Annual Report 2006-07

Today, we celebrate the sixteenth Annual Day of the college. It is a great occasion when thirteenth batch of our students will be receiving their degrees. It is a privilege and a moment of pride for all of us to welcome our Chief Guest Prof. P. V. Indiresan, Former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and Mr. B. G. Verghese, Chairperson, Governing Body of our College who kindly agreed to preside over the function and all our esteemed guests, parents and old students who are here with us today.

Prof. P. V. Indiresan was educated in Presidency College, Madras, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and at the University of Birmingham, U.K. He started his career at the University of Roorkee and then shifted to IIT Delhi. He was formerly Director, IIT Madras.

Prof. P. V. Indiresan has been President of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. P. V. Indiresan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Honorary Fellow of the Indian Railway Society of Signal and Telecommunication Engineers.

Prof. P. V. Indiresan was twice awarded the highest prize of the Inventions Promotion Board, the Government of India. He has also been conferred the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. He has the rare honour of being made an Honorary Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. His students have build a hostel in his name.

Prof. P. V. Indiresan is a prolific writer on societal and technical issues. He has written a book entitled “Managing Development: Geographical Socialism, Decentralization and Urban Replication” and chapters in many others.

The Chairperson of our governing body Mr. B.G. Verghese is a columnist and author, Visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and associated with a number of NGOs. He was Information Advisor to the Prime Minister, Information Consultant to the Defense Minister, Member of the National Security Advisory Board and of the Kargil Review Committee. He received the Magsaysay Award for Journalism in 1975. Mr. Verghese has served on a number of official and non-official commissions, committees and board and is the author of several books on issues relating to water and environment, the Northeast, geo-politics and the media. Penguin has just published his biography of Ram Nath Goenka of the Indian Express (October 2005).

At this juncture, I would like to make our guests aware about the progress and the activities of the college.

The college is running five courses at present namely B.A. Sc (Hons.) Electronics, B.A. Sc (Hons.) Instrumentation, B.A. Sc. (Hons.) Food Technology, B.Sc. (Hons.) (Computer Science) and B.Sc. (Hons.) (Bio-Medical Science). The college has established itself as one of the leading institutes, which can contribute human resource to the industries, thus forming a vital link between the university and the industry. The college produces young women graduates who are enthusiastic, well trained in their area of specialization, confident and competent to face the industry and as well as seek education in institutions of higher learning. The curriculum is interdisciplinary in nature which includes both basic as well as applied aspects. The students are required to undergo industrial training twice during their summer vacations, which enables them to develop and polish the various kinds of skills as desired by the industry.

The students undertake projects as a part of their curriculum. This year the Food Technology students have developed various new products such as Amla Nectar, Sapota Nectar, Instant Marinade, Ginger Spiced Honey, Higher Protein Jam, Legume Based Buttermilk, Sapota Jam, High Protein Papad, Mashroom Murrabba, Bitter ground pickle, Pumpkin Pressure, Instant Nutri Dhokla. These products have been developed under the supervision of Dr. Ranjana Singh. These products have been highly appreciated and have generated lot of curiosity in the industries who have been visiting the college.

We have set up an IGNOU centre of B.Lib. M.Lib and one year CICTAL (Certificate in Information and communication Technology Application in Library). Our college is the only centre for M.Lib in Regional Centre II region. The college has inducted 4th batch of IGNOU students this year. From the Ist batch of MLIS Ms. Rajni Jindal stood first in India and got Gold Medal from IGNOU. This year we have also added a course for IGNOU "Value added products from fruits and vegetables".

In collaboration with CISCO, the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP) is being held in the college and the college is CISCO Local Networking Academy Centre since September 2002. Our Local Academy is running the program at no profit basis as most of our students are from middle and lower income group. We conducted several workshops and seminars for the students to train them for interview skills, communication skills, writing and personality development. We have a notice board where any new jobs are posted for the students. In total 73 students have graduated from our academy, and I am glad to tell that many of them are well placed in companies like HCL, Hughes, Infosys etc. Last Year the academy organized a specialized course of Indian Government in which 11 government personals underwent CCNA program.

Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Oriented Program (CECOP) was started with an aim to conduct short term coursed which could impart suitable skills to unemployed graduates or those pursing graduation. The centre is located in the college itself. Prof. S. Neelamegham is the Hon. Chairman and Dr. S. Lakshmi Devi the Hon. Director of this centre. The centre is being funded by Delhi University and this year three short term projects were organized. These programs were:-

• Introduction to VLSI and VHDL.
• Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Techniques.
• DNV course on "Food Safety Management covering HACCP and ISO 22000" we are very happy that the Auditors course on food safety Management System (HACCP and ISO 22000) was conducted by our own alumni Mrs. Seema Shukla who is an auditor with DNV (Det Norske Vertias) and already conducted more than 250 audits in various food industries.

Each of these has been a roaring success. These courses were coordinated by the college staff and organized in the college premises. The CECOP is now in consultation with various Principals of colleges, Head of the Departments and Industries and is trying to identify other short-term courses so that students could be gainfully employed or become entrepreneurs. Many job-oriented courses and new applied science courses are being introduced by Delhi University and a well-trained staff is required for the same. CECOP also aims to training the teachers so that they can run these courses with ease.

An educational trip was organized for the students to visit Godrej Food and Beverage, Mandideep Bhopal and Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited in Bhopal. This trip was organized by Ms. Para Shenoy, Ms. Monika Tyagi and Ms. Garima Puneyani.

The college has conducted a 10 hour workshop an "Personality Development and communication Skill" by Mr. Sairam.

This year Dr. Shruti Banswal, Dr. Radhika Bakshi and Dr. Varsha Mehra joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Mr. Para Shenoy joined the Food Technology Department as permanent faculty. Ms. Deepali Taneja joined the Department of Computer Science as temporary lecturer.

This is not the end of the tale of success stories of our institute. Our college not only excelled in academics but also in a field like gardening. The hard working and dedication of our gardners has put the college on the top of the sky by winning 14 prizes in annual flower show held at University of Delhi. Some of prestige cups were:

• The Ved Prakash Cup – for marriage decoration on a boat which was star attraction in the flower show.
• The Daulat Ram College cup – for best foliage garden.

Our college also participated in the Pushpanjali Indrapasatha Flower Show and won four trophies and five consolation prizes.

The above mentioned are just a mere glimpse of the glory and prestige of the college. This is attributed to the teaching, non-teaching staff and the unity, discipline and strong determination of the members of the students council.

Besides the list of achievements, students of Electronics, Food technology and Biomedical Science made there contributions by organizing societal activities such as “THE ELECTROMANIA TECHNO FEST 2006”, “WORLD FOOD DAY” and “PLEXUS 2006” with the help of the teaching faculty.

This year on the Science Day students of B.Sc. (Hons.) Biomedical Science IInd year and B.A. Sc. (Hons.) Instrumentation played the role of genetic counsellers for two hours and counseled the staff and students of the college on various genetic diseases.

For the overall development of our students we have successfully organized various seminars and special lectures like “Adolescent Health Workshop” which was conducted by Dr. Shardha Jain a leading gynecologist of East Delhi.

The infrastructure facilities in our college needs a special mention.

Electronics Laboratory

The Electronics laboratory is very well equipped with oscilloscopes, function generations, frequency counter, various circuit boards, IC testers, LCR meters, four probe apparatus etc. It also provides hand on training on 8085 & 8086 microprocessor training kits with various supporting chips study cards like programmable timer, DMA controller, interrupt controller etc., Interfacing techniques are applied for keyboard simulation, run stepper motors at very speeds etc., The electronics work-bench helps the students to simulate circuits and execute them in the software package. It provides them an insight to some of the actual practices followed in the industry. The third year students are exposed to the modern electronic communication techniques like PCM, FDM, Delta modulation, AM, FM, Pulse modulation etc. The laboratory is also equipped with Helium Neon lasers. TV trainer, transmission-receiver set, antenna-study patterns etc. The fast changing scenarios of the computers is moving towards a neural world. Our students are exposed to this dimension too.

Instrumentation Laboratory

The Instrumentation laboratory is well-equipped with HPLC, GLC, Karl Fischer Titrator, ELISA reader, Biochemistry Analyzer, Biomed Scanner, Vacuum Coaster, PCR Machine, Microprocessor controlled pH meter and Biomedical kit which is used to measure ECG. EEG, EMG etc. Recently we have added Microprocessor based UV-Vis spectrophotometer.

