Annual Quality Assurance

Report (2017-2018)

Submitted to

The National Assessment & Accreditation

Council

Bangalore

Submitted by

Internal Quality Assurance Cell

Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s

Vishwakarma Institute of Information

Technology

Survey No. 3/4, Kondhwa (Budruk)

Pune – 411048, Maharashtra (India)

Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune

Sr. No. Table of Contents Page No.

1 Part - A 1

Part - B

Criterion I-Curricular Aspects 12

Criterion II- Teaching-Learning and Evaluation 16

Criterion III- Research, Consultancy and Extension 20

2

Criterion IV-Infrastructure and Learning Resources 25

Criterion V- Student Support and Progression 29

Criterion VI- Governance, Leadership and 33 Management

Criterion VII- Innovations and Best Practices 39

Annexures

Annexure - I 51

3 Annexures - II

57

Annexures - III 58

Annexures - IV 66

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AQAR-Part A 1

The Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) of the IQAC

Part – A

1. Details of the Institution

1.1 Name of the Institution

1.2 Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City/Town

State

Pin Code

Institution e-mail address

Contact Nos.

Name of the Head of the Institution:

Tel. No. with STD Code:

Mobile:

Name of the IQAC Co-ordinator:

O - 020- 26950201

Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable

Trust’s Vishwakarma Institute of

Information Technology

Survey No. 3/4,

Kondhwa (Budruk)

Pune

Maharashtra

411 048

director@viit.ac.in

Dr. (Mrs.) Bilavari S. Karkare

09850604785

O - 020- 26950200, R: 020-25479650

Dr. (Mrs.) Shilpa V. Patil

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Mobile:

IQAC e-mail address:

1.3 NAAC Track ID (For ex. MHCOGN 18879)

1.4 NAAC Executive Committee No. & Date:

(For Example EC/32/A&A/143 dated 3-5-2004.

This EC no. is available in the right corner- bottom

of your institution’s Accreditation Certificate)

1.5 Website address:

Web-link of the AQAR:

For ex. http://www.ladykeanecollege.edu.in/AQAR2012-13.doc

1.6 Accreditation Details

Sl. No. Cycle Grade CGPA Year of

Accreditation

Validity

Period

1 1st Cycle A 3.14 2016 2021

2 2nd Cycle

3 3rd Cycle

4 4th Cycle

1.7 Date of Establishment of IQAC: DD/MM/YYYY

www.viit.ac.in

10/07/2015

shilpa.patil@viit.ac.in

http://www.viit.ac.in/index.php/quality/aqar

09822512123

EC (SC)/17/A&A/73.1 dated 16-09-2016

MHCOGN26118

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1.8 AQAR for the year (for example 2010-11)

1.9 Details of the previous year’s AQAR submitted to NAAC after the latest Assessment and

Accreditation by NAAC ((for example AQAR 2010-11submitted to NAAC on 12-10-2011)

i. AQAR 21/09/2017

ii. AQAR__________________ ________________________ (DD/MM/YYYY)

iii. AQAR__________________ _______________________ (DD/MM/YYYY)

iv. AQAR__________________ _______________________ (DD/MM/YYYY)

1.10 Institutional Status

University State Central Deemed Private

Affiliated College Yes No

Constituent College Yes No

Autonomous college of UGC Yes No

Regulatory Agency approved Institution Yes No

(eg. AICTE, BCI, MCI, PCI, NCI)

Type of Institution Co-education Men Women

Urban Rural Tribal

Financial Status Grant-in-aid UGC 2(f) UGC 12B

Grant-in-aid + Self Financing Totally Self-financing

2017-18

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1.11 Type of Faculty/Programme

Arts Science Commerce Law PEI (Phys Edu)

TEI (Edu) Engineering Health Science Management

Others (Specify)

1.12 Name of the Affiliating University (for the Colleges)

1.13 Special status conferred by Central/ State Government-- UGC/CSIR/DST/DBT/ICMR etc

Autonomy by State/Central Govt. / University

University with Potential for Excellence UGC-CPE

DST Star Scheme UGC-CE

UGC-Special Assistance Programme DST-FIST

UGC-Innovative PG programmes Any other (Specify)

UGC-COP Programmes

2. IQAC Composition and Activities

2.1 No. of Teachers

2.2 No. of Administrative/Technical staff

2.3 No. of students

2.4 No. of Management representatives

State Government, UGC, University

01

01

01

17

Savitribai Phule Pune

University, Pune

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2.5 No. of Alumni

2. 6 No. of any other stakeholder and

Community representatives

2.7 No. of Employers/ Industrialists

2.8 No. of other External Experts

2.9 Total No. of members

2.10 No. of IQAC meetings held

2.11 No. of meetings with various stakeholders: No. Faculty

Non-Teaching Staff Students Alumni Others

Students

2.12 Has IQAC received any funding from UGC during the year? Yes No

If yes, mention the amount

2.13 Seminars and Conferences (only quality related)

(i) No. of Seminars/Conferences/ Workshops/Symposia organized by the IQAC

Total Nos. International National State I

Institution Level

-

Nil

01

02

01

47

04

24

20

01 06

08 01 01 01

05

16

04

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(ii) Themes

2.14 Significant Activities and contributions made by IQAC

1. Establishment of statutory committees like Board of Management, Academic

Board, Board of examination and Board of Subjects for each department for

implementation of Autonomy

2. Effective execution of Autonomy for first year engineering

3. Strengthening and monitoring the Quality of Academics

4. Revision of Quality manual system as per ISO 9001:2015 standard ISO

certification

5. Successful compliance visit of NBA

6. Motivational and guiding sessions for faculty members 3. Motivational and guiding sessions for faculty

1. International Conference –Vishwacon 2017

2. Vishwapreneur 2017

3. Brainstorming Sessions for Faculty

4. Workshop on Bloom’s Taxonomy and Rubrics

5. Teaching-learning methodologies

6. Workshops on ICT for faculty members

7. Workshop for Execution of Autonomy

8. Student Induction Programme for First Year students (2 weeks)

9. FDPs in departments to maintain uniformity and bring improvement in

teaching

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2.15 Plan of Action by IQAC/Outcome

The plan of action chalked out by the IQAC in the beginning of the year towards quality

Enhancement and the outcome achieved by the end of the year *

Sr.

No.

Plan of Action Achievements

1. a.Establishment of statutory

committees like Board of

Management, Academic

Board, and Board of Subjects

for each department for

implementation of Autonomy

1. The important foundation for successful

implementation is constitution of statutory

committees.

2. Institute constituted Board of management,

Finance committee Academic Board at the

Institute level and Board of subjects for each

Department for framing syllabi and deciding

strategies for effective implementation of

autonomy.

3. Following are few important points proposed and

appreciated by Board of Management.

i. Guidance on the areas of future technology

for setting up high end laboratories

ii. Appreciation of the Induction program for

first year

iii. Appreciation of the efforts taken by the

Institute on the front of progress MOU

signing

iv. Appreciation on the progress of Autonomy

v. Suggestion of important points regarding

R & D activities

4. At the department level Board of subjects had been

formed which played significant role in finalizing

the syllabi for various courses in the respective

branch. The syllabi for all the four years for

autonomy were finalized.

5. Finance committee of the Institute executed

following significant functions which were

predominantly necessary in Autonomy

i. Budget estimation and approval

ii. Conducting audit for the year

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b.Establishment of Board of

examination

1. The functionality of the examination cell exhibits

significant features for maintaining the quality of

academics with reference to question paper setting

to evaluation and result declaration.

2. Some of the innovative features of the examination

system set by Board of examination are as given

below:

i. Multiple layer security for answer sheets

enabling objective evaluation

ii. Digital Evaluation for technology - enabled

assessment

iii. Open house to give transparency &

accountability. Students will be able to

view assessed answer sheets online. They

will be provided with model answers and

scheme of marking

iv. Examination Audit to ensure quality and

consistency in Examination processes

2. Effective execution of

Autonomy for first year

engineering

1. Implementation of autonomy in First year was built

on the foundation of a unique feature of two weeks

Induction Program for first year students.

2. This induction program was based upon the

guidelines given by AICTE. The guidelines focus

on the knowledge and skills in the area of student’s

interest as well as broad understanding of society

and human relationships.

3. Senior faculty members of VIIT designed and

conducted sessions based on above philosophy.

Modules on human values, sport and physical

activities, creativity, proficiency, social work,

orientation etc. were designed with specific

expected outcomes.

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3. Strengthening and

monitoring the Quality of

Academics

1. All the programs (UG & PG) are regularly

monitored with regards to teaching. The feedback

on teaching was communicated to faculty along-

with suggestions or recommendations given by the

Director. This has helped in enhancing the teaching

quality of all the programs.

2. Faculty from all the programs were motivated to

register for online NPTEL courses in view of

enhancing technical knowledge and teaching

quality. 52 faculty members successfully

completed the NPTEL courses.

3. “Brain Storming Session” was conducted for all

faculty. The focus was to make faculty members

aware about the changes taking place in education

scenario and preparing self for facing those

changes. The important topic taken for discussion

was “Awareness on innovative and creative

teaching methods in teaching “.

4. Workshop on "Innovative Research in Pedagogy

with Mini-MOOCs blended with instruction

strategies to enhance quality in Higher Education“

was conducted for the faculty members .They were

introduced to different ICT technologies.

5. Academic audit was conducted twice to monitor

the academic activities of departments and also to

encourage departments to progress on various

fronts of research, consultancy, IPR related

activities etc.

6. ISO audit was conducted once per semester to

closely monitor the execution of various academic

and administrative processes.

7. Two days’ workshop on Bloom’s taxonomy was

conducted for faculty members teaching to

S.Y.BTech.

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8. Two days revision workshop for ICT was

conducted.

9. Lecture by Dr.Suryakant Patil on Patent writing

for faculty members was arranged.

4. Revision of Quality manual

system as per ISO 9001:2015

standard ISO certification.

1. The training session titled “In House ISO

9001:2015 Awareness and Internal Auditor

Training Course” for creating awareness amongst

the faculty regarding change in philosophy of

revised ISO 9001:2015 along-with internal

auditors training was conducted in August 2018.

2. Various committees were formed for revision /

addition of processes related to various academic,

administrative, library and training & placement

related activities.

3. The quality objectives were established based on

‘Risk based thinking’. The necessary training of

all deans, head of departments and departmental

ISO coordinators related to evaluation of

effectiveness of actions taken to address risks and

opportunities was conducted.

4. The fourth issue of Quality Manual and Quality

Management System was revised as per ISO

9001:2015 was implemented in March 2018.

5. Department wise orientation was conducted by

Institute ISO coordinator for creating awareness

amongst all faculty and staff about revised QMS.

6. External Surveillance Audit was scheduled at the

end of April 2018 for recertification. The Institute

is now ISO 9001:2015 certified institute.

