Financial meltdown – that’s the one thing on all of our lips now. Experts are speculating a depression. No one knows what’s going to happen next. Besides this, Jayalalitha wants to be the next PM, Bush wants to spend the rest of his life making coffee for Laura, Obama’s wondering which dog to buy. Well, there are indeed an enough number of issues to keep us gabbing! But, the climate crisis – I don’t know why it is not even hashed out, let alone action. Philip Cooney, a lawyer with no scientific training, is in the White House to control climate science. I guess the guys sitting at the top there have their ears too full to recognize the distant death toll, darling carbon dioxide and its friends are raising.

We just got to STOP burning those fuels that electric power to everyday commutation breathes in. Freon which created so much furor when discovered is making a hole in the ozone. But can all this lead us to sacrifice indispensables like say a refrigerator?? This is exactly the question we want to start answering with Delta T @ Pragyan in NIT Trichy this year.

Dear fellow engineers, let’s get to square one to try solving this threatening situation. Wrack your brains for a simple unit to cool water without the use of electricity. Who knows, we may jus be embarking on a saving the world mission !!

Register now!

Delta T:

Probably the coolest event in Pragyan this time! Here’s the problem. You are given water at room temperature. All you have to do is cool it to the lowest temperature in the least possible time. Sounds simple enough. But wait, there’s a catch… No electrically dependent cooling techniques. That means no fridges or freezers. Intriguing? In ΔT, you are invited to add a whole new dimension to the ancient art of cooling water. Come up with ideas as you try to gain a delta over your opponents in this chilled out event!

Registrations open now.

MorphoSEZ:

In the words of the noted American economist Ted Levit -

“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress”.

MorphoSEZ wants to provide you a platform to do just that, imagine and engineer. You have to design and build a scale model of a self sufficient Special Economic Zone complete with civic amenities and provision for efficient service systems.Let your thoughts flow, let the genius in you be known, let the undying human prowess to create, cast a halo all around.This event requires basics of town planning, landscaping, etc. If you have it in you to plan a township, or Special economic zone, for that matter, even the basics of town planning is enough, so the opportunity is knocking at your doorstep.

Registrations open now.

Concept Car Challenge (C3):

Ever had the idea of a dream car? Always wanted to make something cool and look like a product of science fiction?? Ever wanted to package a car with unimaginable features from radars to electric shavers?? Envied the batmobile and the TurboCat?? There’s much more crazy stuff you can do. Check out the earlier posts in the blog as well to see some crazy ideas in action.

This is where your craving meets opportunity. Invoke randomness upon thee and let your designing skill loose and come up with a super car that can rule the roads of the future.

Registrations open now.

At trichy, temperatures do soar but not quite as high. All of us know about “Delta T“, right? Let’s put deserts aside for now; by how much do you think you can lower the temperature of a liquid? Come on over to Pragyan ’09 and jump into one of the coolest events this year! Check out the event page for further details.