Some of the Noteworthy Achievements of Electrical Engineering Students during last 5 years

Kruttika Award
- Since 2011-12, every year, female topper from T.E. Electrical class, is awarded by Atlas Copcowith a scholarship of Rs. 50,000/- towards “Female Engineer Scholarship Award – Kruttika”.
- In the year 2024-25, Ms. Kiran Chavan is nominated for this award
- In the year 2023-24, Ms. Rutuja Gund received this award
- In the year 2022-23, Ms. Samruddhi Sutar received this award
- In the year 2021-22, Ms. Renuka Joshi received this award
- In the year 2020-21, Ms. Sania Walunjkar received this award
- In the year 2019-20, Tanvi Sawalkarreceived this award

Academic Year 2025-26
- Pratik Kaldhone of BE Electrical secured 5th Rank in CGPA Rank list of April / May 2024 Examinations conducted by The Rank list is declared on 26.11.2025
- Mr Sudarshan Bangar, TE Electrical, completed the Lokmat Maha Marathon Pune (21 km in 1.43 hrs, venue: SPPU, Pune) on Sunday, 22 February 2026 and achieved the accolades of among the Top 50 Finishers.
- Third-year Electrical Engineering student Uday Kadve won a consolation prize in the state-level elocution competition organized by Sanskar Mandir Sanstha’s Arts and Commerce College on 16 February 2026, where he spoke on the topic “Artificial Intelligence: Imagination and Reality.”
- The INNOVEXA team, consisting of six interdisciplinary students from the college, has secured a place in the final round of the national competition Smart India Hackathon 2025. The team includes Vedant Charegaonkar and Sanika Phalle, from TE Electrical and Sanyuri Jamdade, from SE Electrical. They were selected for the final round after successfully clearing multiple rounds and evaluations.
- Piyush Bagul from BE 2025-26 and Ms. Aishwarya Valsa from BE 2024-26 are placed in companies Topy Inudstries and Takasago Thermal Engineering, Japan respectively, through Asia to Japan, Fast Offer Program and AtoJ Hirameki.
Academic Year 2024-25
- Rohit Vinod Bari of Electrical Engineering is awarded Gold Medals by Savitribai Phule Pune Unversity for having secured the highest number of marks and stood First based on CGPA (9.79), at the B.E. (Electrical) examination April/May 2023.
- Piyush Mahajan (2nd Rank), Akshay Badhe (5th Rank), Sneha Adke (9th Rank) and Ashraf Shaikh (10th Rank) appeared in the CGPA based rank list of SPPU for April / May 2023
- Seven students of Electrical engineering secured ranks in SGPA rank list for BE Electrical Examination of April / May 2023. Sneha Adke (2nd Rank), Piyush Mahajan (3rd Rank), Rohit Vinod Bari (4th Rank), Jay Jambhale (8th Rank), Akshay Badhe (8th Rank), Varun Talwalkar (8th Rank) and Ashraf Shaikh (10th Rank)
- Three students Fardin Pathan, Shruti Salgaonkar and Prachi Garud, received placement offer from Atlas Copco during their Third Year of engineering
- Ganesh Wadmare, Ph. D student received First prize in the presentation for the paper “Virtual Inertia and Virtual Damping in Renewable Microgrids: Pathways to Sustainable Frequency Control” authored at International Conference on Futuristic Advances in Mechatronics Engineering for Aerospace and Defence (ICFAMEAD 2024), at Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT), Pune, during 4th -5th October 2024.
Recognitions in Projects
| Sr. No. | Name of the student/s | Class | Name of the competition | Level of the competition | Organizing Institute | Award Won |
| 1 | Ashish Patil(Be Ee)
Fardin Pathan(Be Ee) Laxman Jadhav(Be Me) Amit Kedar(Be Me) |
BE Elect
BE Mech |
State level project competition | State | AISSMS COE | First Prize and cash award of Rs. 2500/- |
| 2 | Aniket Mahajan
Pratik Damami Sanika Nalawade |
BE Elect | Project competition | State | SCOE | First Prize and cash award of Rs. 2500/- |
| 3 | Ashish Patil(Be Ee)
Fardin Pathan(Be Ee) Laxman Jadhav(Be Me) Amit Kedar(Be Me) |
BE Elect
BE Mech |
Pro-Electra National level project competition 2K25 | National | PES Modern COE | Second Prize and cash award of Rs. 4000/- |
| 4 | Dhanaji Ramtirthe
Karan Patil Shreyash Joshi Atharv Tikore Atharv Bhote Sahil Khandagale |
BE Elect | Interdisciplinary Project National Level project Competition | National | Symbiosis Institute of Technology | Third Prize |
| BE Mech | ||||||
| 5 | Patil Dhanraj Deepak
Dhumal Avantika Sandip Anant Sherkhane Suraj Gaikwad Vivek Mangale Imran Shaikh |
BE Elect
BE Comp |
Interdisciplinary Project State level project competition | State | PVG’s COET & GKPIM, Pune | First Prize |
- Bhuvanesh Kulkarni sir has given donation of Rs 3 lakh to Pune Vidyarthi Griha. From the interest of this donation, prizes are given to best projects from Electrical Engineering department. The prize money will be utilized for the hardware requirement of the projects. These prizes are given in the Memory of Late Ravindra Prabhakar Kulkarni and this is a continuous activity for 15 years.
Following Project groups of 2023-24 are awarded with the prize –
| Sr. No. | Name of the students | Guide | Topic |
| Group 1 BE | Kandekar Vaishnavi Rajendra | Prof. Mrs. P. R. Khatri | Airbag system for two wheelers |
| Paitwar Sakshi Rajesh | |||
| Jadhav Kiran Sachin | |||
| Raskar Nipun Dilip | |||
| Group 2 SE | Rucha Kulkarni | Dr. M. S. Thakare | Energy Conservation by Automatic Light Control using Motion Sensors |
| Aditya Pandit | |||
| Ishani Jadhav | |||
| Manaswi Zirange | |||
| Narendra Zungare | |||
| Shreyas Jagtap |
- Students from TE Electrical, Shantanu Yadav, Neeraj Somvanshi, Prabhakar Bhosale and Abhishek Ghodke received 2nd Prize in the Hardware Category in the project competition INVENTECH 24, organized by IIC of the institute in October 2024. The project was guided by Dr. M. S. Thakare.
| Sr No | Name of the award / medal | Name of the student | Class | University/ State / National level | Sports / Cultural |
| 1 | Krukshetra 2025 – Flames University | Mukul Ganu | BE Electrical | National | Football |
| COEP – Zest | State | ||||
| Cummins | State | ||||
| AIT | State | ||||
| 2 | MIT Summit | Atharva Kokate | BE Electrical | National | Basketball |
| AIT – Pace | National | ||||
| COEP – Zest | State | ||||
| Krukshetra 2025 – Flames University | National | ||||
| 3 | PICT – Elevate | Isha Gokhale | TE Electrical | State | Volleyball |
| Krukshetra 2025 – Flames University | National |
Academic Year 2023-24
- Gaurav Patil from BE Electrical 2022-23 batch secured 67th Rank in GATE 2024 exam.
- Adiya Yeole of 2020-21 batch has secured First Rank in OBC category in MPSC Maharashtra Engineering Services Examination 2022 and got selected at Maharashtra Jalsampada Vibhag (WRD) as Class 2 officer. Result declared in September 2023.
- Bhusha Tilawat of 2015 batch has secured Second Rank in OPEN category in MPSC Maharashtra Engineering Services Examination 2022 got selected at CPWD, Pune. Result declared in September 2023.
| Participation in Project Competition | |||||
| S. No. | Project Competition | Members | Class | Competition Level | Participation / Award |
| 1 | National Level Project Competition held in Kolhapur Institute of Technology, Kolhapur | Mangave Avadhut
Bharaskar Swaroop Pitre Madhav Nagargoje Aditya |
BE Electrical | National Level
|
Winner – First prize |
| 2 | Project Competition at JSPM COE, Waghol | Winner – First prize | |||
| 3 | Project Competition at Modern COE, Pune | Winner – First prize | |||
| 4 | National level project competition at IET Karmveer Expo, Nashik | Winner – First prize | |||
| 5 | National level project competition at IET Karmveer Expo, Nashik | Kandekar Vaishnavi
Paitwar Sakshi Jadhav Kiran Raskar Nipun |
National Level
|
Second Prize | |
| 6 | Project Competition at Modern COE, Pune | Yedake Aditi
Mali Sayali Pawar Nishigandha Katkar Pratiksha Pawar Samrudhi |
BE Electrical | State | Third Prize |
| Participation in Paper Presentation | ||||||
| S. No. | Title of Paper | Student Name | Class | Competition | Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand | Mangave Avadhut
Bharaskar Swaroop Pitre Madhav Nagargoje Aditya |
BE Electrical | Paper presentation competition for Research Paper in Kolhapur Institute of Technology, Kolhapur | National Level | Winner – First prize |
- Engineers Day was celebrated on 15th September 2023. Following projects of students of Electrical Engineering (AY 2022-23) were awarded as Best Projects by Mr. Bhuvanesh Kulkarni in the memory of Late Ravindra Prabhakar Kulkarni. Students received a certificate and cash prize.
