Recruitment Brochure

Department of Electronics and Communication IIT Guwahati

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Message from the faculty in charge of placements

The Department

Academic Programs Offered at the department Facilities

Co-curricular
Extra-curricular

Previous Recruiters Contacts

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Message from the faculty in-charge of placements

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The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at IIT Guwahati has been in existence for 14 years. In a span of just 11 years, the alumni of this department have proven their competence by excelling in some of the most competitive environments around the globe, be it in the industry or academia. The department has always been the choice of the crme de la crme of aspiring Electronics Engineers . A 23-strong top quality faculty, and a host of social, cultural and sporting activities mean that students passing out from the department are world class professionals with a versatile skill-set. Continuing with the legacy, the current B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D batches have many innovative and enterprising minds. As the faculty in-charge of placements, I proudly present the current final year batch to all potential recruiters from the industry. Those who have hired our students in the past are already familiar with the high standards our alumni have set. For new recruiters, we are confident the excellence of the current batch will be the catalyst for the start of a long and prosperous relationship with IITG.

Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra

Assistant Professor and Faculty In-charge of Placements, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
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The department
Back to Contents The department was established during the inception of the institute in 1995. The primary objective of the department has been to impart quality education, and undertake cutting edge research at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels in various areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering with a broad emphasis on the design aspects of electronic systems.

The major areas of faculty expertise of the department include Communications, Advanced DSP, Biomedical and Speech Processing, Control, Instrumentation, VLSI, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Power System and Power Electronics, Antenna and RADAR system.
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Academic Programs offered at the Department and their curriculum

Back to Contents Bachelor of Technology: Admission to this 4-year program is through the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (IITJEE), which is recognized as one of the most competitive examinations in the world. Consequently, some of the brightest minds in the country join the department through our affiliation with the JEE. The program endeavours at providing a strong foundation in theoretical, practical and design aspects of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Our undergraduates have completed courses related to Analog and Digital Design, Microprocessors, VLSI, DSP, Digital Communication and Instrumentation.

In addition to this, to develop a strong coding background, the curriculum also includes courses on Computing fundamentals, OOP and data structures. For a detailed list of courses completed by undergraduate students over the duration of their program, refer to http://www.iitg.ac.in/acad/courses&syllabi/UG.htm#ece

Hardware design project in the sixth semester and the B.Tech project spanning across the seventh and eighth semester play a pivotal role in refining the strong theoretical background formed during earlier semesters. Moreover, on an average, 2 out of every 5 contact hours are devoted to laboratory courses. The rigors of labs and projects mean students are used to delivering quality work within strict time constraints.
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Master of Technology: The M.Tech program is offered with a specialization in one of two disciplines: Signal Processing and VLSI (The 2010 M.Tech batch has 34 students specializing in Signal Processing and 4 in VLSI). This is a 2year program, admissions to which are conducted through GATE. The M.Tech in Signal processing curriculum has advanced topics for providing an insight into the mathematical, theoretical, and practical application aspects of signal processing. The M.Tech in VLSI consists of courses on Digital and Analog IC Design, VLSI System Design and some aspects of Signal Processing. At IIT Guwahati, students also do a research based project spread across the third and fourth semesters, aimed at postulating new methodologies and developing new useful systems. In this way, students gain a deeper understanding of the subject and its practicalities. Doctoral: The Ph.D. program is aimed at developing creative thinking, mathematical modeling, and problem solving abilities of the students by posing them unsolved research issues in their areas of interest. The department provides a free, conducive, and friendly atmosphere for students to pursue unfettered research work in all areas related to the field of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Students admitted to this program have been pursuing research work under the supervision of one or more faculty members of the department.

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Facilities
Back to Contents The Department possesses the following state-of-the-art laboratories for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students Electronics Circuits Laboratory Control & Instrumentation Laboratory Microprocessor & Embedded Systems Laboratory DSP & Communication Laboratory High-Frequency Laboratory Electro Medical and Speech Technology Laboratory Image & Signal Processing Laboratory VLSI & Digital Systems Design Laboratory System Simulation Laboratory

In VLSI & Digital Systems Design Lab we have Cypress programmable system on chip (PSOC) Saber mixed signal simulation for mechatronic system (Asia pacific University bundle) Software tools like xilinx, cadence and mentor graphics (Univ. bundle) Altera softwares & boards High end design boards from Xilinx In High Frequency Lab we have Gun power supply and Klystrone power supply (with operating frequency band 8~12 GHz i.e. X Band) EPM series process meter E4418B from Agilent Technologies Network analyser (30 kHz~6 GHz) from Agilent. High precision LCR meter Signal generator 8648B (9 kHz~2 GHz) from HP laboratory Computers are equipped with softwares FEKO, Matlab, Ansoft-HFSS, HTK (Speech processing).

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Co-curriculars
Back to Contents The department has been home to students with an appetite to learn so insatiable that even our comprehensive course structure only makes them yearn for more. The 10-week hiatus between the 6th and 7th semesters hence sees most students enrolled in the Bachelor's degree course fly out to top companies and universities across the world in an attempt to enhance their skill-set and knowledge. The current batch has (among others) students who have interned at organizations such as Qualcomm Technologies, IBM, Goldman Sachs and Co., and Siemens Medical etc. Google's Summer of Code program (GSoC) has also had contributions from a student developer belonging to our department. Institutes of global standing such as the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (Switzerland), the University of New Hampshire (USA), and TU Mnchen (Germany) can also vouch for the excellence of Summer Interns from IIT Guwahati.

It is not through summer internships alone that students try to gain additional experience - research projects sponsored by leading organizations provide many opportunities to students for their co-curricular development at IIT Guwahati itself. Motorola India Ltd., UKIERI, ISRO, DRDO, Honeywell Technology solutions etc. have been sponsors of such projects in the years gone by. The department also hosts national level conferences with considerable incidence. Impressive voluntary student participation has been witnessed in the following conferences:
QIP Short Term Course on Communication (22-26th Sept, 2008) Advanced Wireless

Workshop on Image and Signal Processing (WISP 2007) (28 29th Dec. 2007) 15th National Conference on Communications (NCC 2009) (16-18th January 2009)
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Extra-curricular
Back to Contents The institute seeks to create not just engineers, but individuals with a well-rounded personality. We can proudly state that students of the Department of ECE have made ample usage of the opportunities made available to them for extra-curricular activities. The batch of 2010 has winners of national level competitions in fields as diverse as Robotics and Finance. There are athletes who have represented the institute at the highest level in the Inter IIT Sports meets. There are key members of the organizing teams of IIT Guwahati's national level festivals - Techniche and Alcheringa. There are heads of student clubs and campus societies. Many of the current outgoing batch of students have been a source of inspiration for the IIT Guwahati. community.

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CEPSTRUM (http://www.iitg.ernet.in/scifac/cep/public_html/index.html) This is the ECE students' society of IIT Guwahati, which aims to play a pivotal role in their development as engineers. The society strives at making students aware of the latest developments in the field of electronics and communication and other related areas through its acclaimed departmental magazine, InPhase. It also tries to promote interaction between academia and industry. The society uses its extensive alumni base in order to come to terms with these objectives.

Some Previous Recruiters

Back to Contents Accenture Analog Devices Aricent Mindtree Mu Sigma National Semiconductor Nevis Network NTPC Nvidia OnMobile

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Cisco Cypress Semiconductors DE Shaw DRDO Evalueserve Fair Isaac Fluent HAL Headstrong Hughes IBM Infosys ITC Larsen & Toubro
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Price Waterhouse Coopers

Qualcomm Sasken Siemens Schlumberger Asia, RDM Sun Microsystems Texas Instruments TCS Tejas Network Verizon Wipro

Microsoft

Contacts
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Prof. Dr. S. Majhi Head , Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Phone: +91-361-258-2508, +91-361-258-2501(O) Fax: +91-361-2582542 Email: smajhi@iitg.ernet.in Prof. Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra Faculty In-charge of Placements, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Phone: +91-361-258-2518 (O) Fax: +91-361-2582542, 2690762 Email: amishra@iitg.ernet.in Placement Cell Ph: +91-361-2582175 Email: placement@iitg.ernet.in Nitesh Sinha Placement Representatives B.Tech, Ph: +91-9954249843 Email: nitesh@iitg.ernet.in Links http://www.iitg.ac.in/ece http://www.iitg.ac.in/placement
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Diptaman Hazrika Placement Representatives M.Tech, Ph: +91-9957562866 Email: diptaman@iitg.ac.in