St. Francis Institute of Technology

St. Francis Institute of Technology
Established 1999[1]
Type Engineering College
Students 1476[1]
Undergraduates 1440
Postgraduates 36
Location Mumbai
Campus Urban, 5 acres
Website www.sfitengg.org

St. Francis Institute of Technology (SFIT) in Mumbai, India is an engineering college named after Francis of Assisi, the 12th-century Italian saint. The college is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation, approved by the AICTE and is affiliated to University of Mumbai.

The college is run by the Society of Franciscan brothers, with a special consideration to Roman Catholic students. It offers undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Engineering.[1] It is the first Catholic technical institute in India to acquire Minority Status.

Invocation

Francis of Assisi, the namesake of the college
“

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

 ”

—Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

Courses

Graduate courses

Each department listed below offers courses in their respective disciplines towards a BE degree.

Postgraduate courses

Each department listed below offers courses in their respective disciplines towards a ME degree.

Campus

The SFIT campus is in Borivali, spread over 5 acres (20,000 m2) of land in the western suburbs of Mumbai. The institute has open access library, gymkhana with a table tennis room, carrom room and a chess room. There are facilities for outdoor games like throwball, football and badminton.

Annual extracurricular events

Student chapters

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Formed in 2006. Team members are:

Formed by Ms Joanne Gomes in 2006, the IEEE branch was known as the IEEE Student Activity Center and was at the forefront of quality technical activities in SFIT. Over the years a loss in member numbers reduced the growth of the organization to a crawl. In 2011, under the guidance of Dr T S Rathore, the IEEE was rejuvenated. Mr Savio Saldanha, with help of the Dept of EXTC, was the driving force behind the National Seminar on 'Recent Developments in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing – 2011' (RDCSSP'11). He is credited with the composition and commissioning of the Constitution of the IEEE SFIT Student Branch, a first in SFIT. He was also responsible for re-establishing contact with the IEEE Bombay Section and restructuring the entire IEEE SFIT establishment into its current form. Mr Savio Saldanha commissioned the creation of a website for the ISSB, the first technical society in SFIT to have its own website, developed by Ms Rima D'Sa and Ms Shanu Salunke. Other events include:

Computer Society of India Wing

This was formed in 2004. Team members as of 2014 are:

Activities:

In 2008–09, the SFIT chapter had 92 registrations and hence has been converted to a CSI chapter. CSI SFIT is now 63rd CSI Chapter in the country

Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Formed in 2003–04. Activities:

The IETE SFIT student chapter organized an IIT-B initiated self workshop and spoken tutorial on LINUX, PHP, PYTHON, LATEX and SCILAB software in February 2012. Online tests will be conducted following the spoken tutorials and certificates will be awarded by IIT-Bombay. The software workshop was open to students from all streams and years.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "institute information". DTE. Retrieved 2012-10-11.

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