- Upload photos to Picasa.
- Create a copy of an existing picasaslideshow module (e.g. Annual Day 2011).
- Change the name of the copy and enable it. Enter a distinctive value in Position field (e.g. annualday11). Enter the RSS URL of the Picasa photo album in the URL field on the right. Save and close.
- Create an article for the album. Enter title of album in the first line (Header 4 style). In the next line, enter . Replace annualday11 with whatever distinctive value you had entered for position in the previous step. Disable Title display for the article (in Advanced Parameters).
- Create a menu entry in Media menu. Point it to article created above.
- Go back to Module Manager and open the picasaslideshow module created earlier. Set visibility to the menu item created in previous step. Save & Close.
- Open website and check if everything is working properly.
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Department of Information Technology
The Department of Information Technology was started in the year 2001 with an initial intake of 60 B.Tech. students. Subsequently in the year 2007-08, intake was increased to 120. The department was accredited by NBA, AICTE in the year 2007. The department had been headed by Prof. R.Seetharamaiah since its inception in 2001. It is now headed by Prof. U.V. Ramana Sarma (since 2012) The department has four Professors, four Associate Professors and 17 Assistant Professors on its rolls. Two Associate Professors and one Assistant Professor are pursuing Ph.D. at University of Hyderabad.
The department caters to students of IT department and also offers subjects of specialization to other departments. The subjects offered by this department include DBMS, C & Data structures for first year students and IT Workshop laboratory, which is handled by the department for all branches of Engineering.
The department has three laboratories with 75 systems each, catering to the departmental curriculum. The systems use standard licensed software as a college policy.
The areas of expertise of the senior faculty include Parallel programming, Computer Organization, Microprocessors and Interfacing, Advanced Computer Architecture, Real Time Systems and Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Multimedia, Scripting Languages, and Middleware Technologies. Almost all faculty have an M.Tech. in Computer Science, with a minimum of about 4 years of teaching experience at the Assistant Professor level, which is an entry level requirement for recuitment to the department. The faculty consists of a good mix of individuals with industry and academic experience. The department also has a high faculty retention rate.
Students of the department participate in various projects competitions like IBM Great Mind Challenge every year. Various certification programs are conducted regularly to better prepare students for industry (e.g., Adobe Flex, IBM DB2, EMC SAN, Infosys Campus Connect). The department has also set up an Innovation Club to encourage creative thinking among its students.
One of the major achievements by the students of this department was to win a prize of Rs.50,000 from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in 2006 in iTalent, which is a B.Tech. final year projects competition in which about 400 colleges of southern region participate every year.
The Professors of the department are:
1. Dr. R. Seetharamaiah. Has 20 years of industry experience, including with ECIL. He has completed his Ph.D. in Distributed Computing from University of Hyderabad.
2. Prof. U.V. Ramana Sarma - formerly with ECIL.
3. Dr. Bipin Behari Jayasingh, Ph.D. in Cyber Forensics. He is the Head of the department.
email: [email protected]
Prof. L.V.A.R. Sarma, Ph.D.
Dr. L.V.A.R. Sarma, Retd. Professor of ECE and Director, School of Information Technology, J.N.T. University, Hyderabad has taken over as Principal, CVRCE on 21st January, 2013.
He obtained his Bachelor’s and Masters in Engineering (ECE) from Regional Engineering College (presently NIT), Warangal. He secured 3rd Rank in the University for his B. Tech course. He obtained his Doctorate from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the area of Optical Signal Processing. His thesis entitled “Studies in Diffraction Imaging with Emphasis on Sideband Fresnel Holograms and Their Applications”, received appreciation from the foreign examiners. He was Professor of ECE and Director, School of Information Technology, JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad. He was also associated with JNTU Kakinada, as Professor of ECE and JNTU, Ananthapur as an Associate Professor of ECE. He has held several responsible positions in his illustrious career. He was Convenor, EAMCET, A.P. consecutively for five years i.e. 2002-2006 and also for 2009. He was Convenor, District Information Officers Examination, A.P in 2002, and Principal In-Charge, Fine Arts College, JNTU, Hyderabad, Convenor, PRITACET in 2006, Director, UGC, Academic Staff College, JNTU, Hyderabad from October 2007 to March 2008 and Dean, RGUKT from March 2008 to Jan 2009. He brought in various reforms in the conduct of examinations and infrastructural enhancements. He has also been a coordinator for various developmental projects. He has guided many undergraduate and post graduate theses. He has many research publications to his credit and also coordinated various employee training workshops. His career exemplifies his able teaching and administrative skills.
