Events & Activities

REPORT ON CATIA V5R21

Training on advanced software under the banner of MRIIC ME Auto Aeronautical cluster is started on 21-Jan- 2017.

Following are the glimpse of the third week of training.
Software Module covered :CATIA V5R21
Expert:  Mr. Joginder singh (Dassault System certified Professional)

under this module almost 5 faculty and 2 students received training on Sketcher and part modelling tools on the third week.

Topics covered in the workshop are:

1. How to create spring.

2. Solid Combine command
3. Multi-Section Solid
4. External tap/thread
5. Chordal Fillet

Each and every participants created the 3D components as per guidance.

Summary of Lecture on HVAC organized on 17-2- 2017 by Mechanical Engineering Department

On 17th Feb,2017 Mr. Aneesh Kadyan, President, ISHRAE Delhi Chapter visited Manav Rachna University to deliver a guest lecture on  “Career Opportunities in HVAC” to 6^th semester ME students.

Mr. Kadyan has stupendous industrial experience of more than a decade in Heating, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning Field. He has also worked with Indian Navy. A brief introduction about the guest was given by Mr. Gaurav Kaushik, a student of Mechanical Engineering, 6^th semester.

He started the lecture regarding various fields of HVAC and it also interacted with students by asking some general questions. In his short and influential presentation, he included following main points -:

• Exploration of HVAC&R
• Briefing of Green Buildings, Energy Manager, Consultants, Project Management.
• How HVAC engineer can change the life of a Building

He showed the way to students towards success by giving some examples of his own experiences.
At the end Mr. R.C Chaturvedi, Ex. GM, BHEL ended the session by reciting Sanskrit Shlokas reminding of not forgetting the blessings of Supreme Power of the world i. e, “God” and determined mind towards aim. He gave best wishes to all students and faculty members for delightful and successful life.

A Practical Introduction to ERGONOMICS and TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE at MRU

A one day workshop titled ‘A Practical Introduction To Ergonomics And Technologies For The Future’ was organized by the Department Research Committee (DRC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad at the department for faculty members and students of the Mechanical Engineering. A total of 32 participants attended the workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Rajiv Nandan Rai, Head of the Department, Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Rajiv Nandan Rai gave the introductory speech and highlighted the various activities planned in the department and their importance in the future career of participants. Dr. Rai motivated the participants to attend the sessions with utmost sincerity and to make a full use of the opportunity.

Mr. Ajit Katiyar, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Manav Rachna University conducted the lecture in the morning session with great care and expertise. Mr. Katiyar assisted the participants in learning the basic concepts of Ergonomics and solve the REBA and RULA method. The post lunch session was covered through an exhibition on ‘Technologies for the Future’ under the banner of CII organized at Pragati Maidan with a view to enhance and update technical input to the faculties and students of Mechanical Engineering Department.

Guest Lecture by Mr. Dinesh Kumar Aggarwal on ‘Piping Design’

On 11th November, 2016 Mr. Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, who is presently working as Manager (Piping) in ‘Valdel Engineers and Constructors‘, sector-126, Noida visited Manav Rachna University to deliver a guest lecture on ‘Piping Design‘ to pre-final year students.

Mr. Dinesh Agrawal has a total work experience of 13 years and 5 months in Piping Industry and has been involved in both Front End Engineering Design and Detail Engineering Design. He has successfully completed many inspiring projects for the industry like ‘SXL Mariner East2 Project (piping man hours consumed = 15000hrs), Lone Star NGL FRAC3, CPPD De-bottlenecking project’ and many more.

He started the lecture first by introducing about his organization, Valdel Engineers and Constructors and get students awared about the future scopes in Refinery, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Terminal & Surface Facilities and Cross Country Onshore Pipeline.Later on, Mr. Dinesh Agrawal addressed the need of piping design  in the product development and also, discussed the various software’s available in the market for the design purpose. He focused on Piping Activities/Deliverables, Equipment and piping layouts, preparation of overall plot plans, 3D plant layout and preparation of support standards in the design field.

