A six-member student team from the UPES School of Engineering won laurels for the University by securing second rank at the All India Solidworks xDesign Challenge. Over 1600 students in 249 teams from various educational institutions across India participated in the event.
The UPES team debated on various design concepts before finally deciding on a hybrid vehicle that could operate both on ground as well as in air.
The concept was to be designed on a new cloud based platform ‘xSOLIDWORKS’ whose access was provided to each member of the team by Dassault Systemes.The members of the UPES team comprised Aditya Kumar, Ayush Chaturvedi, Vanshika Katyal, Aishwerya Singh Gahlot, Ayush Gupta and Prabudh Sanket.