Annual Report 2019-20 Contents

Year in Retrospect...... 1 MoU...... 81

The Spirit of Avantika ...... 3 Outreach Activities...... 89

Academics ...... 7 Infrastructure and Facilities...... 95

Significant Activities...... 19 Upcoming Year...... 103

Industry Connect...... 39 Leadership ...... 105

Student Affairs...... 43 Statutory Bodies ...... 107

Beyond Academics...... 65 Student Council...... 115

Faculty...... 67 Students ...... 117

Research Projects...... 75 About Avantika...... 129

Staff...... 77 MIT Pune...... 131

Employee Development Activities ...... 79 Year in Retrospect

The past year has been all about strengthening the university academically and introducing elements that boost the wholesomeness of Avantika’s educational landscape .

The university successfully started with its third batch with the Orientation Program of the students in July 2019 . Since then, life at Avantika has been full of academics, exploration, team building coupled with dynamic student life . Currently, the university hosts 330 resident students from programs like BDes, MDes, BTech, and BDes (Fashion Design) in the third year of its inception . The faculty strength of the university currently touches 39, who were supported with 3 other design and engineering faculties who bid their goodbyes at the end of the session . The university invited 17 experts from various backgrounds as visiting faculties Dr. Prasheel to bring about a different perspective and cater to specialized areas . Suryawanshi The university from day one is geared towards bringing industry perspective and exposure in academics . A total of 31 industry connect sessions and visits were organized by hosting Vice Chancellor industry professionals from diverse backgrounds to share their experience, conduct sessions, and workshops. The students benefited by getting a look at the industry best practices and learned directly from the domain experts .

In the past year, the university benefited from a very good number of national and international collaborations . The past year witnessed 9 collaborations with the global universities for students and faculty exchange programs, research initiatives, sharing knowledge resources,

1 The Spirit of Avantika

Design at Avantika Vision and establishment of hi-tech design labs . There were 3 collaborations Festival 2020, and YUJ UXplorer Design Awards 2019 . Besides, the is an active verb Avantika aims to nurture and cultivate young minds who will with industry partners for establishing design-technology labs for percentage of students who received internship opportunities was serve as enlightened citizens, bringing a positive change in the social initiatives and knowledge resources, and 13 collaborations 100%, and we are thrilled to present the student to the opportunity and not a passive noun society . with government and private bodies that support the academics, ratio is maintained at 1:4 . These numbers signify the university’s enhance external participation, and lay numerous opportunities for vision for the future of Designeering education coming to fruition . The spirit is embedded across all disciplines at Avantika . Design the students at the campus and outside . Core Features As a part of our outreach initiatives, the university launched the centric learning at Avantika starts with engaging the learners The highlight was our MoU with ShopX, a Retail Operating System . webinar series - Avantika Connect and the podcast series - Avantika to confront challenges . The learners will solve these challenges #Designeering The collaboration facilitates setting-up the Design Technology Lab Designeering Series . These initiatives crafted a platform for through analysis, reflection, ideation, synthesis, prototyping, and zz Spirit of design, innovation, and enterprise which will enable the students and faculty to co-create unique and connecting with the design and engineering fraternity and discuss testing the impact . As the academic program progresses, these zz Liberal and creative approach to education impactful products that will be placed in the market for consumption . the innovations that the blend of design and technology has delivered challenges change in terms of their scale, complexity, and ambiguity zz Interdisciplinary, integrative, and immersive learning The lab would aim to cater to the growing needs in the pro-sustainable to the world . The university received a great response from industry involved . Learners invest energy, time, and effort into these tasks . zz Foster critical, lateral and analytical thinking and market-driven industry by launching products that add value to professionals, academicians, and the student community . This approach leads them to ask questions and seek answers by the end-customer . zz Harbor intellectual and practical dexterity - Skillset and Mindset The university further plans on extending its courses in the coming reflection, collaboration, and interaction. The faculty members zz Project and problem-based learning In the past year, our students continued to enjoy remarkable levels year with the introduction of Ph .D . in various specializations . As act as facilitators and collaborators in this endeavour . Learning at zz Focus on how to learn and not what to learn of success across the four cornerstones, academic, cultural, sport, the university gets ready to enter the fourth year of its functioning Avantika is just-in-time and not just-in-case . and leadership in a wide range of regional, national, and international and welcome its fourth batch, we feel rejuvenated and geared to zz Promote independent thinking and intellectual boldness competitions. The significant ones were Lexus Design Awards provide world-class exposure to our students and develop them as zz Qualitative, relevant, and contemporary education India 2020, NASSCOM Design4India Awards 2019, Kala Ghoda Arts empathizing industry and society ready professionals . zz Sensitivity and alertness as world citizens

2 3 Values Objectives

#Create, Change, Transform zz To be a leader in the field of higher education, aiding growth in zz To create a positive environment, complemented by adequate zz To enhance interaction and cooperation between researchers for frontier areas of national importance . facilities and resources in which, students and faculty pursue interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work; by forging academic zz Freedom of Thinking their ideas with rigor and integrity . and research collaborations with national and international zz To be a Center of Excellence in Design, Innovation, Research, and zz Academic Rigor and Excellence universities, governments, and industries . Development . zz To develop a participatory learning model, that is innovative and zz Integrity and Diligence enjoyable while being meticulous and comprehensive at the same zz To establish links with various R&D organizations and funding zz To be a Finishing School with Extension, Outreach, and Community zz Collaboration over Competition time . agencies for sponsored and contract research in frontier areas of programs for various strata of society . science and engineering . zz Individuality, Diversity, and Universality zz To recruit and retain excellent faculty from around the globe and z z To identify local, regional, national, and global needs, and promote provide inclusive teaching at all levels; to transform students into zz To strengthen the industry-institute interface through training, zz Social and Moral responsibility academic growth by offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and winning personalities and complete human beings . academic projects, sponsored projects, and collaborative research doctoral programs in varied disciplines . with industry . zz To produce graduates who are adaptable and alert to the benefits zz To inculcate and promote the spirit and culture of design, of lifelong learning and who meet the requirements of employers zz To promote extension, outreach, and field programs in industrial, innovation, enterprise, leadership, tolerance, and camaraderie at local, national, and international levels across varied sectors . educational, and socially relevant areas, for students and the amongst all concerned . community at large .

4 5 Academics

Academic Students on Roll School of Design BDes Programs Foundation Year zz Foundation 87 zz Industrial Design 68 Education Avantika University offers three zz Bachelor of Design 87 zz Communication Design 64 academic programs, namely, Bachelor zz Master of Design 14 starts with of Design, Master of Design, and zz User Experience Design 38 Observation zz Bachelor of Technology 22 Bachelor of Technology . MDes evolves with Comprehension zz Bachelor of Design (Fashion Design) 6 The academic programs are based zz Industrial Design 7 and ends with Innovation on an interdisciplinary curriculum zz Communication Design 7 with a philosophy of design-centered Second Year education . zz Bachelor of Design 84 School of Engineering zz Bachelor of Technology 9 BTech zz Foundation 22 Third Year zz Computer Science and Engineering 28 zz Bachelor of Design 86 zz Mechanical Engineering 3

zz Bachelor of Technology 22 School of Fashion Total 330 BDes (Fashion Design) zz Foundation 6

6 7 School of Design Toppers of the Session

Prof . Yashi Pareek Tanvi Dev A total of 10 visiting faculties were invited to contribute to the BDes - 1st Year | Foundation BDes - 3rd Year | Communication Design Sukanta courses and bring a different perspective . They were invited to take Kundu lectures in the field of Ergonomics, Photography, Emotive Design, Dean - School of Design UX Design, UX Research Tools, and contribute to courses of the Foundation Year . Students were indulged in many co-curricular activities and attended a total number of 31 industry connect Atharva Pande Divya Ray The School of Design was led by Prof . Sukanta Kundu as the sessions and workshops . These were conducted every Friday at the BDes - 2nd Year | Industrial Design BDes - 3rd Year | User Experience Design Dean and offered BDes and MDes in the 2019-20 session . The campus, and industry experts from various domains were invited to specializations in BDes were Industrial Design, Communication share their experience and knowledge. The significant achievements Design, and User Experience Design, and in MDes were Industrial were bagging the Lexus Design Awards India 2020, NASSCOM Design and Communication Design . There were a total of 84 design Design4India Awards 2019, YUJ UXplorer Design Awards 2019, and Shaunak Datar Bhaswati Banerjee students in the second year of BDes program who further chose their the participation in Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2020 . specializations to segregate as 27 students in Industrial Design, 29 BDes - 2nd Year | Communication Design MDes - 1st Year | Industrial Design The students presented their work in every semester to a jury in Communication Design, and 28 in User Experience Design . In the comprising of external experts and in-house faculty . A total of 15 academic year 2019-20, a total of 87 students joined the School of external experts were involved in the assessment and feedback . Design for the Foundation Year, and a total of 14 students joined The school was privileged to host eminent designers like Jamila in MDes who further segregated as 7 in Industrial Design, and 7 in Manuja Mahesh Kadre Harsimran Kaur Varawala, Narayan Subramaniam, Saptarshi Prakash, Devika Gharge, Communication Design . nd st Amirkhan Pathan, etc . in the jury . The feedback received from the BDes - 2 Year | User Experience Design MDes - 1 Year | Communication Design The academic courses were delivered by 22 faculty members with external experts has been encouraging and guiding at the same time . diverse specialization and experience . The school maintained a healthy faculty to student ratio at 1:12 and is continuously making efforts to further expand its firepower. Deven Kale

8 BDes - 3rd Year | Industrial Design 9 School of Engineering Toppers of the Session

Dr . Five visiting faculties were invited to contribute to the courses and Prasheel bring a different perspective . They were invited to take lectures in Suryawanshi the field of Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Design Project - Nitya Kasturey

Dean - School of Engineering Mobile Application . BTech - 1st Year | Foundation Students were indulged in many co-curricular activities and attended a total number of 31 industry connect sessions and workshops . The School of Engineering was led by Dr . Prasheel Suryawanshi who These were conducted every Friday at the campus, and industry took on the charge in addition to the seat of the Vice Chancellor . experts from various domains were invited to share their experience A program in BTech with specialization in Computer Science and Pooja Kanojia and knowledge . Engineering was offered in the 2019-20 session . The school had BTech - 2nd Year | Computer Science and Engineering a small cohort of 31 students with 28 in Computer Science and The students presented their work in every semester to a jury Engineering, and 3 in Mechanical Engineering . A total of 22 students comprising of external experts and in-house faculty . A total of 3 joined the School of Engineering for the Foundation in the academic external experts were involved in the assessment and feedback . year 2019-20 . The size of the cohort was intentionally kept small to The school was privileged to host eminent engineers like - Sushil Mihir Srivastava propagate a new way of learning in engineering education . Mahajan, Sampada Wagde, and Mahesh Goudar in the jury . The BTech - 3rd Year | Computer Science and Engineering feedback received from the external experts has been encouraging The academic courses were delivered by 13 faculty members with and guiding at the same time . diverse specialization and experience . The school maintained a healthy faculty to student ratio at 1:4 and is continuously making efforts to further expand its firepower. Aditya Upadhyay

BTech - 3rd Year | Mechanical Engineering

10 11 School of Fashion Toppers of the Session

Prabodh Students were indulged in many co-curricular activities and attended Mishra a total number of 31 industry connect sessions and workshops . Coordinator - School of Fashion These were conducted every Friday at the campus, and industry Nikita Dubey experts from various domains were invited to share their experience BDes - 1st Year | Fashion Design and knowledge . The key highlight was partnering for Feronia Fashion Night 2019, where our students presented their designs on the ramp The School of Fashion was led by Prabodh Mishra who took on the and were a part of the backstage management team . charge in addition to the seat of the Assistant Professor . A program in The students presented their work in every semester to a jury BDes with specialization in Fashion Design was offered in the 2019- comprising of external experts and in-house faculty . A total of 1 20 session and a total of 6 students joined the School of Fashion . external expert, Rakhi Bhambani, was involved in the assessment The size of the cohort was intentionally kept small to propagate a and feedback . The feedback received from the external expert has new way of learning in fashion education . been encouraging and guiding at the same time . The academic courses were delivered by 3 faculty members with diverse specialization and experience . The school maintained a healthy faculty to student ratio at 1:2 and is continuously making efforts to further expand its firepower. Two visiting faculties were invited to contribute to the courses and bring a different perspective . They were invited to take lectures focusing on Overview and Sociology of Fashion .

12 13 Student Work

14 15 Student Work

16 17 Significant Activities

Orientation Program

The students of the third batch of the university reported on campus on 6th July 2019 . After a day’s break to settle-in the luggage, their Orientation Program began from 8th July 2019 and went on till 13th July Excellence 2019 . The 6-days long program aimed at introducing the students to the overall ethos of the university, their mentors, faculties, and admin is not an objective, section heads . A bunch of activities was conducted throughout the week like introductory gatherings, exploratory tours to the Ujjain it is the way of life city, the 100 Rs . Challenge, panel discussions, talent hunt, cultural program, and concluded with the online student verification. The at Avantika orientation week proved to be an adrenalizing start to the Foundation Year students .

18 19 Foundation Day Annual Sports Festival -

The university celebrated its Foundation Day on 11th September 2019, SPARDHA which marks its inception . The program started with a tree plantation ceremony and had in store 18 different workshops, cultural program, The university conducted the first edition of the Annual Sports formal program, the inauguration of the international exhibition Festival - SPARDHA from 28th February - 1st March 2020. The first of Prof . Kohei Sugiura, Foundation Day Lecture (Indian Thoughts morning started with an opening ceremony and a marathon with and Tradition) by Prof . Kirti Trivedi, and the inauguration of two immense participation by the students, faculty, and staff members . interdisciplinary centers - Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and The day followed by open tournaments in other sports with the Design Center . The program concluded by felicitating the university participation of over 12 teams from across the city . The competition toppers and officiating the formation of the university’s student was witnessed with full enthusiasm to give a tough competition to council, followed by a cultural program . their opponents in Cricket, Football, Chess, Carrom, Table Tennis, Volleyball, and Kabaddi . The three-day fest had served as an excellent platform for enriching team building, sportsmanship, and dedication among students .

20 21 Annual Design and Tech Masterclass by Masterclass by Design Masterclass by Founding Festival - CHAKRAVIEW Internationally Acclaimed Head of Capgemini Partner of UXReactor

The university celebrated its first annual Design and Tech fest - Architect The university welcomed Monica Deshpande, the Design Director of The university was honored to welcome Prasad Kantamneni, Founder CHAKRAVIEW on 8th - 9th November 2019 . The fest celebrates the Capgemini, on campus on 4th October 2019 for an iConnect session of UXReactor, for an insightful session on Artificial Intelligence collaboration and interdependence of Design and Technology, and the It was a proud moment for the university to host Michael on UX, IT, and You . Monica is a brilliant forerunner as a User Experience in Design on 10th December 2019 . Prasad started the session by Karassowitsch, a renowned Canadian architect and educator, for an theme for 2019 was ‘Classical Technology Re-designed in a Modern professional and a business practice leader who has handled many exemplifying how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way that iConnect session on 9th August 2019, to enlighten the students on Way ’. The 2-day fest was power-packed with activities that promoted projects in her career spanning 20+ years . In her session, she talked we interact with technology daily and how most of the time, we don’t the intermingling of Design and Technology . Many activities like 12- the cross-linkage of architecture and spirituality . Michael started his about her experience and journey through various designations even realize when it’s happening . He further emphasized the world hour Hackathons to Designing Games with Python to Photography, session by tapping on the interrelation of Design and Architecture and roles in the last 20 years and how she is continuously learning of AI opening up new modes of interaction, and the designers’ need and workshops on Design Modelling, etc . were organized and and further discussed how architecture and spirituality can come even now . She proved to be an inspiration to many of the students to catch up . This lent a fresh perspective to everyone that the best emanated the spirit of Designeering through all its happenings . together in a way that was never even imagined before . He focussed who were impressed with her vast portfolio and diverse domain strategy is to embrace the change, heighten the understanding of AI, on the amalgamation of all the above practices . The session helped knowledge. The students got first-hand experience of the latest and adapt to new technologies . students gain a new learning curve towards their own methods on trends in UX and how the design industry functions. how to think outside the boundaries .

22 23 Workshop by Eminent Orientation to Life Design Partnership with Feronia Professor from IDC, IIT by Founders of Ahhaa Fashion Night

Bombay It was pleasure to host Ashwin Srisailam and Diane Bacchus, the The university sponsored Feronia Fashion Night 3 .0, organized by the Founders of Ahhaa, for an orientation to the Life Design Program on Redo Times in the Grand Bhagwati Palace (Indore) on 1st September The university welcomed Prof . Uday Athavankar, a renowned 31st January 2020 . The spectrum of the program starts from being 2019 . Feronia Fashion Night is an initiative to raise awareness on the professor from IDC, IIT Bombay, to host a session on game design able to form a strong vision in life, to realizing limiting mental patterns very sensitive topic of gender equality and LBTQ inclusiveness . It is a with the students on 13th October 2019 . The very archetype of a and being able to transform them towards clarity . first of its kind event that showcases Androgynous Fashion, a form brilliant designer, he helped students look beyond the concept of of fashion that focuses on breaking the archaic gender stereotype . Ashwin briefed about how the smallest things in life, be it positive games that they know today . The students had a miraculous time or negative, affect everyone and their mindsets . The stage was also The event featured collections from top fashion designers from India with him wherein they developed 2 no-cost games right from scratch . taken over by his co-founder Diane who spoke about how emotional and around the world like Padma Shri Wendell Rodricks, Padma Raj It was a day of great learning coupled with some extremely happy well-being and attachment to the past impact decisions . The session Kesari, Diana Linda, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Corinne Smith . The fashion faces and revival of childhood memories . The session ended with ended with her asking everyone to illuminate the world they like show also became a platform for our Foundation Year Fashion students realizing what makes a game a game, and how a game is through simple meditation and asked everyone to perceive an image Design students of the university to present their designs and got given a virtual form . of life on a platter and making it better through designing . exposure to working with renowned fashion designers from across the globe .

24 25 Partnership with edX MoU with ShopX Statutory Meetings

The university announced a global partnership with edX for the The university partnered with ShopX, a Retail Operating System, on Governing Body Remote Access Program on 1st May 2020 to expand its libraries of 13th January 2020 . The collaboration facilitates setting-up the Design Three meetings (8th, 9th, and 10th) of the Governing Body dated 28th high-quality learning to all of its students, faculty, and staff . Founded Technology Lab which will enable the students and faculty to co- November 2019, 25th April 2020 and 9th July 2020 were organized by Harvard and MIT, edX is the trusted platform for education and create unique and impactful products that will be placed in the market in the session 2019-20 . All three meetings were presided over by learning and is home to more than 20 million learners worldwide . for consumption through ShopX’s proprietary B2B e-Commerce the Chancellor, Dr . Sanjay Govind Dhande . The Vice Chancellor, Dr . platform . The lab would aim to cater to the growing needs in the pro- Access to top-quality learning content is more relevant than ever as Prasheel Suryawanshi, presented the report of the university and the sustainable and market-driven industry by launching products that the markets adapt to new challenges emerging from the COVID-19 agenda points were discussed and confirmed. add value to the end-customer crisis . The edX Remote Access Program provides free access to a catalog of courses and programs offered by the world’s leading universities and companies, for a limited time . This strategic Academic Council initiative is intended to ensure the lifelong learning and professional Two meetings (5th and 6th) of the Academic Council dated 15th development of students, faculty, and staff in critical and emerging November 2019 and 30th June 2020 were organized in the session areas . 2019-20 . All meetings were presided over by the Vice Chancellor, Dr . Prasheel Suryawanshi, who also presented the report of the university and the agenda points were discussed and confirmed.

26 27 Launches

Foundation Day Lecture International Exhibition of Center for Design Center by Kriti Trivedi Prof. Kohei Sugiura’s Work Cyber-Physical Systems A Design Center aimed at providing consultancy services and professional design solutions was launched on 11th September 2019 . The university initiated the Foundation Day Lecture, which features a An International Exhibition was opened on the 3rd Foundation Day, A Center for Cyber-Physical Systems was launched on 11th September The center shall focus on professional work and design solutions senior educationist or artist to speak over the ceremony sharing their 11th September 2019, showcasing the works of Prof . Kohei Sugiura . 2019 . This is an interdisciplinary center which is committed to to a wide variety of clientele in the areas of Communication Design, insights on transforming lives and experiences . Prof . Kohei Sugiura is an unprecedented Graphic Designer, Asian research and development in technologies that blend physical and User Experience Design, Computer Science, Industrial Design, and Iconography Researcher, and Professor Emeritus at Kobe Design information worlds . The first Foundation Day Lecture, Indian Thoughts and Tradition, Automobile Design . University, Japan . was delivered by Prof . Kriti Trivedi on 11th September 2019 . Prof . Kriti The center brings together the faculty, researchers, and students The center endeavors to bring real-world projects for our students Trivedi, the design maestro and veteran, talked about how the rich His innovations span the entire field of graphic design, with a core spanning all the disciplines to stimulate the discussion, develop and faculty for developing solutions to client-presented problems . visual tradition of India assumes a new relevance in the 21st century focus on book design, typography, and information design . The fundamental understanding, and apply CPS concepts in the key This initiative intends to foster interdisciplinary collaborations across and its capability of revitalizing modern design . His insights on how exhibition showcases his design work, with a special focus on the areas of e-Mobility, Energy, Smart Cities, Connected Autonomous campus and gives students the direct experience of designing and the Way of Asian Design can create experiences with great power, cultural traditions of Asia, which constitute an invaluable body of Systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), delivering tested, functional products, or prototypes . energy, and refinement, has lent a fresh perspective to everyone. profound design thinking and inspires the young design aspirants to and Cyber-Security and Privacy . benchmark excellence and sheer brilliance in their design work .

28 29 Achievements

mentored to create unique and impactful products which will be st Reap Benefit Fellowship placed in the market for consumption . The lab would aim to cater to 1 Position at Lexus Design the growing needs in the pro-sustainable and market-driven industry Program by launching products that add value to the end-customer . Awards India 2020

The Reap Benefit Fellowship Program started with an orientation The BDes (Industrial Design) student - Soham Mohanty bagged the program that was conducted on 15th November 2019 . Kuldeep 1st place in the ‘Conceptual Category – Student’ at the Lexus Design Dantewadia (Founder - Reap Benefit) and his team gave orientation Toastmasters International Awards India 2020 in January 2020 at Pune, and got shortlisted to the students about the upcoming activities of the 10-month long for the Global Lexus Design Award 2020 from the 885 high quality program. The first day encompassed a workshop on trigger mapping, Club entries. Soham designed a product by the name of Accufill, a device where the students worked on the basic principles and designed that can measure and track the actual amount of fuel entering the solutions which would be implemented in real-time in the coming The university relaunched the Toastmasters International Club petrol tank in automobiles . The international design competition will future . The program marked the start of the journey where students on its campus on 21st September 2019 . TI is a US-headquartered, be taking place at the Lexus Design Event at Milan Design Week this start to groom themselves as problem-solvers and work rigorously non-profit organization and a world leader in communication and year . on their critical-thinking skills . leadership development . The organization endeavors to promote communication, public speaking, and leadership skills with more than 16000 clubs functioning across 143 countries worldwide . The club started its function with active student participation and Design Technology Lab - proved to be a platform for the development of communication and ShopX leadership skills of the students .

The university unveiled the latest lab on 24th January 2020 in collaboration with ShopX, a Retail Operating System . Sanjay Bhatnagar, the Director of Design at ShopX, would be leading this collaboration with handpicked students who would be constantly

30 31 1st Position at NASSCOM 2nd Position at YUJ Design4India Awards 2019 UXplorer Design Awards 2019 The BDes students - Arnav Agrawal, Atharva Dahotre, Rudrik Marathe, and Abhinav Narayan bagged the 1st place in the ‘Immersive Design’ category at the NASSCOM Design4India Awards 2019 on The BDes (Industrial Design) students - Soham Mohanty, Shantanu 23rd August 2019 at Bengaluru. The students designed a fitness- Thorat, and Balgovind Shanbhag, bagged 2nd position at YUJ UXplorer entertainment app known as SPREE using Augmented Reality (AR) Design Awards 2019 on 9th September 2019 at Pune . Following the as the base . The app included three games - Groove Step (walking theme 360° Experience Design, the students identified fuel theft as a and running), Dodge Ball (agility), and Ropewalk (concentration) that major issue in the oil industry and designed a product-based solution aimed at nudging users towards fitness whilst giving them a sense for it . The product aimed at bringing transparency between staff at of entertainment . petrol pump stations and consumers to counter manipulation done while refuelling bikes .

32 33 3rd Position at Indian Film Participation in Kala Project Competition 2019 Ghoda Arts Festival 2020

The BDes (Communication Design) student - Manuja Kadre bagged The BDes students exhibited two intriguing visual artworks and the 3rd prize in the 9th season of Asia’s Largest Content Festival - marked a very strong presence at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Indian Film Project Competition . The competition was organized by Mumbai, in February 2020. The first artwork was AIKAPADYA - the Indian Film Project at Mehboob Studio, Mumbai on 12th - 13th The Unity of Words . The students built an interactive cylinder that October, 2019 . The competition required the participants to redesign expressed various beautiful dialects with multicoloured threads, a poster of a movie released from 1974 to 1999 . Manuja decided all coming together and portraying unity in diversity . The second to work on the movie ‘Fire,’ a path breaking film of that time. She artwork was AASHIYANA - The Hands of Unity . The students built designed a poster that resonated with the real idea behind the movie a home with two hands (one of male and the other of female) – acceptance coming together, that depicted the ups and downs of life . These two artworks transformed the meaning of the seemingly simple objects into impactful visualizations that offered a captivating experience to the visitors as soon as they see, hear, or feel them .

