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IEEE SPIT REPORT 2019-20

Abstract The following report consists details (including description, date, number of attendees) of all activities conducted by IEEE SPIT during the year 2019-20.

IEEE SPIT ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20

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IEEE SPIT REPORT 2019-20

ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE

Faculty Incharges: Prof. K.T.Talele & Prof. Aarti Karande

IEEE SPIT 2019-2020

Sr. No. Name Position IEEE ID Contact Email ID

1. Akash

Junnarkar Chairperson 96116030 9768619351 [email protected]

2. Shambhavi

Rege

Vice-Chairperson 95182387 9833820609 [email protected]

3. Rahul

Ramakrishnan Secretary 95187010 9619533699 [email protected]

4. L Sreekar Head of Finance 96116855 9930700411 [email protected]

5. Praharsha Nuti Head of PR 95181019 9920883541 [email protected]

6. Arnav

Chaudhari Head of

Marketing 96182365 9004965335 [email protected]

7. Meet Dave

Head of Operations 96172676 9167293136 [email protected]

8. Parth Shingala

Technical Head 96117236 8355963160 [email protected]

9 Vansh jain

Head of events 96123609 8291395170 [email protected]


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IEEE WIE SPIT

Sr. No. Name Position IEEE ID Contact Email ID

1. Shambhavi

Rege Chairperson 95182387 9833820609 [email protected]

2. Praharsha

Nuti Vice-

Chairperson 95181019 9920883541 [email protected]

3. Vinal

Bagaria

Chairperson Assist - 8692879230 [email protected]

4. Ria Shah

Vice-Chairperson

Assist - 9664833944 [email protected]

3. Oshin Tagde Secretary - 9834427912 [email protected]

5. Gauri Shetty

Head of Finance 96143258 9819768483 [email protected]

6. Divya

Gavandi Head of PR - 8692871390 [email protected]

7. Janice Shah

Head of Creatives - 9969366990 [email protected]

8. Rishika Gupta

Technical Heads - 9920866202 [email protected]

9. Pooja Sangle

Head of Events - 9869700147 [email protected]


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Distribution Events throughout the Year:

Odd Sem

Month July

2019

Aug 2019

Sept 2019

Oct 2019

Nov

2019

Dec

2019 Total Remark

Technical 2 1 2 5 Seminars and

Workshops

Non-technical 1 2 3 Case Study &

Business Plan

Competitions

Administrative 1 1 Networking Events

Social 2 2

Environmental

Events & Donation

Drives

Total no of Events 11

Even Sem

Month Jan

2020

Feb 2020

Mar 2020

Apr 2020

May 2020

Total Remark

Technical 1 5 6 Seminars and

Workshops

Non-technical 1 2 2 1 1 7 Case Study &

Business Plan

Competitions

Administrative 1 1 Networking Events

Social 1 2 3 Environmental Events

& Donation Drives

Total no of Events 17

No. of Events July’19-May’20

Session/Lecture 12

Workshop 2

Competition 6

Networking 8

Total 28


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Summary of Events:

Sr No.

Name of Event

Date No. Of Attendees

Description Skills Obtained

1. Guest Lecture on Cloud

Computing

01/08/2019 25 Lecture on the basics of cloud computing and its implementation by public cloud providers, and to learn the scope of cloud computing in the future

Introduction to various aspects

of cloud computing

2. IEEE Membership

Drive

19/08/2019 250 IEEE held a membership drive for the first year students to showcase the benefits of being a member of an illustrious international technical organization like IEEE.

Event to let Fes know about benefits and

importance of IEEE.

3. IEEE Trek 24/08/2019 70 IEEE SPIT in association with Electronics Students Association (ESA) and Institute of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) organized a trek to Visapur fort

Communication Team work


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4. IPR 28/08/2019 70 This talk was conducted by Prof. K.T. Talele, Student Activities Chair and Execom Member, IEEE Bombay Section. The session was addressed to the Third Year Engineering students of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology which covered the fundamentals and the procedure to draft various types of Intellectual Property

Knowledge of Different types

of IPRs

5. Competitive Coding

Workshop

30/09/2019 60 Workshop to introduce the students to competitive coding and to encourage them to participate in as many coding competitions as possible, in order to develop their skill set.

Effective and efficient coding

skills

6. Tree Plantation

01/10/2019 15 IEEE SPIT in collaboration with WIE held a tree plantation initiative on the occasion of IEEE day.

Promoting growth and

plantation of trees

7. Felicitation 03/10/2019 25 Felicitating the Ex-committee.

Acknowledging the contribution

of the ex-committee

members to the committee.

8. Project Innovation Challenge

10/10/2019 63 The event consisted of various teams pitching their ideas to the panel which consisted of the

Exposing Fes to different aspects of business plan

development


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winners of the IICDC challenge, Tejveer Singh, Gopala Dhar and Bharadwaj Bhat.

