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Newsletter January 2019 to March 2019

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Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai

President’s Message

Shri. Sunil Rane

Executive – President of Atharva Group of Institutes

and Founder Secretary – AET

Atharva is one of the fastest growing, educational brand

in India which is a blend of continuous innovation and

global benchmarking. The objective of the Atharva

Group of Institutes is to create ‘industry ready’ youth

who can be gainfully employed upon completion of

their courses

Our outstanding progress by creating world class

infrastructure consisting of a sprawling educational

campus with green cover which is a landmark.

Our focus is on Research, Technology & Innovation.

I am overwhelmed by the progress made by the

institution at various levels – academic, cultural and

sports. The noteworthy experience of mine is the

standard of discipline and the uniqueness that the

students and parents have established in the Institution

Dedicated teachers, sophisticated equipments, sincerity

and punctuality proven our merit and I am sure that in

years to come the institution will surpass many

established existing institutions.

In addition we have several diversifications, the

primary of which is the IT park which will be a

challenge to accomplish and achieve. I urge every

Atharvite to make efforts to take the brand to newer

heights. Let us make our ATHARVA the best in

professional education in the world.

I wish the students, staff and all the employees of the

institution the best of luck in making the institution

Contents

• President’s Message Pg1

• Joint Degree Distribution Ceremony pg10

• Computer Engg Dept- DAB Meeting Pg2

• Visit of Dr. K.G. Narayankhedkar under AICTE

INAE DVP Pg2

• E-Cell Activities Pg3 & 12

• Parent Teacher meetings Pg3

• Achievements Pg4

• Electrical Engg Activities Pg4 & 15

• Electronics Engg Activities Pg5 & 16

• Information Technology Activities Pg8

• EXTC Dept Activities Pg8 & 13

• Third International Conference on Innovative and

Advanced Tech. in Engg(ICIATE-2019) pg10

• AICTE SAGY Initiative award 2018 Pg1

• Rhythm 2019 pg 11

• Smart India Hackathon 2019 pg11

• Meeting with Hon. Shri. Vinod Tawde, Minister of

Higher & Technical Education Maharashtra State

• Innovation Mela 2019 pg12

• NSS Activities pg13

• Computer engg dept activities Pg18

• Sports Activities pg20

Joint Degree Distribution Ceremony

The Fourth Joint Degree Distribution

Ceremony of the students of Atharva College of

Engineering, Atharva Institute of Management studies

and Atharva College of Hotel Management and Catering

Technology was held on February 23, 2019 in

Auditorium, phase 3, AET Campus. The chief guests

were Dr. K. G. Narayankhedkar chaired the event as

Chief guest. Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, (ACE), Dr. P.

N. Nemade, Director (ACE), Dr. Sujata Pandey,

(Director-AIMS), Mr. Joseph Furtado, (Principal-

ACHMCT) were present for the Ceremony. The

ceremony started by Ganesh Vandana and lighting of the

lamp. More than 450 students were conferred the

Certificates. The ceremony concluded with vote of

thanks and National Anthem.

Seminar on Innovation Lab

Seminar on Innovation Lab was conducted for

SE, TE students on 15th January, 2019 by Prof.

Tanu Sharma and Prof. Deepthi Sekhar to

provide them awareness about software

resources available in I Lab for enhancing their

innovation and creativity skills. This session

introduced students to various software to

simulate their brain which will act as a catalyst

for students to make innovative projects and will

lead them to path for budding Entrepreneurs.

The session was successful in motivating

students towards innovation and creativity.

Visit of Dr. K. G. Narayankhedkar as a

Distinguished Visiting Professor under the

scheme of AICTE-INAE DVP

Dr. K. G. Narayankhedkar visited ACE campus

as a Distinguished Visiting Professor under the

scheme of AICTE-INAE DVP during January

16 to 18, 2019. His mentorship helped each

faculty member at ACE discover new avenues

and improvised ways for Student development,

Project review and sponsorships along with

teaching learning process.

During his 3 days of visit the following

activities were done viz F.E faculty meet, visit

to different laboratories, student development

program on "How to write technical paper, B.E

project title review and sponsorships and

Faculty Development Programme on "Teaching

Learning process”.

Department Advisory Board meeting of

Computer Engineering Department

Department Advisory Board meeting of Computer

Engg. Dept. was held on Thursday, January 3, 2019

in the Presentation Hall, ACE at 10 am. Members

present for DAB meeting were Mr. Sanjay Bansode,

HR, TTK Prestige Ltd, Thane, Mrs. Kavita

Sonawane, Head of Computer Engineering

Department, St. Francis Institute of Technology,

Borivali, Dr. Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE,

Mr. Vinit Erangle, Nikhil Yadav,Akshen Ashish

Gaikwad, Abhishek Jain (Alumni), Mrs. Swati

Shetty (parent), Mr. Mahendra Patil, Head of

Computer Engineering Department, ACE,

Mrs.Deepali Maste, Mrs. Shweta Sharma,

Mrs.Suvarna Pansambal, Mrs. Aruna Pavate, Mrs.

Neha Singh and Dr. Mamta Meena

Parent’s Teacher Meeting

Parent’s teacher meeting was conducted for students

of second year Electrical Engineering Department.

The meeting was conducted with respective Batch

Mentors about student’s attendance and their

performances. Solutions to academic or behavioral

situations were also shared.

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Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

Engineering had organized Parents Teacher Meeting

on January 30, 2019 to discuss the progress report of

students with their Parents and taking feedback for

their individual upliftment.

Department od Humanities and Applied Science

organized a Parents Teacher Meeting for FE during

February 14 and 15. 2019. 89 parents attended the

meet. A good response was noted from the parents.

The meeting was conducted to share the attendance

and overall academic and behavioral performance of

individual student.

Ember E-Cell Activities

Ember E-Cell successfully conducted a workshop on

"Introduction to JavaScript" under the mentorship of

instructors Mr.Nikhil Rao, Mr.Pranay Shah and

Mr.Prathamesh Desai. The workshop consisted of

JavaScript and its applications.

A Workshop on "CorelDraw Workshop" was

conducted by Ember E-Cell, where Ember E-Cell

students Kirtan Shirodkar and Atharva Joglekar

successfully demonstrated the aspects of CorelDraw

and its applications.

Achievements

Dr. Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of

Engineering is appointed as Assessor Member Peer

team visit by NAAC.

Congratulations to Mrs. Garima Gurjar, Assistant

Prof. Electrical Engineering Department for

fostering an "Ecosystem Bridging Government,

Industry and Academia" from DST and Texas

Instrument in India Innovation Challenge Design

Contest 2018.

Mr. Kartik Mehra, Student of SE EXTC won

Gold Medal in Light Contact kickboxing and

Silver medal in Point fight kickboxing State level

championship. He also bagged a trophy in group

event of three from Mumbai Region, Third

ranking.

Ms.Trishala Ahalpara's (T.E CMPN1) authored

and published a book called "Joshua's 7 Gifts".

The story is based on friendship and suspense.

Book is currently available on the notion press.

Electrical Engineering Department

Activities

Expert lecture on “Introduction to Power

Quality Issue”

Department of Electrical Engineering, ACE has

organized an expert lecture on “Introduction to

Power Quality Issues” by Professor Nitin Gupta,

MNIT, Jaipur on January 3, 2019 in order to offer

our students latest insights into the emerging

technologies and advancements.

Students have been introduced by latest industrial

problem that is power quality issues. After

attending this expert talk students are able to relate

between their syllabus and current industrial

demand. Students are able to understand the

fabrication and simulation model of active and

passive filters.

I-Mac lab Visit and introductory lecture on

“iOS App Development”

I-Mac lab visit and lecture on iOS App

development was organized by Electrical

Department on January 14, 2019. I-Mac lab has

been set up to impart knowledge of Apple

technologies in budding professionals and give

them a hands-on experience on the incredibly

powerful Mac OS X operating system. It will

enable students to get accustomed to the versatile

applications of Mac and iOS. The vast variety of

applications of Apple will foster their creativity

and provide a platform for them to come up with

ground-breaking projects.

Students have been introduced by Mac OS X

operating system. Students got an idea about app

building on ios platform.

Electronics Engineering

Department Activities

Workshop on Development of Robotics

A workshop on “Development of Robotics” for

Second year & Third year students was organized

by Electronics department on January 23, 2019.

The speaker Mr. Brijesh Mishra, Project associate

IIT Bombay, Nevon Solutions Pvt Ltd.delivered

talk on how to burn program on to the controller

and design the different robotic application. There

were 6 team member from the Nevon solutions

along with the speaker , have shown the

demonstration of the 4 Robots to the entire

electronics students. Ms. Kavita Bani & Ms.

