Departments

Vision:

• To create professionally competent and globally acceptable IT engineers with social awareness.

Mission:

• Educating budding engineers for, industry, academia, research and entrepreneurial pursuit through rigorous implementation of IT curriculum.
• Inculcating IT skills to develop innovative solutions relevant to global issues
• Imparting values to practice social and professional ethics.

HOD's Message:

Department of Information Technology is established in 2002-03 with an intake of  60 to impart quality education in IT with stated vision and mission. Gradually that intake has been increased to 180.  The department is accredited by NBA.

Information Technology plays a vital role in helping organizations to achieve profitable results and keep competitive forces in check. Keeping this objective in mind, young mindsets are educated here with full academic rigor to convert them into effective IT professionals. With the help of best of the infrastructure and the proper action plan, we train and educate engineers of outstanding ability who can become leaders in their profession. We also associate closely with industrial leaders to help students in undertaking programs needed in their respective domains. This sort of focused efforts definitely helped all our students from overall development of the students.

The department is instrumental in conducting various technical and non-technical activities for students as well as faculty members. The focus is not only technical stuff but also moral values, ethics, professionalism and so. Regular classes of latest technologies are being conducted for students. On a continuous basis, students are made aware about the latest industry trends and needs in various technological domains. Well-motivated competent faculty members are always engaged in student’s welfare. Encouragement and guidance is offered to the students for participating in sports and various extracurricular activities to highlight and strengthen their non-technical skills. As an outcome, department has brought different laurels for the department. Our academic rigor, Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) Approach in all sorts of activities aspects have made this department to be a one of the best choice for UG admission aspirants.

Department Programme is autonomous programme and in true sense, we are taking advantage of autonomy. Autonomy gives freedom to design the curriculum. While designing the curriculum, an enough care is taken to ensure that it is as per the need of today and futuristicmarket point of view. The curriculum is designed at par with the need of industry. The industry inputs are taken into consideration in each and every course. The Curriculum has features like Industry connect, research associations, semester long internship, live industry problem solving, electives, open elective to support interdisciplinary approach.

The current semester 2020-21 will be in online mode due to COVID-19 pandemic situation. We too have experience the shifting from regular classroom teaching towards virtual kind of online teaching, but for us at VIIT, it was smooth transition as partially during our content delivery we adapted flipped classroom, other teaching pedagogy and online assessment tools.

We will resume with our regular on campus teaching as soon as it is been notified by the Government of Maharashtra, adopted by SPPU and then again adopted by our  institute.

Dr. Pravin Futane

Head, Information Technology

Department Profile
	Program Name	B.Tech. - Information Technology
	Nature of Program	Full Time
	Duration	04 Years
	Current Intake	180

 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEPARTMENT:

• Department of Information Technology is NBA Accredited since 2015 and in the same year it has got NACC accreditation with A grade
• Department is ISO certified since 2006
• Programme have adopted Outcome Based Education (OBE) to bring changes to the curriculum by dynamically adapting to the requirements of the different stake holders like Students, Parents, Industry Personnel and Recruiters.
• Dynamic autonomy Curriculum design and development with support from Industry.
• Good Consistent improvements in Quality Placements. Average salary is Rs. 7.99 lpa.
• CSI student chapter received "Best Accredited Student Brach award" for region VI for year 2017-18 and 2018-19
• Department implements best teaching and learning process to achieve outcome based education.
• Regular FDPs, Seminars, Conferences, Training are conducted to empower both students and faculty members

BEST PRACTICES IN THE DEPARTMENT:

• Academic Rigor with Plan-Do-Check-Act and Student-centric learning is followed in the department
• Six-month long Internship is for all students either Industry or Research Internship.
• Almost 75% projects are industry offered
• Use of ICT tools, Project Based Learning, Flipped Classroom…etc
• Industry Offered Courses taught by Industry expert.
• Contribution of Industry, Academia expert in all courses from contents framing to delivery of those courses.
• Research aptitude inculcated and driven by Special Interest Group’s (SIG) and curriculum support.

OUTCOME STATISTICS for last three years:

• Consistent good results.
• More than 75% projects are industry offered.
• Average 85% placements. Median salary is 7.99 lpa.
• 70 Publications, IPR – 37 [Patents – 7 and Copyrights – 30], Books Published-6.
• 7 MoUs with industry and social organizations
• Professional Certifications: 65+ Btech students had completed certification course from Coursera on IPR, 170+ TY BTech students had completed Cisco certification, students of SY, TY and BTech class have completed more than 455 certifications of Infosys Springboard in various domains.

Department Profile
	Establish Year	Information Technology: 2002-2003
	Department Location	"C" Building
	Total Number of Classrooms	06
	Total Number of Laboratories	09
	Total No of Publications ( Last THREE Years)	70
	Total No of IPR ( Last THREE Years)	Patents: 07 Copyrights: 30