Departm ent of Com puter Engi neeri ng

Departm en t of Fi rst Year E n gi n eeri n g

Our advent into the final quarter of the ye ar 2021, g ive simme nse satisfaction whe n we look back into the outcome ofthe e fforts put in by us amidst the challeng es pre se nte dbe fore us. The co-curricular and extra-curricular activ itie s thathave surefootedly taken big leaps towards ensuring a holisticde ve lopme nt of al l is the ce rti f ication of this fact.Today, we feel proud to hear the achie veme nts of one of theAlumnus of V IT - M r. Nishant Se th fe aturing in FORBES INDIA,JULY 2021 Edition as the Dire ctor of Rainbow Aviation Pvt. Ltd.Also, V IT’s collaboration with Uday Platform, a FinTe chEducation Initiative by the G ove rnme nt of M aharashtra hasprovide d both stude nts and staf f membe rs with theopportunity to explore various insig htful course s on theFinTech space . Various STTPs and Student De ve lopme ntcourse s have scale d up the acade mics in a ve ry dynamic wayalong with the place me nts of around 116 stude nts in RelianceJio with othe r companie s l ike Jaro, Ug am, Shalig ram infote ch,Larsen & Toubro Infotech, TSS Consultancy . With this, I wouldl ike to wish all the re ade rs and your ne ar and de ar one s a safeand he althy l i fe ahe ad!

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Departm ent of E l ec troni c s and

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Departm en t of E l ec tron i c s E n gin eerin g

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The season 2 of V Talks started with the Students’ Series on

various topics by VITians and alumnus. Ms. Srishti Agrawal,

gave an insightful talk titled Procrastination on July 26, 2021

;talk by Mr. Sourav Sinha, Award winning Landscape

Photographer. Various other talks like "Busting Myths about

Animation” by Ms. Maitreyi Narsalay (Co-Founder, Director -

Motion Dime Pvt. Ltd.) on August 2, 2021 and talk on Reading

habits by Mr. Gaurav Gandhi, Tata Sons were conducted

along with many other insightful talks.

The First Year Eng ineering Department conducted the webinar on thetopic “Aware ne ss on Basics of Coding ” on 11 July 2021 with a vie w to he lpstude nts to ge t an ide a reg arding the ir sele ction of f irst prog ramminglang uage . M r. Abhishe k Kumar was the e stee me d spe ake r of the day. Thiswe binar hig hlig hte d the mindse t of pursuing a coding lang uag e , there ason be hind sele cting a prog ramming lang uag e and how to maste rthe se ski llse ts. M r. Kumar also addre sse d the topics re late d to G SOC andM HL fe llowships along with the ‘Code for Cause ’ community .

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your l i fe; dream of it ; think of it ; l ive on that idea.

-Swami Vivekanand

Unde r the g uidance of Prof . Ishan Upadhyay, the First Ye ar stude nts f romInformation Te chnology desig ned the M e chCal website with the obje ctive ofproviding simple ye t inte re sting platform to do nume ricals in Me chanics.Stude nts also de sig ne d and de velope d “Solar Charge r” which can charg etwo fast charging mobile s and one laptop simultane ously . It was a ve ryvaluable in-house inte rnship for the stude nts.

The event “ Inspire and Ig nite” was conducted on 11 July 2021 aime d to inspireand ig nite the young minds of our First Ye ar Enginee ring stude nts. It was aninte ractive se ssion with young e ntre pre ne urs and influe nce rs who have achie ve dsucce ss at an e arly stage of the ir li fe throug h pe rsiste nt e fforts, de dication, anda discipline d mind-se t. It helpe d stude nts to take charge of the ir own journeyoptimistical ly . M r Aditya Arora, CEO, FAAD Ne twork Pvt. Ltd.; M r Mithi le shPatankar, You tube Influe nce r; M r. Saurabh Mishra, Founde r, EIOSYS Pvt. Ltd.and M r. Abhay Valsang kar, Founder, Alter Eg o Le arning . The e ve nt helped toinsti l conf ide nce , critical thinking and courag e of spe aking on virtual platform .

National Doctors Day was ce le brate d as ”Tribute toDoctors” on July 1 as an online e ve nt on Face book,Instag ram and Linke dIn. In this e ve nt, stude nts andfaculty e xpre sse d g ratitude in the form of re nditionsof poetry , painting , couplets etc. on Padlet wall,poste rs and f l ip book which we re showcase d on thevarious social me dia platforms, whe re in studentstag g e d the ir doctors in the ir me ssag e s.