Sonam K. coordinated the event.

Industrial Visit at Nanotechnology Laboratory, IIT

Bombay, Mumbai.

Department of Electronics Engineering organized

an Industrial visit at IIT Bombay nanotechnology

on January 19, 2019. 58 students of TE & BE

have visited the nanotechnology laboratory along

with the faculties Mr. Niranjan Samudre & Mr.

Sarang Kulkarni. The detailed information was

given on all the equipments like ICPRIE, plasma

etcher, Thermal evaporator, dry oxidation, wet

oxidation machines as well as ion implantation

machine and annealing machine. There was x-ray

spectrometer to verify implantations. In the third

section there was a SEM (scanning electron

microscope), Sputter machine, an epitaxy machine

and another sputtering machine as well as a

powerful optical microscope.

Each of the above sections had assigned lab

members to explain about the equipment inside

the lab. Overall this visit was very interesting and

knowledgeable.

Seminar on Introduction to Indian space

program and role of optical photonics in space

technology

Electronics Department arranged a seminar on

“Introduction to Indian space program and

role of optical photonics in space technology"

for Third Year and Final Year engineering

students on January 25, 2019. The speaker Mr.

Nitesh Agrawal from ISRO Bangalore,

delivered talk on SPACE, different programs

and technologies with relevant of the

communication networking. Ms. Kavita Bani

& Ms. Sonam K. coordinated the event.

Industry visit to Supercomputer education and

Research Centre at IISc Bangalore

First Year Engineering students visited Supercomputer

education and Research Centre at IISc Bangalore on

February 8, 2019.

Mentoring Session

A mentoring session conducted as per Graduate

attributes at Atharva College of Engineering under the

guidance of our esteemed Mentors on January 28,

2019. Graduate attributes (GA) are the qualities, skills

and understandings that a student should develop as a

consequence of the learning they engage with on their

programme of study. This sense of graduation is what

distinguishes them from individuals who have not

studied at degree level and is the added value they

offer to employers and society generally.

Mentoring Session Contd...

Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, ACE conducted

special mentoring session for first year students on

Graduate Attributes: ETHICS and EQUITY on

February 12, 2019. It is one of the attribute which

industry look in an engineering graduate.

Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, ACE conducted

special mentoring session for first year students on

Graduate Attribute: knowledge based for

engineering on January 17, 2019.

Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, ACE conducted

special mentoring session on Graduate Attributes:

Problem solving on January 16, 2019. It is one of the

attribute which industry looks in an engineering

graduate.

Special mentoring session was conducted by Prof.

Balaji Shinde on the topic "Professionalism" on

February 13, 2019.

Faculty Development Program (FDP) FDP was conducted by Mr. Yogesh Khanure, (PSI)

Crime Branch BKC on the topic of "Cyber Crime

and Security" on January 7, 2019.

FDP has conducted by Ms Garima Turan (Product

Trainer, Elsevier India) on the topic of "science

Direct Platform" on February 13, 2019.

Dr Sane, Dr Mrs Karandikar, VIT PUNE and

Industrialist Mr Marathe conducted FDP on the

topic, "Process of Industrial consultancy" on

January 24, 2019.

FDP was conducted on Use and Role of AR for

Teaching Learning Process on January 14, 2019 by

Professional expert.

FDP was conducted by Mrs. Aruna Pavte on the

Scope of Machine learning on January 11, 2019.

Mr. Suraj Tripathy from Electrical department

conducted FDP on Research topic selection and

Funding on February 8, 2019.

FDP was conducted on the topic "Organic

Electronic" by Gauri Salunke.

FDP was conducted by Prof. Neha Gaisas on MAC

vs PC on February 14, 2019.

Japan Third Party Company visited Atharva College of

Engineering for Campus Recruitment 2019-2020 on

January 24, 2019.

Japan Third Party Company is a listed company on

JASDAQ (Japanese Stock exchange). Their portfolio

encapsulates services and products in ROBOTICS,

Hardware / Software development, Pharma and Human

resource development.

Information Technology

Department Activities

Workshop on 3D Game Designing

Department of Information Technology

organized a 2-day workshop on Game

Designing during January 24 and 25,

2019. It was conducted for the students of

FE and SE by Tech Cryptors under the

management of CSI-Atharva.

The workshop was based on Unity

software and included everything from the

very basics i.e. from installation of the

software to a professional level of

designing the layouts and adding effects.

