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SRM Mechanical Engineering Students Win Honorary Award in Technical Contest

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Nehal Dash and Mufaddal Azad, final year students of
Mechanical Engineering, SRM University won the award of Honorary Mention in
Nuage Technical Paper Contest held during July to October 2013.<o:p></o:p> 
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The contest was open to undergraduate and graduate-level
students in information technology (IT) and engineering fields of study across
India, provided students the opportunity to submit technical papers on topics
such as mechanical engineering, information technology, computer science and
engineering, biotechnology and seven other concentrations. It further provided
an opportunity for students to interact with others in similar educational and
professional fields via the Nuage Café environment.<o:p></o:p> 
The Judges of the
Nuage Technical Paper Contest had verified the originality of content in the
paper submissions and the best papers were selected as honorary mentions.
Honorary mentions will get an opportunity to present their technical papers to
a corporate panel of potential employers in online events too. The students
will also be given chance to publish their papers in various international
journals.<o:p></o:p> 
The project (prototype) presented a solution for those kinds
of disabled people who are unable to spend a lot of money to buy a fancy
wheelchair that requires on board computer and other expensive instruments. A
simple structure and user friendly control system are used to control the
wheelchair movement using only the movements of neck muscles, a voice
recognition system, remote control, obstacle sensing and detection mechanism.
Generally this type of design would suit most to the people those who are
totally disabled, that means completely unable to move their hand or leg.<o:p></o:p> 
 Nehal Dash and Mufaddal Azad has also been nominated and
choosen for the best Innovative Idea  
under Public Service domain of the recently held ‘’YAHOO & ACCENTURE
Innovation Jockeys-2013 contest for this paper. The Team START comprised of
seven students including Nehal, Mufaddal, Koustav, Nayan, Manish, Raghav and
Akshit have won the Best Project Award in Konvolve’12, a multi disciplinary
project competition and exhibition and the team START is currently working on
this project IntelliWheelz, for making a real time working model of this wheel
chair for the differently abled people.  
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SRM Mechanical Engineering Students Win Honorary Award in Technical Contest

Nehal Dash and Mufaddal Azad, final year students of Mechanical Engineering, SRM University won the award of Honorary Mention in Nuage Te...