9. WIE-WDC Elevator pitch

14/10/2019 50 An event giving students the opportunity to pitch the idea of the startup/company allotted to them and receive.

Exposing students to the concept of an elevator pitch.

10. Cyber Security Lecture

16/10/2019 120 IEEE SPIT collaborated with IEEE WiE SPIT, CSI SPIT, ACE and IIC in association with the Resource unit for defence resilience and analytics (R.U.D.R.A) held a talk on cyber security.

Introduction to Cyber Security

and its applications

11. IEEE Xtreme 19/10/2019 26 Annual 24hour global IEEE hackathon

International Coding

Competition

12. Idea Submission in

SIH 2020

17/01/2020 42 Final Round for selection in Smart India Hackathon.

Communication,

team work.

13. IEEE conclave 03/02/2020 55 A talk by two established engineers about their experiences and their journey through engineering.

Students gained guidance

regarding how to go about

college and the prospects

available for them in the

future.

14. Blood donation

Drive

14/02/2020 120 A blood donation drive in which the students of SPIT, SPCE and the faculties of both the colleges participated.

Awareness on the importance

of donating blood.


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15. Augmented Reality

Workshop

15/02/2020

- 16/02/2020

30 An introduction to augmented reality using various softwares.

Introduction to softwares used in AR such as

Unity and Blender.

16. Security Talk 18/02/2020 130 A talk by Mr. Jaywant Hargude, a retired assistant commissioner in the police force, on the topic of F.I.R.

The procedures and other

relevant and important tasks involved in filing

an F.I.R.

17. Women’s day celebration

08/03/2020 25 Celebrating the unique strength of women that is hard to find in the entire human existence.

Reflecting how far women have come, advocacy for what is still needed, and

action to continue

breaking down barriers.

18. Women’s week

celebration

08/03/2020

- 15/03/2020

20 A week filled with various fun events such as tug of war for the faculty members.

Communication, team work.

19. Start-a-Thon 14/03/2020- 15/03/2020

431 A national level ideation challenge to foster and promote the development of entrepreneurs and startups.

An opportunity for students to convert their ideas into a startup under mentorship.

20. National Business

Championship

08/03/2020 60 A case study competition for students from all over India.

An Opportunity for participants to display their business skills and to learn

different business

strategies from other

participants.


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21. Balanced Diet Talk by Mrs.

Kanchan Patwardhan

28/04/2020 35 A talk by Mrs. Kanchan

Patwardhan on maintaining diet as well as tips to cook with restricted food

item in this pandemic

Information on the topic covered.

22. IEEE Placement

Seminar

17/05/2020 70 A webinar by two final year students on placements and internships.

Students gained insights as to

how an interview takes place and also guidance as to

how to build the right profile.

23. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Artificial Intelligence and its applications

by Dr. Aarti Karande

23/05/2020 1700 A webinar on Artificial Intelligence and its applications

Participants acquired in

depth knowledge on

the topic covered.

24. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Face DNR by

Prof. Kiran Talele

24/05/2020 1300 A webinar on Face DNR.


depth knowledge on

the topic covered.

25. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Image classification by

Prof. Vijaya Kamble

25/05/2020 1100 A webinar on Image classification.


depth knowledge on

the topic covered.

26. IEEE SPIT Webinar on CNN-Deep learning by Dr. Sujata Kulkarni

26/05/2020 1100 A webinar on CNN-Deep learning


depth knowledge on

the topic covered.

27. IEEE SPIT Webinar Deep learning in

27/05/2020 238 A webinar on Deep learning in Biomedical Sciences


depth knowledge on


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Biomedical Sciences

by Dr. Celia Shehnaz

the topic covered.

28. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Research and Innovation to Lead a Smart World by Dr. Celia Shahnaz

30/05/2020 168 A webinar on Research and Innovation to Lead a Smart World


depth knowledge on

the topic covered.


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Description of Events:

1. Guest lecture on Cloud Computing

IEEE SPIT in association with CareerNova and Brainfloss Education Sciences organized a talk by Mr. Pranav Ajay Phadke, an Amazon Web Services certified trainer, on the basics of cloud computing and its implementation by public cloud providers, and to learn the scope of cloud computing in the future. The session began with Mr. Phadke providing a brief Introduction on Cloud Computing and proceeded with him sharing his vast knowledge on Public Cloud Providers, AWS and Certifications and Career Scope in Cloud. He also presented Case Studies on Cloud Companies. The session concluded with Mr. Phadke being felicitated for his service to the college.


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2. IEEE Membership Drive (Conducted by IEEE and WIE)

IEEE held a membership drive for the first-year students to showcase the benefits of being a member of an illustrious International Technical Organization like IEEE. The event was attended by Dr. Y.S. Rao, interim Principal of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Professor Kiran Talele, Student Activities Chair and EXECOM Member, IEEE Bombay Section and Dr. Aarti Karande Ma’am, the IEEE WIE WDC SPIT In-charge.

