INSIGHT 30 June ISSUE 4 Department of Electronics Engineering 2020

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HOD Speak Dear Readers, Inside this Welcome to all readers of this issue of InSight. We have been Issue staying at home for almost three and a half months. This period has been a testing time on all the fronts of life for us. However we tried to do all our academic activities with the same spirit. PAGE 2 We considered this situation as an opportunity and got connected to many of our old contacts including our alumni. Our alumni had Faculty Profile whole heartedly supported in conducting interactive sessions for the students to guide them in multiple domains ranging from very core Prof. Ulka Padwalkar topics to skill enhancement. We also kept our students busy in some Dr. Anjali Deshpande Prof. Javed Patel sessions where they resented their ideas to the industry experts. Head of Electronics Department Academic licence of Matlab has been utilized to a great extent by Series of Webinar faculty as well as students.

Nature’s Blog We are all now set for online teaching mode and trying to make our sessions meaningful and engaging for the students. There will be challenges in the way, but I am sure that continued

efforts will help us to go through this situation and student centric learning methodologies will PAGE 3 ensure that our students keep learning from wherever they are. Stay safe and healthy. Hoping to meet you all in person soon. My best wishes to everyone..

The Past Perfect - Shivank Dhote IEEE VIT CodeAger coding competition ; 31st May 2020 - Brian Falerio

Outside Worl Interaction IEEE-VIT, the student chapter for IEEE in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, as a student EESA activity - Mr.Kunal Dua organisation has always aspired and toiled to organise and plan events which not only enrich Latest Technology– Artificial an engineering student with practical skills, but also empower them on the real world stage. Intelligence in Yoga Voyager is IEEE-VIT’s flagship technical flagship event in which we organise various technical workshops, tech talks as well as fun activities for students over the period of a month. IEEE- PAGE 4 VIT’s CodeAger Competition was a part of the Voyager tech fest and was conducted on a com- pletely online platform amidst the pandemic restrictions. The tagline of the competition was: “Talk is Cheap, Show us the code”. This coding competition was hosted by IEEE-VIT on the Student’s Achievements HackerRank platform. The competition started off without any technical glitches at the correct Upcoming Events time at 2:00 PM on Sunday, 31st May 2020. We saw over 400 registrations from 47 colleges based in and outside of Mumbai city. The number of participants in the competition exceeded Faculty Achievements 240, and they hailed from diverse fields, from colleges all over India. Some of the important Student Speak participating colleges include: IIT Delhi, IIT Bhilai, NIT Raipur, VJTI, KJSCE, SPIT, Yashwan- – Radhesh Kumre trao Chavan COE, Govt College of Thrissur, Govt College of Kannur, Goa College of Engineer- ing, etc. We saw participation from IEEE student members from other sections as well, mainly

from Bangalore section, Nagpur subsection and Kerala Section, among others. The problem Scan and get linked with statements were divided into three levels of difficulty: easy, medium and hard. Problems were ETRX Newsletter based on many mathematical and computational concepts. There were six problem statements and 2 tie breakers as well as a “Thank you” challenge. Participants could solve challenges in any order they want, and the tie-breaker questions were added at 3 PM and 4 PM. The “Thank You” challenge contained the feedback form, and after the participants filled the form they had to print "Done". The winner of the competition was a student from IIT-Delh – Mr. Anirudha Kulkarni, and First-Runner Up - SIES GST (SIES Graduate School of Technology) – Mr. Cibin

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“ Distance between an Idea & its Realization ” ETRX i Faculty Profile Series of Webinar : “Department of Electronics”; May- June 2020

