Students Achievements

STUDENT PROJECTS AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Fabrication of Abrasive Jet Machining (AJM) System

Abrasive jet machining (AJM), also known as abrasive micro-blasting, pencil blasting and micro-abrasive blasting, is an abrasive blasting machining process that uses abrasives propelled by a high velocity gas to erode material from the work piece. Common uses include cutting heat-sensitive, brittle, thin, or hard materials. Specifically it is used to cut intricate shapes or form specific edge shapes. The students of Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed an AJM system on their own under the supervision of the departmental faculties.

Fabrication of Automated Path Following Forklift

A system for automated inventory management and material handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Automated vehicles and forklifts plan their own movements to execute the mission over the warehouse aisles or roadways sharing this space with manually driven ones. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed. The students of Department of Mechanical Engineering showcased their talents and creativity by creating their own automated path following forklift.

Fabrication of Foot Step Power Generator

The system generates voltage using footstep force. The system serves as a medium to generate electricity using non conventional sources(force) and /store/use it. The project is designed to be useful at public places like railway stations where a lot of people keep walking through all day. At such places these systems are to be placed at any entry points where people travel through entrance or exits and they have to step on this device to get through. These devices may then generate a voltage on every footstep and when mounted in series they will produce a sizeable amount of electricity. Keeping in mind the continuous depletion of non renewable energy resources, the students of Department of Mechanical Engineering have come up with an innovative idea to generate electricity from foot step at a very minimal cost.

Fabrication of Low Cost 3-D Printer

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file.The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced horizontal cross-section of the eventual object.3D printing is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing which is cutting out / hollowing out a piece of metal or plastic with for instance a milling machine.3D printing enables you to produce complex (functional) shapes using less material than traditional manufacturing methods. The students of Department of Mechanical Engineering have fabricated a fully functional 3D Printer of their own under the guidance of our highly skilled faculties.

Fabrication of Pedestal Grinder

A bench grinder is a bench top type of grinding machine used to drive abrasive wheels. A pedestal grinder is a similar or larger version of grinder that is mounted on a pedestal, which may be bolted to the floor or may sit on rubber feet. These types of grinders are commonly used to hand grind various cutting tools and perform other rough grinding. The students of Department of Mechanical Engineering fabricated their own pedestal grinder under the supervision of our highly skilled faculties.

Design and Fabrication of Jet Engine

This project deals with researching, designing and building scale model jet-engines. A simple jet engine was designed and constructed after studying in details all the components, functioning of Jet engines. The students fabricated all the parts in house and assembled it to make a scaled version of Jet Engine.

Design and construction of Hydraulic Excavator

Hydraulic systems use pressurized liquid to transmit and magnify forces. A simple model of a hydraulic actuator was constructed with easily available materials and used to demonstrate the principles of such systems. Hydraulic actuators on construction equipment or other heavy machinery in the form of large "rams" – cylinders that extend and contract to manipulate the shovels or blades of the machine are usually found. This excavator uses hydraulic forces to operate. The hydraulic fluid used is plain water. The students have constructed this model out of sheer curiosity combining their talents, skills and creativity.