VOLUME VIII
Issue 1
Inside this
Issue
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Glimpses
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Department of First Year
Engineering
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Department of Information
Technology
VIBES
01 July -30
September
2016
Welcome to the new academic year
2016-17!
Words may not suffice to express our heartfelt
sorrow for the passing of our Honorable
Chairperson, Dr.Sanjeewani Deshpande, an
eminent
scholar, dedicated teacher and a
loving guide. It is a great loss to the
Vidyalankar family. A true well – wisher, our
constant source of inspiration, determined and
humble lady. Her devotion and sincere
contribution with the Vidyalankar group of
Institutes,
since
their
inception
took
Vidyalankar to the echelons of success. She
achieved her PhD in her
seventies which
Vice-Principal , VIT
reflected her passion for research and life long
learning. She played an instrumental role in
personally motivating and mentoring Vidyalankar teachers to pursue their PhD studies
and research initiatives with a missionary zeal. She has left behind a rich harvest of
memories to cherish, honor and emulate.
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Department of Computer
Engineering
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Department of Electronics
and Telecommunications
Engineering
The lighthouse and embodiment of the spirit of Vidyalankar
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Department of Electronics
Engineering
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Biomedical Engineering
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Master of Management
Studies
Late Dr.Sanjeewani Deshpande
Never shall we forget you and your wonderful ways,
In tribute we offer you gratitude and praise!
We are also saddened with the loss of our supporting staff Mr.Dhamanand Jadhav who
left us for the heavenly abode due to sudden illness.
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In the last quarter VIT witnessed visit of Binghamton University delegates, New York, US
on 23.09.2016 to promote their university for higher education. The delegation includes
Dr. John. S. Bay, Associate Dean and Dr. Madhusudan Govinda Raju, Director of
Graduate Admission and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science.
I extend my congratulations to the students from VIT who participated in IIT BOMBAYTechfest, 2016, Zonal rounds and secured 3rd place out of 50 teams that participated in
the Mesh Flare Competion. I wish them all the success in their endeavors. With rewarding
achievements in education and extra curricular activities, we continue to move forward
together with confidence, pride and enthusiasm.
“I believe in science. It provides a solution and a rationale for everything. And if there is
anything that appears like a miracle, the only explanation is that a scientific reason for it
has not been discovered as yet.”—Amish Tripathi
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Felicitaiton of Malhar ‘16
winners
VIT students won accolades and
bagged several prizes at Malhar
(inter-collegiate youth festival
hosted annually by St. Xavier's
College, Mumbai).
Workshop was organized in collaboration with IIT on 23 Sept. Speaker is Mr. Ajeet Khurana,
Angel Investor working with SINE, IIT.
Engineers’ Day Celebration
In the previous quarter the companies like Works Applications, Tata Consultancy Services,
Media. Net – Direct I,Bitwise Global,L&T Infotech, Capgemini visited VITto recruit the students
frm 2017 graduating batch. TCS has selected 54 students and L&T Infotech has selected 78
students. The results from other companies are yet to be received.
Friday Paathshala: Session
on Yogasanas
Derived from the Sanskrit word
yuj, Yoga means union of the individual consciousness or soul with
the Universal Consciousness or
Spirit. Hit the mat! Enrich your life
with Yoga!
Students from VIT participated in IIT BOMBAY TECHFEST 2016 Zonals round. The team
secured 3rd position from 50 teams in Mesh Flare
Competion.
In the last quarter VIT witnessed visit of Binghamton University delegates, New York, US
on 23.09.2016 to promote their university for
higher education. The delegation includes Dr.
John. S. Bay, Associate Dean and Dr.
Madhusudan Govinda Raju, Director of
Graduate
Admission
and
Associate
Professor,
Department
of
Computer
Science.Engineers Day Celebration
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein
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Department of First Year Engineering
Faculty Profile
Spotlight Student
In the recently declared results of the First Year Engineering Semester II
exams ,conducted by the University of
Mumbai in May 2016, Bhavika Poojari of
CMPN 1 scored highest pointer of 9.19 and made our college and her family very
proud .
Prof. Ishan Upadhy
Department: General Engineering
Qualification: M. Tech (Energy
Engineering )
Designation: Assistant Professor
Area of Interest : Energy Audit,
Photovoltaic cell and Fuel cell.
