“HOD SPEAK”
From HOD’s Desk –October 2020
In this quarter, my faculty members had been conducting online lectures and practical’s regularly. Along with aca-demic load, committee activities were also conducted for our SE, TE and BE students. I also like to mention that amidst this difficult times of pandemic, we successfully conducted project review sessions for our BE students. I also congratulate our department coordinator's who are successfully conducting university exams as per universi-ty guidelines. In this quarter also, many faculty members have completed online courses and are engaged in im-parting technical skills to improve the skillsets of our stu-dents. I thank all teaching and non teaching staff for their continuous contribution in making this quarter success-
ful. I wish all my students a great success for forthcoming examinations !!!
Inside this
Issue
Faculty Profile -
Prof.Harshada Rajale
Prof. Sayli Todkari
Know an Alumnus-
Pratik Mhatre
Updates:
Cluster mentors of the Department.
Academic updates
Conference Updates
“An Investment in Knowledge pays the best Interest”
― Benjamin Franklin
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EX-Tracting... Department of Electronics & Telecommunication
1 July -
30 Septem-
ber 2020
VOLUME
XII
ISSUE 1
1.
Figure 1. Activity Poster for workshop on Eagle platform organized by ETSA
A workshop on Eagle was organized by ETSA (Electronics and Telecommunication students association)
on 9th August, 2020 on Microsoft Teams online platform. The event was publicized in VIT for SE, TE and
BE Students. Registered participants were provided with link and instructions to download the eagle soft-
ware prior to the workshop. Aman Chauhan and Sahil Kothawale students from BE EXTC had been ap-
pointed as speaker’s for the event. The workshop was divided in two parts, Schematic designing and
Board designing. After the event, participants were given circuit to practice. Total 40 students attended
the event. Feedback given by the students was excellent. EXTC Department thanks faculty convener and
students for making the event successful.
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Dr. Sanjay Singh Thakur
Head of the Department
EXTC Department Activities
Scan and get linked with
Department web Page
Name: Prof.Sayli Todkari
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department: Electronics & Tele-
communication Engineering
Qualification: ME Electronics and
telecommunication
Teaching Experience : 4.5 Years
Areas of Interest: : Digital electron-
ics, Image processing, Internet and
voice processing
Faculty Profiles
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet ”
―Aristotle EXTC ii
Name: Prof.Harshada Rajale
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Electronics & Tele-
communication Engineering
Qualification: ME Electronics and
Telecommunication
Teaching Experience : 7+Years
Areas of Interest: Computer Com-
munication Networks, Wireless
Networks, Object oriented program-
ming languages
Prof.Mayur Nanda along with Prof.Amit Maurya conducted sessions on ‘Ki-CAD’ tool organized
by IETE Committee on 8th, 10th, 15th and 17th September and two sessions will be on 3rd Octo ber, 2020 and 10th October, 2020.
Figure 2: Picture showing online demonstration of the session on MS Teams platform
3. EXTC Department take pride in congratulating our following students for their placements in IT Companies for the current year 2020:
Meenu Mishra got selected in TCS through Codevita contest.
Vidhi Dave and Tanay Shah got selected in Reliance JIO.
Kaustubh Kadam, Prathamesh Warankar, Sahil Kothawale, Shraddha Sinha, Shounak
Sangli got selected in Capgemini.
Soham Shinde got selected in Byju.
Highlights on Dr. Saurabh Mehta’s achievement
1. Industrial IoT and Its application in Power Sector, AICTE FDP, Swami Vivekananda Col lege, 15th August 2020. 2. Application of Industrial IoT, ATAL FDP, RAIT, 26th August 2020.
3. Wireless Standards, Webinar Series, IEEE Bombay Section,4th September 2020. 4. Story of Riches and Rags: IT Industry, VIT, 11th September 2020.
5 IoT Talk, Thakur College of Engineering, 19th September 2020.
6. Leadership Lecture on TPAC, 26th September 2020. IEEE Bombay Section
Highlights on Regular activities
R and D committee activity are being conducted regularly.
EXTC Department thank exam co-ordinator’s Prof.Prathamesh Indulkar, Prof.Hemant jadhav,
Prof.Harshada Rajale for their contribution in conduction of KT University exams and VIVA ex-ams for BE students from Batch 2020.
Department congratulate Mr.Mahadev Dipnaik, (ME student) for acceptance of his paper entitled
‘Interfacing of gradient amplifier system for indigenous MRI using communication interface pro- tocol’ in oral presentation in IEEE conference for innovation in technology 2020, Bangalore.