It helped the students to learn the game

development process from the very

scratch to a valuable level in minimalistic

period of time.

Department of Information Technology

organized project competition on IoT

under the banner of CSI student chapter. It

helped students to learn the significance

of IoT and gain insights on why this

technology is becoming an integral part of

the daily learning. To encourage and

motivate the students’ certificates were

issued for the same

Electronics &Telecommunication

Engineering Department Activities

Industry Expert talk on “Industrial

Automation and Industry 4.0”

Department of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering organized

an expert talk on Industrial automation and

Industry 4.0 on January 16, 2019. The

objective is a) to make students understand

the various Techniques of Automation in

Industry and their Applications. b) to make

students aware about the novelty of the

theme Industry 4.0 related to IOT and c) to

encourage students to clear their concepts

and to develop new ideas from these fields

Mr. Ramprasad SMEC Automation Pvt. Ltd

and Ms. Eshita Shikhre, CRG Engineers

delivered the seminar.

One Day Seminar on “Need of Electronics in

Industry”

Department of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering organized a

seminar on Need of Electronics in Industry on

January 29, 2019. The objective is a) to make

students know about the different opportunities

available in Industry in the field of Electronics

b) to make students explore the recent fields in

Electronics c) to encourage students to take

interests in these fields and work in various

projects related to these fields.

Mr. Sanjay Chaudhary, Director, Electronics

Study centre, Nashik delivered the seminar.

NSS Atharva (B-57) successfully completed its

Special Camp at Satkarma Shraddhashray,

Dehrang, Raigad from 28th December 2018 to 3rd

January 2019. Various activities were conducted

like streetplay, survey, career guidance etc in the

nearby villages and visited various ashrams.

B.E Project Progress Presentation

Project progress presentations were scheduled

for BE students on February 1, 2019. Students

gave presentation about the progress of their

final year projects. Respective guides of each

project groups along with the project co-

coordinators and HOD were present for the

presentation

Each Project group gave a detailed presentation

of the work they have completed in their

respective project; also many groups displayed a

video of the working model of their projects.

The students where asked various questions

about their project by the faculties present for

the presentation to evaluate their work and

knowledge about the project.

The students received valuable suggestions from

the faculties and their project guides for further

betterment of their projects. All BE students

were present for the presentation.

Prof. Gauri Salunke coordinated the

presentations.

Gold Rank in AICTE-CII Survey

By establishing the Institute Innovation Council

(IIC) an initiative by Innovation Cell, Ministry of

HRD, Govt. of India, Atharva College of

Engineering is proudly a recognized Innovation

Centre

The AICTE-CII survey on Industry linkage of

technical institute is one of its kind survey which is

implemented by Industry association CII in close

coordination with AICTE. It is a unique model of

public-private partnership which has been working

very well for the past seven years and ACE is

proud to be a member.

Third International Conference on Innovative and

Advanced Technologies in Engineering

(ICIATE-2019)

Atharva college of Engineering organized 3rd

International conference on ‘Innovative and

Advanced technologies in Engineering’ 2019.

The Inauguration Function was graced by the

Presence of Guest of Honour - Dr. (Capt.) C.M.

Chitale , Professor Department of Management

Sciences, Pune Maharashtra and Chief Guest

Dr.Suresh Ukarande, Dean , Faculty of Science and

technology University of Mumbai

Atharva College of Engineering organized pre-

conference workshop on March 27, 2019 for

professionals on “Digital transformation in

education” and for students on “Augmented

reality”.

AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma

Award 2018 and AICTE SAGY Initiative

Awards 2018, Award Presentation Ceremony.

AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma Award

2018 and AICTE SAGY Initiative Awards

2018, Award Presentation Ceremony was

scheduled on January 21, 2019 from 11.00 am

onwards at AICTE Headquarters, New Delhi.

Faculty and students attended award Ceremony

live streamed through Facebook Link.

Awards were presented for innovative ideas in

different sectors of rural development to

encourage young innovators and to focus and

bridge the gap between rural and urban

development.

Honorable Vice President, Venkaiah Naidu

expressed his views in his speech that Innovation

should solve the social needs and focus on the

empowerment of villages through different

innovative ideas. Program was attended by

faculty members and students at Atharva college

of engineering which was instrumental in

motivating then to take up research in need based

areas.

