DEPARTMENT OF Mechanical Engineering

The MITS BAJA (All-Terrain Vehicle) team showcased outstanding performance at the prestigious BAJA SAE competition held at the National Automotive Test Tracks (NATRAX), Indore, from 9th to 11th January 2025. Competing against top institutions from across the country, the team secured an impressive All India Rank 11, marking a significant achievement in their journey.

Comprising 25 talented students, the team was led by Captain Mr. Aditya S (2021-25, Mechanical Engineering), whose leadership and dedication played a crucial role in their success. The team was guided by Mr. Charly Chacko (Mentor) and Mr. Anand Rajagopal (Faculty Advisor), whose expertise and unwavering support helped them navigate the challenging competition.

The event tested the team’s engineering prowess, design innovation, and endurance in fabricating a high-performance off-road vehicle. Their achievement reflects their technical expertise, perseverance, and teamwork, bringing pride to MITS and setting a strong benchmark for future competitions.

A session on “Assembly and disassembly of 4 cylinder petrol engine” was conducted on 21 August 2024 by Mr. Ajai Krishnan, Workshop Instructor, Lisieu Nagar ITI, Puthencruz.

Honouring Mr. Gokul Krishna (ME 2014-18 Batch) for securing AIR 895 in UPSC Civil Services Examination 2023.

A talk on “Idea to Product Realisation” was delivered by Mr. A. Armstrong, Principal Member R& D, TAFE, Chennai on 7 March 2024 at 10 am.

A workshop on Latex will be held on 20 March 2024 (Wednesday) at 9 am. The speaker for the session is Mr. Harish Abubaker, Asst. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MITS. Venue: ME CAD Lab.

The Mechanical Engineering Association organised a seminar on DAAD scholarship at RWTH Aachen University, Germany on 5/3/2024 (Tuesday). Resource persons were Mr. Davis Jose, DAAD young ambassador from RWTH Aachen and MITS ME Alumnus (2013-17 batch) and Mr. Benjamin Pfrang, Head of RWTH activities in India.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering in association with ASME MITS Chapter organised a talk on “The art of defensive driving”. The speaker for the session was Mr. Sibi Mathai, MD, Vista Motors, Dealer-Volvo Buses and Trucks on 21st November 2023 (Tuesday).

A seminar on the theme “Energy saved is energy produced” was conducted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in association with the Institution’s Innovation Council and ISHRAE Cochin Chapter on 22nd August 2023.

A seminar on the “Development in Design and Automation for Industry 4.0” was conducted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in association with the Institution’s Innovation Council on 12th April 2023. The speaker for the session was Mr. VINAY S , Manager – Education & Training, Conceptia Software Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Team Cyclomech comprising 5 students of S6 ME and 2 students of S4 ME secured first prize and won a cash award of Rs. 10,000 for the best presentation as part of the Bicycle design competition conducted by SAE India Southern Section on 1st April 2023 at PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, TN.

The team members are:

Abhinav Mukundan (S6 ME)

Nikhil K Mamman (S6 ME)

Adhil V M (S6 ME)

Joshua Vinu (S6 ME)

Geo G Vithayathil (S6 ME)

Adnan Razi (S4 ME)

Athul T Sajeevan (S4 ME)

Department of Mechanical Engineering in association with the Institution’s Innovation Council conducted a session on Opportunities in the field of QA and QC on 22 February 2023. Resource person was Mr. Anas from United NDT.

Department of Mechanical Engineering in association with Institution’s Innovation Council conducted a session on Higher education opportunities in UK on 11 January 2023. Dr. Yogesh Bhalerao was the resource person.

With the object of promoting their cooperation in academic education and research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi and Nanospin Technologies LLP signed the Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) for Joint research activities, Jointly Product development as per mutually agree and Partners for suitable development Projects.

SAE Tier 3 competitions were held at Easwari Engineering College, Chennai on 18th June 2023.The talented SAE MITS team enthusiastically participated in a variety of events, demonstrating their skills and determination.  Their remarkable performance lead them to earn various prizes in following events:

Material Identification- 1^st Prize

Team

Roshan Biju- S8

Shaun T Xavier- S8

S. GopiKrishnan- S8

GD &T – 1^st Prize

Team

Johns Rapheal- S6

Varun Raj TR- S4

Aditya S- S4

Welding-1^st Prize

Team

Alias Babu- S6

Antony Helvis- S6

Yaseen Ahammad- S6

Bridge Building- 1^st Prize

Team

Anju  Raju- S6

Febin Thomas- S6

Davis Shaji- S6

Business Plan- 3^rd Prize

Rishan Maju- S6

Paul Baiju- S6

Aadith Ajay- S6

Students from ME batch 2019-23, Akhilkumar K.S., Aswin Sekhar, Ashwin Ramesh and Parthav Ramesh presented their work on the topic “Simulation of Marine Class Vessel Using different Controllers “ at i-SMaRT 23, held at FISAT Engineering College during 24 to 26^th May 2023. The project was guided by Dr. Arunkumar D.V.

The best impact award in the track Mechanical Sciences at ICAMSS 2022 held during 7-9 July 2022 was awarded to Joshua Thomas, Risban Mullapilly, Safdar Hussain, Thejus Pattan, Anand Rajagopal and Venugopalan Kurupath.

Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a webinar series on the topic Nanotechnology
Driven Engineered Materials from June 29 to July 3 2020 at MITS. The symposium brought together
a panel of highly-accomplished experts in the field of nano science and nanotechnology. Talks
encompassed basic studies and applications and addressed topics of novel issues. During the
workshop, there were deliberations & discussions on recent advances, difficulties, and
breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology and its engineering applications by experts from
different academia and industry field.

