KPIT公布第五届全国创新设计大赛KPIT Sparkle 2019获奖名单

Pune, India, 24 February 2019: 开普敦, a global leader in automotive engineering and mobility solutions, has announced the winners of its annual national design and development innovation contest, KPIT Sparkle 2019. The competition aims at fostering innovation among students by providing them with an opportunity to imagine, ideate and develop innovations with a high social impact on sustainability. In the last five years, KPIT Sparkle has received nearly 6000 ideas from more than 50,000 students nationally.

The theme for the 2019 edition was “Energy and Mobility for the Future.”  It sought futuristic solutions, based on cutting-edge technologies, to solve problems in areas, such as renewable energy generation, energy storage, energy utilisation and clean, safe, shared, connected, and secured mobility.

Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman and Group CEO, KPIT said, “Sparkle is our endeavour to provide young and aspiring minds with an opportunity to explore and apply new technology trends. It is a manifestation of our efforts to achieve sustainability. It will be pivotal in contributing towards our new vision of reimagining mobility with the ecosystem for the creation of a cleaner, smarter and safer world.”

KPIT Sparkle 2019 received more than 2000 ideas from around 22,000 students across more than 1,100 colleges in India. The Top 30 teams presented working prototypes of their solutions at the grand finale held on 23^rd and 24^th February 2019 at the Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE).

THE WINNERS

• Team Aqua 从 Army Institute of Technology, Pune, 赢得了 白金奖 of Rs. 10,00,000 for developing a vertical axis water turbine (VAWT), which is 24% more efficient than a conventional system. The turbine can be used for both small and large-scale energy production and in all flow conditions.
• 两支队伍获胜 silver prizes of Rs. 2,50,000 each for the following ideas:
• Team Gravity 从 Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, for designing a scalable plant-based microbial fuel cell technology. The solution has the capacity to generate electricity and eliminate dependence on climate for renewable energy production.
• Team AutoTrac 从 College of Engineering, Indore, for designing a driverless tractor, which saves labour cost, time and manual labour.
• Team Drivetrain 从 Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering, Pune, 赢得了 最受欢迎奖 for designing a novel transmission system (single stage gear box) to increase the load carrying capacity and gradeability of existing e-vehicles. The team garnered online votes in excess of 11,000 for their project.

INCUBATION OPPORTUNITIES

KPIT Sparkle 2019 was privileged to be associated with the 印度政府科学技术部（DST）, 印度国家转型委员会的阿塔尔创新使命（AIM）, 全印度技术教育委员会（AICTE）, India Design Council and the National Institute of Design as the knowledge partners and Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE), Pune; Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology (NIET), Greater Noida; and Sandip University, Nashik; as academic partners.

Also, KPIT partnered with the 创新孵化与创业中心（CIIE）, IIM Ahmedabad, Incubation Cell – IITM, Science and Technology Park, BHAU Institute and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Linkages (CIIL) – Savitribai Phule University 为有价值的想法提供孵化机会。.

THE JURY

决赛入围者由一个评审团进行评估，该评审团由来自学术界、商界、汽车和技术领域的国内外专家组成，其中包括： Padma Vibhushan Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Chairman, Innovation Council, KPIT; 彼得·F·特罗普舒博士, Vice President, Strategy Sustainability, AUDI AG; 阿希什·莱勒博士, Chief Scientist and Former Chair-Polymer Science Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Lab; 米林德·拉恩博士, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay; 悉达多·穆克霍帕迪亚伊博士, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur; Dr. Praveen Kumar,  Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati; Mr. Masashige Mizuyama, Automotive CTO, Panasonic Corporation; Mr. Tapish Bhatt, Vice President, Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad; Mr. Praveen Nahar, Senior Faculty Member, Industrial Design, National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad); 卡尔·佩兰博士, Director, Institute for Future Transport & Cities, Coventry University; and 拉菲·马奥尔先生, Chairman, R.O.N. Investments Ltd.

关于KPIT

KPIT is a global technology company with software solutions that will help mobility leapfrog towards autonomous, clean, smart and connected future. With 6000+ Automobelievers across the globe, specializing in embedded software, AI & Digital solutions, KPIT enables customers accelerate implementation of next generation mobility technologies. With development centers in Europe, USA, Japan, China, Thailand and India – KPIT works with leaders in mobility and is present where the ecosystem is transforming.

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Mohit Kochar, Global Head Marketing, KPIT, mohit.kochar @ kpit.com
Rahul Uplap – Sparkle Programme, Rahul.uplap @ kpit.com
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