Motto अम्रतँ तु विदय् Established 1995 Principal Dr. Prachi Gharpure | Type Unaided Affiliation Mumbai University | |
Former name Sardar Patel College of Engineering Unaided Wing | ||
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) is a research and engineering institute affiliated to Mumbai University. The Institute is reputed for excellent training in programs in engineering and technology at the certificate, degree, post-graduate and doctoral levels, as well as numerous well-regarded research works. Application for Autonomy is in process with Maharashtra State.
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Location
The institute is located in 47 acres of green campus at Munshi Nagar, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Campus, Andheri (West), Mumbai. The campus also houses three Bhavan’s Institutions of great repute namely Sardar Patel College of Engineering – Government aided Autonomous Engineering college, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, a management institute and Bhavan’s College (the Arts, Commerce and Science college).
History
In 1957, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan conceived the idea of establishing an engineering college in Mumbai. The Engineering Personnel Committee of the Planning Commission had made certain recommendations for the establishment of new engineering colleges and polytechnics, in order to increase the technical manpower in the country. The proposal of the Bhavan to start an engineering college was favorably received by both the Central and State Governments.
It was on 19 August 1962 that there was a huge gathering at the Bhavan’s Campus in Andheri. There was a mood of joy and festivity as thousands of students, parents and distinguished men and women from all walks of life came to take part in and witness an important and memorable function i.e. the inauguration of Sardar Patel College of Engineering by first and then Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kulpati Dr. K.M. Munshi, the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan trust. In 1995 Self Financed Engineering Course were added to it and it has been conducting Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology Courses from 1995-1996. These courses have earned a great reputation in the field of engineering education, as well as industry. The University of Mumbai desired that these self-financed courses be separated and housed in a separate building and developed as a separate self-financed entity. Thus Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Unaided Wing from year 2005-2006 is established in its new building under the name and style of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology and is affiliated to Mumbai University. The institute has a strong alumni base of 4000+ members. The institute celebrated 20 years of its contribution in the year 2015.
Vision
To build a renowned institute which will produce world class graduate engineers with social sensitivity.
Graduate Courses
Postgraduate Courses
Research / PhD
Faculty
It has the best teaching staff having experience in both academic as well as industry. Most of the faculties at the institute have more than 15 years of experience. 14 faculty members are Ph.Ds and other 20 are pursuing Ph.Ds.
Placements and Internships
The college attracts a good quality recruiters ranging from Fortune 500 to startups and from core technical to leading banks. The highest package offered is 18 l.p.a by Microsoft(location Hyderabad) and 17 l.p.a by Morgan Stanley(location Mumbai) for the batch 2015-2016. The average package is around 6.8 l.p.a for the batch 2015-16. Around 159 students received dream placements.
Student Bodies
The Students' Council is the primary student representative body. The general secretary and the cultural secretary are mainly responsible for the smooth conduct of these activities. They work under the guidance of the Vice President (who is a professor). The sports secretaries of the council also organize various sports events during the academic year.
Each stream has its own student body -
The college also supports entrepreneurship and has an Entrepreneurship-Cell(E-CELL) affiliated to National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN)
Informal Clubs & Associations
Shutterworks is an informal club that aims to promote the photography culture in the college. The basic idea behind this is to get a group of photography fanatics together, who exchange their knowledge about photography and enhance their skills.
It helps students improve their communication skills through a range of activities based on public speaking, group discussion, interviews, vocabulary and grammar games.
SPQC organizes quizzes focusing on sharpening thinking abilities of students in humorous and entertaining ways.
It has helped the students win national level debates and now stands firmly established as a club to encourage the debating culture.
The Brigade functions as a dynamic library and encourages direct interaction between book-lovers who can get their books directly from contributors.
It is a novel initiative aimed at educating its members in Astronomy and has also launched an astronomy magazine called “Anant”.
College Magazine and Online Newsletter - SPark
SPIT has its own annual college magazine and Online Newsletter named 'SPark' - What Ignites SP. It includes reports on the activities that have taken place in SPIT throughout the year, as well as articles and photographs. It was founded in 2013 by Soham Kanade.
College Festivals
SPIT hosts SPACE jointly with SPCE , which takes place in February every year. It is a 3-day professionally organized college festival and stands as one of the best college festivals hosted by an engineering college. It serves as an ideal platform for students all over the city to display their skills and talent through wide range of literary, fine art, performing arts and technical competitions. Udaan is the annual Cultural Festival Matrix is a 2-day Technical Festival of college with events like Laser Tag, Virtual Stock Market, Robotics, Hackathon, Fun Encrypted, Land Mafia and much more.
Robocon
The institute has a passionate robotics culture. The robotics team of the institute has been doing exceedingly well consistently over the past years. Robocon, a portmanteau for Robotic Contest, is an intellectual exercise for engineers determined to innovate and create machines for completing various tasks.
National Level Ranking:-
CodeChef
The institute conducts various coding competitions in association with CodeChef. The students are actively involved on CodeChef to solve various coding questions.
Facilities and Infrastructure
Scholarship / Freeship
Most of the students avail the facility of freeship or scholarship provided by various organisations such as :-
All this are subject to proper documents and term and conditions applicable in that year.
MoUs and Tie ups
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology started CRINE with the mission of driving innovation through learning from neurons. The objective of this center is to promote research in neuromorphic engineering, to promote collaboration between colleges and disciplines and to enhance industry institute interaction. The institute has also signed MOU with Eduvance and the center is supported by Cypress Semiconductors University Alliance Program. First time faculty and students from different departments of VJTI (Matunga), SPIT (Andheri) and Fr.CRCE (Bandra) started working together in multidisciplinary area.