“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man

who goes furthest is generally the one who is

willing to do and dare.” – Dale Carnegie

The dawn of the new semester begins with fresh

hopes and new faces who are ready to tread on

the path of new challenges and possibilities.

To mark this significant milestone and facilitate the

transition of the new students in this college, the

Orientation Programme was conducted to guide

the students and parents towards the correct

roadmap to be followed in the first year engineering. I welcome all the students of the

first year engineering students to step into this dynamic world on and off the campus

wherein academics are well supplemented by lectures of industry experts. Towards this

endeavor, Mr. Dinanath Kholkar, TCS Vice President and Global Head of Analytics

Insights apprised everyone on “Industry 4.0 and its implication on students, teachers and

professionals".

I am also very happy to announce the accolades achieved by our college as we

congratulate our alumnus Abhinav Mishra and his team at Value3 Advisory for winning

the Best FinTech Startup Award under Wealth, Asset and Investment Management

category at the Nasscom India FinTech Awards 2019!

I also feel proud to inform that our college has been conferred with prestigious awards

by the Computer Society of India, CSI-Mumbai Chapter in the “Annual Industry–

Academia Conference and Awards”, “TECHNEXT INDIA, 2019” on 28th September, 2019:

Best Institute Award for Innovative pedagogical approaches and tools; Best HOD Award

to Prof. Arun Chavan (HOD, Computer Department); Best Faculty Award to Prof.

Anuradha Bhatia (IT Department) and Best Project Guide to Prof. Kavita Shirsat

(Computer Department). While wishing my best to all the students for the upcoming

semester, I look upon everybody to set new benchmarks for the institute in academics

and other associated activities.

Inside this

Issue

Student Council

Industry 4.0

Department of First Year

Engineering

Department of Information

Technology

Department of Computer

Engineering

Department of Electronics

and Telecommunications

Engineering

Department of Electronics

Engineering

Department of Biomedical

Engineering

Management Studies

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself”.

- Galileo

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STUDENT COUNCIL ACTIVITIES Hindi Divas Celebrations

On the occasion of Hindi Divas, Student

Council - Literary of Vidyalankar Institute of

Technology organized an event “Hindi He

Hum” on 24th September 2019 to honor our

national language. The honorable guest for

the evening was Bollywood’s famous actor

and Padmashree Awardee, Shri. Manoj Joshi,

who shared his knowledge of the Hindi

language and also encouraged the audience

to be proud of the language as well as to use

it more often. This event was complemented

by spirited performances by the students of

VIT, which included dance, drama, poetry and

a musical opening.

Umbrella Painting Workshop

The Hobby Club Committee and the Literary

Council of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology

conducted Umbrella Painting Workshop much

to the artistic delight of the students on 22

August 2019. Krishna Sharma who is the

official artist of ThePaintSocial.com came with

her techniques used to paint an umbrella

which helped the students paint one for

them. The students painted various art forms

like worli painting, mandala art, abstracts etc

Nineteen to Ninety

As the nightingale of India turns 90 on 28th

September 2019, the Student Council

conducted a melodious tribute to legendary

singer Lata Mangeskar by Anuja Vartak, Arun

Mhatre and the VIT Music team. Mr. Arun

Mhatre is a renowned poet and a songwriter.

He has composed poems for the Marathi

show ‘Uncha Mazha Zhoka’ and also written

the title of the Marathi serial ‘Swamini’.

Guest Lecture on Environmental Sustainability

Student Council-Technical conducted a

Friday Paathshala activity wherein a very

motivational Guest Lecture on Environmental

Sustainability was delivered by Dr Sharad P.

Kale., Scientist at BARC and a proud bearer of

the Padmashri award. With his novel ideas, a

short video was also shown on his Biogas

project or ‘Nisargruna’ as he calls it, based on

biodegradable waste resource.

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science”.