Rhytm 2019

Atharva college of Engineering’s Annual

Cultural week was held from 10th march 2019 to 16th

march 2019. Whole event was divided into day and night

events naming Marathon, Dance, Drama, Fashion, Street

Play, Singing etc. Event was inaugurated on 10th march

at time of Marathon which had theme “Run for

Equality”. The Marathon is organized to support

Equality as a social cause so "Fight for equality, Run for

togetherness"

On 11th march street play, pubg(1v1), CR, and

drama was organized. On 12th march Neon cricket, neon

football, poetry, and Dance were held. On 13th Carom,

mini militia(5v5), Poetry and Fashion were conducted.

Singing, Live night was conducted on 14th march. Prom

was held on 15th march. Annual week winded up by DJ

night on 16th march where Ali Merchant was present.

Smart India Hackathon 2019

Total 20 teams from ACE participated and 5 teams

selected for final competition of Smart India Hackathon

2019 which will be held at various locations in India.

Prof Santosh Dodamani headed this mission.

All the teams are thankful to Hon Shri Rane sir for

continuous support and to Dr Nemade sir, Dr Kallurkar

sir for guidance.

Team members are also thankful to Prof Samuel,

HODs, faculty members and mentors for their support.

Congratulations Team: TODO : WIN for winning the

Smart India Hackathon, 2019 at Nodal Centre: Sri

Krishna College of Engineering and Technology,

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Congratulations Team AVENGERS* for winning the

Smart India Hackathon, 2019 at *Nodal Center* :

National Institute of Technology – Calicut, Kerala

Meeting with Hon. Shri. Vinod Tawde, Minister of

Higher & Technical Education Maharashtra State

Shri Sunil Rane, Executive President – Atharva Group

of Institutes discussed the scenario of higher education

with Hon. Shri. Vinod Tawde, Minister of Higher &

Technical Education Maharashtra State and

representatives of other Educational Institutions in

Mumbai

Innovation Mela 2019

To foster the culture of innovation &

Creativity,Atharva College of Engineering's iCell

organised Innovation Mela 2019 on 14th March 2019

for the engineering students budding into

entrepreneurs.

The students displayed their ignited minds through

Business Models(Project Exhibit) & Business

Ideas(Poster Exhibits).

Receiving an overwhelming response of participants

from ACE & various other colleges, the event was

successful in the presence of dignitaries such

Mr.Shailendra Singh: Assistant Director-MSME Govt.

of India.

Mr.Suvendu Prusty: Founder Director & Principal

Officer at Riskcovry,Founder Partner at Infinity,

Business partners LLP.

Mr.Ashok Sharma: Director Business Development &

HR Innovation Next-SAP, Mr.Sanjay Jothwal:

Director Cognito Knowledge Pvt Ltd,

Dr.P.N.Nemade, Director Atharva College of

Engineering, Dr.S.P.Kallurkar,Principal Atharva

College of Engineering, Prof.Samuel Jacob,Vice-

Principal Atharva College of Engineering along with

faculty members, students and participants

i-lab sessions

An activity based & Interactive session was organised

for the toppers of SE CMPN, SE INFT, SE EXTC,

SE ETRX & SE ELEC of Atharva College of

Engineering on 28th February 2019 & 1st March 2019

at Innovation Lab(iLab).

These students were introduced with the concepts of

Innovation & Creativity on the 1st day of session &

hands-on training on 3D idea generator software &

Mind Mapping tool on 2nd day.

Ember cell activities

Idea box

Ember Entrepreneurship Cell of Atharva College of

Engineering conducted an Idea Box on March 12, 2019

under the guidance of Prof. Mohan Kumar – Ember E-Cell

Faculty Head and Mr.Ashish Haldar,Co-founder

ApnaBookWala were present on the occasion of E-

WEEK’19.

Elevator Pitch Date :13th March 2019

Atharva College of Engineering organized and conducted

an event – Elevator’s Pitch as one of the major event of

the E-WEEK 2019 festival celebrating young and budding

entrepreneurs.

The honourable guests for this event were Mr.Gaurav

Mishra – founder of Navyuvak Entruepreneurs and

Mr.Meet Shah -- Program Manager,Navyuvak

Entruepreneurs, Dr..S.P.Kallurkar- Principal,Atharva

College of Engineering,Prof.Mohan Kumar,Prof.Deepali

Maste and Prof.Garima Gurjar, Faculty mentor,Ember E-

Cell.

