AET’s Degree Distribution Ceremony A One Day Workshop on ‘NBA Accreditation' From Executive President Desk Atharva College of Engineering Excellence in Education I am happy that Atharva Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai College of Engineering is bringing out a College Newsletter. The College Newsletter will definitely Newsletter Jan’16 – March’16 help to showcase the activities that are happening in the campus. It National Conference on Technological provides a platform for exposing the
merits and academic achievements of Advancement & Automatization in Engineering The Second Joint Degree Distribution Ceremony of Shri. Sunil Rane the students and faculty. Many the students of Atharva College of Engineering, Atharva (NCTAA-2016) Executive President, notable achievements have been Institute of Management studies and Atharva College of Atharva College of Engineering organized a Atharva Group of recorded in the recent past. These Hotel Management and Catering Technology was held on one day workshop on ‘NBA Accreditation' on February Institutes merits and credits have seldom been January 30, 2016 in Auditorium, phase 3, AET Campus at 27, 2016. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, Atharva College known to public and the authority due to the lack of 3:00 pm. Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane, Ex. Higher & of Engineering, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva showcasing or projecting through a medium. This newsletter Technical Education Minister (Govt. of Maharashtra) & College of Engineering, all the Head of Departments is a medium to bridge the gap between achievements and President of Atharva Educational Trust, Mr. Pramod and faculty members participated in the workshop. publicity. Sadarjoshi, Senior Director HCM Strategy and Prof. Jyoti Kolap coordinated the workshop. I am sure the college will scale even greater heights in the Transformation Asia Pacific (Oracle India Pvt. Ltd) and The invited speaker was Dr. Rathod, years to come and serve many more millions in the society. Mr. Akhil Krishnan, Training Co-ordinator (Human Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, SPIT, I wish all the very best in this endeavour to make Atharva Resources, JW Marriott Mumbai) graced the dias. Dr. P. N. Mumbai. The workshop was conducted to gain The National Conference on Technological the most excellent center for engineering education at Nemade, Director, Atharva College of Engineering, Dr. S. knowledge about NBA Accreditation procedure. A Advancement & Automatization in Engineering National and International level. P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of Engineering, fruitful and interaction session was then between the Dr. Prakash P. Joshi, Director, AIMS, Mr. Joseph Furtado, faculty and the speaker. (NCTAA-2016) was organized on January 28 and 29, Shri. Sunil Rane Vice Principal, ACHMCT were present for the Ceremony. ACE faculty is very much thankful to Executive President, Atharva Group of Institutes 2016 by Atharva College of Engineering. The The ceremony started by Ganesh Vandana and lighting of Honorable Chairman, Shri Sunil Rane for his kind conference was attended by more than 200 delegates the lamp. Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane declared the permission & inspiration. Thanks to Dr. P. N. Nemade, from different colleges & industries from different parts From Principal Desk Opening of the Convocation. Prof. N. S. Rajan, Dean Director, Atharva College of Engineering, Dr. S. P. AIMS, delivered the welcome address. Mr. Pramod of the country. The Chief Guests, Mr. Jagan Jothivel, Atharva College of Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of Engineering, Engineering aims to constantly Sadarjoshi and Mr. Akhil Krishnan addressed the AUP and Certification Manager at ARM Embedded for their continuous support & motivation. strive and provide comprehensive Convocation. More than 250 students were conferred the Technologies Pvt. Ltd. & Dr.Jonathan Joshi, C.E.O at technological education in a Certificates. Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane declared the Eduvance, Mumbai, inaugurated the conference by healthy learning environment, closing of the Convocation. The ceremony concluded with lightening the traditional lamp. Hon. Shri Sunil Rane, nurturing technocrat leaders for vote of thanks and National Anthem. the competitive world. Center of Excellence in Remote Learning Executive President of Atharva Group of Institutes Newsletter is a mirror of all Technologies presided over the function. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, International Womens’ Day Celebration Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar the events held throughout the Atharva College of Engineering is going to Atharva College of engineering, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad academic year, providing a great setup a Center of Excellence that provides the students Principal, Atharva College of Engineering, Prof. Karuna exposure of the achievements accomplished by the students and faculty with the capability of working with Nikum , Convenor, NCTAA, Heads of all Departments and the faculty. electronic hardware that is at par with industry. The were present for the function. The Inauguration function I hope that this newsletter will bring connectivity main goal of this center is to give students the flexibility between college and outside world to highlight the events concluded with vote of thanks by Karuna Nikum. to work anytime from anywhere and to give high quality happening at Atharva. training that will develop their skills and be more Continued on page 2 Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar employable in industry. The total cost of the laboratory Principal, ACE, Malad International Womens’ Day was celebrated on would be around 38 Lakhs. Some part of the hardware March 08, 2016 in the Auditorium with Atharva Group of will be donated by Cypress Semiconductors Seminar on National Growth through Institutions. Hon’ble Mrs. Varsha Rane, Trustee, Atharva University Alliance (CUA) and ARM University Highlights of Atharva College of Engineering Group of Institutes graced the dias as a Chief Guest. On Infrastructure Development Program (AUP). The innovative aspect of the Center of Robotic Centre: First centre in Mumbai & Second in India this occasion faculty and staff were awarded for their with world leader in robotics ‘KUKA’- in campus Excellence will be the state of the art Remote ARM and contribution to the success and growth of the organization. First college have proposal to open soon innovation Zone the Cypress PSoC Bluetooth low energy module. The Lab for students & faculty. Cypress BLE modules will give students an exposure to Virtual class room offering Polycom facility. IT Atharva Park - Bhumi Pujan the latest trend in the embedded systems industry called Optical fiber with connectivity & Wi-fi campus having 30 IOT (Internet of Things). Mbps 1.1 Internet connectivity.
Global Alumni network
Training & Placement track record spanning a decade with A One day Seminar on “National Growth Corporates namely; Oracle, Tata Communications, through Infrastructure Development” was organized Reliance Communication, Infosys, Wipro, Syntel, L & T on April 01, 2016 in the auditorium, Atharva College of InfoTech, iGATE patni, Tech Mahindra, Accenture. A contribution of 100 user licenses of Keil Apple & Lenovo Laboratory exclusively for the final year Engineering. Chief Guest, Hon'ble Shri Nitin MDK Pro software worth Rs 2 crore is received by Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and students to develop their skill making them employable in Atharva College of Engineering as part of tie-up the high tech area (Under Installation). The Bhumi Pujan of Atharva IT Park was Highways and Shipping, Government of India with ARM Technologies, UK. Thus, College is now Extracurricular Activities – Techithon, IEEE 360°, CSI, performed on April 01, 2016 by the auspicious hands of inaugurated the seminar by lightning the traditional Hon'ble Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road equipped with Keil MDK Pro software. Atharva Ground Station, Ember, Paradigm of Life, NSS, lamp. Codechef, IUCEE Speed, IEDC, RHYTHM, Sports. Transport and Highways and Shipping, Government of Continued on page 2 First embedded system laboratory in Atharva India.
NCTAA-2016 A One Day Workshop on ‘Nanotechnology Rhythm-2016 Achievements Contd. from page 1 Rhythm 2016, a cultural festival commenced on On both days eminent personalities from different and Non Conventional Energy Production' Technical February 06, 2016. The festival depicted fine arts culture, field of engineering disciplines delivered the keynote Dhaval Mehta and Varisht Ghedia of Third Year address. The invited keynotes Speakers Dr. Prachi Gharpure, Indian tradition, fun and enthusiasm. This year also Computer Engineering won the 1st place at state level Professor at SPIT, Mumbai, Dr. Aditya Abhyankar, Dean, Rhythm was started with Marathon spreading the message Inter-Collegiate business competition “Udaan 2016” Faculty of Technology, University of Pune, Dr. Y.S. Rao, ‘Save the Girl Child.’ held at Institute of Industrial and Computer Professor, Department of Technology, SPIT, Mumbai, Mr. Management and Research (IICMR), Pune. Prasanna Lohar, Head of Technology (Digital Banking) at The two groups of Students from Second and Third Year DCB Bank Ltd., Mr.Rahul Rane, Head- Technology Centre, qualified for stage 2 of E-Yantra Robotics Competition Control & Automation, L&T ltd., Sudhakshina Girish, CTO organized by IIT Bombay. They secured place in Top delivered the keynote address. The technical sessions were 30 at all India Level. simultaneously held in eight different halls for which 16 Team 1: Vishrut Shenoy (Team Leader), chairpersons were invited for the conference. Utmost and the Varad Bagwe, Charchit Vatsa, Abhijeet Thoke The Department of Humanities and Applied most updated technical facilities were provided to the Team 2: Dhwani Vora (Team Leader), participants for their presentation. Technical sessions were Sciences, Atharva College of Engineering, organized a Rhythm 2016 is a week full of fun and frolic, a Abhishek Rathod, Saurabh Nene, Amey Narvekar very stimulating with over 230 papers presented. one day workshop on ‘Nanotechnology and Non The innovation 'UV LED Curing' by Atharva College week full of zest and zeal celebrated with different moods, Conventional Energy Production' on March 15, 2016. a different colour and a lot of vigor. of Engineering students Pratik Lotia & Brijesh Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, Atharva College of DJ-Evening witnessed a wholesome crowd Maurya is a part of the Impact Analysis Report & Compendium made by FICCI which shall be launched Engineering, and Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva dancing and shaking their legs to the beats of the musical and discussed among various government investor & College of Engineering, Head of Departments, and hits of the year till the last drop of energy. faculty members were present for the workshop. The private sector networks during Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modiji's visit to Silicon Valley, US. Convener of the workshop was Mrs. Poonam Deshpande, Sports Head, Departmant of Humanities & Applied Science. IEEE Omega Volleyball winners against SP College of Engineering Mr. Prashant Singh coordinated the workshop. Mumbai. The valedictory function was graced by the presence The invited speakers were Dr. Rohan Fernandes, Volleyball winners at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, of Dr. Jonathan Joshi as a Chief Guest. The delegates shared UGC Research Scientist, Nanoscience & Mumbai. their views and thoughts about the conference. Nanotechnology, Mumbai, Dr. Bhavesh Sinha, Asst. Volleyball winners at GMC (Grant Medical College) This conference provided an opportunity to interact Football winners at VIT Mumbai. and establish professional relations for future collaboration. Professor, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Mumbai, The conference concluded with vote of thanks by Jyoti Mr. Suraj Gupta, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Football winners against Thakur College of Engineering, Golakia. The conference would not be successful without the Physics, University of Mumbai, and Dr. Pradip Mumbai. continuous support and inspiration of our Honorable Sarawade, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physics, University
Chairman Shri Sunil Rane. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, of Mumbai. The workshop was really fruitful and added IEEE Omega is a technical festival which was Training and Placement Cell Atharva College of Engineering, and Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, organised by IEEE Atharva Student Chapter on March knowledge to all the students and faculty of ACE. Principal, Atharva College of Engineering. The conference 16 & 17, 2016. The theme for this year was ‘Smart The Training and Placement Cell provides personal and was a grand success. City’ in which technical projects and ideas which can career related support to the students with special emphasis make a city smarter and a better place to live were on training the students on employability skill and Incubation Centre- MSME programme ultimately provide placement in various industries / Seminar on National Growth through showcased. Atharva College of Engineering organized a organizations by arranging Campus drives. More than 80% Infrastructure Development seminar on March 21, 2016 to guide the students to of the students of 2015-2016 batch are placed in Contd. From page 1 Patrons, Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane, Ex. Higher become Entrepreneurs. Mr. Sudesh Desai, Mr. Shivaji companies like Infosys, Accenture, Tech Mahindra, Igate, & Technical Education Minister (Govt. of Maharashtra) & Patil from MSME Development Institute, Mumbai, Mr. E-Week Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Polaris Consulting and
Shri Sunil Rane, Executive President, Atharva Group of Gagandeep, Assistant Director, Chemicals, were invited Services. Institutes, Guest of Honor, Commander Deepak Naik, for this programme. Principal, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar along The Technical Festival, E-Week-2016 was conducted during February 22 to 27, 2016. It is the President, Maharashtra Economic Development Council, Dr. with the speakers had a very informative discussion with platform to exhibit students’ technical talent through Abhay Wagh, Director, DTE, Mr. Gopal Shetty, MLA, Dr. the students. Editorial Board P. N. Nemade, Director, Atharva College of Engineering, project work. Various technical events were organized Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of with an aim to enhance the skills, innovative ideas and Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad problem-solving attitude in the mind of students. Engineering, Prof. N. S. Rajan, Dean , Atharva Institute of Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS. Management Studies graced the dias. Virtual Lectures
Asst. Professor, Dept. of ELEX. Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Virtual lectures are conducted by the Any information or suggestions are welcomed at Department of Electrical, Electronics, Electronics & NSS Atharva – Cleanliness Campaigning Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Engineering, newsletter@ atharvacoe.ac.in.