The Mechanical Engineering Association of MITS, “EXORDIUM”, was inaugurated by Shri. Alok Mukherjee, Senior Scientist and Head of Robotics department, DRDO, Pune on Tuesday, 15-07-2014.

The inaugural ceremony was presided over by the Principal, Dr. S. Pushpakumar.

SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (SAE)

SAE INDIA is an affiliate society of SAE International, registered as an Indian non profit engineering and scientific society dedicated to the advancement of mobility community in India. SAE INDIA Southern Section Cochin Division was inaugurated on 27th August 2016 at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET).

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (ASME)

ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in 1880 by a small group of leading industrialists, ASME has grown through the decades to include more than 130,000 members in 151 countries. Thirty-two thousands of these members are students. The ASME MITS Chapter was established in September 2017.

THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF HEATING, REFRIGERATING AND AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS (ISHRAE)

ively for AC & Refrigeration community, provides excellent networking opportunities to interact with other Professionals, Industry Leaders, also a forum for professional development and continuous training & re-training on both fundamentals and latest products & technologies available worldwide. ISHRAE conducts Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Exhibitions throughout the country with both national and international participants to discuss, promote and display the state of the art technologies, systems, products and services. ISHRAE MITS students chapter was initiated on Wednesday 19^th September 2018.

• IEDC and Mechanical Engineering Department of MITS in association with ED Cell of IIT-Roorkee has conducted a ‘Two-Days Hands-on Workshop on Machine Learning with R-Programming’ for students/faculty, on August 25 & 26 organized at Muthoot Institute of Technology And Science (MITS),Varikoli. The session was held in our college on 25-26- August 2017 [Friday-Saturday] from 9.30 am to 4.30pm in CAD LAB (New Block). All the 39 participants got the hands-on experience on Data Mining and Machine learning using java and R programming. Mechanical engineering faculty who have registered are Mr.Rony M, Mr.Vipin Vijayan, Mr. Prisley VM, Mr. Pradeepmon, Mrs. Nimmu Ivan M Students coordinators: Savio Bhasy and Eldhose paul.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) in association with Srishti Robotics conducted a hands-on workshop on IC Engine overhauling on 19^th August 2017 for the students of MITS. All the 53 participants got the rare chance to experience the live demonstration of a four-stroke petrol engine parts and its working; analyse all the components first hand; dismantling and reassembly of an entire engine and so on. The workshop was coordinated by Ms. Nimmu Mary Ivan (Assistant Professor, ME) and Mr. Rony Thomas Murickan (Assistant Professor, ME). In the Valedictory session of the workshop, participation certificates were distributed to all the students.

MITS Mechanical All Terrain vehicle team PISTONHEADS with faculty advisors at Chitkara University, punjab on 13th July 2018 after the virtual presentation of Mahindra SAE BAJA 2019 competition.

Team Free Beast, with their flight at SAE Aero Design Challenge, Anna University Campus on 11th July 2018.

A 25 member Tractor Design and Manufacturing team of S4 Mechanical is participating in the National level Tractor design and fabrication Competition conducted by SAE in February 2018. Training was conducted in the CAD lab by two trainers from Thar Sports and 15 team members attended the training. Training dates were 22, 23 December and from 26- 30 December. In the training, design and analysis of tractor was done. Design and analysis was done using Solid Works software.Solid works officially sponsored 25 software licenses for the ‘Team Brain Storm’ for design and analysis.The team has successfully completed the design of the tractor and submitted the design report and cost estimate to SAE. Manufacturing phase of the tractor will start by 15th January 2018 at MITS using the lab facilities of the college. OEN connectors has officially sponsored the electrical components and systems. Team is in search of sponsors to meet the financial requirements including the purchase of the 17HP engine

Pratheek P Ashok, an industrial designer by profession and also an alumnus of NID, was very enthusiastic in explaining the scope of pursuing career in designing. Currently, he works with Navgathi Marine Design and Construction in a project of designing solar boats. The session was arranged in the MITS CAD Lab on 28 September 2017. He briefed clearly the courses being offered at National Institute of Design and why should someone pursue the particular course. He also put into the light as to how the admission procedures are conducted by the NID and how someone should approach for admission. He also showed us some of his design works.

September 2017 – Orientation programme conducted for S1 and S3 students by S7 ME student Eldhose Paul giving out the importance and benefits of entrepreneurship and IEDC MITS.

A session on ‘Motivation and Responsibility’ was held for the students of MITS on 9th August 2017. The resource person for the session was Dr.Brijesh Paul (Professor, ME Dept., Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam) who is an expert in the field of Motivational Talks and Career Development.

An awareness program on the importance of GATE/GRE/CAT to the engineering graduates was conducted for the S7ME students by the Department of Mechancial Engineering in association withTriumph Institute of Management (T.I.M.E) on 27^th July 2017 at MITS and was presented by Mr. Swaroop Menon, Senior Manager, T.I.M.E, Cochin.

Arbrit safety training and consultancy group hosted a session on NEBOSH for the S7ME students of MITS on 19th July 2017.Arbrit is a globally accredited ISO 9001:2015 certified, safety training and consultancy group. The purpose of this workshop was to hold an interactive discussion about the extensive range of health and safety training courses recognized by NEBOSH and other technical training provided by Arbrit.

July 2017 – Dept. has got confirmation to act as Zonal Centre for conducting a workshop on Machine Learning in association with the ED Cell of IIT, Roorkee. At Present, MITS is the only college in Kerala to get this opportunity.

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