Media Release

Mangaluru, Jun 29: A team of final year B E students of NMAMIT won the second prize at the recently concluded Fluid Power Challenge named as M S Yoganarasimha Prize for Innovation in Design. The team consisting of Ashith Prajwal, Agasthya Gangadhar, Bharat V Naik and Anantha Narayana M carried out a project on 'Manual Thermoformer Machine'.

The machine prototype forms 30 components per hour such as Vaccum wrapping of consumer goods for tamper-proof packaging for transportation and distribution to the outlets. The aim is to make the machine affordable through a start-up for the use of small vendors to make them Aatmanirbhar. The project was guided by Dr Shashikantha Karinka, professor in the dept of Mechanical Engineering, NMAMIT. The same project was awarded the Best Project in the Mechanical Engineering category in the Project EXPRO held at NMAMIT in May.

The team received a cash award of Rs 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand only) and the winner's Certificate. The prizes were awarded at the Fluid Power Professionals Day (FPPD) celebrations in the third week of June at the Capitol Hotel, Bengaluru.