The Electronics and Telecommunication Department of Goa College of Engineering,
Farmagudi, organised a Project Exhibition and Competition for final year
students of Undergraduate and Post Graduate Courses, in which various
electronics projects were demonstrated. The exhibition focussed on hardware and
software projects in the fields of robotics, communication, image processing,
automation, etc. A total of 119 students from the Department of Electronics and
Telecommunication participated, with 20 BE projects and 38 ME projects on
display.
The exhibition was visited by around 400 students of various
secondary and higher secondary schools and different engineering colleges in
Goa along with their faculties. Special guests for the exhibition were Prof
Flavio S Nogueira, a German-Brazilian physicist specialising in the application
of quantum field theoretic methods to condensed matter systems and Dr P S
Reddy, Assistant Professor of Physics at NIT Goa. Prof H G Virani, Head of
Department of the Electronic and Telecommunications was more than happy to
answer the queries of those visiting the exhibition. “This is an annual
exhibition which encourages the students to do well in their final year. The
students who are in their second year get motivated looking at the projects put
up for this exhibition and try to outdo them when they are in the final year.
The same goes for the students who are completing their Bachelors and are
focusing on doing their Masters,” says Prof Virani.
In
the closing ceremony, prizes were distributed to the three best projects in BE
and ME category. The occasion was graced by the presence of Abhijit Tamba, the
founder of ‘EME Automation’. In the BE category, the first prize was bagged by
‘Electromyogram based Gesture Recognition and control’ by Saavi Gaunekar, Myron
Britto, Virendra Bidkar, Ninad Joshi, the second prize went to ‘Design and
Implementation of an Aerial Surveillance System using Radio Control’ by
Kasheesh Prabhudesai, Onkar Chodankar, Dileep Ladache and Vishal Kamat and the
third prize went to ‘Human Identification via Gait Recognition Using Kinect
Sensor’ by Azfar Khoja, John George Joseph, Mrinal Shinde and Neviya Prakash.