Research topic of the Quarter
Figure 3. The startup Realtime Robotics is helping robots solve the motion planning problem by giving them collision avoidance capabilities. Here, a robot avoids a researcher’s waving hand. Courtesy of Realtime Robotics. George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. “When you’re a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this im-mense disappointment at how much you can’t do with that robot,” he says. Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks — but it turns out that just moving them through space without colliding with objects is more difficult than it sounds. Fortunately, Konidaris is hopeful that future roboticists will have a more exciting start in the field. That’s because roughly four years ago, he co-founded Realtime Robotics, a startup that’s solving the “motion planning problem” for robots. The company has invented a solution that gives robots the ability to quickly adjust their path to avoid objects as they move to a target. The Realtime controller is a box that can be connected to a variety of robots and deployed in dynamic environments. “Our box simply runs the robot according to the customer’s program,” explains Konidaris, who currently serves as Realtime’s chief roboticist. “It takes care of the movement, the speed of the robot, detecting obstacles, collision detection. All [our customers] need to say is, ‘I want this robot to move here.’” Realtime’s key enabling technology is a unique circuit design that, when combined with proprietary soft-ware, has the effect of a plug-in motor cortex for robots. In addition to helping to fulfill the expectations of starry-eyed roboticists, the technology also represents a fundamental advance toward robots that can work effectively in changing environments. Today the majority of Realtime’s customers are in the automotive, manufacturing, and logistics indus-tries. The robots using Realtime’s solution are doing everything from spot welding to making inspections to picking items from bins. After customers purchase Realtime’s control box, they load in a file describing the configuration of the robot’s work cell, information about the robot such as its end-of-arm tool, and the task the robot is com-pleting. Realtime can also help optimally place the robot and its accompanying sensors around a work area. Konidaris says Realtime can shorten the process of deploying robots from an average of 15 weeks to one week. Once the robot is up and running, Realtime’s box controls its movement, giving it instant collision-avoidance capabilities.
Reference: http://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/helping-robots-avoid-collisions
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school” ―Albert Einstein
Know an Alumnus
Name of Alumnus:Pratik Mha-
tre
Batch : 2017
Qualification :BE in Electronics
and Telecommunication from
University of Mumbai
Message: No period of my life has brought hapiness in my life as the four years which I have spent in college walls. I think, specially when you are in college, each book which you are reading tends to tell you who you are. Those college days were really amazing starting from friday pathshala, annual sports, can-teen where we have spent most of the time in our college life, our college fest VERVE all those memories will be cher-ished for ever. We are really thankful to all our professors, non teaching staff members who made our college life memorable.
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Conference Updates
1. 3rd Scopus indexed IEEE
International conference
on intelligent sustainable
systems ICISS 2020.
When: 3/12/2020
Venue: Coimbatore
2. International Conference
on artificial intelligence, ma-
chine learning and big data
engineering
When: 10/10/2020
Venue: Nagercoil
Department of EXTC: Student’s contribution in Sports activity
Figure 4: Activity Poster
Introduction of the event:
Student Council’s Friday Paathshala event on “Champions of Sports conducted” on 25th Septem-ber, 2020 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm on online Platform as MS-Teams. The event conducted by Sports Council and hosted by- Shree Anusha Veligeti and Avneesh Haridas. The quiz conducted on
Quiz website as www.quizizz.com. The event started with the hosts greeting the participants, followed by the introduction of the
event. The first notable sports personality discussed was M.S. Dhoni, who recently retired from International cricket matches and a small video was played as a tribute to him. This was followed by Quiz round 1, wherein the link and code were displayed on the screen and the hosts kept the
crowd engaged with their commentary. The results were a cumulation of the participant’s score in all three rounds. The event was con-
cluded by expressing our gratitude to all participants and our convenor Professor Dattatray Bade and co-convenor Professor Rohit Barve and finally, asking all to stay safe with a touch of humour.
Cluster Mentors of Depart-
ment
1. Dr.Saurabh Mehta
2. Prof Sanjay Singh Thakur
3. Prof.Vibha Wali
4. Prof.Sheetal Mapare
5. Prof.Vaibhav Kshirsagar
6. Prof.Pravin Patil
7. Prof.Ranjana Gite
8. Prof.Santosh Jagtap
9. Prof.Satendra Mane
10. Prof.Anand Tripathi
Editor
Prof. Amey Revandkar EXTC iv
Academics
Beginning of ODD Se-
mester
When:9th July,2020
BE Project VIVA complet-
ed for Batch 2020
When: 20th September, 2020
ODD Semester exam be-
gins:
When: No tentative dates
yet known