LPU students bag second spot in SAEINDIA car-designing contest

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, July 14

Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) and Society of Automotive Engineers India (SAEINDIA) conducted a six-day ‘Formula Car-Designing’ contest, where a mechanical engineering students’ team ‘Illuminati Racers’ of Lovely Professional University (LPU) clinched the 2nd position among the competing 126 teams from across the country, including top IITs.

Over 3,000 students from various engineering institutions, including top IITs and NITs across the country, had competed the 6th edition of ‘Supra SAEINDIA 2017’ contest held at the Buddha International Circuit, Greater Noida.

The mechanical engineering top skill-competition aimed to provide students an innovative, hands-on and out-of-classroom education to prove their capability in designing formula prototype car and its plying on the destined circuit with stipulated number of laps.

LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal congratulated the students and invoked other students to keep the winning spirit up.

In the six-day inter-college formula car competitive event, students conceived, designed and fabricated the ‘prototype’ based on predefined rules and design standards of SAE International. To conform to the international guidelines, LPU team’s prototype went through strict levels of scrutiny, including technical inspection (scrutiny, tilt test, noise and brake test), static events (cost, marketing and design presentations), and dynamic events (acceleration, skid pad, autocross and endurance).

Out of the participating 126 teams, only 30 teams were able to clear the technical Inspection and static round to qualify for dynamic events and the LPU team, ‘Illuminati Racers’, was one of them.

The LPU team won the second place in the Autocross event and was honoured with a cash award and a winning trophy. The LPU formula car was designed by a group of 25 students from the School of Mechanical Engineering, which was guided by head of the school Prof Gurpreet Singh Phull and assistant prof Sumit Kanchan. LPU team’s captain and driver-1 was Rishabh Shukla, and vice-captain and driver-2 was Akshay Zerath.