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R. C. TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, AHMEDABAD

Yearly Newsletter

( Directorate of Technical Education, Gujarat State )

Issue No. 2 March 2018

It is a matter of proud to head the institute, which is more than hundred years old and consistently providing quality education in Diploma Engineering programs. Along with the focused technical teaching, the institute is vibrant in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities; which bring out real hidden potential within the student. The highlights of all such activities are presented in this second issue of “Samvaad”, a yearly news letter of R C Technical Institute.

This year the students presented their unique and innovative models in the tech fest “Aavishkaar - 2017”. Healthy mind needs healthy body. So, this year a sports event “RCASE – 2017” was held with the inclusion of a very special game “Archery”. In addition to this, many other activities like; blood donation camp, seminar on energy conservation, yoga day celebration, tree plantation, puppetry workshop were successfully organized.

To boost up pedagogical activity among the faculties, this year Institute Pedagogical Lecture (IPL) series also started. Various dedicated teachers delivered lectures on the topic of their expertise and thus IPL series provided a beautiful platform for knowledge dissemination. Thus, the year 2017 remained a progressive year for the students as well as teachers.

Content Highlights

Republic Day CelebrationA Technical Training on Evaporative Air Cooling TechnologyBlood Donation CampOne Day Puppetery WorkshopNational Integrated CampAavishkaar - 2017 Civil Service Day Celebration World Yoga Day CelebrationTree Plantation DriveKavi SammelanIndependence Day CelebrationEnergy Conservation WorkshopRCASE -2017Swachha Bharat AbhiyanInstitute Pedagogical Lecture SeriesCDTP ProgramTraining and Placement ActivitiesDepartmental ActivitiesInstitute ToppersStudents AchievementsStaff Achievements and Paper PublicationIndustrial VisitsRCTI News Room

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Republic day is celebrated every year on 26th of January since 1950 to mark the enforcement of Constitution of India. RCTI also celebrates this day every year. National Anthem was recited. Principal Dr. B.B. Soneji hoisted the N a t i o n a l f l a g a n d g a v e a motivational speech to students and staff. NCC cadets performed a disciplined and attention catching Republic day parade. Around 200 students and staff attended the celebrations.

Republic Day Celebration

RCTI a l w a y s

believes in social service

and the best way to show this generosity is

through Blood Donation Camp. In continuation to last many

years, this year also, we as an educational institute did this social

service. A blood donation camp was organized on 10/03/2017. Students and faculty members donated blood. 30

NCC/NSS students volunteered for arranging this activity. 77 bottles

of bood collected.

A team of NSS voulunteers along with

NSS Program officer Janak C. Thakkar Lecturer IT, enthusiastically participated in a National Integration Camp at Karnataka. The Students involved in Yoga, Sharmdan, Dairy Writing etc. and learn

discipline and termwork.

"Hum sab to rangmach ki kathputaliyan hain jiski dor

uparwale ke hath me bandhi hain." A lesson for life from the film 'Anand' resonates one's mind by seeing enchanting puppets displayed at R. C. Technical Institute.

On occasion of World Puppetry Day, the institute organized a one-day workshop cum exhibition for the students of diploma

engineering on 21/03/2017. Artists from MEHER- The Troupe,

a performing group of enthusiastic puppeteers came forward to ignite the spark of puppetry i his ancient craft received warm response from faculties and students. Students learnt the various functions of puppetry in the realms of education,

mass-media, social welfare etc. Mr. Mansinh Zala - pivotal personality of the group and his team toiled to put it together.

Participants also learnt craft of script writing, manipulation technique and performance. Later, students performed dramatic version of puppetry addressing themes like Female Education, Cashless Economy, and Child Labor

etc.

named after and inspired by a renowned artist late Padmashri Meher Contractor,

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The Annual Technical event “Aavishkaar-2017” held at the

institute on 3rd and 4th March 2017. The Event was inaugurated by

Prof. P. C. Vasani, Joint Director and Prof. Shyam Varghese, Deputy

Director of Directorate of Technical Education, Gujarat State. More

than 1200 students participated in 25 departmental

events/competitions and four institute level events.

uiz competition was also held based on General

Knowledge The students learn many new things with great fun.

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Robo race was the

main highlight of Aavishkar-2017. It was organized by Mechanical and

Electrical Engineering departments. The track was designed and

constructed by Mechanical Engineering department with reusable

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On the occasion of “Civil Service Day”

celebration (20/04/2017) Smt. Hetal Patel, DySP.

Palanpur was invited to deliver an expert lecture on Indian History and core par ts o f Ind ian Constitution. Faculties of all

departments truly enlightened with the knowledge gained in

the lecture.

Civil Service Day Celebration:

World Yoga Day Celebration June 21, 2017:

RCTI is rich in case

of the greenery and trees in the college

premises, but still the institute is keen to grow more trees and develop safe nature for

mankind. RCTI NSS Team, faculties and students of

different department are adding more and more trees every year.

In July 2017 we planted more than 100 trees in the campus.

Yoga is a practice to unite m i n d a n d

b o d y , which in a long run helps

building healthy life. All the staff members of the institute

p a r t i c i p a t e d v e r y enthusiastical ly and did various Yogasans for an

hour. Mr. V M Patel, L e c t u r e r o f C i v i l

Engineering guided for doing yoga. The yoga practice had been done in a lush green AUDA

garden located adjacent to the institute.

A person with technical skills is always found lagging in

other extra curricular activities. But when you meet Dr. B. B. Soneji, our Principal Sir, you will

find a great administrator as technical person and a reputed poet in himself. To develop interest of students in extra curricular activities, a “Kavi Sammelan” was arranged at the institute on 19/08/17; wherein principal Dr. B. B. Soneji, Smt. Varshaben Prajapati, Shri Viral Desai, Shri Ravi Dave, Shri

Gautam Parmar and Shri Jay Mehta recited their poems. Shri Bakulbhai Trivedi Dy.

Mamlatdar nicely anchored the program.

Independence Day, 15th August, is a celebrat ion of the freedoms that we enjoy - of thought, action, speech, movement, and mandate. From the year 1947, each year we ce leb ra te ou r Independence Day as a tribute to this spirit of freedom and to the courage and sacrifices that countless men and women made. RCTI also celebrates this national festival every year on this day. National Anthem was recited. Principal Dr. B.B. Soneji hoisted the National flag and gave a motivational speech to students and staff. NCC cadets performed a d isc ip l ined and at tent ion catch ing parade. Around 250 students and staff members attended the celebrations.

Independence Day Celebration:

One day workshop on "Energy Conservation" at R

C Techn ica l Ins t i tu te was organ ized on 29/08/2017.The

workshop was sponsored by GEDA and conducted by Swajal Technologies, Anand.

Very fruitful presentation done by Shri Yogesh Prajapati and Shri Ankit Prajapati of Swajal Technologies. Brief idea about energy conservation and its necessity in

our daily life was taught to 80 students of electrical department. Ms Vrinda

Kotadawala, LEE and Shri D N Thakkar, LEE coordinated

t h e p r o g r a m . T h e students learnt great lessons regarding the i m p o r t a n c e o f E n e r g y

"A Healthy Mind needs A Healthy Body", by

following this motto R. C Technical Institute, Sola, Ahmedabad organized First Ever nnual ports

vent - on 31st August - 1st September 2017. The main focus of this event was to take students to

actual physical games world from digital world of mobile revolution. RCTI has taken an initiative to spread the awareness

regarding various Indoor-Outdoor games and conventional sports. And that's the reason RCASE-2017 included games like Archery, Chess, Volleyball, Cricket, Table Tennis, Badminton, R C Premier League (having faculties in the team), Lemon Race, Musical Chair, 100 Meter Race, Kho-Kho and 1 minute Game. More than 500 boys and girls

took part with great enthusiasm. This Sports event taught Sportsmanship, Fighting Spirit, Focus, Concentration,

Team Work, Presence of Mind, Flexibility, how to come out from the worst situation to the winning situation, not to be broken on failure and not to be boast on success.

R C A S E RCASE-2017

Institute Pedagogical Lecture (IPL) series was started other important topic, which is general area of interest first time in the history of R. C. Technical Institute in the of all of us. IPL lectures are conducted on every second middle of April 2017 by respected principal Dr. B. B. working Saturday of the month. Aim of IPL series is that Soneji. A faculty member of RCTI delivers this the knowledge of a faculty may be disseminated pedagogical lecture on science and technology or any among all.

