KPIT Technologies, a global partner to the automotive and mobility ecosystem, recently hosted the KPIT Sparkle 2023 finale on March 19, 2023. The event, held at the company’s Pune campus, marks the culmination of a decade of driving mobility and sustainable energy innovation through a national design and development innovation contest for Engineering, Science, and Design students.
The contest provides a platform that encourages and inspires young professionals to solve everyday problems with innovative, sustainable, and indigenous solutions. This year’s event brought together mentors and young professionals passionate about mobility and energy, building an ecosystem that fosters creativity and innovation.
The event concluded with the announcement of the winners in multiple categories, who received a total of 1.1MN INR. The Gold award of INR 5,00,000 was won by Team Rejuvenators from IIT Kharagpur, who developed an energy-efficient route for the recovery of metallic values from end-of-life batteries and reusing them for new battery making.
Team Waste2Wealth from Government College of Engineering, Jalgaon, won the Silver award of INR 2,50,000 for developing W2W Energy, Fuel, and Mobility Generation from Innovative Biogas Plant. Meanwhile, Team Propellers from Kalinga Institute of Industrial technology, Bhubaneshwar, won the Silver award of INR 2,50,000 for developing a Novel solar electric thruster propulsion system for Nano to Micro Satellite for Indian Space Technology.
Lastly, Team Energizers from Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, won the Most Popular Award of INR 1,00,000 for Designing and developing an efficient indigenous hydrogen (HHO) generation system by dry cell electrolysis method.
The finalists were evaluated by a jury comprising national and international experts from various fields, including academic, business, automotive, and technology. Multiple leaders from KPIT Technologies also participated in the evaluation process, making the contest a powerful catalyst for innovation and growth in the mobility and energy sectors.
The jury members included:
- Dr. Sanjeev Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer (I-STEM) at IISC Bengaluru
- Dr. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and School of Energy Science & Engineering at IIT Kharagpur
- Pradeep Chandrashekhar, Associate Director/Deputy Chief Engineer at OLA Electric Car
- A.S. Ravikumar, General Manager – Product Engineering at Daimler India Commercial Vehicle
- Balkrishna Mahajan, Founder Director, and Principal Designer at Ticket Design
- Dr. Somnath Sengupta, Asst Prof at IIT Kharagpur
- Dr. Milind Rane, Professor, and Head Heat Pump Lab at IIT Bombay
- Dr. Pallavi Bharadwaj, Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
- Dr. Nisha Singhania, Manager at Altotech
- Dr. Daniel Goldsmith, Lecturer in Ethical Hacking and Network Security at Coventry University
- Rashmi Rao, Industry Manager – Automotive at MathWorks
- Shobhit Shrotriya, MD R&D life sciences at Accenture
- Pritesh Doshi, Head of Mechatronics and Electrification at DANA
- Vijay Kadam, Head of Commercial Vehicle Business Unit at DANA
KPIT Sparkle continues to inspire and recognize innovative ideas and solutions from the next generation of engineers and designers.
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