Vidyavardhini's College Of Engineering & Technology, Vasai Road

विद्यावर्धिनीचे अभियांत्रिकी आणि तंत्रज्ञान महाविद्यालय, वसई रोड

(Approved by AICTE, DTE Maharashtra and Affiliated to University of Mumbai)

Training & Placements

Mr. Prafulla Patil

Placement Manager

Mr. Sanket Patil

Training And Placement Officer

SR. Name Department
1
Ms. Anagha Patil
Information Technology
2
Ms. Ashwini Katkar
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
3
Mr. Mukund Kavekar
Mechanical Engineering
4
Mr. Kamlesh Bachkar
Mechanical Engineering
5
Mr. Vikrant Kothari
Civil Engineering
6
Ms. Kanchan Sarmalkar
Instrumentation Engineering
7
Ms. Sneha Mhatre
Computer Engineering
To gear-up the students for facing the recruitment process successfully, an extensive pre-placement training on aptitude, group discussions, interviews and presentation is offered to the students. The various measures taken in line with this are:
SR. Name of the Event Company Name / Resource Person Date of conduction
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Aptitude Training

  • ❖ Career Launcher (a part of CL Educate Ltd) focuses on diverse segments of learners across multiple age groups. Led by a team of highly qualified professionals, including IIT-IIM alumni, with a passion for excellence in education.

  • ❖ Aptitude Training for students is arranged by Career Launcher team.
Since 2019
2
AMCAT Test

❖ AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Assessment) is India’s largest Employability Assessment and is recognized by over many companies. AMCAT gives candidates detailed feedback of their employability (seven stroke feedback) and helps connect them to over 40,000 entry level jobs every year.

❖ Duration of test – 03 hours
Since 2019
3
Aptitude Test Series

❖ CoCubes is India's leading assessment and hiring platform. They run assessments to measure employability across all domains - from programming to plumbing

❖ CoCubes schedules regular aptitude exams and its assessments for our students allround the year
Since 2017
4
MaTPO Aptitude Idol-2019

❖ Maharashtra Association of TPOs (MaTPO) organized the Online Aptitude Test to improve Employability of students so that these students can get better employability exposure.

❖ MaTPO APTITUDE IDOL-2019 Round I was scheduled on 22nd July, 2019. Total 331 final year students from all branches of VCET participated in the round.
2019-20
5
Refresher Course on Technical interview Preparation.

❖ Refresher courses for enhancing basic programming skills and skills pertaining to the program are organized by the “Training & Placement Cell.” These courses focus on reviewing and updating knowledge and skills required for clearing the aptitude

❖ VCET Faculties conducts refreshers course for students of all the branches
Every Year
6
Aptitude Training by Campus Credentials

❖ Campus Credential is a training institute and has established itself as Forerunner in Competitive Exam training

❖ Students in the Year 2017-18 & 2018-19 received aptitude training from this company.
2017 to 2019
7
Mock Interview

❖ Mock Interview sessions were organized at VCET for helping student getting hands on experience for facing the interviewers face to face and tackle difficult questions.

❖ Every year mock interviews are arranged in odd semesters to train students for interview process.
Every Year
8
IMS

❖ IMS is a training institute for Competitive Exam training.

