Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering (MITE), Moodabidri was today awarded as the ‘Best Performing College of the Year 2020’ at the 43rd series of the Student Project Program of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST). The Award Ceremony was conducted through Virtual Mode on Monday, September 21st, 2020. Also, Four Projects from MITE were awarded the “Best Project of the year -2020”. The event is supported by the Department of Science & Technology of State Government through KSCST. A total of 23 Innovative Projects from MITE had bagged sponsorship through KSCST in the year 2019-20.

Four Student Projects of MITE from various Departments were selected for the Best Project of the Year Award. The project “Design and Modeling of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine to extract energy from Highways to Power Electric Vehicle charging Stations” by Sanjay M V, Clavin W Sequeira, T D Teeshma, and Vishalakshi T B was guided by Mr. Vishwareetha K R, Assistant Professor of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. The project “Generation of Photo Realistic Images using GAN and SPADE” by Adarsh K R, Akshaya M, Shubham Dogra was guided by Dr. Venkatramana Bhat P, Professor & Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. The project “Intelligent Wiper system for Vehicles” by Arun Kumar, Prasad, Suman P N, Vishwanatha J was guided by Mr. Dony A D’Souza, Sr Asst Professor of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. The project “Remote operated Arecanut plucking and spraying Machine” by Pramith Shetty, Venkatesh Prabhu N, Rakesh, Ashwin K was guided by Mr. Purandara Naik and Mr. Bhanuprakash H S, Asst Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.