Collaborations
The Divisions of Computer Science and Engineering had signed MoU with CISCO Systems, Bangalore on 5-11-2007. The CISCO centre of excellence on Advanced Networking available in the division provides world class networking infrastructure. The faculty members have been constantly trained by CISCO Networking Academy, to offer the latest industry relevant networking curriculum. The Division is offering the certification course CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) to the students since 2007. The course provides practical hands-on experience to the students on networking concepts during the 110 hours of the course.
As per the CISCO requirements, the CCNA course is divided into following four modules:
- Networking fundamentals
- Routing protocols and concepts
- LAN switching and wireless
- Accessing the WAN
The CISCO Centre of Excellence is equipped with sophisticated CISCO hardware like routers, switches, wireless adapter, cables and PCs to effectively deliver the CISCO CCNA curriculum. Packet tracer software is also installed in computers to simulate the various network configurations and provide a better understanding on the networking concepts. CISCO NetRiders, a National Level competition and various divisional level competitions related to networking are conducted regularly with the equipments available in this laboratory. Once in a year students from rural schools are invited and the equipments in the laboratory are demonstrated to motivate them to pursue their career in the networking domain.
SUSE Center of Excellence for Cloud Computing
Divisions of Computer Science and Engineering signed an MoA with the SUSE Academic program, SUSE Software Solutions, Ireland, on 29th November 2019.
The divisions of CSE has established a relationship and signed the first agreement with Novell(SUSE was a Partner) in the year 2010. Because of the tremendous academic support and guidance by Novell, the CSE division started offering SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux certification program in 2010. Based on the fruitful partnership in the past years, the relationship was further strengthened as Novell started supporting our M.Tech program in the year 2014. Besides, a Center of Excellence for Cloud Computing was established in KITS premises.
This new strategic partnership with SUSE enables us to take the teaching and learning process on par with the industry demands:
- Endorse and support B.Tech - Computer Science and Engineering and M.Tech Computer Science and Engineering.
- Empowered to offer Linux Certification training to the students and faulty by a certified university faculty/staff.
- Support placements in SUSE's Academic Program partner's page.
- Continuous support to run the center of excellence with necessary branding, logo, and signage
- SUSE’s Coimbatore partner trainings in the center of excellence
- Karunya students and faculty can gain access to online SUSE Academy at free of cost.
- Training: Materials for certified Linux and other courses, both for trainers and students.
- Curriculum: Campus-use of these materials for student education by faculty staff.
- Use SUSE for education: Use SUSE products for free for educational or lab purposes.
- Development Resources: Access to tools and products for use in the lab, software development, or other education settings.
- Support: Access to knowledge base, forums and technical support.
IBM Big Data software Centre of Excellence
The IBM Big Data Software Centre of Excellence is an initiative with a vision to enable the students and faculty in higher education to gain the relevant skills in Big Data Analytics, experiential learning and to make them adept with latest Big Data technology and tools. Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences signed an MoU with IBM India Pvt Ltd on August 2015. The objective of this collaboration is to have a number of students graduating from the institution skilled in industry requirements, using best-in-class IBM Software in Big Data Analytics.
Researchers in this center, including faculty and scholars are involved in research projects on Bio-medical text mining, Analytics in surveillance videos, Data Analytics on Social Media data, Drug Analysis, Predictive Analytics for cancer, fraudulent data Analytics, and traffic data analytics.
The IBM CoE offers:
- Industry certified courses
- Internships and Entrepreneurship support from leading Industries.
- FDP for faculty members, Workshops seminars, Webinars for students
- Miniprojects, Half Semester projects and full semester projects
- Specialized curriculum on Big Data Technologies created by Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences in collaboration with the Industry Experts
- IBM Specialized Big Data Lab is equipped with:
- IBM Big Data Software - Infosphere BigInsight, Datastage, Streams
- IBM Datawarehouse for analytics -IBM Netezza.
- Industry mentors for Project and career support
- Project Competitions and Hackathons
Partnership certificate
MoA with Emurgo and Certification Course on Blockchain
On November 25, 2019, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences has signed MoA with EMURGO Academy, an education arm of EMURGO.
Objective:
- To provide the students of KITS with
- Training in blockchain technology through certification course
- Opportunity to do an internship with EMURGO
- Opportunities to work on live projects
- Exposure to international forums
- To assist in Curriculum development on Blockchain related courses
Certification Course on
| Title of the course | Foundation of Blockchain |
|---|---|
| Objective of the course | This program provides an in-depth, foundational understanding of the pillars of blockchain technology. The learner will learn to critically evaluate the tools, common practices and understand the processes powering this disruptive technology |
| Certificate | EMURGO Digital Badge |
| Course Content | Blockchain – What/Why/future/Transactions/Types, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Consensus Algorithm, DApp, Smart contracts, assessment |
| Industry Demand | Blockchain is the leading technology of the era, having its demand not only in Banking and Financial services, but also in Healthcare, Media and Entertainment, Retail and Customer Goods, Travel and Transportation, Government, etc. |
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