How ECE Dept of NIT-H looks like?
Electronics and Communication Engineering is supposed to be a tough branch. ECE branch is the supporting pillar of the complete software industry. Although most of the ECE students are placed in software firms, the root facts about ECE cannot be ignored. Electronics engineers provide the hardware for software engineers to work on. ECE-D is nearest to lecture hall and one can enjoy the Coffee and MOMOS at nearby HPMC or AMUL shop during the break. ECE at NITH has great teachers and progressive results. Interaction with the professors is smooth and there is much less crying for grades!
All students entering into the college are kinda ‘grown-up kids’ and have some fascinating motives like good placement, good CGPA, and of course a class full of greenery (Well you are getting me, kids, don’t you..?) Yes, Department of Electronics provides you all the above things.
The reason behind the popularity of ECE and CSE branches is the comparatively better gender ratio. Yeah!! Most of the girls are from ECE. In every batch, the girls’ strength is around 1/5th of total strength which is an enormous amount if you are in engineering college that too in NITs or IITs.
Talking about Placement and Internships in Electronics, it is behind CSE yet much better than other branches in NIT-H. Every year, the majority of the students (>80%) get placed in reputed companies with an average salary of 5 lpa. On one hand, there are students who don’t make it, there are some who get more than one offer (10–15 students from ’16 batch) and few get offers from dream companies (Offering package 10–15lpa — 5 students from ’16 batch). The students who are placed, among them, the majority are in IT-Sector (Oracle (OFSS), Verizon, UHG, Samsung, Mu-Sigma, HSBC etc.) and only a few get offers from core companies (Reliance jio, Samtel Avionics, Sterlite etc. ).
Talking of internship opportunities the only company who came to our campus for hiring interns from Electronics is Texas offering stipend 35k/month and it is believed that it comes in alternate years (Well!! It depends on the TPRs (Training and Placement Representatives)). But yes, as the internship is in the curriculum (7thsem) so everyone has to do an internship during vacations (doesn’t matter if fake or real certificates).
Want to get some exposure to innovative projects and scholastic activities? For this electronics department have SPEC (Annual Departmental Team) and VIBHAV (Departmental Team during technical fest of NIT-H). Here you are supposed to work on projects like automation, game designing, GPS based projects etc. Besides this, the professors are generally working on high-level projects with final year guys, so, one can anytime approach them stating “Sir I am interested in your project, can I contribute?”. They rarely refuse for such things, in fact, they appreciate this. The opportunities are enormous; you just have to grab them.
The Biggest Advantage of being in Electronics is that you don’t have to worry about your grades. Around 35–40 students have CG > 7.5 in each batch of Electronics. It might happen that you will not be able to score much in 1st year because 1st year generally has other engineering subjects too, but from 2nd year scoring is easy as faculty’s politeness is overloaded plus the core subjects that you have to study like Analog, Digital, DSP, VLSI, MEMS, Microprocessors, Communication, most of them are scoring and others require mugging up for passing.
Being in ECE, you generally have to attend 4 hours lectures (1hr each for 3 subject and 1hr for tutorial) in the morning (8:30am-12: 10 pm 0r 9:25am-1:05pm) of each weekday and 3-hour practical labs in the afternoon(2pm-5pm) twice a week. Though if you have a CR (Class Representative) with good manipulative and persuasive skills, professors might cancel classes on demand.
Suggestion: If you want to opt for higher studies after B.Tech or want to do an internship abroad — Be a maggu and maintain CG around 9–9.5 (not a “too much difficult task” being in ECE but yes requires hard work and sincerity). If you simply want good placement in software, they have good command over languages like C, C++, and JAVA. If preparing for core placements then you should have good basic electronic concepts.
