Life @ I.T.S - Ghaziabad and Greater Noida

Hi Guys ! Life @ I.T.S is all about vigor , academic stimulation , academia and industry simulation . Holistic Development of the students is a key focus area. It addresses the employability issue among management students. The institute has…

Hi Guys !

Life @ I.T.S is all about vigor , academic stimulation , academia and industry simulation . Holistic Development of the students is a key focus area. It addresses the employability issue among management students. The institute has developed learning platform that enables student €™s deployment in industry upon completion of the program .

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Guest Lecture by Dr.Binod Kumar for PGDM 1st year (2012-14) students and students specializing in HR Specialization.


Dr. Binod Kumar is a Retired Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Area Coordinator at the Indian Institute of management Calcutta and ex Director and Chair Professor at FORE School of Management, New Delhi and ex Director of I.M.T. Ghaziabad addressed PGDM students of 2012-14 and students specializing in HR on the topic of €œBuilding Professional Teams €? Prof. Shikha Arora while anchoring requested Dr. A. k. Puri, Director General, to welcome him with a flower bouquet.

Dr.Puri while introducing him informed the students that Dr.Binod Kumar has started his academic career as research assistant at Harvard Business School. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas and Research assistant and then Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. , Dr.Binod Kumar held positions of Executive President, Maharishi Institutes of Management in India, Program Specialist at Colombo Plan, Staff College Singapore, Chairman, Northern Regional Committee of the National Council of Teacher Education, Govt. of India etc.

Dr.Binod Kumar started his session with a request to fill two questionnaires of self concept and societal responsibility. Students got feedback on their scores of these two questionnaires. While explaining the importance of working together, he stressed that work attitude was important for successful working in teams. He said that most of the behaviour and attitudes are imbibed when we were children. He gave a lot of examples of positive behaviour and its characteristics and results. Similarly he narrated the impact of negative beviour and characteristics of such behavior. Students enjoyed his humorous style of explaining important concepts of human behaviour.

The session ended with vote of thanks by Dr.P.U.B.Rao, Senior Professor. of HR & OB.
Later on Dr.Binod Kumar interacted with some faculty members, for an hour, on how to communicate concepts to management students.
Professor from Washington University, USA, visited ITS, Ghaziabad And Addressed the Students


Dr. Justin Paul, Professor at the Foster Business School, University of Washington, USA, visited the Institute of Technology and Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad on 31st December, 2012 and delivered an important and highly appreciated lecture. The topic of his lecture was €˜Japanese Business Strategies: A Lesson for Indian Managers €™.

At the inauguration of the lecture, Dr. A. K. Puri, Director General of ITS, Ghaziabad, welcomed Dr. Paul and described him as the great strategist of the international trade and business saying that Dr. Paul is renowned in the all corners of the world for his business strategies, elocution style and the prestigious books. Dr. Puri expressed hope that the students of ITS would definitely get inspired and benefitted by the sought-after lecture by Dr. Paul. He expressed his faith that Dr. Paul will keep on imparting his valuable knowledge to the students of ITS in future as well.

In his lecture, Dr. Paul described the nuances of the Japanese business strategies in a very interesting manner. Starting from the Japanese culture, he elaborated well the factors that have made the Japanese economy leading in the field. He won huge appreciation from the faculty members and the students both for his description of important trades of Japan, in the form of case studies. He discussed all the aspects through which the Indian business managers can not only receive the learning and guidance but also take the Indian business to great heights of excellence. He opined that Japanese management style is based on the long term strategies. That is why Japanese stand first in strategic management. He believed that Japanese dominate world markets by producing maximum number of goods from the minimum resources. He told that the Japanese managers are expert in effective management by keeping minimum stocks.
Prof C K Sabharwal presented a Research Paper at the International Seminar conducted by IMT Ghaziabad & University of Sussex,UK

Prof C K Sabharwal, presented a Research Paper on "Capacity Building for Inclusive Growth" at the International Seminar conducted by IMT in association with University of Sussex UK on 2nd and 3rd Jan 2013 at India Habitat Center(IHC), New Delhi. The paper is published in a book, by Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd, for circulation in UK, India, Australia and US. In the same conference, he also chaired a session during paper presentations.

There were about 60 papers presented by diverse authors both from India & abroad. Panel discussions, also contributed to the learning.

Paper Presentation in the “VII International symposium on Optimization and Statistics”

Prof Dushyant Tyagi, faculty at I.T.S. Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad presented a research paper titled “A Double Acceptance Sampling Plan on Truncated Life Tests for Generalized Rayleigh Distribution with Known Shape Parameter” in the “VII International symposium on Optimization and Statistics” at Department of Statistics & Operation Research, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh during Dec. 21-23, 2012(Three days).

