Mission Statement:
Impart highest quality, technology-based education, in the most cost-effective manner, to facilitate the University mission as it applies to the management, teaching, learning, and community service.

To meet this mission we will:
Provide effective technology support for audio/visual, computer, multimedia, voice, video, and web-based applications to fulfill the need of students and staff.
Promote and facilitate the effective integration of technology into the basic mission of the University through planning, programming, training, consulting, and other support activities.
Develop, enhance, and manage the University enterprise networks to provide high speed, transparent, and highly functional connectivity among all information resources.
Develop and maintain highly effective, reliable, secure, and innovative information systems to support instructional, administrative and research activities.
Facilitate the collection, storage, security and integrity of electronic data while ensuring appropriate access. innovative applications.

Objectives:

IT majors shall receive an education that gives them the basic knowledge of the most significant IT areas and is enhanced by appropriate hands-on experience.
IT majors shall be practiced in oral and written communication skills, particularly as these skills apply to the dissemination of technical information on subjects dealing with information technology.
IT majors will be required to develop a particular area of strength in a sub-area of IT or in some complementary area of study.
The IT Department will continue to pursue:

The use of information technology to enable a time and location-independent, learner-centered environment where students will be able to access course content, obtain advice and guidance from faculty and access student services using a variety of methods, including those mediated by information technology.
A network-centered computing environment, where all information services will be seen as standard network services originating from a single source and
The continued testing of a mobile and wireless computing environment, where all members of the University community will be able to access network services from anywhere, at any time, both on campus and off.

Overview:
The Department is established in 2001, with an intake of 60 students. The Department has operational, strategic and fiscal responsibility for the innovation, implementation and advancement of technology.

Infrastructure:

The department has been received grants of Rs. 53 Lacks from State Government. As an outcome of these grants, the department has setup a Lab of 15 latest Technology PCs, Xeon Servers, and networking. Soon, three labs, each of 22 desktops of HP-make will be established. Also, two 64 Kbps Internet leased line and computer center, shared with computer department, which we open for students from morning 08:00 am to evening 11:00 pm.

Soon we are going to install 2 Mbps Internet lease line

Achievements:
Department has developed and maintained rapport with R & D and published several papers in the national, international conferences and journals.


Facilities:
Information Technology Department will support the computing and technological needs of the Department and the entire University. In addition to regular activities, our responsibilities include developing, implementing and maintaining new and existing applications, providing network and personal computer support, planning for and implementing growth in our network infrastructure, coordinating all software & hardware procurements, configurations & installations and maintaining our website.



Faculty:

V. B. Nikam,
Assistant Professor & Head
B.E.(CSE),
M.E.(Comp. Technology), V.J.T.I., Mumbai
Experience:
Industry : 1 Year
Teaching : 11 Years
Field of Interest: Networks, Distributed System, Database, Web Technologies

Tel: 91-2140-275039 (O),
91-2140-275230 (R)
E-mail: nikam_v@rediffmail.com, it.dbatu@rediffmail.com




S. R. Sutar, M.Tech. Assistant Professor

S. M. Jadhav, M.E. Assistant Professor

A. R. Babulgaonkar, B.E.,M.B.A. Lecturer

V. J. Kadam, B.E. Lecturer