Indira Gandhi Tech institute team gets coveted Baja SAE award
6 March 2013 6:43 AM IST
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit felicitated the girls team of Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology that won the coveted Chairman’s award of Rs 1 lakh at the recently concluded Baja SAE 2013 at Indore for the third time. The institute won the award in 2010 and 2012 as well.
The all terrain racing event was conducted for the undergraduate engineers by the Society of Automotive Engineers, USA.
‘It is a great achievement in the direction of women empowerment,’ said the CM. The team has also been solicited to a grand conclave organised by the Delhi government at Talkatora stadium on the eve of International Women’s Day.
The event this year received entries from 300 teams across the country. The Baja SAE event tasks the team of students to design and fabricate a prototype of a rugged off-road vehicle which will be validated and tested in terms of design characteristics, cost factor, speed, acceleration, maneuverability and endurance. The vehicle ‘Yantriki’ designed by the IGIT girls team survived the endurance race that lasted for three and a half hours.
‘All the 15 members of the team are the students of our mechanical and automation engineering departments,’ said professor Nupur Prakash, principal, IGIT. ‘Komal Katri, a B Tech student, was the driver of the vehicle’, he added.
The IGIT girls team has won several laurels in the past in car racing and design. In 2009, they won the ‘Green Vehicle Award’ for low emission of pollutants. In 2012, another team has won ‘cost event award’ of Rs 50,000 for designing the cheapest student’s Formula One car at SUPRA SAE car design contest held in Chennai.
The all terrain racing event was conducted for the undergraduate engineers by the Society of Automotive Engineers, USA.
‘It is a great achievement in the direction of women empowerment,’ said the CM. The team has also been solicited to a grand conclave organised by the Delhi government at Talkatora stadium on the eve of International Women’s Day.
The event this year received entries from 300 teams across the country. The Baja SAE event tasks the team of students to design and fabricate a prototype of a rugged off-road vehicle which will be validated and tested in terms of design characteristics, cost factor, speed, acceleration, maneuverability and endurance. The vehicle ‘Yantriki’ designed by the IGIT girls team survived the endurance race that lasted for three and a half hours.
‘All the 15 members of the team are the students of our mechanical and automation engineering departments,’ said professor Nupur Prakash, principal, IGIT. ‘Komal Katri, a B Tech student, was the driver of the vehicle’, he added.
The IGIT girls team has won several laurels in the past in car racing and design. In 2009, they won the ‘Green Vehicle Award’ for low emission of pollutants. In 2012, another team has won ‘cost event award’ of Rs 50,000 for designing the cheapest student’s Formula One car at SUPRA SAE car design contest held in Chennai.
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