- About VLab at PVG
- VLab at a glance
- VLabs Outreach-with IIT Bombay
- PVG’s COET Resource Pool
- Nodal Centres under RCID_01
- Digitizers Forum
- Regional Reports
- VLabs Usage Reports
- Vlab Outreach Report
Virtual Labs Regional Centre (Pune) NCID_01
Nodal Centre_VLNC_20
Virtual Labs - IIT Bombay
Introduction to Virtual Labs:
Virtual Labs is an initiative of Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India, under the National Mission on Education through ICT. VLabs is a huge milestone activity of the Regional Centre that is followed as one of the best practices in interactive teaching-learning and e-content development.Objectives of Virtual Labs:
To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can perform laboratory experiments online in an interactive and engaging manner on a simulator, and seek an improved insight of the fundamentals through simulations, animated demonstrations, lab manual and self-evaluation-pre-test and post-test type of formative assessment. Regional Centre (RCID_01): PVG’s COET & GKPIM, Pune is the ‘1st Regional Centre in the Country’ affiliated to Virtual Labs-IIT Bombay. Approvals as Regional (RCID_01) & Nodal Centre (VLNC_20) from IIT Bombay:- Jan 2023 to Dec 2024 (NC & RNC in process)
- Jan 2022 to Dec 2023 (RNC)
- Jan 2021 to Dec 2021 (RNC)
- Jan 2020 to Dec 2020 (RNC)
- Jan 2019 to Dec 2019 (RNC)
- Jan 2018 to Dec 2018 (RNC)
- Jan 2017 to Dec 2017 (RNC)
- Jan 2016 to Dec 2016 (NC)
- Feb 2015 to Dec 2015 (NC)
- First private unaided Institute in developing virtual labs in the country under the mentorship of IIT Bombay VLabs team.
- Pioneers in Virtual Lab development (pvt. Unaided colleges): Published 24 virtual experiments on National MoE Virtual Labs
- First Students Club in Virtual Lab Community- VLabs Digitizers Forum established in 2016.
- First Regional Centre in the country, declared as the Best Performing Shining Nodal Centre in ‘ABHASI’ MHRD VLab Newsletter 2018 & 2019 for excellent rollout and new lab development. https://www.vlab.co.in/
- Significant benchmarking contribution by students and faculty in development of 13 virtual labs with 118 virtual experiments hosted on IIT Bombay for a National and International visibility.
- Students & Faculty developers from the Regional Centre mentor the students and faculty pan India for the development of virtual labs in the Community model VLabsDev-a platform provided by VLabs-IIT Bombay.
- Trained 17,000 student and faculty users with hands-on around ONE LAKH + experiments since 2015 and mentors around 55 + Institutes in Maharashtra.
- PLATINUM Certification: Four (4) students from Second year with one Faculty from E & TC Engg. Department and one student (1) from Mechanical, received platinum certification during the REC, Banda Bootathon (Uttar Pradesh) for their virtual lab on Digital logic design using gates in Nov 2020.
- MOOC Content Creation for Virtual Lab Development in Electronics Domain by Prof T S Khatavkar.
- Virtual Labs- Webinar for Faculty of Abdul Kalam Technological University, Uttar Pradesh in May 2020.
- KTL Bootathon during April & May 2020 for students & faculty.
- Virtual Labs Outreach Workshop for Faculty from 5 Nodal Centres in the region in June 2020.
- Historical Massive rollout of virtual Labs at Savitribai Phule Pune University in the month of July 2020. Virtual Labs Outreach Workshop for Faculty from all disciplines of Engineering & Technology & Faculty of Science was conducted by the Regional Centre. Hon. Vice Chancellor, Dr Nitin Karmalkar, Hon. Dean Faculty of Science & Technology, Dr Manohar Chaskar, Hon. Dr Santosh Noronha, Principal Investigator, Virtual Labs, IIT Bombay, Hon. Chairman, Board of Studies (E& TC), Hon. Director PVG’s COET, Prof R G Kaduskar, Shri Pushpdeep Mishra, Project Manager & Principals’ & HOD’s of STEM colleges graced the function.
