In the final round of the Business Plan Competition 2024, Mr. Prathamesh Shelke, the Team Leader from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, PHCET has secured the first position and the won one lakh prize. The project, “Pantronics,” witnessed the contribution of Ms. Arya Patil, a student in Mechanical Engineering.

Smart India Hackathon Team RUTEZZ were the Joint Winners at the Smart India Hackathon 2022 Software Edition Grand Finale held from August 25th – 26th at IIT GUWAHATI for Problem statement KK1183 under Startup India Section, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The Institute was selected as a nodal centre to facilitate the software edition of the two-day long SIH 2022 where a total of 25 teams having 178 participants, with most of them visiting the region for the first time, will be competing against 7 problem statements.

IIT Guwahati hosted problem statements given by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Each problem statement had a winning amount of Rs 1 lakh.

Team RUTEZZ were felicitated by Prof. Dr. T. G. Sitharam, Director & Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in the presence of esteemed guests like Mrs. Selvarani, Innovation Officer, Innovation Cell, MOE, Prof. Sashindra K. Kakoty, Deputy Director, IIT Guwahati, Ramadhi Sen, G. M. Emami, Prof. G. Krishnamoorthy, Dean Industrial Interactions & Special Initiatives, IIT Guwahati, Prof. V. Vijaya Saradhi, Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati.

Team SmartGeeks were the Joint winners at the Smart India Hackathon 2022 Software Edition Grand Finale held from August 25th – 26th at Presidency University, Bengaluru for Problem statement TK1050 under Government of Rajasthan. The Institute was selected as a nodal centre to facilitate the software edition of the two-day long SIH 2022 where a total of 30 teams having 200 participants, with most of them visiting the region for the first time, will be competing against 7 problem statements.

Presidency University hosted problem statements given by the Government of Rajasthan. Each problem statement had a winning amount of Rs. 1 lakh.

Team SmartGeeks was felicitated by Mr. Shreyas Ghogale, Nodal Centre Head, Mr. Ananthakumar Mani, Chief Guest, Mr. Chandan Pramanik, Chief Guest, Judges, Mr. Anand Geethagovindan, Mr. Dipendra Singh Rajpal, Mr. Upanshu Singhal, Mr. Eshan N., Mr. Munish Raj, Dr. Souvick Chatterjee, Mr. Vijay Sankar and other juries from Presidency University Bangalore.

Aakash Rathod student of Computer Engineering department is a founder / Owner of Dead of Writes Publication. He is the youngest person in India who started a Publishing House at the very young age of 18 years. He has a record on his name in India Book of Records as Youngest Indian Entrepreneur in Publishing Industry. He has also been awarded with a business award as Youngest Indian Publisher by India Prime Icon Awards 2021.

Shivani Gotavade and Abhishek Rajpurohit students of Computer Engineering have won Business Plan Competition 2021-2022 organized by Pillai Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Title of their project is Protect Her.

EXTC Student Ms. Sanskruti Shelke has received a special recognition award idea from IWFCI in presence of Ms. Daphne Pillai, Founder, IWFCI and Ms. Celina Joy – felicitated with a certificate and prize money.

“Avishkar” is a State Level, Inter-university Research Competition was initiated by the Office of the Hon’ble Chancellor in the year 2007. Students of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering department participated in “14th Avishkar Research Convention 2019” which held at Vishwaniketan’s Institute of Management Entrepreneurship and Engineering Technology, Khopoli on 22nd December, 2019.

Name of Student	Title of Project	Name of Mentor
Sagar Jadhav, Suraj Tandel, Amey Datar, Abhijeet Wadhwal	Wildlife Observation Robot Using RF	Ms. Neha Rai
Susheela Suresh, Saurabh Shirke, Pranay Unnikrishnan, Venkat Kulkarni	Water Supply Monitoring and Controlling System with water theft Identification	Mr. Jayesh Rane
Adarsh S. Nautiyal	A Hybrid Street Lamp - An Innovative Solution for Management of Environmental Issues and Social Laws	Mr. Karthik Nagarajan

Mr. Ashutosh Sharma of M.E. Civil Engineering, PHCET has received a 1 year training offer from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehdradun. Dr. Arijit Roy (Scientist, ISRO) will be guiding him during this period on the field of Remote Sensing and GIS.

