About

The MCA programme was started in 2006. The department is offering two year MCA programme . The annual intake for this programme is 120.. The Department aims to achieve academic excellence by focusing on the key activities like providing quality education to students, enhancing their learning skills and giving them training to acquire the professional skills required for their career with an objective of making them socially committed professionals.

The backbone of the department is a team of well qualified, experienced and committed faculty members who contributes to the development of academic expertise and interpersonal skills of the students. Various technical sessions, seminars and personality enhancement programmes are initiated by the department for the overall development of the students.  

The department is equipped with class rooms having LCD projectors, seminar hall, software and hardware labs, high speed internet cafe and a well resourced reference and central library. The alumni are placed in reputed organizations like TCS, IBM, L&T, InfoTech, Satyam, Syntel, Caritor, InfoVista and banks like Bank of Baroda, Federal Bank etc.

 

Department Advisory Committee

The following members constitute the Department Advisory Committee.

1	Principal, FISAT	Dr. George Issac
2	Academia	Dr. B. Kannan, Professor, CUSAT
3	Industry Expert	Mr.Eric Mora Juan, Chief Operating Officer, Opentrends
4	Industry Expert	Mr.RajeevAzhuvath, Digital Consultant, TCS
5	Vice Principal, FISAT	Dr. C. Sheela
6	IQAC, FISAT	Dr. Sunny Kuriakose
7	Head of the Department	Mr. Santhosh Kottam
8	Senior Faculty Member	Deepa Mary Mathews
9	A student nominated by the department
10	A parent nominated by the department

 

Vision

To mould globally competent and socially committed professionals to meet the demands of the society.

Mission

M1:	To impart quality education at post-graduate and doctoral levels in the field of Computer Applications.
M2:	To provide conductive environment so as to achieve excellence in teaching-learning, and research and development activities.
M3:	To bridge the gap between industry and academia by offering suitable add-on programmes considering the industrial and societal needs.
M4:	To promote experiential and technology intensive knowledge through collaborative and interdisciplinary activities through digital learning.
M5:	To provide appropriate forums to nurture the innate skills and talents so as to take up challenging professions successfully upholding ethical values and life-long learning skills.

 

Programme Offered

Programme	Duration
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Regular	2 years

 

Programme Educational Objective (PEO)

PEO1:	Graduates of this programme will be able to demonstrate professional excellence in academia and to develop software solutions for the       IT related problems of the society and industry.
PEO2:	Graduates of this programme will contribute significantly in the technological advancement through research and computer applications       and be committed to lifelong learning.
PEO3:	Graduates of this programme will be successful team leaders and entrepreneurs with computational skill, value orientation and                    professional ethics.

 

Programme Outcome (PO)

1. Computational Knowledge:

Apply knowledge of mathematics, computing fundamentals, principles of management, software engineering concepts and application development knowledge appropriate for the computing specialization

2. Problem Analysis:

Identify, formulate, design and develop applications to analyze and solve computer science related problems

3. Design /Development of Solutions:

Design and Evaluate a computer based system, components and process to meet the specific needs of applications on societal and environmental aspects

4. Conduct investigations of complex Computing problems:

Use appropriate review literatures, research methodologies, techniques and tools, design, conduct experiments, analyze and make inferences from the resulting data.

5. Modern Tool Usage:

Create, Select, Integrate and apply efficiently appropriate techniques, resources, and modern computing tools to solve complex problem, with an understanding of the limitations.

6. Professional Ethics:

Understand and work with a professional context pertaining to ethics with appropriate societal and cyber regulations in a global economic environment

7. Life-long Learning:

Recognize and develop the passion for a continued career development and progress as a computer professional

8. Project management and finance:

Apply the principles of management with computing knowledge to manage the projects effectively both as a team leader and team member on multidisciplinary environments

9. Communication Efficacy:

Communicate effectively with the computing community as well as society by being able to make effective presentations and design documentation with respect to appropriate standards.

10. Societal and Environmental Concern:

Ability to utilize the computing knowledge efficiently in projects to analyze the global and local impact of business solutions for societal, environmental, and cultural aspects

11. Individual and Team Work:

Develop the ability to act as a member or leader for the fulfillment of diverse teams in multidisciplinary environments.

12. Innovation and Entrepreneurship:

Develop and design innovative methodologies to create value as a successful entrepreneur and wealth for betterment of individual and society at large.

Core Areas

·         Machine Learning

·         Big Data Analytics

·         Cryptography

·         Open source softwares.

·         Artificial Intelligence.

·         Application Development Tools.

·         Mobile Computing