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COEP Student—Alumni Joint Project

Techno-Craft Booth Competition 2008

COEP Foundation Board of Directors

Prof Narendra Dahotre (Metallurgy 1981): ndahotre@utk.edu

Mr Narayan Deshpande (Mech 1961): narayan@localnet.com

Mr Susheel Jadhav (Metallurgy 1998) Secretary: susheelj@gmail.com

Mr Sandeep Johri (Mech 1983) Chairman: sandeep@johri.com

Mrs. Anjali (Dadhe) Nandedkar, Ph.D (Metallurgy 1977) FundRaisingChair: anjali@casaengineering.com

Mr. Ajit Nazre, Ph.D (Mech 1986) Treasurer: ajitn@kpcb.com

 

Please make checks payable to "COEP Charitable Foundation“, 

Write: “Techno Craft Booth” on check and mail to

Sandeep Johri, 12760 Camino Medio Lane, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, USA

 

Choose “Techno Craft Booth” in the drop down menu to donate online

Donate minimum $100/- (More is welcome)

COEP   College of Engineering, Pune, India       www.coep.org.in

COEP Charitable Foundation,  USA, Alumni Network www.coepfoundation.org

COEP alumni sponsor "Techno-Craft booth" competition at COEP every year. Ten teams with about 20 students and 10 alumni each will build a booth/model based on a central theme. We are eager to work with enthusiastic students who like to work with tools.

Concept of a Techno-Craft Booth:
Students will build some working gadgets themselves based on a central theme. COEP students to apply their technical knowledge on real life things on a small scale. This will be done in a form of a competition and a team of students will build one booth based on a central theme. This year's theme is “iConserve - for a better tomorrow”  Discussions about the theme are going on in a forum. Alumni award a BIG trophy. Names of proud alumni sponsors will be displayed at their respective booths.

General guidelines in forming a booth.
Twenty students (from all four years: in 4-6-6-4 ratio) and ten alumni in each team. Each booth/team has a forum on www.aarewah.com. Log on, click on 'Forum' on left side and reply to a forum of the booth of your choice to participate. Total of 100 alumni and 200 students participate and communicate. Students and alumni will stay in touch through the design and building process.

1. Students can purchase what they need for booth construction. Take receipts to COEP alumni association office. Alumni association will issue cash for the receipt amount. (Up to Rs. 10,000/- only per booth) to the student coordinators. 2. Alumni association will issue a cash advance for a few thousand Rs. if the students fill a voucher in the alumni office. Students are required to give the receipts for the purchases to Alumni association later.

Panel of judges: COEP Alumni association in Pune will assemble a panel of judges for this competition. The panel will include alumni with expertise in various engineering fields.

Judging criteria: Booths/models will be judged on: 1. Technical content, 2. Craftsmanship, 3. Cost effectiveness, 4. Originality of construction work, 5. Practical utility of the model, 6. Connection to the central theme (iConserve - for a better tomorrow), 7. Written report, and, 8.Team effort

 

Role of the alumni
Have fun! Contribute funding for purchasing raw materials and design concepts. Alumni will help by sponsoring it (Rs. 10,000/- per booth) and lend technical and moral support by keeping in touch. Share pictures of the creative process with the COEP community.

Role of the students
Have fun! Design and build a model/gadget and display at the booth during Arts and Crafts exhibition. Students will design a model, purchase raw materials, keep meticulous records, take pictures of the development process, submit receipts and build a booth/model.

How money gets collected and disbursed to students?
Alumni donate to COEP charitable Foundation in US or Alumni Association in Pune (both tax deductible). Students receive the funds in COEP, Pune from Alumni Association and submit receipts/invoices for the amount.

 

Team sign up on forums on aarewah.com

 

1. Alumni: Please write a few lines about yourself:

 

E-Mentor Directory

 

Edit and add your name and page in the directory if it not already there. Look and copy and paste one existing page of another alumnus page to get the format.

 

To sponsor a booth forever,

2. Please Donate $1000/-

More is welcome :-))

Write “Techno Craft Booth” On check or choose :Techno Craft Booth” from the drop down menu to donate online.

 

Donor’s names ($1000/- or more) will be displayed on a plaque.

 

 

 

Trophy !It is three feet tall !

Total funds collected so far: $1885/-. We need $615/- more.