The event started off with the chairperson, Akash Junnarkar, explaining the various sections and sub-sections of IEEE global. The Vice Chairperson of the committee, Shambhavi Rege, then gave the students a brief rundown of the various events which are going to be held throughout the current academic year. The dais was then handed over to the Chairperson Assist of the Women In Engineering (WiE) branch of IEEE, Vinal Bagaria who gave an overview of the scope and functioning of the aforementioned committee.

The event ended with Professor K.T. Talele highlighted the various professional societies under the IEEE banner, and also gave a brief description about the global conferences being hosted yearly.


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3. IEEE Trek

IEEE SPIT in association with Electronics Students Association (ESA) and Institute of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) organized a trek to Visapur fort, on the 24th of August, 2019. The trek was attended by 70 students from various branches across all the years. The trek was organized under the supervision of professional trekkers who guided the participants till they reached the summit.


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4. IPR (Intellectual Property Right) Seminar

This talk was conducted by Prof. K.T. Talele, Student Activities Chair and Execom Member, IEEE Bombay Section. The session was addressed to the Third Year Engineering Students of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology which covered the fundamentals and the procedure to draft various types of Intellectual Property, including patents, copyright, trademark and design rights. This was an interactive session and had a Q/A round at the end, in order to solve any queries.


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5. Competitive Coding Workshop

The workshop was conducted by Taiyeeba Chikhalia and Devang Chhajed from the coding club and Jay Parekh and Mukesh from Final Year Information Technology students.

The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the students to competitive coding and to encourage them to participate in as many coding competitions as possible, in order to develop their skill set. Student's were familiarised with the kind of problems which appear in such competitions. The mentors took up some problems and explained different logics with which those problems could be approached. Several useful sources such as journals and websites were also discussed . The Chairperson of IEEE, Akash Junnarkar and the Secretary of IEEE, Rahul Ramakrishnan briefed the students on the nuances of IEEEXtreme,the 24 hour global coding competition In which teams of 3 participate to solve a set of programming questions.They explained how a good rank in the competition can prove to be a big advantage for them in the future.

The event concluded with Preeti Chauhan, a student of SY MCA, speaking about how competitive coding is one of the most crucial rounds during interviews and how it helped her bag an internship at JP Morgan Chase.

Students found the workshop really helpful and interactive. IEEE looks forward to organising such workshops in the future.

“The workshop was truly informative and made me want to strive for excellence in competitive coding.” said Tanvi Aditya, a second year Information technology Student.


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6. Tree plantation (Conducted by IEEE and WIE)

IEEE SPIT in collaboration with WIE held a tree plantation initiative on the occasion of IEEE day.

Looking at the current global situation, the committee came up with the idea of celebrating the day in an eco-friendly way, by planting saplings.

The teachers Dr. Aarti Karande, Prof. Dayanand Ambavade, Prof. K.T. Talele and Mr.Vinod Sikka sir along with the students planted a few saplings.


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7. Felicitation Ceremony (Conducted by WIE)

On Thursday, 3rd October 2019 the current Core and Subcommittee got together to felicitate the Committee of 2018-19 for their hard work and immense contribution towards WIE. The event began with the current core Chairperson Assist Vinal inviting Dr. Aarti Karande, the student coordinator for WIE to say a few words about the committee WIE and the previous committee members. Our interim principal Dr. Y. S. Rao and Prof. K.T.Talele got the opportunity by Aarti ma’am to felicitate the members. The members gathered for the event got to know how the committee worked to conduct events and invite all the SPIT teachers and students for the same. The ex-core committee chairperson expressed her gratitude towards WIE and was thankful for the opportunity given to all the members to be a part of the team. It was a proud occasion for all members to applaud our seniors for their constant dedication and it has inspired us to keep up the good work and continue their legacy.


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8. Project Innovation challenge:

The event consisted of various teams pitching their ideas to the panel which consisted of the winners of the Texas Instruments IICDC challenge, Tejveer Singh, Gopala Dhar and Bharadwaj Bhat. The first round was a qualifying round consisting of a multiple choice based quiz. The second round consisted of the pitch.

The teams which qualified for the second round came up with various ideas such as smart agriculture using IoT. The event gave a chance to the participants to portray their ideas and presentation skills. The event was a huge success. The winners, Meet Dave, Madhur Rajadhyaksha and Sagar Badlani received a cash prize.

The participants received certificates for their efforts and impactful ideas. The panel then gave important insights to the teams regarding their ideas. The event concluded with the panel being thanked for their contribution to the event.


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9. IEEE WIE-WDC Elevator pitch (Conducted by WIE)

The IEEE WIE-WDC committee had organized the event of Elevator Pitch. This event was held on 14th October 2019. Students from all over the college participated in the competition. In this, 15 minutes were given to participants to sketch and write their ideas. Within this timespan participants came with interesting and unique ideas to pitch. They were asked to present their idea in 3 minutes while 1 minute was allotted for questions. The competition was judged by Prof. Nida Bakerywala and Prof. Kaisar Katchi.

Participants came up with interesting and unique ideas to pitch the companies/startups given to them. So, this event was mainly focused on the elements like Targeting the Customers, Competitors and Marketing Strategies etc. After the team presented their pitch, a question answer round was followed, and immediate feedback was given to each participant by our judges. We hope students had a great learning time because with a quick way we have demonstrated the concept of Elevator Pitch to all those students who did not know much about an Elevator Pitch. Overall, an overwhelming response was received for the competition.


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10. Guest Lecture on Cyber Security (Conducted by IEEE and WIE)

IEEE SPIT collaborated with IEEE WiE SPIT, CSI SPIT, ACE and IIC in association with the resource unit for defence resilience and analytics (R.U.D.R.A) held a talk on cyber security. October being cyber security month, IEEE in association with R.U.D.R.A held a talk on cyber security on Wednesday 16th October. Mr. Karan Sanjani who was the speaker and the founder of the resource unit for defence resilience and analytics (R.U.D.R.A) was greeted with a bouquet of flowers.

The event was attended by 120 students , and the majority of the audience consisted of FE students. The talk was a two hour interactive session. The main points of discussions were

1) Learn about the Past, Present and Future of cybercrime

2) The Dark Side - A look inside cybercriminal minds, methods and organisations

3) The Engineer’s Medicine – Fundamentals of mitigation in development

One of the reasons for the talk was the tremendous increase in the rate of cyber crime in the recent years. Nowadays Cyber security is important for each and every one as cybercrime can cause a great deal of harm. Mr. Karan Sanjani gave the students a lot of tips to save their devices from being hacked. He also showed a live demonstration of ethical hacking. Since our college has technical branches, it is very important for the students to know about cyber security and a large number of jobs are available in this sector.

The main highlights of the talk were technical demonstration on- 1. Hacking a city - large scale exploitation of corporate & residential wireless networks

2. Wireless post exploitation vectors (Targeted Espionage, botnets and malicious relays)

3. Mitigations

In the end we received excellent feedback from the students. They found the talk to be very helpful. They were looking forward to such a talk. After the talk had ended students clarified their doubts with Mr. Karan sanjani. The event was concluded by aarti madam. IEEE looks forward to organising such sessions in the future.


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11. IEEE Xtreme

The competition was held in office 3 of SP-TBI. IEEE Xtreme 13.0 started at 05:30 on 19th October and continued till 05:30 on 20th October. Attendees were provided Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the SPJIMR mess. The contest started exactly at 5:30. At 13:30 there was a global break for 4 hrs before any additional problems were added. At 5:30, three new problems were added and after intervals of every two hrs two new problems were added till the end of the contest.

Team Ayodhya Warriors of SPIT from Third Year Information Technology Engineering with college rank 1, bagged a national rank of 17


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12. Smart India Hackathon 2020 Intra Institue Round

Program driven by: MIC Driven Activity

Venue: Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Bhavans Campus, Andheri West, Mumbai

SIH orientation, 3rd January 2020

On 3rd January 2020, the Institutions Innovations Council in association with IEEE SPIT organised an orientation programme with the purpose of enlightening the young minds of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology about the Smart India Hackathon (SIH), an annual event held by MHRD's Innovation Cell. This panel discussion consisted of previous year's winners as the panelist. A brief idea concerning how to approach the problems, how to ensure that the method chosen for debugging is the optimal method as well as how familiar one should be with the concepts in the order to participate was provided by previous participants and winners. The flow of the competition was later discussed in detail. Along with this, a briefing was held to make the attendees understand the various roles one can play in a team participating in the SIH. The idea that each team member must be flexible in handling every role, irrespective of the role allocated to that particular member was made very clear. It was also stated that a clear mindset and sound time management skills would prove to play a vital role during the SIH. Finally, the role of a mentor at the SIH was explained. It was said that the participating teams can choose their own mentor who'll advise them and provide feedback wherever necessary.

SIH Screening, 8th January 2020 The first screening of the Smart India Hackathon 2020 was held on 8th January which saw the participation of myriads of teams. The participants, ranging from the first-year students right up to the final year students, were provided with various problem statements, the solutions to which had to be concocted by them. Each team had selected a preferred problem statement. Every problem statement was related to anomalies that actually existed in various walks of life in the country. The participants were asked to suggest a solution to get rid of these anomalies. Based on how ethical and viable the suggested solution was, 25 teams are to be shortlisted for the software edition and the hardware edition of the SIH internal Hackathon that is to take place on 17th January 2020. The judges provided the participants with constructive criticism which further helped them in bolstering their ideas. According to the judges, most of the teams were very clear with the concepts and suggested some insightful ideas but there arose an issue when it came to accurately understanding the problem statements provided to the teams. The number of teams participating in the screening drastically increased as compared to the previous years. The enthusiasm of the students eager to participate in the Smart India Hackathon made the screening a huge success.


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SIH Internal Hackathon, 17th January 2020

On 17th January 2020, the final round of the selection procedure for the Smart India Hackathon 2020 was conducted. The 25 teams shortlisted through the screening (held on the 8th of January) appeared for a Hackathon held within the college premises. The final selection round proved to be quite challenging, providing the participants with puzzling problems that tested their versatility. When asked about their experience, most of the participants commonly remarked that the Hackathon not only tested their ability to code but also their adaptiveness, time management skills and their ability to comprehend the problems that were allocated to them. Out of the 25 teams that were shortlisted, 7 teams were selected from our institute that would appear for the Smart India Hackathon. 5 of these 7 teams were selected for the software edition

whereas the remaining 2 teams were selected for the hardware edition of the Hackathon.

The teams that were selected were, Recursive redemption: Devansh Shah, Nikhil Jagtap, Palak Davda, Monil Dand, Rishita Gupta, Prathamesh Talekar; NobodyKeras: Garima Kaushik, Aditi Kandoi, Abhishek Revadekar, Harsh Agarawal, Bhavya Ahir, Shaney Mantri; BackPropg+2: Tania Rajbally, Sarah Gawde, Shreya Oak, Arnab Ghorai, Jinang Gandhi, Jeet Mishra; CodeMonks: Romit Kankaria, Somil Jain, Aman Agrawal, Anisha Gharat, Tejashri Wagh, Sahil Sheth; Hacking bad: Anjali Kanvinde, Shruti Rampure, Tanvi Dhope, Muskan Sahu, Mahesh Tamse, Pranab Chitale for the software edition. The teams selected for the hardware edition are, Kmap: Manish Dsilva, Kimaya Desai, Puritan Mane, Amogh Zare, Parth Shingala, Ayesha Pendse ; Emerge X: Vedant Kumar, Siddhant Kumar, L Sreekar, Partik Pai, Pradhuman Singh,Shivani Nimbre.

With the completion of the internal hackathon, Smart India Hackathon successfully ended it's run at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology.


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13. IEEE Conclave

Some of the exciting events which are part of the flagship techno-cultural fest of S.P.I.T, Oculus are the pre-events that are held in the weeks leading up to the festival. One such event that was held this year was the Panel Discussion named Conclave, which was presented by IEEE SPIT along with the Oculus organizing committee. This panel discussion consisted of two esteemed speakers, Mr S Venkatrama and Mr Gopi Krishna Maddi. The event started off with the explanation of the purpose of the panel discussion and the introduction of both these speakers. The interim principal Dr. Y.S. Rao acknowledged both the speakers and they were felicitated, and the discussion was initiated. First came Mr Venkatrama who started speaking about his days in college and how the changing times have made life more convenient. Addressing the students, he spoke about his career and the varied choices that he made which brought him to where he was and how different his starting and present states were. The next speaker was Mr Gopikrishna Maddi, he was renowned as a mentor for thousands of engineers. He talked about his journey and his experience of mentoring so many students over the years. At the end of their individual speeches, both speakers encouraged questions from the crowd. This was subsequently followed by a short interactive session, where some students asked questions which were answered by the speakers. The discussion came to an end with the IEEE committee members and the members of the student council expressing their gratitude as well as their thoughts about the overall discussion. The discussion had a fruitful ending, leaving each person more enriched than before.


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14. Blood Donation Drive

14th February, the black day in Indian history, was marked monumental in S.P.I.T. with its annual blood donation drive. Organised by Rotaract club of SPIT and IEEE SPIT this year, the drive was successfully managed and executed by the two committees along with B.S.E.S M G Hospital located at D J Goenka Blood Bank, Andheri. Arranged within the college premises, it was inaugurated by Dr R G Sutar (Dean Academics, S.P.I.T.) and Dr Vinod Sikka (Training and Placement Officer, S.P.I.T.) The event started at 10 am in the morning and saw enthusiastic participation from many. Everyone from SPIT, the freshers to faculty donated. The volunteers helped the anxious donors through the process, be it providing them with water, food or just some company.

Around noon, nearing the end of the event, the room was filled with happy faces and was bubbling with positivity of the gathered humanitarians. From laying out all the essentials for the donors to cleaning up after the drive, the collective effort of the two committees and cooperation from the blood bank staff members resulted in the event being such a grand success, in spite of being organised in a short span of time. About 78 pints of blood were collected in just 4 hours. The number and diversity of donor’s present proved that you don’t need to have a medical degree to save a life, just a fair degree of humanity is enough. With an initiative like this, the committees highlighted the cruciality and importance of donation in today’s time when the need for blood is constant. “I truly believe that a single pint can save three lives, a single gesture can create a million smiles.” - Vedant Sapte, President of Rotaract Club SPIT.


