CONVOLUTION

 

ATTENTION!! All participating groups must keep 1 laptop

per group for keeping reference e-books. There will be

event specific reference e-books available with us. 

If any group wants to bring their own books on their

laptop they are most welcomed. 

 

 

 

Interested in research and development?

Are you bubbling with new ideas?
 

FORSIT is about out-of-the-box thinking regarding

common engineering problems.
A pen and a piece of paper are sufficient in this event

that requires you to think about real-life engineering problems

and their possible solutions!

 

Engineering is mostly about designing and analysing

practical systems, and finding cost-effective and feasible

solutions to a problem. While analysis is important with respect to

understanding the performance of a system and functionality,

a design problem is by far the most important aspect of engineering.

In Forsit, participating teams will be provided with an engineering

problem, and the participants are expected to think about the problem
and find out a feasible solution, a way out, a design for an answer
to the problem.

 

Maximum team size: 3
 

When?

 

15th February, 2014, at 9:00 am.

 

Groups: 2 Groups — Group A (1st year students only), Group B (2nd, 3rd and 4th years)

 

Rules and Regulations

 

• The problem will be given to the participants on the day of the event.

• Maximum allowable team size: 3

• Registration would be in a first come first served basis.

• Maximum duration of the event: 6 hrs. The time limit will depend on the discretion of the organizers.

• NOTE::There are two categories for this event. Group A: Students currently in 1st year and 2nd year and Group B: Students currently in 3rd and 4th years of study can participate.

• All the participating teams of each group will be provided with 2 design problems to work on in 2 levels. The teams have to solve the level 1 problem first and then go on to level 2. 

• The participants are expected to arrive on the day of the event for registration and confirmation with college IDENTITY CARDS at the department, at the specified time.

• Problems are entirely theoretical; no computer simulations of the system or circuit implementation are required.

• The participants will be provided pages for drawing the system design.

• The 6 hour slot will consist two parts:

      

      i) A 4 hour slot: During this time, participants would require to think, develop and work-out 

         the design/solution/circuit diagram/calculations on paper and submit the solution.

 

      ii) A 2 hour slot: Based on the solutions/ideas provided, there will be a screening and the

          best 4 or 5 teams will be asked to present the solution in front of a panel of judges.

 

• The participants can consult any book available at the department library.

• Participants can roam about anywhere within the campus during the event.

• Best 2 designs/solutions will be awarded from each group. Judgement criteria will be announced on spot.

• The judgement made by the panel of judges will be final.

To Dissolve your Doubts...
 

An example:

Automatic Street Light Switching System:

Street lights need to be switched on every day at about 5-6 pm in the evening and again switched off at 6 am in the morning. An engineering system can be built to automatically switch on-off the lights at the right time. Participants are required to think of a solution to this problem. There are many light detecting transducers (photo-detectors) available in the market now-a-days. You can use that to generate a voltage source that would vary with the amount of light energy falling on it. This voltage, when falls below a specific limit, the street lights are switched off using some switching mechanism (relays and contactors are electro-mechanical switches, and transistors can be used as purely electrical switches). The participating teams are required to make a block diagram like arrangement (as shown below) of the fundamental components in their design. Then they can decompose each block and give a circuit level detailing of the entire system.



















 

 

 

 

 

 

Event Organizer:

 

Koushik Chakraborty (9432450179)

Samik Sadhu (9836533795)

Sayak Roy Choudhury(9007495010)
Srijata Chakravorti (9433074013)