The 54Th Annual General Body Meeting of the BVM Alumni Association Shall Be Held on March 25, 2017 (Saturday) at 10.30 Am in the Auditorium of BVM Engineering College
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NOTICE The 54th Annual General Body Meeting of the BVM Alumni Association shall be held on March 25, 2017 (Saturday) at 10.30 am in the Auditorium of BVM Engineering College. AGENDA 1. To confirm the minutes of the Annual General Body Meeting held on 31st March 2016. 2. To adopt the annual report of the Secretary for the year 2016. 3. To elect the office bearers for the term 2017-19 year. 4. To approve the audited accounts for the year ending on 31st March 2016. 5. To appoint auditors for the year 2017-18. 6. Any item with the permission of the chair. Dr Amit Trivedi Hon. Secretary 1 BVM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION VALLABH VIDYANAGAR LIST OF BVM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS (2014, 2015, 2016) Sr.No. Name Designation 1 Dr. C.L. Patel President 2 Er. V.C.Patel Sr.Vice President 3 Dr. S.N. Patel Jr.Vice President 4 Dr. F.S. Umrigar Chairman 5 Dr. A.M. Trivedi Secretary 6 Er. Pradeep Patel Jt. Secretary 7 Dr. D.S. Vyas Jt. Secretary 8 Er. K.H. Babaria Treasurer 9 Dr. Indrajit N Patel 10 Er. Prayasvinbhai B. Patel 11 Er. Narottambhai Patel 12 Er. Anilbhai T. Patel 13 Er. V.M. Patel 14 Prin. R.C. Desai (Late) 15 Er. Ravindra R. Khetani 16 Er. B. M. Vyas 17 Er. Mehul Patel 18 Dr. S.V. Vaishnav 19 Prof. J.C. Panchal 20 Er. N.H. Barot (Late) 21 Er. Pragneshbhai Patel 22 Er. Mukesh Patel 23 Er. K. Shrinivasan 24 Er. Paresh Thakar 25 Dr. A.D. Patel 26 Dr. B.R. Parekh 27 Dr. A.K. Verma 28 Dr. (Mrs.) T.A. Desai 29 Dr. P.M. George 30 Dr. T.D. Pawar 31 Dr. L.B. Zala 32 Dr. D G Thakore 33 Dr. Bhargav Goradiya 34 Er. Zankhana Shah 35 Er. Devang Joshi 2 BIRLA VISHVAKARMA MAHAVIDYALAYA (Engineering College) VALLABH VIDYANAGAR BVM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION REPORT OF SECRETARY FOR THE YEAR - 2015 Dear Alumni, On behalf of BVM Alumni Association, I welcome you all to this Annual General Body Meeting of the year 2015-16. At the outset, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. C L Patel, the President of the BVM Alumni Association, Dr F S Umrigar Chairman BVM Alumni Association, all the office bearers, executive committee members, life members of the BVM Alumni Association and members of BVM and CVM family for providing support and guidance during the year. It gives me an immense pleasure to inform you that 728 life members were added during the year 2015-16. Our membership till date has now reached to 8830 and as planned in the last year we have crossed the 8800 mark. I am thankful to the alumni and well-wishers for extending the resource support for BVM Endowment Fund to the tune of about 3.27 crore and the list of the same is enclosed in Annexure – 1. The resource support by the Shankarbhai D Patel, Chetan Engineers, Piyush K Kothari, Prafulchandra C Lakhani, Avadhoot Const. Co., V K Ravani, Praful Motilal Jobanpura, Bhupendrakumar Halani, Harendra P Shukla, Ramanlal D Patel, Smt. Motiben Laxmanbhai Jerambhai Che. Foundation, Hi Tech Investment Ltd., Pravina K Patel, Aahlaad Software Pvt. Ltd., Mehta Engg. & Co., Viranchibhai S Sheth, Vasantbhai S Patel, Ranjit Foundation, Ashish Construction Co., Camy Plants, Ashok S Patel, Maheshbhai R Bhatt, Surendra K Desai, Metal Treat, Piyush Patel, Gautam Dinubhai Patel, Rajendra Mehta and one and all needs special acknowledgement at this juncture. The resource support of 2.03 lacks was extended by nine BVM Alumni as mentioned in Annexure-1. I acknowledge the support extended by Shri. Rashmikant M. Dekhtawala, Shri. R O Parikh, Shri. Suresh Jalundhwala, Shri Girishbhai M. Patel, Shri. G L Keswani, Shri Bipinchandra P Shah, Dr. C P Shah and other well-wishers for raising the funds for scholarships, Infrastructure Development. On behalf of BVM alumni family, The BVM Endowment Fund was instituted to generate a corpus fund of 20 crore and it received a good response and the details of the same are enclosed in Annexure-2. Lecturers, Conferences and Technical Events BVM Alumni supports guest lecturers and short term training programs in all the ten departments of our college and invite scholars to share their knowledge and professional experience. Nineteen expert lectures were organized during the year, perhaps the highest in the history of our Alumni Association during the year. The eleven short term training programs conducted by civil, computer, electrical, electronics, information technology, mechanical and structural engineering department were given resource support during the year and their details are given in Table 1 and Table 2. 