Information Technology and Humanities & Applied NSS Atharva conducted a cleanliness campaign Atharva College of Engineering
Science on various topics like Oracle Cloud, Advanced around the Atharva Campus. All the students and faculty Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, Asmita Jyoti Microcontroller, IOT program, Speed Mathematics, actively participated in this campaign. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095,
Permutation & Combination, Data quality, Power Director, ACE, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Head Maharashtra, India. electronics & applications. Speakers from different of all Departments motivated the students. Mr. Kishor Tel.: 91-022-40294949
The speeches were very informative and brain Institutes and Industries like Oracle, IIT Bombay, FICE Parate coordinated the event. Fax.: 40294911 India, SAKEC, TIME Institute delivered the lectures Email: [email protected] storming and different innovative ideas were rolled on for the National growth through infrastructure development. Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in
AET’s Two Day National Workshop on the A Seminar on ‘Preparation of Atharva College of Engineering ISTE approved Short Term Training
Excellence in Education Program on “Emerging Trends in Cloud Earth and Climate Change. Outcome based Education' Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai Computing with IoT and Big Data”
Newsletter April’16 – June’16
ISTE approved Short Term Training Program on “Recent trends in Antenna
& Wireless Communication”
Department of Humanities and Applied
Science, organised a Two day workshop on “Understand the Earth & Climate change problem
& its solution: An Engineer’s perspective” on 14 Atharva College of Engineering organized Department of Information Technology and and 15 july, 2016. Computer Engineering, organised a Two Week ISTE a Seminar on ‘Preparation of Outcome based The invited speakers were Prof. Krishna approved Short Term Training Program (STTP) on Education' on July 22, 2016. Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Mohan B., Professor and Head, Centre of Studies in Principal, Head of Departments and faculty “Emerging Trends in Cloud Computing with IoT resources engineering at IIT Bombay, Dr. Prabha and Big Data” from July 04, 2016 to July 15, 2016. members were present for this seminar. Invited Rashtogi, Senior Researcher from Lucknow The invited guests Mr. Lalit Yagnik, Mentor-IBM, speaker was Prof. Shobha Krishnan, Head, University, Prof. Sudhakar Yedla, Professor at IGIDR, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Prof. Ravindra Dastikop, SDMCE Karnataka, Dr. Mumbai RBI institute, Miss. Shawana Rebello. Engineering, VESIT, Mumbai. Meena Kumari, Chief Technology Officer, ICRM, Dr. Program officer at ICOR,Mumbai, Mr. Prashant Singh Vijay Rathod, Head, Dept. of EXTC XIT, Mumbai, Dr. and Dr. Vishwajeet Goswami. Assistant Professor at Department of Electronics and Radha Shankarmani, Head, Dept of INFT SPIT, Atharva college of Engineeing, Mumbai. Mumbai, Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, Dr. S. P. Telecommunication Engineering, organised a Two Week ISTE approved Short Term Training Kallurkar, Principal, Prof. Nileema Pathak, Head, Dept. Program (STTP) on “Recent trends in Antenna & of IT and Prof. Mahendra Patil, Head, Dept of Wireless Communication” from June 14, 2016 to Computer Engineering, Atharva college of Engineeing June 24, 2016. Mr. Rajesh Kamdar, Director of graced the dias. The Guest of Honor Mr. Raju Iyer, Sejutronics Inaugurated the STTP. Dr. P. N. Capgemini, delivered the Keynote address. Continued on page 2 Nemade, Director, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal,
Atharva College of Engineering, Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Gupta Professor, Terna College of Engineering, Inauguration of Remote Embedded Jyoti Kolap, Convener of the program graced the The workshop was conducted to gain Laboratory dias. Mr. Rajesh Kamdar delivered the Keynote Speakers discussed about various techniques knowledge about NBA Accreditation procedure. address. involved in the understanding of earth and climate A fruitful and interaction session was held
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Gupta Professor, Terna system of the earth (GIS Observation system, Impact between faculty members and speaker.
of Climate Change on Water Resources, Introduction College of Engineering provided Hands on Design of High Gain Microstrip Antenna at Embeded to Atmosphere System, Introduction to Oceanography,
System Laboratory. Modeling approach in Risk assessment), Achievements malfunctioning in climate system, role of
Continued on page 2 engineering and technology towards climate change Miss. Niharika Prasad from TE Computer mitigation (Economy of Climate change, Mitigation Engineering selected for a and Adaptation on Climate Change). Scholarship and Travel
The Remote Embedded Laboratory was Grant at Linnaeus Atharva College of Engineering is inaugurated by Dr. Sadanand Gulwadi, Global University Summer Ranked 10th in Western zone of India Contribution by Industries Academy in Kalmar, Manager, ARM University .Dr.Jonathan Joshi, founder th Atharva College of Engineering has received Ms. Niharika Sweden. She is one of the and 18 in Private Engineering and CEO Eduvance, Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director, Dr. S. Industrial Contribution of approximately Prasad two students selected for Institutes in India by Ranking Survey P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of Engineering (TE Computer) Scholarship from India. Three (03) Crores for Remote Embedded 2016, Times Of India. and Head of Departments were present for the
inaugural function. Continued on page 2 Laboratories.
…. Contd pg1 …. Contd pg1 Inauguration of Laboratories …. Contd pg1 ISTE approved STTP on “Recent trends in Antenna & ISTE approved STTP on “Emerging Trends in Cloud Inauguration of Remote Embedded Laboratory Wireless Communication” Computing with IoT and Big Data”
The Invited speakers were Dr. Rajeev Kumar Gupta Professor, Terna College of Engineering, Mr. Abhishek Pachori from "ROHDE & SCHWARZ, Mr. Ultramodern IT and Computer department labs were inaugurated by the hands of students on Vivekkumar Maurya from "AKADEMIKA LAB Atharva College of Engineering and July 25, 2016. Management handover the well SOLUTION, Research Scholars From IIT Bombay Eduvance Remolab in collaboration with ARM equipped labs with required software and hardware to Pragya Mathur and Hemant Kumar, Dr. Amit Deshmukh The Invited speakers were Mr. Raju Iyer, University Program is a first of its kind of the students and faculty for the innovative teaching HOD of Electronics & Telecommunication from D.J. Mr. Lalit Yagnik, Prof. Ravindra Dastikop, Laboratory that allows students to access and learning to train tomorrow's competent engineers. SANGHVI College of Engineering, Dr. K.P;Ray, SDMCE, Dharwad, Karnataka, Prof. Pravin embedded platforms remotely. Platforms such as Director of SAMEER IIT MUMBAI, Dr. Munir Hanchinal, Prof. Mayur Patil, and Mr. Sachin FPGA, Cypress Programmable SoC (PSoC) and Sayyad,"General Manager, Reliance Communication, Sadare. ARM embed can easily be deployed for students. It K.H. Wandra, Principal, C. U. Shah College of is a scalable solution where an entire class can
Engineering, Gujrat,, Dr. Deepak Karia Professor from access the technology for mass scale skill "Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Mumbai, Dr. development. Jonathan Joshi, Founder & CEO, Eduvance, Dr. Rakesh Jha, Shri Mata VaishnoDevi university, J&K. Atharva Ground Station student team presented their work on Plasma Antenna Design with the visit to Atharva ground station
Certificate Course on Spoken English & Personality Development They delivered lectures and Hands on
Sessions on various topics like Data Analytics
using IBM IoT Real Time Insights, Digital
Technologies, Data Science and Big Data in Agriculture and Healthcare perspective, Micro- The function concluded with demonstration
service architecture using docker, Cloud SOA. of the setup for the faculties and students. The Speakers enlightened on the different topics
of Antenna and wireless technologies RF & Microwave Components, 5G Technology, Wireless System Design,
IOT and also had hands on sessions on Antenna Setup Editorial Board
Design, Design of Antenna on IE3D Software and at the Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad last visit to Reliance Communication. A Certificate course on Spoken English & Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS.
Personality Development was organized by Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Asst. Professor, Dept. of ELEX. Department of Humanities and Applied Sciences
during 15 June 2016 to 05 July 2016. The training Any information or suggestions are welcomed at was given by Dr. Ritu Sharma and Mr. Balaji Shinde newsletter@ atharvacoe.ac.in.
faculty of communication skills. Atharva College of Engineering STTP concluded with Validictory function. The course was focused on mastering LSRW Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, Asmita Jyoti Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095, Dr. Amiya Tripathi Dr. P. N. Nemade, Dr. S. P. (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) skills. Maharashtra, India. The STTP concluded with Validictory function. Kallurkar, Prof. Nileema Pathak, and Prof. Special emphasis was given to spoken English, Tel.: 91-022-40294949, Fax.: 40294911 Dr. Santosh Narayankhedkar, Principal, MGM College Mahendra Patil, Atharva College of Engineering effective communication and presentation skills. The Email: [email protected] of Engineering, Kamothe, Dr. P. N. Nemade, Dr. S. P. graced the dias and distributed certificates to the students are informed and motivated to put consistent Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in Kallurkar graced the dias. participants. efforts to master spoken English and soft skills.
AET’s Tree Plantation Drive One day Seminar on “Patenting & Legalities” A seminar on “Bridging the skill gap Atharva College of Engineering Excellence in Education between industry and academia” Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai Atharva Foundation organized Tree One day Seminar on “Patenting &
Plantation Drive on 15 August 2016 on the occasion Legalities” was organized by EMBER and IEDC A seminar on “Bridging the skill gap of Independence Day at Dharivali, Malad (W) in the cell of Atharva College of Engineering on between industry and academia” was organized Newsletter July’16 – September’16 presence of Honorable Shri. Sunil Rane, Executive September 27, 2016 for faculty and students in at Atharva College of Engineering for students of President, Atharva Group of Institutes, Indian Third and Final year on September 20, 2016. The Felicitation of Atharva's Ground Station Phase 3 Seminar Hall. Princess, Ms. Snehapriya Roy, Students and Faculty seminar aims to offer a forum for interaction among Team The motive of organizing this seminar was of Atharva group of Institutes. the Students and Industry Experts. to spread awareness among faculties and students regarding procedure for drafting and filing Patents The invited experts were Mr. Sachin Sadare and Legalities involved. (C.E.O, Idea Nutz Consultancy), Mr. Angelo D’Cruz (Global Service Manager, British Telecom The keynote speakers were Mr. Varun Global Services), Mr. Sujit Dutta (Head HR, Hind Sharma (Patent lawyer, IP consultant) and Dr. Rectifier), Mr. Ian Clark (Edwise). Jonathan Joshi (CEO, Eduvance).
