Treaties and Pacts

By Sejal Mathur

Ever since 2001, the Institute has signed up many MOUs with prestigious institutions in and outside India for overall welfare and benefit to the student society. Amongst those, in the recent past, COEP signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 23rd May, 2013 with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to support the design, development and launch of a student developed satellite.
Another was a formal MOU with Raj Metallurgical services in Pune itself, signed up on Friday 7th June 2013 at COEP. Under the terms of this MoU, both the parties took on to offer aids such as training, B. Tech/ M. Tech Projects, research projects to COEP Metallurgy students and faculty, developing contact with overseas universities for faculty and student exchange programs, organizing & hosting joint academic and cultural symposia, conferences, seminars, providing consultancy services etc. On the same day, an MOU with Ecosan Service Foundation (ESF) was also signed wherein a grant of 90 lakh INR was to be received by COEP for an Indo European Collaborative Research Protect titled “Natural Water Systems and Treatment Technologies”.
On the 12th of June ’13, an understanding with Duale Hochschule Baden Wuerttemberg was signed for exchange of faculty members regarding lecture, joint research and sharing of experience, exchange of publications in fields of both universities and exchange of students for study abroad, internship and participation in education programs. Also, a memorandum was signed with National University of Singapore on 25th June, ’13 to identify opportunities for academic faculty/student exchange and joint research and development in the discipline of mutual interest.
With the aid of these memorandums, COEP has another helping hand to making its ventures a great success!

Much Ado About Placements

By Sejal Mathur

This year, much unlike preceding years, COEP witnessed the incoming of a staggering 111 companies at its campus. Firms like Google and two other Japanese organisations posed lucrative offers as high as 40 lakhs for the candidates with D.E.Shaw having selected two students for a package of Rs.16.3 lakhs.
Amid the Undergraduate section, a significant 76 out of 83 students got selected from Computer Department equaling a total of 91%. The second on the list stood ENTC Department, having 69 out of a total of 83 pupils getting placed, accounting for 81% placement. Next was IT Department, with 52 from 69 getting selected i.e.75% followed by Mechanical Department holding 68% placement statistics. Ensuing on the list were Civil and Instrumentation branches, both totaling to 67% selection of students. Subsequently, Metallurgy Department held 61% placements this time around with Electrical and Production branches corresponding to 59 and 56% respectively.
On the whole, a sizeable 477 number of students out of total 674 students from the UG section have succeeded at the placement scenario summing up to 71% placements. Despite the evident placement gloom having led to a noticeable slump in recruitments this year, COEP has stood its stance fairly well.

NES Innovation Awards

By Sejal Mathur

The Natarajan Education Society (NES), established by Dr Ganesh Natarajan, works in the domains of education and employability to ensure that the youth of India are equipped with necessary skills to make their mark in a changing world. It works towards aiding young and innovative students to dream of and conceptualise new products and services to solve real problems of society and make a mark in their domain.

NES had organised a Panel Discussion on ‘Enhancing Quality in Higher Education’ on March 23, 2013 at Mini Auditorium of Academic Complex, COEP. The Chief Guest for the function was the well-known luminary Padmabhushan Dr. A.R.Mashelkar. Amongst the other eminent panellists present were IT professionals and industrialists, alongwith our own Director Sir, Dr.A.D.Sahasrabuddhe. Mr.Mashelkar devised his own equation E=F, that is, Education=Future and that the there is no bright future without a good base of education. He also stressed upon the idea that ‘Innovation is no option-‘tis the only way!’ No wonder his words have impressed the crowd at large.

The panel discussion was followed by the award ceremony for the top ten winners. The first position went to a team of three from Sandeep Foundations Nasik, who developed coding for a Fall Detection System that alerted the relatives of the Old-aged person in case of occurrence of any fall or injury. The other runner-up teams were felicitated by Dr.A.R Mashelkar with a certificate and a book written by him.

The programme gave an insight into how intelligent minds have helped draw practical solutions to day-to-day difficulties. Indeed, a great occasion for all the faculty members and students of COEP getting to hear and interact with such talked-of personalities.

 COEP SAT team redefines sky’s limits, yet again!

