Engineer: Day 3

I thought my work at Engineer was mercifully over but I am not so good on luck lately. Waking up to a call at 8:15 am on Feb 14, I learnt that my "certain skills" were needed, no info on what those skills were. I didnt even have time to see the daily schedule for the day..

So I arrive at the Biotech department at 9:45 am and see a hustle of people going mad with confusion! Turns out it was Blueprint (Chemical) and the paper presentation event was going to start any time.. Mishra was asking others if it was too late to ask me to be the MC for the event but since I had no idea what was going on, he got the job. In comes GOD followed by a Babu (For those not in the know, GOD is Dr. Srinikethan and called so because he is the reigning deity of our department with a working knowledge of simply everything! The time is 9:50 am..

First up: Rajesh Hegde, our pet sacrificial lamb. He somehow finds ways unimaginable to screw himself (Not literally). In this case, the judges were fresh for accepting our sacrifices and Rajesh had no idea he was actually disqualified from the event for having submitted his paper for reviewal in an international conferance. 

So in the end an 8-min presentation caused a 14-min Q&A session from the judges where Rajesh was left literally speechless towards the end. Once he was done, he wasted no time blaming us for selecting the judges, the schedule, his entry being selected first etc etc.. YAWN!

Teams from LIT, Nagpur participated well in this and the subsequent event:-

Manoj and Avanti won 2nd prize for their presentation on the SURGE project done at IIT, Kanpur:- 

The winner of this event was Parvathi, 3rd year Chemical Engineering, NITK Surathkal. No pics I have of her, and she actually won 3 events this day!!

After a quiet lunch downstairs, it was time for IDP or Industry Defined Problems at 2 pm and there was a total of 5 teams across 2 problem statements. Prof. Saidutta agreed to be the judge with the usual wit while Dr. Rajmohan made a surprise entry later (Even we were surprised though we were luckily covered with sufficient judge sheets and mementos). The aforementioned Parvathi won again while my personal favourite was this guy from SAIT, Bangalore who showed via a working model the use of piezoelectricity:-

All through the event both judges gave their comments to all teams regarding the poor preparation for the event and then gave more comments at the end. Frankly, I thought the teams deserved a lot more criticism as their work was nearly all shoddy!

So after the event is over and Chemical events at Engineer finally come to an end (Modal Combat was an online event), a quick visit to the Artist Forum room close by to see the work for Incident (Just 9 days away now) and then onto see the much awaited Velocity...

This event held in the sports ground saw self designed remote controlled cars race against each other in a rubber tyre capsulated track and was great fun:-

 

As far as the finals went, it was not as exciting when one of the top teams collided into the tyre wall but the last 2 laps and the ending was magnificent.. Here take a look at this video:-

That was the end of day 3, amidst smart-ass comments on Valentine's day this was a great day!