication in Mobile Distributed Networks

Conferences/Workshops/FDPs conducted–Details from 2013:

- International Conference ”VCASAN” during 17 -19 July 2013.
- FDP “Electronic Communication & Trends” during 19-23 Jan 2015.
- FDP “ARM Cortex M3” during 08-14 Jan 2016.
- FDP “Computer & Wireless Networks” during 11-16July 2016.
- FDP on “Physical Design challenges in DSM Node VLSI systems”, during 16th – 21st January 2017
- FDP on “MSP430 Microcontroller and Its Applications” during 31st July, – 5th August, 2017.
- Two days students workshop for skill development on “ MSP430 Microcontroller” in association with Jyothi Embedded Labs at BNMIT on 14th & 15th October 2017

» Innovative Teaching

» Skill Development Program ECE

Staff Achievements:

Dr. P. A. Vijaya- is nominated as a BOS member for ECE/TCE board of VTU, Belgaum for the duration 2016-2018. – Her bio-data has been published in“Marquis Who’s Who – Science and Engineering”. She has obtained best project and best teacher awards.
Dr. Yasha Jyothi Sirur , Dr. Veena S Chakravarthi, Dr. M S Suresh applied for patent with patent no. 201641022110 for the title ” Method ,System and Apparatus for Asynchronous SOC testing and Validation”.
Mrs. Bindu S, Mr. Subodh Kumar Panda ,Mrs. Rekha P received Doctorate degree for their Ph.D work from VTU, Belgaum under the guidance of Dr. M. S. Suresh.
Mrs. Bhuvana Suganthi received Doctorate degree for their Ph.D work from VTU, Belgaum under the guidance of Dr. R. Manjunath.
Mr Venkatrao.P is waiting for defence for his Ph.D work.
Mrs. Chaitra N, visited and worked at AU MRI Research Center, Auburn University, USA during July 2017, to carry out a part of the collaborative research under Dr. Gopikrishna Deshpande, Associate Professor, Auburn University for her Ph.D work.
Mrs. Rekha P & Mr. Subodh Kumar Panda received best paper award for the paper titled, “Pencil Drawn Films as Ammonia Gas Sensors”, presented in the conference IEEE-ICSPACE,
Smt Yasha Jyothi Sirur got Best Presenter award at Bangkok conference
Smt Veena S Murthy got Best Paper award at VIT.
Smt Prabhavathi got Best Paper & Best Presentation award at INCOH
Smt Chaitra N obtained 1st rank in M.Tech,Best Paper award in VCASAN, Best Faculty award
Smt Bindu S has obtained 2nd rank in M.Tech
Sri N.SheshaPrasad has obtained 2nd rank in M.Tech.
Smt Rashmi S Bhaskar has obtained 3rd rank in M.Tech
Smt Ashwini S Savanth has obtained 1st rank in M.Tech & 2nd rank in B.E
Smt Lakshmi Bhaskar has obtained 2nd rank & Gold Medal in M.Tech

Professional Bodies:

BNMIT Electronics and Telecommunication Association (BETA)

BETA – The “BNMIT Electronics and Telecommunication Association” has been established with a mission to impart additional knowledge to the students of the Dept of ECE and TCE. It was formulated on the 10th October 2005, nominating all the students of ECE/TCE as members. Sri M.Chandrasekharan, Founder Chairman of impulse software Pvt. Ltd., was the chief guest for the launch program.

The association has been arranging guest lectures, workshops, quizzes, hobby project competitions etc, on a regular basis. And to be more effective, eminent academicians, researchers and industrialists are invited to address the budding engineers. Working in this direction, the main objectives of BETA have been to

Introduce current industrial trends
Raise competency spirit
Impart technical know-how
Teach team dynamics and
Prepare students for life-long learning.

ISTE Students’ Chapter:

Indian society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi is a professional organization of engineering educators and educational administers. Being the only national organization of educators in the field of engineering and technology, ISTE effectively contributes in various missions of the union government. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, AICTE/DST/MIT/State governments are well associated with the ISTE for program related to technical education.

The major objective of the ISTE is to assist and contribute to the production and development of top quality professionals needed by the industries and other organizations. ISTE is involved in coordinating various quality improvement programs and organizing summer/winter school programs for engineering colleges and polytechnic teachers.
BNM Institute of Technology is an institutional member and has its ISTE students’ chapter since 2005. The ISTE student chapter was inaugurated by Prof. Raghuvir Singh, Program Director and Executive Secretary, ISTE on 30th November 2005.

Talk on “Waste to Wealth” by Sri. Rajeeva Deekshit, Chief Managing Director, M/s. Pyro Ecogreen Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore was organized under the ISTE Student Chapter, BNMIT on 27th Oct 2018.

