VEERMATA JIJABAI TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

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'Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute' ('VJTI') (established 1887) is one of India's premier engineering and technical institutes, located in Mumbai, India and attracts top talent. Until 26th January 1997 it was known as the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute.
VJTI was ranked '9th best in the country' (among engineering colleges) in an India Today survey in 1999 [1]
VJTI, is a part of the University of Mumbai and its degrees are issued by the University, but the institution is no longer under the administrative purview of the university, since being granted autonomy in July, 2004.

Contents

VJTI Board Of Governors

Departments

Admissions

Distinguished Alumni

Cultural activities

External links

See also

VJTI Board Of Governors

After being awarded autonomous status,VJTI now has a board of governors comprising of following persons:

★ Nusli Wadia (''Chairman''). Chairman, Bombay Dyeing Ltd.

★ Anil Kakodkar. Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India

★ Ashok R. Joshi. Director, Indian Institute of Cost & Management Studies & Research

★ A. P. Kudchadkar. Director, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

★ Ashok Mishra. Director, Indian Institute of Technology

★ Jamshedji Irani. Director, Tata Sons Ltd.

★ Dinshaw Petit. Nominee of The Framji Dinshaw, N. M. Petit Memorial Fund

★ Joyce Shankaran. Principal Secretary, Higher and Technical Education, Govt. of Maharashtra

★ N. B. Pasalkar. Director of Technical Education

Departments

★ Civil and Environmental Engineering

★ Computer Technology

★ Electrical and Electronics Engineering

★ Humanities and Management

★ Mathematics

★ Mechanical Engineering

★ Physics

★ Production Engineering

★ Structural Engineering

★ Technical and Applied Chemistry

★ Textile Manufacturing

Admissions

★ As of now,VJTI admits students for undergraduate programmes based on their scores in the MH-CET conducted by the Government of Maharashtra.

★ Admissions for postgraduate programmes are through GATE or sponsorship.

★ MCA admissions are based on the scores in the MCA-CET.

★ Diploma admissions are based on marks obtained in the class 10 examination.

Distinguished Alumni

Corporate Heads:

★ Renuka Ramnath - Managing Director, ICICI Venture, India

★ Amit Chandra - Former Managing Director, DSP Merrill Lynch Limited, India (He, now, opened up own Private Equity Fund, together with Rajat Gupta, MD of McKinsey International)

★ Keval Desai - Director, Product Management, Google Inc., USA

★ Rahul Kulkarni - Product Manager, Google Inc., India

★ Chari, Ram (Ramabhadran) Srinivas - Program Manager, Marketing Systems, US Postal Service - USPS. Washington, DC., USA

★ Bhatia, Narendra (Naren) Kumar - (Retd.) Vice President of Engineering & Construction, CMS Energy, Michigan, USA

★ Salgaonkar Jagdish B - Vice President, CH2M HILL Inc., USA

★ Avtar Saini - Vice President Asia Operations, Topspin Communications, Inc. Former Director for South Asia, Intel
Government Heads:

★ Jayant Patil - Minister of Finance, Government of Maharashtra

★ Dr. Anil Kakodkar - Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Government of India

★ Chaggan Bhujbal - Minister of Public Works Department, Government of Maharashtra
Academic Heads:

★ Sridharan, R. - Senior Staff, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, USA

★ Dr. Amit Deokar - Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, USA

★ Iyer, Mani (formerly P.S. Mani) - Director, Office of Intellectual Property, Louisiana State University

★ Dr. Gajanan M. Sabnis - Professor of Civil Eng at Howard University, USA

★ Dalal, Vikram - Director, Microelectronics Research Centre and Thomas Whitney Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa ,USA

★ Poras Balsara - Associate Department Chair for Graduate Affairs and Director, Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

★ Kotak, Dilip - Group Leader, Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council, Canada

★ Gupchup Vijay - Former Principal & Secretary, VJTI ,Former Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Bombay, Ex Chairman of the Research Council of the Structural Engg. Research Centre in Chennai & EX Chairman of the National Board of Accreditation of the AICTE, New Delhi

★ V.B.Nikam - Assistant Professor & Head of Department, Department of Information Technology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University(DBATU),Lonere India
Entrepreneurs:

★ Gandhi, Kirti A. - Gandhi Engineering, Inc. New York, USA.

★ Govind RamMurthy - CEO, Microworld Technologies, USA and India

★ Suhrud Dagli - Co Founder, Newsbreak Inc., USA
Technical Expertise:

★ Pervez Bharucha, CTO Silicon Interfaces Pvt Ltd,India

Cultural activities

College Events:

★ ''Enthusia'' - Sports festival

★ ''Pratibimb'' - Cultural festival

★ ''Chetna'' - College Hostel festival

★ ''Technovanza'' - Technical festival

★ ''PULSE'' - MCA festival
The college magazine is called ''Nirmaan''.

External links

★ Official Site of VJTI

★ VJTI Alumni site

★ VJTI on WikiMapia

★ Official Site of Enthusia '07

★ Official Technovanza '06 website

★ IEEE-VJTI Student Branch website

See also

★ List of Mumbai Colleges

★ Matunga

★ Wadala

★ Timeline of Mumbai events