BITS Pilani Dubai, students emerge winners in ESREC 2011
The ENGINEERING STUDENTS RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPETITION-2011(ESREC-2011) was organized by UAE University, AL AIN on 7 th May 2011.About 34 teams from various universities all over the UAE participated and eventually only 12 teams out of the 34 were shortlisted for the final round of judging. It is indeed overwhelming to note that 4 out of these 12 teams shortlisted were from BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. The final year BIOTECH students with the project title “Mass Cultivation and Optimization of Bio fuel Production by using Micro Algae” which was done under the supervision of Dr.S.Ramachandran, Assistant Professor in BIOTECH won the second prize in this prestigious event. The other project titles of BITS Pilani, Dubai students which were shortlisted were- “Hybrid Model For Power generation using Ocean Energy”, “Prototype of Hydraulic Robotic Arm” and “Utilization of Renewable energies for Greener U.A.E.”
2nd year student tops the ASME Old Guard Oral Presentation competition
Mr.Syed Aaquib Hazari , II Year Mechanical Student won the first prize in the Old Guard Oral Presentation competition at ASME SPDC finals held on Friday, 29-04-11.at American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
He emerged as the topper in this competition for the entire ASME District-J(Middle East & Africa ). He will be representing the district and participating in the Grand Finals in November to be held at Colorado, USA.
