Thiruvananthapuram: An innovative project for generating electricity from speed breakers on roads, developed by two students of Saintgits College of Engineering in Kottayam, has been selected as the best in a national talent search contest. Global engineering solution firm QuEST Global has conducted the annual contest Ingenium. As many as 6,500 teams comprising 20,000 students from various colleges across the country participated in the contest. Mechanical Engineering students Jobby George and Jose Tom developed the project titled Electricity Generation Using Speed Breaker. They won a cash prize of Rs.one lakh and a paid trip to the Airbus facility in Germany.
QuEST Global senior vice president Shrikanth D Naik said that a jury comprising experts and veterans of the industry selected the winners. Design and fabrication of a fighter aircraft with yawing wing, a project on producing yawing motion in fighter aircraft without the use of rudder, developed by a team from Park College of Engineering and Technology in Tamilnadu was the first runner-up in the event. A hi-tech bionic prosthetic legs developed by a team from Vellore Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu was selected as the second runner-up.
An advanced prosthetic hand for handicapped developed by a team from MVJ College of Engineering in Karnataka got a special jury mention, while a mobile microscope supported by whirling centrifuge for the effective imaging of pathogenic cells developed by a team from Sri Sairam Engineering College in Tamil Nadu was selected as the most popular project.
A project for communication using breath by patients suffering from parallelism developed by a team from Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology in Thrissur was among the top ten projects in the final round of screening. QuEST Global Thiruvananthapuram centre head S Narayanan said that an innovation centre would be set up in the state soon with the support of an engineering college. He also said that QuEST global was planning to double its headcount in Thiruvananthapuram from 2000 over the next three years.
