Events

CSI-SAKEC in collaboration with Department of Computer Engineering of SAKEC organized a 1-day workshop for engineering college teachers on “Creating Effective Educational Videos” on 16 th February 2019 as a pre-event of CSI Mumbai TechNext India 2019. The workshop was conducted by Dr.Yogendra Pal, Project Research Scientist, IIT Bombay. Dr.Yogendra Pal is a researcher and an entrepreneur with the goal of maximizing and improving the use of ICT in education. He has a YouTube channel named “Learn By Watch” with more than 4 lakh subscribers and more than 40 million videos views. He owns a venture named ETmantra eLearning Solutions. The workshop covered the following contents: Explain the need for different types of educational videos., Select the appropriate type of educational video for a topic., Use presentation software effectively to create presentations for screencasts., Use Open Shot software to edit educational videos., Setup his/her studio for different types of educational videos., Explain various hardware that can be used to produce educational videos., Apply best-practice in MOOC creation and running. The participants were immensely benefitted by the workshop.

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As a part of Institute’s Social Responsibility, Computer Engineering Department of SAKEC, along with few faculties and students has visited Zilla Parishad School in small village of the Raigad district on 25 th October 2018 and spent their day with the school students. The joy we witnessed on their little faces as they welcomed us with smiles was wonderful. Excitement ensued when the goodies were distributed to these kids. Enthusiasm among our volunteers as they interacted with the students of the school was also palpable. There was a marked happiness among all the staff and the feeling of joy was apparent all around. It was indeed a humbling and memorable experience to hear these kids out and spend time with them.

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PiXEL 2019, Tech Conclave organized by the Computer Engineering Department of Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, on 26th March 2019. It witnessed experienced professionals coming together and discussing with the students about the stories of their journeys as triumphant technocrats, entrepreneurs and dynamic personalities. The event started on with the PIXEL team cordially inviting all the guest speakers and dignitaries. The spectacular line-up consisted of Mr. Vivek Singh (Blockchain Technical Advisor at Hyperion X) on BlockChain , Mr. Dhruva Mota (Founder & Game Developer at CTRL F5 & ELEMENTAL GAMES), Mr. Viral Vora (Founder & Game Developer at CTRL F5 & ELEMENTAL GAMES), and Mr. Aditya Mule (Senior Game Developer at Gametion) on Game Development, Mr. Kushal Sankhe (Co-Owner at Blanco, Bombay Cocktail Bar), Ms. Amreen Luthra (CEO & Founder of Amreen Luthra Training System) on Entrepreneurship, Mr. Sankalp Mate (Cyber Security Analyst at Pristine InfoSolution Pvt Ltd.) on Cyber Security, Mr. Harsh Vitra (Founder at Enroot Mumbai) on Code in X and Mr Kunal Pandit (Singer) & Mr Vinayak Patil (Super Vinay) as our Influencers. This immensely successful and impactful event was managed and co-ordinated by team PIXEL, who put together a memorable and brilliant show.

Department has organized Final year project Poster presentation for Third Year Computer students on 22-03-2017. Vice Principal Dr. V. C. Kotak and ISO Auditors Mr.M.B.Dave, Ms. Shruti K. & Mr. Nalin M. were present to encourage the Students.

Department has organized a session on “Cloud Computing” in collaboration with IEEE SAKEC on 1st April 2017 . Session was conducted by Ms. Shital Joshi. Sr. System Administrator, Tata Consultancy Services.

Department has organized a Staff Appreciation Function on 18th April 2017.

Department has celebrated success of two mega events of this semester- Pixel-Technology Conclave and Studying in US session by U.S. Consulate. Department congratulates and appreciated organizing student team, committee members and volunteers of the event for their extreme hard work. Student Appreciation program was held on 20th April 2017. I/c Head of the Department Prof. Uday Bhave and Prof. Vidyullata Devmane, Prof. Shazia Sayyad were present to encourage the Students. Also appreciation letters are given to Newsletter team for their absolute dedication.

Department Congratulate our Project group for winning an Intra College Project Competition “Project Hunt” at SAKEC held on 21st April 2017. Tejas Deshpande, Aishwarya Iyer, Chinmay Ayeer, Jay Chheda have successfully presented project on “Security Guidance Using Virtual Reality “. Group was honoured by Dr. V.C.Kotak, Dr. Uma Rao, Prof. Vidyullata Devmane, Prof. Sujata Bhairnallykar (Saraswati College of Engineering).