Atharva congratulates its Ground Station innovative student’s team for achieving the milestone in establishing a functional receiving Ground Station for IIT Bombay’s PRATHAM satellite at Atharva College of Engineering. After the final countdown, IIT-B's dreams have finally taken off after a nine-year wait. The student satellite, Pratham, was launched by ISRO's four- A Seminar on "Renewable Energy & stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at the Energy Storage Systems”
Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre A Seminar on "Renewable Energy & successfully on September 26, 2016 at 9.00 a.m. Energy Storage Systems" was organized by The dream project of IIT-B MISSION Department of Electrical Engineering on
“PRATHAM” in association with Atharva College September 21, 2016. The key note speaker was Dr. of Engineering Ground station team is finally One Day Seminar on Video Analytics Sushil Thale, Dean, Research & Development accomplished. Atharva Ground station is one of the Centre, Fr. C. Roudrigues Institute of Technology, The Department of Electronics Engineering receiving stations to receive and process data sent Vashi. The seminar was arranged for TE and BE organized a seminar in collaboration with by Pratham Satellite. IEEE Atharva Students Chapter on "Video Analytics " Electrical students.
on August 29, 2016 for the students of BE Electronics The seminar was very helpful and Atharva management felicitated and and EXTC. The invited speaker was Prof. Kiran Talele, informative to the students and faculty for their encouraged ground station team to excel in space Sarder Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai. future research. technology and satellite communication to contribute positively in the future at Atharva Ground Station activities. The management has given Rs 5 Lac as an appreciation to Ground
Station team for their future projects. Atharva Helping hands for healthy environment Management always takes proactive initiatives to will help to make globe healthy. Teaching and explore in research, technology and innovation Non-Teaching staff participated actively in the along with the all round development of the same drive. More than 200 hundred plants have students to make them competent engineers of been planted by volunteers and staff members. tomorrow's to serve the society.
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Contd from page 1 TECHITON’ 2016 A One day Workshop on “Electrical Wiring” Congratulations!!! Felicitation of Atharva's Ground Station Team Atharva College of Engineering congratulates Mr. TECHITHON’16 is the Annual Inter- A One day Workshop was organized by Department of Electrical Engineering on “Electrical Sujoy Ghosh and Mr. Purav Bhardwaj for securing Collegiate Technical Festival organized at Atharva College of Engineering during September 26 to 28, Wiring” on September 22, 2016 for the students of Second place amongst top 32 teams which were invited 2016. The Chief Guest for the inaugural function, FE and SE. from all over India in the 18th National Fr. Conceicao Mr. Sanjay Bhatia, Chairman, Mumbai Port Trust The motive of organizing this workshop was Rodrigues Memorial Debate.held at Fr. Conceicao along with Mr. Sunil Rane, Honorable Executive to provide Hands on Training in Wiring & Rodrigues College of Engineering, Bandra, Mumbai on president, Atharva Group of Institutions, and Dr. P. Maintenance and to give Practical Exposure and September 3 and 4, 2016. Students from IIT Bombay,
N. Nemade (Director, ACE), Dr. S.P. Kallurkar Training on NI Multi-sim Software for circuit Symbiosis Law School Pune, Fergusson Law college and ILS Law College Mumbai also participated in the event. (Principal) and all Head of Department inaugurated simulation. the technical event Techithon 2016. It aims at bringing out the true engineers in the students, with the help of a plethora of technical events and activities. Every year, the students come up with a unique theme to be portrayed in the festival. This
year, the theme of the technical festival was “Marizona”. The name gives an insight into all the technology involved in Maritime Industries
National Flag Respect Program Congratulations!!! NSS Atharva unit organized “National The satellite is designed to fit within a cube of Flag Respect Program” on August 14, 2016. The 30 cm sides, and weighs nearly 10 kg. Pratham will be main purpose of this program was to make our useful for scientific studies, help in tsunami warnings citizens aware about tricolor pride. It is found and correcting errors in GPS communication. The that every year after national festivals passion of the complete team for space technology and (Independence and Republic Days) plastic and
satellite communication has led to undertake such paper tricolor flags are found on roads, in
research activities pertaining to track of satellites and dustbins and in gutters which is an insult of the knowledge sharing ranging from antenna designing to nation. National flag is a sign of freedom, decoding the signals. existence and pride. NSS Atharva Unit organizes
this program at public places every year. Congratulations to Raj Manjrekar, student of Volunteers spread awareness with the help of Industry Institute Interaction Programme Computer Engineering for selection for Post banners, placards and face to face verbal graduation Programme in Management (MBA) in
A programme under Industry Institute communication. IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM
Interaction was held on August 5, 2016 in Seminar hall, The students of Atharva College of Rothak, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Udaipur, IIM Engineering are blessed with the right kind of Phase 3 of Atharva Campus, Kashipur, IIM Trichy, IIM Nagpur,IIM Bodh Gaya. resources to prepare an ample lot of working Mr. Firdosh F. Mistry (Head L&T Corporate projects that would emphasize on the ideas and Technology Engineering Academy, Madh) along with innovations that have revolutionized the fields of the other L&T members graced the dias. The Editorial Board technology of ports ship and navy over the ages. discussions were very fruitful and informative. All the Techithon 2016, Marizona also cater to Dr. Shrikant Kallurkar, (Principal, ACE, Malad) students and faculty attended the programme. many inter-collegiate competitions which include Dr. Ritu Sharma (Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS) contests like RoboWars, Web Designing and many Mr. Niranjan Samudre (Asst. Professor, Dept. of ELEX) other technical events along with fun events like Atharva College of Engineering Laser Tag, Neon Sports (Bowling, Cricket, Chess, Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, AsmitaJyoti etc.), LAN Gaming and other fun events. Techithon Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095, also hosted a wide range of workshops and Maharashtra, India. seminars. The unique feature this year was an inter- Tel.: 91-022-40294949, Fax.: 40294911 collegiate technical meet, which provided a platform Email: [email protected] to young innovators all over the city. Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in
AET’s Workshop on “VLSI Digital Technique and AET’s Eye Check up Camp Workshop on "Corporate Etiquettes and Atharva College of Engineering SPICE” Communication Skills" Excellence in Education Atharva Foundation organized an Eye Check Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai A two day workshop on “VLSI Digital Up Camp for Mumbai Police and Collectors Technique and SPICE” was conducted on 12 and 13 A wonderful session on "Corporate Department on September 3, 2016. Students and August, 2016 for Third and Final year students. Etiquettes and Communication Skills" was arranged Newsletter October’16 – December’16 Faculty participated in this cause. Students and staff On first day there were two sessions, pre lunch for BE Students to prepare for placements by Prof. helped to make this event successful. session was on “VLSI Digital Technique” and Kiran Nigam. Engineers Day Celebration and Inauguration speaker was Dr. S. Rathod; while post lunch session of E-Cell was on “SPICE Simulation” and the speaker was
Mr. Gopal Krishnan. In a major leap towards encouraging the Second day workshop was hands-on session entrepreneurship spirit among the students, the E-Cell on Xilinx conducted by Dr. Jonathan Joshi. of Atharva college of Engineering for academic year 2016-17, was inaugurated on September 14, 2016. Mr. Rahul Kanojia, International Human Rights Council graced the dias as the chief guest for the inaugural function.
E-Cell is intended to assist in promoting, guiding and mentoring entrepreneurship among students One day Workshop on “PCB Designing & Technical Paper Writing”
One day Workshop was organized by EESA, Department of Electrical Engineering on “PCB Designing & Technical Paper Writing” on
September 23, 2016 for the students of Third year and Final year. The motive of organizing this workshop was to provide Hands on Training in PCB Designing and guidance of writing a Technical paper, BE Project Thesis and Research. Seminar on "Industry Business Analytics"
Mr. Rahul Kanojia narrated his experiences A seminar on "Industry Business Analytics" was with entrepreneurship, highlighted some of the organized on 22nd September, 2016 by obstacles encountered and how positively overcome it. Information Technology department for BE students. Induction program for diploma students The students and faculty members participated in the The invited speakers were Prof. Brijesh Sharma, interactions very enthusiastically with the Chief Guest. A Special Induction program for diploma Assistant Prof., VES's Institute of Management Studies Our students with startup Mr. Dhaval Mehta students was organized on September 16, 2016. The and Research, Mumbai. The seminar was very
(gotdeals.com), Mr. Ashish and Mr. Yash program was addressed by Dr. Pravin Nemade informative for students and the faculty members. (apnabookwala.com), Mr. Shivam Wahia (eoto.tech) (Director), Dr. S. P Kallurkar (Principal) and all and Mr. Vaibhav Gajbiye (konnections) shared their department Heads of Atharva College of experiences as an entrepreneur. More than 300 Engineering, Malad, Mumbai. students attended the programme. E-Cell committee welcomed the gathering of students/teachers and thanked them for showing positivity and enthusiasm towards taking up entrepreneurship. In addition to this, the Engineers Day was also celebrated by students and staff to honour the legendary engineer in his lifetime "Sir Mokshagundam Vishveshwariya”
NSS Atharva Foundation Day Celebration Atharva’s Got Talent Seminar on Stress Management Adoption of a Prashik Special Kids School
NSS unit of Atharva was established on NSS Atharva organized a seminar on Stress Some of the glimpses of the fabulous Atharva Foundation has adopted Prashik Special September 6, 2012. The celebration started with Tree Management on September 23, 2016. Special Chief performances witnessed at the Atharva’s Got Talent Kids School situated at Bhayandar (E) on September Plantation. Senior volunteers organized Presentation Guests were invited from Young Women's Christian Finale. 28, 2016. The strength of the school was about 50. Competition on various topics like farmer suicide, Association (YWCA). Mr. Santosh Jandal and Mrs. Congratulations to the winners for this year, Age of students of the school was from 5 years to 50 personality development and agriculture development Sangeeta Harjani addressed the seminar and increased Nishad and group for coming up with such an years. NSS students conducted various activities for for newly required volunteers and best three groups the confidence of the students. The focus was on amazing and spectacular dance performance. entertaining them like Passing the ball, Kite making, were awarded. The purpose of such competition is to stress management, especially stress faced by Also congratulations to all participants for Dance competition, showing motivational videos and boost volunteer's confidence and personality. students while studying. Various tactics were given to putting efforts and making the event a grand success. short animated films. University certificates were distributed to the the students to handle stress. Principal Dr. S.P. Volunteers got special experience being among volunteers who have completed two years in NSS. Kallurkar, Mr. Santosh Jandal, Mrs. Sangeeta such students. All the kids present there were very Program was concluded with National Anthem. Harjani, Faculty members, Program Officer, NSS innocent and special but one thing was common in volunteers and first year students were present for the them; that was happiness despite of being special seminar. which taught a lesson of Happiness.
Seminar on Recruitment Process
Atharva NSS unit organized seminar on Malvani Beach Cleanup Drive Recruitment Process on October 10, 2016. Students selected in various companies like Accenture, Tech
Atharva NSS organized beach cleanup drive at Mahindra and Infosys shared their valuable Malvani Beach on September 16, next day of Ganpati experiences with the students. They covered technical, visharjan. Student volunteers collected plastic bags, Non-technical, communication, general awareness, empty plastic bottles, garlands and Ganpati idols and personality development, interview, group discussion handed over to BMC. and aptitude test. The main purpose of this seminar Industrial visit to All India radio was to make students aware of selection process and make them confident. Department of Electronics Engineering
organized Industrial visit at All India radio, Akashvani Churchgate, for final year students along with the faculty, Kavita Bani and Jeslin Edison on August 4, 2016.
Editorial Board
Dr. Shrikant Kallurkar, (Principal, ACE, Malad) Dr. Ritu Sharma (Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS)
Mr. Niranjan Samudre (Asst. Professor, Dept. of ELEX)
Workshop on Women Safety Atharva College of Engineering
Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, AsmitaJyoti Institute of Electrical and Electronics Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095,
Engineer (IEEE) Atharva organized a workshop Maharashtra, India.
on Woman Safety on October 3, 2016. Karate Tel.: 91-022-40294949, Fax.: 40294911 tricks were taught and self help tips were given to Email: [email protected]
girl students. Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in
Faculty Conclave on “Effective Integration of AET’s Degree Distribution Ceremony Technology for Outcome Based Education” Inauguration of ILab Atharva College of Engineering
Excellence in Education Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai A Three days faculty conclave on Effective The Innovation Laboratory (iLab) was
inaugurated at the hands of Shri Sunil Rane, Integration of Technology for Outcome Based Executive President, Atharva Education Trust. Dr. Newsletter January 17 – June 17 Education (OBE) was organized by Atharva College P. N. Nemade, Director, Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, of Engineering on March 25, April 6 and 7, 2017. The International Conference on Innovative and motive of organizing the workshop was to empower Principal, Atharva College of Engineering, Mr. Advanced Technologies in Engineering- 2017 the faculty members with best practices in Engineering Joseph Furtado, Vice Principal, ACHMCT and (ICIATE – 2017) Education enhancing teaching learning process and Head of Departments were present for the assessment through training and allied activities. inaugural function. The International Conference on Innovative The motive behind setting up of the iLab and Advanced Technologies (ICIATE - 2017) was is to provide immersive and inspirational organized during January 12 to 14, 2017 by Atharva experience for developing next generation of College of Engineering. The conference was attended by more than 600 delegates from different colleges & creative leaders. The state-of-the-art Imagination industries from different parts of the country. lab offers a learning experience through The Third Joint Degree Distribution Ceremony ‘Gamification of Ideation’ introduced for the first of the students of Atharva College of Engineering, time in the world Atharva Institute of Management studies and Atharva
College of Hotel Management and Catering
Technology was held on March 18, 2017 in Auditorium, phase 3, AET Campus. Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane, Ex. Higher & Technical Education Minister (Govt. of Maharashtra) & President of Atharva Educational Trust graced the dais. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director (ACE), Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, (ACE), Dr. Madhuri Mavin kurve, Associate Prof.
Dr. Prakash P. Joshi, Director, AIMS, Mr. Joseph (TCET) and Dr.Gargi Banerjee, Associate Professor
(IIT Bombay) delivered sessions on the basic Furtado, Principal, ACHMCT were present for the The Chief Guest, Dr. Arun Nigavekar Former Ceremony. The ceremony started by Ganesh Vandana principles of Lesson Planning and Learning Chairman, UGC &Former Vice Chancellor, University and lighting of the lamp. Objectives, Learning Outcomes and Blueprint design of Pune inaugurated the conference by lightening the for effective OBE, CuVis tool for effective ICT traditional lamp. Dr. Aditya Abhyankar, Dean, Faculty Integration to attain OBE. of Technology, University of Pune delivered the Key Prof. Poonam Deshpande and Prof. Mahendra Note address. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director (ACE), Dr. S. Patil of ACE delivered sessions on planning of P. Kallurkar, Principal (ACE), Prof. Karuna Nikum , Convenor, ICIATE-2017, Heads of all Departments and lectures, objectives of Education in classroom study, faculty members were present for the function. The faculty profile creation, Video lectures creation,
Inauguration function concluded with vote of thanks by faculty presentation on OBE and Course Networking. Prof. Karuna Nikum.
Researchers presented their papers which covered few vital domains like cloud computing , big data, virtual reality and IoT, power electronics, communication and networking, advance research in
Science and Technology. Total 250 quality papers got approved by ICIATE. The presentations were conducted in the virtual room through Skype for international authors. The efforts taken by Shri Sunil Rane,
Excecutive President, Atharva Educational Trust, Dr. P.N. Nemade, Director ACE, Dr. S.P. Kallurkar,
Principal ACE, in the field of Science and Technology has encouraged today’s youth to think innovatively. Continued on page 2
Atharva College of Engineering is Ranked Honorable Shri Dattaji Rane declared the 8th in Western zone of India and 16th in Opening of the Convocation. Prof. N. S. Rajan, Dean
Private Engineering Institutes in India by AIMS, delivered the welcome address. More than 250 students were conferred the Certificates. The ceremony Ranking Survey 2017, Times Of India. concluded with vote of thanks and National Anthem.
ICIATE-2017 International Yoga Day Celebration Rhythm-2017 Workshop on Scientific Python by FOSSEE, Contd. from page 1 IIT, Bombay Technical sessions were very stimulating with International Yoga day was celebrated on Rhythm 2017, a cultural festival commenced The Department of Computer Engineering, over 230 research papers presented. The state of art June 21, 2017 at Atharva Educational Campus during March 5 to 11, 2017. The festival depicted fine Atharva college of engineering, Malad (W) facilities were provided to the participants for their under the guidance of Yoga expert, Dr. Prajakta arts culture, Indian tradition, fun and enthusiasm. Mumbai, organized a one day workshop on presentation. Scientific Python by FOSSEE IIT Bombay on Borse. All the members of Atharva Group of This year also Rhythm was started with Marathon March 15, 2017. The valedictory function was graced by the and theme was “Women Safety” Institutes attended the session. presence of Mr. R. R. Abhyankar, Ex-Advisor, DSIR, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt of India, and Guest of Honor, Dr. Deepak Waikar (Singapore). Mr. Sachin SadareChief Executive Officer, Idea Nutz Consultancy delivered the Key Note address. The delegates shared their views and thoughts about the conference
Rhythm 2017 is a week full of fun and frolic,
zest and zeal celebrated with different moods,
different colour and a lot of vigorous. Python is an open source, high-level and powerful programming language that is well suited for scientific computing. The aim of the workshop
was to provide training to the students on the use and benefits of Open Source Software As a part of this, the department conducted online Quiz for all enrolled candidate on March 15, 2017 under the workshop scientific python by FOSSEE, IIT-B.
Workshop on R Language DJ-Evening witnessed a wholesome crowd
dancing and shaking their legs on the beats of the musical hits of the year till the last drop of energy. Department of Information Technology organized one day workshop on R language on March 22, 2017. With the zest to have industry IEEE Omega academic alliance and to bridge the gap between IEEE Omega is a Technical Festival which
academics and industry it is necessary to introduce was organised by IEEE Atharva Student Chapter such demanded languages. 107 students registered for on March 20 to 24, 2017. The theme for this year
the workshop. was Technovision in which technical projects, Innovations and ideas based on the theme were After successful completion of workshop the
showcased. certificates were distributed to the candidates by
FOSSEE IIT, Bombay.
This conference provided an opportunity to E-Week interact and establish professional relations for future The Technical Festival, E-Week-2017 was collaboration. The conference concluded with vote of conducted during February 13 to 19, 2017. It is the thanks by Prof. Jyoti Golakia. The conference would platform to exhibit students’ technical talent not be successful without the continuous support and through project work. Various technical events inspiration of our Honorable President Shri Sunil Rane, were organized with an aim to enhance the skills,
Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director and Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, innovative ideas and problem-solving attitude in Principal, Atharva College of Engineering.The the mind of students. conference was a grand success.
Workshop on Advanced Technologies Workshop on Amazon Web Services A Seminar on "Microgrids and Distributed Workshop on Training on "Advanced Micro-
A One day Workshop on Advanced Generation" Controller & its Applications" Department of Information Technology Technologies was organized in the Department of A Seminar on "Microgrids and Distributed organized one day workshop on Amazon Web Computer Engineering under Student Development Generation" was organized by Electrical Engineering Services (AWS) on April 5, 2017. The invited Three day Workshop/Hands on Training Program on March 16, 2017. Student Development Department in collaboration with IEEE Atharva speaker from Accenture, Mithila Shashidhar, on "Advanced Micro-Controller and its Program trains students to achieve academic, Student Chapter on March 14, 2017 The invited trained the students. Applications" was organized by Electrical personal and leadership success. speakers were Prof. Mini Rajeev, Mr. Prabhakaran and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud Engineering Department in collaboration with This workshop was organized into different Dr. Sushil Thale. The seminar was arranged for SE services platform, offering computer power, Atharva IEEE Student Chapter on 21st, 22nd sessions like Java Technology and Basics for App and TE students of Electrical Engineering database storage, content delivery and other and 23rd March 2017 for SE and TE Development by Prof: Santosh Dodamani, department. There were three inspiring functionality. 80 students registered for the Communication Networking and OS Fundamentals sessions/presentations covering challenges in students of Electrical Engineering workshop. by Mr. Abhishek Singh, Software Testing by Mr. implementing microgrids, modes of operation, Department, Atharva College of Engineering. Mohan Ashtekar and HADOOP by Mr. Rajeev advantages and limitations, interlink converters, The motive of organizing this workshop was Gupta, Oracle/Big data Professional Seed Infotech dispatchable sources and distributed generation. All to provide hands on training to students which Mumbai three speakers covered various aspects associated with will help them in establishing kits in labs, Microgrids and Distributed Generation and shared doing research on advanced micro-controllers their valuable knowledge for the betterment of the and in their BE projects. students and the faculty.
Workshop on Chabot’s and its Integrations by Code Strike
Workshop on “Laboratory Experimentation The Department of Computer Engineering,
with Electric: Open Source EDA System for (ACE), Malad (W) Mumbai, had organized a one day workshop and seminar on Chabot’s and its VLSI Design” Integrations on March 31, 2017.
Two day workshop was organized by EXTC
Engineering Department on Laboratory
Experimentation with Electric: Open Source EDA System for VLSI Design on February 17 and 25, 2017 for TE students. The invited speakers were Ganesh Gore (CTO, Eduvance), Janhavi Kulkarni (Lead
Product Developer GradeME, Eduvance), Hardi Desai (Product Engineer, GradeME, Eduvance). The motive of organizing this workshop was to provide hands on
training on the EDA systems for different experiments on VLSI design. The aim of the workshop was to provide
training to the students on the use and benefits of Open Source Software. This session was performed
by using the API.AI website. This session was
organized by the student committee members. After successful completion of Chat Bots and its Integrations workshop, the certificates were given to each participant.
Industrial Visits Workshop on “Ethical Hacking” Short Term Course on “VLSI Design” Congratulations
Electrical Engineering Department of Atharva Department of Information Technology in Five day Short Term Course on “VLSI Congratulations to the team of four students from College of Engineering has organized Industrial visit collaboration with CSI Atharva organized a two day Design” was conducted by NITTTR, Chandigarh Atharva College of Engineering, Amrata Joshi (TE- on March 16 and 17, 2017 for third year students to hands on workshop on “Ethical Hacking” for in ACE as Remote Centre for faculty member of INFT), Susmit Wadikar (TE-CMPN), Romil Matunga, Western Railway and for Second year students and faculty of the college on March, 23 and EXTC / ELEX Engineering Department from Dodhiwala (BE-INFT) and H. Sneha Rao (BE- students to Reliance Thermal Power Station, Dahanu, 24, 2017. The speakers were Prof. Renuka Pawar March 14 to18, 2017 by EXTC Dept. . The INFT) for presenting their software in front of Maharashtra on April1, 2017. They learn various and Prof. Tejas from Sardar Patel Institute of motive of organizing this workshop was to Aparajita Sarangi, Joint Secretary, MGNREGA and sections involved in construction and operation of trains Technology, Andheri like repair of carriages, large machinery huge provide training to faculty on VLSI design her team of Ministry of Rural Development at machineries, Alternators, Compressors and Battery aspects using simulation software tools which Krishi Bhawan, Delhi on March 31,2017 sections etc. Students are benefited by the visual will help in doing research on advanced design of realistic application of motors, controller and sensors in VLSI. locomotives. The visit not only inculcated technical knowledge but also boosted up their confidence towards Electrical Engineering. It upgraded them with the latest trends in power sector.
The participants were taught about the basics of ethical hacking. Participants used the VMware workstation software in which Kali Linux
and Windows 7 OS were installed and used to A Seminar on “Need of Electronics in demonstrate the process of hacking. Certificates were distributed to the participants Industry for Engineers”
A Seminar on “Need of Electronics in
Guest Lecture on Cyber Security with Industry for Engineers” was organized by
Mobile Technology EXTC Engineering Department on March 3, Department of Information Technology Editorial Board 2017. The keynote speaker was Mr. Sanjay organized a Guest Lecture on “Cyber Security with Chaudhari, Director, Electronics Study Centre. Dr.ShrikantKallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad. Mobile Technology” for the students and faculty on The seminar was arranged for SE students of Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS. February 1, 2017. Guests were Mr. Manish Singh EXTC/ELEC/ELEX. The motive of the seminar Mr. NiranjanSamudre, Asst. Professor, Dept. of ELEX. and Mr.Kaifi Zaka from ATS Microsoft. was to highlight upon the industry requirements The participants were taught about the Any information or suggestions are welcomed at and changing trends of electronics to the Guest lecture on National Talent Acquisition basics of Cyber security and the protection of vital newsletter@ atharvacoe.ac.in. students. Test (NTAT) information from unauthorized access. Atharva College of Engineering Department of Information Technology Charkop Naka, Malad-Marve Road, AsmitaJyoti organized a guest lecture on “NTAT (National Talent Housing Society, Malad West, Mumbai-400095, Acquisition Test)” for the students and faculty Maharashtra, India. members on March 3, 2017. National Talent Acquisition Test is a Tel.: 91-022-40294949, Fax.: 40294911 nationwide renowned aptitude test helping UG & PG Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.atharvacoe.ac.in students for internship. The NTAT (National Talent
Acquisition Test) is a proprietary aptitude test which seeks to gain an understanding of a candidate's employability as an intern.
AET’s Salute to Indian Armed Forces EDUVANCE SUMMER INDUSTRIAL Atharva College of Engineering Interactive session with the Vice President of India, Atharva Foundation had organized a program to TRAINING Excellence in Education Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai show our deep gratitude towards Indian Armed Forces on Shri M. Venkaiah Naiduji th 6 October 2017, The invited speakers were Mrs. Atharva College of engineering organized Anuradha Gore (Veermata) & Col. Chouhan. Both the Newsletter July’17 – December’17 Summer Industrial Training for the students from speakers encouraged and inspired students to join Army. June 20 to July 21, 2017. Total 63 students were India’s Greatest Brands in Education and India's Session was very interactive. registered for this summer training. Eduvance
Greatest Leader 2017 Award Corporate Trainers trained the students on ARM mbed, PSoC 4BLE pioneer kit and Internet of Things. Mr. Samuel Jacob, Asst. Prof., Department of Electronics Engineering coordinated the summer training.
Honorable Shri Sunil Rane, Executive President, Atharva Group of Institutes, Students and staff of Atharva Group of Institutes had an interactive
session with The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naiduji on the topic “Future Education” at
Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on October 28, 2017. Atharva's Clean up Drive on August 12, 2018 The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Atharva’s Clean up Drive is a movement towards Mr. Sunil Rane, Executive President, Atharva Naidu has said that dream big, aim high and work hard making our Nation Clean & Safe, a step towards Swachh Group of Institutes was awarded with India’s Greatest to realize their ambitions and achieve success in the Bharat, an initiative by our Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Brands & Leaders 2016-17 award at the Summit chosen professions. He further said that educational Modiji. organized by URS-AsiaOne magazine and UWG Media curricula in the fast-changing world must equip the Students and Staff of Atharva along with the Consulting P.L. celebrating 70, Pride of the Nation students to find suitable employment or become self- Executive President Shri Sunil Rane initiated to keep our Series Awards & Business Summit 2017 and Second Inauguration of Atharva Ember E-Cell employed. Merely acquiring degrees is not enough, Institute and the area around our Institute clean. Edition of India’s Greatest Brands & Leaders 2017 in education must enlighten and empower the youth and Inauguration of Atharva Ember E-Cell was held the presence of film star Shri Dharmendra Deol & the Indians are endowed with talent and this talent needs to on 5th of October, 2017. Guests for this event were Dr. Consul General of Hungary and several other top be tapped through Skill development. T. Prasad, (Associate Professor) organizational behavior business dignitaries, held at the Ballroom of Taj Lands The Vice President asked students to be well of National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), End Hotel, Mumbai on 9th October 2017. acquainted with the country's culture, history and Mr. Ronald Fernandes, Head of National heritage. He deplored attempts to create dissensions in Entrepreneurship network, Mr. Nishikant Khandle, Contents India's Greatest Leader 2017 Award (Page 1) the name of religion, region and castes and termed such founder of Agnee Adventures and Mr. Ashish Halder, Interactive session with the Vice President of India (Page 1) attempts as utter nonsense. He said that agriculture and founder of Apna Book wala. Salute to Indian Armed Forces (Page 1) industry are equally important for the development of
Atharva's Clean up Drive on August 12, 2018 (Page 1) the Country. Engineers’ day Celebration Engineers’ day Celebration (Page 1) It was a great honor and pleasure for Atharva Atharva College of Engineering celebrated Eduvance summer industrial training (Page 1) students and faculty members along with Honorable Engineers day in the memory of true Engineer Sir Inauguration of Atharva Ember E-Cell (Page 1) Sunil Rane to have interaction with Honorable Mokshagundam Vishweshwaraiya on September 15, Namdar Gopal Krishnan Gokhale Maharashtra Award-2018 Venkaiah Naiduji (Page 2) 2017.
Humanities and Applied Science Dept. Activities (Page 2) Atharva student and startup Apnabookwala, Information Technology Department Activities (Page 2) Faacil owners Ashish Haldar and Abhimanyu Yadav
Electrical Engineering Department Activities (Page 3) shared their success stories. Principal Dr Kallurkar has Electronics Engineering Department Activities (page 4) shared his experience of Entrepreneurship with the Electronics and Telecom Engg. Department Activities (page 4) students. IEEE TECHITHON 2017 (Page 5) NSS Atharva Activities (Page 5) E-Cell is established to explore the raw talent Students Achievements (Page 5) from our college and give them the correct exposure to
Computer Engineering Department Activities (Page 6) develop their ideas. E-Cell motivates students to develop Tree Plantation Day (Page 6) innovative ideas and guide them to execution. Faculty Development Programs (Page 6)
Faculty Achievements (Page 6)
Approval of Ministry of MSME for Incubator proposal (Page 6)
Namdar Gopal Krishnan Gokhale Maharashtra An Orientation Seminar on “Ios Application Workshop on “Basics of Python” Award- 2018 One Week Short Term Training Program (STTP) on Development” Maharashtra Council for Educational Exploring R and Python Department of Information Technology An Orientation Seminar on “Ios Application organized a remote live assisted three day workshop Administration and Management, Pune awarded “Namdar Gopal Krishna Gokhale Maharashtra Development” was organized by department of Department of Information Technology on “Basics of Python” on August 10, 28 and 29, 2017 award-2018” to Dr. Shrikant P. Kallurkar, Principal, Information Technology on October 03, 2017. The organized an AICTE-ISTE approved one Week Short for the students of Third year. FOSSEE support Atharva College of Engineering at the 24th Annual invited speakers were the Master Trainer in India, Mr. Term Training Program (STTP) on Exploring R and personnel were available on chat during the workshop conference-2017 on November 19, 2017. This Arun Patwardhan and team. More than 300 students Python, from July 10 to July 15, 2017. providing live assistance. Quizzes were conducted award is being conferred to him for his were present for the seminar to understand and learn Resource Persons for Theory and Hands on using the Yaksh online test platform maintained by
achievements in the field of Technical education the opportunities in Apple application development. training were Mr. Rajesh Jakotia B.E. (Prod) Founding FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. The test activity was also monitored live through webcam and on a video portal. and entrepreneurship. member of K2 Analytics, Mr . Purav Bhardwaj B.E. (EXTC), VCP (CSI Atharva), Mr. Dharmesh Koria Certificates were issued to the successful candidates. B.E.(EXTC), Founder, Prako Technocratz, Mr . Vijay Katkar Ph.D.(CSE) Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune, Associate Professor, PCCOE, Mrs. Kranti Ghag M.E.(IT), Research Scholar (NMIMS)
An Industrial visit to Endurance International group, NESCO IT Park
An Industrial visit was organized for second The conference was honored by the presence and third year students of Information technology to of Sir Dr. M. S. Gosavi, International Educator, Endurance International group, NESCO IT Park,
President, MCEAM and the chief guest for the Goregaon (East) on july 30, 2017. The agenda of the function was Dr. R. S. Mali, Former Vice visit was to highlight and bridge the gaps identified Chancellor, N. M. University. The guest of honor between theory and practicals, and to get industry were Dr. S. T. Deshmukh, Former Vice Chancellor, level training on web security and kubernetes. Amravati University, Prof. B. K. Kale, Former Vice Industrial Visit at Packt Publishing Private Chancellor, Central Gujarat University, Col. Prof. Limited, MIDC, Andheri N. Ramchandran, Former Vice Chancellor, Sandip University, Nashik, and Mr. Prashant Amin, Conduction of tests under Spoken Tutorial project An educational visit was organized for second Chairman and M.D. Klasspack Pvt. Ltd., Ambad, and third year students of Information technology. Department of Information Technology Nashik. Eventbrite organized a Techmeetup at Packt conducted a C, C++ & JAVA test on 18th and 19th publishing Private limited, MIDC, Andheri (east) on September, 2017 for the BE students under the Spoken August 11, 2017 from 7 pm to 9 pm. Romeo Kienzier, Workshop on Application of Physics in Engineering Tutorial Project of IIT-B & Ministry of HRD, Chief Data Scientist, IBM talked on NodeRED and A workshop on Application of Physics in Government of India. The objective behind Deep learning using Apache system Engineering is organized by Humanities and conducting test was to enable final year students to
Applied Sciences on October 13, 2017. The agenda revise concepts of the programming languages. of the workshop was to enlighten the students about Students those who scored 40% and above received E- application of physics in upcoming technologies. certificate.
