Academics
B.Tech (Electronics & Tele-Communication)
Dr. Pritesh Shah -
Ph.D.(COE,pune),
Associate Professor,
In-charge
Head of the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication
Overview
The Department has a strength of over 500 students enrolled in its Undergraduate, Post-Graduate and Ph.D. programmes. Along with the core E&TC subjects department offers a wide range of elective subjects and facilitates industrial projects, all of which prepare the students for a career after their basic degree. Efforts are made to impart as much project-based learning as is feasible. Towards this, investments are made in an ongoing manner in having well equipped laboratories, software tools like MATLAB, SIMULINK to name a few. The department has undertaken industry sponsored research and has started interactions with other universities and research groups in industry.
The department has dedicated faculty and staff who continuously engage in improving teaching methods and undergo faculty development programs and undertake research. The faculty of the Department along with their JRFs are involved in research in areas such as communications, control systems, signal processing, image processing, embedded systems, IOT, and several allied areas.
Every year students carry out the final year projects in collaboration with industries. Every year students carry out the final year projects in collaboration with industries
Along with the core degree, the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication also offers the following additional Honors in line with the industry's latest trends.
- Embedded System
- Signal Processing
- Mechatronics and Automation
- Optoeletronics & Communication
- Bioelectronics Systems
- Sustainable Energy Devices & Systems
Minor Specialisation (Offered by)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning (CS &IT)
- Data Science (CS &IT)
- Internet of things (CS &IT)
- Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (Civil)
- Automobile engineering with hybrid and autonomous technology (Mechanical)
Highlights of the Department:
- Industry-led Flexi courses
- Global Immersion program with renowned foreign universities
- Opportunity to acquire a Diploma in Business Management from SIBM, Pune
- Department-organized tech fests and hackathons
- Mentor-Mentee system to facilitate the progress of the students
- Academic Curricula benchmarked with International Universities
- Industry-visits, guest lectures, seminars, and workshops by eminent researchers and industry practitioners
- Semester industry internship
- Tinker lab to inculcate creativity
- Active student clubs and bodies
- Project-based Learning
- Multi-cultural and vibrant teaching environment
Department Laboratories:
- VLSI Lab
- Embedded Systems Lab
- Digital Signal Processing Lab
- Instrumentation Lab
- Communication Lab
- BEEE Lab
- Product Design Lab
- Digital Electronics Lab (Microprocessor lab)
- Electronic Devices & Circuit Lab
- Electrical Machines Lab
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Lab
- Solar Photo Voltaic Research Lab
- Tinker Lab
Intake
B Tech Electronics & Tele-Communication Program: 120
Lateral Entry: 12
Departmental Brochure
Eligibility
B.Tech First Year
Indian Students
Passed Standard XII (10+2) or equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of the Chemistry/ Biotechnology/ Biology/ Technical Vocational subject/ Computer Science/Information Technology/ Informatics Practices/ Agriculture/ Engineering Graphics/ Business Studies from any recognized Board with a minimum of 45% marks or equivalent grade (40%marks or equivalent grade for Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes.
International Students
International Students' eligibility as per SCIE norms.
Please follow link www.scie.ac.in
B. Tech (Lateral Entry to Second Year)
- Passed Diploma examination from an AICTE approved Institution; with at least 45% marks or equivalent grade (40% marks or equivalent grade for Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribes) in ANY branch of Engineering / Technology.
- Passed B.Sc. Degree from a recognized University as defined by UGC, with at least 45% marks or equivalent grade (40% marks or equivalent grade for Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribes) and passed XII standard with mathematics as a subject.
- Provided that in case of students belonging to B. Sc. Stream, shall clear the subjects of Engineering Graphics / Engineering Drawing and Engineering Mechanics of the first year Engineering program along with the second year subjects.
- Provided further that, the students belonging to B. Sc. Stream shall be considered only after filling the supernumerary seats in this category with students belonging to the Diploma stream.
- Provided further that students, who have passed Diploma in Engineering and Technology from an AICTE approved Institution or B. Sc. Degree from a recognized University as defined by UGC, shall also be eligible for admission to the first year Engineering Degree courses subject to vacancies in the first year class in case the vacancies at lateral entry are exhausted. However the admissions shall be based strictly on the eligibility criteria as mentioned in a, b, c, and d above.