At the end, he let the budding Engineers know about various piping codes i.e, ASME,ANSI & API and motivated the students for the better future in design area.

Mr. R.C Chaturvedi, Ex GM, BHEL concluded the session by thanking the guest for his precious time and motivated  the students through his fruitful words.

Some faculty members also attended the lecture along with the students. This was indeed a very enriching lecture and beneficial to the students as well as faculty.

Seminar Organised By ISHRAE Delhi Chapter On Energy Conservation In Cold Storage

ISHRAE(INDIAN SOCIETY OF HEATING, REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS) organized a seminar on “Cold Storage- New Prospective and Vision” on 27th July, 2016 at Hotel Pride Plaza near Aerocity, IGI Airport Road. The chief speaker of the event was Captain Pawanehx Kohli, Chief Advisor and CEO of NCCD (National Centre for Cold-Chain Development). He explained about the importance of cold storage and gave the new ideas and technique to store different types of food products effectively.
Mr. Sachin, National Sales Manager at Emerson Company explained method to calculate life cycle cost of a cold storage by just changing three parameters of Ambient air.Also other speaker/experts from Denfoss and Bry-Air presented the current industry scenario of Refrigeration.We are part of ISHRAE so from MANAV RACHNA UNIVERSITY, Mr. Piyush Mahendru, Assistant Professor in Mechanical department along with students of final year mechanical attended the seminar.

Achievements & Activities :

Alumni lecture organised on April 20, 2016 Mechanical Engineering Department

Alumni club of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manav Rachna University organized an Alumni lecture on April 20, 2016 in I Block Auditorium, 09:50-11:00 am in which Mr. Rohin Anand, alumni of Mechanical Engineering batch 2006-2010 conducted an interactive session on Laser Technology and Sheet Metal.

Mr. Rohin Anand is currently working as an Assistant Sales Manager in M/s TRUMPF India Pvt Ltd, Pune. He also worked as an Engineer: Sales & Marketing- Delhi/ Punjab with M/s Amada India Pvt Ltd and as a Senior Engineer: Sales & Marketing- North India with M/s Amada India Pvt Ltd.
He gave the lecture on the following:

• Laser Welding of Sheet Metal and Other Metal Components
• Laser welding of Body by a robotic arm
• Laser Cutting of Metal Components
• Laser Printing on the products

Alumni lecture organised on April 12, 2016 Mechanical Engineering Department

Alumni club of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manav Rachna University organized an Alumni lecture on April 12, 2016 in which Mr. Mohit Jhangiani, alumni of Mechanical Engineering batch 2010-2014 conducted an interactive session on Design of Smart Building by software and its importance.

Mr. Mohit Jhangiani is currently working as a Marketing Executive in dbHMS, Noida.

He started his session by highlighting the importance of Smart Buildings and its present scope.

He gave the lecture on following:

• Design of Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Fighting System.
• High performance buildings integrate architecture and systems in most optimized way.
• Energy modeling and Green certifications.
• Advanced simulation software IES trainings on Green Buildings, Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.

Students of ME-4C and 4 Semester evening were present there and showed keen interest in this upcoming field of Smart Buildings by Software and requested him to be associated for enriching their knowledge and skills in the field of Smart Buildings.

Guest lecture organized on 22-4-2016 by Mechanical Engineering Department

On 22nd April,2016 Mr. Shamsher S. Cheema, who is presently working as General Manager-Purchase in “Maruti Suzuki”, Gurugram visited Manav Rachna University to deliver a guest lecture on  “Business Ethics with Assertive skills &Basics of Automotive industry” to 6^th semester ME students.

Mr. Cheema has been an Alumni of MRCE of 2008 batch and has stupendous industrial experience of 8 years in Automotive and purchase department. He has also worked with Jai Bharat Maruti Ltd (from Jul-2008 to Nov-2009) and Escorts Construction India Limited (from Nov-2009 to Sep-2011) as Asstt. Manager.A brief introduction about the guest was given by Mr. Rohit Goyal, a student of Mechanical Engineering, 6^th semester.

