PREFACE Industry Institution Interaction Cell (III Cell) has been established in the Computer Engineering Department in 2008 to provide close links with industries. The purpose of this cell is to find out the gap between need of the industry and end product of the institute. This cell serves as a bridge between the industry, the real world and the institution. We believe in developing programmes, which provide solutions to real world problems with a strong desire of forging innovative alliance with industry to achieve synergy. III Cell events are organized by the III Cell In-charge of the Department along with other faculty members. To bridge the gap between institutional theoretical delivery and industrial practical approach, III Cell is working with the following objectives.   

To have better interaction between Technical institution and industry. To organize/conduct workshops, conferences and symposia with joint participation of the faculty and the industry. To sign Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) between the Institute and various IT industries to bring the two side strategically closer.

FOCUS provides the platform to the students to aspire and achieve more than what curriculum requires. The aim is to teach the students the art of leading the team, working in a team and an opportunity to rise above their limits. Different technical and non-technical events organized by FOCUS to encourage the spirit of competitiveness and accelerate learning through co-curricular activities within the student community I extend my sincere gratitude towards our Director Dr. Y. J. Bhalerao for his guidance and valuable suggestions. I am also thankful to the Head of Computer Engineering Department, Prof. Mrs. Uma Nagaraj for her kind support and help.

Prof. Shiltalkumar A Jain In-charge and Chief Coodinator,III Cell Chairman,FOCUS

From the Desk of HOD

Global excellence in research, teaching and technology development is the vision of the department. The sustained effort is to produce computing graduates with potential to design and develop innovative approaches to programming and problem solving to meet the needs of knowledge era. Department of Computer Engineering has been established in the year 1999 to meet the demand for well-qualified computer professionals. Our aim is to   

To develop high quality technical and scientific manpower to meet the challenges of fiercely competitive environment. To become world-class learning centre with excellence in education and research conjugated with vibrant environment for holding the extra and co-curricular skills of stake holders. To encourage the learning and creative community to promote the development and usage of applications for betterment of society.

With an objective of developing core competence in the different subject specializations and for learning newer technologies, the department has formed the following four technical divisions namely:    

Computer Networking Data Warehousing & Data Mining Systems Machine Intelligence & Applications

The Department is committed to achieve highest order of excellence in the field of computer engineering education. Along with the technical knowledge, we also emphasize and provide platform to exhibit talent for the personality development of our students.

Prof. Mrs. Uma Nagaraj Head, Department of Computer Engineering

III Cell Coordinators

Mrs Vaishali Wangikar

Renuka Puntambekar

The creative and diligent computer engineering students of MITAOE always receive valuable inputs and skills taught to them in the classrooms by best of our faculty members. But we know the fact, that to make our students competent to face the exciting challenges of corporate world, the practical hands on experience is very essential along with the thorough theoretical foundation. Thus with the objective to provide exposure of recent trends and technologies of computer science and Information technology to the students and to bridge the gap between the theoretical and practical aspects of curriculum ,III cell of Computer Engineering, MITAOE is established under able leadership of Prof.SA Jain. Value added courses for .NET, Java, Oracle were arranged while workshops on mobile application development, ubiquitous computing, cloud computing along with many more guest lecturers have been arranged this year. To strengthen our teaching and learning process many faculty development programs have been arranged. Memorandum of Understanding also signed with several reputed software companies. It has been a great association with III cell. I am thankful to III cell coordinator, Prof. SA Jain,HOD Prof. Uma Nagaraj,and my collogue Mrs. Renuka Puntambekar for consistent cooperation and support .

III Cell has in the year 2015-2016 organized numerous student development programs and faculty development programs to enriching the technical knowledge of its faculty and students. Our vision is to become centre of excellence in technical education and to achieve this vision our priority has been – achieve excellence by enabling the students to be more creative, innovative and productive & to design flexible, career oriented add-on-course programs with active industry participation. I am thankful to the III Cell In-charge Prof. S.A Jain and our HOD Prof. Mrs. Uma Nagaraj for having given me this opportunity.

