20, Sep 2024
Anurag University emerges as world champion in the World CanSat and Rocketry Championship held in Portugal
Hyderabad, September 20, 2024…. The Jigyasa team of Hyderabad-based Anurag University won the World CanSat and Rocketry Championship Finals held in Portugal.
The four-member team, G. Maniram (CSE, 3rd year), Y. Bala Praneeth Sagar (ECE, 3rd year), T.R. Divyakanth (ECE, 3rd year), and Rujul Rumale (ECE, 2nd year), competed with six teams from Portugal, Romania, Serbia, and other countries and placed first and emerged world champions.
The World CanSat Rocketry Championship is an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world. Winning this championship is considered the highest achievement in this field.
We are thrilled to announce that we have won two prestigious awards—“World Champions” and “Best Communication”, the students announced on their arrival at the airport.
Our CanSat was recognized for its innovative structural design, efficient communication systems, advanced battery management, comprehensive data collection, and successful survival and recovery mechanisms. Additionally, the team gained immense popularity on Instagram, securing the highest viewership and engagement for their posts, they added.
For their achievement, the students were given away medals and certificates.
CanSat is a miniature satellite with all the necessary features of a real satellite. It is shaped like a soft drink ‘Can’. Despite being a scaled-down version of an actual satellite, it carries all the critical components of a successful launch. Everything is integrated into a compact soft drink can-shaped satellite model, including the onboard computer, power supply, sensors and communication protocol.
Explaining the competition, the students said, the competition had two mission statements:
– Primary mission
• to transmit telemetry data to the ground station at least once every one second.
• CanSat must float on the water’s surface or must survive completely underwater and be easily detected.
– Secondary mission
• Measure water quality parameters
• Maintain the RF communication with the ground station after landing in the water
• Safe recovery
Ten teams from various countries, including Portugal, Serbia, and Romania, were selected for the WCRC finals. Team Jigyasa distinguished themselves by completing both launch tests, unlike other teams whose CanSats failed the secondary mission (water testing). The jury was highly impressed by the team’s performance and invited them to a local public college to share insights into their innovative, lightweight CanSat, which accomplished both missions during the flight tests.
Though ten teams from all over the globe were shortlisted for finals, only six teams could participate because of visa-related issues.
They developed CanSat under the mentorship of Prof. M. Narayana (ECE) and Dr. P. Vishwanath (MECH).
The World CanSat/Rocketry Championship (WCRC) held in Aveiro, Portugal, is the most prestigious competition.
The WCRC Consortium organized the Championship in collaboration with Universidade de Aveiro (UA) and Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT).
Most of our CanSat was handmade from the circuits to the parachute, unlike other competitors. Thanks to this we were quick, able to improve it as per the suggestions given by our judges in the technical review. Our structure was the most unique, having a flap-like design to help it spread its weight on the water and help it float as it had to land on the water after its journey. We did calculations and made the antennas by hand. We did the 3rd iteration of GUI (Graphical User Interface) on the day itself, shared the four team members.
We were all first-time fliers. We got visas just three days before the championship. The very next day we flew. Fortunately, we were at the venue two days before the championship that gave us some to test our satellite. We spent two sleepless nights before the competition. We knew we would make it to the championship but we were nervous, they shared while responding to the felicitation the Anurag University organized on their arrival into the city on Thursday afternoon. They were welcomed to the campus with a big procession, band-baja and felicitation for themselves and their parents in the presence of over 400 students on the campus.
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- By Rabindra
19, Mar 2024
MBA Business Analytics Industry Immersive Program, probably the first immersive learning program in Business Analytics in India
Hyderabad, March 19, 2024……. Currently, there is a wide gap between industries and academia, there is a wide gap between what students possess and what industry requires and there is a wide gap between acquired knowledge and required knowledge in India, said Dir. U.B. Desai, founding Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and Chancellor, of Anurag University
Dr Desai was the Chief Guest at the inauguration of the MBA Business Analytics –Industry Immersive Program at Anurag University, the first private University in the state.
Dr Balaji Utla, Registrar, Ms. S. Neelima, CEO and others have graced the occasion.
Dr Desai spoke to the students and interacted with faculty after the launch of the program
Speaking about Industry-Academia Connect, he said, there is a lot more to be done. We are just taking baby steps in developing a strong connection. That is because of the lack of clear policy in strengthening ties between them.
Several luminaries and academia opined in the past that Industry-Academia Collaboration Should be Mandatory by Law. When asked about his opinion about the same, Dr Desai said, academia and industry are interdependent. And change cannot be brought by force.
Speaking further he added that Academia and Industry are interdependent. The Sooner this is recognised the better the outcomes will be.
The initiative is the brainchild of Dr Balaji Utla, Registrar, and founder CEO of Satyam Learning.
Prof of Practice Venugopal said the MBA Business Analytics Industry Immersive Program is probably one of the industry’s first initiatives introduced with the sole aim of producing industry-ready Management Graduates. Under this program, 35 students who are pursuing MBA Analytics not only learn theory but also put into practice the same by being themselves as business owners while pursuing their studies.
According to Dr Syed Mansoor Pash, Program Director, it is a combination of management and technology and is probably the first Immersive Learning programme in Business Analytics in India. The program is uniquely designed to allow students to do projects every alternate term for a total of 6 terms. This offers an opportunity to do real-life and near-real-life projects so the students can practice the concepts/tools learnt in the earlier term.
During the program students will be treated as employees working in a temporary organization so that they are industry-ready by the time of completion of the Programme, said Dr V. Vishnu Vandana, Head of the Department, School of Management, Anurag University.
Academia, industry experts and Professors of Practice as envisaged in the New Education Policy (NEP) will guide students and help them navigate through the program.
