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