PEC’s open house comes to a close

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

The Open house 2018, an event dedicated to showcase technical projects of college students, concluded on Wednesday at Punjab Engineering College (PEC) here.

Around 300 students from 26 schools across the tricity visited the campus.

Post-registration process of students and an introduction about the open house, the lamp-lighting ceremony was followed.

The students were shown a video vis-à-vis life of a student at PEC.

Dr Divya Bansal, Head, Career Development and Guidance Centre (CDGC), delivered the welcome address, which was succeeded by a talk on ‘PEC: An Insight’ conveyed by Dr Manoj K Arora, Director, PEC.

He informed the students about the essential features of the college which comprise the departments, Research Centre, schemes such as Smart City. He also spoke about focusing on the importance of quality engineers and motivated the students to opt for engineering as a career path given its potential to bring a change in the world. Thereafter, an address by the guest of honour, Pankaj Bansal, an Industry Expert from the TCS, was given on ‘How to make wise career choices in engineering?’

The winners were announced and honoured with cash prizes worth Rs 85,000, sponsored by Verka and PECOSA. The winners fell in three categories — Circuital Branches, Non-Circuital Branches and Technical Societies. Further, prizes under two special categories, ‘Research with larger impact’ and ‘Most innovative idea’, were also presented to the deserving teams.

Under circuital branches, ‘Braille Tablet’ made by Khuswant Rai, Esha Tandon, Simran Kaur and Garima Shukla secured the first position while ‘I-Vote’ and ‘Bone Conduction Hearing System’ secured the second and the third spots, respectively.

Under the non-circuital branches, ‘Design and fabrication of low-speed water tunnel’ made by Ankush Kumar, Parth Sonara and Charanjeet Kaur secured the first position while ‘Thin Film Coating For absorbance beyond visible spectra’ and ‘Synthesis of piezoelectric materials and its application in smart structures’ shared the second position and ‘Human-powered Nebuliser’ settled for the third position.

Under technical societies, ‘Gesture-controlled wheelchair’ made by Jatin Batra, Palak Jain, Ashmeet Jheetha, Aman Garg and Mukul Sahni secured the first position while ‘LiFi’ and ‘Robotic Arm’ secured second and third positions, respectively.

The project ‘Smart Shoe for blind’ won the prize under the ‘Research with larger impact’ category while ‘Smart Gate Controlling Reservoir System’ project secured the ‘Most Innovative Idea’ prize.

Awarded projects

Braille tablet: The aim was to develop an alpha prototype of Braille tablet with a touch screen on the front side, provide Braille tactile on the opposite side of the tablet and voice command operation facility in it, thus helping people who are visually impaired to have an unlimited opportunity in their education personal productivity.

Gesture-controlled wheelchair: Its aim was to model a gesture-controlled wheelchair equipped with basic home automation applications vis-à-vis control of fans and lights as well as advanced features, including face detection-enabled security systems.