Annual Report
Road Safety Awareness Campaign
Inspired by the Government of India’s initiative, Aakaar organised its first
ever road safety awareness campaign online , during the National Road
Safety Month announced by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. As a
part of the campaign , Aakaar organised :
1. Startup Talk titled, “Road to Autombile Safety with AI & Computer
Vision”, where we had Mr. Nisarg Pandya, Founder of Drivebuddy AI
startup, talk with one of our civil senior Mr. Pranav Deo, Overall
Coordinator of UMIC, IIT Bombay ( working on SeDriCa, IIT Bombay)
2. First Annual Road Safety Webinar 2021- Piyush Tewari , founder and
CEO of SaveLife Foundation spoke at the webinar , hosted by our
professor of Civil Department, Prof. Avijit Maji.
3. ARSAQ- Aakaar Road Safety Awareness Quiz was organised, where
participants had to solve 100 questions in a half hour time, and take
the Good Samaritan Pledge. Over 1000+ students participated and
took the pledge to help road crash victims and make themselves
aware of the Good Samaritan Law
4. Safety Saturday Blogs during the campaign, co-authored by our
sophomore co-ordinators and fresher organisers , informed our
followers about the socio-technical aspects of Road Safety in India.
The Campaign saw participation of 2000+ people in a span of 1 month. We
hope to reach more people with our awareness initiative in the next editions
to come.
InfraBharat Lecture Series
In this one of kind lineup of webinars, we invited top engineers and
architects from the infrastructure industry, to talk about the design, planning
and management of some of the key-megaprojects of India, in which they
had been involved in various capacities.
1. Atal Tunnel. Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Head of Planning ,
Rohtang Project, AFCONS
2. Motera Stadium- Mr. Mualik Shah and Mr. Dutt
3. Jewar Airport
4. Tata Projects Smog Control Tower
Workshops
Students were given an opportunity to get hands-on experience with
technical softwares like Etabs, [Link] and Revit. Organised in
association with Autodesk and Bentley Institute, the certified instructors
from the reputed parent firms of the software, conducted highly technical
and informative sessions with students, detailing various aspects of the
software and technical applications and IS codes. The following workshops
were conducted
1. Autodesk Revit- 5 Day weekday evening workshop in 2-hr sessions
each. The structured course like workshop gave students ample
opportunity and time to digest the content, and explore more than
what is taught. Over the period of workshop, exclusive recordings
were made available to participants to aid the learning process. The
workshop received great positive response with more than 300
participating students.
2. Autodesk InfraWorks- 1 Day, 6 hour session was conducted on the
main event day of Aakaar, to give students an introduction to the
cloud based software. The instructor have ample time to practice
hands-on during workshop. The students , by the end of workshop
were equipped with enough knowledge and practice to be able to
explore further and take up intermediate courses to enhance learning.
3. Autodesk Fusion 360 This relatively new, multi-disciplinary , and
powerful yet lightweight software was introduced to the students,
along with its wide range of applications, in a 6 Hour session on 20th
March. The students modelled various objects ranging from a cup to
complex parts and compartmentalised those to make them
3d-printable. The concept of generative design was perhaps the most
intriguing part of the workshop, and the students seemed eager to
explore it more after the workshop. With over 250 students attending
the live workshop, the session was an enthusiastic success.
4. Bentley Institute [Link] The 8-hour session was conducted by
3 eminent instructors from the Bentley Institute. Starting with
understanding the interface, the session moved on to making various
structural elements and the codes associated with them. The
workshop ended with an exclusive session on Seismic Design by Mr.
Sanjib Das, one of India’s topmost instructor of Bentley Institute. The
session was well received by students with a 300+ participation and
stellar technical feedback.
iINTERNATIONAL CIVIL ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM 2021:
CASE COMPETITION:
- The first-ever Case Competition was launched with 5 Problem statements made by Profs
and PhDs from the sub-fields of Transportation Engineering, Water Resources,
Construction Technology and Management and Remote Sensing and GIS from CSRE, IIT
Bombay.
- 11 final presentations were done on the day of event with teams from IITB & some other
prestigious colleges like IIT Roorkee, IIRS Dehradun, etc.
- A judge panel of 9 professors were involved in the judging
POSTER PRESENTATION:
- A total of 16 teams participated from various subfields like Geotechnical Engineering,
Environmental Engineering, Construction Technology and Management.
- 2 professors were involved for the judging
PAPER PRESENTATION
- Papers were called under the themes of
1. Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Infrastructures
2. Technology Trends in Civil Engineering
3. Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability
- A total of 25 teams came for the final Presentation from various subfields like
Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Technology and Management, Structural
Engineering, Water Resources etc
- A judge panel of 11 professors were involved for the selections & final judging.
Competitions:
1. Envizn: Architecture competition
This was the first ever competition of the architecture realm in Aakaar. Its motive was to bring
diversity in fest and encompass more academic fields which keeps direct or indirect relation with
civil engineering.
Competition aimed at designing a Skyscraper Model from an aesthetic point of view with certain
specifications.
Participants could participate in a team of maximum 3 members.
Launched on: 10th Feb 2021
Total teams registered: 150+
Total number of teams in final stage: 50+
Two professors from an architecture college were invited as judges for the competition.
Winners: 4 teams(Two teams at 2nd position)
1st position from Sinhgad college of architecture and Symbiosis skills and professional
university Pune
2nd position from SPA Delhi
3rd position: SPA Delhi
Prize money: 30,000 INR
The competition witnessed a huge quality participation of students from renowned architecture
colleges nationwide like School of planning and architecture and various other esteemed
architecture institutes across India.
This competition proved to be a great success, fitted best in the online fest and made its count
among the best of competitions leaving behind the conventional competitions like bridgeit.
2. Industrial design problem (Theme: Durability of concrete)
The civil engineering industry deals with many challenges in day-to-day life that most are
unaware of. And to bridge this gap and connect the budding civil engineers of the future to
outside industrial affairs, we conducted an Industrial Design Problem, IDP competition.
The theme of the problem statement revolved around the durability of concrete.
The competition gave the students, the taste of the civil engineering industrial
problems and made them learn and explore the industry.
Problem statement was given by JSW cement. The company had an ongoing project of the
marine [Link] problem statement of the competition was derived from it.
Launched on: 15th Feb 2021
Number of teams in final: 30
Prize money: 20,000 INR
Winners: 3 teams
1st position from IIT Bombay
2nd position from NIT Trichy
3rd position from Jadavpur university
The jury panel was constituted of the two technical team members of JSW cement.
The competition again was a great success with highly competing teams from various
engineering colleges across India.
3. AutoCAD drafting competition
● On-spot time based competition on the 14th March
● Participants had to make a 4BHK plan given in the puzzled manner in the problem
statement within the prescribed time
Prize money: 5000 INR
4. CiviQ National level online civil engineering quiz competition
The competition has quizzes consisting of logical and aptitude questions with the significant
domain of civil engineering.
Final round was conducted on 14th March with a total of 150 selected participants.
5. BIM Software competitions
1. Revit Structure competition (Prize money : 15,000 INR)
2. Fusion designing competition (Prize money : 15,000 INR)
3. Staad Pro analysis competition (Prize money: 15,000 INR)
The competitions were associated with workshops conducted by Aakaar.
They witnessed multidisciplinary participation from even non-civil engineering branches like
Industrial design and Mechanical engineering.
