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News from the School of Professional Attachment (SPA)

March 2017 was a rewarding month with respect to placements both in terms of numbers and a wider cross section of new hiring companies.

q DENSO, a core company for Engineers conducted a selection process on 1 March 2017 for Mechanical Engineering students. Five students were extended job offers.

q V-Konnect Consulting conducted an on-campus selection process for MBA students on 2 March 2017 and four students got the final job offer.

q Sona Koyo Steering, a core company for Mechanical Engineers conducted a selection process on 3 March 2017 and one student got a job offer.

q McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting firm for the first time conducted a campus selection process for BTech, CSE & IT students and hired two students.

q DLF Golf Resorts hired one MBA student for core HR profile in the selection process conducted on 8 March 2017.

q Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunication equipment and services company conducted a pool campus process at NCU on 10 March 2017. Outcome of the drive was 27 selections.

q Nagarro, for the first time hired one MSc (Mathematics) student during the selection process conducted on 10 March 2017.

q Express Roadways, one of India's fastest growing logistics companies renowned for its domain expertise in the transportation sector, for the first time conducted a campus selection process on 17 March 2017 wherein nine students got the final placement offer.

q Laurent and Benon conducted a campus selection process for BTech and MBA students on 15 March 2017. Results are awaited.

q Home Credit India, an international non-banking financial institution selected one student from NCU during the selection process conducted on 18 March 2017.

q Hindustan Times Media conducted a selection process for BTech and MBA students on 16, 17 and 20 March 2017. Results are awaited.

q Lutron, a technology-centered and people-driven company visited the NCU campus for the first time for the final placement selection

the same which included spot inspection, examination of witnesses, medical examination of accused, co-ordination with forensic laboratories, prosecutors etc. He emphasized on the fact that different investigation techniques are to be applied for different cases and challenges vary from case to case. Having served as a senior officer in the Police for several years, Mr Chander shared his experiences including the challenges encountered during his service. He also referred to some of the landmark cases where he was a part of the investigating team. It was a great learning experience for the students. (SOL2017G003)

q SOL organized a special lecture by Mr Ranjeev C Dubey, Managing Partner of law firm, N South Advocates on 24 March 2017. He initiated the lecture by taking an audience poll as to why students want to pursue law. Most of the options included fame, glamour, fortune, politics, and intellectual satisfaction. Sharing his experiences of working at Tis Hazari court, he stressed on the importance to start from the lower courts as lessons in law start at the roots i.e. the lower courts.

Mr Dubey mentioned that lawyering is a 'thinker’s profession' i.e. everything has to be backed by logic. Emotions have no place in courts. He stressed on the importance of winning in law as there is

ndno prize or recognition for attaining the 2 position. The lecture was followed by an interactive session where he replied to several questions posed by the students. (SOL2017G004)

Library

LIRC renewed subscription to the following E- resources for the year

2017:

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for Dept of ME

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) for Dept of CEE,

E Brary (E- books database)

Sage Journals for SOM

LIRC uploaded the thesis of Dr Ravindra Ojha, Director SOET, on the Shodhganga Platform on 7 March 2017. Please click on the following link to access the thesis online:

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/139387

A total of eight PhD thesis have been uploaded on Shodhganga on behalf of The NorthCap University, till date.

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Student Activities

Activities of CSI Student Chapter

q The Computer Society of India (CSI) NCU Student Chapter organized a special event for children of Shakuntalam Shiksha Kendra (school for underprivileged kids), Gurugram, on 23 March 2017. Shakuntalam Shiksha Kendra offers educational scholarships to orphans / students coming from extenuating background so as to provide support and empower underprivileged children and enable them to meet basic ambitions in life. To support this vision, the CSI Student Chapter organized a gaming session and drawing competition for the children. The objective of this event was to sensitize NCU students towards their social responsibilities and make them aware of the needs of the society.

The faculty along with 12 children visited NCU and competed on computer games and participated in a drawing competition. They were given gifts and served refreshments at the end of the event, which was coordinated by Dr A Charan Kumari, CSI Student Branch Counsellor, Dr Prachi, CSI member and Mr Vijap Pratap Singh.

q To enhance the programming skills and to boost the confidence of the students in coding, the NCU Student Chapter of Computer Society of India conducted a Coding Competition on 22 March, 2017. The competition was open to all the students of the University. The winners of the event: First position: Aadish Goel (15CSU001), Second : Ayush Singh Rathore (16CSU074), Third. Rohit (16CSU305).The event was organized by Dr A Charan Kumari, CSI Students Branch Counsellor with the support of Mr Vijay Pratap Singh.

Databases’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (IEEE 2017), pp. 6013-6016,

CSE2017P008.

Corresponding Author*

Digital Financial Inclusion’, International Journal of Science, Technology and Management, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 500-513,

SOM2017J005.

NATIONAL

q Deepak Monga, Sanjeev Soni* and Prem Saran Satsangi (2017) ‘Role of Optical Properties on Photon Distribution in a Biological Tissue Using Monte Carlo Method ’, Journal of Scientific and

Industrial Research, Vol. 76, pp. 154-159, MED2017J008.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

INTERNATIONAL

q Priyanka Mann and Hukum Singh (2016) ‘A survey on the applicability of Fourier transform and fractional Fourier transform on various problems of image encryption’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Computing Systems (ICCCS 2016), Gurgaon, India-Prasad et al (Eds) 2017 Taylor & Francis Group London ISBN 978-1-138-02952-1, pp. 475-

480, APS2017P001.

q Sakshi Patel and Jagdeep Kaur (2016) ‘A Study of Component Based Software System Metrics’, International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation - 2017, pp. 824-828,

CSE2017P001.

q Vijendra Singh and Madhu Kumari (2017) ‘A Survey on Big Data Analytics in Healthcare’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (IEEE 2017), pp.

6043-6047, CSE2017P002.

q Priyanka Rastogi and Vijendra Singh (2017) ‘Raise: Hybrid Recommender Engine for Agricultural Domain’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development

(IEEE 2017), pp. 6001-6007, CSE2017P003.

q Monika Yadav and Vijendra Singh (2017) ‘Comparison of Parallel Pre-Processing Techniques for Big Data’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development

(IEEE 2017), pp. 6022-6027, CSE2017P004.

q Ankit Srivastav, Vijendra Singh and Gurmeet Singh (2017) ‘Sentiment Analysis: An Effect of Social Platforms in the Community’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (IEEE 2017), pp. 6028-6031,

CSE2017P005.

q Ankit Srivastav, Vijendra Singh and Gurmeet Singh (2017) ‘Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data: Sarcasm Detection Survey’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global

Development (IEEE 2017), pp. 6038-6042, CSE2017P006.

q Gurmeet Singh, Vijendra Singh and Ankit Srivastav (2017) ‘Sentiment Analysis and Its Methods:A Review’, 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development

(IEEE 2017), pp. 6032-6037, CSE2017P007.

q Gopal Jetwani and Vijendra Singh (2017) ‘ERA of NoSQL Aadish Goel (15CSU001)

Ayush Singh Rathore (16CSU074)

Rohit (16CSU305)