34 35 IPO Published Patent for Achievement at E-Summit Selection for WDO’s IoT Product 2020, IIT Bombay Young Designers Circle

The faculty, Atul Choudhary from School of Engineering, has been The BDes (Foundation) student - Jagriti Kale won the Online UX Design The BDes (User Experience Design) student - Sahil Jain was selected, published in January 2020 under the IPR Act (India) by Indian Patent Challenge, conducted in partnership with Web2UI at E-Summit 2020, on 15th May 2020, by the World Design Organisation (WDO) as one Office (IPO) for designing an IoT based Product for Water Level IIT Bombay in February 2020 . Jagriti designed Chayan, a web-based of the 17 young designers from around the world to serve as a core Monitoring and Quality Detection . The product uses real-time data product that could solve day-to-day recruitment related issues and member of their new pilot program, the ‘Young Designers Circle’ communication between the sensors and servers using the Internet aims to highlight the best-suited candidate for the job profile. (YDC) . of Things to monitor the resources and generate an alarm via the mobile app . Additionally, the product can monitor and clean water in The YDC is a group of creativity and ambition designers under-40, the water tanks of multistoried buildings . across multiple disciplines from South Africa, USA, Mexico, India, Turkey, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea . Over the next 18 months, Sahil, along with the YDC core team, co-designs the roadmap to promote the use of design to help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and contributes to the expansion of the field of design and its impact on the world.

36 37 Industry Connect

Avantika is built on application-based education, which provides chai or fun activities, including discussions and games . The activity holistic development of our students . The Industry Relations encouraged peer-to-peer learning through inspirational sessions . team is established to provide expert guidance, develop a culture Industrial Mind Restoration (IMR) of entrepreneurship, provide professional exposure, and guide students beyond the academic curriculum . The objective is to infuse IMR is a platform for our learners to step out of the campus and learn entrepreneurial spirit among all stakeholders harnessing the power by observation in a real business environment . This is facilitated by a of design and technology to solve some of the challenging global visit to manufacturing companies, design houses, or city tours . The problems with profitable business models. sessions are designed for the exploration of business processes, operational styles, and industry practices . There are four types of sessions that the team organizes every Friday, which are as follows: - Crusaders for Tomorrow

SparkTalks ‘We rise by lifting others ’. CFT attempts to build empathy and a sense of giving back to society at large . The students work with artisans, These are formal sessions wherein speakers from diverse industries NGOs, social enterprises, and people at the bottom of the pyramid and backgrounds share their expertise and life journey with the to create an environment of oneness . The students contribute in participants . The spark that the speaker leaves behind with the the form of efforts, teaching skills, and building a social interaction students helps them to broaden their industry perspective . These platform . sessions are structured for the formal learning process .

The Bodhi Tree

Young and dynamic entrepreneurs or leaders are invited to informally chat and share their expertise over a casual discussion over some

38 39 Industry Connect

The university organized 31 industry connect activities in the These activities were conducted every Friday where the university session 2019-20, which included expert sessions, workshops, and called-in a diverse range of experts from the industry to share their industry visits . knowledge and experience with the students .

Sr. Date Topic Sr. Date Topic Expert(s) Expert(s) 16 21-09-2019 Industry Visit to Gyrix Techno Lab, Indore 1 08-07-2019 Workshop on Positive Pagalpan Amrut Bhat, Drum Circle Facilitator - Sumouli Dutta, Regional Visual Merchandiser at Godrej 17 27-09-2019 Session on Data Engineering Robin Dmello, General Manager at IoT BU, Reliance 2 09-07-2019 Workshop on Doodle Woodle & Boyce Mfg . Co . Ltd . 18 04-10-2019 Session on UX, IT and You Monica Deshpande, Design Head - India at Capgemini 3 09-07-2019 Session on From Kya banaya hai? To Kya banaya hai!! Sahil Lahari, Independent Artist 19 13-10-2019 Workshop and Session on Game Design Prof . Uday Athavankar at IDC, IIT Bombay 4 11-07-2019 Workshop on Character Design Vidhi Bhat, Independent Artist Kuldeep Dantewadia, Co-Founder at Reap Benefit 20 15-11-2019 Launch - Reap Benefit: Solve Ninja Fellowship 5 26-07-2019 Industry Visit to Shriji Polymers (India) Ltd ,. Ujjain - Shashi Shekhar, Director at Reap Benefit Narayan Subramaniam, CEO at Ultraviolette 6 26-07-2019 Industry Visit to Vyankatesh Corrugators Pvt . Ltd ., Ujjain - 21 05-12-2019 Session on Design & Tech in Electric Vehicle Automotive Pvt . Ltd . Amber Krishan, VP at PayU India 7 02-08-2019 Session on Times of Design 22 10-12-2019 Session on Artificial Intelligence in Design Prasad Kantamneni, Founder at UXReactor Hitesh Agarwal, Co-Founder at THEM Consulting Dr . Michael Karassowitsch, Architect at New York 23 25-01-2020 Launch - ShopX Lab at Avantika Sanjay Bhatnagar, Design Director at ShopX 8 09-08-2019 Session on Design and Architecture State and India (COA) 24 31-01-2020 Session on Life Design Ashwin Srisailam, Founder at Ahhaa! 9 09-08-2019 Industry Visit to Mahindra 2 Wheelers, Pithampur - 25 07-02-2020 Session on How Visual Thinking works? Sanjay Reddy, Founder at Red Tin Studio 10 24-08-2019 Session on How I explained UX to my Grandmother! Saptarshi Prakash, Product Design Manager at Swiggy 26 07-02-2020 Session on AR/VR and Design Soumya Ranjan, Founder at Cusmat Technologies 11 30-08-2019 Workshop on 3D Mural art and Paper modeling Mohit Bhatia, Independent Artist 27 08-02-2020 Workshop on Ergonomics & UX Works Soumya Ranjan, Founder at Cusmat Technologies 12 30-08-2019 Workshop on Pottery Wheel and Clay modelling Prakash Patidar, Independent Artist Himanshu Chaturvedi, Founder at Motiongility Narayan Shi, Founder, Director, Producer at Purple 28 15-02-2020 Session on Video Marketing & Design 13 13-09-2019 Session on Roll, Camera, Action! Komal Kokate, CEO at Motiongility Pictures 29 21-02-2020 Session on AI and Design Vikram Jha, Founder at Pucho ai. 14 20-09-2019 Session on Design for Humans Aditya Lele, Founder at DesignTatwa 30 21-02-2020 Session on The Way of Creative Design Chandrakant Channe, Founder at Basoli Group 15 20-09-2019 Appathon - An Idea to an App in 6 hours Aditya Lele, Founder at DesignTatwa 31 06-03-2020 Session on Indian & International Luxury Industry Sudeep Chhabra, Founder at Actuate Consultants

40 41 Student Affairs

Co-Curricular Activities Sports

zz UG Internships Clubs

Extra Curricular Activities zz Rangnaad Art Club z zz Hyderabad Design Week 2019 z Robotics Club z zz Visit to Extentia Pune z Coding Club zz Take 2 - The Movie Club Events and Celebrations zz Photography Club zz 73rd Independence Day

zz Ganesh Chaturthi Scholarships

zz Onam

zz Gandhi Jayanti

zz 71st Republic Day

42 43 Co-Curricular Activities

UG Internships

As one approach of experiential education, credit-bearing internships education, allowing students to engage in a professional experience support the university’s mission of providing diverse, dynamic, and at an organization with supervision and mentorship from both faculty meaningful experiences to inspire learners to grow both intellectually and employers while developing new skills and learning about a field and personally, enabling them to contribute positively to local and or industry that complements classroom learning . global communities . The internships are typically full-time positions where students work 100% 1 : 4 8 - 12 weeks over the semester and have the opportunity to earn 457 52 Students received and 4 Intern opportunities Project opportunities Companies hired academic credit . The internship experiences are a valuable part of accepted the offer per student

44 45 Industrial Design Communication Design

Sr. Name of Student Name of Company Sr. Name of Student Name of Company Sr. Name of Student Name of Company Sr. Name of Student Name of Company 1 Himanka Kalita ShopX 22 Rishikesh Pathak Sarkar & Company 1 Shrawani Bohra Rivet Design 22 Geetanjali Lal Studio Design Bound 2 Gaurang Agarwal Pulp Advertising 23 Piyush Agarwal GrauBar Design Studio 2 Puja Shetty ShopX 23 Adithyan Shibu Blackboard 3 Deven Kale LightFish 24 Krithik Prabhakar Emote Electric 3 Prit Gajjar Pulp Advertising 24 Purva Jhunjhunwala Sage Publication 4 Mrunmayi Joshi Indigo Consulting 25 Apoorvaa Balasundaram Rural Handmade 4 Vidha Tripathi Pulp Advertising 25 Akash Gupta UpGrad 5 Swarali Hindlekar Indigo Consulting 26 Kshitij Gangurde Rural Handmade 5 Tanvi Kakirwar V Green Media 26 Som Aprameya Pathshala 6 Aman Soni Indigo Consulting 27 Mayuresh Gade Rural Handmade 6 Vibhuty Gaggar Brand Movers 27 Amartya Zade Illumnus 7 Atharva Pardeshi TouchMagix 28 Kshitij Kalia Escorts 7 Harshvardhan Gaikwad SYU Design 28 Satyadev Pius Sage Publications 8 P Unnyan Kumar Teqzo 29 Rohan Goje Sattvarise 8 Anoushka Karnik SYU Design 29 Suyash Jog Untrodden Labs 10 Aishwarya Chawla Connexis Tech 30 Krati Agrawal Sattvarise 9 Rushell Rose Raphael Greyphyte 30 Rakshita Rastogi Red Tin Studio 11 Hritik Ramsinghani Talkd 31 Divya Gupta Campaign to cash 10 Naman Khajanchi Ogilvy 31 Mrunal Deshpande Procreator 12 Payal Sharma Talkd 32 Parth Bhavsar Mindmap Consulting 11 Avantika Bhalotiya V Green Media 32 Nirmitee Mantri Indigo Consulting 13 Janhavi Kedar Seven Eleven Design 33 Yashaskar Narumanchi Design Pulse 12 Tanvi Mahambare Ogilvy 33 Nitya Vijaywargiya Indigo Consulting 14 Shreya Paliwal GrauBar Design Studio 34 Radhika Goyal Design Pulse 13 Anushka Belsare Amir Khan Pathan studio 34 Aishwarya Tadwalkar Indigo Consulting Rajeev Gandhi Centre 35 Palash Bakre Odisha Design Council 14 Jainam Sanghavi 3 Minds Digital 35 Tanvi Bhujadi Edapt 15 Vishnu Ravi for Biotechnology 36 Suneet Palande Odisha Design Council 15 Avantika Kulkarni Ogilvy 16 Praduman Joshi Big Basket 37 Gauri Singh Illumnus 16 Tanvi Dev Ogilvy 17 Tanvi Kulkarni Big Basket 38 R Abhishek Hvantage 17 Hemant Kokate The Minimalist 18 Soham Mohanty Big Basket 39 Vineet Vishwakarma Indigo Consulting 18 Parul Jaggi The Minimalist 19 Prateek Jain Design Flyover 40 Vaibhav Sharma Indigo Consulting 19 Priyesha Patade The Minimalist 20 Manasi Parulekar Salt .Pe 41 Mansi Gupta Indigo Consulting 20 Amruta Kekre The Minimalist 21 Balgovind Shanbhag Salt .Pe 21 Siddhant Joshi The Minimalist

46 47 User Experience Design Computer Science Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Sr. Name of Student Name of Company Sr. Name of Student Name of Company Sr. Name of Student Name of Company 1 Hetvi Shah Indigo Consulting 1 Madhur Chhajed Peacock Solar 1 Aditya Upadhyay Things Go Social 2 Sanika Patwardhan Connexis Tech 2 Kuldeep Pal Peacock Solar 2 Ayush Bhokare Things Go Social 3 Tanvi Joshi The Minimalist 3 Manas Vivek Choubal Hvantage 3 Vipin Yadav Rico Industries 4 Tanishq Dalvi The Minimalist 4 Samit Mukherjee Hvantage 5 Divya Ray CaratLane 5 Shivam Singh Hvantage 6 Chinmay Garg Pushpendra Singh Co . 6 Yash Baranwal Sobus 7 Avi Choukhany UpGrad 7 Nikhil Jagtap Sobus 8 Dipanshu Singhall UpGrad 8 Manas shukla Danalitics 9 Sahil Jain Jio 9 Manasi Bandal Danalitics 10 Harshit Kharir Indigo Consulting 10 Mayank Soni Danalitics 11 Hatim Nomani WittyPen 12 Shivam Singh Rathore Ooloi Labs 13 Mihir Srivastava Slang Labs 14 Karan Rathore Talspo 15 Pranjal Jain Emote Electric 16 Thomas Vadakkan Abimalekh Emote Electric 17 Ishan Srivastava SuperBolter 18 Vedant Khatri CampaignToCash 19 Fakhruddin Ezzey Mindmap Consulting

48 49 Companies who hired our students for Internships

50 51 Extra-Curricular Activities Events and Celebrations

Hyderabad Design Week 2019 Visit to Extentia Pune 73rd Independence Day Ganesh Chaturthi The university celebrated the 73rd Independence Day with great 2nd September marked the start of the 5-day long joyous festivities The university marked its presence at the Hyderabad Design Week The BDes students visited Extentia (Pune) in December 2019 and patriotism and fiesta. We were honored to have Lt. Gen. Madhav G. with Ganesha Aagman and Sthapana on the campus . The students th th organized from 9 - 14 October 2019 in Hyderabad, Telangana . The interacted with the Extentia’s team . Sarang Ganoo (Experience Lead) Datar, a retired Army Veteran who served the nation with 41 years of led the festivities to sculpt the idol of Lord Ganesha and prepared six students - Aditya Gawade, Aditya Oswal, Krithik Prabhakar, Aman and Abhilash Dandade (Senior User Researcher) spoke about their service and is known for his contribution in the 1965 and 1971 Indo a Japanese themed set . The 5-day long program started with a Asthana, Omkar Jagtap, and Aditya Salunkhe, created an installation inspiring design journey, and following this, Manali Mitra (Director Pak War, and the 1999 Kargil War as the Chief of Communications traditional tinch hosting a fashion show and encompassed exciting for the prime venue of the Hyderabad Design Week i .e ., Hyderabad - Experience and Design) conducted the ‘SAP Leporello Design and Electronic Warfare . The celebration kicked off with the guest of activities throughout . The students organized and indulged in International Convention Center . The other two students - Sahil Jain Thinking’ workshop which was extremely insightful and thought- honor Lt . Gen . Madhav G . Datar, Dr . Prasheel Suryawanshi, and Dr . competitions like Minute to Win It, Rangoli Making, Poster Making, and Vaibhav Sharma, took part and exhibited their work in front of provoking . The students received an excellent learning exposure and Manesh Patil hoisting the National Flag with great exuberance and Debate, Dance and Music, etc . The festivities and enthuse took a the who’s who of the design fraternity. It was a platform filled with experience - right from using the material to build prototypes, working pride . The hoisting ceremony was followed by back-to-back student beautiful ending with the Ganesh Visarjan followed by a savory networking and scaling opportunities wherein the students and on various formats to collect user data and interactive elements . dance and singing performances to remember and celebrate the dinner . The student-led campus celebration lifted the whole mood of faculty took a dip into the industry 4 .0 concepts and gained insights years-long national struggle for independence and the sacrifice of the campus and ended with a week full of celebrations and creativity . about the upcoming global trends in design and technology . our patriotic heroes .

52 53 Onam Gandhi Jayanti 71st Republic Day The festival of Onam was celebrated at the campus on 21st The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi was celebrated on The 71st Republic Day was celebrated with great jubilation and September 2019 with great festivity and jubilation . The students 2nd October 2019 . All the members of the Avantika family gathered enthusiasm . Students, Faculty, and Staff members came together started the celebration by performing the traditional dance form together to pay tribute to his contribution and sacrifice in the Indian to hoist the National Flag and pay tribute to the sacrifice and of Kerala ‘Thiruvathirakali’ which was followed by some exciting National Struggle . Commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s life, the hardship of the country’s forefathers in the independence struggle activities like the Musical Chair Competition between the students university organized a literature reading activity wherein everyone and celebrate the day of adoption of India’s Constitution . The veteran and the university employees . The grandeur of the event was such read about his experiences, and earned jewels of wisdom and lifelong artist Shri Bhalu Mondhe, was invited as the Chief Guest to motivate that it called-in chefs from Kerala to prepare the master meals and learnings . the students with his pearls of wisdom . The students performed everyone savored the famous Kerala Sandhya for lunch . Post the melodiously on patriotic songs, and staff members paid tribute lunch, a Tug of War competition was organized which was followed by personifying unsung freedom fighters like Maharana Pratap, by a very surprising and happening flash mob dance on songs of Maharani Laxmibai, Tanaji Malusare, Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, etc ., and diverse cultures . The festival of Onam created an all-together a remembering them on this day . different atmosphere in the campus with unity and merry-making throughout the day .

54 55 Sports

The following sports activities were conducted in the year 2019-20 in Annual Sports Festival - SPARDHA addition to the regular student sports engagements . The university 2020 currently has in-house facilities for sports like Football, Volleyball, Cricket, Cycling, Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess, etc . The following are The university conducted the first edition of the Annual Sports Festival the events which were additionally organized by the university to - SPARDHA from 28th February - 1st March 2020. The first morning indulge and motivate the students . started with an opening ceremony and a marathon with immense participation by the students, faculty, and staff members . The day followed by open tournaments in other sports with the participation Sr. Date Event Remarks of over 12 teams from across the city . Open to all Students, 1 . 21 Jun 2020 International Yoga Day The competition was witnessed with full enthusiasm to give a tough Faculty, and Staff competition to their opponents in Cricket, Football, Chess, Carrom, Live Competitions, 2 . 1 Mar 2020 SPARDHA - Day 3 Table Tennis, Volleyball, and Kabaddi . The three-day fest had served Closing Ceremony as an excellent platform for enriching team building, sportsmanship, 3 . 29 Feb 2020 SPARDHA - Day 2 Live Competitions and dedication among students . Opening Ceremony, 4 . 28 Feb 2020 SPARDHA - Day 1 Marathon, Live Competitions

Open to all Students, 5 . 15 Jan 2020 Patang Mahostav Faculty, and Staff Open to all Students, 6 . 16 Nov 2019 Cricket Match Faculty, and Staff

56 57 Clubs

Rangnaad Art Club Coding Club The Rangnaad Art Club is a student-led club which aims to cultivate installation workshop on designing five senses, etc. The activities were scenarios . The faculty member Rushikesh Pawar coordinated the The mission of the Coding Club is to foster a diverse learning cultural awareness in the learners through conducting recreation aimed at developing the creative instinct and sense of the students club activities . There were a total of 8 student members who indulged community to attain fluency in statistics and programming. The and rejuvenation activities like Painting, Drawing, Sketching, Folk by engaging their right side of the brain . The activities introduced in activities like Robotics and Automation awareness programs, coding club gives a platform to technical enthusiasts to learn Art, Printmaking, Indian Classical Music, Western Music, Folk Music, them to the various Indian art forms and hands-on application of arts short term training on LEGO-Mindstorms, and Arduino Prototyping . and grow their programming skills and practice hands-on with Fusion, Dance Sculpture, Clay Modelling, and Wood Carving, etc . The like clay modeling, set-designing, mural decoration, live sketching, The club is currently engaged in the design and implementation of experienced faculties and industry experts . gesture drawing, and calligraphy . As designers, a look and practice aerial mobility platform for scientific research. The club activities club activities were coordinated by the faculty member Dr . Hemant The students are introduced to various coding languages through of these forms of arts enhanced their knowledge, skills and created created a keen interest of the students towards research and gave Kaushik who organized activities like clay modeling and mural which they get hands-on expertise in creating algorithms and awareness about India’s rich cultural and art heritage . them a platform for hands-on application of robotics principles . decoration workshops, live sketching workshop, folk art workshop, making programs . The club activities were coordinated by the faculty The students learned the various research processes and functions, gesture drawing workshop, calligraphy workshop and mural members Reshma Chavan and Rushikesh Pawar . explored design and technical principles, and increased experimental There were a total of 15 student members who explored areas like Robotics Club findings. The activities of the club created an inclination towards Data structure, algorithms, C, JAVA, and other related development The Robotics Club is a research initiative that provides students with science and technology and developed the programming, problem- topics in the club . The Coding Club is credited for boosting the logical the resources to develop Robots .The objective of the club is to promote solving, and logical thinking skills of the students . thinking and problem-solving skills of the students . the spirit of engineering and design, thereby inculcating skills of both the domains through an inter-disciplinary approach . The club offers The club has introduced a wide variety of coding languages that indispensable guidance, workshops, and tutorials along with tools, students are mostly not exposed to in the 2nd year of their degree equipment, components, and workspace for such activities . The club program . The activities of the club have supplemented greatly in caters an engaging platform whereby the student can experiment on academics and groomed students to work on live projects . a technical, applied and design level and see how systems interact, both with each other and with the environment, and get a chance to use the knowledge gained as part of academics in real-world

58 59 Clubs

Take 2 - The Movie Club Photography Club Films are the reflection of our society and play a vital role in creating Avantika Photography Club is a community of passionate individuals a total of 96 student members who indulged in events on various sensitivity towards the world outside . The Take 2 Club aims to create sharing the love for photography . The club is a knowledge-sharing topics like Point of View, Photography Walk, Portrait, Selfies, Bird a platform for learning through stories and characters and to push platform that promotes collaboration and self-exploration . The club Watching, etc . a wave of refreshing perspectives and broaden the vision of the aims to accelerate the latent photography skills of the student and be The activities of the club have created a sensitivity in the students learners . The club nudges to improve upon the comprehension and a platform for those who carry an inclination towards learning the art towards design using photography as composition . The various observation power of the student and further develop a sense of and its technicalities . The club also plays a vital role in capturing the activities and explorations have not only created an inclination reflection through understanding the psychology and intent behind activities at the campus and creating endless memories . The faculty towards nature but also developed hands-on expertise in how to a diverse range of stories . The faculty member Rupesh Gajbhiye member Rupesh Gajbhiye coordinated the club activities . There were handle a professional camera and use its multiple functions . coordinated the club activities . There were a total of 12 student members who organized and coordinated all activities of the club to premier 4 movies every month which included 2 documentaries, 1 regional film, and 1 Bollywood movie. The Take 2 club is functioned by a committee of 12 student members who manage all the club’s activities . This has given them a platform to research and select movies that can introduce students to different perspectives and understand the power of communication. The club features films that cater to a platform for learning and looking at life from different lenses by introducing a diverse range of stories .

60 61 Scholarships Recipients of Scholarships 17 Jigyasa Dixit FY BTech (Foundation) 18 Yogeshwara Prabhu Kollipara FY BTech (Foundation) A total of 37 students (11% of students on roll) received a cumulative 19 Ganesh Borkute FY MDes (Industrial Design) The university offers scholarships, tuition fee waiver schemes, amount of Rs . 20,12,595 for the year 2019-20 . Sudama Scholarship 20 Shubhankit Jain FY MDes (Industrial Design) teaching, and research assistance to meritorious, needy, and A need-based, earn-and-learn scheme is applicable to students who 21 Jill Chheda SY BDes (User Experience Design) deserving students . This is an effort to make education affordable and Tuition Fee Waiver are desirous of contributing to the university and wish to earn to 22 Chirag Jagetiya SY BDes (User Experience Design) reachable for all and encourage academic excellence . The following 1 Uttara Kulkarni SY BDes (User Experience Design) support their education . are the various types of scholarships available for application . 23 Deven Kale TY BDes (Industrial Design) 2 Prantik Saha SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) 24 Shivam Singh Rathore TY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Aryabhata Scholarship 3 Mansi Patel SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Chanakya Ved Vyas Scholarship 4 Jayant Choudhary SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) A research assistantship scheme is applicable to students who have Applicable to students securing top three positions in 12th Board 25 Mansi Gupta TY BDes (Industrial Design) demonstrated excellent academic performance and are desirous of 5 Utkarsh Agrawal SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Exams (CBSE/ISC/State Boards) and JEE (Mains) rankers . 26 Prit Gajjar TY BDes (Communication Design) contributing to the university . 6 Varunee Acharya SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) 27 Amartya Zade TY BDes (Communication Design) 7 Aditya Oswal SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Vikram Scholarship Aryabhata Chanakya Scholarship 8 Pooja Kanojia SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) A merit-cum-means scholarship is applicable to deserving students, 28 Shreya Paliwal TY BDes (Industrial Design) A teaching assistantship scheme is applicable to students who have 9 Aditya Sharma SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) with the quantum of scholarship to be determined based on the 29 Divya Gupta TY BDes (Industrial Design) demonstrated excellent academic performance and are desirous of 10 Abhinav Singh SY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) annual income of parents . 30 Himanka Kalita TY BDes (Industrial Design) contributing to the university . Sudama 31 Mayuresh Gade TY BDes (Industrial Design) 11 Sakshi Agrawal FY BDes (Foundation) Arjun Scholarship 32 Anoushka Karnik TY BDes (Communication Design) MP Government Scholarship 12 Lav Patil FY BDes (Foundation) A sports scholarship is applicable to students who have participated 33 Sanika Patwardhan TY BDes (User Experience Design) The scholarship is administered to the students belonging to the SC/ 13 Drashti Gala FY BDes (Foundation) and won medal/s at a national and international level in sports 34 Sahil Jain TY BDes (User Experience Design) ST/OBC category by the Government of Madhya Pradesh based on 14 Eshika Dhanaki FY BDes (Foundation) recognized by the Indian Olympic Council (IOC) . 35 Mihir Srivastava TY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) the annual income of the family . 15 Saket Lonkar FY BDes (Foundation) 36 Hatim Nomani TY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Ashoka Scholarship 16 Neel Dabri FY BDes (Foundation) 37 Pranjal Jain TY BTech (Computer Science and Engg .) Performance-based scholarship for students who have demonstrated extraordinary ability and potential during the academic year .