The conference was inaugurated with a speech of Lt. General (Retd.) Zameeruddin shah, Vice chancellor, A.M.U., Aligarh. Prof. M. M. Khalid, Chairman and coordinator DSR-I welcomed all the participants and presenters. The Invited papers are presented by Prof. Kuldeep Kumar, Bond University, Australia, Prof Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University, U.S.A. and Dr. M.G.M. Khan, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, They addressed on recent research work in the area of Reliablity Inference & Sampling Theory. Prof. M. M. Khalid (Conference Chair) proposed formal vote of thanks.

After the inaugural three days paper presentation were held and last day the conference wind up with the valedictory session. It was a great educational experience for all the participants, since the conference happened to be intellectual knowledge sharing platform.

Special Session of Dr. Sartaj Sahni, Renowned Author, Researcher and Academician from University of Florida, Florida, USA

In the series of talks by internationally renowned speakers, a special session was organized by Department of IT on 24th December, 2012 at the institute. World renowned author and expert on Data Structures and Algorithms, Dr. Sartaj Sahni, Distinguished Professor at University of Florida, Florida, USA was the invited speaker on this occasion.

In this session which was highly interactive and unique in its own, faculty members and students of the institute and from other institutes who came from far of places interacted with Dr. Sahni. Answering to the query of participants in the session Dr. Sahni said that available recourses of a computer are, generally seen, underutilized. This increases the energy consumption and thus contributing in the environment issues. He suggested that by exploiting multi-core capabilities of computers, balanced used of multiple cores, putting energy meter and writing codes that runs in parallel using multi-threading principles contributes in less energy consumption and better speed. He said that by using multi-core functionality which are available in every computer now-a-days and distributing the computing load by small balancing we can not only get faster computing speed but also get energy efficiency also.

Dr. Sahni addressing to other question from one of the faculty enlighten the gathering by speaking on Green computing and cloud computing through efficient algorithms, optimizing recursive algorithms, need and significance of amortized analysis of algorithms with a comparative analysis with worst case analysis, issues related to P, NP, NP-Complete and NP-Hard problems with the fundamental concepts of P & NP with its deterministic and non-deterministic nature of solvability some examples.

The session was attended by large number of faculty members and industry delegates from various institutes/ universities of far off places including Jaipur, Panipat, Gurgaon, New Dekhi, Greater Noida, Noida, Ghaziabad etc and organizations. Faculty members of the institute and students were also present in the session. It may be noted that Dr. Sahni has written 48 Books or Book Chapters including his internationally acclaimed book in Data Structures published in 7 international languages, published over 400 research papers, 16 copyrights, 09 patents and guided more than 40 research scholars who have completed their doctorate under his able guidance.

PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION FOR PGDM STUDENTS

The Paper Presentation Competition was organised on 28th Dec, 2012 by Research and Publication Committee along with Vision Committee for PGDM-II and PGDM-V trimester students.

Total of five teams have participated with lot of zeal and enthusiasm. The judges for the event were Prof. Agarwal and Prof. Neetu Purohit. Two teams were selected for first and second positions.

First position was secured by Ms.Kriti and Ms. Ganesh from PGDM-V trimester and second position was secured by Ms. Anshu and Ms. Vijaya from PGDM-II trimester. Prof. Anusha Agarwal, Prof. Neetu Purohit and Prof. Manju Lamba announced the results and motivated all participants along with other students for writing research papers.
All five teams have been given a chance to present their paper in Finance Conference on €œEmerging Challenges in Finance €? during 18th-19th Jan, 2013.

The event was co-ordinated by Prof. Manju Lamba, Assistant Professor, I.T.S

Guest Lecture Report on “Industry Interface in Course ware of ITM i.e. Innovation and Technology Management”

A session on management of innovation and technology was organized at ITS Mohan Nagar Campus on 27th Dec, 2012. The event saw great enthusiasm from all the PGDM – Final year (Section A & B) students, who participated during the interaction through their doubts and queries to the expert on board, Mr. Mr. Sarvesh Gupta (Executive – Operations UFLX group, USA Div) during the interaction Mr. Sarvesh had shared his views regarding Innovation and technology management and major challenges in management of innovation cycle. The company of representative is having its own niche as far as innovation and technology of flexible packaging solution are concerns.

The eminent experts had delivered their key note speech to more than 100 student managers on various challenges that a manager can face while the company is planning its overseas operations and technology transfer. The session was followed by question and answer session, which was populated with different pattern based quarry about the pros and cons of innovation based ventures.

