Letting students develop their products and become inventors, the GP way
   Date :14-Jun-2022

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Staff Reporter
Government Polytechnic (GP), Nagpur has set up two students-centric projects --Electric Vehicle Technologies and Product Development Centre. This is for the first time that any Diploma Engineering College in this region has set up such kind of facilities where students can conduct experiments on their own and become inventors. Recently, Higher and Technical Education Minister Uday Samant inaugurated the centres.
Product engineering involves the design, prototype creation, manufacturing and testing of a product in order to meet the customer's expectations and consider their preferences. In this connection Automobile Engineering Department of Government Polytechnic, Nagpur established the Product Development Centre under the aegis of Research and Development, Innovation and Incubation cell of the institute.
Dr G K Awari, Head, Department of Automobile Engineering explained, “Students at their liberty can visit product development centre with their ideas, develop any product where they would get all sort of help from the institute. They can build their career on the product or
invention they develop in the centre.”
Electric Vehicle Technologies centre too came into being considering the changing trend in automobile industry. Both these centres focus on incubation of products and its development for the benefit of society.
Electric Vehicle Laboratory is equipped with advanced equipment for battery testing at cell, module and pack levels. Apart from the batteries, testing on Battery Management System (BMS) is carried out to check any faulty cell condition.
The primary objective of the Product Development Centre is to facilitate and support development of projects, products or technology aimed at specific end use.
The Research and Development and project laboratory focussed on clearly identifying the needs for the progress of the technology so that the growth-specific efforts could be useful for the overall development of students. The laboratory will also help students to apply latest research techniques in their ongoing projects, elaborated Dr Awari.
Dr Manoj Daigavane, Principal of the institute, “The quality of infrastructure for electric vehicle connectivity in India is still in progressive mode.” He said that the actual results of research conducted in the electrical vehicle laboratory and concept of Product Development Centre in the institute.
Dr G. K. Awari, said, “There is a huge market for formation of capacitors as product in different shapes. College is doing ongoing research on super capacitor and its form factor and the role of super capacitor in e-vehicles.
Dr Kishor Dixit, Sr. Lecturer, Dr Samir Telang from Automobile Engineering department are working hard to make these centres function properly.