HOD-ECE

WELCOME FROM HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

Welcome to the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at MSIT, Kolkata. The ECE department is one of the oldest and most established department at MSIT, Kolkata. The department offers B.Tech and M.Tech, programs. Many faculty members are currently guiding Ph. D students also.

The vision of the ECE department is to create talented and socially responsible engineers to make a better India and, in turn, a better world. It will strive to become a hub of research excellence in cutting edge, state of the art, and contemporary areas of national and international relevance. The department also envisions itself as a center of excellence in teaching to create a well-educated, technically competent, and socially responsible workforce for meaningful, inclusive, and overall societal development of India and the rest of the world.

The mission of the department is to impart world-class training to its undergraduate and postgraduate students. It plans to create an excellent national workforce by imparting students a high-quality education, cutting-edge research exposure, and a world-class innovation ecosystem. Additionally, it plans to formulate and implement novel teaching mechanisms to provide its students a holistic exposure to a world-class education. As an outcome, a large no. of students is currently placed in Google, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Intel, Texus Instrument, Qualcomm, Synopsys, Microchip, Sankalp Semiconductor, AMD, ARM, Tata Elxi, Nvidia, Samsung, IBM, CTS, Capgemini, Accenture, Delloite, TCS, Infosys, just to name a few. Besides, significant number of students have carried forward their higher studies in leading Institutes like UCB-Berkley, USA; ASU-Arizona, USA, NUS-Singapore, CSU-Colorado, USA; UF-Florida, USA; University of Utah, USA; MSU-Michigan, USA; TU-Dresden, Germany, McMaster University, Canada; IISC-Bangalore, India, Many IITs, to name a few. Several ECE alumni have made ECE, MSIT proud. Many of them are the members of Alumni association of the department who are guiding the current final and pre-final year students to set up their paths for enriched career. The department is also setting up the research collaboration with reputed Institutes like EPFL, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, Karunya University, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University toincrease the employability of the students.

The ECE department has always been well recognized for its excellent teaching standards in India.Current members of ECE department have published 250 papers, along with students of ECE department in reputed International journals and Conferences.Dr.  Manash Chanda and Dr.  Swapnadip De have published books from reputed International publishing houses. Dr.  ChandiPani,  along with other faculty members and students of ECE department have published 5 patents. ECE faculty members have been traditionally contributing to professional activities both within and outside the Institute. Currently, Dr.Manash Chanda is serving as Vice Chairman of IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter. He is also the member of IEEE Region 10 Conference Quality and Management Committee. Dr. Swarnil Roy is also serving as the Secretary of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society, Kolkata Chapter. Dr. Swapnadip De served IEEE Kolkata Section as ExComm. Member for 4 years. Several faculties from ECE are currently serving as Centre Heads within the Institute. Dr. Sudip Dogra is heading the Institution Innovation Council and Incubation Centre under MSME. Many students have won prestigious position in National Design contests organized by Texus Instruments, CADENCE, AICTE etc

ECE Dept. has founded IEEE MSIT Student Branch, IEEE MSIT Electron Device Society Student Branch Chapter and IEEE MSIT Communication Society Student Branch Chapter to coordinate all the technical activities like Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Talksetc to make the students technically competent and professionally viable. As the Dept. of ECE of MSIT grows in stature and quality, we aspire to considerably expand its research and teaching activities in new directions, and welcome all initiatives and support which would help us work towards that goal.

If you have any questions, queries, suggestions, and proposals, please feel free to contact me.

Dr. Manash Chanda

Head, Dept. of ECE, MSIT

Contact :hod.ece@msit.edu.in