MTech(ECE) at The NorthCap University

Dr Sharda Vashisth

Associate Professor

Dept of EECE

The NorthCap University, Gurgaon

The NorthCap University (NCU) has always believed in a strong vision of imparting education par excellence. Keeping in sync with this vision and to impart quality education, NCU has achieved an independent status as University. This gives NCU flexibility to design its own syllabus and impart students the current knowledge which is relevant to present requirements. The curriculum and syllabi of The NorthCap University have been designed and reviewed by top academic and industry experts and are comparable with the best in the country.The courses are taught by well qualified and experienced faculty with distinguished track records. The EECE Department alone has more than 38 faculty members, one of the largest groups in the NCR/ Haryana.

To meet industry requirements, there is enhanced stress on practical oriented teaching with increased lab work content. All the labs at NCU are well equipped and well maintained. Keeping in view the latest trends, many relevant contemporary software packages have been made available for MTech students. Some of these are MATLAB Ver. 2014 , QUALNET , OPTSIM , VHDL , Xilinx , CADENCE tools latest version, LABVIEW  , TANNER TOOLS , KEIL Compiler , Modelsim , NS-2, CST etc. There is strong emphasis on research for which electronic access to all IEEE journals and transactions is available to all the students.

More practical exposure, so important for engineering education, is given to the students with the inclusion of summer industrial trainings after one year as well regular industry visits. To enhance the employability of our MTech students for both teaching and industry careers, external agencies are hired to provide personality development programmes (PDP) for overall grooming of the students. This helps the students increase their career options over time, by giving them the preparation, skills and credentials that they need to find the job that fits their goals.

Our MTech (ECE) programme has drawn attention of top industries and many of our students have been absorbed in these industries at very attractive packages. MTech (ECE) students have also done well in teaching and industry careers. Almost all students passing from the University in MTech (ECE) are placed. Many of them have opted teaching as their career and are working in well-known engineering institutions while others have gone for industry jobs at very good salary packages. The EECE Department as well the Central placementcell of the University extends all possible help to M.Tech students in finding suitable placements.Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) postgraduates at NCU have best of both theworlds, prestigious jobs in renowned electronics and telecom companies as well as premium jobs in global computer and IT organizations.

Doing MTech at NCU is a professionally enriching and career wise rewarding experience. Come and join our enthusiastic and disciplined team of faculty and students and have a rich and highly rewarding experience. 

M Tech in Mechanical Engineering: An Overview

Department of Mechanical Engineering of THE NORTHCAP University, Gurgaon, has state-of-the-art facilities, a highly qualified and experienced faculty, to nurture and transform its students to promising young engineers. The students are given wide exposure to the latest industrial technology and practices. The Department, in its continuous endeavors to excel, encourages and facilitates its faculty and staff to do research and upgrade their skills and knowledge. Keeping in view the demand of specialized engineers from the industry, the Department is running M.Tech program, with an option of specialization.

It is 2-year full-time and 3-year part-time regular program leading to the master's degree in mechanical engineering, with an option of getting specialization in the following fields as per choice of the student:

• Thermal Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Design

Some of salient features of the program-

• The student enrolled for this program after completion of the program will get M Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
• The student enrolled for this program will have an option to get M Tech in Mechanical Engineering along with a certificate of specialization in any one area mentioned above as per his/her choice
• To get M Tech with specialization in any one of the streams mentioned above the student will have to take all the electives in third semester of the program from any one of the stream as per his/her choice, and he/she will have to do Major Project in the same area.
• If the student wants to pursue M Tech in Mechanical Engineering (without specialization) then he/she is free to take electives from any offered stream mentioned above, and there will not be any constraint regarding area of Major Project.
• In case a student has previously taken any course similar to the core/elective courses offered in this program, upon the approval of suitable competent authority, he may be allowed to take other courses as replacement.

Eligibility and Selection procedure :

The applicant must have obtained minimum 60% marks or equivalent in the following qualifying degree: B.E/B Tech or equivalent degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, Aero space/Aeronautical Engineering, Production/Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Production and Industrial Engineering.

