Category: News and Notifications

Volunteer’s Day

Volunteer’s Day is celebrated on 5th December. International Volunteers Day is a chance for individual volunteers, communities and organizations to promote their contributions to development at the local, national and international levels. So, we planned a visit to Tungaratan Vibhag Vidya Mandir School, Gulsunde, Panvel, Raigad on 5th December, 2019. The main agenda of the visit was to guide around 150 students of the 10th standard of school to choose the correct career path in the future. There were almost 20 volunteers and 3 staff members to accomplish this task. So, on the visit day, we took a chart with ourselves on which different career paths were mentioned for the students who were about to conquer their SSC board examination in a few months.

Date

5th December, 2019

We also carried a test for which we distributed a question paper to each student. On which we printed questions related to Science, Commerce and Arts & Sports field. From the test, we got to know about the interest of the students in their career field. So, we guided all the students on the basis of their field of interest. In the end, we donated some books to their library.

Career Path Finder Chart
Volunteers delivering Seminar
Books Donation to Library
Books Donation to Library

December 5, 2019
Workshop on “Android Application & Development”
As per the culture of Pillai’s HOC College of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering organizes various Technical Workshops for aspirants assembling with various interests in the field with a very high competitive spirit to participant and with the strong determination to include their achievements & accomplishments to their resumes.

Date
Department

28th & 29th November, 2019
Computer Engineering

For the preceding academic year 2019-20, we have organized a two days workshop on “Android Application & Development” on 28th & 29th November, 2019. This workshop was conducted by Mr. Nikhil Pawar; He has 5+ Years experienced in Android and Web Development and also Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry Named “Mindscript”. He also skilled in SQL, PHP and Data Structures.

Basically Android Application Development refers to the process of making application software for handheld devices such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants. Through the usage of mobile apps, the user is provided with various features that will enable him to fulfill all his needs and much more.

The workshop covered some following basic and Advance topic based on “Android Application & Development”:
- Module 1: Introduction of Android Studio
- Module 2: User Interface – XML
- Module 3: Event Handling – Java Coding
- Module 4: Intent
- Module 5: Runtime permission
- Module 6: Location
- Module 7: SQLite
November 28, 2019
India International Science Festival

November 6, 2019
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas

NSS Unit, PHCET, Rasayani celebrated Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on 31st October, 2019 as per the instructions given by NSS Unit, University of Mumbai. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) is celebrated as the Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. A pledge taking ceremony was organized to mark this occasion by NSS UNIT, PHCET. 25 NSS volunteers along with 100 plus students and faculty members took the oath on this occasion. NSS volunteers also organized drawing and painting competition for the students. 17 students along with 2 NSS volunteers participated in the competition. A team of experts evaluated the paintings and gave 4 prizes.

Date

31st October, 2019

Rashtriya Ekta Diwas – Pledge by Faculty members
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas – Pledge by Students
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas – Drawing Competition
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas – Drawing Competition

October 31, 2019
$Workshop on “Latex” 2019$

Workshop on “Latex” 2019

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication organised One Day Workshop on “Latex” on 19th October, 2019 under IETE student’s forum [ISF] for the students. 35 students participated in the workshop. It was conducted by Prof. Jayesh Rane, Assistant Professor, EXTC Dept. In this workshop students learnt how to prepare their Project reports; thesis and IEEE paper formats in Latex.

Date
Department

19th October, 2019
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

October 19, 2019
Internet of Things Project Exhibition

IoT Project Exhibition was conducted on 12th October, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. in Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Madhumita Chatterjee Honorable Principal, Dr. J. E. Nalavade Head of The Department, Dr. Chelpa Lingam Chief Guest, inaugurated the program and also addressed students on the importance of conducting such events. Dr. Madhumita Chatterjee briefed over the importance of innovative projects. She also motivated the students to collaborate with industry experts for internships. She also appreciated and motivated students for participating in technical events and competitions like avishkar etc.

Date
Department
Time
Venue
Program Coordinator
Conveners

12th October, 2019
Information Technology
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
A 502
Prof. Farheen Talib, Prof. Rupali Sathe
Dr. J. E. Nalavade (Head, IT Dept.)