- Virtual Labs Nodal Coordinators Workshop for all 240 IIT Bombay affiliated Nodal Centres pan India (J & K, Jharkand, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa etc) was conducted in August 2020.
- Two days National Workshop on ‘Introduction to Web Development, in coordination with VlabsDev-IIT Bombay on 17th & 18th July 2021. Massive participation of @ 3500 students and faculties from India. The asset of the workshop lies in the hosting of the National event by first year students of the Digitizer’s forum at the Regional Centre of PVG’s COET & GKPIM.
- “Virtual Labs Outreach Workshop” for the faculty of all Disciplines of Polytechnic Institutes, in Coordination with Virtual Labs - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, MIT Regional Center (Marathwada), D Y Patil Regional Center (Navi Mumbai), MSU Regional Centre (Baroda), VIT Nodal Center (Mumbai) & AISSMS Polytechnic Nodal Center. Participation of around 352 faculties of Various Polytechnic institutes from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamilnadu.
- Digital Applications Lab (New): https://da-iitb.vlabs.ac.in/
- Digital Logic Design Lab (Logic Gates & Mux-Demux) (New): https://dld-iitb.vlabs.ac.in
- Other Labs Developed: https://vlabsdev.in/approved_labs.php
| Mathematics | Numerical Methods |
| Electronics and Communication | Network Theory |
| Integrated Circuits | |
| Computer Science and Engineering | Introduction to PHP |
| Computer Graphics | |
| Introduction to Javascript | |
| Paper Engineering | Material Testing |
| Mechanical Engineering | Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms |
| Strength of Materials | |
| Fluid Mechanics |
- Planner from each department through Department coordinators.
- Semester Planner published on outreach portal at https://iitb.vlabs.co.in/outreachportal/
- In-house and Outreach Workshop uploaded on outreach portal at Virtual Labs
- Time Table for In-House workshops.
- Orientation to all FE students by Coordinators.
- Orientation to all students from SE to BE by subject teachers.
- Hands-on session for FE to BE students.
- Submit feedback on the outreach portal of IIT Bombay https://iitb.vlabs.co.in/outreachportal/fb/
- Upload in-house reports on the outreach portal https://iitb.vlabs.co.in/outreachportal/
- Offered Audit Course on Virtual Lab Development for students.Enroll new students in the Students’ VLabs Digitizers Forum through interviews by senior students.
- Encourage peer learning through Training by senior developers to junior students on Virtual Lab Development. Senior students train the juniors on various FOSS tools for development of VLabs and build projects.
- Appreciation of students as junior & senior trainers for conducting the training sessions.
- Content Creation and updating for training activities.
- Students and faculty participate in Student Training Programs (STPs), Faculty development Programs (FDPs), pilot workshops, Boot camps, Bootathons held at National Level.
- Students create new virtual labs under the mentorship of faculty in a community model that encourages multidisciplinary peer learning.
- Seek review and do improvisation in the new labs created by the students and faculty as per the guidelines from IIT Bombay Virtual labs review team.
- International and National visibility to new labs hosted.
- Utilize the new labs for lab work during the semesters.
- Update the labs as per IIT Bombay guidelines.
- OUTREACH workshops planned, published and conducted in every semester for VLabs ROLLOUT.
- Provide technical support to all other nodal centres.
- Help other colleges in Maharashtra region to become Nodal Centres in a methodical way for popularizing VLabs.
- Submit monthly and annual reports on the outreach portal.
- Work closely with the IIT Bombay team in the community development model for Virtual Labs in designing and devising process, methods, pedagogy and storyboard for new content development.
- Student developers from digitizer’s forum are invited as mentor-trainers for the STPs/Bootcamps and Bootathons held in the country.
