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We had another exciting year at “Computer Science and Engineering Department” The ongoing pandemic did not deter or dampen the spirits of Faculties and Staff alike. The Department had organised a virtual online one-week workshop on “Next Generation Software Tools and Trends for Industrial Solutions: current practises” from 13th to 17th June 2020. The workshop saw many international speakers spread across Europe, USA and Asia and 1000+ global participants. It provided an opportunity to both, students and faculties, of the institute to keep abreast with the recent developments on the industrial front. Remote internships flourished with people collaborating with ongoing works in start-ups like “Eglobaldoctors” and international Research groups like “Biocomputing and Development System Research Group” based in Ireland. The department has continued to perform excellently on students’ placement front, with 55 students placed and 7 opting for higher studies in the batch passing out in Oct. 2020 and 35 students being successfully placed from the final year batch pursuing their degree programme. The department saw successful enrolments of its staff-Prof. Sudhir Shikapure, Prof. Prashant Pathak and Prof. Vijayshri Injamuri to pursue PHD programs through Quality Improvement Programme scheme from the Government of Maharashtra.
"The moment you think something is possible, it becomes a new normal and getting used to the new normals ultimately
becomes a new normal."
The department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. has always strived to keep pace with the global technological updatement in the ever changing world of transformations. The department organized various training programs, workshops to ensure the technological upbringing of the students. Some of the technical activities organized by the department in the academic year 2020-21 are as follows :
A workshop was organized by the by the department in collaboration with NVIDIA Graphics during 29 Feb – 01 Mar. 2020 on the topic “Python Programming for Beginners”. Mr. Ashwin Wadte, resource person from NVIDIA Graphics delivered the workshop, was attended by Third Year students of the department. Active volunteers of the PD Club of the department have taken initiatives for organizing of the same.
An expert session on preparation of GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) exam was arranged on 24 May,2020 for all the students. The session was delivered by Gokul Ramesh, AIR-1. He has illustrated the strategies to be adopted for preparation towards this national level entrance test. A large no of students have attended and benefitted with his talk.
The ARAMBH Club is coordinated by Prof. Nilima Kolhare and Prof.Dr. V.R. Ratnaparkhe. student of ARAMBH Club have presented the proposal of GECA Student Satellite ‘ SHUNYA’ to ISRO on 28 May, 2020, in an online meeting. The satellite is supposed to monitor the atmospheric conditions. It has been a very cordial discussion with ISRO scientist, received valuable inputs, suggestions from them and best wishes for the future efforts, endeavors.
A technical talk was arranged on 12 Sept. 2020 by Mr.Rohit Prajapati, Technical Head, Digitoad Technologies , Bangalore. He discussed various ideas which can be implemented using the AI based microcontroller from STM Microelectronics, for which the Digitoad Technologies, Bangalore are the sole authorized partner with STMicroelectronics, France, in India. He has agreed to collaborate further for supporting the industry –sponsored projects for the students.
Department has organized a one week TEQIP-III sponsored Student Workshop on ‘ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning’ during 28 Aug. – 01 Sept. 2020, which was delivered by Mr. Aakash, Extrinsic Technologies, and Mr. Rahul Prajapati, Digitoad Technology, Bangalore. It was a very interesting workshop for students to learn the tensor flow, basic concepts of machine learning. More than 75 students from Third and Final Year class were benefitted from the workshop.
Apart from the student Activities, many more academic activities were conducted in the department. The academic Audit was carried out in September 2019 ,which is conducted by two external expert academicians. Faculty members have also participated in research writings and publications. Following is the research paper published by Prof. S.R. Kulkarni.
S. P. Diwan and S. S. Deshpande, "Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for the Real-Time Control of Fast Dynamic System," 2019 International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), Coimbatore, India, 2019, pp. 289-294, doi:10.1109/ICCES45898.2019.9002380.
The refurbishment, renovation of the internal aesthetics of the department has also been carried for enhanced freshness and beatification of the overall environment .
Life takes unprecedented turns all the time, all you need to do, is accept the new normal.