IoT Project Exhibition & Competition is the effort aimed project-based learning among students and aims at providing hands-on experience to various technical aspects of internet of things and engineering problems which will enable students to develop creative thinking and innovation in bringing up better engineering solutions and improves the depth of understanding of engineering concepts. There were about 22 projects that were exhibited from students of 5th semesters. The students were motivated to conduct this exhibition during their IoT practical session which is the part of their curriculum for the current semester. The faculty in charge for the subject and students organized and participated in this programme very enthusiastically giving working models of where and how IoT can be used in our day today life.

October 12, 2019
Project Based Learning

Theme and Significance: Department of Information Technology organized a project competition for the students under Project Based Learning (PBL). Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for academic, personal and career success and readies young people to rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit. This practice is unique to our institution and is over and above the prescribed curriculum. The project were given to Second year students based on various topics like arduino, app development, web development and various other streaming fields that belongs to their curriculum.

Date
Department

12th October, 2019
Information Technology

Students work on their project over an extended period of time – from a week up to a semester – that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. The students were allocated guides who guided them to build their projects. They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by developing a public product or presentation.

As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, creativity and communication skills in the context of doing an authentic, meaningful project. This Project Based Learning leads to a better learning experience as opposed to text-book learning. Project Based Learning unleashes a contagious, creative energy among students and teachers. The overall concept behind this project based learning was very self-learning and helped the students to learn and sharpen their skills.

Brief Report About The Event: The project based learning competition was scheduled on 12th October, 2019. The students were instructed to move to their respective labs till 9:30 a.m. 18 groups from SE IT presented 18 new project ideas while integrating subjects across the curriculum. The phases of the PBL event are as given above in the schedule.

The competition was distributed into two halves. The first phase was from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. where the students had to give a presentation about their project in front of other students. They had to explain their project objective, how they implemented the project, how it works and all the basic functionalities of their project. Many similar project topics were given to different students but their guides were different, therefore every group had a different perspective towards the project. This helped the students to have an idea how others have implemented the project and also helped them to improve their presentation skills. The guides also judged the projects of their respective groups and gave them marks according.

Students gave and received constructive peer feedback that helped them to improve project processes and products. This common-sense acknowledgement of the importance of making student work and student products better is supported by research on the importance of “formative evaluation” which not only means teachers giving feedback to students, but students evaluating the results of their learning. The overall concept behind this project based learning was very self-learning and helped the students to learn and sharpen their skills.

October 12, 2019
Industrial Visit to Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Pune

Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), established in 1966, is the leading automotive R&D organization of the country set up by the Automotive Industry with the Government of India. ARAI is an autonomous body affiliated to the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, has recognized ARAI as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO). Further, ARAI is one of the prime Testing and Certification Agency notified by Government of India under Rule 126 of Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989.

Date
Department

12th October, 2019
Automobile Engineering

ARAI has been playing crucial roles assuring safe, less polluting, more efficient and reliable vehicles. Working in harmony and confidence with its Members, Customers and Government it provides services and expertise in the areas of Engineering Services, Certification & Standardisation, Research & Development, Technology Development and Knowledge Initiatives. And also offers Automotive Technologies and India Specific Data Bases for automotive product development for Indian market. ARAI has been assisting Government in formulating automotive standards and regulations. ARAI serves hundreds of customers in a year including Automotive OEMs; Engine, Component and Systems Suppliers; large number of SMEs; and host of Industries / Organisations from Non-Automotive sectors too.

The state-of-the-art Laboratories of ARAI are well equipped with the most advanced facilities in the areas of Emission Evaluation, Noise Vibration and Harshness, Structural Dynamics, Powertrain Engineering, Computer-aided engineering, Vehicle Evaluation, Active & Passive Safety, Material Evaluation, Automotive Electronics, Forging & Heat treatment Research and Calibration etc. ARAI also has a renowned Academy. E Mobility-Centre of Excellence, Environmental Research Laboratory, Virtual Calibration Centre, Futuristic Adaptive Smart Techniques (FAST) Laboratory are some of the recent additions to ARAI’s comprehensive capabilities.