“ISTE Quiz – 2018” was organized by ISTE Student Chapter, BNMIT in association with BNMIT Qth Quotient quiz club for all the first year students on 14 Nov 2018.

“Industrial Visit” to Viswas Textile Processor, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore was organized as a part of Induction Program for 1st Semester ECE students by Department of ECE in association with ISTE Student Chapter.

“Industrial Visit” to National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore was organized under ISTE Student Chapter and EAC for 5th semester students on 14th and 16th Nov 2018 respectively. ·

· “Industrial Visit” to Atria Power, Solar Power Plant, Pavagada, Tumkur was organized under ISTE Student Chapter for 7th semester students on 15th Nov 2018.

IEEE-BNMIT Students’ Chapter:

With the initiative taken by Dr.Veena S.Chakravarthy, Professor, ECE as the Branch Counselor, the IEEE-BNMIT student’s chapter was formally inaugurated on 30th October 2013 by Dr.Anantharamaiah Prabhakar, Managing Director, Enterprise Flow Technosoft Services Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore.Workshops & Technical talks for students & staff of Dept of ECE is being organised from the IEEE BNMIT Students Chapter for which Prof. Bindu.S is present branch councellor.

Workshop on “Design Thinking” by Mrs. Veena R J, PRDC, Bangalore was organized by IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch on 15th Sept 2018.

Workshop on “Research Methodology” was organized by IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch on 3 and 4 Oct 2018.

“Inquizitive”, a quiz organized by IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch in association with IEEE Bangalore Section was held at BNMIT on 13 Oct 2018.

“Hackathon” was organized by IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch in association with IEEE Bangalore Section on 14th Oct 2018.

Student Achievements:

The department has obtained 13 VTU Ranks (12-UG Ranks,01-PG Ranks)

Vaishnavi. B.R – 3^rd Rank

88.4%

Shwetha R – 7^th Rank
85.94%

NiharikaRamachandra Murthy – 9^th Rank
85.10%

HariPriya E R-8^th Rank
85.57%

Sarah Iram L Indikar- 3^rd Rank
M.Tech ECE – 83.42%

Bhagyalaxmi D. Somayaji – 6^th Rank
84.58%

Prathima R- 6^th Rank
86.26%

Sharvari B R-7^th Rank
85.28%

Lakshmi J- 7^th Rank
86.52%

Bindhya Shree V- 2^nd Rank
86.75%

M HanumaTeja – 10^th Rank
85.42%

Sowmya R-5^TH Rank
85.54%

Chandrakala C S – 5^th Rank
84.12%

Technical achievements:

The project team members, Raghavendra D S, Rishab Bhansali, Vishnu Prasad Bhat, Mohan D of VI ‘C’, won Project Champion award with cash prize of Rs. 10,000 at IPL Summer competition-2018 (College level) on 4^thMay 2018
Deeksha More E K, Divya S, Kalyani G, Gouthami R of VI ‘A’ as a team, won Best Project award at 6^th semester (College level) with Cash prize of Rs. 5000 in IPL Summer competition-2018 on 4^thMay 2018.
The project team members, Kritika M Sharma and Aishwarya A of VIII ‘A’ won 3^rdprize for their project at Technovate – 2018, at the State level Project Model Exhibition and Contest organized by BIT, Bangalore on 2^nd May 2018.
Zeeshan Saquib, Suhas N. Bhargav, Vishaka Murari VI Sem were one among top 26 projects selected at national level to showcase their project “BlinDar: The invisible eye” at 12^th National Innovation Challenge, IIT Delhi during 14^th -15^th July 2017.
The project from 7^th sem ECE students –iBrella : A Smart Parasol won 3^rdprize at IIT Guwahati during 31^st Aug – 3^rd Sept 2017. The team – Zeeshan, Sana & Ujjwal was declared as ”The best social innovation champions” by better India!! The team also received a cash prize of Rs 45,000 .
Kritika M Sharma, Aishwarya A, Dr. Yasha Jyothi M Shirur published a journal titled “Power Efficient Destination Address Generator of Direct Memory Access Controller in Multiprocessor SoC” in IJIRCCE, Vol. 5, Issue: 7^th, July 2017.
Akhila K, Karuna N, Kavya C, Dr. Yasha Jyothi M Shirur published a journal titled, “Design and implementation of Power Efficient Linear Feedback Shift Register for BIST using Verilog” in IJIRCCE, Vol. 5, Issue: 7^th, July 2017.
Tejas C, Tejashwini V, Shuvankar Dhal & Sirisha P.S. of VII Sem presented a paper titled, “Flex controlled robotic arm for the amputees”, in ICCES 2017 organized by PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore during 19^th-20^th Oct 2017.
Zeeshan Saquib, Sana Anaum & Ujjwal S of VII Sem presented a paper titled, “iBrella: A Smart Parasol”, in ICICI 2017 organized by Ranganathan Engineering College, Coimbatore during 23^rd -24^th November 2017.

Sports achievements

S Maganti was part of team which won 4^thPlace in VTU (signal Zone) State Level Lawn Tennis (W) Competition 2018 organized by VTU, Belgaum on 29^th& 30^th Sept 2018.
Raksha Ramkumar and Sowmyashree of VI sem ECE, are the runner ups in State level Inter Collegiate Memorial Tournament BMSCE Kreedotsav, organized by BMSCE, Bangalore during 8^th– 10^th March 2018.
Deeksha More K and team of VI sem ECE were the runner ups in VTU inter Collegiate Bangalore Zone Chess (M & W) Tournament, organized by RVCE, Bangalore on 16^th-17^th March 2018
Shreya Deepak of VIII ‘B’ secured 2^ndPlace (Silver Medal) in VTU Bangalore Single Zone cross country (M & W) competition -2018 organised by NMAIT Nitte, Mangalore on 27^th -28^th Feb 2018
Raksha Ramkumar of VI sem, ECE, won the best player award for table tennis in Jain University Inter Collegiate (VIE 2018) Tournament, organized by S.J.M. Institute of Technology during 25^th – 28^thJanuary 2018.
Raksha Ramkumar & Sowmyashree, of V sem are the runners up in VTU Intercollegiate Bangalore Central Zone Table tennis tournament, organized by HKBKCET Bangalore on 28^th and 29^th August 2017.
Shreya Deepak of VII sem, won 2^nd and 3^rd place in 200 mtrs Fly and 400 mtrs Medley in VTU State level Swimming Competition, organized by BNMIT, on 30^th August 2017.
Raksha Ramkumar & Sowmyashree, of V sem are the runners up in VTU Inter Zone Table Tennis (women) Competition, organized by RLJIT, Doddaballapur, during 31^st August to 1^st September 2017.
Ujwal S of VII sem & Raksha Ramkumar of V sem, are the winners in VTU Inter Zone Lawn Tennis Tournament, organized by VVCE Mysore during 12^th – 14^th September 2017.
Shreya Deepak of VII sem secured Gold Medal in 5000 mtrs, 10000 mtrs, 21km Half Marathon in VTU Inter – Collegiate Athletic Meet organized by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum during 2^nd– 6^th November 2017.

Cultural achievements

Anirudh Aithal of V sem won Gold Medal in Light Vocal Solo at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Shivani Rajan of V sem won Gold Medal in Western Solo at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Rakshitha, Shreya and Sonika were part of Folk Dance team which won Gold Medal at Annual Inter college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Rakshitha A, Pooja R and Anirudh Aithal were part of Indian Group Song Team which won Gold Medal at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd – 4^th Nov 2018.
Sujatha Kamath and Shivani Rajan were part of Western Group Song Team which won Silver Medal at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Priyanka of V sem won Bronze Medal in Cartooning at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Anirudh Aithal of V sem won Bronze Medal in Classical Vocal Solo at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Gowri, Vishnu N and Ganesh Murthy were part of One Act Play team which won Bronze Medal at Annual Inter-college VTU Cultural Youth Festival 2018-19 held at BKIT, Bhalki, during 2^nd– 4^th Nov 2018.
Anirudh Aithal of IV sem won Gold in the Classical Vocal Solo at State Level VTU Youth Festival held at Angadi Engineering College Premises, Belagavi, during 11^th – 13^th April 2018.
Rakshitha R, Rakshitha A, Pooja R were part of Indian Group Song team which won Gold at State Level VTU Youth Festival held at Angadi Engineering College Premises, Belagavi, during 11^th – 13^th April 2018.
Ganesh Murthy of VI sem won Bronze in Percussion (Ghatam) at State Level VTU Youth Festival held at Angadi Engineering College Premises, Belagavi, during 11^th– 13^th April 2018.
Vishnu N of II Sem was part of Skit group which won Bronze at State Level VTU Youth Festival held at Angadi Engineering College Premises, Belagavi, during 11^th – 13^th April 2018.
Madhuri Kaushik B J of VIII sem won 1^st place and Gold medal in Classical Vocal (Solo) at 17^th VTU Youth Festival, Yuva Kalanjali, organized by Sir MVIT, Bangalore during 16^th -19^th March 2017.
Ganesh Murthy of IV Sem won 1^stplace and Gold medal in Percussion at 17^thVTU Youth Festival, Yuva Kalanjali, organized by Sir MVIT, Bangalore during 16^th -19^th March 2017.

Results: Eighth Semester Pass percentage.

Year	2017-18	2016-17	2015-16
Pass percentage	98.47	98.49	98.41
No of students	131	133	126
No.of FCD	108	96	105
No.of FC	19	34	19
No.of SC	2	1	0