January 26, 2014 Vidya Pratishthan’s College of Engineering, Baramati e-Newsletter Department of General Sciences and Engineering Inside this issue: Faculty’s Achievements Dr. Nirmal K. Sahuji and Prof. Gajanan A. Dhanorkar General Science & 1 Engineering presented their research paper entitled Simulation of Laplace Transformation using Python Information Technology 2 in Scipy -13, an International Conference on Python for Education and Scientific Computing during 13 th December 2013 to 15 th December 2013 in IIT, Mumbai. Computer Engineering 3-5 Mr Anil Patil Electronics & Telecom. 6-8 He presented his research paper entitled Postmodernism and Salman Rushdie in the Na- Mechanical Engineering 9-10 tional Conference on 31 st and 1 st September 2013 conducted by Dayanand College Civil Engineering 11-16 of Arts and Science, Solapur. Electrical Engineering 17 He presented his research paper entitled Diasporic Studies and Salman Rushdie in the NSS Activity 18 International Seminar on 25 th and 26 th October 2013 conducted by Karnataka State Women’s University, Bijapur. His research paper entitled Interpreting Modernism and Postmodernism has been pub- lished in the Peer-Reviewed and Referred International Research Journal of Literary Theories and Criticism . “Scientists investigate that His Research Paper entitled Learning Reading Skill: Problems and Solutions has been which already is; selected to be presented in the Fourth National Conference on Cultivating the Engineers create Reading Skill: A Classroom Challenge to be held on 7 th and 8 th February 2013 at that which has Symbiosis (ELTIS) , Pune. never been.'” - Albert Einstein Laboratory up-gradation and Equipment's Added: Name of the Laboratory Equipments Added Measurement of Sound Pressure level experi- Applied Physics Lab ment kit Editor: Basic Laser kit Mr. Anil Patil pH meter LI 120 Designer: Applied Chemistry Lab Conductivity Meter CM 180 (02 No.) Mr. Sandeep Jadhav Colorimeter LC - 63 Vidya Abhiyantriki Pa ge 2 Department of Information Technology 1. Faculty’s Achievements S. R. Kakade and Prof. Sheetal A. Takale presented their research paper on A Novel Approach to Link Semantic Gap between Images and Tags via Probabilistic Ranking in IEEE ICCIC 2013 confer- ence held during 26 th December to 28 th December 2013 at Vikram College of Engineering, Ma- durai Tamilanadu, India. Prof S.K.Shah has successfully completed ME (Computer Engg.) with Distinction from Univer- sity of Pune. Workshops/ Conferences Attended Prof. M. K. Chavan presented his research paper entitled Performance scaling of Wireless Sensor Net- work using OMRA Algorithm in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Cybernetics and Intelligent System on 21 st November 2013 at VIT University, Vellore. All the faculty members attended two days workshop on Research Methodology by Dr. Manesh B. Kokare from SGGS, Nanded held in VPCOE, Baramati. All the faculty members attended two days CEP on Computer Vision by Dr. Sumantra Dutta Roy , IIT Delhi, held in VPCOE, Baramati. Workshop/Conference Organized Prof. M. K. Chavan organized Two days workshop on Research Methodology for Staff and ME Stu- dents on18 th and 19 th October 2013. The resource person for this workshop was Dr Manesh B. Kokare from SGGS, Nanded. 2. Students’ Achievements VPCOE CSI Student Branch Activities 127 student members from I.T. Dept. classes are added in the academic year 2013-14 for CSI stu- dents’ chapter. 3. Achievements of the Department Pune University May/June 2013 Examination Results SE (IT) Pune university examination result is 95.65%. TE (IT) Pune university examination result is 94.80%. BE (IT) Pune university examination result is 94.12%. 4. Placement Details Following students are placed in PERSISTENT Pune . APARNA BUSHAN DEEPALI KOLHE FREDA FERNANDES Following students are placed in PERSISTENT Pune (Continued……) Vidya Abhiyantriki Volume 1, Issue 1 Pa ge 3 Department of Information Technology Continued…... JYOTI GHALME MADHURI KALSHETTY PREETI KOTHARE PRADNYA DESHMUKH SHITAL BIRADAR SOPAN GOSAVI VAIBHAV JADHAV Following students are selected for a project at PERSISTENT Pune for year 2013-14. PRADNYA DESHMUKH SHITAL BIRADAR SNEHA BHOSALE JYOTI GHAVANE Extra Courses Conducted SEED Extra courses are organized for SE, TE and BE students. The details of students’ participa- tion are given as follows. 31 students participated from SE (IT) participated for ‘C’ Course. For Java course 27 students participated from TE (IT) and 34 students participated from BE (IT). II) Prof. P.T. Raut (Coordinator), Prof. A.J. Kokare, Prof. S.K. Shah , Prof. S.A. Swami conducted two workshops on LATEX and SCILAB under FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) for M.E . (Computer) and M.E. (Design) students on 7 th Oct 2013. Laboratory Up-gradation and Equipment's Added • 20 computers of Network Lab are replaced by DELL Intel®Core™ i3-3220 Processor Computers. • 20 computers of Software Lab are replaced by Dell Intel®Core™I5-3470 processor computers. Department of Computer Engineering Workshop Organized Workshop on Hadoop Programming Environment was organized for the students of ME Com- puter (2013 Batch) in October 2013. Mr. Sachin Gaikwad (Persistent Private Limited, Pune) covered important details of Hadoop. This workshop was organized under the leadership of Prof. Mrs. G. J. Chhajed (HoD Computer) and Mr. Kishor Vitekar coordinated the workshop. Publication in International/National Journal/Conference Prof. D. M. Padulkar "Discovering Knowledge with Uncertain Data using Vector Norms in Python" at IIT Bombay, During 13 Dec. 2013 to 15 Dec. 2013. Pa ge 4 Vidya Abhiyantriki Department of Computer Engineering Continued…... This conference is organized by IIT Bombay, Mumbai FOSSEE group, in order to promote the open source and python for engineering and science education. They organize this kind of the conference only for open source every year. Paper addressed the issues related to training of algorithms and increasing the training accuracy as compared to the existing training methods Ms. Urmila Pawar and Prof. Dinesh Hanchate "Literature Review on Personnel Scheduling" in International Journal of Computer Engineering & Technology [IJCET] Vol. 4, September - October 2013 ISSN 0976 - 6367 (PRINT), ISSN 0976 - 6375 (ONLINE). This journal has been published by International Association for Engineering and Management (IAEME). Papers accepted for Publication in International/National Journal/Conference Prof. Rajaram Ambole and Prof. Dinesh Hanchate The research paper Class timetable scheduling with Genetic Algorithm has been accepted in Interna- tional Journal of Computer Science and Technology (IJCST), Vol.4 Issue 4, Oct to Dec 2013 ISSN 2229-4333 (Print). This journal has global impact factor of 0.478 and Index Copernicus of 5.09. Mr. Kishor Vitekar and Prof. Dinesh Hanchate The research paper Software Project Planning using ACO has been accepted in International Journal of Computer Science and Technology (IJCST), Vol.4 Issue 4, Oct to Dec 2013 ISSN 2229-4333 (Print). This journal has global impact factor of 0.478 and Index Copernicus of 5.09. Workshop/Seminar/Conference Attended/Participated Following staff members attended a CEP on Computer Vision by Dr. Sumantra Datta Roy, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur during 16 th –18 th October 2013 held in VPCOE, Baramati. 1. Prof. D. B. Hanchate 2. Prof. Mrs. G. J. Chhajed 3. Prof. D. M. Padulkar 4. Prof. M. D. Shelar 5. Prof. M. B. Rangdal 6. Mr. Kishor Vitekar 7. Mr. Suraj Dhanve 8. Ms. Kshitija Upadhyay 9. Ms. Priyanka Madane Students’ Achievements: Kushal Patel (Student of ME Computer-2011) is awarded “Outstanding Intern Award” from IBM on 19 th December 2013. He is doing internship with IBM under the guidance of Prof. S. A. Shinde. He is working on the project “SVC Config Adviser”. This award is given to him on the occasion of AHM (All Hands Meeting) of IBM for the year of 2013. Vidya Abhiyantriki Pa ge 5 Department of Computer Engineering Continued…... Kranti Ingale (Student of BE Computer-2014) is awarded “Award for Academic Excellence” in Indo-Global Education Excellence Summit 2013. Following students successfully completed their Masters in Computer Engineering. 1. Sahil Shah First Class with Distinction 2. Yogesh Thorat First Class 3. Jawahar Gawade First Class Pune University May/June 2013 Examination Results SE (IT) Pune university examination result is 100.00%. TE (IT) Pune university examination result is 100.00%. BE (IT) Pune university examination result is 96.00%. Guest Lectures Conducted A Guest lecture on Instruction Pipeline and Parallelism by Dr Sulabha S. Apte was organized on 09 September 2013. Dr. Apte has 36 years of teaching experience and completed her Ph D in Computer Architecture. Dr. Apte simply elaborated concept of Instruction and its parallelism to Third Year and Final Year students. All the faculty members of Computer Engineering Department attended this lecture along with 120 students. Extra Courses Conducted A Certificate Test Engineer (CTEG) course of 3 days was conducted for the Final Year students by AIS Technology, Mumbai. The course was conducted during 30 th August–1st September 2013. This course was coordinated by Prof. Rajaram Ambole. Department had selected 31 students for this course and out of these total 8 students got success to become certified test engineers. The course content includes as follows. ~ Testing Concepts and Principles ~ QA and QC ~ Limitations of Testing ~ SDLC – Waterfall Model ~ V – Model ~ SDLC Vs. STLC ~ STLC Stages ~ W- Verification and Validation ~ Requirement Verification ~ Case Studies Pa ge 6 Vidya Abhiyantriki Department of Elect.& Telecom. Engineering Faculty’s Achievements Prof. R K Shastri 1. Presented his research paper entitled Spectral Analysis of Littoral Water Ambient Noise in the Tropical Region at the 2013 IEEE/OES Acoustics on Underwater Geosciences Symposium held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 24-26, 2013. 2. Presented his research paper entitled Gaussianity Analysis of Ambient Noise in Littoral Tropical Waters at the 2013 IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 24-26, 2013.