RECOGNITION

Students Recognition 2024-2025


  • Mrunmai Paktekar volunteered for the Street Play Competition Drishtikon 2024 organised by DBIT-NSS unit in collaboration with Mumbai Suburbs Zone - III University of Mumbai at DBIT on 25 September 2024.
  • Aakash Belgaonkar (TE) completed a 4 week virtual internship in “Python Development” at Pinnacle Labs from 23 December 2024 to 22 January 2025.
  • Mrunmai Paktekar (SE) attended Roboton Workshop on 4-5 March 2025 during Colosseum 2025 - Technical Festival at DBIT.
  • Mrunmai Paktekar participated in the Euphoria Marathon 2025 organised in DBIT.
  • Mrunmai Paktekar secured 1st place in the 4x100 m relay and the 1st place in Pot Painting competition organised during Euphoria 2025 in DBIT.
  • Om Hindalekar (TE) secured 3rd Rank in the Techbate 2K25-National Level Technical Debate Competition organised by IETE-SF, K.C. College of Engineering & Management Studies & Research, Thane, on 27 March 2025.
  • Vinay Parihar (TE) completed the following courses:
    • Foundations of Cybersecurity, an online non-credit course authorized by Google and offered through Coursera.
    • Introduction to Generative AI, an online non-credit course authorized by Google and offered through Coursera.
    • Data Science: Machine Learning, a course of study offered by HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University.
  • Ann Vincent (BE) completed the Robotics & Automation Program under Disha Employability Program of Godrej Enterprises Group CSR Initiative conducted by Centum Foundation.
  • Ann Vincent, Aman Mohammed Khan (BE) have been awarded the Certificate of Honour for their leadership and dedication as the Training & Placement Coordinators for the academic year 2024-2025.
  • Yashi Nimje (TE) participated in AgentX, a Hackathon conducted under “Icarus” Fest of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai on 24 March 2025.
  • Yashi Nimje (TE) participated in Innov8 3.0 Hackathon organised during Avalon Techfest 2025 on 20-21 March 2025 at Terna Engineering College, Navi Mumbai.
  • Ann Vincent (BE), Bhavesh Patil (BE), Aditya Murbade (BE) under the guidance of Ms. Pratibha Dumane secured the 2nd Rank along with a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- in the National Level Paper Presentation Competition organised by Smt. Indira Gandhi College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, in collaboration with CSDC IOTech Club during their annual techfest “Enlightenment” on 26 September 2024.
  • Yash Manoj Garje (BE) & Rohit Mali (BE) under the guidance of Dr. Ashwini Kotrashetti & Ms. Freda Carvalho secured the 2nd Rank along with a cash prize of Rs. 8000/- in the “InnoVant 2025” organised by IETE KJS-ISF in association with IQAC-KJSSE & SVU”
  • Ann Vincent (BE) under the guidance of Ms. Hemalata Mote secured the BEST PAPER AWARD for “Face Detection Performance Improvement via Slicing Aided Hyper Inference” in the 2025 1st Global Conference on Cognitive Computing and Communication Technology GC4T - 2025) & DPU TechConnect 1.0 organised in collaboration with IEEE Pune Section on 04-05 April 2025 at Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Science & Technology Tathawade-Pune, India