Food Technology Laboratory

The Food Technology laboratory has the muffle furnace, ovens, Refractormeter, Moisturometer, Brookfield Viscometer, Orbital shaker incubator, Dehydrator, Autoclave, Laminar flow, Tintormeter, Microwave Oven etc. It has also added Deep-freezer, infrared Moisture balance, bacterio-logical Incubator, Spiral dough-kneader, sugar-grinder, Mini-mixers, baking oven, Dough-divider, Dough sheeter, Crown corking machine and canning unit Recently we added proving cabinet, bakery refrigerator, batch freezer homogenizer, a digital refractormer, pouch packing machine, bottle capping and vaccum filling machine. Tray Dryer and Ball Mill and Fluidised Bed Freezer (Lab Mode). We will be soon adding many more instruments as the food Processing Ministry has sanctioned a grant-in-aid of Rs. 50 lakhs.

Computer Laboratory

Over the past few year Shaheed Rajguru college of Applied Sciences for women has provided excellent infrastructure for executing software skills using the latest software development tolls ad technologies. We ensure that latest version of all softwares are made available to the students we have all original softwares. We have no hesitation in making the large investment for the purpose.

Computer Lab-I : LAB 1-A

The lab has one PCS SERVER, which acts as Windows NT and ORACLE server. This server is connected to 15 Inter Celeron @ 566 MHz Multimedia systems through one 16 port hub. It has one Pentium system which acts as SCO UNIX server which is also connected to 15 Intel Celeron @ 566 MHz systems through one 16 port hub. All the computers are connected to four dot matrix printers through four-printer sharer. All computers are connected of LAN and UNIX server and are loaded with latest system software and also has compilers of popular high level languages like Turbo C, Turbo C++, Fortran 90 for Windows, Microsoft visual Studio Enterprise 6.0, TASM, JDK 1.3, Prolog etc. The PC are connected with Windows NT networking and have oracle 8 with graphic user-interface, developer 2000 and visual basic.

LAB 2-B

The lab has eight PCS (P-IV) @ 1.4 GHz Multimedia systems, six HCL (P-IV) @ 2.6 GHz multimedia systems. All the nodes of Lab-B are provided with Internet facility through ISDN connection. The lab also has one dot matrix printer, one HP color printer and one HP 1220 Laser Jet printer.

Server Room

The server room has one PCS SERVER, which acts as Windows NT and ORACLE server. It has one Pentium system which acts as SCO UNIX server. Three HCL (P-IV) @ 2.6 GHz multimedia systems. It also has one HP color printer and one HP 1015 Laser Jet printer.

Computer Lab-II

The lab was upgraded this year by having 15 spice P-IV @ GHz All the systems are connected to four dot matrix printer through four printer sharer. It has a Linux web server in which the CISCO curriculum is loaded. All computers are loaded with latest system software and also has compilers of popular high level languages like Turbo C, turbo C++, Fortran 90 for Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 6.0, TASM, JDK 1.3 Prolog etc.

Maths Laboratory

A Maths lab has been established in college this year having 15 Pentium-IV computers. All the systems are connected to each other and through broadband Internet connection via a high speed D-link router. It has a Linux web server which is loaded with CISCO curriculum. Computers are also loaded with latest mathematical system softwares. The laboratory has also got four sharable network printers as well.

Library

Ours is the first computerized Library in Delhi University with inhouse developed software called CAPSLIB developed by Mr. Projes Roy, our librarian. The library is also constantly adding on the latest books and journals in the area concerned. The college library has increased its number of books to 12, 000. Seven Journals have been added. Two Pentium 4 new desktops, two inkjet printers and one laser jet printer in addition to an image scanner. The college library has been converted into Digital library, for this the equipment like Digital Data capturing Unit Bar code Scanner has been purchased. Now all the books of the library are Bar coded and it is a matter of great achievement that stock verification of library books can be done in less than one hour. It has greatly helped in speedy circulation.

The library is having access to 500 journals on different subjects through UGC Infonet. The terminals have been given to all laboratory and library.