HOD Speak Dear Readers,

Welcome to all readers of this issue of InSight. In spite of all

challenges that COVID-19 pandemic has put ahead of us, we start-

ed our new semester with a bang. At VIT, we believe in academic

freedom and always try to provide the best possible facilities to the

students. We change our academic pattern to suit the online mode

of education. Orientation programs were organized for the students,

where the teachers used their knowledge and skills to present the

contents and modes of delivery in the best possible manner. We

planned to utilize various online resources and platforms for effec-

tive delivery.

Though, the efforts in such a preparation for online lectures and la-

boratory sessions, is tremendous, the e-content development is

happening as a by-product. The major highlights are being the online examinations planned by

Mumbai University, but executed by teachers very effectively and efficiently. The department

faculty is relentlessly working towards successful implementation.

As a head, this is the last time I am addressing all the readers, however as a friend, guide and

teacher I will always be available at your service. Wishing all the best to everyone..

Inside this

Issue

Faculty Profile

Prof. Girish Gidaye

Prof. Rakshak Sood

Event by EESA Nature’s Blog The Past Perfect

- GAGANDEEP BHULLAR

V-Eureka Activity

Students Achievements

Student Achievement

Faculty Achievement

Upcoming Events

Latest Gadget– Smart Watch

Student Speak

– Rameen Tungekar

Scan and get linked with ETRX Newsletter

Dr. Anjali Deshpande

Head of Electronics Department

Secrets of Research

“ For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument,

debate”

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IEEE VIT “Workshop on Gesture Controlled Gaming Us-

ing OpenCV”; 20th Sept’20

IEEE-VIT, the student chapter for IEEE in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, as a

student organisation organised a workshop on Pythin based OpenCv.

The workshop was strategically divided into 3 parts:1. Basics of Python,2. Under-

standing Open CV, 3. The final project. Ms. Aradhana started with an introduction to Python

language along with its applications. She covered some major terminologies like list, tuples,

set, dictionary, function, array along with examples using PyCharm. Ms. Minakshee Nara-

yankar continued the session by explaining the dictionary and the function in detail and elabo-

rated computer vision in a nutshell. Starting with a brief overview of Open CV where she broad-

ly explained- how computers see an image, Numpy Array, Indexing, Slicing with examples. Af-

ter introducing these concepts, it was coding time. She explained the code for face detection

using ‘Haar Cascade’ and emphasized the role of scale factors in face detection when multiple

faces are to be recognized. She illustrated hand detection using ‘Haar Cascade’ where differ-

ent cases where analysed and interpreted.

Case1: Detecting the left hand and right hand individually

Case2: Detecting both the hands.

The final project was a systematic compilation of all the mini codes which was able to recog-

nize a face, left-hand and right-hand individually through a live streaming video. To show the

application of the code an online Hotwheelz gaming site was been used and interpreted the

code was successfully done. The session was done under guidance of Prof.Ulka Padwalkar.

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Name: Prof. Rakshak Sood Designation: Assistant Prof B.E: Electronic Engineering; Mumbai University

M.E: Electronics & Telecom-munication Engineering ; Mum-bai University

Teaching Experience: 15 yrs

No. of Paper Published: 02

Area of Interest: Digital Com-munication, Wireless communi-cation, Computer networking, Satellite, Mobile & Telecom, DBMS Networking Internet of Things & Cloud Computing.

Faculty Profile EESA Activity : “Technical Report Writing”; Dr.Anjali

Deshpande

The session was organised by EESA committee on “Technical Report Writing” was organised on 9th Sept 2020. The session was conducted by Dr. Anjali Deshpande. The attendees were from all years of electronics.

In this session students learned how to write a report in a professional way. Also the speaker discussed the key points like common mistakes students make while writing reports, qualities of a good report and much more. At the end doubts solving was done and few report samples were been show. The session was organised under the guid-

ance of Prof.Rakshak Sood.

Nature’s Blog: “The Fragrant Roads”

As the Covid 19 pandemic has forced us to sit at home, it is very difficult for a per-son like me who wants to spend time with nature. Two days ago, I went to the market to buy some grocery. As the road was less crowded I thought of walking and suddenly I stopped. What a fragrance! I looked up and saw a tree in full bloom. With that all the gloomy thoughts just disappeared and felt very fresh. It was Saptaparni. Its name in English is Alstonia. It is a widespread and evergreen tree, with white flowers which bloom in a bunch. The fragrance is mind blowing. I remember visiting a flower vendor in Thane last year during Navaratri festival, whose shop is just below one Saptaparni tree. The fragrance surpasses all the fragrance of flowers in his shop… - Dr.Anjali Deshpande

Secrets of Excellence

“ Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch Excellence ”

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Name:Prof. Girish Gidaye

Designation: Associate Professsor

Qualification:

B.E: Electronics Engineer-ing, Shivaji University

M.E: Electronics Engineer-ing, Shivaji Universiy

Industrial Experience: 2 Yrs

Teaching Experience: 21 Yrs

No. of Paper Published: 07

Area of Interest: VLSI, Image Processing

V Eureka: “ A Idea competition for combating post

Covid19 Lockdown period.

V Eureka is an initiative to augment the technical ideas of Second year Electron-

ics students to counter the post pandemic period. V Eureka is a platform to express solu-

tions for problems that may arise in the healthcare sector, communications ,travel and

transport , socio economic areas and day to day life situations after the lockdown is lift-

ed. The activity was conducted by Prof. Uma Jaishankar on online platform of WebeX.

