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• BPDC students participated in SAE BAJA Tennessee, USA 2013

  • 21 Apr 2013
  • Dubai Campus

  The students team participated in the SAE BAJA Tennessee competition held at Tennessee, USA

  BPDC students participated in SAE BAJA Tennessee, USA 2013

  21 April 2013

  A team of 15 students participated in the SAE BAJA Tennessee competition held at Tennessee, USA on April 18th – 21st, 2013. Here teams have to design, build and race off-road vehicles that can withstand the harshest elements of rough terrain. There are multiple dynamic events like hill climb where the vehicle must climb a 40 degree inclined hill, sled pull is where the vehicle has to pull a heavy load and the distance up to which the vehicle can pull the loads decides the vehicles score, maneuverability is where the vehicle agility is tested with a track consisting of tight hairpin bends, chicanes, over 4 feet climbs and multiple snake cones, suspension event is where a lot of cars break down since this course is designed to test the strength of the vehicle where vehicle have to jump almost 2 ft in the air on slippery surfaces, and the final 4 – hour endurance race which takes place in the end where parts of all the above events are included in a final long track which is grueling enough to test a standard 4x4 SUV. Before taking part in any of the dynamic events teams have to pass technical inspection where the each and every imaginable aspect of the vehicle is inspected, here over 90% of the teams are failed in their first attempt, most teams manage to pass in their second or third attempt. BPDC team passed in the second attempt.

   

  Static event include design reports, presentations and evaluations. This is when the teams are judged on ergonomics, functionality, and producibility of their cars; ensuring that the final placement of the team does not rest solely on the vehicle's performance but rather on a combination of static and dynamic events. 

   

  Team XA, the first team from Birla Institute of Technology & Science to go for the international SAE Baja competition built their vehicle on the principles of simplicity and ruggedness with the aim being to successfully complete the competition where only 75% of the teams make it to the final race of where about 10 to 20 teams drop out in the first lap itself. 

   

  BPDC vehicle had a 10hp single cylinder Briggs & Stratton engine (specified by the competition rules), double wishbone suspension which during computer analysis could survive over 2g of force. Its drive train was a rather simple setup of a CVT followed by a dual chain reduction. Teams have to design vehicle with not just brute torque or rigidity but with also agility and top speed. BPDC vehicle could not complete the final endurance race because due to a problem in the drive train, but whoever saw the vehicle there had only praises for them when they came to know that it was the first attempt. BPDC team would like to thank the following for their immense support and help:

  • Dr.N.K.Millerjothi – Our faculty advisor
  • The Mechanical Faculty of BPDC

• BPDC STUDENTS WON THE BEST IDEA PRIZE AT ESREC’2013

  • 04 May 2013
  • Dubai Campus

  BPDC STUDENTS WON THE BEST IDEA PRIZE AT ESREC’2013 FOR THE SECOND SUCCESSIVE YEAR

  BPDC STUDENTS WON THE BEST IDEA PRIZE AT ESREC’2013

  04 May 2013

  BITS PILANI, DUBAI CAMPUS (BPDC) STUDENTS WON THE BEST IDEA PRIZE AT ESREC’2013 (ENGINEERING STUDENTS RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPETITION’2013) FOR THE SECOND SUCCESSIVE YEAR

   

  The following Final Year undergraduate students in Engineering under the supervision of Dr. R. Udaya Kumar, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering won the best idea prize under prototype category  at ESREC’2013 for their project entitled ”Conversion of Waste Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel’’

   

  1. Mr. Ben Anthony (CHEM), 

  2. Mr. Jerin Philip(EEE),

  3. Mr. Samson Varghese(EEE)  and 

  4. Mr. Deol Adhithia(MECH)

   

  This competition was held on May 4, 2013 at UAE University, AL AIN, organized by College of Engineering, UAE University. In this competition about 26 teams from various universities and colleges across the UAE participated. Dr.M.V.N.Sankaram, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering represented   BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus as a Member of Steering Committee, ESREC’2013 for the fourth successive year. BPDC Students made a hat trick by winning prizes in ESREC’11, ESREC’12 and ESREC’13 successively.

   

  Prof.  R K Mittal, Director, Prof G. Vijaya, Dean (R& C) congratulated the winners for bringing laurels to the Institution. This the second successive year the students of BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus won the Best Idea Prize at this competition.

   

  This is the fourth version of Engineering Students Renewable Energy Competition. This event is becoming the focal point of students enrolled in engineering, science and technology programs in universities and colleges across the UAE. The key objectives of holding this student competition are: promote renewable energy concepts through students’ projects, provide experience in applying engineering concepts for renewable energy, exchanging experiences between engineering students, and enhance engineering students’ understanding of the impact of renewable energy on our society.

