Invision 2019 second edition

INVISION

ENGAUGE Table Of Contents:

1. ENGAUGE
2. ISA Events

-IoT Winter workshop
-Image processing workshop
-3D printer
-App development workshop
-Technical Talks
-Process Instrumentation
-BE & Beyond
-PSoC workshop
-Galactic Exodus
-Data science workshop

Engauge concluded ISA-VESIT's annual symposium 2018-19 of the events. Later a fun game was conducted by Mr. Prithvi Shetty and
on a very high note on 2nd April 2019. “Analysis of Human Perception” Ms. Reshma Sawant, SE Coordinators at ISA-VESIT.
was the chosen theme this year. Honourable chief guest, Dr. Sagar
Karia, M.D. (Psychiatry) and Speaker for the day, Dr. Shorouq e event ended on a high note with a vote of thanks and Mr N
Motwani, M.D. (Psychiatry) graced the occasion and enlightened the Gopalkrishnan presenting the VISION STATEMENT for the academic
students with their pro ciency in the eld of psychiatry. e event, year 2019-2020.e students were then directed towards the
diligently organized in the college auditorium, was attended by the Amphitheatre for refreshments and goodies. Indeed, Engauge marked
students and respected faculty members of VESIT. a new milestone in the history of ISA-VESIT.
Special mention to:
Event commenced with Honourable guests lighting the lamp
and a soulful Saraswati Vandana followed by a brief introduction about Ÿ Mr. Brian Curtis, President, ISA International
the International Society of Automation and functioning of ISA-VESIT Ÿ Dr. Zafar Taqvi, Renowned scientist at NASA
in the academic year 2018-19. Ÿ Mr. Sandeep Rathi, Student Liaison, ISA Maharashtra
Ÿ Industry experts from Black and Veatch Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Nilesh
Our chief guest, Dr. Sagar Karia, M.B.B.S., M.D. (Psychiatry)
and our guest speaker for the day, Dr. Shorouq Motwani, were Kshirsagar and Ms. Aarti igale
felicitated and invited upon stage to share their profound knowledge Special thanks to:
and experiences. Mr. Ninad Lote, Chief Editor at ISA-VESIT, spoke few
words aer annual magazine, ENVISAGE, was unveiled. Ÿ Chief sponsor - Rajguru Electronics
Ÿ Associate sponsor - Anmol Laptop Services
Mr. Kabir Sachdev, CEO Non-Technical, and Mr. Souvik Ÿ And other sponsors namely
Saha, CEO Technical, gave a glimpse of ISA-VESIT's delightful journey
into it's initiatives, highlighting the various apps developed and the n YG-1 Pvt. Ltd.
year-round events and technical workshops conducted. n Hi Technology
Chief guest, Dr. Sagar Karia, Principal, Mrs. J.M. Nair, our faculty n Ahire tools Pvt. Ltd.
advisor, Mrs Jayasree Ramakrishnan distributed prizes to the winners n Walter tools
n Consulting Engineers
n Gizmo Electronics

ISA EVENTS

IoT Winter Workshop Image processing workshop

For an engineer, vacation is the most precious ISA-VESIT conducted a three-day workshop
time to enhance their skills, especially when you learn from 15th to 17th January on IMAGE PROCESSING
about the most emerging industry IoT (Internet of and Digital Object Visualization in order to engage
ings). ISA-VESIT successfully conducted its IoT students in a completely purpose-driven study
Winter Workshop from 19th to 22nd December. Around environment with hands-on experience. e workshop
32 students from all departments got an opportunity to which consisted of 75 students was conducted by
build their understanding of automation under the Mr.Prajwal More and Mr.Abhishek Chandorkar.
guidance of their seniors.
e workshop started with the basics of python
e participants learned the basics of Arduino and went on to brie y explain about Image Arithmetic
UNO and performed various functions on it. is was and Logic and types of color modes used. Concepts of
followed by the teaching of NRF24L01 and its data resholding, Histogram equalization, Edge detection
transmission. Usage of nodes and gateway for automation and Corner detection were also covered. Students were
were also explained. e workshop moved towards the also taught about Image Blurring and Smoothing.
introduction to MySensors and students got hands on Homography was illustrated using OpenCV. Applications
experience on Raspberry Pi followed by the usage and of Image Processing like Image Classi ers to classify data;
application of these sensors. Different types of controllers Haar Cascade Xml le for face, eyes and smile detection
like Open Hab and Domoticz were also discussed in this and Automation of the Google's Offline Game were also
session. explained.

Each day was concluded with a doubt session Each day was concluded with a doubt session
wherein the instructors clari ed all doubts as well as wherein the instructors clari ed all the doubts as well as
shared their ideas related to the domain. outsourced ideas for further implementation. And the
workshop indeed proved to be an enriching one.

3D printer App development Workshop

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is Logically strong but face problems while coding?
worth a thousand pictures.” ISA-VESIT came up with the most interesting workshop
on App Development with minimal use of coding. is
On 14th January 2019, ISA-VESIT proudly workshop was held on 22nd and 23rd of January, 2019 by
inaugurated the 3D Printer- FlashForge Adventurer 3 in Mr. Sujith KC, Secretary at ISA-VESIT.
the presence of our Principal Dr J.M.Nair and other
respected faculties of the Department of Instrumentation. e workshop started with making students
e attendees were given a brief introduction about 3D familiar with online app development platforms. ey
Printing and it was also demonstrated by printing an ISA were taught how to build User Interface and how to send
logo. free SMS with help of SMS-API using 'Way-2-SMS.
Features of 'IFTTT' and how to integrate it with other
e 3D printer has a compact structure with applications were also shown to students. e workshop
150*150*150 mm build size and its lament is made of also covered the important concepts of database
Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene management.
Styrene (ABS). Files can be uploaded and stored in the
printer's ash cloud and polar cloud via the internet. e 2nd session began with the demonstration of
Also, built-in monitor camera can be activated via the creating 'Push Noti cations'. A basic messaging was
internet. created by participants using 'unkable' under the
guidance of instructor. Using 'unkable' one can build
To help the members and faculty understand the their own apps by dragging and dropping their favourite
functioning and usage of 3D printer, ISA-VESIT had components and connecting them together with blocks
conducted a 2 day workshop regarding it on 5th and 6th without any coding. All these process helped the
of February, 2019. is workshop witnessed the participants stimulate their interest in the eld of App
participation from about 120 students and was conducted Development by engaging them in a completely purpose-
by Mr. Souvik Saha and Mr. Sujith KC. is workshop driven study environment.
indeed proved to be a very enriching experience for all
the participants as it broadened the horizon of their
knowledge towards this booming concept of 3D printing.

Technical Talks Process instrumentation

When we establish human connections within the
context of shared experience, we create a community
wherever we go.

ISA-VESIT was honoured to host an eminent ISA-VESIT was honoured to host Mr. Nilesh
personality, Dr Zafar Taqvi to share his exhilarating Kshirsagar and Ms. Aarti igale, who conducted an
experience in a three day interactive session from 7th to interactive session, on Process Instrumentation so as to
9th February, 2019. He has domain expertise in the areas provide valuable insights in the eld of Instrumentation
of Process Instruments and Control, Project Engineering, and Control on the 12thFebruary, 2019.
Simulation and Testing and has also worked for BARC,
NASA and ISS. Mr. Nilesh Kshirsagar and Ms. Aarti igale are
VESIT alumni currently working with Black & Veatch Pvt.
On the rst day, the most emerging topic of the Limited.
decade: Big Data and Forthcoming Analytics, its
tremendous impact on technology and practical Mr. Kshirsagar started the session with a brief
examples in Engineering were explained. Along with Dr. introduction of process instrumentation and explained the
Taqvi, the Vice President of district 14 - Gujarat section need and procedures for different documentations used in
of ISA Mr Jagdish Shukla was invited to address the plants. He provided an in-depth knowledge on how to
student council and Faculty in charge of ISA-VESIT. identify different elements in P&ID and understand the
structure of a complete plant and its control loops.
On the second day, Dr. Taqvi had an interactive Furthermore, he explained how different transmitters and
session on Networking as a tool to expand one's horizons. sensors with various speci cations are used in control
He explained the impact of networking and conducted a loops.
small workshop to test the same and to engage the
participants to interact with each other. Ms. Aarti igale shared her experience of working
in an actual control plant.
On the third day, Dr. Taqvi gave valuable insights
on Measurements for immediate future, its practical is process-oriented session was concluded with a
application and further discussed on the scope for Q&A round wherein both speakers cleared students’
improvements in different elds. Mr. N. Gopalakrishnan doubts as well as shared their ideas related to the domain.
concluded the session by giving a vote of thanks to Dr.
Zafar Taqvi.

