“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

—Margaret Thatcher

Positive thinking is very important when examinations are

round the corner. Impossible and improbable becomes

inevitable if one has the will to achieve it. The myriad of

activities at Vidyalankar where we see learning through

doing is the best way to approach any difficult problem.

Events like Sportsmania 2018 proves that like in sports,

hard work does matter in life.

To add to our repertoire of excellence, Dr. Saurabh Mehta

from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, received the

Distinguished Faculty Award in developing/using innovative teaching methodologies by

CSI Mumbai Chapter on 10 February 2018, TechNext India 2018, IITB, Mumbai.

In addition to these, the Department of Computer Engineering also received the “Best

Accredited Student Branch Award from CSI”. VIT appreciates the contribution of all its

stakeholders in helping us achieve this and looks forward for their continued support. I am

also glad to express that we had many events in the campus in this quarter which proved

to be a huge success. Apart from many other technical and non-technical events, “Verve

2018‟ caught the maximum attention from both inter and intra-college students. I would

also like to whole-heartedly congratulate the students who graduated from this institute in

2017 by a time-honored ceremony that celebrated individual students‟ achievements. A

much awaited event in every graduate‟s life, it was not just the culmination of years of hard

work in the acquisition of a formal education, but it also marked the graduate‟s entry into

the professional world where he would apply his knowledge.

A fitting finale and a beginning of a new journey...all the very best...

Inside this

Issue

Degree Distribution

Verve 2018

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

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

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01 January-

31 March

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VOLUME IX

Issue 3

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Prof. Varsha Bhosale,

VIT, Vice-Principal

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Degree Distribution Ceremony

On Saturday, 17 January 2018, on behalf of the

University of Mumbai, Vidyalankar Institute of

Technology conducted its Degree Distribution

Ceremony for the batch of its students who had

graduated in 2017. The Chief Guest for the event was

Vishal Chaudhari, Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO,

Insignytics. An alumnus of the Institute, and a

management graduate from Wharton School,

University of Pennsylvania; Mr. Vishal spoke of the

tremendous opportunities in store for the graduates.

International Women‟s Day

Women Development Committee of Vidyalankar organized

the celebration of the 'International Women's Day' on 8th of

March, on the theme „Press for Progress‟. Mrs. Meenal

Mahodikar and Ms. N. Ambika, shared their enlightening life

experiences with all. To recognize the economic, social and

political achievements of women in various fields interactive

session was carried out.

VERVE 2018

The college festival, VERVE 2018 was held from 15th February to 17th February with the

power packed SPORTSMANIA which brought every sportsperson and enthusiast together, the

digital contraption which triggered VERVE'18, the scintillating NUCLEYA‟s LIVE concert that

set the mood, the unnerving dance performances which rocked the stage, the fine blend of

cultures-„Bioscope', the debates, games which enthralled all to the core with a sizzling

„ReDhun‟ and ‟Lets Nacho‟ performance. Adding to all, ReVERVEd, a band event also put up a

real show where Abhanga Repost, a 5 well known band piece judged the event. Class wars,

laser tag, poetry slam, Graffitee were some of the events to steal the show with the Mr. and

Miss VIT was bagged by Siddesh Lokare and Esha Acharya.

Aspects of Progress

“ Life is no about finding yourself. Life is about Creating Yourself ” 2

VIT's Parent Interaction

Committee organized a

seminar on "Your key to

success, Enhancing soft skills."

The Guest Speaker was Mrs.

Vaishali Paradkar, Senior

Manager, Deloitte Consulting

India Pvt. Ltd.

“Bicycle to College Day” was

observed on 21 March, 2018 by

Dr. Poonam Bathla on behalf

of Green VIT Club. The

objectives were to create

awareness about benefits of

bicycling to all.

Tribute

Parent-Student

Interaction

Bicycle to College day

at VIT

Vidyalankar pays rich tributes

to Chhatrapati Shivaji

Maharaj to mark the great

Maratha King's birth

anniversary, with a unique

and grand procession on the

campus involving students

and teachers from VIT.

Department of First Year Engineering

Intensive Education Program Committee‟s Guidance Session for

Students

The First Year Engineering Department organised a

counselling session for academic gap and KT

students on 01 March 2018 to help them handle

post-result pressure and motivate to perform

better in coming exams. Ms. Archana Samarth,

who is a VDT Counsellor, was invited as a speaker

for the session which was arranged for both

students as well as their parents.