62 63 Beyond Academics

Reap Benefit Fellowship Program learned and experienced problem-solving through extensive brainstorming, discussions, research using different design hacks, Reap Benefit is a Bangalore based start-up which strives to build the behavior nudges, etc . and then built on that structure . Students next generation of problem solvers, by involving youth in developing developed a “problem-solving mindset” during this program and skills, local data and solutions to solve local environment and created prototypes to validate their thinking process . There were a civic problems concerning waste, water, energy, and sanitation number of solutions created like converting urine to manure, creating through low-cost solutions, which are user-friendly and require low low-cost waterless urinals, solutions to stop water wastage etc . maintenance . The Reap Benefit Fellowship Program aims at empowering the students with problem-solving skills that can tackle local civic ABLED Lab and environmental problems using Local Data, Campaigns, and ABLED is a unique Design-Technology lab that started in collaboration Solutions . The program gives students a chance to interact with the with Dominix Strategic Design, Pune . The lab aims at creating community directly to solve their problems through methods such solutions for individuals with special abilities for disabled individuals as behavioral nudges, and recreating solutions, technologies, and in urban and rural India . The members of the lab conduct research, products that follow design methods and practices . The fellowship and develop innovative, customized solutions under experienced program offered students the ability to interact with society on a faculty members and mentors from Dominix Design . Such solutions ground level and work towards people-centred solutions . The student aim at assisting disabled individuals in their daily lives . This coordinators of the fellowship program were Aarya Vaidya, Mayuresh multidisciplinary lab of technology and design experts, and students Gade who coordinated all activities of the club . There were a total of works with stakeholders including businesses, governments, NGOs 47 students who participated in the program and worked on projects or social enterprises and start-ups to introduce such innovations . like converting urine to manure, creating low-cost waterless urinals, There were a total of 20 students who participated in the program solutions to stop water wastage, etc . and worked on a project to design and develop ‘Pithika - Seat for The impact of the fellowship program was immense . The students Specially Abled ’.

64 65 Faculty

Regular Faculty

The students made a seat for Cerebral Palsied children . The lab club like the 28 weekly meetings and club level International Speech was started with the purpose to cater to design and technological and Table Topics Contest . solutions for specially-abled citizens . It was a learned experience for The members of this club were all of the different kinds . One was the students because they began their work from ground zero, i .e ., the students who needed to improve their public speaking skills . identifying the problem . Post which they followed the various design Second, the ones who were already good, but wanted to improve processes and principles to deliver a seat that reduced the suffering further . Third, the ones who wanted to improve their leadership skills . of children with cerebral palsy . Every member of the Avantika Toastmasters Club has improved in their public speaking and communication skills . While speaking, the Kirti Trivedi Sukanta Kundu Raghav Pandya Kapil Sharma students now use a lesser number of fillers and use grammatically Toastmasters Club Professor Emeritus Professor and Dean Industrial Design Industrial Design correct sentences . Communication Design School of Design Toastmasters International is a U.S. headquartered non-profit educational organization with its presence across 143 countries that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs . The Avantika Toastmasters club was initiated to cater a platform to the students to excel at communication, public speaking, and leadership skills . The club is a community of self- learners that organize weekly meetings to conduct the various club practice sessions and proceedings . The club also caters a platform for participation in inter-club and regional competitions . The student Chiranjib Narzary Krishnakant Pal Rajat Akre Dheeraj Chugh coordinators of the club were Himanka Kalita, Mayuresh Gade, Siddhant Joshi, Rutal Deshmukh, Nirmiti Mantri, Piyush Agarwal, Product Design Product Design Industrial Design Product Design Pooja Kanojiya who coordinated all activities of the club . There were a total of 47 students who participated in the various activities of the

66 67 Regular Faculty

Anand Upadhayay Jyotirmoy Pathak Rupesh Gajbhiye Hemant Kaushik Shubham Saurabh Siddharth Majumdar Asmita Biswas Sanyukta Karve Space Design Space Design Communication Design Communication Design Graphic Design User Experience Design User Experience Design Music

Madan Mune Ambrish Polekar Pooja Malviya Rohit Lalwani Ravikumar Jadhav C. Muthupandian Kaustubh Kirtane Pallavi Nath Graphic Design Communication Design Graphic Design Entrepreneurship Cyber Physical Systems Algorithm Design Communication Design Fine Arts

68 69 Regular Faculty

Atul Choudhary Kaliprasad Mahapatro Varun Tiwari Reshma Chavan Prabodh Mishra Amar Mithapalli Rupal Joshi Data Science Cyber Physical Systems Engineering Design Software Engineering Fashion Communication Fashion Design Fashion Design

Rushikesh Pawar Manesh Patil N. Sivaramakrishnan Vaibhav Garg AI, ML, Robotics Energy Network and Security Management

70 71 Visiting Faculty

Debkumar Chakrabarti Narayan Shi Amber Krishan Yashna Jhamb Diana Linda Dipankar Dhara Anand Kolharkar Chinmay Joshi IIT Guwahati Design Consultant PayU, India Amdocs India Fashion Designer Professional Photographer Opine Group Opine Group

Kedar Puranik Sharmistha Banerjee Hitesh Agrawal Anindya Mukhopadhyay Amirkhan Pathan Jeremy Fritzhand Lakhan Silodia Opine Group IIT Guwahati Human Factors International Infinative Design Amirkhan Pathan Studio Studio Bagru Independent Basketry Artist

72 73 Research Projects

Guest Speakers Agri Drone

The research project on Agri Drone is in the field of agricultural pattern design and have plans to study its crosswind correction and analytics . The project aims to study the various problems faced by implementation, make design modifications according to climate- the agricultural industry, mainly farmers, and deliver a solution to responsive architecture, develop the ability to pass obstacles, ease such problems and improve efficiency and output. The research installation of onboard camera and imagery systems, course aims at designing and manufacturing drones to help farmers better corrections and, path and trajectory planning . understand their potential harvest . The process of crop cultivation is followed by the process of harvesting, which is repetitive, time- Dr. Michael Karassowitsch Aditya Lele Prasad Kantamneni Monika Deshpande consuming, and detail-oriented .The research is implemented to Architect New York State Design Tatwa UXRector Capgemini address this thrust are . The research team is working at designing an and India Autonomous Arial Vehicle (Drone) which can be used for developing a solution for autonomously picking produce . The members of the research team include the faculty member Rushikesh Pawar and student Thomas Vadakkan from third year BTech .

The research project has successfully progressed to achieve manoeuvre stability on the height of 80-100 Ft, mapped return to Home (RTH) coordinate position, and prototyped stabilized for X configuration. The team is currently engaged in research on flying Prof. Uday Athvankar Narayan Subramaniam IIT Bombay Ultraviolette Automative Pvt . Ltd .

74 75 Staff

CAD Tools for Beyond-CMOS Logic

The research on Computer-Aided Design Tools for Beyond-CMOS values of the MOSFET, 3D Table Models using the in-built NMOS Manesh Patil Rashi Singh Varun Tiwari Logic is in the area of computational electronics . The research is Models by changing the source voltage values gradually, a large table Registrar Human Resources Workshop slated to be executed in three phases. In the first phase, table models model by performing large interpolation to create a model that will be will be calibrated employing the DC and AC transfer characteristics used to simulate Beyond-CMOS Technology, and simulated different obtained from established compact models . In the second phase, MOSFET models using a unified current model equation. the parametric table models will be assessed for their ability to The team is currently in the final stage of the first phase and further Rashi Jain Ameet Kumar Sharma Mukesh Bhargava describe silicon/organic transistors. The final phase of the research plans to establish a workflow for the deployment of table models in Finance and Accounts Admissions Library shall explore the possibility to design a robust beyond-CMOS logic the second phase of the research . based on multiple-gate transistors .

The members of the research team include the faculty member Dr . Muthupandian Cheralathan and students from the third year Vishal Choudhary Chandrashekhar Lohote N. Sivaramakrishnan BTech, namely Mihir Srivastava and Hatim Nomani . The research Student Office General Administration ICT project has reached the final stage of the first phase and has completed generation of Transfer Characteristics and Output Characteristics of NMOS Models, and created 2D Table Models using the in-built NMOS Models by performing interpolation on the current Anand Sharma Swathi Medi Rohit Lalwani Exam Office VC Office Industry Relations

76 77 Employee Development Activities

Amarnath Solanki Chandrashekhar Lohote Neeraj Bhati Communication in the 21st Century Stores Boys Hostel Health Center Workplace

The university welcomed Monica Anand, from The Achievers when it’s happening . He further emphasized the world of AI opening Academy, Indore for an interactive workshop on Communication up new modes of interaction, and the designers’ need to catch up . rd Jai Jain Meera Pandey Rahul Yadav Development on 23 November 2019 . Monica started the session This lent a fresh perspective to everyone that the best strategy is to Transport Girls Hostel Infrastructure heightening the employees’ awareness of workplace communication, embrace the change, heighten the understanding of AI, and adapt to both verbal and nonverbal, and how it is at the foundation of everything new technologies . we do and say in the 21st century workplace . The employees further were prompted to participate in various guided activities and Mentoring in the 21st Century Prakash Dhumal Kunal Solanki discussions that enhanced their interpersonal skills, and became more competent communicators overall . Estate Sports The university welcomed Archita Sobti, from our emotional wellness partner YourDost, for a highly interactive workshop on Mentoring on 2nd January 2020 . Archita started the session on how to effectively Adapting in the Age of Artificial share the expertise, values, skills, and perspectives for cultivating Sujeet Sonalkar Intelligence the mentee-driven and sustainable mentoring relationships . The Maintenance The university welcomed Prasad Kantamneni, Founder of UXReactor, employees further delved into different types of communication, for an insightful session on Artificial Intelligence in Design on 10th practiced through guided activities to gain a better sense of December 2019 . Prasad started the session by exemplifying how understanding, and also how the communication strategies can be artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way that we interact with utilized with the mentees . technology daily and how most of the time, we don’t even realize

78 79 MoU

Global Universities

Life Design - Finding the Right Path Enabling an Equal World for

The university welcomed Ashwin Srisailam and Diane Bacchus, the Women at Workplace Aalto University Design Technion, Israel Institute Ben-Gurion University of Tel Aviv University Founders of Ahhaa, for an orientation to the Life Design Program on The university welcomed a team of renowned makeup artists, Factory of Technology the Negev st The collaboration will enable 31 January 2020 . The spectrum of the program starts from being from VLCC, for celebrating the International Women’s Day on 8th The collaboration will enable The collaboration will enable The collaboration will enable student and faculty exchange able to form a strong vision in life, to realizing limiting mental patterns March 2020 to appreciate the women’s achievements, the charm, the establishment of the student exchange and faculty student and faculty exchange programs and co-operative and being able to transform them towards clarity . the struggle, the roles, and the happiness behind the urge of doing Design Factory at Avantika exchange programs, and programs and co-operative research initiatives . Ashwin briefed about how the smallest things in life, be it positive something beyond the regular tasks. The day was fun-filled with live University in Ujjain and will collaborative research . research initiatives . or negative, affect everyone and their mindsets . The stage was also music, a festive lunch, and a personal grooming workshop . The team mark the network’s first taken over by his co-founder Diane who spoke about how emotional of renowned makeup artists discussed how to be well-groomed and center in India, and thereby well-being and attachment to the past impact decisions . The session presentable to create an impactful impression . After the refreshing South Asia . The lab will be a ended with her asking everyone to illuminate the world they like makeovers, the female employees enjoyed the flurry of excitement state-of-the-art facility which through simple meditation and asked everyone to perceive an image through live music, dance, and created a great bonding amongst will work on industry and of life on a platter and making it better through designing . them . research projects on a global scale for fostering radical innovations .

80 81 Global Universities Industry

Universidade de Brasilia BRNO University of Institute of Scientific The Hebrew University of ShopX Elephant Design Dominix Strategic Design SAP University Alliances Technology Instruments of the Czech Jerusalem The collaboration will enable Academy of Sciences The collaboration facilitates The collaboration facilitates The collaboration facilitates The collaboration facilitates joint research ventures in The collaboration facilitates The collaboration will enable setting-up the Design setting-up one of its kind, setting-up a unique Design- to make available global The collaboration facilitates the field of computational creating joint educational student and faculty exchange Technology Lab which will ‘Platinum Lab,’ a design- Technology lab . This lab academic education material the establishment of electronics . programs, exchange programs, joint research enable the students and technology lab that will will create solutions for developed in collaboration laboratory facilities for educational experience, ventures, joint conferences, faculty to co-create unique create solutions for senior individuals with special with faculty, students, SAP design and engineering abilities - for disabled joint research projects and exchange of research and impactful products that citizens in Urban and Rural partners, and customers programs, joint research individuals in urban and/ and research programs, material . will be placed in the market India . This lab will conduct around the world for its projects and programs, and or rural India . This lab and student and faculty for consumption through research, and develop students . will facilitate student and will conduct research, exchanges . ShopX’s proprietary B2B creative technological faculty exchange . and develop innovative, e-Commerce platform . The solutions that will assist the customized solutions lab would aim to cater to ageing economy of India . that will assist disabled the growing needs in the This multidisciplinary lab individuals in their daily lives . pro-sustainable and market- of technology and design This multidisciplinary lab driven industry by launching experts, and students will of technology and design products that add value to work with stakeholders experts and students will the end-customer . including businesses, work with stakeholders governments, NGOs, or including businesses, social enterprises and governments, NGOs, or start-ups to introduce such social enterprises and innovations . start-ups to introduce such innovations . 82 83 Associations

CII Palo Alto World Design IxDA IITB Remote Center YourDOST Toastmasters Cybersecurity Academy Organization International The Confederation of The Interaction Design IITB RC is an initiative YourDOST is an online Indian Industry (CII) is a The Palo Alto Networks The World Design Association (IxDA) is of Indian Institute of emotional wellness Toastmasters International non-government, not-for- Cybersecurity Academy is Organization, formerly the a member-supported Technology, Bombay in platform that leverages (TI) is a US headquartered, profit, industry-led, and an initiative of the Palo Alto International Council of organization incorporated association with HRD technology to provide non-profit educational industry-managed premier Networks into the academic Societies of Industrial Design, as the first community ministry which aims at convenient, anonymous and organization founded in business association domain aiming to offer is an international non- for interaction design encouraging various confidential 24x7 expert 1924 that operates clubs founded in 1895 . CII works a comprehensive set of governmental organization enthusiasts . Since its launch engineering colleges, support in the field of life worldwide for promoting to create and sustain an modularized academic and founded in 1957 to promote in 2003, IxDA has grown into affiliated universities, coaching, grief counselling, communication, public environment conducive technical courses that match the profession of Industrial a global network focusing and private universities confidence building, speaking, and leadership to the development of the cybersecurity education Design . The WDO strives to on interaction design issues to undergo Faculty personality development, skills . India, partnering industry, and training needs of post- create a world where design for the practitioner, aiming to Development Programs career coaching, de- Government, and civil secondary educational enhances our economic, improve the human condition (FDPs) and workshops addiction support, society, through advisory and institutions . social, cultural, and by advancing the discipline which are conducted by relationship counselling, time consultative processes . environmental quality of life. of interaction design. subject matter experts from management, social anxiety, IIT Bombay under National and in many more such Mission on Education areas . through ICT.