Team of Durita Dalal, Richa Lomate, Smit Malde and Yash shah have successfully presented the project on ANDROID APPLICATION FOR INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR and Team of Kinjal Savla,Piyush Sahu and Devang shah have successfully presented the project on ANDROID APPLICATION FOR ATTENDANCE SYSTEM USING FINGER PRINT SCANNER during Transform Maharashtra event showcase hours on 1st May 2017. The event was organized by Goverment of Maharashtra at National Sport Club of India, worli.. Dr. Vinit Kotak, Prof. Shikha Shrivastava, Prof. Vidyullata Devmane were present to encourage our Students.

A workshop on WordPress Event organized by Department of Computer Engineering of SAKEC in association with TECHZILLA and CSI on 28th & 29th July 2017 Theme of the session was “Designing your own website” using WordPress. Around 140 students have taken advantage of this opportunity by participating in this megaevent. Inauguration of event was done by Principal Dr.Bhavesh Patel and vice principal Dr.V.C. Kotak. Our speakers Mr.Vikramank Singh – Data Scientist at Facebook was a Keynote speaker for the event. Mr. Neel Doshi, Founder & CEO of Techzilla and Mr. Rohan Immanuel, Development Head from Techzilla Infotech conducted the event. The workshop ended with great feedback from students. The students showed considerable interest in future workshops.

A workshop on “Hands-On-PHP” was conducted on 12th August 2017 by CSI SAKEC in collaboration with Computer Engineering department. Speaker for the session was Prof. Pradip Suresh Mane. He covered topics like Introduction to Web Technology, HTML and PHP concepts, Syntax of different fundamentals like Statements, displaying Data, Arrays, Looping and branching was covered, Database creation by using PHP myAdmin and the connectivity with the php pages, The complete concept was explained by using Login form where the User create an account and set password from using front end and the same was saved in database. The aim of this program was to learn PHP and its database connectivity so that the students are familiar with PHP and the web technology while doing their projects or any application.

Department has organized a Hands-on workshop on “GUI Design” on 24th August 2017 by Prof. Deepshikha Chaturvedi. The session was volunteered by Prof.Deepa Ekhande and Prof.Pradip Mane. Click here for more…

As a part of Institutes Social responsibility computer engineering departments faculties and students has visited Balanand Ashram, Chembur on 2nd September 2017. Ashram provides an environment that provides the child warmth, care and material comforts of a home and family until an adopting family is found. I/c Head of Department Prof. Uday Bhave, Prof. Amol Dhumal, Prof. Rupali Kale and Prof. Deepa Ekhande along with students has voluntarily visited the Ashram for social cause and interacted with children. Children looked so ecstatic and were participated in all the activities conducted by volunteers.

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Computer Department of Shah and anchor Kuttchi Engineering College conducted an Alumni Talk on 13th July 2017. Ms. Ruchira Parchur was invited to Speak to the students on “Managing Life Beyond Studies & Work”. Ruchira is a health Believer, which is why she runs Marathons whenever she gets the chance and she encourages the students to do everything they have to take care of their heath. Grabbing Opportunities is something she knows about, because her career is all about it; she works as a technical writer at TCS. Advising the students; to take up every chance because she believes in the “Opportunity never knocks twice” philosophy. Time and tide waits for no man – Ruchira insisted that, the students should make use of the time appropriately by arranging their priorities.

Department in collaboration with IETE-SAKEC have organized a “PHOTOSHOP Workshop” on 16th September 2017. The workshop was conducted in 701/702 lab from 10:30 AM to 03:00 PM.Mr. Prakash Parmar, Asst. Professor from Computer Engineering Department was the speaker who was accompanied by Mr. Viraj Doshi , student from Computer Engineering Department. The event was organized for students of college. Some students from other college also registered for the workshop. The event had total 30 registrations. The main objective of the workshop was to give the students knowledge about the Adobe Photoshop software. Participants were taught about different tools which can be used for editing of images, graphics design and creating effects using Photoshop. The session was very interactive and concluded with Question answer session.Event Co-ordinator:Prof. Vaishali ChavanAssistant ProfessorIETE Co-OrdinatorComputer Engineering Department, SAKECClick here for more photos…

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3D Modeling and Texturing for Game Development hands on workshop was organized by the CSI-SAKEC student branch in collaboration with Computer Engineering Department by Mr. Aadesh Khale along with CSI staff co-ordinator Prof. Deepshikha Chaturvedi and Computer Staff coordinator Prof. Vidyullata Devmane on 16th September 2017. The event was attended by students of SAKEC and other colleges. The main objective of the workshop was to get the students acquainted with the knowledge about Autodesk 3ds Max & Adobe Photoshop for Game Development. Participants were taught about different techniques which can also be used in other fields like Architecture, Film, and motion graphics. The session was very interactive and concluded with Question answer session.

