Regatta regales for a cleaner Mula
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This year’s Boat Club event flaunted a theme for the first time — that of a cleaner river. COEP students presented technique to curb river pollution
By Arundhati Ranade
Posted On Monday, March 23, 2009 at 05:37:01 AM
students with the floating island plant developed to clean up the river
students with the floating island plant developed to clean up the river
The banks of Mula river were illuminated with fiery mashals throwing shadows from the opposite bank, added by a light and fire show on Sunday evening.
A spectacular floating show was presented by students of government College of Engineering (COEP) to celebrate the 81st COEP Regatta ‘09, the annual Boat Club event.
This was the first time Regatta was organised with a theme — Clean River, Clear Environment, Clear Consensus. Students worked on projects to clean up the river as a part of Regatta ‘09.
More than 350 enthusiastic students participated as rowers and leaving spectators mesmerised by their splendid synchronisation. For a change the otherwise drab and neglected river looked glorious.
More than 10 events like arrow formation, diamond formation, Kayak ballet, mashal dance, wharf dance were presented by the students.
Kayak ballet and tele-matches on the theme of anti-terrorism marked the evening. Similarly the wharf dance on floating wooden dance floor balanced on the river water and mashal dance on the facing river bank were the most appreciated.
“Regatta is the greatest tradition of our college and students organise the entire show”, said Azam Shaikh, the student secretary of Boat club.
Clean River, Clear evirons
For the first time in the history of Regatta at COEP, a theme based show was orgnaised. COEP students observed the alarming rate at which the city’s river was polluted. An exhibition showing hazardous effects of river pollutants was also organised.
“We want to continue the campaign of cleanliness of river. We expect to gather at least 50 devoted student volunteers, who are prepared to devote an hour each week for the cleanliness drive”, said Rajesh Kaje, second-year mechanical engineering student a volunteer of the show. “We are planning to clean-up the river around Boat Club every Sunday.
This would probably create awareness among the people residing in slums and the industries in the vicinity. Our aim is to finally hand-over the project to the localites, who are the permanent residents around the river banks”, he added.
Plant for cleaning river
Going ahead with awareness on river pollution, group of students from civil engineering department of COEP provided a practical solution for cleaning-up the river. They proposed an innovative technique to clean-up river turbidity by creating a ‘floating island’.
They have developed this proto-type sewage treatment plant which could be implemented with immediate effect.
The students are planning to develop the plant with the help of the COEP alumni association — not waiting for the civil administration to implement it.
Seventeen students of second and third year civil engineering developed the floating island for waste water treatment.
“We studied root zone technology and floating island technique which uses vegetation growth in pre-determined way to clean-up the pollutants”, said Payal Firodiya, one of the students.
These students have taken actual samples from Mula river to study the pollution level and then treated the same water with root zone technology. Now, the COEP students’ proposal is to create at least 120 units of floating islands each of the size of 1.22 mx0.95 m.
The floating island is made up of PVC pipes, coir and jute bed to allow the vegetation to grow on it. “The natural chemical process decreases the pollutants of the water.
According to our readings the turbidity decreases to great extent and suspended solid pollutants are also reduced by almost 80 per cent”, informed Shrikant Ambulkar and Ayush Mehta who are part of the seventeen.
The floating island can directly be used on the river bed. “We propose to use canna plants, as they are easily available and aesthetically it would give a better look to river.”
The students claim that their floating island technique is better than the existing water treatment procedures such as cesspool or septic tank.
“The existing techniques require high consumption of energy, large investment and land apart from the maintenance cost. Our technique is cost effective as all 120 units proposed by us could be made by an investment of Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh”, said Saloni Chirania and Dhaval Patil students.
COEP’s annual event Regatta is back in all its splendour with over 400 students doing hundreds of formations
Since the past 40 days, Meetal Bhamre has been stringently boating at six in the morning on the banks of Mula river. However unlike the repose the activity might seem to have, this arduous exercise is a part of the spectacular show he is going to put up this weekend.
With around four hundred students on water The College Of Engineering Pune will host one of its oldest and most impressive events, Regatta, in its eighty first year.
Based on the theme of river pollution awareness there are also ongoing events to support the initiative with students undertaking river bank cleaning from Holkar bridge to Sangam bridge as well as a display of prototype of water treatment plant prepared by the civil engineering students at the end of Regatta.
The various patterns are arrow formation, tele-mathes, kayak ballet, diamond formation, punt formation, mashal dance, wharf dance and lighted kayak ballet.
With some having an impressive lighting the boats flaunt a visual treat and further more formations like mashal and tele-mathes produce fire displays during the show. The former is performed on the land with splendid reflections in the water. Kayak ballet is the most unbalanced making its participants most susceptible to tumbling in the river. “The show starts with arrow formation which is also one of the oldest and progressively we have been adding more. This year we have organized several other activities on the backdrop related to the awareness on water pollution. Screening documentaries, holding a river walk, river cleaning as well as an exhibition of around ten NGO s with their research and statistics on pollution on 21 and 22 will provide major insights,” adds Azam Sheikh, Regatta Secretary COEP Boat Club.
The array that will be held on this Sunday 5 pm onwards at COEP’s Boat Club has the entire Regatta gang constantly practicing for four hours every dawn and dusk with ten organisers training them on the skills.“We will execute on a special theme, disclosed a couple of days before the show in accordance with the central theme. I am a part of tele-mathes that has around ten boats like Simby, Kayak, Wars and so on and will display a number of moves with fire for the twenty five minute performance,” adds Dixit Chopra a second year IT student.
The first year students essentially form the punt formation, which is the biggest and has the maximum participation of over hundred members. Adding on the configurations Bhamre says “We would be presenting over twenty six shapes in thirty minutes. Only practice can help hold to the techniques, battle the winds and so on. There are around eight of us on each punt. Some of the punts are as old as eighty years and meticulously maintained. There will be sixteen of those twenty-five feet long boats, disperse and harmonize to form various shapes. Octagon is one of the standard formation,” For the rest, wait on till this weekend.
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VIT, COEP win Firodiya Karandak
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Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) and College of Engineering Pune (COEP) stood first and second respectively at the Firodiya Karandak which concluded on Monday at the Yashwantrao Chavan auditorium. ILS stood third.
The 35-year old inter-collegiate fest saw participation by 35 colleges from the city which began on February 9. Firodiya Karandak started when college gatherings were banned in Pune as a variety show competition.
It has rocked Pune campus since 1974.
Out of the seven colleges selected for the finals, three emerged as champions. VIT's play Tujha Majha Save, Coep's Pravesh and ILS's Gharwali were declared as winners. A special jury award was given to Fergusson College. The judges for the competition were dancer Shambhavi Vaze, theatre artiste Santosh Kohle and director Tyagrak Khadilkar.
All the judges have been a part of the Karandak during their college days.
The first and second award for the best script writers were given to VIT and COEP respectively while the award for best direction was given to Fergusson College. The first and second award for best college band went to Fergusson and BMCC respectively. The award for best choreography went to COEP while best lighting went to VIT.
The award function will be held at Ganesh Kala Krida Mandir on March 6.
Sanjeev Bajaj is from COEP
Sanjiv Bajaj, Rahul Bajaj’s youngest son and the boss of Bajaj FinServ, has lost 12 kilos over the past one year. And he now wants his company to
meticulously follow his health mantra to become a financial powerhouse. So at a time when every insurance company worth its salt is hiring, Sanjiv has chosen to take the cautious route — putting a freeze on fresh recruits — to make sure that there is no flab in his insurance venture.
Sanjiv’s mandate at FinServ is to make sure that ‘Hamara Bajaj’ becomes an even stronger name in financial services. Bajaj FinServe, has been Sanjiv’s baby every since the financial services company was carved out of the erstwhile Bajaj Auto a year ago. Although an engineer by training, Sanjiv has always been excited with numbers and finance matters and it is no coincidence that he got the finance segment.
Group watchers are now keenly watching the two Bajaj brothers to see who creates more value. Sanjiv Bajaj is clearly in no mode to lose time. While his life and general insurance ventures with German partner Allianz are getting his full attention, he is also busy charting out future growth engines. Bajaj FinServ is currently in “advanced discussions” with Allianz to set up an asset management company. Also on the anvil are plans to start a distribution company for financial services, and beef up Bajaj Auto Finance (BAFL). “We want to become a one-stop financial powerhouse. On offer will be the entire gamut of services including lending (BAFL), investments (mutual funds), protection (Insurance) and distribution and advisory,” says Sanjiv Bajaj.
A self-professed extrovert, Sanjiv is an absolute gizmo freak who loves to dabble with his Nokia E71 or his Apple Mac to keep track of his businesses real time. It’s this obsession with technology, Sanjiv says, that helps him balance between his personal and professional life. “The last thing I want is to miss out on is my time with the kids. So technology helps me to get back to any urgent work after they fall asleep,” he says. So long, life has been rather easy and unhurried, in a way, for Sanjiv who lives just a few metres away from work at Akurdi near Pune, and like his brother Rajiv, the MD of Bajaj Auto, prefers to call it a day at 6 pm to spend quality time with his wife and two kids Sanjali and Siddhant.
After his graduation in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune, Sanjiv completed his MS from Warwick Engineering in the UK. Like his father, Sanjiv went on to do his MBA from Harvard University, which he says has hastened his decision-making process. Financial services is one area which even the most successful of business groups have not managed to crack. The challenge would be even more at a time when investor wariness is at its peak. Given that world financial markets are entering an unchartered territory, Sanjiv would have to look beyond the Harvard case histories to fulfil his dream of a financial conglomerate.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Personal_Finance/Insurance/Analysis/Aiming_to_be_big_minus_the_flab/articleshow/4109071.cms
PUNE: The second last day of Youthopia, the youth fest by the Sakaal Media Group currently on at the Maharashtra State Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, saw a tumultuous response with teams of students from various colleges’ in the city taking part in the dance competition, street plays and photography contests.
Over 23 teams took part in the semi finals of the dancing competition named tap-ur-toes on Sunday.
Around six to eight teams would be shorlisted for the finals. Besides this, the results of the street play and mad ads, where participants had tocome up with novel ways to market unique products, were announced on Sunday.
MMCCs Institute of Management Education, Research and Training (IMERT), Insitute of Business Management & Research (IBMR), and DY Patil, IPSR won the first, second and third prizes respectively in the street plays, whereas College Of Engineering Pune (COEP), Rajarshri Shahu College of Engineering (RSCOE), IMERT, and Maharashtra Academy of Engineering (MAE), Alandi won the 3 positions and the consolation prize respectively in mad ads.
Around 150 teams have taken part in the 10-event festival which began on January 29. The finals of tap -ur -toes, results of photography and fashion show would be declared on Monday. The prize distribution ceremony will be held on the same day in evening.
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PUNE: Cracking these questions did not require one to be an expert in astronomy. This was the very essence of ‘Quiztronomy’, the astronomy quiz
held last week by the College of Engineering
, Pune’s (COEP) Astronomy Club.
The first-ever quiz contest held by the club was open to the general public and saw participation from more than 65 city colleges and schools.
Famous astronomers, radio telescopy and celestial phenomena - these were some of the subjects on which the contestants were grilled.
The teams comprised two members each. After elimination via a written preliminary round, six teams qualified for the finals.
Quizzing wizards Suvajit Chakroborty from Symbiosis Law College and Yash Marathe from Modern College were declared winners. Anirudha Bapat of Army Public School and Sarthak Chandra from The Bishops’ High School were declared the Best School Team, while Rajiv Galgali and Ninad Adavatkar from Dr. Kalmadi Shamarao Junior College were adjudged the Best College Team.