❖ Students in the Year 2014-15 & 2016-17 received aptitude training from this company.
2014 to 2017
In line with objectiveof helping in placing students in competitively good companies, apropos initiatives are taken to counsel the students with respect to career guidance and higher education. Some of them are:
SR. Event Resource Person
1
Seminar on “Recruitment Process”
Mr. Swapnil Karvir
CEO, S S Dies Works Experience of 10 Years in Product Management and Service Delivery across Banking, Telecom and Manufacturing
Experience – 15 Years
2
Seminar on “Career in Finance Management
Ms. Aishwarya Mohol
Treasury Deputy Manager in Forex at Axis Bank Mumbai
Experience – 10 Years
3
Seminar on AI and Machine Learning
Mr. Hemant Tendolkar
Oracle ERP (Oracle Financials) + Siebel CRM + MDM (UCM - Customer Master). Customer Experience: Social, Mobile, IoT and AI in CRM-CX, Voice Assistants (Alexa, Google) + Chatbots (FB, Twitter, Telegram etc.) for CRM-CX! Specialties: Technical / Integration Architect
4
Seminar on Higher Education
Dr Ben Baliga.
Treasury Deputy Manager in Forex at Axis Bank Mumbai
Experience – 22 Years
5
Seminar on Machine Learning
Mr. Gejo Sreenivasan
Director, Career Launcher, Mumbai. Experience – 20 Years in Education space. Specialties - Test-Prep - Up-Skilling - Product Management - All-things-Quant - eMarketing & SE
6
Seminar on higher studies
Mr. Bhupesh Daheria
EdTech Futurist I Educator I CEO, Aegis School of Data Science, Experience – 24 Years & managing trustee of Aegis Knowledge Trust
7
Shaping Young Minds Programs
Tarapur Management Association
8
Seminar on Career Guidance
Campus Credential is a training institute and has established itself as Forerunner in Competitive Exam training
Gaining from course books, lectures and other investigation material doesn’t get the job done for all encompassing learning. Down to earth and hands-on learning is fundamental for better comprehension of work forms. Industry internships are sorted out to uncover the students for industry condition which upgrades the down to earth comprehension of the ideas. The students are urged to take up internship programs during their semester break. Training and Placement cell give their guidelines, recommendations, scope and contact subtleties of industries. They additionally help the students by interacting with the industry persons, give them recommendation letters and other fundamental backings.

Procedure:

Some of the industries where students regularly go for Internships are:

The entrepreneurship cell of V.C.E.T., known as ‘E-Cell’ is formed with an objective of fostering entrepreneurship skills amongst the students of V.C.E.T.

It is a student-driven and faculty-guided cell striving to channel the competencies of the budding engineers. It started in the year 2015 and now comprises an overwhelming strength of 50 students across various branches of V.C.E.T. Myriad of activities like seminars, talks & prototype building of the ideas are conducted for the students to strengthen their 6 Ps of success comprising of Patience, Persistence, Perspiration, Passion, Perseverance, and Pragmatism.
With a variety of programs E-Cell plays a key role in the development of entrepreneurial skills and giving an opportunity to the deserving. At the same time, it has been invoking a sense of responsibility towards the nation in students by empowering social start-up’s as well.

Objectives
1. To inculcate entrepreneurial mindset amongst our students.
2. To help students validate their ideas.
3. To help students get mentors who can handhold them.
4. To help students to find business ecosystem and funding opportunity. Over the years we have tried to meet our motto by hosting various entrepreneurial events such as the Bizmaster competition, the Esummit and the Internship fair. We also hold various talk sessions with our students wherein speakers and entrepreneurs from various business backgrounds share their experiences and motivate the students to build a business mindset and help them to come forward with their ideas to kick start their entrepreneurial journey.

2021-2022

Entrepreneur Desk:

A platform for VCET’s students & professionals to support, guide and promote their business and startups. Faculty provides proper guidance to the Entrepreneurs of VCET
This year 6 teams presented their startups,promoted it on this platform and shared the motivation,struggle,do’s and don’ts while starting their own startup.

Startups of VCET:

Startups Founder Year
Coding Adda – Aditya Trivedi, SE-IT
Dice Bakes – Lavina Rathod , TE-COMPS
Cafe cineFX – Studios Sahil Patil, TE-IT
The Food Zest – Nidhi Mehta, TE-COMPS
Team Shavy Nutrition –  Hritik Gavankar, BE-EXTC
Sharelelo – Kunal Patwa EXTC, Alumni, 2021 Graduate

Lights Camera Startup:

The E-cell committee organized lights camera startup for VCET’s students. In this session, students got to know about the various steps required in product development. Students got to learn that before developing any product research is needed in that field. The speaker gave us various insights and shared his great knowledge about Product development. He gave a glimpse of all the processes required to start a career in the product development industry. The webinar was an interactive one with lots of Q&A sessions from the audience. The webinar was a great success with splendid interactions. There were total 109 participants.
Speaker :
Mr. Sikandar Manihar, (Technical Director of FOX DOMOTICS PVT LTD.)