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15. Augmented Reality Workshop

IEEE SPIT in association with IETE held an Augmented reality workshop.The participants were introduced to 3 softwares: Unity ,Blender and Spark AR studio. They were taught how to make their own model from scratch. So they made the model by using blender and unity and interfaced it in real world using Spark AR studious. It was an intercollegiate event and students from various engineering and non engineering colleges attended. Also they were told how they can use it in further projects in their engineering.

MAIN AGENDA :

1) To give an introduction to Augmented Reality by using softwares like Blender, Unity and Spark AR studio.

2) To help students to use augmented reality in their projects to make them more attractive.

3) To help students imbibe a new skill.

Students were able to learn softwares like Blender, Unity and Spark AR studio and also how they could make their own filters. They also learnt how image processing for objects work in Spark AR studios. They learned how to put their created model on their mobile phones and how to interface it in the real world.


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16. Activity Based Learning (Conducted by IEEE WIE)

The ABL session held on 18th February from 2-4pm was co-organised by IEEE-WIE. The session was conducted by Mr. Jaywant Hargude, a retired assistant commissioner in the police force.

He joined the police force in March 1979 and retired after completing 34 years of service. During his tenure in the Police Department he served at various police stations of Mumbai like detection crime branch, Mumbai, VIP security and divisional ACP as well as ACP Crime Branch, Mumbai. He is a recipient of several awards, one of them being the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service, 2010. His session was informative as he focused on the topic of FIR- what is an FIR, and how to file an FIR. He also gave the proper instructions as to how an FIR has to be filed by the victim. For example, while filing an FIR a person filing the FIR has to be given proper details of the crime committed as it will create problems if the case is taken further moved to the court. He told us the difference between cognizable and non-cognizable offences.

It was an interactive session as a question and answer round was followed after he concluded his presentation. The questions asked by the students as well as the teachers present there and their questions were answered very well by the chief guest. At the end of the session, as a token of appreciation Jaywant sir was felicitated by Prof Kiran Talele, Student Activities Chair and Execom Member of IEEE Bombay Section. Overall, the discussion left the audience with a completely different perspective towards security and safety.


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17. Women’s Day Celebration (Conducted by WIE)

“I am a Woman, Phenomenally. A Phenomenal woman, That’s me.”

This day, called proudly as "International Women's day" celebrates the unique strength of women that is hard to find in the entire human existence. It's a global day and is celebrated in most parts of the world to take conscious cognizance of the unprecedented achievements of women, irrespective of which section of the society they belong to. International women's day calls for the equality of women in the society where they are often not given the right that she actually deserves. It is a time for reflection of how far women have come, advocacy for what is still needed, and action to continue breaking down barriers. Signifying justice and dignity, the color purple has become an international symbol for women since the origination of purple, green, and white as a symbol of women's equality from the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK in 1908.Thus this year to celebrate this day the theme was kept as Purple and White.

Aesthetic decorations were kept at the entrance with posters of renowned female celebrities. Over the decades, so many women have made outstanding contributions towards human spaceflight and the world has gained valuable insights from their initiatives. Women who came from an ordinary background, but knew

how to dream big and reach out for the stars. The decor was done with the Purple and White theme and the contributions of women personalities from all the fields were honored as their posters were kept as a part of the decor. Along with this the committee gave chocolates to all the teachers and faculty as a token of appreciation. The decorations seemed to be the heart of this International Women’s Day Celebration.

There was also a story writing competition named #BeingAWomanEngineer held wherein the participants were asked to share inspiring stories. The best among them, written by Leena Shinde from Third Year Computer Engineering was selected and posted on the official media handles of the committee and will be felicitated with a certificate and interesting prizes. Overall the efforts of the committee were paid off as International Women’s Day was a great success. This day was also a start to Women’s Week Celebration as the committee planned various events for the upcoming week.


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18. Women’s Week Celebration (Conducted by WIE)

“I am a Woman, Phenomenally. A Phenomenal woman, That’s me.”

After the International Women’s Day, IEEE WIE-WDC Committee celebrated Universal Women’s Week which witnessed some really exciting events in SPIT. The women’s week included the Inauguration Ceremony, followed by events for faculties and teachers such as Tug of War. Aesthetic Decorations at the entrance, posters of renowned female celebrities and a photo booth set-up enhanced the spirit of the celebration. The week’s festivity commenced with the inauguration ceremony. The committee members danced to an inaugural flash mob performance choreographed by Siddesh Sonawane and Apoorva Chaudhari from Third year Computer Engineering. The flash mob was the heart of the inaugural ceremony as it portrayed the journey of women and the challenges faced by them. It was a tribute to the contributions of women in various fields and there was an enthusiastic cheer from the crowd.

This was followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony by Rita Das Ma’am. There was a photo booth at the entrance for all the students and faculty members so that they could click pictures with the catchy props. It was a way all the students and teachers can enjoy from their busy schedule. This was quite a fun event and attracted everyone as they uploaded the pictures tagging the committee’s Instagram handle and were given chocolates by the committee members to express their gratitude.