5. Successful compliance visit

of NBA

1. In the year 2015, four undergraduate programs viz.

Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer

Engineering, Information Technology and

Mechanical Engineering programs got provisional

accreditation for three years.

2. In the year 2018, Institute applied for compliance

of the above mentioned programs.

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3. Compliance visit was conducted by the NBA

experts committee on 19th July 2018 and the

programs were accredited for 3 more years till June

2021.

6. Faculty and staff welfare

activities

1. A lecture on Research Ethics by Dr. Rajendra

Kumbhar, Dept. of Library and Information

Science, SPPU was arranged on 24th January 2018.

2. A lecture on Financial Freedom and Digital

Growth: by Mr. Dheeraj Agarwal was arranged on

20th January 2018.

3. Art of Living Course was conducted from 24-28th

January 2018 for the staff of exam cell.

4. Group counseling activity for staff of various

sections was arranged by the counsellor for

improvement of work efficiency at workplace.

5. Guest lecture on general awareness and hygiene for

girls’ students of First Year and staff by Dr Pallavi

Kulkarni, Associate Professor, Anatomy

Department, and Navale Medical College was

arranged on 8th March 2018.

6. Guest lecture for lady faculty and staff members

was arranged on" health and nutrition" on 13th

September 2017.

Academic Calendar for Academic Year 2017-18 is attached in Annexure-I

2.15 Whether the AQAR was placed in statutory body Yes No

Management Syndicate Any other body

Provide the details of the action taken

As mentioned in 2.15

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Part – B

Criterion – I

1. Curricular Aspects

1.1 Details about Academic Programmes

Level of the

Programme

Number of

existing

Programmes

Number of

programmes

added during

the year

Number of

self-financing

programmes

Number of

value added /

Career

Oriented

programmes

PhD 3 - - -

PG 5 - - -

UG 5 - - (Refer Annexure

II)

PG Diploma - - - -

Advanced

Diploma

- - - -

Diploma - - - -

Certificate - - - -

Others - - - -

Total 13

Interdisciplinary - - - -

Innovative - - - -

1.2 (i) Flexibility of the Curriculum: CBCS/Core/Elective option / Open options

CBCS/Elective option

From Academic Year 2017-18, the First Year B.Tech and First Year M.Tech Programs were

offered Academic Autonomy. The curriculum designed was based on CBCS pattern with good

number of elective options so as to provide learning centric approach. Mini projects, Internship

and Project based learning were the key features of academic autonomy. Different audit courses

were also offered to enhance certain life skills and moral values. There were also certain value

added course which fostered the student’s technical growth.

Second Year onwards the curriculum was CBCS where the students have undergone training of

core and breadth courses as per the stream the candidate’s choice. Apart from this, curriculum was

flexible enough to undertake different electives from their stream as well as opt for electives of

other streams as open electives. Certain audit courses and value added courses were also offered

in order to enhance skills like soft skills, entrepreneurship and research aptitude.

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(ii) Pattern of programmes:

One academic year is of two semesters where courses for each semester are specified for teaching

and examination. For first semester, students are examined at the end of the semester. Their

performance is evaluated and communicated. Along with First semester examination, Second

semester examination determines passing/ failure for the academic year. Result is declared at the

end of the academic year.

1.3 Feedback from stakeholders*Alumni Parents Employers

(On all aspects)

Students

Mode of feedback : Online Manual Co-operating schools (for PEI)

Analysis of the feedback is given in - Annexure III

1.4 Whether there is any revision/update of regulation or syllabi, if yes, mention their

salient aspects.

BE(UG) Program

The structure and syllabus for colleges affiliating to SPPU is revised after every 5 years in a

progressive manner. Accordingly, the new structure and syllabi were introduced and implemented

from the academic year 2015-16 for First Year. Hence the syllabus of Second year Engineering

was revised and implemented from the academic year 2016-17 and the syllabus of third year

engineering was revised in academic year 2017-18. During this revision, Credit system was adopted

for UG courses. The revised course was of 190 credits and 1 credit was equivalent to 15 hours.

Assessment in credit system consists of, A) In-semester continuous assessment B) End-semester

assessment under Theory examination and assessment of Term Work/ Practical / Oral / Presentation

at the end of the semester under Practical, Oral, Seminar and Project examination. In the structure,

the credits were distributed over 8 semesters. The open elective included, provides the student a

wide choice of subjects from other B.E. programs. The Credit structure for UG program under

SPPU is given below in Table 1.

Pattern Number of programmes

Semester

Trimester

Annual All UG and PG programs

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Table -1 Credit structure for UG program

Course

Credits

Sem Sem Sem Sem

Sem

Sem Sem Sem

Total

Work

1 2 3 4

5

6 7 8

Mandatory 19 19 20 20

18

18 10 6 130

Subjects

Elective

6 6 12

Subjects

Lab 6 6 5 5

5

4 4 4 39

Courses

Seminar 1 1

Project

2 6 8

Work

Total 25 25 25 25 23 23 22 22 190

B.Tech(UG) Program

Autonomous status has been granted to the Institute from the academic year 2017-18 by

UGC. Autonomous syllabus focuses on nurturing and boosting the overall development of

the student. In this perceptive new syllabus was designed and introduced from the academic

year 2017-18 for first year engineering UG program as well as for PG program. The

autonomous syllabus offered under credit system with total credits are 184 for UG and 100

for PG. One credit was equivalent to 15 hours. The distribution of credits was over 8

semesters.

Following is the structure of assessment:

1. Theory Assessment (Formative assessment and Summative assessment )

A) Formative Assessment: Formative assessment consists of two test T1 and T2

and Continuous Assessment for Theory.

B) End-semester assessment: ESE is conducted for all six units at the end of the

semester.

The Final result is calculated semester wise cumulatively on the marks obtained

in FA and SA

2. Practical Assessment :

Practical assessment is head under Practical / Oral / Presentation at the end of the

semester under Practical, Oral, Seminar and Project examination.

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The Credit structure for UG program under Autonomous is given below in Table 2.

Table 2:

Course

Work

Credits

Sem Sem Sem

Se

m

Sem

Se

m Sem Sem Total

1 2 3 4

5

6 7 8

Mandatory Subjects

17 18 18 17 17 8 12 6 113

Elective Subjects

3 3 6 12

Lab Courses

7 6 6 6 4 3 3 2 37

Project Work

2

6

4 10 22

Total 24 24 24 23 23 20 22 24 184

M.Tech (PG) Program

M.Tech program was offered under Autonomous status and was of 2 years duration. The

total no. of credits requirement for each program was 100. In the structure, the credits were

distributed over four semesters equally. Institute level open elective were included which

provides student a wide choice of interdisciplinary subjects. The Credit structure for M.

Tech. (PG) program is given below in table 3.

Table - 3 Credit structure for PG program

Course Work Sem I Sem II Sem III Sem IV Total

Courses Mandatory 13 12 - - 25

Elective Subjects 8 8 5 - 21

Lab Courses 3 4 - - 7

Seminar 1 1 - - 2

Project Work - - 20 25 45

Total 25 25 25 25 100

1.5 Any new Department/Centre introduced during the year. If yes, give details.

N. A.

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Criterion – II

2. Teaching, Learning and Evaluation

2.1 Total No. of permanent faculty

Total

Asst. Associate Professors Others

Professors

Professors

183 148 22 13 -

2.2 No. of permanent faculty with Ph.D. 31

2.3 No. of Faculty Positions Recruited (R) and Vacant (V) during the year

Asst. Associate

Professors Others Total

Professors Professors

R V R V R R V

R R V R V

148 0 22 0 1

3 0 0 0 183 0

2.4 No. of Guest and Visiting faculty and Temporary faculty

Guest 0 Visiting 04 Temporary 0

2.5 Faculty participation in conferences and symposia:

No. of Faculty International level National level State level Attended Seminars/ 2 0 24 Presented papers 78 2 0 Resource Persons

1

1 0 0

0 0

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2.6 Innovative processes adopted by the institution in Teaching and Learning:

2.8Examination/ Evaluation Reforms initiated by the Institution (for example: Open Book

Examination, Bar Coding, Double Valuation, Photocopy and Online Multiple Choice Questions)

2.9 No. of faculty members involved in curriculum restructuring/ revision/ syllabus

Development as member of Board of Study/Faculty/Curriculum Development workshop

2.10 Average percentage of attendance of students

Students are evaluated according to procedures given by Savitribai Phule

Pune University for Second Year, Third Year and Final Year.

VIIT received autonomous status in 2017, thus following reforms in

examination/evaluation for first year students were initiated by the

institute:

1. Multiple layer security for answer sheets enabling objective

evaluation

2. Digital Evaluation for technology - enabled assessment

3. Open house to give transparency & accountability

Students were able to view assessed answer sheets online

1. Blending of conventional and ICT based teaching methods like

Google forms for online class room quiz, Quiz using Hot Potato,

Google classroom, Flip classroom, blogs

2. Adoption of Project based learning (PBL) for better understanding of

course content

3. Adoption of Bloom’s taxonomy during content delivery and

evaluation

4. Implementing Lab Assignment using MOOCS

5. Guest lecture by industry Experts

121

77.67

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2.11 Course/Programme wise distribution of pass percentage:

Total no.

Division

Title of the of

Programme students

Distinction

I %

Higher

II %

Pass

appeared n %

-II % %

B.E.(Civil 129 56.25 32.02

7.03 0.78 0

Engg.)

B.E.(Comput 203 64.53 23.64

0.01 0 0

er Engg.)

B.E. (E&TC 206 55.34 31.07

3.88 0.97 0

Engg.)

B.E.(I.T.) 63 58.73 23.8 12.69 0 0

B.E.(Mech 143 69.23 14.69

1.40 0 0

Engg.)

2.12 How does IQAC Contribute/Monitor/Evaluate the Teaching & Learning

processes:

1. Feedback of teaching faculty of all programs (UG & PG) is collected from the students twice in each semester. This feedback was analyzed and communicated to respective teacher in the department and suitable action was taken.

2. Faculty was encouraged to use ICT tools in teaching-learning process. Faculty was motivated to use the concept of flipped classroom and continuous evaluation of the students by designing online quizzes using Google form, Google classroom.

3. Several other efforts were taken to enhance quality of teaching such as organizing guest lectures/workshops/seminars/training sessions/industrial visits for all faculty members.

4. Brain Storming Session” was organized and conducted for all faculties to plan various activities to be conducted in the subsequent academic year to enhance teaching-learning process.