Students Recognition 2023-2024


  • Kshitija Zodge (TE) participated in the online course on “Overview of Remote Sensing Technology” conducted by ISRO under Shiksha Gagan Programme in June 2023.
  • Kshitija Zodge (TE) attended the 12 hour online WGCapD Webinar Series on “Geoprocessing using Python” conducted by Indian Institute of Remote Sending (IIRS), ISRO from 17 - 28 July 2023.
  • Rutvik Patil (TE), Premkumar Singh (TE) and Suhani Sawant (TE) secured the 4th prize in the 2023 R10 Robotics Competition Stage 1 organised by IEEE Bombay Section’s Student Activities Committee at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai on 02 August 2023.
  • Shafik Shaikh (TE), Girish Sangare (TE), Faiz Chougule (TE) secured 2nd position in the Water Rocket Competition organised by IEEE-AESS VIT in collaboration with IEEE-AESS SPIT on 14 October 2023
  • Aryan Anand Arde (SE), Gavin Sunil Lobo (SE), Zubia Nisar Sarang (SE), Kartik Dileepkumar Dandelia (SE) secured the 3rd position in the Water Rocket Competition organised by IEEE-AESS VIT in collaboration with IEEE-AESS SPIT on 14 October 2023.
  • Annanya Zadbuke (TE), Khushi Shetty (TE) received a certificate for active participation in IB-SYWLC’23.
  • Nimesh Ambre (BE), Raveena Pitale (BE), Prajeet Rao (BE) participated in 18th Aavishkar - Inter Collegiate /Institute/ Department Research Convention (Zonal Round) organised by the University of Mumbai at Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology, Mumbai on 15 December 2023.
  • Priyanshukumar Singh (SE) completed the online Professional Certificate Google Cybersecurity Course consisting of eight courses, developed by Google in January 2024.
  • Aakash Belgaonkar undertook the following online certificate courses authorised by Google and offered through Coursera:
    • Foundations of Cybersecurity (27 January 2024)
    • Play it Safe: Manage Security Risks (03 February 2024)
    • Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security (28 February 2024)
    • Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL (27 March 2024)
    • Sound the Alarm:Detection & Response (30 May 2024)
    • Assets Threats & Vulnerabilities (30 May 2024)
    • Put it to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs (30 May 2024)
    • Automate Cybersecurity Task with Python (30 May 2024)
    • Google AI essentials through Coursera (03 June 2024)
  • Siddhant Kedar (BE), Pranjali Raval (BE), Amogh Worlikar (BE), Sarika Galphade (BE) participated in “Industry Innovation Meet (West Zone) - Project Exhibition” jointly organised by IETE Navi Mumbai and Mumbai Center on 17 February 2024 at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai.
  • Nimesh Ambre (BE), Raveena Pitale (BE) and Prajeet Rao (BE) were one of the top 9 selected teams of a total of 27 teams for the preliminary round held on 18 February 2024 of YESIST’12 2024, organised by IEEE and IEEE AESS Student branch chapter of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
  • Rutvik Patil (TE), Dibyarupa Pradhan (TE), Aditya Jadhav (TE), Mohd. Raza Ansari (TE), Shafik Shaikh (TE), Girish Sangare (TE), participated in the 11th Go Kart Design Challenge held in Coimbatore between 16 -19 February 2024, also represented Xanthium Racing team of DBIT under EV category and Premkumar Singh (TE) & Mayuri Kadam (TE) represented DBIT's Xanthium racing team in the CV category.
  • Anup Chiplunkar (TE) received a Certificate of Achievement for developing the game “Flying Voyager” during Teknack 2024 at DBIT organised from October 2023 to February 2024.
  • Ann Vincent Chittilappilly (TE) completed the online certificate course on “Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs”, certified by Google and offered by Coursera (5 May 2024).

Students Achievements in Hysteria’ 23- the Annual Cultural & Sports Festival
  • Annanya Zadbuke (TE) secured the First Prize in Regional Dance
  • Harsh Dusane (SE) secured the Third Place in Elocution Competition