Internfair Date:15th March 2019,

The companies and their company representative were:

1.Learning IT- Mr.Ram Singh

2.KConnections- Mr.Divyesh Rajput, Mrs Upasna Rajput

3.ApnaBookWala-Mr.Ashish Haldar

4.AVP Robotics-Mr.Amit Padhy

5.UPSC Fever-Mr.Pranav Nerurkar

Business Mela

Date: 10 th to 16th March 2019,

Business Mela is an event where the students can sell their

products and services.

The students are given stalls for an affordable rate of

₹500/-for whole week.

NSS Activities

Event- Traffic Policing

Date- 21st February, 2019

Venue- Mith Chowky signal Malad (West)

With the increasing accidents on our city, NSS

Atharva decided to work on the cause. To highlight

the importance of road safety, usage of seat belts,

helmets students of NSS ATHARVA managed the

traffic at Mith chowky with the help of posters. Thus

the event ended successfully.

Event- Waste Management Seminar

Date- 21st February, 2019

Venue- Atharva College Of Engineering

NSS Atharva organised a seminar on Career

opportunities in Waste Management and Climate

change field for the young youth of India. Mr.

Shrikant Parab was our guest speaker who is the

director of Asia Affairs Delta Group Holdings. He

shared all his experiences behind him.They were

explained the importance of segregation of Dry, Wet

and Eject waste.

EXTC Dept activities

Alumni Talk (20 February, 2019)

EXTC department organized alumni talk for TE

students. Topic was "Introduction and opportunities in

Indian Metro Railways". It was delivered by Mr.

Chaitanya Lad (2012 batch alumni). He explained brief

working of metro and also guided students about new

opportunities in the field.

Industrial Visit today at All India Radio, Malad West

EXTC Department has organised one day Industrial

Visit today at All India Radio, Malad West. 15 SE

EXTC students Learned different Analog and Digital

Modulation Transmission.

Workshop On "Skill Development Program

For Corporate World"

Department of EXTC organised 2 day workshop on

"Skill Development program for corporate world" for

TE students on 22nd and 27th Feb 2019. The students

learned about resume writing, how to prepare and

present their interview and other soft skills required for

the corporate world

Visit to Sameer IIT Bombay

Third year EXTC 1 & EXTC 2 students & visited

various section of "Antenna & Microwave

Engineering.Today I(Manoj Mishra ) & Tanu Sharma

mam visited Sameer IIT Bombay along with third year

EXTC 1 & EXTC 2 students & visited various section

of "Antenna & Microwave Engineering.

BE project presentation

Department of EXTC successful conducted Final

Internal BE project presentation on 18 and 19 March

2019 . BE students demonstrated their projects in

presence of HOD and respected project guides along

with other EXTC faculties.

Industrial visit at Reliance Jio research center

Department of EXTC have organised one day

Industrial visit at Reliance Jio research center.

Students came across data centre, network traffic

distribution and different Jio applications for home

automation.

Guest lecture was "Exploring project ideas"

Department of Electronics and Telecommunications

organized a Guest lecture by speaker Awab Habib

Fakih ,PhD Research Scholar (VTU) on April 10,

2019. The topic for lecture was "Exploring project

ideas" for TE students.The objective of lecture was to

make students aware of the various domains in which

they can work for their final year projects . Session

was on idea generation , process to make your idea a

product in market. The students were asked to

brainstorm on the problem statement.

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

Congratulates Madhav Pai,Roshan Bhuvad, Akshay

Shinde and Kashish Parmar for winning Best Paper

Award in Paper presentation in ICIATE 2019 held at

Atharva college of Engineering.

Electrical Dept Activities

Seminar On "Grid Connected PV System" And

"Selection Of Research Based UG Level Projects" Electrical Engineering Department has organized seminar on

"Grid Connected PV System" and "Selection of Research Based

UG level Projects" by Dr. Mini Rajeev Ma'am, Associate

Professor, Father Agnels (F.C.R.I.T), Vashi for T.E Students on

February 21, 2019..

workshop on "PLC - Automation"

Electrical Department has organized one day workshop on "PLC -

Automation" training using PLC kit by Mr. Asrar Khan, Industry

Expert Professional from Prolific Automation Training Institute,

ISO Certified for S.E and T.E Students on February 26, 2019.

Electrical Engineering Department had organized Virtual

Lecture by Prof. Pratap Kumar Koplu from Electrical Department,

COEP, Pune on the topic " Switchgear Protection and Relaying"

in Power System for T.E Students.