Vision & Mission
Vision
To emerge as a leading source for Electronics and Telecommunication engineering, fostering globally proficient engineers to meet the demands of evolving industry and society.
Mission
- Foster collaboration with industry to facilitate the acquisition of cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the generation of up-to-date knowledge, enhancing employability and sustainability.
- Encourage innovation, research, and development, creating an environment conducive to higher education, entrepreneurship, and lifelong learning.
- Cultivate leadership qualities infused with social and ethical values, providing a platform for their development.
Programme / Course Structure
- Syllabus structure (Batch: 2023-2027)
- Syllabus structure (Batch: 2022-2026)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2021-2025)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2020-2024)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2019-2023)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2018-2022)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2017-2021)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2016-2020)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2015-2019)
- Syllabus structure(Batch: 2014-2018)
Graduate Attributes
GA 1 |
Scholarship: research, inquiry and lifelong learning |
GA 2 |
Global citizenship: ethical, social and professional understanding |
GA 3 |
Eco-literate: sensitivity towards a sustainable environment |
GA 4 |
Employability: equipped with skills, attributes, leadership and entrepreneurial qualities that society needs; being capable of making a contribution to society through earning a living |
AICTE Mitacs Global link Internship at Canada
Third year E&TC students (Batch21-25) Steve Francis & Abhishek Kumar Singh bagging the prestigious AICTE Mitacs Global link Internship at Canada. We are proud of this great achievement which has brought laurels to the department and Symbiosis Institute Of Technology Pune!!!!
"Proglint Software Solutions I Custom App Development Company."
Department of Electronics & Telecommunication students Aditya Rane, Vinay Patil & Prachi Lal of Batch 2020-24 secured All India Rank 4 in the National Computer Vision Hackathon held in Bangalore. This competition was organized by Proglint Software Solutions I Custom App Development Company.
They developed a cutting-edge Crowd Management Security System coupled with a dynamic Customer Analytics Dashboard.
"Internet of Things"
E&TC department organized a Three days workshop on "Internet of Things" for Second Year students (Batch- 2022-26) from 14-09-2023 to 16-09-23. Through this workshop students get knowledge about design & architecture of IOT as well as industry tools & practices in IOT
"Our first year students fabricate PCB in Electronics & Telecommunication dept for their project."
First year students Batch- 2022-26 (E&TC, R&A) fabricate Printed Circuit Boards(PCB) in Electronics & Telecommunication dept. for their project. Due to this they got information what is PCB? What is actual use of PCB, how to make negative film of Circuit Design, why clear track is necessary on PCB. This All things as well as importance of it they studied. They got full enjoy for PCB fabrication & they got all PCB manufacturing process like photo printing, dye developer, Etching process, etc. Herewith I am attaching some fabrication PCB photos.
Project: AGRIHAWK
Function: Agriculture Surveillance Drone (Plant Disease Detection)
Students of E&TC Aditya Rane, Pratham Talekar, Balajee Srinivasan, Satvik Sattenapalli ( Batch- 2020-24) made AGRIHAWK project Agriculture Surveillance Drone (Plant Disease Detection) for detection of any plant disease.
This project is useful for farmers because when any disease falls on plant it detect by this drone, & farmer will make treatment for it. Because of that farmer will get more production and disease less products.
Congratulations Dr. Mrinal Bachute for being co opted as a committee member in Board of Research Innovation and Standards BoRIS, IETE New Delhi. She will get to work in the Think Tank of The Institution of Electronics and Tele-communication engineers in framing Research and Innovation policy
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT proudly congratulates the E&TC students for securing 10th position in the National Entrepreneurship Challenge that was held in January organized by E-cell, IIT Bombay, in which colleges from across the nation took part. Entrepreneurship, finance, and digital marketing were the focus of the competition. It was a six-month challenge with various stages that one had to pass before moving on to the next.
First year E&TC students Nitya Sharma and Nithish Ragavendara H along with the final year E&TC students Abhirup Sarkar, Hussain Sabunwala and Ayushman Khetan were the participants from Symbiosis Institute Of Technology Pune for this event!!!