Subjects Taught : Thermal Energy,
Engineering
Mechanics,
Strength of Materials, Thermodynamics.
FE Orientation Programme 2016 - 17
First Year Engineering Department of VIT welcomed the young would be
engineers
and conducted orientation program for them. The orientation
programme was
designed to acquaint the new students to the VIT. First year orientation was basically for
Prof. Meghna Borate
Department: Humanities
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification:
English
M.A.
(Hons.),
Specialization: Gender Studies,
Australian
and
Canadian
Literature
students entering VIT to their first year of college. During the course of the program,
they were gradually introduced to life and culture at the college, from academics to
resources, support services to the rules and regulations of the Institute and the
University of Mumbai. The program was conducted in three sessions of one and a half
hour on 5th August 2016, Friday in VIT Auditorium.
Subjects
taught:
Business
Communication and Ethics
“Knowledge can never be created, it can only be discovered….”
- Swami Vivekananda
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Student Speak—Journey at VIT
Department of Information Technology
ITSA Activities: Open Source Technologies : A Boon
Introduction to Open Source Technologies was great start for ITSA. Seminar was
conducted by Mr. Ninad Chaudhari, student of VIT, who has in depth knowledge about
open source technologies and tools. He opened the
session with the need of open
source technology ,briefed about the history various applications developed in Open
Source. Students were made aware about various open source technologies which
would help them in various
subjects as well in projects. It was an informative
seminar and proved to be beneficial for the attendees.
Four years ago, when I visited this
institute for the first time, I felt the
aura this place has. It is said that,
it’s our choices that show us what
we truly are far more than our
abilities and I feel righteous that I
chose
this
college
for
my
Engineering.
The only way by which we grow is
by stepping outside our comfort
zone. But we are often afraid to take
that first step. My VIT journey
literally helped me to break these
chains of fear I had around me to
get outside. To be honest, I was
never the kind of person who would
go on stage and perform without
any fear and anxiety. But as it is
said that unless you give it a try,
you never know if you are good at it
or not. There is one famous quote
by Dr.Seuss - “Kid, you’ll move
mountains! Today is your day! Your
mountain is
waiting. So…get on
your way!” Whether it be performing
in class wars or giving a speech in
seminar in front of huge audience or
presenting a paper in
national
level
paper
presentation
competition, I got a lot of support
from VIT and from
professors
here.
These small experiences
and
victories raised my confidence and brought me closer to
myself.
ACM Activities: Cloud Seminar
A Seminar on CLOUD was conducted by Mr Chirag M Panchal on 11 August 2016.The
seminar students got to learn about the basics of Microsoft One drive. They were given
complete information about how One Drive could be used to maintain a backup of our
data and to retrieve it later.The students were encouraged to use it as it is very
secure and were introduced about the azure-a Microsoft service.Systematic demonstration of how One Drive is used. The seminar helped the students to learn about the latest
technology like Big Data and its use in future. One Drive is a file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device.
Users can share files publicly or with their contacts; publicly shared files do not require
a Microsoft account to access them. OneDrive is included in the suite of online services
formerly known as Windows Live.
11th August 2016
“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
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Department of Computer Engineering
Android “ The OS”
A very eventful session on Android “ The OS”was initaiated by Prof. Amit Dhanwani.
It was a great learning experience for CESA as the speaker started the session by
explaining the students why learning android was important in today’s world. He gave a
brief history of android and its versions. Android’s current market status with statistics
was also explained to the students. The speaker explained the students about android
OS and also about an APK file. Also the basic architecture and layout of an android
application was explained. The session was very interactive. At the end of the session
the speaker also gave a demo of the app he had developed.
The session proved to be an informative and interesting one and enhanced the
knowledge of the students which led to positive reviews from them.
ACM-VIT Student Chapter is happy
to announce a Two-Day Workshop
on Internet of Things (IoT) on 1st &
2nd October 2016 in association
with i3indya technologies. VIT is
selected as a Zonal Centre for conducting this workshop and you can
be shortlisted for "IoT Challenge
2016" an event to be conducted at
IIT, Bombay in their Tech-Fest 17 to
19 Dec 2016 where prizes upto 1
Lakh Rupees can be won. This
event is open for Students & Professors of VIT,VP & VSIT.