20th March was a milestone day for the COEP Satellite team with a very important review of the project which is being worked upon since a long time, at ISRO Satellite center (ISAC). A team of 19 students of 5 different subsystems presented the progressreport of COEP’s ingenious satellite 1U standard satellite, SWAYAM, with dimensions 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm and weight around 1000 gm in front of a panel comprising of eminent scientists including Mr. Annadurai, Director of Chandrayan-1 and Mr. Raghavmurthy, Director of the Small Satellite Program.

Scientist at ISAC were very impressed and appreciated the maturity in the work shown by the team. SWAYAM will be the only satellite in India which will be stabilized in a passive way by using only a pair of hysteresis rod and a magnet. The panel analyzed the study done by the team for passive Attitude control and stabilization and asserted that a formal MoU would be signe within a few days.

Utilizing the facilities at ISAC, the team has built a bread board model to the scale. The Structure subsystem of COEP SAT team will soon be visiting Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Thiruvananthapuram for satellite and launch vehicle interface.

COEP repeats history at SAE-BAJA 2013

COEP has been an indispensable participant of SAE-BAJA since its inception in 2007. More than 150 colleges including IITs/ NITs participated in the event this year. This time COEP has won the Overall Championship of BAJA 2013 competition held at Indore from 14th -17th February 2013 ever since its last victory back in the first year of the event. Meanwhile COEP had been consistently achieving one or the other prizes. However this year the team has made a more remarkable accomplishment and has brought back the glory with a greater success and a clean sweep during the entire event. The event comprised of designing, fabricating, assembling and running an all-terrain four wheeler vehicle on a specially prepared torturous track near Indore. COEP has bagged the 1st prize in ‘Best Built Quality’, ‘CAE Design’ and also in ‘Best Acceleration’ thus positioning it as the leading car in the race. Moreover COEP received accolades in ‘RAFTAR’, for the fastest lap during the race along with in ‘Endurance Test’ which was the real race on a rough track. The team received the biggest cash prize ever of 8.5 lacs for this emphatic feat.

COEP infrastructure raises its heights

The firm, CCBA, designed the academic complex and the girls’ hostel. Photographs of the model buildings were obtained by Sejal Mathur.

Above is the model of the girls’ hostel building. The Academic Complex model is as displayed below. The tanks at the back side of the academic complex are proposed to work in the next ten years for water purification purposes, especially during REGATTA.

 

 

COEPians honoured with the Education Awards

Indus Foundation in association with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) had jointly organized the fifth edition of the Indo-American Education Summit & Expo on collaborations with foreign universities at Hyderabad on February 2 and 3, 2013 where in the following members from COEP were honoured with the Education Awards for their contributions and excellence in various academic fields.

Sr. No       Name of the Awardees and Category

1               Prof. A. D. Sahasrabudhe, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Director, COEP- National Awards For Eminent Educationists

2              Prof. B. N. Chaudhari, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, COEP – National Awards ForTeaching Excellence

3             Mr. Shripad Sunil Kulkarni, Student, B. Tech, Dept. of Civil Engineering, COEP – National Awards For Academic Excellence

COEPians honoured with the Education Awards

Indus Foundation in association with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) had jointly organized the fifth edition of the Indo-American Education Summit & Expo on collaborations with foreign universities at Hyderabad on February 2 and 3, 2013 where in the following members from COEP were honoured with the Education Awards for their contributions and excellence in various academic fields.

Sr. No    Name of the Awardees and Category
1     Prof. A. D. Sahasrabudhe, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Director, COEP
National Awards For Eminent Educationists
2     Prof. B. N. Chaudhari, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering ,COEP
National Awards For Teaching Excellence
3     Mr. Shripad Sunil Kulkarni, Student, B. Tech, Dept. of Civil Engineering, COEP
National Awards For Academic Excellence

Urbanistica

It was indeed a proud moment for the recently established B.Tech Planning branch in COEP when three students of B.Tech Planning First Year: Jaysingh Jadhav, Aishwarya Borate and Prajakta Sonar won 1st prize at the National Level Techno Competition organised by J.S.P.M. College of Engineering, Wagholi, Pune on 28th and 29th January 2013.

