IIT-Madras open house on innovation

Chennai: Students from various departments of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, will showcase their projects on Sunday as part of the Centre for Innovation (CFI) open house. They will exhibit numerous innovative projects, automated machines and formula student race cars, made by the students of IIT, Madras.

 

According to a press release from the institute, CFI, which has come about from funds donated by the 1981 batch at IIT-M, was set up in 2008 with an objective to be a forum for the creative output of the budding engineers of IIT Madras.

 

The institute conducts a CFI open house every year to showcase students’ innovation and research. This year, visitors to the pen house will be able to see multi-rotors hovercraft, capable of travelling over land, water, mud or ice, devised by the students.

 

The students have also come up with Flying Wing, a tailless fixed-wing aircraft, which has no definite fuselage, with most of the crew, payload and equipment being housed inside the main wing structure. The CFI open house will also showcase an alert system for the hearing impaired, besides an autonomous surface boat, a project aimed at developing a boat that could navigate through water bodies.