“Alumni Portal and Discussion Forum for Alumnis ”

Major Project Report

Computer Engineering

by

Sarthak Dhargalkar(LY-B-28)

Balakrishnan Udaiyar(LY-B-74)

Gauri Sakpal(LY-B-50)

Supervisor

Prof. MRUNALI DESAI

Department of Computer Engineering

K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology

Ayurvihar, Sion Mumbai-400022

2022-2023
 This is to certify that the project entitled “ALUMNI PORTAL AND DISCUSSION
FORUM FOR ALUMNI” is a bonafide work of Sarthak Dhargalkar, Gauri Sakpal and

Balakrishnan Udaiyar submitted as a major project in “Computer Engineering”.

_____________________________

Prof. Mrunali Desai

(Project Guide)
 DECLARATION

We declare that this written submission represents our ideas in our own words and where others'
ideas or words have been included, we have adequately cited and referenced the original sources.
we also declare that we have adhered to all principles of academic honesty and integrity and have
not misrepresented or fabricated or falsified any idea/data/fact/source in our submission. we
understand that any violation of the above will be cause for disciplinary action by the Institute
and can also evoke penal action from the sources which have thus not been properly cited or
from whom proper permission has not been taken when needed.

Sarthak Dhargalkar____________

BalakrishnanUdaiyar____________

Gauri Sakpal___________

Date:
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Before presenting our seminar work entitled “ALUMNI PORTAL AND DISCUSSION FORUM
FOR ALUMNI” we would like to convey our sincere thanks to many people who guided us
throughout the course for this seminar work. First, we would like to express our sincere thanks to
our beloved Principal DR. SURESH K. UKARANDE for providing various facilities to carry
out this report.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Ms. Mrunali Desai for her guidance,
encouragement, co-operation and suggestions given to us at progressing stages of report.

Finally, we would like to thank our H.O.D. Ms. SARITA AMBADEKAR and all teaching,
non-teaching staff of the college and friends for their moral support rendered during the course of
the report work and for their direct and indirect involvement in the completion of our report
work, which made our endeavor fruitful.

Sarthak Dhargalkar
Balakrishnan Udaiyar
Gauri Sakpal
 ABSTRACT

The main aim of the project is to develop a web-based application that is going to make it
possible for the former students of College to keep in touch with each other and that will
substitute the manual system of the alumni office with an automated one. First of all, the
tasks that need to be completed are stated.

There is a need to connect the final year students to the alumni who already are in their dream
companies. Every student has his/her own qts. Currently, there is no mechanism for the Institute
to keep a track of the students passing out year by year. So there is a need to make such
webportal or software in which students will get to communicate with the seniors for the
preparation of placements .

This online portal will provide a platform where all the students can interact and help each other
by hand-holding in self-employment as well as other job opportunities in the companies.
 INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Problem introduction
2. REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hardware requirements
2.3 Software requirements
3. ANALYSIS
3.1 Proposed System
3.2 Feasibility study
3.3 Software specification
4. CONCLUSION
5. REFERENCES
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction:
Many universities around the world offer services and benefits to the alumni students. This is the
main role of the alumni offices. In order to make the services and benefits available for the
graduated students, many colleges have alumni websites. An alumni website is a web-based
application where the former students can take advantage of the benefits and services that a
university offers after they graduate. Being a member of an alumni web site of a college offers
many services and benefits for the graduated students. For example, the alumni web site of a
college keeps a person in track with the events that are organized by the college and informs the
members when some important events will occur that have not been organized by the college.
Furthermore, an alumni website contains information about some important news which is
related to the college or some important news that is related to a person’s field of study. Another
advantage of being a member of an alumni website, which is considered to be the main reasons
why many colleges have an alumni website, is that a person can easily find some information
concerning a former student and the person can easily contact any other member of the alumni
community. College alumni website is of great importance to the university at the moment.
Because of the fact that the number of people that have graduated from college is growing fast,
maintaining contact with the graduates has become a very important issue. Furthermore, it's also
very important for college to make it possible for a graduate student to be able to maintain
contact with another graduate student. At this moment, college alumni web page.Does exist,
however it is not functional. The online community doesn’t exist at this point.
2.2 Hardware Requirements :
These requirements include the minimum processor speed, memory, and disk space
required to install Windows. In almost all cases, you will want to make sure that
your hardware exceeds these requirements to provide adequate performance for the
services and applications running on the server.

Server-Side Requirements:
Processor : Pentium IV or above
Hard Disk : 40GB
RAM : 256MB
Client-Side Requirements:
Processor : Pentium II
Hard Disk : 20GB
RAM : 128M
Hard Disk : 160 GB
Network Interface.

2.3 Software Requirements :

Software Requirements deal with defining software resource requirements and prerequisites that
need to be installed on a computer to provide optimal functioning of an application. These
requirements or pre-requisites are generally not included in the software installation package and
need to be installed separately before the software is installed.
Software Requirements:
Operating System : Windows 7 and above
Client Script : HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python
Database : Mongo DB, SQL Server 2008
Web server : Django, PHP

Technical skills:
Front end technology : Html, CSS, JS
Programming Language : Python/PHP
Back end technology : MONGODB / SQLITE3

Client-Side Requirements:
Operating System : Any Operating System
Browser : Any Browser (IE, Opera, Mozilla,etc.)
 CHAPTER 3

ANALYSIS

3.1 Proposed System :

The Proposed system is a computerized system but which is maintained at Centralized databases
i.e. in automated forms it’s a very fast process. And maintaining all the records in the online
systems database which makes it very easy to access and retrieve data from the database. If they
want any record, they can easily search all the records. It provides multiple user accessibility and
also has different user privileges. So, the system is accessible for all the employees of the
organization.

3.2 Feasibility Study :

The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a
very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility
study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not
a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements
for the system is essential.

3.3 Software Specifications :

MySQL:

MySQL is the most popular Open Source Relational SQL Database Management System.
MySQL is one of the best RDBMS being used for developing various web-based software
applications. MySQL is developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish
company. This tutorial will give you a quick start to MySQL and make you comfortable with
MySQL programming.
MySQL is a fast, easy-to-use RDBMS being used for many small and big businesses. MySQL is
developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish company. MySQL is
becoming so popular because of many good reasons −

● MySQL is released under an open-source license. So you have nothing to pay to use it.

● MySQL is a very powerful program in its own right. It handles a large subset of the
functionality of the most expensive and powerful database package
MySQL uses a standard form of the well-known SQL data language.

● MySQL works on many operating systems and with many languages including PHP,
PERL, C, C++, JAVA, etc.

● MySQL works very quickly and works well even with large data sets.

● MySQL is very friendly to PHP, the most appreciated language for web development

MongoDB :

MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program. NoSQL is used as an

alternative to traditional relational databases. NoSQL databases are quite useful for working with
large sets of distributed data. MongoDB is a tool that can manage document-oriented information,
store or retrieve information.

MongoDB supports various forms of data. It is one of the many nonrelational database
technologies that arose in the mid-2000s under the NoSQL banner -- normally, for use in big data
applications and other processing jobs involving data that doesn't fit well in a rigid relational
model. Instead of using tables and rows as in relational databases, the MongoDB architecture is
made up of collections and documents.Organizations can use MongoDB for its ad-hoc queries,
indexing, load balancing, aggregation, server-side JavaScript execution and other features.
MongoDB makes use of records which are made up of documents that contain a data structure
composed of field and value pairs. Documents are the basic unit of data in MongoDB. The
documents are similar to JavaScript Object Notation, but use a variant called Binary JSON
(BSON). The benefit of using BSON is that it accommodates more data types. The fields in these
documents are similar to the columns in a relational database. Values contained can be a variety
of data types, including other documents, arrays and arrays of documents, according to the
MongoDB user manual. Documents will also incorporate a primary key as a unique identifier.

HTML :

HTML is an acronym which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is used for creating
web pages and web applications. Let's see what is meant by Hypertext Markup Language, and
Web page.

Hyper Text: HyperText simply means "Text within Text." A text has a link within it, is a
hypertext. Whenever you click on a link which brings you to a new webpage, you have clicked
on a hypertext. HyperText is a way to link two or more web pages (HTML documents) with each
other.

