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Laxmikant Manchekar

Laxmikant Manchekar

Assistant Professor
Information Technology

Qualification

M.Sc (Physics-Electronics), University of Mumbai
2010

Experience

15
Teaching Experience

04
Technical Papers Published

02
Patent

MY LIFE

I completed my graduation from Siddharth College, Fort, Mumbai. My teacher Dr. Balasubramanium Sir who is serving as Head of the Physics Department at Siddharth College is my role model. Even today I try to emulate his passion for teaching. After my post-graduation, I got my first job at the same college. Sharing the same staffroom with my role model was indeed a great pleasure. I consider myself fortunate enough to teach along with him in the early days of my teaching career.

I have undergone various training programs in the field of Technology and Teaching Methodologies. In one such program, I was the top performer of the program at AICTE approved Four-week Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

I am a professional e-sports player. E-sport is something new in India but its slowly and steadily gaining traction here. I watch many National and International E-sports tournaments. I ensure to take time out of my busy schedule and practice my skills.

I am also an e-content creator. I have one active YouTube channel dedicated to e-learning, it is here where I post various videos related to concepts of Digital Electronics and Microprocessor.

I also play an Indian classical music instrument. I play Pakhawaj also known as Mridang and I have been playing it right from my school days. I learned this instrument from great Pakhawaj player Shri. Pramod Kumathekar.

In my college, I am an active member of the Lifelong Learning and Extension unit. As a part of this unit, we conduct various social activities like old age home visits, tree plantation drives, awareness rallies, volunteering in various festivals. Our goal is to “REACH TO UNREACHED”.
According to me, teaching is best the profession and I get overwhelmed to serve as a Teacher.

MY WORK

  1. Awarded with trophy for successfully conducting DLLE UDAAN festival by University of Mumbai in Feb 2019
  2. Top performer in Two-week Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on Mentoring Educators in Educational Technology organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in June 2018
  3. Top performer of the programme (Top 383 out of 4051 registered participants) at AICTE approved Four-week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in June 2016
  1. Filed a patent for the design of a Machine Learning-Based Children’s Health Monitoring Device, which has been officially registered by the Patent Office, Government of India on 12th December 2024. 
  2. Filed a patent for the design of a Mental Stress Detection Device with the UK Intellectual Property Office on 25th December 2023. 
  1. Resource person for 3-D Printing workshop “Adding Dimensions to Printing” on 4th and 11th March 2023 conducted by Department of IT of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
  2. Resource Person for one of the sessions on “Animation and Video creation “on Tuesday 8th March 2022 in University Level Workshop for NSS Volunteers conducted by NSS unit of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
  3. Conducted workshop on “Graphics Designing and Animation” for first year BAMMC students on Friday 28th January 2022 at Department of Arts of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
  4. Conducted Online Workshop on “2D Animation” for extension unit’s students of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 1st Mach 2021 to 28th March 2021
  5. Conducted Online Technical Skill Development Course – English Typewriting for extension unit’s students of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 02nd September 2020 to 30th September 2020
  6. Conducted Value Added Course on “2D Graphics and Animation” at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 18th January 2020 to 29th January 2020
  7. Conducted Value Added Course on “2D Graphics and Animation” Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 21st January 2019 to 21st February 2019
  8. Conducted Digital Literacy Program Extension unit of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 3rd December 2018 to 2nd March 2019
  9. Conducted Faculty Development Program on “Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning” for teachers of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 26th November 2016
  10. Delivered a Lecture on topic “A journey through amazing world of science” for teaching and non-teaching staff of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 3rd May 2016
  11. Conducted workshop on “Excel and Power point presentation Skills” for teaching and non-teaching staff of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 3rd October 2015
  12. Conducted Typing Training Program for teaching staff of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 23rd March 2015 to 22nd April 2015
  13. Resource person for a 2-day hands-on value-added course on 3D Printing, on 8th and 15th March 2025 conducted by Department of IT of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology 
  14. Appointed as Moderator in the subject Business Intelligence and Data Analysis for TYBSc (Information Technology), Semester VI examination, conducted in March 2025 at Gurunanak College of Arts, Science and Commerce. 
  15. Appointed as External Examiner in the subject Internet of Things for TYBSc (Information Technology), Semester V practical examination, conducted in October 2024  at Sasmira’s Institute of Science and Commerce. 
  16. Appointed as Paper Setter, Moderator, Examiner, and Translator for TYBSc (Data Science), Semester V examination in the subject Computer Vision (Paper Code: 53521) under the Faculty of Science and Technology: First Half (Summer) 2025 Examinations, Second Half (Winter) 2024 Examinations  

 

Orientation Programs

  1. Faculty Development Program on “CSS” conducted by Vidyalankar School of Information Technology with course material provided by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay from 13th March 2023 to 15th April 2023
  2. Faculty Development Program on “Joomla” conducted by Vidyalankar School of Information Technology with course material provided by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay from 4th July 2022 to 8th August 2022
  3. First Term Training Program for Extension Teachers and Student Managers Conducted by University of Mumbai on 29th June 2019 at Anna Leela College of Commerce and Economics, Kurla (E), Mumbai
  4. First Term Training Program for Extension Teachers and Student Managers conducted by University of Mumbai on 21st August 2018 at Changu Kana Thakur Arts, Commerce & Science College, New Panvel, Dist.- Raigad
  5. First Term Training Program for Extension Teachers and Student Managers conducted by University of Mumbai on 28th August 2018 at Sasmira Institute of Management Studies

Seminars

  1. One day National Seminar on “Challenges faced by Private/Permanently Unaided Colleges in Getting NAAC Accreditation” on 14th March 2017 at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala
  2. Participated in the One Day Inter-Disciplinary National Seminar held on 26th August 2024 at Arunodaya University. 

