Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education Challenge

Depleting reserves of conventional energy sources has made us look into engineering solutions to use energy more efficiently. With newer technological advancements and methods applied, the energy industry is ever growing. This dynamic industry offers splendid innovation scope for engineering students skilled in energy systems engineering. Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) in a joint effort with Roboversity, unit of Skyfi Labs, initiated a pan-India competition encouraging young engineering students to learn and innovate in energy engineering.

The competition named Roboversity-IUCEE Challenge is a three-staged competition comprising of regional level workshops, regional competitions and a Grand Final. The competition has completed its first leg of workshops and competitions held at 24 regional venues across India. A total of 1100 students were trained by Roboversity at regional Solar and Smart Energy Systems workshops. All workshop participants were certified by Roboversity and IUCEE for undergoing distinctive technology training. These workshops were crucial to improve working knowledge and technical awareness about energy systems – both necessary for students to embark on the path of innovation.

The workshops first cover an interactive and brainstorming lecture session on solar energy and smart energy systems. After understanding the necessary fundamental concepts, students start working on a Solar Mobile Charger project with expert guidance from Roboversity engineers. The charger harnesses solar energy via photovoltaic cells and clever usage of microcontroller programming. In the second practical session, students design and implement a Smart Traffic Management System prototype which channeled their attention to smart energy utilization. At the end of each regional workshop, finalists were selected via regional competitions which tested the students based on execution of ideas and their level of understanding, among other criteria.

Continuous support from 21 associate colleges has helped the competition to garner unquestionable success. The following colleges and venues were host to the regional workshops:

Location	College Name	Workshop Date
Nellore	Gokula Krishna Engineering College	1-2 Sep '14
Mehsana	Saffrony Institute of Technology	12-13 Sep '14
Bangalore	M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology	19-20 Sep '14
Bangalore	SEA College of Engineering and Technology	19-20 Sep '14
Hassan	Malnad College of Engineering	20-21 Sep '14
Chennai	Hindustan University	20-21 Sep '14
Pune	College of Engineering	27-28 Sep '14
Lucknow	Babu Banarasi Das Group of Educational Institutions	27-28 Sep '14
Bangalore	New Horizon College of Engineering	4-5 Oct '14
Guntur	Vignan University	8-9 Oct '14
Visakhapatnam	VITS College of Engineering	10-11 Oct '14
Hyderabad	Anurag Group Of Institutions	10-11 Oct '14
Kurnool	G Pulla Reddy Engineering College	11-12 Oct '14
Hyderabad	CVSR College of Engineering	11-12 Oct '14
Chandigarh	Chandigarh university	13-14 Oct '14
Nellore	Audishankara Institute of Technology	17-18 Oct '14
Jaipur	JECRC University	31 Oct - 1 Nov'14
Kakinada	Aditya Group of Institutions	12-13 Nov '14
Allahabad	SHIATS	14-15 Nov '14
Tadepalligudem	Sasi Institute of Technology and Engineering	1-2 Dec '14
Chennai	Skyfi Labs Center	8-13 Dec '14
Hyderabad	Skyfi Labs Center	18-24 Dec '14
Mumbai	Skyfi Labs Center	26-31 Dec '14
Hanamkonda	Kakatiya University College of Engineering & Technology	2-3 Jan '15

The Grand Finals of the competition were held at the 2nd International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2015) on 8th of January at B.M.S College of Engineering in Bangalore. As per the problem statement for the Finals released by Roboversity, students needed to take the knowledge gained in the workshops a step ahead and design innovative ideas for a Smart City project. This project idea was in cue with our government’s vision of building 100 smart cities across the country. The Final round demanded the selected students to innovatively implement smart city ideas and impress an elite panel of guests from across the globe. The champions received much deserved prizes amounting to a total of Rs 21000/-

Roboversity participants in the Finals at ICTUEE 2015

Hoping that such initiatives nurture future engineers to pursue a path of engineering innovation, IUCEE and Roboversity would like to congratulate the Finalists and the Winners. By advocating this initiative, IUCEE has done commendable work to help Indian students shift their learning emphasis towards practical learning. Roboversity is gratified to have achieved this shift of emphasis and to have stimulated ‘out of the box’ thinking among the students. The Roboversity team was highly motivated to organize such a competition because it allowed the students to tread ahead of the two-day workshop and venture into learning by doing themselves – which is believed to be the best way for learning engineering!

How do you think such initiatives are critical for skill development in India?

The Roboversity-IUCEE Challenge Success

Skyfi Labs • Published: 2014-12-26 • Last Updated: 2021-03-17

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