HOD Speak Dear Readers,

It gives me immense pleasure in putting before you this is-sue of Insight!!

2019 was an eventful year as VIT achieved A+ grade in NAAC and Electronics department has been accredited by NBA for a period of 3 years. We are looking forward to get an academic flexibility, which will enable us to introduce more skill develop-ment courses in the curriculum, increase the percentage of labor-atory sessions in the courses, industry internships for more and more students are some of the major objectives that are here in our minds. Department has taken initiatives for the same.

We hope that with such initiatives, there will be an improve-ment in the number as well as quality of the students entering engineering education. It will also make them industry ready. Re-

cently our department organized a training program on “Electronic Product Design”. It wit-nessed a good response from the students, which is indicative of student’s focus on “Creation and Creativity”. There was a pool of experts from the industry and academia who enlightened and motivated the participants.

We are on the onset of New Year 2020 and plan to achieve greater success.. Wishing Eve-ryone a Very Happy New Year !

Inside this

Issue

Faculty Profile

Prof. Pranita Padhye

Prof. Savio Moraes

ISTE Approved STTP

on; “Electronic Prod-uct Design”

The Past Perfect

- Rishikesh Mudaliyar

Latest Technology

Business data analytics using Python

Student Achievments

Department Internship

Faculty Achievements

Upcoming Events

Student Speak

– Shubham Patil

Scan and get linked with ETRX Newsletter

Dr. Anjali Deshpande

Head of Electronics Department

Secrets of Research

“No Research without action, no action without research.”

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INSIGHT Department of Electronics Engineering

1 Oct-

31 Dec

2019

VOLUME

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ISSUE 2

Visit to Masina Hospital ; 5th Oct 2019

The visit was organized by Prof.Prachi Mujawar for T.E. ETRX students along with bio-

medical students. Students were shown the CT Scan room where Siemens Somatom ma-

chine is being used to conduct the routine scans through which Arteries are studied. They

were shown two types of CT Scan i.e. Plain and Contrast (For cancer patients). The im-

portance of checking the patient’s kidney level before every scan was explained to the stu-

dents. They were shown the console room where they witnessed the machine capturing im-

ages in a circular motion Next, they visited the casualty room where they got to see many

instruments such as BP apparatus, Glucometer, SpO2, O2, ECG Machine (GE Mac 2000),

Defibrillator (Nihon Kohden), and Patient Monitor (Goldway G30E).

They further moved on to observe the Dialysis Room wherein they were imparted with the

basic knowledge of the process of dialysis.

In their visit to the ICU, students got an opportunity to see the Ventilator (Dragër Savina 300), Ultrasound Machine(Philips HD7 XE), Syringe Pump(Philips HP 20), Defibrillator(Philips Efficia DFM 100).

The visit ended and the students left the hospital premises with immense knowledge of the instruments observed by them.

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Name: Prof. Pranita Padhye Designation: Assistant Prof B.E: ; Electronics & Tele-communication, N.M.U, Jalgao

M.E: ; Electronics & Tele-communication, N.M.U, Jalgao

Industrial Experience:.1.5 yrs

Teaching Experience:20 yrs

Area of Interest: Wireless Sensor Network, Computer Communication Networking, g, Advance Network Technology, IoT, Cyber Security and Analog & Digital communication.

Faculty Profile ISTE Approved STTP: “Electronic Product Design”;

9th to 14th Dec’19

An STTP was organized by Electronics department on “Electronic Product de-sign”. The program was ISTE approved. The STTP was on various different topics relat-ed with product designing. There were many students who proactively enrolled & at-tended the program. Day one the keynote speaker was from BARC Mr. Jaydeep Gore from physics division. The points discussed in his speech were RD3, Life cycle of Prod-uct design, design issues. How the design gadgets are seamless extension of Human Life & intelligence. He ended his session saying there is need to move from “Make in India” to “Innovate and make in India”. The second keynote speaker was Mr.Chetan Deokar from Siemens Bangaluru. He elaborated on topics process of system modelling, requirements of analog electronics, PCB designing process, intellectual property and documentation of electronic product.

There were many speakers on each day from different Industries such as Mr.Shishir Gupta from L&T, Mr.Pratik Mehar co-founder of Evolabs Technology & solu-tion LLP, Prof. Y.S.Rao Principal SPIT, Dr.S.S. Thakur HoD VIT,Prof.Mayur Nanda VIT, Mr. Niel Sawant founder of Nuos Home Automation, Mr. Sumedh Kadam Examiner of patent & design from Central Government, Mr. Rahul Suradkar from DynaFusion Tech-nologies and Mr.Vivek Koshti from JACOBS.

The topics discussed and takeaways from the speakers were Pre-requisite of designing a product, Brief introduction on IOT Based Application, requirement circuit design with specification topology, importance of simulation, the tolerance value of com-ponents used should be known. The importance of ECAD integration, how is LT spice used was told to participants by giving example of application.

