PROVISIONAL SELECTION LIST

Session- 2010-11
Date of Counselling and Admission : 4th August, 2010 at 1 P.M.

• Admission into MTech in Electronics and Communication Technology
• Admission into MTech in Information Technology

• Marks secured in entrance test for admission into M.Tech (IT) Programmes 2010 [Download pdf]
• List of eligible candidates for appearing entrance test for admission into M.Tech (IT) and M.Tech (ECT) Programmes 2010 [Download pdf]

M Tech Programme

The Department of Electronics and Communication Technology (formerly Department of Electronics Science),since its inception, has been offering the MSc Electronics Science programme adhering to its laid objectives. Initially the department was started in the building of the department of Physics and it was subsequently shifted to its present location in early 1996. Some of the major achievements of the department in the past five years are enlisted below:

• The MTech programme in Electronics and Communication Technology offerd by the department from 2009-10 min 2-year format and from 2008-09 in four year integrated/ dual degree format has been approved by AICTE for two years.


• The department has become a part of Faculty of Technology from 2008-09.


• The department has received financial assistance under FIST programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India in 2001 and has been benefited considerably while setting up of an Advanced Computational lab and partial modernization of its existing infrastructure.


• The Gauhati University has (in 2005-06) recognized the MSc (Electronics Science) course to be equivalent to the BE (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) course offered by it for technical jobs.


• The department also has the honour of housing CDAC’s Project Garuda Center of Gauhati University which is a partner institute in the CDAC’s Garuda Grid Computing Initiative.


• The department currently is running four externally funded research projects amounting to nearly Rs. 50 lac.s.


• The department has been recommended by the NAAC as follows:

  University leadership is invited to focus its attention to the Department of Electronics for meeting the urge of its faculty and students to scale heights for reaching the category of the Major departments, since they have the potential for growth and are highly relevant to meet the changing needs of time. (Ref. NAAC Report No. GU/QAC/GC/1/2000/161-77 dtd. 16.11.01).

Keeping in mind the fast changing scenario of Electronics Technology the department is constantly evolving measures to keep itself updated through limited resources available by

• Making frequent revisions of the syllabus,


• Innovative teaching methods,


• Hiring experts and peers in the field to deliver lectures and evaluate students’ performances in final examinations,


• Design based project works,


• Computer-oriented learning through the use of subject specific software etc.

The department has laid a road map for the next few years which includes a number of major changes in its present structure and related infrastructure which are essential to make the students passing out of the department remain in the reckoning in the ever shrinking job-scenario. The department visualizes its road map for the next few years as:

• Initiation of a one year Post Graduate Diploma in Electronics Science and Technology under Gauhati University as a distance learning programme.


• Initiation of short term career oriented courses under a separate unit of the department to provide need based vocational training to the educated unemployed of the state.


• Offering design and development consultancy on a regular basis to the industry to improve the academic- industry linkage.


• Providing impetus to a strong R&D drive in certain leading areas like-

  • Nano-Technology,

  • Quantum dots,

  • Web based applications,

  • Opto- Electronics,

  • Sensor development,

  • Artificial Neural Networks applications,

  • Computer Vision, Pattern Classification and Recognition,

  • VLSI Design

The infrastructure facilities primarily the laboratories needs to be revamped as early as possible to make the efforts be in tune to meet the challenges to be posed by the road map laid by the department. The department will also need a new multistoried RCC structure as an extension to the present one to meet the necessities of the new courses, house new laboratories and related facilities and setup improved hostel accommodation etc.

This department, being the only department in the entire NE region offering M.Sc Electronics Science course, strongly feels the necessity to open new vistas of teaching and learning of Electronics with the introduction of MTech (and BTech) programme.

The MSc Electronics Science course being run by the department has a syllabus and a course structure with all the pre-requisites to meet the industry needs. But an inclination of the private sector and some public sector towards BTech / MTech degree holders places the students obtaining the MSc Electronics Science degree in a precarious position. This is an all-India phenomenon. Hence, the department wants to make a change by converting the present MSc Electronics Science course into an MTech programme with an extended form containing contemporary discourses of study.

The BTech programme- introduced from 2009-10 under the newly constituted Institute of Science and Technology, Gauhati University can be seen to be a launch pad of an extended platform for systematic study of Electronics in the under graduate level. Very few similar courses are available in the NE region which has lead to the migration of a large chunk of the students of the region to other parts of the country in pursuit of such courses. It has amounted to severe financial loses to the entire region. The introduction of such a course will be a small measure towards arresting this migration. It will help to produce properly trained manpower to meet the needs of the industry and related sectors that has relevance to Electronics. The objective is to place the students in a better position with respect to job placements. Many times the title of the degree obtained plays a crucial role. This has been a fact observed by the department very often. Hence, this change over is essential to help the students be better equipped to meet the needs of the changing times.

The following pages present the details of the proposed MTech programme in Electronics and Communication Technology. The details are like entry, progression, course structure examination and detailed syllabus.