He started the lecture regarding how to improve ethical behavior in business and co-related with social life and it also interacted with students by asking some general questions.In his short and influential presentation, he included following main points-

–   The success is an ongoing process, which should never be treated as a termination point.
–   We can achieve growth in our field if we have skills as well as ethics.
–   Mind can be focused and determined if the body is healthy and free from every kind of addiction except    hardwork.

He showed the way to students towards success by giving some examples of his own experiences. At the end Mr. R.C Chaturvedi, Ex. GM, BHEL ended the session by reciting Sanskrit Shlokas reminding of not forgetting the blessings of Supreme Power of the world i. e, “God” and determined mind towards aim. He gave best wishes to all students and faculty members for delightful and successful life.

Guest lecture organized on 19-4-2016 by Mechanical Engineering Department

“On 19th April,2016 Mr. Sandeep Singal, who is presently working as General Manager in “Eicher Engineering Solutions (A unit of VE Commercial Vehicle Ltd)”, visited Manav Rachna University, delivered a guest lecture on ” Design and Development for construction and Automotive parts” to prefinal year Mechanical Engineering Students.
Mr. Singal has stupendous industrial experience of 21 years in Design & Development of Power Train for different Automotive Applications.

A brief introduction about the guest was given by Mr. Sachin Kumar, a student of Mechanical Engineering, 6th semester. He started the lecture with basic concepts of Automobile and continued with the demands of Industry in “Renewable Resources Utilization” as source of energy in IC engines.

The keynote by speaker Mr. Sandeep Singal, during the lecture discussed on Design &development of Power train

• To guide students for successful careers in automotive andancillary industry that meettheneedsofIndianandmultinationalcompanies.
• To develop the ability among students to synthesized data and technical concepts for application to automotive parts design and their applications.
• To demonstrate the ability to design a mechanical system or a thermal system or a process that meets desired specifications and requirements.
• To develop the modern engineering software tools and equipment to analyze automotive engineering problems

At the end, he discussed the design procedures of Power Train by introducing his new innovative vehicle launched under brand named “Multix”.In the end there was a question & answer session where number of questions was put up by the students regarding their future prospects. It was a highly interactive session”

Guest lecture organized on 01-4-2016 by Mechanical Engineering Department 

Mechanical Engineering Dept. organizedGuest lecture on the topic “IES (VE) (Simulation) Software” on 01-4-2016 from 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM in I Block Auditorium. The Lecture was delivered by Mr. Sameer Divekar, Director,DBHMS an industry leader in creative Engg. Solutions, Noida.

 The guest speaker Mr. Sameer Divekar has about 8 years of rich experience in IES (VE) (Simulation) Software and is associated with Climate Tantra Design studio Pvt. Ltd.Mr. Divekar gave presentation explaining his projects on “green buildings”. He explained how new era is focusing on integration of different fields like Mechanical Engg., Civil Engg. and other branches of Engg. with Architecture to build green buildings using renewable resources and effective technologies according to manufacturing and designing requirements. He emphasized on the use of master green design tool i.e., IES VE SOFTWARE in the analysis of systems, which is being used in the design of modern buildings and advised the students to learn this software.

The keynote speaker Mr. Sameer Divekar, during the lecture discussed on IES VE software

• It offers the most comprehensive suite available allowing you to sageguard your architecture by ensuring you meet performance goals early on.
• It investigates suitable bioclimatic strategies even before a line has been drawn, and connect from sketch up or BIM packages
• As top engineers use advanced IESVE tools you can easily collaborate and exchange models with them as you progress-facilitating as improved integrated and data driven process.
• Design sustainability IES technology can help right from the opening charrette, enabling you to use specific suite understanding to automatically outline suitable bioclimatic architecture strategies for the project.
• It helps to foster a more integrated approach among the design team.

As per the feedback received from the participants it was very good learning experience, the lecture helped them in their understanding various technical aspects with relation to Designing and simulation in HVAC as well as green building technology and understanding the demand of industry.

Guest lecture organized on 11-3-2016 by Mechanical Engineering Department 

On 11th March,2016 Mr. Neeraj Kumar Srivastava who is presently working as Manager-R&D in ” ESCORTS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT LTD “, visited Manav Rachna University, delivered a guest lecture on Design & Development of Construction & off highway equipment to prefinal year Mechanical Engineering Students. Mr. Srivastava has a stupendous experiance of 8 years in R&D. A brief introduction about the guest was given by Lakshay Sharma, a student of Mechanical Engineering – 6th semester.

Mr. Srivastava started his talk by showing the presence and importance of Mechanical Engineering in every aspects of life. He had then introduced the different fields or branches of Mechanical Engineering and then presented the latest scenario in Engineering. He then introduced with the fact that “Innovation” is that field of Mechanical Engineering which is highly paid and appreciated by the whole Engineering industry.

He taught the students that how the theoretical knowledge can be implemented to solve the real life problems. He also advised the students to focus on their goals and constantly work upon to enhance their skills and in turn prepare groom themselves for industry and research fields. In the end there was a question & answer session where number of questions was put up by the students regarding their future prospects. It was a highly interactive session.

Workshop & Lecture delivered By Mr. Ankit Bhugra(2006-10 Batch)

May 2015

During AICTE Sponsored FDP on Solar Radiations Ankit Bhugra, Alumni of  BTech 2006-20010 batch (Director Technical at Greenage India Ltd.) delivered a lecture where he discussed about the current status of renewable energy sources and the importance of solar energy. He also conducted a workshop to give hands on experience to all the participants on taking observations on stand- alone PV System.

Alumni Interaction During Orientation Programme

July 2015

Mr. Ikshit Puri 2004-08 Batch CSE dept, Ms Chayanika 2006-2010 Batch ECE Dept and Mr. Akshay Kaushik 2008-2012 Batch ME dept interacted with new entrants of MRU during orientation proramme and shared their experiences about college life and how their learning and student life at at Manav Rachna has been helpful in their holistic development.

• In addition to above activities, Board of studies of every department has one Alumnus as member of its BOS and they are part of our curriculum development process.
• Recently, two students from 2004-08 Batch (ME Dept) Govil Gupta and Milan Kapoor started their own Venture called MANSAA in DLF Gurgaon and visited CRC on 18th March, 2016 to recruit B.Tech. 2016 sudents from CSE, IT, ME and ECE for their Electronics Hardware and Software Manufacturing. 18 Students Appeared for the interview

Guest lecture organized on 01-4-2016 by Mechanical Engineering Department:

Mechanical Engineering Dept. organizedGuest lecture on the topic “IES (VE) (Simulation) Software” on 01-4-2016 from 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM in I Block Auditorium. The Lecture was delivered by Mr. Sameer Divekar, Director,DBHMS an industry leader in creative Engg. Solutions, Noida. The lecture was attended by 66 students and 7 Faculty members of Mechanical Engineering Departments. Other dignitaries who were present during the lecture were Mr. Mohit Jhangani,Assistant Engineer (Marketing& Design skills)DBHMS,Dr. M.R Tyagi, Dean Engg., Manav Rachna University, Dr. B.D Pathak, Professor, Mechanical Engg. Department, MRU.

Dr. M.R.Tyagi (Prof.  & Dean Mechanical Engg) and Mr. Ajit Katiyar (Assistant HOD, Mechanical Engg.) welcomed the resource persons. The guest speaker Mr. Sameer Divekar has about 8 years of rich experience in IES (VE) (Simulation) Software and is associated with Climate Tantra Design studio Pvt. Ltd.Mr. Divekar gave presentation explaining his projects on “green buildings”. He explained how new era is focusing on integration of different fields like Mechanical Engg., Civil Engg. and other branches of Engg. with Architecture to build green buildings using renewable resources and effective technologies according to manufacturing and designing requirements. He emphasized on the use of master green design tool i.e., IES VE SOFTWARE in the analysis of systems, which is being used in the design of modern buildings and advised the students to learn this software.

