VCET Training and Placement

SEMESTER END PLACEMENT REPORT PART 2!

Fractal Analytics was a surprise addition to our line-up of companies this year and they did not fail to disappoint. 65 students made it through to the Interview Round on October 12 and 14 were finally chosen, a happy moment for our college given that FA has a 2% acceptance rate.

We were able to proudly host a pool campus drive for L&T Infotech on October 23rd for about 10 colleges from across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region with a whopping crowd of almost 400 in attendance. The entire placement process was completed on that very day and saw our team leave for home by about 11 PM(We weren't kidding about the late nights!)

And thus ends the story children. For now that is. We'll be back in action in a few weeks. Till then, study well and pass your board exams with flying colours. Who are we kidding. At least try opening that humungous reference book between Naruto reruns alright?!
All the very best.

And yeah, Happy Diwali!

Placement Report (Odd Semester 2015-16)!

We've been away for a bit, and for good reason and here's where you hear about the whole shebang.

For those who don't care a whit about fancily worded essays, here are the statistics:

Infosys: 60 offers
Capgemini: 68 offers
Fractal Analytics: 14 offers
Neosoft Technologies: 5 offers
Jacobs: 7 offers
Neebal: 5 offers
L & T Infotech : 24 offers
Total No. of Offers (As on 26/10/2015): 183

Day 1 began with Infosys and Capgemini on September 23 and October 3, with eligible students going through Aptitude Rounds on the day before.
The nervousness was palpable and Rajani Hall was the perfect venue. Both companies had their pick of students from the IT, COMPS, EXTC and MECH departments.

The pre-placement talks only sent the students' eagerness skyrocketing with all the fabulous descriptions of their wonderful work environments and the perks of being an employee (We look forward to their glowing descriptions once their tenure starts as well!)

Neebal arrived on October 13 and was much anticipated especially due to it being a 'No Criteria' company which meant that several more students with low academic scores but terrific technical skills had their opportunity.

Another surprise visitor was Jacobs(Off-campus interviews on October 10), which in an inadvertent turn of events ended up picking 7 students: all female from the mostly-male Mechanical department.

Congratulations to each one of our placed students, whose hard work and efforts have made this placement drive what it turned out to be and here's hoping you prove to be excellent resources to the company you join.
We'd especially like to thank the Principal and all the staff for extending every courtesy possible (including vacating cabins in the middle of a busy day) and helping us throughout the process. Your help is truly appreciated.

And finally to all those still awaiting an offer, remember, the best is yet to be.

P.S: For those wondering about our experience with L&T and Fractal Analytics, wait and see! :)

SO IT ENDS...AND BEGINS!

We're happy to report that final preparation weekend before the Day 1 placements(beginning on the 23rd with Infosys and Capgemini) was absolutely chock-a-block full of preparatory activities of all kinds this year!

Mock technical interviews, Personal Interviews, Course Revisions and Group Discussions were conducted for the final year students of the Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Mechanical, Instrumentation and Electronics departments on both the 19th and 20th of September.

Our interviewers were Mr. Nilesh Jain (from the INFT 2004 batch), Mr. Ullas Kerkeria (from the INFT 2007 batch), Mr. Sagar Trivedi and Mr. Mahesh Ambekar (from the INFT 2008 batch), Mr. Siddhesh Doiphode, Mr. Tejas Thakur and Mr. Kunal Bohra(from the INFT 2011 batch), Ms. Nikita Goel and Ms. Tejal Jani(from the COMPS 2012 batch).
Our thanks go out to our alumni for having dedicated their time and efforts to meticulously judge every student. Your success in your respective careers is an inspiration to us in a lot of ways.

Many thanks to Mr. Chirag Panchal for the conducting certification course revision lectures as well.
A shoutout to our very own, Prof. Mehul Khandhedia and Ms. Purvi Khandhedia for taking the time out to personally conduct Group Discussions and providing every form of guidance required.

Here's to setting the bar even higher, and absolutely shattering the placement record this time around!