84 85 Associations

CII YUVA Reap Benefit NRDC NAD edX Ahhaa

The Yi YUVA platform of CII Reap Benefit is a Bangalore National Research National Academic edX is the trusted platform Ahhaa is a Virtual Reality is one of the most active based start-up which Development Corporation Depository (NAD) is for education and learning . based Platform that partners focus areas by which Yi strives to build the next (NRDC) started with the born out of an initiative Founded by Harvard and with leaders and influencers members engage students generation of problem vision to be the leading of the University Grants MIT, edX is home to more to bring natural and simple from across the country in solvers, by involving youth technology transfer Commission to provide an than 20 million learners, principles, processes, and various initiatives that the in developing skills, local organization in India . online storehouse of all the majority of top-ranked practices to guide the mind, students conceptualize, plan, data and solutions to solve Established in 1953 by the academic awards . NAD is universities in the world, and body, and soul for growth, and execute . The objective is local environment and civic Government of India, with the a 24X7 online storehouse industry-leading companies . success, and fulfilment. to create a bridge, a platform problems concerning waste, primary objective to promote, of all academic awards As a global non-profit, edX Based in New York, USA, for the students to work water, energy and sanitation develop, nurture, and viz. certificates, diplomas, is transforming traditional Ahhaa promotes people-to- in cross-functional teams through low-cost solutions, commercialize innovative, degrees, mark-sheets, etc . education, removing the people interaction inspiration with a broad objective of which are user-friendly and reliable, and competitive duly digitized and lodged barriers of cost, location, and engine where individual enhancing their leadership require low maintenance. technologies from R&D by academic institutions/ access . people share stories, ideas, skills and giving back to the institutes through value boards/eligibility assessment and solutions to bring the nation . addition and partnership. bodies. best of humanity together through technology.

86 87 Outreach Activities

Empowering Women at the Grassroots The university, under its social initiative, welcomed the Inner Wheel Club of Indore Uptown, on 8th March 2020 for delivering the women empowerment sessions tailored for about 50 plus locally rooted Strive not to be a success, women . The first informative session was by Dr. Aplana Awasthi, a but rather to be of value Psychologist, where she covered the integrated approaches for confronting the underlying issues that prevent women from realizing Albert Einstein their full potential as economic agents . The second session was by Dr . Archana Dubey, a Gynaecologist, where she educated the local women on gynaecology and hygiene that could lead to better health and well-being of women .

88 89 Sr. Date Webinar Speaker(s)

Sukanta Kundu 1 2 May 2020 Design Education: The Avantika Way Dean - School of Design

Dhimant Panchal 2 5 May 2020 Qualities and Attributes of a Designer Pro-Chancellor

Rohit Lalwani 3 6 May 2020 Designeering: The Industry Outlook Director - Industry Relations Avantika Connect Rohit Lalwani 4 13 May 2020 The Avantika Experience Director - Industry Relations The university launched a new webinar series — Avantika Connect on 2nd May 2020 . This series brought a closer look at the broad notion Students of Avantika of design that includes “design-thinking,” and how to design change Rajiv Mishra 5 16 May 2020 Design and Empowerment that matters — at the time when we need it most . Thought leaders Member of Governing Body from various disciplines of the Avantika’s Faculty and Advisory Sanjay Dhande 6 20 May 2020 Modern Digital Approach to Design Education Board offered reflections and guided a free-flowing discussion with Chancellor participants on infusing the right mindset and creative problem- S . S . Mantha 7 23 May 2020 Education and Industry 4 .0 solving approach . Member of Governing Body

The following are the webinars launched in 2019-20 . Prabodh Mishra Coordinator - Fashion Design 8 27 May 2020 Fashion Design: A Comprehensive Outlook Jeremy Fritzhand Managing Director of Studio Bagru

Raghav Pandya Coordinator - Industrial Design

Rupesh Gajbhiye 9 30 May 2020 Design Discipline: The Way Ahead Coordinator - Communication Design

Siddharth Majumdar Coordinator - User Experience Design

90 91 Avantika Designeering Series Sr. Date Podcast Speaker(s)

The university launched the podcast series Avantika Designeering Alok Nandi 1 3 May 2020 Transforming Experiences for the Future Series on 3rd May 2020, which focused on the need for tightly weaving Founder at Architempo; Former President at IxDA design and engineering for the biggest breakthroughs . This series Lulu Raghavan 2 13 May 2020 The Business of Communication featured the captivating conversations with the industry’s leading MD at Landor Associates

designers, technologists, and creatives to uncover their stories, Ravi Badve 3 20 May 2020 Technology Driving Design Innovation unique perspectives, and insights on how to apply the integrated Director - Customer Delivery at MasterCard approach to achieve a consistent product and service innovation . Manukrishna Nair Their stories served as an awe-striking reference for every designer, 4 27 May 2020 Future-proofing with Design Director of Development at Fitch techie, and student alike . Lourd Nathan 5 3 June 2020 Design, Dialogue, Disruption This weekly series was hosted on Hubhopper and is available on Design Director at Frog Design, Inc . all major platforms like Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Tejas Vyas JioSaavn, and many more . 6 10 June 2020 Delivering Innovation at the Doorstep Director of Products at BigBasket The following are the podcasts launched in 2019-20 . Tanyaradzwa Sahanga 7 17 June 2020 Reuse, Recycle, Rethink Transformation Lead at 37Thanks; Formerly at Adidas

Mayuri Nikumbh 8 24 June 2020 ABCs of Branding Design Director at Elephant Design

David Kusuma 9 29 June 2020 World Industrial Design Day (Part-I) VP - Global R & D at Tupperware Brands

92 93 Infrastructure and Facilities

Workshop

The Workshop at Avantika is a well-equipped cluster of distinctive operations like Cylindrical Turning, Step Turning, Taper Turning, workstations where the learners give form to their ideas . With Facing, Cutting, Milling, Chamfering, Drilling, Reaming . The Metal practical-based learning spread across all programs, the workshop Shop includes Lathe Machine, Milling Machine, Drilling Machine, acts as the central point of students’ academic indulgence giving Bench Grinder, Pipe Bending Machine, Metal Cutter 1100W, Metal shape to their projects . The various shops boast of state-of-the-art Shear 1 .6, Nibbler 1 .6, and Kit of Forming tools, etc . machinery and skilled manpower support making it one of its kind Welding Shop precinct for varied spheres of design, manufacturing, and fabrication . The Welding Shop is a place where the students perform arc welding Wood Shop fusion processes for joining metals . The different operations The Wood Shop is a place where the students explore the practiced by students in Welding Shop are position Welding, Butt fundamentals of woodwork and carpentry getting a deep insight Welding, Lap Welding, Spot Welding, etc . The Welding Shop includes into the use of Timber . Students make use of hand and power tools ARC+Tig Welding Machine with safety equipment . to develop various joineries and products by performing planning, sawing, and chiselling operations . The Wood Shop includes Wood Lathe, Band Saw, Jig Saw, Single Bevel Mitre, etc .

Metal Shop

The Metal Shop is a place where the students explore working with metal to design, develop, and fabricate various products through

94 95 FAB LAB

Fitting Shop acquainting with suitable materials . Students learn to design wood, The FAB LAB at Avantika is a state-of-the-art lab consisting of high- machined aluminum molds, which are used to develop different end digital fabrication and manufacturing machinery consisting of The Fitting Shop is a place where the students refine their products to shapes with the use of vacuum forming machines . an array of flexible computer-controlled tools, that cover several achieve desired shapes, size, and accuracy through various finishing different length scales and various materials, with the aim to make operations such as marking, filing, chipping, sawing, scraping, Paint Shop “almost anything” and cater a platform for new ideas and innovation . drilling, reaming, tapping, threading, and grinding, etc . The Fitting The Paint Shop is a place where students give surface treatment Shop includes Machine Vice, Bench and Hand Drill Machine, Angle to their prototypes or models with the aim to give a final finish to zz Laser Cutting/Engraver 3x2 for Non-ferrous materials Grinder 540W with Angle Polisher Attachment, and various files, etc. their products . Students work with water and solvent-based paints, zz NC Mini Mill Machine Bench Top Model (MDX 540 A 3D, 4 AXIS) varnishes, various surface treatment agents, oils and waxes for this Plastic Shop zz CNC Router Machine for soft metal, plastic, wood process using paint spraying booths . The Plastic Shop is a place where students learn to turn plastic into zz Thermocol Cutting Machine (Hot Knife) permanent objects such as protective covers by identifying and zz 3D Printers

zz Vinyl Cutter/Plotter Machine

96 97 ICT

The technology on campus at Avantika has created a niche for itself Academic Software Cashless Campus in the area around . The campus boasts of a three-layer hierarchical model of ICT Infrastructure designed by Cisco Systems (Networking Hardware Company) and implemented by Dimension Data (Global Partnership with Cisco for more than 25 Years) . The three-layer ICT zz Ethernet Connection: 10/100 MBPS All transactions at Avantika are done through its Campus Wallet . The network infrastructure benefits in better performance, management, zz Three Wireless Networks namely Ashoka, Kalidas and University is a cashless campus and the multi-utility ID card is used scalability, reliability, and redundancy in the campus . Vikramaditya Lecture Capture as the Student ID card, Access Controller, and is also integrated with Turing - The Computer Center the Campus Wallet which is used to make payments through the cashless transaction mechanism . It is specially used for university Turing is the Computer Center at Avantika . The center boasts of high- outlets like Canteen, Health Center, Library, and Computer Lab . end computer systems and printers such as, zz Intel Core i7 Personal Computers with 24 Inch display, 8GB RAM, Impartus is a cutting-edge end-to-end system that automatically Advantages of Campus Wallet 1 TB HDD, Nvidia Ge force Graphics Card 4GB RAM, and Windows records complete classroom experience . The adaptive and secure zz An online recharge facility through electronic money transactions . 10 Professional videos can be consumed live or on-demand from web and mobile zz Absolute control over spending . Eliminates the problem of misuse applications . The platform also enables students and professors for zz iMac - i5 Personal Computers with 27 Inch Display, 8GB RAM, 1 of cash or theft . collaborative learning by sharing content enriched with advanced TB HDD, and Mac OS Sierra 10 12. .5 zz Timely notifications facilitate proper monitoring of the student’s zz Google Cloud Education Suite search analytics and Karma . zz Multi-Function SHARP-Colour Printer activities and a monthly statement of wallet usage which is zz Office 365 Student Version shared with the parents . zz 44-inch HP Design Jet Pro Postscript Printer (Plotter)

98 99 Library Health Center Campus Amenities

The Library at Avantika is a state-of-the-art knowledge resource zz Reference book collection includes Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Medical Facilities zz Cafeteria and Refectory center boasting digital and print resources in sync with global Encyclopaedias, Reference tools, Handbooks, Guidebooks, Year zz Tuck Shop zz Free of cost first-aid and medical consultation facility at campus standards . The library infrastructure works on a digital interface books and all Government Publications (Bulletins and Standers) zz Gym called ‘Koha’ which enables access to the diverse range of resources zz 24x7 availability of Doctor zz Newspapers and Magazines zz Indoor and Outdoor Sports anywhere and anytime . zz 24x7 availability of Ambulance zz Banking Facility zz Availability of Phlebotomist (on call) zz 24x7 Medical Facility with Ambulance zz Integrated Library Management System - Koha zz 24x7x365 Online Psychological Expert Support and zz La Carte Medicine Delivery facility zz Web OPAC Personal Counseling zz Star Health Medical and Accidental Insurance z zz Online Resource Centers: DELNET, NDL, NPTEL, NDSCL, E-PG z Student Lounge zz Amphitheatre Pathshala, Vidya-mantra, Vidwan, and Online Vivekananda Library Medical Tie-ups zz Recreation Rooms zz Open Access E-Resources: E-Journals, E-Books, E-Newspaper, zz Tejankar Health Care and Research Centre zz Music Center E-Magazines, E-Thesis, E-Dictionaries, and E-Thesaurus 86, Vishwavidyalaya Marg, Madhav Club Road, Ujjain, MP zz Stationery Store zz Matheworld, MIT-OCW, OER Commons zz CHL Hospital zz Printing and Reprographic Store zz Collection of 1500+ documents Indore Road, near Hotel Shanti Palace, Nanakheda, Ujjain, MP zz Laundry Service zz 4000+ full text and abstracting journals zz Lifeline Medicos zz Study and Discussion Rooms Near Samay Hotel, Freeganj, Ujjain, MP zz LAN Point and WiFi zz Free Shuttle Bus Facility to Ujjain

