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SMEC’S PRIDE : STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Team RoverX participated in the 3 rd
International Rover Design Challenge Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) a
conducted by Space Robotics Society Student Chapter of VIT has won the International
(SPROS) and secured the 1 st position Division: Best Chapter Newsletter category. This
worldwide competing with 23 other teams winning run recognised by the AEE Student
from various countries. chapter is commendable.

Ms. Ishani Mishra
Mr. Gaurav Patnaik
Mr. Ashtekar Mrunmayee
Mahendra
Mr. Naman Deep Sanena
Faculty mentor:
Dr. Sakthivadivel

Mr. Chinmay Kapruan (19BME0514) started
Mr. Kunal Bhatia (19BME0653) received a start-up's website and was felicitated with a
funding of Rs. 60,000/- from Student Startup memento and souvenir
Venture (SSV-VIT) to build a prototype of the by the Honourable
product to reduce NOx emission from IC Engines Minister of State for
with enhanced efficiency and improved vehicle Power and Heavy
mileage. The grant has came from VIT E-Cell, IIC, Industries, Government
VIT and the Faculty mentor was Prof. Bibhuti of India.
Bhusan Sahoo.

Mr. Kathan Bhavsar (19BMA0024) presented a research paper entitled
"Lower lumbar vertebrae replacement by FEA based assessment of
suitable ceramic polymer composites" at the 3 International Conference
rd
on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy
(ICOFT MADE 2022) at National Institute of Technology, Puducherry held
between 14-12-22 to 16-12-22.

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Sunish Ram Kishore, Amal Mathewa, Anchil Tona Tomya, Manivannan Sugavaneswarana and A. John Rajana,
Design and Development of Hot Vapour Polishing System and Optimization of It’s Process Parameters for FDM
Printed Parts, Tribology in Industry, DOI: 10.24874/ti.1305.05.22.09.
Vimal, K. E. K., Kumar, A., Sunil, S. M., Suresh, G., Sanjeev, N., & Kandasamy, J. (2022). Analysing the challenges in
building resilient net zero carbon supply chains using Influential Network Relationship Mapping. Journal of
Cleaner Production, 379, 134635.
Poduval, A., Ayyagari, M. S., Malinda, M., KEk, V., Kumar, A., & Kandasamy, J. (2022). Barriers in repurposing an
existing manufacturing plant: a total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) approach. Operations Management
Research, 15(3), 1315-1340.
Vimal, K. E. K., Tseng, M. L., Raju, S., Cherukuri, M., Ashwithi, A., & Kandasamy, J. (2022). Circular function
deployment: a novel mathematical model to identify design factors for circular economy. Environment,
Development and Sustainability, 24(7), 9068-9101.
Vimal, K. E. K., Raja, S., Yendeti, V. S. P., Kancharla, A., & Kandasamy, J. (2022). Investigating the effect of carbon
tax on sharing network participation. Journal of Modelling in Management (In-Press).
Rajak, S., Vimal, K. E. K., Arumugam, S., Parthiban, J., Sivaraman, S. K., Kandasamy, J., & Duque, A. A. (2022). Multi-
objective mixed-integer linear optimization model for sustainable closed-loop supply chain network: a case
study on remanufacturing steering column. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24(5), 6481-6507.
Hemanth Kumar Jawahar, An Experiment to Analyze the Impact of Steam on the Productivity of the Stalam Rf 85 4
Kw Yarn Dryer, Journal of Engineering Studies and Research, Vol. 28 No. 3 (2022)