- Faculty & student developers are invited as guest speakers, mentors and reviewers for the outreach workshops/FDPs/Bootcamps and Bootathons held in the country.
- In house meetings every semester.
- Hold Annual regional meetings with the IIT Bombay team for all nodal centres in the region.
- Students seek internships and real-life project offers from VLabsDev of IIT Bombay.
- Skill sets learnt by students during the process, make the students better practicing engineers and more employable.
- Students and faculty create bonds/connections with peer teams and Institutes in the process.
Special Efforts during COVID -19 Lockdown:
1. During the lockdown period of COVID-19, students continued to perform their laboratory experiments from home on the virtual labs platform. Around 1001 users from first year to final year performed 6563 online experiments for various subjects in their curriculum. 2. The developer students of the Digitizer’s student forum and the developer faculty offered training and mentoring to students and faculty from various institutes from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kanpur, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the KnockDownTheLockdown (KTL) Bootathon during April- June 2020 hosted by IIT Bombay Virtual Labs team. 3. Five new Nodal Centres are established in Pune, Baramati and Satara regions during lockdown. 4. State Level Webinars to popularize Virtual Labs in Uttar Pradesh. 5. Establishment of around 25 new Nodal Centers in Maharashtra. Encourages and supports 54 + Nodal Centers in Maharashtra region to take virtual labs to the grass root level of the community through online Outreach Workshops and hands-on sessions. 6.MOOC On Virtual Lab development for Electronics Domain. Virtual Labs Nodal Centre Structure
Virtual Labs Regional Centre Structure
Contact us:
PVG’s COET Regional Centre: RCID_01
Institutes interested to be a Nodal center for Virtual Labs with IIT Bombay can reach the Regional Team.
- Regional Coordinator: Prof. Tanuja Sachin Khatavkar - E & TC Dept. vlabs@pvgcoet.ac.in
- Assistant Regional Coordinator: Prof. Mrs. M. R. Apsangi - IT Dept mra_it@pvgcoet.ac.in
- Regional Tech. Coordinator: Prof. Mrs. U.M.Kalshetti – Computer umk_it@pvgcoet.ac.in
- Nodal Coordinator: Prof Mrs. P. R. Khatri – Electrical prk_elect@pvgcoet.ac.in
- Outreach Coordinator: Prof. Mrs. K.S.Balbudhe – IT ksb_it@pvgcoet.ac.in
- Prof. Mr.S.H.Yamalla-Electrical
- Prof. Mrs.PA.Joshi- Printing
- Prof. Mrs. M.P.Phadke – IT
- Prof. Mr. A.D. Karenje– Comp
- Prof. Mrs. S.K.Bavkar- E & TC
- Prof.Mr. N.A.Kalel- Mechanical
- Prof. Mrs. R. Ghosh –Applied Science
- Prof.Mrs.A.S.Mirashi –Applied Science
- Prof. V.A.Kanade –AI&DS
- Prof. Ketaki Kulkarni-MBA
Bootathons:
Bootcamps:
Pilot Workshops:
- Regional Coordinator: Prof Tanuja Sachin Khatavkar
- Regional Tech. Coordinator: Prof Urmila Kalshetti
- Astt. Regional Coord.: Prof Minal Apsangi
| Sr. No. | NCID | Institute |
| 1 | 4 | Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed To Be University, College of Engineering, Pune |
| 2 | 7 | BRACT's Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune |
| 3 | 8 | SWVSM's Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Warananagar, Tal. Panhala, Distt. Kolhapur |
| 4 | 9 | Walchand College Of Engineering, Sangli |
| 5 | 13 | Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune |
| 6 | 17 | Pune Vidyarthi Griha's College of Engineering & S.S. Dhamankar Institute of Management, Nashik |
| 7 | 20 | PVG's College of Engineering and Technology and G.K.Pate(Wani) Institute of Management, Pune |
| 8 | 30 | G. H. Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Business Management, Jalgaon |