The Guest lecture was organised by Dr. V. N. Bajpai and Prof. Abhinav P. Tripathi.

GUEST LECTURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

To portray an industry perspective to the topic 'Organistion Change', a two hour guest interaction was organised for PGDM-II Trimester students on 24th December 2012 in the Auditorium. The guest speaker was Mr.Dheerandhar Singh, GM(Networks) from TV Today Network. The speaker shared his thoughts and experiences on deliberated topic with a blend of theory and activities. To honour the guest, students gave an introductory welcome followed by a bouquet.

The session was enriching and thought provoking for the students as the speaker shard his industry experiences through relevant examples. It commenced with an introduction to the fact that 'Change' in an organisation is inevitable. But before we proceed to change the organisation or the world we live in, we first will have to change ourselves. If a person does not readily accept or incorporate change in his life, he ends up no-where in his personal and work life. So, welcome and accept the change and take proactive steps to manage the change.

The speaker educated the students about the forms of change –Planned & Unplanned. It was also clarified through an activity that change comes at a cost – of time and money. The students learnt about the different factors of change- external and internal which compel change. Some Organisational Change theories and OD Interventions were also highlighted for enabling a holistic understanding of the topic. The speaker used some videos to emphasize the utility of teams and team work. He educated students about the wonders a team can do and make the impossible 'possible'. Students were made aware about the unavoidable resistance to change and the ways to tackle such resistance.

The students were provided some time towards the end to raise any queries on the topic. To culminate the session, a motivational song was played for students to instil in them the necessity for change to enable both personal growth and career progression. Stress was also laid on setting some goal for life and adopting required changes to achieve the set goal.
The session was highly interactive and the students experienced a good learning.

The Guest lecture was organised by Prof.Charu Choudhary, Prof.Shikha Arora and Prof.Charu Sharma.

The “Young Talent Hunt (YTH) – 2012” An inter-institutional event for Under-graduate Students concluded at ITS Ghaziabad

Mega Final of the Young Talent Hunt-2012 organized by Department of IT, I.T.S Mohan Nagar Ghaziabad in association with CSI Ghaziabad, ACM Delhi-NCR and GMA at the institute on 21st December, 2012. The event was inaugurated by Dr. Mukesh Mohania – Director IBM Research Labs, Vice Chairman – ITS The Education Group, Shri Arpit Chadha, Director General General – ITS Ghaziabad and the Director – IT of the institute by lighting the lamp.

In his welcome address, Director General – ITS, Ghaziabad Dr. A.K. Puri welcomed the guests and expressed his satisfaction on entire process and large participation of the students in this event. In his address he said that it is very important for all the students to learn, understand and apply the concepts but until unless it is aligned with the practical requirements and presented in the form a complete solution, it does not serves the purpose and that's were individual skills, exploration becomes the important.

In his address, Vice Chairman – ITS The Education Group, Shri. Arpit Chadha greeted the students and expressed his happiness on the spirit participants shown. He further said that one must understand that in present scenario where cut-throat competition is challenging individual capabilities, merely classroom learning may not be sufficient and thus a competent environment to evaluate, asses and test oneself potential is very important.

Chief Guest of the inaugural ceremony of YTH-2012, Dr. Mukesh Mohania talked about the industry happenings and latest developments taking place in the IT industry and advised the students to keep close watch on these developments, understand and prepare themselves in accordance with the industry requirements. This will increase their employment prospects and will help them in their better career planning. Dr. Mohania also spoke about the myths people have about IT industry and stressed upon understanding them and looking for logical conclusions rather than just running behind pre-conceived notions and perceptions. He said that in the era where different technologies are converging, it is very important that we smartly identify our core strength and understand how this could be placed in a synergized manner because now it is very critical for sustainability and long term survival in the industry.
In his concluding remarks, Director – IT, Dr. Kansal further said that participation in such events also provides participants an opportunity to assess and evaluate their own understanding and knowledge in a healthy and competitive manner and identify the gaps and scope of improvement and to prepare in a better way.

This event was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the event was conducted at the participating institutions in about 11 cities witnessing participation of more than 1500 students from about three dozen institutes. From each participating institution, group of students were selected based on their performance in the first phase at institute level and they were called for finals. The Mega final of this event was held today, i.e. 21st December, 2012, in which about 200 participants from more than 20 institutes participated and exhibited their technical, conceptual, aptitude and domain-specific (IT/ Management) skills. Final event was conducted in two rounds. The first round was an On-line Quiz. Based on their performance in the first round, total 110 students qualified for the final round of this Mega Final. The second round was objectively designed to assess the aptitude, general awareness, logical reasoning and domain-specific knowledge.

