MIT College of Engineering

MIT College of Engineering
MITCOE
Motto To Harness The Knowledge Of Science And Technology For The Welfare Of The Society
Established 2001
Type Private
Affiliation affiliated To PUNE university
Chairman Prof. Dr.Vishwanath D Karad
Principal Prof. Dr. Nagmode
Director Prof. Dr. Mangesh Karad Mangesh T. Karad
Academic staff
 150
Undergraduates 2640
Postgraduates 200
Location Pune, Maharashtra, India
18°31′09″N 73°48′58″E / 18.519113°N 73.8159961°ECoordinates: 18°31′09″N 73°48′58″E / 18.519113°N 73.8159961°E
Campus 15 acres
Sports Football,Cricket,Baseball,Basketball,Volley ball, Hand ball,Table Tennis,Wrestling.[1]
Nickname MITCOE
Website Official website

MIT College of Engineering (MITCOE) is a private self-financed institution affiliated to the University of Pune and located in Kothrud, Pune. It is another benchmark created by MAEER family and Dr. Vishwanath Karad (world peace seat holder in UNESCO and founder of MAEER family). It is ranked 47th among all educational institutes in India and 2nd in Maharashtra among private colleges as per outlook India express survey 2013.

History

MIT College of Engineering was established in 2000 by Vishwanath D. Karad. An ISO 9001:2008 certified institute, MITCOE offers multidisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate programmes in engineering and management.MITCOE has carved a niche for itself in the field of technical education under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Mangesh T. Karad. MITCOE has ISO certificate from American Quality Assessors (AQA) a prestigious body based in Europe & USA and is also accredited by National Board of Accreditation of India.

Campus

During summers

MITCOE Pune's campus is situated on Paud Road in the locality of Kothrud. A humungous ground,a basketball court and other facilities like table tennis and carrom caters to the need of the sports loving MITCOE-ts'. A new auditorium with a capacity for 1000 is the latest addition after the Research and Development Centre inaugurated in 2011. MIT campus also houses World Peace Centre, The UNESCO chair for Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance and other numerous educational institutions under MAEER.[2]

Old building

Cultural and Extra-Curricular Activities

Cultural activities like Dramatics, Literary Arts and Music as well as Sports and other activities are very important in every MITCOE-t's life.MITCOE-t's also have been participating in Firodiya Karandak an inter-collegiate competition where students showcase their talents through plays.[3] MITCOE-ts' regularly participate in linguistic and Marathi play competitions like Purshottam Karandtak.[4] MITCOE remained in the top three ranks of Purshottam karandtak and was the winner of its 2011 edition.[5][6]

Student Clubs

ROBOCON

MITCOE regularly takes part in one of the most famous international robotics event called ROBOCON hosted by MIT in association with Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). The event gets televised on Doordarshan (Prasarbharati) and colleges from 16 different nations send their best robotics teams to take part in this competition.[9] Recently in 2012 a special dedicated lab for Robocon have been added to the MITCOE. In 2013, MIT college of engineering Robocon team bagged 14th rank among 80 engineering colleges including IIT's and NIT's nationwide.[10]

TESLA

The technical event of MITCOE is called TESLA. In a small span of time, this national event has a record 28 events under its belt which are broadly categorized as competitions,workshops and seminars. There are a new breed of events for other specialized branches like virtual stock market and business plans and technical quizzes. It was formerly known as Pinnacle and is scheduled in February each year. Participants from many colleges of India come to take part in this technical event.This event normally scheduled in the last week of February.[11]

Aarohan

The cultural body of MITCOE is called Aarohan. It regularly participates in various dramatic competitions like the Firodiya Karandak, Purushottam Karandak, etc. In the academic year 2011-12 they have won Purushottam karandak and Firodiya karandak successively. This has been a great achievement.

Entrepreneurship Cell(E Cell)

The Entrepreneurship Cell was started by students in association with National Entrepreneurship Network and IITK to inculcate and share advanced skills of emerging entrepreneurs from various fields of life with MITCOE-ts. Topics like marketing, branding, income, revenue and trading etc.