Mini Projects Exhibition

Students of Computer Engineering branch and the Division A of Electronics Engineering

Department got a chance to display their Applied Chemistry Mini Projects in the

Exhibition organized by Dr. Smruti Tekale on 26 March 2018. The experts examined the

mini projects and suggested students to find the industry applications of the projects.

Students well explained the real life applications and Problem Based Learning from the

projects. Some were also displayed in the Tantravihar 2018.

Priming Students to be „You‟nique

Department of Humanities organised two workshops on Communication Skills on 05

March, 2018 for First Year Engineering students. The workshops were conducted by Mr.

Yatin Borkar, who is a Master NLP

Practitioner & Certified Executive/Life

Coach, and Mr. Kalpak Chavan, a Business

Analyst, Col-labera Inc., Principal

Co-Founder of BeHiver. The topic of Mr.

Borkar‟s workshop was “Be „You‟nique”

which laid emphasis on how to identify

ones individual style of learning. Mr.

Kalpak Chavan introduced the students

to Design Thinking for successful start-

ups.

In Memoriam

The Applied Physics Department

observed Albert Einstein's birth

anniversary on March 14 amidst

students and teachers. VIT also

pays tribute to the brilliant British

physicist Stephen Hawking, who

made breaking contributions to

cosmology and quantum physics.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”

-Abraham Lincoln 3

Faculty Profile

Name : Dr. Divyesh Patel

Department: :

First Year Engineering

Qualification:

Ph.D (Mathematics)

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Specialization:

Applied Mathematics & Engineering Mathematics

Ashwita Midivelli

The brilliant students and toppers of the first semester were felicitated with certificates on 23 March, 2018. The overall topper for Semester I Examination is Ashwita Midivelli from the Division A of ETRX. Abhishek Dhavale and Ganesh Moota in Mathematics; Safal Dawankar, Shubham Patil in Physics and Siddhesh Sovitkar in Applied Physics and Chemistry both; Abhishek Arvind in Engineering Mechanics; Deepak Misal in BEE and Priyanka Chaurasia in Environmental Studies.

Felicitation of

Toppers

Department of Information Technology

Semester VII Orientation program for Selection of Elective Subject

for TE students

An Orientation program for the selection of elective subjects for coming seventh

semester was organized and conducted by Information Technology Department under

the guidance of Third year Academic Coordinator and Head of the Department on 21

March 2018. Students were introduced to all six elective subjects and were informed

about the importance of all electives and applications in the real life.

ACM Activities: Seminar on C Programming

using IDE in association with Google

Dr. Meenakshi Arya, Head of Information Technology

Department addressed the audience about coding and its

development and stressed on how important it is to practice

coding on various platforms on 6 February 2018. The seminar

started when our convener discussed about coding,

components, advantages and examples.

ITSA Activity: Seminar on Technical paper writing

ITSA (Information Technology Student‟s Association) organized a seminar on Technical

Paper Writing for all branches. The seminar was conducted by Dr. Meenakshi Arya, Head

of Department, Information Technology on 1 February 2018.

Inspire To Empower

International Women's Day is annually held on 8th March to celebrate women's

achievements throughout history and across nations. As a prequel to it, Information

Technology Department conducted the event “Inspire to Empower” on 5th March 2018

with association of ITSA, ACM and IEEE committee at Vidyalankar Institute of

Technology. The guests were Ms. Maitri Shah, Co-founder, Wills on Wheels; Dr.Parinita

shah, renowned Kathak dancer; Ms Rajat Mittal, Co-founder Inventia Healthcare, Ms.

Neelam Pol, CEO Khel Planet and Dr. Aarti Sarin, Sr. Registrar, INHS.

Name:

Prof. Deepali Vora

Department :

Information Technology

Designation :

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification :

Ph.D (Pursuing) in Computer

Science and Engineering

Experience : 18 years

VIT congratulates Myatri

Ravindra for scoring highest

marks in the third year of

Semester V December 2017.

“Don’t let Yesterday take up too much of Today” ―Will Rogers

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Myatri Ravindra

Faculty Profile

Student Spotlight

Department of Computer Engineering

TEDXVIT: Understanding the Box

Vidyalankar Institute of Technology hosted its very

first TEDx event on 21 January 2018. There were 12

speakers, all from different domains and each with a

different thought and concept to talk about. The

theme for the event was “Understanding the Box.”

Mr. Brijesh Singh, Actress Abhidnya Bhave, Captain

Aditi Paranjpe, Mr. Braj Mohan Das, leading journalist

Faye D‟Souza, Dr. Komal Rao, Mr. M. K. Anand, Mr.

Pratap Dodla, artist Rashmil Vaidya, Mr. Vikas

Khanvelkar, Dr. Yusuf Matcheswalla and Esha Acharya

were the speakers.

Internship Fair

CESA offered an internship fair to second

year and third year students on 10 March

2018. It was a prodigious event being the

first large scale event conducted by the

committee. Up to 10 companies were

involved in the event. There were companies

who offered internships on the spot by

taking interviews. The companies that

attended the fair include the likes of Insights

Project, 36th Element Tech, Workbeans Inc,

Periple Tour, SM Global, Cryptal and many more.

Google Crowd source Seminar

The Google Crowdsource event in association with

Google Crowdsource held on 30 January 2018. The

speaker was Mr. Ali Mustafa Shaikh who emphasised

on the credibility of women in coding by

introducing a committee “Women Techmakers.” Ali

Mustafa Shaikh informed about the Google

Crowdsource app and how students can help

improve the performance of a task with their

experience. This app maintains the teaching sets and

trains the algorithm for better and updates use of

data.

Department Activities

1.CSI conducted an event Arduino Workshop on 3rd February 2018; Treasure hunt and

LAN gaming competition during VERVE 2018; Quizophile for second year and third year

students and code –decode competition.

2.Prof. Sandeep Kamble, Prof. Prita Patil and Prof. Sachin Deshpande conducted an event

on 1 January 2018 on “Workshop on Linux and Internship”.

3.Prof. Amit Nerurkar, Prof. Rugved D., Prof. Dilip Motwani, Prof. Swapanil S., Prof. Umesh

K, Prof. Mohini K., Prof. Rasika R., Prof. Amit D. published papers in INDACOM 2018

conference at Delhi in March 2018.

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SHARDUL DABHOLKAR

College education acts as the key

to a successful future to

individuals and it provides a

financial security and helps a

person build a remarkable

reputation. I can definitely say this

was my case because of my alma

mater “Vidyalankar Institute of

Technology”. The four glorious

years that I spent here not only

helped to acquire more and more

knowledge but also helped me to

become a global citizen. From

attending Dale Carnegie sessions

to various STTP‟s, everything has

helped me a lot to increase my

knowledge.

VIT not only provides a

comfortable environment to study

but also a powerful source of

knowledge shared by the faculties

of the college. From learning

Chemistry in Semester I to

learning Distributed Computing in

Semester VIII, the journey has

been smooth and

comprehensive.

Not to forget the important thing

this college gave was bunch of

people with similar ideas with

similar lifestyle with whom we are

going to sail throughout the life

which made it a important part of

this journey.

“We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not be Defeated ”

―Maya Angelou 5

Know an alumnus

Department of Electronics and Telecommunications

Engineering

Guest lecture on „Practical aspects of Network security‟

A guest lecture on „Practical aspects of

Network security‟ was conducted on 29

January 2018 for Third year students.

Mr.Sachin Dedhia, Proprieter, Skynet Secure

Solutions, Mumbai delivered the lecture

which gave an insight about the details

regarding recent advancements in

Networking domain. The activity also intends

to give security of email accounts, net

banking, facebook etc.

Guest lecture on Mobile networks and

its evolution

A guest lecture on „Mobile networks and its

evolution‟ was organized on 30 January, 2018

wherein Shri Manoj Chaudhari was the guest

speaker for the event. The activity was intended to

give students an insight about the details

regarding recent advancements in mobile

networks and its evolution towards 4G/5G and

Next Generation Networks.

Guest lecture on „VLSI Design‟

A guest lecture on „VLSI Design‟ was organized by

Prof. Satendra Mane and Prof. Tejal Page on 8th

March 2018. Dr.Sudhakar Mande (Professor and

Head of the Electronics and Telecommunications

Department, Don Bosco Institute of Technology,

Mumbai) was invited as guest speaker for the

event. The activity was intended to give students

an insight about the recent advancements in VLSI.

Achievements of the Department

Prof. Dr.Saurabh Mehta designs Self-Learning Hands-on Course on IoT Designing and

Implemetation which consists of 49 experiments. The experiments are categorized in

three domains: sensor integration, implementation of communication protocols and

software integration. Link of the course is as under:

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etLbB6rPdOd08cGogMFRQwK4N_avELDs

?usp=sharing. )

Sixteen BE Project groups are selected for institute‟s prestigious annual project

competition „Tantravihar‟ 2018.

Prof. Tejal Page successfully conducts three training programmes under IETE.