ARAI has its registered office at Kothrud, Pune, India. It’s two divisions viz., Forging Industry Division (ARAI-FID) and Homologation and Technology Centre (ARAI-HTC) are situated in the industrial hub of Chakan near Pune. ARAI has its regional office in Chennai, India named as Regional Centre South which co-ordinates with a wide customer base in the southern region. ARAI also has representatives in China and Korea. The institute has many strategic alliances with Domestic and Global Organisations in the automotive and other fields too.

Industrial Visit was organized at ARAI, Pune on 12th October, 2019 which is the open day of ARAI, where ARAI allows outside students once in a year to visit their labs. The visit was organised for final year and third year students of Automobile. Dr. S. S. Pawar, Head, Automobile and Mr. Vaibhav Bhagat (Class Coordinator of B.E. Automobile) shared the responsibility for successfully conducting the event. A total of 50 students participated in this event. The visit was organized to make student familiar with working of Automobile systems and also aware about facilities provided by ARAI for testing of Vehicles.

October 12, 2019
Expert Lecture on “Current Industry Trends”

In Department of Computer Engineering Expert Lecture on “Current Industry Trends” was conducted on 12th October, 2019. Dr. Madhav Chandane from VJTI and Mr. Subhash Bhaskaran from LTI Mumbai. They guided students about final year project selection and current industry trends.

Date
Department
Time
Venue
Objective

12th October, 2019
Computer Engineering
3:00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Conclave – I
To give insights of current Industry trends to students

October 12, 2019

Seminar on “SAE Chapter Installation”

Title of Seminar	SAE Chapter Installation
Theme	To make students understand how beneficial SAE is along with the academics
Schedule	Date: 10th October, 2019 Time: 12.00 p.m. – 12.50 p.m. Venue: Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor
Target Audience	Automobile Engineering Students
Speaker Profile	Mr. R.K. Aggrawal, M.Tech. Machine Design, Associate Professor, YTCEM Karjat Mr. Shoaib Sadiq, Program Manager, Baja, SAE India Mr. Samir Wanjare, EST. Member, Baja SAE India Mr. Subodh Morye, SAE India, Mc Member, Western Region

SAE India is India’s leading resource for mobility technology. It’s an organization which is run by industrial experts, researchers and many dignitaries from renowned automotive industries. SAE India is an organization who’s targeting young engineers and pioneers who are lean more towards the innovation and development. SAE introduces platform for such students by conducting various competition like SAE Supra, SAE Baja, ITECH SAE India, & many more.

Mr. Subodh Morye, Deputy General Manager at Mahindra Rise initiated the seminar with the brief history of how SAE India was formed and also how important was his role into forming SAE India. Leading to that he also encourage students of Automobile Engineering Department to keep coming up with the new ideas, new innovations that will be beneficial for the contemporary technology. He also described the SAE India’s upcoming plans for students who wants to choose engineering as their career.

Mr. Shoaib Sadiq, Program Manager at Baja SAE India took over the dice. He explained the benefits of participating in Baja SAE India competition. As a program manager at Baja SAE India Shoaib sir has managed to handle many such competition and have been encouraging students for over 10 years. He is also a Team manager at Mahindra Autopassion & Farmpassio.

And finally SAE chapter was successfully installed into our college by Professor R. K. Agarwal who’s also the leading authority of SAE India.

Chair Person	Pritesh Dhawale (B.E.)
Vice-Chair Person	Sumedh Kadam (T.E.)
Student Secretary	Rushikesh Kudale (B.E.)
Student Treasurer	Gaurav Pardeshi (B.E.)
Student Reception Chair	Vedang Buduk (B.E.)
Student Program Chair	Vishal Mehta (B.E.)
Student Publicity Chair	Adib Shaikh (T.E.)
Student Membership Chair	Sarvesh Savant (T.E.)
Senior Faculty Advisor	Prof. Vaibhav Bhagat
Additional Faculty Advisor	Prof. Saurabh S. Sirsikar

October 10, 2019