Spandan

Spandan is the most active student media body and is open to articles from all students in the campus. MITCOE-t's can also submit articles in their own preferred languages like Marathi, Hindi or English. It publishes a student newsletter, which is distributed to over 1400 students present on campus. Spandan also associates itself with ART events named ART-BEATand "Creon". These are open events for all colleges to participate with various competitions like Face painting,T-shirt painting,Poster making,Flower and salad decoration, etc. A unique competition of Best from Waste is also organized which tests participants with their innovative and creative ideas. And to summarize the event an exhibition is held in the college campus itself where all the art work done by the participants and college students are displayed for others to see.

Gracia

Gracia is the name of the annual social and cultural gathering of the college.

All college festivals are organized, financially managed and conducted entirely by the students of MITCOE and are sponsored by private enterprise.

Sant Dnyaneshwar Library Hall

Organization

At the institutional level, MITCOE is governed by a Board of Governors with Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad as the Chairman. There are nominee's from MAEER Trust as well as from AICTE and Sate Government. Besides this, few members having specialized knowledge or practical experience in respect of education, engineering or science are also present.

For all academic matters, the Academic Advisory Body is the authority having control and responsibility for the maintenance of standards of education and consists of reputed technologists or industrialists from the field of science and engineering.

The key people in the execution of the Institute's activities are the Principal and Vice Principal, assisted by Heads of the Departments and Student Council. The Administration is managed by the Registrar and Administrative Office.

Departments and centres

MITCOE has the following academics departments:

The following are the multidisciplinary centres in MITCOE:

Programmes

MITCOE offers undergraduate engineering studies(B.E) in five disciplines:

MITCOE also offers postgraduate studies, e.g. ME, MBA etc.

Postgraduate studies are offered in the following areas:

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Every year, MITCOE awards degrees, B.E,M.E and MBA to more than 1,000 students. The undergrads are selected through the Maharashtra-Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET) for the state allocated seats (65%) and through the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) for the all-India seats.

Auditorium

Research and development

Teachers and faculties are involved in various R&D activities like writing research proposals for submission to UOP, DST, AICTE, IBM, DBT, UGC etc., as well as publishing and presenting research papers in National and International Conferences. There are research collaborations and lectures conducted in MITCOE for the benefit of MITCOE-ts' in association with different organizations like MIR Labs,[14]IEEE, UOP , etc.

Rankings

College Rankings
Engineering – India
Outlook India[15] 48
CSR-GHRDC*[16] 73
Private colleges:
Mint[17] 23
* Limited participation

MITCOE is ranked 47th best college in new rankings by Outlook survey 2013[18] was ranked 49th best engineering college by Outlook 2012 survey.[19] It was ranked 73rd in DQ CMR T-School Survey 2012.[20][21] The college also boasts of ranked 2nd best private college in Maharashtra in 2013.[22] The college is ranked 47th best college in new rankings by Outlook survey 2013[23]

Few notable departmental achievements are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mitcoe.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438&Itemid=205
  2. ↑ "UNESCO Chair in Peace, Human Rights and Democracy (106), established in 1998 at Maharashtra Academy of Engineering and Educational Research, (India).". UNESCO Chair.
  3. ↑ "VIIT’s Positive gets top honours". Pune Mirror. February 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Red Bull racing can event: Pune enters national finals". DNA. Aug 22, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Techies take on theatre". Pune Mirror. August 31, 2010.
  6. ↑ Kharade, Pallavi (Sep 19, 2011). "MITCoE’s Serial Killers culls competition in Pune". DNA.
  7. ↑ "MITCOE Robotics Club".
  8. ↑ "SAE India Collegiate Club Listing".
  9. ↑ "ROBOCON website".
  10. ↑ "ROBOCON website".
  11. ↑ "TESLA Website".
  12. ↑ "CMSR website".
  13. ↑ "Signing of MoU between NIC and MIT CEO, Pune". Informatics News Online. 10 March 2010.
  14. ↑ "Lecture Series on Machine Intelligence".
  15. ↑ "Top Engineering Colleges". Outlook India. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  16. ↑ "GHRDC-CSR Engineering Colleges Survey 2013" (PDF). Competition Success Review (Competition Success Review and the Global Human Resources Development Centre): 1–6. July 2013.
  17. ↑ "Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges of 2009" (PDF). Mint. 23 June 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  18. ↑ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?286302
  19. ↑ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?281299
  20. ↑ http://www.coep.org.in/page_assets/shared/DQ_Cover_story.pdf
  21. ↑ http://www.dqindia.com › Top Stories
  22. ↑ http://www.mitcoe.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=183&Itemid=80
  23. ↑ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?286302

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