Pune: A crew from MIT World Peace College was the general champion of mBaja SAE 2021, an annual competitors for engineering college students run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Baja SAE competitions problem engineering college students to design, construct and race an off-road automobile that may survive tough terrain.
As a result of Covid-19 restrictions this yr, the whole competitors was held on-line with simulation software program used to check the programs made by every school.
Group captain Aniruddha Joshi, a fourth-year mechanical engineering scholar, stated, “For the primary time, this yr, we needed to construct a four-wheel drive automobile. In November, we had the preliminary spherical the place we appeared for a quiz after which a presentation. We had been adjudged first on this spherical too. The organisers had given a car-maker software program on which we had been imagined to mannequin our automobile and run it in simulation. We had been marked for our design in addition to the general time wanted to complete the monitor, acceleration, endurance, traction and different elements.”
Ankit Kulkarni, crew supervisor, and a fourth-year mechanical engineering scholar stated they labored in an organised method with devoted sub-teams. Sachin Deshmukh and Shrihari Bondar had been the college advisors.
“Now we have a major division which is split into steering, suspension, transmission and brakes, and the secondary division which has computer-aided designing, computer-aided engineering, manufacturing and aesthetics departments in it. It’s the collective effort of every of those groups that helped us win,” Kulkarni stated.
The crew grabbed eight trophies in several classes, stated Ganesh Kakandikar, affiliate head of college of mechanical engineering, in MITWPU.