Pictures of Techno Craft Booth teams:

Civil Booth,  __Metallurgy Booth ,  __Mechanical Booth

Electrical Booth Team  : Report

http://picasaweb.google.com/coepsarundhati/Tech?authkey=FovZLxw0o7A
http://picasaweb.google.com/coepsarundhati/Techno?authkey=zp3Jbq4MiMY

Production Booth Team

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/technocraft07/pcLEQJ?authkey=Qdum6RtscA8

Production Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8eaX5I0ND0

Astronomy Club Booth

http://picasaweb.google.com/coepastro/Technocraft

Report from Professor Pramod Mandke: Executive Director, COEP Alumni Association, Pune

Subject: Report of Technocraft Booth Project Competition 2007-08:
Technocraft Booth Project Competition was held on 14th March, 08. Assessment of all 7 groups; namely, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgy, Production, Computer and Astronomy Club was undertaken on the same day. Following examiners were appointed to assess the projects:
Dr.Mrs. Snehal Pathak, HOD, Civil
Dr.N.R. Patwardhan, Alumni, Civil Group
Dr.D.B. Talange, HOD, Electrical Group
Dr.N. Gopalkrishnan, Prof Emeritus, Electrical Dept.
Dr.G.V. Parishwad, HOD, Mechanical, Mech.Group
Prof. P.V. Mandke, Executive Director, Alumni Asso., Mech Group
Prof. A.A. Sawant, HOD, Computer & IT
Dr. M.J. Rathod, HOD, Metallurgy
Dr.S.D. Agashe, HOD, Instru Group

The examiners did excellent job of assessment on the basis of the assessment sheet provided to them. The marks were allotted as follows:
Technical contents 20 marks, Craftsmanship 15 marks, Originality of construction work 20 marks, Cost effectiveness 10 marks, Practical utility of model 15 marks, Connection with the central theme 10 marks, Report writing 10 marks, Total 100 marks

It was unanimously decided to give 1st prize to Civil Engg group consisting of 14 participants who did the project on “Earthquake Resistant Structures”. On the same day, ie; 14th March, 08 in the evening on the occasion of Gymkhana Day Function, the trophy and the certificates were given to the winning team. Fortunately, Mr. Sameer Vaidya was present alongwith me for the function. He also saw the live demonstration of the project.

Accounts details for Technocraft Booth Project Competition-2007-08
Amount received from the foundation, USA $2500 (Equi Rs. 97738)
Less: Bank commission - Rs. 225
Net amount recd for the competition Rs. 97513
Expenses for the trophy Rs. 9000
Printing of participation certificates (100 nos) Rs. 1500
Administrative expenses of Alumni Asso. Rs. 10000
Refreshment to examiners Rs. 300
Amount available for distribution to participants Rs 76713

Table showing expenses incurred by 7 groups

S.No. Groups Expenses (Rs)
1----Civil---------------7693.00
2----Electrical----------9000.00
3----Metallurgy--------9189.00
4----Production--------7202.00
5----Computer,IT-----2889.00
6----Astronomy Club-6534.00
7----Mechanical-------5500.00
Total-------------------48007.00

Balance amount remaining (76713-48007)---- -- Rs. 28706.00

Rs.28706/- can be utilized for the next Technocraft Booth Project Competition - 2008-09

This time, the students initially did not know the nature of competition and also did not decide the project in the 1st term of 2007-08. Hence, actually projects began in Jan, 08. Hence, they did not convert their ideas into models with fineness. Few groups like E&TC and Instrumentation backed out at the last moment. Hence, less expenditure was incurred for this technical event.
As most of the students participated belong to S.Y. and T.Y.B.Tech classes. They can participate in the event next time with more enthusiasm and clear knowledge of what is to be done.
In general, it was successful and satisfying experience to all and many students visited the booths on 14 & 15th March, 08 enthusiastically. I hope, next time there will be more number of entries for this interesting event.

Suggestions for future:

1. The activity can be made more structured and disciplined
2. The students will be informed in July, 2008, so that they will start preparing for the ideas converted into models
3. The theme of next event, namely; “Shaping Imaginations” has already been announced on Gymkhana Day when most the students attended the function.
4. The names on the students in each group will be finalized in the initial stage. Frequent changes in the names working in the group should not be allowed..
5. More time thus can be available for preparing the working models.
6. The help of local alumni who are entrepreneurs can be made available, so that, they can provide guidance and mfg facility.
7. One dept faculty should be allotted to keep follow up, give guidance and administer the requirements of the group in the dept.
8. Phase wise schedule could be prepared and displayed for the benefit of all groups
9. The last date of completing the project and exhibition day can be decided from the academic calendar of the college.
10. Rules & regulations of the competition should be displayed to the students in the 1st terms only.

Your suggestions are welcome. We will make the event more meaningful & attractive with your support.
Regards, Prof. Mandke, Executive Director