Necessity is the mother of innovation. Always was, still is.
From inventing the wheel because boxes and cubes were hard to push around by themselves, humanity has come a long way. But our thirst for ultimate comfort keeps us at it.
Dibyayan, Abhinav and IE NITK
IE NITK is extremely proud and pleased to announce that final year undergraduate students at NITK, and members of IE NITK, Abhinav (Team leader, in charge of Mechanical Design), Dibyayan (in charge of Electronics Subsystem) and Abhijith (in charge of Media and Creative Design) have made it to the finals of this highly esteemed contest, along with team mate Ajaydev (Manufacturing and Aesthetic Design)!
Congratulations, team.
The team is working on a wearable device to accelerate recovery of paralysed patients. The product consists of a wearable exoskeleton, interfaced with Flex sensors and a micro-controller unit. The project was mentored by Prof. K. V. Gangadharan (Coordinator, CSD), Prof. Prithviraj Umesh (Applied Mechanics) and Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh (IISc).
The Contest
The DST & Texas Instruments India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2017 is, like the name suggests, a design contest held by Texas Instruments (TI) and Department of Science and Technology (DST). It is anchored by NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and supported by MyGov.
The contest is open for all Indian engineering students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees with Indian engineering colleges.
The contest is intended to boost engineering students into becoming innovators, creators and thinkers. With technical support from TI and business mentorship from IIMB, the only limitation is the student’s imagination.
The competition began last September, when teams across the country submitted participation forms, with information about the general idea for the project. The subtleties were left for the second phase of the contest, in which the teams were required to submit a detailed proposal document. This time around, in October 2017, the teams were mentored online by experts from IIM Bangalore to prepare their proposal.
Fast forward to June 2018, all the teams that qualified thus far were invited to the first live demonstration and evaluation in the regional level. The qualifiers from the regional level were invited for the national level Finals, which is to be held in August 2018.
More about the contest
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For more information on the contest, visit:
https://innovate.mygov.in/india-innovation-challenge-design-contest-2017/
