PEC’s open house begins on a high note

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 17

The two-day annual open house, organised by the Career Development and Guidance Centre, Punjab Engineering College (PEC), took off on Tuesday.

The open house serves as a platform for college students to showcase their technical projects. Around 28 technical projects created by final year students and 23 projects created by students of various technical societies were displayed near the auditorium and in various departments. Some of the projects included Driver-assisted autonomous vehicles, Bone conduction hearing system, Design and fabrication of low speed water tunnel, Human-powered nebuliser and Thin film coating for absorbance beyond visible spectrum.

Dr Navneet Singh Aulakh, senior scientist, CSIR-CSIO, Er Inderdeep Aulakh, faculty member, UIET, Er Lalit Singla, Infosys, are constituting the circuital branch evaluation team while Er Udey Kumar, CMD and owner Essel Sanitary Fittings, Er Vikas Singla, entrepreneur and Er Inderpal Sandhu are constituting the non-circuital branches evaluation team.

The projects categorised under the technical societies were evaluated by a separate panel consisting of Lalit, Infosys and Er Inderpal Sandhu.

After a careful consideration by the panel of experts, winners will be announced. They would be honoured with cash prizes worth Rs 83,000, sponsored by Verka and PECOSA, during the prize distribution, which is scheduled for Wednesday. The second day of the open house will begin on Wednesday where students from schools across the tricity would be visiting the campus to get a glimpse of the college life that lies ahead of them. Technical projects would be showcased and the students would be given a campus tour.

A series of performances exhibiting the cultural side of the college has been lined up.

Robot to detect flaws on rail tracks

An autonomous robot prepared by final year students of electrical engineering, Kanish Bajaj and Yatharth Ved Bajaj, has been on display. The robot is designed in a way to detect flaws or cracks on railway tracks using infrared and ultrasonic senor. The major motivation behind the project is the derailments in the past few months.

Projects to help special persons

This project is developed by second year students Jatin, Palak, Ashmeet, Aman and Mukul. It is a wheelchair which can be operated using an application which uses gyro sensor of the phone to move in the desired direction. The robot is designed for physically challenged persons to move and can try to be independent as much as they can. Along with this, they prepared an automated home system to enable better usage to the differently abled.