Department of Information Technology 

Workshops & Events

Smart City Ideathon

Smart City Ideathon was a national level competiton held at "A P SHAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY", Thane with the vision to help students explore their creative minds focusing on real time problems.This event was presented by Lakshya held on "29th March 2019", in association with Directorate of Technical Education, Indian Society for Technical Education, Thane Smart City, CII Education Excellence Forum and Enroot Mumbai. The initiative not only helped the students learn the skills of working as a team, presenting themselves but also gave them the opportunity to showcase what a "smart city" really meant to them. It was a proud moment for APSIT having amazing response with over "127 teams" from all around the country participating in the events.Students had the option of picking one of any four domains, on which they then went on and brainstormed themselves along with their colleagues. Domains included " Public Health & Security, Education & Employment, Mobility, Environment Conservation".There were a few ideas that really intrigued the judges as well as the crowd that stood out and won them awards.

Hackscript 1.0

Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology had organised first intercollegiate Hackfest named Hackscript1.0 on 16 & 17 March 2019. This Event was open for all Technical Institutes of Mumbai University. 30 + aspiring Teams from different Institutes Participated in this event. Brainstorming Problem Statement was given by ASHNIK Technology Solutions,Mumbai. Teams of APSIT grabbed the First prize & Second Prize was shared between Team of KJ Somaya, Mumbai & Team of Atharava College of Engineering, Mumbai.

Inauguration of IEEE Student Chapter

Another event in the history of APSIT'S Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology was the inauguration of “IEEE APSIT Student Branch”. This inaugural event took place on the 22nd of January 2019, by the hands of Dr.Hussain Mahdi,Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland & also professional speaker and motivator from the Technical society of IEEE. For the first time in APSIT, we had an international speaker to enlighten our students with his experiences and opportunities provided by IEEE for the students and the faculties as well. A huge crowd witnessed this grand occasion.

International Conference on Recent Advances in Communication, Computing & Informatics(ICRACCI)

“International Conference on Recent Advances in Communication, Computing & Informatics” (ICRACCI) was organised by Department of Information Technology of A. P. Shah Institute of Technology, Thane under the umbrella of International Conference on Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering ( ICASTe-2019 ). The broader objective of ICRACCI was to provide a forum for students, faculty, industry and researchers to share their ideas, stimulate creativity, facilitate advance development, motivate and inspire emerging talents on 4th and 5th January 2019 at the APSIT. The purpose of the conference was to bring together researchers from around the world who are interested to disseminate their knowledge and experience for the relevant future research scope. ICRACCI Key note address was given by Prof.Ashwin Ghumaste from IIT Bomabay.

EXALT 2019

EXALT 2019 the annual technical meet of APSIT was scheduled on 29,30 March 2019 was laid on the keystone to project the technical advancements and to provide a platform to innovative thinkers, students who think out of the box and has learnt something amazing in the last academic year. EXALT hosts a lot of mind bogling games for students of all departments and for technology hungry people. As a part of EXALT 2019 BE IT Project Groups have exhibited their completed projects in presence of renowned Industry Guests from Capgemini

INDUSTRIAL VISIT@TECH MAHINDRA,Mumabi

APSIT's Department of Information Technology and Computer Engineering organized an Industrial Visit to Tech Mahindra, Mumbai on April 4 th 2019 in collaboration with CII. Collectively 50students from both department visited the industry in presence of Prof. Poonam Dhavale & Prof. Pravin Adivarekar. With brief introduction of Tech Mahindra Tech Mahindra representatives also briefed about the initiative and mission of forming the Makers Lab at Tech Mahindra. The Makers Lab was formed to focus on the branches of AI and thereby build next level of AIs. Apart from that their research also goes through well-known technologies like Machine Learning, Block Chain, IOT, Robots, Quantum Computing and many frameworks as well.Further students visited different sections of Tech Mahindra where they interacted with the development team of Tech Mahindra. The team explained various activities that takes place in Tech Mahindra and its benefit on team and individuals. Through this Industrial Visit students were made aware about how things actually work at professional level, the lightning fast advances happening every single second and how student should prepare for the challenges being faced by IT industry.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT@ASHNIK,Mumbai

To keep the students aware about the trending evolutions in open source technologies APSIT's Department of Information Technology and Computer Engineering arranged an industrial visit to Ashnik Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai as a part of Open Source Experimental Lab initiative on March 23 rd 2019. Around 18 students from both the departments participated in this technical visit in presence of Prof. Kiran Deshpande, HOD IT. Ashnik is a leading enterprise open source solutions and consulting company in Southeast Asia and India. Mr. Sandeep Khuperkar, CTO and Director at Ashnik enlightened the students about various open source technology developments. Mr. Sandeep shared his versatile experience of working with Redhat and Linux and briefed about enterprise designing using open source technologies such as NGINX, Docker, Kafka, ElasticStack, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Pentaho, Couchbase etc.The overall session was informative about how competitive market evolves and the impact of open source technology in development sector. Mr. Sandeep motivated students towards learning and using various open source platforms available.

Short Term Training Program on ELK Stack

Team Ashnik & APSIT's Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology had organised & completed 1st ELK workshop at A.P. Shah Institute of Technology's "OpenSource Experimental Lab for Emerging Technologies" built in collaboration with Ashnik from from 28 June 2018 to 30 June 2018. 30 bright minds from the IT & Computer Department attended the workshop. Mr. Ajit Ghadge Senior Consultant & SME in Elastic Stack was the Resource Person.

