Dr. P. Periyasamy is the Head of Department and Associate Professor in Computer Science and Applications at East Point Group of Institutions. He has 23 years of experience in the teaching and research field. His research interests include Wireless Networks (MANETs, VANETs, CRAHNs, DTNs, and WSNs) and Data Science. He had published 9 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 8 in SCOPUS, 2 in SCOPUS and Web of Science (WoS) indexed journals and 2 in SCOPUS and WoS indexed conference proceedings. He has 4 International Patents in his name. He is a reviewer for Scopus and WoS indexed journals of ACM, IEEE, Wiley, Springer, Taylor and Francis.

East Point Group of Institutions

Which latest program are you offering in your institute to help students outperform and stand apart from the crowd?

"We are offering the course of Bachelor of Computer Applications"

Our institute offers Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) with Value Added Courses such as Advanced Java Programming, Python for Data Science and Internet of Things (IoT) using Raspberry Pi 4. We motivate our students to learn and excel in the current technologies of the IT industry. Our institution is firm in producing outstanding IT professionals who can apply their theoretical knowledge into practice in the real world and stand-alone in live projects themselves. The approach is more practical by virtue of labs and clubs apart from the classroom study.

Which factors make this program best for the students to opt for?

"Growth and job opportunities associated after pursuing this course"

BCA is one of the most sought-after programs in computers which the students opt to shape their careers in the world of IT and its allied services. This course has enough potential to generate employment for fresh graduates. Technology makes BCA degree jobs more lucrative for the computing aspirants and they can start their own businesses and become good entrepreneurs.

What would you say are the “best practices” in the course you’re offering? 

"Multiple training programs, co-curricular activities, mini and major projects are part of this course"

BCA inculcates some good practices in line with the dynamically changing world and those are as below:

  • Students are selected, trained and deployed for photoshoots, poster making and brochure designing for the events held at the department and college levels. And we organize soft skills training for them so that they can face placement confidently.
  • They are also provided a chance to exhibit their talents by authoring multimedia content in all the co-curricular activities. 
  • Lastly, faculty members are assigned to guide the students for their internships, and minor and major projects. 

What are the valuable insights of this program that you are offering at your institute?

"We organize workshops, conferences and guest lectures on a regular basis"

Our institution frequently organizes seminars, workshops, and conferences on recent trends in IT for the students to make them industry-ready. 

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How does this program ensure the future preparedness of students?

"We focus more on practical learning by solving more and more problems"

The program provides experiential learning, problem-solving methodologies, participative learning and ICT Enabled Learning and hence ensures that students are being prepared for a better future.

How did you train your faculty to deliver this program to the students?

"By providing them with required training and seminars"

We equip them with the current trends and technologies through academic and research quality enhancement programs like FDP, knowledge forums, seminars and workshops, etc.

How does this program build an industry connectedness?

"We invite people directly from the industry to interact with our students"

We offer expert talks to students under this program where we invite experts from the industry, academic, and research fields, apart from the curriculum offered by Bangalore North University in order to build strong industry-institute relationships.

What were the challenges that you faced while inculcating this program in your curriculum?

"Managing student's focus and interest toward this program after the updated curriculum was bit challenging"

There were actually small challenges that we faced at multiple levels while implementing the program in our curriculum. 

  • Students sometimes felt overloaded and difficult in learning the new curriculum. 
  • Changes in the curriculum have created stress and deviated them from engaging in deeper learning. 

Our staff members have together framed a strategy to ease students' difficulties in learning by maintaining the right balance between breadth of learning areas and depth of knowledge.

On which kinds of projects students are currently working on through this program?

"Students are working on a wide variety of Major and Minor Projects"

Our BCA students are working on real-time Internships, Mini and Major Projects. They are also motivated to provide consultancy support to needy people or industry people.

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Which benefits and career options are available after pursuing this course?

"Job profile ranges from Developer, Analyst, Tester to Freelancer"

The job profiles that a BCA course opens up for students include working as a Software Developer/Engineer, Application Developer, Programming Analyst, Network Engineer, System Administrator, Database Administrator, Full Stack Developer, Game Developer and Tester, Web Developer, Software Tester and Data Scientist. Self-employment option is also available for BCA graduates which includes freelancing or developing one’s own software.