The college exams are now finally over and the winter vacations have begun.All the students are leaving for home but the Formula Manipal team will stay back in college for the entire winter vacations and begin manufacturing of the FM-X. The vacations are crucial time for us as we get the entire day to work unlike usual college days when we have to go to college from 8 am to 5 pm and then work the whole night.

There is more good news as we have won the 1st prize at the VI MANTRA 2009 which is a national level paper presentation competition organised by National Instruments. It attracts more than 200 entries every year which includes colleges like IITs, NITs, AIIMS and private colleges etc. This year, Formula Manipal entered the competition with a research paper describing its in-house designed and developed Data Acquisition system for its Formula Student race car.The entry was titled :”Rapid prototyping of a data acquisition system for a 600cc Formula SAE Race Car”

– Shadab Khan, Siddharth Sonti, Utsav Drolia, Anantharaghavan Subramanian and Dhawal Bavishi.

Our team members also presented a research paper at the International Conference in Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES) ,the Annual Meeting sponsored by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) which is a forum for researchers from Industry and Universities to discuss research and applications in Vehicle Electronics and Safety.The paper was titled : “Data Acquisition system for a 600cc Formula SAE Race Car” (Shadab Khan and Siddharth Sonti) and  will be available on IEEE Xplore ICVES 2009 Proceedings.

Web Links:

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/information-technology/2009111037225.htm

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/corporate-releases/educators-day-2009-national-instruments-resounding-success-688