Students Recognition 2022-2023


  • Needhi Kamble participated in a one day “First Responder Training” conducted by Disaster Management Department of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai organised on 09 April 2022.
  • Benish Christo (TE) successfully completed the online course on “Automating Real-World Tasks with Python” authorised by Google and offered through Coursera.
  • Shreyas Nanaware (TE) successfully completed the online “Crash Course on Python” authorised by Google and offered through Coursera.
  • Benish Christo, Shreyas Nanaware (TE) participated in the Impact Session on “Incubation and Pre-Incubation” and “IPR and Patenting” held on 14 July 2022, organised by the MHRD’s Innovation Cell, AICTE, MOE’s IIC and Don Bosco Institute of Technology IIC, Mumbai.
  • Kajal Sathe, Shreeya Pimple (TE) participated in the Impact Session on “Women Entrepreneurship” held on 29 July 2022, organised by the MHRD’s Innovation Cell, AICTE, MOE’s IIC and Don Bosco Institute of Technology IIC, Mumbai.
  • Umer Rafique Shaikh (TE) represented the institute in the Zonal Basketball Tournament organised by University of Mumbai on 09 October 2022 and Conquer 2023 Basketball Tournament organised by NMIMS on 17-19 March 2023.
  • Umer Rafique Shaikh (TE) participated in the conference on Sustainability Inquiry and Investigation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 06 from 4-6 January 2023 jointly hosted by Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru and IUCEE Foundation.
  • Umer Rafique Shaikh (TE) was selected as a Volunteer for Eu-Reka 22, the flagship event of IEEE Pune Section.
  • The team consisting of Mustansir Chittalwala, Shafik Shaikh, Girish Sangare (SE-EXTC), Aveesah Siddiqui (SE-Comp) secured the Second Prize in the Competition on “Designing Website for Solo Women Adventure Travel” organised by IEEE DBIT Chapter on 16 March 2023 under Colosseum 2023.
  • Winners of HAM Radio Workshop and Fox Hunt conducted by the Dept. of Electronics & Telecommunications Engg. IEEE in collaboration with IETE on 31 March 2023 and 01 April 2023 in DBIT:
    • 1st Rank: Shivam Sharma, Pooja Verma (TE)
    • 2nd Rank: Satyam Shukla, Gouresh Sankhe and Shivraj Shetty (T.E.)
    • 3rd Rank: Nitish Chavan, Jignesh Bhandi, Rakshita Khantwal, Kshtiij Bare (TE)
  • Participants of 17th Aavishkar Inter-Collegiate Research Convention (Zonal Round) Engineering & Technology Category (UG Level) organised by the University of Mumbai at Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Mumbai on 23 December 2022:
    • Nanaware Shreyas Sanjay, Dmello Russel Joachim, Kumar Sanskar Praful, Sakshi Kaveri (TE) presented a research project titled “Automatic PCB Driller”.
    • Waghmare Abhishek Manik, Varshney Lovely, Sharma Divya, Pansare Dhanshree Prakash (TE) presented a research project titled “Score Control Watch”.
    • Shaikh Umer Rafique, Khantwal Rakshita Rajeev, Rao Adarsh Jaishankar, Sankhe Gouresh Vikas (TE) presented a research project titled “Bosco Grip Kart”.
  • Adarsh Rao, Hafizi Mohammed Bazaid, Pooja Verma, Sakshi Kaveri, Sanskar Kumar, Vaishnav Nadar, Zoya Shaikh (TE) completed the 10 hours online Soft Skills Training on Interview Readiness organised by NPTEL from 17-21 January 2023
  • Zoya Shaikh, Kajal Sathe, Shreeya Pimple, Nidhi Kamble (TE), Chaitanya Dhangar (SE) attended the Workshop on “Why Women Deserve Better Designs?” on 16 March 2023 during the DBIT Annual Technical Festival Colosseum 2023.
  • Kajal Sathe, Needhi Kamble (TE) received a Volunteer Appreciation Certificate in recognition of her dedicated service in various activities throughout the year 2022-23.
  • Shreyas Nanaware (TE) participated in the Robotics Workshop conducted by IETE-DBIT-ISF as part of the DBIT Annual Festival - Colosseum on 13-14 March 2023.
  • A total of 68 students participated in the HAM Radio Workshop and Fox Hunt conducted by the Dept. of Electronics & Telecommunications Engg. IEEE in collaboration with IETE on 31 March 2023 and 01 April 2023 in DBIT.
  • Kajal Sathe, Shreeya Pimple, Needhi Kamble, Hafizi Mohammed Bazaid (TE) and Chaitanya Dhangar (SE) attended the Workshop on “Career in HVAC Industry” conducted by Daikin Japanese Institute of Manufacturing Excellence on 13 January 2023.
  • Yash Garje, Pooja Kadam (SE) were Resource Persons for the “Robo-Wars Workshop” organised on 13-14 March 2023 during Colosseum 2023.
  • Chaitanya Dhangar (SE) received a Certificate of Achievement for successfully developing and deploying CAN-SAT at the CAN-Satellite Workshop conducted by Black Hole Space Tech at DBIT on 13-14 March 2023.
  • Annanya Zadbuke and Khushi Shetty (SE) attended the IEEE Bombay Section's Student, Young Professionals, Women-In-Engineering And Life Member Congress 2023 (IB-SYWLC 2023) during 23 - 25 June 2023.

