Sardar Patel Institute of Technology


Sardar Patel Institute of Technology is an autonomous un-aided Research and Engineering Institute affiliated to University of Mumbai.

Location

The institute is located in 47 acres of green campus at Munshi Nagar, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Campus, Andheri, Mumbai. The campus also houses three Bhavan’s Institutions of great repute namely Sardar Patel College of Engineering, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, a management institute and Bhavan’s College

History

In 1957, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan conceived the idea of establishing an engineering college in Mumbai. The Engineering Personnel Committee of the Planning Commission had made certain recommendations for the establishment of new engineering colleges and polytechnics, in order to increase the technical manpower in the country. The proposal of the Bhavan to start an engineering college was favorably received by both the Central and State Governments.
It was on 19 August 1962 that there was a huge gathering at the Bhavan’s Campus in Andheri. There was a mood of joy and festivity as thousands of students, parents and distinguished men and women from all walks of life came to take part in and witness an important and memorable function i.e. the inauguration of Sardar Patel College of Engineering by first and then Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kulpati Dr. K.M. Munshi, the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan trust. In 1995 Self Financed Engineering Course were added to it and it has been conducting Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology Courses from 1995-1996. These courses have earned a great reputation in the field of engineering education, as well as industry. The University of Mumbai desired that these self-financed courses be separated and housed in a separate building and developed as a separate self-financed entity. Thus Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Unaided Wing from year 2005-2006 is established in its new building under the name and style of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. The institute has a strong alumni base of 4000+ members.
The institute celebrated 20 years of its contribution in the year 2015.
In 2017, it was conferred with Autonomous status by Mumbai University and thus became the youngest institute affiliated to Mumbai University to achieve this.

Student Bodies

The Students' Council is the primary student representative body. The general secretary and the cultural secretary are mainly responsible for the smooth conduct of these activities. They work under the guidance of the Vice President. The sports secretaries of the council also organize various sports events during the academic year.
Each stream has its own student body -
This college has a social club :Rotaract Club of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology affiliated to Rotary Club of Bombay Juhu and Rotary International.
The college supports entrepreneurship and has an Entrepreneurship-Cell affiliated to National Entrepreneurship Network.

Informal Clubs & Associations

SPark is the official college editorial committee of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. It carries out the responsibility of covering events happening in and around the college with respect to Photography, Reporting and writing intuitive articles which acts as a platform for students to express their creativity.
It annually releases a magazine which has an overview of the co-curricular and extra-college activities, achievements, articles, poems, photographs of the students throughout the academic year.
It helps students improve their communication skills through a range of activities based on public speaking, group discussion, interviews, vocabulary and grammar games.
SPQC organizes quizzes focusing on sharpening thinking abilities of students in humorous and entertaining ways. It is co-chaired by Piyush Pandita and Siddhesh Pai.
It has helped the students win national level debates and now stands firmly established as a club to encourage the debating culture.
The Brigade functions as a dynamic library and encourages direct interaction between book-lovers who can get their books directly from contributors.
It is a novel initiative aimed at educating its members in Astronomy and has also launched an astronomy magazine called “Anant”.

College Festivals

SPIT hosts its annual techno-cultural fest, Oculus. Oculus is conducted in the month of January on a high-scale level. The festival ties up with several non-profit organizations and NGOs in order to promulgate and contribute towards several charitable causes.

CodeChef

The institute conducts various coding competitions in association with CodeChef. The students are actively involved on CodeChef to solve various coding questions.

Facilities and Infrastructure

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology started CRINE with the mission of driving innovation through learning from neurons. The objective of this center is to promote research in neuromorphic engineering, to promote collaboration between colleges and disciplines and to enhance industry institute interaction. The institute has also signed MOU with Eduvance and the center is supported by Cypress Semiconductors University Alliance Program. First time faculty and students from different departments of VJTI, SPIT and Fr.CRCE started working together in multidisciplinary area.
The Technology Business Incubation Centre was established in 2009. It is an initiative to nurture a culture of entrepreneurship in the creative minds of young engineers so that their ideas are implemented into newer products or services that have marketing potential. This centre started and supported by the institute provides all the required infrastructure and support for technology-based entrepreneurship. It helps and motivates young innovators to become successful entrepreneurs.
It is supported by Department of Science and Technology, National Entrepreneurship Network, Institute Alumni, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Entrepreneurship Cell. The institute received a grant of Rs 4.17 crore from the Department of Science & Technology for TBI which would be used to support students from both in-house and other institutes to set up businesses.
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The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 125 among engineering colleges in 2020.