Selection procedure will be based on merit and will be as per NCU rules defined for M.Tech admission for Academic Session 2016-17.

Intake: The intake for this program for academic Session 2016-17 will be 20 for full time and 20 for part time.

Unique Selling Points of Department of Mechanical Engineering

• Efficient and highly qualified faculty members and technical staffs committed for nurturing the student for their future endeavors. 
• Up-to the minute laboratory facility for understanding and undertaking the research. 
• Futuristic curriculum that is being updated periodically in consultation with experts from industry and academia.
• Flexibility for choosing specialization option and their electives subjects.
• Accreditation from National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
• Outstanding Industry-Academia Interaction through guest lectures, industrial visits, internships and workshops.
• Collaborations MOUs with several industries. 
• Emphasis on holistic development of students through promotion of co-curricular activities and professional societies in the department.
• Excellent placement through our placement partners like CB & I, Denso, Subros, Samsung, Flour Danial, Maruti and its other various vendor companies etc.

The scope of Masters in Thermal Engineering specilization

Amit Arora

The Northcap University, Gurgaon

All industrial applications involving heat exchange require high effectiveness heat exchangers. That’s why heat transfer enhancement in heat exchangers is an important area of development. One of the most popular types of exchanger is Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers. Their popularity is due to the ability to perform over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. Depending upon the applications, there are two main classes of Shell and Tube exchanger. One class of aforesaid exchangers is used in petrochemical industry and the other class is used in power industry to serve as feed water heaters and power plant condensers. A shell and tube exchanger consists of a large number of tubes housed inside a long cylindrical shell. Two fluids exchange heat when one fluid flows over the tubes and the other fluid flows through the tubes. Both the fluids can flow either with parallel or counter flow arrangement. Complex flow and heat transfer physics makes the compact design of such heat exchangers a challenging task for the designers as it requires thorough research on geometric optimization and its characterization. For accomplishing such a task, carefully designed experimental as well as numerical studies can be carried out at post graduate and doctorate levels.

For More Information, Please Visit: http://www.ncuindia.edu/schools/school-of-engg-technology/dept-of-mechanical-engg/postgraduate-programmes

Masters in Cyber Security– A widely demanded course for bright career prospects

Have you ever pondered about taking a m tech degree in Cyber Security? If yes, then you must rmead on to learn more about Masters in Cyber Security. It is a two-year post-graduate program and is an interesting and challenging career.

An initiative by leading institute

The leading practitioners of Cyber Security initiated SOCER (Society of Cyber Security Education & Research). It works in the realm of cryptography, cyber security and other related spheres. Cyber crimes are increasing at a rapid rate in present time. Moreover, with the advancement of computer science, the world of unethical hackers is growing. Lack of efficient cyber professionals is a major reason behind all these rising crimes. Keeping in mind the growing scope of education in cyber security, SOCER aims to deliver the required amount of experts for the empty slots in the area of cyber security.

SOCER serves as a befitting platform to deal with the upcoming ideas and information. It performs this function by organizing seminars for the eminent speakers to talk, conduct effective workshops, etc. It also works toward promoting research on hacking and cyber security, and providingan apprenticeship in the related fields. Overall, it aims at making a proficient lot of IT professionals in the field of cyber security, network security, privacy & web security.
 

Key features of SOCER:

• It enhances the capability of the students to research and infer from it. 
• The society contributes in this field by extending collaborations and interactions.
• It provides courses in cryptography & network security, intrusion detection system, cyber security, malware analysis and reverse engineering, SQL injection, ethical hacking & web hacking.  