3 Table-1: List of Expert Lectures Sr. Title Name Department Date No. Dr. B L Gupta, Professor, NITTTR Vision, Mission and PEO's for February 26- 1 Bhopal & Dr. Joshua Earnest, Institute Level BVM Engineering College 27, 2016 Professor, NITTTR Bhopal Harit Kothari, Sr. Software engineer - IOS, Solute Technolabs LLP, Information February 22, 2 IOC for Beginner Ahmedabad & Prakash Donga, Founder, Technology 2016 Solute Techno Labs LLP, Ahmedabad Rahul Goradia, Asst. Professor Information March 19, 3 Raspberry Pi for Beginners EC Dept, GCET College Technology 2016 Welding Applications and S G Natu, Manager, Production 4 April 7, 2015 Challenges Swiss Galsscoat Equipment Pvt ltd. Department Mr. Satyam Panchal, Research Scholar, Production 5 Hybrid Vehicles July 3, 2015 University of Waterloo, Canada Department Prof. Mayur Sutaria, Associate Production September 6 Self Sustainable Metal Casting Professor, CHARUSAT, Changa Department 30, 2015 Placement Needs for Global Matin Shaikh, Manager Production December 7 Engineer Deloitte-USA Department 30, 2015 Under Graduate Projects : The Er. Hitesh Trivedi, Production February 18, 8 way it happens in United states Program Manager, UES, Dayton, USA Department 2016 Dr. Darshak Desai, Professor & Head Production February 18, 9 Six Sigma Technique - Mechanical Engineering GCET Department 2016 Designing the Curriculum for Prof. N Ramkrishnan, Visiting Global Engineers (Faculty Production January 2, 10 Professor, Department of Mechanical Talk) & Preparing for Tomorrow Department 2016 Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar (Student’s Interaction) You are the Chisel, You are the August 31, 11 Pujya Gyanvatsal Swami, BAPS Institute Level Hammer 2015 Dr. Thomas Vadaya August 31, 12 Counseling : 21st Century Skill Institute Level Director, INSIGHT, Baroda 2015 Mr. Jagdish Sasala Stress Management in August 31, 13 Marketing Manager, Gaura Kripa IT Institute Level Teenagers 2015 Solutions, Ahmedabad Dr. Dipti Oza, Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Education August 31, 14 Counseling : A Miracle Institute Level and Psychology, M.S. University, 2015 Baroda Android Application Mr. Jaimin Sarvan, Sr. Android Electronics & Tele- September 15 Development Engineer, Kartya Software Ltd., Surat communication 19, 2015 Dr. Yogesh Trivedi, Professor, MIMO System Simulation and Electronics & Tele- February 21, 16 Institute of Technology, Nirma Analysis communication 2016 University Electronics Dr. Anand Darji, Associate Professor, March 19, 17 Latest trends in VLSI & Tele- SVNIT, Surat 2016 communication 4 Sr. Title Name Department Date No. Career guidance and Mr. Valay Patel, M.Tech. student from Electrical February 11, 18 competitive exams for IIT, Gandhinagar Department 2016 engineering students Ground Improvement Dr. D L Shah, Professor, Faculty of April 16, 19 Civil Department Techniques Technology, M.S. University, Baroda 2015 Table-2: List of Short Term Training Programs Sr. Title Name Date No. Pavement Design and Construction 1 Civil Department May 18-22, 2015 PDC-2015 2 GIS and its Applications Civil Department May 25-29, 2015 3 Embedded systems and IoT Computer Department January 4-8, 2016 Advanced Microcontrollers and 4 Electrical Department December 7-11, 2015 Applications 5 Applied Digital Signal Processing Electronics Department May 4-15, 2015 6 Electronic Design Automation Tools Electronics Department January 4-8, 2016 Recent Trends in Wireless February 29, 2016 to 7 Electronics Department Communication and Networking March 5, 2016 Research Opportunities in Information November 30, 2015 to 8 Information Technology and Network Security December 4, 2015 Free and Open Source Software for 9 Institute Level June 15-26, 2015 Engineering Applications (FOSSEA) 10 Advance in Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Department May 25-29, 2015 Pedagogy & Effective use of ICT in 11 Engineering Education & Academic Structural Department June 15-26, 2015 Governance The BVM Alumni Association also supported Project Expo - 2015 on April 9, 2015 & October 9, 2015, held at our college and the three best team projects in every branch were given awards instituted by our BVM Alumni Association. The student winning groups had an opportunity to work in a team and we hope these teams would someday contribute greatly to our “Make in India” mission. Welcome Function The students of 2016 batch were given a warm welcome on November 25, 5 2016, and our distinguished alumnus Er. Shankarbhai D. Patel M.D, Rajkamal Builders Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. was the Chief Guest of the function. The interaction with them gave a true insight of the professional journey they had as they shared their rich engineering, academic and administrative experience to the incoming students. Dr Dipak Vyas suggested these distinguished alumni to have a lifelong bonding with Alma Mater BVM. Dr. Indrajit N Patel, the President of the function informed about the rich legacy of this college and suggested students to work harder in college and boosted the academic morale of the students. About 520 plus students enjoyed the cultural program and showcased their talents. I thank Dr. Deepak Vyas & his team who organized the vibrant cultural event that included personality contest, skits, mimes, solo & group dance, and solo & group singing. Farewell Function The outgoing students of the 2016 batch were given a farewell on April 25, 2016. Er. Nihir Dave, President, Rotary Club Anand Round Town, a 1993 BVM Alumnus of Civil Engineering Branch, was the Chief Guest of the function.