VISION
To be a nationally prominent and internationally recognized department in academics and research activities with the aim of developing competitive software professionals to serve the society and ever changing industry.
MISSION
- To enable the students to be knowledgeable and creative through state-of-the-art curriculum and innovative teaching methodologies.
- To provide training programs that bridges the gap between academia and industry to produce competitive software professionals.
- To inculcate ethical values in the students enabling them to become socially committed professionals.
- To enhance the research quality and productivity, by providing required facilities.
DEPARTMENT HISTORY
The Department of Master of Computer Applications was established in 1997 with the objective of producing high quality professionals to meet the demands of the emerging field of Computer Applications. A team of experienced staff members are dedicated to teaching and developing academic activities in the department. The department got academic autonomy in the year 2007 and is accredited by NBA. The Department of Master of Computer Applications is recognized as a Research Center under Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2012.
Department of Master of Computer Applications offers two programs that are affiliated to VTU – Belgaum and recognized by AICTE:
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PG in Master of Computer Applications.
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Ph.D. (Research Center).
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):
- PEO1: Excel in professional career in the field of Computer Applications and contribute to research and development activities.
- PEO2: Provide software solutions that are socially acceptable and adapt emerging technologies and tools.
- PEO3: Exhibit ethical and communication skills and engage in lifelong learning.
Program Outcomes (POs):
- PO1: Apply knowledge of mathematics and computing principles appropriately to develop conceptual model for real world problems.
- PO2: Identify and formulate problem definition for real world problems, analyze the literature of the domain and provide solutions using mathematics and computing.
- PO3: Design, develop and assess a software system, process, component, or program of varying complexity that meet specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety and societal considerations.
- PO4: Use research based knowledge to analyze and interpret data and synthesize information to provide valid conclusions.
- PO5: Adapt to understand, select, use and create modern tools and technologies necessary for computing practices.
- PO6: Adopt professional ethics, principles of professional computing practices, cyber regulations and responsibilities.
- PO7: Recognize the need and engage in self-learning for continual development as a computing professional.
- PO8: Apply the management principles for managing projects as an individual, as a member and as a leader in a team under multidisciplinary environments.
- PO9: Communicate effectively about computing activities in both verbal and written form with the computing community and with society.
- PO10: Assess the local and global impact of software solutions on individuals, organizations and society.
- PO11: Perform effectively as an individual and as a member or leader in diverse teams and in multidisciplinary environments.
- PO12: Adopt standardized software engineering practices with innovative ideas to succeed as an employee or entrepreneur.
Dr. S. Ajitha
Dr. Ajitha.S currently serves as the Head of the Department of Master of Computer Applications at M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. She has received her Ph.D. in Computer Applications from VTU in 2015. Being very passionate, she has been in teaching profession at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology since 1997. Her areas of research interests are Software Engineering, Performance engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Distributed Computing. She has to her credit more than 50 research publications in refereed international Journals and Conference, 02 Books, 01 book chapter. She is a member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and Computer Society of India. She has guided many MCA students and is guiding 5 PhD scholars.