There were 11 webinar by Department of Electronics organised by Prof.Akhil Masurkar & Prof.Rajashree Soman for the benefit of students and to give them vision towards various aspects of future career and higher studies. The webinar were given by alumni of Electronics department working in most eminent companies. Mr. Shivank Dhote; System on Chip Design Verification Engineer, Apple, USA gave talk on “Industry and career options in VLSI and Electronics” on 20/05/2020. Mr. Yadnesh Nikam Technical Lead CitiusTech Healthcare Private Ltd gave webinar on "DevOps - A Game Changer in Software Development" on 23/05/2020. Mr. Sanket Joshi A&MS Cir- cuit Design Engineer, Sr I Synopsys (India) Pvt Ltd, Bangalore gave talk on "करो-ना 'core'वाली बात – A pathway to Core Electronics” on 25/05/2020. Mr. Shashwat S. Sang- havi FPGA and Embedded Software Development Engineer, Ibeo Automotive Systems Name: Prof. Ulka Padwalkar GmbH, Hamburg, Germany gave talk on "LiDAR – Light Detection And Ranging" on

Designation: Assistant Prof 27/05/2020. Mr.Swapneel Chitale Business Analyst coach Melbourne, Australia gave talk on"Transitioning to Business Analysis” on 30/05/2020. Mr. Advait Ambeskar Chief B.E: Electronics & Telecom- Technology Officer The Fitting Room Ontario, Canada gave talk on "Growth Mindset - munication; Mumbai University Growing beyond the vertical and finding the niche.” on 03/06/2020. Ms. Oindrilla Chat- M.E: Electronics & Telecom- terjee Data Scientist, RED HAT, INC. Co-Founder, PARKAZE INC gave talk on "What munication ; Mumbai University goes behind turning your idea into a product" on 05/06/2020. Ms. Ketaki Mehta, Career Industrial Experience:.1 yrs Coach and Soft skills Trainer gave talk on “Creating a powerful first impression through Resume and LinkedIn Profile” on 10/06/2020. Mr.Abhishek Kapoor Software Engineer, Teaching Experience: 13 yrs Google – USA gave talk on "How to prepare for Software Engineering roles at Big companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon etc"on 12/06/2020. Ms.Revati Naik Area of Interest: Digital Com- Graduate Student in Robotics, University of Maryland, College Park -USA Co-Founder munication, Wireless communi- at GreyRobotics & Mr. Kunal Khade Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering cation, Internet of Things & Cloud Computing. (Specialisation in Robotics), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology – USA Co- Founder GreyRobotics gave talk on “Our Journey from Projects to Prototypes to Products” on 15/06/2020. Mr. Chandraman Patil Ph.D Research Scholar (Nanophotonics) The George Washington University. Washinton DC, USA gave talk on "Two - Dimensional Material Integration with Photonic Cir- cuits" on 20/06/2020. Nature’s Blog:

The lockdown made for epidemic disease COVID-19 has a positive impact on nature. There is sharp drop in nitrogen dioxide in atmosphere. It has dropped down to 59% from Name:Prof. Javed Patel 77% before lockdown. With vehicles off the city roads and most industries shut for over Designation: Assistant a month due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the air quality in Mumbai has im- Professsor proved significantly . The lockdown has had a positive impact on wildlife. Animals that are usually seen only on television screen seemed to be found themselves a space in Qualification: human vicinity. Parsi colony in Tardeo has had some surprise visitor were dozens of B.E: Electronics Engineer- peacocks were wandering on the streets. Where as Sanjay ing, Shivaji University Gandhi National Park has come alive now.In absence of Diploma: Electrical Engineer- human in the park the fauna of park has reclaimed its lost ing ; Govt. Polytech Karad space. The sighting of of shy animal like leopard has in- creased on roads connecting to Bhandup and connecting Industrial Experience:.06 yrs roads of Kanheri caves even in day time. Sambar and Cheetal are seen feasting gulmohar flowers. – Teaching Experience: 22 Yrs Prof.Poonam Shah Area of Interest: Control systems, Basic Electricals, Secrets of Excellence Power Electronics, Principles of Communication & Mecha- “ Excellence is to do common thing in Uncommon way ” tronics ETRX ii

Past Perfects EESA Activity: “ PCB Design Webinar on Eagle Soft- ware”; Mr. Kunal Dua; 12th June 2020