The name of the event was Urbanistica-Planning of People Habitat and participants were given a task to plan a 21 hectare area comprising of residential complexes, commercial buildings, open spaces and other required amenities. These students competed midst IIIrd and IVth year student teams from B.K.P.S. College, Sinhagad COE, Imperial College and 11 other teams from Pune and nearby cities.

The three were felicitated by B.Tech Planning staff and also received kudos from Dr. Sahastrabuddhe – Director COEP, Head of Civil Engineering Department and Co-ordinator for B.Tech Planning.

Truly, a privileged achievement for the first batch!

COEP professor receives recognition

Prof. M. A. Joshi, honoured with special recognition award by Pune Municipal corporation for the remarkable contribution in the field of education.

 

COEP goes international-YET AGAIN

Yet again, COEP has brought accolades to the college having left another mark on the international stage by securing an overall 6th position at the South Africa BAJA World Championships scheduled for the 19th and 20th of October. Day one saw the able team clear the Technical Inspection in first attempt, making them the first Indian team to ever do so in the 17 previous years of the event. Moreover, they secured an overall 2nd position in the top speed category and were the first team to successfully clear the brake test. The vehicle performed exceptionally at the manoeuvrability and at the hill climb, securing 2nd and 5th positions respectively. At the end of day one, they stood at fourth position, a mere 20 points behind the team in first. Nearly all of the judges voiced that for the first time in history, they could see potential that a team from India may win the competition this time around. Our college team was the most mentioned name out of the commentary box as they were the fastest on track. Furthermore, every other team used anywhere between 3 and 8 drivers for the race; COEP’s was the sole team to drive the entire race on one driver. This was the first point mentioned during the presentation before the awards were given out. Almost every person present at the event congratulated the team saying they had never seen a team perform as brilliant ever before. It was a moment of immense pride and respect for the team members and certainly is, for rest of the COEPians too!

SUPRA SAE INDIA २०१२ स्पर्धेत COEP ने जिंकले सर्वोत्कृष्ट सर्वांगीण
अभियांत्रिकी रचना पारितोषिक

Society of Automotive Engineers India (SAE India) ने आयोजित केलेल्या formula 1 style racing competition  SUPRA SAE INDIA २०१२ मध्ये Team Octane Racing ने केप चे प्रतिनिधित्व केले होते. Buddh International इर्कुइत्येथे झालेल्या या स्पर्धेत केप्ने पुन्हा आपले रंग दाखवले. सर्वोत्कृष्ट सर्वांगीण अभियांत्रिकी रचना पारितोषिक मिळवत संघाने पुन्हा महाविद्यालयाचा वारसा जपला.

सदरहू पुरस्कार हा सर्व रचनेचे मूल्यमापन करून दिला जातो. यात suspension, steering, aerodynamics इत्यादी बाबींचा विचार केला जातो. आणि हा पुरस्कारत्या महाविद्यालयाला जातो जे सर्वोत्कृष्ट रचना आणि निर्मिती असणारे वाहन बनविते. हे पारितोषिक मिळवून COEP  ने आपली परंपरा राखली आहे. २००७ पासून दरवर्षी एक तरी बक्षीस महाविद्यालयाचे विद्यार्थी खेचून आणत आहेत. ह्या घटनेने COEP  ने SAE मध्ये आपली आगळीवेगळी जागा निर्माण केली आहे. राष्ट्रीय स्तरावरील या स्पर्धेत जवळपास ७० महाविद्यालयांनी भाग घेतला होता. यातील सर्वात महत्ताचे बक्षीस मिळवत केप ला तोड नाही हेच पुन्हा एकदा दाखवण्यात आले. परीतोशाल चे स्वरूप हे चषक आणि रोख २०००० रुपये असे होते. हो स्पर्धा ६ ते ९ सप्टेबर रोजी नवी दिल्ली येथे भरवण्यात आली होती.

COEP Satellite Team at 63rd International Astronautical Congress

Shreyas Kulkarni (TY, Entc) and Rohit Joshi (Btech ,Electrical) along with Gautam Akiwate (Coep alumni) visited Naples, Italy as a part of The 63rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) conducted from 1st-5th Oct. IAC is the annual premier space conference organized by the International Astronautical Federation, International Academy of Astronautics and International Institute of Space Law with close participation of all the countries’ space agencies, NASA, ESA, JAXA, CSA, CNSA, ROSCOSMOS, ISRO, CIRA to name a few and also some private sector agencies.

