REPORT ON AARUSH 2022

Padre Conceicao College of Engineering held its annual flagship industry-institution interaction, “AARUSH 2022,” on 24^th and 25^th June 2022. Conceived to enable interaction of the students with industry, alumni, and start-up/entrepreneurship personnel, AARUSH 2022 had an array of prominent speakers in the technical, management, and entrepreneurship domain. AARUSH 2022, held in collaboration with the Centre for Incubation and Business Acceleration (CIBA) and Visteon Corporation, had four keynote speakers, twelve alumni technical sessions, eight workshops, five entrepreneurship sessions, a project competition, and a panel discussion.

The event was inaugurated by Rev. Fr. Agnelo Gomes, Director, Agnel Technical Education Complex, who welcomed the audience for the industry-institution interaction and implored the students to make the best use of the event to enhance their knowledge. Dr. Mahesh Parappagoudar, Principal, PCCE, encouraged the students to network with the alumni and learn from their experiences. Dr. Pramod Maurya, Principal Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography, spoke about the work done by his team at NIO in the underwater domain and recalled his interaction with PCCE and students who worked with him on his projects. The Chief Guest, Karthik Shanmugam, Senior Manager, Visteon Corporation, congratulated PCCE on its silver jubilee and reiterated the commitment of Visteon Corporation to collaborate with the faculty and students of PCCE.

Karthik Shanmugam delivered the first keynote address on Trends in Automotive Technology, where he spoke about the exciting development in the domain of automotive technology. He also interacted with the students who will intern at Visteon in the subsequent semester. Dr. Pramod Maurya delivered the second keynote on the fundamentals of Marine Robotics and leveraging the concepts to develop efficient, autonomous, underwater vehicles. Hana Onderkova, IP Head, European Technology and Business Centre, New Delhi, delivered the third keynote session on the importance of Intellectual Property Rights in the context of start-ups and entrepreneurship. Dr. Nihar Amoncar, Assistant Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and alumni of the Information Technology Department of PCCE, delivered the fourth keynote session on the journey from idealization to commercialization of the start-up.

AARUSH 2022 invited twelve prominent alumni of PCCE from the industry to conduct an “Alumni Technical Session.” Yadnesh Sanzgiry, Project Manager, Optel Group, Nikita Aroskar, Senior Research, and Development Manager, Siemens India, and Divya Shettigar, Consultant, Zinov Management Consulting, were invited to deliver a technical session for the students of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. John Paul, Senior Creative Manager, Dassault Systemes, Donovan Vaz, Senior Engineer, Optel Group, and Domnic Paes, Chief Engineer, Anglo-Eastern, conducted alumni technical sessions for the Mechanical Engineering department. Leon Mesquita, Head of Professional Services, Open Destination Pvt. Ltd., Joshua Fernandes, Senior Systems Engineer, Axelerant, and Vernon Cabral, Senior Systems Engineer, Infosys, delivered alumni technical sessions for the Information Technology department. Soham Banerjee, Sales Lead, GoToMarket, Watermelon, Rajas Kakodkar, Software Engineer, VMware, and Aaron Gracias, Consultant, Cognizant, delivered the alumni technical session for the Computer Engineering department.

A number of hands-on workshops by industry personnel were held. Shubneet Kaur, Digital Marketing Win Home Inspection, Maverick Cardozo, Database developer, Trellisoft; Siddharth Prabhu Shirodkar, Team Lead, SJ Innovation; Pooja Raghmode, Software Engineer, Persistent Systems; Zarina Caeiro, RPA, and AI Engineer, Siemens, Nathan Moniz, Senior QA Engineer, E-Dot Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Celso Fernandes conducted workshops for the students of PCCE.

The Entrepreneurship Cell of PCCE invited Anandkumar Lotlikar, Proprietor, Deviant Strokes, Zain Khwaja, Fin-crime Manager, Revolut Pvt. Ltd, Karl Fernandes, Product Design Lead, Brandwatch, Dave Paiva, Numadic, Kennan Collaco, Vinit Sarode, and Averal Lourenco from Bluelearn to conduct sessions on Canvas Business Model, Role of Engineers in FinTech, Digital Product Design, Building a Minimum Viable Product, and Ideation.

Project competition was held for the Final year Engineering students to enable them to showcase their innovative work. Reena Fernandes, HOD, Agnel Polytechnic. Enrich Braz, Numadic, Subodh Borkar, Senior Manager, Infuse Computing, Agraj Nayak, Founder and CEO, ImagineWorks; Anup Barve, Senior Engineer, Siemens. Shruti Nadagouda, Senior Manager, Sun360, Madhav Ranganekar, COO and Manager,  SJ Innovation, and  Presley Dias, Client Group Director, Software Services at Creative Capsule were the judges for the project competition.

The event concluded with a panel discussion on “Future Skills for Employability”. The panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Stephen Barreto, Registrar, PCCE, and included Karthik Shanmugam, Senior Manager, Visteon Corporation, Dr. Joe Kurian, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept. of PCCE, Amit Tamba, CTO, FreeThink LLP, Atrinjay Kossambe, Senior Manager, Rosenberger, and Zain Khwaja, Fin-crime Manager, Revolut Pvt. Ltd .

AARUSH 2022 was coordinated by Shailesh Khanolkar, Research Development and Consultancy Centre, Dr. Joe Kurian, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering,  Razia Sardinha, Training and Placement Officer and Louella Mesquita, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department. They were assisted by Professors Saish Verekar, Flasio Colaco, Gaurak Phaldessai, Alzira Xavier,  Sanjeet Kanekar, Siddesh Sawant, Sharlaine Nicole Monteiro, Marvin Fernandes, Lance De Melo, Mahi Itagi,  Cynara Silvera, Nadia Fernandes, Pushparaj Pingulkar, Sonia Fernandes, Sulana Rebelo, Andrea D’Souza, Sneha Mhalsekar, and Shivani Lotlikar.