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2.13 Initiatives undertaken towards faculty development

Faculty / Staff Development

Programmes

Number of

faculty

benefitted

Refresher courses 3

UGC – Faculty Improvement Programme 28

HRD programmes 45

Orientation programmes 57

Faculty exchange programme 3

Staff training conducted by the university

10

Staff training conducted by other

institutions 47

Summer / Winter schools, Workshops, et 23

Others 74

2.14 Details of Administrative and Technical staff

Category Number of permanent

Employees

Number of

Vacant

Positions

Number of

permanent

positions

filled during

the Year

Number of

Po position

filled

temporarily

Administrative

Staff 111 0 0 0

Technical Staff 55 0 0

0

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Criterion – III

3. Research, Consultancy and Extension

3.1 Initiatives of the IQAC in Sensitizing/Promoting Research Climate in the institution

3.2 Details regarding major projects

Completed Ongoing Sanctioned Submitted

Number 5 3 2 0

Outlay in Rs. Lakhs 72.07 /- 39.08/- 27.80/- 0

3.3 Details regarding minor projects

Completed Ongoing Sanctioned Submitted

Number 6 4 0 2

Outlay in Rs. Lakhs 2.82/- 5.90/- 1.40/- 5.26/-

3.4 Details on research publications

International National Others

Peer Review Journals 38 10 0

1. The institute has a research committee ‘VIIT Research Advisory Board’

comprising of Dean R & D, Professors and Associate Professors of the

institute to monitor and address the issues of research.

2. The board formulates, implements and updates R&D policies and

encourage faculty to pursue research useful for students and also helps in

improving the quality of research and development.

3. Vishwakarma Research Promotion Scheme (VRPS) was formulated by

the board two years back to provide seed funding for the junior faculty to

start research activity as well as senior faculty members to promote and

strengthen research activity to a level to definitely obtain research grants

from external funding agencies. From year 2017-18, students are being

involved in projects under this scheme.

4. For students a scheme namely, Vishwakarma Student Research

Promotion Scheme (VSRPS), had been introduced in AY 2016-17 for

providing funds to UG and PG projects.

5. All types of administrative support was provided for the teacher/

researcher.

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Non-Peer Review Journals 6 0 0

e-Journals 9 0 0

Conference proceedings 28 9 0

3.5 Details on Impact factor of publications:

Range Average h-index

Nos. in SCOPUS

3.6 Research funds sanctioned and received from various funding agencies, industry and other

organizations

3.7 No. of books published i) With ISBN No.

ii) Without ISBN No.

Chapters in Edited Books

3.8 No. of University Departments receiving funds from -

UGC-SAP CAS DST-FIST

Nature of the Project Duration

Year

Name of the

funding Agency

Total grant

Sanctioned

(Rs.Lakhs)

Received

(Rs.Lakhs)

Major projects 2013-2018 INCOIS,ESSO,

Govt. of India,

ISRO/UOP space

Technology cell, RGSTC

42.97/- 25.70/-

Minor Projects 2014-2018 BCUD ,SPPU 2.51/- 1.35/-

Interdisciplinary Projects 0 0

Industry sponsored 2017-2018 Thermax 0.35/- 0.35/-

Projects sponsored by the

University/ College

2017-2018 BCUD 2.0/- 1.0/-

Students research projects

(other than compulsory by

the University)

0 0

Any other(Specify) 0 0

Total 47.83/- 28.4/-

0

1.1-3.8

6

0.56 7.1

52

0 0

0

9

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Scheme/funds DPE DBT

3.9 For colleges Autonomy CPE DBT

Star Scheme

INSPIRE CE

Any Other (specify)

3.10 Revenue generated through consultancy

3.11 No. of conferences organized by the institution

3.12 No. of faculty served as experts, chairpersons or resource persons

3.13 No. of collaborations International National Any other

3.14 No. of linkages created during this year

3.15 Total budget for research for current year in lakhs:

From funding agency

From Management of university/College

Total

3.16 No. of patents received this year

Level International National State University College

Number 1 0 0 0 0

Sponsoring

agencies

SPPU - - - -

Type of Patent Number

National Applied 3

Granted 0

International Applied 0

Granted 0

Commercialized Applied 0

Granted 0

0 0 0

Rs. Lakhs 29/- (DRDO &Microsoft Azure)

0 0

52

1

Rs. Lakhs11.54/-

9 0

Rs. Lakhs 50 /-

0 0

7

Rs. Lakhs 24.80/-

Rs. Lakhs 74.80/-

50 /-

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3.17 No. of research awards/ recognitions received by faculty and research fellows of the

institute this year

3.18 No. of faculty from the Institution who are Ph. D. Guides

and students registered under them

3.19 No. of Ph.D. awarded by faculty from the Institution

3.20 No. of Research scholars receiving the Fellowships (Newly enrolled + existing ones)

JRF SRF Project Fellows Any other

3.21 No. of students Participated in NSS events:

University level State level

National level International level

3.22 No. of students participated in NCC events:

University level State level

National level International level

3.23 No. of Awards won in NSS:

University level State level

National level International level

Total International National State University Dist. College

4 2 1 0 1 0 0

5

19

3

4 0 0 0

250

0

0

0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

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3.24 No. of Awards won in NCC:

University level State level

National level International level

3.25 No. of Extension activities organized

University forum College forum

NCC NSS Any other

3.26 Major Activities during the year in the sphere of extension activities and Institutional Social

Responsibility

Coding Club initiative which resulted in participation and winning of large number of students in

Hackathon & Coding competitions. Students of Computer and IT participated in Hackathon at

DAIIT, Gandhinagar and succeeded in reaching among top 10 teams.

CSI VIIT student branch was awarded with ‘Best accredited student branch 2017’award in region

VI. Computer Society of India (CSI) National level convention “Techno-Vishwa” was held in

January 2018.CSI sanctioned sponsorship of Rs. 30K to the Institute for hosting the convention.

IT department hosted it along with Computer department. Web site design competition and a

workshop on "Privacy and Security in Online social media" was organized under "Techno-

Vishwa" on 2,3 January 2018.During Perception, an annual Technical Fest, IT department

organized various technical competitions like Code Racing, Blind Coding etc. and also a major

mock placement drive competition called “Get Hired".

An annual international level paper presentation and project competition called "Vishwacon” was

organized by VIIT in March 2018, where IT department hosted project competition under

Computer -IT track. Apart from this various guest lectures and workshops were organized on the

topics such as Expected Skill set as an IT engineer, Software Engineering Tools, Data Analytics,

Apple Tour and Swift Programming, Java Programming and Ethics and etiquette by prominent

industry personalities.

In Robocon activity initiated by E&TC, with Participation of 17 students and secured 23 rank out

among 108 colleges. Department conducted a workshop on Machine Learning on Raspberry Pi,

IOT Deep Drive Training, LABVIEW Programming Course for students.

SUPRA is the national level engineering student competition where teams from various

engineering colleges participate. In this student design and fabricate a formula one style vehicle.

The student not only designs the vehicle but also builds them as per the given set of rules (Rule

0

0 0

0 19

0 0 0

0

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Book) and design standard of SAE international. Making the student to learn and realize their

talent through an experience, initiates the process to extract future entrepreneur, technocrats,

innovators and leaders. This serves the prime objective of bringing out real talent to the Indian

automotive industry for the years to come, in the continuation with the vision automotive mission

plan, a dream to make India an international automotive hub. In this Edition of 2017-18 126 teams

of various engineering colleges from all over the country participated, which consisted of more

than 3000 participants.,

MESA-Model United Nation MUN 2018 Mechanical Engineering Students’ Association (MESA)

organized Model United Nations aiming towards polishing socio-cultural, oratory and critical

analytical skills of an individual. This was facilitated by the team of experts who chaired this event.

Despite of the unhealthy situations in some parts of the state, over 125 students from all 5

departments of the college came together to become a part of the legacy.

Science and Technology or “SciTech” Exhibition was held and its exhibition in-charge was Dr.

Chandrasekhar S. Garde. Students from all departments participated in the event under guidance

of their respective faculty.

Virtual Lab, Nodal Centre, IIT Mumbai conducted 74 workshops for 1040 users and 2999

experiments were performed at institute level.

Institutional Social Responsibility: Under Women Empowerment Cell activities were conducted

such as Seminar on "Health and Nutrition" and “Health Checkup Camp” , Seminar on "Health and

Hygiene".

An educational trip to Chinmay Vibhooti was organized on 12th October 2017 for the IT

department where Swami Sidheshanandji motivated students and guided on the topic “Time and

stress management". ITSF committee members ran “Clean It Department Abhiyan” on 28

September 2017 followed by Tree plantation in building A. Department also organized a seminar

on "Road safety" by Inspector Mr.Nimbalkar for SE IT students and a session on "Health

Management" for TE IT students was organized.

Under NSS following activities were conducted - Blood Donation camp, NSS Camp at Jamgaon,

Road Safety/Police Mitra activity by Kondhwa Police.

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Criterion – IV

4. Infrastructure and Learning Resources

4.1 Details of increase in infrastructure facilities:

Facilities Existing

Newly

created Source of Fund Total

Campus area 5.67

Acres - BRACT

5.67

Acres

Class rooms 24 03 BRACT 27

Laboratories 52 02 BRACT 54

Seminar Halls 03 - BRACT 03

No. of important equipment purchased

(≥ 1-0 lakh) during the current year. 37 03 BRACT’VIIT 40

Value of the equipment purchased during

the year (Rs. in Lakhs) 1085.92 160.88

BRACT’S

VIIT 1246.80

Others 817.5 8.20

BRACT’S

VIIT 825.7

4.2 Computerization of administration and library

1. Computerization has been done in Exam Cell for Autonomy for examination and

evaluation

2. New ERP Software has been installed for Autonomy

3. Newly designed college website has been launched.

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4.3 Library services:

Existing Newly added Total

No. Value No. Value No. Value

Text Books 33,611 Rs.1,24,98,458/- 924 Rs. 5,33,779/- 35,231 Rs. 1,30,37,405/-

Reference

Books 695 Rs. 23,16,852/- 25 Rs. 31,136/- 720 Rs. 23,47,988/-

e-Books 21 Rs. 1,46,332/- - - 21 Rs. 1,46,332/-

Journals 69 Rs. 2,05,120/- 35 Rs. 94,249/- - -

e-Journals 17 Free access 17 Free access - -

Digital

Database 06 Rs. 20,73,116/- 02 Rs. 11,30,135/- 02 11,30,135/-

CD &

Video 3847 Rs. 63,857/- 40 - 3887 Rs. 63,857/-

Others

(Standards) 406 Rs. 1,29,341/- 01 Rs. 560/- 407 Rs. 1,29,901/-

Library

Network

[DELNET]

01 Rs.11,500/- 01 Rs.11,500/- 01 Rs.11,500/-

4.4 Technology up gradation (overall)

Total

Computer

s

Compute

r Labs

Interne

t

Browsin

g Centres

Compute

r Centres

Offic

e

Depart

-ments

Other

s

Existin

g 1023 12

50

Mbps 142 5 Servers 32 991 -

Added 74 0 70

Mbps Nil Nil Nil 74 -

Total 1023 12 120

Mbps 142 5 Servers 32 991 -

Note- 74 no of computers were added during the year and 74 were written off.