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ACM-VIT Student Chapter conducted a Seminar on Internet of
Things (IoT) on 29th Septem-
Workshop on What the Hack
A two day workshop on ethical hacking was conducted by Mr.Hitansh Kataria from
CreativeTabs, Bangalore. The workshop started by explaining the basic concepts of
computer, networking, protocols, etc and was very interactive. A demo on windows
hacking was also given to the students along with important homework questions that
formed the base for day 2.
On day 2, the session started at 9 am where basic concepts of software and networking
were explained as well as software cracking, wifi hacking, website hacking and Phishing
were taught.
ber 2016.

VIT's Hobby Club Committee
organized an Origami Workshop on 22 September. Prof
Mohini Kamat from the Dept. of
Computer Engineering was the
artist for the event. Origami is
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
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Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Achievements of the Department
 Accredited by NBA for three years .w.e.f July 2016
 14 Minor research projects selected by VDT Trust

VIT's Entrepreneurship Cell
in collaboration with Google
for
Entrepreneurs
and
Human Circle organized a
motivational talk for students
and aspiring entrepreneurs
on the link between their
passion and career. Mr.
Kamal Seth (CEO,Human
Circle) and Ms. Wioleta
Burdzy Seth (Co-Founder,
Human Circle) were the
speakers at the event held
on 04 August.
 Prof.Vaibhav Kshirsagar appointed as NAAC Coordinator
 Our HOD Dr..Saurabh Mehta promoted as Professor under CAS (Career Advancement
Scheme)
 You tube channel Internships in progress
 Started Scientists gallery to inspire students
 Prof.Ashish shekhar, Prof Prathamesh Indulkar, Prof.Snehal Chothe, Prof.Swapnil
Ashtekar, Prof.Vibha Wali, Prof.Beena Ballal and Prof.Dr. Saurabh Mehta successfully
completed FDP on ICT by IIT Bombay.
Talks delivered by Prof.Dr.Saurabh Mehta
 “ Wireless Technologies of Next Generation,” S.Mehta , Gandhinager Engineering
College, Gujarat, 13th September 2016.
 “Ham Radio and Antenna Workshop,” S.Mehta & Team MARI, St.Xaviaer College
of Engineering,Mahim,27th August 2016.
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VIT has been featured in
Mumbai Times (a supplement of Maharashtra Times)
on 13th September 2016
Mumbai The YouTube channel of the college finds
mentions in the article.
A trip down nostalgia lane by
revisiting
childhood
memories. Organized by the
Cultural Council of VIT
Student Council on 16
September 2016( Friday
Pathshala).
 “Antenna Workshop and FOX Hunt,” S.Mehta & Team MARI, Don Bosco Institute
of Technology , Kurla, 22nd and 23rd July 2016.
Student council 2016-17
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
―Mahatma Gandhi
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Department of Electronics Engineering
“Visit to UXO India ”
The Student Council 2016-17 of
VIT organized a Friday Paathshala event ‘Gurucool’: A Tribute
to Teachers on 02 September as
an advance celebration of Teacher's Day. The event started with a
'mini lecture' by the Principal Dr.
S.A. Patekar on Hilbert Space &
Dirac Structure. It was followed
by fun events and games for
teachers and a skit.
IEEE-VIT
Student
Branch
organized IEEE Membership
Drive on 23, 24 and 26 August
2016. As a part of the Membership Drive, an event called 'Game
Of Drones' was organized where
Team Red (ETRX, EXTC, BIOMED Departments) competed
against Team Blue (COMP and IT
Departments). Both teams had to
control their bots (using the link:
god.ieee-vit.org ) and steer them
to seize the finish spot. With the
final score of 3-1, Team Red
emerged victorious . The response received has been phenomenal, with over 22,149 hits to
the microsite!
The expanding footprint of sprawling cities, primarily informal shantytowns at the outer
fringe, is characterized by a lack of arterial grids, unwieldy block sizes, and inadequate
open space. Urban Expansion throughout the globe is expanding to a great extent. World
Bank has been shelling out loads of money for the same to the local governing bodies.