100 101 Upcoming Year

Avanti : The Innovative Nucleus Ishaanya : The Inspiring Waterways zz Design and implement a roadmap for developing a Digital Campus zz Strengthen the regular and visiting faculty network to augment for a collaborative and engaged education ecosystem . the teaching, learning, research, and development activities .

zz Implement a Learning Management System that streamlines all zz Collaborate with various global universities for joint research the digital tools and academic content, enabling a more connected projects, student exchange, and faculty exchange programs . learning experience for teachers and students . zz Explore industry collaborations in fields of Social Innovation, zz Implement integrated technology platforms that automate and System Design, Experience Design, Visual Design, Data Science, simplify the processes enabling a seamless employee experience . AI, IoT, Transportation, Energy, etc .

zz Introduce a one of its kind Life Skills Program with an aim to zz Enhance the quality of the workplace experience with improved

st Yuti - Student Activity Epicenter Design Studio inculcate emotional and intellectual competencies in line with 21 communication and employee engagement . century requirements . zz Initiate steps towards sustainability and instill the values of socially, zz Initiate the Ph D. . program in the interdisciplinary and economically, and environmentally responsible citizenship . multidisciplinary domains of Design and Engineering .

zz Initiate research in the trans-disciplinary areas of Cyber-Physical Systems, Digital Learning, Computation Electronics, and like .

Sandipani - Housing for the ‘Gurus’ 102 103 Board Room Conference Room Aavaas - Home for the Learners Leadership

Founder Executive Director

Prof. Vishwanath D. Karad Dr. Sunil Karad Founder, Executive President and Executive Director and Trustee, Managing Trustee, MAEER’s MIT Pune MIT Group of Institutions, Pune

“Taking a nod of learnings from Indian culture, “The objective of Avantika is to change the Avantika aims to provide the most inspiring perspective about higher education and to learning environment that stresses on the all- create change makers who can transform the round development of an individual . society at large ”.

104 105 Statutory Bodies

Chancellor Pro Chancellor Vice Chancellor Governing Body Sanjay Dhande Sunil Karad Anant Chakradeo Chancellor Executive Director and Dean - Design Avantika University Trustee MIT ADT University, Pune MAEER, Pune

Dhimant Panchal Rahul Karad Nitin Rane Prof. Sanjay Dhande Prof. Dhimant Panchal Prof. Prasheel Suryawanshi Pro Chancellor Trustee Vice Chancellor Former Director - IIT Kanpur Formerly with NID and MIT-ID, Pune SMIEEE, MIET, FIETE, FIE, MINS Avantika University MAEER, Pune MIT University, Meghalaya

“Avantika is essentially a community of learners, “Avantika, in essence, aims to break free from “Avantika aspires to provide comprehensive Prasheel Suryawanshi Mangesh Karad Shailendra Kumar Sharma harboring the belief that there is always more the traditional boundaries of long-followed education by which creative and analytical Vice Chancellor Trustee Nominee of State Govt . to know and discover . We’re open to changes educational methodologies . The liberal strength of mind are increased, in-depth Avantika University MAEER, Pune Professor and HOD - Hindi, and challenges, and in the perpetual pursuit of approach to learning at Avantika will groom intellect is expanded, and all-round character is Vikram University . ideas that spark innovation ”. holistic individuals with a broad perspective formed, leading to the holistic development of S.S. Mantha Suchitra Nagare Manesh Patil and interdisciplinary skill set . Education at an individual ”. Avantika will advocate passion for learning, Former Chairman - AICTE, Trustee Registrar creating and innovation ”. Adjunct Prof . NIAS MAEER, Pune Avantika University Bangalore

Rajiv Mishra Prakash Joshi Directorate of Art Trustee Govt . of Maharashtra, MAEER, Pune Mumbai * Nominee of Visitor Awaited

106 107 Board of Management Academic Council Prasheel Suryawanshi Sukanta Kundu Mohan Singh Palduna Prasheel Suryawanshi Kirti Trivedi Sukanta Kundu Vice Chancellor Professor - Design Nominee of State Govt . Vice Chancellor Professor Emeritus Dean - School of Design Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University

Rahul Karad Hemant Kaushik Surendra Marmat Venkatesh Rajmanickam T. N. Hari Raghav Pandya Trustee Professor - Design Nominee of State Govt . Professor Head - HR Coordinator - Industrial MAEER, Pune Avantika University IDC, IIT Bombay BigBasket Design Avantika University

Prakash Joshi Raghav Pandya Manesh Patil Shashank Mehta Manak Lal Jain Rupesh Gajbhiye Trustee Associate Professor - Design Registrar Activity Chairperson - Professor Coordinator - Communication MAEER, Pune Avantika University Avantika University Education SGSITS, Indore Design NID Ahmedabad Avantika University

Chandrakant Pandav Ravikumar Jadhav Puneet Tandon Dhimant Panchal Siddharth Majumdar Trustee Coordinator - CSE Professor and Dean Professor Emeritus Coordinator - UX Design MAEER, Pune Avantika University PDPM IIITDM, Jabalpur Avantika University Avantika University

108 109 Finance Committee RavikumarJadhav Kamlesh Mishra Prasheel Suryawanshi Rashi Jain Coordinator - Computer Science and Engineering Nominee of MPPURC Vice Chancellor Chief Finance and Accounts Officer Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University

Varun Tiwari Manesh Patil Nitin Rane Manesh Patil Coordinator - Mechanical Engineering . Registrar Nominee of Governing Body Registrar Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University Avantika University

Prabodh Mishra Coordinator - Fashion Design Avantika University

110 111 Planning and Administration Committee Prasheel Suryawanshi Ravikumar Jadhav Mukesh Bhargava Rashi Jain Chandrashekhar Lohote Vice Chancellor School of Engineering Library Finance and Accounts General Administration

Manesh Patil Prabodh Mishra N. Sivaramakrishnan Rashi Singh Prakash Dhumal Registrar School of Fashion ICT HR Estate

Sukanta Kundu Varun Tiwari Vaibhav Garg Vishal Choudhary Ameet Kumar Sharma School of Design Workshop Industry Relations Academic Administration Admissions

112 113 Student Council

The Student Council maintains the primary responsibility for all General Secretary student interests and involvement at Avantika . The Student Council Mayank Soni Body is elected by, and for, students . The Council is led by 2 third-year TY BTech (CSE) students and 12 representatives, making a total of 14 students . The Council meets at least once a month to discuss the issues raised by the students through their group meetings and ensures the student interests are taken into account in any senior management decision Think, Innovate, Progress process . Ladies Representative Each year the Student Council brings the students together on Shrawani Bohra campus for a series of celebratory events, multicultural festivals, TY BDes (CD) runs social events, and supports our clubs advocating for the best possible student experience at Avantika .

114 115 Students

FY BDes (Foundation)

Cultural Secretary Industry Relations Social Secretary 1. Aabha Joshi 12. Megha Jaswal 23. Esha Mehta 34. Shubhankar Nandapurkar Secretary AU19A1001 AU19A1013 AU19A1024 AU19A1036 Tanishq Dalvi Nipun Patel Bhaswati Banerjee 2. Shravani Kulkarni 13. Shruti Awate 24. Eshika Dhanaki 35. Shubhojit Saha TY BDes (UXD) FY BTech (Foundation) FY MDes (ID) AU19A1002 AU19A1014 AU19A1025 AU19A1037 3. Parthavi Gurav 14. Aanchal Maratha 25. Omkar Jagtap 36. Debdatta Ghosh AU19A1003 AU19A1015 AU19A1026 AU19A1038 Cultural Secretary Industry Relations Club Secretary 4. Sarthak Shambhatnavar 15. Aaryaman Shetty 26. Divya Manglekar 37. Rishabh Kiran Secretary Ved Umale Rakshita Desai AU19A1005 AU19A1016 AU19A1027 AU19A1039 Sakshi Shah FY BDes (FD) FY BDes (Foundation) SY BDes (UXD) 5. Dharati Verma 16. Rohith R 27. Mukund Bhalotia 38. Nibha Mungee AU19A1006 AU19A1017 AU19A1028 AU19A1040 6. Aditya Salunkhe 17. Yutika Bhasin 28. Atul Sureka 39. Anush Nadkarni Sports Secretary Technical Event Secretary Hostel Secretary AU19A1007 AU19A1018 AU19A1029 AU19A1041 Kriti Sinha Shivranjani Solanki Himanka Kalita 7. Samiksha Banka 18. Akshay Karadkar 29. Atharva Gantellu 40. Nityashree Raman TY BDes (ID) FY MDes (CD) FY BDes (FD) AU19A1008 AU19A1019 AU19A1030 AU19A1042 8. Aman Asthana 19. Ivjot Singh Sethi 30. Divya Patil 41. Lav Patil AU19A1009 AU19A1020 AU19A1032 AU19A1043 PR Secretary Technical Event Secretary Mess Secretary 9. Simmran Khanna 20. Bulusu Lakshmi Sravani 31. Mathangi Neelakantan 42. Chaitanya Risbud Moulshree Verma Prantik Saha Aditya Upadhyay AU19A1010 AU19A1021 AU19A1033 AU19A1044 SY BDes (ID) SY BTech (CSE) TY BTech (ME) 10. Sakshi Agrawal 21. Shreya Mishra 32. Chinmay Date 43. Kaustubh Barhate AU19A1011 AU19A1022 AU19A1034 AU19A1045 11. Shaurya Upadhyay 22. Manali Sawant 33. Riya Katariya 44. Drashti Gala AU19A1012 AU19A1023 AU19A1035 AU19A1046

116 117 FY BDes (Foundation) FY BTech (Foundation) FY BDes (Fashion Design)

45. Purva Nakhwa 56. Zeel Modi 67. Surabhi Bajaj 78. Jagriti Kale 1. Naman Sharma 12. Abhijeet S 1. Nikita Dubey AU19A1047 AU19A1058 AU19A1070 AU19A1081 AU19B1002 AU19B1013 AU19C1001 46. Niharika Gupta 57. Prakriti Pachisia 68. Dhruv Champaneri 79. Bhargavee Soman 2. Jigyasa Dixit 13. Sheikh Muhammed Tadeeb 2. Shivranjani Solanki AU19A1048 AU19A1059 AU19A1071 AU19A1082 AU19B1003 AU19B1014 AU19C1002 47. Chaitanya Shamanewadikar 58. Chaitanya Patil 69. Devika Phadke 80. Mrunmayee Kulkarni 3. Nitya Kasturey 14. Ishita Tandon 3. Ranu Beniwal AU19A1049 AU19A1060 AU19A1072 AU19A1083 AU19B1004 AU19B1015 AU19C1003 48. Sakshi Sankhe 59. Sai Niharthi Sree Muddada 70. Neha Kanade 81. Miral Zafar 4. Muskan Jain 15. Abhijit Panchal 4. Himanshi Prajapati AU19A1050 AU19A1062 AU19A1073 AU19A1084 AU19B1005 AU19B1016 AU19C1004 49. Ayush Suhag 60. Arnav Nalawade 71. Sriram Ajith 82. Madhumitha Balasubramanian 5. Shambhavi Goswami 16. Ujjwal Pandya 5. Natasha Bhargava AU19A1051 AU19A1063 AU19A1074 AU19A1085 AU19B1006 AU19B1017 AU19C1005 50. Saumya Kharkar 61. Prasad Chaudhari 72. Mihir Worlikar 83. Neel Dabri 6. Jeel Khatiwala 17. Falguni Dable 6. Kylie Vats AU19A1052 AU19A1064 AU19A1075 AU19A1086 AU19B1007 AU19B1018 AU19C1006 51. Mrinal Dabade 62. Hritik Fulambarkar 73. Yashi Pareek 84. Saket Lonkar 7. Harsh Sharma 18. Anushka Gupta AU19A1053 AU19A1065 AU19A1076 AU19A1087 AU19B1008 AU19B1020 52. Aditya Gawade 63. Ketki Bhrushundi 74. Monik Gindra 85. Ishan Nakate 8. Nipun Patel 19. Aniruddh Tiwari AU19A1054 AU19A1066 AU19A1077 AU19A1088 AU19B1009 AU19B1021 53. Yug Chaudhary 64. Abhishek Joshi 75. Kshitij Deepak Deore 86. Devashish Boralkar 9. Anannya Mital 20. Anish Prasad AU19A1055 AU19A1067 AU19A1078 AU19A1089 AU19B1010 AU19B1022 54. Utkarsh Barapatre 65. Ananya Dey 76. Aarya Vaidya 87. Ved Umale 10. Somesh Anjana 21. Akshat Vinaybhai Patel AU19A1056 AU19A1068 AU19A1079 AU19A1090 AU19B1011 AU19B1023 55. Esha Vijayan 66. Priyanshi Katiyar 77. Anushka Nimdeokar 11. Aditya Carpenter 22. Vaibhav Pandya AU19A1057 AU19A1069 AU19A1080 AU19B1012 AU19B1024

118 119 SY BDes (Industrial Design) SY BDes (Communication Design)

1. Sheil Joshi 13. Shraddha Sabnis 25. K.rakesh Nayak 1. Saloni Virkar 11. Jagrati Rajpal 21. Nupur Sonar AU18A1001 AU18A1030 AU18A1088 AU18A1002 AU18A1037 AU18A1061 2. Priyanshi Agrawal 14. Atharva Kawre 26. Nipun Saxena 2. Shaunak Datar 12. Nishi Mundra 22. Chaitanya Rukumpur AU18A1003 AU18A1036 AU18A1092 AU18A1013 AU18A1038 AU18A1064 3. Jatin Modi 15. Vishwas Shah 27. Vivek Purswani 3. Neha Madhekar 13. Ullas R bhat 23. Jaitish Sahni AU18A1005 AU18A1041 AU19A1093L AU18A1017 AU18A1040 AU18A1065 4. Moulshree Verma 16. Khushbu Chaudhary 4. Ekta Gupta 14. Baladithya Madhusoodan 24. Rutal Deshmukh AU18A1006 AU18A1050 AU18A1020 AU18A1047 AU18A1073 5. Sharvari Rai 17. Bhushan Phanse 5. Khushi Sharma 15. Ritika Suraj 25. Sagnick Dutta AU18A1010 AU18A1062 AU18A1024 AU18A1049 AU18A1077 6. Dhiraj Garhwal 18. Omkar Jadhav 6. Kritika Rathi 16. Shreedutt Wasu 26. Shreerang Ramtirthkar AU18A1012 AU18A1063 AU18A1026 AU18A1052 AU18A1078 7. Samyaka Yeolekar 19. Meet Panchal 7. Ojsee Brijpuriya 17. Khushi Mehta 27. Vagdevi Rao AU18A1015 AU18A1066 AU18A1028 AU18A1053 AU18A1079 8. Akash Sinha 20. Shambhavi Pandey 8. Ashutosh Deshpande 18. Abhinav Narayan 28. Rakshita Desai AU18A1021 AU18A1070 AU18A1033 AU18A1055 AU18A1083 9. Jay Dhebar 21. Devansi Patel 9. Kaustubh Vichare 19. Siddharth Hardikar 29. Aayush Bidkar AU18A1021 AU18A1074 AU18A1034 AU18A1056 AU18A1090 10. Anliya Manoj 22. Garima Maiya 10. Darsh Soni 20. Mudit mousam Gogoi AU18A1023 AU18A1080 AU18A1035 AU18A1060 11. Prashita Gupta 23. Atharva Pande AU18A1025 AU18A1082 12. Shraddha More 24. Rajeesh Reghu AU18A1029 AU18A1085

120 121 SY BDes (User Experience Design) SY BTech (Computer Science and Engineering)

1. Arnav Agarwal 13. Aditya Ramvarzi 25. Jash Amipara 1. Prantik Saha AU18A1004 AU18A1046 AU18A1086 AU18B1001 2. Shalin Desai 14. Saakshi Kulkarni 26. Manuja Kadre 2. Mansi Patel AU18A1007 AU18A1048 AU18A1087 AU18B1002 3. Aishwarya Raka 15. Jill Chheda 27. Shruti Wagh 3. Jayant Choudhary AU18A1008 AU18A1054 AU18A1089 AU18B1003 4. Madhura Pawar 16. Faizan Ansari 28. Aryaman Choudhary 4. Utkarsh Agrawal AU18A1011 AU18A1058 AU18A1091 AU18B1004 5. Anaghaa Chakrapani 17. Zeeshan Ansari 5. Varunee Acharya AU18A1014 AU18A1059 AU18B1006 6. Atharva Dahotre 18. Chirag Jagetiya 6. Aditya Oswal AU18A1019 AU18A1067 AU18B1007 7. Kashish Sethi 19. Khushi Singh 7. Pooja Kanojia AU18A1027 AU18A1068 AU18B1008 8. Srushti Ghadge 20. Rudrik Marathe 8. Aditya Sharma AU18A1032 AU18A1071 AU18B1009 9. Siddhesh Vishwasrao 21. Sakshi Shah 9. Abhinav Singh AU18A1039 AU18A1072 AU18B1010 10. Nikita Sharma 22. Nishtha Batra AU18A1042 AU18A1076 11. Uttara Kulkarni 23. Tejal Firodiya AU18A1044 AU18A1081 12. Akash Katariya 24. Mrunmayi Kulkarni AU18A1045 AU18A1084

122 123 TY BDes (Industrial Design) TY BDes (Communication Design)

1. Soham Mohanty 12. Krithik Prabhakar 23. Yashaskar Narumanchi 34. P unnyan Kumar 1. Naman Khajanchi 12. Rushell rose Raphael 23. Avantika Bhalotia 34. Satyadev Pius m AU17A1002 AU17A1034 AU17A1061 AU17A1090 AU17A1001 AU17A1024 AU17A1067 AU17A1088 2. Swarali Hindlekar 13. Palash Bakre 24. Divya Gupta 35. Vishnu Ravi 2. Suyash Jog 13. Rakshita Rastogi 24. Avantika Kulkarni 35. Vidha Tripathi AU17A1003 AU17A1037 AU17A1062 AU17A1091 AU17A1004 AU17A1026 AU17A1068 AU17A1094 3. Praduman Joshi 14. Mrunmayi Joshi 25. Kshitij Kalia 36. Tanvi Kulkarni 3. Jainam Sanghavi 14. Amruta Kekre 25. Parul Jaggi AU17A1006 AU17A1039 AU17A1063 AU17A1092 AU17A1010 AU17A1027 AU17A1069 4. Vaibhav Sharma 15. Aman Soni 26. Prateek Jain 37. Suneet Palande 4. Vibhuty Gaggar 15. Purva Jhunjhunwala 26. Tanvi Bhujadi AU17A1007 AU17A1041 AU17A1064 AU17A1093 AU17A1011 AU17A1029 AU17A1070 5. Shreya Paliwal 16. Janhavi Kedar 27. Radhika Goyal 38. Hritik Ramsinghani 5. Adithyan Shibu 16. Prit Gajjar 27. Harshvardhan Gaikwad AU17A1008 AU17A1042 AU17A1066 AU18A1095L AU17A1012 AU17A1030 AU17A1074 6. Gaurang Agarwal 17. Mansi Gupta 28. Manasi Parulekar 39. Deven Kale 6. Amartya Zade 17. Mrunal Deshpande 28. Tanvi Mahambare AU17A1009 AU17A1044 AU17A1071 AU18A1096L AU17A1016 AU17A1035 AU17A1077 7. Parth Bhavsar 18. Atharva Pardeshi 29. Aishwarya Chawla 40. Kshitij Gangurde 7. Siddhant Joshi 18. Tanvi Dev 29. Nirmitee Mantri AU17A1014 AU17A1045 AU17A1073 AU18A1097L AU17A1017 AU17A1036 AU17A1079 8. Mayuresh Gade 19. Apoorvaa Balasundaram 30. Piyush Agrawal 41. Payal sharma 8. Anushka Belsare 19. Tanvi Kakirwar 30. Som Aprameya AU17A1015 AU17A1047 AU17A1075 AU19A1098L AU17A1018 AU17A1040 AU17A1081 9. Shantanu Thorat 20. R Abhishek 31. Rishikesh Pathak 9. Akash Gupta 20. Hemant Kokate 31. Nitya Vijaywargiya AU17A1025 AU17A1056 AU17A1084 AU17A1019 AU17A1046 AU17A1082 10. Gauri Singh 21. Krati Agrawal 32. Himanka Kalita 10. Anoushka Karnik 21. Shrawani Bohra 32. Aishwarya Tadwalkar AU17A1028 AU17A1057 AU17A1087 AU17A1021 AU17A1048 AU17A1083 11. Rohan Goje 22. Vineet Vishwakarma 33. Balgovind Shanbhag 11. Puja Shetty 22. Geetanjali Lal 33. Priyesh Patade AU17A1031 AU17A1059 AU17A1089 AU17A1022 AU17A1050 AU17A1086

124 125 TY BDes (User Experience Design) TY BTech (Computer Science and Engineering)

1. Divya Ray 1. Pranjal Jain 12. Yash Baranwal AU17A1020 AU17A1001 AU17B1016 2. Hetvi Shah 2. Madhur Chhajed 13. Shivam Singh AU17A1023 AU17B1002 AU17B1017 3. Sanika Patwardhan 3. Kuldeep Pal 14. Hatim Nomani AU17A1032 AU17B1003 AU17B1018 4. Avi Choukhany 4. Karan Rathore 15. Shivam Singh AU17A1038 AU17B1004 AU17B1021 5. Tanishq Dalvi 5. Ishan Shrivastava 16. Manasi Bandal AU17A1051 AU17B1006 AU17B1023 6. Tanvi Joshi 6. Mayank Soni 17. Manas Shukla AU17A1052 AU17B1007 AU17B1027 7. Sahil Jain 7. Samit Mukherjee 18. Thomas Vadakkan Abimalekh AU17A1055 AU17B1008 AU17B1028 8. Harshit Karir 8. Nikhil Jagtap 19. Fakhruddin Ezzey AU17A1060 AU17B1009 AU17B1029 9. Chinmay Garg 9. Manas Choubal AU17A1072 AU17B1010 10. Dipanshu Singhall 10. Mihir Srivastava AU17A1085 AU17B1011 11. Vedant Khatri AU17B1014

126 127 About Avantika TY BTech FY MDes (Mechanical Engineering) (Industrial Design)

1. Ayush Bhokare 1. Ankur Gaidhani 5. Vaishnavi Upganlawar AU17B1005 AU19A2002 AU19A2011 Avantika University How to Learn 2. Aditya Upadhyay 2. Ganesh Borkute 6. Rutuja Bawankar AU17B1013 AU19A2003 AU19A2012 Avantika is envisioned as India’s first design-centered university that Avantika brings about a paradigm shift in pedagogy by empowering cross-links design thinking and creative spirit with engineering on a solid students with an approach of HOW to learn instead of WHAT to learn . 3. Vipin Yadav 3. Shubhankit Jain 7. Krishnakant Pal AU17B1020 AU19A2005 AU19A2013 foundation of liberal education . 4. Bhaswati Banerjee The university is poised to create a unique learning center that imparts AU19A2009 joyful education to aspiring learners in problem solving . It aims to bring about a paradigm shift in the pedagogy and assessment . The academic structure is intended to not just support professional growth but also FY MDes develop the students to become innovators and entrepreneurs . (Communication Design)

1. Harsimran Kaur 5. Raja Sidhartha Nagavalli AU19A2001 AU19A2008 Design Culture Cross-Disciplinary Approach 2. Kriti Sinha 6. Anmol Mudaliar AU19A2004 AU19A2010 Design is an ethos that inspires learners to think and act on challenges Avantika aims to give a holistic view of education by exposing students 3. Ashwin Kelkar 7. Ambrish Polekar to create meaningful experiences . This spirit is embedded across all to multiple disciplines . The academic model blends Design Thinking AU19A2006 AU19A2014 programs at Avantika . with other disciplines . 4. Aditi Yadav AU19A2007

128 129 MIT Pune

Avantika University is an MIT Pune Campus at Ujjain . Established in 1983, 4 Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) is the first private Engineering Universities Institute to be established in the city of Pune, Maharashtra . MIT Group of Institutions is a multi-disciplinary, multi-locational center of excellence that has contributed towards the industrial, economic, and social growth 70+ of the society for over three decades, and has helped realize the dreams Institutes and aspirations of thousands of students . The group has spread its wings across Maharashtra with campuses in Kothrud, Alandi, and Loni - Kalbhor within Pune, along with Latur, Talegaon, Ambejogai, and Pandharpur . 3,000+ Faculty

50,000+ zz Established in 1983 Students

zz Presence across primary, secondary and tertiary education zz Students from across India and Globe 1,00,000+ z z 10+ Campuses in Maharashtra | Madhya Pradesh | Meghalaya Alumni

130 131 In the Avantika logo, the Lotus symbolizes potential and in its fully blossomed form represents enlightenment and awareness. The flower is deeply rooted in Indian culture, particularly associated with Saraswati - the Goddess of Wisdom .

The transdisciplinary approach is represented through the confluence of sections, implying an immersive learning experience . The transition of colors represents evolution of an individual at Avantika University .

The identity reflects transformation and it is the knowledge (Vidya) that takes us through this transformation and leads us to accomplishment (Siddhi) .

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