Electrical Engineering Department is proud to announce

that Poster Title "Block Chain Based Smart Grid Monitoring" has

won "Best Poster Award" in Poster Presentation Competition at

the International Conference on "Innovative and Advanced

Technologies in Engineering ICIATE 2019".

Industrial visit at Sage Automation

Electrical Department has organized an

industrial visit at Sage Automation , an Australian

Company deals with PLC and SCADA on March 1,

2019. Students learnt about the industrial automation in

multiple sectors with practical implementation. TE 49

students along with faculty Mrs Sangeeta Kotecha and

Mr. Suraj Tripathi got the real time exposure of

automation.

Visit To 'Maharashtra State Load Dispatch Center'

Department of Electrical Engineering have organized

one day visit to 'Maharashtra State load dispatch

center' to attend sessions on Real time and SCADA

on March 23, 2019.

It was great learning for our students in the real time

SCADA system and outcome of this visit may help

students to get internship and they gain the knowledge.

Visit attended by BE Electrical Students with Prof.

Suvarna More

Short Term Industrial Training at L&T

Department of Electrical Engineering organized a Short Term

Industrial Training for Three Days for S.E Students in L&T

Madh Jetty. Students learnt to implement Automation of

various industrial applications based on Programmable Logic

Controller and hands on industrial practice of various Power

Electronics circuits.

Electrical Engineering Department is proud to announce that

Paper Title "Foldable E-Cycle" has won 3rd Prize in Paper

Presentation Competition at the International Conference on

"Innovative and Advanced Technologies in Engineering

ICIATE 2019" in collaboration with IOSR Journal of

Engineering.

Electrical Engineering Department is proud to announce that

Poster Title "Demand Side Management Using Electric

Vehicle as DER" and "Microgrid and its Protection" has won

Two Third Prizes in Poster Presentation Competition at the

International Conference on "Innovative and Advanced

Technologies in Engineering ICIATE 2019".

Electronics department activities

Department of Electronics Engineering has arranged 3 days

Adjunct Faculty Visit on “Sustainable Energy Technology,

Smartly Transforming Engineering Education and Project

Idea Generation” for students and Faculties. The speaker Dr.

Deepak Waikar (Associate Faculty for Overseas Universities

in Singapore) has given brief on Project Idea generation and

smartly implementation.

Dr. Deepak Waikar gave suggestions for IEEE ICCDW-2020

Intl. Conference. (21/02)

Parents-Teacher Meeting

Department of Electronics Engineering has organized Parents-

Teacher Meeting on February 25, 2019. Positive response was

received from the parents. Meeting via Video Conferencing

was arranged for those parents who couldn’t make it today.

Few parents recorded their video feedback.

Congratulations to Prof. Nilima pathak, Head,

Department of Information Technology on getting Rs.

35000 minor research grant project for 2018_2019

Industrial Visit Sage Automation

Electronics dept has organized Industrial Visit for SE

students at Sage Automation, Thane on February 26, 2019.

Bridge Course on “VLSI Design and Career

Opportunities”

Department of Electronics Engineering has Started Bridge

Course on “VLSI Design and Career Opportunities” for

Third Year students on February 28, 2019. Objective of the

course is to familiarized students with research areas and

Opportunities available in Industry. Bridge course speakers

were Prof. Kishor Bhosale and Prof. Sonam Kandalgaonar.

Live session On wiziqxt by alumni

Electronics department had organized a virtual class for TE

students on March 9, 2019. This session was conducted by

Karan kantharia, alumni of ETRX. The topic was

introduction to electric and autonomous vehicles . Around

45 students were present for the session

Online session was delivered by Aishwarya Wahane ,

ETRX alumni of Atharva college of engineering on March

23, 2019. Currently she is working in Fidel technologies,

Japan. The topic for the session was " An approach to AI

and Data science ".

Industrial Training At L&T Madh Campus

Electronics department has arranged 3days industrial training

on Power Electronics & PLC SCADA for 25 students at L&T

Madh campus during 18-20 March 2019.

Electronics department has arranged one day Industrial

visit at Bisleri International pvt. Ltd Andheri, Mumbai

on March 22, 2019. Visit was attended by students of SE

and TE Electronics Engineering along with Prof.

Niranjan Samudre and Prof. Kavita Bani.

