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MHRD Innovation Council awarded Four stars

The Ministry of Human Resource Development

(MHRD) has recognized and approved

Innovative activities under iCell as its

Institution Innovation Council with four stars.

Contents

▪ Executive President’s Message Pg1

▪ Times Education Icon 2019 Award Pg1

▪ STTP on “Machine Learning & IoT” Pg2

▪ Mini Project Exhibition Pg3

▪ Parents Teacher Meeting Pg3

▪ Seminar on Applications of Mathematics Pg3

▪ Virtual Classroom on Electrical Vehicle

Technology Pg3

▪ NSS Activities Pg4

▪ Guest lecture Pg4

▪ Seminar on "Research Paper Writing Pg4

▪ IEEE TECHITHON 2019 – Innovazia Pg5

▪ Student Achievements pg6

▪ Top Trending Technologies Pg7

Executive President’s Message

Hon. Shri. Sunil Rane

Executive - President of Atharva Group of Institutes

& Founder Secretary - AET

Atharva, The name itself is one of the fastest

growing educational brands in India which trains the

future leaders and aspirants of Technology and

Innovation Industry. The objective of the Atharva

Group of Institutes is to provide outstanding and

accessible experiences that create ‘industry ready’

youth who can be gainfully employed upon

completion of their courses.

Our focus is on Research, Technology &

Innovation.

MHRD's Institution Innovation Council

(IIC) at Atharva College of Engineering has

achieved a whopping score of 24.99 out of

25 in the first quarter ratings of MHRD,

Government of India.

Times Education Icons 2019 Award by

Times of India Atharva College of Engineering has been

bestowed upon with the Prestigious Award for

Times Education Icons 2019 Mumbai by

Times of India. The visionary leadership of Shri

Sunil Rane, Executive President AGI, towards

Research Technology and Innovation has

bought this success.

Award was received by Vice Principal, Ms.

Jyoti Mali during the ceremony on November

18, 2019 at Mumbai.

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One Day Industrial Visit was organized at Godrej

Security Solutions, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.,

Vikhroli, Navi Mumbai. Mr. Mallikaarjun briefed

about the different project opportunities running in

Godrej and also briefed about innovations going in

ML & IoT.

Short session for Yoga & Meditation was scheduled

for relaxing all the participants of the STTP.

Department of Electronics Engineering is thankful to

Hon. Shri. Sunil Rane, Executive President, Atharva

Group of Institutes, for giving an opportunity to

organize the STTP. Department would also like to

thank Dr. P.N. Nemade, Director of Atharva College

of Engineering, for his constant support & motivation,

Dr. S.P. Kallurkar Sir, Principal of Atharva College of

Engineering, for his valuable guidance & suggestions,

Our special thanks to AICTE & ISTE for granting the

permission for organizing such a wonderful STTP.

2 Weeks Short Term Training

Program (STTP) on “Machine

Learning & IoT”

(25th November - 6th December, 2019)

The Department of Electronics Engineering, Atharva

college of Engineering, Mumbai organized AICTE-

ISTE approved 2 Weeks Short Term Training

Program (STTP) on “Machine Learning & IoT”. This

STTP was aimed for teachers who are teaching to

various disciplines of engineering and technology

subjects in colleges or Universities. 32 participants

registered for this STTP of which 3 externals

participants and 1 industry expert attended the STTP.

Dr. S. P. Kallurkar, Principal, Atharva College of

Engineering, Mumbai inaugurated the programme.

Dr. Zia Saquib, Senior Vice President of

Technology Innovation & Development at Reliance

JIO was the Chief Guest for the inaugural function.

Dr. Zia Saquib spoke about the importance of using

machine learning on IoT data with different case

studies like medical, agriculture. Dr. Bhavin Shah

(Convener and Head of ETRX.), Mr. Ranjan Kumar

(Speaker), Mr Sanjay Singh (Speaker), Prof. Samuel

Jacob, Vice Principal, Technical, Prof. Karuna Nikum,

Vice Principal, R&D, Prof. Suvarna Pansambal (HOD

CMPN) and Prof. Deepali Maste (HOD INFT) graced

the inaugural function.

The Speakers, Ms. Anita Choudhari, Dr. Vijay Katkar,

Mr. Santosh Chapaneri delivered hands on sessions.