| 9 | 33 | JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering, Tathawade, Pune |
| 10 | 42 | DY Patil Institute of MCA and Management, Pimpri, Pune |
| 11 | 44 | Jagadambha College Of Engineering And Technology Yavatmal |
| 12 | 48 | Marathwada Mitra Mandals College of Engineering, Pune |
| 13 | 56 | Pravara Rural Engineering College, At Post: Loni, Tal: Rahata, Dist: Ahmednagar |
| 14 | 62 | All India Shri Shivaji Memorial College of Engineering Pune |
| 15 | 68 | SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur |
| 16 | 87 | Marathwada Mitra Mandals Polytechnic, Pune |
| 17 | 90 | Marathwada Mitramandal Institute of Technology, Pune |
| 18 | 93 | Nanasaheb Mahadik College Of Engineering, At Post: Peth Naka, Tal: Walwa, Dist: Sangli. |
| 19 | 95 | Sangameswar College (Autonomous), Solapur |
| 20 | 99 | RWMCTs Dnyanshree Institute of Engineering and Technology, A/P- Sonwadi-Gajawadi, Satara |
| 21 | 106 | Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune |
| 22 | 107 | SNJB's Late Sau Kantabai Bhavarlalji Jain College Of Engineering, Chandwad, Dist. Nashik |
| 23 | 118 | Guru Gobind Singh College of Engineering and Research Centre, Nashik |
| 24 | 134 | Shriram College of Agricultural Engineering, Paniv, Tal:Malshiras, Solapur |
| 25 | 136 | Kannada Sangha Pune's Kaveri College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune |
| 26 | 143 | Bharat-Ratna Indira Gandhi College of Engineering, Kegaon, Solapur |
| 27 | 144 | Dr.D.Y.Patil Pratishthan's college of Engineering Salokhenagar Kolhapur |
| 28 | 146 | S M Joshi College Hadapsar, Pune-28 |
| 29 | 153 | D Y Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune |
| 30 | 154 | All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society's Institute of Information Technology, Pune |
| 31 | 156 | Vidya Pratishthans Kamalnayan Bajaj Institute of Engineering and Technology, Baramati, Pune |
| 32 | 158 | Yashavantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara (Autonomous) |
| 33 | 163 | JSPMs Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune |
| 34 | 178 | Sant Gajanan Maharaj College Of Engineering, Tal.Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur |
| 35 | 192 | N K Orchid College Of Engineering & Technology, Solapur |
| 36 | 193 | D. Y. Patil College of Engineering and Technology, Kolhapur |
| 37 | 203 | Sinhgad Instiute Of Technology, Lonavala |
| 38 | 204 | Sinhgad Academy of Engineering Kondhwa, Pune |
| 39 | 206 | Progressive Education Societys Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune |
| 40 | 215 | ABMSPs Anantrao Pawar College of Engineering and Research, Pune |
| 41 | 216 | NBN Sinhgad School of Engineering,Vadagaon(Bk), Pune |
| 42 | 223 | Vidya Pratishthan's Supe Arts Science and Commerce College Supe, Tal. Baramati |
| 43 | 225 | Samarth Group of Instituions College of Engineering, Bangarwadi, Junnar, Pune |
| 44 | 226 | Modern Education Society's College of Engineering, Pune |
| 45 | 227 | Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune |
| 46 | 228 | K K Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nashik |
| 47 | 234 | AISSMS Polytechnic Pune |
| 48 | 236 | Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune |
| 49 | 244 | MVPS Karmaveer Adv. Baburao Ganpatrao Thakare College of Engineering, Gangapur Rd, Nashik |
| 50 | 249 | Annasaheb Awate Arts, Commerce and Hutatma Babu Genu Science College, Manchar |
| 51 | 253 | Tolani Maritime Institute, Induri, Talegaon, Pune |
Virtual Labs Regional Centre (Pune) NCID_01
Nodal Centre_VLNC_20
Virtual Labs - IIT Bombay
VLabs Digitizer’s Forum:Developers Club @PVGCOET:
Objective:
- In 2016 PVG’s COET established VLAB Digitizer’s students’ forum to provide skill development opportunities to the students.