| Name of the student | Name of the Guide | Title of the Project |
| Jivan Yashwant Pawar | Prof. O. S. Pawaskar | IoT-Based Electrical Multi parameter analyzer |
| Vedang Acchyut Kulkarni | ||
| Narendra Mahesh Dikole | ||
| Yashraj Sharad Jambhale | ||
| Devwallabh Narendra Kulkarni | ||
| Suyash Satish Kothawade | Prof. U. B. Sarode | Dual axis solar tracker |
| Prashant Prakash Kharat | ||
| Satyam Sunil Kakade | ||
| Vishwajeet Santosh Nanwate | ||
| Shivani Tajane | Prof. Dr. M. S. Thakare | Design and analysis of IOT interfaced E-bike |
| Payal Tadavi | ||
| Tanaya Jadhav | ||
| Anuja Patil |
| Participation in Extra Curricular Activities – | |||||
| Sr No | Event | Name of the student | Class | Level | Award / Participation |
| 1 | Bharat Karandak 2023
|
Mahamadali Mursal,
Mohit Kudagi Harish Chilweri |
BE – Elect
BE – Elect FE – Elect |
Inter college – State – Marathi one act play
|
Best Audience Response Award for Team
Best music Composition and operating Award – 2nd prize – Music Team |
| 2 | Sarpotdar Karandak -2023 | Mahamadali Mursal,
Simran Bankar |
BE – Electrical
|
Intercollege – Open Improvisations Competition | Best Direction – 2nd Prize |
| 3 | Runsangram 2024 | Aishwarya Kore, Isha Gokhale , Sanjiwani Mali, Shweta Gadhave, Samiksha Nimbalkar, Garud Prachi | SE, TE , BE – Electrical | Intracollege | Prize Runner Up Volleyball |
| 4 | Runsangram 2024 | Shweta Gadhave | BE – Electrical | Intracollege | Prize Winner – Chess |
| 5 | COEP – ZEST | Anurag Lad | BE – Electrical | Intercollege – National | Semi Finalist – Badminton |
| 7 | Runsangram 2024 | Anurag Lad | BE – Electrical | Intracollege | Semi Finalist Badminton |
| 9 | AISSMS IOIT Shivaji Trophy | Aditya Agarwal | BE – Electrical | Intercollege – National | Semi Finalist – Cricket |
| 13 | Runsangram 2024 | Sayee Wale | BE – Electrical | Intracollege | Semi Finalist –Table Tennis |
Academic Year 2022-23
- The E-yantra team secured the 4th place in International level Robotics Competition EYRC 22-23, organized by IIT Bombay. The team comprised of Aditya Yeole and Atharva Bharti from BE Electrical and Pranav Shinde from BE IT . They competed with 370 teams under their theme.. from– E yantra
| Participation in Project Competition | |||||
| S. No. | Project Competition | Members | Class | Competition Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | National level project competition at Modern COE, 29th April 2023 | Varad Ninal | BE Electrical | National Level | Winner – First prize |
| 2 | National Level Project Competition at MMCOE, 25th March 2023 | Akshay Badhe | BE Electrical | National Level | Second prize |
| Anushka Lad | |||||
| Samruddhi Sutar | |||||
| Aniket Akre | |||||
| Hritik Waje | |||||
| Gaurav Patil | |||||
| Kunal Marulkar | |||||
| 3 | State level competition at AISSMS on 6th May 2023 | Jivan Pawar | BE Electrical | State Level | Third Prize |
| Vedang Kulkarni | |||||
| Narendra Dikole | |||||
| Yashraj Jambhale | |||||
| Devwallabh Kulkarni | |||||
| Participation in Extra Curricular Activities – | |||||
| Sr No | Event | Name of the student | Class | Level | Award / Participation |
| 1
|
AISSMS IOIT Inter Engineering Cricket League – Runner up | Harsh Deshpande
Akshay Bade Aditya Agarwal |
TE – Electrical
BE – Electrical TE – Electrical |
State | Runner up – Cricket
|
| 2 | Vinodattam Karandak 2022
|
Samruddhi Pawar
Mohit Kudagi Simran Bankar Mahamadali Mursal Prajwal Mergal |
TE – Electrical
TE – Electrical TE – Electrical TE – Electrical BE – Electrical |
State – Marathi play
|
Cultural – Consolation Second Prize for team
|
| 3 | Firodia Karandak -2023
|
Mahamadali Mursal
Prajwal Mergal |
TE – Electrical
BE – Electrical |
State
|
Cultural – Prize for Human Formulation Event |
| 4 | Runsangram 2023 | Aishwarya Kore, Isha Gokhale , Sanjiwani Mali, Shweta Gadhave, Samiksha Nimbalkar, Garud Prachi | FE, SE, TE – Electrical | Intracollege | Prize Winner – Vollyball |
| 5 | Runsangram 2023 | Sayee Wale | TE – Electrical | Intracollege | Prize Winner – Table tennis |
| 6 | COEP – Zest | Anurag Lad | TE – Electrical | National | Participation – Badminton |
Academic Year 2021-22
Following students secured University Ranks in May 2020 Examination (Declared in 2021) of SE and TE Electrical.
