QuEST Global announced the winners of its annual pan-India intercollegiate innovation contest - ‘QuEST Ingenium 2014

1. QuEST Global Ingenium 2014 Winners announced
Press Releases
21-Jun-2014
Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala wins
‘QuEST Ingenium’ 2014 for their project Upper Limb Exoskeleton for
assistive rehabilitation
Bangalore, June 21, 2014: QuEST Global, a diversified global engineering
services company, today announced the winners of its annual pan-India
intercollegiate innovation contest - „QuEST Ingenium 2014‟. The coveted first
prize was claimed by Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and
Technology, Kerala for their project Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Power
Augmentation and Rehabilitation while the first runners up were Siddaganga
Institute of Technology for their project Using Dragsail to De-Orbit Low Earth
Orbit Satellites followed by Mepco Schlenk Engineering College for their
project Automatic exterior wall painting machine & Rashtriya Vidyalaya
College Of Engineering for their project Hand Gesture based Sign Language
Recognition System for Speech and Hearing Impaired. The awards were
presented by Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus.
“It was once in a life time experience to be a part of QuEST Ingenium 2014. We
are lucky to be chosen among the finalists and we are excited to visit the Airbus
facility. All thanks to QuEST Global and all who have supported us in this project”,
said Vivek and Akhil, members of the winning team.
Projects shortlisted and showcased include -
College Name College location Project Title
Pankajakasthuri college
of engineering and
technology
NEYYATTINKARA ,
KERALA
Upper Limb Exoskeleton for
Power Augmentation and
Rehabilitation
Kammavari Sangham
Institute of Technology
BANGALORE,
KARNATAKA
Web Based Cybernetic
Assistive Leg Exoskeleton
Nitte Mahalinga
Adyantaya Memorial
Institute of Technology
UDUPI,
KARNATAKA
iCar - An Intelligent and
Interactive Driver Assistance
System
SRM Institute of Science
& Technology
CHENNAI,
TAMILNADU
Fabrication and Analysis Of C-
Wing with Whale Tubercles
M.S. Ramaiah Institute
of Technology
BANGALORE,
KARNATAKA
Tactical UAV

2. Siddaganga Institute of
Technology
TUMKUR,
KARNATAKA
Using Dragsail to De-Orbit
Low Earth Orbit Satellites
S G Balekundri Institute
Technology
BELGAUM,
KARNATAKA
Domestic Power Pack
Mepco Schlenk
Engineering College
SIVAKASI, TAMIL
NADU
Automatic Exterior Wall
Painting Machine
Rashtriya Vidyalaya
College Of Engineering
BANGALORE,
KARNATAKA
Hand Gesture Based Sign
Language Recognition System
for Speech and Hearing
Impaired
Angadi Institute of
Technology and
Management
BELGAUM,
KARNATAKA
Transmission line Robot
The winners were adjudged by an independent panel of judges represented by
industry/academic veterans such as Prof R Natarajan (former Chairman, AICTE
and former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), Dr U
Chandrasekhar (Director – ESCI), Dr Pandey P K (Head of Aero-Structure
Group at UTC Aerospace Systems, Bangalore) and C V Venugopalan, Chief
Engineer, QuEST Global.
Chris Voysey, Head of Business Management Wing, ESW, Airbus attended the
occasion as the Guest of Honor and congratulated the lucky winners on their
success while presenting them with the trophies, the cash prize and the grand
prize of the visit to the Airbus facility in the UK.
Commenting on the intercollegiate festival, QuEST Ingenium 2014, Chris
Voysey said: “Engineers, by their work, touch the lives of people in so many
ways. It is important that they understand the enormous impact of their work and
demonstrate that responsibility in their day-to-day activities. Ingenium is an
event where engineers get an opportunity to demonstrate how they can touch
lives of people. We are pleased to support the Ingenium event with QuEST Global
and encourage responsible engineering.”
Winners and participants of Ingenium 2014 were also encouraged by the Chief
Guest of the event, Tessy Thomas, India‟s first woman Project Lead for the Agni
IV missile project.
Commenting on the intercollegiate festival, QuEST Ingenium 2014, Ms. Thomas
said: “It is commendable to witness leading engineering firms like QuEST Global
come forward to organize intercollegiate events on the scale of QuEST Ingenium.
India has a lot of passionate students, especially in the Engineering sector and
such platforms gives ample opportunity to these students to showcase new ideas
and innovations that can be implemented to tackle real-world challenges. This
developing talent pool continues to raise India‟s international profile in
engineering.”
In this 4th edition of Ingenium, QuEST Global in association with Airbus is giving
winners the opportunity to travel on an all expenses sponsored trip to the largest
Airbus facility based in the United Kingdom, in addition to a cash price. As a part
of this tour, winning students will be taken to the world‟s most modern aircraft
wing assembly facility located at the state-of-art Airbus plant in Broughton, North
Wales.

3. Also present on the occasion Dr. Ajay Prabhu, COO of QuEST Global adds,
“The Engineering Services industry in India is expected to quadruple to $40B by
2020 requiring more than ten lakh core engineers of excellent quality. We are
able to deliver value to our customers by this skilled engineering talent pool along
with our domain experts who work with such skilled engineers. We have been
working closely with the educational institutes to encourage future engineers of
India. Our employees also volunteer for promoting STEM (Science Technology
Engineering & Maths) education across the world. Ingenium has come a long way
in bringing out the talent of engineering students from across the length and
breadth of the country.”
The entries invited earlier this year were from final year B.E/B.Tech engineering
students from core engineering domains spanning Aerospace & Defense,
Aeroengines, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Power Generation and Production
Engineering from across India. Following a stringent and meticulous selection
process by an independent jury, 2146 entries were considered and 10 entries
have been shortlisted after multiple rounds of evaluation to travel to Bangalore
and present their projects to a panel of experts.
QuEST Ingenium 4thedition received an outstanding nationwide response, as
compared to the last year, this year saw a dramatic increase in the number of
entries. A total of over 2146 entries were received from 1264 colleges
across 23 states year reflect the growing popularity of this contest among
engineering students.
About QuEST Ingenium
QuEST Global, as part of its University Relationship Programme,
launched Ingenium, to promote engineering excellence and grow interest in core
engineering as an exciting and challenging career option. The aerospace and
defense, automotive sectors show much propensity to grow in the coming years;
and with favorable drivers such as India's competitiveness in manufacturing,
engineering services, offset obligations of OEMs, Government support and
increased spending on defense, companies like QuEST are making efforts to
encourage and hone the large talent pool this country has to offer. This is the
fourth successful edition of Ingenium, a platform for engineering students to
explore the feel of a real life hands on experience via the competitive route.
The students as part of their visit also met with the judges, as well as the
engineers at QuEST (Existing and New Hires) who shared their experiences with
the students.
Media Contacts:
QuEST Global
Sweta Patra
E-mail:sweta.patra@quest-global.com
Ogilvy PR
Ajay Muliyil
E- mail: ajay.muliyil@ogilvy.com
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