Computer Science & Engineering

ABOUT DREXEL UNIVERSITY:

Drexel University has more than 25,000 students and has been ranked among the nation’s 100 best universities for the past five years, and many of its colleges and programs are considered among the best in their fields. The LeBow College of Business within Drexel University is among the elite 20% of business schools accredited by AACSB International. LeBow has been recognized by BusinessWeek, Financial Times, Entrepreneur and the Princeton Review as one of the world’s top business schools.

ABOUT PROJECT

This project involves a design and development of an interactive web portal for a non-profit organization (YOACAP) based in Philadelphia, PA.

The goal of this collaboration is to provide opportunities for students (both at Drexel & Amity) understand how to plan and manage such a “global” IT project successfully and more fully develop a set of knowledge and skills related to IT projects. The important pieces is not only how students develop a joint technical solution but help them learn how to deal with typical “global” software development challenges due to distance, time-zone and cultural differences, and language/jargon misunderstandings. In addition to basic technical skills students will build their team-building, negotiation, problem-solving, project management and presentation skills all in the “global” context.

Students of Drexel University will play a role of management/customer team and ASET (Computer Science & Engineering) students will play a role of technical developers (a typical “offshore IT outsourcing” scenario). To that end my students are currently working on developing a project proposal (project scope, requirements, schedule, deliverables etc.) for this project. Additionally, any soft skills that your students might have would be beneficial.

PROJECT ON “OPEN LEARN WARE” PROGIA (USA)

Progia LLC is a New Jersey, U.S.A based LLC founded in September, 2002. Progia’s mission is to provide personalized information that people can use to make informed decisions & enrich their daily lives.

To address this opportunity, Progia has developed state of the art Technology & Tools to build personalized information products and services. Using Progia’s solutions, Personalized Information services can be built rapidly and cost effectively. The emphasis is on "Reuse" and "User Experience". All Progia solutions utilize open source software and open knowledge resources available on Internet.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering of ASET, Amity University has joined hand with the ENTRY INDIA(USA) on the Project Title “Open Learn Ware”. This project called as “Open Learn Ware” aims to develop mobile app both for Android and IOS platforms. It is an online learning and teaching platform that integrates Open Education Resources with a practical set of software tools. Using a web based interface, teachers can build their own courses or customize existing course with materials such as slides, audio, video, tests etc. A student can take courses at their own pace from anywhere at any time using internet connected mobiles.

Department of CSE, ASET, Amity University joined hands with Lakehead University, Canada and arranged a summer internship programme for students.

Students received an academically and culturally fruitful training at Thunder Bay, Canada for 6 weeks. They had a unique experience of helicopter ride over the city. Their work has been encouraged and appreciated by the Faculty of Natural Resource Management at Lakehead University. This exposure will be very beneficial for them and has given a boost to their confidence.

Mr. Archit Sharma of B.Tech(CSE) has got summer internship in CERN Open Lab, Switzerland with stipend of Rs. 3,08,500/- only student selected from INDIA.

CERN openlab(World’s Best Lab in Physics) is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community.

6 students of M.Tech (CSE) were shortlisted for doing their M.Tech Final Dissertation at Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Mr. Ankit Gupta, student of B. Tech (CSE), batch 2010-14 got an opportunity for Internship at The Washington Centre (TWC), USA that was fully sponsored by Prudential Foundation.

Mr. Ankit Gupta of B.Tech(CSE) 2010-14 batch attended Harvard Model United Nation and MNU Café from 13 Aug 2013 to 18 Aug 2013 as an Assistant Director, headed by committee director Ms Charlotte Lee, a student of Harvard University.

Directorate of International Collaboration for Engineering & Technology has sent Students Amity School of Engineering & Technology from Batch 2009-13 to Purdue University, Calumet for major project in 8thSemester. 13 Students from different branches such as CSE, IT and ECE were nominated to do their major project in Purdue University, USA. Prof. (Dr.) Balvinder Shukla, Acting VC, AUUP and Dr. Alka Munjal motivated the students going for unique global experience for their project. Prof. (Dr.) Abhay Bansal, Director, DICET and HoD, CSE gave best wishes to do hard work and come up as Jewels of ASET.

This exchange program would serve as a great learning experience for the students. It requires them to work in one of the most advanced laboratories along with attending lectures. This is the first time in ASET; students would give exams under advanced provision. This program gives the students a global exposure of various cultures, as teaches them to adapt to a new lifestyle in a whole new country. And thus, it teaches the students way more than just academics.

Student’s feedback on arrival at USA showed great enthusiasm and zeal for new exposure. The professors are very skilled and are helping them adjust to the new environment and culture. This experience is helping them grow professionally and personally. All the students shown thier gratitude to Prof. (Dr.) Abhay Bansal, Director, DICET and HoD, CSE for giving them this ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’.

Mr. Ankit Gupta, B.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering), Final Year, Batch 2008-14, doing his major project at Singapore University of Technology & Design for 6 months.

Mr. Satyajit Padhy, Mr. Piyush Saxena, Mr. Tinesh Kumar and Ms. Shalini Sharma, M.Tech(CSE) Batch 2011-13 got an opportunity to do their dissertation at NTHU, Taiwan for 6 months.

Mr. Vikram Verma, M.Tech(CSE) Batch 2011-13 got an opportunity to do their dissertation at University of Texas, Arlington for 6 months.

Mr. Siddhant Sirohi, B.Tech (CSE), Batch 2011-15 got selected for summer internship at Arizona state University, USA.

Ms. Richa sharma and Ms. Eshika Manchanda, B.Tech (CSE), Batch 2011-15 got selected for summer internship at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.