The keynote speaker Mr. Sameer Divekar, during the lecture discussed on IES VE software

• It offers the most comprehensive suite available allowing you to sageguard your architecture by ensuring you meet performance goals early on.
• It investigates suitable bioclimatic strategies even before a line has been drawn, and connect from sketch up or BIM packages
• As top engineers use advanced IESVE tools you can easily collaborate and exchange models with them as you progress-facilitating as improved integrated and data driven process.
• Design sustainability IES technology can help right from the opening charrette, enabling you to use specific suite understanding to automatically outline suitable bioclimatic architecture strategies for the project.
• It helps to foster a more integrated approach among the design team.

As per the feedback received from the participants it was very good learning experience,the lecture helped them in their understanding various technical aspects with relation to Designing and simulation in HVAC as well as green building technology and understanding the demand of industry.

Departmental Achievements 2015-2016

• ME Faculty Dr. Sujata Nayak, has conducted two weeks AICTE Sponsored FDP Programme on “SOLAR RADIATION: GREEN OPTION FOR ENERGY” at Manav Rachna Universited, Faridabad during 11-23rd May, 2015.
• Interaction Program attended by Prof. R.C.Chaturvedi and Mr. Kapil, organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 27th Nov, 2015 at Hotel Rose, Nehru Place
• Short term course on “Make In India: Innovative Product Design”, Dec 14-18,2015 organized by IIT Delhi, attended by Prof. Joginder Singh.
• Certification Program done by Mr. Raj kiran Sinha on “Computational Fluid Dynamics” during June 22-26,2015 and August 12-16,2015 at MNNIT, Allahabad
• Workshop on “MATLAB & SIMULINK” attended by Mr. Prashant Bhardwaj & Mr. Piyush Maherndru held on 6-7th August, 2015 at MRIU.
• 2-Days Short Term Course on “Advanced Gear Engineering”November 21-22,2015, attended by Mr. Mayank Shrivastava,Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
• 3-Day Skill Development Program on“Solar Water Heating Systems”December 2-4, 2015, attended by Mr. Mayank Shrivastava ,Organized byNational Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gurgaon.

Guest lecture on Design & Development of Construction & off highway equipment :

“On 11th March,2016 Mr. Neeraj Kumar Srivastava who is presently working as Manager-R&D in ” ESCORTS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT LTD “, visited Manav Rachna University, delivered a guest lecture on Design & Development of Construction & off highway equipment to prefinal year Mechanical Engineering Students.

Mr. Srivastava has a stupendous experience of 8 years in R&D. A brief introduction about the guest was given by Lakshay Sharma, a student of Mechanical Engineering – 6th semester.

Mr. Srivastava started his talk by showing the presence and importance of Mechanical Engineering in every aspects of life. He had then introduced the different fields or branches of Mechanical Engineering and then presented the latest scenario in Engineering. He then introduced with the fact that “Innovation” is that field of Mechanical Engineering which is highly paid and appreciated by the whole Engineering industry.

He taught the students that how the theoretical knowledge can be implemented to solve the real life problems. He also advised the students to focus on their goals and constantly work upon to enhance their skills and in turn prepare groom themselves for industry and research fields.

In the end there was a question & answer session where number of questions was put up by the students regarding their future prospects. It was a highly interactive session.“

  Students Activities Industrial Visits in 2015-16

A team of 8 students:Archit Bansal, Bhupender, *Lakshay Sharma, Mohit Solanki, Rahul Kumar Yadav, *Rohit Kumar Yadav,Sachin & Shivam have designed and developed a unique cycle with flywheel as “rotational kinetic energy storage device” to store the energy which usually gets waste in terms of heat energy on applying brakes with the help of newly designed mechanism EDC. They have prepared their research paper on the basis of 12.25% kinetic energy they recovered and new mechanism EDC and their paper got selected for “National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering” by the title ” Design and Development of Assistive Bicycle”. On 12th march,2016 Lakshay Sharma and Rohit Yadav together presented their paper on behalf of team before the renowned researchers and audience in BSAITM, Faridabad and received a lot of appreciation from researchers including chairman of ITM, Gurgaon and audience. They dedicated their achievement to their teachers especially to R.I.P R.P Sambhi Sir because they got idea about EDC during his Engineering Mechanics lecture.Their research guide was Assosiate Professor & HOD Mr. Ajit Katiyar, mech. Dept.They are 6th sem students from mechanical engg

