INNOVATE! COMPETE!

SUCCEED!
Student Project Competition 2012.

Often the biggest innovations dont come from million dollar R&D centres. They come from college labs, campuses and garages, driven by visionaries with guts, gumption and resilience. Its time for Indias best ELECTROTECH talents to showcase their best,afterall they are the backbone of THE INDIA POWER FACTOR.

India is in the global epicentre of a power revolution. The fast growing Indian economy needs affordable, sustainable and uninterrupted electricity for enduring success, growth and move the Indian economy to greater heights. This drive has propelled the Indian electricity sector as the worlds 6th largest energy consumer, accounting for 3.4% of global energy consumption by more than 17% of global population. The Indian Power sector is going through a US$600 Bn modernisation and capacity addition phase, an immense opportunity for those involved with the power sector covering the entire spectrum of the industry, from generation, transmission, distrbution and consumption. The key characteristic of this phase is the focus on futuristic technologies in the fields of sustainability, conservation, optimisation and environment friendly consumption. Newer technologies and systems like SmartGrids and renewable energy sources form part of this new paradigm.

This

paradigm

shift

requires

thousands

of

next-gen

ELECTROTECH

engineers who are global, versatile, quick,

innovative and adaptable to the changing requirements of the industry. Drawn from all disciplines of engineering including electrical, electronics, instrumentation, mechanical, production, power and industrial engineering. This new breed of engineers are primed to adapt to the dynamic needs of Indias dynamic and exponentially growing sector, a phenomenon we call THE INDIA POWER FACTOR. IEEMA, as the voice of the Indian Electrical Industry has taken the initiative to engage with the academic community productively to leverage the available engineering talent of ELECTROTECH engineers who can power the future. This initiative, ENGINEER INFINITE, was started succesfully in 2010. IEEMA believes that through ENGINEER INFINITE, the Industry and the academic community get to join hands to address the opportunities and challenges of building the future of the Indian power sector.

Calling Engineers to build a brave new future!

1st Prize

winners
of EI 2010

3rd Prize
FLOATING HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER GENERATOR
Shiv Kumar Agarwal
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

In ELECRAMA-2010,
Over 428 ENTRIES were received

Pass Breaker

Harshal Talele

2nd Prize

B.L. Patil Polytechnic Khopoli, Maharashtra

from 198 INSTITUTIONS from 22 STATES of India which included entries from IITs and NITs. The

Omkar. D. Mahadik
B.L. Patil Polytechnic Khopoli, Maharashtra

winning entries were displayed prominently in a special stand which was visited by a vast majority of 1,05,209 visitors to the exhibition.

Vijay.T.Mandharekar
Ankit Poddar
Techno India, Kolkata
B.L. Patil Polytechnic Khopoli, Maharashtra

Spandan Dey

Mallabhum Institute of Technology, Bishnupur, West Bengal

Electrification of rural areas using SHPS and thin film photovoltic cells
Siddharth Parmar
SASTRA University Thanjavur, Tamilnadu

Extended Range Self Charging Zero Emission Vehicle Sujith M

The winners felicitated by Honble Minister, Shri Vilas Rao Deshmukh with citations and cash awards in a glittering function attended by industry leaders and international dignitaries.

Design and implementation of a GSM based automation system

Kamal Kumar Gupta Zakir Hussain College of Engineering AMU, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh Abdullah Azhar Ali Khan Zakir Hussain College of Engineering AMU, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh

Sri Chitra Tirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Shahas Nahas

Sri Chitra Tirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Arun Prakash. P

Sri Chitra Tirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Ganesh Babu.S

Naveen Prasath.S

Application of Z-source inverter for power conditioning and utility interface of renewable electrical energy sources
Thiruvannamalai, Arunai Engineering College, Tamilnadu

S.K.Ramesh

Thiruvannamalai, Arunai Engineering College, Tamilnadu

Thiruvannamalai, Arunai Engineering College, Tamilnadu

What is EI12?
EI12 is the Student Project Competition to be held in conjunction with ELECRAMA-2012 (the worlds largest exhibition for Power Transmission & Distribution community) exhibition which will be held from 18th to 22nd January, 2012 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. (For complete details on the exhibition please visit www.elecrama.com). This competition encourages students of engineering (UG, PG and Diploma programs) to apply their learning at their colleges and their own creativity to practical applications on problems that need attention, in the electrical energy sector.

Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation Engineering

Improving Energy Efficiency, including improvement through alternative material and processes

In addition, branches that are allied to the above core branches are also eligible to participate, as long as they are related to Electrical Energy, namely Production Engineering Industrial Engineering

Achieving Cost Reduction, including cost reduction through alternative material and processes

Functional and/or Productivity enhancement of products and processes

Power Engineering The degree/diploma may lead to any combination of these subjects. Post Graduate Students of any specialisation in any of the above mentioned subjects.

New Products/ Processes resulting in any of the above

Competition Rules:
Description:
EI12 is the student project competition organised by IEEMA for final display and selection during ELECRAMA-2012 (The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition ) The participating institutions must have commenced their Diploma/Graduate/ Post Graduate Degree/Diploma Programmes during academic year 2002-03 or earlier. Institutions like IITs, NITs and NPTIs. The list published by AICTE for the year 2009-10 will be used as the main resource to identify eligible institutions. In addition, IEEMA may use other resources as well, including their own research.

Project Areas:
Each project must involve ONE Technology area and achieve outcome as per ONE Result area. Combination of more than one area is also permissible. The Technology and Result areas are given below: Technology Areas : Electricity Generation & Transmission Electricity Distribution (Medium & Low Voltage) Switch Gear, Protection & Control Electro Mechanical Machines, Equipment and Accessories Manufacturing Technologies, Tooling & Industrial Application of Robotics including in manufacture Electrical & Electronics Instrumentation Power Electronics Automation in Power Engineering, Manufacturing, etc Renewable Electrical Energy Sources Smart Grids Grid connected Electric Vehicle (EV) / Hybrid Electric vehicle (HEV) Recharging Systems Energy Optimisation in Industry & Commercial Buildings.

What Constitutes a Project?

For this competition, both working model projects and simulation projects are accepted. As far as possible, working model projects should be submitted. Simulation projects will be accepted for consideration when such a working model is not practical due to involvement of very high voltages/ currents that are difficult to be provided at the venue, a novel design, large size, long distance, computer programs controlling a process and such situations. Participants must specify, in their initial submission, whether the concept will be demonstrated through a working model or by simulation. Where the mode of demonstration is through Simulation, the EI Expert Committee may give guidance and suggest a Working Model. The decision of the Expert Committee whether it should be a Working or Simulated Model will be final and binding. Both types of projects need to adhere to the conditions of Project areas (Technology area and Results area). General guidelines for each type of project follow .

Objective:
The participants would be required to build and demonstrate a working model or build and display a simulated model using specified technical software. Such model should address any problem covered within the Project Areas. In general a Project area would cover One Technology Area and One Result Area. Projects addressing issue covering more than one technology area and/or Result Area will also be considered. Selected project entries would be given financial grant for building the model.

Eligible Students:
Students of Full Time Programs will be eligible as mentioned below: Final and pre-final year students of Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes Final Year Students of Diploma/ Post Graduate Diploma Programmes

Eligibility:
Eligible Institutions:
Universities, Deemed Universities, and Colleges offering Graduate and Post Graduate Technology/ Engineering Degrees, Post Graduate Engineering Diploma, Polytechnics offering Diploma Programs.

Eligible Branches of Engineering:

IEEMA encourages any student of ELECTRO TECHNOLOGY to participate. Students pursuing Graduate Degree, Post Graduate Degree and Diploma Programmes in the following core branches of ELECTRO TECHNOLOGY:

Result Areas:

Working Model Project:

An acceptable project will constitute a working model that can be described as per the Technology Areas and Result Areas mentioned above, designed with the use of engineering principles based on theoretical concepts that can be demonstrated through a working prototype. Results are to be supported by test data, where applicable, that can be repeated if required.

selected for display during ELECRAMA-2012 (The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition). A project team cannot have a mix of Diploma, Undergraduate, Post Graduate students. The individual student members of a project team must hail from the same institution and may be from the same or different eligible branches. In exceptional cases, teams comprising students from different colleges may be considered. Faculty Guide: Each project team needs to have one faculty guide from the same institution or from one of the institutions as the student members of the project team. The faculty guide would be from any one of the eligible branches.

Team Registration: Once the teams are formed with the student members of the required numbers, the teams are to register themselves for the competition. At this stage, names of student members and the faculty guide and their contact details are to be submitted. In addition, the project title also would be needed at this stage. Teams have the freedom to change the project title later, if they like to do so. Teams can also register directly, even without the Student Pre registration. Registered team members also will receive regular communications by SMS and e-mail regarding the competition. Team registration can be done in many ways: On line team registration at the competition web site www.ei12.elecrama.com. Download the team registration form from the website, fill in all the details and send it as a pdf attachment to www.ei12.elecrama.com. Send the hard copy team registration form with all the details filled in by post to the address given in this brochure or at the contact us page of the website. Project Abstract submission: Project abstracts as per the guidelines given are to be submitted before the due date (Please refer to the important dates section) In addition to the abstract itself, the Abstract Entry Form needs to be sent with all details and certifications filled in. This form can be downloaded from the competition web site. Take a print out of the form, fill in all the details, get the signatures in place, get it scanned as a pdf file and submit. Abstract submission can be done in many ways: On line submission of project abstracts at the competition web site: www.ei12.elecrama.com Send the soft copy of the project abstract along with the Project entry form as pdf attachment, by e mail to project@pashinindia.com

Send the hard copy of the abstract and Project entry form, with all details filled in, by post to the address given in this brochure or at the contact us page of the web site.

The Competition Process:

All the abstract entries will be screened for preliminary evaluation. During this process, a suitable number of abstracts would be short listed for evaluation by an evaluation committee Evaluation committee(s) would evaluate the short listed project abstracts and rate/rank them suitably A final selection committee would consolidate the evaluation rating/ranking and arrive at the Grant list of projects. These projects would be accepted for display during ELECRAMA-2012(The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) A financial grant of up to Rs 10,000 (Rupees Ten thousand only) would be provided to each of the projects in the Grant list. The display of the Grant list projects would be during the entire duration of ELECRAMA-2012 (The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) ,and a jury would evaluate the project, during display at the Exhibition, and decide the Final Prize winning projects. Prizes would be awarded to the winners during an event in ELECRAMA-2012(The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) The entire evaluation process would be conducted with complete anonymity, wherein the true identity of each project abstract entry would be masked and will be revealed only at the last stage of Grant list. Strict and clear instructions are given to ensure that the project abstract entries do NOT contain any information that may be used to identify the project team or any of its members, student or faculty guide. Any violation on this aspect runs the risk of the entry being summarily rejected.

Simulation Project:
An acceptable model will constitute a simulated working model involving a new design, new system using specific computer programs, new control system, etc. Such a simulation must be done using licensed software such as MATLAB, LABVIEW, etc. Participants have to make their own arrangement to obtain such licensed software. EI organisers will, if required, provide participation letter or such other documentation for this purpose. Financial grant provided for modelling may be utilised for procuring necessary software, subject to limits.

The Participation Process:

There are different stages in participating in this competition: 1. 2. 3. Student Pre-registration Team Registration Project Abstract Submission

IMPORTANT:

Details of each of these stages are given below: Student Pre registration: The students who are interested in taking part in this competition are advised to register themselves as potential participants. These students can form the project teams and identify their project topic later. Pre registered students will receive regular communications by SMS and e-mail regarding the competition. Student Pre registration can be done in many ways: On line pre registration at the competition web site: www.ei12.elecrama.com Down load the Individual pre registration form from the the competition web site www.ei12.elecrama.com, fill in all the details, send it as a pdf attachment to ei12@pashinindia.com Send the hard copy pre registration form with all the details filled in by post to the address given in this brochure or at the contact us page of the website.

A project work already being pursued as a part of the Diploma, Under Graduate or Post Graduate course may also be presented for this competition, provided the subject matter and the nature of the project are otherwise permissible as per the rules of the competition.

Project Team:
A project team comprises student members and a faculty guide Student Members: A project team may consist of A maximum of THREE students in the case of Undergraduate and Diploma courses. Only ONE Student in the case of Post Graduate course. An associate would be permitted to accompany the participant to assist the participant in the display, if such a project gets

Financial and Other supports provided for Grant list of projects:

A financial grant of up to Rs 10,000 (Rupees Ten thousand) would be provided for each of the projects placed in the Grant list. Each student member would be provided with a fixed financial subsidy to assist them in meeting the expenses for travel, stay, board and local conveyance to attend ELECRAMA-2012 (The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) for display of their project. ONE Faculty guide per selected Project Team would be provided with a fixed financial subsidy to assist them in meeting the expenses for visiting ELECRAMA-2012(The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) to support their respective student teams.

Major Criteria for judging the project abstracts at different stages:

These are indicatory to help participants conceive of appropriate projects. IEEMA and the relevant committees have the absolute authority and discretion to establish appropriate set of criteria. Screening Stage: Adherence of the rules and the norms of the competition Fitment of the project to the theme of the competition Originality of thought and innovation of ideas Evaluation and Selection Stage: Relevance of application of the project idea Application of knowledge such as fundamental knowledge of energy, engineering principles, relevant theory etc. Technological and Economic benefits arising from the project concept Impact of the project on environment Final selection by the Jury: The parameters for judging the final projects and prototypes would be evolved by the Jury once the selection of the abstracts for Grant List is finalised. However, following aspects will play a role and are worth noting by intending participants right at the project entry stage: 1. 2. 3. 4. Originality of thought Quality of engineering of the prototype Performance at the presentation and viva voce Thoroughness of understanding of ALL aspects of the project by ALL members of the project team 5. Performance at the demonstration and display

5. Prepare the abstract in a word processor, in Microsoft Word or a format compatible with it. 6. Use of visual aids like diagrams, charts, flow charts and tables are encouraged. 7. The total length of the abstract should not exceed 300 words. In addition, the visual aid mentioned above should not exceed FIVE in number. 8. The itemised cost estimate and the time table for project completion matching with the deadlines mentioned in this brochure should not exceed ONE page. Word count in this page is not counted. 9. The project Abstract must be accompanied by Abstract submission form. The Abstract submission form should be complete in all respects and with all the information, certifications, where asked for. Incomplete forms are liable to be rejected. 10. The abstract itself should not contain any detail of identification of the student/ institution. 11. The abstract, along with a scanned pdf of the Abstract submission form duly signed and certified, need to be sent by e mail to project@pashinindia.com or uploaded from the competition web site www.ei12.elecrama. com.The abstract and the Abstract submission Form must be in separate files and must be attached in the same mail (if submission is by e-mail). In addition, a hardcopy of the abstract and the Abstract submission form need to be sent to Pashin Consultancy at the following address: Send courier despatches to: Pashin Consultancy & Training Pvt. Ltd., Block 1, 2D, Lakshmima Ramaniyam Apartments, 40, 4th Seaward Road, Valmiki Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600 041 If using ordinary post, please send to: Pashin Consultancy & Training Pvt. Ltd