The student participants were given depth knowledge about PCB. There was hands on session given on PCB designing and about the components that are used in PCB making. Selection of components those are used for designing a circuit and im-portance of data sheet and specifications. All the participants also made a hardware after the training program.

The STTP also included and visit at ERTL which included EMI-EMC testing: EMI-

EMC issues tested of different devices, control panel. Environmental testing: Tempera-

ture test, pressure test. Mechanical testing: Bump test, vibration test, shock test. Earth

testing: In this lab Live testing of spectrum analyze was seen also the surge testing was

done on the same device.

The convener of the STTP was Dr.Nayana Mahajan, Co-Convener were Prof.Pranita

Padhey & Prof.Amaya Pethe. The members of the SSTP were Prof.Prachi Mujawar,

Prof.Rajashree Soman, Prof. Nisy Mathew & Prof. Manoj Suryawanshi.

Secrets of Excellence

“ Excellence is doing common thing in an uncommon way ”

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Name:Prof. Savio Moraes

Designation: Assistant Professsor

Qualification:

B.E: Electronics Engineer-ing, Mumbai University

M.E: Electronics & Telecom-munication ; Mumbai University

Teaching Experience: 27 Yrs

Area of Interest: Communi-cation Engg;Television & Vid-eo,Mobile & wireless communi-cation,wireless networks, satel-lite communication,power elec-tronics,micro-controllers & Em-bedded System

Faculty Profile

Latest Technology: Cisco’s One Networking Chip

In the month of December Cisco has announced about the Silicon One which is a unique single platform for all routers and it is available for white boxes as well as for the vendor’s specific hardware. Cisco has a major shift in its networking strategy with the intro-duction of a new networking silicon architec-ture called Cisco Silicon One and a new high-performance router platform, the Cisco 8000. Cisco has launched the new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) at a special event for analysts and reporters. The major customers of the hardware are cloud service providers and other companies with mega-scale data centres (MSDC). The CISCO was not a supplier to those earlier. "That was an untouchable space for us," Jonathan Da-vidson, general manager for Cisco's service provider business, said in an interview at the event. Cisco has been working on a technology strategy in the field of silicon, optics and software. This will support customers in an advance digital world, the San Jose, Ca-lif.-based vendor said. Cisco said that the new chip will bring performance up to 25 tera-bits per second and will be available to third-party companies, such as cloud and service providers, looking to add high-performance networking to their infrastructure. Cisco also introduced a new high-performance router platform, the Cisco 8000, which is based on Cisco Silicon One and the company's new IOS XR7 networking operating system. This will help service providers keep cost down when building out and operating large-scale networks. It will become even more useful as carriers design and build their massive 5G networks. Cisco Silicon One will help businesses build infrastructure that meet the per-formance requirements of new applications including virtual and augmented reality, high-speed streaming, artificial intelligence, 5G networking, adaptive and predictive cyber-security, Internet of Things, and others yet to be developed, Cisco said. Cisco's Future product roadmap

Cisco's new direction with the introduction of Cisco Silicon One and its so-called "Internet for the Future" strategy is the most ambitious development project the company has ever undertaken, said David Goeckeler, executive vice president and general man-ager of the networking and security business at Cisco. By– Prof. Pranita Padhye Link: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/innovation/silicon-one.html

Corporate Technical Skill Development Program; “Business Data Analytics using Python”;Nov 2019 There was a two day workshop organized by Vidyalankar in association with IMC ( Indian Merchant Chambers) for Industrial people on Business data analytics using Python. The session was conducted by Prof.Shrikant Velankar with two more faculties from other department. The participants were welcomed by the Director, IMC at the Navi Mumbai, Mr. Ganeshan Pillai. He explained in brief, the objectives of the course and introduction about IMC. Prof. Shrikant Velankar introduced the Python language to the participants and took the participant through the tour of structured python language with its Data types and Control structures. The participants were introduced with the compo-nents of Data Science and subsequently, complete technical session explaining the use of MatPlotLib visualization tool & using Line Graphs. The session worked on using Py-thon for business case studies. Discussing how python can help in extracting meaningful insights from data was the objective. Discussing how python can help in overcoming the daily data analysis hurdles with CEOs and CAs of the various organizations was enlight-ening for all. The last session of the program was devoted for applying Data analytics to the actual problems of the participants in their respective industry and domains. The par-ticipants were absolutely satisfied when they saw it getting applied for their problems.

Aspect’s of Progress

“ Strength and Growth come only through continuous effort & struggle ”

Past Perfects

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Rishikesh Mudaliyar

Rishikesh Mudaliyar studied in VIT from year 2015-19. He is working with EdTech Evangelist in mUni Campus. Its an EdTech company where we help corpo-rates, governments and universi-ties to digitalize. Where my job revolves around many aspects from product de-velopment, marketing, strategy and sales. As it's said, "these 4 years will decide the next 40 years of life! Make them count". Well here at VIT, that proverb makes sense. It's been an amazing roller coast-er of achievements and lessons. Faculty, facilities and fraternities that VIT has is one of the best things one can get. Right from 'thinking out of the box' (ISTE) to RoboCon VIT has provided me with excellent opportunities. There's no way my graduation could have been better!