Students Achievements during Hysteria’ 23 - the Annual Cultural & Sports Festival at Don Bosco, Kurla
  • Anuj Dhumal (TE) secured First Place in the Carrom Singles (Boys) Event and Third Place in Carrom Doubles.
  • Umer Shaikh (C), Pratham Amare, Rushikesh Gosavi, Jignesh Bandi, Kshitij Bare (TE), Nikhilesh Tuma, Saud Khan, Faiz Chougule, Prathamesh Tadas, Mayur Sonar (SE) secured First Rank in Box Cricket.
  • Kajal Sathe (TE) secured Second Rank in Javelin Throw (Girls).
  • Gouresh Sankhe (TE) secured Third Rank in Tug of War (Boys).
  • Needhi Kamble secured Third Rank in Discus Throw (Girls).
  • Disha Maggu, Needhi Kamble, Pranjali Rawal, Kajal Sathe (TE) and Khushi Shetty, Annanya Zadbuke, Suhani Sawant, Palak Tiwari, Mayuri Kadam (SE) secured Third Rank in Throwball.
  • Needhi Kamble, Kajal Sathe, Pranjali Raval, Rakshita Khantwal (TE), Suhani Sawant, Ananya Zadbuke, Palak Tiwari, Khushi Shetty (SE) secured Second Rank in Volleyball.

Students Recognition 2021-2022


  1. Rakshita Khantwal, Sarika Galphade, Adarsh Rao secured the Second, Third and Consolation Prize in the Technical Writing Competition conducted by IETE-DBIT-ISF on behalf of IETE Mumbai Centre as part of the IETE Student’s Day Celebration on 01 February 2022.
  2. Pratham Amare, Pratham Koturwar, Bhagyesh Manjrekar secured the First Prize in Technical Treasure Hunt Competition organized under Oscillations 2022.
  3. Rohit Gupta, Kshitij Bare, Nitish Chavan secured the Second Prize in Technical Treasure Hunt Competition organized under Oscillations 2022.
  4. Satyam Shukla, Jay Dulange, Leroy Rodrigues secured the Third Prize in Technical Treasure Hunt Competition organized under Oscillations 2022.

Students Recognition 2020-2021


  • Harshal Rathod secured the Second Prize in the Intercollegiate ‘Poster Making Competition’ organized by IETE-ISF-DBIT in March 2020.
  • Harshal Rathod, Atharva Bondre, Bhushan Kolhe and Cromwell Mendes secured 4th position at the National Level Hackathon “MegaHack 2.0”, organized by St. John College of Engineering and Management, Palghar on April 09-10, 2021.
  • Khan Abdul Rehman and Rameshwar Chavan secured 9th rank in the National Level “Street Play Competition” at Spring Fest Organised by IIT-Kharagpur in January 2020.
  • Khan Abdul Rehman and Rameshwar Chavan were selected for the finals of Start-a-Thon, Pan-India Start-Up Competition Organised by Sardar Patel Technology Business Incubator in August 2020.
  • Merlin Tomy, Ajitha Rajkumar, Shubhangi Katariyar, Anuranjini Komban were selected for the final evaluation stage in “Competition for Budding Innovators” conducted by IEEE BS SIGHT in collaboration with Bombay Section SAC during November 2020 - February 2021.
  • Merlin Tomy successfully completed the 7-Days Bootcamp on “Python and Machine Learning” organized by Charusat University of Science and Technology - AWS Students Club and Shapeai and a certification course on “Fundamentals of Digital Marketing” organized by Google Digital Unlocked on February 14,2021. She also successfully completed the Certification Course on “Fundamentals of Digital Marketing” organized by Google Digital Unlocked held on February 14, 2021.
  • Ajitha Rajkumar was selected as IEEE Bombay Section 2021 PES Day Ambassador.
  • Abdul Rehman Khan has successfully completed Online Certification Courses in “Email Marketing Basics” and “Body-Building Blueprint” conducted by Career Development College London, UK from April 3-17, 2021, a 03-week Certification Course on “Professional Digital Photography” conducted by Lingaya's Lalit Devi Institute Of Management and Science, Mandi, New Delhi from March 20, 2021 -April 10, 2021 and has acquired competency in the One-week Online Course on “Dynamic and Global Aspects of Business Strategy Management”, conducted by Global Institute of Business Studies from April 11-18, 2021.
  • Magdeline James from T.E. – EXTC secured Rank 3 in the Technical Paper Presentation organized during Colosseum – the DBIT Annual Technical Festival.

