KAIZEN is a term end event for the Final year students. This event is organized in form of a "Open House" wherein students present their Project works to the external jury members. This time GTU had come up with the concept of "Internship". Under this scheme, the students or department had to contact relevant Industries where students had to work as Interns for a period of 12 weeks. At the end of the said tenure, the students have to produce the output in form of Comprehensive report and Poster and few other allied documents such as Daily log book ,Attendance sheet etc. KAIZEN is an event where students presented their Internship work to the Jury members invited from Industry. The final year internship projects were distributed for evaluation between the Civil engg dept and Applied Mechanics Dept. Out of 49 Internship projects under the preview of Applied Mechanics, 20 projects were internally shortlisted to be present before the Jury Members on 22nd April'2022. Eminent experts were invited as jury members of the event. One of the jury members was Mr. Shreyaans Doshi, Owner, Swetraj Group and another jury members was Mr. Sandip Patel, Dy. Executive Engineern, Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority, Gandhinagar. The top two projects as evaluated by Jury were felicitated by H'ble Education Minister on 27thApril'22 in a grand event organized by the Institute. A detailed report of the entire event is attached herewith.
West Zone Champions Institute of Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG) is organizing prestigious NATIONAL LEVEL DESIGN COMPETITION FOR STUDENTS 2021. They select four teams from each zone. This is matter of pride that all 4 teams qualified are from West zone are from LD College of Engineering... The competition demanded every team to design "An Open Air Theatre". LDCE teams comprising of final year Civil Engineering students and mentored by Prof. C.D. Patel (AMD). Teams LDCE had dominated the competition by securing all four positions by healthy margin compared to other renowned colleges/universities of West zone. These teams became West Zone Winners. Later on 2 of the teams also bagged the Runner ups position in the Final Round. It is a matter of pride for the departments as students won accolades in a National Level event of high order.
A Patent entitled " Sand-Free Unfired bricks and manufacturing method therof" granted for 20 years on 26.7.21 to Prof.Poonam I. Modi & Dr.Rajul K. Gajjar by Intellectual Property India, GoI, Patent office, with Patent No 372690 for the term of 20 years from the 19th day of June 2019.
Manthan Patel, Student of B.E. Sem VIIth was declared the Zonal Champion from West Zone in the Ultra Tech India Next Stimulus – an exclusive quiz competition designed for the Civil Engineering students across India by Ultra Tech Pvt. Ltd. This year quiz had participation from 492 institutes, with over 2000 students from 22 states and 4 Union Territories. Quiz was conducted digitally at various levels with the Zonal and the Final rounds as most crucial. Manthan Patel turned out to be Zonal Champion under the guidance of Prof.C.D.Patel.
Aditya Pal, Shruti Tripathi & Dhraiya Chavda got 1st Runner up position in Sparkling Star contest finale held on 27th March 2021. The students bagged The contest is organized by Ultra-tech Pvt. Ltd. Out of 3 teams which had participated in contest held in offline mode on 8th & 9th March’2021, 2 teams were shortlisted for the finale round. Prof.Poonam I. Modi had mentored all the 3 teams.
Venica Maclean, 3rd Year Civil Engineering, Volunteer of NSS, LDCE, represented Gujarat on Rajpath, Delhi in the parade held on the auspicious day of 72nd Republic Day on 26thJan’2021. She bought laurels to the college as she became part of the NSS Platoon.
Aditya Pal & Monit Pal, students of the 3rd Year Civil Engineering , secured 1st Runner up Position in “ National Level Event ICI National Concrete Quizathon on 26th – 28th Feb’2021” organized by Department of Civil Engineering and Indian Concrete Institute Students Chapter, Nirma University in association with Nuvoco Vistas Corp Ltd. Prof.Poonam I. Modi had mentored all the students. Out of 134 teams from across India had participated out of which 9 teams from department had qualified the Eliminator Round to enter into the Qualifier round. 5 out of these 9 teams made to the Final Round.
The Applied Mechanics Department of LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad organized a 5 day long online short-term training programme (STTP) on “Novel Advances in Ingredients of Sustainable Construction Materials” from 1-5 June, 2021, under the aegis of The Institution of Engineers (India) Student’s Chapter, Ahmedabad. This training programme has been approved by the Directorate of Technical Education & Indian Society for Technical Education and Sponsored by Gujarat Council for Sciences and Technology (GUJCOST) and LDCE Alumni Association (LAA). This STTP was inaugurated by Dr. Soumen Maity - Sr. GM & Asst. VP of Development Alternatives, New Delhi in a well-attended opening inaugural session.This training programme attracted over 130 participants from various regional and national level engineering colleges. Insightful sessions were delivered by experts from Industry, Academia, Consulting companies, Developmental Institutions and R&D Institutes, covering range of topics within the realm of STTP theme like (1) few related to sustainable materials like AAC Blocks, Green Quaternary Cement, fly-ash based cement and mortar, (2) Few related to use of different types of wastes in concrete, like Plastic, Sandstone, granite & marble cutting waste, and related to recycling of C&D waste (3) Few related to emerging initiatives and practices in construction and cement industry and for mass housing. The major takeaway from the STTP was The sustainability story and its future in construction sector depends on the evolution in construction techniques and materials acquisition that can reduce waste, energy and various inefficient practices adopted at sites. A green and circular economy approach should be the pivot of sustainability. Researchers, academicians must have eye for such wastes that has potential as replacement to conventional ingredients of concrete however one must not always attempt 100% substitution in the first trial. The yardstick for evaluating the efficacy of the wastes replacing the virgin materials must not restrict only to strength but should include durability, thermal comfort, energy efficiency & cost. The material should qualify all the important tests. The research fraternity has to think out of the box and have to muster courage to explore the new types of wastes with a strong rationale behind proposing the incorporation of the chosen waste into construction material. The valedictory session was presided over by Dr.M.N.Patel (Pro -Vost, Parul University) as Chief Guest & Shri Atul Shah ( Vice President, L.D.Alumni Association) as Guest of Honour. & The entire STTP was efficiently conceptualized by Prof.Poonam I. Modi and was well co-ordinated by Prof.Deepak Tarachandani, Prof.Ashwin G. Hansora & Prof.Poonam I. Modi under the able leadership of Major.Dr.C.S.Sanghvi. This STTP provided effective platform to various practitioners of Civil Engineering community to share their knowledge and ideas and most important outcome of this STTP was not the knowledge about emerging trend in construction materials but the inculcation of curiosity to delve deeper in this area
The department of Applied Mechanics of L.D. College of Engineering under the aegis of Indian Geotechnical Society, Ahmedabad Chapter and Institution of Engineer (I), organized a Short term training Program in Online mode on Recent Trends in Environmental Geotechnics for Sustainable Development” from 22nd-26th March 2021. This STTP was sponsored by GUJCOST, IGS & IEI and approved by DTE & ISTE. The 5 day long program had an array of eminent speakers from prestigious Academic, Indus trial and government bodies deliberating on crucial issues. The speakers made an invaluable contribution through their insightful lectures on currently relevant topics such as mitigation of environment hazards, solid waste management, waste disposal using nano-technology or innovative lining materials, migration rate of nuclear waste and its safe disposal methods. The Inaugural session of the STTP was presided over by Prof.Dr.D.N. Singh(Institute Chair Professor) from IIT Bombay & Dr.Amit Prashant (Professor & Dean of R&D, IIT Gandhinagar). The major takeaway from the STTP was “waste if treated appropriately can be utilized effectively for sustainable development”. A total of 110 participants inclusive of academicians, research scholars and industry persons took the benefit of enlightening sessions. The STTP opened an entire new avenue of R&D works in areas such as valorization of legacy waste, Industry byproducts, carbon capture utilization and storage, energy geotechnics. The speakers from esteemed bodies such as IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT B huvneshwar, BITS Pilani, NIT Trichi, IIT Guwahati, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Irrigation department (GoG), Macferri India Ltd, IIT Gandhinagar were invited for the online sessions during the training program. The valedictory session was presided over by Prof.Dr.N.M.Samidhya (President, IGS) & Dr.Sachin Parikh ( Joint Director, Directorate of Technical Education, Gandhinagar). The entire STTP was efficiently conceptualized by Dr.M.V.Shah and well co-ordinated by Dr.M.V.Shah & Prof. Alpa J. Shah and co-coordinated by Prof.Shalini Singh under able guidance of Prof.Dr.C.S.Sanghvi.
PG Geo-tech student was awarded Gold Medal during the GTU Convocation for his excellent academic performance.
