Sardar Patel Institute of Technology

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) is an autonomous un-aided Research and Engineering Institute affiliated to Mumbai University.

Location

The institute is located in 47 acres of green campus at Munshi Nagar, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Campus, Andheri (West), Mumbai. The campus also houses three Bhavan’s Institutions of great repute namely Sardar Patel College of Engineering – Government aided Autonomous Engineering college, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, a management institute and Bhavan’s College (the Arts, Commerce and Science college).

History

In 1957, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan conceived the idea of establishing an engineering college in Mumbai. The Engineering Personnel Committee of the Planning Commission had made certain recommendations for the establishment of new engineering colleges and polytechnics, in order to increase the technical manpower in the country. The proposal of the Bhavan to start an engineering college was favorably received by both the Central and State Governments.

It was on 19 August 1962 that there was a huge gathering at the Bhavan’s Campus in Andheri. There was a mood of joy and festivity as thousands of students, parents and distinguished men and women from all walks of life came to take part in and witness an important and memorable function i.e. the inauguration of Sardar Patel College of Engineering by first and then Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kulpati Dr. K.M. Munshi, the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan trust. In 1995 Self Financed Engineering Course were added to it and it has been conducting Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology Courses from 1995-1996. These courses have earned a great reputation in the field of engineering education, as well as industry. The University of Mumbai desired that these self-financed courses be separated and housed in a separate building and developed as a separate self-financed entity. Thus Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Unaided Wing from year 2005-2006 is established in its new building under the name and style of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. The institute has a strong alumni base of 4000+ members.^[1] The institute celebrated 20 years of its contribution in the year 2015.

In 2017, it was conferred with Autonomous status by Mumbai University and thus became the youngest institute affiliated to Mumbai University to achieve this.^[2]

Student Bodies

The Students' Council is the primary student representative body. The general secretary and the cultural secretary are mainly responsible for the smooth conduct of these activities. They work under the guidance of the Vice President (who is a professor). The sports secretaries of the council also organize various sports events during the academic year.

Each stream has its own student body -

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• ACE Committee (MCA)
• Electronics Engineering Students Association (ESA)
• Computer Society Of India (CSI)
• Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE)
• Information Technology Students Association (ITSA)
• Forum for Electronics and Telecommunication Students (FETS)
• Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)

This college also has a social club :Rotaract Club of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (RC-SPIT) affiliated to Rotary Club of Bombay Juhu and Rotary International.

The college also supports entrepreneurship and has an Entrepreneurship-Cell(E-CELL) affiliated to National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN)

Informal Clubs & Associations

• Shutterworks

Shutterworks was an informal club that aimed to promote the photography culture in the college.

• Speakers' Club

It helps students improve their communication skills through a range of activities based on public speaking, group discussion, interviews, vocabulary and grammar games.

• Sardar Patel Quiz Club (SPQC)

SPQC organizes quizzes focusing on sharpening thinking abilities of students in humorous and entertaining ways.

• The Debate Society

It has helped the students win national level debates and now stands firmly established as a club to encourage the debating culture.

• The Book Brigade

The Brigade functions as a dynamic library and encourages direct interaction between book-lovers who can get their books directly from contributors.

• Star Gazers' Club

It is a novel initiative aimed at educating its members in Astronomy and has also launched an astronomy magazine called “Anant”.

College Festivals

SPIT hosts SPACE jointly with SPCE , which takes place in February every year. It is a 3-day professionally organized college festival and stands as one of the best college festivals hosted by an engineering college. It serves as an ideal platform for students all over the city to display their skills and talent through wide range of literary, fine art, performing arts and technical competitions. Udaan is the annual Cultural Festival Matrix is a 2-day Technical Festival of college with events like Laser Tag, Virtual Stock Market, Robotics, Hackathon, Fun Encrypted, Lan Mafia (started by Comps 2017 batch) and much more.

CodeChef

The institute conducts various coding competitions in association with CodeChef. The students are actively involved on CodeChef to solve various coding questions.

Facilities and Infrastructure

• Air-conditioned classrooms equipped with projectors
• Central Library along with Departmental Library
• Indoor and Outdoor sports facility
• Yoga Center
• Institute of Holistic Health Science
• Bank and ATM
• Mess and Cafeteria

MoUs and Tie ups

• IT MNC: The institute is recognized as Center of Excellence (CoE) by the IBM Academic Initiative. The institute has also signed MOU with IBM, Wipro, and has a continuing association with TCS. The institute is also one of the few Nvidia GPU Research Centers in India.
• Electronics and Telecom MNC: The institute has signed an MOU with Texas Instruments for setting up a lab and an MOU with Sony Ericsson for training telecom students
• The institute has signed an MOU with Gadhia Solar Systems for an R&D project on solar energy
• Host lectures by UK universities under the British Council mission 2015
• Center for Research in Neuromorphic Engineering (CRINE)

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology started CRINE with the mission of driving innovation through learning from neurons. The objective of this center is to promote research in neuromorphic engineering, to promote collaboration between colleges and disciplines and to enhance industry institute interaction. The institute has also signed MOU with Eduvance and the center is supported by Cypress Semiconductors University Alliance Program. First time faculty and students from different departments of VJTI (Matunga), SPIT (Andheri) and Fr.CRCE (Bandra) started working together in multidisciplinary area.

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (VNIT) for collaborative efforts on the following:

• 1. Cooperation for Dissemination of Knowledge
• 2. Joint Research Projects
• 3. Exchange of Faculty
• 4. Knowledge Sharing
• 5. Utilization of Academic Infrastructure

Awards/Honors received by faculty and institute

• Principal Dr. Prachi Gharpure, has been nominated by University of Mumbai as Local Secretary for Information and Communication Science including Computer Science, for the 102nd session of the Indian National Science Congress to be held in Mumbai from 3–7 January 2015. It is a prestigious academic national level event inaugurated by the Prime Minister and attended by the President of India every year. Mumbai University is hosting this event after 53 years.
• Dr. Surendra Singh Rathod, Professor and Head of Electronics Engineering Department at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology was honoured with India International Friendship Society’s most coveted institutional and globally reputed "SHIKSHA RATTAN PURASKAR" along with "Certificate of Excellence" for his service s and achievements in the field of engineering education at a glittering function. The award was presented by Dr.G.V.G.Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner, Govt. of India on 29 May 2012 at India International Center, New Delhi.
• Dr. Dhananjay Kalbande, awarded Post-Doctorate fellowship by Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Technology Business Incubator

The Technology Business Incubation Centre was established in 2009. It is an initiative to nurture a culture of entrepreneurship in the creative minds of young engineers so that their ideas are implemented into newer products or services that have marketing potential. This centre started and supported by the institute provides all the required infrastructure and support for technology-based entrepreneurship. It helps and motivates young innovators to become successful entrepreneurs.

It is supported by Department of Science and Technology, National Entrepreneurship Network, Institute Alumni, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Entrepreneurship Cell. The institute received a grant of Rs 4.17 crore^[3] from the Department of Science & Technology (DST) for TBI which would be used to support students from both in-house and other institutes to set up businesses.

Companies Benefitted:-

• Mime360, Acquired by Flipkart
• Pykih
• Nexchanges
• Kias Tech
• Go Hero Go
• Fore Hotels

References

External links

• Sardar Patel Institute of Technology