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VGEC News

Quarterly Newsletter, April - June, 2017

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From the Principal’s Desk

Principal

Dr. R. K. Gajjar

Dear Students & Faculty Members, It is a matter of great happiness that first quarterly issue of VGEC newsletter, 2017

is brought to you. The world is changing fast with innovation and unconventional

thinking. This is the era of global technological development and advancement.

India is one of the fastest growing and progressing countries in the world. Industrial,

technological, and scientific development is accelerating at a very fast rate.

In such an environment, industry demands highly qualified, skilled, efficient and well

trained engineers. Engineering colleges are trying their best to provide engineers as

per the requirements of industry. Quality education contributes in making a beautiful

world. To fulfill the ongoing mission for providing quality engineers, Vishwakarma

Government Engineering College initiated multifold activities related to students and

faculty members. The aim is to create an environment that will groom engineers

who will contribute not only to the specific needs of the industry but will also be

socially responsible and will leave their distinguished mark in whatever they do. I

am sure that the energy and commitment of our dynamic students and highly

qualified faculty members will lead us to great heights and make the state and

nation proud.

Index

1. From the Principal's Desk 01

2. Principal's Expert Lecture at GTU Workshop 03

3. Vishwakarma Digital Literacy Campaign 03

4. Open house 2017 04

5. Plethora of Activities -VGEC NSS 06

6. Drone Making With Raspberry PI 08

7. Activities at GTU Centre of Excellence 08

8. Achievements of institute at NSS Award function 09

9. Extension Activity for Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory 10

10. Industrial Visit at J K Laxmi Cement 10

11. Student Achievements 11

12. Faculty Achievements 12

13. Departmental Activities 12

14. Research and Publication 13

15. Faculty participation 14

16. Creative Corner 15

17. VGEC in Media 16

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Principal’s Expert Lecture at GTU Workshop

Dr. R.K Gajjar and Prof M T Savaliya have been invited as an expert in GTU’s 100 activity points workshop on

10th April 2017. They have described the journey till now from the commencement of this program. They also

discussed the description of Major Activity heads and sub-activity Heads of 100 Activity Points via presentation

and afterwards the discussion took place from the same. The session concluded focusing on role of Teacher in

100 Activity points to change student’s life. It’s a process to find the ability of students for the purpose they are

made and to carry out this process of learning throughout their life.

Vishwakarma Digital Literacy Campaign

Vishwakarma Government Engineering College started the ‘Vishwakarma Digital Literacy Campaign’ for

spreading the free digital education for better India and better Gujarat. Vishwakarma Digital Literacy Campaign

is a social initiative by the students of Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Ahmedabad. Currently

we are providing the digital literacy free training in Ahmedabad and nearby Cities with 100+ Active Volunteers &

Education expertise. Our Mission is “GHAR-GHAR COMPUTER” & Bring 100% Digital Literacy. We want to

make Digital Education reach even to the last member of highly unprivileged class of the country. Under this

initiative we have reached over 5000+ students, women, senior citizens in last one year and transformed their

life with the essence of “Digitalization”. Students of VGEC received GTU Innovation Council’s Innovative

Students’ Co-creation Award for Leadership and Excellence for their Digital Literacy campaign. Padmashri Prof.

Anil Gupta felicitating Keval Purohit with Achievers Prize in presence of Honourable Gujarat Education Minister

Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, VC GTU Dr. Navin Sheth and Honourable Minister of Road, Buildings and Capital

projects Jaydrathsinh Parmar for the Digital Literacy Campaign.

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After getting grand success, we wanted to expand the campaign and increase its reach whole Gujarat. Hence,

we associated with GCERT, To Make “Video-Lectures” On The Complete Computer Knowledge To Be

Telecasted On Special Channels Of 20,000+ Primary Govt. Schools Of Gujarat. This Program Has Been

Started With Basics Of Computer And Would Cover All Practical Concepts Of Computers Including Cyber

Security, E-Payment, etc. The Course Is Designed Such A Way That, Even The A Last Member Of Our Society

Can Understand It Easily.

Open House 2017

Open house is a biannual event organized by the institute wherein

the best projects from all 16 government engineering colleges are

showcased and awarded. Open House-2017 event was organized

on April 12-13, at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College.

All the projects from the respective departments were displayed

and evaluated by experts from industries and academia on the first

day. The best three projects from each department were selected

and displayed centrally on the second day of the event at A block.

Hon. Minister of Education Shri Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Hon.

Minister of Education (State) Shri Jaydrathsinh Parmar, Hon. Vice-

Chancellor Dr. Navin Sheth and Padma Shri. Prof. Anil Gupta graced the occasion of prize distribution

ceremony. The total of 277 projects from VGEC and 147 projects from external institutes were displayed.

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Plethora of Activities- VGEC-NSS

International Yoga Day Celebration – 2017 Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda enthusiastically celebrated 3rd International Yoga

day, Chandkheda at Chandkheda Campus on 21st June, 2017, Wednesday. It was grand convergence of 7 days

Yoga practice series conducted at VGEC, Chandkheda from 12th June to 20th June, 2017. Many students and

staff took part in this celebration and practiced YOGA. It was a matter of joy for all Yoga Enthusiasts that the

“Vishva Yoga Divas- WORLD YOGA DAY” got declared to be celebrated on June 21st. The day was chosen as it’s

the longest day of the calendar year, a day connected with Sun, light and nature and not a day of personal

importance. The yoga instructors listed importance of mind, body and soul nourishment through YOGA. Proper

scientific instructions were given for all the yoga asanas and all the participants performed it as per instruction.

Various asanas like Makarasana, Pavanmuktasan, Tadasan, Vrikshasana, Butterfly etc. were performed and its

uses were told to all. Yoga develops strength and balance as well as inner peace. All yoga styles create a feeling of

lightness, ease and relaxation. Program started sharp at 6:35 AM and ended at 8:30 AM. Total 148 students and

96 staff members were present in the celebration. At the end all the student participants were given certificates and

served refreshments from VGEC management.Coordinator Capt. C. S. Sanghavi were the chief guests.

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This summer for Birds…

The NSS VGEC has taken a special initiative for the birds. They planned to adopt a pot of water and a home-

made nest for birds and put them in the environs of the VGEC campus. For this, first of all they made a team

which will do the micro planning for this event. After that, they told other students of the college to collect waste

boxes to make nest out of it. They collected 25 different waste boxes from their home or from their locality and

made different types of nest from the waste boxes. On 12th April 2017, all the students who have adopted the

water pots and nests came together and hang all the water pots and nests in the places given to them according

to the survey done by the volunteers. NSS VGEC would encourage them by giving certification to the students

who will maintain regularly the water pots and nests for the whole 1 year.

Road Safety Awareness Program:

Vehicle driving and Awareness regarding roads is one of the utmost required knowledge amidst the Indian society.

To begin spreading the knowledge, its preferred to begin from one’s home. For the same concern, NSS VGEC

organized a Group Discussion to spread a word of taking the initiatives in this direction on 10th April 2017 at

Visvesvaraya Auditorium. The discussion contained the information on Types of Various traffic signals, Traffic

rules, road traffic legislations, Motor Vehicles Act 2016, Offences and penalties Use of helmets while driving two

wheeler and How to reach to maximum people to spread the awareness of the same. Around 25 NSS Volunteers

were present to discuss the future initiatives in this domain.

The key points for the future initiatives discussed are,

For creating awareness about traffic rules by preparing Nukkad natak/drama , Videos concerning safe

driving and traffic rules, Advertisement (Poster in classrooms), Satirical Stand-up comedy acts and Drama

competition on topic road and safety.

To Make every volunteer (NSS VGEC ) aware about all the traffic rules and legislations to begin with,

timely seminars will be planned.

Conduct interactions and conversation with those person or families who suffered from the road accidents.

This can directly empathize the audience

Many technologies implementation and their importance can be explained

Will conduct eye checkups or health checkups for the drivers of public transport.

Suggestion with the solution will be represented to the government by the research team on the issues

pertaining common man.

We will conduct this awareness at school level through nukkad natak and other means .

NSS VGEC will have one research and development team which will study the areas of concern and will

then by propose a way of solution.

This will be carried as a permanent project of NSS VGEC beginning in the month of July in terms of

execution.

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Drone Making With Raspberry Pi

IEEE VGEC Student Branch took

up the challenge to explore the use

of Drones in the Smart City plan. As

a part of their quest, they

successfully conducted a 3day (27-

29 June 2017) workshop on Drone

making with Raspberry Pi. The

uniqueness of this event lies in the

fact that it was entirely conducted

for the students by the students

themselves. Thus they got the dual

advantage of learning about

sophisticated Drone making as well

learning employability skills such as

team work, leadership, articulation

and technical content. The 3day

workshop was focused on

delivering the interactive session

which was primarily focused on

Drones. Drones have been around

for years, and they are used for

different purposes. Recently, these

devices are becoming increasingly popular and their applications are expanding in numerous fields. Hands on

training was given for actually making Drones with Artificial Intelligence using various software and hardware tools

like python, processing, arduino, 3D-printing and raspberry pi.

Activities at GTU-Centre of Excellence

The Electronics & Communication Department has organized 4 days Sensoric training at BOSCH CoE in VGEC

Campus from 10/4/2017.

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Achievements of institute at NSS Award function

The NSS GTU Award Function was organized on 16 June 2017 at Gandhinagar Town hall.

The following are the winner in various categories from our institute.

Best NSS Unit of the Year 2016-2017

Best NSS PO of the Year 2016-2017: Prof. Alpesh Dafda

Best NSS Volunteer of the year 2014-15 :Prabhakaran Mudaliar

Best NSS Volunteer 2015-16 : Siddhant Thakkar

Best NSS Volunteer 2016-17 : Shivani Rughani

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Extension Activity for Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory

Due to lack of Laboratory infrastructure at L.J. Institute, Ahmedabad, an extension activity of collaborative

teaching & learning was organized at Instrumentation and Control Department of VGEC. The main aim of the

event was to get familiarize students with the instruments, used in studying Bio Potential Instrumentation an

optional subject offered by GTU for 6th semester students of Instrumentation and Control Department. 70

students performed practical’s on 15 lab set up at Biomedical Instrumentation Lab at I-207 on 3rd & 4th April-

2017.

Industrial Visit at J K Laxmi Cement

A technical tour for B.E. Sem. 8 civil Engineering students was arranged on 15/04/2017at J K Laxmi

Cement Plant, Sirohi is by Department of Civil Engineering, Vishwakarma Government Engineering

College. Total 74 students along with 2 faculty members were participated in technical tour. Students

have enhanced their technical knowledge by visualization of Cement manufacturing unit and understand

the importance of the quality control.

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Student Achievements

Dept. Name of Student Brief Description of Achievement

Name and Address of Awardee

Month and

Year of Award

Chem. SagarGondaliya Winner of VishwacupCarrom Champion – 2017

VGEC April- 2017

CE Mr Ravi Javiya All India Rank 259 and scored 783 in GATE 2017

GATE 2017 2017

CE Nikhil Suthar, Keval Purohit

Urjit Dave

GTU I-SCALE Award for digital literacy campaign under “CompuTalenet”

GTU 2017

CE/ IT Nishit Shah, Ishani Thakar,

Tejal Sali, Vaishali Modi, Monika

Patel Vaishali Modi

shortlisted for Smart India Hackathon-2017 and awarded for Participation

Smart India Hackathon-2017

April 2017

CE Dhaval Bhensdadiya Chocha Ashish

Doshi Tirth Mihir Trivedi

Nominated for Dewang Mehta IT Awards 2017

VGEC Chandkheda April 2017

Civil Tanmay Kalola Participated in CONQUER IT Awarded 3rd prize in national level competition to design

and build impact bearing structure(IBS) using steel fiber reinforced concrete tested

for impact loading Civil Engineering Department

IIT,Mumbai April-17

Civil Prajapati Dhruv First Place In C.G.Mania Natinal Level Techno-Management Colloquium

NU-TECH, NIRMA UNIVERSITY

MARCH,2017

Civil Patel Shrirang Secured First Place In C.G.Mania, Natinal Level Techno-Management Colloquium

NU-TECH, NIRMA UNIVERSITY

MARCH,2017

Civil Anil Singh Bali 3 Week Training GAMMON INDIA PVT INDIA

JUNE, 2017

EC Henil Bakriwala 1st prize at open house 2017 VGEC Chandkheda April 2017

EC Darshan Gohel 1st prize at open house 2017 VGEC Chandkheda April 2017

EC Utsav Desai 1st prize at open house 2017 VGEC Chandkheda April 2017

EC Shijin Shaji George Secured 91% ( In top 5% All over India) in medical Image analysis course

