About Department

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering aims to produce qualified and dynamic engineers in the fast-changing area of Smart Devices, Mobile emerging technologies, automation, Industrial IoT, and VLSI. The Department has sophisticated and modern laboratory equipment and software/tool (HFSS, CADENCE, MATLAB, MULTISIM, KEIL uVision, LABVIEW) for research and development work in the areas of Antenna and Microwave Engineering, Signal Processing and Communication, VLSI and Embedded System. The department of ECE undertakes real-time application projects in Smart Irrigation, Industrial IoT, Soil Moisture Prototype Development, Insulin Pump Prototype Development and Chip Design. CUTM is one of the best engineering colleges in Bhubaneswar based on placement records, especially in electronics and communication engineering.

Academics

The Department of ECE offers BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and BTech in Electronics and Computer Engineering that helps students to build competency in the following Specialisations/Domains:

Domain;

  • Embedded Systems and IoT
  • Communication Systems
  • VLSI Design and Verifications

 

M.Tech in Communication Systems

About the Program

Tech in Communication System Engineering is two year full time course offered by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Communication is nowadays the fastest growing industry. It has experienced exponential growth over the last few decades. Cellular phones have become a critical business tool and they are rapidly replacing outdated wired systems in many developing countries. The explosive growth of Communication Systems suggests a bright future for Communication Engineering field. This programme is an advanced level course in the field of Communication Engineering offering a specialization in terms of technology and applications to fulfill the requirements of the industry. The Department of ECE has been offering the M.Tech programme since 2012 and successfully completed its 8 years of journey with an outcome of Quality Thesis work with 35+ publication index with UGC/Scopus/WoS.

The two years’ post graduate program deal with the subjects like Advanced Communication System, Modern Digital Communication, Digital Image Processing, Adaptive Signal Processing, Advanced DSP, Digital Communication Receiver, Telecommunication Switching Network, MIMO OFDM for Wireless communication, Wireless and Mobile Communication. The main objective of the programme is to make the students learn about the Advanced and Latest Communication Techniques and develop skill to enhance their research activity in the field of communication with sub area like antenna design, video, image and signal processing, wireless communication and Modulations. The communication system Labs consists of Advanced Communication Lab, Microprocessor and micro controller lab, Digital Signal Processing Lab.  The lab are equipped with latest software like HFSS, OrCad,  Multisim, MATLAB and Simulink, Code Composer Studio.

Silent Features:

  • Labs are equipped with high end system with Latest software.
  • Young Dynamic Faculties with Industry experience
  • Department has good industry linkage .
  • Publication in Scopus/WoS/SCI index journal is must.
  • Syllabus is design as per Industry experts in synchronization with Industry requirement
  • Regular classes with revision or tutorial class (if required)
  • Flexible class timing for working professional*

Eligibility; BE/BTech in related discipline.

Admission process; Written test followed by interview. Students with valid GATE score are exempted from written test

For admission contact

For admission contact

Dr. Harish Chandra Mohata, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE

[email protected],   +91-9437106269

M.Tech in VLSI Design

About the Program

M.Tech in VLSI Design is two year full time course offered by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is a process of combining thousands of transistors into a single chip for varieties of application used for different field of Engineering. VLSI provides improved solutions for high speed networking, high performance computers, and special applications of integrated circuits, requiring the use of multiple disciplines. There is urgent need to absorb and assimilate the latest development in the VLSI and embedded system design field. VLSI industry needs VLSI design engineers and embedded system design engineers. In this regard, the Department of Electronics and Communication has started M.Tech VLSI Design. The Department of ECE has been offering the M.Tech programme since 2012 and successfully completed its 8 years of journey with an outcome of Quality Thesis work with 35+ publication index with UGC/Scopus/WoS.

The two years’ post graduate program deal with the subjects like Analog VLSI Circuit, Digital Integrated Circuit Design, VLSI System Architecture,  Semiconductor Device Modeling, Digital VLSI Circuit, VLSI and MEMS Packaging, Nano Technology. Low Power VLSI Design. The main objective of the programme is to make the students learn about the VLSI Technology and Design; also develop skill to enhance their research activity in the field of VLSI Chip Design. The VLSI Design Labs consists of Solid state circuit Lab, VLSI CAD Lab, Low power VLSI Design equipped with latest software like CADENCE, Xilinx, OrCad,  Multisim, MATLAB and Simulink.

Silent Features:

  • Labs are equipped with high end system with Latest software.
  • Young Dynamic Faculties with Industry experience
  • Department has good industry.
  • Publication in Scopus/WoS/SCI index journal is must.
  • Syllabus is design as per Industry experts in synchronization with Industry requirement
  • Regular classes with revision or tutorial class (if required)
  • Flexible class timing for working professional*

Eligibility; BE/BTech in related discipline.

Admission process; Written test followed by interview. Students with valid GATE score are exempted from written test

For admission contact

For admission contact

Dr. Harish Chandra Mohata, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE

[email protected],   +91-9437106269

The teaching-learning process involved project-based learning leading to a product that gives a technological solution. The department promotes various technical clubs viz; Robotics, IoT, and students are prepared for Hackathon in an identified problem area.

Department offers MTech in Embedded Systems and also takes full-time and part-time research scholars to pursue Ph.D. The Department motivates the faculty, students and research scholars to work on the project and research-oriented programs to compete in the new industrial resurgence. Summer training, industrial visit, and projects are carefully planned for the students to remain updated with the technological trend.

PSOs: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

PSO1. Graduates will apply their learning outcome of the programme creatively and productively in the fields Embedded Systems, VLSI and Communication Systems.

PSO2. Solving real-life problems, design and develop novel products that are technically sound, economically feasible and socially acceptable.

PSO3. Add value to interdisciplinary area in providing the solution in agriculture, manufacturing and security services.

Achievements

  • Project of the Year-2019” contest organised by Dassault Systemes
    SHUBHAM SRIVASTAV, 2015 batch ECE student working as Project Assistant at GT Technology had participated in “Project of the Year-2019” contest organised by Dassault Systemes using their 3D Experience Platform. His project title was “Energetic dimensioning of Electric Vehicle using System engineering – CATIA DYMOLA of 3DExperience Platform of Dassault Systeme”. During the competition he has secured 9th position with 598 Votes.
    A Felicitation program had been organized on 16th August 2019 to motivate the winner for futher participation which brings fame to the university globally. Prof D N Rao, Vice Precident of Centurion University had honoured the winner with certification.
  • Implementation of Hand Gesture System for Speech Impaired People with Notification.
    The goal of this project is to design a flex sensor-based audio command through a gesture recognition module that can efficiently translate the hand gesture into words to help speech impaired People.
  • Remote Monitoring Controlling & Automation of Protected Environment Cultivation-
    Monitoring the Environmental parameters of Greenhouse for example soil moisture, humidity, temperature, light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration through Analog sensors like soil moisture sensors and carbon dioxide sensor and digital sensor like DHT22 all the monitored data are sent to the processor (Raspberry Pi).
  • Smart Room Monitoring and Controlling through Web-
    Aim of the project is to control home appliances from anywhere in the world using AlexaPi and ESP-12E (or any ESP board)
  • Students presented four number of research paper in International Conference ICMSEA 2019.
  • IoT Based Smart Garbage System for Efficient Waste Management-
    An automatic sorter machine is developed which can sort out the wastes in various categories to make waste management easier and efficient by using microcontroller and Pi camera.
  • ASIC Implementation of 8 BIT RISC Processor-
    This project presents a 8-bit RISC processor design and ASIC implementation using Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL). The processor is designed using Harvard architecture, having separate instruction and data memory. Its most important feature is that its instruction set is very simple, contains only 29 instructions, and another important feature is pipelining, used for improving performance.
  • ASIC Implementation of Scalable Encryption Algorithm for Miniaturized Gadgets-
    SEA is a scalable encryption algorithm widely utilized miniaturized devices and it is predominantly designed for its enactment in processors with a limited instruction set and throughput requirement. The work reported the ASIC implementation of SEA using Cadence EDA tool. The power consumption and delay was found to be 78.11 µW, 690 pS .
  • ASIC Implementation of Halftone Pixel Image Conversion-
    Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect. “Halftone” can also be used to refer specifically to the image that is produced by this process

Events

  • Seminar Cum FDP on Disruptive Technologies and The Enima of Science, Engineering and Technology
  • FDP_SDP on Computer Vision using MATLAB_09_07_2022
  • Organized two weeks AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Emerging Trends in Digital Image Processing and its Application”, ETDIPA-2013, from 13th to 26th May, 2013. AICTE Letter No-1-7/AICTE/RIFD/FDP/Govt.(2)-11/2012-13
  • Organized two weeks AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Signal Processing Algorithm: Its Application in Engineering Research”, ASPA-2013, from 17th-30th June, 2013. AICTE Letter No-1-7/AICTE/RIFD/FDP/Govt(2)-11/2012-13
  • Organized one Day National Seminar on “Wireless Network & Fiber Optics Communication” on 9th January 2015, held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.
  • Organized National Workshop on Virtual Instrumentation and its Application in Industry (VIAI-2016) in association with National Instrument & Trident Techlab on 29th April 2016, held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.
  • Organized National Conference on Mechatronics Computing and Signal Processing (MCSP-2016) on 21st May 2016, held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.
  • Organized workshop on Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in Knowledge Era. on 6th August 2016 held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.
  • Organized 2nd National Conference on Mechatronics Computing and Signal Processing (MCSP-2017) on 7th April 2017, held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.
  • Organized a four days FDP on MATLAB from 25th to 28th September 2019, held at Centurion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) Bhubaneswar.

FACULTIES & STAFF ATTENDING EVENTS

Faculty attending Workshop/ Conference/ FDP (OCT-DEC 2018)

  1. Deepak Kumar Barik and Prof. Shibashis Kumar Pradhan had participated in Group Dynamics Workshop held on 24th and 25th October 2018 at Centurion University, Bhubaneswar Campus.
  2. Debaraj Rana had attended one-week training program designing of end to end system & sub-system of an Electric Vehicle held in Paralakhemundi Campus from 26th November to 2nd December 2018.
  3. Harish Chandra Mohanta had presented a paper entitled “Meta Suface based frequency and polarization reconfigurable antenna” in the 3rd International Conference on Management, Sciences, Engineering and Applications (ICMSEA – 2018), at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
  4. Harish Ch Mohanta, Prof. Deepak Kumar Barik and Prof. Rupanita Das had attended a Seminar Talk on the topic “Optical Engineering – An evolution from Science to Technology to Product”. The seminar was organized by Dept of Mechanical Engineering on 28th December 2018.
  5. Prof Siba Kumar Panda had presented a paper titled, “Design and Implementation of Factorial circuit for binary numbers: An AVM based VLSI Computing Approach” on 29th December 2018 at 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2018 ) Organized by Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

Faculty attending Workshop/ Conference/ FDP(JAN-MARCH 2019)

  1. Nutan Das and Mrs. Bhabani Dash had participated a Faculty Development Program on EXCEL” which had been held in Bhubaneswar Campus on 25th Jan. 2019
  2. Mrs Bhabani Dash, Lab Asst. had participated in a two days training on “SYSTEM DESIGN WITH PV SOL” for solar power plant design conducted on 22nd and 23rd February 2019 at Centurion University of Technology and Management
  3. Swarna Prabha Jena had participated in Faculty Development Programme on Advanced Excel on 23rd February 2019 at Bhubaneswar Campus
  4. Debaraj Rana had organized a Student Workshop on MATLAB for Engineers on 6th to 8th March 2019
  5. Prof Debaraj Rana and Prof Sibashis Pradhan has organized a three days training programme on Gigafiber Technology conducted by Reliance JIO from 28th to 30th March 2019
  6. Debaraj Rana had organized a one-day Symposium “Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning: Theory & Applications” on 29th March 2019 (Friday) at CUTM.