- Edwin Powell Hubble 2

Mr. Dinanath Kholkar, Vice President and Global Head of Analytics Insights Unit of Tata Consultancy Services conducted a seminar on Industry 4.0. He has been providing industry leadership to the IEEE Pune section for over 15 years and about making a difference in the field of education and is currently driving Digital Literacy initiatives in Pune. He suggested strategies that would bridge the gap between theoretical and practical learning.

AWS User Group Mumbai (AWSUGMUM) is a Mumbai based group united by community-led learnings and diversified by the wide variety of tools and technologies. The event was conducted on 27th September 2019 for students of VIT.

Industry 4.0

AWS Community Day

Department of First Year Engineering

Faculty Development Program

A ‘Faculty Development Program’ was organized by the First Year Engineering

Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, on “Project Management & SWOT

Analysis” on 5 July, 2019 in association with the Training and Placement Office, VIT. This

FDP was conducted by the TATA Consultancy Services. Mr. Gaurav Ghelani, Academic

Relationship Manager, TCS focused on the correct learning and development of

students through SWOT analysis. Mr. Shrikant Shiralkar also from TCS, initiated the

discussion by highlighting the importance of ‘Problem Based Learning’ (PBL) in the

current job scenario in corporate and education sectors. He discussed the major pillars

involved in the designing and execution of PBL for students; role of teachers and

students, time, process and methods. Various perspectives of the members present were

considered for the effective execution of the PBL. Mr. Shiralkar also involved the faculty

present for the session through a series of games; wherein, the actual execution of how

to incorporate PBL experiments was acted by various teams.

FE Orientation Program 2019-20

Department of First Year Engineering had organized an ‘Orientation Program’ for all

branches in the month of July 2019 which was divided into three sessions. The main

objective of this program was to brief the students about the working of the college.

This program helped to make the new entrants aware of all the subjects in Semester I

and their industry application. The session proved to be of immense value to all the

participants.

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking”.

– Albert Einstein 3

Student Speak

Hrishika Samani

(FE INFT-B)

My First Semester experience, here, in VIT has been amazingly adventurous and full of activity. Academically speaking, I am extremely satisfied with my faculty and their methods of teaching. The various events conducted in college; in cultural, technical, literary or sports; help students to explore themselves in areas of their interest. The “Fresher’s Week” arranged especially for Freshers was a great event that was highly successful. First Semester was as thrilling as any roller coaster ride, with its own twists and turns. I feel very proud to be associated with such a prestigious institute. Proud to be a VITian.

Isha Kakade

(FE Biomedical)

My journey in VIT started on 8 August, 2019 when I was very scared and restless being at totally unknown campus amongst new faces everywhere. Little did I know that all the teachers would be as warm and caring as our parents. I also enjoyed the Fresher’s week wherein I participated and won the ‘Sherlock Bakshi!’ task. Our faculty encourage us to take active part in all such activities, but at the same time they teach us so well at such a comfortable pace that I did not feel the need to join any sort of classes.

Department of Information Technology

ITSA Activity: Calculator Workshop

Information Technology Student Association (ITSA) organized its first workshop on

Monday, the 16th September 2019. The aim of organizing a calculator workshop was to

give a basic understanding of using a scientific calculator to the first-year engineering

students. The speakers of the workshop were Mr. Aniket Singh, Ms. Nupoor Dode, Mr.

Sameer Bhosle and Mr. Raj Dedhia, students of Third Year Information Technology. The

workshop included teaching of new functions on casioFx-991esplus and casioFx991esX

scientific calculator. The workshop tackled solving tedious operations through various

tips and tricks. A quiz was conducted towards the end for self-evaluation of students. In

all, 205 students participated and students expressed their positive feedback on the

workshop and were completely satisfied with the learning experience.

TECH TREE

TECH TREE is a technical blogging initiative by the Department of Information

Technology under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Deepali Vora, Professor in Department of

Information Technology. Tech tree aims for everyone to learn and gather sense of

awareness about latest technical updates by our continuous blog posts relating anything

and everything about technology. Tech blogs at http://itblog.vit.edu.in/. The website

created focuses on three sections to complete it as a single entity. First Section included

Tech blogs by students wherein students can participate in tech blogging, further sharing

their experiences and insights into technical domain according to their perspective.

