Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to University of Pune)

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

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DeclarationTitle: The Messenger

Language(s): EnglishPublisher: Prof.(Dr.) A. M. MoolchandaniNationality: IndianAddress: 666, Upper Indiranagar, Bibwewadi, Pune-411037

Editor in Chief: Amey PiseMagazine Secretary: Sujit DeshpandeNewsletter Team: Noopura Huddar, Ashwini Giri, Sameera Khan, Priya Das, Priyanka Injmulwar & Aditi Kajale.Designer: Vijay Patil & Ameya Raje

SD/-Prof.(Dr.) A. M. Moolchandani(For Private Circulation)

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune as an institute accepts no responsibility for the opinions expressed and statements made by individual authors. Editorial Board may or may not agree with the matter inside.

In appreciation,DirectorR. M. Jalnekar

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-Amey Pise

Chairperson

SAE Collegiate Branch

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)

SAE Collegiate Branch

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Club of VIT organizes Industrial Visits, workshops, various events as well as various different activities for SAE members. A team of 15 office bearers strive hard to organize these events under the guidance of Prof. S. P. Komble and Prof. P. S. Dhaneshwar.

SAE organized these events in the current semester:

FORBES MARSHALL AWARD FUNCTIONth

Forbes Marshal award is given to best BE Project of the pass out batch. The award function was scheduled on 17 of January 2014 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. All the students of SE, TE, BE and ME of Mechanical Branch were present for the event. All the students who had some achievements in some or the other fields were also felicitated.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO JOHN DEEREIndustrial Visit to JOHN DEERE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED was scheduled on 28th January 2014. All the machinery was observed including engine factory, transmission factory, vehicle assembly, paint shop, etc. Students were really were happy as they learnt many new things as well as they were updated to the recent trends in industries.

A lot about the manufacturing of boiler was learnt, All the mechanical working of metals like Rolling, Forging was also shown Different types of Boilers were also shown but having got the opportunity to witness the nuclear radiation room which is used to test the cracks in boiler was a great bonus.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO VOLKSWAGENthIndustrial Visit to Volkswagen was scheduled on 27 March 2014 Volkswagen is a famous multinational automobile

company. Volkswagen is a part of Volkswagen group which has total chain of nine different automobile companies like Scania, Porsche, Skoda etc. Volkswagen POLO, VENTO and SKODA FABIA are assembled in CHAKAN. The entire assembly line was observed and studied carefully, the logistics department as well as the Motorsports department too was studied.

INTRODUCTORY MEET OF ALL TEAMSAn Introductory Meet of SAE Collegiate Club, BAJA, SUPRA, GO-KART, EFFI-CYCLE and

thAEROMODELLING CLUB of our college was scheduled on 9 of April 2014. The main aim of the meet was the exposure of students to the various technical and extra-curricular teams of ourcollege. More than 200 students were present for the meet. Each and every team explained in detail about their work schedule etc.Students came to know what these teams are and what is necessaryto be a part of it.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO TATA MOTORSIndustrial Visit to TATA Motors was scheduled on 19th February 2014. Students got to see Production shop, Gear Factory, Cylinder block line (Engine Assembly). In the door press shop “Hitachi press line” which is a completely automatic production line of doors was studied. A visit to some of the production and assembly line of Indica vista, Safari, Xenon etc the test track for vehicles too was observed.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO THERMAX PRIVATE LIMITED

thIndustrial Visit to Thermax was scheduled on 15 of March 2014. TEAM SAE

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SAEINDIA BAJA

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Every year during the month of February, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) organizes an event called BAJA, inviting engineering undergraduates from all over the country to participate in a

thcompetition requiring them to design, build and race an All-Terrain-Vehicle. This year was the 8 edition of the competition in the Indian chapter with the theme of “Raise the Bar”. The motto behind such a theme was to encourage students to incorporate high standard methods to build the vehicle to make it safer, much closer to an on-road car.

thAfter a gap of two years, this was our college's 4 appearance in the event under the name TEAM HAWK 4.0. The event is held in three stages. The first round saw the participation of 326 teams nationally. Having cleared this round with flying colors, the college was among the 126 colleges to gain clearance to manufacture the vehicle. The fabrication started in October and ended with the technical inspection in January. Having passed this round too, the team finally had the opportunity to showcase the capability of their car.

thThe event began on the 19 February at a special testing facility maintained by ARAI and Mahindra in Pithampur near Indore, MP. Throughout the four days of the event, each of the built cars was scrutinized on a number of technical and non-technical factors and points were allotted for the same. Each car was expected to undergo a number of tests, each testing parameters like acceleration, braking, handling etc. to score maximum points. Despite a hiccup in the brakes test, the college team

rdpassed all the rounds and even received commendation for the design report. 23 was a big day for all, it was the day of the final race- The Endurance Event, where each car had to do a maximum number of laps in the stipulated time. After having gone out due to a technical snag in the very beginning, the team car was back on track soon. The team driver, Siddharth Kotecha did an excellent job of completing the race with 25 laps, the winner having done 32. The team finished with a rank of 25, an improvement over the previous year's 33.

