Events & Seminars

A research paper titled “Four Wheel Electric Car for Handicapped” by Keshav Sha and Prof. G R Tyagi was accepted for presentation at “International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Engineering and Technology (ICCIET-2014) during March 19th - 21st, 2014 at Merchant Engineering College, Sardar Patel Institutes of Technology, Mehsana, Gujrat. Keshav Sharma and Kapil Kumar attended the conference and presented the paper. The research paper is based on ‘Disabled Friendly Design and Fabrication of a Four-Wheel Electric Car’.

This work is an attempt of designing a vehicle for handicapped with Optimization in Design and has been accomplished after studying merits and demerits of various available designs of similar vehicles in India and abroad. The main objective was to provide independence, convenience and safety to the handicapped. The peculiar feature of the design is that, the wheel chair which is in routine use of the handicapped will itself mount on the vehicle without outside help as driver’s seat and dismount similarly. In addition to other design features of convenience to the handicapped, the vehicle has also been provided with redundancy in operation of controls with hands as well feet, at instant choice of the rider for better safety.

Students got benefited from the opportunity of attending an International Conference by interacting with leading academicians in the field. Their work received appreciation from the audience.