L&T Technology Services Honours India’s Brightest Engineering Students at TECHgium
L&T Technology Services Honours India’s Brightest Engineering Students at TECHgium
In its second edition LTTS’ unique industry academia initiative
TECHgium recognizes young engineering enthusiasts who delivered proof of
concepts to address complex industrial challenges
L&T Technology Services Limited, a global pure-play Engineering
R&D Services company today announced the winners of the second
edition of its unique industry academia initiative TECHgium. Covering
hundreds of engineering colleges across the country, including several
top-tier engineering institutes, TECHgium is a first of its kind
initiative in India to scout for and recognize the best of engineering
talent among the fresher community.
TECHgium ushers in a new generation of engineers with skills and
capabilities that the industry covets. The initiative is aimed at
imparting engineering students with relevant exposure to the challenges
and practical insights for Industry 4.0. TECHgium will also help create
an ecosystem that bridges the industry-academia schism by facilitating
the participants with an opportunity to work on technologies of tomorrow
and enhance their career prospects and simultaneously augment the
solution development team of LTTS.
LTTS invested over 100 working hours to mentor students shortlisted for
the PoC round, with subject matter experts from respective industry
domains mentoring the students. As a result, the winning teams came up
with remarkable solutions around IoT, Machine Learning, Advanced Image
Processing and Smart Tools.
The team from Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore were
declared as winners for developing a mechanism for wide-angle viewing
for diagnostic hysteroscopy products. The students of National Institute
of Engineering, Mysore won the second prize for creating a variable
valve timing mechanism for internal combustion engine. The winner of
the third prize went to the team from Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering
College, Pondicherry for their work on Smart tools and integration with
IoT platforms. A special prize was awarded to the students of Zakir
Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh for devising a
Multi-camera Multi Target Visual Tracking System.
Some of the other noteworthy POCs demonstrated at TECHgium include
active noise cancellation for automobile mufflers submitted by the
students of IIT Madras that caters to the Transportation &
Commercial Vehicles domain and Artificial Intelligence framework for
Microgrids for Industrial Products submitted by the students of VIT
University.
The winners of TECHgium were selected by a distinguished jury of
industry experts including Mr K.S. Viswanathan, Vice President NASSCOM,
Dr. Ranganath Navalgund, Honorary Professor, ISRO and Mr Ganapathiraman,
Country Manager, ARC India.
Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology
Services Limited said, “India has always been the nation of innovators
and pioneers and the kind of engineering talent that can be brought to
light here is unparalleled. TECHgium is our ode to the great Indian
engineering potential and we are confident that this initiative will be
instrumental in providing the right stimulus to the enormous academic
potential of the country. The success of TECHgium would be immensely
helpful in LTTS’ endeavor to propel innovation, bridge industry-academia
gap as well as solve myriad engineering challenges and help in building
digital skillsets among today’s youth.”
K.S. Viswanathan, Vice President – Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM
commented “Across the whole spectrum of the industry, skill profiles are
undergoing rapid changes witnessing a rising demand for enhanced
digital capabilities. India has enormous pool of fresh talents propelled
by innovative thinking and attitude to build solutions in key sectors
where technology can play a revolutionary role. We are extremely hopeful
that initiatives brought out by TECHgium will play an instrumental role
in mentoring academic talents in the country, propel innovation in
bringing technological empowerment to solve complex industrial problems
in the country.”
The second edition of TECHgium received a record-breaking participation
from over 17,000 students across 220 engineering colleges signing up for
the event. The platform gave aspiring engineering students an
opportunity to create concepts, submit abstracts, present technical
presentation and showcase Proof of Concept (PoC) on real-life technical
challenges. Some of the challenges included Machine Learning Platform
for Video Analytics for elevators, Augmented/Assisted Reality
applications for industrial customers, Video analytics tool for
detecting human intentions and Reduction of Emission from Automobiles
among others.
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