Information Technology discipline is an undergraduate programme started in 2000-2001 by Government Engineering College, Aurangabad with an intake capacity of 60 students. Information Technology has applications in almost all the sectors. Students from our branch are gratifying their dreams through displaying energetic participation in a variety of technical events and competitions.
Though a very tough time of COVID-19 has been faced by everyone, students took it as an opportunity and upgraded their knowledge by completing NPTEL, Coursera and other MOOCs courses. Around 30 students are placed in reputed IT companies.
Students of Third year and Final Year of IT had published research papers in International Journals and International Conferences.
Faculty members of the department have presented papers in reputed International Conferences published their research papers and book chapters in SCOPUS indexed journal and proceedings. Prof. Varsha Gaikwad received ‘Best Paper’ award in the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Smart Computing(ICMISC-2020) organized by Government College of Engineering Karad.
Workshops and seminars on: ‘Image Processing and Data Science with MATLAB’ , ‘Recent Trends in Deep Learning’, Python Programming, Blockchain Technology were organized by the department for students and faculty members to enhance the technical capabilities. Heartfulness Enabled Leadership Mastery Pragramme of 10Hrs was also organized by the department, aiming transformation of the students towards betterment of the society.
One of faculty members Prof. Smita M. Chavan has published a patent "Profile Based Mapping Media Sentiments Using Cloud Cluster Security And Deep Learning".
Department is committed to provide excellent technocrats to the society.
Wherever you sit on this continuum you will need to embrace rather than fight the uncertainty
India is a demographically diverse large country with high population density. The nationwide lockdown was the only strategy in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, which started on 25th March 2020 and is continued with some relaxations in no infection areas. The COVID-19 pandemic and its disruptions have created an opportunity for the restructuring of the educational system. The quick transitions to online mode assisted in keeping continuity of technical education programs, effectively fitting in the purpose of completion of the academic year.
Faculty and the students of Department of Electrical Engineering have responded very quickly to this crisis, and started online teaching learning process in the light of guidelines issued by the Government and AICTE and Institute Authorities. There is a sudden surge seen in the number of webinars and online learning sessions on digital platforms, on various topics of Electrical Engineering, attended not only by the students but also by the faculty of the department. The transition from classroom teaching to online teaching was very quick and smooth as faculty and students show an adaptive and collaborative attitude.
During this pandemic situation, the faculty of the department have under gone various online training programmes including a training programme on “Digital Transformation in Teaching Learning Process” organized by IIT Bombay.
The department has recently organized a training programme for “Transmission and Distribution Systems” and “Renewable Energy Technology” for the students under TEQIP. The department has also organized International Conference on “Electrical Systems and Technologies” ICEST 2021 during March 19-20, 2021. The faculty and the students of the department have published many technical papers in National and International Journals /conferences during this academic year.
The department alumina Ms. Yogita Shah is currently working with NASA and played an important role in the design of spacecraft landed on the MARS in Feb 2021. We feel very proud of her and wishing her every success in future.
“We cannot re-write the chapters of history already past, but we can learn from them, evolve and adapt. The new normal
may even be a better normal, certainly a different normal”
Mechanical Engineering is one of the most vibrant fields offers unique learning opportunity with exiting benifits and remarkable learning experience. Students pursuing Mechanical Engineering should have distinct thoughts to learn and grasp the knowledge beyond the books in order to cope up at a global level quality. Graduates in Mechanical Engineering are among the most versatile engineers as they secure professional employment in the industry, government, numerous public sectors and research organizations and have large scope for entrepreneurship, product development, start-ups who are innovating & developing for next generation products. The students find and build careers in advance design and manufacturing, robotics and automation, materials and structures, fluid dynamics, CAD, CAM etc.
Working with various innovative software tools, comprehensive hands on training, industrial projects, adapting latest open technologies skill up gradation of students and promote innovation, assist exploratory research projects to foster relevant industry innovation.
