MES Faculty Seminar 2019 under the aegis of MES Research Forum was conducted on 27th September 2019 at Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai’s Campus. Prof. Ajit R. Kulkarni, Institute Chair Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay was the chief guest for the seminar. Dr. Avinash R. Vaidya, Head of the Department, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Pillai College of Engineering, New Panvel and Dr. C. K. Sreedharan, Assistant Professor, Pillai Institute of Management Studies & Research, New Panvel were the moderators for the session. There were 14 paper presentations from the field of science, technology, commerce, management and education. This was a wonderful opportunity for budding researchers to present quality research papers and receive critical review of their research work. Dr. Rinkoo Shantnu, Chairperson and Dr. Farhat Shaikh, Secretary, MES Research Forum had organized the seminar.
A National Level Seminar on “Biotechnology in Diagnostics” was organized by the Department of Biotechnology on Saturday 21st September, 2019. The seminar began with the inauguration ceremony followed by the keynote address by Dr. Rajesh Karla, an esteemed scientist from THSTI, Faridabad on Antibody Generation Technologies. His talk touched upon the crucial role of monoclonal antibody in diagnosing and combating of emerging viral diseases. This was followed by a session on CRISPR in Molecular Diagnostics, by Dr. Chitra Seethraman Misra, scientist from BARC, Mumbai. The talk enlightened the audience on the latest developments and applications of CRISPR, thought to be a revolutionary diagnostic tool of the recent years. The seminar was continued by Dr. Pathakota Gireesh Babu, scientist from ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai, who presented a talk on the current developments in molecular diseases using diagnostic tools.
This session was followed by a sumptuous lunch break along with 18 posters being presented by the participants. The participants had an exposure to informative posters and gained an experience in presenting scientific data. The poster evaluation round was followed by a session on various diagnostic techniques in management of diseases by Dr. Parineeta Samant from MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai. The seminar was concluded with a valedictory function where in the award for the best poster and three consolation prizes were awarded. The enlightening seminar was well received by faculty and students alike.
Organizing Committee:
Dr. C. K. Prashant
(Convener)
Dr. Remya Varadarajan
(Member)
Dr. Navami Dayal
(Member)
EDP Cell organised a Workshop on “Idea generation for Business Plan Competition” on 18th September, 2019 at 11.00 a.m. in conclave. The Guest Speaker for the session was Dr. Priam Pillai.
The session was attended by a total of 41 Students. The session was arranged with the objective to acquaint the students about the Business Plan Competition. The session began with problem identification. Sir explained in details how we can come up with great ideas by just identifying problems. The session was followed by a brainstorming session which gave a complete understanding to the students.
The entire session was refreshing and it boasts the confidence of our students. Students also raised a lot of doubts that was clarified by sir.
One Day International Seminar on “Strengthening Entrepreneurial Quality” on 9th September, 2019.
Genesis 2019 was inaugurated on 9th September, 2019. Vice-Principal, Prof. Deepika Sharma along with B.M.S. Coordinator Prof. Nithya Varghese and Management Association In-Charge, Prof. Sharavathi C. inaugurated the fest by lighting the lamp.
Day 1 of Genesis 2019 (16th Sept, 2019)
Day 1 of Genesis 2019 started with the event ‘Walk of Corporates’ where our Alumni Mr. Emmanuel Fernandes, Mr. Prithvi Prasad, Mr. Hrishikesh Nair, Ms. Swathi Nair, Ms. Prachi Vanveru gave an inspiring speech about their time in this college and the Co Founders of ‘The Playlist’ Band of Pillai College Mr. Manohith and Danish who with their wonderful performance along with Swathi Nair mesmerised the whole auditorium. Followed by this, events like ‘The Hunt for the Ultimate Incentives’, ‘Wolf of Wall Street’, ‘Genesis Next CEO’ and ‘The Pitch went down as the marquee’ were conducted.
Day 2 of Genesis 2019 (17th Sept, 2019)
Day 2 of Genesis 2019 was an important day for Team Genesis, Management Association conducted a One Day Seminar on “Entrepreneurship Development and Business Simulation” with Resource Person Mr. Abheejit Dash, an IITian from IIT Madras and an Alumni of NMIMS from the batch 2019 who is right now working as Senior Manager in LTT, spoke on Time Management, his journey from 12th Std. to being an IITian and then a successful professional aiming for bigger things and being goal oriented and how to prepare for competitive exams in today’s environment. Mr. Justin Ancheta, a passionate brand strategist with a keen sense of Business Models is the director and Co-Founder of Bazana Foods Pvt. Ltd. and Founder of B2P Consulting LLC who spoke on marketing trends and strategies and how to grow skills relevant to ones hobbies and why the Entrepreneurial field is going to be the next big thing.
Mr. Tito Aby Idicula and Technological Enthusiast and Smart Worker, Co-Founder of Programming Hub who spoke about start-ups and how to develop a start-up. Then we had our own Ms. Gurpreet Kaur, an Alumni, an amazing writer, a Professor who has helped and inspired a lot of students, she spoke about the freedom of speech and about how we can develop into what we are meant to be. We had a BMS student among us, Mr. Rohit Patil, a second year B.M.S. student, who bombarded in the scene of YouTube as digital curator and he inspired students by speaking about his journey, about social media marketing, about how his YouTube channel which has 857K subscribers was made, it was all inspiring. The Seminar ended with a closing ceremony where the winner of 13 events conducted were felicitated with their certificates from our own Prof. Sharavathi C. Genesis 2019 was a grand success.
