The workshop is organized for Second Year E&TC Students to make them aware of the Process of PCB Design with Eagle software . Importance of PCB, its types and the Process of PCB designing Explained in detail which consists of creating schematic, ERC (Electrical rule check), DRC (Design rule check), Auto routing, Testing of circuit with Eagle. Students also learnt the etching process of PCB. Students become familiar with the process of PCB design. Overall it was a real time learning experience for the students for the single layer PCB design.

This webinar was conducted by Mr. Gaurav Lohar who has completed his M. Tech from IIEST Shibpur. Also, he has got 3+ years of teaching experience. This Webinar was specially conducted for BE students on 31st July 2021. The webinar was conducted by The Gate Academy. The webinar started at 11:00 am with a brief introduction of the spokesperson for the webinar. Mr. Gaurav covered all aspects related to the GATE Exam which are important to a GATE Aspirant. Right from the opportunities one gets after giving the GATE Exam to preparation for the same. He covered points like tuition fees, education culture, important topics of preparation, etc. He also told students about why one should appear for the GATE Exam and how beneficial it is for one’s career. Some great tips and tricks for preparation and patterns for studying were also shared by him. Overall, it was a very fruitful and helpful webinar conducted by TEESA which helped students prepare for the GATE Exam.

The activity was planned for T.E. (E&TC) students on 24/08/2021 by Mrs. Netraja Mulay , Assistant Professor at MCA Department PES MCOE. Total 53 students of T.E. (E&TC) had attended the session. The session covered Command types (DDL,DCL,DML), and applications of those commands in RDBMS. Speaker explained how to create a database according to constraints using various SQL commands such as Insert, Update, Delete and Retrieve etc. using ORACLE Database. She has also explained different types of functions,subqueries,types of joins and PL/SQL concepts. Students learnt different queries for SQL and how to write PL /SQL blocks according to the application.

The IEEE Student Branch of PES’s Modern college of Engineering in association with the Electronics and Telecommunication Department had organized a webinar on ‘Network and Cyber Security’. Prof. Ashok Pattar (Honorary Resource person at National Cyber Defense Research Center, Adjunct faculty at SICR and Visiting faculty at MITCOM (MIT-WPU)), gave a disciplined briefing on the topic. The session started with introduction to the concept of security, realms of security and need of security in this digital era. The popular TRIAD model of security, also known as the CIA model, was explained by the speaker. He then discussed fundamentals such as RTV, cryptography (Cipher, Keys and Algorithms). He discussed the concept of hashing and hash functions, Secure Authentication Protocol. Further he put across the terms digital signature and certificates. Under the topic of network security, each layer in the OSI model with their vulnerabilities, threats and risks were discussed. The cyber security terms, trojans, worms, ransomware, dark web, backdoor were addressed.

A three day webinar series was conducted by The Telecommunication & Electronics Engineering Student’s Association (TEESA) for class SE, TE & BE students, from 07/09/2021 to 09/09/2021 at 3:30pm through Zoom Meet. The objective of this activity was to build and maintain interpersonal skills and communication skills, to make the students aware of effective leadership skills and to manage stress and overcome stress related issues and anxiety.

Webinar on Balancing career with studies was conducted on 15th September 2021, Wednesday. The Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in association with IEEE PES MCOE Student Branch and TEESA had organized a webinar on ‘Balancing Career with Studies’. Dr. Shraddha Sakatkar gave a notable talk on the topic. The 4 main topics of the session were Time management, Goal setting, Responsibility of your behavior and Study skills. Dr. Sakatkar gave a methodical description of each section. The session started with an ice-breaking activity which grabbed the attention of attendees. Then the speaker conversed about the first section, Time management. She unfolded different practices to manage time. She then proceeded with Goal setting. Along with one activity 4 D’s, SMART goals, WDEP system were covered under this section.

The Department of Electronics and telecommunication has organized an expert talk on “Real time Application of Microcontrollers in Industries” with the objective to understand and learn about the embedded hardware design in Industries amongst all the students of MCOE. The session was delivered by Mr. Mubarak Tamboli (Hardware design Engineer at TCS Faurecia India Pvt. Ltd). He talked about the importance of Microcontrollers in Industries, Mr. Mubarak Tamboli in his presentation highlighted what Controller is? then the definition of Microcontroller. He also explained the characteristics and requirements of the new product to be designed. He explained how to interface LED & RTC with microcontrollers and points related to it. He also said some key points related to Embedded Hardware design. The activity was conducted on 13th November 2021, Saturday.

An interesting session on the above topic was organized by the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication. Session was conducted on 30-10-2021, Saturday. The speaker, Mr. Ashish Shetkar, demonstrated the power of Java with real time examples. The session was very well explained starting from the basics to the high level concepts. From the session we got to know about the editions of java out of which Java EE (Enterprise Edition) is mostly used. Several salient features such as forEach() method, default and static methods, functional interface and lambda expressions, Java Time API, collection & concurrency API improvements and java IO improvements were taught to us that were introduced in JAVA 8. The concept of java OOPs was discussed with the help of programs like abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.

This webinar was conducted by P.Ramesh (B.E.,M.Tech,(Ph.D.),MIE,MISTE,Chartered Engineer ) Faculty at ACE Engineering Academy. This webinar was conducted for 2 hours for E&TC students on 12th July 2021, Monday. Objective of this webinar was to provide adequate information about GATE,PSUs Exams. He session started with introduction of speaker, Mr.T Ramesh. Speaker began his session with a thought of how to think beyond BE degree. He shared important career opportunities for an Engineering graduate. Later the session continued with opportunities after GATE.

Speaker talked about the benefits of the GATE exam for post-graduation and the companies who can recruit them. He also made them aware about PSUs through Gate. He listed many government agencies which recruit engineers on GATE score. He made different avenues open which students were not aware of and motivated students to start preparing for the GATE exam and score well in it.

This activity is conducted by Mr. Hemant Reddy from ACE Engineering Academy. This activity is conducted on 8th December 2021, Wednesday. Aim of the activity is to provide students with insights on how to ace their general aptitude exams with helpful suggestions and tips. Mr. Reddy proceeded to inform them on how to tackle such questions with ease by providing various insightful solutions. He gave them various tips on how to approach the problem and get the solution in the shortest time possible. Any doubts and queries raised by the students were promptly answered by him.

This session was conducted by Rtn Ujwal Tawde, Rtn Praveen More, Rtn Vandana Dandekar , Rtn. Dr. Sanjay Runval. Objective of this session was to make students aware about various career options, how to become a leader, what is the impact of situation behavior impact, and how to set your goal. Activity was conducted under the Rotaract Club of ENTC. Session was conducted online on 28th & 29th August 2021, Saturday & Sunday.

This session was conducted by Rtn Ujwal Tawde, Rtn Praveen More, Rtn Vandana Dandekar , Rtn. Dr. Sanjay Runval. Objective of this session was to make students aware about various career options, how to become a leader, what is the impact of situation behavior impact, and how to set your goal. Activity was conducted under the Rotaract Club of ENTC. Session was conducted online on 28th & 29th August 2021, Saturday & Sunday.

A Parent Meet was conducted at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering on 28/08/2021. The parents were given a brief awareness of departmental activities and different career opportunities offered by institute like internship, training, placement etc. Parents were also briefed about online curriculum flow which covered registration process, importance of Regular attendance to online sessions, timely submissions required for continuous assessment and internal assessment.

The Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in association with IEEE PES MCOE Student Branch and TEESA had organized a webinar on ‘Balancing Career with Studies’. Dr. Shraddha Sakatkar gave notable talk on the topic. She focused on Time management, Goal setting, Responsibility of your behavior and Study skills during the session. Dr. Sakatkar gave methodized description of each section. She disclosed some mind skills- Creating self-talks, perceptions, explanations, and expectations. Along with discussion about various terminologies, the speaker also conducted different interesting activities throughout the session. The attendees got aware about steps to set their goal and different tips and tricks to achieve it successfully.

The students were introduced to the Academic Planner, Mentor–mentee System, assessment techniques, academic courses, faculty, professional societies, students clubs, activities being conducted in the department, , training and placement opportunities etc. They were also encouraged to participate in various e-learning courses such as NPTEL and Spoken tutorial conducted by IIT’s. Students were encouraged to take maximum advantages of the opportunities provided by the department, to groom them into bright engineers and good human being.

A Project Orientation session for BE final year students was organized to give guidelines regarding latest project ideas, selection of project topic, project implementation, presentation and communication skills required for BE project seminar and project examination.Students were encouraged to participate in different project competitions and paper presentations. They were also motivated regarding time management for smooth project execution. Students got an overall idea about execution of their final year project.

The online session on Human behavior audit course was arranged in association with Roteract club of E & TC for BE students. The speaker Rtn Ujwal Tawade conducted a very interactive session on one of the topics of the BE audit course “Understanding behavior and human relations”. The session started with some amazing brainstorming questions asked by the speaker which opened minds of every student. The speaker clearly explained the concepts of maintaining human relations. Simple definitions like, what is mind? , what are relations? What is behavior? Really helped students to redefine the concept very well. The speaker deep dived into different types of human behavior and gave an insight on it in detailed manner.

The institute of PES Modern College of Engineering’s department of Electronics and Telecommunication conducted workshop on ‘Design and Simulate Lm35 with 8051 Controller In Proteus’ for third year students. This workshop was conducted to make students acquainted with simulation of simple and complex circuits.138 students from TE E & TC attended the workshop.

