Notes from Dubai
Technofest at Dubai Campus
By Sakshi Vaghela (’05 CS)
BITS, Pilani - Dubai is committed to providing excellence in science and technology and to celebrate this creativity and innovation of its students the Institute organizes Technofest an annual science and technology festival.
A student describes his project to the judges.
Technofest is a platform for the students to demonstrate their engineering skills either by developing something unique or by presenting a technical paper. The event classifies entries into three categories – Working model, Non-working Model and Technical Paper Presentation. Every category has its own judgment criteria and is judged independently. Paper Presentations are further classified based on the field to which they belong and Software Systems are regarded as a separate class of working models. The event attracts sponsors who award prizes to the winners in each category.
Technofest 2007 was held from 26th April to 2nd May 2007 at the campus.
The judging panel comprised of faculty members - experts in their own fields who judged the participants and their projects based on proper sequencing, effective presentation, depth of knowledge, platform manner and response to questions.
About 23 technical papers, from four categories - Computer, Electrical, General Sciences and Mechanical Sciences were submitted which covered topics ranging from the latest technological discoveries like 'Quantum Cryptography' to the basic fundamentals of the sciences like 'Genome Mutation'. Participants were given about 12 minutes for their individual presentations and were then tested for their conceptual knowledge and originality by the questions put to them by the judges.
Exhibits like 'Water Level Monitoring system' - a working model, which as the name suggests could sense water level using probes and automatically fill a tank up to the desired level, and 'Moviz4rent' a software system that served as a portal to online transaction of media files after verifying the security code, were among the various innovative projects that showed the genius of BPD students.
