Watumull Institute of Electronic Engineering and Computer Technology
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The Watumull Institute of Electronics Engineering and Computer Technology is an engineering college in Worli
Worli
-History:Worli was one of the original seven islands that constituted the city of Mumbai. Although primarily a fishing village, the Worli Fort, a British fort that is now in ruins, is located there. Its original resident was the legendary Dishankeshwar Kalsi who has also been recognized in several...

.It has been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

WIEECT was established in 1980 as post graduate three year integrated engineering diploma which later converted to degree B.Sc.(Tech) for B.Sc.(Physics/Maths/Electronics) student. Since 1984 this institute produced excellent technocrats who created WIEECT's identity in top notch industries in India and abroad.

From year 2002 onwards WIEECT offers a four year bachelor of engineering courses in Computer, Electronics & Telecommunication, Bio-medical and Instrumentation streams. Its active student community hosts branches of several professional societies including IEEE, CSI
Computer Society of India
The Computer Society of India is the first and the largest body of computer professionals in India. It was started on 6 March 1965 by a handful of computer professionals and has now grown to be the national body representing computer professionals...

, [IETE], ISA
ISA
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 etc.

Campus

The Watumull Institute of Electronics Engineering and Computer Technology is located at Worli, a posh locality in south Mumbai. It has an incredible location, with its imposing structure towering over the Arabian Sea.
It is well connected by bus and train. The bus stop at Poddar hospital is a walking distance away and has B.E.S.T buses that take you to Dadar which is the largest terminus for Western, Central and Harbour trains. From here as well as from a sea facing bus stop closer to the college you get B.E.S.T buses that take you to South Bombay.

Getting Admission

Students can join the college for the First Engineering (F.E.) batch, based on the following two criteria,
a)Their score in the MHT-CET (for Maharashtra students)
b) Their score in the AIEEE (for others).
Watumull also has SE admission for diploma holders (D.E.).

Faculty

The present Principal of the Institute is Mrs. Sandhya Desai.

Building

The Watumull Institute functions from a single eight-storey building, which is currently undergoing renovation and plans are afoot to add another two floors to the building for additional laboratories and other facilities.

Sports

The college has no open grounds. However, it does have excellent facilities for playing Table Tennis, football, cricket,chess and carrom. Additionally there are Police grounds which are a 10 minute walking distance from the college where one can play cricket and football and also has nets for playing volleyball. The intra-college sporting events are usually conducted here and at oval stadium churchgate.

Library

The Watumull library provides a vast collection of books and periodicals, which include university prescribed text books and reference material. It is one of the best libraries associated with the Mumbai University. The library subscribes to all major technical journals and magazines and some major non-technical magazines as well. The library has recently been digitally catalogued, thereby making it simpler to locate a book. Apart from books, the college also has thousands of CDs and DVDs pertaining to engineering.

Electronics and Telecommunication

The Electronics & Telecommunication Department comprises 8 Laboratories -
  • Electronics Lab
  • Digital & Microprocessor
  • Communication
  • Image processing
  • Microwave & Fibre optics
  • Digital Signal processing
  • Industrial Electronics
  • Basic Electrical & Electronics


All the Laboratories are well equipped with the Advanced Experiment Set-ups as required by the university.

Software's such as OrCAD
OrCAD
OrCAD is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The software is used mainly to create electronic prints for manufacturing of printed circuit boards, by electronic design engineers and electronic technicians to manufacture electronic schematics.The name...

 & MATLAB
MATLAB
MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...

, Circuit maker,PSPICE ,LINUX, all analog & digital electronics equipment & components , electrical machines, electronic & digital communication apparatus, antenna based experiments, etc. are provided by the college labs.

Computer

The Computer Department comprises 4 Laboratories
  • Hardware Laboratory
  • Graphics Laboratory
  • Design Laboratory
  • Programming Laboratory


All the laboratories are fully equipped with Sun
Sun Microsystems
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 machines, P4
Pentium 4
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 machines, Local Area Network
Local area network
A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building...

, Internet connection. Using OS like SUSE
SUSE Linux distributions
SUSE Linux is a computer operating system. It is built on top of the open source Linux kernel and is distributed with system and application software from other open source projects. SUSE Linux is of German origin and mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making...

 Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 10.0, Solaris 10, Windows XP
Windows XP
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 and now Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

.

Software packages like Oracle
Oracle database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

 10g, OpenGL
OpenGL
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, Java
Java (programming language)
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, XML
XML
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, Rational Rose etc. are available to the students. The computers are all strictly firewalled and monitored to prevent anti-social activities.

Biomedical

Biomedical Department has relevant systems based on Biomedical Engineering.
  • Ultrasound machine(Wipro GE): Watumull college being the first one to have it.
  • Arrhythmia Simulator
  • Cardiac monitor
  • ECG and EEG machine
  • Surgical diathermy machine
  • Shortwave diathermy
  • pH meter
  • Ultrasonic therapy units
  • Haemometer
  • Nerve stimulator
  • Defibrillator
  • Pulmonary function analyzer
  • Conductivity meter
  • Pressure sensor
  • Sensors like LDR


Instrumentation

Instrumentation Department has relevant systems based on process measurement and control line
  • Flow process trainer
  • Festo pneumatic trainer
  • Simulation Software for hydraulic, pneumatic system
  • Microprocessor trainer kits
  • Microcontroller trainer kits
  • Heat exchanger systems
  • PID controllers and trainers
  • LVDT trainers
  • Sensors of different types like loadcell, strainguage, Temperative sensors, pressure sensor etc.

The Instrumentation Laboratories are well equipped with computers also.

Auditorium

The construction of an auditorium is currently under-way on the ground floor of the school.

Societies

Here are a few of the societies in Watumull:

Festival

Watumull holds an annual festival, ENSEMBLE, which highlights the achievements of the college and its students. It is generally held after the conclusion of the first term of the year. It consists of events like rappelling, wall-climbing, robotics, a virtual stock exchange, mock detective games, treasure hunts,base games, crystal mazes and various personality contests.

Another College Fest held by Watumull is WIFI. It is a popular intercollegiate fest and is conducted every year around September.
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