Students Recognition 2019-2020


  • Participation in Robocon-2020: A team of 35 students from Electronics & Telecommunications, Mechanical & Computer Engineering has been selected to take part in International Competition Robocon-2020 organized by Asia Broadcasting Union (ABU) in collaboration with Doordarshan India.
  • Participation in CANSat 2020: A team of 8-10 students from Electronics & Telecommunications, Mechanical & Computer Engineering has been selected to take part in International Competition CANSat-2020 organized by American Astronautical Society (AAS) in collaboration with NASA.
  • Participation in 14th Intercollegiate/Institute/Department Avishkar Research Convention 2020 (District Zone Level Research Project Competition) organized by the University of Mumbai: The research project “Televoting System for Rural Development using VSAT” by Brayan Dialle, Kevin D'Souza, Ryan Fernandes was selected for participation in District Zone.
  • Mr. Saurabh Chaubey, Ms. Ashita Serrao, Ms. Srishti Singh, Mr. Bhushan Kolhe, Mr. Harshal Rathod, and Mr. Cromwell Mendes were the Quarterfinalists in AICTE, DST and Texas Instruments India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2019, anchored by IIM, Bangalore
  • Mr. Bhushan Kolhe, Mr. Abhiram Pillai, Mr. Adish Sthalekar and Mr. Harshal Rathod participated in the Pravega Hackathon 2020 held at IISc Bangalore.
  • Mr. Harshal Rathod, Mr. Cromwel Mendes and Mr. Bhushan Kolhe secured second position in the event “Pirates of the Paradigm” in KIRAN 2019 held at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Mumbai on September 18-19, 2019.