Important Dates:
Online submission of Project abstracts begins from: August 16, 2011 Last date by which entries are to be received: September 15, 2011 Short Listed Projects to be decided and announced: September 25, 2011 Grant List of projects to be announced: October 31, 2011 Last date for receipt of revised project progress plan (if revised): November 10, 2011 First Instalment of Grant Amount to be released by: November 25, 2011 Project progress reports to be received by November 20, December 15, 2011 and January 03, 2012 Last date for proto type to be ready: January 06, 2012 Arrival at Mumbai for final display by January 16, 2012. Final display and evaluation at ELECRAMA January 18 to 21, 2012 Announcement of Winners and Prize distribution: January 21, 2012 ( tentative; exact date will be informed to selected participants on arrival at Mumbai)

Rewards for the prize winners:

Prize winning teams would be given following cash prizes:(subject to applicable tax laws)
ONE First Prize of Rs 2,00,000 (Rupees Two Lakhs Only) TWO Second Prizes of Rs 1,00,000 (Rupees One Lakh Only) each THREE Third Prizes of Rs 50,000 (Rupees Fifty Thousand Only) each

DISCLAIMER This competition is conducted with a view to encourage students in applying their theoretical knowledge to practical problem solving and to give an opportunity to showcase talent. Participation in this competition is purely voluntary. In case of any difference in understanding and/or dispute regarding any aspect of the conduct of this competition, the interpretation, discretion and decision of IEEMA and/or its authorised persons shall be final and binding on all concerned. Moreover, IEEMA is not bound to entertain any representation from any of the participating individuals or institutions or their representatives.

In addition:
Individual certificate for the Prize winning student member Individual certificate to the Faculty guide of the Prize winning projects Individual certificate of participation to all the projects displayed at ELECRAMA-2012 (The Worlds Largest Power Transmission & Distribution exhibition) Certificate of merit to the Institution(s) that

Instructions for preparing the project abstract

1. Specify the Technology Area 2. Specify the Result Area 3. Title of the Project 4. Category of the Project: PG/ UG/ Diploma

Post Box No 5010 Besant Nagar Chennai - 600090

Last date for receipt of electronic form of abstract and absract submission form is September 15, 2011.

ABOUT IEEMA
A non-profit association, represents over 750 businesses in the Indian Electrical and Industrial Electronics manufacturing sector, whose combined annual turnover is in excess of US $22 billion, Equipments manufactured by members contribute to more than 95% in evacuation of the 1,50,000 MW of installed power generating capacity in India. IEEMA organizes ELECRAMA as part of its strategic initiative to showcase Made in India & is the Voice of Indian Electricity sector. For more information, visit www.ieema.org

ABOUT ELECRAMA
ELECRAMA is the worlds largest power transmission & distribution exhibition held biennially in Mumbai, India since 1990. From its humble beginnings in 1990 which saw 283 exhibitors and 30,000 visitors, it has grown to be the worlds largest one-stop-shop for electrical and industrial electronics. 95% of the Indian Electrical Industry manufacturers across the entire T&D value chain conforming to global standards come together to showcase their development and manufacturing strength. For more information, visit www.elecrama.com

501, Kakad Chambers 132, Dr A B Road, Worli Mumbai 400018 (p) 022 24930532/6528/6529 (f) 022 2493 2705 (e) mumbai@ieema.org (w) www.ieema.org Address for correspondence:
If using courier services: Pashin Consultancy & Training Pvt Limited Block 1, 2D, Lakshmima Ramaniyam Apartments No 40, 4th Seaward Road, Valmiki Nagar, Chennai 600041 (p) 044 42018819/42150736 (e) project@pashinindia.com

First Prize Rs 2,00,000 Second Prizes Rs 1,00,000 each Third Prizes Rs 50,000 each

If using ordinary postal services: Pashin Consultancy & Training Pvt.Ltd Post Box No 5010 Besant Nagar, Chennai 600090

Last date for Entries: September 15, 2011

For more information on participation

www.ei12.elecrama.com
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