EESA Inaugural Report

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF EESA ‘06

The inauguration ceremony of EESA’06 was held on 16th February 2006 in the VJTI Auditorium.

The Chief Guest was Dr G R Nagabhushana, ex-Chairperson, presently Professor-Emeritus, High Voltage Department, IISc, Bangalore. He delivered a lecture on Impact of lightning on aircrafts. He is so highly regarded in this field, that the seminar was attended by dignitaries and scientists from BARC and other institutions. Yet, at the same time, the lecture was so well delivered, that even the students could relate to it. In simple words, he explained the cause of the problem, its significance today, and the methods to protect aircraft from lightning. We were indeed honoured to have him with us.

The Guest of Honour at this function was Mr. A M Sahni, ex-Executive Director, Tata Power. Mr Sahni is an alumnus of VJTI (Batch of ’58). He shared his reminiscences about VJTI as he knew it. In his address, he stressed on energy conservation as the need of the hour.
One commendable achievement was the inauguration of the new EESA website. This website has been envisaged as a means of interaction for members of EESA. It will have records of previous question papers, details of forth coming activities, interesting articles dealing with new developments in this field, etc, thus striking a balance between the academics on the one hand, and co-curricular activities on the other.

Screening of an audio-visual introduction to EESA was one of the attractions of the function. A felicitation ceremony was also held, where the Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour felicitated the meritorious students of the department.

EESA Website Suggestions and Ideas

Hi all EESAites,

Towards making EESA website more active from the beginning we are looking forward for your suggestions and ideas to make site more useful for students.

You can send your suggestions at vjtieesa@gmail.com or can reply to this thread in comment box.

Thanking you in advance,

Jayesh Phad

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Robotics India – Robotics Community portal with forums, chat, downloads and information relevant to robotics.

Robot Tutorials for Beginners

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SeattleRobotics.org – The Seattle Robotics Society, one of the oldest and largest hobby robotics groups in the world.

GoRobotics.net Robotics resource website - robot news, projects, books, and club listings.

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Open Automaton Project at sourceforge.net

The Robot Hall of Fame

The OrionWiki – Specifically aimed at technical content; also: downloads and personal spaces for robot builders/hobbyists

Robots Forum Discussion forum for Robot builders

Cal Poly Robotics Club – Site includes project descriptions, tutorials, and development tools.

HobbyRobotics.org provides reviews and links to information for hobby roboticists.

If you too have some useful different links, you can add in comments box.

EESA is looking for Web Editors & Moderators for website

All EESA members are notified that EESA council is looking for 3 Web Editors & Moderators to maintain and update EESA Website.

Who we’re looking for:

• People who have easily available internet connection
• Intrested in searching department related articles and information
• People with good writing skills
• Intrested in learning web editing/ maintaining websites

A Plus:

• Web-Editing Knowledge (HTML)
• Blogging knowledge

Specially looking for FEs and SEs who are willing to learn web editing.Intrested students can reply to this message on the blog or can send their application at vjtieesa@gmail.com

-Jayesh Phad, General Secretary (EESA)

History of VJTI

: : History of VJTI

Established in 1887, the V. J. T. Institute started with only two departments, namely the Sir J. J. School of Mechanical Engineering and the Ripon Textile School for the two branches of industry in which Bombay was vitally interested at the time. The aim was to with a desire to meet the technical manpower requirements of Bombay. The first step in the expansion of the Institute was taken in 1903 when courses in Electrical Engineering were introduced. The Technical & Applied Chemistry Department was added in 1906 which was followed in 1914 by the Department of Sanitary Engineering. In 1913 by G. R. No. 1850 of 27th June, the institute was recognised by the Government of Bombay as the Central Technological Institute, Bombay Province. In the early days, the Institute was housed in Byculla in a building donated for the purpose by Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit. In the course of development, the Institute's building at Byculla proved insufficient for the growing number of students who sought admission and soon after the First World War in 1923, the Institute moved to its present and more commodious, specially constructed building at Matunga, which represents the most important landmark in the history of the Institute. This would not have been possible but for the liberal grants given by the Government and the Bombay Millowners' Association. A new block of northern light roof type construction was added in 1931 for housing the textile machinery and equipment which was obtained through the kind offices of Sir Ness Wadia.

The Bachelor Degree courses in Textile, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering were started In 1946,1947 and 1949 respectively The Institute is affiliated to the University of Bombay and was one of the fourteen institutes selected by the Central Government for further development with grant-in-aid from the Centre.

Prior to 1960 Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute was the only Institute offering Engineering degree and Post Graduate courses under the University of Bombay and enjoyed defacto autonomy. Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute has played a very vital role in curriculum development such as the introduction of new courses, framing their syllabi and their examination schemes at the University level.

In 1998, the Institute was renamed from its old name Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute to its present name Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute.