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MBCET is associating with Information and Communication Technology Academy of Kerala (ICTAK) to impart IR 4.0 skills to our students and it’s a matter of pride for MBCET to be part of building the Nation’s future. Through this association, we are opening new vistas of activity based, experiential and technology oriented learning for our students.

Team B_SQUAD from MBCET bagged the First Prize for MIME at Dhanak 2019 -The Annual Cultural Festival of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (lIST), Trivandrum on 28 September 2019

The team members are:
Henry Christudas Issac (S3 ME1)
Anashwara Binod (S3 ME1)
Swaroop Narayan (S3 ME1)
Amal Joy (S3 ME1)
Devapriya Nair (S7 CE1)

NASA Space Apps Challenge, a part of NASA’s Earth Science Division, is the World’s Largest Global Hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens each year across the globe in a 48-hour global hackathon to work with NASA in building innovative solutions for challenges we face on Earth and in space using open source data.  The Team from MBCET won the State Level Competition and got selected to the National Level Competition at New Delhi. The team members are:

Jobby Johnson (S7 EE2)

Jerin Sam James (S7 EE1)

Rahul B. George (S7 CS2)

Vighnesh Muraly (S5 CS1)

AiDrone Pvt. Ltd. has signed an MoU with Cyberdome, the technological research and development centre of Kerala Police, on developing drones for disaster management at the Kerala Police Headquarters.

AiDrone is a Startup owned by the alumni of MBCET – Ani Sam Varghese (2012-2016 batch of ME), Joji John Varghese (2012-2016 batch of EC) and Nibin Peter (2013-2017 batch of CS).

Emmanuel Thomas of S7 CE1 bagged Third prize of Rs. 60000/- + Tab in the Athens of the East International Grandmaster Tournament held in Madurai from 10 August to 17 August 2019

Emmanuel Thomas has scored an International FIDE rating of 1435. His current National rankings among active chess players in India and Asia is 3088 and 12884 respectively.

FIDE rating is an International Rating System used in Chess to calculate an estimate of the strength of the player based on his/her performance with other players. Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand has a FIDE rating of 2756.

Mr. Ranjith H., Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering secured Gold Medal in the 120kg+ category at the 4th Trivandrum District Classic Powerlifting Championship held on 18 August 2019.

Final year CS students of MBCET took part in an AI & Deep Learning Workshop and Internship that was conducted by LeadingIndia.ai at Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh during June and July.

The workshop was one week long where the students had hands on experience on various platforms of AI and Deep Learning. Further, they had an internship project to work with various members guided by a faculty mentor.

During this event they had participated in a hackathon and also written a paper for their respective projects. The student team comprised of:

Final year students from various departments of MBCET participated in the Australian  Immersion Program 2019 conducted by Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia in July 2019.

The focus of this program was to design projects and make the students capable of developing new ideas to bridge the gap between the two countries. During the first week, students were familiarized with the history of the university. Various sessions for developing students’ communication skills were also conducted. Students’ ingenuity was tested by asking them to come up with an innovative idea and presenting it to a panel of experts. If the panel liked it, then it would be implemented in their country. The program ended with acknowledging the student team for their efforts.

The students who took part in this program were:

Aparna K. (S7 CS1)

Marcia Rajan (S7 CS2)

Vaishak Ramachandran (S7 CS2)

Jeswin James (S7 ME)

Aditya Raj of S8 EC2 won the Second Prize at College Level and qualified for Zonal Level of IET PATW. He secured First Prize at Zonal Level and qualified for South Asia Level.

Finally, got the Third Prize at the South Asia Level of the prestigious Present Around The World (PATW) competition organized by IET.