DEPARTMENT OF FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING

INDUCTION
PROGRAM
REPORT
Academic Year 2021-22
Semester - I
 Date: 31st December 2021

F.E. INDUCTION PROGRAM AY 2021-22 (SEMESTER I)

The one-week Induction Program which was held in AISSMS College of

Engineering, Pune from 23rd December 2021 to 31st December 2021 was
organized as per the directives received from the AICTE, with a firm purpose
to introduce the students to an experience that not only makes them
comfortable in an all-new environment but also helps your overall
development. Distinguished speakers and eminent people from varied
backgrounds were invited to illuminate their minds while also pruning your
health with various activities, before inculcating them with technical
knowhows of various professional courses.

AISSMS College of Engineering’s Department of First Year Engineering, under

the expert guidance of Dr. D. S. Bormane took the Induction Program activity
very seriously since the importance of its implication was very well
understood. Prof. A. B. Thakare, the coordinator of the eSIP along with Prof. V.
R. Patil (Head of Department), Dr. A. B. Patil arranged for prominent speakers.
The extended team consisted of Prof. S. S. Khasbage, Prof. A. S. Ghorpade, Prof.
B. A. Patil, Prof. B. S. Bobdey and Prof. M. A. D’Cruz who went beyond not only
time constraints but also out of their comfort zone to execute the online
activities that really would benefit the students for their overall development.
Mr. Rajendra Rode, proved to be a great help and was highly responsible for
the smooth conduction of the sessions during the induction program. The
responsibility of the very well executed HOD-Student interaction activity was
taken up by the enthusiastic faculty members of the different divisions for
smooth, branch oriented and timely implementation.

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OUTLINE OF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED:
S Name of Speaker Session Topic Type of No. of
Sessions
No. Session
1 Dr. D. S Bormane Introduction of Familiarization 1
the Institute with College
2 Prof. V. R. Patil Introduction of Familiarization 1
the Dept. of with
First Year Department
Engineering
3 Respective Dept. Introduction of Familiarization 1
HODs the Parent with Parent
Department Department
4 Mr. Raghvan Koli Engineering Motivational 2
Awesome Talk
5 Dr. Mahesh Kolte Human Value Universal 4
Human Values
6 Dr. Vaibhav Benefits and Ways Health Care 2
Lunkad of Healthy Living
7 Mr Sanjay Career Guidance Motivational Talk 2
Salunkhe
8 Mr. R. Bahalkar Youth and Social - Motivational Talk 2
Media
9 Dr. R. M. Jalnekar Work life balance to Professional 1
reduce stress Guidance
10 Dr. N. N. Shejwal Role of Engineering NSS 1
in Rural
Development
11 Dr. M. M. Kondhare Sports Health and 2
Prof. K N Kulkarni Cultural Fitness
Prof. S J Pachouly Magazine

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12 Dr. V. S. Dandwate Information on In- Library
house & Digital 2
modes of Library
Facility
13 Mr. Sopan Aghav & Entrepreneur- Enhancing 1
Mr. M. S. Swami ship Development Employment
14 Dr. Sandeep Kadwe Entrepreneur- Enhancing 1
Mr. S. N. Chiwande ship Development Employment
15 Mr. N P Mawale ISTE Chapter Professional 1
Memberships
16 Mr. A. B. Bhonsale Administration Admin Office 2
Details

TIME TABLE OF THE INDUCTION PROGRAM

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 Report of
FE Student Induction Program
Program Level: Under Graduate

Program Type: First Year Student Induction Program

Duration in days: 1 Week Date: 23/12/2021 to 31/12/2021

Organized by: AISSMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PUNE

Main Objective of the Program: The objective of the Induction program for
students is to make the newly joined students feel comfortable, sensitize them
towards exploring their academic interests and activities, reducing
competition and making them work for excellence, promote bonding within
them, build relations between teachers and students, give a broader view of
life and building of character. The Universal Human Values component will be
act as an anchor, develops awareness and sensitivity, feeling of equality,
compassion and oneness and draw attention to society and nature. It also
makes them reflect on their relationship with their families and extended
family in the college. It also connects students with each other and with
teachers so that they can share any difficulty they might be facing and seek
help.

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Activity Name: Welcome address by Principal
Resource Person: Principal, Dr. D. S. Bormane
Designation: Principal, AISSMS College of Engineering
Principal, Dr. D. S. Bormane welcomed the parents and students to the
institute and congratulated them for securing admission in AISSMS College of
Engineering. He took upon his shoulders the greatest responsibility of
introducing the age-old heritage of our society and the great history of our
institution. He introduced the students and the parents to the Vision and
Mission of our institute that focuses on providing quality education to all
sectors of the society at an affordable cost. The main highlights of his speech
were as mentioned below:
• Our responsibility is to make our students’ dream a success.
• He emphasized that Hard work is going to be extremely essential during
their 4year tenure with our institute.
• He highlighted that our institute is NPTEL Local Chapter and is well
known for NPTEL usage
• Our college is a Nodal Centre for Virtual Lab in association with IIT,
Bombay
• He highlighted on the efforts the teachers take in using various ICT
Tools, Student Centric Method, Smartboard and google forms other than
the normal board work.
• He emphasized on the effectiveness of the mentoring system and
requested the parents to actively correspond with the mentors for the
update about their child.

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• The mentors deal with the academic as well as personal problems of the
students under the head called “Student Counseling Cell” We also
provide professional help in cases that need special attention
• We conduct several Guest Lectures, ET, NSS, Students’ Chapters
Industrial Visits, Industrial trainings, for the technical advancement of
every student
• The achievements of students have reached great heights including SAE,
SUPRA 2011, BAJA-AUTO EXPO 2012 and also AERO DESIGN
• Our NSS Activities include blood donation camps, plantation drive etc
creating an awareness among people to be human towards our fellow
citizens and environment.
• Likewise, we have Sports activities such as Ashwamedh, Shivaji Trophy,
Shahu Trophy and Shivanjali (our Grand Annual Cultural Gathering) for
the overall development of our students.
• We aim to fulfill the requirements of the companies and employers by
producing graduates who will be technically strong which is the need of
today.
• We train students to build their problem-solving ability, language
fluency, stage daring, attitude, intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills,
mathematical skills etc.
• Training and Placements today requires a minimum cutoff of 70% for
the cream companies, around 60% - 65% for good companies and 58%
for average companies.
• He said that students should put in hard efforts for the next 4 years in
order to have a beautiful life ahead.

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Activity Name: Address by HOD, First Year Engineering Department
Resource Person: Prof. V. R. Patil Sir
Designation: Head of Department, First Year Engineering Department
Objectives:
• Welcoming the students to AISSMS College of Engineering Family.
• Making the students aware of the protocols to be followed in campus
• Importance of Safety Precautions that need to be taken especially
during this COVID-19 Pandemic
• He explained the students about the different systems established in the
institute like mentoring system, CAS etc for the students.
• He shared with the students the achievement of the department ‘FE
WEBSITE’ where all faculty members together contributed to create a
space for information dissemination in the form of notes, ppts, test
samples, VLab experiments, University question papers etc.
• He highlighted the faculty as the strengths of the department as having
tremendous experience and excellent educational qualifications.
• He assured the parents about quality education of their children
according to the time table prepared and that information will be
circulated through apps such as WhatsApp and/or telegram

Session Photograph

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Activity Name: Career Guidance
Resource Person: Mr. Sanjay Salunkhe
Designation and Company/Institute: Certified Web Master from World
Wide Web Institute and also a Certified Netware Engineer from Novell
Corporation USA.
Objectives:
● Career Scope
● Career guidelines
Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Sir discussed different disciplines which has scope in future
● Importance is discipline in your life is emphasized by expert
● Creativity and its role in your career was discussed with the help of case
studies of apple and Facebook
Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Entrepreneurship Awareness