EESA conducted a webinar on “ PCB Designing using Eagle Software” by Mr.Kunal Dua. The session was organized by Prof. Rakshak Sood convener of EESA & Ms.Ashwini Gawade General Secretary of EESA. He elaborated the importance of PCB in electronic gadgets. It shed light on how an effective PCB design can reduce the possi- bilities of errors and make circuits reliable. The seminar focused on designing of PCB on the software Eagle and its various tools were explained. It also passed on the importance of PCB in technology and world development. Lastly its applications and que- ries regarding the designing were discussed. The objective of the session was to provide Shivank Dhote students knowledge, confidence and ability to modify or create their own PCB design. The session was organized on the platform Google meet. The session was attended by Shivank Dhote graduated from all years of students from different branches. VIT in 2016 and completed his masters at Portland State Univer- sity in 2018. He is currently working as System on Chip Design Verification engineer for Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group since 2 years. He has an initial experience of working with Emulation and prototyping of SoCs and functional design verification of in -house IPs. Adding to this his past experience he has worked as Product Development Intern at Intel Corporation for 8 months & Worked on Post Silicon Wafer validation of High Speed Trans- ceivers for Intel’s Stratix-10 FPGAs.

Brian Savio Faleiro Latest Technology: “Artificial Intelligence with Yoga”

Brian Faleiro, 2017 pass-out Artificial Intelligence has been helping in various aspects of human life. The technology batch of VIT has got admitted has touched almost every industry be it is the medical application, mobility, healthcare, with “ May’s Business School’s or retail. And, now, AI has made its way to the fitness industry. To make Yoga even Master in Management Infor- more accessible for people, Zenia, a start-up founded in Belarus started using AI in or- mation SystemProgram” for su- mer 2020 semester. der to help people find accurate ways to perform the asanas. Zenia is the first virtual yoga assistant which uses machine learning and movement recognition technology to guide people through their exercises. The fitness applications Outside World which are already present on mobile stores are usually video guides, where one needs to follow the instructions provided on the video and won’t be monitored personally. The Interaction important factors like right posture, breathing action are not monitored hence by using 1. Dr Anjali Deshpande is invited Zenia’s application, one can convert their home into an exercising studio. Zenia by using to join and share her thoughts as AI action doesn’t just watch you, but it also guides you step by step, explaining the exact a respected panellist on 1st & way to stand or bend for a particular position. The app also uses Skype to personally 2nd July for VCOP 2020: Virtual train the users.The app has introduced 40 basic and mid-level asanas as of now and Conference Organizers' Panel moving forward it aims to create more complex ones for the users, which will include organized by IEEE Bangladesh more complicated twists and turns. Section as the 1st virtual online panel in IEEE Region 10 (Asia - Prof.Poonam Shah Pacific). Further details: https://analyticsindiamag.com/how-zenia-shapes-the-future-yoga-with-ai/

2. Dr.Anjali Deshpande was session of track Power Electronics & Machines & Drives at IEEE region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2020 on from 5th June to 7th June 2020

3. Dr. Sangeeta Joshi conducted a webinar on “NAAC: Systematic Data Organisation and Presenta- tion” as an IQAC initiative. It was conducted on 16th May 2020. Aspect’s of Progress