Student Achievements

1. Aditya and his team mem-

bers got shortlisted in Top

200 teams around India in

Innopreneurs Start up con-

test 2019 for “Smart Hotel

Management System”.

2. Shivani Naik completed two

day student development

program at TIFR on “Applied

Facets of IC technology”.

3. Rajas Joshi and Ambashri

Purykayastha completed

internship at IIT Bombay,

Acrudyn Systems.

4. Sainath Attarde, Abhishek

Singh and Ritesh Bangera

completed internship at

Knowx Innovations, banga-

lore

1. Dr.Anjali Deshpande

has participated in

“Advance Area of Re-

search” arranged by IIG.

2. Dr.Sangeeta Joshi was

convener & Prof.Uma

Jaishankar was co-

convener for arranging a

NAAC PEER TEAM Visit

Preparation: Criteria Exhi-

bition on 12th & 13th

dec2019 on National level.

It was a big success in-

deed.

3. Dr.Sangeeta joshi was

called as speaker at Hy-

derabad for “National

workshop on NBA &

NAAC Accreditation.

4. Dr.Nayana Mahajan

completed her PhD.

5. Prof. Amaya Pethe

completed her online

NPTEL course on “The

Joy of computing using

Python”.

6. Prof.Ulka Padwalkar

completed her online

course on Research Meth-

odology by “Alexis” .

7. Prof.Savio Moraes &

Prof.Poonam Shah partici-

pated in STTP on

“Electronic Product de-

sign”.

8. Prof.Prachi Mujawar

completed her online

NPTEL course on “Digital

Dircuits”.

9. Prof. Amaya Pethe

completed with KEM Mar-

athon 2019 of 3 kms

Sucessfully.

Department Initiated Internship; Dec 2019

Department has initiated in house internships for the students who wish to learn and make something productive. There was good response from students to com-plete their work and make the products seen in the lab. There were 29 students involved in internal internship and 35 in external internship. There were many faculties under whom many internship projects worked out. There was a very good initiative taken by F.E. electronics students who worked on various projects and few of them are Line fol-lowing Robot, LED illusion mirror, LED display for Electronic department. These pro-jects were done under Prof. Akhil Masurkar.

Students of T.E & B.E together took up with a In-house internship project on “Traffic Signal Control process using PLC”. The problem statement given to them was to control the traffic signals, pedestrian sig-nal and highway road lights by using PLC. The basic objective of this project was to make the students aware of real time appli-cation of PLC, designing ladder diagram using WPL software. The internship was held under the guidance of Prof. Poonam Shah & Prof. Prachi Mujawar.

Chief Editor - Prof. Poonam Shah, Dr. Anjali Deshpande

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Student Speak:

Hello everyone, my name is Shubham Patil and I am currently in the third year of electronics. I got into Vidya-lankar Institute of Technology in 2017-18. Selecting col-lege was hard for me as I am not from Mumbai. After consulting with my mentor, I selected Vidyalankar due to its supportive and friendly faculty. After visiting many colleges, I can surely tell that our campus is one of the best in Mumbai.

Being in the hostel committees limited me from joining college committees or councils, but their dedication to-wards all events is admirable. To my surprise majority of my close friends in college are from Mumbai and they helped me a lot in understanding the Mumbai lifestyle. Seniors are the next to the professors if one needs any help. I was helped a lot in curric-ulum related issues. Enjoy your first year, it's unlikely to relive those days. Making mini projects are focused more for all subjects as practical skills are the foremost useful in future life. I remember about spending more time in labs than in classes.

After 1st year the real course subjects starts, and we are introduced to our department and faculties in Induction program. Our college has a strong digital front, with VLIVE and ERP. We also get college email ID. There are lots of student benefits given by many companies. It ranges from a student concession in Spotify to free Microsoft office for PC, we also get free Autodesk applications. For leisure, we have gymkhana and a whole block dedicated to games from table tennis to PC. I had a start-up with my friends and our college’s ECELL helped a lot in providing necessary resources and motivation.

Personality builds according to the surroundings and I can say we have the best culture surrounding in VIT. I attended many training programs and industrial visits conducted by our college these really helps us in getting hands-on knowledge. Technology is ever changing these things helps us to keep track. Industrial lecturers are very helpful in get-ting a new perspective of our subject.

I am in third year now, the best time to think about future studies or jobs or courses and planning accordingly. Projects and internships play a crucial role in our pursuit. There is nothing like last minute submission rush, one day exam preparation, making non opera-tional projects somehow work, on the spot presentations, scavenging for notes during preparation leave, preparations for viva, etc. All evaluations are done weekly and notes are provided for each subject. Also library has all required stuff for studies. I think those are the things that make us better Engineers.

Faculty Achieve-

Upcoming Events

1. Industrial Visit

2. Expert Talk

3. Technical talk

4. Paper Review.

5. Latest Technology.

6. Talk by Alumni