QuEST Global Ingenium 2014 Winners announced

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21-Jun-2014

Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala wins

‘QuEST Ingenium’ 2014 for their project Upper Limb Exoskeleton for

assistive rehabilitation

Bangalore, June 21, 2014: QuEST Global, a diversified global engineering

services company, today announced the winners of its annual pan-India

intercollegiate innovation contest - „QuEST Ingenium 2014‟. The coveted first

prize was claimed by Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and

Technology, Kerala for their project Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Power

Augmentation and Rehabilitation while the first runners up were Siddaganga

Institute of Technology for their project Using Dragsail to De-Orbit Low Earth

Orbit Satellites followed by Mepco Schlenk Engineering College for their

project Automatic exterior wall painting machine & Rashtriya Vidyalaya

College Of Engineering for their project Hand Gesture based Sign Language

Recognition System for Speech and Hearing Impaired. The awards were

presented by Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus.

“It was once in a life time experience to be a part of QuEST Ingenium 2014. We

are lucky to be chosen among the finalists and we are excited to visit the Airbus

facility. All thanks to QuEST Global and all who have supported us in this project”,

said Vivek and Akhil, members of the winning team.

Projects shortlisted and showcased include -

College Name College location Project Title

Pankajakasthuri college

of engineering and

technology

NEYYATTINKARA ,

KERALA

Upper Limb Exoskeleton for

Power Augmentation and

Rehabilitation

Kammavari Sangham

Institute of Technology

BANGALORE,

KARNATAKA

Web Based Cybernetic

Assistive Leg Exoskeleton

Nitte Mahalinga

Adyantaya Memorial

Institute of Technology

UDUPI,

KARNATAKA

iCar - An Intelligent and

Interactive Driver Assistance

System

SRM Institute of Science

& Technology

CHENNAI,

TAMILNADU

Fabrication and Analysis Of C-

Wing with Whale Tubercles

M.S. Ramaiah Institute

of Technology

BANGALORE,

KARNATAKA Tactical UAV

Siddaganga Institute of

Technology

TUMKUR,

KARNATAKA

Using Dragsail to De-Orbit

Low Earth Orbit Satellites

S G Balekundri Institute

Technology

BELGAUM,

KARNATAKA Domestic Power Pack

Mepco Schlenk

Engineering College

SIVAKASI, TAMIL

NADU

Automatic Exterior Wall

Painting Machine

Rashtriya Vidyalaya

College Of Engineering

BANGALORE,

KARNATAKA

Hand Gesture Based Sign

Language Recognition System

for Speech and Hearing

Impaired

Angadi Institute of

Technology and

Management

BELGAUM,

KARNATAKA Transmission line Robot

The winners were adjudged by an independent panel of judges represented by

industry/academic veterans such as Prof R Natarajan (former Chairman, AICTE

and former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), Dr U

Chandrasekhar (Director – ESCI), Dr Pandey P K (Head of Aero-Structure

Group at UTC Aerospace Systems, Bangalore) and C V Venugopalan, Chief

Engineer, QuEST Global.

Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus attended the

occasion as the Guest of Honor and congratulated the lucky winners on their

success while presenting them with the trophies, the cash prize and the grand

prize of the visit to the Airbus facility in the UK.

Commenting on the intercollegiate festival, QuEST Ingenium 2014, Chris

Voysey said: “Engineers, by their work, touch the lives of people in so many

ways. It is important that they understand the enormous impact of their work and

demonstrate that responsibility in their day-to-day activities. Ingenium is an

event where engineers get an opportunity to demonstrate how they can touch

lives of people. We are pleased to support the Ingenium event with QuEST Global

and encourage responsible engineering.”

Winners and participants of Ingenium 2014 were also encouraged by the Chief

Guest of the event, Tessy Thomas, India‟s first woman Project Lead for the Agni

IV missile project.

Commenting on the intercollegiate festival, QuEST Ingenium 2014, Ms. Thomas

said: “It is commendable to witness leading engineering firms like QuEST Global

come forward to organize intercollegiate events on the scale of QuEST Ingenium.

India has a lot of passionate students, especially in the Engineering sector and

such platforms gives ample opportunity to these students to showcase new ideas

and innovations that can be implemented to tackle real-world challenges. This

developing talent pool continues to raise India‟s international profile in

engineering.”

In this 4th edition of Ingenium, QuEST Global in association with Airbus is giving

winners the opportunity to travel on an all expenses sponsored trip to the largest

Airbus facility based in the United Kingdom, in addition to a cash price. As a part

of this tour, winning students will be taken to the world‟s most modern aircraft

wing assembly facility located at the state-of-art Airbus plant in Broughton, North

Wales.

Also present on the occasion Dr. Ajay Prabhu, COO of QuEST Global adds,

“The Engineering Services industry in India is expected to quadruple to $40B by

2020 requiring more than ten lakh core engineers of excellent quality. We are

able to deliver value to our customers by this skilled engineering talent pool along

with our domain experts who work with such skilled engineers. We have been

working closely with the educational institutes to encourage future engineers of

India. Our employees also volunteer for promoting STEM (Science Technology

Engineering & Maths) education across the world. Ingenium has come a long way

in bringing out the talent of engineering students from across the length and

breadth of the country.”

The entries invited earlier this year were from final year B.E/B.Tech engineering

students from core engineering domains spanning Aerospace & Defense,

Aeroengines, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Power Generation and Production

Engineering from across India. Following a stringent and meticulous selection

process by an independent jury, 2146 entries were considered and 10 entries

have been shortlisted after multiple rounds of evaluation to travel to Bangalore

and present their projects to a panel of experts.

QuEST Ingenium 4thedition received an outstanding nationwide response, as

compared to the last year, this year saw a dramatic increase in the number of

entries. A total of over 2146 entries were received from 1264 colleges

across 23 states year reflect the growing popularity of this contest among

engineering students.

About QuEST Ingenium

QuEST Global, as part of its University Relationship Programme,

launched Ingenium, to promote engineering excellence and grow interest in core

engineering as an exciting and challenging career option. The aerospace and

defense, automotive sectors show much propensity to grow in the coming years;

and with favorable drivers such as India's competitiveness in manufacturing,

engineering services, offset obligations of OEMs, Government support and

increased spending on defense, companies like QuEST are making efforts to

encourage and hone the large talent pool this country has to offer. This is the

fourth successful edition of Ingenium, a platform for engineering students to

explore the feel of a real life hands on experience via the competitive route.

The students as part of their visit also met with the judges, as well as the

engineers at QuEST (Existing and New Hires) who shared their experiences with

the students.

Media Contacts:

QuEST Global

Sweta Patra

E-mail:sweta.patra@quest-global.com

Ogilvy PR

Ajay Muliyil

E- mail: ajay.muliyil@ogilvy.com

Mobile: 9900161311