However it has been observed that whatever pan has been put is not what is exactly being followed. Thus Urban observatory in
correspondence with NYU has been working
to reconstruct the Layout policies so that urbanisation can be of planned more accurately.
The unplanned and
unfettered growth is bad for the environment, increases the
cost of delivering basic services, and hinders economic activity and food security. Through
a
combination of in-house and commissioned research, the Institute investigates
broadly defined land policy issues as well as more specific themes. The work done here
aims to measure the quality of expansion in urban areas from 1990 – 2010 as part of
NYU’s work on Monitoring Global Expansion. The Observatory is being established to
undertake the digitization of high resolution satellite imagery, in order to measure the quality of urban expansion in the fringe areas of 200 global cities. The analysis relies on a new
and sophisticated sampling methodology developed by New York University Urbanization
Project. Using the high-resolution satellite imagery of Bing and Google Earth, a random
set of 10-hectare locales in the expansion areas of cities is generated (areas developed
between 1990 and 2010).
IEEE Technical Paper writing Event, VIT- June2016
Writing a technical paper is of immense importance to an engineer, be it for an undergraduate or a post graduate student. IEEE-VIT realising the importance of technical paper for
all, and conducted a seminar on how to write a technical
paper. This seminar was held
on 26th September, 2016. The speakers for the event were Dr. Anjali Deshpande, HOD
of ETRX department at VIT and former WIE Chairperson at IEEE Bombay Section, Dr. B.
Satyanarayana, Scientific Officer at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and
Prof. Kiran Talele, Student Activity Chair, IEEE Bombay Section and Associate Professor
at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology.The topics covered during the seminar were:
1.Fundamental research and format of technical papers 2. Strategic Planning and IEEE
Publications 3. Technical Paper Review and Evaluation Process. The event was a huge
success and the audience gained immense knowledge of how they can publish quality
technical paper. IEEE has also organised events such as; 1.Machine Learning: Applied
Artificial Intelligence. 2.E-Yantra Workshop.WIE affinity group was reformed in VIT on
4th August 2016.Prof. Neha Gulati was assigned as convener of IEEE-WIE VIT
Student Branch.
Secrets of Success
Smooth sea never made skillful mariners
The price of greatness is ‘Responsibility’
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Achievement-Dr. Sangeeta Joshi
Dr. Sangeeta Joshi is Professor in Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. She is a Ph.D.
in Microelectronics from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
She has Headed Quality Assurance Cell at Directorate of
Technical Education– Mumbai. Currently she also holds post of
Technical Advisor at VIT. Her Area of Interest includes VLSI
Design for Deep, sub-micron CMOS Technology, Reconfigurable
Computing, Sensor Network,
Simulation and Modeling of
Nanodevices . Dr. Sangeeta has been actively
contributing in
Research and Development activities at VIT and has innumerable
Dr. Sangeeta Joshi
achievements to her credit. Some of her recent achievements have
been
highlighted in this article.
1. Dr. Joshi has headed as Convener for the program ―2-days workshop on
Visu-TCAD and Genius Device Simulator”. The workshop was organized at VIT as joint
event by Dept. of Biomedical and Dept. of Electronics Engineering.
2. Dr. Joshi delivered a talk on “MEMRISTOR” at ISTE approved Short Term Training
Program on‖ Design
Aspect in CMOS Analog Design, ASIC and MEMS during June
27th-July 1st, 2016. This STTP was organized by Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering
College, Mumbai.
3. Dr. Joshi has participated in the INUP Hands– on Training Workshop on
“Nanofabrication Technologies”, held at IIT Bombay, during July 18-22, 2016.
4. Dr. Joshi recently has been awarded Patent by Australian Government in August, 2016
for a period of Eight Years. Her Title of Invention is “AD-HOC WIRELESS NETWORK
AND A METHOD FOR REDUC-ING ENERGY NEED OF THE AD-HOC WIRELESS NETWORK”.
VIT's Industry Institute Interaction
Committee (IIIC) and Biomedical
Student’s Association Committee
(BMSA) organized a Seminar on
Organ Donation Awareness Camp
titled: The Ultimate Gift :- Organ
Donation. The speaker for the
event
was
Mrs.