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Seminar on Applications of Mathematics

Seminar on Applications of Mathematics was

organized by Humanities and Applied Science

department for FE students on October 16, 2019. The

invited Speaker was Darshit Suratwala, Platform

Engineer, Quanti Phi and Alumni of Atharva College

of Engineering.

Virtual Classroom on Trends in Electrical

Vehicle Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering organized a

Virtual Classroom on Trends in Electrical Vehicle

Technology for the students of SE Electrical

Engineering. The expert faculty was Dr. Jignesh

Makwana from Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat.

Dr. Makwana obliged us by giving a privilege to

register 10 students for the aforementioned course for

free.

Mini Project Exhibition

Department of Humanities and Applied Science

organized a mini Project exhibition on project based

learning of Engineering Mechanics on November 8,

2019 for First Year students of Atharva College of

Engineering

Parents Teacher Meeting

Department of Humanities and Applied Sciences

organized Parents Teacher Meeting for students of

FE. Parents interacted with the Mentors and Class In

charges and were made aware about their wards

progress. Positive response was acknowledged from

parents.

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NSS Activities

NSS Atharva organized voter awareness campaign in

the college on October 11, 2019. Shri Sambhaji

Adkune (Returning Officer, 161-Charkop

Constituency), Shri Sanjay Kurhade (Asst. Muncipal

Commissioner) were the guest speakers for the event.

A demo of EVM machine was also presented to the

students.

NSS Atharva celebrated 150th birth anniversary of

Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2019. On this

auspicious day students cleaned the campus to support

Swacha Bharat Abhiyaan and encouraged people for

the same.

Guest lecture "Research related in RF,

Microwaves and Antennas” and "Benefits of

IEEE membership

A guest lecture was organized on the following

topics "Research related in RF, Microwaves and

Antennas” and "Benefits of IEEE membership,

association and activities for UG, PG and

working professionals on December 12, 2019.

The invited speaker was Dr. Chinmoy Saha,

Associate Professor, Department of Avionics,

Indian Institute of Space Science and

Technology, Valiamala, Kerala, Ms. Karuna

Nikum, Vice Principal, Research and

Development, coordinated the event.

Seminar on Research Paper Writing

Department of Computer Engineering conducted the

seminar on "Research Paper Writing" under the

guidance of Prof Suvarna Pansambal and Prof

Mahendra Patil on October 3, 2019. It was an

informative session for all the students to write good

research papers.

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IEEE TECHITHON 2019 – Innovazia

Atharva College of Engineering hosted one of

the most jubilant and elaborate annual technical

fest held during October 9 to 11, 2019. IEEE

TECHITHON is the annual inter-collegiate

Technical Festival which encourages

engineering undergraduates to showcase their

technical skills and compete with others to find

the best. The Chief Guest of the Inaugural

Ceremony was Mr. Dattatrayji Rane, Ex

Education Minister, Mr. Sunil Khanna, from CII

and MD of Vertiv Pvt ltd and Mr. Arun

Srivastava, The Students from different

technical colleges across Mumbai participated

to showcase their technical projects along with

Atharva college students in the event.

The Theme of the fest is “Innovazia,

Revamping Tech... ".Innovazia is the

environment where the existing technology is

re-accelerated to fit the needs of the new

generation. Internet is buzzing with the concept

of 'Revolution 2020'.

Hackathon

A 24 hour Hackathon was organized by the

committee on October 10, 2019.

Intra Departmental Events were held on 11th

October 11, 2019.

Atharva Guest Lecture Series

IEEE TECHITHON 2K19 introduced Atharva

Guest Lecture Series. Speakers from various fields

were invited to share their knowledge & experience

with the students on October 10, 2019.

The invited Speakers were Captain Dharmveer, Ex

Army Officer, Entrepreneur, Runner, and

Mountaineer, Mr. Ali Mustufa Shaikh, Software

Innovator at Intel, Facilitator at Google AI , Machine

Learning Trainer, Youngest mentor of Smart India

Hackathon, Prof. Nirmal Thakur, IEEE BOMBAY

SECTION Speaker, Lecturer in NMIMS, Expert in

Mechatronics and Mr. Kuntal Joisher, Software

Engineer, Mountaineer, First vegan to climb Mount

Everest.

Technical Events

Technical events like Technical Paper Presentation,

Poster Presentation, Web Designing, Code Breaking,

Blind Coding, IOT Project Competition, Mini

Project Competition, Robo Wars, Robo Soccer. Also

special attractions like Hogathon, Treasure hunt, Fun

events and Mobile gaming events were also

organized.

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▪ Anujay Ghosh and Shital mhadik won the best

paper award at IEPCCT Springer conference at

SOA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

▪ Atharva College of Engineering participated in

University baseball tournament at CKT Degree

college Panvel on December 13, 2019. The team

is one of the top 8 teams of the tournament.

▪ Team VENGERS, Krunal Bharat Gediya,

Abhishek Bandivadekar, Saurabh Soparkar and

Premkumar Raval from Atharva College of

Engineering, Mumbai won Prize for "Best

Innovative Idea" & "Best Idea Presentation"

at InNerve 4.0 Hackathon at Army Institute of

Technology, Pune, India.

Proposed Idea: “EdXR” - Smart Mixed Reality

Enabled Learning.

▪ Team VENGERS from Department of

Computer Engineering of Atharva College of

Engineering, Mumbai was selected as one of the

finalist teams of Hack.Asia in the

"SECURITY GO! Challenge” Singapore

under the guidance of Prof. Priti Rumao.

Student Achievements

▪ Congratulations to Aditya Khedekar and team

from Department of computer engineering for

winning in Techtatva Manipal Hackathon 2019

organized by Manipal Institute of technology,

Karnataka.

▪ Siddharth Sinha, final year student of Atharva

College of Engineering, IT dept., went to Airbus

Aerothon, 2.0, held in New Horizon College of

Engineering, Bangalore, on Sunday, December

8, 2019 and his team, along with 2 other teams

won the hackathon. After hackathon, a gala

event was organized with former ISRO

chairman, Dr. Kiran Kumar, speaking about his

ISRO memories and Chandrayaan

1.Congratulations Siddharth and his team for

tremendous efforts

▪ Mandar Vasaikar of S.E. from Electrical

Engineering branch won his first ever All India

National medal in the All India Junior Nationals

Athletics Championship which was held at

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) from 2nd to 6th

November 2019.

▪ Shefali Mahadik from BECMPN1 won Oxford

debate competition at Sardar Patel College of

Engineering, on 4th and 5th October 2019.

▪ Crusaders, Atharva College of Engineering's

Dance team won second runner up at IIT

Bombay's Cultural Festival - Mood Indigo, in

the Indigo saga category (Contemporary

thematic dance) on December 28, 2019.

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5. Cognitive Cloud Computing:

Cognitive Cloud is an extended ecosystem of

traditional Cloud and Cognitive Computing.

It converses in human language and helps experts in

better decision making by understanding the

complexities of Big Data. Its market size is expected

to generate revenue of $13.8 billion by 2020.

6. Internet of Things

IoT essentially is connecting many devices and

creating a virtual network where everything works

seamlessly via a single monitoring center of sorts.

IoT is a giant network of connected devices – all of

which gather and share data about how they are used

and the environments in which they are operated

7. RPA (Robotic Process Automation):

Generally, any desk job in any industry involves tasks

that are repetitive in nature and can be automated.

RPA or Robotic Process Automation allows you to

automate such routine and repetitive tasks.

Top Trending Technologies

Here are some of the trending technologies, which is

expected to acquire a huge market in 2020.

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI existed even before the internet was born, but it is

now that the data processing and compute power

backbone became strong enough to sustain an entire

technology by itself.

2. Blockchain

This is the technology that powers bitcoins, the whole

new parallel currency that has taken over the world.

Interestingly, blockchain as a technology has far-

reaching potential in everything from healthcare to

elections to real estate to law enforcement.

3. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Virtual is real! VR and AR, the twin technologies that

let you experience things in virtual that are extremely

close to real are today being used by businesses of all

sizes and shapes

4. Big data

Big data refers to problems that are associated with

processing and storing different types of data. Most of

the companies today rely on big data analytics to gain

huge insight about their customer, product research,

marketing initiatives and many more.

Editorial Board

Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar, Principal, ACE, Malad.

Dr. Ritu Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of HAS.

Mr. Niranjan Samudre, Asst. Prof., Dept of ETRX.

Any information or suggestions are welcomed at

niranjansamudre@ atharvacoe.ac.in.

Atharva College of Engineering

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