Thursday, December 18, 2008:
Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd (SEI) has announced the winners of Innovation Challenge 2008. Schneider Electric launched the contest to explore the budding engineering talent in India. MIT, Manipal represented by Mrityunjai and Arpit Gandhi, who presented Solar Powered Embedded LED Street Lamp, won the first prize of Rs 1,00,000.
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Again MIT, Manipal represented by Rupan Sarkar, Gaurav Kumar Barman and Pranab Purakayastha, who presented Efficient Energy Management, won the second prize of Rs 75,000. The third prize of Rs 50,000 went to IIT, Kharagpur represented by Debdutta Bhattacharya, Siddharth Ajith, Ankur Goel and Kaushik Kislay, who presented Electrification of Rural areas at low cost - Microbial Fuel Cell.
The focus of the contest was to make students think 'out of the box' and provide an opportunity to come up with innovative solutions to showcase efficient utilisation of energy.
The contest was open to students of all engineering streams. Each team could propose their innovative ideas in accordance with the contest theme. The short-listed teams were invited to present their ideas/solutions at the Schneider R&D facility in Bengaluru. Each team was allotted 30 minutes to present their idea and for Q&A.
The 10 teams which qualified to the finals were from BITS Pilani, MIT Manipal, HIT Kolkata, NIT Rourkela, KIIT Bhubaneshwar, IIT Kharagpur, MSRIT Bangalore and IIIT Hyderabad. The participants were evaluated on the basis of quality of innovation, technical feasibility of solution, alignment to the contest theme and the proof of concept given.
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