The Power subsystem of the CSAT team had a paper accepted for oral presentation in the 42nd Student Conference in this year’s IAC. The paper was titled “A Modular, Efficient, Low cost Power System for Pico-satellite Applications”. It summarized the design and testing of the Electronic Power system on board the COEP Satellite. The 18min presentation was telecast live on the IAF virtual forum (http://www.iafastro.org/index.html?title=VF).The team also had another paper presented under the UN/IAA symposium. This was titled “Open Source Student satellites”, co-authored by the On board Computer subsystem of CSAT.

                    

 

The conference is like the Mecca for Aerospace Engineering and Space technology. The team got an opportunity to interact with a lot of experts in this field. “We were told about factors we never even considered, while some people guided us on the difficulties we were facing. More importantly, people across the globe took notice of and appreciated the work done in our college so far. People took interest in the design and test philosophies adopted by us” said Shreyas.

Together now the CSAT team has 4 papers published at the IAC, 2 papers last year and 2 this year. This is the most number of papers by an Indian college, pertaining to the technical work done in an ongoing project.

COEP bags two awards in ‘Texas Instruments Design Contest’

Once again, COEPians have brought laurels to the college having bagged two awards in the ‘Texas Instruments Design Contest’. Two teams from COEP have been selected, one which stood 16th among the 500 teams that participated and the other at 27th place from amongst the 500 teams partaking from all over India including teams from IITs as well; in Analog Design competition of Texas Instruments. These teams will be presented with the award on the 6th of April, 2013 at TI Bangalore.

The team that stood 16th amid the 500 teams, had their project topic as PC Based storage oscilloscope which was entitled for TY B.Tech and E & TC students. The members include Yogesh Palkar, Pranav Naik, Sanket Naik and Rahul Kulkarni who worked under the keen guidance of Prof. Mrs. M. A. Joshi.

Whereas the team that got placed 27th midst the 500 teams, had their subject as Time based intensity control for energy optimization used for street lighting, endorsed for TY B.Tech, Instrumentation & Control Engineering students. The teammates were Mukul Joshi, Rajshree Madri, Abhinav Gunjal and Shruti Sonawane; their Guide being Prof. D. N. Sonawane.

Mr. Vikas Khanvelkar, MD, Design Tech Systems Ltd and COEP alumnus, honoured with special recognition by NASSCOM

Mr. Vikas Khanvelkar, Managing Director, Design Tech Systems Ltd and COEP alumnus (Batch 1979, E&TC) was honoured with special recognition and felicitation by NASSCOM on 8^th August’12.

In 2010 NASSCOM selected Design Tech Systems Ltd in the list of “Emerge 50″ company and by March 2011 they crossed Rs. 50 crore revenues and also crossed the “Emerge” category.

This achievement was recognised by NASSCOM and thus DesignTech Systems Ltd was selected for a special recognition and felicitation

Mr. Vikas Khanvelkar  started DesignTech Systems Ltd in 1998 and pioneered the use of CAD/CAM/CAE software solutions in SMEs across all industrial segments all over India.

He proliferated use of CAD/CAM/CAE software in Educational Institutes and popularized CAD/CAM as a career option among Mechanical Engineering students.

COEP was honored with Best B-School with Industry Related Curriculum in Information Technology

As per the results of the Bloomberg UTV B-School Excellence Awards which recognize institutions that are innovative modern & industry related curriculum.College of Engineering, Pune will be honoured with Best B-School with Industry Related Curriculum in Information Technology.

The award is in recognition of leadership, development, Marketing an institute and industry interface of Business school. The award function was held on 18^th February, 2012 at Taj Lands End, Bandra, Mumbai.

COEPian shines in MIT

Chinmay Joshi, a student of T.Y. B.Tech. Metallurgy, who is currently undergoing an internship in Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) has made the college proud by receiving the highest grade(A+) for his research in two topics, i.e. Ultra Fast Imaging and Hot Spot Detection using Thermal Camera.
This venture by Chinmay has added another feather to the cap of COEP.