Department of I.T. & C.S. organized a National Seminar on “Artificial Intelligence” on 28th August, 2019.
More than 300 participants attended the event, with 2 chief guests/guest speakers:
- Mr. Varun Singla, a Youtuber (under the channel name “Gate Smashers” with over 114k subscribers and a humongous 10 million + views) and an assistant professor from LPU, Punjab came all the way from Chandigarh to share his knowledge with the students. He started off with the basics and concluded his session with an example and hands on demonstration of the programming behind A.I. and Machine learning. His depth and knowledge of the subject clearly justified his 98.6 percentile in UGC GATE and NET exam
- Ms. Sowmya Jain, explained the scope and business end of the topic to all the participants
Pillai College’s Department of Bachelor’s of Mass Media organized a One Day National Seminar on “Communication and Soft Skills” on 26th August, 2019 for the benefit of the students of Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science. Mr. Avirat Shete and Mr. Kaizad Patel were the speakers for the National Seminar.
During the formal Inauguration session the Department Head i.e. Mrs. Prerna Sharma and the first speaker Mr. Kaizad Patel lit the lamp and started the event. The anchor introduced the speaker for the seminar and the felicitation took place for both the speakers. The very first speaker was Mr. Kaizad Patel who spoke about the soft skills mainly required in the corporate sector and how your communication can really affect the way you succeed in future. The power point presentation was very impactful and gave the students an insight into the life of the corporate sector and sales and marketing field. After Mr. Kaizad Patel’s very impactful speech the next speaker for the Seminar was Mr. Avirat Shete from Shete Institution. The Amazing man with knowledge from almost all the sectors of the world gave insight to not only the corporate field but in general how communication and soft skills will help a human being to excel in life. Likewise the presentation even here was very distinct. Mr. Avirat Shete gave examples and spoke about different sectors which one comes across in life leaving the crowd thinking.
At the end of the session the program concluded with feedback from students and vote of thanks by Coordinator.
One Day National Seminar-cum-Workshop on “Academic Integrity and Reference Management Tools” was organized by Learning Resource Centre (Library) of Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous), New Panvel in association with Indian Library Association, New Delhi and University of Mumbai on 24th August, 2019.
The seminar aimed to create awareness about the consequences of Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism among the students, research scholars and faculty members. In addition to it, the seminar conducted a workshop on how to manage references and bibliographies while conducting research activity. About 100 participants were in the seminar.
Dr. Sanjay B. Munavalli, Organizing Secretary of the event while introducing the seminar said that plagiarism is an issue that all universities and colleges must need to be addressed. If the higher education institutions does not take steps to address the gravity of this situation it risks damaging its reputation. It is crucial for a higher education institution to establish a culture in which academic integrity is at the forefront of its mission. Vice-Principal, Mrs. Deepika Sharma in her inaugural address, highlighted the aim of this unique seminar. She said that Promotion of academic integrity to save and restore the individual, institutional as well as national intellectual health is the need of the hour. Sessions on research ethics, promotion of academic integrity and preventions of plagiarism, lighter side of library management and search beyond Google and Reference Management Using Zotero were presented by the experts invited from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi Institute of development Research, Mumbai and SRTM, University, Nanded.
The first session on Research Ethics was conducted by Prof. Anil S. Sutar and highlighted that proper research methodology should be adopted by researchers while doing their research work to avoid academic misconduct.
Dr. Ananad Dodamani conducted session and shared his views on ‘Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism’ and highlighted the University Grants Commission (UGC) (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Regulations, 2018) .
Shri. Ranjeet Dhrmapurikar, Information Scientist, SRTM University, Nanded presented a cartoon show on the theme ‘Lighter Side of Library Management’ and shared his views on changing nature of reading habits in digital world.
During the post lunch session, Dr. S. M. Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai conducted a session on ‘Search Beyond Google’ and conducted live demo on how to manage references using Zotero open source reference management tool. During Valedictory Session, report of the seminar was presented by Organizing Secretary, Dr. Sanjay B. Munavalli which was followed by feedback from the participants. Organinzing Committee Member Dr. Seema Somani proposed a vote of thanks.
PCACS’ Incubation Cell organized a two-day workshop on “Business Etiquettes” from 22nd to 23rd August, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. The idea behind organizing this workshop was to help students generate their ideas and how to start their start-ups basically to learn business etiquettes
Participants of two days workshop on Business Etiquettes
Incubation Cell Second Term End Report 2019-20
The department of B.M.M. of Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science held a resume making session on 16th August, 2019 in the PCACS Campus.
All the students especially from the T.Y. B.M.M. Advertising and Journalism had attended the Session after the lectures at around 10.30 a.m. which held for around an hour.
The session started with an interactive discussion on what is a resume and what all is needed for it where the students discussed among each other and also answered the question. Then the session started wherein the resource person – Mr. Abhishek explained the concept with the help of a presentation putting the fact or bringing originality in one’s resume rather than just copying it from the internet. The session also helped the students to know that all that they wrote in their resume has to correct with all the facts and figures checked properly. The session helped the students to get closure towards how a good resume should be and how one can improve their resumes. A lot of questions got answered it was indeed a very helpful session for the T.Y. Students.