The De partme nt of First Ye ar Enginee ring

take s pride to cong ratulate al l toppe rs of

Semester-I and Semester-II for the ir exce llent

pe rformance in the examinations in the Online

Fe licitation Ce remony . Prof . Sonaali Borkar, In-

Charg e , FE addre sse d the toppe rs and

stude nts for their 100% re sults in the End

Semester Examinations.

The event Internomania was an event conducte d for the stude nts on18 Se pte mbe r 2021 to not just showcase their skil lse t but also to ge tsome amaz ing inte rnships. Questions of the compe tition were ide aand de sig n-base d que stions which provide a good start for theparticipants, thus making them brainstorm to de sig n and de velop.The eve nt theme was divide d into two domains UI/UX and we bde ve lopme nt, out of which 20 te ams participate d in UI/UX and 23te ams participate d in we b de ve lopme nt. Te ams we re g ive n aque stion to solve within a time limit. The eve nt was a succe ss with awinner in each of the mentioned domain. Each of the winning teambag ge d an inte rnship which was sponsore d by KIDS G ALAXY andCONNECTED. Events l ike Internomania not only help stude nts g et aninte rnship, but also unde rstand how to pre se nt their skil ls andcompete in a team or competitive e nvironment.

ACM-VIT conducted an event on ‘Web

Development’, so that the partic ipants can

gain quite a good kn owled ge, and also the

partic ipants can decide their domain in which

they can develop their future. The students

who are interested in the domain can grab a

good a dvantage of the event, an d get

guidance for future.

It always seems impossible until it ’s done.-Nelson Mandela

INFT De partme nt cong ratulate s M r. Dee pankar Bhade , curre ntly

studying in Third Ye ar Division A who is among 14 stude nts

se lected for f inishing the inte nsive training le d by industry

profe ssionals, e nte re d six-month-long inte rnships whe re they

constantly upg raded the open-source software that now runs

the war-room at Ke rala’s Ernakulam district and in select

districts in M aharashtra and Haryana. CoronaSafe Ne twork

codebase is a national asset cre ate d by India’s le ading software

industry e nginee rs along with the National He alth Mission,

G ove rnme nt of India and De partme nt of He alth, G ove rnme nt of

Ke rala.

Link: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/un-awards-pandemic-management-software-co-developed-by-indian-students-11631792208573.html

Not only has VIT presented us with educational opportunitie s,

but it has also al lowe d us to g row as a pe rson. Ye s, eve n during

the critical mome nts when we have switche d to online mode .

V IT has always bee n a col leg e that prioritize s the profe ssional

and pe rsonal g rowth of its stude nts. Eve n in the midst of a

pandemic, the faculty and management have provided

stude nts with so many re source s and opportunitie s to g row

acade mical ly and e xpand our te chnical knowle dge . The faculty

of V IT has bee n making sure since our First Ye ar of Eng ine e ring

ti l l our journey of four ye ars to provide us with al l the mate rials

required for our acade mic & technical de ve lopme nt.

The We binar on “Draf ting Re se arch Pape rs: Tips and Tricks”was conducte d on 08 September. The speaker was SrishtiAg rawal , VIT Alumnus. The spe ake r apprise d the ide alapproach to write and e xe cute the proce ss of draf ting are se arch pape r and the various domains which come unde rthe “Re se arch pape r” de pe nding on the purpose it se rve sand the need. She proce e de d to the four important factorsname ly include : Cohe re nce , Relevance , Org aniz ation andClarity abbreviated as CROC” . Anothe r webinar on “Delvinginto Data Scie nce ” was also conducte d on 25 Se ptembe rwhere in the speaker, M r. Suraj Shukla, Data Scie ntist, CIM BAI Lab who apprise d about the ski llse t an aspiring datascientist should have and emphasiz ed on coding skil ls.

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Prof . Amit K. Nerurkar Assistant Profe ssor

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on f ighting the old, but on building the new.

