ASME India Online Campus

ASME India Online Campus was launched in 2009 for the prime purpose of bridging the gap between engineering education and the industry. ASME India has now opened this vista for education through the well known software 'Blackboard', which has facilitated many other online campus throughout the world.

As of yet, the online campus provides ASME paid members (both students and corporates) with the courses in (i) Design and (ii) Management.

For more details on these courses, the prerequisites and when you can start on them, click [here].

Student members of the ASME-UPES Student Section who had enrolled for some of these courses, completed the same in the months of June - July, 2010. The following are the names of the student who completed the courses, with full CEUs (Continuing Education Units):

• Udit Shah, Adithya Pani, Sagar Shah, Prateek Gupta - GD&T, using ASME Y14.5 (2.3 CEUs).
• V Vinayak - Introduction to Finite Element Analysis using ANSYS (2.3 CEUs)

Feel free to contact the ASME-UPES Student Section Office members for further information or reviews on the conduction of the courses, and how you can enroll for it.

TECH COMPT Week #1 : A Report

The ASME Student Section at UPES did it, and did it with panache. Week #1 of the Technical Competition, consisting of two events (that nobody took lightly, ) viz. Lakshya: Water Rocket and Paper Airplane Making, was a resounding success.

[The field, demarcated for the event]

The event, started off on the 11th of February, 2010 at 3 PM (earlier than decided), and cut short some of the participants' field tests. The first round of Lakshya, the water rocket competition, had 17 teams of which 6 qualified for the second and final round.

The problem statement for the first round was to clear a 35m mark from the launchpad and accumulate the maximum distance (cumulatively) with a bottle propelled by pressurized water and air. The first round was hard-fought and teams shunted up and down the leader-board with amazing distances. The teams were given a bonus option in the form of a target located 70m from the launchpad - any team that gets their rocket to touchdown within a radius of 3m from the target gets a direct entry into the next round. This criterion was cleared by only one team.

The six teams that qualified for the final round turned up on the 12th with certain modifications (which were allowed). This final round was held parallel to the other event, Paper airplane. While the paper airplane enthusiasts had a go with their designs ranging from conventional to outright weird, the audience cheered the presence of the Pro-Vice Chancellor, the Dean of Engineering and other faculty with a guest from the Aerospace Industry. The Paper airplane competition tested the contestants' design for the ability to stay aloft for the maximum period of time. And the record set at the event was of 9.33 seconds.

[The winners of Lakshya: Razzmatazz, revving up]

[The winner of the Paper Airplane

Competition, Sagar Ahuja, doing a celebratory jig]

The teams that bagged honours at Lakshya: Water Rocket Competition were:

Winners (I): Razzmatazz

Team members: Rahul Rathore, Dinesh Rawat, Hemant Sharma & Alok Nautiyal

First Runners Up (II): Fighters

Team members: Arka, Abhijeet, Monica, Kumar Ashish

Second Runners Up (III): Team Vinayak

Team members: Vinayak, Vakul, Prateek C, Siddharth

The 3 for the Paper Airplane Competition were:

Winner (I): Sagar Ahuja

Best time: 9.33 sec

First Runner Up (II): Tarun Gupta

Best time: 7.83 sec

Second Runner Up (III): Srikant

Best time: 6.86 sec

Intra University Technical Competition

Kicking off the New Year, the ASME Student Section of UPES is organizing it's first technical competition.

The Technical Competition includes Aerospace-related events, namely: "Lakshya" Water Rocket and Paper Airplane.

Details for LAKSHYA are available at: [WATER ROCKET.doc]

A tutorial on the technical aspects is provided [here]

The arena for Water Rocket will be as given below, in the University Football field. All zones will be marked out and participants will be briefed again about the rules and regulations before the start of the competition.

You will get a number of resources on the internet regarding how to make a water rocket, so go out into the World Wide Web and get cyber help if needed.

Details for PAPER AIRPLANE are available at: [PAPER AIRPLANE.doc]

The ASME Student Section requests all participants to give in their entries and fees amount (mentioned in the Word Document) to the concerned event organizers by 9th February, 2010.

Registration is free of charge for

all ASME members, take this opportunity

to use your privileges.

For registration, please contact:

• Udit, ASE 2nd yr - 9997029038
• Adithya, ASE 2nd yr - 9997029038
• Gagandeep, ADE 2nd yr - 9760088193

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOT RELATED TO THE AEROSPACE DAY THAT IS BEING HELD FROM 19 to 20 FEBRUARY, THOUGH IT CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A PRACTICE SESSION FOR THOSE INTERESTED.