Startup Genesis: A kickstart to your start-up journey

Startup Genesis was a two-days long workshop program organized by Team E-CELL 2021-22 for young startups and entrepreneurs. Various experts with years of experience in their fields were invited to speak on a specific topic to guide young Entrepreneurs and Enthusiasts.

Speakers:
Mr.Arjun Panchal (Entrepreneur, Startup mentor)
Mr.Dipankar Verma (Mentor, partner terry exports)
Mr.Neil Sawant (Founder-NUOS Home)
Mr.Brij Parekh (Co-Founder at Brani)
Mr.Charudatta Panda (Director at Groples Solutions)
Mr.Mohsin Sheikh (Professor at ASM group of institutes)
Mr.Abhijit Barje (co-founder SB and company)
Mr.Vishal Kumar (Chartered Accountant,Co-founder & COO, MSMEx)
Mr.Noorian Panjwani (Senior consultant at Xebia, CEO Space Up Technologies)
10. Ms.Trupti Shah (AVR HR & Admin)
Speakers Topic
Arjun Panchal Ideation
Dipankar Verma Company Formation
Neil Sawant Product Development
Brij Parekh Marketing
Charudatta Panda Finance
Mohsin Sheikh Sales and Advertisement
Abhijit Barje Compliances
Vishal Kumar Government Schemes
Noorian Panjwani Competitors
Trupti Shah Import/Export

2020-2021

Bizcharcha 20-21:

Bizcharcha is an series of seminar , where in each episode we call various entrepreneurs from various fields to share their journey, help the students in understanding various aspects of Entrepreneurship.This year the number of registrations were 110.

Speakers:

Mr. Rushi Shenghani (Founder of Earth Energy EV, Mumbai)
Mr. Zubin Damania (Co-Founder at Social Media Bundle, Mumbai)
Speaker: Ms. Neha Agarwal (SEO Pioneer, Mompreneur)

E-Summit 20-21:
In this event various speakers and business personalities are invited for the event to mentor the youth, the ones who are aspiring to become entrepreneurs. The event is organized for exploring the startup ideas and the business nature to the students in the college and also to mentor the students regarding the trends in upcoming technology. This event takes place for two days.
Speakers:
Ms. Ritu Malhotra(Founder of ‘Anuja Center for learning’ ,Life coach, counsellor,Metaphysician)
Mr. Rushikesh Pandit (Fonder of ‘BitPandit’, digital Marketing Trainer & Specialists, Startup Consultant)
Ms. Prachi Tehlan (Actress, Sportsperson, Enterpreneur)
Ms. Pallavi Mukherjee (Founder and CEO of ‘Pop Diaries’)
Mr. Anand Prabhudesai (Co-Founder of ‘Turtlemint’)
Mr. Praful Sharma( First generation entrepreneur in Finance and Renewable Energy)
Mr. Anurag Khurana(Co-Founder & CEO of ‘Newgen Gaming’,Esports Consultant
Ms. Saumya Iyer (Mobile Game Producer at ‘ Gear Inc.’,worked as an Assistant Producer at ‘EA’ and a Game Producer at ‘GSN’)

Internship Fair 20-21:
It is a two-day program where various companies come to college and students get a chance to give an interview in their choice of company. The Internship fair is held for students who require internships and help them to get a kick start to their careers. It helps students to inculcate skills that will be required in the corporate market and help them in the career growth. Internship Fair of the year 2020-21 was a two-day event held on 15th and 16th May 2021. There were in total 13 companies for the event. The registration for the internship fair was about 119 students in total.

Companies Visited :

Kraftpixel
Ryutek Technologies
Autocal
A-Dot Creation
Cerebro Spark
Abner Security
Navyuvak Enterprises
Booklustic
Fashion TV
Modern Innovative
Orena Solutions
Spicetech
Symphony Infotech

Bizmaster 20-21:
It is a business plan competition, students from various fields of interest present their ideas, business models, strategies.This was the fifth year of Bizmaster organized by the E-CELL 2020-21 committee.We had 12 teams participating from all over Mumbai. The committee members worked hard to organize and flourish the event well. This year few participants got an opportunity for funding.This time the judges were from the business background and investor. The Total prize money distributed to students were worth of Rs. 40,000/-

Judges:-
Rushi Shenghani (Founder of Earth Energy EV)
Gaurav Mishra (Founder of Navyuvak Enterprises)
Srijit Mondal (Founder of Pi-Paradox and Booklustic)

2019-2020

E-Summit:

E-Summit is an annual flagship event effectuated with the intention to foster entrepreneurial initiatives and activities in the campus to nurture future technopreneurs. E-Summit spanned for two days with speakers from variety of field of expertise from Business, Marketing, Technology and Content Creation.These speakers help the students to get motivated towards the business aspect of life, understand how it works and showcase their ideas on larger platforms to earn capitals to start their ventures.

Speakers :
Gaurav Mishra (Product Manager at Rebel Foods)
Ravi Poddar(Executive Director,Kyndryl AWS Alliance leader)
Anmol (Food Entrepreneur)
Ankita Chawla (Influencer)
Divya (Owns start up, raised upto 2 lakhs)

Internship Fair 19-20:

The Internship fair is held for students who require internships and help them to get a kick start to their careers. Internships provided to the students selected help them understand the market, the working of the companies at large and get an understanding of the corporate world. It helps them to inculcate skills that will be required in the corporate market and help them in the career growth.Internship Fair was conducted over a span of 2 days with number of companies providing opportunities to student’s of all branches and with over 400+ registrations. The interviews were profusely conducted between students and companies for a span of two days providing student’s with an opportunity to gain experience of interviews and test their knowledge and skills for the industry.

2018-19

E-SUMMIT 19

E-Summit ’19 conducted by E-CELL committee under the guidance of Prof. Chandan Kolvankar was a successful event. This was Plenty of speakers from the business background spoke at length on entrepreneurial skills. All the seminars conducted were very informative. This event takes place for two days.
Speakers for E-Summit’19
Mr. Subhash Talekar(President, Mumbai Dabbawalas Association)
Mr. Gejo Sreenivasan(Mentor)
Mr. Sumer Singh(Content Developer, Youtuber “Last Moment Tuitions”)
Mr. Gopal Rai(Chairman, Dhirendra Group of Companies)
Mr. Gaurav Mishra (Founder, Navayuvak Entrepreneurs)
Mr. Varun Kodolikar (Creative Wedding Photographer, Kodoclicker)
Mr. Abhishek Gharat (Director,Kraftpixel)
Ms. Neha Joshi(Co-founder, Finden Godigital)
Ms. Gayatri Kale(Co-founder, Finden Godigital)
Ms. Remya Narayanankutty(Head South Asia Revival Rugs)

BIZMASTER 19:
Bizmaster’19 a business plan competition, this was the fourth year of Bizmaster organized by the E-CELL 2019-20 committee. This flagship event of our college was conducted with great enthusiasm and passion and We Had 9 teams Participating from all over mumbai.The audience witnessed a great battle among participants from the popular and best colleges across the city. As said by the judges the competition was a fierce one and they had a tough time deciding a winner . The winners were awarded cash prizes with ₹40,000 and given trophies and certificates .Well renowned personage from business industry were judges of the completion.

