My honest Journey at VIT Pune: A Mechanical Engineers Perspective

Choosing to be a Mechanical Engineer now a days maybe a hard decision for students as mostly after 12th students are attracted towards CS branch. But curriculum of VIT has made me believe that Mechanical Branch is much more deeper and amazing to explore. As mentioned earlier our professors always try to make us industry ready by trying to teach us in more practical way. It was so interesting to learn about parts and draw them in Machine Drawing subject. And talking about Machine design subject it was always fun to learn how to calculate and design our own parts like gears. Fluid Engineering subject opened a very different world for me learning about Turbines and different kinds of fluid, and as a matter of fact made me realize buliding a best turbine is not a joke!! Mechatronics was also amazing subject because we were able to connect Mechanical knowledge with Electronics branch. There are many more subjects I would like to mention but the reason I mentioned them is to make you freshers realize that we have a fun learning curriculum. Our Exams are held on time and talking about difficulty level it varies wrt every student. For me it was Moderate. We also have Industrial Visits which gives us chance to see real life applications and step up into Industry.

Many Companies visit our college for Intership Opportunities like: Atlas Copco, Saint Gobain, Infosys , Barclays, Siemens eyc Min Stipend they offer is 18,000/- per month. Each company have different types of roles to offer.

In Third year you can apply for companies for Internship Opportunities and from Fourth year you can apply for Placement opportunities. You can also get Internship with PPO. Many companies visit our college I will mention some of them following for all the branches in VIT Pune: Mercedes, TATA Motors,Bosch,Oracle,Accenture,Wipro, Whirlpool, Infosys, TCS, Barclays, Siemens, Ansys, Philips, Saint Gobain(French company) etc our college also offers Foriegn Internship opprotunities in Germany and France. We also have Students Exchange program for which students can apply and after Interview rounds some of them are selected for the same. Highest Package of our College is 41 LPA Average packagr is 7.97 LPA Approx 83% of students secured placement in 2023 Talking about my plans after degree, I am opting for higher studies in Biomedical Engineering field and aiming to complete my MS.

Talking about fees structure, Fees for Open Category at VIT Pune is 1,90,000. But as I come under OBC Category I pay 1,10,000 per year. My friends who come under VJ/VT Category pays 30,000 per year and SC Category pays 5000 per year. As I come in OBC Category I will provide Breakdown of fees for OBC: Tution fees: 81,304/- Development fees: 24,392/- Examination fees: 2000/- Miscellaneous University Fees: 2,354/- Total fees: 1,10,000/- Note: Similar breakdown applies to other Category with different fee amounts. Talking about of Scholarship & Financial Aid details our college provides various programs some of them are: 1] Merit-Cum-Need Scholarship: Amount varies based on Financial condition. MahaDBT is a website to apply for it. 2] Goverment Scholarships for OBC, VJ/VT,SC,ST 3] EBC Concession: Available for students from econonmically weaker backgrounds 4] Private Scholarship from some private organization and NGOs based on merit. College portal encourages students to apply for this scholarships.

College Life is the best life! I was part of a student council club named Event Planning and Execution Committee right from my first year. Right now I am Technical Secretary at same club. I have planned various events like Techfest in collge. we have many more clubs in our college to be part of like: Veloce Racing, Endurance, IEEE, Diva,ABVP, Viculp (Drama club), Aaroh (music club) etc You can be part of any of this club by cracking their Interviews!! Let's move on to fest conducted in our College: 1] Vishwakarandak : It is Inter-department competion where all departments compete with each other in Sports , Techical events (Battle Bots,RC Racing etc) and Cultural events (Dance,Music). Takes place in Feb 2] Melange : It is Inter-College events where students from various colleges compete with each other in Sports , Technical and Cultural events. 3] Vishwoutsav: We have Traditional day, Western day and Bollywood day. And most amazing thing is that we also have "PROM NIGHT" !! Takes place in March Our Library is filled with most amazing sets of books and journals for each branch. Even ebooks are available. We also have access to check plagarism of paper in library.

To get admission into VIT Pune you have to give MHT CET or JEE mains exam. I got in through MHT CET score. I also applied for COEP but they were having high cutoff for Mechanical branch. I also applied for Amrutvahini College Ahemadnagar, where I was getting CS branch but I never liked that collge as it was having very poor placement and I was not looking forward to CS branch. Finally I got into VIT Pune for Mechanical branch and never regreted it till the date. VIT Pune is one of the best college for Mechanical Engineers. For admission you have to go through CAP rounds. If you miss CAP rounds you can try for SPOT rounds which takes place after CAP rounds, if you get admission through SPOT round you will not be able to get concession benefits on your fees even if you are from OBC,SC,ST you have to pay full fees. Our college also have admission for SEDA students. Diploma students can apply for it.

I won't lie but we have great Faculty none of them deserve any kind of dislike. Some of them might feel Strict at the begining but its on us how we react, They only want the best in us if we as Students are able to show our efforts to them, no student willl find them strict anymore. Our Professors are always open to solve our doubts without even caring about their lunch breaks. They help us with our projects and also to publish our papers. Our HODs for every branch are so talented, humble and cooperative. Talking about Exams, We have Midsem Exam where we dont have any written exams, we only have to show our progress of projects for each Subject which should be almost 50% complete and ppt presentations for our Home Assignments. Then we End Sem Exam, where we have only two written papers of 60 marks each which are been converted to 30 marks, Then we have VIVA, Course project and EDI which is our main project for whole semester. Marks are distributed as following: Written paper 30% Course project 20% Viva 20% PPT and HA 20% Assigments 10% We mostly focus on Practical knowledge then Thereotical Knowlwdge So we have Theroy, Tutorial and Lab session for each subject. In Theory we gain thereotical knowlege of subject, In Labs we conduct our experiments and solve real life based problems and in Tutorial we have a full session to ask our doubts to professor and get them solved. We also discuss our projects in Tutorial. Our professors encourage us to do projects based on real life problems and think of best possible way to solve them.

Our college has gym but if you want to explore more around college we have almost 6 gyms in 2km area of college. Nightlife is best in pune, with various places to hangouts. PICT khau gali as good options of foods. Many famous Restaurants. Do visit Iskon Temple it has very positive vibes. Many malls to explore like Kumar Pacific, Amabona etc.