SO IT ENDS...AND BEGINS!

We're happy to report that final preparation weekend before the Day 1 placements(beginning on the 23rd with Infosys and Capgemini) was absolutely chock-a-block full of preparatory activities of all kinds this year!

Mock technical interviews, Personal Interviews, Course Revisions and Group Discussions were conducted for the final year students of the Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Mechanical, Instrumentation and Electronics departments on both the 19th and 20th of September.

Our interviewers were Mr. Nilesh Jain (from the INFT 2004 batch), Mr. Ullas Kerkeria (from the INFT 2007 batch), Mr. Sagar Trivedi and Mr. Mahesh Ambekar (from the INFT 2008 batch), Mr. Siddhesh Doiphode, Mr. Tejas Thakur and Mr. Kunal Bohra(from the INFT 2011 batch), Ms. Nikita Goel and Ms. Tejal Jani(from the COMPS 2012 batch).
Our thanks go out to our alumni for having dedicated their time and efforts to meticulously judge every student. Your success in your respective careers is an inspiration to us in a lot of ways.

Many thanks to Mr. Chirag Panchal for the conducting certification course revision lectures as well.
A shoutout to our very own, Prof. Mehul Khandhedia and Ms. Purvi Khandhedia for taking the time out to personally conduct Group Discussions and providing every form of guidance required.

Here's to setting the bar even higher, and absolutely shattering the placement record this time around!

CALLING ALL VCET ALUMNI!
As part of our campus placement preparations this year, we have been organizing mock technical interviews for our final year students. We invite you, as an alumnus to contribute to the cause by conducting interviews for our students on the weekend on the 19th and 20th of September, 2015.
Do let us know if you would be interested and available.
Contact:
VCET Placement Committee: 9004882282
Email: [email protected]

The Placement Committee successfully conducted the first session of mock technical interviews and Group Discussions for the students of BE IT. Our thanks go out to our interviewers Mr. Sagar Trivedi and Mr. Allan Mascarenhas (both from the 2008 Information Technology batch at VCET) for having dedicated their time and efforts to meticulously judge every student.

Here's to the even more such efforts in the future!

Yet another 'powerful' victory!

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Chirag Raul, one of our students from BE Instrumentation has won the 2nd prize at the National Level Project Competition conducted at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology held on the 14th of August, 2015.

The prizewinning project titled 'Industrial Inverter with Server Control Power Distribution' attempts to reduce the need for manual gruntwork and reduces power usage in large-scale industries.

Chirag has previously won first place in the National Level Project Showcase held at VCET and has also presented a project(and stood among the top five) at COE, Pune.

Here's wishing one of our brightest students the best of luck for his upcoming projects and a spectacular future.
Go get 'em Chirag!

Yet another 'powerful' victory!

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Chirag Raul, one of our students from BE Instrumentation has won the 2nd prize at the National Level Project Competition conducted at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology held on the 14th of August, 2015.

The prizewinning project titled 'Industrial Inverter with Server Control Power Distribution' attempts to reduce the need for manual gruntwork and reduces power usage in large-scale industries.

Chirag has previously won first place in the National Level Project Showcase held at VCET and has also presented a project(and stood among the top five) at COE, Pune.

Here's wishing one of our brightest students the best of luck for his upcoming projects and a spectacular future.
Go get 'em Chirag!

We have a winner folks!

We are pleased as punch to inform you that Prof. Mehul Khandhedia, the Training and Placement officer at VCET has been named the winner in the Young Achievers category in the Career Guru Awards held at the National Employability Conclave, 2015.
These particular awards acknowledge the work done by a TPO to put an institute on the employability map, develop the quality of students and the promotion of marketable talent to name a few. We owe a lot of our success as a placement team to Prof. Mehul's efforts, innovations, easygoing guidance and staunch direction which has not only shown a marked increase in the number of placement offers but in the overall attitude towards Campus Interviews in the institute. Here's to this award being just one in a barrage to come!
Congratulations to you sir!

