Young students rule the roost as winners of L&T Technology Services’ TECHgium™ open innovation national competition
L&T Technology Services Limited (NSE: LTTS), a leading global pure-play Engineering R&D Services company today announced the winners of its pan-India engineering talent hunt TECHgium™. The initiative is a nationwide outreach and open innovation model that offers a ready platform to students to solve contemporary challenges in engineering faced by industries globally. Over 7,000 engineering talent with 193 faculty members from 164 reputed engineering institutes participated in the competition to solve the 22 challenges defined by LTTS’ clients like Intel, Calsonic Kansei, Wartsila, Danaher, Setra Systems, Continental, Zebra and Thomson International. The multi-stage competition required students to create concepts, submit abstracts, present technical papers and showcase Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to address the challenges.
Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology Services Limited said, “We are proud to be the dream engineering company in college campuses across India. Through TECHgium™ our aim is to further extend this strong association with the engineering student community and create the digital engineering skills much needed by our nation. We also thank our clients for sharing the challenges that has made this contest so exciting.”
The elite panel of jury members for the final stage which showcased live demonstration of Proofs of Concepts from 40 teams and 105 students, included Mr Pareekh Jain, Senior Vice President and Managing Director India, Hfs Research, Mr Raman Ganapathiraman, Country Manager, India, ARC Advisory Group and Mrs Rashmi Urdhwareshe, Director, Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).
The team from Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore were declared as winners for their work on a Single Seated Powered Winch Mechanism. The second prize went to the team from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing College, Jabalpur who developed a PoC on Use of Phased Array Ultrasonic Technology for leakage detection. The winner of the third prize was a student from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore who developed a solution for incorporating variable compression ratio in a turbocharged engine to increase low power efficiency. The winning teams were also awarded cash prizes of INR 3 lakhs, INR 2 lakhs and INR 1 lakh respectively. These successful students will be eligible for placements in L&T Technology Services after graduation based on the merit of their solutions.