Markup language: A markup language is a computer language that is used to apply layout and
formatting conventions to a text document. Markup language makes text more interactive and
dynamic. It can turn text into images, tables, links, etc.

Web Page: A web page is a document which is commonly written in HTML and translated by a
web browser. A web page can be identified by entering an URL. A Web page can be of the static
or dynamic type. With the help of HTML only, we can create static web pages.

HTML is a markup language which is used for creating attractive web pages with the help of
styling, and which looks in a nice format on a web browser. An HTML document is made of
many HTML tags and each HTML tag contains different content.
Diagrams :
Database Schema
 CHAPTER 4

Literature Survey
A. Harvard Alumni Portal:
Front page of this portal shows the features like login tab so that the alumni can login easily,
ways to connect for connecting the junior and the pass out students, making gifts for various
occasions like birthdays or anything else. With that Harvard provides Features News for
surrounding information, Lecture details which describe the schedule, events and the Notice are
displayed on the home page itself with the present event. Also gives the Donor Initiative Chance
for the scenario when the alumni student he/she feels that they can help the college in terms of
donation so that will be possible with this. Apart from all this we have observed the unique
feature that is it provides the clubbed video on the home page and this thing makes the whole
portal very much attractive.

B. IIT Kanpur:
IIT has a Gallery with many images, Lectures details with specific day and time; contacts which
show whom all are connected with this portal, woman alumni convention as separate for the
woman only on the Home page. And Features are Gallery present on the home page; visit for
guide allocations is given so that the junior student can get the solution or the advice for their
difficulties. And Notice with highlighted form is shown for better visualization. Also gives the
Donor Initiative Chance. And IIT KANPUR shows information about events on every page
where the current events are highlighted. Also there is a separate women alumni convention and
that is the unique feature.

C. Alumni Princeton University:

This portal has different things in their front page like Calendar for the current and the incoming
occasions. This portal is providing the features that are the same as the IIT KANPUR like
Gallery present on the home page, visit for guide allocations is given so that the junior student
can get the solution or the advice for their difficulties. But the different thing is that this portal
provides the scholarship in terms of donor initiative for the college requirement purpose.
Providing the unique features like the alumni are categorized on the basis of regions
communities of networks so that the students who belong to the same area will get listed
together.

D. ITMB Alumni Association:

In the home page this portal shows the search tab for searching the alumni student whether
he/she is connected in the portal or not provides the similar features like all portals Harvard
Alumni Portal, IIT Kanpur, Alumni Princeton University. The notice is present in the highlighted
form not only for the better visualization but also for making the portal active. Also provided a
Donor initiative for college. And the unique feature which makes ITMB Alumni Association
more unique is the search tab which is shown on every page.

E. UCLA Alumni Portal:

The UCLA ALUMNI PORTAL's home page layout is very much attractive, and shows the
similar features like all the portals which we have discussed. But unfortunately, there is no notice
section because of that the portal does not show any surrounding information. And also the donor
initiative is present in the form of scholarship.

F. Disadvantage:
Overall we found Disadvantage that the Junior applicant cannot communicate with the Alumni
that makes the portal complicated. And also the conservation is hidden or not displayed from the
other student who all is connected with that particular portal.
 CHAPTER 5

CONCLUSION

The Application for alumni portal will be used by the Ex-students and present final year
students of our college.This application will be a boon to the job aspirants as there will be
interaction with already placed and working ex-students of our college. So through this platform
there will be interaction between job aspirants and already working professionals through the
discussion forum modules.It will be used as a platform to bring guides for college sessions in
high tech Companies and also on a good post.Students can also come in contact with HRs from
our college to get a desired role in a company.

The organization and alumni association can maintain track of alumni relations with the
institution with the aid of the alumni web portal. Additionally, it enables students to interact
directly with each alumnus according to their own interests. This portal was created to foster
greater contact and idea sharing between current students and alumni.

Faculties can track the Former Students through the data which will be scraped by
linkedin Website/App. Hence it would be a one stop platform for tracking placements of our
college.
 CHAPTER 6

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