Second Section focuses on technical articles by faculty members wherein, write ups

scripted by professors are presented on their respective field of study and interest. Third

section, indeed an interesting section would include our VIT Alumni talks where the

professionals groomed by VIT leading their respective sectors can share their experience

and knowledge giving students the industrial touch by their articles. Walking along this

pathway, Tech Tree aspires to broaden the perspective of students beyond academic

curriculum. We wish to ignite the spark of knowledge and wisdom, lending them a big

hand for becoming an industry favorable person.

Student Achievement:

VIT congratulates Mr. Hitesh Solanki, BE student

of the Department of Information Technology

2019 pass-out student for been selected for

Indian army as officer through SSC tech 53

(technical entry) from service selection board

Bhopal.

VIT also congratulates Ms. Shamiksha Dareka for

scoring highest 9.60 CGPI in MAY 2019 examinations.

Rutuja Nerurkar (Batch of

2011-15)

Machine Learning engineer in

Sapient Shopping, Inc in San

Jose, California, USA

Education and knowledge are

two important pillars of

anyone's life. In VIT, all the

professors not only give you

good education but also they

help you to gain knowledge

while studying. Learning process

is easier and involves lot of

knowledge building process.

Every professor at VIT is expert

and exceptionally talented in

their respective fields and they

help every student to get the

knowledge at its best. All the

professors and staff members

are extremely co-operative,

helpful and dedicated when it

comes to solving the doubts or

helping into the projects and

research. In order to pursue a

great career into this field it is

always important to have the

familiarity with programming

languages and basic

foundations of mathematics as

well. VIT helped me to gain

knowledge into both at its best

through which I am able to

pursue my dream career and

enjoying it everyday, having

good programming foundations

to me. VIT is the best place to

learn, study and gain knowledge

and I am extremely proud to be

a part of a great organization. I

am grateful to every professor

who always helped me through

out my career. I am proud to be

a VITian and I encourage more

students to be a part of VIT.

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss”.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson 4

Know an Alumna

Department of Computer Engineering

Digital Profile Building by CSI

The Digital Profile Building Workshop was

organized by CSI-VIT on 21 August 2019

wherein students were made aware of how

to build their digital profile, by the process

of analysing information about themselves

and publish it online. The session focused

on how to manage your personal brand and

digital profile. The speakers for the event

were Prof. Meenakshi Nandula and Prof.

Anuradha Bhatia.

4 Years Through College by CSI

The event was organized by CSI-VIT on 18

September 2019 wherein students of

different years of engineering shared their

experiences of college with others.

Pydata and Google Study Jam on

Cloud, Mumbai by CESA

The workshop was conducted by our speaker

Indranil Chandra, Intel Innovator, Dean of

School of AI and Sukanya Mandal from Pydata

Mumbai on 31 August 2019. The first talk was

by Indranil Chandra who apprised the

audience about Machine Learning and its

fundamental knowledge and terminology.

Awards by CSI Computer Society of India

CSI-Mumbai Chapter hosted the “Annual Industry – Academia Conference and Awards”,

“TECHNEXT INDIA, 2019” on 28th September 2019, at the WeSchool Auditorium,

Welingkar Institute of Management, Matunga. Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, has

been conferred with the following awards. Best Institute Award - Innovative pedagogical

approaches and tools; Best Head of the Department Award to Prof. Arun Chavan (HOD,

Computer Department) Best Faculty Award to Prof. Anuradha Bhatia (IT Department) and

Best Project Guide to Prof. Kavita Shirsat (Computer Department).

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Name: Prof. Mandar Sohani

Education Qualification:

Pursuing Ph.D.

