The Electronics & Communication Engineering Department is imparting quality education to students to obtain a B.E degree in electronics & communication engineering from the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).

E&C Graduates: Fresh graduates find openings in the Telecommunication and the Computer industry. A large majority of our graduates receive offers for employment at their pre final year of study. Students with a focus to enter higher studies enrol into the PG courses in the same department at DSCE or join one of the IITs/IISc. Quite a few go overseas for higher studies and pursue research.

New Opportunities:
With DIGITAL REVOLUTION that has taken the world by storm, M.Tech graduates in the Digital Electronics & Communication stream have ample and challenging job opportunities in the country and outside. Bangalore city has been rediscovered for its technical prowess and has been chosen to be the hub for the silicon based Ultra Large-Scale Integrated Circuit Chip Manufacture. The M.Tech course at VLSI Technology & Embedded system is offered to produce specialists in the hardware (chip) domain, which is JUST IN TIME. Job opportunities for postgraduates are going to be very exciting and rewarding.

POST GRADUATE COURSES
Considering the excellent Teaching Learning process adopted in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, the All India Council of Technical Education has approved the following Post Graduate courses to be offered to eligible B.E/B.Tech students:

1.	Degree	:	M.Tech
	Specialisation	:	Digital Electronics & Communication
	Duration	:	2 Years (4 semesters)
	Start	:	Academic year 2004-2005
	Strength	:	18
2	Degree	:	M.Tech
	Specialisation	:	VLSI &Embedded Systems
	Duration	:	2 Years (4 semesters)
	Start	:	Academic Year 2005-2006
	Strength	:	18

Qualified and experienced professors serving as specialists in the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have come into the Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering as full time faculty. Expert faculty also come from industry and VTU affiliated colleges to teach the postgraduate students. With such strong academic backing, the outcome is top class ever sought after by industry.

INFRASTRUCTURE
LABORATORY FACILITIES

ECE department has identified thin film technology as one of the fields of research areas, which has wide applications in the field of displays, solar cells, sensors, and non-luminescent devices. The development of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) for EL display continues for attaining flexibility and lightness unavailable in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) designs. Basically organic TFTs are classified as optical, non-luminescent and chemical sensing devices. Optical devices are organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and light sensing devices. Applications include displays, flexible electronics and optical switches. Potential applications for non-luminescent devices include price tags and smart cards where their low cost and/or high flexibility make them an alternative to the existing solid-state semiconductors. Chemical sensors take advantage from interaction between odorant molecules and pi-conjugated molecules of organic semiconductors. Organic transistors on flexible substrates with operating frequencies of several Hertz can be used as electronic paper.

Interdisciplinary research is receiving focus, combining electronics and bioengineering research on neuro computation in complex systems by doing studies on seizure types and electroencephalographic features is being initiated to construct biologically plausible neural network model that exhibits spontaneous, stochastic transitions between low activity state and high activity state by combining in vivo electrophysiology, data analysis using neural network modelling.

The department has received internal sanction to enable research in these topics. Some major proposals on specialised areas to various scientific agencies are also in progress. A few postgraduates are being inducted to pursue research in these fields leading to a doctoral degree. Besides, some theoretical studies on simulation of different semiconductor devices are also underway. To attain innovation and leadership in research, ECE department has already formulated strategic plans such as interdisciplinary research, collaborative research with eminent labs and setting up specialised labs in thrust areas of research.

FACULTY
This is one of the largest departments in the college and a good number of the faculty are attending to higher education leading to doctoral/post graduation qualifications. Many of the faculty members also are put on regular training programs and work closely with industry to keep pace with the dynamics of this filed of study.

TEACHING - LEARNING PROCESS

INTERNAL ASSESMENT EXAMINATION

The College has a successful centralised system for conducting internal assessment exams to ensure commonality of dates carrying 60 marks with duration of 2 hours.
The valuation will be completed within three days after the internal exams. Three such internals exams will be conducted for each subject and the best two of three will be assessed for 25 marks .The internal assessment marks will be entered and displayed in the website: www.icris.net which contains the complete details of the internal marks and attendance of the students enabling students and parents quick access to results of internal assessment.