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VNIT is one of the first six Regional Engineering Colleges established in 1960.
VRCE acquired status of a National Institute of Technology under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 by Department of Secondary & Higher Education on 26 June 2002
The NIT Act passed by the parliament in 2007 declares VNIT as an "Institute of National Importance" for India.
9 UG programmes, 14 PG programmes.
>13,000 graduates so far spread in more than 20 countries.
An autonomous Board of Governors having representatives of the Central Government, State Government, AICTE, UGC, teaching faculty, industrialists and technologists manages the institute.
The Chairman of Board of Governors of VNIT is Shri S. S. Sohoni (former Secretary to the President of India).
Mr. Shashikant Chaudhary (VRCE 83) and Dr. Vijay Bhatkar (VRCE 65) are members of BoG.
Infrastructure
215.26 acres campus with 80235 Sq.Mtr. built-up area.
A new digital library has also started and has access to online journals and technology related websites.
1000 boys capacity hostels are under construction.
Mega-mess having the capacity of 500 students is complete.
Institute area is completely Wi-Fi. Internet provided to hostels using fiber optic cables.
2 connections of 42 MBPS each.
R&D
VLSI Lab
Micro & Nanoelectronics Lab
CAD/CAM lab
Material testing lab
The department of applied physics has developed a 'radiation resistant glass' for atomic reactors( project sponsored by IGCAR).
Students
Total budget ~ Rs. 13 Lakhs
Participation : 3000
3.3 million Hits on the website from 20 different countries.
TEDx Event organized in AXIS 2011.
Exclusive event for students of the NITs.
Attempt to use skills of these students to find out ways for the improvement of the prevailing conditions in our nation.
Budget of Rs. 4.5 Lakhs.
Around 100 delegates from 20 NITs participating.
2 day event comprising two deliberations and a panel discussion.
Confirmed Jury members:1) Mr. S.C Jain, Retired IAS officer, Bhopal2) Dharmendra Jore, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times, Mumbai3) Dr. T. Karunakarn, Director, MGIRI4) Dr. Kulbhushan Kushal, Managing Director, Dayanand Institute of Education Management and Research.5) Mr. Bharat Kumar, Director, Global Indian Foundation
Confirmed Guest Speakers:1) Mr. Sunderam Seturaman, Sr. VP Times Group2) Dr. Achyut Godbole, Managing Director, Softexcel Consultancy Services
Confirmed Sponsors:1) Infocepts2) Minex3) Dainik Bhaskar4) Radiomirchi5) MGIRI6) Vigyan Bharati7) Global Indian Foundation8) SBI9)Thermax
Budget of ~Rs. 13.5 Lakhs
Cult-Nite by Amit Kumar Sumit Kumar (both sons of Kishore Kumar). The revenue generated from the show being donated to Kritadnyata, a hostel run exclusively for financially challenged tribal children.
Performance by Rock Band Fardikot.
Organizers are in talks with Indian Ocean, Euphoria and Pentagram for Aarohi 2012.
Footfall of over 5000.
Main Sponsors:1)Nagpur Times2)Spykar3)Hindustan Petroleum4)Canara bank5)Globus6)Cykology
Renaissance-India is a VNIT Nagpur startup (founded by Ankit Tulsyan, VNIT 2010) .
Only Social festival of the country.
Renaissance attempts to bring student social groups, NGOs and Government agencies on same page for the betterment of Rural India.
Renaissance annual conferences:2010 VNIT Nagpur2011 BITS Pilani
Renaissance is partners with:1)Teach for India2)Goonj3)Rural Marketing Congress4)Indian Student Parliament
Guest Speakers:1)Prof. Madhukar Shukla, XLRI Jamshedpur2)Mr. Anshu Gupta, Ashoka Fellow3)Mr. M.S. Unnikrishnan,MD Thermax (VRCE 1982)
STUDENT CLUBSMore than 15 technical/non-technical clubs present including IEEE Chapter, ACM Chapter, SAE Chapter,E-Cell etc.
Other festivals include Quiz-Fest, Consortium (business fest).STUDENT COUNCIL
Comprises of elected student representatives who play a vital role in various student affairs such as Academics, T&P , Technical Affairs , Alumni Affairs,Sports and Cultural Activities.
VNIT Golden Jubilee Celebration
Alumni Count : >1000
Total Attendance : 1800
Every Batch from 1961-2010 was represented.
Total Budget : >Rs. 37 Lakhs(Half of which came from sponsorships by Alumni)
A core team consisting of 50 members worked 3 months for the meet (also everyone took at least a week off from their work)
Distinguished Alumni Award
Awarded to 7 alumni for the year 2010:
Dr. Ramesh Jain
VRCE 69 (EEE)
Professor at University of California, Irvine
Recipient the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
Mr. M.S. Unnikrishnan
VRCE 82 (MECH)
Managing Director & CEO at Thermax, Pune
Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar
VRCE 65
President ,VIJNANA BHARATI
Architect of the PARAM series of Supercomputers
Awarded Padmashree in the year 2000
Prof. B.S. Murty
VRCE 86 (MME)
Professor in the Dept. of MME, IIT Madras.
Platinum Jubilee Award of Indian Science Congress (2009).
Metallurgist of the Year Award by Ministry of Steel and Mines (2004).
Dr. Dinesh Keskar
VRCE 75 (MECH)
President of Boeing India and VP of Boeing International Trading.
Board member for the U.S.-India Business Council
Member of the board of directors of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading
Mr. Pradeep Kar
VRCE 81
Chairman and managing director of Microland
President of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore chapter
POWER Networking SESSIONS
5 power networking sessions were organized during the meet (Industry specific):1)IT2)Reality & Infrastructure3)Power & Energy4)Manufacturing5)Architecture6)R&D etc.
ALUMNI interaction office
A huge room allotted in the new library building.
Plans to create a post of Alumni Interaction Officer (full time).
A formal Central Alumni Association is also planned.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN ALUMNI AFFAIRS
Student involvement started in 2009. In the same year 1st General Alumni Meet was organized (before this, these meets were restricted to Silver Jubilee Celebration) .
A database(names and branches) of all 12,499 alumni was made and put up on the site. The information was collected from Institute Admission Registers.
50 students were involved in organizing Golden Jubilee (these students stayed in institute throughout winter break for the meet).
Website, Banners, Souvenir, Newsletter for Golden Jubilee were completely designed by students.
Several alumni guest lectures were organized. The speakers include:
1)Mr. Prakash Telang, MD, Tata Motors2)Dr. Ramesh Jain, Prof., Univ. of California,Irvine3)Dr. Dinesh Keskar, President, Boeing India4)Mr. Pankaj Maheshwari,Founder at Net Matrix Solutions, Inc (32nd fastest growing IT services company in America)
Work done so far
Motivating students,alumni.
Institute Support.
Consolidated Database (going on).
Web Portal (Lack of Activity).
A dedicated Office for alumni.
WISH LIST
Appointment of an Alumni Affairs Executive ( preferably an alumni)
Creating an Alumni constitution- Governing Draft.
Formation of an Executive Body(Institute-Alumni combined).
Ensuring presence of official and Active Chapters for alumni Networking across Globe and in major Indian cities(May be we can follow IIM Bangalore system of Anusmaran) .
Implementing sustainability mechanism of Alumni Association by means of Life Membership.
Autor: Himanshu Tambi 6/25/11