PERFORMANCE AT EXAMINATIONS
As has been the tradition, the percentage of passing at various University and Board Examination was very high. Students of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Departments brought colours to the Institute by standing in University’s merit list.

B.E. (Electronics) Year Name of Students Gold Medal/Rank 1993 Mr. P.G. Baheti Gold Medal 1994 Mr. S. M. Patil Rank no. 2 1994 Miss. Rachana Goyanka Rank no. 3 1997 Miss. S. H. Yeolekar Gold Medal 1997 Miss. Archana Chougule Rank no. 5 1998 Mr. S. E. Jagtap Rank no. 2 1998 Mr. Mayank Mehra Rank no. 5 2000 Mr. Rajesh Sharma Gold Medal 2001 Mr. Tarun Gupta Gold Medal 2001 Mr. Rahul Prabhakar Rank no. 5 2002 Miss. Manaswini Nandkumar Rank no. 3 2003 Mr. Abhishekh Jain Gold Medal 2003 Miss. Rejwana Pathan Rank no. 5 2005 Mr. Vinayak Khadake Rank no. 5 2005 Mr. Santosh Patil Rank no. 10 2006 Mr. Rohit Galatage Rank no. 4 2006 Miss. Harshada Kanitakar Rank no. 10
B.E. (Mechanical) Year Name of Student Gold Medal/Rank 1998 Mr. Mohite Pratankumar Marutrao Rank no. 4 1999 Mr. Kapase Pramol Prabhakar   2000 Mr. Gupta Riteshkumar Suresh Rank no. 5 2001 Mr. Bagade Rahul Dilip
B.E. (Computer Sce. & Engg.) Year Name of Student Gold Medal/Rank 2003 Mr.Terdale Pramod Rank no. 6 2004 Mr. Khondre Vishal Rank no. 3 2005 Mr.Poddar Rakesh Gold Medal 2005 Miss.Shaikh Nilofer Rank no. 9 2006 Miss Monika Mundada Rank no. 1 2006 Mr. Vinay Gupta Rank no. 4
B.E. (Information Technology) Year Name of Student Gold Medal/Rank 2005 Miss. Ruge Kirti Rank no. 8 2005 Mr. Godbole Onkar Rank no. 10 2006 Mr. Chichwade Nikhil Rank no. 2

PRESTIGIOUS ‘RIETER’ AWARD
Rieter from Switzerland is one of the largest Textile Machinery Manufacturing company in the world. This company has instituted an International Award for a student from the Institute selected for this award. One Institute is selected every year for presentation of this award. This selection is based on the reputation of the institute in industry. We are extremely proud to state that this company selected our institute for the Rieter-98 International Award. Mr. D.B. Patil a student of our institute received this award and he visited the Rieter Company in Switzerland and other European countries. The award presentation function was held at Ichalkaranji in Narayanrao Babasaheb Ghorpade Natyagriha on 11th September, 1998. It was attended by over 1190 audience invitees, students & staff.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR STAFF
Our Institute works on philosophy of continuous improvement and therefore, has always been on forefront in the staff development programs. As a part of this, staff members are regularly sent for higher studies on full pay basis. This year Prof. A.I. Wasif completed his Ph.D. from UDCT, Mumbai, Mrs. T.S. Desai also completed her Ph.D. from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, staff members have been deputed for post graduate studies. A large number of teaching as well as non-teaching staff members have been deputed for seminars, conferences, summer and winter schools, part-time courses etc.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS
Due to the high standard of education being catered to at our institute and also due to the performance of our past students in the industry prefers the graduates and diploma holders of our institute for employment. In the year 1997-98 over 150 students from Textile Department were employed by campus interviews. This year also upto January 1999 around 20 companies have arranged campus interviews and many more will be holding campus interviews in next two months. We hope that almost all the students from Textile courses will be employed by campus interviews. Campus interviews are also being held for students of Mechanical and Electronics Department.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY
The Management of our institute has always been keen in encouraging our staff for research and development activities. The staff of our institute is actively involved in such activities and as a result of this a large number of papers were published in national and international level conferences, seminars, journals and periodicals.

INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION
Our institute has been recognised for its interaction with industry. As a part of these activities we have been providing testing facilities, trouble- shooting consultancy, project planning, appraisal and implementation consultancy, training facilities, product development consultancy, R&D facilities to a large number and periodicals.

The horizons of our interaction were expanded to international level this year and we had two very prestigious projects at international level.

[A] CARPET WINDING MACHINE FOR GOVT. OF OMAN
The ministry of National Heritage and culture, Sultanate of Oman, had given us a project which was divided in to three phases. First phase was manufacturing a carpet of 4 Km. length in their weaving factory in Oman. Prof. C.A. Patil and Mr. R.B. Nikam went to Oman stayed there for almost two months and completed the carpet weaving successfully. The second part of the project was joining the carpet pieces. Prof. P.M. Soj of our institute had developed a technique to join these pieces. He was invited to Oman for the work of joining the pieces of the carpet. He stayed there for 20 days and completed the work.

The third and most challenging phase was designing a machine, which can hold this 4km. of carpet and will automatically lay it on the road when required and will unwind it back again. This machine was designed by Mr. V.R. Naik of our Mechanical Engg. Dept. and the design of electronic control panel of this machine was done by Prof, J.R. Desai and Prof. D.V. Kodavade of Electronics Engg. Dept. As per the design the machine was fabricated in Rotfab, Kolhapur and was dispatched to Oman. A team of 5 staff members visited Oman for commissioning of this machine and after successful commission of the machine, it was handed over to the Oman Govt.

[B] TRAINING FOR MANAGERS FROM NIGERIA
The Institute has recently accepted proposal from Churchgate Group Of Nigeria for providing training to 15 managerial level personnel from their Textile Units in Nigeria. As per this scheme a group of 15 high level officials will be coming to our institute for a training of 6 months. This training will commence from February 1999.

[C ] PROJECT APPRAISALS
Our institute has been authorised by Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank for appraisal of Textile Projects. As a part of this activity our institute has completed appraisals of over 40 projects in last four years.