FOCUS Coordinators Activities Conducted by III Cell

Mrs Diptee Chikmurge

Ms. Sharmila Kharat

It‟s my pleasure to spread some word about FOCUS, since last four years I am working with students for FOCUS its really wonderful experience for me. Apart from academic curricular activities, students can focus them in college or department through technical and non technical activities of FOCUS. FOCUS aims at recognizing the true Engineers and tapping their intellect to the maximum. Also FOCUS providing means to the students, to aspire and achieve, more than what their curriculum requires. Students learn how to make team and work in team along with art of leading their teams and working for the team. It aims at teaching students, the art of leading their teams and working for the team. FOCUS provide platform for students to rise above their limits and explore the hidden talents. Albert Einstein says, "The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think". This perfectly fit in with objectives of FOCUS. Student‟s undergraduate years are the one where they get opportunities which improve them at every aspect At Focus we understand that Education is more than a collection of courses. Its full value lies not just in what students learn in the classroom but also what students choose to do in the time they are on campus. FOCUS has provided students a platform to develop their intra-personal skills, like self-confidence, communication skills as well as organization skills. Students plan and organize the activities which provide them with the experience which groom them for the challenges they have to face throughout life. Being part of FOCUS was really a great experience and I am thankful to Prof. Uma Nagaraj, HOD & Chairman FOCUS and Prof S. A. Jain, Vice Chairman FOCUS for giving me this opportunity. Education is unending life long process. It begins when one enters the stage of life until he / she has his exit. Formal education is given by educational institutions. The aims and objective of any educational institution must be to instill in the students genuine human and spiritual values, a genuine concern for the welfare of others and commitment to truth and justice and last but not least academic excellence and all round a\development of one‟s personality to meet situation in life. Best of Luck for your future !

Mr. Mayur Patil

1. Faculty Development Program on Networking and Cyber Security Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Kaitec Solutions Private Limited has organized Faculty Development Program on “Networking and Cyber Security” from 26th June 2016 to 28th June 2016. Network programming and protocol analysis have proven to be easy to learn and use and is adaptable to virtually any domain or challenge problem. Companies like Google, Dropbox, Disney, Industrial Light and Magic, and YouTube are using these techniques within their operations. The program covered extensive hands on experience on implementation of networking and cyber security(IP and Web spoofing, investigating wireless, web attacks and network traffic, analyzing email header, implement packet sniffing tool etc) using C++ and Python. Resource Person: Dr Kailash Patil and Mr Qaid Juhar(Kaitec Solutions Pvt Ltd) Achievement: This program focused on providing the skills and knowledge required to design, implement and analyze the protocols for wired and wireless networks. 13 faculty members have attended the training program

1. Dr Kailas Patil during the training

3. Participants with the Dr Kailas and Mr Qaid

2.Faculty members attending the training

4. Participants receiving certificate from Dr Kailas

2. Student Development Program on Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Kaitec Solutions Private Limited has organized Student Development Program on “Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security” on 4th July , 12th July, 19th July and 26th July 2016 . Students learnt about switching techniques, cyber crime law and violent crime and digital evidences. Extensive practical assignments were conducted along with theory to help students gain hands on experience. Students require the knowledge of these tools to perform the computer forensic related assignments. This knowledge will also be useful from placement point of view. Resource Person: Dr Kailash Patil and Mr Qaid Juhar(Kaitec Solutions Pvt Ltd) Achievement: Through this program students learnt the Open source tools for ethical hacking and Computer Forensic, various real time attacks and solutions.82 TE Computer Engineering students attended the training program.

1. Dr Kailas Patil during the training

2. Mr Qaid during the training

3. Students attending the training

4. Students attending the training

3. Add On Course On Microsoft .NET using C# Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Microsoft IT Academy through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd has organized Add on course on Microsoft .NET using C# from July 2015 to September 2015. The syllabus extensively covered the followed topics - .NET framework and architecture, C# programming features, C# windows forms, SQL server, ADO.NET, exception handling, parallel programming and WPF programming. The duration of training was 60 hrs and the whole training was conducted by Microsoft certified trainer. Along with training Microsoft has also offered the students to download licensed copy of all Microsoft products through their registration id & password. This add on course has greatly enriched the student‟s technical knowledge and problem solving and logical thinking skills will be of great benefit for the students during company placement. Resource Person: Mr. Suresh Pal, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd Achievement: Students extensively learnt Microsoft .NET using C#. 82 TE Computer Engineering students have attended the training.

1. Mr Suresh Pal during the training

2. Mr Suresh Pal and students during the training

3. Mr Suresh Pal and students during the training

4. Students working in groups for mini project implementation.

4. Microsoft .NET Mini Project Competition Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Microsoft IT Academy through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd has organized Add on course on Microsoft .NET using C# from July 2015 to September 2015. A total of 82 students have undergone the training. To help students leverage .NET training knowledge towards practical purposes the students were divided into 18 groups. Each group came up with a mini project idea to be implemented using .NET. On 26th September 2015, students displayed their projects in front of industry experts. The projects were evaluated on the basis of – idea, design, coding, testing and question and answers. The first three prizes were won by Online Examination, Campus Recruitment System and Cool Cab Services. Resource Person/Judges: Mr. Suresh Pal, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd, Mr Steven Mankina, Clay System Pvt Ltd, Mr Mahesh Pavaskar, GS Labs, Mr Nishanth Sharma, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd. Achievement: Clay Systems and Services has offered internship opportunity to the first prize winner team members.They have interned with Clay Systems and Sevices to create real time Hotel “Swaraj” Management System using ADO.NET and SQL Server.

