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Walchand College of Engineering Vishrambag, Sangli. WCE Annual Report WCE(July Annual 2014– June 2015)Report (2014-15) About Walchand College of Engineering Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli is one of the oldest and renowned technical instutes in southern Maharashtra. This college is started as a “New Engineering College” in the year 1947 by late Shri. Dhondumama Sathe. The College was renamed as “Walchand College of Engineering” in 1955, aer a substanal financial support extended by Seth Walchand Hirachand Me- morial Trust. The management of the college was transferred to Administrave council with all movable and immovable prop- eres since 1955. The college now imparts educaon for AICTE recognized / approved diploma, degree, post graduate and Ph.D. courses in engineering. The college has started funconing as an autonomous instute w.e.f. July 2007. Infrastructure: Walchand College of Engineering is situated between Miraj and Sangli on a sprawling green campus of 90 acres. The College has spacious and well equipped departments of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Informaon Technology branches along with basic laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and support facilies. College is equipped with more than 800 Computers, state of art soware, 280MBPS fully funconal (24X7) internet connecvity, intranet with fiber opc backbone, State of art Ajit Gulabchand central library with more than 1,00,000 volumes, more than 1000 internaonal e-Journals, plus Hard copy journals (naonal and internaonal), etc. Faculty: A qualified faculty with doctorates and post graduate degrees. Numerous Publicaons in conferences and research journals. Sponsored R and D Projects from DRDO /AICTE / DST etc. Major consultancy services to industries and public sectors. Our Inspiraon Shri. Ajit Gulabchand Chairman, Administrave Council Walchand College of Engineering Vishrambag, Sangli. 416 415. Visit us to: www.walchandsangli.ac.in Office: Phone (0233) 2300383, Fax: (0233) 2300831. E-mail: [email protected] Walchand College of Engineering Vishrambag, Sangli. The instute is governed by Administrave Council and Locally Guided by Local Management Commiee. The Ad- ministrave Council was formed in 1956. Since then the list of Chairmen ll date is given below. Also the names of present Administrave Council members are given below: Chairman, Administrave Council Sr. No. Name From To 1 Shri N. Dandekar 1956 1965 2 Seth Lalchand Hirachand 1968 1974 3 Seth Bharat G. Doshi 1974 1975 4 Seth Lalchand Hirachand 1975 1981 5 Shri M.S. Parkhe 1981 1983 6 Seth Vinod L. Doshi 1984 1994 7 Jusce Shri B. N. Deshmukh 1994 1996 8 Shri Ajit Gulabchand 1996 Onwards Administrave Council Sr. No. Name Representaon Shri. Ajit Gulabchand Chairman 1 Chairman and Managing Director, (Trust Nominee) Hindustan Construcon Company Ltd. 2 Ms. Shalaka Gulabchand Dhawan Member (Trust Nominee) 3 Dr. V. N. Gupchup Member (Trust Nominee) 4 Shri. C. N. Gandhi Member (Trust Nominee) 5 Shri. R. P. Purohit Member (Trust Nominee) 6 Dr. U. N. Gaitonde Member (AICTE, Nominee) Member 7 Dr. S. M. Karande (Shivaji University Nominee) Member (DTE, Ex Officio, Govt. of Maha- 8 Dr. S. K. Mahajan rashtra) Member 9 Shri. R. Unnikrishnan (AICTE – WRO – Ex Officio) 10 Dr. P. J. Kulkarni Faculty Representave 11 Dr. K. S. Wagh Faculty Representave Director & Member Secretary 12 Dr. G. V. Parishwad (Ex Officio) Chairman’s Profile Shri Ajit Gulabchand is Chairman and Managing Director of HCC - one of India’s leading construcon companies, founded by industrialist Seth Walchand Hirachand in 1926. A catalyc factor in the infrastructure growth of India, HCC has accomplished various pio- neering achievements in the engineering and construcon industry under his leadership. A graduate from Mumbai university, he began his career as the Chief Execuve of Indian Hume Pipe Co Ltd and subsequently moved on to Ravalgaon Sugar Farm Ltd as Managing Director, steering the company towards a fast-track growth. At the helm of affairs in HCC since 1983, Shri. Gulabchand has been credited with a slew of path-breaking strategic management iniaves. Today, HCC is an acknowledged lead- er in the engineering and construcon sector in India. A modern and vibrant construc- on company, it has kept pace with modern technology, is commied to quality and boasts of a knowledge asset of more 3,000 people. Having laid solid foundaons for Shri. Ajit Gulabchand growth, Mr Gulabchand strategically grew HCC’s business porolio to include all key in- frastructure sectors by undertaking challenging mega projects. With Shri Gulabchand’s endeavours, HCC has executed a majority of India’s land- mark infrastructure projects, having constructed more than 25% of India’s hydel and over 50% of India’s nuclear generaon capacies, 2,300 lane-kms of Roads & Express- ways and over 170 kms of complex tunneling in addion to hundreds of Bridges, Dams and Barrages. Taking his vision further, Shri Gulabchand connues to spearhead the transformaon of HCC into an integrated group spanning Construcon, Real Estate and Infrastructure de- velopment. The HCC group of companies comprises of HCC Ltd (Engg. & Construcon), HCC Infrastructure Ltd, HCC Real Estate Ltd (HREL) and Lavasa Corporaon Ltd. The group specializes in technically complex, new-age construcon in infrastructure projects, E.P.C. Recognizing the importance of knowledge assets for building world class infrastructure, Shri Gulabchand has the taken lead in ideang new concepts by invesng in technical educaon and skills enhancement for HCC’s manpower and other training and technical instuons in the country such as NICMAR and the Walchand College of Engineering. Acknowledged for his visionary leadership in the industry, Shri. Gulabchand plays an im- portant role in key industry bodies in India. He is a member of the Confederaon of Indi- an Industry (CII) Naonal Council and the Chairman of CII’s Naonal Commiee on Con- strucon and Projects. He has also served as a founding permanent member of the Board of Governors of the Construcon Industry Development Council of India (CIDC). He iniated the formaon of the Construcon Federaon of India (CFI) with other con- strucon companies and is the Founder President since its incepon in 2001. He has also recently endowed a new ‘Ajit Gulabchand Chair’ on Indian Business Studies being set up at Oxford University and is a member of the Oxford Internaonal Advisory Board for Execuve Educaon. He is also a signatory member of the United Naons Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate. Shri Ajit Gulabchand’s other associaons with industry bodies include: Chairman for the Projects Exports Promoon Council (PEPC). Past President and Permanent Member of the Governing Council of the Builders Asso- ciaon of India (BAI). Chairman of the Board of Governors and Member of the Board of Trustees at the Na- onal Instute of Construcon Management and Research (NICMAR), Pune. Chairman of the Administrave Council of Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli. Director’s Message… Walchand College of Engineering (WCE) is one of the oldest engineering colleges in India. It was established in June 1947 as New Engineering College and renamed as Walchand Col- lege of Engineering in 1955. Since then, it has bloomed into a full-fledged instuon offer- ing today six undergraduate programs, ten post-graduate programs and Ph. D. programs in engineering disciplines, affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur. It also offers four diploma courses affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Educaon. Walchand College prides itself in producing “capable graduate engineers with an aptude for leadership and research”, which can be seen from leadership posions occupied by its vast alumni in all walks of life within India and abroad. Dr. G. V. Parishwad Autonomous Status has been conferred upon the college by Shivaji University and UGC in the year 2007. Aer successful compleon of the first term, the Autonomous status has been extended by the University and the UGC for the next six-year term ending 2019-20. Walchand College parcipated in the World Bank funded Government of India scheme, "TEQIP" (Technical Educaon Quality Improvement Program) Phase I project and we re- ceived second rank all over India, out of 127 naonal instutes, in its program impact as- sessment survey in 2010. WCE is successfully connuing its journey in TEQIP phase II in up- grading the Post graduate and Research infrastructure. WCE has received Rs. 10.50 Crore ll now and already spent Rs. 9.00 Crore. The instute has strong associaon with industry. John Deere, nVidia, Tata Technologies, etc. are some of the top companies who have set up specialized labs here. WCE has about laboratories in various departments. It strives connuously to modernize these laborato- ries acquision of advanced equipment. The aim is to support its revamped curricula and focus on faculty and students research. State-of-the-art lab infrastructure provides strong base to faculty and students for research and robust technical training. It is a maer of great sasfacon that WCE students are well received by diversified industry with place- ment record matching the best among peers. Our alumni have made the college proud with their success. The College is also proud to have a new library building donated by Seth Walchand Hira- chand Memorial Trust, which has supported this instuon ever since 1955. With a state-of -art Central Library with naonal/internaonal journals and a massive number of reference books for every subject and specialized books on various topics, our students find it very easy to develop a research oriented mind-set. We encourage work on research projects helping them grow professionally and making them systemac and muldiscipline orient- ed. In accordance with our Vision and Mission, we devote ourselves to create graduates with inquisive minds who have a perpetual desire for knowledge. We believe in all-round growth of our students. Our graduates should not only be technically competent but also be good human beings.