We have a winner folks!

We are pleased as punch to inform you that Prof. Mehul Khandhedia, the Training and Placement officer at VCET has been named the winner in the Young Achievers category in the Career Guru Awards held at the National Employability Conclave, 2015.
These particular awards acknowledge the work done by a TPO to put an institute on the employability map, develop the quality of students and the promotion of marketable talent to name a few. We owe a lot of our success as a placement team to Prof. Mehul's efforts, innovations, easygoing guidance and staunch direction which has not only shown a marked increase in the number of placement offers but in the overall attitude towards Campus Interviews in the institute. Here's to this award being just one in a barrage to come!
Congratulations to you sir!

Are we too predictable in our Android lock patterns?

After months—no, years— of security blogs telling us how dumb it is to choose easy to guess passwords such as password1234, we look for answers in ideas for strong authentication schemes. As for the Android pattern method of locking screens, one study coming from Norway suggests we're not exactly talking magic bullets.

Android lock patterns reveal a surprising degree of predictability. According to research, the patterns to lock and unlock Androids are not that complex. An overview of the research from Security Editor of Ars Technica, Dan Goodin, made the rounds of sites this week, when he reported "Data breaches over the years have repeatedly shown some of the most common passwords are "1234567", "password", and "letmein." Now, he said, a researcher's findings indicate that many Android Lock Patterns (ALPs) suffer a similar form of weakness.

Android Lock Patterns (ALPs) were welcomed in 2008 by many as a password alternative, taken as an innovative approach to lock your phone.

Sophos' John Zorabedian in Naked Security also noted that recently a researcher spent a year studying how people create lockscreen patterns, and she found interesting results.

Her study involved 3400 users and their selected lock patterns. Marte Løge, who is a technology analyst at Itera, presented her findings earlier this month at a conference in a talk titled "Tell me Who You Are and I Will Tell You Your Lock Pattern."

"A lockscreen pattern allows you to lock/unlock your device by swiping your finger on the screen - you draw a pattern that touches at least four and up to nine 'nodes.' With four-to-nine nodes, there are 389,112 possible patterns you could draw ," he wrote. That looks impressive but there is one problem, and it is entirely human.

Goodin of Ars Technica said that ALPs can contain as few as four nodes and a maximum of nine, but "Sadly, the minimum four-node pattern was the most widely created one by both male and female subjects, followed by five-node ALPs."

This human tendency shrinks the pool of available combinations. Goodin had more to report on her research results from the ALPs under analysis. "She found that a large percentage of them—44 percent—started in the top left-most node of the screen." Yet another factor making guessing easier is that more often than not, he added, patterns moved from left to right and top to bottom.

"More than 10 percent of the ones she collected were fashioned after an alphabetic letter, which often corresponded to the first initial of the subject or of a spouse, child, or other person close to the subject. The discovery is significant, because it means attackers may have a one-in-ten chance of guessing an ALP with no more than about 100 guesses."

Alex Drozhzhin in the Kaspersky Lab site noted another of her findings: People tend to use less strong patterns for their smartphones' lock screen then they use for online banking and even shopping apps.

Løge's suggestions to make ALPs more secure include choosing more nodes and higher complexity score and opening the Security category in Android settings and turning off the "make pattern visible" option.

New Year, New Team!

Upholding tradition and forming hierarchies has never been the forte of the Placement and Training Team at VCET.
Clichéd as it may sound, we attempt to outdo ourselves each year and form bonds that go beyond being Committee members.

True to form, we've successfully conducted the interviews for around 90 students who wished to be a part of the PAT team and are glad to welcome 22 new (and certain previously present) members to our ranks!

We also bid farewell to our 2014-15 B.E. Team. Your efforts have been instrumental in making the team what it is today. Wishing you success in all your future endeavours!

To the present team, the upcoming placement season is going to test your mettle in every possible way. Late nights, demanding students and lots of chai await you; May the odds be ever in your favour!