Speaker :- Dr. B. B. Soneji,

Principal, R. C.Technical Institute

Topic:- Earthquake and Tsunami:

Disaster Mitigation

Date:- 15/05/17,

Time:- 11.30 AM

Speaker :- Dr. Peenaben Thanki,Lecture General Department (English)Topic:- Core Teaching SkillDate:- 18/11/17Time:- 11.30 AM

Speaker :- Shri R. D. Parmar, Lecture Electrical DepartmentTopic:- Solar Power Generation TechnologiesDate:- 16/09/17Time:- 11.30 AM

Speaker :- Shri D. N. Thakkar, Lecture Electrical DepartmentTopic:- “Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji”Date:- 15/07/17Time:- 11.30 AM

"Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness". Cleanliness begins from our surrounding and R C Technical

Institute organized the campaign for cleanliness. To spread the awareness regarding the cleanliness students created banners and slogans. A dustbin making competition was floated with the theme “Clean India Green India”. The students made unique and attractive dustbin to collect the garbage. In addition, Under Swachha Bharat Abhiyan, a really called “Swachhata hi Seva” planned by students to create awareness amongst students on 24/09/2017 in RCTI campus. 25 NCC/NSS cadets visited Bhagwat Vidhyapith on 13/09/2017 for general cleanliness and general washroom facility observation. A team of 10 Volunteers of NCC/ NSS went to safai vidhyalay and gained the knowledge about the

making of low cost toilets in slum areas on 22/12/2017.

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Through Polytechnics is a National Level Program sponsored

by Central Government wherein, the Government Polytechnics are mandated to

run employable skill enhancing programs for youth of the surrounding community. Shri K.S.

Parmar, Lecturer Mechanical Engineering is a Co-ordinator of CDTP. Under the able guidance of Principal, Dr. B.B. Soneji, he conducted 19 programs under the aegis of CDTP wherein 353 students in total were trained during 2017. Further 06

awareness programs were also held for Beti Bacho, Beti Padhao, Digital Financial

Transaction, Women Empowerment and Malnutrition in women, wherein 267

enthusiastic candidates took part.

Sr. No. Name of Candidate CPI Programme

1 Tuvar Maulik J. 9.92 Civil Engineering

2 Brahmbhatt Mansi B. 9.83 Computer Engineering

3 Rajput Ashutoshsingh S. 9.71 Electrical Engineering

4 Singh Poonam V. 9.89 Information Technology

5 Parekh Mihir H. 9.95 Mechanical Engineering

6 Chauhan Kishan 9.08 Printing Technology

7 Textile Mfg. Technology

8 Chauhan Shailesh Ramraj Singh 8.64 Textile Processing Tech.

Institute Toppers:

Patel Sanket Bhaveshbhai 9.29

Singh Pooja : Gold Medalist IT

Mechanical Engineering Department Computer Engineering DepartmentA Seminar of Solid works 3D CAD Software was A pedagogical lecture on 'Privacy issues in Data organized on 02/09/2017. Shri T.S. Raol and Shri G.D. Mining' was conducted. Shri N.H. Domadiya Mistry coordinated the seminar related activities. delivered a lecture on the above topic and nearly 18

th staff members participated in the lecture.Almost all students of 6 semester participated in the Electrical Engineering Departmentseminar. 30 different projects under model making competition A Seminar on Entrepreneurship Awareness was was prepared and displayed. Students made different organized by the department on 26/09/2017. A total of Electrical circuits by using bread board and different 71 students benefitted from the program.

Vyas Neelkanth, Patil Kundan, Patel Kishan,Prajapati Jaydeep won prize for Wireless wheel Chair

Rathod Nirav winner of Quiz Competition

Dipal Sukla winner of Elocution Competition

Shah Vivek felicitated by Hon. Vice chancellor, GTU

Prof. (Dr.) Navinchandra Sheth,

Jigar Dodiya, Prayag Patel, khush Panchal, Parth Gohil, students of electrical engineering won prize in CREATO 2017

Industrial Visits

No. ofVisit

Name of Industry Date Programme

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01. Vibrent Exhibition Visit02. Pratt Muller Skill Development Center03. Sardar Sarovar Dam 04. Vraj Gears, Odhav05. Manali Intricast, Naroda