SAE club of MRCE organized a Core 2 days workshop

SAE club of MRCE organized a Core 2 days workshop on ‘Overhauling of 2stroke/4 stroke Petrol Engine on 15 & 16 Feb, 2013. Industrial visit to JBM Auto Ltd A group of 26 students from Mechanical Engg. 5^th Semester under the guidance of their faculty Mr. Ajit Katyar and Mr. Bhaskar went on an industrial visit to JBM Auto Ltd Sector 24 Faridabad on 12th August’ 2011. Student Feedback “The visit was very helpful for us to learn about the sheet metal operations, we learnt how the thin sheets are shaped into various shapes and sizes “-Siddhant Khera “Learning here not only included technical knowledge but also the body language of people working there”-Tarun Sharma “Visiting industries is my passion, I love machines, thanks to mechanical department”-Tushar Singh.

List of Student’s Papers Bhaskar Chandra, Jatinder Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Mandeep Singh, Dewanshu Khatana, Kunal Jain presented the paper entitled “A review on current research trends in die-sinking electrical discharge machining” in the National Seminar on Innovations and Applications in Engineering and Applied Science (IAEAS) organized by Faculty of Engg. and Technology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar from 9^th to 10^th November, 2011.

Bhaskar Chandra, Akshay Kaushik, Tejvir Singh, Bhanu Sharma, Gaurav Tanwar presented the paper entitled “A study on making and application of metal matrix composites in manufacturing industries” in the National Seminar on Innovations and Applications in Engineering and Applied Science (IAEAS) organized by Faculty of Engg. and Technology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar from 9^th to 10^th November, 2011.

Bhaskar Chandra, Rajesh Kumar Verma, Jatinder Kumar, Dewanshu Khatana, Kunal Nain presented the paper entitled “A review on process capabilities, applications and emerging areas of research in micro EDM” in the Interational Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization from 8^th to 10^th March, 2012 in Hyderabad.

Ruchi Chaudhary, Ajit, Jyoti Sharma, Manisha Verma, Dr. RK Srivastava presented a paper  entitled  “Combined Study of Human Engineering and Ergonomics Risk Analysis Process (HEERAP) With its Implementation” in the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ETME-2012) on 1^st June, 2012, pp. 151–158 (proceedings).

Ruchi Chaudhary,  Ajit, Manisha Verma, Dr. RK Srivastava presented the paper entitled “Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Minimize Occupational Health Hazards in Glass Making Industry” in the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ETME-2012) ) on 1^st June, 2012, pp. 281–289 (proceedings).

Student Awards

• MRCE team participated at SAE BAJA event held at Bangalore in August 2012.
• ASME MRCE students participated and scored 2nd position in Old Guard Oral Presentation (OGOP) in Student Professional Development Conference-12 held at IIT Roorkee.
• In March 2013, students from MRCE participated in the SPDC- SLS held at K L University Hyderabad. Akhter Hemayoun (ME, 4^th year) participated in Old Guard Oral Presentation (OGOP) and Student Leadership Seminar; he delivered the keynote student presentation on marketing strategy of ASME India and was represented as coordinator for early career engineers. As an achievement to this, ASME MRCE will be coordinating the activities of ASME sections in north India zone1
• ASME MRCE has also coordinated the publishing of ASME India newsletters for the month of July 12 and Jan 13. These newsletters have received maximum reviews in Asia Pacific
• Akhter Hemayoun of Mechanical Engineering Department participated at India Conclave of ASME held at New Delhi in Oct. 2012
• MRCE won 1^st prize  in Mechanical stream  project “Magnetically levitated vertical  axis wind turbine”  design by Kapil Ahuja , Mohit Arora , Rahul Gaur , Sahil Arora  &Tushar Singhat  Young  Entrepreneur  Competition  organized by  Faridabad  Industrial association    Faridabad . Inter-Engineering college Project competition was held on 27^th April 2013.

Guest lecture: A Lecture was organized by the Departments on the topic: “Robotics and its Applications in Mechanical Engineering” on 25^th February, 2014 at 10.00AM. Md. Zubair Research Scholar from IIT Delhi was the speaker. 4^th and 6^th semester students along with the faculty members of the department attended the lecture and proceedings.

Workshops:

• In an effort to enhance and strengthen Industry Academia Interface, the Petroleum Federation of India in association with HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd. and Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust (LKMT) organized a workshop on“Operation & Maintenance of Rotary Equipment: Pumps, Compressors & Turbines” relevant to the Indian refineries at HMEL, Bathinda Refinery, Phullokari Village, Talwandi Saboo Taluka, District Bathinda-151301, Punjab from March 20-21, 2014 The primary objective of the subject programme was to share the experience of oil and gas professionals with the teaching faculty to enhance faculty’s knowledge, which in turn will help students in acquiring knowledge on operation and maintenance of rotary equipment of the refinery and petrochemical plants.
• Autofiesta 7.0 is a workshop that was held in MRCE campus bye SAE INDIA MRCE collegiate club. It was the seventh event held under the SAE banner. It was organized on the occasion of Prerna Diwas in the memory of Late Dr. O.P. Bhalla, of Manav Rachna Educational Institutions. Autofiesta 7.0 was a two-day workshop held on 2^nd and 3^rd April 2014. The workshop featured the overhauling of a Maruti 800 engine and its transmission along with a CRDI engine manufactured by Tata Group for its Safari DICOR cars. Apart from this a quiz and a scrapheap competition was organized for participants selected on the basis of a written test. Cash prizes were distributed to the winners.
• The workshop was open to the students of MRCE and MRIU from 1^st and 2^nd year. About 50 students from both the institutions participated in the workshop.
• 4 students from ME dept participated at Student Professional development Conference (SPDC) held at BITS Pilani organized under ASME. The students learned many technical aspects and stood at 6th position among best brains.
• Ms Sangita Banga Associate Prof ME Dept attended “International Workshop on Green Initiatives in Energy, Environment and Health” held on2nd – 3rd December 2013 at Maidens Hotel, Delhi,. The workshop was organized by Green Chemistry Network Center in association with Royal Society of Chemistry London and TERI.
• Three faculty members Prof RP Sambhi, Ms Sangita Banga and Mr Raj Kiran of the department attended 4 days workshop on “Soft Skills Faculty Enablement Programme” organized by Infosys from 9^th June to 12^th June ’14 under Infosys Campus Connect Programme.
• Two projects namely “Regeneration of electricity using a Six Volt battery and generating 100-150 W electricity using a simple pendulum” and “Compressed Air Engine” designed and fabricated by the 8^th Semester students of the department were the official entry for the competition held under the aegis of Faridabad Industries Association on 26^th April ’14.

Summer Training: Summer Training was conducted in the month of June and July 2014 after the MDU examination. It was compulsory for all the B.Tech and M.Tech students. From B.Tech and M.Tech, 314 students were trained. The on hand training wherein students of 2^nd semester worked on the Machine tools in the workshop, work on the drafting software on the computer, and enhance their aptitude and other skills started on 11^th June ’14. Catching them young seemed to be the motto of the institute. Institute offers compulsory summer training to the students. As an engineering student, training helps to acquire latest skills and to implement the concepts learnt in classes. Training provides chance to students to work more with their own hands, so it develops confidence, clears the concepts, and get new ideas of their fields.

The institute exhorts the students to stretch the boundaries of their imagination and innovate. The students are actually prompted to make components of metal, acrylic, and wood in the workshop. The 10 days training was over on 21^st June ’14. The students also undergo training for 4 weeks during 4^th and 6^th Semesters. The preferences and priorities of the students are sought for and a suitable training schedule is drafted and put into practice. The program coverd training on core areas, communication skills, presentation skills, practical hands on working on various projects. The students end up preparing a project report covering all the facets of the training undertaken by them. This part of the training commenced from 23^rd June ’14, and was over on 15^th July ’14.

Detail of Training Module