Workshop conducted on Internet of things (IOT)
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT hosted a face-to-face (Offline) workshop Third Year E&TC students (2020-24 batch) on “IoT Fundamentals ” on 16 th to 18 th March 2023. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Abhijeet Deogirikar, founder, Coppercloud Pvt. Ltd. In this workshop, students were made aware of details about Embedded System IoT, Concepts of cloud, Uploading the data on cloud and doing analysis using AI technology.
The students got the exposure to work on NodeMCU ESP8266, ThingSpeak cloud platform and Coppercloud cloud platform. Students got exposure of Node-RED software through which they implemented cloud based applications. They also learned about many real time projects and computer vision concept. More than 40 students attended the workshop for all 3 days and build their own apps. The hardware kits were provided by the resource person.
PCB Workshop
At the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT we believe in learning by doing!!!! Some glimpses of the PCB workshop for the second year E&TC students hosted at the department. We are thankful to Dr. Paresh S. Nasikkar for organizing this workshop.
Guest Lecture on “Capabilities of Excel”
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT is proud to share the glimpses of an insightful international guest lecture on "Capabilities of Excel" for our first year E&TC students by Nitin Mehta (Alumni of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Automation Engineer and OT Cyber Security Professional (#australia).
Guest Lecture on “Entrepreneurship Ventures”
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT is proud to share the glimpses of an insightful international guest lecture on “Entrepreneurship Ventures” for E&TC students by Dr. Vikram Shete.
Winter School
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune (SIT Pune), a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University) hosted the Winter school for EDA tool training for faculty, industry experts, research scholars and students from India and on 26/12/2022 to 07/01/2023. This winter school initiative was taken by Dr. Durgesh Nandan.
Following speakers delivered exposure of various cutting age technologies topics and cadence various front end and backend packages-based hands on.
- Dr. Veena Chakravarthi, Accelerated customer experience (ACE), Synopsys Bangalore
- Dr. Srinivas Nagapuri, Senior engineer, Micron Technology, Hyderabad
- Dr. Amandeep Kaur, Assistant Professor in department of Electrical engineering, IIT Jodhpur
- Dr. Durgesh Nandan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication, SIT, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune
- Dr. Chandan Kumar Choubey, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication, SIT, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune
- Dr. Mohammad Faseehuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication, SIT, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune
SESMIC2022
International Conference on Recent and future trends in smart electronics system and manufacturing (SESMIC2022) hosted by department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune. On Dated 1-3 December 2022.
Workshops
Embedded Technology Workshop using Arduino Platform on 22nd and 23rd August 2022
Embedded Technology Workshop using Arduino Platform on 26th and 27th September 2022
Arduino with Real Time Application on 20-21 September 2022
Alumni Achievement
Asst Comdt Abhijit Sinha (E&TC batch 2013-17) receiving Commander Coast Guard Region (West), Rolling Trophy for best in flying from Inspector General S Paramesh, PTM, TM Commander Coast Guard Region West at Award of Wings and Passing out Ceremony of Dornier Conversion Course - V conducted at Indian Coast Guard Air Station Daman.
Credentiated by Mathworks
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication is proud to be credentiated by Mahworks, India for successfully meeting the standards and accelerating the pace of engineering and research with MATLAB & Simulink.
KPIT Sparkle project competition
"Team Tech Geeks" successfully and strongly delivered need of the hour themed: mobility and energy for the future...by hybridizing SPV-Wind energy techs in a structured way for creating an awareness at KPIT-SPARKLE Grand Finale 2022.
Students from the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT got a chance to pitch the idea "Smart Renewable approach for charging Electric Vehicles" in Grand Finale of KPIT Sparkle 2022 before 24 jury members and thousands of visitors.
Their idea was highly appreciated by jury members and visitors and we got to know about lot of new things from that 2 days competition regarding technology and Business Plan. They bagged 8th position in this prestigious national level event.
Industry expert lecture series
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication and the Embedded Systems Club of Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune organized numerous Tech Talks by industry experts for the faculties staff and students for enhancing the required skills by the industry and make the students industry ready.
Tech talk lecture series by international experts
The department of Electronics and Tele-Communication has organised six international expert lectures during the session 2021-2022. The prominent researchers from academia and industry were invited for the talk. The activity resulted in the students getting aware about the latest research trends and opportunities abroad. The talks also resulted in research collaborations between SIT faculty members and international research scholars.