Virtual class on “MS in US” A Virtual class on “MS in US” for Third year and final year

students of Electronics department was conducted on April

1, 2019. The speaker was Mr. Dhaval Padia, Alumni of

Atharva college of Engineering, currently working with

Cummins INC, Electronics application Engineer, US. The

session was for set of questionnaire regarding studying

abroad which students had asked for prior. A total of 25

students were present for this Virtual class on WizIQ

platform.

Computer engineering department Activities

Workshop On 'Software Testing'

Computer engineering department has organized workshop

on 'software testing' on February 28, 2019. Outcome of it

stdents can perform manual demo testing on

makemytrip.com website

Department of Computer Engineering is proud to announce

that Paper Title "Android Application for GRE Vocabulary

Memorization " has won "First Prize" in Paper Presentation

Competition at the International Conference on "Innovative

and Advanced Technologies in Engineering ICIATE 2019".

Parent Teacher Meeting

Department of Computer Engineering conducted PTM

for SE, TE, BE on 13.03.2019. During PTM, mentors

interacted with parents about attendance, term test 1

marks and overall performance of their ward.

Placement as well as importance of internship was also

discussed with parents. Had very good response from

parents and they appreciated the efforts taken by the

college and faculties in developing the career of their

ward.

Seminar On “Changing Perspectives”

The Department of Computer Engineering has

organized a seminar on “Changing Perspectives” by

Ms. Ruta Pathak for faculty members on March 15,

2019. It was fun filled activity based session with

rewards.

Information Technology Dept. Activities

Today department of INFT organised PTM for SE and TE

students, where parents interacted with the mentors or class

in charges & discussed about attendance, important of

internships, placement process and overall performance of

their ward. Got good response from all parents efforts of

facilities are appreciated.

Seminar On Entrepreneurship

Today department of INFT had organised seminar on

Entrepreneurship for TE students on March 8, 2019..

The speaker Nayan Bheda has been awarded as Best

Mentor by Shri. Suresh Prabhu, and felicitated by Hon.

Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra

Fadnavis for his selfless service to startups in

Maharashtra.

Proud to announce that two INFT students Siddharth

Majga onkar and Abhishek Yadav have won second

prize in APSIT Hackathon

Visit to ‘Flexiloans Technologies'

Department of Information Technology have organized one

day visit to ‘Flexiloans Technologies' to attend handson

sessions on data science by Bigdata Mumbai Community on

March 16, 2019.

Students got opportunity to share innovative ideas with other

industry experts. They got chance to communicate with

other professionals from IIT Bombay. IT personalities have

also asked atharva students to showcase their projects related

to data mining. 05 groups from our college have presented

and got suggestions for further improvements. Other groups

from St zaviers, IIT Bombay have also showcased their

projects. It was great learning for our students in the domain

of datascience and outcome of this visit may help students to

get some internship or atleast they can be intouch with all

industry experts for getting suggestions in the respective

horizon. Visit attended by TE & BE INFT studetns with

Prof. Amruta Pokhare, Prof. Snehal Kale and Prof. Sachin

Gavhane

Department of Information Technology is proud to

announce that Poster presentation Title "Blockchain

Framework for Data Security and Privacy in Insurance

Processes" has won "Second Prize" in

Poster Presentation Competition at the International

Conference on "Innovative and Advanced

Technologies in Engineering ICIATE 2019".

Department of Information Technology is proud to

announce that Paper Title "Hand gesture Recognition to

Speech Conversion " (Paper ID-178) has won "Second

Prize" in Paper Presentation Competition at the

International Conference on "Innovative and Advanced

Technologies in Engineering ICIATE 2019".

Sports Achievement

Omkar Sawalkar(ELEX) and Miral Doshi(CMPN)

won first prize in carrom tournament held in ICT

College on March 10, 2019.

Atharva College of Engineering's Kabbadi team won

first prize in Sportsaga 2019 organised by ICT College

on March 16, 2019.

Atharva College of Engineering's Kabbadi team again

won first prize in OLYMPUS 2018-19 organised by

Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College,

Chembur on March 18, 2019.

Atharva College of Engineering's Kabbadi team again

won first prize in Aavhan 2019 organised by IIT

Bombay on March 25, 2019.

Editorial Board

Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad.

Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS.

Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Asst. Prof., Dept of ETRX.

Any information or suggestions are welcomed at

niranjansamudre@ atharvacoe.ac.in.

Atharva College of Engineering

Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, Asmita Jyoti

Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095,

Maharashtra, India.

Tel.: 91-022-40294949, Fax.: 40294911

Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in