• BPDC ASME student section has done it again

  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Dubai Campus

  4th successive victory by BPDC ASME student section, at ASME GULF SPDC-2013

  BPDC ASME student section has done it again

  29 April 2013

  BITS PILANI , Dubai Campus ASME Student Section won the

  first, second prizes in OGOPC and third prize in SDC at GULF

  ASME SPDC- 2013, hosted by Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi

   

  The Following ASME Section Students of BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus brought laurels to the institute for the fourth successive year by winning the first prize in prestigious Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition (OGOPC) and the third prize in Student Design Competition (SDC) and second prize in other various impromptu competitions at GULF ASME( American Society of Mechanical Engineers) SPDC (Student Professional Development Conference)-2013 HELD DURING 18-20, April,2013, hosted by ASME Student Section of Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, Abu Dhabi. In these competitions, ASME Students from the entire Gulf region participated.

   

  Mr. Deepan Kishore Kumar(III Yr ECE) topped in OGOPC among all the participants from all the  student sections in the Gulf region of ASME District –J. He will be competing with the other two toppers of the region in the District J in the finals to be held during 25-26, May 2013 in Lebanon(ASME District-J Quarters)

   

  Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition (OGOPC):

  First prize:

     Deepan Kishore kumar (III Yr ECE)

  Second Prize:

     Adarsh Venkat Raman (III Yr EEE)

   

  Student Design Competition (SDC):

  Third Prize:

     Akash Hathiramani (I Yr MECH)

     Arvind Somasundaram (I Yr CS)

     Aashman Arora (I Yr MECH)

     Puneet Khirwar. (I Yr MECH)

     Pranav Mohan (I Yr MECH)

   

  Rapid Design challenge:

  Second Prize:

     Radhika Kapoor (IV Yr MECH)

     Deepan Kishore Kumar (III Yr ECE)

     Akash Hathiramani (I Yr MECH)

   

  Bridge competition:

  Second Prize:

     Radhika Kapoor (IV Yr MECH)

     Deepan Kishore Kumar (III Yr ECE)

     Akash Hathiramani (I Yr MECH)

   

  Prof R K Mittal, Director, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus congratulated all the winners, Dr.M.V.N.Sankaram, BPDC ASME Student Section Faculty Advisor, Prof S. Swaminathan and Dr.C.Mallika Parveen for mentoring the students and accompanying them for these competitions.

• A GRAND VICTORY BY BPDC STUDENTS

  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Dubai Campus

  BPDC STUDENTS HAS GRAND VICTORY IN THE FIRST UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION

  A GRAND VICTORY BY BPDC STUDENTS

  24 April 2013

  A GRAND VICTORY BY BITS PILANI, DUBAI CAMPUS STUDENTS IN THE FIRST UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (Step up shahab)  on April, 23, 2013 , Organized by Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi

   

  The following students under the mentorship of faculty won the first prize in the  category of ‘’Natural & Health Sciences’’, second and third prizes in Engineering category and third prize in ‘’Information Technology’’ category in the First United Arab Emirates undergraduate students research competition (Step up Shahab) held on April,23,2013, organized  by Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi. The prestigious competition was conducted under the patronage of H.H.Sheika Latifa Bint Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In this competition students from other universities who participated include   Abu Dhabi University, Khalifa University, University of Sharjah, New York Institute of Technology, Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies), UAE.

   

  Prof R K Mittal, Director, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus congratulated both the winners and faculty, who mentored and accompanied the students for this competition.

   

  FIRST PRIZE (cash prize of 10, 000 AED) IN “NATURAL & HEALTH SCIENCES (out of 9 teams participated)

  Winner: DEEPAN KISHORE KUMAR (III Yr ECE)

  Title of the project: A Novel Eye Pad for Characterizing Nystagmus

  Mentor: Prof. S.Swaminathan

   

  SECOND PRIZE (cash prize of 7,000 AED) IN “ENGINERING” (out of 15 teams participated)

  Winners: DEEPAN KISHORE KUMAR (III Yr ECE) and ANOMITRA BANERJEE (I Yr Mech)

  Title of the project: A MEMS device for treating benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

   Mentor: Prof. S.Swaminathan

   

  THIRD PRIZE (cash prize of 5,000 AED) IN “ENGINERING” (out of 15 teams participated)

  Winners: SYED AAQUIB H. (IV Yr MECH), ANIRUDH V. (IV Yr MECH) and ARJUN ARYA (IYr MECH)

  Title of the project: A Study on the possible Implementation of the Waste to Energy Generation Process in the UAE

  Mentor: Dr.M.V.N.Sankaram

  THIRD PRIZE (cash prize of 5,000 AED) IN “INFORMATION TECHNOLOGTY” (out of 7 teams participated)

  Winner: NITATI PARAMESWARAN (IV Yr CS)

  Title of the project: Virtual e-Medic Systems

  Mentor: Dr. M. Madiajagan