HOD’s message
Welcome to the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at Narayanaguru College of Engineering, Manjalumoodu, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.
In our college, the department of ECE was established in the year 2002. The department runs an undergraduate program B.E-Electronics and Communication Engineering and a Postgraduate program M.E-Applied Electronics. The primary focus of our department is to train the students with innovative ideas to meet the industrial demands and to create highly qualified professionals in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Our department has experienced and highly qualified faculty members, well-equipped laboratories such as Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Computer Networks Laboratory, Microprocessor Laboratory, VLSI Laboratory, Digital Laboratory, Optical and Microwave Laboratory, Communication Laboratory, and Electronic System Design Laboratory.
In addition to classroom teaching, we conduct seminars and workshops for the students to improve the knowledge of the latest technologies. Also, we arrange industrial visits for every semester to enable the students to gain practical knowledge. We have mentors for all our students who take care, encourage, and counsel the students to reach their goals. The students are encouraged to participate in various technical activities like paper presentations, technical quizzes, circuit designing, and poster presentations. Our department students have won prizes in academics and co-curricular activities. Our ECE department has been producing excellent results in Anna University exams with university ranks. Most of the ECE students are placed in the best MNCs with good salary packages and other students got an offer in government sectors and abroad. The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering strives to provide our students with the best career prospects and looks forward to their promising future. Thank you for visiting us.
Vision & Mission
Vision
- To establish an educational environment consistent with industry demands in academia and research to train engineers capable of meeting the needs of emerging technological developments in the field of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Mission
- Academic Excellence: To develop learning skills in the area of Electronics and Communication Engineering in order to meet global challenges.
- Research and Innovation: To integrate research and innovation to the values, needs, and expectations of the society.
- Employability and Entrepreneurship: To introduce successful employability and entrepreneurship to the students by combining theory and practice.
- Ethics: To impart the most up-to-date skills and technologies through a realistic approach along with moral and ethical values.
Courses Offered
UG
B.E- Electronics and Communication Engineering – Click here for the Syllabus
PG
M.E-Applied Electronics – Click here for the Syllabus
PEOs, POs & PSOs
PROGRAMME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOs):
PEO1: To enable graduates to pursue research, or have a successful career in academia or industries associated with Electronics and Communication Engineering, or as entrepreneurs.
PEO2: To provide students with strong foundational concepts and also advanced techniques and tools in order to enable them to build solutions or systems of varying complexity.
PEO3:To prepare students to critically analyze existing literature in an area of specialization and ethically develop innovative and research-oriented methodologies to solve the problems identified.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES (POs):
- Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
- Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
- Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
- Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
- The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
- Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
- Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
- Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
- Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
- Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
PROGRAM SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (PSOs)
- To analyze, design and develop solutions by applying foundational concepts of electronics and communication engineering.
- To apply design principles and best practices for developing quality products for scientific and business applications.
- To adapt to emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) to innovate ideas and solutions to existing/novel problems.
Faculty details
| S.NO | DESIGNATION | Ph.D. | M.E / M. Tech | NO. OF FACULTY |
| 1 | PROFESSOR | 01 | 01 | |
| 2 | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | 01 | 01 | |
| 3 | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 09 | 09 | |
| TOTAL NO. OF FACULTY | 1 | 10 | 11 | |
| S.NO | DESIGNATION | B.E | DIPLOMA | NO. OF FACULTY |
| 1 | TECHNICAL ASSISTANT | – | 01 | 01 |
- Department Library
The department library plays a unique role in the academic and research activities. It has a large collection of text books with hundreds of titles on a wide range of topics. Journals, magazines, UG and PG project reports, lab manuals, question banks, e-journals and e-books are also available in the library.
Number of books as of March 31, 2021
| Total No. of books | 827 |
| No. of UG Thesis | 41 |
| No. of PG Thesis | 95 |
Laboratories
Circuits and Devices Laboratory
Objectives
- To learn the characteristics of basic electronic devices such as Diode, BJT,FET, SCR.
- To understand the working of RL,RC and RLC circuits.
- To gain hand on experience in Thevinin & Norton theorem, KVL & KCL, and Super Position Theorems.
Major Equipments
- CRO (30 MHz)
- Function Generators (3 MHz)
- Dual Regulated Power Supplies (0-30V)
Analog and Digital Circuits Laboratory
Objectives
The student should be made to:
- Study the Frequency response of CE, CB and CC Amplifier.
- Learn the frequency response of CS Amplifiers.
- Study the Transfer characteristics of differential amplifier.
- Perform experiment to obtain the bandwidth of single stage and multistage amplifiers.
- Perform SPICE simulation of Electronic Circuits.
- Design and implement the Combinational and sequential logic circuits.