Workshop on “Design of Power Electronic Visit to High Voltage Direct Current Transmission EESA 2017 Greenovation: Saving Earth Industrial Visit to Thermal Power Station, Converters” Dahanu (HVDC) Grid, Padghe with Innovation
A Workshop on “Design of Power Electronic Students of Electrical Engineering came up Electrical Engineering department had Electrical engineering department had organized Converters” was conducted by Prof. Shreelaxmi from with a unique idea of ''GREENOVATION- Saving organized one day Industrial Visit to Reliance Industrial Visit for TE students on August 23, 2017 at IIT Bombay for TE and BE Electrical students on August Earth with Innovation''', in October, 2017. '''EESA Thermal Power Plant at Dahanu on 12th of High Voltage Direct Current Transmission (HVDC) 21, 2017 2017-18''' with their huge efforts initiated awareness of September 2017 for Second Year (SE) students. Grid located at Padghe. The aim of the industrial visit reusing the e-waste through their extra ordinary was to give practical and industrial knowledge to the projects. The major projects included: Smoke students about HVDC. ventilator, Vacuum cleaner, Water dispenser, Drawer
Charger, Compost machine, Piezo-electric tile,
Strummer.
Chief guest Mr. Sanjay Sheth explained the
esteemed audience about consistent, transparent & Visit to TATA Power Skill Development targeted ISO Standards that provide basis for Institute development of national & international regulations.
He also expressed his views about the hazardous e- SE students of Electrical engineering department waste. Dr. S. P. Kallurkar Principal talked about the visited Tata Power Training institute Shahad on The aim of the industrial visit was to benefits of recycling. September 23, 2017. Students saw solar power plant, provide practical and industrial knowledge to the solar thermal water heater, distribution transformer, students. Dahanu Thermal Power Station (DTPS) is conservator, Breather, relay, cooling fins etc. different The motive of organizing this workshop was to the plant that has a generation capacity of 500 MW types of cable. provide detailed information regarding design of various and supply power to suburban Mumbai. The students learned about safety in S/S. Layout Power Electronic Converters available and hands on of substation, Oil testing facility, Tagging and LOTO training in Matlab Simulink.
Expert lecture on “Programmable Logic Workshop on "Electrical Network Design" Controllers”
Seminar on "DC Motors & its Industrial Applications
Expert lecture on Programmable Logic
Controllers was organized by Electrical Engineering Department. Prof. Mohan Patel from Sarvajanik
College of Engineering and Prof. Himanshu
Rakholiya from S.S.A.S.I.T delivered lectures on A Workshop on “Electrical Network Design” was “Programmable Logic Controllers” for BE Electrical
organized by Electrical Engineering Department on students. Electrical Engineering department organized a August 08, 2017. The motive of organizing this guest lecture Seminar on "DC Motors & its Industrial Applications"
The objective of organizing this workshop was to was to provide detailed information to students for SE Electrical students on September 07, 2017. The make students aware of Load Flow Analysis, Energy regarding PLC, ladder logic development which will invited speaker was Mr. Ramchandra Bhosale from
Saving and Reliability of substations and hands on help students in implementing small ladder diagrams IIT Bombay. Training on developing Single Line Diagram (SLD) and as per application. doing Simulation to get Load flow analysis results
Workshop on "Industrial Approach in Electronics” Seminar on “Modern Communication Workshop on Remote laboratory Industrial visit to Reliance Jio, Ghansoli, One day workshop on "Industrial Approach in Techniques” experimentation on Microcontroller Mumbai Electronics” for SE students was conducted by faculty members of Department of EXTC on August 04, 2017. Department of Electronics engineering Department of Electronics engineering An Industrial visit was organized for third
organized seminar on Modern Communication organized a workshop on Remote Laboratory and final year students of Electronics Engineering to The objective of workshop was to give basic Techniques on September 4, 2017. Dr. M Mani experimentation on Microcontroller on July 6 and 7, Reliance Jio, Ghansoli, Mumbai on September 15, knowledge of Electronic Devices and make students Raja, Professor, TSEC Mumbai was the speaker. 2017. The invited speaker was Mr. Ganesh Gore, 2017. The agenda of the visit was to have practical understand the working of different components and Mrs. Kavita Bani and Mrs Sonam Kandalgaonkar CTO, Eduvance. experience of communication and networking to equipments used in the laboratory. coordinated the seminar. The objective of the workshop was to create relate with their studies. Mr. Saurabh Srivastava, awareness among the faculty in the field of Remote Assistant Vice President, Head of learning and Embedded Systems and to bridge gap between development, Reliance Jio Mumbai helped to achieve Industry and Institute in designing 8051 based the goal. projects using ARM platform. The workshop also
aimed to introduce use of automatic evaluation platform GRADEME.
Workshop on “Fundamentals & emerging tools in Computer Networking" One day workshop on “Fundamentals & emerging tools in Computer Networking" was conducted
by faculty members of Department of EXTC for TE
students on August 04, 2017.
Technical Seminar on “Matlab and Simulink” Workshop on “Wireless and communication Department of Electronics engineering networking”
organized a seminar on Matlab. The experts from Mathworks delivered the seminar on June 13, 2017. Two days workshop on “Wireless and
The topics covered were signal processing and communication networking” was organized by department of EXTC and Electronics for TE and BE communication system design with Matlab and simulink and enabling project based learning with low students on 22nd and 23rd August, 2017. The speakers One day seminar on “Exploring project Ideas” cost hardware DSP and FPGA boards. for the workshop were Saurabh Srivastav (Assistant Workshop on “PCB Designing” Vice President, Reliance Jio), Awab Fakih (Asst. Prof. One day seminar on “Exploring project Ideas” AIKTC), Dr. Deepak Karia (Associate Prof. SPIT), was conducted by EXTC Dept for BE students on July 19, One day workshop on “PCB Designing” Smita Pawar (Asst. Prof., St. Xaviers Institute of 2017. The speaker of the seminar was Mr. Chetan was organized by Department of EXTC on Engineering) Ambekar. 22/9/2017 for the students of SE EXTC.
NSS Atharva Activities Voters’ ID Awareness and Collection Drive Students Achievements IEEE TECHITHON 2017 Seminar on Alert Mumbai NSS Atharva organized a seminar on Alert The students of NSS-Atharva had taken a 1. Jeet Gor student of SE Computer TECHITHON’17 is the Annual Inter-Collegiate Mumbai in collaboration with Commissioner of Police initiative to make voter ID of students. The Engineering was selected for a karate Technical Festival organized at Atharva College of Mumbai officials. Volunteers make awareness and forms were tournament held in London to represent India Engineering during September 25 to 29, 2017. The Chief distributed and he won a silver medal in team KATA Guest for the inaugural function, Dr. K. G. The NSS-Atharva volunteers along with the event in November 2017.
Narayankhedkar along with Mr. Sunil Rane, Honorable Electoral Commission members Mr. Swapnil and Mr. Pawar helped around 100 students in enrolling Executive president, Atharva Group of Institutions, and Dr. P. N. Nemade (Director, ACE), Dr. S.P. Kallurkar for Voter's ID from July 14 to July 24, 2017 at (Principal) inaugurated the technical event Techithon Atharva campus. 2017. It aims at bringing out the true engineers in the students, with the help of a plethora of technical events and activities. Every year, the students come up with a unique theme to be portrayed in the festival. This year, the Adoption of Nutan Vidyalay (school) Karur, Malad theme of the technical festival was “Futuropia” NSS Atharva adopted Nutan Vidyalay FUTUROPIA refers to the futuristic lifestyle. The (school) Karur, Malad (east) for a day and conducted theme orients us to enhance, evolve and elevate our future various activities such as quiz, drawing competition, with exemplary technical inventions and innovations. singing dance, origamy for school children on October 04, 2017.
Donation Drive There is a proverb which says "We make a 2. Following students has won National level living by what we get, but we make a life by what carom competition at MIT, Pune. we give". Miral Doshi TE CMPN, Varun Nair TE CMPN NSS-Atharva Volunteers organized a Sanman Munj TE CMPN, Nirav Waghela BE INFT donation drive at Kandivali and Borivali. They donated clothes to the underprivileged kids on
August 9, 2017. NSS Atharva attended "Sankalpa Se Siddhi... Aaj India ka wakt hai." A mega event at Kalina Techithon 2017, Futuropia also cater to many Sports Complex on September 23, 2017.
inter-collegiate competitions which include contests like RoboWars, Web Designing and many other technical
events along with fun events like Laser Tag, Neon Sports (Bowling, Cricket, Chess, etc.), LAN Gaming and other
fun events. Techithon also hosted a wide range of workshops and seminars. The unique feature this year was
an inter-collegiate technical meet, which provided a 3. Viral Mandaliya of electronics department platform to young innovators all over the city. Social Awareness Workshop on “Electric Safety and was awarded "Player of the Match" for his
Precautions” outstanding performance in Football match
Beach cleanup drive against Dr. Baliram Hiray College of NSS volunteers of Atharva have beach Architecture at St. Xaviers Ground, Parel.
cleanup drive on September 6, 2017 at Marve beach along with UMEED foundation led by Salma Madam.
The aim of organizing this workshop is to create awareness to people about Electric Safety
and Precautions.
Workshops by Computer Engineering Faculty Development Programs Faculty Achievements Department 1. Dr. Bhushan Sonawane is awarded with PhD Department of Computer Engineering conducted the Faculty Development Program (FDP) degree from JJT University, Rajasthan in following workshops sessions were conducted for faculty members. February 2017. The topic of his research was 1. Workshop on “GitHub” by Mr. Abhishekh Jain on “Treatment of domestic waste water” under the July 17, 2017. guidance of Dr. Pravin N. Nemade. 2. Workshop on “Android” by RajivKumar Gupta, 2. Dr. Bhavin Shah is awarded with PhD degree Trainer, Seed infotech on August 03, 2017. from Jodhpur National University, Rajasthan in 3. Workshop on “Technical skill Guidances” by Mr. 5. “Quality Circle" by Mr. K. B. Bharti, Director and March 2017. The topic of his research was Sagar Shrivastava & Mr. Gaurv Mishra, Software chairman of Quality circle, India on July 28, 2017. “Advancement in designing and development of Developer, Infrinch on August 08, 2017. gripper technology and simulation of Industrial 4. Guest Lecture on “Data structure and operating automation robots” under the guidance of Dr. system” by Mr. Anil Kolte & Mr. Ketan Swati Sharma. Panchpande, Software Developer, Vertises Mtec 3. Dr. Mamta Meena is awarded with PhD degree IIT on August 21 & 22, 2017. 1. “Diluting Stress” by Neerja (Bramhakumari) from JJT University, Rajasthan in September 5. Workshop on “Career in networking” by Mr. on October 03, 2017. 2017. The topic of her research was “Deploying Manthan Bhrambhaat, Network Engineer, Virtela content based image retrieval on cloud and Technology services on August 4 & 8, 2017. analyzing performance improvement” under the 6. Workshop on “web site designing using bootstrap” 6. “Administration" by Mr. Ram Prasad, Registrar of guidance of Dr. Vinayak Bharadi. by Omkar Sanap on September 13, 2017. AET on August 18, 2017. 7. Workshop on “Ethical Hacking” by Krishna Approval of Ministry of MSME for Incubator Sharma, Consultant, cyberX securities, on September 13 and 14, 2017. proposal ACE had submitted a proposal to ministry 8. Workshop on “Basic programming using pythan” of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, by Fossee IIT Bombay, Aksheen Doke, on Government of India requesting recognition as September 14 & 15, 2017. 2. “Design Thinking” by Abhijit B. on August Business Incubator for implementation of the 9. Workshop on “Webapp Development using HTML 03. 2017 scheme "Support for Entrepreneurial and 5 & REST” by Mr. Deepak Mishra, Web app Managerial Development of SMEs through developer, Metamug, on September 19 & 20, 2017. 7. “Five Vedic Laws of Success" by Dr. S. P. Incubator" in March 2016. We were shortlisted for Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Mumbai on September 21, presentation before Selection committee of Celebration of Mumbai University's 2017 Ministry of MSME on 13th December 2017. Foundation Day as “Tree Plantation Day”.
The happiness about planting trees is not only Ministry of MSME has approved funding for our Incubator proposal. Maximum limit of that they give you oxygen to breath, but also that you've taken a step to make the world a better place to MSME funding: for this proposal is Rs. 66 lakhs
live in. for 10 incubates.
The volunteers of NSS-Atharva planted a 3. “Motivation and Goal orientation” by Prof. Banyan Tree and initiated the motto "GREEN Amruta Parmar, Assistant Director, ACE, on Editorial Board MUMBAI" on July 18, 2017 on the occasion of September 15, 2017. Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad. Mumbai University's Foundation Day celebrated as Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS. Tree Plantation Day. The Chief Guest of the event was 8. “Implementation 5S methodology” by Mrs. Poonam Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Asst. Professor, Electronics Dr. N. S. Rajan (Dean-Atharva Institute Of Deshpande and Mrs. Neelima Pathak, ACE, on
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AET’s International Conference on Innovative and Degree Distribution Ceremony Rhythm-2018 Atharva College of Engineering Advanced Technologies in Engineering- 2018 Excellence in Education Rhythm 2018, a cultural festival Approved by AICTE, DTE & Affiliated to University of Mumbai (ICIATE – 2018) commenced during March 11 to 16, 2018. The festival depicted fine arts & culture, Indian Newsletter January 18 – June 18 tradition, fun and enthusiasm. This year also Rhythm was started with Marathon. Atharva College of Engineering is th Ranked 16 in Top Private Engineering Institutes in India and 9th in the West
Zone by Times Survey 2018.
Executive President’s Message The Fourth Joint Degree Distribution Ceremony of the students of Atharva College of
The International Conference on Innovative and Engineering, Atharva Institute of Management Rhythm 2018 is a week full of fun and Advanced Technologies (ICIATE - 2018) was studies and Atharva College of Hotel Management frolic, zest and zeal celebrated with different moods organized during March 22 and 23, 2018 by Atharva and Catering Technology was held on March 24, and different colors. College of Engineering in collaboration with IJERT & 2018 in Auditorium, phase 3, AET Campus. The IOSR. The conference was attended by more than 600 chief guests were Mr. Amit Bansal, CGO (Chief delegates from different colleges & industries from Growth Officer) of Rolling Banners/Vonken different parts of the country. Authors from more than 30 Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Dr Deepak Waikar, institutes participated in ICIATE 2018. Managing Partner, EduEnergy Consultant at Continued on page 2 Singapore and Mr. Naveen Vaishnav, Learning and
Development Manager, The Lalit, Mumbai. Dr. S. P.
Kallurkar, Principal, (ACE) declared the Shri. Sunil Rane Atharva Foundation Day Celebration convocation open. Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director Executive – President of Atharva Group of Institutes (ACE), Dr. N. S. Rajan, (Dean- AIMS), Dr. Sujata and Founder Secretary – AET. Atharva is celebrating 19 years of successful Pandey, (Director-AIMS), Mr. Joseph Furtado, DJ-Evening witnessed a wholesome crowd ‘Continuous Change for continuous journey of imparting quality education. On the occasion (Principal-ACHMCT) were present for the dancing and shaking their legs on the beats of the growth’ is the concept that Atharva Group of of completion of 19 glorious years of Atharva Group of Ceremony. The ceremony started by Ganesh musical hits of the year till the last drop of energy. Institutes believes in its strategies, processes, Institutes, a 6 feet humanoid Robot sculpture was Vandana and lighting of the lamp. procedures, research, technologies and innovation. The inaugurated by Shri. Sunil Rane (Executive President of Prof. N. S. Rajan, (Dean-AIMS) delivered the Atharva Group of Institutes) and Mrs. Varsha Rane Group is known for its remarkable progress in the field welcome address. More than 350 students were Contents of education, benchmarking International standards. (Trustee, AGI) on June 1, 2018. conferred the Certificates. The ceremony concluded Our work ethics is well known and our dedication and with vote of thanks and National Anthem. Executive Presidents Message (Pg 1) efficiency is the secret behind our expansion. International Conference (ICIATE – 2018) (Pg 1) At Atharva, we reckon complete development of NAAC Peer Team Visit Atharva Foundation Day celebration (Pg 1) students along with comprehensive academic training. Degree Distribution Ceremony (Pg 1) A serene and conducive environment is provided National Assessment and Accreditation NAAC Peer team Visit (Pg 1) through our huge designing area. Atharva’s mission is Council (NAAC) Peer Team visited Atharva College Rhythm-2018 (Pg 1) to allow participants knowledge and full of Engineering during April 02 and 03, 2018. Achievements (Pg 2) comprehension. Electronics Engg. Department Activities (Pg 3) Creating an edifice like Atharva IT Park is a challenge to accomplish and we are focused on The Technical Festival, E-Week-2018 (Pg 3) achieving it. Our diversification adds strength builds Electrical Engg. Department Activities (Pg 3) EXTC Department Activities (Pg 3 & 4) the base for a New Age Atharva in the future. Every step in Atharva is taken for upgrading the quality. Our Atharva Robotics Centre, equipped with the state- Computer Engg. Department Activities (Pg 4) mission is to enlighten the society with the best of our NSS Activities (Pg 5) of-Art infrastructure will be a milestone for Research in creative innovations and social causes. “Robotics and Artificial Intelligence” and will create a Information Technology Dept. Activities (Pg6)
We are confident that our Alma maters are proud benchmark in India and abroad with continuous IUCEE SCALE Atharva Chapter Activities (Pg 6) of our brand and are competing globally confidently. Research, Innovation and Technology. Humanities and Applied Sciences Dept. Activities
(Pg 6)
Continued from page 1 The valedictory function was graced by the Bhagyesh Kurlekar TE-CMPN, Vatsal Agrawal The Chief Guest, Dr. Avinash Panth, Former Student’s Achievements presence of Dr. Meena Kumari, Chief Technology TE-CMPN, Vijay Parab TE-EXTC, Asst. Prof. Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi, inaugurated the Officer, institute of Customer Relationship Sanket Karshinkar, Divyesh Parab Scored 2nd Divya Kumawat won Ist Prize of Rs. 15,000/- conference by lightening the lamp. Dr Deepak Waikar, management and Guest of Honor, Dr. Deepak Waikar Position in Kabbadi at Spoorthi 2018, SPIT, for the paper ‘Revised Design Model for New former Professor from singapore university, and (Singapore). The conference concluded with vote of Mumbai on February 2, 2018. Generation Processor to Tackle Side-Channel Managing Partner, EduEnergy Consultant at Singapore thanks by Prof. Deepthi Shekar Sanket Karshinkar, Divyesh Parab stood Runner Attacks’ at ICIATE-2018 motivated youth to think innovative and gave the The conference would not be successful Up in Kabbadi at Avahan 2018, Vidhyavardhini vision towards a new arena by covering topics like without the continuous support and inspiration of our College of Engg. On January 12, 2018, Pratik Deshpande BE-CMPN, Prashant Mahajan Smart Education and Blended Learning. The guests of Honorable President Shri Sunil Rane, Dr. P. N. Darshan Gosavi, Won the tournament (Badminton BE-CMPN, Ravi Chandak BE-CMPN, Tejas honour were Dr. S.G Bhirud, professor, computer Nemade (Director) and Dr. S. P. Kallurkar (Principal), Doubles at Vartakite Bits 2K18, Vidhyavardini's Nanaware BE-CMPN, Prof. Mahendra Patil won department, VJTI, Shri Shailendra Singh, Assistant Atharva College of Engineering. The conference was A.V. College of Arts ,K.M College of Commerce & IIIrd Prize of Rs. 5000/- for the paper Director, MSME Development Institute, Mumbai. Dr. a grand success. E.S. Andrades College of Science on February 1, “Exploratory Data Analysis Using Dimension Aditya Abhyankar, Dean, Faculty of Technology, 2018, Reduction” at ICIATE-2018 University of Pune delivered the Key Note address. Utsav Shah, Paras Singh, Hetal Surti, Roshan Prof. Deepthi Sekhar, Dr. P. N. Nemade, Director Gantellu stood Runner up at Inter Collegiate Abhishek Jain BE-CMPN, Shreyas Sawant BE- (ACE), Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal (ACE), Prof. Achievements Business Competitio, Udaan 2018, Institute Of CMPN, Abhishek Jha BE-CMPN, Asst. Prof. Karuna Nikum , Convenor, ICIATE-2018, Heads of Congratulations to Industrial computer & management & Research, Suvarna Pansambal won Ist Prize(VRTrack) of all Departments and faculty members were present for Dr. S. P. Kullurkar, Pune on February 10, 2018. Rs. 5000/- for the paper ‘Study of Augmented the function. The Inauguration function concluded Principal (ACE) for Reality Navigation System’ at ICIATE-2018 with vote of thanks by Prof. Karuna Nikum being selected consecutively for the Urvesh Rathod, Vaibhav Patil students of Technical sessions were very stimulating with third time in Technical BE(CMPN), under the guidance of Prof. Aruna Abhishek Jain BE-CMPN, Dhwani Vora BE- over 230 research papers presented. The state of art Education Quality Pavate presented their paper “Product Based ELEX, Asst. Prof. Suvarna Pansambal won Ist facilities were provided to the participants for their Improvement Recommendation Systems” in the conference I2CT, Prize of Rs. 4000/- in Poster Competition at presentation. Two workshops were organized on Programme (TEQIP-III) IEEE Conference, Pune on 7th & 8th April 2018. ICIATE-2018 ‘Teaching Learning through Social Networking’ and implemented through
Internet of things and Virtual Reality on 21st March, MHRD Government of 2018. The invited speakers were Mr. Raj Kumar, India. from R& D department of ScienTech Pvt ltd, Mr. He is selected to perform the role of Raj Dedania, Mr. Krunal Gediya and Mr. Mrityunjai Mentor/Performance Auditor among the eminent
Mishra. professors/experts from IITs and NITs. Guidance given by TEQIP will help the government of India The panel discussion on future of Virtual Reality was led by an elite group, namely, Dr. in achieving its targets to improve the academic Jonathan Joshi, Founder and CEO, Eduvance, standards of Technical Institutions of Higher Mumbai, Dr. Meena Kumari, Chief Technology Education.
Officer, institute of Customer Relationship Congratulations to Ms. Sheetal Bhatia management , Dr. Kamal Shah, Dean (R & D), (TPO, ACE, Malad) for receiving Best Debut TPO
Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, (Placements, Internships and Projects) Award at Industry- Academia- HR- TPO Meet held at Prof. Nileema Pathak ( HOD Inforamtion Harsh Kshatriya from TE-Computer
Technology-Atharva College of Engineering). And Club29, Pune on May 19, 2018. The Meet was Engineering secured IInd Runner up position in SEED MAHA IT IDOL 2018. He has received latest organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth College of the words by Dr. S.P. Kallurkar sir, our Principal Engineering, Pune in association with Erudite technology gadgets along with discounts on SEED obviously ignited a spark in all of us! courses.