Webinars

  1. A National Webinar Series on “Knowledge Generation in Education during COVID-19 Pandemic” organized by Bombay Teachers’ Training College, HSNC University along with Department of Education of Mumbai University from 12th May 2020 to 16th May 2020
  2. Webinar on “Education in 4.0 Era” organized by Rajgad Institute of Management, Research and Development, Pune on 9th May 2020
  3. One day National Online Seminar on “Creation of MOOCs” organized by Kirti M. Doongursee College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Dadar on 27th April 2020
  4. A national webinar on “Future of AI inspired by Customer Use Cases for AI-ML” organized by ICT Academy on 9th April 2020
  5. Four Days Webinar on” An Effective Research Paper Writing Skills” organized by Bhagawan Mahavir College of Commerce and Management Studies, Gujrat from 13th April 2020 to 16th April 2020

Workshops

  1. Online workshop and coursework on “Research Methodology for Quantitative Research in Social Science organized” by Ph.D. Centre of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Mumbai from 3rd May 2021 to 15th May 2021.
  2. One day Engineering Workshop on “Raspberry PI and IoT” at Perl Center, Dadar on 5th August 2017
  3. One day Workshop on Revised Syllabus of F.Y.B.Sc.(I.T.), SEMESTER – 2 conducted by University of Mumbai at. Vaze college in association with ad-hoc Board of Studies (Information Technology) of University of Mumbai on 7th March 2017
  4. One day Workshop on Revised Syllabus of F.Y.B.Sc.(I.T.), SEMESTER – 1 in the subject of “Digital Electronics” conducted by Mumbai University at Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management on 26th August 2016

Faculty Developement Programs

  1. Two and Half day fully residential IEEE Teacher’s Congress 2022 at Hotel IBIS, Nashik Organised by IEEE Bombay Section on 25th to 27th March 2022.
  2. Faculty Development program on “Bringing Learner Centricity in Teaching-Learning Process” organized by IQAC of Vidyalankar School Of Information Technology on 8th, 15th and 22nd of January 2022.
  3. Faculty Development Program on “Evolution from Offline to Online Teaching” conducted by Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane in association with Department of IT, YCMOU along with Microsoft from 30th May 2020 to 3rd June 2020
  4. Faculty Development Program on “Innovation in Teaching and Learning” conducted by Jagdamha College of Engineering and Technology, Yavatmal from 24th April 2020 to 2nd May 2020
  5. One week Faculty Development Program on “Machine Learning with IoT” conducted by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Varsova, Mumbai from 16th December 2020 to 20th December 2020
  6. AICTE approved Four-week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning” conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from 2nd May 2016 to 10th July 2016
  7. Participated & completed AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on Faculty Development program on “Transformative AI in Education: Insights and Applications” at VIDYALANKAR SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY from 6th January 2025 to 11th January 2025. 

Massive Open Online Course

  1. Spoken Tutorial on “GIMP Training” under Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 7th May 2022
  2. Spoken Tutorial on “Android app using Kotlin” under Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 7th May 2022
  3. Spoken Tutorial on “LibreOffice Suite Writer Training” under Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
  4. Spoken Tutorial on “MOODLE Test for Teachers” under Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology on 25th April 2020
  5. Completed the eSim Spoken Tutorial Training Program on 7th March 2025, organized at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology (VSIT). 

Short Term Training Programs

  1. 5 Days Short Term Training Program on ““Enhancing Quality Education through Capacity Building for GEN Z” Organised by Research and Development Committee in association with Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology from 2nd May 2023 to 8th May 2023
  2. One-week Short Term Training Program on “Integrating Lab Activities and Virtual Labs in Online Teaching-Learning” organized by Vidyalankar School of Information Technology and conducted by AIIE Edtech, Thane from 21st July 2021 to 4th September 2021
  3. One-week Short Term Training Program on “Current Trends in Computing” organized by Internal Assurance Cell and Department of Information Technology of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology 23rd November to 28 November 2020
  4. AICTE recognized short term course – “E-content for Technical Education” conducted by National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Bhopal from 13th July 2015 to 24th July 2015
  1. Published a Research paper entitled “Study of Zero Trust Architecture Using Beyondcorp” published in “Stochastic Modeling & Applications Volume No. 3 (January – June, Special Issue 2022)” with ISSN: 0972-3641 UGC Care journal
  2. Published a Research paper entitled “Mentoring- a friendly approach towards the overall-growth of the student” Published in Vol. 34(II): 2021 Utkal Historical Research Journal with ISSN: 0976-2132 UGC Care Approved, Peer Reviewed and Referred Journal
  3. Presented a paper titled “Reversible Logic Gates: A Comprehensive Overview” at the International Multidisciplinary Conference VCMT 2025, held on 18th January 2025 at Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Mumbai 
  4. Presented a paper titled “Advanced Design and Optimization of Reversible Logic Gates for Emerging Technologies” at the One-day national conference on “Innovation & research in business and modern technology” held on 26th April 2025 at Siddharth College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai