Finalists presented PoC on wide range of cutting-edge technologies at TECHgium: LTTS

Abhishek Sinha, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of LTTS, and Dr. B.Okay. Das, Director General – Electronics & Communication Systems, DRDO, with the winners of TECHgium
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TECHgium, an academia-industry engineering innovation hackathon hosted by L&T Technology Services (LTTS), witnessed registration from 31,000 college students from 481 engineering institutes throughout the nation, stated Abhishek Sinha, Chief Operating Officer & Board Member, LTTS.

Participants went by way of a rigorous course of that lasted for 9 months throughout which college students had been mentored by technical and material specialists from LTTS, he stated.

After a number of rounds of analysis and ideation, resulting in the evolution of proofs-of-concept (PoC), 25 engineering groups had been shortlisted. The finalists exhibited and presented their working prototypes to a jury comprising {industry} veterans, academicians, and analysts who then shortlisted the highest 3 winners of TECHgium.
The workforce from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, was declared the winners of the sixth version of TECHgium 2023, for creating an Alginate-based bioplastic for meals packaging software. The first runner-up was college students from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, for growing a plug-in equipment for prepared charging, whereas college students from IIT-Guwahati had been adjudged the second runner-up for his or her resolution on electro-mechanical charging system for TPMS. A particular jury prize was awarded to Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, for engineering an autonomous warehouse robotic.
This 12 months’s TECHgium noticed the finalists presenting PoCs on a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, together with bio-composite materials utilizing alginate, autonomous warehouse robots, plug-in equipment for prepared charging, x-ray primarily based artifact detection and removing, and early detection of muscle cramps utilizing Electromyography, amongst others, Mr. Sinha stated.
TECHgium supplied a prize cash of ₹10 lakh for the highest winner, ₹5 lakh for the primary runner-up and ₹3 lakh for the second runner-up.
This 12 months’s TECHgium additionally focussed on the themes of sustainability, UAVs, medical diagnostics, compute imaginative and prescient, analytics, EVs and EV infrastructure, and wi-fi transmission.
“It aims at encouraging aspiring engineers to gain exposure to real-world problem statements and showcase their innovative ideas and solutions to address industry challenge statements,” added Mr. Sinha.