4th edition of QuEST Ingenium in association with #Airbus

QuEST Global announced the winners of its annual pan-India intercollegiate innovation contest - ‘QuEST Ingenium 2014’. The coveted first prize was claimed by Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala for their project Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Power Augmentation and Rehabilitation while the first runners up were Siddaganga Institute of Technology for their project Using Dragsail to De-Orbit Low Earth Orbit Satellites followed by Mepco Schlenk Engineering College for their project Automatic exterior wall painting machine &; Rashtriya Vidyalaya College Of Engineering for their project Hand Gesture based Sign Language Recognition System for Speech and Hearing Impaired. The awards were presented by Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus.
Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus attended the occasion as the Guest of Honor."We are pleased to support the Ingenium event with QuEST Global and encourage responsible engineering,”said Chris Voysey.

Dr Tessy Thomas, India's Agni Putri addresses #Ingenium engineers on science and technology. pic.twitter.com/Qb2a0bb0jn
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"India has a lot of passionate students, especially in the Engineering sector and such platforms gives ample opportunity to these students to showcase new ideas and innovations that can be implemented to tackle real-world challenges.  This developing talent pool continues to raise India’s international profile in engineering,” said Dr. Tessy Thomas, Project Director of Agni-V project.
"The Engineering Services industry in India is expected to quadruple to $40B by 2020 requiring more than ten lakh core engineers of excellent quality.Ingenium has come a long way in bringing out the talent of engineering students from across the length and breadth of the country.”Dr. Ajay Prabhu, COO of QuEST Global added.
A total of over 2146 entries were received from 1264 colleges across 23 states for the contest.