Major Equipments
- CRO (30 MHz)
- Signal Generator (3 MHz)
- Dual Regulated Power Supplies (0-30V)
- Standalone desktop PCs with SPICE software
- Dual Regulated Power Supplies (0-30V)
- Single mode power supply
- IC trainer kit
- Computer with HDL software
- Circuits Design and Simulation Laboratory
Objectives
- To gain hands on experience in designing electronic circuits.
- To learn simulation software used in circuit design.
- To learn the fundamental principles of amplifier circuits.
- To differentiate feedback amplifiers and oscillators.
- To differentiate the operation of various multivibrators.
Major Equipments
- CRO (30 MHz)
- Signal Generator (2 MHz)
- Dual Regulated Power Supplies (0-30V)
- Digital LCR meter
- Standalone desktop PC
Software
- SPICE circuit simulation software
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Objectives
The student should be made:
- To perform basic signal processing operations such as Linear Convolution, Circular Convolution, Auto Correlation, Cross Correlation and Frequency analysis in MATLAB.
- To implement FIR and IIR filters in MATLAB and DSP Processor.
- To study the architecture of DSP processor.
- To design a DSP system to demonstrate the Multi-rate and Adaptive signal processing concepts.
Major Equipments
- PCs with fixed/floating point DSP processors
- Signal Generators (1 MHz)
- CRO (20 MHz)
Software
- MATLAB with Simulink and Signal Processing Tool Box
- Communication Systems Laboratory
Objectives
The student should be made:
- To visualize the effects of sampling and TDM.
- To Implement AM & FM modulation and demodulation.
- To implement PCM & DM.
- To simulate Digital Modulation schemes.
- To simulate Error control coding schemes.
Major Equipments
- Kits for Signal sampling, TDM,AM,FM,PCM,DM and line coding schemes.
- CRO
- PC
- MSO
- DSO
Software
- MATLAB
- Communication Networks Laboratory
Objectives
The student should be made to:
- Learn to communicate between two desktop computers.
- Learn to implement the different protocols.
- Be familiar with IP Configuration.
- Be familiar with the various routing algorithms.
- Be familiar with simulation tools.
Major Equipments
- Standard LAN Trainer kits
- PCs
Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Laboratory
Objectives
- To Introduce ALP concepts, features and Coding methods.
- Write ALP for arithmetic and logical operations in 8086 and 8051.
- Differentiate Serial and Parallel Interface.
- Interface different I/Os with Microprocessors.
- Be familiar with MASM.
Major Equipments
- 8086 Microprocessor trainer kit with power supply
- 8051 Microcontroller trainer kit
- Traffic light control interfacing card compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- Stepper motor control interfacing compatible with 8086 & 8051kits
- Digital clock interfacing board compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- Keyboard & Display interface board compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- Printer interfacing card compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- A/D and D/A interfacing card compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- Serial and Parallel interfacing card compatible with 8086 & 8051 kits
- VLSI Design Laboratory
Objectives
The student should be made:
- To learn Hardware Descriptive Language (Verilog/VHDL).
- To learn the fundamental principles of VLSI circuit design in digital and analog domain.
- To familiarize fusing of logical modules on FPGAs.
- To provide hands on design experience with professional design (EDA) platforms.
Major Equipments
- Personal Computers
Software
- Xilinx ISE
- Embedded Laboratory
Objectives:
The student should be made to:
- Learn the working of ARM processor.
- Understand the Building Blocks of Embedded Systems.
- Learn the concept of memory map and memory interface.
- Write programs to interface memory, I/Os with processor.
- Study the interrupt performance.
Major Equipments
- Embedded trainer kits with ARM board
- Embedded trainer kits suitable for wireless communication
- Advanced Communication Laboratory
Objectives:
The student should be made to:
- Understand the working principle of optical sources, detector.
- Develop a simple optical communication link.
- Understand the measurement of BER, Pulse broadening. Understand and capture an experimental approach to digital wireless communication.
- Understand actual communication waveforms that will be sent and received across wireless channel.
Major Equipments
- Trainer kit for carrying out LED and PIN diode characteristics, Digital multi meter, optical power meter.
- Trainer kit for determining the mode characteristics, losses in optical fiber.
- Trainer kit for analyzing Analog and Digital link performance, 2 Mbps PRBS Data source, 10 MHz signal generator, 20 MHz Digital storage Oscilloscope.
- Kit for measuring Numerical aperture and Attenuation of fiber.
- Electronics System Design Laboratory Objectives:
- To study different interfaces.
- To learn various asynchronous and clocked synchronous sequential circuits.
- To understand the concept of built in self test and fault diagnosis.
