Vidya Pratishthan’s
College of Engineering, Baramati-413 133
e-Newsletter
JULY 2015
FOREWORD
INSIDE THIS
It is our pleasure to publish our quarterly activities up to 30 June 2015 before
ISSUE:
FOREWORD
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SEMINARS/CONFERENCES
ORGANIZED AND ATTENDED
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The notable events have been the participation of the faculties in different IIT
QIPS, FDPS ATTENDED
AND RESEARCH PAPERS
students have shown their interest in the higher learning as well as research
field.
GUEST LECTURES AND
TRAINING PROGRAMS
you. In our e-Newsletter we mostly focus on the events in which our faculty and
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IN SEMINARS AND
campuses for Summer Research Fellowships and Faculty Development Pro-
CONFERENCES
INDUSTRIAL VISITS
grammes. This participation brings a value-added confidence and motivates oth-
ORGANIZED
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ACTIVITIES OF SCHOOL OF
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ers to be part of such events. Exposure is the key of quality development and pro-
STUDETNS’ ACTIVITIES
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gress. With this purpose in mind, many of our faculty members visited different
LIBRARY AND
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IITs for attending Quality Improvement Programmes (QIPs) and Short Term
ARCHITECTURE
PLACEMENT DETAILS
Courses. Industrial visits were also arranged by most of our faculty and it makes
them aware about the requirements and challenges in the outside world and thus
enlighten students about it.
To keep updated with new technology the workshops for students were organized
and to be in pace with syllabus of the University, faculties attended the Faculty
Development Programmes (FDPs). Some of our faculty members arranged WorkE D I T O R A N D
D E S I G N E R
A N I L
P A T I L
shops and courses like Auto-cad which are really useful to show students the experiments which help them to face the challenges in the outside world.
Foreword By
Dr. Nirmal Sahuji
Head (Gen. Sci. and Engg.)
Chairperson of e-Newsletter
SEMINARS/CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
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Prof. Digambar Padulkar
He coordinated a One-Week ISTE workshop on Introduction to Design of Algorithms which was organized by IIT Kharagpur. This workshop was part of
remote workshops organized by IIT Mumbai and IIT Kharagpur at Vidya
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Pratishthan’s College of Engineering, Baramati in association with National
Mission on Education of MHRD (Govt. of India). It was conducted during 25
May to 30 May 2015 and 16 participants attended this Workshop. Prof. Partha Chakrabarti, Prof. Das, Prof. Pallab Dasgupta delivered the lectures.
Prof. G. J. Chhajed, Prof. Dinesh Hanchate, Prof. Sushma Nandgaonkar, Prof. M. D. Shelar,
Prof. M. B. Rangdal, Prof. Ms. P. V. Madane, Prof. Kshitija Upadhyay, Prof. Bhushan Mahajan, Prof. Mrunili Katkar and Prof. Suraj Dhanve attended this Workshop.
SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, SRFPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ATTENDED
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Dr. Nirmal Sahuji
He attended a One-Week Training Program on Computer Interfaced Science
Experiments during 27 April to 2 May 2015 at Inter-University Accelerator
Centre, New Delhi. This Program was conducted by Dr. Ajith Kumar BP,
Scientist H of IUAC in New Delhi.
The training was imparted on EXPEYE project. It is a hardware and software framework for developing science experiments, demonstrations and projects. Design of EXPEYES combines the real-time measurement capability of micro-controllers
with the ease and flexibility of Python programming language for data analysis and visualization. It also functions as test equipment for engineering students.
SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, SRFPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ATTENDED
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Prof. Dinesh Zende
He attended a Two-Month Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP2015 at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi during May-June 2015. His faculty mentor at IIT Delhi was Dr. Jaya Srivastava. He worked on Financial
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Fraud Detection using Data Mining Techniques under her guidance.
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Mr. Sahil Shah
He attended a Two-Month Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP)-2015 of Indian
Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He was selected by the academy to work at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He successfully completed the work under this fellowship program during 18 May to 6 July 2015. Dr. Panigrahi B. K. of Electrical Engineering at IIT
Delhi mentored him. During this period, he worked in the field of Web Mining.
Address by Dr. Dipankar Chatterjee, IISc Bangalore during his meet with all IASc Research Fellows
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Prof. Anil Disale
He attended a One-Day Acquaintance Programme [Awareness about facilities and research opportunities at Inter-University Accelerator Centre
(IUAC) New Delhi] on 1 May 2015 at the Department of Physics, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad.
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Prof. Sandeep Bavkar
He attended a State Level Workshop organized by IETE on Embedded
Linux Development on ARM9 and MicroEmbedded Technology Sinhagad
Institute of Technology Lonavala, Pune during 17 June to 19 June 2015.
SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, SRFPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ATTENDED
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Prof. Keshav Jadhav
He attended a Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Programme (SFRF)-2015
under Continuing Education Program (CEP) at IIT, Delhi during 15 May to 2
July 2015. The main objective of this programme was to help to induct and
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inculcate research culture. The faculty also got the opportunity to interact and
work with the faculty and research students of the group and got exposure to
the equipment and laboratory facilities associated with the faculty mentors.
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Prof. D D Rupanawar
He attended a Short Term Course (STC) on Integrated Automation Technologies which was
held at IIT Delhi during 1 to 6 June 2015. He was adjudged as the Best Learner award based
on his performance in the quizzes conducted during the program.
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED IN SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
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Deepak Sonawane
He attended the Sixth National Conference on Multidisciplinary Research in Science and
Engineering–2015 at MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi during 5 to 6 June 2015. He
presented his research paper Honey Bees Have Geometrical Sense: A Mathematical Approach which has been published in the Proceedings of the Conference, pp.225-231,
ISBN: 978-93-84648-83-1.
GUEST LECTURES DELIVERED, TRAINING PROGRAMS/ WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED AND
COORDINATED
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Prof. Ashok Jadhav
He delivered a guest lecture on Biologically Inspired Computing: Introduction to GA and PSO
at Department of Electrical Engineering of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological Universi-
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ty, Lonere, on 21 May 2015. The participants for this Program were faculty and research
scholars from different technical institutions in Maharashtra. The title of the programme
was One week FDP on Nature Inspired Computations in Engineering (NICE). It was conducted
during 18 to 22 May 2015 under TEQIP-II.
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Dr. Anil Hiwarekar
He worked as a coordinator for Training Program on Campus to Corporate which was organized for First Year students by Grant Guru, Mumbai. This Program was organized to captivate and engage our students and apart from sessions on etiquette it also included the sessions on power point presentations, interactive discussions and pragmatic real world.
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He also worked as a coordinator of ISTE SRMC-2014-15 Chapter level and Zonal level
examination. Our college won three prizes for Zonal level and one National level examination for teachers and students.
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Prof. C B Nayak
He conducted a workshop on Auto-Cad during 27 March to 6 April for Second Year civil students. 35 students participated and benefited from this
event. The workshop was successfully completed under the guidance of Mr.
Vikram Bagade from Dexter Company. This workshop was very useful for
every civil engineer to plan various structures.
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ATTENDED
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Prof. Dilip Patil
He attended the QIP Short Term Course on Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics through Experiments which was held in IIT Bombay during 11 to 15 May 2015. This course was quite useful to understand teaching methods on Fluid Mechanics. Prof. B. S. Pani from Department of
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Civil Engineering was the Coordinator.
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Prof. Ajit Chaudhari and Prof. Shrikant Mahadik
Prof. Ajit Chaudhari and Prof. Shrikant Mahadik attended the faculty development program
on 27 June 2015. The workshop was specially designed for Faculty Advisers. The main purpose of the program was to enlighten the faculty about new developments as well as challenges so that they are fully prepared and well versed with all the possible future outcomes
for BAJA SAE INDIA 2016. Dignitaries from various industries and national bodies were present for the session.
Dr. K C Vora addresses the faculties
AWARDS IN MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS
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Dr. Gajanan Dhanorkar and Prof. Gauri Bhoite
They appeared for the Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematical Competition 2014-15 conducted by ISTE. Dr. Gajanan Dhanorkar stood in merit in this Examination at Zonal
Level Competitions. He won the Second Prize at the Zonal Level for Teachers. This Award
Function was held at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry on 4th
July 2015. Prof. Gauri Bhoite stood in merit in this Examination at National and Zonal
Level Competitions. She won National Level Consolation Prize and Zonal Level Third Prize
for Teachers.
AWARDS IN MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS
This Award Function was held at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry
on 4 July 2015. All the Prize Winners were felicitated by the Hon. Chief Minister namely N.
Rangaswamy of Puducherry. The Chief Guests for this function were the President of ISTE
Prof. Pratapsinh Desai and SRMC Project Coordinator Prof. R. Hariharan.
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Dr. Dhanorkar and Prof. Bhoite at the Award Function
INDUSTRIAL VISITS ORGANIZED
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Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an Industrial Visit to Krishi Vigyan
Kendra, Shardanagar. Prof. Avinash Kolekar, Prof. S. Taware, Prof. S. V. Shelge, Prof. V
Bhagwat, Prof. H Borate, Prof. K Jadhav, Prof. Y. Aaher, Prof. S. Zarekar, Prof. S.