NPTEL - IIT kharagpur

May-2017

IC Prerak Patel Prerabariya Bhavesh

Prajapati Neel Chauhan Chirag

1st Prize Biometric voting machine

State level Open House Competition 2017, Organized by VGEC, Chandkheda

April 2017

IC Bhateriya Jigar Shubham Bhavsar

Vijay Chauhan Anand Thakor

2nd Prize Underground Cable Fault Distance Locator

Using 8051

IC Rohan Patel Jay Patel

Nikunj Patel

3rd Prize Level Control of Tank using ATmega328

IT Purvi Kathrecha Shraddha Shah Prachi Thakkar

Nominated for Dewang Mehta IT Awards 2017

VGEC Chandkheda April 2017

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Faculty Achievements

Dept Name of Faculty

Brief Description of Achievement

Name and Address of Awardee

Month and Year of Award

Chem Prof. D. D. Mandaliya

DST Early Career Researcher Award

Department of Science and Technology, New

Delhi

Apr-17

CE Prof J M Ramavat Awarded ME(Comp Engg) GTU Jun-17

EC Prof. Alpesh H. Dafda

Awarded as Best NSS Program Officer for the

year 2016-2017

Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad

16th June, 2017 at Town Hall,

Gandhinagar

Departmental Activities:

Chemical Department

An event of Poster Presentation held for Chemical Engineering Masters students (ME SEM-IV)

on “Step Polymerization Kinetics” of Polymer science and Technology.

Civil Department

An expert lecture was held on 20th July for “Career Advancement after Engineering” by

Mr.Imran Chanodvala by GATE forum for B.E. 5th semester. In which students were given

information about what they can do after engineering and this lecture was to make students

aware about the scopes in different fields and different colleges in India as well as in foreign

countries.

Computer Department

Organized a workshop on ‘Hands-On Using Networking Tools’ from 17/4/2017 to 20/4/2017.

The main objective of this Workshop was to demonstrate the working of various protocols using

networking simulators as well as emulators

EC Department

Organized a workshop on PLC-SCADA on April 18,2017 for EC, IC and PE students. The main objective of this Workshop is to make the students acquainted with the conceptual as well as practical knowledge of the Industrial Automation & latest technologies being used to achieve industrial automation.

Organized a workshop on Arduino on April 1,2017. The main objective of this Workshop are an Introduction to Arduino, Advantages of using Arduino, Real Life Applications & Live Demo of Arduino projects and Project Ideas and Further opportunities in R&D.

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Electrical Department

Quiz was organized by Department of Electrical Engineering on 21 st april, 2017. The quiz included the questions on reasoning, aptitude, general knowledge and English grammar. Total of 404 students participated in the event out of which 321 students qualified for the quiz. The quiz carried maximum of 100 marks out of which 40 was the qualifying marks. The quiz was coordinated by Prof. V. M. Parmar and Prof. Kinjal N. Shah.

The Industry visit was organized in Electrical department by Prof. D. P. Maheshwari and was coordinated by Prof. K. N. Shah and Prof. V. M. Parmar. The 4 th semester students visited Thermal Power Station, Gandhinagar in two batches, each of 60 students. The first batch was leaded by Prof. J. B. Sarvaiya and Prof. B. K. Patel on 26/04/2017 at 2:00 PM. The second batch was leaded Prof. H. B. Vaghela and Prof. P. J. Purohit on 03/05/2017 at 2:00 PM.

Research and Publication

Dept.

Name of

Faculty

Publication/ journal

/Conference /Book Title of Publication

Name of /Book

/Conference

/journal

Type of Publication

National/

International ISSN/ ISBN

Chem. Prof. B.K

Sheth

A Brief Review on

Atmospheric Non-

thermal Plasma

Technique - DBD

Concentration /

Recovery of H2SO4

using Electrodialysis

International

Journal of Science

and Research

International ISSN-2319-

7064

Chem. Prof. Shital

Amin

Inter-national

Conference

Dynamic Optimization

and Kinetic model

validation for Melamine

Formaldehyde Resin

(MF) Properties

ICPAM-2017 International --

Chem. M.G. Nayak IJARSET April 17

A Brief Survey on Treatment of Different Hydro carbon Pollutant

using DBD

International Journal of advance

research in science and technology

International 2399-2444

Chem. M.G. Nayak IJARSET April 17

A Brief Review on Atmospheric Non-thermal Plasma

Technique - DBD

International Journal of advance

research in science and technology

International

Chem. Prof. D.D.