1.Mr Sharma examining the student’s projects

2.Mr Mankina examining the student’s project

3. Winners at the first position

4. Winners at the second position

5. Add On Course on Logic Design Using C Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Object Technologies has organized Add on course on Logic Design using C from July 2015 to September 2015. The syllabus extensively covered the followed topics – Introduction to C Programming, C Tokens, I/O, Control Structure, Functions, Arrays, Pointes, Strings, Structure and Union, C Preprocessor, Command Line Argument, File Handling, OOP‟s principles, Stack, Queue and Linked List. The duration of the course was 72 hours. Various On Line Tests were also conducted through this add on course for students to examine the logical reasoning or thinking performance of the students. The knowledge and skills gained by the students will be useful to them during their regular academic courses. Resource Person: Ms Komal, Object Technologies Achievement – Students were extensively trained on concepts of C programming and data structures. 58 SE Computer Engineering students have attended the training.

1.Ms Komal and students during the training

2.Ms Komal and students during the training

3. Students attending the training

4. Ms Komal and students during the training

6. Industrial Technical Training Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Clay Systems and Services has organized training session on “Application of IoT-WSN for Home Automation System” from 19th October 2015 to 5th November 2015. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. The Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit; when IoT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such as smart grids, smart homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Company: Clay Systems and Services,Pune. Achievement - Mr Shitalkumar Jain, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Department, MITAOE has successfully completed training session on “Application of IoT – WSN for Home Automation System” with is active participation and contribution in :    

Discussion on requirement analysis and feasibility study of the concept. Literature survey with different methodology. Preliminary design of Home Automation System(HOS) using IoT-WSN concept. Submission of preliminary report to designer team.

7. Faculty Development Program on Cloud Computing through Microsoft Azure Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Microsoft IT Academy through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd has organized faculty training program on “Cloud Computing through Microsoft Azure” from 8th December 2015 to 12th December 2015. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner hosted datacenters. The FDP covered the following topics introduction to ASP .NET, Fundamentals of cloud computing architecture and implementation, Windows Azure Features and Tools and Programming ASP .NET applications for azure. The FDP has greatly enriched the knowledge and skill set of faculty members. Resource Person: Ravishchandra Gupta, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd Achievement: This program focused on the skills and knowledge required to work on Microsoft Azure‟s set of cloud technologies and services.21 faculty members have attended the training program.

1. HOD Mrs Uma Nagaraj welcoming the trainer Mr Ravishchandra Gupta

2. Mr Ravichandra Gupta addressing the faculty

3. Faculty members undergoing the training

4. Faculty members undergoing the training

8. Guest Lecture on Java Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Inbase Technology Pvt Ltd has organized a guest lecture on core and advanced JAVA on 5th Jan 2016. Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems, later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment. As Java is currently one of the most sought after language in the industry the motto behind conducting this guest lecture was to introduce students to the advantages of programming in Java. Students have shown great interest in learning to program using Java and hence III Cell in association with Inbase Technology Pvt Ltd Solutions have decided to conduct a comprehensive add on course on core java and advanced java for SE students. Resource person: Mr Aatul Palandurkar (Inbase Technology Pvt Ltd) Achievement: The purpose of this guest lecture was to introduce students to the object oriented programming paradigm.134 SE Computer Engineering students have attended the guest lecture.

1. Mr Aatul during the guest lecture

2.Students attending the guest lecture.

3. Students attending the guest lecture

4. Students attending the guest lecture

9. Add on course on Core and Advanced Java(Ongoing) Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Inbase Technology Pvt Ltd has organized an add on course on core and advanced JAVA from Feb 2016 to Sep 2016. The syllabus extensively will cover the followed topics - .Core JAVA, Applets, File handling, Exception handling, Multithreading, Database connectivity, JSP, Servlets, Beans, Hibernate programming. Students have received hands of training on each and every concept. The duration of training is 100 hrs and the whole training is being conducted by Inbase Technology Pvt. Ltd trainer. At the end of the training students would be divided into groups and each group will undertake a mini project idea and work on its design and implementation under the guidance of Inbase Technology Pvt. Ltd trainer for two weeks. This addon on course has greatly enriched the student‟s technical knowledge and problem solving and logical thinking skills will be of great benefit for the students during company placement.

Resource person: Mr Aatul Palandurkar (Inbase Technology Pvt Ltd) Achievement: The course includes the complete coverage of Core Java & Advance JAVA. 36 SE Computer Engineering students are attending the add on course.