Faculty attending Workshop/ Conference/ FDP (APRIL-JUNE 2019)

  1. Deepak Kumar Barik attended a Faculty Development Programme on “Metamaterial Applications and Evolutionary Techniques” at NIT Warangal from 22nd to 27th April 2019.
  2. Harish Chandra Mohanta and Prof. Shibasish Pradhan attended a workshop on “Applied Electro Magnetics, Antennas & EMI/EMC” on 29th to 31st 2019 organized by Centurion University, Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh.
  3. Swarna Prabha Jena, Prof. Subrat Kumar Pradhan and Prof. Debaraj Rana attended a Faculty Development Programme on “Machine Learning” held at CUTM Bhubaneswar Campus from 1st -6th June 2019.

Faculty attending Workshop/ Conference/ FDP (JULY-SEPTEMBER 2019)

  1. Harish Chandra Mohanta had attended a short-term course on “Design of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Filters” during July 01-05, 2019 at IIT Kharagpur
  2. Swarnaprabha Jena had attended an AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on Student Induction from 6th July to 8th July 2019 Organized at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar.
  3. Ritisnigdha Das and Mrs. Nutan Das had attended a Workshop on Xilinx Zynq SOC and PYNQ from 2nd August 2019 to 3rd August 2019 at IIT Bhubaneswar organized by School of Electrical Science.
  4. Chandra Sekhar Dash and Prof. Ritisnigha Das havd attended Cadence Tool Installation and Training on 7th and 8th August 2019 organized by the Department of ECE.
  5. Debaraj Rana had organized a Student Workshop on MATLAB for Engineers on 29th to 30th August 2019.
  6. Prof Harish Chandra Mohanta, Prof. Deepak Kumar Barik, Prof. Chandra Sekhar Dash and Prof. Debaraj Rana, had attended the 1st phase of series of workshop on 30th August 2019. The workshop was on Machine Learning conducted by Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Panda, Ex Dy Director of IIT Bhubaneswar.
  7. Harish Chandra Mohanta, Prof. Deepak Kumar Barik and Prof. Debaraj Rana had attended a three days faculty development program on LATEX from 8th to 10th September 2019. The FDP was organisezd by Department of Physics, School of Applied Science, CUTM.
  8. Swarna Prabha Jena and Mrs. Nutan Das (Lab Asst.) had participated and successfully completed NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) from 10th -13th September 2019 organized by Centurion University

Faculty attending Workshop/ Conference/ FDP (OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2019)

  1. Swarna Prabha Jena and Prof. Debaraj Rana had attended a Faculty Development Programme on “Scientific Paper Writing” held on 12th October 2019 at Centurion University of Technology and Management (Bhubaneswar campus).
  2. Prof Swarna Prabha Jena had attended a Faculty Development Programme on Group Dynamics from 16th October to 18th October 2019 at Centurion University of Technology and Management, PKD campus.
  3. Chandra Sekhar Dash and Prof. Debaraj Rana haad attended the series Faculty Development Programme on Machine Learning at Centurion University of Technology and Management on 23th October 2019.
  4. Debaraj Rana had attended the series Faculty Development Programme on Machine Learning at Centurion University of Technology and Management (Bhubaneswar Campus) on 7th November 2019
  5. Swarna Prabha Jena, Prof. Deepak Kumar Barik and Prof. Debaraj Rana had attended one day training cum workshop programme on Dassault Systemes Solution on 20th November 2019
  6. Chandrasekhar Dash, Prof. Deepak Kumar Barik and Prof. Debaraj Rana had attended the series Faculty Development Programme on Machine Learning at Centurion University of Technology and Management on 4th December 2019
  7. Prof Harish Chandra Mohanta had presented two numbers of research paper based on microstrip paper entitled on the 4th International Conference on “Management,  Sciences , Engineering & Applications”(ICMSEA-2019) was organized by CUTM, Odisha  at Paralakhemundi Campus on 19th, 20th & 21st December 2019.
  8. Prof. Swarnaprabha Jena, Dr. Chandra Sekhar Das and Prof. Debaraj Rana had attended the continuing series FDP on Machine Learning held at Centurion University of Technology and Management (Bhubaneswaer campus) on 28th December 2019.

