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Mumbai students win Global Aero-Design Contest in the USA

Mumbai: Two groups of students from a Mumbai-based engineering college have emerged as winners in the global aero-design competition held in the USA.While one team won the first prize globally at the Aero Design in

PTI Published : May 05, 2014 12:11 IST, Updated : May 05, 2014 12:16 IST
In the micro class of the competition, the team secured first position and it was accredited by Lockheed Martin and NASA.

"The entire design had overwhelming response in which best institutions such as IIT Kanpur, Vellore Institute of Technology and highly reputed institutions from all over the globe took part," a spokesperson of the college said.

The team comprised of Sanjay Kumar (Faculty), Adith Ajayan (Captain), Abdul Kadir Poonawala, Imran Merchant, Hussain Shaikh, Muzammil Sarkhot, Darpan Agarwal, Afsan Gujarati and Sharang Biradar, from the automobile engineering stream.

Seventeen teams from across the world including seven teams from India represented by premier Institutes like IIT Kanpur, NIT, Jamshedpur, VIT, Vellore, besides the Mumbai team participated in the advanced category.

In this event, the Indian team missed the top slot narrowly but emerged as the first in Asia, the release said.

The team comprised Deleep Talwai (faculty) Mustafa Hatiyari (captain), Saqlain Siddique, Atharva Joshi, Harshad Bhanushali, Abdul Karim Sarang, Hanif Shaikh, Shehzaad Keralwalla, Faheem Chaudhary, Manish Shukla, Zameer Ansari, Asma Khan and Shaziya Shaikh, who are students of mechanical engineering and electronics engineering.

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