Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology
Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology also known as VESIT or V.E.S. Institute of Technology, established in 1984, is an engineering college affiliated with the University of Mumbai. It is one of the finest and reputed college in Maharashtra.
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| Motto | Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached |
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| Type | College |
| Established | 1984 |
| Chairman | Shri. R. J. Keswani |
| Principal | Dr.(Mrs.) J. M. Nair |
Academic staff | 180 |
| Undergraduates | 3,600 (approx) |
| Postgraduates | 500 (approx) |
| Acronym | VESIT |
| Affiliations | University of Mumbai |
| Website | ves.ac.in |
Campus
The campus is located in Harshu Advani Memorial Complex, Chembur-east, Mumbai-400074, a northeastern suburb of Mumbai, and stretches over a few acres of land. VESIT moved to the present campus from its old one (also in Chembur) in December 2010.
The engineering college (VESIT) shares its campus with the college of Pharmacy and the college for Management and Research. The campus comprises one C-shaped building for the engineering college and several other buildings for the other colleges, hostels, etc. VESIT has a multi storey building, wherein each floor is allotted to each of the five departments, and the ground floor comprises the administrative office, principal's office, examination department, canteen, etc. VESIT also has a library on the first floor and an open section on the second floor.
Student activities
VESIT offers various extra-curricular activities. Students of VESIT are given a chance to show their leadership and teamwork skills through a variety of student bodies, both technical and non-technical. These student bodies regularly conduct events, workshops, seminars and different activities to keep students motivated even outside the classrooms. A number of these bodies have student council which manage the working of the association. A new council is selected every year for all these bodies. VESIT has three annual festivals across various domains, Praxis (Technical), Utsav (Cultural) and Sphurti (Sports). VESIT also has student chapters of IEEE, Computer Society of India, ISTE and ISA and the VESIT Entrepreneurship Cell.
Entrepreneurship
VESIT supports entrepreneurship and students who want to become entrepreneurs. Recently, a new startup has been incubated by VESIT named www.notemybook.in which is run by two second year students.
Sports - Sphurti
A football ground (which also doubles up as a cricket ground), a basketball court and a volleyball court are situated within the V.E.S. campus area and it is shared by the various schools under V.E.S.. Additional facilities for high jump and long jump are also available. An annual sports competition is held in this college called as 'Sphurti', where all the student divisions compete in various indoor and outdoor games and competitions. Indoor sports events including carrom, chess, table tennis are held in the odd semester. And, outdoor sports events football, basketball, cricket are held in the even semester. VESIT also participates in various inter college sports festivals.
Technical Festival - Praxis
VESIT annually organises a technical festival called 'Praxis'. Praxis consists of various technically oriented competitions like Robotics, Gamers Arena (LAN Gaming), Dalal Street (Stock Market Simulation), Open Hardware and Open Software competitions and technical paper presentations. It also organizes fun events like the treasure hunt and crystal maze. Praxis-VESIT also publishes a magazine named "Mindspace".
UDAAN
The Cultural Council of VESIT organizes UDAAN, an event for the newly arrived freshers in the College i.e. the 1st Year Students.
UTSAV
VESIT organises a cultural festival every year in Spring, called Utsav. All the classes compete against each other in a wide range of literary and cultural activities to gain points. The class having scored the maximum points by the end is declared winner.
ILLUSION
The biggest cultural festival of VESIT, where students from all the departments unite as a team for various cultural, literary, etc. events.
VDC (VESIT Dance Crew)
VESIT has a crew of the best dancers of the college,Which every year participates in inter-college dance competitions.
VDC (VESIT Drama Club)
VESIT also has a club for the students having interests in drama, theatrical activities. It participates in various inter-college drama competitions both in Hindi and Marathi. In the year 2017, VDC won the first place at Manzar, an intercollegiate cultural festival hosted by ICT, Mumbai.
VPC (VESIT PhotoCircle)
VESIT has a crew of the best photographers, with the sole intention of providing the photographers a unique platform to showcase their talents, the FB page of the photo circle group stands at 3891 likes and counting. A well proclaimed club in VESIT since January 2015. Seizing the opportunity of coordinated colours on the Branch Day of Utsav, it invited everyone to get their class photos clicked while making them hold placards with their class names on them. During Saree and Blazer Day and Traditional Day, it went berserk with their camera ‘snoop’ing over every Vesitian that met their lens. Clicking over 1500 photos on Saree and Blazer day and another 1400 on Traditional Day, they uploaded all of them giving Vesitians display pictures for several months and memories for a lifetime.[1]
Social Responsibility Team (SoRT)
VESIT has its own team involved in social work which is a part of the students' council of the college. SoRT organizes blood donation camps every semester in the college. There is also SoRT Week in the odd semester of the year where items made by the differently abled are sold. Also books, clothes and stationery collection drives are organized which are later distributed to the needy. There are presentations on social issues. Plethora of other events are organized by SoRT every year. Events like Beach Cleaning Drives, Tree Plantation Drive, visits to old age home, orphanages. SoRT has conducted many activities in a village called Chinchpada in the outskirts of Mumbai.
Technology Day
Every year, in mid March, a day is deemed to be Technology Day. On this occasion, a technical project exhibition is organised and the best student project is selected and awarded. This day is commemorated in memory of Late Shri Kishin Mansharamani, one of the founding members of V.E.S. Trust.
Magazine
VESIT publishes annual magazine named "Vishwakarma" which includes articles, poems written by students, academic and co-curricular achievements of the students.
Societies
VESIT has student chapters of the following societies.
- The VESIT Entrepreneurship Cell (tVEC)
- International Society of Automation (ISA-VESIT)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-VESIT)
- Computer Society of India (CSI-VESIT)
- Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE-VESIT)
Achievements
Robotics
VESIT has participated in Robocon, an annual competition held by Doordarshan, India. It is a national competition with colleges from all over India participating for a chance to participate in the Asia Pacific Competition held by ABU. VESIT has participated in Robocon since it has started and has always been successful in reaching the Quarter Finals of this competition. In Robocon 2004, VESIT won the National Competition and got an opportunity to participate in the Asia Pacific Event to be held at Seoul, South Korea.
Other competitions
VESIT has also had a history of its students participating at various competitions like Microsoft's Imagine Cup, IBM's TGMC, Techfest - IIT Bombay, etc.
References
External links
- ves.ac.in, Official Website