TCS Award Ceremony

An award ceremony was conducted at COEP on Thursday 17^th May 2012. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) honoured the students & faculty/ Mentors at COEP with the awards  for ‘Best Outgoing Student of the year’, ‘Best Project’, “Best Mentor”. The awards were given at the hands of Prof A. D. Sahasrabudhe, Director, COEP  & Prof. B. B. Ahuja,  Deputy Director, COEP. It consisted of a medal, cash price & certificate for the winners.

Below are some glimpses of the event.

                              

COEP students stand second at Anveshan’12 conducted by IT-BHU

COEP students from S. Y. B.Tech Metallurgy & Material Science, participated in technical event Anveshan’12 conducted by Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) Varanasi have secured second position in Paper presentation competition. They have won this prize for their project “Study of alumino thermit railweld & post weld heat treatment”.

                    

Rahul Pawar                            Sumit Gahlyan                            Hemant Rathod

These COEPians bagged a cash prize of Rs. 6000/- and a certificate.

COEP Students bags the Best paper Award at ICCCE-2012 at Chennai

International Conference on Computing and Control Engineering (ICCCE-2012) was conducted at Dr. M. G. R. Educational & Research Institute University, Adayalampattu, Chennai-95, Tamil Nadu, India on 12th and 13th April 2012.

1000 papers were received for the Conference all over India and abroad based on their abstracts. 610 papers were accepted for Conference for 14 different tracks. 14 papers were shortlisted for Best Paper award for different tracks.

Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, COEP students of B. Tech (Information Technology), Anuradha Saini and Neelam Malik won Best Paper Award under Track : Wireless Sensor Networks/Security/QoS/Pervasive Computing for their paper entitled “Agent-Based Network Intrusion Detection System using k-means Clustering Algorithm” which is based on Final Year In-house Project under the guidance of Prof. D. D. Kshirsagar. The presentation was judged by Dr. V. Vetri Selvi, Associate Professor, CSE, Anna University, Chennai. This paper will be published in CIIT Journals.

COEP student wins the Best Poster Award at ASMP 2012

A recent M. Tech pass out of COEP, Mr. Kunal Gokhale (student of Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, COEP) won the Best Poster award at ‘The 3rd Asian Symposium on Materials &  Processing (ASMP)-2012’, which was held at IIT Madras, Chennai, India during August 30-31, 2012.

The title of the paper was “Surface Alloying of 4330V Steel: the Influence of Type of Processing on Microstructure and Properties”.

Out of 78 posters, 3 were chosen as the best posters at the conference – Mr. Kunal’s poster was one of the 3 and other 2 best posters were by Japanese participants.

Prof. Sandeep Meshram felicitated with a Special Award by PMC

Prof. Sandeep Meshram, Asso. Professor in Geology (Civil Engineering department) and Training and Placement Officer, COEP was selected for a special Independence Day award by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for his research work and consultancy done for the central government’s project, “Interlinking of Rivers in India”

Prof. Meshram was honoured with the award on Saturday 8^th September’12 in Pune at the hands of our Guardian Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, Honorable Shri. Ajit dada Pawar and Honorable Shri. Dilip Walse Patil.

The award ceremony was to be conducted on 15^th August’12, however due to the sad demise of Shri. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Union Minister and Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra the programme was postponed and conducted on 8^th September’12. 

COEP faculty Dr. C. M. Sewatkar & Dr. R. A. Patil honored at the 50th Convocation of IIT Bombay

The 50th Convocation Ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was held on 18th August 2012. Following two faculty members from COEP were honored at this ceremony for their achievements.

Dr. C. M. Sewatkar (Mechanical Engg. Dept.) Was honored with the award of  Excellency in Thesis work  for year 2010 to 2012 for the  outstanding research contribution  in the partial fulfillment of requirement for the degree of  Doctor  of Philosophy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The award was presented at the hands of  Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Nuclear Scientist, India & Chairman Board of Governor, IIT Bombay.

Dr. R. A. Patil (E&TC Dept.) was awarded the Ph. D degree at the ceremony at the hands of Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, and IIT Bombay.

The dignitaries present at the ceremony were Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Chief Guest, Shri. Kapil Sibbal, Hon’ble Union Minister for HRD, Shri. Prithviraj Chavan, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri. K. Shankarnarayanan, Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra.
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