Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, organized a two day Workshop cum Competition entitled “India’s Biggest Civil Championship” in association with ARK Techno Solution in collaboration with IIT Bombay on February 20th - 21st, 2015. 42 students of 2nd and 3rd year civil engineering students participated in the program. Mr. Sarvagya Tripathi and student coordinators Vijay Singh, Prabhat Ranjan Patel and Manendra Kr. Yadav from Department of Civil Engineering coordinated with the trainer from ARK Techno Solution.

Hon’ble Director Dr. S.K. Bagga, DGI, immigrated the session welcoming the trainers Mr. Nishant Singh, Mr. Shatrughan Yadav and Mr. Vishwas. Prof. D V Bhise, HOD CE, delivered his valuable talk to motivate the students.

Mr. Nishant Singh, in his presentation, emphasized on basic terminology used in bridge engineering, parts of bridge etc. Students were advised to do case study of extraordinary bridges in the world.

In the post lunch session Mr. Vishwas distributed truss designing software to each group of the participants and demonstrated also how to use software effectively for designing a truss bridge and gave suggestions to design bridges. Each group of student had a task to design minimum five trusses by using software. Mr. Vishwas defined the criteria to choose the best possible design out of five designed trusses, which will students fabricate in next day of workshop.

Day 2 began with Mr. Shatrughan’s presenting various types of joints, their relative importance according to position in truss. He explained that in competitions of this nature, the winning design is often not the most structurally sound or cost effective, but the most efficient.

In the next session trainers provided students with fabrication material. The students had to fabricate one truss out of five trusses which students had designed the previous day.

After fabrication of bridges, testing of each group bridge started. The group of Amar Singh, Mohit Sagar, Aayush Chitransh, Amit Kumar and Rohit kumar, students of Civil Engineering 3rd year, was announced the winner one . This group’s truss bridge had a self-weight of 599 gram and failure load of bridge was 12.5 kg.

The workshop cum competition came to an end with certificates distribution among the participants. It was indeed a great educational practical workshop.