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 IIT Madras is GE Edison Challenge 2011 Winners There were 10 teams of the scores who registered for the GE Edison Challenge 2011 that made it to this year’s finals held at GE’s India Technology Center in Bangalore. The teams all focused on creating a design of a new building complex that is commercially feasible in an Indian city or rural area and that incorporates the state-of-the-art water technologies needed to meet the future water crisis. The students were required to create a model and justify any new scientific or engineering innovation with relevant supporting data or research. Winners In what can be called a close contest, “Team Nautilus” from IIT Chennai emerged winners. Their project proposed two major strategies to solve the issue of the lack of ground water table. Their solution provides two ideas – groundwater recharge and treatment of discharge. The solution also incorporated energy saving mechanisms, and focused on reducing both the capital and operational costs.  Winners – “Team Nautilus”, IIT Madras Runners Up Team “The Green Tribe” from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore were chosen as the first runners up. The team additionally won the “Audient Choice Award” where JFWTC employees cast their votes for the team with the best idea, therefore winning a total of Rs. 2.5 lakhs.  Runners Up - Team “The Green Tribe”, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore 2nd Runners up Team “ICT Scholars” from Inst. of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India were the 2nd runners up and were awarded Rs. 1.5 lakhs.  2nd Runners Up - Team “ICT Scholars”, Inst. of Chemical Technology, Mumbai The judges for the challenge were Ashok Das, CEO,Sunmoksha, Prabha Chatterjee, an ex-GE Global Research Employee and Rajesh Shah, Founder - Peer Water Exchange. Congratulations to the winners and to every team that made it to the finals as well.  Finalists at Edison Challenge 2011 Edison Challenge 2010 Winners IT BHU are GE Edison Challenge 2010 Winners The 10 teams that made it to the finals of the GE Edison Challenge 2010 were all set with their solutions on what is plaguing the Healthcare industry today. Munesh Makhija, CTO, GE Healthcare India said, " This year's GE Edison Challenge dealt with 3 healthcare issues prevalent in India - Early cardiovascular disease detection, Infant mortality and Tubercular Diagnosis. I was impressed to see that the ideas the students had to offer were very innovative, cost effective and more importantly solutions that could reach remote underdeveloped areas of the country." Winners It was the team from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Deja-BHU that came out trumps.The winning team's project was based on a solution for early detection of Tuberculosis that involved the use of an Intelligent AFB Test and Virtual Doctor. The innovation of the idea was amplified by the fact that the automated database compilation was UID compatible. The uniqueness of the project is that it can be applied to any village and not just the one that they studied.The team received a cash award of Rs.5 lakhs."  Edison Challenge 2010 Winners - DejaBHU (ITBHU) Runners Up Team IWANJAU from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore and New Age Innovators from IIT Kharagpur received a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh each for their solutions in containing infant mortality rate in rural India. .jpg) Runners Up - Team-New Age Innovators & Team-IWANJAU Employee Choice Award The employees at GE JFWTC also got to cast their vote for the best team and Team Thinkers from IIT Kharagpur walked away with the Employee Choice Award.  Employee Choice Award Winners-Team Thinkers The judges at the event included Dr. A.S. Rao, Director, Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM, Ahmedabad, Dr. Uday Patil, Consultant Radiologist, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, Dr. Mano Manoharan, General Manager, GE Global Research, India and Mr. Karan Verma, Manager, Maternal & Infant Care, GE Healthcare, India. Commenting on the occasion Mr. Mano Manoharan, General Manager, GE Global Research said; "The 2010 edition of the ‘GE Edison Challenge' is special as it encouraged students to come up with solutions for some of the toughest problems that India is facing today in the field of rural healthcare. I was personally touched by the passion of the participants and their understanding of the ground realities shown by their visits to rural clinics. I was also impressed with the balance of innovative ideas and practicality demonstrated by both the winning team and the runners' up." Congratulations to the winners and to every team that made it to the finals as well.  Finalists at Edison Challenge 2010 Team Graminavitas, IIT Madras are the winners of the 2009 GE Edison Challenge!  