1. Mr Aatul Palandurkar during the training

2.Students during the training

3. Students during the training

4. Students during the training

10. Add On Course on Microsoft ASP .NET Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Microsoft IT Academy through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd has organized Add on course on Microsoft ASP .NET from Jan 2016 to March 2016. The syllabus extensively covered the followed topics –Introduction to ASP.NET, HTML,CSS and Java Script, Master Pages, Validation Control, AJAX, State management, Caching, Data controls, ASP .NET Security, Deployment, Web services and WCF Students received hands of training on each and every concept. The duration of training was 60 hrs and the whole training was conducted by Microsoft certified trainer. Along with training the Microsoft has offered the students to download licensed copy of all Microsoft products through their registration id & password. This add on course has greatly enriched the student‟s technical knowledge and problem solving and logical thinking skills will be of great benefit for the students during company placement. Resource Person: Mr. Suresh Pal, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd Achievement: Students extensively learnt concepts of Microsoft ASP .NET. 82 TE Computer Engineering students have attended the training.

1. Mr Suresh Pal during the training

2.Mr Suresh Pal clearing students doubts

3. Akash Gujrati(student) providing add on course feedback.

4.Shantanu Sharma(student) providing add on course feedback.

11. Microsoft Technology Associate Certification Program Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Microsoft IT Academy through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd has organized two Add on courses Microsoft .NET using C# from July 2015 to Sep 2015 and Microsoft ASP .NET from Jan 2016 to March 2016.The .NET Framework is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It provides a controlled programming environment where software can be developed, installed and executed on Windows-based operating systems. Students learnt the concepts of .NET framework along with its advanced features during the following two add on courses – Microsoft C#.NET and Microsoft ASP .NET held during semester I and II. On 5th April, Microsoft Technology Associate Certification (MTA) examination was conducted for the students. Resource Person: Mr. Chetan, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd Achievement: Out of the 73 students registered 64 students (88%) have successfully cleared the examination and are now certified as Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA).

1. Mr Chetan helping out students with registration

2.Students giving the MTA examination

3. Students giving the MTA examination

4. Students giving the MTA examination

12. Add On Course on BigData and MongoDB(Ongoing) Industry Institute Interaction (III) Cell of Department of Computer Engineering in collaboration with Wisdon Sprouts Pvt Ltd has organized Add on course on BigData and MongoDB Training from March 2016 to June 2016. The add on course is covering the following topics – Big data,data analysis, Introduction to Hadoop, HDFS,Mapreduce, Java Walthrough, Hadoop development labs, Apache HIVE, HIVE labs, Apache PIG, PIG labs, SQOOP, SQOOP labs, FLUME, FLUME labs, Hadoop administrator, data visualization, Concepts of NoSQL,MongoDB and CRUD Labs. The duration of this add on course is 60 hours. This add on course has greatly enriched the student‟s technical knowledge and problem solving and logical thinking skills will be of great benefit for the students during company placement. Resource Person: Mr. Jayant Mohite(Wisdom Sprouts Pvt Ltd) Achievement: The course includes the complete coverage of big data, data analysis, HADOOP and MongoDB. 12 TE Computer Engineering students are attending this course.

1. Mr Mohite during the training.

2.Mr Mohite during the training

3. Mr Mohite during the training

4. Students attending the add on course

Memorandum of Understanding III Cell of Computer Engineering Department has the following active MOU‟s through which various technical programs have been organized in the academic year 2015-2016. 1.Microsoft Technologies for Microsoft IT Academy program through ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd 2.Clay System and Services 3.Protus Systems 3.Kaitec Solutions Pvt Ltd 4.Object Technologies Microsoft Technologies for Microsoft IT Academy program through ATS Infotech:     

Add On Course On Microsoft .NET using C# Add On Course on Microsoft ASP .NET Microsoft .NET Mini Project Competition Microsoft Technology Associate Certification Program Faculty Development Program on Cloud Computing through Microsoft Azure

Kaitec Solutions Pvt Ltd:  

Faculty Development Program on Networking and Cyber Security Student Development Program on Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security

Clay System and Services: 

Industrial Technical Training

Object Technologies: 

Add On Course on Logic Design Using C

Activities Conducted by FOCUS 1. Computer Awareness Program Computer has become an essential part of our day today life. Knowledge of computer has become very essential. Computer Education helps to prepare individual to perform at its peak. In schools of rural areas due to lack of facilities students don‟t have the knowledge of computer. The difference in city and rural students is not its brain buts its initial environment, availability of infrastructure and access to different facilities. For such students FOCUS organizes Computer Awareness Program every Semester. This Semester FOCUS has organized Computer Awareness Program for Jilha Parishad School,Kelgaon. This program mainly focuses on awareness about computers and its uses. In this program Computer System was borrowed from college with projector and printer, to provide them actual view of computer and its basic parts.

