The event showcased the latest tools and best practices in engineering education. It was a compelling success with participation of over 1500 researchers, students, professors and eminent academicians across the country. The conference included the best teaching-learning practices and engaging with domain experts on the best research avenues and hands-on workshops on NI LabVIEW and Multisim. NI, its customers and partners also provided industrial consultation and career opportunities to the participating engineering students through job applications and aptitude test conducted at the event.
Mr. Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director, IndRA (India, Russia and Arabia), National Instruments said, “We believe sound engineering fundamentals, coupled with an inquisitive and experimental mind are the pillars for the future of engineering. The fact that we received 645 entries to our embedded system design competition shows the shift in interest of students to ‘DOing Engineering’ rather than learning engineering. Innovation being the need of day, we can be sure that experiential learning coupled with Do Engineering is the right combination to address the grand engineering challenges”
The highly acclaimed National level student competitions - NIYANTRA, embedded systems design contest for engineering students and VIMANTRA, technical paper writing contest for students and research scholars staged its Grand Finale on the 17th Oct. The winner of VIMANTRA for the research category is Ahsan Z Rizvi, Ph.D Scholar, Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune for the project on “Bacterial Genome Analysis and Implementation of Bioinformatics Algorithms”. For the student category the winner is Ayush Singhal, Angadbir Singh and Manish Kumar from the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab for their project on “Semi Automatic Vehicle”. NIYANTRA winner is Ramsundar K G, Sufian K A, Sarath Kumar D and Nirosh Kumar H from Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore for their project on “Smart Mobility System For Physically Challenged.”
The winners of NIYANTRA and VIMANTRA competed for prizes worth more Rs 3 lakh, pre-placement interviews and mentorship opportunities at NI India. The winners also stand a chance to get nominated as India's entries in the ‘Global NI Student Design Contest’, an initiative aimed at fostering innovation using the LabVIEW graphical development environment at a global level.
This year the panel discussions by renowned professors, industry and media professionals gave rise to insights and views on the feasibility and possible outcomes of exploratory engineering. The discussion also focused on the challenges in motivating students to experiment and innovate in core engineering. The discussions were focused around a wide range of next generation embedded technologies including design track, healthcare, wireless communications, mobility, cyber physical systems and more to emphasize the importance of Graphical System Design.
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