The panel of respected judges were:
Ms. Remya Narayanankutty (Director South Asia Revival Rugs)
Mr. Gaurav Mishra (Founder, Navayuvak Entrepreneurs)
Mr. Abhishek Gharat (Director,Kraftpixel)

2017 – 2018

Internship Fair 2017-2018

The team of Ecell 2017-18 put forth the idea of organizing the internship fair where students had the platform for getting internships at one stop.
The team prepared the Internship Fair within a short period of time.
Team tried approaching fifty plus number of companies to join the Ecell VCET Internship Fair. There was total seven number of companies who joined the internship fair. Conducted their interview process within the college, they took aptitude test and interviews of the student.
There were two hundred and twenty students who participated in the internship fair and four hundred and fifty form submissions in total were noted by the committee.

The Companies who took part in the Ecell-VCET Internship Fair:

ImpactGuru
VPS Techub
RGM Technologies
Ebzaar
Seth Group Developers
Verdantis
Tech Whizzers

BIZMASTER 2018:

This was the third year of the Bizmaster organised by Ecell-VCET 2017-18 committee.The Bizmaster 2018 saw maximum participation by students. Again the committee members worked hard to flourish the event very well. This time few participants showed up with patents of their business product or idea.This time Judges were from Business background, industry personages and we had one judge from google. The prize money distributed to the winners were worth of Rs. 40,000/-

The judges were:

Mr. Chinmay Gavandkar (Cloud Scale Data & AI,Diversity & Inclusion Advocate)
Mr. Swapnil Karvir (Entrepreneur in Manufacturing & Training Domains)
Mr. Amol Patil (Vice President IT Infrastructure,Cloud IT infrastructure & Digital Transformation Leader)

2016-2017

ESUMMIT EVENT 2017:
The Ecell Committee of Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering & Technology organised Esummit 2017 event under the guidance of Prof. Chandan Kolvanakar. Various speakers and business personalities were invited for the event to mentor the youth, the ones who are aspiring to become entrepreneur. The event was organised for exploring the startup ideas and the business nature to the students in the college and also to mentor the students regarding the trends in upcoming technology.

Speakers :
Mr. Mukesh Jain (CTO,Cheif Innovation Officer & VP Insights & Data at Capgemini India)
Mr. Ishwar Jha (Founder & CEO at appetals)
Mr. Devdatta Mainkar (CA)
Mr. Nishant Patel (founder Raw Engineering)

BIZMASTER 2017:

The Ecell-VCET 2016-17 team organised the second year of Bizmaster event. This time event received much more hype from the students.
There were total 23+ teams who participated in the bout.Again just like last year, the judges included personages from business background and industry professionals. The competition was much tough now. With the proper judging and winning teams were awarded the prize of worth Rs. 40,000/-. The staff members, students and few industry based people were the audience of the event and made the event great success.

The judges were:

Mr. Mehul Khandedia – Vice President, Ediffy

Mr. Swapnil Karvir – Former Senior Manager, Axis Bank

2015-2016

BIZMASTER 2016

This is the year when Entrepreneurship Cell was established in the College along with help of staff members and support from the college management by students.The 2016 Entrepreneurship Cell of Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering & Technology i.e. Ecell-VCET had organised Bizmaster 2016 event.Bizmaster is competitive event, where budding entrepreneurs come up with new business or startup ideas and try to convince that how good their idea is and can survive in this ever trending market. Few industry and business based people were invited in the competition to judge the contestants and mentor them regarding their project. Top three winners were awarded prizes worth Rs. 40,000/- . The audience included staff members, few industry based personages and students and they helped in flourishing the event Bizmaster 2016.

The judges for Bizmaster 2016 were:

Mr. Mehul Khandedia – Vice President, Ediffy
Mr. Swapnil karveer – Former Senior Manager at Axis Bank

Mr. Chandan Kolvankar

Post Faculty
Member
Mr. Vikrant Agaskar
Member
Mrs. Mugdha Salvi
Member
Mrs. Shaista Khanam
Member
Mr. Viren Chandanshive
Member
Mr. Mukund Kavekar
Post Faculty
Co-ordinator
Mr. Chandan Kolvankar
Member
Mr. Vikrant Agaskar
Member
Mrs. Mugdha Salvi
Member
Mrs. Shaista Khanam
Member
Mr. Viren Chandanshive
Member
Mr. Mukund Kavekar