Including this, 11 students from PHCET (Comp, IT and Civil) have gone to ISRO till date

• 3 PhD research scholars
• 5 PG students
• 3 UG students

Final Year Computer Engineering students were selected for Student Engineering Model Competition (SEMC), India International Science Festival (IISF) 2019 held during 6th – 7th November, 2019 at Kolkata. This event was organized by Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India holding a Competition “AICTE-Vishwakarma Awards-2019” for the students and institutes of AICTE approved institutions. Listed students of Electronics & Telecommunication engineering department participated in Chatra Vishwakarma Awards 2019.

Name of Student	Team Name	Name of Mentor
Tejas Rane, Avinash Sanas, Surajv Mandal, Adistya Sawant	"SAHAYATA"	Dr. Mansi Subhedar
Janvi Chavan, Sonali Patil,	"Aqua Agro Tech"	Dr. Divya Chirayil
Venkat Kulkarni, Saurabh Shirke, Pranay U., Susheela Suresh	"Aqua Sqaud"	Mr. Jayesh Rane

Mr. Arnav Mishra, Mr. Kishankumar Singh and Mr. Saurav Valand from B.E. Civil won 1st Prize in Project Competition held in Universal College of Engineering and Technology, Vasai on 8th March, 2019 under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Mr. Arnav Mishra, Mr. Kishankumar Singh and Mr. Saurav Valand from B.E. Civil won 3rd Prize in Project Exhibition Competition held in NCRD’s Sterling Institute of Management Studies, Nerul on 15th March, 2019 under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Mr. Kishankumar Singh and Mr. Saurav Valand from B.E. Civil won 1st Prize in National Level Project Exhibition Competition held in Vidyavardhini College of Engineering and Technology, Virar on 5th April, 2019 under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Mr. Kishankumar Singh and Mr. Saurav Valand from B.E. Civil won 1st Prize in National Level Project Exhibition Competition held in Rizvi College of Engineering, Bandra on 26th March, 2019 under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Mr. Kishankumar Singh, Mr. Arnav Mishra and Mr. Saurav Valand from B.E. Civil won 1st Prize in Project Exhibition Competition held in VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar on 28th March, 2019 under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Student of Electronics and Telecommunication Department participated in AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards 2018 held at AICTE HQ, New Delhi on 20th – 21st January, 2019. 750 applications had applied for these awards from all the universities in the country. “Agrobot” group was selected in final 10 groups and was nominated in the final round at AICTE HQ, New Delhi. Program was felicitated by honorable Vice President of India – Mr. Venkaiah Naidu.

Date	21st January, 2019
Department	Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Title of Project	“AGROBOT” Solar powered agricultural Robot for Sowing, Cultivation and Gleaning
Name of students	Raymond Sebastian, Shivam Pandey, Neelam Yadav, Shruti Potdar
Name of Guide	Ms. Divya Chirayil

Two Project Groups from Computer Engineering department participated in India International Science Festival (IISF) 2018. This event was organized by Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences in association with Vijnana Bharati at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow during 5th – 8th October, 2018.

Project Name	Student Name
IoT Controlled Surveillance CAR with Face Detection Technique and GPS Module	Raj Shah, Chaitany Veer (B.E.)
Gesture Controlled Hoverboard	Shaikh Jaffer, Ankita Lokhande (B.E.)

Winner of “Project Idea Competition” held at IIT Bombay on 28th October, 2018. Won Among 26 teams from various college including IIT where there for the competition.

Project Name	Student Name
IoT Controlled Surveillance CAR with Face Detection Technique and GPS Module	Raj Shah, Chaitany Veer (B.E.)
Gesture Controlled Hoverboard	Shaikh Jaffer, Ankita Lokhande (B.E.)

Ms. Sneha Jadhav, Final year of Electronics and Telecommunication secured 8th Rank in University of Mumbai in Academic Year 2018-19.

Ms. Neetu Pillai student of Master in Computer Engineering secured 2nd Rank in University of Mumbai in Academic Year 2017-18 with 9.33 CGPI.

Final Year student of Computer Engineering department Mr. Rohan Kumar has completed 30 days training on Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) under the guidance of Mr. Kamal Pandey at ISRO. MCDM is concerned with structuring and solving decision and planning problems involving multiple criteria. The purpose is to support decision-makers facing such problems. Typically, there does not exist a unique optimal solution for such problems and it is necessary to use decision-maker’s preferences to differentiate between solutions. This application provides an aid to automate the MCDM process to make it resource-friendly and time-efficient.