Volunteers Teaching

Students responding

Asking doubts

Program Ended with Group Photo

2. Fresher’s Welcome The event was organized by the third year students to welcome Second year students of Computer Department. It was started by welcome speech by the anchors. To make the student familiar with the department different types of games as well as competitions. The winners were given gifts. Some dance as well as singing performances were organized for the students. The Second year students introduced themselves and through the introductions and some question answer session Mister and Miss Fresher‟s were chosen and special gifts were given them. Snacks and Refreshment were provided. The celebrations were then preceded by speech of Mrs. Uma Nagaraj, Head Department of Computer Engineering. She introduced student to the different curricular, co curricular and extracurricular activities happen in the department. She motivated them for the maximum performance. The Event was concluded by vote of thanks from the students.

Students Enjoying Games

Students Enjoying Games

Dance Performance at the Event

Mister Fresher Selection

3. Teacher’s Day Celebration India has been celebrating Teacher's Day on 5th September, since 1962. The day commemorates the birthday of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakhrishnan, a philosopher and a teacher par excellence, and his contribution towards Indian education system. Dr Radhakhrishnan believed that "teachers should be the best minds in the country". On this day, we gratefully remember the great educationist, apart from honoring all the teachers that have made our life much more knowledgeable and fulfilled, as serving as our beacons of light.Like every year this year too students organized teacher‟s day. It was started by welcome speech by the anchors. Further cake was cut by the all faculty members. Different games like Audio games, Damsharas, Puzzles, Antaksharee, Tongue twisters etc. were organized and winners were given gifts. Also gifts were given to all the teachers and a collage photo frame for the department. Meanwhile snacks and refreshments were provided. The celebrations were then preceded by speech of Mrs. Uma Nagaraj, Head Department of Computer Engineering. The Event was concluded by vote of thanks from the students.

Faculties cutting cake

Faculties Enjoying video made by students

Faculties Playing Funny Games

Faculties Playing Funny Games

4. Mini Project Competition This academic year FOCUS has organized the technical event “Mini Project Competition” for T.E. students. The competition was organized for third year students who attended the add on course for Microsoft .NET. The competition held for 18 groups. The aim was to encourage the students to apply the knowledge they have gained during the add on coarse as well as to encourage their creativity The 82 students who attended the add on coarse formed 18 groups and implemented a project in Microsoft .NET. The projects were evaluated by industry experts. Mr. Steven Manika from Clay Systems and Services, Mr. Mahesh Pawaskar from GS Labs, Mr. Nishant Sharma and Mr. Suresh Pal from ATS Infotech evaluated the projects.The project In the first round the 18 groups were evaluated by judges. Out of which 06 groups cleared 1st round and again they were evaluated by 4 judges. Finally 3 groups hold rank. Winners are rewarded by Cash Money Prize. For the first prize winners Clay Systems and Services offered internship opportunity.

Judges evaluating the student projects

Judges evaluating the student projects

Prize distribution

Students Sharing their experience

5. Programming Contest Every semester FOCUS organizes the technical event “Programming Contest” for S.E. & T.E. Students. This contest is a platform for students to prepare them to become smart professional.It encourages the spirit of competitiveness and accelerate learning through co-curriculer activity within the student community. It gives them opportunity to test their programming knowledge This Contest comprise of a test for each practical subject as per the University Syllabus.The Students those who scored good marks were rewarded by Cash Money Prize. This semester the test was conducted successfully for S.E. & T.E. with great satisfaction. Conduction of the contest was strictly similar to the University practical exam. The performance of the individual is evaluated by the allotted judge for the contest. Respective subject teacher evaluated 3 students from each batch in a single division and out of these final 3 winners are selected from the respective divisions.

Second Year student giving test for DSPS

Second Year student giving test for OSA

Third Year student giving test for PL I

Third Year student giving test for PL I

6. Paper presentation I Every semester FOCUS organizes the technical event “project based paper presentation” for B.E. Students. The paper presentation aims to provide a platform to express their innovative project ideas. The paper presentations were based on their final year project literature survey. The paper presentation facilitates students to present their work at very early stage of project and get valuable guidelines for it. There were four tracks ongoing simultaneously based on the research area. The 48 groups were distributed among 4 groups according to the four research areas ( Networking, Databases Management System and Applications, Machine Learning and Intelligence and Systems ). Four resource persons along with four respective internal examiners had evaluated the presentations. Two Prizes each for papers of each research area were given.The event was conducted successfully with great satisfaction.

