Students bring laurels to Jain College of Engineering

Three students of Jain College of Engineering got their innovations published at the Fourth International Congress on Interdisciplinary Research and Development at Bangkok recently. Suhas Mithare, Abhay Kulkarni and Suneet Dixit — all final year students of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics engineering branches — were among students from 16 countries who presented 103 papers at the event titled ‘Interdisciplinary and ASEAN community’, said college director and principal K.G. Vishwanath.

The conference was organised by the Royal Institute of Thailand under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and the presentations were held on June 1.

They innovated on a technology of monitoring water content in agricultural soil and automatic regulation of the pump. This helps in conserving water and electricity. The farmer is not required to monitor watering of crops. Electronic sensors measure moisture and the feedback circuit operates the pump. They co-authored the paper under the guidance of D.G. Kulkarni.

In another paper, Kavita and Pallavi, final year students of mechanical engineering, designed fuel briquettes from leaves. Villagers can make this briquette by mixing leaves, camphor, waste engine oil and some additives to generate maximum heat for a stove. These briquettes are more efficient than industrial briquettes, they said.

Their classmates Mallikarjun G.B., Ramesh Kotre and Bhimraddi Mankani designed and fabricated a low-cost stove for burning briquette, which will save them the cost of fuel. Both projects were guided by Prof. Kulkarni.

Kavita and Pallavai presented a paper on their project at the All-India Conference on ‘Waste management’ recently and also published in the Institution of Engineers’ proceedings.