Friday, June 15, 2012

Mahindra Igniter's Day

Courtesy: Chennai Engineering Colleges

18th April 2012 student and staff of Hindustan University were seen gazing at a large banner placed in front of the Building Sciences Block and Department of Automobile Engineering. The banner depicted the history of vehicles that had been manufactured by Mahindra & Mahindra showcasing the heritage of its Automotive and Farm Sector.
Courtesy: Chennai Engineering Colleges

Hindustan Institute Of Technology & Science witnessed for the first of its kind recruitment cum students competitions. The session was termed as ‘Mahindra Igniter’s Day’, and it was organized by a collaborative effort of the Department of Automobile Engineering and Placement Office of HITS, led by a team of personnel’s from M&M.
Courtesy: Chennai Engineering Colleges

The session included 3 events to test the skills of the budding engineers. The events consisted of a Technical paper presentation (Technical Quotient), Design contest (Design Quotient) and Quiz Contest (General Quotient). With excitement and enthusiasm the students began to flock around the registration counter for their passport.
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PASSPORT? Well that was not only an eye-catching part on the posters for the event as those were being watched all over the campus of HITS; also a dream opportunity for 1st ,2nd , 3rd year U.G. and 1st year P.G. students as the passport meant much for everyone. The passport were the tickets for an opportunity to attempt for direct interview rounds with Mahindra and Mahindra during their recruitment process.
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The HITS authorities who were present during the events were Dr. Pon Ramalingam. Registrar, Dr. Roy Chowdhury, Dean of Mechnical Sciences, Dr. M. Subramanian, HOD, Automobile Engineering, Mr. K. Kamalakkannan, Asst. Prof. Auto. Dept. , Mr. Baby Thomas , Placement Officer and the team of Mahindra expertise.
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The design quotient was the first event. The participants were provided with a theme ‘URBAN MOBILITY VEHICLE’, with the constraints relating to lightweight, fuel efficiency redundancy with futuristic design aspects. The design had to be presented with a minimum 100 words write-up. Participants started working hard on the paper started decoding their imaginations, sketching their best ideas and solutions.

A Mahindra XUV 500 was displayed at Hindustan University, and it was a test-drive vehicle everyone was aspiring to drive(Part of the product display Unit). Another XUV 500 was parked in front of the the Automobile Lab, along with a Mahindra Swaraj Tractor. Surrounded with LCD’s and Sound Systems, the display vehicles seemed like stars on the red carpet, nevertheless there was a red carpet beneath them!

The second session of the events started with the technical paper presentation and the quiz contest . The General Quotient (quiz contest) started with a preliminary qualification round after which 5 teams were selected for the final round. The individuals from the winning team were first year students from HITS.

In the meanwhile the individual participants for the Technical paper presentation were also held. The results were declared and words of appreciation were being shared by respective dignitaries of M&M and HITS. The day ended with the prize distribution ceremony . The budding engineers of Hindustan University had a memorable day learning, sharing and enjoying the day’s task with competitions, experience and better hopes for the future.


WINNERS LIST
 
Technical Quotient
Sl.No Name Institution Branch/Year Remarks General Remarks
1 Santhosh Pasupathi HITS Automobile/III
Winner
+
Summer Internship in M&M
Passport
+
Plant Visit
2 Satyam Sharma HITS Mechanical/III
First Runner up
3 Dhaval A. Mehta SRM Automobile/III Second Runner up
   
Design Quotient
Sl.No Name Institution Branch/Year Remarks General Remarks
1 Pulkit Goel HITS Automobile/III
Winner
Passport
+
Plant Visit
2 Divyanshu Thakur HITS Mechanical/III
First
 Runner up
3 R. Karthikraj SRM Automobile/III Second Runner up
 
 
General Quotient
Sl.No Name Institution Branch/Year Remarks General Remarks
1 Kunal Bhutoria
Mohamed Peer Marathanda Varman

Akshay Premraj
HITS
Mechanical/I
Winner
Passport
+
Plant Visit
Aerospace/I
Automobile/I
 

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