Students of B.E. Civil Engineering participated in Intercollegiate Paper Presentation Competition and won 2nd Prize in Universal College of Engineering and Technology under the guidance of Mr. Karthik Nagarajan.

Students of B.E. Civil Engineering participated in Intercollegiate Project Presentation Competition and won 2nd Prize in Universal College of Engineering and Technology under the guidance of Mr. Harshal Pathak.

Students of Computer Engineering Chirag Oban T.E. (B) and Pankaj Rane T.E. (B) won first prize of 1 Lack Rupees in Business Plan Competition 2017-18 organized by Mahatma Education Society’s Pillai Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Selected Among top 15 Teams out of 100 in National Level Project Competition of Innovations 2018 held at SIES-GST College, Nerul on 15th March, 2018.

Participated in various National Level Hackathon Competitons like “Smart India Hackahton” and “Rajasthan Hackathon Digifest 5.0” held at Bikaner.

Winner of “Idea Factory” a prefest Event of CSI-Chapter Technext 2018 of IIT Bombay held at Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Byculla on 29th February, 2018. Felicitation was at IIT Bombay.

Winner of “36 hrs Hackathon at Pillai’s Alegria 2018” which was held on 10th to 11th February, 2018 under the Project “Anti Drowning Shoulder Band” which was a solution to the Problem statement that was A product for a sportsperson or athlete.

First Runner Up of “36 hrs Hackathon at Pillai Euforia 2018” which was held from 28th to 30th January, 2018 under the Project “Mechliftdino (An IOT Based Staircase Climbing Wheelchair)” which was a solution to the Problem statement that was Technology for Disable Person to make their Life Easier.

Mr. Sunilkumar Patel (P.G. Civil Engineering) wining the PCERF Award “under the guidance of Prof. Karthik Nagarajan at (PCERF 2017, Pune) for the Project: “Remote Sensing and GIS Application – Rainwater Runoff in Mumbai (Blue Roof Network System)”.

Ms. Gayatri Deshpande student of Civil Engineering department won 4th Rank in Avishkar Competition 2017-18 held at K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering and Technology, Sion.

Student of Electronics and Telecommunication Department participated in the National Level Inter-Collegiate Project Competition at K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sion (KJSIET) on 16th April, 2017 and won the Runner-up prize.

Name of the students: Akhil Ravindranath, Gokuldas Nair and Vishnu Nair

Student of Electronics and Telecommunication Department participated in the All India Project Competition “SHIELD” Awards 2017 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai Asian organised by Business Exhibition and Conferences Limited, Mumbai on 7th April, 2017 and won the 2nd Prize and prize amount of Rs. 25,000/-

• Title of Project: Black Box System for the Vehicle
• Name of the students: Sandesh J. Suryawanshi, Rishabh V. Sawant and Manoj V. Pawar
• Name of the Guide: Mr. Nitesh Agrawal
• Prize Amount: Rs. 25,000/-

Mr. Atul Bhor, a student from third year Mechanical Engineering Department won first prize at National Level Project Competition under Avalon 2017 held at Terna Engineering College, Nerul on 2nd March, 2017. For this achievement, Popular Marathi newspaper ‘Maharastra Times’ took note of it and published press note in thier article.

Mr. Atul Bhor, a student from third year Mechanical Engineering Department won People Choice Award at Project Exhibition at Thadomal Sahani Engineering College (TSEC) in collaboration with Computer Society of India (CSI) on 17th February, 2017.

Mr. Atul Bhor, a student from third year Mechanical Engineering Department won First Prize at Robomaze, Robo Sumo, Roborace, Robowar Competitions at Alegria 2017, Pillai College Engineering (PCE), Panvel.

The 2017 Valley Run take placed on 10th – 12th March, 2017 and was set to be the biggest ever with a record number of entries expected. It was fifth edition, the Valley Run, the only drag racing event of its kind, wasset in the idyllic Aamby Valley City Air Strip Ambavane, Pune. Nishant Naik from Automobile Engineering has participated in The 2017 Valley Run and won 2nd prize in 1150 cc Car Race and 3rd prize in 226 to 350 cc INDIAN Product Bike Race.

Mr. Yagnesh Joshi, P.G. Student of Civil Engineering received PCERF – Padmashree B. G. Shirke Vidyarthi – 2017 award for his thesis entitled “Influences of EPS on Conventional Method of Construction on Account of Time, Labor & Cost Factor” at the competition held at Pune for PG students of Mumbai and Pune University.