The details of the Tech Talk are given below:
Name of Speaker: Dr. Md Akhtaruzzaman
University: National University of Malaysia
Date: 18th November, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM
Topic: Current advancement and Novel Approaches of Eco-Friendly Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
Name of Speaker: Dr. Sawal Hamid Md Ali
University: National University of Malaysia
Date: 20th May, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM
Topic: VLSI Circuit Design in Submicron Technologies: Design Strategies and Methodologies.
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
Name of Speaker: Dr. George Ghinea
University: Brunel University London
Date: 13th October , 2021
Time: 1:30 PM
Topic: Perceptual Experience of Multimedia
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
Name of Speaker: Dr. Santosh Kumar
University: Liaocheng, China
Date: 23rd October, 2021
Time: 3:30 PM
Topic: Advance in Optical fibre-based Biosensors for Clinical Application
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
Name of Speaker: Dr. Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab
University: Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM).
Date: 5th February, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM
Topic: Internet of Things
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
Name of Speaker: Jitendra Deshpande
University: KPIT, Technologies (Japan)
Date: 21st March, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM
Topic: A Journey into Vehicle Autonomy-Experience and Opportunities.
Target Audience: B.Tech and M.Tech students
International Projects:
Dr. Rahee walambe secured two international funded projects
- Indo -Italy Bilateral Mobility Research Scheme (as PI)
- Indo-Serbia Bilateral Research Collaboration Scheme (as co-PI)
AICTE MITACS Research internship in Canada
Three students from the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT bagged the prestigious AICTE MITACS research internship in Canada. The students selected are Soham Hudnurkar, Sharmishtha Tongia and Abhimanyu Patwa from the 2019-23 batch.
DVP Lecture series
DVP lecture series was successfully conducted in the offline mode hosted by Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication SIT. It was an insightful and informative journey by our honourable guest Dr. Satyanarayana Bheesette (Scientific Officer H grade), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, under the Distinguished Visiting Professorship (DVP) scheme by AICTE Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).
The session was based on the topics" Introduction to mathematical modelling and simulations in Engineering” and “Why and how to do research in an academic institution”.
Discussions were done on students projects and inputs were given by our guest on curriculum enhancement for E&TC during the visit.
World Environment Day
The IEEE Pune section & Educational Activities Committee organized a special session on "World Environment Day with Theme: Only One Earth"* on 5th June 2022.
The speaker was Dr. Priyadarshini Karve, Managing Director, Samuchit Enviro Tech.
Alumni session
The Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication, SIT organized a session on "Project Management" in the international alumni guest lecture series. The speaker was Radhika Joshi, Project manager at Testreach, Ireland.
Industry visit at Mapro
The students along with two faculty members Prof. Parag Narkhede and Prof. Yogita Patil visited Mapro Food Pvt. Ltd. located near Pune. They got a glance of Industrial Automation Technology working in actual practice like conveyor belts for material transport, automatic bottle filling systems, packaging unit, storage systems, bottle manufacturing etc. They could interact with the industry people and understand the current state of the art technologies used in working of manufacturing plants. After the industry tour, the students also enjoyed various food products manufactured in the plant.
Techfest Vidhyut 22
A fun filled technical festival organized by the Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication was thoroughly enjoyed by the student’s staff and faculties. It was an event packed with plethora of technical activities and fun events.
Innovations in Teaching and Learning:
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):
- Graduates will possess a strong foundation in science and engineering fundamentals, along with analytical skills to effectively solve real-world problems.
- Graduates will gain technical proficiency in Electronics and Telecommunication fields and scale new heights in the profession through lifelong learning.
- Graduates will embrace professionalism, ethical conduct at all levels and constantly evolve in a multidisciplinary approach leading towards sustainability.
- Graduates will leverage their engineering knowledge, effective communication skills, leadership qualities, and teamwork spirit to serve society and contribute positively to their community.
Program Outcomes (POs):
Engineering Graduates will be able to:
- Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
- Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
- Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
- Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modelling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
- The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
- Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
- Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
- Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
- Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
- Life-long learning: Recognize the need for and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs):
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Demonstrate proficiency in development, design and analysis of electronic systems using advanced hardware and software tools in the domain of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.
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Deploy conventional and advanced techniques/ tools in diverse domains of Electronics and Telecommunication for the wellbeing of the society.