-Socrates

We binar on G ame De ve lopme nt and Hands-On Workshop byCESA was conducted on 18 and 19 Se ptembe r. The speakerwas M r. Pravin M ane , a Se nior Unity G ame and Aug me nte dReality Deve loper. Following the webinar, the speakerconducte d a hands-on workshop. M r. M ane first briefe d theparticipants about the Unity website and helped thestude nts with the instal lation. Participants starte d byle arning about the inte rface fol lowe d by shif ting andmanipulating obje cts. Furthe r, the spe ake r apprise d thestude nts about the diffe re nt Unity te chnolog ie s like Unity UIwhich is a UI e ngine to make UI for UI g ame s, UnityCollaboration is whe re one can collaborate the code withdif ferent deve lopers like G itHub, Timeline to create acine matic conte nt among othe r packag e s.

If we make the right decisions now—informed byscience, data and the experience of medicalprofessionals—we can save lives and get the countryback to work.- Bil l Gates

The STTP was conducted from 13th to 18th Se ptembe r 2021 . TheSpe ake rs we re M r.V ipin Tyagi , Exe cutive Vice pre side nt at Pre mie rg lobal se rvice s inc.; Dr.Sanjay Sing h Thakur, HOD and Profe ssor,EXTC De partme nt, V IT, M umbai ; Dr.Abhijee t Rawankar, AssociateProfe ssor, Kitami Institute Technology, Japan; M r.Ravikumar Jain,R&D Eng ine e r, AM O G e rmany; Dr. Shivraj Rathod, AssistantM anage r De fe nce R&D, Bharat Forge Ltd. Dr.V ive k Bohara,Associate Profe ssor, IIIT De lhi ; Dr.Anand Srivastav, Professor IIITDe lhi ; Dr.Saurabh Me hta, CAO, V IT,M umbai ; M iss Anag ha Bhosale ,DGM BSNL Kolhapure ; Dr.S .Navale , Principal Sinhag ad Colle ge ofEng ine e ring ; Dr.Saurav M itra, Profe ssor, KLS Gog te Institute ofTechnology, Karnataka; Dr.G ourab G hatak, Assistant Profe ssor, IIITDe lhi ; M r.Ajinkya Kulkarni , Le ad Enginee r RF, Coope r l ig hting ; Dr.Tata Sudhakar He ad of the Te chnolog y G roup at National Instituteof Oce an Technology. The obje ctive of the STTP was to e nhancethe unde rstanding of te ache rs in the are a of Ne xt g e ne rationne twork with ne w technologie s mee ting the re quireme nt ofindustry as we ll as academia, The conte nts include d are Wire le ssnetworks and challenges, Immerg ing standards in the f ie ld ofPico Ne tworks, Pe rformance optimiz ation of wire le ss ne tworks,Wire less sensor network and IOT and many more .

1 . Re vie we d pape r title d Dual band-stopme tall ic surface for Blue tooth and WLANBand in Wirele ss Pe rsonalcommunications-Spring er Nature .

2. National Advisory committe e me mbe r atInternational conference onM ultidisciplinary Innovation in acade micresearch ( ICM IAR- 2021) 25th -26thNove mbe r, 2021 Che nnai .

3. International advisory committeemembe r for 2nd Inte rnational confe re nceon scie nce , Eng ine e ring andM anage me nt( ICSEM -2021) , 26- 08-2021and 27-08-2021 , Colombo Sri Lanka.

4. Se ssion chair, Inte rnational confe re nce onRe ce nt challe ng e s in Enginee ring Scie nceand Technolog y( ICRCEST 2021) , Pune ,27th and 28th Aug ust, 2021 .

1 . Succe ssfully comple te d Advance dAmbassador training prog ram by MHRDand IIC India, in July-Aug 2021 .

2. Succe ssfully Comple te d Faculty M e ntorTraining by AICTE and NITTTR, Aug 2021 .

3. Successfully Completed ARM UniversityTraining by ARM and AICTE, Aug 2021

4. Six Invited Talks at State and National LevelUnive rsitie s/Institute s ( July-Ti l l Date ) .

5. Plenary Speaker, 7th InternationalConfe re nce on Wirele ss,Te le communication & IoT, London,Se pte mbe r 2021 .

6 . Evaluator for Te chnical Compe titions atDBCOE, G oa, and SM ELT, IEEE , Aug 2021

7. Two Copyrig hts G rante d by G ove rnme nt ofIndia, Se pte mbe r 2021 .

The stude nts we re informe d about the ke y points of ate chnical pape r and how it should be pre se nte d. The spe ake r,Dr Shee tal M apare also discusse d about the type s ofte chnical pape rs, the common mistake s a stude nt make swhile writing a technical paper and how one can e ffe ctivelyse arch for te chnical pape rs online throug h various we bsite s.The students we re neatly explained about the importance ofte chnical pape rs for proje cts and hig he r studie s throug h thewe binar.