The workshop started at 11 am with introduction of speaker by Mrs. Sanjyot Thuse. The speakers first explained about what is the software, terminology related to software like ISIS, ARES, LISA and components in the software. The circuits implemented were interfacing of LED, LCD and stepper motor. They explained us about various modes used in Proteus such as component mode, terminal mode, and graph mode. Students were simultaneously implementing circuit on their respective software.

The workshop concluded at 3 pm with positive response of students to speakers and explaining the importance of this software in their academics.

Rotaract Club of ENTC MCOE had organized a session for students from SE-BE. 142 students have attended the same. The session was conducted by Rtn. Satish Khade. He has been tracking the water problems and its solutions for better and well established water network. Following points were discussed:

All these had made a positive impact on our students and they will definitely work on these issues.

The BE ENTC students of Modern College of Engineering conducted the workshop for the SE ENTC students. The workshop was very informative and easy for us to understand as the seniors cleared all the basics right from providing an installation guide to explaining the advantages of using the application to its fullest. The session began with a quick overview of the installation and further procedures. Then the speakers explained us the importance and uses of simulations before the actual implementation of the various circuits. Later on after explaining how to use the various devices present in Proteus, students designed and simulated the first circuit, which was De MORGAN’S laws. There were frequent feedback questions which made the session very interactive. All doubts were solved very nicely.

After break the session started with basics of Multiplexer. Students were taught to design various types of multiplexers like 4:1 MUX, 8:1 MUX and how to design a larger MUX using the smaller ones by the method of cascading. A few of the students also presented their screens and showed the circuits which they had designed simultaneously.

Other topics like Implementation of X-OR gates, Half Adder Circuit, Full Adder Circuit, Binary Addition rules, etc were also taught and implemented. They showed us that we could also attach various sensors to our circuit. The nomenclature of the IC’s and how to identify the type based on HC and LS. Final year students demonstrated their project to explain the importance of Proteus. The session concluded with an illuminating Question & Answers session. Students took back a lot of knowledge from this workshop.

Lean Six Sigma is a method that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation. Lean Six Sigma not only reduces process defects and waste, but also provides a framework for overall organizational culture change. The webinar was conducted by Mr. Santosh D. Awasarkar, (Co-founded Pursullence Global Business Solutions).He is the most promising speaker as everyone enjoyed learning from him. He guided about how to have business point of view, ability to deliver multi million dollars monetary benifits to MNC firms, monitor and sustain solutions and also gave us brief about companies implementing six sigmas

During the Webinar the following points were discussed:

The webinar was very useful for students to clear their thoughts about lean six sigma.

The spirit of an engineer is always hungry for learning and is kindled with competition. While many activities were put on halt due to the pandemic and its following lockdown, the Training and Placement Cell at Modern College of Engineering, Pune did not let this deter students in developing their soft-skills. While many students look forward for the upcoming campus drives, a virtual session on ‘Connect With Work’ was conducted on 2nd September,2020 between 11:00 am -1 pm.

Mr. Somani Mitra, the speaker of the session, is a mentor and has a considerable experience as a recruiter in 21 corporate organizations. He has also conducted various recruitments at more than 70 educational institutions and has trained over 40,000 students to date.

The aim of the session was to emphasize the importance of soft-skills since it plays a decisive role in any interview process. He mentioned that the transformation of a student from campus into the corporate world will happen if one focuses on three parameters viz., hard-skills, soft-skill and mindset. Having a positive mindset highlights a candidate's willingness to effectively carry out the task. The 3 magical words used throughout the session were 'Map the Gap,' which highlights the need to adapt in an era of growing technology and to be the best fit for any organization. Following the session, addressing the most likely questions to be posed in a personal interview with a candidate.

The session was an engaging and an informative one in which students gained valuable insight into the topics covered.

The webinar was conducted for SE and TE E & TC students.

The 40 hours training program was conducted in association with SEED InfoTech, Pune. It was observed that, the students need to upgrade and work on the programming skills so that the can crack the programming round during placement interview. Following topics were covered during the program. At the end of each topic few interview questions and its solutions were discussed. The trainer also made students submit assignments on regular basis. The students submitted assignments on google classroom created for the training program.

Programming Techniques

The two days Webinar on Phased Array Antenna Design Using CST Studio Suite 2020.05 was organized by E&TC Dept. in association with Jyoti Electronics, Ahmedabad keeping in view the demand for research in the field of antenna design for 4G, 5G and Massive MIMO fields. The webinar was conducted on online platform using GoToMeetings application.

Mr. Kartik Goyal given a brief introduction about the features of CST Studio suite and elaborated on design and simulation of some basic microwave components on the first day. On the second day, he illustrated more on antennas for advance applications like 4G, 5G communications and Massive MIMO. The webinar received a huge response from all over India with more than 250 registrations and received very good feedback from the participants.

A session on “IoT and Enabling Technologies – An Overview” arranged for students with faculty member On 10th June, 2020 all students and staff attended the session.