Margutti, Prof. S. Mahadik, Prof. D. Rupanwar visited the place. The main objective of
visit was to study the modern agricultural technologies and equipments used at Krishi
Vigyan Kendra and also to study further advancement in the equipments with the
knowledge of mechanical engineering.
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Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, on the occasion of
Science Day organized the Industrial Visit to Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
observatory at Khodad on 28 February 2015. 105 students and 5 faculty members visited the place. Each year, Science Day is celebrated at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observatory.
VIDYA PRATISHTHAN’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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Fourth Year Architecture students organized a Farewell Party for Fifth Year on 15 April
2015 in coordination with Prof. Dipali Naik. The important thing about the event was
that this was School’s first batch which was going to enter the industry. The Formal
event was followed by speech by our Chief Guest Dr Milind Telang from Singhad College
of Architecture, our Principal Dr. S B Deosarkar and Prof. Harshad Raisoni. The informal
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event had all cultural events performed by students and the party ended with dinner and
music.
WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS ORGANIZED
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School of Architecture organized a Workshop on Dissertation (Research Methodology)
and Literature Review for Fourth Year students. It was conducted by Prof. Shilpa Sharma and Prof. Vinit Mirkar and was coordinated by Prof. Pranita Bhagat and Prof. Parag
Narakhade under the guidance of in-charge Principal Prof. Harshad Raisoni.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
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Prof Fatima Kabir
She successfully completed and achieved honored code certificate for Introduction to Psychology from EDX Harvard.
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She also conducted a Workshop at IES College of Architecture Mumbai for third year
students. The topic of the Workshop was Contemporary Architecture.
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS
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Abhay Deshmukh, Onkar Dhavale and Omkar Bachhal
These three students of Electrical Engineering Department invented
a Solar Agro Sprayer which is really a great invention for the benefit
of farmers. They were guided by Prof. Balaji Bedre. This sprayer is
one of the improved versions of petrol engine pesticide sprayer
pump. It can be vastly used in the agriculture field and also for many
purposes. It uses the solar power to run the motor. Therefore, it is a
pollution free pump compared to petrol engine sprayer pump. Excess
electricity can be stored in batteries and then it can be utilized for
home appliances like glowing of CFL bulbs, mobile charging etc.
Abhay Deshmukh shows the
demonstration of the Solar Agro
Sprayer
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Abhay Deshmukh, Onkar Dhavale and Omkar Bachhal with Prof. Balaji
Bedre and Prof. Rohit Tarade
Gaurav Ingale
He appeared for Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematical Competition 2014-15 conducted by Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE). He stood Third in this Examination at Zonal Level Competitions for students. This Award Function was held at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry on 4 July 2015. All the Prize Winners were felicitated by the
Hon. Chief Minister namely N. Rangaswamy.
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS
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Hiren Patel
Hiren, from the School of Architecture secured the First rank for his Dissertation as Best Dissertation in fifth year 2015. His subject for Dissertation was
Effect of climate on the morphology of public building. The Dissertation is basically a report to justify the vast climatic difference in various parts of India
and how that affects the building's form and shape i.e. its morphology.
LIBRARY OF VPCOE AND VPSOA
The details of Library of Vidya Pratishthan’s College of Engineering are as follows.
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Membership
1) ARAI (The Automotive Research Association of India)
2) DELNET (Developing Library Network)
3) National Safety Council - Annual Membership
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Digital Library
IET Digital Library
The details of Library of Vidya Pratishthan’s School of Architecture are as follows.
New arrivals (Books/Journals)
Vidya Pratishthan’s
College of
Total 123 titles and 166 volumes of best Architectural and Literature books of imminent authors
have been added.
TRAINING AND PLACEMENT CELL
Engineering
Placement Details during April to June 2015
Baramati
Sr. No
Kore Snehal Subhash
BE (Comp.)
4
Lande Swati Keru
BE (Comp.)
5
Zamaan Lakhani
BE (Comp.)
6
Kawathekar Pranit
Prashantrao
BE (IT)
7
Khalate Bharat Sudam
BE (Civil)
8
Gatti Payal Satyaprem
BE (Comp.)
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10
Kelkar Shruti Sanjay
Dharmarao Priyanka
BE (Comp.)
BE (Comp.)
Metamagics, Pune
Metamagics, Pune
503, 504
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E-mail:
principal@vpcoe.org
Name of Company
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Ganjare Sandesh
Digamber
Kulkarni Koustubh Vijay
Class
Extentia Information
Technology, Pune
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Adecco India Private
Ltd. Gurgaon
Metamagics, Pune
Phone: 91-2112-239500,
Fax: 91-2112-239514.
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