Pune, India | 8th March 2024 | — KPIT Technologies, a automotive software developer, helps vehicle companies to build the next generation of vehicles, focusing on electric, self-driving, and connected cars, announced winners for its flagship mobility software design and development innovation contest, KPIT Sparkle 2024.
Over the last seven months, 1000+ ideas came from 19000+ students across 400+ colleges. After rigorous evaluation on alignment to published themes around software technology innovation for mobility by KPIT subject matter experts across two stages. Eight teams made it to the finale.
Winners of KPIT Sparkle 2024
- Team G-Rex from Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamil Nadu won the Platinum Award with prize money of INR 7,00,000. Innovation – Design and development of an efficient indigenous hydroxy (HHO) gas generation system for the SI engine. This is achieved by dry cell electrolysis method.
- Team Krenoviantz from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, won the Gold Award with prize money of INR 5,00,000. Innovation – Plug-in Kit for Ready Charging.
On the side-lines of KPIT Sparkle, the KPIT Shodh Awards participated in the coveted awards. The KPIT Shodh Awards is a global platform for PhD researchers from academia and industry.
Winners of KPIT Shodh Awards 2024
- Mr. Vijayakumar Kanchetla from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, won the Best Groundbreaking Research Award with prize money of INR 10,00,000. Thesis – Dhruva: A global navigation receiver chip for NavIC, GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou.
- Mr. Debattam Sarkar from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research won the Best Research Award with prize money of INR 9,00,000. Thesis – Tailoring of Chemical Bonding, Electronic Structure and Lattice Dynamics to Achieve High Thermoelectric Performance in Metal Chalcogenide.
Mr. Ravi Pandit, Chairman of KPIT Technologies, said, “KPIT Sparkle has inspired over 100,000 students throughout its 10-year journey. Our unwavering goal is to foster a culture of innovation. Among the brilliant young minds that will shape the future of mobility and sustainability. The shift in emphasis towards real-life challenges in mobility has been deeply beneficial and inspiring for students.”