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Electronics Engineering Department Activities Workshop on “Latex” The Technical Festival E-Week Electronics and Telecommunication The Technical Festival, E-Week-2018 was One day Workshop on “Latex” was organized by Department Activities Visit to All India Radio, Mumbai Department of Electronics Engg department on 7th conducted during March 11 to 16, 2018. It is the The department of Electronics Engineering February 2018.The workshop was conducted by Mr. platform to exhibit students’ technical talent through Workshop on “Rapid 3D printing prototyping” organized a one day visit to All India Radio, Mumbai Sarang Kulkarni, Asst. Professor, Department of project work. Various technical events were organized One day workshop on “Rapid 3D printing on 19th March, 2018 for SE students. This visit offered Electronics Engineering. The Workshop was organized with an aim to enhance the skills, innovative ideas and prototyping” was conducted on January 19, 2018 insights to students about the practical application of for BE and TE students for proper scientific problem-solving attitude in the mind of students. by Department of EXTC for EXTC & ELEC
their theoretical knowledge. documentation of their Mini projects. Some of the events were Business Mela, Idea students. Final year students Shashank Parkar and Box, Elevator’s Pitch, E’week at school, Adopt the Amit Padhy of EXTC department conducted the Students could visualize the various operations happening at recording and editing studios, control village, Tech Pitch, Idea Generation and Panel software and hardware sessions respectively. rooms and playback studios. AIR works on FM gold Discussion. Objective of the workshop was to bridge the gap 107.1 MHz (Mumbai FM). Students are thankful to the between 3D Printing industry and Institute in faculty members and college management for their designing 3D model/ prototypes .Along with Hands support in all regards. on practice on MAKER BOT Software of 3D
printer and Fusion 360 software for 3D modeling, exposure to different open source platforms for
prototyping was also given so that students can use 3D printing technology for prototyping their projects/ideas.
Seminar on “Introduction to HAM Radio” Electrical Engineering Department Activities Seminar on “Introduction to HAM Radio” Seminar on "Multilevel Inverters” was organized by Department of Electronics One day Seminar on "Multilevel Inverters” was Engineering for TE students on March 09, 2018. organized by Department of Electrical Engineering on The speaker was Jayesh Banatwala, Centre Head, February 20, 2018. The invited speaker was Dr. Swara Interedwise Education Pvt. Ltd. Deore, Head Department of Electrical Engineering,
A.C. Patil college and Mr. Punit Ratnani from NMIMS for SE, TE and BE students.
Workshop on “Internet of Things” Guest lecture on “Career Opportunities in public service”
One day Workshop on “Internet of Things” was Guest lecture on “Career Opportunities in held on 8th march 2018 by department of Electronics public service” was organized by Dept of EXTC
Engineering. The workshop was conducted by Sarthak for SE students on January 24, 2018. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Pranav Nerurkar. The motive Gadre and Swapnil Bawa, System engineers from Seminar on “Progressive Electronics” Eduvance. This Workshop was targeted for SE students of the guest lecture was to inform students about A seminar on “Progressive Electronics” Industrial Visit at Matunga Central various opportunities available in public services to train students on Internet of Things and its was organized by Department of Electronics Railway Car Shed and discussed syllabus for their respective Application. Engineering for TE students on March 09, 2018. Two Days Industrial Visit for TE students was organized examinations. The speaker was Sudhir Gokhale from by Department of Electrical Engineering on April 10 and 11, 2018 at Matunga Central Railway Car Shed. Progressive Electronics.
Electronics and Telecommunication Department Workshop on “Application of MATLAB in Computer Engineering Department Activities A seminar on “Competitive Examinations” Activities Signal Processing and Communication” Two days workshop on “Application of Workshop on Ethical Hacking A seminar on “Competitive Examinations” Workshop on “Skill development program” MATLAB in Signal Processing and One day workshop on Ethical Hacking was was organized by department of Computer Two days workshop on “Skill development th Communication” was conducted for TE students on organized by department of Computer Engineering Engineering on 9 February 2018. The session was program for personal interview” was conducted on 5th & 6th March 2018 by Prof. Supriya Dicholkar and for SE and TE students on February 22, 2018. The conducted by Mr. Pranav Nerurkar” 12th and 14th February, 2018 for TE EXTC students Prof. Payal Mohadikar of EXTC Department. session was conducted by Mr. Suraj Pawar and Mr. Session started with the introduction and the by Training and Placement cell of ACE. The Objective of workshop was to give basic knowledge Saurabh Soparkar by Code Strike committee of need of Competitive exams. He further explained the workshop provided training to students to enhance of MATLAB commands, coding and its application in ACE – Mumbai. Objective of the workshop was to benefits of undergoing such training programs so their employability skills and achieve good Signal Processing and Communication. improvise the students upon the need for that an aspirant could crack competitive exams just placement in various industries. Students were developing a theoretically and practically sound by getting the basic knowledge of how to solve informed about dressing etiquettes and behavior in curriculum with strong “Ethical Hacking and aptitude and reasoning questions in exam companies. Mock interviews were also conducted to security concepts.” train the students for their professional interview.
Seminar on “Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing” One day seminar on “Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing” (Awareness
of Cyber in Security) was organized by department of EXTC for BE students on 8th March 2018. The
invited speaker was Prof. Dayanand Ambawade from Seminar on “Real Time Audio Video Communication” A Seminar was held on “New Age Career SPIT, Mumbai. The seminar covered issues related to Workshop on Javascript Three days workshop was organized by One day seminar on “Real Time Audio Video cyber security, its importance in day to day life. Options” department of Computer Engineering during March Communication” was organized by department 5 to 7, 2018. Mr. Pratik Deshpande from Codestrike of EXTC for BE students. on 15th February 2018. A Seminar on “New Age Career Options” was committee of ACE– Mumbai conducted the seminar. The invited speaker was Dr. Ranjan Balajain. organized by department of Computer In this workshop the students were Engineering for TE students on 9th March 2018. The seminar covered the topics related to Real time introduced to Javascript, which is a scripting audio video communication such as audio video The invited speaker was Mr. Manmeet Singh Akali, language to develop an application. compression and expansion. It included different founder & CEO, Klarity.in. Students become
communication methods used in real time audio familiar with new age career options, which are not mainstream but highly demanded by industries and video communication and techniques to overcome the problems associated with the data transfer in highly paying at the same time.
such communication methods.
Seminar on “Technical Paper writing”
One day seminar on “Technical Paper writing’ was organized by department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg for TE students on February 9, 2018. The seminar was
conducted by Prof. Jyoti Kolap. The seminar covered the gist about introduction to technical paper writing, way to write and present your
research idea in form of technical paper.
3. Flag Pickup Drive: 27 January 2018 5. Stories of the Blind Cricket Team, Men in Blue: 7. Donation Drive Collection: 20 and 21 February 2018 NSS Activities: NSS Atharva unit organized a flag pickup 9 February 2018 drive post Republic Day near Borivali Station. The The Blind Cricket team of India had made The NSS Atharva volunteers setup desks 1. Flag Awareness Campaign: 25 January 2018 Unit picked up more than 1,000 flags which were our country proud by winning 5th International Blind at different locations of our college for thrown away on roads by the citizens. Cricket World Cup. They were felicitated and were collection of donations. NSS team got donation
Every year, it is observed that the citizens of asked to share few words about their struggle and such as wearable clothes, notebooks, pen, their passion for Cricket. It was a proud moment for crayons and soft toys etc. They got a very India disrespect the National flag and the flags are seen lying on the ground, roads and at places where the NSS Atharva volunteers to meet with them. positive response from students and faculty members. it should not be. In this event NSS volunteers covered areas near Borivali station and spread the awareness of our flag by approaching and interacting with people on the roads and the shopkeepers in the nearby vicinity.
4. All Religion Prayer and get together: 30 January
2018 6. Road Safety Awareness: 12 February to 15
Mumbai University organized an all religion February 2018 prayer and get together for all the NSS Units of Every year lot of people loses their lives due 8. Donation drive distribution: 23 February 2018 Mumbai University. In this event various orators of to accidents either by their negligence or by other After collections of donations, NSS unit 2. Republic Day Celebration: 26 January 2018 different religions recited the verses from their person’s negligence by not following the traffic were divided into three groups and marched
respective holy books. Dance performance was given rules. This is the reason; NSS Atharva volunteers towards their respective locations. First unit by school students on Secularism. organized road safety awareness in order to spread went near Raghuleela Mall and distributed On the occasion of Republic Day, NSS awareness about the traffic rules. Atharva Volunteers clothes amongst roadside survivor, second group Atharva Volunteers had performed a Street Play on stood at the signals holding placards about the traffic went near Borivali station and distributed Life of a Soldier and had also given dance rules and safety measures that should be taken by clothes, and third went to Lokandwala circle and performance on Women Empowerment.
one and all on roads. This event was conducted for donated stationary. three days in the afternoon time at the MithChowky
signal with the help of Mumbai Police.
9. River March visit: 4 March 2018 11. Holi Awareness Drive: 28 February 2018 Information Technology Department Activities Humanities and Applied Sciences Several rivers of Mumbai are polluted due to Huge amount of water is wasted every year Department Activities waste disposal into water. Hence to make people for Holi celebration. NSS unit spread awareness Workshop on “Search Engine Optimization” aware about their actions and the consequences that among the people to save water and play Holi with One day Workshop with Hands on Training on Seminar on topic “XRD-An indispensible the future generation will have to face, a rally was organic colors. People were asked not to hurt “Search Engine Optimization” was conducted on 16 tool for structure analysis of solids conducted. Students from various schools and colleges animals while playing Holi and not to throw water February 2018 by Rocky Jagtiani, Suven Consultants balloons at people as it can leads to severe injuries. Technology Pvt Ltd for TE students. took part in this rally. Smt. Amruta Fadnavis had Department of Humanities and Applied graced the event with her presence. A well known Sciences has organized One Day seminar on personality Mr. Sumit Raghvan hosted the show. NSS topic “XRD-An indispensible tool for Atharva volunteers had helped Mumbai police in structure analysis of solids “on 27 March managing the crowd at areas near Rustomjee 2018. The invited speaker was Dr. Purav Cambridge School. Badani from Department of Chemistry,
University of Mumbai. The session gave F.E students deep insight about the theoretical concepts of X- rays diffraction and its use in basic sciences and how to apply the same in the engineering
Seminar on "GRE" sciences. The lecture indeed served the purpose of bridging the gap between pure and One day Seminar on "Graduate Record applied Chemistry 12. Old age home visit: 3 March 2018 Examinations” (GRE) was conducted on April 11, NSS Atharva volunteers assembled at 2018 by department of Information Technology. Mr. Keshav Shrushti to meet old age people. Volunteers Rishabh Shah (BE student) conducted the seminar for
carried on with interaction session and various FE, SE and TE students. activities like singing, reciting poems and dancing to entertain them.
10. Visit to Orphanage: 4 March 2018 Every year NSS Atharva volunteers make it a point to visit an orphanage. The volunteers conducted an entertainment session for all the orphans.
Volunteers interacted with the kids and conducted
various activities like drawing, singing, dancing and
many games. It was overwhelming to see their smiling 13. Visit to School ‘ADVITYA’: 5 March 2018
Editorial Board faces at the end of our event. It was a memorable The NSS volunteers visited a special school IUCEE SCALE Atharva Chapter Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad. event. named Advitya in Santacruz. The volunteers
interacted with the students and conducted various IUCEE SCALE Atharva Chapter organized Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS. Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Asst. Professor, Electronics activities such as singing, dancing and games were three days workshop on “Manifesting Ideas: played Renovating Communities” during March 5, 2018 to Department
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