Students presenting paper

Judges evaluating the paper presentation

Judges observing the presentation

Prize distribution

7. Visit to Anandgram On the eve of New Year, FOCUS took the initiative to help those old people who are deprived of basic amenities of life and are affected with the disease “Leprosy”. With Financial help the aim was to spend quality time with them. Many students as well as faculty members showed active participation in this social cause. The bus reached the place at 1 p.m. There were 25 old people living in that old age home-“ANANDGRAM”, along with the staff of the organization. Since the numbers of visitors were more, the students were divided into 3 batches for their convenience. 7-8 students had a personal interaction with each one of them. After that, everyone gathered together, and played some games . In accordance with their requirements, like LED bulbs, food, sweets were donated to them, from the collected money. They shared their life experiences as well. Everyone realized that we should never sideline our elders as they are the one who shapes our personality. Everyone left at around 4, with a happy note.

Students interacting with Old people

sharing experiences with students

Sweet distribution

Students with Anandgram ladies

8. Technodium As per the tradition of MIT Academy of Engineering, every academic year Department of Computer Engineering organizes inter college technical fest „Technodium‟. Technodium aims to provide a platform to showcase talent for the aspirant from different colleges. It helps them to achieve more than their curriculum requires. For the Academic year 2015-16 the „Technodium ‟16‟ was organized with same enthusiasm and determination. IT comprised of many technical events which will give students an exposure to the competitive world and emerging trends in IT World. This year, this well known mega event had total nine events planned and organized at its best of quality. The interest and need of computer engineering undergraduate students were considered mainly. Blind coding, Fixit, techohunt, google quiz and general knowledge quiz were organized in technical section. In nontechnical section the events held were LAN games (counter strike, NFS and FIFA), Carrom, Chess and Live counter. The winners were encouraged with a cash prizes and certificates for all the event. Department feels proud to organize such a successful event.

Inaugural Ceremony of Technodium

Fix it –Debugging Contest

Gaming Competition

Prize Distribution

9. Programming Contest II Every semester FOCUS organizes the technical event “Programming Contest” for S.E. & T.E. Students. This contest is a platform for students to prepare them to become smart professional.It encourages the spirit of competitiveness and accelerates learning through co-curriculer activity within the student community. It gives them opportunity to test their programming knowledge This Contest comprise of a test for each practical subject as per the University Syllabus.The Students those who scored good marks were rewarded by Cash Money Prize. This semester the test was conducted successfully for S.E. & T.E. with great satisfaction. Conduction of the contest was strictly similar to the University practical exam. The performance of the individual is evaluated by the allotted judge for the contest. Respective subject teacher evaluated 3 students from each batch in a single division and out of these final 3 winners are selected from the respective divisions.

Second Year student giving test for OOMPL

Second Year student giving test for MIT

Third Year student giving test for PL III

Second Year student giving test for OOMPL

10. Paper Presentation II Every semester FOCUS organizes the technical event “project based paper presentation” for B.E. Students. The paper presentation aims to provide a platform to express their innovative project ideas. The paper presentations were based on their final year project implementation and result and analysis. The paper presentation facilitates students to present their work in front of industry experts and get valuable guidelines for it. There were four tracks ongoing simultaneously based on the research area. The 48 groups were distributed among 4 groups according to the four research areas ( Networking, Databases Management System and Applications, Machine Learning and Intelligence and Systems ). Four resource persons along with four respective internal examiners had evaluated the presentations. Two Prizes each for papers of each research area were given. The event was conducted successfully with great satisfaction.

Student groups presenting paper

Judges evaluating student papers

Students answering questions

Prize distribution

11. Focus Annual Day & BE Farewell Every academic year FOCUS organizes FOCUS Annual day. As per the FOCUS tradition the same day Farewell to BE students is also organized. The event was organized by third year students to say adieu to final year students at College lawns. The event started by welcoming the final year students to the venue. The third year students made the environment cheerful by arranging funny games and quizzes for the final year students. The funny nominations were such that it involved each and every BE students. The movie showing the memories of BE students made them emotional. After that the most prestigious awards of the department i.e. Best outgoing student were distributed to five students based on their academic, co curricular and extracurricular achievement and contribution towards department. Students shared their memories which made them cry as well as laugh. Head of the department Prof. Uma Nagaraj guided them about the future challenges in outside world. Prof. S. A. Jain, Vice chairman FOCUS, make them aware them of the responsibilities by referring them Future Ambassadors‟ of MITAOE. Students thoroughly enjoyed the function.

Students sharing their memories

Student Enjoying the games

Dance Performance by students

BE students at the Annual day & Farewell

III Cell – Student’s Feedback

Dilip Rathod

Jaykumar

Akash Gujrathi

Nikhil Ingale

Studying .NET in details with extra preparation was a really refreshing experience for someone like me who is enthusiastic about the newer technology and very curious too. Though the technology was novel for me, the trainers and professors were very helping and instrumental when we talk about practicality. They made it easy to understand and it helped a lot. Our Head of Department too played a major role, bringing this course to reality. I pay my special thanks to Mr. SA Jain Sir without whom all this was impossible. All in all, this course added some serious weight to my skill set. Now I feel confident to be able to handle all the newer technologies with same efficiency after this course. It is a privilege to have III cell in our college that initiates and manages various Add-on courses and hands on workshops which benefits the students with additional knowledge. I have attended Microsoft .NET course and workshop based on Ethical hacking which were organized by III cell. Microsoft .NET is a technology which is currently very popular with a high demand in the market. The Microsoft certification is one of the few ways to grab attention onto your resume. Ethical hacking based workshop helped me learn about hacking concepts with practical implementation of the same. I am grateful to the III cell of our college for giving me enormous opportunities to develop my technical skills along with the confidence to present the same. I am thankful to III cell of our college for providing us different courses and workshops out of which one of the course was Microsoft .NET providing me knowledge about software development and chance for working on industrial project myself and also encouraging me for taking successful steps for being software developer in future. The workshop on ethical hacking and application gave me deep knowledge about wireless technology and internet security. Please accept my deepest thanks for providing such a knowledge and exposure of different subjects. Thank you III cell of our college. I am very much satisfied and thankful to the III cell of our college for conducting such sessions which gives us exposure to more technical things. By attending the Microsoft .Net course & workshops based on ethical hacking we got the chance to present ourselves at technical level. Being the winners of project competition conducted by III cell, me and my team members got golden opportunity to do internship. Total 12 students from our batch got this opportunity. I personally feel that such workshops should be conducted in future also because this has increased my confidence a lot, as I got chance to do real life project in 5th semester only.

Athira Panicker

Surabhi Panicker

Lots of load was taken off my shoulders by various workshops that were conducted over the three years in Computer Engineering. The workshop for „Basic Programming Concepts of OOPS and Data Structure‟ helped me to have a basic understanding and a clear view about programming, which later on proved to be very helpful for my practical as well as theory subjects. We were introduced to a Linux Operating System Platform by a workshop on „Operating System & Administration using Linux Programming ‟.Another four days SDT gave us an introduction about java programming as well as android. Because of the workshop on „Ethical Hacking‟, we are now able to take a more proactive approach A workshop on „LaTeX‟ was very helpful while preparing reports for our seminars and projects. Due the add-on course on „Mircosoft .NET‟,we are now able to create dynamic web applications, designand develop user interfaces (UIs), create ASP .NET Pages, create and test prototypes, and so on. Aswe had Microsoft certification for „Microsoft.Net‟, we had an advantage over other candidates on the placement drives that were conducted. The key to all this, of course, is our HOD ma‟am, Mrs. Uma Nagraj and all the faculty members of Computer Department. We were able to make the most out of these workshop and events, because of all the efforts made by the faculty members who provided direction to our knowledge and shape to our future. The past 3 years at MIT AOE Computer Department have been full of learning and self-improvement for me. As a student with very less prior knowledge about this field, the various workshops and guest lecturers organized by the department in each semester proved to be very helpful to learn the subjects and understand the different concepts. During semester 3 & 4workshops such as OOPS Programming & Advanced Data Structure Concepts organized for 5 days, Student development program on LaTeX and Operating System & Administration using Linux Programming for 2 days, Core Java workshop held for 6 days helped the me to understand these concepts and clear all my doubts and perform well in the lab sessions. The Ethical Hacking and Computer Forensics workshop organized by Kaitec Solutions Pvt. Ltd. was useful for me to understand the different networking, data communication domain and cyber forensics concepts in detail during Semester 5 & 6. All these interesting sessions and the classroom teachings were conducted with the contribution of the faculty and our HOD Mrs. Uma Nagraj. Today when I‟m in the final semester of my academics I‟m grateful to my professors and HOD for their immense support and encouragement which has made me achieve laurels throughout my academics and which would always help me achieve furthermore in my future endeavors. I would always look up to them for their precious advice and would always be indebted to their teachings that has made me a better student ,more confident and successful in my engineering life.

FOCUS – Student’s Feedback

Pushkar Aswale

Abhay Billapatte

I was selected as President of Focus through subsequent elections, being a part of Focus has helped me a lot in grooming my technical as well as management skills, this year our team was able to organize many successful events. We received a huge response for the mega event "Technodium" of Computer Department. The Success of every successful event goes to team work and synchronization between everyone in Department. I want to thank our respected HOD Prof.Uma Nagaraj and respected Prof. Jain for giving me a chance to be President of Focus in Computer Department, I also want to thank all respected supporting teachers and other staff members who have a great contribution towards Focus, and last but not the least I want to thank all my Core Committee Team members of Focus who had worked hard and contributed towards each event. It was great and proud being a part of Focus. Lastly, a message for my juniors, Difficulties in our life don't come to destroy us but, they come to show us the hidden potential within u.

“FOCUS” provides a great platform for students to showcase their Technical & Non-technical skills on a large scale. I‟m really fortunate that i got a chance to lead my team as a VP, while working as a team whenever we faced problems there were n number of ideas i.e. solutions from every single member which led us to a perfect solution. Working in FOCUS also taught me that at 11th hour how to use whatever we have and get the job done. Few of the activities conducted under FOCUS such as Fresher‟s, Farwell party, TECHNODIUM,CAP etc. gave me a chance to interact with my seniors as well as juniors which indeed was a joyful experience. Visiting an old-age home on the eve of "New Year" was the best experience so far, in which we tried to enlighten there life with love ,care & joy. After the end of every event those captions (photos) with my team were awesome. No matter what problems we faced, but after the conclusion of every event those praising words/smiling faces from teachers gave me a lot of satisfaction .It was really amazing working with such an enthusiastic team, after all FOCUS is all about "TEAMWORK"!!!

Komal Singh

We all need various opportunities in our life to grow and understand our potential and FOCUS provided me with many such opportunities. By participating in the various activities that are organized by FOCUS I was able to realize my potential and showcase my talent. The various competitions and workshops demanded us to push our boundaries and think out of the box. I was always a part of all the activities organized by the FOCUS either as a team member in the organizing committee or as a participant and during this process I learned many things. I learned to value teamwork and team spirit and also the importance of each individual in the team. I learned the value of hard work and persistence. FOCUS has been like a family to me and it has nurtured me and always cared for me. The best part of helping organize the activities at FOCUS was the after parties which involved one glass of cold drink and a plate of samosa, nothing lavish i know but after a full day of work this seemed like heaven to me and without the photo shoots no event was successfully concluded. It feels been amazing to be a part of something, to be a part of FOCUS.

Shantanu Sharma

How would one feel if there are only studies and no fun work around? Dull, obviously. But things are different if you are a part of the FOCUS Committee. This year, FOCUS organized a lot of events, some small and some big ones, and I was luckily part of all of them, either as a volunteer, co-ordinator or as a participant. The work I did as a part of the FOCUS Committee, taught me a lot of things, like team work, working under pressure, meeting deadlines, to name a few. There was always tension in the air, while we prepared for the events, but we had each other. Yes, the members of the FOCUS committee are like a family, helping each other at every point, and with the guiding faculty so much supportive and encouraging by our sides, we never had to fear about failures, and there was always success at the end! The events helped me to improve a lot on individual level, and I overcame a lot of barriers, that I had in mind earlier. It helped me develop a lot as a working individual and as a student. Also, the little food parties and clicking pictures at the end of events was always amazing, and we will always carry these jolly times as good memories. Its work combined with fun in FOCUS, and I am happy to have served as a part of this family!

Vivek Gurav

Sonia Bagga

Being in FOCUS was the best part of this academic year for me. Working in groups is what i am fond of and here i got this opportunity to work with such a wonderful team. Let it be any event by FOCUS my work here was coordinating the decoration team and yes we did our best in decorating the Fresher‟s party hall , the teachers day celebration and during Technodium'16.Planning for the events , those frequent meetings and discussions regarding events were best part of everything .The social outlook of FOCUS makes me feel proud that I am a part of it .Along with all these events the Computer Awareness Program in Government School was best experience for me and the visit to the Leprosy Rehabilitation Center was the turning point of my life .It‟s a place where you can groom yourselves , have wonderful experiences and life changing lessons and if nothing at least meet extraordinary people .

Organizing events, team work, leadership qualities and discipline are some of the things out of the engineering textbooks but focus makes sure we excel in these strata as well. Organizing events is not as easy as it sounds; organizing requires proper coordination among the members, synchronization among the activities and so on. At focus it is made sure that everything works in the smoothest possible manner. This smooth working is because of the great efforts and dedication the members put in, the right distribution of responsibility and a good leadership. Right from the registrations to the prize distribution, everything is conducted in a proper and efficient manner. Moreover, being a part of focus always gives in a sense of satisfaction and teaches a lot of things with every passing day.