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

- Albert Schweitzer 6

Talks Delivered by

Prof.Dr.Saurabh Mehta

Student

Achievements

Sanket Jain, Kalyani

Chaudhari, Juhi

Nagaich, Akbar Shaikh

won First prize in

RACEM Conference

held in VIT Mumbai in

2017 and also for

Technical paper

presentation

competition held at

MH Saboo Siddik

College of Engineering

,Mumbai.

Shreya Masurkar,Sayli

Raut, Tejashree,

Namrata won the

poster presentation

competition held at

VJTI, Mumbai in

February 2018. Also

they secured first prize

(Prize money of

Rs.2000) at KJSIEIT

Sion.

“How to Design Course on

IoT: A case Study of

Designing and

Implementation of IoT

Course,” S.Mehta, AIOUG

and ACM VIT, 24th March

2018, Mumbai.

“P2P Networking: A Case

Study of Bit Torrent

Protocol,” S.Mehta, AIKTC,

Panvel, Navi Mumbai, 9th

March 2018, Mumbai.

Case Study on

Development of IoT and

WSN Based Solutions”

S.Mehta, Fr. C. Rodrigues

Institute of Technology,

Navi Mumbai, 15 February

2018

“How to choose

conference/ journal for

publishing your research

work,” S.Mehta, Research

Meet, TECT, 5 January.

Department of Electronics Engineering

IEEE IRIS : “Inspire Resonate Integrate Succeed”

IRIS, the annual flagship event of IEEE stands for Inspire, Resonate, Integrate, Succeed. IEEE

through IRIS hosted a series of talks on 10 February 2018 by some extremely illustrious

speakers such as Dr. Vidita Vaidya, doctoral from Oxford university; a neuroscientist at TIFR;

Mr. Dinesh Israni, founder of Last Mile Business Solutions into this field since last 30 years;

Miss. Nirmala Kewlani and Miss Sunita Sancheti who performed the Miss wheelchair India

skit followed by the fourth Speaker, Mr. Kuntal Joishier, the first vegan ever to climb Mount

Everest.

Innovative Mini Project : “Street Light Intensity Control”

Raj Shah, Divya Sonawne, Prathamesh Patle and Deepak

Gound from Third year Engineering devised a system

which is designed in such a manner that the street

lights could reduce their intensity and save as much

energy as possible. These systems use leds (Light

Emitting Diode) instead of HID (High Intensity

Discharge) lamps due to dimming feature. There is also

a time slot allotted during which the intensity of the

system keeps reducing which turns the lights off in

the morning. Reduction of intensity starts gradually at

midnight when it is not much dark and there is not

much traffic and is switched off at 6 in the morning.

Talk on “Envision the Youth of India” by Dr.P.S.Pasricha; PRE-IRIS; IEEE

VIT

PRE-IRIS is the prequel to IEEE-VIT‟s flagship event, IRIS-Inspire, Resonate, Integrate and

Succeed. The event consisted of an inspirational talk given by ex-IPS officer and DGP of

Maharashtra, Dr. P.S. Pasricha. The talk commenced with a warm welcome of Dr P.S.

Pasricha who gave a brief introduction. He took the charge and narrated his entire life

journey in his own words and focused on the virtues of honesty, national character and

integrity, that an individual should inculcate in order to develop himself and his nation.

“You must do things you think you cannot do”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Scholar‟s Day was held for all

students of Third year and

Second year students of

Electronics Department. The

certificates were distributed

to all the class toppers,

subject toppers & Overall

toppers of each class of the

Department.

V-Bicycle is been

designed in Electronics

Department by B.E.

students Revati Naik,

Namita Murkar,

Karishma Hirve, Rohan

Sawant under the

guidance of Prof.

Shrikant Velankar. This

Dynamic Bicycle was

exhibited in “Magnetic

Maharashtra

:Convergence” 2018.

Design of Ladder using

Plannar and finfet

Technology is been

published in IEEE under

the guidance of Dr.

Sangeeta Joshi.

Student, Kunal Dua

achieved Third place in

State level Project

“TECHNOVENTION in

TECH-PULSE 2018” for

“Amphi Bot “

Team of student from

ETRX Department

participated in ABU

ROBOCON India 2018,

MIT Pune. They stood

5th in Maharashtra &

39th in India.