- To study 32 bit ARM7 microcontroller RTOS and its application.
- To understand testing RTOS environment and system programming.
- To learn wireless network design using embedded systems.
- To learn System design using ASIC.
- To know the use of VHDL in sequential digital system modeling.
Major Equipments
- Desktop Computer
- PIC Microcontroller development system with relevant IDE, interfacing hardware like matrix key pad, seven segment display, LCD module, point LED, switches, I2C based RTC and EPROM, temperature sensor, buzzer etc and programming facility.
- MSP430 Microcontroller development system with relevant IDE, interfacing hardware like matrix key pad, seven segment display, LCD module, point LED, switches, I2C based RTC and EPROM, temperature sensor, buzzer etc and programming facility.
- 8051 Microcontroller development system with relevant IDE, interfacing hardware like matrix key pad, seven segment display, LCD module, point LED, switches, I2C based RTC and EPROM, temperature sensor, buzzer etc and programming facility.
- 8086 Development trainer with basic interfacing modules.
- TMS320C50 DSP based development trainer.
- Industrial Visit
Industrial visit plays a vital role in the career of a student who is pursuing a professional degree. The main objective of an industrial visit is to give exposure to the students about the practical working environment. It also provides the students an excellent opportunity to learn about industrial practices.
The following is the list of industries that our students have visited
| Academic Year | Visited Places |
| 2014-2015 | Keltron, Kudankulam Nuclear Power station |
| 2015-2016 | Kudankulam Nuclear Power station |
| 2016-2017 | Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru |
| 2016-2017 | Fablab,Technopark , Thiruvananthapuram |
| 2016-2017 | Kudankulam Nuclear Power station |
| 2017-2018 | VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 2018-2019 | Kodaikanal solar observatory station |
| 2018-2019 | Thoothukudi Thermal Power station |
Inplant Training
Inplant training is very important as it supports the students to build their careers in their chosen field. It provides a platform for the students to improve their current skills and succeed by clearly knowing the concept.
The following is the list of industries/companies that our students have completed inplant training:
| BSNL |
| KELTRON |
| KAASHIV INFOTECH |
| KERALA STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD LIMITED |
| SOUTHERN RAILWAYS |
- Memorandum of understanding with industries
| Sl. No. | Organisation | List of activities |
| 1. | GoldLight Technologies | v Internship program v Certificate courses |
- Student placement details
| BATCH | COMPANY NAME | PLACED STUDENTS COUNT |
| 2014-2015 | Kochar Tech | 20 |
| 2014-2015 | Aagna corporate services private Limited | 9 |
| 2015-2016 | Appasamy associates | 4 |
| 2015-2016 | Sutherland Limited,Chennai | 3 |
| 2015-2016 | Tech Mahindra Private Limited | 25 |
| 2016 -2017 | IDBI Federal Life Insurance | 3 |
| 2016 -2017 | Hexaware Technologies | 7 |
| 2016 -2017 | Tech Mahindra VGS | 16 |
| 2016 -2017 | Schneider Electric India Private Limited,Chennai | 2 |
| 2018-2019 | Leadpro Consultancy Pvt Ltd,Chennai | 4 |
| 2018-2019 | Tech Mahindra Pvt Ltd | 3 |
| 2018-2019 | Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd | 2 |
Student Achievements
- University Rank Holders
The dedication of our staff members and the hard work of our students has resulted in a good academic record with university rankings.
| BATCH | DEGREE | NAME | UNIVERSITY RANK |
| 2012-2014 | M.E(A.E) | ANUJA GOWRY VG | 26 |
| 2012-2014 | M.E(A.E) | DEEPA V | 26 |
| 2012-2014 | M.E(VLSI Design) | NIMI RR | 35 |
| 2012-2014 | M.E(VLSI Design) | ARYA SUKUNAN | 38 |
| 2013-2015 | M.E(A.E) | AISWARYA KS | 47 |
| 2013-2015 | M.E(A.E) | ANCY V | 48 |
| 2013-2015 | M.E(A.E) | ATHIRA VS | 48 |
The following list of students who won prizes for various events held at different institutions
| BATCH | ACTIVITY | NAME OF THE STUDENT | EVENT/INSTITUTION | PRIZE |
| 2011-2015 | Circuit Designing | Krishnend R Nair | Winter training and internship program/Skyfi Labs | Best design award |
| 2016-2020 | Poem/Verse writing | Muthulatha M | National voter’s day 2020 | I |
| 2016-2020 | Elocution | Shyam S | National voter’s day 2020 | II |
| 2016-2020 | Paper presentation | Abhirami SS | ESTONIEA ‘19, Bethlehem Institute of Engineering | II |
| 2016-2020 | Paper presentation | Adhya AS | ESTONIEA ’19. Bethlehem Institute of Engineering | II |
The following list of students who won best performance award for paper presentation at different institutions
| BATCH | ACTIVITY | NAME OF THE STUDENT | INSTITUTION | PRIZE |
| 2018-2020 | Paper presentation | Anjana Vijayan S | International conference on modern trends in engineering and research ‘ICMTER-2020, Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology | Best performance award |
| 2018-2020 | Paper presentation | Helintha Graceline H | International conference on modern trends in engineering and research ‘ICMTER-2020, Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology | Best performance award |
| 2018-2020 | Paper presentation | Soorya SS Nair | International conference on modern trends in engineering and research ‘ICMTER-2020, Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology | Best performance award |
Publications
- Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, “Improved medical image fusion based on cascaded PCA and shift invariant wavelet transforms’’, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer Publishers, Annexure 1(Impact factor 2.155) February 2018, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp 229–240.
- Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, “A Hybrid Medical Image Fusion Based on Undecimated and Complex Wavelet Transforms”, Journal of Engineering Research and Application ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 8, Issue 9 (Part –V) Sep 2018, pp 04-09.
- Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, Anjana Vijayan S, “High Quality MRI and PET/SPECT image fusion based on Local Laplacian Pyramid(LLP) and Adaptive Cloud Model(ACM) for medical diagnostic applications”, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), UGC Care List, Elsevier Scopus Journal, ISSN:2277-3878,Vol.8,Issue-4,Nov 2019,pp 9211-9217.
- Anjana Vijayan S, Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, “ PET and MRI image fusion using Local Laplacian Pyramid (LLP) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for bio-medical imaging applications” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research, ISSN: 0022-1945. Vol.12, Issue 3, March 2020, pp 116-126.
- Shiji AS, Helintha Graceline H, Abisha Jey JB, “Highly Accurate Melanoma Detection from Skin Images using Multiple Feature Extraction and Support Vector Machine (SVM)” International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)’,Elsevier Scopus, ISSN: 2277- 3878 , Volume-8 Issue-5, January 2020. Page No. 3315-3322.
- Jesslin Melba NV, Poornima U, Blessy J, “Face Spoofing Detection using Mixed feature with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks” International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)’, Elsevier Scopus, ISSN: 2277- 3878, Volume-8 Issue-5, January 2020. Page No. 3309-3314.
- Helintha Graceline H, Shiji AS, “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based skin melanoma detection using multiple feature extraction technique” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research, ISSN: 0022-1945, Vol.12, Issue 3, March 2020, pp 141-149.
- Soorya SS Nair, Jesslin Melba NV, “Highly accurate handwritten signature verification using support vector machine for security related applications” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research, ISSN: 0022-1945, Vol.12, Issue 3, March 2020, pp 159-165.
- Poornima U, Jesslin Melba NV, “Security alert system with face detection and recognition using machine learning” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research, ISSN: 0022-1945, Vol.12, Issue 3, March 2020, pp 329-334.
- Raji S, Blessy J, “Cardio based disease prediction using deep learning neural networks” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research, ISSN: 0022-1945, Vol.12, Issue 3, March 2020, pp 335-343.
Paper presentation in National/International conferences
- Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, “Medical Image fusion based on combined UDWT and PCA” in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ICETET 2016) held at Arunachala College of Engineering for women during December 9-10, 2016.
- Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T, “An efficient MRI-PET medical image fusion using Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform” in the IEEE International Conference (INCOS ’19) held at Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, KrishnanKoil during April 11-13,2019.
- Anjana Vijayan S, Reena Benjamin J, Jayasree T“PET and MRI image fusion using LLP and SVM for biomedical imaging applications” in the International Conference on Modern Trends in Engineering & Research (ICMTER-2020) held at Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology during March 12-13, 2020.
- Helintha Graceline H, Shiji AS, “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based skin melanoma detection using multiple feature extraction technique” in the International Conference on Modern Trends in Engineering & Research (ICMTER-2020) held at Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology during March 12-13, 2020.
- Soorya SS Nair, Jesslin Melba NV, “Highly accurate handwritten signature verification using support vector machine for security-related applications” in the International Conference on Modern Trends in Engineering & Research (ICMTER-2020) held at Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology during March 12-13, 2020.
- Shiji AS, “Manifold Embedding and semantic segmentation for brain tumor detection using hyperspectral imaging” in National conference (NCACES ’18) held at Rohini College of Engineering and Technology during March 16, 2018.
- Abisha Jey JB, “An efficient approximate reconfigurable adder using carry select prediction” in National conference (ICONECC ’19) held at Lourdes Mount College of Engineering and Technology during Feb 20, 2019.