Teaching Experience :

20 years

Area of specialization :

Image Processing, Embedded Systems, Programming

Nachiket Parchure

My journey in Mumbai started as a

scared, lonely boy with language

barriers, introverted kid. As an

OHU, moving from Sangli to

Mumbai was a huge step for me.

When I joined VIT, it all started

making sense, the culture, the

people, students, teachers all were

too intellectual for me at that

time. I could barely speak Hindi or

English. But slowly, I made some

good friends and you know how

friends are; they’ll stick by you

despite your

shortcomings. Throughout this

journey, Vidyalankar made a huge

impact on me. I got to know my

amazing teachers from the

computer engineering

department, who were always

there to guide me, help me

whenever I needed them, be it for

academics or my personal life.

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people”.

― Sir Isaac Newton 5

Faculty Profile

Know an Alumnus

Best Wishes to all in future

endeavors...

Department of Electronics and Telecommunications

Engineering

Industrial Visit to Reliance Jio

An Industrial visit for faculty members was conducted on 2nd July 2019. The visit was

organized to mitigate curricular gaps and understand the practical aspects of 5th

generation mobile communication. Dr. Munir Sayyad, (Assistant Vice president, Reliance

Jio) explained the conventional education model and future education model followed by

the architecture of the 5G, component trends and deployment strategies including role of

RF and fiber links in 5th generation.

Industrial Visit to Tata Telecommunications Ltd.

An Industrial visit was organized for the undergraduate students of Department of

Electronics and Department of Electronics and Telecommunications to Tata

Telecommunications Ltd. on 19th September 2019 of third year and final year students.

The visit was aimed to study the operations of Inmarsat Satellite Services, working of RF

front end design, Network operations using Fibre optics, Operation of routers, switches

and multiplexers for facilitating data and voice communications.

Guest Lectures

A Guest lecture on “Industrial applications of Digital Systems’’ was conducted on August

8th 2019 to give students an insight about the details regarding industrial applications,

recent advancements and recent trends in the field of digital Electronics. Mr. Shirishkumar

Joshi, Director, Technical Applied Digital Microsystems Pvt Ltd. was the Guest speaker for

this seminar. A Guest lecture also on “Tools and methods used in cyber security” was

conducted on August 27th 2019. The activity was intended to give students an insight

about the details regarding the tools and methods used in Cyber security. Ms Priya Savla

Dedhia (Certified Ethical Hacker, Co-Founder-Skynet secure solution) was invited as guest

speaker.

Workshop on PCB Designing

A three day workshop on PCB Designing was arranged

for second and third year students on 3rd, 10th and

31st August,2019. This workshop was led by Dr. Sanjay

Singh Thakur, Head of the Department of Electronics

and Telecommunications, Prof. Amit Maurya and Prof.

Mayurkumar Nanda. The objective was to organize

basic PCB designing workshop using spoken and

practical tutorials. The workshop was intended to train

students in designing PCBs. The session started with

the introduction to PCB and the need of the course for

an Electronics, Electronics & Telecommunication

engineer.

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more".

—Νikola Tesla 6

Faculty Achievements

Prof. Amit Maurya won best paper presentation award at ‘International Conference on Management, Engineering and Social Science (ICMESS-19)’ organized by Institute for Engineering Research and Publication (IFERP).

Faculty Members Prof. Ranjana Gite, Prof. VaibhavKshirsagar, Prof. Sheetal Mapare, Prof. Ashish Shekhar, Prof. Snehal Ashtekar, Prof. Sayali Todkari, Prof. Santosh Jagtap were appreciated for their contribution in Organising One day workshop on ’Data Organisation in Revised accreditation Framework of NAAC’.

Dr. Sanjay Singh Thakur receives token of gratitude as a invited Dignitary at Dr. Rammonohar Lohia Avadh University, UP,India on the occasion of 62nd Annual IETE Convention–2019 and “International Conference on Industry 4.0” .

