DEPARTMENT OF Mechanical Engineering

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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