Prizes worth Rs 10,000 were awarded to the winners by M Y Khaladkar, head of department of applied science of the COEP and faculty-in-charge of the Astronomy Club.
The COEP Astronomy Club members were assisted by the Boat Club Quiz Club for formulating the quiz questions. ‘Quiztronomy’ is the biggest step that has been taken by the astronomy club to reach out to the masses.
Active at the COEP campus for the last four years, the club has over 50 active members from different academic courses, professional fields and age groups. The group boasts of two telescopes and has held several star-gazing nights.
In May 2008, the club started an astronomy course for members. The first-ever examination of the course will be held by the end of this year.
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Power walk
This mobile charger is truly mobile. Six COEP students have built a device that can charge your cellphone battery while you take a walk
By Arundhati Ranade
Posted On Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 04:44:52 AM
Freakin' Awesome! Freakin' Awesome! Freakin' Awesome! Freakin' Awesome! Freakin' Awesome!
Manoj Bidkar
Six COEP students have built a device that can charge your cellphone battery while you take a walk
Shachi Pande, Rushikesh Pande, Isha Nag, Tejas Narsimhan , Aditya Nanavaty and Sarvesh Patil
All charged up: L-R Shachi Pande, Rushikesh Pande, Isha Nag, Tejas Narsimhan , Aditya Nanavaty and Sarvesh Patil
Now your regular 20-minute morning walk can also help in recharging your cellphone battery. Don’t miss a step. It’s true! A team of six students from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) has made this possible for those who are always on the run.
Isha Nag, Aditya Nanavaty, Rushikesh Pande, Shachi Pande (all third-year production engineering students) and Sarvesh Patil, Tejas Narasimhan (second year students from the same stream) teamed up for the venture.
The portable walk-in charger that they have made works on energy produced while you walk and within 20 minutes your cellphone battery could get fully charged.
Winners all
Their device bagged the first prize in the recently-concluded Tech Fest at IIT Bombay. Tejas said, “Our task at Techfest was to construct a device which uses only renewable sources of energy to produce at least 3 watts of electric power.
And it was for this that we got the prize.” But even before giving in their entry for this national competition, the team was working on manufacturing an easy-to-use portable charger which uses alternative source of energy.
The device
The device they made comprises a small spring coil attached to belts. This compact device has a single casing enclosing all necessary components along with the charging circuit with an output power of around 3.5 W. A brief walk of 20 minutes (not necessarily a constant walk) could give you a fully-charged mobile battery.
Patent in the pipeline
The COEP team has already applied for a patent for their walk-in charger. “We have applied for the provisional patent now. During the Mumbai Techfest, some venture capitalists such as DGlight and Mellagro approached us and expressed interest in our device,” Isha said.
When asked if they are ready for its commercial launch, the team expressed full confidence. According to them, the production cost of the charger is around Rs 250.
“With a much more attractive and portable design on a commercial level, it could be available for Rs 350 as per our calculations,” she added.
Design details
While talking about the device’s manufacturing details, Shachi and Rushikesh said, “The spring design was the crucial part of the device.
We tried the device with a tin outer cover earlier. But it took whole of last week to design it to make it more attractive.” They did all the experimentation in COEP’s workshop. “The material was provided by the college which supported us throughout the venture,” they said.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
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Dynamo: Captures the rhythmic movement of both legs and turns it into a rotary motion
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Retractable string: Can be pulled out from the device to connect both legs
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Circuit: Attached to a rechargable battery that gets charged when you walk
Charge-on!
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A single pencil cell costs about Rs. 7. A walk ‘n’ charge device would generate as much energy as a AA battery in 21 minutes. If it is used for one hour daily, it would recover its cost in less than 12 days
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A 20 minute walk charges your cell phone for a day’s usage.
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It can fit in your pocket
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Not only mobile but could be used to charge other electronic devices such as i-pods, PMPs, GPS devices, Digital cameras
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The spring has a guarantee of eight years!
Fundamental
Basic principle behind the device is similar to that of a generator or a dynamo.
A dynamo
In simplest terms, a dynamo is an electric motor run in reverse, instead of spending energy, it saves energy. A dynamo uses magnets spinning in a metal coil to spin a shaft. The spinning shaft in turn, causes the same magnets to rotate in the coil. This generates an electric current.
Walk ‘n’ charge
The mobile charger uses the oscillatory movement of your legs. This is converted into rotations by a pulley onto the shaft. Repositioning of the shaft and pulley is done with the use of a pre-stressed coil spring.
COEP students built device to recharge cellphone battery while walking
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Pune Mirror: Now your regular 20-minute morning walk can also help in recharging your cellphone battery. Don’t miss a step. It’s true! A team of six students from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) has made this possible for those who are always on the run.
Isha Nag, Aditya Nanavaty, Rushikesh Pande, Shachi Pande (all third-year production engineering students) and Sarvesh Patil, Tejas Narasimhan (second year students from the same stream) teamed up for the venture.
The portable walk-in charger that they have made works on energy produced while you walk and within 20 minutes your cellphone battery could get fully charged.
Their device bagged the first prize in the recently-concluded Tech Fest at IIT Bombay. Tejas said, “Our task at Techfest was to construct a device which uses only renewable sources of energy to produce at least 3 watts of electric power.
And it was for this that we got the prize.” But even before giving in their entry for this national competition, the team was working on manufacturing an easy-to-use portable charger which uses alternative source of energy.
The device they made comprises a small spring coil attached to belts. This compact device has a single casing enclosing all necessary components along with the charging circuit with an output power of around 3.5 W. A brief walk of 20 minutes (not necessarily a constant walk) could give you a fully-charged mobile battery.
The COEP team has already applied for a patent for their walk-in charger. “We have applied for the provisional patent now. During the Mumbai Techfest, some venture capitalists such as DGlight and Mellagro approached us and expressed interest in our device,” Isha said.
When asked if they are ready for its commercial launch, the team expressed full confidence. According to them, the production cost of the charger is around Rs 250.
“With a much more attractive and portable design on a commercial level, it could be available for Rs 350 as per our calculations,” she added.
While talking about the device’s manufacturing details, Shachi and Rushikesh said, “The spring design was the crucial part of the device.
We tried the device with a tin outer cover earlier. But it took whole of last week to design it to make it more attractive.” They did all the experimentation in COEP’s workshop. “The material was provided by the college which supported us throughout the venture,” they said.
It's great when you are doing good things for the environment without it being too much of an effort. For instance, imagine saving power just by walking.
Pune's young scientists have developed how to convert this simple aerobic exercise into charging your phone. Now, if your phone's battery is down and you want to talk, then just start walking.
Walk-n-charge is the mobile charger that charges your phone while you are mobile. A 20-minute walk can help charge a cell phone battery for one hour.
The innovation has been developed by a group of students from Pune's College of Engineering and has won them the first prize at the recently-concluded TechFest at IIT Powai.
The device works on simple physics and converts human motion into electrical energy. A retractable string from device connects both legs. A dynamo captures rhythmic movements of the legs and turns it into rotatory motion. The circuit is attached with rechargeable battery.
"We have filed for the patent of this product. Some mobile companies have also contacted us," said Tejas Narsimhan, a student of College of Engineering, Pune.
Weighing just 20 grams, with the help of the device, now you can easily walk the talk.
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PUNE: The College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) has tied up with global management consultancy and outsourcing firm Accenture to introduce an elective course on Attitudinal leadership' as part of the B.Tech (mechanical) study programme. While the course was introduced at third-year B.Tech (mechanical) level early this month, a formal memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the CoEP and Accenture at the college's training and placement cell here recently.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pune/CoEP-Accenture_tie_up_for_managerial_skills_course/articleshow/4072155.cms