Points to remember:

• The best quality faculty, fulfilling infrastructural facilities and a vast pool of academic facilities positions the department quite above the prominent MTech institutes . 
• The course offers a platform to gain advance knowledge along with extensive training facilities.
• It extends great opportunity in getting skilled in the field of cyber security.
• It bridges the space between the cyber crimes and inadequate professionals. 
• The faculty members themselves are researchers and experts in the sphere of cyber security. 
• It serves the purpose of creating high-end strategies and knowledge in the minds of the students.  
• The curriculum and syllabus of the course are designed such to cater to the demands of the cyber industry and research institutions. 
• A Masters degree in Cyber Security works toward improving the chances of securing the best placements. The advanced labs in the related universities further work to provide on-field practice and experiments.
• It offers wide placement opportunities. The university is in collaboration with various firms and organizations to provide for efficient training and placement offers. 
• There are about 5 lakh in demand professionals for the cyber security in public, private and PSUs, which can get an initial annual package of about 7-8 lakh. In order to give an industrial exposure, the university emphasizes on industrial projects.

Issues & Challenges in Securing Cyber World

Prof. Meena Kumari

Dept of CSE & IT

THE NORTHCAP UNIVERSITY, Gurgaon

It is a fact that individuals all over the world are gradually going the digital way and merging lifestyles when it comes to personal and professional lives. In this digital era, we are connected globally all the time, everywhere and virtually with everyone through Internet using smartphones, ipads, Internet of Things(IOT) and “WiFi”. The technologies such as mobile internet and cloud are being adopted at a rapid pace.Today’s workforce value flexibility more than anything, so to support BYOD (bring your own device), organizations are adopting a comprehensive set of solutions which address challenges in cyber security. Cybercrime is fast becoming one of the formidable threat globally. Breaches are taking place, besides elaborates security arrangements in the organizations. Data theft & web application attacksare increasing immensely because hackers are able to sneak into networks and steal/damage critical data. Hacktivist group has been involved with many high profile attacks on government, religious and corporate websites through DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. In the USA, 1.8 million records have been exposed since the beginning of 2016 & largest data breach was reported by Centene Corporation, in which medical information on 950,000 subscribers to the company’s health insurance products. India being the third largest Internet user base in the world, out of which more than 50% are mobile users, this brings India into a high risk zone, where hackers will exploit key vulnerabilities to breach these devices. Privacy concern is utmost important with IoT and billions of connected devices in this digital world of eCommerce, eGovenance, ePayments& IT corporates. As data grows, enterprises need a robust data privacy solution to prevent breaches and also intrusion, detection & prevention schemes based on big data fordetecting vulnerabilities &analysing malware. As eCommerce will grow in 2016, cyber criminals will ramp up attacks on mobile devices and point of sale(POS) systems. Point of Sale (POS) is the time and place where a retail transaction is completed by making payment to the merchant in exchange for goods or after provision of a service. 

Ransomeware is one of the latest extortion attacks that infects computer with viruses known as ‘ransomeware’ by encrypting data and demanding payment for it to be unlocked. Recently in 2016, it was reported that a research scholar’s work in his computer was encrypted for ransomeware in India. Already in 2015, RaaS(Ransomeware as a Service) was hosted on the Tox by making use of virtual currency for payment purposes.The new targets for the creaters of ransomeware will be the operating system Mac and unpredictable encryption key on linux platforms.

As mobile phone & wearable devices are being used for monitoring the health of individuals, the hackers may try to cripple them with unlawful activities. The time is not far off, when criminal will try to hack life saving devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps. This raises the question of risks of information use and data ownership on IOT.

There will be tremedous increase in Sextortion attacks, in which scammer can blackmail and threaten to leak personal photographs and videos of celebrities , politician or emminent personalities in return of money.

Attacks on open source software(OSS) are inevitable because these products & libraries such as OpenSSL are integrated into another piece of software.

There will be increase in Android exploits , as android allows hacker to take over an androidphone by enabling malicious programs into audio files delivered via MP3 or MP4 format.

With the advent of mobile wallets like PayTM, Apple Pay, Android Pay etc., cyber criminals will indulge with untested financial services.

Vulnerabilities in virtualization firmware could become an acccess point for cyber crooks to gain entry into the infrastructure of an enterprise to extract valuable information. Virtualmachines could be the next target with system firmware rootkit.

