The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is the leading National Professional non-profit making Society for the Technical Education System in our country with the motto of Career Development of Teachers and Personality Development of Students and overall development of our Technical Education System. The major objective of the ISTE is to provide quality training programs to teachers and administrators of technical institutions to update their knowledge and skills in their fields of activity and to assist and contribute in the production and development of top quality professional engineers and technicians needed by the industry and other organisations.
SMVITM has been certified by ISTE, New Delhi as the Institutional Member ( IM: 2248 ) in the year 2013. To extend the services from ISTE, an ISTE Student Chapter ( KA-114 ) and ISTE Faculty Chapter ( KA-118 ) has been formed to motivate faculty and student members in the institute to contribute their technical skills. All the teaching faculty in the institute are Life Members of ISTE and all students are also enrolled as ISTE Student Members during their period of engineering education in the institute. ISTE Chapters in SMVITM has organized several technical programs like National Conference, Seminars, Workshop, Faculty Development Program, technical competitions etc.