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Well it really sounds gr8, two Indian students among 14 all over the world is gonna participate in the NASA's annual meeting at Atlanta.




Well it really sounds gr8, two Indian students among 14 all over the world is gonna participate in the NASA's annual meeting at Atlanta

A team of two students from Karunya University are among the 14 selected from all over the world by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to attend its annual meeting at Atlanta, the United States.

The team consisting of Susheel Michael Jones and M. Vinay, third year students of the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, participated in the student contest organised under the aegis of the Fundamental Aeronautics Programme of the A eronautics Research Mission Directorate of the NASA. They had to design an aircraft for 2058.

Susheel and Vinay presented ideas for making an aircraft that will require less runway space, will be less in weight and cost but high in safety.

The project included ideas as to the material that will be used, the means by which it can be made safe and protected from being attacked, etc.

Though two teams – one from the U.S. and the other from Anna University, Madras – were judged winners, the other 12 teams (only two from India) have been recognised for their innovative ideas and invited to attend the meeting of the NASA for a special student session.

Susheel and Vinay will visit (accompanied by their faculty adviser C. Kezi Selva Vijila) Atlanta to attend the meeting which is scheduled from October 6 to 9.

Both of them have been in touch with other team members over e-mail. While Vinay wants to pursue higher studies in nanotechnology and go in for defence research, Susheel has plans to become an entrepreneur and manufacture environment-friendly products.