The aim of the Mechanical Engineering Department is to provide world class technical education, enabling students with the latest competences and providing exposure to latest technologies with social and ethical values. The department focuses on providing knowledge by creating, engaging and interactive teaching-learning atmosphere with its Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Ph. D students. The department has an excellent industry-institute interaction, MOU’s with various industries and MSME like as TATA Technologies, IGTR, CIPET, India First Robotics, Centre of Excellence in Maritime and Ship Building, Institute, Mumbai, Digital Wisdom Pune etc. which enhances the quality of technical education through direct participation of industry, professional touch and research participation. Mechanical engineering department have world class research laboratory, advance software’s and hardware’s, computational facilities which facilitate high end training and promote innovation.
The department endeavours to achieve excellence by promoting the career and job oriented technical education to the energetic and talented youth of state of Maharashtra, The Mechanical Engineering department expects to thrive the students as entrepreneur in society that is a job creator apart from being a seeker
Faculty members are actively involved in imparting high end training and skill based knowledge to UG and PG students. The faculties endeavours in research and development work bring one patent this year. Faculties valuable contribution for organizing skill based training programs for students on FEM, Robotics, Advance software’s like Creo, Hyper Works foster core competencies. Department organized one week national level Faculty Development Program on “Product Development and Industrial Research” in association with Aurangabad Electrical Ltd, Research Centre, Verroc Research Centre, Findabilty Sciences (Boston,USA), 3D Engineering Automation, India First Robotics, DSIR, Digital Wisdom, Pune. Faculties and students enhance research based activates by contributing research papers in National and International journals, twelve research scholars pursuing their research in Department.
During the pandemic, when the teaching methods were challenged, our department’s faculties collaboratively conducted engaging lectures and presentations so that students' learning is not compromised.
Mechanical Engineering students shows their competencies and world class excellence by continuing our legacy of winning the TEAM ARYAN (SAE-BAJA) secured over all 5th AIR in virtual design presentation and technical quiz, Mr. Yashraj Gawande (B. Tech, Mech.) secured second prize at “India Internatinal Science Fest- 2020” , Our Robo-Con team secured AIR one in stage one and 3rd AIR in stage two, Our T.Y. student Mr. Uday Kulkarni secured AIR 1 in flute in classical music instrument in solo competition at “ National Youth festival 2020-21.
The Mechanical Engineering students and faculties’ sincere contribution fulfil professional responsibilities effectively by synergizing the theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Our social, technical groups perform cohesively ethical practices for welfare of society.
Civil Department is among the oldest disciplines in our college. In a country like ours, there is a
great need for infrastructural growth. Here is where civil engineers play an important role.
Despite the havoc
wrecked by the pandemic, students chose to not give up and continued with their will to learn.
Two of our students from TY Civil, Shubham Shelke and Kshitij Pawar were among the toppers of an NPTEL course.
On the extra-curricular front, too, students
showed a creative inclination and displayed their literary skills in essay competitions and new paper columns!
Students also resorted to online learning platforms like Coursera, edX, Udemy and enhanced their knowledge.
Various
online workshops and seminars were organized for enhanced understanding about particular topics. An online Python
workshop was conducted for students keeping in mind the need for coding these days. A webinar on Solid Waste
Management in Aurangabad city was also organized to give a clearer peek into the real-world problems in the city, and
some potential solutions.
The teaching-learning process was very different this year, as all of it shifted online.
Theoretical topics were explained with the help of PPTs and PDFs, etc. However, students found it difficult to
understand the practical part of it. Overall, it was one interesting journey, full of problem solving along the way.
We have To accept the New normal as We Might Come to know the Things will Get Glorified The way they are going.'Indeed, God Is the Best of planners’
MCA Department report for Catalyst our Annual College Magazine for the academic year 2020-21.
The academic activities for the academic year 2020-21 were challenging due to the pandemic situation, but because of active participation of students, faculty and staff the academic activities are going on. Almost all faculty members have published research papers in leading national/international journals. Prof. Suraj Pardeshi got the patent registered from the patent authority and continued his work for further patents.
