SBMJCE Creates History at SAE Aero Design (West) 2010 Competition
04/03/2010

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering becomes the only Indian team ever to win the First place at SAE Aero Design (West) Competition 2010 at California

Jain University – Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering created history  by becoming the only Indian team ever to win the First place in Design Oral Presentation) and Third Place (Micro Class) in Flying at this year’s edition of SAE Aero Design (West) 2010 competition held at Van Nuys, California, USA. This year’s event had 44 teams participating from across the globe. Facing stiff challenge from the Americans and Europeans, this Indian team outdid the competition and proved that they are amongst the best. The team attributes their win to the Centre for Emerging Technologies the primary research centre of Jain University from where they underwent training and to Mr. Chenraj Jain in whom they found the catalyst to support the same by sponsoring the team. Team Drone outshone all other teams in each of the categories of Design and Oral Presentation.

SAE Aero design Series is an international event held by a professional body - Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in association with NASA and Lockheed Martin. The aero design event is conducted at two locations, east coast and west coast of United States of America and features 3 classes of aircraft namely regular class, open class and micro class. The West event hosts 44 teams representing universities from across the globe whereas the East event to be held at Texas during April 2010 would be host to 65 teams. The event gives an opportunity to the participants to gain exposure to state of the art technology, real time design environment and acquaintance of top minds in the field of aircraft design. On-site recruitments also are entertained by top tier companies of the US.

The micro class teams were required to make a tradeoff between two potentially conflicting requirements, carrying the highest payload fraction possible, while simultaneously pursuing the lowest empty weight possible. Additionally the system should be capable of being assembled within 3 minutes and of being packaged within a box of size 18” x 13” x 5”. This makes micro class very challenging and unique. In the previous edition held at Atlanta in 2009 this Indian team from SBMJCE became the first ever team from India to win a podium place (Third Place) at SAE competitions and till date no other Indian team has ever managed a top ten finish.  The team will also be participating at the International Micro Air Vehicle competition being held in July 2010 at Braunschweig, Germany.

Team DRONE consisted of 8 students Chandan Prasad, Darshan N R, Anurag Joshi, Shreyas Reddy, Nikhil Pandey, Shreyas D S, Ravi Theja, George Matthew and faculties Dr. Krishna Venkatesh, Mr. Santhosh M S, Mr Nithin T P, Mr. Krishna Kishore, Mr. Naveen T N and Mr Prajwal S.