The WWW has changed the way the world looks at information. The expanding role of IT in business, science, government, social structures and the personal lives is an obvious truth in the current generation. Whether we are driving a zippy modern car, messaging a friend, buying anything on the Internet, flying an airplane, searching for information, we depend on networks of computers that store, exchange and process information in increasingly elaborate ways. As an academic discipline, IT focuses on meeting the needs of users within an organizational and societal context through the selection, creation, application, integration and administration of computing technologies.

Academics

Postgraduate

The M.Tech program enables graduates to have a broad technical understanding of current and emerging technologies in the IT field, a familiarity with systems engineering concepts, and a solid foundation in the technological basis of the Internet. They will also have a firm grasp of current and future effects of the convergence of computer systems and telecommunication systems technologies. Electives offered include Grid Computing, Soft Computing and Computer Forensics. The Department is working on the development of a new graduate program that specializes in Information Security and Computer Forensics.

Faculty

The Department of Information Technology has over 30 faculty members whose areas of expertise and research include, but not limited to, Network Security, Mobile Communication, Computer Forensics, Embedded Systems, .NET Technologies etc.

Research & consultancy

Research in the Department focuses on creating and evaluating, innovative learning experiences, inspired by educational principles and technical progress. Our approach is to use technology to help mediate a constructivist dialogue between the learner, instructor and subject matter.Researchers focus on the management of IT, the IT-enabled enterprise, technology-intensive user environments, and the increasingly global nature of IT use and production.

As Information Security is one among the strongest research areas of the faculty, the Department of IT has a proposal to start a research center in the field of Information Assurance and Security.

Cutting-edgelaboratories&facilities

The computing facilities and the classroom environment in the Department of IT is an ergo-assistive work-study environment open to students, faculty and researchers. It has state of the art computing facilities to enable the students, faculty and researchers to achieve their task with ease of operation in their area of interest. The Department has to its credit 5 laboratories (.NET, Networking, Multimedia, Database, Visual Programming Labs), totaling over 250 systems with 6 servers.

Industrial connection

The Department of IT has entered into a pact with Microsoft through the MSDN Academic Alliance Program. The Department Corporate Advisory Board includes top executives from Infosys, Covansys, Wipro, Satyam, TCS and Oracle.

Careers

Students from the Department of IT get opportunities to serve in many top-notch IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, CTS etc., which are certified as SEI CMM Level 5 organizations, through the campus recruitment process.