Mandaliya

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

Application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in Chemical Engineering: A

review

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

Chem. Prof. D.D.

Mandaliya

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

An Articulated overview of developed trends in

Bioremediation of complex Hydrocarbon

contamination

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

Chem. Prof. Dolly

Gandhi

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-3

Esterification of Bioplatform molecules

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

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Dept.

Name of

Faculty

Publication/ journal

/Conference /Book Title of Publication

Name of /Book

/Conference

/journal

Type of Publication

National/

International ISSN/ ISBN

Chem. Prof. Dolly

Gandhi

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

Alkylation of Ethyl benzene with Ethanol with different modified

catalyst

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

Chem. Prof. Z.Z

Painter

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

Waste water treatment by using Low cost

adsorbent: A Review

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O):2395-4396

Chem. Prof. Z.Z

Painter

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

Batch and column study for Treatment of sugar

Industry Effluent by using Low cost

Adsorbent

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

Chem. Prof. Z.Z

Painter

E-Journal Volume- 3 Issue-2

Treatment of pharmaceutical

Industries waste water using Low cost

adsorbent

International Journal of

Advance Research and Innovative

Ideas in Education

International ISSN(O) :2395-4396

Civil R.G.Motvani International Journal of advance research

ideas and innovations in

technology

Review Of Influence Of Road Side Friction In

Urban Area

International Journal of advance research ideas and

innovations in technology

International

Civil R.G.Motvani International Journal of advance research

ideas and innovations in

technology

Development of speed-flow curve for arterial road

International Journal of advance research ideas and

innovations in technology

International

EC D J Sangani International

conference

Real time MRI images

based Brain tumour

detection using

segmentation methods

SIEICON-2017 International

IT S D Panchal IETE Journal of Research,(International) Taylor & Francis Publication(Scopus/TR impact Journal)-

June 2017

PE A. M. Haque 3rd International

Conference on

Emerging

Technology in

Engineering,

Management and

Science

Design and Simulation of

Luo Converter for DC

Motor Control for an

Electrical Vehicle

Applications.

Conference International

EC

Prof. Alpesh

H. Dafda Book

Tech-Max Publications,

Pune

Audio Video

Systems National

ISBN: 978-

93-86742-

26-1

Faculty Participation

Prof. Anoop Patel, Prof. Jashvant R. Dave and Prof. Naimisha Trivedi (IT department) had conducted sessions in a workshop on “Advanced JAVA Programming” from 27/3/2017 to 1/4/2017

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Creativity Corner

As long as I've a sibling

Who understands me better than me

I can win

As long as I've my fantastic friends

Who can die of laughter for just one smile on

my face

I can win

As long as I've seniors

Who shower guidance and affection in

abundance

I can win

As long as I've nourished a self

Whom I can born n break with my powers

I can win

As long as you are reading this and feeling

motivated

Who has hopes to win

I have won

I Can Win

As long as I'm here on earth

Where I can sow and reap my dreams

I can win

As long as I'm in a country

Where I'm respected as a goddess

I can win

As long as I live in a society

Where people are bonded beyond blood

I can win

As long as I've a home to go

Where love is infinite and boundless

I can win

As long as I've parents

Where I've not known the meaning of conditions

I can win

Shivani Rughani (7th IT)

મારો વાલીડો

શોધ્યો તને ઠેર ઠેર

પણ મળ્યો ત ું ભીતરથી તારી દીધેલ આજ્ઞાને

માથે ચઢાવી હોત તો ત ું મળ્યો હોત વહલેો ભવ થયો હોત સહલેો

પણ વાલીડા અમેય તારા સર્જલેા હવે તને કૂીશ ું ક્ાુંય નહહ રેઢો અને તરીશ ું

અમારો આ ભવદહરયો !

પ્રો. એમ. ટી. સાવલલયા, કોમ્પ્ ટર

વવભાગ

- Disha Patel (7th IT)

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VGEC in Media

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