Students Recognition 2018-2019


  1. Tanmay Kumbhar, Selena Dias, Caroline Pinto, Tyrel Menezes, Pratibha Dumane, “Implementation of Sequential Machine for Encryption of Textual Information”, published in International Journal of Engineering & Technology, Vol 7, No 3.3 (2018), Special Issue 3, pages 28-30, DOI: 10.14419/ijet.v7i3.3.14477, Published on: 21-06-2018, ISSN: 2227-524X.
  2. Nishi Parameshwara, Jhukhirtha Marhi, Poonam Chakraborty, “Hardware Prototype Design for Real-Time Collision Detection and Prevention Application of VANET”, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 9, Issue 7, pg. 530- 535, July-2018, ISSN 2229-5518.
  3. Justine Ayroor, Valency Colaco, Madhavi S. Pednekar, “Design and Implementation of a Solar Dryer for Food Industries”, International Conference on Recent Trends in Sustainable Technologies (ICRTST - 2018), Mumbai, July 21-22, 2018. Published in International Journal of Applied Science and Computations, Volume 5- Issue 10 (2018), Page No: 768-773, published in October - 2018, DOI: 16.10089.JASC.2018.V5I10.453459.14906, ISSN NO: 1076-5131.
  4. Harshada Khandagale, Daniya Quadros, Sudhakar Mande, “Study of Impact of Solar Cell Mismatch of the Performance of PV Module Using PSpice”, Journal of Applied Science and Computation ISSN No. 1076-5131, Vol.5, Issue No. 10, October 2018.
  5. Kawarjeet Yadav, Lakshmi V., M. Iqbal, Sudhakar Mande, “Variability Aware Performance Analysis of CMOS 1-Bit Adder Circuits”, Journal of Applied Science and Computation ISSN No. 1076-5131, Vol.5, Issue No. 10, October 2018, P-825-828.
  6. Blaisey Soj, Vineet Suvarna, Glenn Rodrigues, Rose Basi, Anjum Khan, “Design and Implementation of Multiband Antenna for Wireless Communication”, Asian Journal of Convergence in Technology, Vol. IV, Issue II, November 2018, ISSN No. 2350-1146I. F. - 5.11.
  7. Aabidi Ali, Anas Shaikh, Ghazi Owais, Bilal Hungund, Pratibha Dumane, “Automated System for Management of Examination Processes”, 3rd International Conference on Nascent Technologies in Engineering (ICNTE 2019), Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai, January 4-5, 2019.
  8. Madhavi S. Pednekar, Umesh Pendurkar, Aishwarya Kotian, Rutuja Shelar, “Efficient & Cost Effective Water Quality Testing System”, 4th International Conference on Computing in Engineering & Technology”, ICCET-2019 under the aegis of TEQIP-III by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University (BATU), Lonere and D.I.E.M.S. at Aurangabad published in Springer "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)", January 9-11, 2019.
  9. Satishkumar S. Chavan, Carl Fernandes, Pratibha R. Dumane, Satishkumar L. Varma, “Design and Implementation of Automatic Coin Dispensing Machine”, 2nd Edition of International Conference on Communications and Cyber Physical Engineering (ICCCE – 2019), Raisoni College of Engineering & Management, Wagholi, Pune, February 1-2, 2019.
  10. Kyle Pereira, Mahesh Hatle, Biswarup Palodhi, Rajkumar Nadar, Naheed Anjum Khan, "Design and Development of a Pick & Place InfoTech Rover for Metal Detection",presented in Prakalpa 2019, K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai, March 22, 2019.
  11. ohan Juvale, Mansi Nikam, Sagar Virkar, Aditya Singh, Namita Agarwal, "Index Modulation in 5G Networks" in 4th International Conference on "Recent Advances and Challenges in Engineering and Management" (RACEM 2019), Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, March 29-30, 2019.
  12. Aldan Sequeira, Naman Koul, Ankush Kumar, Edlyn Wessely, Gejo George, Poonam Chakraborty," Fuel level Detector", 2nd International Conference on Systems, Computation, Automation and Networking (ICSCAN 2019), organized by Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry in association with IEEE Madras Section, March 29-30, 2019.
  13. Rachel Pol, Priyanka Sharma, Dhanashri Sawant, Bhoomika Purohit, Pratibha Dumane, “Use of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) for the Implementation of a Speaker Recognition System”, 4th International Conference on "Recent Advances and Challenges in Engineering and Management" (RACEM 2019), Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, March 29-30, 2019.
  14. Sanjana Patil, Mrinali Parida, Rahul Panchal, Atharva Pande, Vedant Shrungarpawar, Rachita Nair, Shreya Nair, Jenny Nadar, Yogesh Gholap, “Semi-Autonomous Pneumatic Pick-Place and Autonomous Electrically Actuated Quadrupled Robots”, 4th International Conference on "Recent Advances and Challenges in Engineering and Management" (RACEM 2019), Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, March 29-30, 2019.
  15. Raveen Ezhuthachan, Tanuja Mehra, Jenifer Menachery, Amey More, Jithin Isaac, “Energy Usage Monitoring of Household Energy Meter using LoRaWAN Technology”, 2nd International Conference on Advances in Science and Technology (ICAST 2019), K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology (KJSIEIT), Mumbai, April 8 - 9, 2019.
  16. Rochelle D'Sa, Kelvin Lewis, Jovita Pereira, Vicky Thomas and Satishkumar Chavan, "Comparative Analysis of Lung Segmentation Techniques," Elsevier International Conference on Communication and Information Processing (ICCIP-2019), Pune, 2019.