DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

This is an on road track event conducted by SAE  India from 15th July to 20th July, 2019 at Budhh International Circuit,  Greater Noida. Prof. Akash Bidwaik coordinated Mechanical department students as a faculty advisor. The competition is conducted in 2 different ways,  1.Static Event, which has design report,  cost report, business presentation  2.Dynamic events which consists of acceleration test, brake test , skidpad test, autocross, and final event endurance. Scoring is provided for every event. The event has over 130 colleges from all over India , and more than 2500 student participants. Team FALCON Participation Memento

  TEAM FALCON MOTORSPORTS, SAE collegiate club of Vishwaniketan’s iMEET organised a “ 08 DAY INTERNSHIP ON GASOLINE/ ELECTRIC FORMULA RACING CAR DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT” from 24 th to 31 st August.  This event is organised in collaboration with Elite Techno group and coordinated by Prof. Akash Bidwaik .  4 trainers from ET Groups shared their experiences and taught students how to Design, Fabricate and test a Electric as well as Gasoline F5 race car. Both of the race cars were manufactured by the students at our workshop.              The students were divided into 2 groups for manufacturing the vehicles and to conduct a friendly competition between the 2 groups.  The competition was judged between the teams based on different aspects like time consumed to make car, social media response, presentation skills etc.            Overall the event was a very big succes...

Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a motivational talk on “Developing talent, communication and Team building skills" for 2nd year and 3rd year student. Dr. Meha sawant was the speaker of the event who is founder and director of happy minds. She is a social entrepreneur and has completed bachelors & masters in psychology. She works in the field of psychology education and research. Happy Minds is a Social Venture started by 3 women entrepreneurs back in 2013. We are working in the field of Education and Health by applying the concept of Psychology.         Happy minds have been successful in touching lives of 30000 individuals across 5 states and their main areas of work are Career counselling, Employee training programs and Student skills enhancement program. This event was coordinated by prof. Kishor Mane and supported by MESA. Around 100 students benefited from this and also shared their views on the talk after the event.

One day workshop on “ REFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN RESEARCH USING MENDELEY ”        was organized on 19 th September 2018 (Wednesday) by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vishwaniketan’s Institute of Management Entrepreneurship &Engineering Technology (ViMEET), Kumbhivali. The objective of the workshop was to provide smart, latest ways of research and time saving methods for research while referring reputed journals. Prof. S. B. Kadam, Vice Principal & HOD, Mechanical Department was the convener for one day workshop. The event was graced by the presence of Vice President Dr. Sandip S. Inamdar, Principal Dr. B. R. Patil, ViMEET. The one day workshop was conducted by Dr. Chandra Shekhar Malvi (Ph.D. from University of Leeds, UK and Professor, MITS, Gwalior).Total 60 participants from different Institutes of Maharashtra State were present for this One day workshop. One day workshop was conducted at seminar hall for theoretical lea...

Seminar on “Energy Management and Energy Audit” was organized on 04 th September, 2018 by the department of Mechanical Engineering , Vishwaniketan’s Institute of Management Entrepreneurship & Engineering Technology (iMEET). The seminar was sponsored by Petroleum Conservation and Research Association (PCRA) . The objectives of the seminar were as follows: 1.       Procure energy at lowest possible price 2.       Manage energy use at highest energy efficiency 3.       Reusing and recycling energy 4.       Select low investment technology to meet present requirement and environment condition 5.    Make use of wastes generated within the plant as sources of energy and reducing the component of purchased fuels and bills 6.       Careers in energy management and energy audit. Dr. Santosh D. Dalvi (Ph.D., ME, BE in Mechanical Engineering)...

We are happy to announce that , the industry sponsored Mechatol laboratory has been inaugurated on 27th July 2018.            Vishwaniketan Mechatol lab is a joint venture between Vishwaniketan iMEET, Khalapur and Mechatol engineering solution, Pune. The aim of this lab is to provide training to the students so as to give solution to the real-time industry problems. The students will also get an understanding of Geometrical drawing and tolerances ( GD & T) which will help them to understand industry drawings.           32 students from Mechanical Engineering Department are selected of which 25 are of final year and 7 from third year. These students will be working in group on 8 industry projects.

  On 22nd Sept 2017 a three member team from VISHWANIKETAN comprised of Mr Dhananjay Khanzode,Director VIC, Ms Shalini Singh ( TPO ) and Prof Anand Khandekar visited PRICOL Technologies Limited, PUNE office at Bawdhan , Pune.The meeting was attended by Mr Prabhakar Neelkant, Consultant- Technical and Training , their HR personnel and Mr Vivekananda Challa, Practice Manager, Engineering and Design ( via SKYPE ) as representatives from PRICOL Technologies.             Prof Anand Khandekar initially briefed them about VISHWANIKETAN, its philosophy and the entire Project Based Learning Cycle. They were informed about the BUSINESS club and its methods, the SE presentations and the TE group discussions. In addition the entre VAP process and its functioning was explained. This was followed by introducing them with Vishwaniketan’s flagship program, the UG Fellowship.           ...

Department of mechanical engineering arranged an industrial visit to the Gas Turbine Power Station, Uran for B.E. Mechanical students. Total of 75 students visited the plant along with Prof. K.V. Mane and Prof. R. Baghel. Students had a very nice insight about the working of the plant and how exactly the power station runs. Fortunately we got the well experienced trainers out there to make this visit a complete success.