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4.5 Computer, Internet access, training to teachers and students and any other programme for

technology up gradation (Networking, e-Governance etc.)

4.6 Amount spent on maintenance in Rs. lakhs: i) ICT

ii) Campus Infrastructure and facilities

iii) Equipment

iv) Others

Total:

1. Institute had organized two days’ workshop on use of ICT tools in learning and teaching process

on December 2017. Following ICT tools were involved in the same- a) Office Mix and

Rubystar b) Hot Potatoes c) Google Classrooms, Forms & Analytics d) Concept Mapping Tools

like Free Mind, Coogle or Exam Time, Wordpress.

2. Newly designed College Website was launched and department-wise training sessions for

updating of website was conducted by System Department.

3. Social Media (Registration of LinkedIn Profile and VIIT Alumni Portal) training sessions for

every department were conducted by System Department.

5.11

50.71

0.76

0.94

57.52

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Criterion – V

5. Student Support and Progression

5.1 Contribution of IQAC in enhancing awareness about Student Support Services

5.2 Efforts made by the institution for tracking the progression

5.3 (a) Total Number of students

(b) No. of students outside the state

(c) No. of international students

Men Women

UG PG Ph. D. Others

2928 108 17 -

No %

2142 71

No %

894 29

1. First Year Admitted ‘Students Induction Program

2. Second year Direct Admitted and PG Students

Orientation Program

3. Brief mention in the College Prospectus and Handbook

4. College Website

5. Informal Interactions in the Classroom and Laboratories

1. Progression of students in attendance was monitored

continually through ERP.

2. Course Teacher identified slow learner/weak students

based on In-sem, Internal Test, Online Exam etc. and extra

efforts were planned for them.

3. Result co-ordinator of the department sent overall result

analysis and subject wise failure list to course teachers.

Course teacher conducted meeting with failed students

and planned remedial classes for them.

4. Batch guardian for each batch of 20 students and a class

teacher for each class were allocated to monitor and

counsel the students’ progress in academic as well as

extra-curricular activities.

61

40

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**Demand ratio Dropout % 3.10

**Since the institution is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University and approved by AICTE &

DTE, the students do not directly apply to the college but apply for admission through centralized

admission process (CAP) conducted by DTE Government of Maharashtra. Therefore the

mentioned demand ratio cannot be computed.

5.4 Details of student support mechanism for coaching for competitive examinations (If any)

No. of students benefitted

5.5 No. of students qualified in these examinations

NET SET/SLET GATE CAT IAS/IPS etc State PSC UPSC Others

Last Year-2016-17 This Year-2017-18

General SC ST OBC Physically

Challenged

Total General SC ST OBC Physically

Challenge

d

Total

1728 310 51 945 3 3037 1549 250 36 1195 6 3036

1. The institute has a separate cell for competitive examinations (Competitive

Examination Cell) where the Students are made aware of various competitive

examinations. The cell provides the required guidance and support to prepare

students for the Examinations.

2. Introductory and Motivational lectures of eminent speakers were arranged to

promote various competitive examinations avenues especially for TE and BE

students of all branches. e.g. GATE, GRE, TOFFEL, CAT, MPSC, UPSC.

3. More than 200 books are available in our library to enhance general aptitude

skills of students pursuing different competitive examinations.

4. To improve the performance of students in aptitude, VIIT provided training to

the students from the third year of their degree course through T&P cell.

5. GATE coaching classes were conducted by Department of Mechanical, Civil, E

& TC, and Computer Engineering.

300

- - 18 2

- - -

19

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5.6 Details of student counselling and career guidance

No. of students benefitted

5.7 Details of campus placement

On campus Off Campus

Number of

Organizations

Visited

Number of

Students

Participated

Number of

Students Placed

Number of Students

Placed

120 712 210 10

5.8 Details of gender sensitization programs

5.9 Students Activities

5.9.1 No. of students participated in Sports, Games and other events

State/ University level National level International level

No. of students participated in cultural events

State/ University level National level International level

5.9.2 No. of medals /awards won by students in Sports, Games and other events

Sports: State/ University level National level International level

Cultural: State/ University level National level International level

5.10 Scholarships and Financial Support

1. The institute has batch guardian and class teacher scheme to provide guidance

for academic and career related issues of students.

2. Career counseling is provided by T&P cell, Alumni and Industry experts.

3. Counselor is appointed to help students to solve their problems. Individual

counseling is provided to the students to resolve their personal and psycho-social

problems.

2928, 350, 42

1. Health check-up camp for ladies staff members and girl students

2. Seminar on health and nutrition for ladies staff members and girl students

- -

102 202 -

54

- -

20 - 55

09

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Number of

students

Amount Rs. In

Lakhs.

Financial support from institution 20 8,59,337

Financial support from government 744 5,32,51,630

Financial support from other sources 12 4,12,000

Number of students who received

International/ National recognitions

5.11 Student organized / initiatives

Fairs : State/ University level National level International level

Exhibition: State/ University level National level International level

5.12 No. of social initiatives undertaken by the students

5.13 Major grievances of students (if any) redressed:

35 0

3 5

-

--

- 1

06

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Criterion – VI

6. Governance, Leadership and Management

6.1 State the Vision and Mission of the Institution

6.2 Does the Institution have a Management Information System

6.3 Quality improvement strategies adopted by the institution for each of the following:

6.3.1 Curriculum Development

Vision: Excellence in technical education.

Mission:

Make competent engineers with the spirit of professionalism and responsible

citizenship

Impart knowledge and technical skills of the highest standards

Prepare engineers to respond to the current and future needs of the industry

higher studies as well as research.

Institute was awarded autonomy in AY 2017-18 for six years. As part of autonomy, new

structure and curriculum was designed for UG and PG programs. The formation of

Statutory Bodies was duly completed to implement the autonomy progressively. The

Institute proactively takes input from its stakeholders such as industry, academicians,

alumni etc. for curriculum development. In AY 2017-18, the institute implemented the

new curriculum for FY BTech and FY MTech under Autonomy.

The Second Year (SE), Third Year (TE) and Final Year (BE) curriculum was followed as

per SPPU curriculum for affiliated colleges. SPPU implemented a revised syllabus for

Third year (TE). Audit course was introduced in this revised syllabus for TE. Process for

revision of BE syllabus was started by SPPU in AY 2017-18. Some of the faculty members

of institute actively contributed in the design and development of revised syllabus. Based

on inputs from stake holders and requirements expressed by senior teaching faculty, content

beyond syllabus was included for various SE, TE and BE courses.

Institute has Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system since 2008-09. It is updated from

time to time according to needs of the institute. When the institute got autonomous in AY

2017-18, considering upcoming changes in system, a new ERP was implemented. It’s

modules cater to the new needs of Autonomy.

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6.3.2 Teaching and Learning

6.3.3 Examination and Evaluation

6.3.4 Research and Development

In AY 2017-18, a separate examination cell was established in the institute. Rules and

regulation for examination and evaluation system were formulated. The system was

implemented as per these rules, successfully for FY BTech and FY MTech.

A unique digital/onscreen evaluation system was setup. An open house was organized for

students to view their evaluated answer books onscreen.

As VIIT was affiliated to SPPU for SE, TE and BE in AY 2017-18, the SPPU examination

pattern was followed. SPPU had adopted credit based system progressively from AY

2015-16. In AY 2017-18, and it was implemented for TE. SPPU initiated different

activities like workshop for examiners and paper setters, which were attended by faculty

members of the institute.

Institute has well defined policy for Research & Development. Funding was provided to

various students for UG and PG projects under Vishwakarma Student Research Promotion

Scheme (VSRPS). Under Vishwakarma Research Promotion Scheme (VRPS) a few

faculty members received funds for their research projects.

Based on our own analysis and inputs from stakeholders, institute made significant efforts

in AY 2017-18 to improve teaching learning process. Institute conducted multiple

workshops on Bloom’s Taxonomy, ICT tools and awareness lectures on MOOCs to enable

teachers for development of teaching learning skills. Institute had encouraged faculty and

students to enroll for different NPTEL and other MOOCs. In-house FDPs for all courses, to

be taught in a given semester, were conducted to understand scope and methodology of

teaching, to introduce innovative methodology and to bring uniformity in teaching learning

process. Mentoring to young faculty members was provided by experienced and senior

faculties to improve their teaching learning skills. Through formal and informal interactions

with students, need for EQ enhancement of students was identified by the faculty. Various

efforts in terms of organizing value education sessions, counseling and awareness through

counselors were taken up to address the same. Institute arranged brain storming sessions for

faculty members for improvement and innovation in teaching and learning. In AY 2017-18,

all departments conducted a series of meetings to discuss and prepare themselves for

changes to be incorporated under Autonomy.

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6.3.5 Library, ICT and physical infrastructure / instrumentation

6.3.6 Human Resource Management

6.3.7 Faculty and Staff recruitment

6.3.8 Industry Interaction / Collaboration

Various ICT tools (like Office Mix and Ruby star, Hot Potatoes, Google Classrooms, Forms &

Analytics and Concept Mapping Tools like Free Mind, Coogle, Exam Time, and Wordpress) were

used by faculty and staff members. Institute provided training to faculty on these tools.

Newly designed College Website was launched and department-wise training sessions for updating

of website was conducted by System Department.

Social Media (Registration of LinkedIn Profile and VIIT Alumni Portal) training sessions for every

department were conducted by System Department.

Faculty and staff members were encouraged for qualification enhancement and technical

improvement through training. Life skill training was provided in-house by counselor for faculty

and staff members. Off-campus brain storming sessions were conducted for both faculty and staff

members.

Institute has a variety of welfare schemes which are in effect for all employees like Mediclaim

Policy, Group Insurance, Provident Fund, Credit Cooperative Society, Gratuity scheme. Fee

concession is provided to children of employees who are studying in Vishwakarma Institutes.

Informal Mentor-mentee scheme is in place for faculty members. Problems of Female staff

members are addresses through Activities of Women Empowerment Cell.

There is no major change in policy in this period as all previous policies are in effect. Recruitment

is done as per norms.

Workshops, trainings, off-campus placements, internships, guest lectures, sponsored projects and

industrial visits were carried out with the support of industry.

The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) and Department Advisory Board (DAB), containing members

from the industry, contributed in development of different departments.

1. IAB members conducted sessions to explain latest trends in industry, nature of work and

skill sets required in core companies.

2. IAB and DAB members gave valuable suggestions in framing syllabus of autonomous

courses.