Meera
Suresh,Treasurer-PRO
Sneh
Bandhan Trust and Transplant Co
-ordinator-ZTCC (Zonal Transplant Co-ordination Centre).
5. Dr. Joshi delivered a talk on “ Memristor– Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory” . The
talk was delivered on 16th September, 2016 at IEEE Conference Lumini‘16 organized by
IEEE BITS Pilani Goa Students Branch.
Under leadership of Dr. Sangeeta Joshi VIT would be organizing Third International
Conference on “Recent Advances and Challenges in Engineering and Management
(RACEM-2016)”. She would be heading as General Chair. The Conference is
scheduled on December 22-23, 2016.
One Day Workshop organized by BMESI-VIT Chapter on Ventilato
Secrets of Excellence
Dreams don't work unless you do
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HOD SPEAK
Department of Management Studies
Placement Preparation - Jump Start by Mr. Mithil Vengurlekar
Gaining knowledge from the guest speakers is the classic learninig experience. On 20th
August 2016 ,MMS students had a guest lecture by Mr. Mithil Vengurlekar on the
topic“How we can groom our self for upcoming interviews”.
Mr. Mithil Vengurlekar, lead expert at JumpStart, has more than 8 years of international
work experience in the UK, US and Asia and currently, is working as a Vice President with
a leading Investment Bank in London.
Dr. Ankush Sharma
COO &
Studies
Head
Management
“Life is a tough race; it is a
marathon- Do what you can,
with what you have, where you
are” .
Nature designed with a random
set of genes and circumstances
in which we were born. Goals will
help us to make the most of
nature’s design. Students should
not just have career or academic
goals. They should set goals to
give them a balanced and
successful life.
Life is one of those races in
nursery school, where you have
to run with a marble in a spoon
kept in your mouth. If the marble
falls, there is no point coming
first. Same with life, where health
and relationships are the marble.
Your striving is only worth it if
there is harmony in your life. Else,
you may achieve the success, but
this spark, this feeling of being
excited and alive, will start to die.
Excellence does not only mean
academic achievements; but also
has other elements like social
responsibility
and
personal
nobility. One should take the
opportunity to take steps required
to know the world, to explore the
earth and to reach the sky.
Mr. Mithil Vengurlekar shared his valuable knowledge about interview preparation. He
also took mock interview to show what mistakes can happen in an interview and also how
it should be .He shared his knowledge about interview questions, confidence , body
language etc. The
concepts which he explained are very useful as students are soon
going to face the interviews.
Guest Session by “AMISH TRIPATHI”
Guest session by Mr. Amish Tripathi was held on 24th August 2016. Amish Tripathi, is an
Indian author, known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas
and The Oath of the Vayuputras. The three books collectively comprise the Shiva Trilogy.
His debut work ,The Immortals of Meluha was a bestseller that broke into the top seller
chart within a week of its launch ,owing to his creative marketing strategies. He also wrote
1st novel of Ram Chandra Series i.e. “Scion of Ikshvaku”. Forbes India has ranked him
among the top 100 celebrities in India four times in a row, in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
He shared his thoughts about history which we all learned in school days, but the point of
view which he described was very different from an ordinary person. He also shared his
future plans about writing novels and specified many Indian warriors on whom he wishes
to write novels some of them being- Chandragupta Maurya, Raja Raja Chola & he also
spoke about Women Warriors in India – Jhansi Ki Rani, Rani Rudramma Devi.
Session by Mr. Milind Tadvalkar (Director,VDT)
Adjusting to College Life - Balancing Freedom with Responsibility
Discipline is the key to success - this saying holds true for all times and for all people of
all age groups. But for students it holds a great value. In contemporary times there are so
many temptations that can lure a student away from his basic objective in life. Director,
VDT Mr. Milind Tadvalkar, discussed during this session about the glittering world of
smartphones, the glamorous world of being under spotlight and sheer ignorance unfolds a
new era in front of young student and they are wooed away, ignoring or unwillingly
following non-conscious behavior & attitude followed at college. Those who are not wise
enough to think rationally will be swept off. Temptations are always there. Only the forms
of temptations change. But those of us who learn the subtle art of self-discipline and
self-constraint, nothing can prevent us from attaining our goals in life.
Editor:
Prof. Utpala Das , Department of Humanities
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