M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering

The M. H. Saboo Siddik institute is an engineering college located at Byculla,Shepard road,Mumbai 400008

History

The M.H. Saboo Siddik institute was established in 1936 with a definite mission to disseminate a value-oriented quality education among our youth to fulfill the increasing demand of ever-growing engineering industry of our nation, which it has truly proved to the core. The institute reached a landmark when it started the degree college in 1984-85. Within a short span of time of its inception, this engineering college ranked one of the best in Mumbai, and was viewed as a symbol of national integration and secularism and has given thousands of brilliant and innovative engineers to the developing society.

This college is affiliated to the University of Mumbai and all the courses are recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) and is currently awarded an ‘A’grade by the AICTE. The staff strength is about 154(57-teaching, 97-non-teaching) and the student strength is about 1200.

Disciplines

The college currently offers the following six disciplines:

#Automobile Engg.
#Civil Engg.
#Computer Engg
#Electronics EnggElectronics and Telecommunication
#Information technology.
#Mechanical Engg.

Library

The library houses around 16,500 books and journals catering to academic and research needs of the students and the faculty. The library has also subscription to other libraries like the IIT Library and library networks such as DELNET (Delhi University Network). The library is in the process of upgrading itself to a remote library wherein one will be able to access through the internet.

Electronics department & Computer Department

This department conceived in 1994 has some of the best results in the university. This department has shown a brilliant academic performance by its students bagging merit ranks(top 10) in the university over the years.

The total investment in this department is around 60 lakh rupees and is well-equipped with labs like Signal processing lab, robotics lab, communications lab, industrial electronics lab etc. The lecturers and professors with their valuable expertise have guided the students and helped in nurturing the departments to one of the best in Mumbai.

The students under this dept have been pursuing their projects and research at reputed organizations like the IIT, BARC, TIFR, VSNL, L&T, TCS, Global Telesystems etc. and have done remarkable achievements in their projects. There are a few in-house projects going too, viz on signal processing, robotics, PLCs etc. which are laudable. The students branch of the IEEE organizes 360 degrees which is the annual technical intercollegiate festival hosted by four engg colleges viz, RAIT, DJ Sanghvi, VESIT ,KJ Somaiya and MHSS CoE. The IEEE central (USA) has also been funding the electronics department on account of the departments continued efforts to progress technology and educating and awarding people of technology. Hardware maintenance workshops, paper presentations, guest lectures are regularly held by the IEEE students chapter of the MHSS CoE to bring about awareness of the various developments in technology. Industrial tours to places like Hyderabad and Bangalore are held to give industrial exposure to the students.

The professors of the department have also value added to the department by presenting technical papers at national level and international on robotics etc.The students of the dept. Most of the staff of this department are PGs while some are on their way to a doctorate. Ex-students of the dept are pursuing research in the US and other countries.

Students of this college have been recruited in prestigious organizations like L & T, Wipro, Infosys, Godrej and Boyce etc.The department has an overall reputation with its students bagging awards at IIT(Yantriki) and by the IEEE Mumbai chapter for various robotics competitions and paper presentations. Strangely though ,this dept has also been bagging awards for structural design competitions at the IIT(Last straw).Students from this department have represented the college on state and national level quizzing(Zenith college quiz, DD metro).Students of this dept have also been winning at various personality competitions.