Resource Person: Dr. Sandeep Kadwe / Mr. Sopan Aghav
Designation and Company/Institute: Founder, MITCON International and
Knowledge Partners LLC, Dubai
Objectives:
• Entrepreneurship awareness among students
● Understanding legal issues, License
● Understanding obstacles/challenges to be faced
● Business fundraising opportunities

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Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Sir emphasized that business should be customer oriented for good
viability
● Differentiated entrepreneur v/s intrapreneur
● Different fund generating techniques were discussed
● Sir emphasized on PLAN→DO→CHECK→ACT Strategy
● Use of Trademarks and patents to protect business idea from
information theft
● Approaching a business mentor is important. It helps you to know
“What to do if business fails”. It also helps you in legal and licensing
issues

Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Engineering is Awesome

Resource Person: Mr. Raghavan Koli
Designation and Company/Institute: Author, Public Speaker and Industrial
HR Trainer
Objectives:
● Rules to apply while studying
● How to do smart hardwork
Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Sir discussed ways to channelize our thinking
● Sir shared that over thinking is a gift indeed. Many new ideas can
emerge from over thinking

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 ● Sir discussed a golden principle: Observe and Apply

Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Session on “Healthcare”

Resource Person: Dr. Vaibhav Lunkad
Designation and Company/Institute: MBBS MD in Skin, Hair, HIV and
Sexology from BJ Govt Medical college

Objectives:
● Conditioning the mind
● Balanced diet for students
● Importance of Pranayam and Yoga

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

● Sir discussed a healthy lifestyle with the students
● 4 D of life were discussed (Decisions, daring, discipline and destination)
● Diet, exercise and good habits are discussed
Photographs:

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 Session Photographs

Activity Name: Work life balance to reduce stress

Resource Person: Dr. R. M. Jalnekar
Designation and Company/Institute: Director, VIT, Pune
Vice President, ISKCON
International Speaker & Mentor
Objectives:
Stress Management
● Leadership strategies
● Managing work life balance
Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Dr.Jalnekar discussed spirituality and its importance in day to day life
● He also discussed Leadership Sutras from Bhagvadgita
● He discussed stress management techniques and disposal of bad habits.
● Sir discussed spiritual ways to keep a balance between work and day to
day life

Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Motivational Talk

Resource Person: Mr Rajendra Bahalkar
Designation and Company/Institute: Social Worker
Objectives:

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 ● Motivate the youth
● Social Media Awareness
Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Positive and negative thinking
● Social media pros and cons
● Addiction
● Market strategy changing the mind set

Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Human Values

Resource Person: Dr Mahesh Kolte
Designation and Company/Institute: Professor at PCCOE Pune

Objectives:
● To create awareness about Human Values
● To generate commitment to human Values
● To improve the quality of life through education

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

● Self-Exploration, self-Investigation, Self-Study
● Problems Inter Personal, Personal, Social Problem, Environment
Problems
● Recognition and Fulfillment of relationship by Human Being
● To be Harmony (Process of achieving the desire)

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Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Department Introduction by HOD

Resource Person: Dr. D P Gaikwad

Designation and Company/Institute: HOD Computer Engineering
Department, AISSMSCOE
Objectives:

● Department Introduction
● Awareness of student clubs and Chapters
● Department activities

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

● HOD gave Introduction to department staff, activities, achievements

● Student Chapter in charge explained opportunities in student club and
student chapter.
● Internship and competitions opportunities were discussed.
Photographs:

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 Session Photographs
Activity Name: Sports, Magazine and Cultural Activities
Resource Person: Dr. Manisha Kondhare
Mrs. Kalyani Kulkarni
Mrs. Shikha Pachouly

Designation and Company/Institute: Physical Director, AISSMSCOE

Cultural Coordinator, AISSMSCOE
Magazine Coordinator, AISSMSCOE

Objectives:
● Introduction to Cultural Activities
● Introduction to Magazine and literary activities
● Introduction to sports and gymkhana facilities

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

● Dr. Kondhare discussed Sports facilities available in college
● She also discussed sports kits availability, selection criteria etc
● Introduction to GSA committee and their responsibilities were
discussed
● Mrs. Kalyani Kulkarni discussed cultural activities like Ashwamedh and
Shivanjali
● She also introduced other cultural activities like plays, singing etc
● Madam also discussed selection procedure and preparations of
competitions like Bharat Karandak, Purushottam karandak etc

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 ● Madam shared achievements of cultural department too
● Mrs. Shikha Pachouly introduced AISSMSCOE Literary activities
● Some glimpses from Exhibitions like Artrival were shared with students
● Magazine committee and their responsibilities and opportunities were
discussed

Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Role of Engineering in Rural Development

Resource Person: DR. N. N. Shejwal
Designation and Company/Institute: Assistant Prof., AISSMS COE
Objectives:
● To highlight and promote the need of literacy in the rural sectors of
India
● To specify and illustrate the role of Engineers in Rural Development
● To highlight the NSS works undertaken by the institute

Photographs:

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 Session Photographs

Activity Name: Introduction to Central Library

Resource Person: Dr. Vrushali Dandawate
Designation and Company/Institute: Librarian, AISSMSCOE

Objectives:
● Introduction to Central Library
● Library facilities and schemes for students
● Library activities
Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:
● Madam discussed Library facilities through library website
● Ask a librarian feature, blogs were discussed.
● Academic facilities like syllabus, question paper, journals, periodicals
were discussed
● Madam explained NPTEL courses and its importance as well as
enrollment procedure
● Library DELNET login details shared with students

Photographs:

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 Session Photographs

Activity Name: ISTE Chapter

Resource Person: Mr Nitin Mawale
Designation and Company/Institute: Assistant Professor

Objectives:
● To Introduce about ISTE Chapter
● To encourage students to participate
● To self-explore students

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

● Establishment and membership of student chapter
● Activities carried out under ISTE
● Skills developed in students and awards bagged by the Student Chapter
Photographs:

Session Photographs

Activity Name: Session on Online Exam Form Filling Process

Resource Person: Dr. D. V. Nighot
Designation and Company/Institute: Chief Examination Officer
Objectives:
• To make students aware of how to fill the Online University Exam Form
• To Clear the doubts of students as to avoid problems and confusion

Keynote Points Delivered during the Session:

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 • This essential session was conducted to ease the difficulties of the newly
admitted students during the process of filling the Online University
Exam Form
• Nighot Sir, carefully took the students through the whole process
explaining them stepwise details as they proceed while filling the form.
• He also emphasized on the points where students often make mistakes
and rectification becomes a big process.
Photographs:

Session Photographs
Activity Name: Institute Facilities and Student Activities
Resource Person: Mr. A. B. Bhonsale
Designation and Company/Institute: Administrative Officer
Objectives:
● Stirring awareness among students about the various departments and
activities of the institute
● As an administrative officer he cleared the students of their doubts
regarding the various processes carried out in the institute

Photographs:

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 Session Photographs

S No. Name of Faculty Area of Contribution

1 Prof. V R Patil Head of Department
2 Prof. A. B. Thakare eSIP Coordinator
3 Dr. A. B. Patil eSIP Coordinator
4 Prof. S. S. Khasbage Technical Coordinator
5 Prof. A. S. Ghorpade Technical Coordinator
6 Prof. M. A. D’Cruz Induction Report Coordinator & Session
Anchor
7 Prof. B. A. Patil Session Anchor & Day-wise report
coordinator
8 Prof. B. S. Bobdey Session Anchor & Day-wise report
coordinator
9 Prof. P. R. Satarkar
HOD Session Anchors
Prof. S. B. Patil
10 Prof. M. S. Nikam Session Anchor
11 Mr. Rajendra Rode Technical Support

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PRINCIPAL: DR. D. S. BORMANE

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT: PROF. V. R. PATIL

INDUCTION PROGRAM COORDINATORS: PROF. A. B. THAKARE

DR. A. B. PATIL

REPORT BY: PROF. M. A. D’CRUZ

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