TECHNO SESSION ON DOCKERS

APSIT's Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology brings Techno Session on Docker at Open Source Experimental Lab in Collaboration with Ashnik Technology Solutions,Singapore for APSIT Core Open Source Team. Mr. Jagganath Nikam, DevOps Architect from SIGMOID had introduced students to basic deployment & use of Docker. Students were given few mile stones which they are supposed to achieve before next Session which would be Monitored & revived by Team of Professors at APSIT.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON CLOUD COMPUTING

Department of Information Technology & Computer Engineering conducted ISTE approved STTP on “Cloud Computing” from 31/12/2018 to 05/01/2019.The objective of this program was to introduce the participants to the insight of Cloud Computing along with its applications. Cloud Computing is expanding rapidly with ever-new developments and applications.. This STTP has provided a platform for Students & Faculties to explore their knowledge in the field of recent cloud computing trends like OpenStack Cloud Cluster & AWS. This intensive workshop was conducted by domain experts from the renowned Industry Experts from Capgemini & Brainfloss. Mr. Rohan Shah Cloud Architect from Capgemini and Mr.Pranav Phadke AWS cloud Architect from Brainlofloss Solutions were the resource persons .Total 50 participants have attended this training program.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON MACHINE LEARNING

Department of Information Technology & Computer Engineering conducted ISTE approved STTP on “MACHINE LEARNING : RECENT TREND IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING” from 31/12/2018 to 05/01/2019.The objective of this program was to introduce the participants to the insight of Machine Learning along with its applications. Machine Learning is expanding rapidly with ever-new developments and applications.. This STTP has provided a platform for Students & Faculties to explore their knowledge in the field of recent trends in Machine Learning. This intensive workshop was conducted by domain experts from the renowned Industry Total 60 participants have attended this training program. This STTP was conducted as a part of leading India AI: A National Initiative on AI Skilling and Research in association with BENNETT University.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON Building real world Native Cross-platform Applications

APSIT's Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology conducted Short Term Training Program on Building real world Native Cross-platform Applications from 18 June 2018 to 22 June 2018. STTP was aimed at providing students’ knowledge of the fundamentals of Xamarin Forms, its architecture and build real world native application for Android, iOS and windows phone.During this STTP BE Students of Computer Engineering & Information Technology enabled themselves for using Xamarin Forms API to build native mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows completely in C#. Mr. Vinayak Narkar, Technical specialist @ ISG eSolutions Pvt. Ltd. was the resource Person.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON CORE & ADVANCED JAVA

APSIT's Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology conducted Short Term Training Program on Core & Advanced Java on in Collaboration with APTECH Ltd from 18 June 2018 to 23 June 2018. This STTP had enhanced and provided platform for refreshing the basics and advanced features of Java Technologies, with hands on training to Faculty members & Students for developing software of their concern using Java Technologies.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON RED HAT ADMINISTRATION

APSIT's Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology conducted Short Term Training Program on Core RED HAT System administration under RED HAT Academy Program from 18 June 2018 to 23 June 2018. This STTP provided students & Faculties with Linux administration "survival skills" by focusing on core administration tasks. Contents covered in this STTP also provided a foundation for students planning to enable themselves in Linux system administration by introducing key command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools. STTP further went deeper into core Linux system administration skills, including storage configuration, security feature management, task control, and installation and deployment of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux.

EXPERT TALK : FIRST STEP INTO ENTERPRISE WORLD

To create awareness amongst students about the latest trends and technologies and its usefulness, Department of Information Technology & Computer Engineering organized an expert talk ,” First step in Enterprise World ” on 12 th March 2019. Mr. Sandeep Khuperkar, the CTO, Director at Ashnik was the guest of honour. The talk aimed to provide knowledge and information to students regarding upcoming and trending technologies, it importance and applications. The speaker, Mr. Sandeep Khuperkar, was informative about how the technological advancements play a vital role in overall development. He motivated students to stay updated with recent advancements and to look forward for careers in various developing open source technologies. Mr. Khuperkar, with narration of few market trending examples highlighted how students can successfully build and opt of job opportunities in open source platforms. Mr. Khuperkar conducted an interactive activity which involved participation of students in groups, to share their knowledge and ideas about the latest technical developments known to them.

HANDS ON SESSION : ANGULAR JS

ITSA, the Department of Information Technology students association promotes the various events and activities for development of students. Inclined to the ideology of “For the students –By the students”, ITSA arranged a handson session for the BE IT students about usage and importance of using Angular JS. The session of conducted by team of students from BE IT, Harsh Kansara, Durgesh Dubey, Ayush Shrivastava on 14/02/19 with a motive to make students understand how Angular JS can be used. The team covered the basics of Javascript, types of javascript framework, basics of typescript. They also covered the installation of Angular Framework Installation and demonstration and also focused on information about Angular JS and how it can be used for creating applications.

HANDS ON SESSION : GitHub

ITSA, the Department of Information Technology students association promotes the ideology of “For the students –By the students”. Such sessions encourage students to come forward and portray their skills to their batch mates which in a way promotes collaborative learning environment and help boost students confidence. In inclination to the same, ITSA arranged a handson session for the TE IT students about usage and importance of using GitHub. The session of conducted by BE IT student, Saif Inamdar on 30/01/19 with a motive to make students understand how GitHub can be used and it’s advantages overall. Saif, helped students create their GitHub accounts and further explained them the process of creating repository which can be useful for storing their project related codes, datasets, relevant information and reports. Approximately 45+ students were benefitted by this handson session.