Department of Electronics Engineering

Visit to Nanofabrication Lab IITB

A visit was organized for BE students of Electronics and Bio-

medical Department at Centre of Excellence in

Nanoelectronics (CEN) at Indian Institute of Technology

Bombay was established in 2006. CEN is a resource formed

to serve academic, industrial and governmental researchers

in the field of nano-electronics.

Industrial Visit to “Sarda Farms”,

Nashik

An Industrial visit was organized to Sarda

Farms, Nashik on 27 September 2019 where

they were introduced to the industry

standard scale used for weighing the weight

of milk delivered, cattle feed inventory,

milking parlour’s balcony, biogas generation

plant.

Workshop by EESA

The seminar on report writing was organized on 29 August

2019 by ESSA The seminar was conducted by Dr. Anjali

Deshpande to elaborately show the formal style of writing a

report on a topic. Students got the importance of report

writing as being a document that would be easy to read and

navigate.

Guest Talk

A Guest Talk by Mr. Shishir Gupta on “Applications on Power

Eletronics” was conducted on 30th July 2019 for B.E students. The lecture concentrated on

one of the applications of power electronics. The topic was “Ship Control System”. The

lecture gave insight to students about Variable frequency Drive and torque control speed

control method, vector controlled method and also to understand the role of Power

electronics in Industrial Automation system Architecture.

Induction Program

The Induction program was organized for B.E students on

8th July 2019. The objective of the program was to make

the students aware about requirement of skillsets for Core

companies, brief introduction to all the subjects of

semester VII and about the Fraydio that was started in the

college campus.

Aspects of Progress

“Slow Progress is better than No Progress” 7

Dr. Anjali Deshpande completed her course on Control of Mobile Robot by Coursera.

Dr.Sangeeta Joshi gave talk at “Engg. Staff college of India”; Hyderabad on Data organization & frame work for NAAC and Planning for NAAC Peer team visit.

Prof. Shrikant Velankar published books on Computer Organization & Architecture for Computer & IT Engg.

Prof. Poonam Shah published book on Instrumentation System Design.

Shashwat Sanghavi

Shashwat Sanghavi studied in VIT from year 2013-16. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Microelectronics and Microsystems at Technical University of Hamburg, Germany. Parallel with his studies Shashwat is working at a German Automotive company.

Scholars Day was held for all students of Third Year and final year for their excellent performance in IV and VI semester on 1st August 2019. The certificates were distributed to Institute topper, the class toppers & subject toppers.

Faculty

Achievements

Scholars Day

Past Perfects

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Course Induction Program

At the onset of semester, all students from second year,

third year and final year were given a formal Induction

Program in second week of July. The purpose of this

Student Induction Programme was to help the students

adjust and feel comfortable in the new semester,

inculcate in them the ethos and culture of the

institution, help them build bonds with other students

and faculty members, and expose them to a sense of

larger purpose and self exploration.

Hospital Visit to Anatomy & Physiology Department of Seth G. S.

Medical College Parel

A comprehensive visit was arranged from 16th September to 28th September 2019 for

students of second year Biomedical Engineering. This was part of our Academic

Collaboration with Seth G.S. Medical College Parel. The objective of the visit was to get a

clear understanding of the Anatomical System and Physiological Processes.

Workshop on Automatic External Defibrillator

(AED)

A one Day workshop on Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)

was organized by Biomedical Engineering Students Association

(BMSA). The workshop was conducted on 14th September,

2019. The workshop was addressed by Mr. Vijay Jadhavar

National Sales Manager- Stryker India Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Madhu Nair

Director of Summit Healthcare and Mr. Jitendra Chouhan

Regional Sales Manager at Spencer India.

Awareness Seminar on Organ

Donation

An Awareness seminar was jointly organized by

BMSA and BMESI-VIT Chapter on 14th

September, 2019. The seminar was addressed by

Ms. Meera Suresh, Zonal Transplant Coordinator.

Aarti Ahire.

“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”

- Subhash Chandra Bose

Name of Alumnus:

Siddharth Roychowdhury

Batch: 2014

Siddharth Roychowdhury is an

alumnus of VIT, passed out in

the year 2014 from the Bio-

medical Engineering

Department.

