Student Achievements

International Scholarship

Our Ph.D. scholar of 2019 batch Ms. Shalaka Hire, Senior Research Fellow, Civil Engineering Department, SIT, SIU has received the very prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship from UK Government to study at Loughborough University (LU), UK for a period of One Year divided into two visits to the UK. We Congratulate Ms. Shalaka and her Supervisor Dr. Sayali Sandbhor, Civil Department, SIT for their achievement. It is a fully funded research grant where Shalaka would be carrying out her PhD research work at LU under the guidance of her Co- Supervisor, Dr. Kirti Ruikar, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Ms. Shalaka is entitled not only to one year tuition fees at LU but also to a monthly stipend, travel, dearness allowances, warm clothing allowance and others totaling to approximately 40000 UK Pounds. We wish Shalaka and her supervisors all the best for their research collaboration!

Heartiest congratulations to Ms Diksha Sharma third year civil engineering student from SIT for bagging internship offered by National Science Foundation in association with with New York University USA for 8 week summer research program! She will be undergoing internship in cyber security for the month of July 2022. Her applications stood in the top 10 out of more than 700 applications received. It is due to her active contribution in various departmental events, inter-collegiate competitions, grooming through actively participating in a ASCE students chapter and its activities, writing technical paper on multidisciplinary subjects. All these parameters and exposures at SIT have helped her to strengthen her CV. She has bagged one out of the ten positions from 700 applications!

Journal Special Issue Published

Journal special issue in Q2 Scopus indexed International journal ITcon was edited by DR. Sayali Sandbhor along with other collaborators including Dr. Ketan Kotecha, DR. Kirtri Ruikar and Dr. Albert Thomas in August 2021.

Permeability of a composite seawall

Student paper "Permeability of a composite seawall: Effect of orientation of gaps in the structure” received the best presentation award at the 7th International Conference on Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ICCOE) 2020, SINGAPORE. This paper is an outcome of Winter Internship offered in December 2019 by Civil Department, for which three students Kunal Agarwal, Ashish Ranjan along with Sonam Deki (International student) worked on a part of research grant received from SIU received by Prof. Vaishnavi Dabir of Civil Engineering department.

Mr. Vaibhav Barada

Received ‘Late Chetan Dattaji Gaikwad Gold Medal’ for standing First in Bachelor of Technology (Civil Engineering) Programme of 2015-19 Batch of Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT) by securing the highest CGPA at the 16th Convocation Ceremony.

Mr. Abhishek Verma and Mr. Rishabh Shukla

Received an investment amount of 2 million dollars for their startup Roxfortech Infosolutions Private Limited. Mr. Abhishek Verma.

Zenab Bandookwala

First Year Mechanical Engineering student secured a position at the 62nd National Shooting Championship held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and got further selected for the Khelo India Youth Games.

Mechanical Department WWR team’s design submitted for the STUDIO CLOCKWORK Design competition has achieved First Place in all of Combustion Vehicle design category all over India and second overall. Leading the Combustion Vehicle design category, they are now among the top 6 finalists who shall compete for the title "Best Design" in Coimbatore. In the finals, they shall be sharing the highlights of their design along with the modifications made to the same due to practical and engineering aspects highlighting the route of our design from the conceptual stage to a real life FSAE vehicle.

Final year students bagged the second prize in 'Poster competition' held during "Smart Cities Development and Management Symposium" at NICMAR on 15th March 2019.

The group included final year B.Tech Civil engineering students- Omkar Jante, Abdullhai Sabernoori, Ketan Gore, Pushkar Jadhav, Aditya Barate and Kaushalraj.

SIT family proudly congratulates the Entrepreneurship Promotion and Innovation Cell (EPIC), of the institute, for WINNING the National E-Cell Warfare 2018! This is the third national award that EPIC has won so far!

The national challenge required the participating E-Cell teams to complete certain tasks related to Entrepreneurship, during the months of August and September, and submit the evidence to the organisers. One of the tasks was to host online quiz, wherein the quizzes hosted by EPIC saw participation of more than 1500 students from all over the country. The team emerged winner leaving behind Entrepreneurship Cells from some of the reputed colleges and NITs.

SIT student, Mr. Shubham Puranik, Final Year B Tech Civil Engineering student, Batch 2015-19 got selected as a youth delegate for the India-Guatemala Youth Dialogue 2018 for the Confederation of young leaders and attended the same at the Embassy of Guatemala, New Delhi on 12th July 2018.

The India-Guatemala Youth dialogue comprised of Interaction with the Ambassador of Guatemala and diplomats on growing relationship between Guatemala and India. Shubham's inputs on "India's soft power and what role can the youth play in improving the soft power of a nation" were well taken by the eminent guests at the function.

Mr. Sidhant Mathur (1^st Year, B. Tech. - IT).

He has been selected as the Ambassador for Harvard University's 'Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations (HPAIR)'.

He has been invited to the HPAIR Harvard College Conference & HPAIR Asia Conference, to be held internationally in Taipei, Taiwan in 2021 August.