12-01-201706-03-201707-04-201728-08-201705-09-2017

Mechanical Engineering

Staff Achievements and Paper Publication:?Mr. A.V. Vora, Lecturer in Civil Engineering published ?Dr Jay Mehta, Lecturer in English presented two paper in International journal of engineering and papers in International conferences namely “Gulzar development and research with title “Transportation Echoes Shakespeare: Lyrics of Maqbool, Omkara and Noise, a new threat to Mega cities and Metropolitan Haider on 25/03/2017; “The Overcoat: then and now, A cities- a case study of ahmedabad city” dated critical study on 14/10/2017. He also presented a paper 08/10/2017. in a National Conference on “The Lady with the Dog: A Mr. A.V. Vora, Lecturer in Civil Engineering published Labyrinth called Love on 11/03/2017.paper in International journal of science and advance ?Further, Dr.Jay Mehta's , three articles namely research in technology with title “Noise mapping and “Anton Chekhov”, “Hanumanji” and “Vinoba Bhave” got remedial measures to transportation induced noise- A published in a leading Gujarati Daily, Gujarat Samachar case study of ahmedabad” dated 17/10/2017. on dates 16/07/2017, 23/07/2017 and 29/10/2017 ?Ms. Jigna Acharya, Lecturer in Computer respectively. He also gave an Expert talk at Department Engineering presented a paper titled “ Met heuristic of English, Bhavnagar University.Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for Scheduling ?Mr. Sunil Aggrwal, Lecturer in Electrical presented in Cloud- A Survey” in a National Conference on paper namely " A Unified Power Flow Analyais for VSC-Emerging and innovative techniques at S R Patel MTDC system with Distrubution Generation" in 7th Engineering Collage, Dabhi dated 26/05/2017. International Conference of Power System (ICPS-?Dr Peena Thanky, Lecturer in English presented two 2017) held at CoEP, Pune. papers one in International conference on Partition ?Mr. C R Madhu, Lect. DTPT, gave expert lecture as a Literature on 27/03/2017 and the other in International speaker in Manipal University, Jaipur on 28/01/2017 Conference on relevance of Shakespeare in and in Modi University, Jaipur on 29/01/2017.contemporary world on 21/05/2017.

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01. Topline Switchgear Pvt. Ltd., Kalol02. Arti Cables, Ahmedabad03. Electronic and Quality Development Center04. Pratt Muller Skill Development Center05. Ajay Engineers, Ahmedabad06. Elite Conductors Ltd., Changodar

21-01-201721-01-201704-02-201705-04-201719-08-201721-09-2017

ElectricalEngineering

CivilEngineering 03

SPERI, Thaltej, AhmedabadHot Mix Plant, Gota

01. Gujarat Vidyapith02. Saral Heights, Sola03. Kotarpur Water Works

13-02-2017 07-10-2017 19-09-2017

2Textile Processing 10

PrintingTechnology 03

01. 02. Navjivan Press, Ahmedabad03. D R Corporation

Bhavik Publication, Ognaj

Textile MFG 04

01-04-201705-08-201729-12-2017

21-07-2017 05-08-2017 16-09-2017 16-12-2017

01. Ashima Texcellance Garment Divison 02. Vivekanand Spinners03. Jindal World Wide Limited04. Arvind Limited, Santej

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01. Hemline Print Fashion02. Aakash Fashion Print (p) Ltd.03. Komal Texfab (P) Ltd.04. TRADC, Kharach05. Environmental Eng. Dpt.,L. D. Engineering06. Rawal Textiles07. Aakash Fashion Print (p) Ltd.08. Bharat Vijay Mills, Kalol09. Ankur Textile Mills Pvt. Ltd.10. Meghmani Dyes and Intermediates Ltd.

21-01-201704-02-201718-02-201725-03-201701-04-201715-07-201705-08-201716-09-201729-09-201729-09-2017

01. Gujarat Forensic Science University 19-08-2017

ComputerEngineering

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Dt. 27/04/2017

Dt.20/08/1017 Gujarat Samachar

Dt. 09/08/2017 Gujarat Samachar Plus

Dt. 22/03/2017 Gujarat Samachar

Dt. 07/04/2017 Gujarat Samachar City Plus

RCTI Newsroom

Dt. 31/08/2017 Gujarat Samachar Plus

RCASE - 2017, Dt. 22/03/2017 Gujarat Samachar Plus