FIA 2012

Following the dictum “History repeats itself”, this year too our sterling technocrats of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon made an enthusiastic participation in FIA- Faridabad’s prestigious Industrial Project Competition held on 21 April, 2012 at Faridabad.

The project entitled “Surface Computing”, the outcome of research by students-Yash Pal, Kislay Sinha, Shamim Akhtar, Manish Gupta, Nikhil Sachdeva designed under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Jitender Kumar, Head Department of Information Technology won the coveted First Prize among twenty-eight short listed projects from various colleges.

Congratulating the technocrats Mr. Praveen Garg, Chairman FIA (Faridabad Industries Association) said that the surface computing is a platform that responds to natural hand gestures and real world objects; it is capable of recognizing real objects and movement of human hands on the screen.

Two other projects “Power Generation by Ocean Waves” and “Smart Lift” from Mechanical Engineering Departmentand another project “Smart Baby Incubator” from Electronics and Communication Engineering Department were short listed in the completion held at FIA, Faridabad.

The credit of achieving another milestone and coveted prize goes to the HODs, project guides and dynamic students of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon. Congratulating the students and project guides on this achievement, Hon’ble Principal Prof. (Dr.) B. M. K. Prasad said that the research and innovation at DCE, Gurgaon have attracted leading global brands for placement and has built a strong industry partnership.