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IEEE SAKEC in association with Computer Engineering Department of SAKEC has conducted a workshop on “Introduction to Latex” on 16 th August 2017. The Program was conducted for students of SAKEC and other colleges by Prof. Manimala Mahato. Along with her the event was co-ordinated by Prof. Shazia Sayyed.Latex is a software that is used for documentation and making reports. LATEX is preferable than MS Word because of the high typographical quality of the documents it can produce. Editing the document in LATEX is very easy compared to MS Word. In this workshop, topics related to LATEX including installation steps of the LATEX, familiarization of LATEX, different commands starting from basic to advanced, which is required to write a report in LATEX, is covered.

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ACM SAKEC in association with COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT and GFXBandits has organized hands on workshop on “Android App Development” on 22 nd and 23 rd September 2017, which was conducted by Mr. Shripal Jain, Android Developer of GFXBandits and Mr. Hemant Shah, Founder of GFXBandits and co-ordinated by Prof. Bhakti Sonawane and Prof. Karuna Borhade of Computer Engineering Department, SAKEC. The event was attended by 59 participants, including students of SAKEC and other colleges, along with some industry professionals.The workshop was intended to familiarize participants with Android Studio software. Participants were trained to make applications using UI control and toasts, which can be launched in Google Play Store and are supported by various devices such as TVs, smart phones, tablets, camera, video game player, smart watches, car systems etc. They also learnt to post advertises in their app using JSON, thus making app as a source of revenue. The session was interactive and was concluded with the valedictory function which was graced by Principal Dr. Bhavesh Patel, Computer Engineering Department HOD Prof. Uday Bhave, IT Department HOD Prof. Swati Nadkarni and CEO of GFXBandits Mr. Ronak Parikh.

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SCILAB workshop was organized by the CSI-SAKEC student chapter. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Deepti Nikumbh of Computer Engineering Department on 27th September 2017 for SAKEC students. The main objective of the workshop was to get the students familiar with the basic introduction to scilab and its use in mathematics. The key features of workshop was to enable participants to use scilab as calculator, Variables and functions, Performing numerical operations using variables, Defining complex number, Performing exponential and. Trigonometric operations on number’s, Solving linear and non linear equations, 2D plotting. The session was very interactive and concluded with Question answer session.

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“Entrepreneurship and Studying in U.S.” informative and interactive session was organised by Computer Engineering department at Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College on 25th October,2017 at 2.00 p.m. U.S. University alumnus Mr. Rusabh Shah has shared his experience about his entrepreneurial journey, was very encouraging. He talked about how studying in U.S. helped to shape his path to establishing a successful start-up. Assistant cultural affairs officer, Mr. Jonathan, Education USA Advisor, Ms. Tanushka Bali has explained procedure about “How to apply for studying in U.S.” in detail. She has also cleared all the doubts that student has raised regarding the procedure.

Diwali is all about spreading happiness. It is the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil and hope over despair. And in the spirit of this joyous festival, the Computer Department of SAKEC decided to spread some happiness by taking up a small initiative with an aim to bring about progressive difference to the community that each one of us is a part of. Few of the faculty members of the Computer Department along with some enthusiastic students decided to spread the festive cheer by driving out to Zilla Parishad School in Posari, a small village in the Raigad district and spend their day with the school students. The joy we witnessed on their little faces as they welcomed us with smiles were wonderful. Excitement ensued when the cake was cut and goodies were distributed to these kids. Enthusiasm among our volunteers as they interacted with the students of the school was also palpable. There was a marked happiness among all the staff and the feeling of joy was apparent all around. It was indeed a humbling and memorable experience to hear these kids out and spend time with them! Here are some images of that day.

2-Days workshop on “Innovative practices in Teaching and Learning” was organized by CSI-SAKEC in collaboration with Department of Computer Engineering of Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College on 19th & 20th January 2018 as a Pre-event of CSI Mumbai TechNext India 2018. The workshop was conducted by a team of experts from Educational Technology department IIT Bombay, Mumbai. The workshop covered active learning techniques such as Think-Pair-Share, Peer Instruction, Flipped classrooms, Active learning with ICT. Objective of the Workshop Engineering Education has evolved over the last two decades and has become more student-centric. It has transformed role of ‘teacher’ to ‘facilitator’ with the help of effective teaching-learning practices. The research-based and learner-centered pedagogy for effectively integrating ICT in engineering education plays vital role in this transformation. The effective teaching-learning practices facilitate active engagement of students in the learning process. Additionally, the active learning techniques are found to be consistent with Outcome-Based Education (OBE).The primary objectives of this workshop are to introduce engineering faculty to the active learning techniques and to assist them in implementing these practices into their classrooms.

Computer Engineering Department of Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College has organized a seminar on “Scope in International Business for Engineering Students” on 31stJanuary 2018. The chief guest of the event was Advocate Mr. Jayprakash Somani (Director of Nishant Publications & Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Pune, Chairman of Aaronica Global Exim Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai). Objective of the SeminarThe seminar was intended to introduce the scope of international business for engineering students. He covered the topic ranges from export & import of systems & services designed by the engineering students. He also gave the first-hand information about the various business opportunities available in the country as well as outside of the country. The main objective of the seminar is to change the mindset of the engineering students from job seeker to job giver. So that students will serve our nation by generating employment for the benefit of the society.The seminar was informative, motivational and inspired students to take up business management in import export. There was tremendous response from the students of all departments. Event was co-ordinated by I/C HOD Prof. Uday Bhave and Prof. PallaviDeshmane.

Workshop on “NBA Awareness” was conducted for all the department on 21st January by Prof. Atul Kachare.

Department had organized a faculty development program on ” Faculty Diary Writing” on 21st January 2017 for new faculties. Session was conducted by Prof. Pinky Vishwakarma.

IEEE SAKEC in association with Department of Computer Engineering has organized a workshop on” Android App development”. The session was conducted on 1st October 2016 by Mr. Dhaval Gogri. The speaker introduced the 4 main components of Android Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers and content providers. He also mentioned some additional components like fragments, layouts, views, etc. After that the participants were introduced with the basic concepts of Android Studio features and then the first hands on application on How to add two numbers was taken.

Department had organized a Workshop on Android in collaboration with CSI-SAKEC on 21st January 2017. Session was conducted by Salil Deshpande, Masni Mehta.

Department had organized a special session on “Literature Survey” on 2nd February 2017 for Third Year Students. Session was conducted by Prof. Vidyullata Devmane.

Falicitation of our NPTEL Gold Medalist – Vivek Gawande (S.E.Computer) on 4th February 2017.

Department had organized a faculty development program on ” Basics of Patenting and Intellactual Property” on 4th February 2017. Session was conducted by Mr. Pinkesh Jain , Dy. Controller of Patents & Designs, Patent Office, Govt. Of India.

Department had organized a faculty development program on ” Role of IT in Aviation” on 4th February 2017. Session was conducted by Mr. Prakash Paranjape, Assistant Manager, IT Department, Jet Airways.

Department had organized a session on “GATE Awareness” on 9th February 2017 for Third Year Students. Session was conducted by Prof. Shashikant Radke.

Department has organized a faculty development program on “Teaching Technology and the Tools” on 15th February 2017. Session was conducted by Prof. Rekha Ramesh.

Best project presentation By 2015-2016 Batch was organized by Department for 2016-17 batch students on 23rd Feb 2017.

Final Year Project Poster Presentation was conducted by Department of Computer Engineering on 22-03-2017. Vice Principal Dr. V. C. Kotak and ISO Auditors Mr. M. B. Dave, Ms. Shruti K. & Mr. Nalin M. were present to encourage the Students. The posters of projects of different domains like Security, Mobile Communication, Big Data, Data Mining and Networks etc., were displayed.

Department has organized a faculty development programme on “Machine Learning & It’s Applications In Image processing” by Dr. B. Krishna Mohan, Professor, CSRE, IIT Bombay on 05.03.2017.

NBA Presentation by Department was conducted on 4th March 2017.