3. They also extended internships for number of students across the departments.

4. IAB and DAB members provided training on current technologies.

5. Some of the IAB members also offered projects for final year students.

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6.3.9 Admission of Students

6.4 Welfare schemes for

6.5 Total corpus fund generated

6.6 Whether annual financial audit has been done Yes No

6.7 Whether Academic and Administrative Audit (AAA) has been done?

Audit Type External Internal

Yes/No Agency Yes/No Authority

Academic Yes DTE, AICTE,

SPPU, UGC

Yes IQAC

Administrative Yes TUV-

Roheinland

(for ISO

Audit)

Yes IQAC

Teaching All policies are in effect as per previous SSR

Non-

Teaching

All policies are in effect as per previous SSR

Students All policies are in effect as per previous SSR

As per audited statements

Institute is affiliated to SPPU and admission process is carried out as per the norms laid

down by Admission Regulating Authority (ARA).

For first year admission MHT-CET conducted by state common entrance test cell or

JEE examination conducted by CBSE is mandatory, as the case may be.

For PG admissions GATE exam conducted by IITs is mandatory.

As per audited statements

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6.8 Does the University/ Autonomous College declare results within 30 days?

For autonomy UG and PG programs (FY BTech and FY MTech) Yes No

For UG Program (SE, TE, BE) and PG (SY ME) Yes No*

*Results are declared by SPPU generally within 45 days.

6.9 What efforts are made by the University/ Autonomous College for Examination Reforms?

6.10 What efforts are made by the University to promote autonomy in the affiliated/constituent

colleges?

6.11 Activities and support from the Alumni Association

6.12 Activities and support from the Parent – Teacher Association

Under Autonomy, the examination cell had taken many efforts for maintaining the quality of

question paper setting, paper evaluation and result declaration.

Some of the innovative features of the examination system are as given below:

1. Multiple layer security for answer sheets enabling objective evaluation

2. Digital Evaluation for technology - enabled assessment

3. Open house to give transparency & accountability

Students are able to view assessed answer sheets online

They are provided with model answers and scheme of marking

4. Examination Audit to ensure quality and consistency in Examination processes

The Institute is granted autonomy from AY 2017-18. Progressive autonomy is being

implemented.

Alumni meet is arranged annually at the Institute. A new web platform was created for interaction

with alumni.

Different initiatives for development of students were taken up by the alumni association.

Training, placement and internship support was provided by alumni.

Few parents were appointed on committees such as department advisory board (DAB), Industry

Advisory board (IAB) and Internal Quality Assessment Cell (IQAC).

Parent teacher meet was conducted twice in a semester. Few parents conducted guest lectures.

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6.13 Development program for support staff

6.14 Initiatives taken by the institution to make the campus eco-friendly

Supporting staff is encouraged to enhance their qualification. Brain storming sessions were

arranged for supporting staff out-site. Life skill training was provided in-house by counselor.

The following initiatives are taken by the institute:

1. Rooftop electric grid connected solar PV system of 100kW is in use.

2. Water harvesting is carried out in the campus.

3. Bio-gas plant is operational near Canteen.

4. Composting machine is functional.

5. Paper waste and E-Waste is processed for recycling through third party vendor.

6. Submission and evaluation of assignments and mini projects is carried out in soft format.

instead of hard copies, in Computer and IT department.

7. Saplings are given to all the guests visiting institute campus.

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Criterion – VII

7. Innovations and Best Practices

7.1 Innovations introduced during this academic year which have created a positive impact on

the functioning of the institution. Give details.

I] Collaborative Internship Program with Korean Institute of Science and Technology,

(KIST) South Korea

KIST is globally ranked 6th .VIIT has MOU with KIST, South Korea. In lieu of the MOU an

internship program – Software and Computing was conducted at the premises of KIST at the end

of the second semester.

Nine students studying in the third year of Bachelor of Engineering Course from Electronics

&Telecommunication, Mechanical and Computer Engineering branch participated successfully in

the project entitled “Stretchable, transparent, conducting Polymer”.

II] Digital Evaluation of Answer Books:

Digital Evaluation was introduced for the first time in VIIT for the First year Autonomous

Bachelors’ and Masters’ programs.

The process involves evaluating answer books which are previously scanned. The Question paper

and model answers are also scanned and can be accessed by the examiners/moderators, whenever

needed.

It is time efficient and aids in faster result declaration.

III] Open House:

“Open House” was introduced for the first time in VIIT for the First year Autonomous Bachelors’

and Masters’ programs .In open house the students can actually see soft copy of their evaluated

answer books and refer to the model answers.

IV] Project Based Learning

Background for implementation of Project Based Learning (PBL)-

In 2012-13 there were 3369 engineering colleges with an intake of ~18 lakhs students according

to a survey, employability in the industry showed following statistics.

18.43% - Software-IT industry, 7.49% - Mechanical, ECE, Civil

The low employability could be due to lack of practical knowledge. This led us to believe that

PBL should be at the heart of any teaching-learning process.

As a first step towards this, we have introduced PBL component in Engineering Physics Course in

AY 2017-18.

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Each batch of 20 to 25 students, is given a unique topic based on one of the six units of Engineering

Physics course.

Following are the steps implemented by the students in PBL.

• Collect relevant information from reliable sources

• Arrange information in a logical sequence

• Understand information – conversion to knowledge

• Make model

• Present, discuss and come to a conclusion

• Write a report

The evaluation was done continuously throughout the above process.

At the end of the process, the students had taken a small but significant step towards "learning how

to learn".

PBL had led the students to demand for summer internship. Short term training courses were held

in the college in the summer vacation.

V] Summer Internship program for First Year Students

An added component of Industry Mentoring was introduced, so as to give a perspective of Industry

requirements. Eleven students were selected on the basis of their attitude, aptitude and willingness

to work during their summer vacation.

Two groups of students worked on: Office Automation and Water monitoring and Management.

They designed and made prototypes and developed the following skills – Electronic layout and

design, Mechanical fabrication and Software development.

They worked in teams thus building inter personal relations, leadership capabilities, financial

perspectives and completing targets within deadlines.

7.2 Provide the Action Taken Report (ATR) based on the plan of action decided upon at the

beginning of the year

Sr.No. Action Planned Action Taken

1. Establishment of Statutory

Committees like Board of

Management, Academic Board,

Board of Examination and Board of

Subjects for each Department, for

Implementation of Autonomy.

*Lists of members of Statutory Committees are given

below the table.

Table A - Board of Management

Table B - Academic Board

Table C - Board of Examination

Table D - Board of Subjects

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2. Implementation of Autonomy at First

Year UG and First Year PG levels.

Autonomy was Implemented for First Year UG from

the AY 2017-18.

The syllabus was prepared in accordance with the

guidelines given by AICTE.

In order to give the students a “hands on” experience,

PBL component was introduced in the subject of

Engineering Physics.

Autonomy was Implemented for First Year PG from

the AY 2017-18.

The syllabus was prepared in accordance with the

guidelines given by AICTE.

In order to give the students a “know how” of Industrial

requirements the syllabus was designed by taking inputs

from various Industrial experts.

3. Preparation for NBA. 4. In the year 2015, four undergraduate programs

viz. Electronics & Telecommunication,

Computer Engineering, Information Technology

and Mechanical Engineering programs got

provisional accreditation for three years.

5. In the year 2018, Institute applied for compliance

of the above mentioned programs.

6. Compliance visit was conducted by the NBA

experts committee on 19th July 2018 and the

programs were accredited for 3 more years till

June 2021.

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4. Revision of Quality Manual System

as per ISO 9001:2015 standard for

ISO recertification.

1. The training session titled “In House ISO 9001:2015

Awareness and Internal Auditor Training Course” for

creating awareness amongst the faculty regarding

change in philosophy of revised ISO 9001:2015

along-with internal auditors training was conducted

in August 2018.

2. Various committees were formed for revision /

addition of processes related to various academic,

administrative, library and training & placement

related activities.

3. The quality objectives were established based on risk

based thinking. The necessary training of all deans,

head of departments and departmental ISO

coordinators related to evaluation of effectiveness of

actions taken to address risks and opportunities were

conducted.

4. The fourth issue of Quality Manual and Quality

Management System revised as per ISO 9001:2015

was implemented in March 2018.

5. Department wise orientation was conducted by

Institute ISO coordinator for creating awareness

amongst all faculty and staff about revised QMS.

6. External Surveillance Audit was scheduled at the end

of April 2018 for recertification. The Institute is now

ISO 9001:2015 certified institute.

A)Board of Management:

S. No. Name of the Member Designation

1) Mr. Bharat Agarwal

(Managing Trustee)

Chairman

2) Prof. (Dr.) S. C. Sahasrabudhe

(Ex. Director, D.A.I.I.C.T., Gandhinagar)

Member

3) Dr. V. R. Udpikar

(President, Wavelet Group)

Member

4) Mr. R. R. Deshpande

(Joint Managing Director, K.O.E.L.)

Member

5) Mr. V. B. Gadgil

Ex. CEO & MD, L&T Metro Rail Ltd (Hyderabad)

Member

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6) Prof. (Dr.) Shubha Pandit

Principal, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai

Member

7) Dr. Shweta Shenoy

Professor , Centre for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Sciences, New Delhi

UGC Nominee

8) Prof. (Dr.) A. S. Abhyankar

Head, Department of Technology, SPPU, Pune

V. C. Nominee

9) Prof. (Dr.) S. S. Chinchanikar

Professor and Dean Academics, VIIT

Faculty Representative

10) Prof. (Dr.) Rohini S. Bhalerao- Panajkar

Professor and Dean Admission and Examination, VIIT

Faculty Representative

11) Prof. (Dr.) Bilavari S. Karkare

(Director)

Member Secretary

B) Academic Board:

S.

No.

Name Designation Category

1) Dr. (Mrs.) Bilavari S.

Karkare

Director, VIIT, Pune Chairman

2) Dr. M. C. Deo Professor, IIT Bombay Educationalist

3) Dr. (Mrs.) Sushma Kulkarni Director,

R.I.T., Islampur, Maharashtra

Educationalist

4) Shri. Vivek Kulkarni Chief Architect,

Persistent Systems Limited, Pune

Expert from Industry

5) Shri. Nilesh Laddad Director,

Planedge Consultants, Pune

Expert from Industry

6) Shri. Dattatraya S.

Navalgundkar

Head, Strategy & Marketing, Kirloskar

Pneumatic Co. Ltd.

Expert from Industry

7) Dr. Aditya S. Abhyankar Head, Technology Department, SPPU University Nominee

8) Dr. Suresh W. Gosavi Professor, Physics Department, SPPU University Nominee

9) Dr. Shankar I. Patil Professor, Physics Department, SPPU University Nominee

10) Dr. ShaileshV. Kulkarni Associate Professor and Head,

Department of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering, VIIT

Member

11) Dr. Sachin R. Sakhare Professor and Head, Dept. of Computer

Engineering, VIIT

Member

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12) Dr. Mandar S. Karyakarte Professor and Head, Dept. of Information

Technology, VIIT

Member

13) Dr. Atul P. Kulkarni Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, VIIT

Member

14) Dr. Shardul G. Joshi Professor and Head, Dept. of Civil

Engineering, VIIT

Member

15) Dr. (Mrs.) Vaishali A. Patil Associate Professor and Head,

Department of Engg. &App. Sci

Member

16) Dr. (Mrs.) Rohini S.

Bhalerao-Panajkar

Associate Professor, Dept. of Engg.

&App. Sci

Teacher’s

Representative

17) Dr. RajendraS. Talware Associate Professor,

Dept. of E. &TC. Engg. VIIT

Teacher’s

Representative

18) Dr. (Mrs.) Preeti S.

Kulkarni

Associate Professor,

Dept. of Civil Engg, VIIT

Teacher’s

Representative

19) Dr. Ashok R. Mache Associate Professor,

Dept. of Mech. Engg, VIIT

Teacher’s

Representative

20) Dr. Satish S. Chinchanikar Dean Academics & Professor

Dept. of Mech. Engg, VIIT

Member Secretary

C) Board of Examination has been constituted for a period of two years from

AY 2017-18, as per details given below:

Sr. No. Name of the Staff Designation

1) Prof. (Mrs.) B. S. Karkare

Director

Chairman

2) Dr. A. M. Chavan

Director, Examination & Evaluation

VC Nominee, SPPU

3) Prof. (Dr.) S. N. Londhe

Professor, Civil Engg.

Member

4) Prof. (Dr.) Y. H. Dandawate

Professor, E&TC Engg.

Member

5) Prof. (Dr.) S. S. Chinchanikar

Professor, Mech. Engg. & Dean Academics

Member

6) Prof. (Dr.) R. S. Talware

Asso. Prof., E&TC Engg.

Member

7) D. (Mrs.) S. V. Patil

Asso. Professor&Dean Q&A

Member

8) Dr. (Mrs.) R. S. Bhalerao – Panajkar

Asso. Prof., & Dean Examination and admission

Member Secretary

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D) Board of Subjects:

E&TC Department:

Sr.

No.

Name of Members Designation and Place of Work Category

01 Prof. (Dr.) S.V. Kulkarni Associate Professor and Head, Dept.

of E&TC Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Chairman

02 Prof. (Dr.) Y.H. Dandawate Professor, Dept. of E&TC

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

03 Prof. (Dr.) R.S. Talware Associate Professor, Dept. of E&TC

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

04 Prof. (Mrs.) R.G. Purandare Associate Professor, Dept. of E&TC

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

05 Prof. A.V. Chitre Associate Professor, Dept. of E&TC

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

06 Prof. T.R. Jadhav Associate Professor, Dept. of E&TC

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

07 Prof. (Dr.) D.S. Bormane Principal, A.I.S.S.M.S College of

Engineering

V. C. Nominee

08 Prof. (Dr.) A.B.

Nandgaonkar

Professor, B.A.T.U., Lonere Professional Expert

09 Prof. (Dr.) M.S.Sutaone Professor, College of Engineering

Pune

Professional Expert

10 Mr.H.V.Kamat Director, Shalaka Technology Industry

Representative

11 Mr. Shriharsh Datar Design Manager, Mavan Systems Meritorious

Alumnus

Computer & IT:

Sr.

No.

Name of Members Designation and Place of Work Category

01 Prof. (Dr.) S. R. Sakhare Professor and Head, Dept. of.

Computer Engg., VIIT, Pune

Chairman

02 Prof. (Dr.) M.S. Karyakarte Professor, Dept. of. Computer ,

VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

03 Prof. N. P. Pathak Associate Professor, Dept. of IT ,

VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

04 Prof. (Mrs.) J. V. Bagade Associate Professor, Dept. of. IT,

VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

05 Prof. (Mrs.) K. H. Wanjale Associate Professor, Dept. of. IT,

VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

06 Prof. (Mrs.) Manisha Mali Assistant Professor, Dept. of.

Computer Engg., VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

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07 Prof (Dr.) Suhas H. Patil Professor, Computer Engg.

Department, Bharati Vidyapeeth

University College of Engg Pune

Professional Expert

08 Prof. (Dr.) Parikshit N.

Mahalle

Professor, Computer Engg

Department and Chairman BOS IT

SPPU.

Professional Expert

09 Prof. (Dr.) S.N. Sane Professor, Computer Engg. K.K.

Wagh College of Engineering,

Nashik

V.C. Nominee

10 Dr. Parag Mankeekar Director, Neeti Solutions Pune Industry

Representative

11 Mr. Dinesh Jain Pubmatics India Pvt. Ltd Meritorious Alumnus

Mechanical Department:

Sr.

No.

Name of Members Designation and Place of Work Category

01 Prof. (Dr.) A.P. Kulkarni Associate Professor and Head, Dept.

of Mechanical Engineering, VIIT,

Pune

Chairman

02 Prof. (Dr.) S. S.

Chinchanikar

Professor, Dept. of Mechanical

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

03 Prof. (Dr.) D.N. Kambale Professor, Dept. of Mechanical

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

04 Prof. (Dr.) A. R. Mache

Associate Professor, Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

05 Prof. (Dr.) D.S. Kambale Associate Professor, Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

06 Prof. S. V. Dravid Assistant Professor, Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

07 Prof. (Dr.) S.N. Sapali College of Engineering Pune V. C. Nominee

08 Prof. (Dr.) D. G. Thak Associate Professor, D.I.A.T., Pune Professional Expert

09 Dr. Arun Chavan Senior Software Technical

Consultant, PTC Software, Pune

Professional Expert

10 Dr. Hitendra Patel Mechanical Architect, Philips

Electronics (I) Ltd.

Industry

Representative

11 Er. Shridhar Manda Manager-Production,

Mercedes-Benz India Pvt. Ltd.

Meritorious

Alumnus

Civil Department:

Sr.

No.

Name of Members Designation and Place of

Work

Category

01 Prof. (Dr.) S.G. Joshi Professor, Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Chairman

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02 Prof. (Dr.) M.A. Mahajan Professor, Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

03 Prof. (Dr.) H.B. Dhonde Associate Professor,

Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

04 Prof.(Dr.) S.P. Nitsure Professor, Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Experts

05 Prof. (Dr.) P.S. Kulkarni Associate Professor,

Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Experts

06 Prof. (Dr.) S. V. Patil Associate Professor,

Department of Civil

Engineering, VIIT, Pune

Subject Experts

07 Prof. (Dr.) H.S. Patil Professor, Applied Mechanics

Department, SVNIT, Surat

Professional Expert

08 Prof. (Dr.) D. G. Regulwar Professor, Department of Civil

Engineering, GCOE,

Aurangabad

Professional Expert

09 Prof. (Dr.) R.R. Joshi Dean – Quality Assurance,

College of Engineering, Pune

V.C. Nominee

10 Er. Jaideep Raje Jt. Managing Director, Bhate

and Raje Construction Co. Pvt.

Ltd.

Industry

Representative

11 Er. Prem Kankaria Urban Planner, Planitech

Consultants, Pune

Meritorious Alumnus

E&AS Department:

Sr.

No.

Name of Members Designation and Place of Work Category

01 Prof. (Dr.) V.A.Patil Associate Professor and Head, Dept.

of Engineering and Applied

Sciences, VIIT, Pune

Chairman

02 Prof. (Dr.) R.S.Acharya Professor, Dept. of Engineering &

Applied Sciences, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

03 Prof. (Dr.) C.S.Garde Professor, Dept. of Engineering &

Applied Sciences, VIIT, Pune

Senior Teacher

04 Prof.(Dr.) R.S.Bhalerao -

Panajkar

Associate Professor, Dept. of

Engineering & Applied Sciences,

VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

05 Prof. (Mrs.) A.P. Kulkarni Assistant Professor, Dept. of

Engineering & Applied Sciences,

VIIT, Pune

Subject Expert

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06 Prof. (Dr.) N.S.Mujumdar Professor of Mathematics, RSCOE,

Pune

Professional Expert

07 Dr. P.P. Vadgaonkar Chief Scientist, Polymer Science and

Engineering Division, CSIR-

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Professional Expert

08 Prof. (Dr.) S.K.Gupta Professor, Tata Institute of

Fundamental Research, Mumbai

V.C. Nominee

09 Dr. S.V. Rajashri M.D. Litex Electricals, MIDC,

Bhosari

Industry

Representative

10 Mr. Akshay Nahar Proprietor, TrueSpider Technologies Meritorious

Alumnus

7.3 Give two Best Practices of the institution (please see the format in the NAAC Self-study

Manuals)

*Provide the details in annexure (annexure need to be numbered as i, ii,iii)

7.4 Contribution to environmental awareness / protection

Details are provided in Annexure IV

Enhancement of Teaching Learning Process

1. A) NPTEL Online Courses for Faculty and Students: VIIT has been working as Local

Chapter of NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) since 2016.

Students as well as faculty find these courses very useful for updating their knowledge in

various technical and non-technical fields.

1. B) Faculty of VIIT are in the forefront in using ICT tools to enhance teaching and learning

process.

Google classroom, Google form for assignments, quizzes etc. are in practice by the faculty

members. Sharing NPTEL Video lectures, contents. Uploading video content on you tube,

Individual web site, Blogs, Hot Potatoes, Flipped classroom are some more examples of ICT tools

being used.

ICT tools are found to be much useful and convenient by Students and faculty alike.

2. Induction Program: VIIT conducted Induction Program for first year UG students admitted to

Autonomous Bachelor of Technology Course. It was for the first time that a Private Engineering

College, conducted an Induction Program. The duration of the program was from 1st to 14th August

2017.

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7.4 Contribution to environmental awareness / protection

7.5 Whether environmental audit was conducted? Yes No

7.5 Whether environmental audit was conducted? Yes No

7.6 Any other relevant information the institution wishes to add. (For example SWOT Analysis)

1. Presenting a sapling - To spread awareness of environmental conservation and to promote

greenery, institute continues to present saplings to guests and experts invited to the institute.

2. National Service Scheme (N.S.S.):

a) 2000 saplings were planted at Jamgaon Desli by 10 batches of 60 First Year students

under Induction Training program

b) 2000 saplings were planted by Second and Third year students at Gujarwadi under

the MOU with Tata Motors

3. Traffic Awareness weeks: VIIT observed first two weeks of January 2018, to spread

traffic awareness through “Compulsory Helmet Activity”. All faculty participated in this

activity. Schedules were prepared with the assistance of Heads of Departments and Time

table coordinators and faculty were given time slots wherein, they actually monitored the

activity at the VMI gate.

Class and Batch representatives also actively participated in the activity taking turns to

monitor the activity at the VMI gate.