With the event going international in 2015, the stakes are high and the team aspires even better. Registrations for the team have already started and students from the mechanical, electronics and instrumentation department can apply. Log on to our Facebook page TEAM ENDURANCE RACING for more details.

-Amey Raje

TE Elex

Institute of Electrical

and Electronics Engineers

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The IEEE Student Branch of Vishwakarma Institute of Technology conducted following activists in nd2 semester of academic year 2013-14

1. PCB Designing:In this workshop students were introduced with the process of PCB designing using software 'Diptrace'. On the second day a practical designing session was conducted under the guidance of Prof. M. E. Rane.

2. Microcontroller:The workshop included basic architecture of 8051, commands and programs like LED and LCD interfacing.

3. Industrial visit to VACPL & BSNL: The industrial visit was organized on. At VACPL, an automation company, students were shown the manufacturing process of various control panels and devices. At BSNL the working of Gateway MSC various mobile switching techniques were explained to the students.

4. Social activity: Shrimant Dagdusheth Temple Trust's Orphanage.For a social cause the committee members visited the Shrimant Dagdusheth Temple Trust's Orphanage and donated Notebooks and stationary to the children. The student branch members also conducted a small cultural programme.

5. LATEX workshop: This workshop included the basics of designing document using LATEX. Students were taught

methods to develop document, design tables and charts, write mathematical equations using various LATEX commands.

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Chairperson

IEEE

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International Society of Automation

Sr. No Event Date(s) Conducted by Topic Target Audience

1. Guest Lecture 6th Feb 2014 Mr. Karamvir Rehani, ISA President, Pune

section

“Trends in Industrial Automation

BE students

2. Guest Lecture 4th Mar 2014 Mr. Vishwas Kale, MD Vijesh Instruments

Industrial temperature Measurements

SE students

3. Industrial Visit 1st Mar 2014 Electronet Equipments Pvt. Ltd.

Demonstration on Flow Control Trainer, Pressure

Control Trainer, Level Control Trainer,

Temperature Control Trainer, Data Acquisition

system for all four modules with Audio

visual demonstration

ME students

4. Guest Lecture 8th Mar 2014 Mr. Vinod Joshi, Forbes Marshall, Pune

Communication Protocol BE students

5. Industrial Visit 10th Feb 2014 Esquare Multiplex Building Automation BE students

Head of Instrumentation Engineering Prof. P. M. Kanjalkar welcoming Mr. K .V. Rehani

Mr. K .V. Rehani addressing the audience

Visit to Esquare Multiplex

Mr. Vinod Joshi ( Forbes Marshall, Pune) addressingthe students on Communication Protocol

-Shreyas Dighe

President

ISA

Antariksh

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No wonder our world is filled with amazing poets, artists and story tellers for our mother nature itself is an amazing story teller, with the sky full of amazing stories. With every civilization having one of its own, we have our star gazing club 'ANTARIKSH'.

‘ANTARIKSH' arranged this 'Star Party' in PIRANGUT, a place on the outskirts of Pune city. Fun began as soon as we got there. Our sky watching session was perfectly divided according to timing of stars showing up in sky.Session 1: Gazing at bright objects like our own moon!No wonder artists and poets in love draw and write about the beauty of the moon. Pleasant look and its brightness are simply mesmerizing. We also watched other bright objects like Jupiter, Sirius, Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy. It's wonderful to learn about how science of astronomy has evolved, how universe has always been a topic of curiosity since human kind was born and how our ancestors watched and measured objects in sky without any help of advanced instruments. We learnt methods to measure approximate angle with our hands and how to check for direction without having compass. Session one ended with excitation in heart and brain. We had a lot questions in our minds which were answered during tea break.Session 2 (Mid-Night session): Stars continued to spread their magic all over the sky. We taught how to connect them and form a spell! Oh yeah indeed! We were all spell-bounded by the beauty of intricate shapes formed by connecting them. Signs of Zodiac, stories from Mahabharata and also some stories from Greek mythologies were really fascinating. And then the most amazing thing of every one of our lives happened! Sir spotted a SUPERNOVA in far away cigar galaxy. It was a beauty indeed! Really, the universe is place where even the demise can be so beautiful.Session 3 (Morning Session): Morning session came with excitement of watching Saturn and Venus and also some remaining zodiacs and constellations. Learning about gateway of heaven was fascinating indeed.Unlike ordinary nights, It was the night where we lived our dreams.

It's so true when people say life keeps surprising you. One of such amazing surprises came to my life when my friend told me about astronomy club in our college and the fun idea of 'SKY PARTY', a fun night under clear sky watching hundreds and thousands of stars and studying and imagining about millions.Vincent Van Gogh once said “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.” One cannot really appreciate the truth in his words unless one has tried watching sky in the night, unless one has really tried to understand what each star up there tries to speak.

PARTY WITH STARS @ PIRANGUT

Monika Patel

SE Comp

Staff Incharge: Prof. A. M. Moolchandqni

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VIT Social Activities

The college Social Activities committee is comprised of three main sections namely NSS, I2I and atmabodh. During the current year, these were some of the programs undertaken:

National Service Scheme:The NSS is a committee under the Government of India. Upon completion of 120 hrs of work dedicated to social causes the team receives awards for the successful completion of the program.Every year, the VIT NSS team organizes various programs including:

· Blood Donation Camps in co-operation with bigger organizations· Eye donation Camps· Steps toward an eco-friendly Ganesh Utsav· iSmoke: An anti-smoking campaign· Clothes collection for disaster hit areas· I-Vote: A campaign promoting the need to vote and making voter IDs available to all students· NSS Camp: One camp per year is organized where students visit a rural area and take

immediate steps to improve quality of life.

Ignited Innovators of India:

Ignited Innovators of India (I2I) is a movement organized by BHAU institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in association with EATON Corporation. It aspires to reach every student in Maharashtra and provide them with an opportunity to be social entrepreneurs and bring about small but significant changes in the world around them.

Students are supposed to come up with small but poignant ideas. Ideas that are innovative yet simple are shortlisted and funded for proper implementation by BHAU institute. A mentor from EATON then guides the students for the execution. During this process students also have an opportunity to meet some of the successful leaders from the corporate world.Projects are based mainly in the fields of agriculture, education, environment, health and technology.VIT has actively participated since 2011, bringing many laurels. This year saw the successful completion of 53 projects under the program.

Competitions and Workshops:A number of competitions and workshops are also conducted during Vishwakarandak and Melange including:

· Go Green: Social work is by participants who select an area of their choice.· Best out of waste: Useful articles prepared from waste materials.· Sociofilmy: Students make a short, 7 minute film highlighting a social issue.· Vasundhara: Sustainable and frugal solutions are given to social problems.

Achievements:VIT Socials team has been awarded with various awards and has been recognized for its outstanding work for the society:

· Best Philanthropist Award of I2I for year 2011-12 · Best Project Award of I2I for year 2012-13· Best Ambassador Award of I2I for year 2012-13· Best Project Award of I2I for year 2011-12· Best activity award from Dagdusheth Committee

-Aditya GhugeGents Secretary for Social Activities

Trupti GosaviLadies Secretary for Social Activities

Program Coordinator: Prof.(Dr.) A. M. Moolchandani

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Annual Report-2013-14thThis academic year started on 26 July, 2013. The Independence Day was celebrated with zeal and

thenthusiasm on 15 of August, 2013, supporting the noble initiative of 'Indian Armed Forces'. After the flag hoisting ceremony, our director Dr. R. M. Jalnekar sir drew attention towards the sacrifices that our soldiers bear for the safety of the citizens of our country.

ndVishwakarandak, our annual inter departmental competition was organized during 22 October- th24 October, 2013, with the theme “A New Life”. The theme signified the beginning of a new life, an

introduction to our generation, emphasizing on the trend of new thoughts, innovations, technology and also of prejudices falling apart for a better future. The aesthetics team created various paintings, posters etc displaying the theme. All the departments participated in Vishwakarandak. Department

stof Industrial-Production Engineering won the trophy whereas; DESH lifted the 1 runners up trophy.

th thOn 26 January, 2014 we celebrated our nation's 64 Republic Day with the belief in 'Six Pillars of Democracy'. After the flag hoisting the Director addressed the gathering and talked about equity, justice, religion, freedom and representation, the pillars which support our country, followed by a patriotic dance performance by our fellow students.

'Fostering Change' was the Theme for Mélange 2014, one of the biggest and awaited college fest in India, which went international this year. Mélange had an incredible mixture of technical, sports,

th thextra-curricular and social events and activities, organized from 24 -28 of February, 2014. The Concert this year was for a social cause. Palak Muchchal (Aashiqui 2 fame) was invited who donated the funds raised towards heart surgeries of children. The concert saw a crowd of over 1500 enjoying the live performance of their favorite singer. The Technical Big Six events (Rob-war, Line Tracer, Age of Robots, Wheels on Fire, Robo soccer), Footloose, V-Rock, Gaming, Workshops, Guest Lectures, Seminars, Google workshop of cybernetics etc saw students from many colleges participating. This year the arena for Robo-war (Combat robotics) was covered with polycarbonate sheets to ensure safety of students. It was one of the finest and safest platforms in India which set a benchmark for VIT and was widely appreciated by all the participants as well as judges. Lounge events also attracted a lot of students. The finale nights displayed amazing talents by Indian as well as International students and fierce competitions between the teams.

VIT prides itself on being one of Maharashtra's leading engineering colleges and shaping engineers of great caliber and this year's technical activities support that statement. Under IEEE various workshops, guest lectures, seminars were organized throughout the academic year as well as a study tour to VACPL and BSNL, PARI. The Robotics Forum (TRF) also organized workshops on manual and automated robots, image processing etc. during the academic year. In SAE INDIA BAJA

thcompetition VIT ranked 25 all over India. The collegiate SAE club conducted industrial visits to TATA motors, JCB, Volkswagen, ARAI, John Deere and Thermax.

In the Sports section, the boys' volleyball team secured the runners up position at BITS Goa. The rdVIT table tennis team won at the MIT Summit and Ankit Kale won the 3 position in squash at the

same. The Cricket team secured the runners up position at 'Kalyan Karandak' and also bagged the award for the best player of tournament this year. The football, basketball, lawn tennis teams were at the runners up position and handball, table tennis teams bagged the first position at Melange 2014. Sanyogita Kadu has won several medals at international, national and regional level competitons in horse riding. Vikas Palve got the best lifter award at Summit 2013.

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Annual Report-2013-14The cultural team of our college, ViCulp won a lot of accolades and appreciation from different

ndcorners this year. Our college team stood 2 at Firodiya Karandak. The team also bagged 14 individual prizes. Along with this we also won prizes for lights, clay, drums, direction, writing and choreography.

st rdAbhishek Bhat and Gaurav Rayte bagged the 1 and 3 position respectively at Pune Times Fresh Face 2013.VIT participated in 'Ignited Innovators of India' (I2I) competition conducted by BHAU Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership [BIEL] at CoEP and successfully completed 131 projects in fields like Health, Education, Agriculture, Environment, Technology. Trupti Gosavi received 'Best Ambassador' award at the same event. VIT also received the best Philanthropist award. The team of 'Atmabodh' conducted a 15 days workshop on 'Computer Literacy and Internet Awareness' for adults. Various activities such as I-Smoke-An Anti Smoking campaign, blood donation camp, police mitra initiative, self defense workshop were conducted under NSS. I-vote- a Voter ID campaign was organized by Parivartan where 900 forms were submitted to the election commission. A 7 day long camp in Panshet was also organized for NSS members where around 57 social activities were conducted. Vasundhara, a film festival was organized by lokayat for environmental awareness followed by a guest lecture. In Sanik Nidhi, Government of India and collector of Pune city raised funds for late soldiers' families. R.M.D. foundation had organized a

thblood donation campaign on 16 February, 2014 which saw 700 blood donors from outside.Quality Circle is an international convention where students work on various social problems and develop work related skills, attitude and behavior style. Our college has received various accolades

stfor the projects like rural computer literacy and rain water harvesting and has always won the 1 award at the national and international convention. This year our students are going to London for the convention to present a case study on entrepreneurship-empowering responsible citizens.

Mirage, the first campus film society in an engineering college which was started with an objective to cultivate a student audience which understands that cinema is an art form as well as a universal language of expression. Interactive sessions with eminent personalities from the film industry followed by the screening of various internationally acclaimed films are organized by Mirage every year. The Aeromodelling club conducted various workshops to design aircrafts. The other active clubs which are a part of the college include Dhruva club, Antariksh Club and Illuminati that conduct various workshops and seminars to constantly motivate students.

The 'Ladies Club' of VIT organized seminars and lectures by eminent personalities to address and guide the girl students. A seminar on human trafficking and forced prostitution was organized by Shapath from Symbiosis who had also conducted a city wide movement to create awareness for the

thsame with the help of our students on 24 August, 2013. On 14th September, 2013, Dr. Vandana Nimbargi along with a team from Sun Pharmaceuticals were invited for a social awareness program regarding PCOD(Polycystic Ovary disease). Women's day was celebrated on 8th march, 2014 which was graced by the presence of Ms. Radha Giri, CEO and founder of Midas touch consultants who discussed the importance of social networking in a professional environment.

Arashita Aggarwal

Ladies Representative

Students’ Council

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