Followed by the Inauguration was a Sports Event especially organized for the faculty members and teachers. Professors from all the departments participated in a Tug of War match which was organized after the college got over. All the students and committee members were cheering for the teachers who were quite excited for the game and their enthusiasm was at its peak. Overall it turned out to be a fun event and the faculty enjoyed it. Then chocolates were given to the teachers and non-teaching staff also as a token of appreciation. The happiness around was a clear manifestation of the committee’s efforts being paid off and Universal Women’s Week turned out to be a great success.


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19. Start-a-Thon

IEEE SPIT, in collaboration with SP-TBI organised Start-a-Thon, a national level ideation challenge to foster and promote the development of entrepreneurs and startups on 3rd February, 2020. The event had a pan India participation of 214 teams, 415 participants. There were teams from top colleges in India like IIM A, IIM B, IIM C, IIM L, IIM Indore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, SJMSOM, etc. The event was scheduled for 14th and 15th March which has now been indefinitely postponed until further notice due to the Covid-19 Global Pandemic.

Partnering organizations

• SPTBI • Learning While Traveling (LWT) as the ecosystem partner • The Playlist Pizzeria as the Pizzeria Partner • eChai as the community partner • IP Venture as our Investment Partner • E-cell SPIT

The mentors for Day 1 (14th March) • Kaustav Majumdar (SPJIMR) • Nita Hare (Global Lead - Emerging technologies, TCS) • Atul Gandre (Global Lead - Emerging technologies, TCS) • Kash (co-founder of MAVUCA Capital Advisor, IIM A alumnus) • Pankaj Sikka (CEO Invision Brand Consulting) • Nitin Gadgil • Raj Raman


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20. National Business Championship

The National Business Championship was a national case study competition organised by IEEE SPIT in association with DJ Sanghvi literature society and the Maharashtra Summit. Colleges from all over the country participated in this competition, giving it a very diverse participation base. Students from various backgrounds such as finance, commerce or engineering actively participated in the competition helping it achieve the success the organising a team strived for.

More than 250 teams participated in the competitions out of which the top 11 teams qualified for the finals. A team of seasoned and accomplished judges was invited to score the participants. All participants performed with great enthusiasm and competence, making sure that the event was a great success.

After each team’s presentation, the judges gave a motivating speech and declared the results. The top four teams were:

• 1st IIM Indore • 2nd VIT Vellore • 3rd SFIT • 4th DJ Sanghvi

The whole event was a great learning experience for both the participants and the organisers.


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21. Balanced Diet Webinar (Conducted by IEEE WIE)

One of the essential parts of living a healthy life is having a balanced diet. Mrs. Kanchan Patwardhan (Dietitian) guided us in maintaining a diet and easy cooking style. Kanchan's House of Health and Nutrition is a brainchild of Mrs. Kannchan Patwardhan. A well-presented, self-motivated and confident freelance clinical Nutritionist & dietician with over 22 years of rich experience. She pursues nutrition and dietetics as a way of life and plays a vital role in propagating the importance of a balanced diet in shaping a healthy life in society. she is specialist in offering Weight Management, Diabetes Management, Cholesterol Management programs, diet for Pre & Post Pregnancy, Child Related Nutrition Issues, Skin Care through inner Nutrition, PCOD & other Hormonal disorders and Diet therapy for other medical conditions such as renal cardiac and hepatic patients. The online seminar was very informative. It was liked by all the students and the teachers.


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22. IEEE Placement Webinar

In these uncertain times, students have been thinking about how to utilize this time. Making the most of it is important as it may help students in the future. Hence, IEEE SPIT held an online seminar on placements on the 17th of May

The speakers were our senior students who are currently in the 4th year, Anukrit Jain and Anirudh Kamath. Anukrit Jain is interning at JP Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst and was the Chairperson of Oculus 2019. Anirudh Kamath is currently a Software Development Engineer at PhonePe and was the Technical Head of IEEE SPIT. Both of them shared tricks that helped them to get the sought-after jobs that they have today.

The first speaker was Anirudh Kamath. He started with the utmost important topic that is resume building tips. He shared his own resume and explained how he structured his resume which helped him get into PhonePe. Then he talked about the most important thing for any engineer

today “Coding” as it is the first round for any interview and suggested that students practice Hackathon coding questions. He advised students to do as many possible internships and projects as they carry a lot of weightage He advised students to .In the end he shared his own experience at PhonePe.

The second speaker Anukrit Jain, started with the lucrative aspects of non-tech being a huge industry and the various opportunities in it. He told how non-tech is different from tech, it’s advantages and disadvantages and how it can help students to follow their passion. He advised the students to participate in a case study competition, and to follow news. In the end he shared his own experience during his placement interview and the difficulties he faced and about his current job at JP Morgan as an investment banking analyst.

This webinar was also aimed to help younger students to make them understand how to utilise time in a way which can make them an asset that every company wants, to help them identify their own interests and strengths.