Ms. Kajal Jadhav (T.E. B) student of Computer Engineering won Gold Medal in shooting organized by University of Mumbai in year 2015-16.

Project on “Mix Design of Pervious Concrete”, by Sushant Gayakwad, Saurav Tapase, Vishwadhar Dubey and Chinmay Sapane student of Civil Engineering department received the 1st prize at the Intra collegiate Project Competition held at PHCET, Rasayani on 13th April, 2016 under the guidance of Ms. Madhulika Sinha.

Felicitation of Nira Kurade, B.E. EXTC student for securing 7th Rank in Mumbai University

Many workshop on Home-made PCB Designing was conducted in PHCET by students under guidance of experience faculty. The motto of the workshop was to prove that a complete functional PCB can be made even at home with a few materials readily available in the market and also to show the simplicity of the process used.

Many workshops on “Smart PCB Designing at Home” were conducted by Shefali Pawar and Nabil Diwan, students of EXTC under the guidance of Prof. Ravindra N. Duche on 23rd and 24th July, 2013. The motto of the workshop was to prove that a complete functional PCB (Printed Circuit Board) can be made even at home with a few materials readily available in the market and also to show the simple and hassle free process.

The other members of the workshop team are Mr. Pratik Mhatre (Faculty) and Mr. Haresh Thakur (Technician).

Such workshops have been successfully conducted by the team in various colleges:

1. PHCET, Rasayani for Third year EXTC students on 15th September, 2011.
   Gharda Institute of Technology, Ratnagiri for second year students on 7th April, 2013.
2. Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala for third year EXTC students on 20th July, 2013.
3. PHCET, Rasayani for third year EXTC (Division A) students on 23rd July, 2013.
4. PHCET, Rasayani for third year EXTC (Division B) students on 25th July, 2013.
5. Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala for third year EXTC students on 17th August, 2013.
6. PHP, Rasayani for third year EXTC students on 28th August, 2013.

Workshop basically aimed at introducing Diptrace Software for designing a layout of a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) and also to give the participants, a hands-on experience to make a complete PCB for a given circuit. All workshop conducted has been great success and many number of students are involved with this now.

An Economical LCD projector is designed by team of students of PHCET with the guided efforts of Prof. Asokan S., Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecommunication Department. The innovative idea took shape in practical the projector requirements of bring down the projector to economic cost and to make projector accessible to each and every classroom of our college. Such participation motivates the students to participate in research activities.

This project is working in three phases. The Team has successfully completed Phase I and successfully demonstrated in Research Forum, conducted in PHCET. Team of students and Faculty is working intensively on Phase II, interfacing Bluetooth, Android, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the projector.

Team Members	Supporting Staff Team
	Server Room	Workshop	Electronics Lab
Prof. Asokan Selvaraj (Project Guide), Ansari Kamrudeen (TE Mechanical), Selvam M Kuppuswamy (TE Computers), Rahul Pillai (TE Computers)	Mr. Ganesh Sahasne	Mr. Sanjay & Mr. Deepak	Mr. Thakur & Mr. Kirti

BECKON (Basic Electronics Circuit and Operational Networks) Workshop was organized for 2nd year Electronics and Telecommunication by the students themselves and the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication. Aim of the workshop was to cover basic circuits and to explain their workings so as to clear basic concepts of Electronics.

The workshop included following topics:

• Working with “Dancing LEDs”.
• Basics of Robotics (Sensors).
• Working of Tube-lights and fans.
• CRO (Cathode Ray Oscilloscope) and DSO (Digital Storage Oscilloscope).
• Study of Express PCB Software used for PCB (Printed Circuit Board) designing.

An eco-friendly initiative taken by our students Nabil Diwan and Shefali Pawar, was designing E-Samai under the guidance of Prof. Ravindra N. Duche and Mr. Haresh Thakur. These students have designed electronic lamp called as E-Samai to overcome the major limitations of conventional samai (Lamp used for lighting during inaugurations).

Following are the advantages of using this E-Samai over the conventional samai.

1. The use of oil and wick is eliminated.
2. As it works only on 5 volts, it consumes less power.
3. E-Samai is not made up of metal, hence the weight of samai is also not a problem.
4. Risk of fire is eliminated.
5. Low cost.