- Through this forum, the students are trained in coding using HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS 3, MySQL which are useful in the development of Virtual Lab Simulators.
- The forum encourages peer learning through Training by senior developers to junior students on Virtual Lab Development.
- Senior students train the juniors on various FOSS tools for development of VLabs and build projects.
- In the VLabsDev community model, the certified student trainers mentor students of other Institutes.
- Majority of our students of Virtual Labs Digitizer's Forum have acquired the skill of coding and creating e-learning content for the education community. These trainers are certified by VLabs-IIT Bombay.
- Students are well equipped to work as Virtual Lab Developers; Junior & Senior Mentors & Trainers to train other students pan India in various workshops, Bootcamps & Bootathon’s in coordination with VLabsDev team of IIT Bombay.
Course Content
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Club Member Heads-AY-2022-23 and 2023-24
| Sr.No. | Name | Post |
| 1 | Abhishek Gaware | Project Management head |
| 2 | Swaraj Nitin Mhatre | Project Management & Design Head |
| 3 | Rajasee Nilesh Thakre | Technical Head |
| 4 | Shyam Nagnath Lokhande | Technical Head |
| 5 | Chetan Wanave | Student Coordinator |
| 6 | Harshal Kolte | Student Coordinator |
| 7 | Mahak Gautam | Documentation Head |
| Year | No of Students | Duration | Remark |
| 2018-19 | 6 | June-September 2018 | Development of Vlabs -Dev Portal |
| 2021-22 | 6 | July(2021)-ongoing |
| Name of the Program | No of Senior Trainers Certified by Vlabs-IIT Bombay | No of Junior Trainers Certified by Vlabs-IIT Bombay |
| BOOTATHON (Bootcamp and Hackathon) KnockdownTheLockdown-1 April 2020 | 11 | 8 |
| BOOTATHON (Bootcamp and Hackathon) KnockdownTheLockdown-2 May 2020 | 14 | 24 |
| Name of the program | No of student mentors | No of student participant (From PVG) |
| Pilot Workshops at PVGCOET, Pune, Thane & MSU Baroda | - | 1 team |
| 1st National Bootcamp at Marwadi university, Rajkot_Gujarat (February 2018) | 3 (session on mind maps) | - |
| 2nd National Bootcamp at Ahmedabad, Gujarat (January 2019) | 1 | 2 teams |
| 3rd National Bootcamp at MIT Aurangabad (February 2019) | 2 | 2 team |
| 1st National Bootathon at REC, Banda, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (September 2019) | 2 | 1 team |
- First Year students from VLabs Digitizer's Forum delivered the Web Development training to 3451 participants from various states in India. The event was organized by VLabs Digitizer’s Forum at the Regional Centre (Pune) in coordination with VLabsDev-IIT Bombay.
- Technologies used: HTML, CSS and JS, PHP or Django, Python, Android, Java, MySQL and TypeScript.
- Recognised as a co-curricular Audit Course under Savitribai Phule Pune University.
- Student-Centric Peer Learning: Training given by the students for the students.
- Open to all Disciplines of Engineering and Science departments.
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2022-23
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2021-22
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2020-21
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2019-20
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2018-19
- Virtual Labs Regional Report 2017-18
- VLabs Digitizers Students Felicitation Program
- Development of MOOCs & Virtual Labs
- Academic Year 2025-2026 Sem-I
- Academic Year 2024-2025 Sem-II
- Academic Year 2024-25(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2023-24(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2023-24(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2022-2023(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2022-2023(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2021-22(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2021-22 (SEM-I)
- Academic Year 2020-21(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2020-21(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2019-20(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2019-20(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2018-19(SEM II)
- Academic Year 2018-19(SEM I)
- Academic Year 2015-2018