Projects

The CBCS curriculum provides opportunity for students to undertake multiple minor projects and a Domain project. All projects follow GATE process from Idea to testing and implementation.
Open Field Sprinkler Control through Internet
Polyhouse Control, Monitoring and Automation
Hand guesture sensor installed on Hand Gloves Speech Unit and controller used Guesture Sensor and the Converter Arrangement
Complete system of the project
Project Developed by Student: Implementation of Hand Gesture System for Speech Impaired People with Notification.
The goal of this project is to design a flex sensor-based audio command through a gesture recognition module that can efficiently translate the hand gesture into words to help speech impaired People.

Smart Room Controlling Interface

Smart room Controlling set-up with Node Device
Project Developed by Student: Smart Room Monitoring and Controlling through Web
Aim of the project is to control home appliances from anywhere in the world using AlexaPi and ESP-12E or any ESP board

Internal view of the Green House model

Green House model Complete Set-up
Project Developed by Student: Remote Monitoring Controlling & Automation of Protected Environment Cultivation.
Monitoring the Environmental parameters of Green house for example soil moisture, humidity, temperature, light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration through analog sensors like soil moisture sensors and carbon dioxide sensor and digital sensor like DHT22 all the monitored data are sent to the processor (Raspberry Pi).
Smart Waste Segregation Conveyer system Sorting process of the Smart Waste Segregation Conveyer in action :Smart Waste Segregation
Project Developed by Student: IOT Based Smart Garbage System for Efficient Waste Management
An automatic sorter machine is developed which can sort out the wastes in various categories to make waste management easier and efficient by using microcontroller and Pi camera.

Chip Layout of Scalable Cryptographic Algorithm

Chip Layout of 8-bit RISC Processor

Project Developed by Students: ASIC Implementation of Scalable Encryption Algorithm for Miniaturized Gadgets

SEA is a scalable encryption algorithm widely utilized miniaturized devices and it is predominantly designed for its enactment in processors with a limited instruction set and throughput requirement. The work reported the ASIC implementation of SEA using Cadence EDA tool. The power consumption and delay was found to be 78.11 µW, 690 pS .

Project Developed by Students: ASIC Implementation of 8 BIT RISC Processor

This project presents a 8-bit RISC processor design and ASIC implementation using Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL). The processor is designed using Harvard architecture, having separate instruction and data memory. Its most important feature is that its instruction set is very simple, contains only 29 instructions, and another important feature is pipelining, used for improving performance.

Research Center

The department has created multidisciplinary research centres for capacity building and conduct research in in real-time problem and finding solution in collaboration with Industry and Research Organisations. It also creates value-based education for students to pursue industry-oriented skill and Domain courses.

Center for Bioelectronics and Medical Systems

https://research.cutm.ac.in/courses/center-for-bioelectronics/

Focus Area;

  • Insulin Pump Prototype Design
  • Soil Moisture Sensor Development
  • Implantable Antenna Design for Biomedical Applications

Center for Chip Making

https://research.cutm.ac.in/courses/center-for-chip-making-2/

Focus Area;

  • Verilog-A modelling of Data converter Circuits
  • Hardware Implementation of Infusion Pump
  • SIC Implementation of Communication Protocols
  • Memory Design and Modelling
  • Approximate Computing
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • System-on-Chip(SoCs)

Center for Communication Technologies

https://research.cutm.ac.in/courses/center-for-communication-technologies/

Focus Area:

  • mmWave Antennas
  • Base station Antennas
  • Baseband Algorithms for 5G Applications

Infrastructure

Students learning to make ATmega Controller Board
Students Working on the Green House Automation, Control and Monitoring Circuit Design Lab Fiber optics Splicing tool Demonstration

First year Students being Introduced to Embedded System with Brain Storming Session