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Interactive Session with Anand Kumar
Anand Kumar, famous for his Super 30 school, was the guest speaker at an interactive session held
in Kota. Regarded as one of the most insightful and powerful educators in India, Anand shared his
thoughts on UPES Engineering+. Addressing around 700 attendees at Country Inn and Suites by

Radisson, Kota, the session was about decoding mantras for success in engineering.

UPES Participates at Auto Expo 2020
UPES showcased several engineering marvels created by its students at Auto Expo, 2020, Noida.
LIFE The following were the inventions displayed at the event by the Department of Mechanical
Engineering: A Campus Utility Vehicle with a BLDC 1.2 kW motor, 48V Controller module, 85

@SCHOOL OF A-HR 48V Li-ion Battery and IOT Module; an Electric Bicycle designed, fabricated and tested
with the objective of low-cost and low-maintenance (the E-Cycle is an innovative solution to the
persisting problem of emissions); and many more.

ENGINEERING

Break In: Nitro RC Championship at UPES

The Mechanical Department of School of Engineering, UPES, organised the inaugural Nitro RC
Championship on the sports ground of Bidholi campus in Dehradun. The event featured a designing
and performance competition for 1/8 scale RC Nitro Cars. A dozen teams from different colleges of
India and UPES competed through multiple rounds.
The finale saw a simultaneous race between four teams for the course of three laps with an additional

penalty for exceeding the track boundaries and/or skipping the obstacles. At the close, between all the
finalists, the results boiled down to the difference of just two seconds between the first placed team—
Team MRC-O, MRC Club, Mumbai and the first runner-up—Team Ryuu, UPES Dehradun.

International Conference on `Advances in Chemical

Engineering 2020´
The Chemical Engineering Department of School of Engineering, UPES, Dehradun, along with
R&D, UPES, organised an international conference on ‘Advances in Chemical Engineering 2020’.
This conference was held to bring together renowned researchers, academicians and industry
representatives from all over the world under one roof to interact and discuss recent advances

in the field of Chemical Engineering. This not only enhanced research collaboration among
academicians but also enabled students to have better interaction with researchers and industry
representatives alike.