The use of Drones to provide superior shopping experiences to theretail customers will beused by cyber criminals to steal passwards, user names, band details and even home addresses from the smartphones.

The massive increase in cybercrime incidents can be attributed to the rising popularity of social media, growing usage of mobile technology in the enterprise and continuing move on cloud services.

India, being emerging in this environment, provides an attractive option for hackers to track vulnerabilities in computer networks, Microsoft OS, office, Adobe files andin devices like Cisco Routers, Juniper IPS, Oracle products, Web browsers, Mobile Phones withand various other products. 

Today, the criminals are intelligent, possess skills and have lot of experience. There is the need to analyse the growing cybercrimes at a high level and better understanding of the potential issues. To combat cyber crime, all the stakeholders should work together to strengthen cyber security. To take up the challenges of cyber security, each country is framing laws around cybercrime in such a way that there is scope for law enforcement agencies towork closely with global counter partsand invest in training, to deal with cybercrime. India also needs tremendous skilled manpower in cyber security, who are intelligent and havingknowledge in network & web security, cloud computing, malware analysis, reverse engineering, secure coding, data analytics andhands on practices in ethical hacking, web attacks & intrusion detection. The Northcap University, Gurgaon has started MTech in Computer Science with specialization in Cyber Security to provide skilled manpower in this specialized area of Cyber Crime Detection & Prevention .Also the subject like Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Cryptography & Mobile Security are taught at undergraduate programs.

M.TECH CIVIL ENGINEERING AT THE NORTHCAP UNIVERSITY

Master of Technology (M.Tech) is a post graduate degree that engineers can opt for. It forms an extension of an engineer's graduate education and provides him with an opportunity for practical implementation of engineering knowledge. Generally, if a student has a good understanding of technical subjects and he wishes to enhance his skills in the field of Engineering or technology, it is advisable that he pursue an M.Tech course from recognized institutes of the country.

The NorthCap University offers M. Tech. in Civil Engineering with option of specialization in 
(a) Structural Engineering, 
(b) Construction Technology and Management, 
(c) Environmental Engineering

The qualifying degree for admission to M. Tech. will be B.E/ B. Tech or equivalent degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace/ Aeronautical Engineering, and M. Sc. in Environmental Science.

An M.Tech degree has the dual advantage as it opens up the avenues of twin careers of a professional engineer as well as a managerial role. Benefits include:

• Pursuing MTech after BTech gives sufficient time to get deep technical knowledge of the subject and have more control over it.
• Degree of MTech enhances your professional qualifications and builds up a strong social industrial network through which we are able to get top notch jobs. There are Opportunities to shift into managerial roles as one gains greater experience in the technical field. An M.Tech graduate has a number of career opportunities open for him. The rapid pace of development in the country and the need for skilled engineers has meant that there are a number of vistas for M.Tech graduates.

The following are some of the career options that a student can avail after his M.Tech degree:

• Corporate Sector: In case the person pursues his M.Tech from a college of repute, then there are a number of opportunities in the corporate sector. Almost all fields of engineering offer possible employment. The Employment opportunities after Mtech include offers from: consulting companies (TCE Consulting Engineers Ltd., Zinnov Research & Consulting etc.); Core Engineering Companies (Punj Lloyd, L&T ECC); R & D Centers (BARC, ISRO etc.)
• Research & Development: The opportunity of super-specialization and further studies (for example PhD) is always open after completing the M.Tech degree

The Teaching Profession is another career opportunity available after completing one's M.Tech. With a number of colleges opening in the country, there are a number of jobs available for teachers.

UNIQUE SELLING POINTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

1. Prudent, well qualified, and dedicated faculty and committed technical staff.
2. State of the art laboratory facilities for academia and research.
3. The Department is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation –NBA and soon applying for NABL Accreditation to facilitate consultancy and research.
4. Excellent placement through our placement partners like CB&I, Ireo Infrastructure, India Bulls, L & T, Punj Lloyd Engineering etc.
5. Outstanding industry institute interaction through guest lectures, industrial visits, internships and workshops.