The event was indeed a feather in its cap for ISA-
VESIT and also proved to be an enriching experience for
the students of VESIT.

Galactic exodus Data science workshop

"e universe seems neither gentle nor hostile, merely
indifferent.”

ISA-VESIT conducted its rst ebullient Fun Event
of the academic year 2018-19, namely 'Galactic Exodus'
on 1st-2nd of March, 2019 where 16 teams of 4 members
competed against each other for the winning position.

On the very rst day, teams played 'Bluff it', a Without data you are just another person with an
game that combined gambling, strategy, and luck and opinion!
'Cosmic Chase' where each team was required to collect
various gemstones by completing different challenging ISA-VESIT successfully conducted an enriching
tasks. workshop on Data Science with the motive of providing
the students an incentive for domains such as Computer
On the second day, top 10 teams were quali ed Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Business knowledge
for 'Lost in Space' where teams had to traverse through etc along with their applications in the real world. e
different obstacle proned dimensions to reach the galactic instructors Souvik Saha, Kabir Sachdev and Mayuresh
core. e team that stood out with great coordination and Shelar gave around 24 students, comprehensive
smart play was of Anuraj Bhosale, Shubham Darekar, knowledge about Data Science on 12th March 2019
Narayani Patil and Aniket Patil and was thus termed as
the mightiest reigning force. e workshop started with an introduction on
what data science actually is and how it has a huge impact
e response we received from the winners, as on our day to day emerging technology. Further, R
well as participants, was immensely positive. We were programming language was covered along with some
truly amazed to see the participants complete their tasks basics of its IDE, R Studio. Packages such as dslabs, dplyr,
and ultimately turn this event into a huge success. ggplot2, grep were explained and used. Sorting the data
and nding out the minimum and maximum value of
data accompanied by graphical representation and
analysis of data using ggplot2 was demonstrated.

is workshop indeed proved out to be bene cial
for all the participants and gave them valuable insights on
different features of data science.

BE & Beyond PSoC workshop

ISA-VESIT successfully conducted 'BE and
Beyond', an event aimed at presenting an excellent oppor-
tunity to the students to acquire insights on various career
options and, to bridge the gap between the learners and the
experienced seniors. is event was held on the 8th- 9th of
March, 2019 by Chaitanya Kulkarni, Kabir Sachdev, Mihir
Lele and Souvik Saha.

On the rst day, an Interactive Session was con-

ducted where students were briefed about the preparation

strategies and other aspects pertaining to exams like GRE, ISA-VESIT conducted the PSoC workshop where
members got to know about Programmable System on
TOEFL, CAT and GATE. Students were given detailed Chip (PSoC). e workshop was conducted on 26th and 27th
February by Mr. Mihir Lele, President at ISA-VESIT and
insights about placements in core and IT companies. At the Mr. Souvik Saha, CEO tech at ISA-VESIT.

end of the day, an 'Aptitude Test' was conducted that e members were introduced to the types of SoC,
PSoc and HSoC. PSoC Creator 4.2 which is the IDE used to
involved the use of logical and analytical skills. Based on create embedded c programs was introduced and also a
small project was done to get a clear idea on how the
the results, students were given a chance to appear for the microcontroller works. e detailed architecture of
Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 5LP was taught. e concept
M o c k Interview. .. of edge computing was introduced.

On the second day, the shortlisted candidates went is PSoC workshop proved to be a very fruitful
through the 'Mock Interview' process where they were experience as the students got an early hands on experience
given a real feel of placement process and got excellent tips of the boards along with graphical and embedded C
from the seniors as onhow to improve their presentation programming.
and convey their ideas in a constructive way to get recruited
by dream companies.

is workshop indeed proved to be bene cial for all
the students and gave them valuable insights on the various
career options aer graduation.

Editorial Team

Abhishek Chandorkar (Jr. Editor)
Akshara Viju (Jr. Public Relations Officer)

Tanmay Pandit (SE Co-ordinator)
Bhairavi Sawantdesai (SE Co-ordinator)

Sakshi Kulkarni (SE Co-ordinator)