DBCE participates in India International Science Film Festival 2021

The 7th edition of the India International Science Film Festival was held from December 10 – 13, 2021, in Panjim, Goa The festival was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Science and Technology – Dr. Jitendra Singh. Chief Minister – Pramod Sawant, Union Minister- Shripad Naik, Union Secretary – Dr. M. Ravichandran, Director CSIR-NCL Hyderabad- Dr. Chandrasekhar, Director General of CSIR Lab’s Dr. Shekhar Mande , Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT)- Dr. Rajesh Gokhale, and Senior Scientists-Javed Beg.The festival was being organized in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Geology, Department of Science and Technology, Vigyan Bharati, National Institute of Polar and Marine Research, and Government of Goa. Over 10,000 students from all over the country had participated in the festival.

Don Bosco College of Engineering Fatorda Goa, participated in the IISF 2021 for the Science and Technology Expo under the Stall of Directorate of Technical Education, Goa. Three Projects which were displayed for Expo are as follows “Ergonomic Chair” by Adarsh Naik, Binay Vansraj Sharma, Omer Qabeer, Omkar Dilip Bhandari.

“Oxygen Concentrator” by  Keenan Cardozo, Sahil Chitrapur, Akshay Bhatule,  Nirbhay Borkar, Sahul Ahmed & “Sanitizing Robot” by Mr. Vivek Khadilkar.

The above Innovative projects fetched the attention of Dr. Jitendra Singh-Minister for Science & Technology during his visit to the expo.

A research paper titled “Smart Agri Wine: an Artificial intelligence approach to predict wine quality” was published in the Journal of Computer Science and presented by Dr. Gaurang Patkar, HOD – Department of Computer Engineering – DBCE. And a research paper titled “End correction for double-tuning of same-end inlet-outlet muffler” published in Elsevier Journal presented by Prof. Chetan Goankar was displayed as a poster under the aegis of the Department of Technical Education (DTE).

Prof. Gaurish Mahabaleshwar Samant was the nodal officer from the college for coordinating the Expo for the IISF 2021. Prof. Jeffery Valadares, Prof Selvin, and Prof Ankit Tiwari were the coordinators for the event.

Prof. Satish Kakodkar was a member of the organizing committee of IISF 2021 and was coordinating the engineering project festival.