There were external Judges for the event;

Dr.Anita Diwarkar PhD in Educational Technology IITB. Also she is part of TUET Teach-

ers Use of educational Technology IITB. She is designated partner of AIEE Edtech.

Mr.Anand Venkateshwaran Vice President AI-ML, Big data base management, Business

Automation work flow, Middleware at the Mashreq Bank Dubai. He is Ms from BITs Pila-

ni & MBA from IIM Calcutta. Also a keynote speaker of NASCOM.

Following were the brief ideas presented by the students;

Group 1: The Students presented an S trolley which was specialised and robotically

operated to avoid human contact with biomedical waste

Group 2: They presented an idea of virtual Library and pay for the time

used not for the entire book. They explained the data base and the application effective-

ly and won the first prize.

Group 3: They emphasised the idea of drones with specialised sensors to monitor and

communicate in the post covid period.

Group 4: They presented the idea of supervised control of employees for their office time

with set timelines and intermittent monitoring. They explained the algorithm behind the

application and how it will work . They received the Second prize.

Group 5: They presented an idea about data analysis and prediction of stock market and

economy before restarting an investment or a venture

The judges were happy with the ideas and their research and gave a good feedback

about the students .They also expressed that such activities are important from the per-

sonality development of the students as well marketing their project as a product.

Few takeaways of the program are follows

Internship opportunity by the speaker to develop these ideas into products by a start

up

Practical technical knowledge

Out of the box thinking

Confidence building in front of Industry personnel to pitch your idea.

Helped to overcome Inhibition of students

Aspect’s of Progress

“ Small progress is still progress ”

Past Perfects

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Gagandeep Bhullar

Gagandeep Bhullar is VIT pass out from Electronics department in the year 2007. To day she is Founder & CEO of SuperHumanRace. She is an Indian technologist and entre-preneur. She founded the Super-Human Race in 2016 with the vi-sion to employ technology for creat-ing a 'good' economy. The Super-Human Race automates social purpose for companies in India & North America through the use of data analytics, gaming & behav-ioural dynamics. In her current role, Gagan splits her time between the SuperHuman Race's offices & cus-tomers in India and North America to provide a unified vision for prod-uct development.Previously, Gagan held various leadership positions with The Boeing Company in India and North America. In 2014, she became the first locally hired em-ployee from Asia to be selected into the company's flagship leadership programme.

Student Achievements

1. The students Sahil Malthankar, Akshay Salunke, Pranjali Jadhav won second prize for their project “Automated Light Control System” in Ideathon organised by ITSA.

2. Ms.Sanchita Khadtar secured first place in Div-1 Sem-IV ‘2020

3. Mr. Varun Soni secured first

place in Div-2 Sem-IV ‘2020

4. Mr.Anuj Sawant secured first place in Div-1 Sem-VI ‘2020

5. Ms.Rupali Kore secured first place in Div-2 Sem-VI ‘2020.

6.Ms.Akanksha Sadvelkar first

place in Div-3 Sem-VI ‘2020.

7. Ms.Sanchita Khadtar secured first place in subjects EDC-2& MCA

8. Mr.Akshay Dambare secured first

in subjects AM-4,MCA,DSD & LCS.

1. Mr.Anuj Sawant se-cured first in subjects VLSI

Design, Signal & System, CCN.

2. Mr. Rohit Rane secured first in subjects VLSI De-

sign, Signal & System, Embedded System & RTOS, Electronic Product

Design.

3. Mr. Animesh Mishra

secured first in subjects

Embedded System And

RTOS.

4. Mr. Vaibhv Shitap se-

cured first in subjects

Computer communication.

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By Prof. Poonam Shah

Chief Editor - Prof. Poonam Shah, Dr. Anjali Deshpande

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Student Speak:

It is said that Engineers like to solve problems, if there are no problems available; they will create their own problems and similar is my journey that took different paths throughout the 4-year course of engineering. Right from entering the gates of Vidyalankar Institute for the very first time with great admiration for the infrastruc-ture of college to accomplishing a campus placement in one of the top multinational companies like Capgemini, it has been one memorable journey! Starting from one of the most exciting years of engineer-ing - the first year till reaching the end of the race - the final year, the management of VIT has always encouraged participation in academics as well as extracurricular activities. I always believe that the knowledge we learn should always be put into practical use and exploring different fields always helps to grow. VIT has vivid opportunities to showcase your talent. Be it being selected as the Technical Head of department committee - EESA or the Secretary of Student Council along with managing my academics, I had a journey that gave experiences that helped me achieve my goal. Belonging to a hardware department and accomplishing the target of achieving placement in companies like TCS, LTI, Capgemini has always been a mountain climb-ing experience for every student, but the department and college faculties never failed to support us and provided students with all necessary facilities. With the enthusiastic and developing atmosphere of VIT, one always learns to handle situations and solve real-life problems along with meeting people of different back-grounds that help to grow one’s overall personality. Each person has a mission, finds their mission differently, and has a different story, it is upon us as to how we shape the road for working towards our purpose, and with the help of VIT it is smooth to carve the path. — Rameen Tungekar (B.E. ETRX)

Students

Achievements

Faculty Achieve-

ments

1. Dr. Anjali Deshpande

was called as Panelist

if “Virtual Conference

Organizer’s Panel”

arranged by IEEE

TENSYMP2020

1. Latest Technology in

Artificial Intelligence.

2. R & D activity by de-

partment faculty.

3. Faculty IBM projects

4. Article on Mini Project

5. Final year project report

Upcoming achieve-

ments