There were many online events that keep students and faculty engaged. The MCA department had organized workshops to help faculty members and students to better adapt to the situation. All faculty members were involved in lectures and technical sessions in national webinars, participated in national/international webinars/workshops. Some faculty reviewed the research papers. Dr. A. K. Gulve conducted a National webinar on data science, while Prof S. R. Pardeshi and Dr.S.D. Sapkal conducted a One Day Workshop for students on Python and Machine Learning, and mentored students for MOOCS. The online Yoga workshop for immunity build-up was organized by Shri Pande Sir from “The Art of Living'', for which all faculty members and students showed active participation. Online placement counseling sessions were arranged for the students. The TYMCA students are undergoing online Internships, an initiative supported by training and placement cell. Activities like online internships for students and online placements are going on.
The refurbishment work of laboratory and classrooms was carried out under TEQIP. Classrooms have been refurbished with new teaching tools, benches and ambience and Faculty cabins have also been upgraded. The four laboratories have been refurbished by addition of 40 latest configuration machines purchased, and 40 machines are in pipeline. Old machines have been written off. Our Honorable Principal permitted the donation of written off machines to the needy students of Samaj- kalyan office and ZP school for educational purpose.
MCA department website is managed by our very own students. The new MCASA body has been formed as follows: Miss. Prajwali Tamboli SY President
Mr. Shubham Vitthal Bali SY General Secretary
Mr. Shaikh Sameer Shaikh Basheer SY Technical Secretary Miss. Naina Rakesh Pardeshi SY Technical Secretary
Miss. Rutuja Rajkumar Gajare SY Cultural Secretary
Mr. Eknath Bodhane SY Sport Secretary Miss. Suvidhee Jain SY Treasurer
Miss. Rina Mahure TY Class Representative
Mr. Renhard Sonwane TY Class Representative Miss. Sakshi Shah SY Class Representative
Mr. Shaikh Sameer Shaikh Basheer SY Class Representative Miss. Rasika Kalmegh FY Class Representative
Mr. Swapnil Sanjay Jadhav FY Class Representative
Which is supported by all enthusiastic and active participation of students of FY, SY and TYMCA.
We all have experienced that due to pandemic we were compelled to opt for online teaching learning plaVorm, it was not that difficult for students to adapt, but there were many challenges and issues to the remote and village students, but they overpowered the challenge. Online lectures, tutorials and Practical were successfully conducted. The examination like MCQ, descriptive examination and practical are successfully completed by students.
The new online plaVorm was not new but it was very unique due to compulsions in pandemic situation, it was a great learning for faculty and students, there were many challenges but frankly speaking the traditional teaching learning mode is best, because of its acceptance by everybody.
I thank students, staff, faculty, alumni and everyone for kind cooperation and support in successful running day to day activities of the department.
" Yes it's a second chance to survive with more kindness, healthiness and hopefulness.
Dear All students
Regards!
I have been handling the charge of Training and Placement officer since November, 2020. The TPO cell likely to convey the information of the company to the students through Whatsapp groups, Google forms, emails, received from the companies or the online links for the lecture which will give the information about the pre-placement of the companies. This will be always beneficial for giving the information about the companies.
The TPO cell deals with the training of the students in enhancing the employability skills in them, like, English usage, analytical reasoning, numerical reasoning, computer fundamentals, psychometric tests, domain based test, English writing tests, etc.
The training and placement cell is also involved in arranging the activities, workshops and seminars delivered by the company’s experts from the companies from various domains and human resource personnel. These activities seminars and workshops are very helpful and beneficial for the students to become ready engineers for the companies. The soft skill sessions arranged for the students are very much useful and advantageous to face the interviews of companies and represent and expedite their personality at various levels. From this year, the TPO has planned to arrange regular workshops/ training of domain based subjects through the departmental faculty coordinators also it has planned to take the guest lectures and informative talk sessions of the company personnel and the experts from various fields. It’s also under consideration to send the students for the internship/ implant training to the various industries of their respective domains, so that they could get trained and familiar with the working environment of the industries. The student has to focus mainly on the communication skills and mainly the domain subject as per the production and the field in which the company focuses their innovation.
All the best for the future!
Dr. Shailesh D. Ambekar
Training and Placement officer, GECA
