Dr. Bhushan T. Patil, Professor and Dean-Research and Development at Fr. CRCE, Department of Production Engineering has been honored with a prestigious ‘Special Award’ from the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering for continuous innovative development of Industrial Engineering in its operations and significant encouragement to the industries in India. He received this award during The 60th Diamond Jubilee Convention of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (Popularly known as IIIE) and International Conference on “Role of Industrial Engineering in Industry 4.0 Paradigm (ICIEIND)” organized by IIIE Odisha chapter in collaboration with Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), at Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) from 27th-30th September 2018.

Dr. Joseph Rodrigues from the Humanities and Sciences Department has been honored with 'Dr.S Radhakrishan Memorial awards 2017 - "The Best Teacher Award" from the International Human Rights Council.

For the last two decades; he has been teaching the English language to vernacular medium students belonging to the villages of Navi-Mumbai. His passion and devotion for teaching attracted many poor students from remote villages who were keen to develop their command on the English language. He also delivered guidance lectures to students appearing for SSC and HSC. He arouses love for English Language and grammar among students. Apart from this, he has been successful in inculcating human values with his teachings. Hence, he has been nominated by the International Human Rights Council and appreciated for his selfless work.

This is the fifth year of e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC). For the second consecutive year Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering was declared the winner in most innovative solution award category. The e-Yantra project is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, under the National Mission for Education through ICT, to provide hands-on learning infrastructure to students who have limited access to labs and mentors. The theme for this year's eYRC is 'Real World problem'. The competitors have to develop indigenous solutions using robotics for crop health monitoring, reaching out under hazardous waste handling and emergency services etc. It aims to make students aware about how technology can be used to solve many problems that we face in our day-to-day lives and also provide a common platform to showcase their talent.

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eYIC incredible performance

e-Yantra Ideas Competition (eYIC) seeks to identify and nurture potential entrepreneurs in the eYantra Labs that the project has set up throughout the country. Students are invited to submit a proposal to solve a local problem using their e-Yantra lab and after an intense process of selection and vetting, are permitted to go ahead and build the proposed system using their eYantra labs. Following a pre-selection in regional finals this year in Coimbatore, Ernakulum, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Noida, the 18 finalists present their implemented ideas at IIT Bombay on March 23-24, 2018. We are delighted to say that the team of Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Bandra with its project Automated Traffic Surveillance System, was one of the 18 finalists in the e-Yantra Ideas competition. This makes our team one of the top 2.83 percent of the contestants. It also won the Best Algorithm Design award.

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eYIC Press Release