Achievements:

1. Compliance visit was conducted by the NBA experts committee on 19th July 2018

and the programs were accredited for 3 more years till June 2021.

2. i) VIIT has been placed in the rank band of 151-200 under the India Rankings 2018

by NIRF.

ii) VIIT has been ranked 110th by “The Week” in the year 2017.

iii) Times Engineering Institute Survey has ranked VIIT 97th amongst

Engineering Institutes in India and 73rd amongst Private Engineering Institutes in

India in the year 2017.

iv) As per Times i3RC ,VIIT ranks 101thamongst Top Engineering Colleges, 82th

amongst Top Private Engineering Colleges and 25th Rank with respect to

placements in the year 2018.

3. The Institute is now ISO 9001:2015 certified institute.

0

20

40

60

80

100

1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr

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4. CSI student chapter received "Best Accredited Student Branch award" for region

VI for 2017

5. VIIT bagged first runner up position in the prestigious cultural Competition

“Firodiya Karandak” and also won twelve individual prizes

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Annexure II

Value Added Courses

Sr.

No Name of Course

Duration

(Hrs) Frequency

1 Machine Learning Algorithm on

Raspberry Pi 24 Once in a year

2 Internet of Things (IoT) Deep Drive 16 Once in a year

3 LABVIEW Programming Course 40 Once in a year

4

Cross Platform Mobile Application

Development

(Under Microsoft IT Academy)

32 Once in a year

5 Arduino Programming – (Under IOT) 24 Twice in a year

6 Foundation Program Batch FP5.0

(Under Infosys Campus Connect) 140 Once in a year

7

Elective – User Interface

Technologies Course(Under Infosys

Campus Connect)

75 Once in a Year

8 Pressure Vessel Design 32 Once in a year

9 CATIA 60 Once in a year

10 Automobile and Vehicle

Dynamics 40 Once in a Year

11 Steam Engineering 30 Once in a year

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Annexure III

Analysis of the feedback

1. Alumni Feedback is taken from Alumni for the academic year. Sample questions

and their analysis for academic year 2017-18 are shown in Table 1. The analysis

helped the institute in development of curriculum for ‘Autonomy’.

2. Feedback about Faculty is taken from students twice a semester. The various

parameters on which teaching is assessed are: Communication Skills, Quality of

Teaching/ Academic input, Subject Knowledge, Content and Method of Delivery,

Resourcefulness, Readiness of teacher, Accessibility and Availability of Teacher in

Campus/ Department. Sample analysis for ‘Electronics and Telecommunication’

department is shown in Table 2. Feedback is signed by the Director and conveyed

to the faculty by respected Head of the Department. Counseling of faculty having

feedback count less than 7(out of 10) is carried out by Head of the Department as

well as by the Director for his/ her improvement.

3. An Institute level Parent Teacher meeting is conducted once every semester. During

the meeting, parents are made aware about their wards’ attendance, academic

performance for the semester as well as about the various learning processes

conducted in the institute. In academic year 2017-18, Parent Teacher meeting for

the first semester was conducted on August12, 2017 and for second semester on

February10, 2018. The feedback collected from the parents during above mentioned

meetings are shown in Table 3 and Table 4 respectively. Suggestions given by

parents were taken into consideration for further actions. Also this helped in

identifying the parents who would help in providing support to the institute in terms

of Projects, internship and placement etc.

4. Feedback about Institute is also taken from all students once in a year. This includes

the feedback about the facilities and the infrastructure of the institute. Institute

feedback for academic year 2017-18 is shown in Table 5.

5. Various companies visit the campus of the institute for the placement of the

students. Table 6 shows the feedback given by various employers for the placement

activity. Based on this feedback, Guest lectures, workshops, seminars are organized

for students to help them to be ready for industry.

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Alumni Feedback Analysis –

Alumni Meet: 6th January 2018 Total Number of Respondents – 115

Table 1: Alumni Feedback

Q. 1 The overall curriculum was competitive and designed taking into

Consideration industry requirements of knowledge, skills and behavior.

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 30.4 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral, agree and Strongly

disagree category.

2 Agree 47

3 Neutral 13

4 Disagree 8.7

5 Strongly Disagree 0.9

Q.2 Freedom was given for choosing various subjects to learn, as per my interests or needs

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 31.6 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral, agree and Strongly

disagree category.

2 Agree 45.6

3 Neutral 13.2

4 Disagree 8.8

5 Strongly Disagree 0.8

Q. 3 Teachers had freedom in deciding syllabus, mode of delivery and evaluation methods for achieving centre of excellence in each domain

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 36 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral, agree and Strongly

disagree category.

2 Agree 50.9

3 Neutral 7

4 Disagree 5.4

5 Strongly Disagree 0.7

Q.4 The education system gave me ample opportunity to apply

knowledge and skills for bringing about social change and progress

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 40.4 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral, agree and Strongly

disagree category.

2 Agree 42.1

3 Neutral 13.2

4 Disagree 3.8

5 Strongly Disagree 0.5

Q. 5 Various methods were used for evaluating my academic performance

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 36 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral, agree and Strongly

disagree category.

2 Agree 49.1

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3 Neutral 12.3

4 Disagree 2.6

5 Strongly Disagree 0

6. As a fresh graduate I had all the requisite knowledge, skills and

behaviour required to cater to industry needs

Sr. No Parameter Percentage (%) Remark

1 Strongly Agree 33 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that

of neutral, agree and

Strongly disagree

category.

2 Agree 44.3

3 Neutral 16.5

4 Disagree 5.5

5 Strongly Disagree 0.7 Responses to the six questions out of six questions fall in the category of strongly agree and agree. This encouraged in implementing the curriculum on the same line with certain additional value added course and Project based learning to enhance the skill set of the student in Autonomy and make them industry ready.

II. Students’ Feedback Analysis

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

Analysis of Students’ Feedback for Faculty (2017-18)

Following table shows the analysis of faculty feedback for SEM I and SEM II

Total feedback received were for 36 faculties and 31 faculties respectively.

Four classes are identified based on the range of feedback for analysis (on the

scale of 10).

Table No. 2 shows these classes and ranges along with count in particular

range. Table 2: Students’ Feedback(Semwise)

Class Range Count Remark

Sem -I Sem-II The feedback for Sem

A 9-10 5 5

II showed

B 8-9 13 17

improvement over

C 7-8 13 7

Sem I.

D 6-7 5 2

-

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III. Parents Teachers Meet Feedback Analysis Department of Mechanical Engineering

Feedback Analysis of the Parent-Teacher Meeting organized on 12th August 2017(Sem–I)

The total numbers of parents registered for the meetings - 121. Table 3: Parents Feedback (Sem –I)

Sr.No Questions Response (in %)

Remark

Yes No

1 Are you aware about your ward's attendance

in the college? 97.50 2.50

The overall

response of

parents to

the

given

questionnair

e

is positive

2 Are You aware your ward's academic

performance at present? 95 5

3

Are you aware about learning -teaching

process at VIIT? 87 13

4

Do you feel learning -teaching process in

VIIT useful to make student Industry ready? 96.7 3.3

5 Are you interested in providing help for

placement, project work and internship for students? 52.2 48.8

Feedback Analysis of the Parent-Teacher Meeting organized on

February 10th

, 2018 (Sem II)

The total numbers of parents registered for the meetings = 53

Table 4: Parents Feedback (Sem – II)

Sr,

No Questions

Response (in %) Remark

Yes No

1 Are you aware about your ward's attendance

in the college? 84.9 15.1

The overall

response of

parents to

the

given

Questionnair

ewas

positive.

2 Are you aware of your ward's academic

performance at present? 86.8 13.2

3 Are you aware about learning -teaching

process at VIIT? 83 17

4

Do you feel learning -teaching process in

VIIT useful to make student Industry ready? 83 17

5 Are you interested in providing help for placement, project work and internship for students?

17 83

The parent's feedback helped to check their involvement for improvement of their wards

resulting into qualitative improvement of institute

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IV. Students’ Feedback Analysis (Institute)

Table 5: Students’ Institute Feedback

Administration

Sr. No. Parameter Percentage Remark

1 Overall strongly agree and agree

category

56.72 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral and disagree

category. 2 Overall neutral category 28.18

3 Overall strongly disagree and

disagree category

15.10

Infrastructure

1 Overall strongly agree and agree

category

55.96 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral and disagree

category. 2 Overall neutral category 26.71

3 Overall strongly disagree and

disagree category

17.33

Laboratories

1 Overall strongly agree and agree

category

61.60 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral and disagree

category. 2 Overall neutral category 26.38

3 Overall strongly disagree and

disagree category

12.02

Placement

1 Overall strongly agree and agree

category

59.17 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral and disagree

category. 2 Overall neutral category 28.01

3 Overall strongly disagree and

disagree category

12.81

Other Amenities

1 Overall strongly agree and agree

category

54.78 % of strongly agree and

agree is higher than that of

neutral and disagree

category. 2 Overall neutral category 27.38

3 Overall strongly disagree and

disagree category

16.58

The average percentage of strongly agree and agree is more than 55% for all categories given

in feedback and it is much more as compared to disagree (12 to 29%).

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V. Employers’ Feedback Analysis (Institute)(Date instead of serial no)

Sr

No

Name of

Company

Overall

Coordina

tion of

Campus

Placeme

nt

Activity

Disciplin

e &

decorum

followed

by

students

Soft

Skills

of

student

s

Overall

Academi

c Quality

of

Students

Employabilit

y of Students

Basic

Fundamenta

l

Engineering

concepts of

Students

Depth of

Technical

Knowledg

e of

students

1 MORGAN

STANLEY

9 10 8 7 7 7 6

2 AVAYA 8 8 6 7 7 7 7

3 John Deere

India Pvt

Ltd (PPO 1)

7.5 7.5 7 7.5 7 7 7

4 eQ

Technologic

9 9 7 5 5 5 6

5 Barclays 10 9 8 9 9 10 9

6 Symantec

Software

India Pvt

Ltd

8 8 6 7 7 6 6

7 Principal

Global (NO

CRITERIA)

9 8 7 7 6 6 7

8 Cybage 6 6 4 5 4 4.5 5

9 Mu Sigma 10 10 7 7 7 7 7

10 3D PLM 9 9 7 8.5 7 7 6

11 Mediaocean

Asia Pvt.