Department Achievements

Scholar‟s Day

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Industrial Visit to Thyrocare Technologies Limited, Navi Mumbai for students of Third Year Biomedical Engineering

An Industrial visit was conducted to Thyrocare Technolgies Ltd. Navi Mumbai for the

students of Third Year Biomedical Engineering on 03 March, 2018. The main objective of

the visit was to make the students aware about the automated sample analysis and

processing laboratory of Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. This was followed by the visit to the

CPL Lab of the company situated in the same premises. Students were exposed to the

different instruments that are used for the day to day analysis of the sample.

Industrial Visit to All India Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AIIPMR) Haji Ali, Mumbai

An Industrial visit to All India Institute of Physical

Medicine & Rehabilitation Center (AIIPMR). was

conducted on 28 March 2018. The visit was

arranged to help the students understand

various types of prosthetic implant and materials

used especially for fabrication of lower limb,

upper limb prosthetics and fabrication of PTB

sockets used in prosthesis and orthosis.

BMESI-VIT Chapter and BMSA jointly organized a One-Day Technical Festival “Impulse-2018”

One Day Technical Festival “Impulse-2018” on 24th March, 2018 was jointly organized by

BMESI-VIT Chapter and BMSA. This year the theme of the festival was to bridge the gap

between Medicine and Engineering. The first session was a Hand on Demonstration on

Electrosurgical Unit (ESU). The session was addressed by Mr. Ketan Bait & Mr. Hrishikesh

Nigudkar, Product specialist at Xcellance Medical Technologies Ltd, Navi Mumbai.

“Bridging the Gap” was the second event in the festival, where a panel of 4 speakers were

invited to discuss about Biomedical Engineering from their perspective.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

– Maria Robinson

Name :

Prof. Komal Lawand

Department :

Biomedical Engineering

Designation :

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification :

M.E. (Instrumentation)

Experience: 06 years

Areas of Interest:

Medical Imaging, Bio-Medical

Instrumentation, Human

Anatomy and Physiology,

Digital Circuits

Amogh Deshpande (2007-11)

What are you doing currently?

I look after Product

Management as a Product

Manager at Mid-mark India, a

102 years old company. We are

the market leader in hospital

furniture.

How has VIT helped you?

VIT has taught us the meaning

of Biomedical Engineering. VIT

has always been instrumental

in giving live experiences by

demos, on field hospital visits

and great mentoring by the

diverse staff, which has

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Faculty Profile

Know an Alumnus

Name : Smita Mukherjee

Department :

MMS

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification :

Research scholar at Tata

Institute of Social Sciences in

the area of leadership

MMS (HR), Commerce

Graduate

Experience: 8 years

Field visit was organized for

MMS Semester 2 students by

Dr.Rahul Mirchandani on 29

March 2018 at one of the

co-working space for startups

at GARAGE near Lower Parel.

A panel discussion was

arranged where they

discussed on how JET-LABS

help startups by giving office

spaces and also act as an

accelerator for startups by

guiding them to be the next

top Unicorns of country.

Department of Management Studies

Value Added Courses: The USP of VIT School of Management

To bridge the gap between industry and institute, VIT School of Management has

diligently mapped with Top global B-schools and also taken inputs from our Industry

Mentors and Board of Advisors to identify courses of industry relevance and came up with

Value Added Courses. These courses provide a significant edge and distinction to the MMS

program of VIT School of Management. In this respect five modules were executed for

students in the current semester to make them industry ready with sessions being taken by

Prof. Sugam Chaubal, LLM, and MBA with 22 years of experience in the Retail Industry;

Prof. Santosh Jagdhane, CSR-Head, Dorf Ketal Chemicals (I) Pvt Ltd., Prof. VN Banjan, CA,

CS, and CFA with 18 years of teaching experience in SIWS College, Welingkar and VIT

college; Mr. Abhay Desai-partner at Leap2Excel consulting LLP and Ms. Mamatha Adhikari.

Verve 2018

An Intercollegiate Annual fest of VIT

school of management, the festival was

actively conducted by MMS Department

in collaboration with the Engineering

Department on 15th, 16th and 17th

February 2018. Participants from top B

schools, like JBIMS, Chetna's Institute of

Management, Lala„s Institute of

Management, etc. were keenly

interested.

Professional Association with CII Yi YUVA:

To render practical corporate exposure, the institute has

signed up with the CII Yi YUVA chapter. In this respect, a

session on Crypto-currency (Bitcoin) and other recent

developments in Financial Domain was conducted by

Mr. Robin Banerjee, MD, Caprihans India Ltd. Chairman,

Finance and Taxation Committee.

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Editor:

Prof. Micky Barua, Department of Humanities

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Faculty Profile

Field Visit