Fintech start-ups are leading the ne w edge Indian economy, It is one of thethrust are as for e ng inee ring and manage me nt stude nts. M aharashtraInformation Technology Corporation Ltd, a venture of Gove rnme nt ofM aharashtra, have rece ntly launche d Finte ch Education Platform "Uday" forbring ing aware ne ss about Finte ch among the faculty and stude nts. In vie wof this, V IT has collaborate d with the same and a we binar on Dig italM arke ting 101 was conducte d. The spe ake r was M r. Chintan Me hta who is anexpert at Dig ital M arketing and many more opportunities can be availed bystude nts as a part of this col laboration.

Science is beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it-A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

As an Acade mic Enrichme nt Committee initiative , the De partme nt

of Electronics Eng ineering org aniz e d the ce rtif icate course with

the objective of e xploring ne w horiz ons for pe rsonal and

profe ssional deve lopme nt. The SDP is stude nt ce nte re d and

focuses on enrichment of knowledge on various facets of technical

and holistic developme nt. The spe ake rs we re Dr. M ang al Dhe nd -

Founder & Secretary ( Non- Profit-NG O) :Vihang am Te chno Holistic

Org aniz ation; M r. Re njith C V - Ele ctrical Archite ct/ Product

De sig ne r at Phil ips India LTD Pune ; M r. Abhay V alsang kar - An

Author & founder of Alter Eg o Learning - a Le arning &

De ve lopme nt Org aniz ation; M r. V ive k Koshti - M ange r, Instrume nt

and Control , Ze e co Enginee ring India; M r. Anantha P Iye r - He ad of

Acade mics – The ia.

.

The greatest glory in l iving l ies not in never fal l ing, but in r ising every t ime we fal l .

-Nelson Mandela

BM ESI-V IT Chapte r and BM SA Stude nt Chapte r org anize d ajoint eve nt-Ce rtif icate Course on Me dical DeviceM anufacturing and Reg ulations. This prog ram wassponsored by Biomedical Engineering Society of India. Thef irst talk was conducte d on 28th Aug ust-2021 and de live re dby M s. Sne ha Kulal i ( Penumbra Inc California) on M edicalM anufacturing and Reg ulations. This was followe d byHands-on workshop on AI and M L delive re d by M r. KalpeshPati l ( AI Data Scie ntist-M ichel in) on 04th and 08thSeptember-2021. A webinar on Medical De vice Safety asde live re d by M r. Ne ele sh Shinde ( CTO-Jupite r HospitalsG roup) on 24th Se ptembe r-2021 fol lowe d by talk onReg ulatory Frame work for M e dical Device s conducte d on25th Se pte mbe r and de live re d by M r. Darly Kuriakose , RAC( Chie f Consultant-The Device School).

BM SA Stude nt Chapte r org aniz e d a 1-day we binar on ‘Sof tware Mee tsHe althcare ’ . The se ssion was delivered by M r. Siddarth Pai on 30thSe ptembe r 2021 . M r Pai is Software Eng inee r at G .E. He althcare. M r. Paistarte d with the se ssion by focusing on post inde pe nde nce innovation,e ntre pre ne urship in the te chnolog y domain and g ave ve ry crisp insig htson some of the software e nginee ring microse rvice s using Java, Python,Cloud te chnologie s-Amaz on we b se rvice s, M icrosoft Az ure , Goog le cloud,AI-te nsor f low, Ke ras and Pytorch. Furthe r Application of Dig italHe althcare like M obile He alth-Fitness Tracke r, He althcare InformationTe chnolog y-Patie nt M edical Records e tc. we re discusse d in de pth.

Dr. Jite ndra Toravi has bee n appointe d as

‘Judg e ’ for 15 th Inter-

Colleg iate / Institute /De partme nt Avishkar

Research Conve ntion: 2020-21 ( Final Round)

The Avishkar Re se arch Conve ntion is

de sig ne d by De partme nt of Stude nts’

Development, Unive rsity of M umbai , with the

inte ntion to develop a re se arch culture and

scientif ic temper among the stude nts,

scholars and te ache rs f rom unde r-g raduate

to doctoral le ve l in the state of M aharashtra.

For Eng ineering and Technology Categ ory

the conve ntion took place on 1st July , 2021 .

• M s. Purva Durug kar f rom Final Ye ar is

doing Internship at Ce re branium as a

M achine Le arning Inte rn.