Ltd

10 10 8 8 7 8 7

12 Musafir

(New

Company)

9 8 8 8 8 7 7

13 YARDI 7 8 6 7 7

14 Bristlecone 7 8 7 7 6 7 5

15 Honeywell 8 8 8 8 7 7 6

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16 Accenture 10 10 5 5 5 5 5

17 The Allstate

Corporation

9 8 7 8 7 7 7

18 Atos 7 8 9 8 8 7 7

19 Tata Elexi 9 9 8 7 7 6 6

20 Eleation (New

Company)

10 8 8 8 5 6 5

21 Optimize 9 8 5 6 5 7 5

22 Xoriant 10 8 8 8 8 7 7

23 Accelya Kale

Solutions Ltd

10 8 7 9 7 6 5

24 Bitwise Global 10 10 5 6 6 5

25 ASSERTION I

SmarterHi

Communications

(New Company)

8 8 5 4

26 HSBC 9 9 8 8 8 8 8

27 Raja Software 10 9 9 7 7 6

28 UBS (New

Coampany)

10 8 9 9 9 8 8

29 VODAFONE 8 9 7 8 7 6 6

30 Honeywell

Technology

Solutions

8 8 8 7 7 8 7

31 Alfa Laval 9 9 7 7 8 7 7

32 Qualys (New

Company)

10 10 7 9 9 8 8

33 Cognizant 10 10 10 10 9 8 7

34 IFM

Engineering Pvt.

Ltd. (New

Company)

8 8 7 7 7 7 7

35 TE Connectivity 10 10 7 8 8 8 8

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36 Tata Communications Li

mited

9 10 10 7 8 7 7

37 Hour Glass Research

Center

10 9 8 8 8 7 7

38 Opus 10 10 8 8 8 8 8

39 Fig MD (New Company) 7 7 6 7 6 6

40 Zepo (New Company) 9 9 8 6 5 5 5

41 Wipro 10 10 7 8 8 9 9

42 Navin Fluorine

International Ltd

9 9 8 7 7 7 7

43 e2open 5 4 6 8 7 7.5 7

44 TMF Group 9 10 8 8 8 8 9

45 Wisdmlabs (soft copy of

feedback on mail)

8 6 6 7 6 6 6

46 VODAFONE shared

services

9 9 7 8 7 7 7

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2

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7.217

4

7.444

4

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Annexure –IV

Best Practice I A):

Title of the Best Practice: NPTEL Online Courses for Faculty and Students

VIIT has been working as Local Chapter of NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced

Learning) since 2016.

Students as well as faculty find these courses very useful for updating their knowledge in various

technical and non-technical fields.

Goal

Vision of VIIT is “Excellence in Technical Education”. To achieve this goal, the faculty

contribution and their participation in all activities that take place in the institute is of utmost

importance. Every year, for all faculty of VIIT it is mandatory to enrol for NPTEL courses.

Students are motivated for self-learning and hard work

The Context

As VIIT was granted Autonomy from AY 2017-18. Many reforms were necessary in the syllabus,

teaching-learning process and evaluation methods. For these reforms to be carried out efficiently

training needs became much necessary for faculty and staff. Performance appraisal system is

linked with development of faculty and staff

NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an

initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur,

Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course

contents in engineering and science. NPTEL as a project originated from many deliberations

between IITs, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

during the years 1999-2003. A proposal was jointly put forward by five IITs (Bombay, Delhi,

Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras) and IISc for creating contents for 100 courses as web based

supplements and 100 complete video courses, for forty hours of duration per course. Web

supplements were expected to cover materials that could be delivered in approximately forty hours.

Five engineering branches (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication

and Mechanical) and core science programmes that all engineering students are required to take in

their undergraduate engineering programme in India were chosen initially. Contents for the above

courses were based on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council for Technical

Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major affiliating Universities in India.

Institutions like IITs, IISc, NITs and other leading Universities in India, disseminate

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Teaching/learning content of high quality through all available media. NPTEL is amongst the

foremost and an important step in this direction and uses technology for dissemination.

A large number of faculty and students, through NPTEL have access to quality content.

Comprehensive course contents are useful for teacher training and through them quality of students

can be improved. In addition, the course materials (both web and video) are freely accessible by

everyone independent of their geographic location. These courses are used by professionals for

updating their academic background. Tests and assignments are designed and online assessment

is carried out.

The Practice

In Academic Year 2017-18 total 1000+ candidates (including faculties and students) registered for

NPTEL online courses. The process of procuring NPTEL Content is initiated by Library. The

content is procured from IIT Bombay and made accessible throughout the campus via LAN.

After enrolment to a course of Academic relevance, Faculty and students meticulously go through

the weekly content – either text version or video version. Submit weekly assignments and appear

for the recertification examination at centres of their convenience.

Evidence of Success

Through NPTEL, a part of the IIT training, flavor and the rigor with which they are given is made

available to teachers and student community at large. NPTEL courses serve as a value addition.

In AY 2017-18, Total registered candidates for NPTEL were 1574 of which 112 were successfully

certified.

Best Practice I B):

Title of the Best Practice: Use of ICT tools

Faculty of VIIT are in the forefront in using ICT tools to enhance teaching and learning process.

Google classroom, Google form for assignments, quizzes etc. Sharing NPTEL Video lectures,

contents. Uploading video content on you tube, Individual web site, Blogs, Hot Potatoes, Flipped

classroom are some examples of ICT tools being used.

ICT tools are found to be much useful and convenient by Students and faculty alike.

Goal

Vision of VIIT is “Excellence in Technical Education”. To achieve this goal, the faculty

contribution and their participation in all activities that take place in the institute is of utmost

importance. Every year, for all faculty of VIIT it is mandatory to use ICT tools as a teaching –

learning aid.

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The Context

Information and Communication Technology

Information and Communications Technology (ICT), is an extended synonym .Under one

umbrella it encompasses both Information Technology (IT) as well as Communications

Technology.

IT is limited to the textual mode of providing information .Information not only in textual form

but in audio, video or any other media is also to be transmitted to the users.

This has opened new channels of learning such as, Online learning, e-learning, Virtual University,

e-coaching, e-education, e-journal to name a few.

Third Generation Mobiles are an integral part of ICT. Mobiles are being used in delivering

information in a time bound and cost effective manner with an easy access. The ICT brings more

quality content in the classrooms and libraries for the teachers and students. It paves a means for

the learner to use maximum senses to get the information. Cutting across the monotony it provides

varied forms of teaching –learning.

Some of the areas which are being addressed are, teaching, psychological and diagnostic testing,

remedial teaching, evaluation, development of virtual laboratory

online tutoring and examination , development of reasoning & thinking, development of

instructional material and also personality development.

The Practice

Use of ICT in Teaching

Along with giving information, some of the objectives of teaching are, developing abilities of

understanding and applying the concepts, power of expression, reasoning and thinking, abilities of

judgement and decision making, improving comprehension and vocabulary, inculcating proper

habits of study and tolerance and developing a scientific temperament.

It is difficult to achieve all the objectives.

How can these multi-dimensional objectives be achieved? ICT is the answer.

It gives access to various sources of information in different formats supported by many examples.

It provides an online interaction platform due to which students and teachers can exchange their

ideas and views, and get clarification on any topic from different experts.

The learners get a global opportunity to work on live projects with colleagues from other

countries.

Evidence of Success

In AY 2017-18, totally 99 Faculty made use of ICT tools as an aid in the teaching learning process,

which included, 1 flipped classroom, 2 video sharing, 2 Matlab simulation and 94 Google

classroom.

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Best Practice II:

Title of the Best Practice: Induction Program

VIIT conducted Induction Program for first year students admitted to Autonomous Bachelor of

Technology Course .It was for the first time a Private Engineering College, conducted an Induction

Program. The duration was from 1st to 14th August 2017.

Goal

Established in the year 2002, Vision of VIIT is “Excellence in Technical Education”.

Mission of VIIT is:

Make competent Engineers with the spirit of professionalism and responsible citizenship.

Impart knowledge and technical skills of the highest standards.

Prepare engineers to respond to the current & future needs of the industry, higher studies as well

as research.

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2.00%

2.00%

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Chart Title

Google Classroom Videp sharing Matlab demonstration Flipped classroom

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The “Vision” and “Mission” aim and strive for all round development of the students.

To march towards this goal, Induction Program for first year students was felt necessary.

The Context

Established in the year 2002, VIIT became an Autonomous Institute from the AY 2017-18.Even

before autonomous status VIIT was taking efforts towards the overall development of

stundets.This need was also recognized at National level in 2015. In that year, a committee of

Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) was set up, so as to motivate under graduate

students in IITs towards academics and overall development.

One of the important recommendations of the committee was to conduct Induction Program for

students. In 2016, a pilot program was implemented by three IITs.

The AICTE approved Induction Program for all colleges and guidelines were prepared based on

the pilot programs. These guidelines focus upon developing following aspects in the students such

as improvising soft skills, increasing Emotional Quotient (EQ),encouraging creativity skills and

“out of the box thinking”, inputs about entrepreneurship development to name a few.

Apart from this, important inputs were received from the professional counsellor appointed by the

Institute, such as, home sickness, lack of confidence, social gap, time management, frustration,

lack of goals, anxiety of the future etc.

As per AICTE norms it is mandatory to hold Induction Training Program for first year students.

Also going hand in hand with the Institute mission, VIIT started the Induction Training Program

aimed at all round training and development of the students.

The Practice

The program was divided into 6 Modules – Creative Arts, Sessions on Human Values, and Lectures

by Eminent personalities, Literary Activity, Proficiency Module and Physical Activity / Sports.

There were eight sessions of Creative Arts comprising of Photography, Painting & Drawing, Clay

Activity, Cartoon Activity, and Calligraphy. Students actively participated in these activities.

In the “Human Values” sessions the faculty conducted interactive sessions on various topics which

included “Ice breaking”, “Harmony in Society”, “Harmony with Self”, “Self and Body”, “peer

pressure”, “Memory Techniques” and ”Self Confidence”.

Four Lecture sessions were conducted by Eminent Personalities – Lieutenant General B.T. Pandit,

Prof. Ajit Patankar (Ex. BAARC), Dr. Pradeep Sethia (Homeopath), Dr. Priyadarshini Karve

(Environment expert and Entrepreneur), Dr. Sunil Nadkarni (Spine Surgeon), Dr. M. Bhajantri

(Scientist at CWPRS), Shri. Pramod Bapat (Mechanical Industry), Shri. Manoj Deshmukh and

Shri Siddharth shah (Both from Construction Industry), Shri Vinay Achwal (Electronics Industry),

Dr. Suvarna Patil (Director, Walawalkar Hospital, Dervan).

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Three sessions of literary activities included primarily” Debates” on “Gender Sensitization”,

“Cashless India” and “Social Networking”.

The Proficiency Modules / Testing comprised of five sessions on English, Counselling, Art

Therapy, Goal setting and Achievement and Psychological Testing which included Understanding

anxiety and getting rid of it and Self-Motivation.

Physical Activity/ Sports had eight Sessions in which students had to do warming up exercises and

participate in various field games.

This immensely successful program had a whopping number of total 638 sessions.

Evidence of Success

Induction Program Feedback Analysis:

Series1, Very Good, 48.1, 48%

Series1, Good, 50,

50%

Series1, Average, 1.9, 2%