NAGPUR: Engineering students often take up some interesting projects during their graduation which remain unrecognized and unutilized. In order to make good use of these projects and encourage students to be more innovative, city-based portal CrazyEngineers.com is organizing a national-level competition . The participants also stand a chance of their projects being turned into a viable product.

An online portal for engineering students and professionals, CrazyEngineers (CE) has more than 1.6 lakh registered members from more than 180 countries. A team of analytics from the portal realized that there’s a huge potential in the projects created by engineering students at academic and economic levels. The nation-wide competition is for third and final year students pursuing BE or BTech under any government recognized institution in India. It requires the participants to submit the details of the project they have been working on for college. Entry to the competition is free.

“We are already in talks with some corporates to see if they can adopt the winning projects and make them market-ready. We would also see if two or more teams working on similar projects can collaborate with each other to create something not imagined before,” said Ankita Katdare, the chief operating officer of CrazyEngineers. She said that every engineering student should participate in the competition, irrespective of the size and scale of their project.

Another aim of organizing the competition was to encourage students to be more innovative in their thinking and approach towards solving social and technical problems while designing their projects. The analytics team also felt the need for a common platform where all the engineering projects being worked on by students across India are showcased.

Students from any branch of engineering can participate as individuals or groups in one of the six categories: Computer science/IT/networking; electrical /electronics and communication; mechanical / automobile / aeronautical; civil / structural; robotics / RC / automation or chemical / metallurgy.

In the first stage, the participants have to submit their project synopsis, answer questions about it and fill in a simple form. Participants shortlisted from stage one would have to create a video presentation. Details can be found on CE website or by writing a mail to contest@crazyengineers.com.