- Kiran Dagade of S.E.Electrical secured 2nd rank in SPPU
- Yukta Naik of S.E.Electrical secured 4th rank in SPPU
- Renuka Joshi of S.E.Electrical secured 9th rank in SPPU
- Aniruddha Kasture of S.E.Electrical secured 4th rank in SPPU
- Sania Walunjkar of T.E.Electrical secured 5th rank in SPPU
- Yash Shaha of T.E.Electrical secured 9th rank in SPPU
| Participation in Project Competition | |||||
| S. No. | Project Competition | Members | Class | Competition Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Versatalia- IEEE sponsored National level project competition organized by PVG’s COET & GKPIM, Pune on 30th April 2022. | Shreya Tukaram Surwase, Siddhi Swapnil Naik, Renuka Shirish Joshi, Yukta Bhagwan Naik, Surbhi Bhandari | BE Electrical | National | First prize
prize money Rs 10,000/- |
| 2 | Versatalia- IEEE sponsored National level project competition organized by PVG’s COET & GKPIM, Pune on 30th April 2022. | Prasanna Warad, Apurva Nikam, Pranav Kale, Suyash Chavan | BE Electrical | National | Second prize
prize money Rs 5,000/-. |
| Participation in Paper Presentation | ||||||
| S. No. | Title of Paper | Student Name | Class | Competition | Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Harmonic Analysis of Different Types of Discharge Lamps | Susmit Tayade,
Renuka Joshi, Pratiksha Gurav Siddhi Naik |
BE Elect | NCEAM -21
GES R. H. Sapat COEMR ,Nashik-05. |
UG | Best Paper Award |
| 2 | Design, Implementation and Monitoring of the Performance of Hybrid Electric Vehicles | Devarsh Wali
|
BE Elect | IEEE SMARTGENCON 2021 | Published in IEEE xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9645753/proceeding | |
| Participation in Extra Curricular Activities – | |||||
| S. No. | Event | Student Name | Class | Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Runsangram 2021-22 | Siddhoji Sawant, Vivek Hulage, Akhil gangwar, Sumeet Khannukar, Narendra Patil ,Saurabh Mane , Vedant Shewale | BE Electrical | Intra college | Winner Football |
Academic Year 2020-21
| Participation in Project Competition | |||||
| S. No. | Project Competition | Members | Class | Competition Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Online National level Project Competition organised at PES’s Modern College of Engineering in association with IET. Electrical Control Systems ,Drive and Automation domain | Vishakha Gund, Shridhar Shinde, Manjiri Shinde, Vedant Manchare guided by Dr. U. S. Thakar | BE (Electrical) | National | Won Rank 1, first prize. received certificates and prize money Rs. 1500/-. |
| 2 | Online National level Project Competition organised at PES’s Modern College of Engineering in association with IET. Renewable, EV and Multidisciplinary domain | Akshay Gaikwad, Snehal Vasankar, Yogesh Gadnaik, Prasnna Gramopadhyay guided by Prof. Mrs. R. A. Ranjekar | BE (Electrical) | National | Won Rank 1, first prize. received certificates and prize money Rs. 1800/-. |
| Participation in Paper Presentation | ||||||
| S. No. | Title of Paper | Student Name | Class | Competition | Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Design Simulation and Analysis of Dynamic Wireless Charging Methodology for Electric Vehicles | Anuja patil, Sania Walunjkar, Prathamesh tagare, Aditya Nawale guided by Prof. O S Pawaskar | BE (Electrical) | National Level student’s conference (online mode) IEEE TECHNICOKNOCKDOWN 2021 TKD-21 organised by SIT Lonavala On May 30, 2021. | National | Participation |
| 2 | Design Simulation and Analysis of Dynamic Wireless Charging Methodology for Electric Vehicles | Anuja patil, Sania Walunjkar, Prathamesh tagare, Aditya Nawale guided by Prof. O S Pawaskar | BE (Electrical) | IJIRSET, Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2021 | International | Paper published |
| Participation in Extra Curricular Activities – | |||||
| S. No. | Event | Student Name | Class | Level | Participation/Award |
| 1 | Chess | Hemant Dixit | FE | National | Participation |
| 2 | Chess | Shardul Karanjkar | SE | National | Participation |
| 3 | Chess | Parth Waze | SE | National | Participation |
