STTP on Design and Development Trends for PV Solar Power Plant - Darshan Institute of Engineer… · & Machine Learning, organized by Department of Computer Engineering, Government

DIET e-Newsletter, December 2018

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Educational Events

STTP on Design and Development Trends for PV Solar Power Plant

One week short term training program (STTP) on Design and Development Trends for PV SolarPower Plant was organized at the campus during 10-15 Dec. 2018. The program was jointlyorganized by Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and Department of Electrical Engineeringat the Institute. The objective of the program was to cover principles and practices in Solar PVpower plant design, operation and maintenance as well as to review current regulations andgovernment policies. The program was targeted for academicians, industry practitioners andresearch scholars and it received participation from all categories with total of 33 participants.

The program had a blend of theory and hands-on sessions which were conducted by invitedexperts and faculties from the host Department. Few of the invited eminent speakers include Dr.Narendra Shiradkar, IIT Bombay, Dr. A. K. Panchal, SVNIT, Surat, Shri Snehal Thumar, AmbitEnergy Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot, Shri Jay Dhola, Goldi Solar Pvt. Ltd, Surat, Shri S. R. Pandey, GujaratElectricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), Gandhinagar and Shri R. J. Vala, Gujarat Urja VikasNigam Ltd. (GUVNL), Vadodara. Experts covered various topics related to PV modules and othersystem compnoents, desing of power plants, use of CAD tools, practices toward operation andminatenance, degradation phenomenon, perfomrnace analysis, governemtn regulations etc.Hands-on sessions also inclued field session at 50 kWp Solar PV installation at the Institute aswell as visit to 2 MWp plant at Ramod, Gujarat.



Educational Events

STTP on Design & Troubleshooting of Heat Exchanger and Air Conditioning

Department of Mechanical Engineering organized one week short term training program (STTP)on Design & Troubleshooting of Heat Exchanger and Air Conditioning during 17-21 Dec., 2018.STTP was supported by GUJCOST, DST, Govt. of Gujarat and approved by ISTE & GTU. Theobjective of the program was to provided platform to bridge the gap between theory & practicalaspect in design of heat exchanger as well as duct design for air conditioning. The programreceived participation from 30 faculties from various institutes across Gujarat region.

Various eminent person from academics and industries active in this domain were invited todeliver sessions during the program. To name few Prof. Rushi Raval, Assistant Professor, GEC –Bhuj, Mr. Apurva Shah, Director, Patels Airtemp Ltd.-Gandhinagar, Mr. Ashwin Gadara, Sr.Engineer, Ingersoll Rand-Ahmedabad, Mr. Sunil Bhatia & Mr. Dilip Gajjar, Shree Engineers-Ahmedabad and Mr. Rakesh Mahar, Technical Team Member, ISRO Ahmedabad. Starting withfundamentals major topics covered during the program included TEMA standards, sizing, ratingand design of Heat Exchanger, use of Xchanger suite for designing & troubleshooting of STHEand air cooled heat exchanger, heat load calculations, duct design servicing & troubleshooting ofair conditioning system, etc. Valedictory function of the program was honored by the presence ofMr. Rameshbhai Vora, Founder & Managing Director, Robin Precision Ltd.-Rajkot.



Educational Events

Civil Engineering Knowledge Carnival

Department of Civil Engineering organized Civil Engineering Knowledge Carnival during 26-28Dec., 2018 for the students of all semesters at the Department. The objective of the event was tomake students interact with people from field and learn actual field practices and technologyadvancements. This one week of carnival included expert talks along with hands-on activities.Expert talk on ethics in Civil Engineering, urban town planning, waste water treatment process,highway management, scaffolding technique, concreting practices, safety, etc. were arranged.The talk were delivered by eminent persons active in this field.

Apart from expert talk, the event also had hands-on field practices related to determination ofSBC and settlement from Plate Load Test, design of concrete mix as per IS: 10262-2009, designof bituminoud mix as per MS-2 (7th Edition), foundation layout practice, surveying using TotalStation, etc. 200+ Students of the Department participated in this event and got benefited.

Three Day workshop at e-Yantra Robotics Laboratory

The Institute has e-Yantra Embedded and RoboticsLaboratory at Department of Electronics &Communication. The laboratory has been set-up inassociation with IIT-Bombay. As a part of variousactivities at this laboratory a 3 days workshop onLearning Microcontroller through Application BasedApproach using FIRE BIRD V Robot was organizedbetween 17-19 Dec., 2018. The objective of theworkshop was to introduce a new microcontrollerplatform through application development using FIREBIRD V Robot. The workshop was targeted for BE Sem6 students of Department of Electrical Engineeringand total of 20 students participated in the workshop.During the workshop various hardware andprogramming concepts were introduced.



Student Achievement

Nanodegree from Udacity India in association with Google

Kavya Halani, BE Sem. 8, Department of ComputerEngineering successfully completed Nanodegreeprogram on Front End Web Developer, as a part ofGoogle India Challenge Scholarship 2018 fromUdacity India in association with Google. She wasselected for the scholarship on the basis of her brightperformance in Google India Challenge. Thescholarship program was from 29 May – 29 Nov,2018. The achievement is worth appreciating as onlylimited number of students are selected for thisprogram from thousands of aspiring students.

