Mangaluru :
Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering (MITE) students have designed and developed an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) for BAJA SAE, a prestigious national-level sporting vehicle building event organized by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
SAE is an engineering and scientific society dedicated to the advancement of the automobile sector. The ATV will be participating in BAJA SAE India-2016, a national-level competition to be held in Indore in February 2016. Also, the developed ATV will be participating in BAJA Student India-2016 in January 2016 at Buddh International Circuit, Utter Pradesh.
Chairman of Rajalaxmi Education Trust Rajesh Chouta unveiled the ATV on November 2. Successful field testing was done by the Team Mite Racing (TMR) comprising of 30 students of MITE.
“The TMR comprising students of the mechanical engineering department have designed and fabricated a lightweight ATV as per the rules and specifications of BAJA SAE India-2016 in the MITE campus. TMR is one among the three colleges in the zone along with NITK Surathkal and MIT, Manipal to qualify for the event in which every team asked to design and build an all-terrain sports vehicle. The institution has encouraged the students to work independently in the campus after their regular academic work,” said Ashwin Balaram, one of the team leaders.
“The team has innovatively applied the new concepts for its suspension and load-bearing capacity in the vehicle. The team investigated and applied new methodology of continuously variable transmission (CVT) for improved acceleration and to reduce driver fatigue,” said another team leader Ashrith S. Ashwin and Ashrith are seventh semester mechanical engineering students of MITE.
The ATV is developed by the TMR under the sponsorship of the management of the institution led by the chairman of Rajalaxmi Education Trust Rajesh Chouta. G L Easwara Prasad, principal and C R Rajashekar, head of the department of the mechanical engineering department supported the team for the project, students said.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> Cities> Mangaluru / by Shobha K T, TNN / November 05th, 2015