In the Prize Distribution ceremony, Chief Guest Honorable Vice Chancellor – Prof. S.K. Kak, in his address, greeted the winners and said that success does not come by ease but it is the outcome of committed and sincere efforts. Thereafter the Chief Guest, Chairman – ITS The Education Group Dr. R.P. Chadha, Director General – ITS Ghaziabad and the Director – IT gave away the prizes to all the winners.

Winners of the Young Talent Hunt - 2012

1. First Prize Winner

Mr. Sudhir Wadhwa, DM College, Meerut
won cash prize of Rs. 15,000/-, a trophy and a Certificate.

2. Second Position

There were two winners at the second position and were awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-, trophies and certificates winners were:
1. Mr. Alok Kumar Gupta, NIMS Kanpur
2. Mr. Anshul Tiwari, R.S. Degree College Etawah

3. Third Prize

On the third position three winners were awarded a cash prize of Rs. 5,000/-, trophies and certificates.
Mr.Rahul Priy, K.K. Degree College, Etawah
Mr. Jitendra Maurya, NIMS Kanpur
Mr. Vikrant Singhal, SSV PG College, Hapur
4. Consolation Prizes
Ten students were awarded with consolation prizes of cash Rs. 1,000/- each and a certification of appreciation.

List of Consolation Prize winners is:
Khushbu Gupta, J.S.P.G. College, Bulanshahr
Ramandeep Singh, I.T.S – UG Campus Ghaziabad
Isha Kapoor, Meerut College, Meerut
Raghvendra Tyagi, Mewar Institute of Management
Nishit Tyagi, I.T.S – UG Campus Ghaziabad
Robin Tyagi, I.T.S – UG Campus Ghaziabad
Kanupriya Bhardwaj, I.T.S – UG Campus Ghaziabad
Harikesh Kumar Singh, I.T.S – UG Campus Ghaziabad
Ashu Kumar, BIMT Meerut
Lavi, SIHER, baghpat

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Nothing Can Be Changed By Changing the Face…
But Everything Can Be Changed By Facing the Change
Have Sweet Changes In Life….
Dr. Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A & T State University, USA Special Guest Lecture @ I.T.S for MCA Students
An invited talk by famous research activist, "Dr. Rajeev Agrawal" North Carolina A & T State University from USA, was organized on 13th December, 2012 by CSI Student Branch at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.
This event was in the series of Invited talks by distinguished & international speakers of repute by Department of Information Technology of the institute with an objective to improve the professional skills of MCA Students for their better career.
In this session, Dr. Rajeev Agrawal delivered talk on “Narrowing down the Semantic Gap between Content and Context using Multimodal Image Keywords”. He explained various methodologies and modalities present in the field of image processing. Dr. Agrawal enlightened on the conventional information retrieval, image retrieval and family of image retrieval techniques, transplantation of textual information retrieval into image information retrieval.
He provided a detailed insight with his novel approach to narrow down the gap between low level image features (content) and the human interpretation of the image (context). He described the importance of visual keywords in information retrieval, low level image features (content), combination of visual and text keywords using vector quantization , mechanism used to image representation as a single multimodal vector. He has explained diffusion kernel based graph-theoretic non-linear approach which is use to identify the modality relationship between visual and text modalities. He has also discussed on Bayesian probability based framework, which uses visual keywords and already available text keywords to automatically annotate images.
Dr Agrawal is credited for his project work in information retrieval which has become a benchmark for others to work upon. For his contributions, he has received the best paper award for “Image Clustering Using Multimodal Keywords in the International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology”, Athens, Greece. Dr Agrawal also interacted with MCA students and answered the queries raised during the session.
Dr Agrawal congratulated to all the MCA Students Batch 2010-2013 for their excellent placements and gave this credit to placement team, students and department faculty members. It is to note that so far 36 multinational IT companies have given decent offers to MCA students of I.T.S Ghaziabad for training cum job and most of the present MCA final year students are placed. I.T.S Ghaziabad is one of the premier institution of Northern India offering NBA accredited MCA course since 1997. MCA alumni of I.T.S are very well placed in reputed IT companies like Accenture, Cognizent, Deloitte Consulting, Syscom Corporation Ltd., IBM, Microsoft, TCS etc.
Dr Agrawal also praised Academic Industry Interface Programmes of I.T.S with IBM, Wipro, Mothersonsummi, Syscom, Sopra etc which focus on enhancing employability skills of MCA Students.
The session was attended by eminent guests from industry & academia, faculty members and students.
Invited Talk on “India and Self-reliance in IT” by Dr. Debesh Das,
Professor-CSE, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
at I.T.S, Ghaziabad
In the series of Distinguished Talk by renowned speakers, an Invited Talk on “India and Self-reliance in IT” was organized by CSI-Student Branch @ Department of IT on 09th January, 2013 at the institute. Professor-CSE, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Chairman, CSI-Division III (Applications), Ex-Minister in IT, Wet Bangal and President Free Software Movement in India, Dr. Debesh Das was the invited speaker on this occasion. Besides teaching, he was very much involved in Research with special interest in VLSI design, VLSI testing, Logic Synthesis, etc. and is having 23 years experience in this particular field. He was a visiting Professor of Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He visited different countries like USA, Italy, China, Canada, Denmark and many more for research studies and presentations. He published more than 60 papers in International Journals and Proceedings of reputed International Conferences.
While addressing the gathering, Dr. Das emphasized on the usage of Free Software and told that we should not go for Proprietary Software and stop using the licensed s/w. He told why Microsoft is not taking any action against usage of pirated software in India that it is the policy on how to make people habitual of using their s/w and later on by compulsion they have to purchase it. He enlightened us several advantages of using Free Software like that we have complete control on every part of the software being used, have complete permission to change the same if it is required and if we face any of the problem in doing so then there are so many peoples in the world who are there for the support. Dr. Das also informed that we should be free to use the software, its applications, its permission and to enhance its capabilities as per our needs and this flexibility is not available with the proprietary software.
While addressing Dr. Das spoke on technical & research abilities of Indian Scientist at Global level and informed that ISRO and other Govt. organization are using rigorously free software to develop their own applications and ISRO has developed its own software related to launching of INSAT 2A and afterwards its other variations to install those in geo-orbit. For the same development, USA and other countries stopped giving aid regarding other related developments but the Indian Scientists did not stop working and developed their own s/w to be used in their related research issues and proved their abilities.
Dr. Das also informed that there are some other good MNC's like TCS, HCL and other software companies who are developing their applications using free software technologies just because of having flexibility of permission to work as per our requirements and promoting the development on this platform. Dr. Das ended his talk with the sentence “Freedom cannot be Stopped”.
Earlier, Student member of CSI welcomed Dr. Debesh Das and introduced him with the audience. The talk was ended with vote of thanks to Eminent Speaker, Invited Guests, participating MCA Students and the present Faculty members by the CSI Student Branch @ITS.This was, indeed, an informative talk on how to start moving towards using Free software.
I.T.S- Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad
STORY OF THE WEEK:

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son,

How was the trip? Very good Dad!; replied his son.

Did you see how poor people can be?; the father asked. ;Yeah!

And what did you learn? The son answered, I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden; they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon.

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.

His son added, Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!

LESSON: Our outlook on life depends on the way you look at things. What others may think as riches, others may want. The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!
I.T.S - The Education Group
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Life is stricter than a Teacher…
A Teacher Teaches Lesson & Then keeps The Exam…
But Life Keeps The Exam First & Then Teaches The LESSON…
BEST PAPER AWARD AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2013,JAIPUR
Neetu Purohit and co author Prof Anusha Agarwal, faculty at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad presented a case study titled “Hutch Acquisition by Vodafone” at International Conference conducted by Research Development Association (RDA) & Research Development Research Foundation, Jaipur on 5-6 January 2013. The theme of the conference was “Global Contemporary Issues, Innovations & Future Challenges in Business, IT and Management.
This paper has been adjudged as the best paper and awarded BEST PAPER AWARD by the jury members in that conference.
BEST PAPER AWARD IN STUDENT CATEGORY AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2013, JAIPUR
Mr. Piyush Kumar Srivastava, MBA Student (Batch 2011-13) and co-author Prof. Anusha Agarwal, Management Faculty at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad presented a paper titled “ Financial Performance Analysis of Insurance Companies in India : A Study with Special Reference to SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd at 12th International Conference conducted by Research Development Association (RDA) & Research Development Research Foundation, Jaipur on 5-6 January 2013. The theme of the conference was “Global Contemporary Issues, Innovations & Future Challenges in Business, IT and Management.
This paper has been adjudged as the best paper and awarded BEST PAPER AWARD by the jury members in that conference.
CSI Student Branch @ ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad was awarded the Best Student Branch in AGM of CSI-Ghaziabad Chapter

CSI Student Branch @ ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad was awarded the Best Student Branch and Mr. Sachin Verma, MCA III Yr was awarded the Most Active Student Member of CSI-Student Branch at ITS, in Annual General Meeting (AGM) of CSI Ghaziabad Chapter organized at ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad on 12th January, 2013.