Passion is never a split-second decision. You absorb the things taught to you by observing your surroundings. 

A young mind is like a sponge, a sponge that soaks up the knowledge around it. When I completed schooling,I had a choice of pursuing the field I wanted. My love and affinity towards machines and robots made me choose Mechatronics Engineering.

I got recognition for building a line-follower robot in the second semester on my own with materials like motors from toys, and plastic boxes and bottles lying around in my room. I got exposed to practical learning through this process which helped me realise that detailed study in this field will help me more in practical scenarios in the future I believe that the advancements in science lead to many problems for humanity.

The ultimate aim of engineering is to find solutions to those problems. The massive increase in pollution levels of every countries the leading problem of the 21st century. As an engineer, I wanted to address this problem which led me to my brainchild-the research into hybrid vehicles, which in turn, led me to participate in the ISIE Hybrid Kart Challenge in Bhopal (Nov 2015-Feb 2016). Here, my college seniors played a huge part in developing the engineer in me by helping and guiding me in the design and fabrication of the racing automobile The ISIE Hybrid Kart Challenge was my first huge project.

The primary goal of this project was to run vehicle using a motor and an engine and participate in the nation’s biggest hybrid kart championship. As the team’s Innovation Engineer, I designed three innovation systems for our hybrid vehicle. I designed and controlled our car with a voice ignition and control system. I also brought in the idea of charging mobile phones using piezoelectric materials and headed the Power-train System team.

This experience served as my beginning stage of learning micro-controller. My experience and involvement in the above-mentioned field led to the publication of my first paper on‘Hybrid Vehicles - Insane Study’, in the Imperial International Journal of Eco-Friendly Technology (IIJET)Volume 1 Issue 1(2016), pp., 52-57. I was the first author and editor of this paper which gave me exposure towards the hybrid vehicle and automobile world.

This experience further paved the way for me to become the Lead Project Engineer (LPE) in the fabrication of an electric All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) to participate in the National Level E-Baja Championship held at Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh in February 2017. As the acting captain and LPE, I was the only person to lead and manage all sub-activities of the teams like dynamics electronic control system, braking, mechanical and electrical aspects of the project. I was also made in charge of electrical technical inspection; we cleared the test and won INR 2 lakh cash prize.

I gained lots of experience in teamwork, travel, organizing and leadership qualities from this even I had a huge interest in robotics and automation which kept motivating me to fabricate many robots and automation designs for various events across the country, as mentioned above.

One of the most notable one was the PI Bot with which I participated in the biggest national-level robotics event, ‘Robocon’ held at Pune Maharastra in March 2017. Here, I led a novice team to the pre-quarterfinal round. I was doing this project along with Ebaja project, It was quite challenging as I have to work on both of them and handle two teams of different stream which helped me to improve my leadership qualities and strengthen my abilities such as organizing, time handling etc .

And further, in the field of automation, I have a notable international IEEE publication, ‘An Affordable, BuilYour-Own Computer Control System for Electro-Pneumatics Education’, in the IEEE Explore Digital Library under 2017 Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Paper ID:119. I was the first author of the paper and had an experience of working with a professor called SR Pandian from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing (IIITDM).

From all my activities in my college life I learned exposure is key for student’s betterment, hence along with My friends I founded college first Research and Incubation cell (RIC-SKCET) to promote Research and create awareness about events that students need to meet their passion. RIC served students to gain Knowledge about importance of Paper Publications, Research and participation in Subject oriented events. Few notable event by RIC were Veritables – Innovation Project Identification event for students, Support to students for participating in Smart India Hackathon (SIH).