The finale of the 2009 GE Edison Challenge was held at GE JFWTC on the 6th of November. Prof. Balram, the director of IISc. was the chief guest at the event. The winners of the 2009 GE Edison Challenge who walked away with the Rs. 5 lakh cash prize were Team Graminavitas, IIT Madras. Their comprehensive model for the development of a village is one that can be applied to any village and not just the one that they studied. The village they studied faced the common problem of poor sanitation, large scale use of firewood and frequent power cuts. Their solution for power generation involved gasifying dehusked paddy and distribute the power generated through the innovative concept of the AC coupled microgrid. Providing an idea for the construction of community toilets keeping in mind the village dynamics and also using the waste generated to produce bio gas and distribute it using balloon canisters succeeded in solving both the issue of excess firewood use and of sanitation. Team members - Kaushik Anand, Midhun Salim, Srinath Ramakrushnan, Ashwin ramesh, Aditya Harit The Runners-up Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur are the runners-up  The runners up of the GE Edison Challenge 2009, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur who called themselves the energy boosters came up with the innovative idea of generating oil from algae. They received a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh. Team members : L Netrah, C Neha, H Rahul Jain TOJOE from PSG college of technology, Coimbatore are the Winners of Employee Choice Award  Team TOJOE from PSG college of technology, Coimbatore walked away with the Employee Choice Award along with a cash prize of Rs.40,000. This is a newly instituted award that had the employees of GE JFWTC cast their vote for the best idea. Team Members: Adithiya V, Aravind I, Ram Prasadh R, Somasundaram K S, Vishwanath K S Dr. J.Gururaja, Chairperson for Renewable Energy Action Forum (REAF) and a judge at the event says, “The criterion we were given was to look at the idea for its innovative content and creativity of the team and the practical feasibility of the idea. The winning team defined the idea in very clear terms. They proposed a set of solutions that were quite comprehensive as well as capable of being integrated.” _________________________________________________________________________________ Winners of the 2008 GE Edison Challenge - The Winners Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal are the winners of the 2008 GE Edison Challenge!  They called themselves the 'Fasttrack Developers' and made sure they were on the fast track to victory right from the start. Vasuki Prasad, Rupan Sarkar, Rahul Sharma, Gaurav Barman and Pranab Purkayastha, the highly energized and passionate team from MIT, Manipal wowed the judges and audience alike with their presentation on Train Informatics to emerge the winners of the first GE Edison Challenge. They complemented their presentation with a model that reinforced the market readiness of their product. The GE Edison challenge had attracted over 350 entries from over 100 colleges. And 17 of the pre finalists were at the JFWTC campus to make their presentations on November 6th culminating in the grand finale on the 7th of November where the above two teams were declared the winners and runners up. Train Blazer, the solution developed by Fastrack Developers, is simple in concept and appearance. It offers substantial information, about a passing train to the stationmaster. It seeks to highlight physical conditions like over-speeding, dragging, hot wheel and hot bearing. Harmless low DC voltages are injected into one side of the track, while maintaining the other at ground potential. The presence of an axle (which has wheels on either side, connected electrically as well as mechanically) pulls down the voltage to zero. Abnormal temperature patterns in the wheels and bearings are recorded by an indigenously developed hot wheel/bearing detector. In case of any abnormality an alarm is sounded both to the station master (on his monitor) and to the driver (via his VHF wireless). This prototype was endorsed by the ADSTE and two SSEs at the Indian Railways. For their breakthrough device, the proud winners walked away with a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh and the coveted GE Edison Challenge Trophy. The Runners-up IIT Kharagpur are the runners-up  The runners-up, Jitendra Kumar, Vishal Garg and Manish Parmar from IIT Kharagpur who made a well-researched presentation on self-cooling engines received Rs.2 lakh. Their model called the 'Thermionic generator' uses the heat generated by an engine, a waste product, to produce electricity that can be put to further use inside the vehicle. This device increases the thermal efficiency of the engine significantly. |