• M aharashtra Chambe r of Commerce,

Industry and Ag riculture (MACCIA)

has se le cte d 15 stude nts f rom the

Department for V irtual Internship.

• M r. Yahya Qure shi , M r V init Chute , M s,

M r Yahya Qureshi , M r Ayush Jaiswal

f rom Third Ye ar comple te d Inte rnship

as a We b De velopme nt Inte rn and

Rutuja Jang am as He ad-HR Intern at

Le arnovate .

M r. Abhishe k Salecha is a trainer and industry expe rt,whose inte rpe rsonal ski lls and make -it-e asy approache ncourage d students to learn and remember the tipsand tricks an MS-Exce l which an use r must know toe xce l in the f ie ld he/ she de sire s to work. Activeparticipation and full atte ndance throug hout the sixM S-e xcel and four f inancial mode ling se ssionsindicate d ke e n inte re st towards the le arning andcre dits to the visiting faculty. The se ssions we re ofg re at help not just for the stude nts of f inancespe cializ ation but also for othe rs as the financial modelprovide d an insig ht on how a busine ss g rows financial lyin various are as that can g e ne rate hig he r prof its.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." –

Robert Louis Stevenson

Busine ss re se arch is a proce ss of acquiring de taile d information of al l the are as of busine ss and using suchinformation in maximiz ing the sale s and prof it of the busine ss. An interactive and e xpe rime ntal session wasconducte d for the stude nts of al l the specialisations by M s. Kashika Sood on 24 Se ptembe r 2021 who is aresearch scholar at IIM Ahmedabad. Her study over the topic and innovative way to make studentsunde rstand the pe rspe ctive a manage r nee ds to he lp companie s de te rmine which product/ se rvice is mostprof itable or in de mand. In simple words, it can be state d as the acquisition of information or knowle dg e forprofe ssional or comme rcial purpose to de te rmine opportunities and g oals for a busine ss.

The stude nts of FYMM S had participated in “ProduScope: The

Product Case Study compe tition” with the te am name d “V IT5”

whose membe rs we re : Siddhe sh M ahadik, Sne ha Pandey,

Rohan Bawkar, Amey Shing are, Akhil The kkut. De partme nt is

g lad to announce that the te am ranke d in the top 10% of the

participants of around 400 teams. The E-ce ll of IIT G uwahati

g e ne rate d a YouTube relate d case study and the stude nts had

to produce a solution to the proble m by thinking like a product

manag e r for YouTube . The stude nts came up with the solution

in the form of “YouCre dits” .

M umbai IM C Chambe r of Comme rce and Industry org anize d a

Youth Conclave – “India’s New Blue print: Come Walk The Path

With The Future Le ade rs whe re in Cristine Danie l re pre se nte d

V IT-MMS. She spoke & share d he r vie ws on the topic “Jug aad &

Creativity - The Indian Advantage” . Our Honorable Prime M inister

in his me ssage me ntione d “Ne w thinking , ne w e ne rgy, ne w

dreams and new z e al of our youth as our country ’s stre ng ths.

• WORKSHOP ON HOW TO WRITE RESEARCH

PAPERS FOR SE AND TE STUDENTS

• ORIENTATION PROGRAM FOR ALL SEMESTERS

WILL BE CONDUCTED

• INDUCTION PROGRAM FOR FIRST YEAR

ENGINEERING STUDENTSWILL BE CONDUCTED

• CAMPUS TOUR FOR NEW ENTRANTS WILL BE

ORGANISED

• CSI WILL HOST WORKSHOP ON HOW TO USE

TECHNOLOGY FOR GENERATING DIGITAL

CONTENT

• CSI WILL HOST A NATIONAL CONFERENCE

CYBERFRAT

• PROJECT ORIENTATION FOR TE STUDENTS

• UI/UX WORKSHOP FOR SE, TE AND BE

STUDENTS

• ESSA: A TECHNICAL PROGRAM

“ELECTROSTEER”ON 18 OCTOBER 2021

• IEEE – VIT HAS ARRANGED A TECHNICAL TALK

ON “THE COMPLETE PATH OF BECOMING A

DATA SCIENTIST” BY MR. KRISH NAIK ON

3 OCTOBER 2021

COVID-19 has only made digital

more relevant as

companies...have undergone their

own massive, overnight

experiment in agile, and remote

ways of working.

-Kate Smaje