Achievements

Nirma University team won the 2nd place in the Autonomous Maze Solving Robot category at the DROBOTICS CONCLAVE, Adani University, Ahmedabad.

Nirma University team  won the National Championship title for the third consecutive time at AMUROVc 4.0, held at Aligarh Muslim University. They also grabbed the “Fastest Performance Award”.

Vidhi Ruparelia is awarded the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Scholarship of $1000!

Vidhi and Madhav have been honoured with the “Best Volunteer” Award at the Annual Student Conclave – Sampark’26, organised by IEEE Gujarat Section

The 1-Tape Out Per Student (1-TOPS) program is a national-level initiative that provides student teams an opportunity to gain practical exposure to the complete VLSI design and tape-out flow. Our Nirma VLSI Team successfully cleared the screening and interview rounds, where they were evaluated on VLSI fundamentals, EDA tool knowledge, and technical presentation.

Madhav Maheshwari’s project, Kisan Kawach, has secured ₹3,00,000 in CSR funding from Infineon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Third Prize in Two wheeled self-balancing Robot and Hexapad Robot categories. Prize money: Rs. 5,00,000/- per category

Rakshikha Ravi, from the EC Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, represented Gujarat in the IPA (Indian Pickleball Association) Pickleball Nationals 2025, and her team won a GOLD MEDAL in the Women’s category.

Presented research paper titled “LIVES: XAI-based Secure UAV Communication Framework.”

The IEEE MYOSA Event 2.0 at FLEPS 2025, organized by the IEEE Sensors Council, is a global competition aimed at fostering innovation in sensor-based applications. Madhav Maheshwari was among the top 10 teams that received a $250 MYOSA kit to develop their projects.

Rakshikha Ravi won the silver medal in the Pro Women’s Doubles Open category and the bronze medal in the Women’s Doubles Advanced category. 

Rakshikha Ravi was invited to play at Otters Picklers Championship.

Viraj Bharatbhai Bhatt won 2nd price in NCC inter group sports shooting competition in all over Gujarat.

Moksh Kandhari is a member of Team Nirma AUV that participated in the Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge (SAUVC 2025) held at Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore and won 2nd prize.

Rudra Patel participated in the Line Follower Competition organized under Technofora 2025 by the ISA Student Chapter at Nirma University and secured 1st place. 

Parin Garg scored 99.91 percentile in the CAT 2024.

Rakshikha Ravi, from EC Dept Institute of Technology, Nirma University, won gold medal in under 18 mixed doubles category and bronze medal in under 18 girl’s singles category at the Monsoon Pickleball Championship 2.0 that was held at Nesco, Goregaon, Mumbai (22nd to 25th August, 2024).

It was a robotics competition in which it is required to build a manipulator arm which can pick and place certain sizes of boxes and can reorient using certain mechanisms and should place at a drop zone. The team successfully cleared Round 1, also cleared Round 2 with rank 9 among 146 teams in India. Finale was held at IIT Madras where team participated representing Nirma University.

Women Engineers (WE) is a 24-month learning programmer that helps first year female engineering students to become world class software engineers. This is offered by TalentSprint and supported by Google.

During the Hackathon, the team worked on the problem statement ‘Voice control on PSoC6 using Machine learning’. The team secured 2nd runner up in the Infineon Hackathon contest.

The team of EC Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University – Jaiminkumar Gulale, Dharmik Gurjar and Harshil Kakkad won the trophy for second runner up in “Mission Chandra” launched by SAC-ISRO. The team was awarded a Cash prize.

Khush Shah (19BEC120), Mann Raval (19BEC109) participated at VOIS Tech Marathon and became a national winner amongst the 530 teams those had participated in the hackathon. Top 20 teams were declared as the national winners, the team Nirma was one of them. The Hackathon was organized by Vodafone, India.

Aditya Dave (15BEC009) got selected in Spring 2019 Accelerator Program Boulder Coloroda by Watson University US. He has worked on a project IoT based solution for underprivileged community from January 22, 2019 to May 8, 2019. He received scholarship of 10,500 US Dollars.

‘Vikram Awards’ by Secure Meters, Udaipur are awarded to the outstanding technical academic projects done by the engineering students. For the year 2019, students projects from the different Engineering departments were nominated from Nirma University for the ‘Vikram Award’. The final presentations of the nominated projects were held before a jury on November 26, 2019. The first prize was awarded to Pranjal Shrivastava, Aditi Bhatnagar, Jayvik Desai students of BTech Semester VII, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. The award consists of a cash prize of Rs 50,000, a medal and a certificate from Secure Meters, Udaipur.

Pranjal, Aditi and Jayvik under the mentorship of Dr Sachin Gajjar, Associate Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering had designed a Wireless Distributed Data Acquisition System (DDAS) using Zigbee based Wireless Sensor Networks to detect parameters related to industrial machine’s health, industry’s production line, and environmental conditions of an industry.

Mr Keshavkant Sharma a third year student of the Department secured Bronze Medal at the ‘Advance Leadership Camp of NCC’ held during 10th-21st January, 2019. He was selected from the Ahmedabad Battalion and represented Gujarat at the camp where he, competed with the representatives of 21 states.

Kurush Sayrus (15BEC056) secured admission in MS Program at Michigan Technological University.

Dhruv Popat (15BEC032) secured admission in MS Program at University of Maryland, College Park.

Bansil Vaghasiya (15BEC122) secured admission in MS Program at University of Texas at Dallas.

Amisha Patel (15BEC016) and Margie Dudhat (15BEC035) secured admission in MS Program at Arizona State University.

Aakash Rawal (15BEC002) and Hast Patel (15BEC044) secured admission in MS Program at University of Colorado Boulder.

Arpit Neekhra (15BEC023) and Dwijay D Shanbhag (15BEC037) secured admission in MS Program at Northeastern University, Bostan.

Ms Swareena Jain (15BEC118) secured admission in MBA Program at IIM Calcutta.

Karan Shah(16BEC071), Stuti Garg(16BEC103) and Keshavkant Sharma(16BEC079) from EC department participated in Project Expo 2019, organized at Surat, supported by NITI Aayog, Government of India, and InnovSeed Incubation Centre. The team had developed a 2 Quadcopter swarm intelligence prototype, and stood as the 3rd Runner among total of 300 teams all over Gujarat participated.

Karan Shah, Stuti Garg and Vivek Talwar from EC department have secured first position in the Haystack Mathematician at Tata Crucible Hackathon held in March 2018.

Sanjay Vargheese, Harsh Patel, Arth Ushanas Bhatt, Divyanshu Tak and Jayvik Desai from EC department received Best Innovative Design award at Robocon 2017.

Mehul Solanki from EC department won 2nd prize in All India Inter Engineering Sports Tournament IGNIS 2017 in Volleyball held at SVNIT Surat during 31st March to 2nd April, 2017.