At the end of each talk given by such extraordinary students there was an Q/A session, which was highly engaging and successfully brought various angles, clarity and aspects to the topics under discussion, and this concluded the session.


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23. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications by Dr. Aarti Karande (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE) The online seminar on AI and its application was conducted by the highly accomplished Dr. Aarti Karande, a Ph.D in computer engineering. She has seven international journal publications and ten international conference publications till date. Apart from this, she is also currently handling Women in engineering IEEE student branch.

The webinar began with a discussion on the inception of AI and some real life examples of AI that surround us like “Alexa”.A similarity was drawn between AI and the human brain was also discussed upon,with rationality and the characteristics of AI being the centre of discussion. The “Chinese Room” thought experiment was also very engaging. The webinar also focused on the advantages, the disadvantages, the applications of AI and the AI’s tendency to make mistakes, making it highly similar to humans. The webinar ended with a question and answer session.


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24. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Face DNR by Prof. Kiran Talele (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE) The second webinar was on the topic of Face detection, Normalization and recognition by Prof. Kiran Taelele. Apart from being the student activities chair for IEEE-SPIT, he is also an exe-com member of IEEE Bombay section. In this session Prof. Talele gives in-depth knowledge about the process of face DNR with the example of the most popular algorithm in the field: the viola-jones face detector. Prof. Talele then explains about how face is the identity of an individual and how in this modernizing world this technology has a much more promising future. The webinar then moves along and sets out the differences between face recognition and face classification and how different their applications are. Lastly he gives examples of the challenges faced in face dnr when these methods are used followed by a question and answer session after which he comprehensively concludes the highly informative session.

“The best part I liked was the explanation was in very subtle & understandable

manner…without going too much into details or mathematical aspects. The case by case

examples taken on real-life applications made it very interesting!’ said Prof. Jain.


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25. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Image Classification by Prof. Vijaya Kamble (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE)

IEEE SPIT’s third webinar of the five day webinar series was on image classification, which was conducted by Prof. Vijaya Kamble on 25th May. Prof. Vijaya kamble is an assistant professor at SPIT. Her areas of interest include Digital image processing and digital signal processing and applications

The webinar began with a brief overview on image classification and different types. Feature sets of an accurate image were explained with a number of examples, followed by extraction techniques and how AI uses image classification. Discussion on Advantages and disadvantages of the decision tree took place, followed by a comparison of deep neural network and convolutional neural network. The webinar then came to an end with a question and answer session.


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26. IEEE SPIT Webinar on CNN-Deep Learning by Dr. Sujata Kulkarni (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE)

The fourth webinar was conducted by Dr. Sujata Kulkarni, Associate professor at SPIT. She has a Ph.D in electronics. She has had many international journal and conference publications under her name. Her areas of interests include pattern recognition and embedded systems. In the webinar, Dr. Sujata Kulkarni began with an in depth discussion of the CNN architecture, and how CNN is useful for image recognition, classification and analysis. The use of activation functions and its various types were also discussed upon, especially Relu. After the session, a large number of students had gained enough knowledge to describe CNN and its operations, and also developed a sense of distinction between CNN and our own brain in terms of Image recognition.


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27. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Deep Learning in Biomedical Sciences by Dr. Celia Shahnaz (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE)

The fifth and final day of the webinar was carried on by Dr. Celia Shahnaz, senior member of IEEE and a fellow of the Institute of Engineers Bangladesh(IEB). She has a Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering. She is a recipient of Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship / Fellowship for pursuing her Ph.D study in Canada & Bangladesh Academy of Science (BAS) gold medal for her contribution in science and Technology. The session by Dr. Celia Shahnaz was truly inspirational. The brief interaction with her provided insights on Deep Learning in Biomedical Sciences and Machine Learning in Humanitarian Technology. Her professional journey and her achievements in the field of research in Biomedical Engineering motivated the audience.

28. IEEE SPIT Webinar on Research and Innovation to Lead a Smart World by Dr. Celia Shahnaz (Conducted by IEEE and IEEE-WIE)

The webinar by Dr. Celia Shahnaz was on Research and innovation to lead a smart world. Dr. Celia Shahnaz is a senior member of IEEE and a fellow of the Institute of Engineers Bangladesh(IEB). She is a recipient of Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship/Fellowship for pursuing her Ph.D study in Canada & Bangladesh Academy of Science (BAS) gold medal for her contribution in science and Technology. Her research interests include biomedical and power audio, deep learning and audio-visual recognition for biometric security.

The session began with an in-depth discussion on how research is conducted in an area and the approach involved in it. She explained about how important it is to identify aims and visions of the project, identify the resources involved and to create a plan to achieve the task. She talked about how she has led various research projects in fields like convolution neural network and biomedical science, and her experience in leading a research team. She also emphasized on the importance of the proper formatting of the report.

The session was truly inspirational, with the brief interaction providing deep insights on research and innovation. Her professional journey and her achievements in the field of research motivated the audience.

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