TECHgium, an academia-industry engineering innovation hackathon hosted by L&T Technology Services (LTTS), witnessed registration from 31,000 college students from 481 engineering institutes throughout the nation, mentioned Abhishek Sinha, Chief Operating Officer & Board Member, LTTS.

Participants went by a rigorous course of that lasted for 9 months throughout which college students had been mentored by technical and subject material specialists from LTTS, he mentioned.

After a number of rounds of analysis and ideation, resulting in the evolution of proofs-of-concept (PoC), 25 engineering groups had been shortlisted. The finalists exhibited and introduced their working prototypes to a jury comprising {industry} veterans, academicians, and analysts who then shortlisted the highest 3 winners of TECHgium.

The workforce from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, was declared the winners of the sixth version of TECHgium 2023, for creating an Alginate-based bioplastic for meals packaging utility. The first runner-up was college students from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, for creating a plug-in package for prepared charging, whereas college students from IIT-Guwahati had been adjudged the second runner-up for his or her resolution on electro-mechanical charging machine for TPMS. A particular jury prize was awarded to Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, for engineering an autonomous warehouse robotic.

This 12 months’s TECHgium noticed the finalists presenting PoCs on a variety of cutting-edge applied sciences, together with bio-composite materials utilizing alginate, autonomous warehouse robots, plug-in package for prepared charging, x-ray based mostly artifact detection and elimination, and early detection of muscle cramps utilizing Electromyography, amongst others, Mr. Sinha mentioned.
TECHgium supplied a prize cash of ₹10 lakh for the highest winner, ₹5 lakh for the primary runner-up and ₹3 lakh for the second runner-up.

This 12 months’s TECHgium additionally focussed on the themes of sustainability, UAVs, medical diagnostics, compute imaginative and prescient, analytics, EVs and EV infrastructure, and wi-fi transmission.
“It aims at encouraging aspiring engineers to gain exposure to real-world problem statements and showcase their innovative ideas and solutions to address industry challenge statements,” added Mr. Sinha.