http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3364 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:16:36 GMT 2026-06-23T06:16:36Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3389 Title: Understanding Aspirations of First Year Undergraduate Engineering Students Authors: Shahabadkar, Pramod; Joshi, Ajinkya; Lele, Vaishali; Patil, Vilas Abstract: Success of any educational institute largely depends upon how the students excel after they complete their studies. This may be in terms of obtaining dream placement, admission to higher studies in reputed institutes or even starting a venture of their choice. Desired results can be achieved if the aspirations are understood at an early stage and students are groomed properly for achieving their dreams. The objective of this study is to understand the aspirations of engineering students in their first year itself and develop a model for nurturing these aspirations. This paper also identifies factors influencing changes in aspirations and the contribution of these factors. In the present study, the aspirations of undergraduate engineering students were collected immediately after their admission. This activity was carried out consecutively for three academic years: 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Aspirations of 2043 students were collected during this period by using IT tools. The study indicated that maximum students during their first year engineering were inclined towards obtaining placements in multinational firms followed by seeking admission to higher education in reputed institutes, entrepreneurship and joining the civil services. The institute under consideration has developed a five stage model to help the students in fulfilling their aspirations. This includes establishment of a Career Development Cell, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, International Facilitation Centre, Higher Study Cell and Novel Master Student Program. Aspirations were collected again during the final year in order to understand the deviations when students moved from first to final year. Results indicate that there was a substantial shift in the student aspirations. By the time the students reached the final year, there was an increase of 47.90 % in the number of students who opted for placements while the number of students planning for higher studies decreased by 30.51%. Brainstorming session was conducted to identifythe factors that prompted the students to change their minds during their course curriculum. The data presented here will give an insight to the academicians and institutes in understanding student ambitions and developing a model for fulfilling them Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3389 2021-01-23T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3388 Title: Skill Development of Students through Hands-on Workshop Authors: Admane, Manisha R; Mondhe, Parag J Abstract: Now a days, lot of focus is given to innovative teaching and learning methodologies. The aim of this paper is to engage and motivate the students for lifelong learning. Moreover, it is also necessary to enhance the skills of the students. Keeping this objective in mind, hands-on workshop was organized for the third year engineering students of Electronics branch of the institute. The workshop was aimed to enhance hands-on skills among the students. The workshop also focused on boosting the confidence level of the weak students in the class. Equal number of bright and weak students were selected for this workshop. The students were identified by considering few parameters such as performance in pre-requisite theory course, performance in pre-requisite laboratory course, performance in pre-requisite knowledge test, and feedback from the mentor. It is observed that the weak students outperformed bright students in hands-on skills assignment. Weak students showed enthusiasm while performing hands-on than solving theoretical assignment. Whereas few bright students couldn’t speed up with weak students in hands-on but they were interested in solving theoretical assignments. It was also observed that students gave overwhelming response in solving open ended design assignment and its implementation. This assignment has attained the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy. This study concludes that performance of the students depends on their interest. In future, students can be categorized in three levels as bright, average and weak and suitable activities can be planned for their skills development. Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3388 2021-01-06T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3387 Title: Face Recognition Technology based Smart Doorbell System using Python’s OpenCV librar Authors: Malve, Shweta Abstract: In recent years, face recognition technology has proved to be the most popular method of contactless biometric system, outstanding the ones based on iris, voice and gait recognition. Moreover, computers can now outperform humans in terms of many face recognition tasks particularly when it comes to searching of faces in larger databases, capturing and storing minute facial details in as minimal format as possible. A system with the ability to detect and recognize faces has many potential outcomes not just in crowded places but in home security systems as well. One such application of automating the household doorbell can not only solve the security issues but also offer extra flexibility to smart house control by recognizing the person at doorstep and announcing the name. We propose a system by making use of Raspberry-Pi with ARMv8 Cortex-A53 as the core. The project aims at porting the Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) library to the Raspberry-Pi board and using its pre-trained classifier Haar-Cascade and recognizer Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH) for face detection and recognition purpose. Furthermore, using the Raspberry-pi accelerated command line media player, name of the person will be announced and faces unknown to the database will be captured and stored. This low-cost and low-power system will indeed prove a boon for persons with disabilities. Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3387 2021-06-10T00:00:00Z