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Students Faculty Achievement : Faculties of Department of Electronics made maximum use of the lockdown period by Achievements upgrading themselves in various aspects of Technical as well as Pedagogies to reach a certain level of expertise which will help them in empowering the students in their re- spective subjects. Dr.AnjaliDeshpande completed courses in Inspiring & Motivating Individuals, Learning to 1. Mr. Saurabh Fegde is Teach Online,Introduction to the Internetof things & embedded system from coursera. working as a freelance Deep learning onramp, Machine Learning with MATLAB. Prof.Pravin Annadate complet- web developer. He is ed courses in Machine Learning Onramp, Matlab Fundamentals, Matlab Onramp. working with clients based Prof.Uma Jaishankar completed course in Principles& Patternof Pedagogies, Introduc- in Dubai and India across tion to the Internetof things & embedded system from Coursera, from Udemy the cours- various domains to get es Modern Power point Presentation:Be a creative pro & famous teachers part one. their presence established Google analytics for beginners. Prof.Girish Gidaye completed course in Learning to online by developing re- Teach online & cyber Security & IOT from coursera & Mind map for beginners how to sponsive websites. He make learning fun fast from Udemy. Prof.Pranita Padhye completed course on New works closely with companies digital media and con- thinking for your classroom, Computer Networking from Alison, Fundamentals of Net- tent developing team and work communication from coursera. Prof.Amaya Pethe completed course in Neural Net- guide them in various works & Deep Larning ,Learning to teach coursera, NPTEL course on Design, Technol- technical aspects to have ogy & Invations. Prof.Javed Patel did course on Learning how to learn from coursera an effective online pres- and complete online teaching master class from Udemy. Dr.Nayana Mahajan did course ence. on MATLAB for data processing & Visualization,Machine learning Onramp, new leaning Principles & pattern of Pedgogy from Coursera. Prof.Anuradha Joshi did course in Writ- 2.Mr. Vidyadhar Jogi de- ing professional Email in English ,Famous teachers from Udemy, Microsoft Application veloped an app on Covid- for Education of VIT,Programming for Everyone Python, Neural Network Visualizer Web 19 tracker . It traces the App with Python of Coursera, Simulink Onramp of MATLAB. Prof.Poonam Shah did state wise and district wise course on 40 Tips on Making Great Online courses, Introduction to networking for com- cases and gives updates. plete beginner in Udemy, microsoft Application for Education by VIT, MATLAB based If any one wants to trans- Teaching Learning in mathematics, Science & Engineering. Introduction to Cybersecuri- fer amount to State relief ty Tools & Cyber Attacks.Prof. Savio Moraes did course Outcome Based Education & fund there is a direct link Academic Quality Assurance, 5G,4G-LTE,3G,2G cellular Mobile Communication- for this. We can apply for wireless by Udemy, NPTEL Evolution of Air Interface towards 5G, Machine learning On- Travel pass, Symptoms, ramp, Simulink Onramp. Prof.Akshatha Bhat attended webinar organized by IEEE- Prevention and self test DBCE, Completed course NITTT-Technology enabled learning & life long self learning, facility is also there in the MATLAB Deep Learning Onramp,Machine Learning Onramp, Matlab Fundamental app. courses. Prof.MAnoj Suryawanshi did course on OBE & Academic Quality Assurance & 3.Mr. Rajat Jain is the Di- Robotics with Arduino by Udemy. Prof.Prachi Mujawar did course on Examination re- rector of Manish Jewellers forms by AICTE, Foundation of teaching for learning, Introduction to Electronics, Elcetric Pvt. Ltd. He has designed Power system by Coursera.Prof.Nisy Mathew did Machine Learning Onramp,Modern the website and has com- PPT by Udemy. pletely digitized his shop. He has designed a software "societa" which will be launched in the Student Speak: month of July. 2 societies have already given him Hello everyone, my self Radhesh Kumre, proud to say order for installing this I am the student of a much facilitated student centric software. Societa is an institute. An BE student with a lot of well technically n app which notifies resi- non-technical support given by our department. dents about incoming visi- tors in real time seamless- Generally I like doing some small projects for several ly. It enhances security in subjects with the valuable help form our faculty. In the residential spaces. course of my academic internship was provided by under professor and that gave me a big bucket with 4.Mr.Parag Soni complet- knowledge and interesting things about electronics ed full time United stations which was just awesome. As this year the global pan- Secretariat Internship pro- demic happens and everything turned online, also gramme from 16 Dec 2019 electronics department arranged many webinar's and they were very helpful for us.The to 12th June 2020 in the office programme Plan- speakers were the student of our institute and now they have big startups or in a big ning, Finance & Budget companies which gave motivation to me to upgrade my technical as well as communica- reporting to Ms. Unis Va- tion skills. Institutes usually throw out the bunch of engineers with less knowledge in lencia William Baker. them but with Vidayalankars exactly opposite happens as there are very supportive teaching staff, time to time feedback survey of Teachers and even seminars help me alot to achieve a better knowledge and I feel I placed myself in best campus. lastly I would say this institute taught me alot of moral etiquettes which I genuinely never had and now I am ready to do some amazing stuff only because of vidayalankar institute of Upcoming Events technology.

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