Staff Achievement

Completed Ph.D

Prof. Nilesh M. Gambhava, Department of Computer Engineering successfully completed hisPh.D. studies in the area of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from Nirma University,Ahmedabad. The title of his research work was Hashtag Clustering Using Genetic Algorithm.

Prof. Gopi B. Sanghani, Head of Computer Engineering Department successfully completed herPh.D. studies in the area of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from Nirma University,Ahmedabad. The title of her research work was Personalized E-mail spam filter using supportvector machine.

Attended Short Term Training Program

Prof. Jaesh Vagadiya from Department of Computer Engineering attended one-week STTP on AI& Machine Learning, organized by Department of Computer Engineering, GovernmentEngineering College, Rajkot during 17-21 Dec., 2018. The objective of the workshop was toprovide an exposure to recent trends in Machine Learning.

Placement NewsTop Recruitment of this Month

Mehul Kantariya, BE Sem. 8, Department of Mechanical Engineering gotplaced in Invent Cast Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot with CTC of ₹ 1,32,000. We wish avery bright career ahead.



Year in Review 2018

Major Achievements in 2018


87% placement of 2014-2018 batch of students during their final year.

Team of faculties from DIET secured position in top five teams in India in Task-Based TrainingChallenge (Phase-III) launched by e-Yantra Embedded and Robotics Center, IIT-Bombay. TheInstitutes also established e-Yantra Laboratory in association with IIT-Bombay.

Team of student from DIET secured 1st Rank in Ultratech Sparkling Star Competition – 2018.

DIET was ranked in Platinum Category in a survey jointly conduced by All India Council forTechnical Education (AICTE) and Confederation of India Industry (CII) for year 2018. Thesurvey was to evaluate industry linkages for all institutions functioning under AICTE and only19% of institutes from total of 9576 were ranked in Platinum Category.

DIET receives SSIP Nodal Center under SSIP Grant (Institute) Phase-III for year 2018-2021.As a part of this, over the period of three years, DIET commits to spend Rs. 30 lakh on variousactivities under SSIP with funding support of Rs. 15 lakh from Government through SSIPgrant.

In year 2018, 5 Short Term Training Program ( STTP ) were conducted at the DIET inassociation with agencies like GTU, ISTE, GUJCOST, etc. Around 100+ faculties from variousinstitutes of the State attended these programs and were benefited.

AndMany More...

In Spirit-2018, an annual sports festival of Gujarat Technological University, DIET studentswon 3 Silver and 7 Bronze medals. As a team Institute stood at 2nd position at GTU level inswimming events.

10 Students from DIET cleared GATE-2018 examination. GATE is an all India examinationconducted by IISc. and IITs and is highly competitive with average result of less than 15%.

DIET continued its association with Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) andNational Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) in year 2018 for collaborative task of Urja MitraHome – mobile energy conservation van and SuryaMitra skill development program in solarenergy respectively.



Year in Review 2018

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Year in Review 2018


Festivals Celebrated in 2018



Alumni Corner

Alumni Meet 2018

Alumni meet for Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Electronics &Communication Engineering was organized on 22 Dec., 2018. The function received anoverwhelming response with 140+ alumni becoming part of it. Alumni interacted with their oldfriends, faculties and visited department to see recent developments. Two new laboratories atthe Department namely Solar lab and Center for Advance Training in Industrial Automationwere inaugurated by Alumni. In the main function held at Institute auditorium AlumniAppreciation Award – 2018 were awarded to one student from each department for theiroutstanding performance in professional career. The awardees were Ronak Gokani (EE, 2015Batch), currently working at Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar and Jimish Ajmera (EC, 2014Batch), currently working at Mohsin Haider Darwish LLP, Oman.

Arrangements were made to make this day special and memorable for alumni througharrangement of various sports & recreational activities, games, DJ & Ras-garba, campfire, etc.



The Boy Who loved

Book Review

Author: Durjoy DattaPublication: Penguin Random House India

Durjoy Datta knows how to make his readers emotional. The Boy who loved, thefirst of a two-part romance, is warm & dark, edgy & quirky, wonderfullyrealistic & dangerously unreal.

The book is diary of young boy from Delhi Raghu Ganguly, his family, his plansto study in IIT and a guilt that he harbors deep inside. The guilt of letting hisclosest friend drown in the school’s swimming pool gnaws at him. Thus, helikes to stay away from the world, hiding and shying. As he transfers to a newschool he finds a girl named Brahmi who is just like him shy, silent & intelligent,yet so different. No matters how hard Raghu tries not to, he begins to care for Brahmi. Parallel to hisstory there are another stories which are smoothly interrelated to one another that it leaves thereader hungry for more content.

Raghu’s elder brother Anirban falls in love with a Muslim girl and gets married to her against thewish of their parents. And thus it starts to mess up their lives. Life throws unforeseen challenges atRaghu every second day.

The book is full of tragic twists and turns. The plot does sound simple but the way things unfoldkeeps the readers engaged. The best thing about the novel is characterization. The emotional side ofRaghu is explained to the perfection. The Climax is unexpected and surprising. One might not haveexpected the climax and it gives a lead to part 2 as well.

Some chapters will feel like dragging and depressing but apart from that Durjoy has proved againthat he is a master story teller.

Author: Ayushi Jha (BE Sem. 4, CE)

Pencil Sketch

Creative Corner

-Piece of Art by

Twisha kotecha (BE Sem 8, CE)



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