What are you doing currently?

Currently I am working as an Officer Biomedical Engineer in Wockhardt Hospitals, Nagpur. I look after two hospitals of the Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd. (Wockhardt Hospital and Wockhardt Superspeciality, Nagpur)

How has VIT helped you?

Knowledge is foundation for

everything. I was fortunate

enough to come across good

teachers and best

infrastructure. Good Subject

knowledge has helped me to

have good technical

understanding of the field. VIT

has helped me to groom

myself with requisite skills

including Presentation and

Communication Skills. The

institute has created a sense of

curiosity to think and build

novel solutions.

-Ms. Devanshi Shinde

T. E. Biomedical Engineering

Devanshi focused on women

hygiene issue by providing

sanitary pads under her start-

up brand called “FREEDOM

ASTHRA” under umbrella of

D.S. CREATIONS in the year

2018. 8

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Student

Entrepreneur

Mr. Sachin Sawant

Qualifications:

MDP, XLRI Jamshedpur

Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, Carrier Point University

PGDBA, Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

Battalion Support Weapons

,Infantry School, Mohw, Indore

Commando, Commando

School, Belgaum Karnataka,

India; Young Officers Course,

Infantry School, Mohw

(Indore); Commissioned

Officer, Officers Training

Academy, Chennai.

Experience:

HR Ops & Talent Acquisition

Head, Marks and Spencer

;General Manager Human

Resource-Region West,

METRO/MAKRO Cash and

Carry ; AGM-Human Resource,

Industrial Relations &

Administration - EMR - South

Asia, APM Terminals; Human

Resource, Fortis, Healthcare ;

Human Resources Manager,

Marks and Spencer; Corporate

Recruitments & HR

Operations, Aditya Birla Retail

Limited; Human Resources(

West Zone , Future Group ;

Captain, Indian Army; Asst

Manager - Personnel, Sharp

Services; Personnel &

Administration Assistant, Taj

Air Caterers; Quality Control

Supervisor, Cambata Aviation

Pvt Ltd.

Department of Management Studies

Operations Summit

With the emergence and application of new

technology that has added to the efficiency of

a supply chain, the Operations Summit Event

was conducted on the 21st of September

2019. The theme of the event being ‘Home

Delivery – Creating Customer Facing Supply

Chains’. The event was organized and

managed by 2nd year MMS Operations

Students of VIT Management Department for

their peers in the 3rd year of BMS at VSIT.

Speakers like Mr. Pinak Deshmane, Principal

Strategist in Accenture, very eloquently talked about and explained the concept of Industry

4.0 followed by panel discussions. The panel consisted of esteemed guests-Mr. Ashok

Sharma, Mr. Subhash Shukla, Mr. Jayant Kulkarni, Mr. Pinak Deshmane and Mr. Uday

Deshmukh who discussed about the drone technology, Dell Computer's supply chain and

many more insightful facts.

Operations IV

The MMS department at VIT

organized a field visit to Connectwell

Industries Pvt. Ltd. in Dombivali on

the 23rd of August 2019 for students

of the operations department. This

provided an ideal opportunity for

operations students to firsthand

experience all these processes,

techniques and activities and also to

observe and study the multi-step

manufacturing procedure.

Digital Transformation

The Digital Transformation session was a plethora of new ideas of prominent guest

speakers like Mr. Harikrishnan Pillai, CEO of Talestroke, and Mr. Pankaj Samtani, Business

Head of Talestroke. Mr. Samtani, who having extensively worked in B2B & B2C sales for

over 5 years, and having received recognition as one of India’s top 15 sales executive,

explained to us how he aims to upscale the careers of budding professionals through

digital marketing courses. Mr. Harikrishnan’s entire session revolved around ‘Innovation’

but more deeply to encourage the students to move from the ‘Innovation of Rebellion’ to

‘Innovation of Viability’.

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Editor:

Micky Barua, Department of Humanities

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