Sardar Patel Institute of Technology

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) is a research and engineering institute affiliated to Mumbai University. The Institute is reputed for excellent training in programs in engineering and technology at the certificate, degree, post-graduate and doctoral levels, as well as numerous well-regarded research works. Application for Autonomy is in process with Maharashtra State.

Institute Brochure :- http://www.spit.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AdmissionBrochure.pdf

Location

The institute is located in 47 acres of green campus at Munshi Nagar, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Campus, Andheri (West), Mumbai. The campus also houses three Bhavan’s Institutions of great repute namely Sardar Patel College of Engineering – Government aided Autonomous Engineering college, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, a management institute and Bhavan’s College (the Arts, Commerce and Science college).

History

In 1957, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan conceived the idea of establishing an engineering college in Mumbai. The Engineering Personnel Committee of the Planning Commission had made certain recommendations for the establishment of new engineering colleges and polytechnics, in order to increase the technical manpower in the country. The proposal of the Bhavan to start an engineering college was favorably received by both the Central and State Governments.

It was on 19 August 1962 that there was a huge gathering at the Bhavan’s Campus in Andheri. There was a mood of joy and festivity as thousands of students, parents and distinguished men and women from all walks of life came to take part in and witness an important and memorable function i.e. the inauguration of Sardar Patel College of Engineering by first and then Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kulpati Dr. K.M. Munshi, the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan trust. In 1995 Self Financed Engineering Course were added to it and it has been conducting Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology Courses from 1995-1996. These courses have earned a great reputation in the field of engineering education, as well as industry. The University of Mumbai desired that these self-financed courses be separated and housed in a separate building and developed as a separate self-financed entity. Thus Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Unaided Wing from year 2005-2006 is established in its new building under the name and style of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology and is affiliated to Mumbai University. The institute has a strong alumni base of 4000+ members.^[1] The institute celebrated 20 years of its contribution in the year 2015.

Vision

To build a renowned institute which will produce world class graduate engineers with social sensitivity.

Building of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Courses

Graduate Courses

• B. E. (Computer Engineering)
• B. E. (Electronics Engineering)
• B. E. (Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering)
• B. E. (Information Technology)

Postgraduate Courses

• M. E. (Computer Engineering)
• M. E. (Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering)
• M. C. A (Master Of Computer Applications)

Research / PhD

• Ph.D (Computer Engineering)
• Ph.D (Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering)
• Ph.D (Master of Computer Applications)

Faculty

It has the best teaching staff having experience in both academic as well as industry. Most of the faculties at the institute have more than 15 years of experience. 10 faculty members are Ph.Ds and other 20 are pursuing Ph.Ds.

Placements and Internships

The college attracts a good quality recruiters ranging from Fortune 500 to startups and from core technical to leading banks. The highest package offered is 18.5 l.p.a by Morgan Stanley(location Mumbai) for the batch 2015-2016. The average package is around 6.3 l.p.a for the batch 2015-16. Around 159 students received dream placements.^[2]

Sponsored Projects

Industries and government organizations are consistently offering projects to students and faculty members. Few of the projects are -

• W.A.T.E.R - Water Analysis Testing and Estimation Remotely, funded by Texas instruments, 2015
• TeCHart - An Electronic Writing Board, funded by DST, 2014
• Learning Management System(LMS) for Organization, 2014
• Lunchex.co A consultancy project developed by Computer Engineering 2014 (Under the expert guidance of Dhananjay R.Kalbande)

Student Bodies

The Students' Council is the primary student representative body. The general secretary and the cultural secretary are mainly responsible for the smooth conduct of these activities. They work under the guidance of the Vice President (who is a professor). The sports secretaries of the council also organize various sports events during the academic year.

Each stream has its own student body -

• Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)
• ACE Committee (MCA)
• Electronics Engineering Students Association (ESA)
• Computer Society Of India (CSI)
• Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE)
• Information Technology Students Association (ITSA)
• Forum for Electronics and Telecommunication Students (FETS)

The college also supports entrepreneurship and has an Entrepreneurship-Cell(E-CELL) affiliated to National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN)

Informal Clubs & Associations

• Shutterworks

Shutterworks is an informal club that aims to promote the photography culture in the college. The basic idea behind this is to get a group of photography fanatics together, who exchange their knowledge about photography and enhance their skills.

• Speakers' Club

It helps students improve their communication skills through a range of activities based on public speaking, group discussion, interviews, vocabulary and grammar games.

• Sardar Patel Quiz Club (SPQC)

SPQC organizes quizzes focusing on sharpening thinking abilities of students in humorous and entertaining ways.

• The Debate Society

It has helped the students win national level debates and now stands firmly established as a club to encourage the debating culture.

• The Book Brigade

The Brigade functions as a dynamic library and encourages direct interaction between book-lovers who can get their books directly from contributors.

• Star Gazers' Club

It is a novel initiative aimed at educating its members in Astronomy and has also launched an astronomy magazine called “Anant”.

College Magazine and Online Newsletter - SPark

SPIT has its own annual college magazine and Online Newsletter named 'SPark' - What Ignites SP. It includes reports on the activities that have taken place in SPIT throughout the year, as well as articles and photographs. It was founded in 2013 by Soham Kanade.

College Festivals

SPIT hosts SPACE jointly with SPCE , which takes place in February every year. It is a 3-day professionally organized college festival and stands as one of the best college festivals hosted by an engineering college. It serves as an ideal platform for students all over the city to display their skills and talent through wide range of literary, fine art, performing arts and technical competitions. Udaan is the annual Cultural Festival Matrix is a 2-day Technical Festival of college with events like Laser Tag, Virtual Stock Market, Robotics, Hackathon, Fun Encrypted, Land Mafia and much more.

For more details, visit http://www.spacethefest.org

Robocon

The institute has a passionate robotics culture. The robotics team of the institute has been doing exceedingly well consistently over the past years. Robocon, a portmanteau for Robotic Contest, is an intellectual exercise for engineers determined to innovate and create machines for completing various tasks.

National Level Ranking:-

CodeChef

The institute conducts various coding competitions in association with CodeChef. The students are actively involved on CodeChef to solve various coding questions. For more details, visit https://www.codechef.com/campus_chapter/CODE_SPIT .

Drama Team

The drama team of S.P.I.T won the second prize at the national level street play competition at Vista'14 - the management summit of IIM Bangalore.

CIMA India Global Business Challenge

The team Maverick Minds from the institute has won the CIMA 2015 Global Business Challenge finale.

Facilities and Infrastructure

• Air-conditioned classrooms equipped with projectors
• Separate hostel for boys and girls (only for outstation candidates)
• Central Library along with Departmental Library
• Indoor and Outdoor sports facility
• Multiple seminar halls
• Yoga Center
• Institute of Holistic Health Science
• Amphi theater
• Bank and ATM
• Mess and Cafeteria

Scholarship / Freeship

Most of the students avail the facility of freeship or scholarship provided by various organisations such as :-

• 100% of tuition fees is paid by Maharashtra Government for ST/SC/DT/NT/VJ/SBC students. For more details, visit https://mahaeschol.maharashtra.gov.in
• 50% of tuition fees is paid by Maharashtra Government for OBC students. For more details, visit https://mahaeschol.maharashtra.gov.in
• Merit-cum-means (family income less than 8.l.p.a) scholarship up to Rs. 50000/- provided by Naroatam Sekhsaria Foundation for UG students (F.E, S.E., T.E and B.E). For more details, visit http://engg.nsfoundation.co.in/Home/Scholarships.
• Scholarship provided by Naroatam Sekhsaria Foundation for PG students in Indian and foreign universities. For more details, visit http://pg.nsfoundation.co.in/Home/Scholarship
• Scholarship for minority students (Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi and Jain) and Economic backward class provided by Government of Maharashtra. For more details, visit http://mdd.maharashtra.gov.in/, http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/ , http://momascholarship.gov.in/ , http://dte.org.in/

All this are subject to proper documents and term and conditions applicable in that year.

MoUs and Tie ups

• IT MNC: The institute is recognized as Center of Excellence (CoE) by the IBM Academic Initiative. The institute has also signed MOU with IBM, Wipro, and has a continuing association with TCS. The institute is also one of the few Nvidia GPU Research Centers in India.
• Electronics and Telecom MNC: The institute has signed an MOU with Texas Instruments for setting up a lab and an MOU with Sony Ericsson for training telecom students
• The institute has signed an MOU with Gadhia Solar Systems for an R&D project on solar energy
• Host lectures by UK universities under the British Council mission 2015
• Center for Research in Neuromorphic Engineering (CRINE)

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology started CRINE with the mission of driving innovation through learning from neurons. The objective of this center is to promote research in neuromorphic engineering, to promote collaboration between colleges and disciplines and to enhance industry institute interaction. The institute has also signed MOU with Eduvance and the center is supported by Cypress Semiconductors University Alliance Program. First time faculty and students from different departments of VJTI (Matunga), SPIT (Andheri) and Fr.CRCE (Bandra) started working together in multidisciplinary area.

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (VNIT) for collaborative efforts on the following: