IC-ACI STUDENTS’ CUBE TESTING COMPETITION-2022 & IC-ACI STUDENTS’ ESSAY COMPETITION-2022
India Chapter of launched and successfully conducted the “2022 Concrete Cube Test” and Essay” Competitions” for students of Civil Engineering Colleges/Institutes with the support of Board of Direction of India Chapter of ACI and sustained efforts of active Member of Board of Direction, Mr. Satish C Dhupelia, the Principal Coordinator for Activities of Students’ Chapters of India Chapter of ACI, and also as Principal Convener for both these Students’ Competitions, and also with active support of, and promoted by various Mentors of ALL the “IC-ACI STUDENTS’ CHAPTERS in India. This year also ICACI has received very good response from students from various Civil Engineering Colleges all over India.
- 2022 Cube Test Competition:
This Cube Testing Competition, aims at providing an opportunity to Students of Civil Engineering, and to acclimatize themselves, for (i) Design the Concrete Mix, (2), make the Concrete with their own Hands, (3) Cast the Test Cubes, (4) Cure them for 28 Days of Curing/Caring,(5) transporting, and (6) witnessing Actual Testing of Cubes, so prepared by them.
It was organised from 1st August 2022 to 20th September 2022 under following 11 Nodal Centers of Student Chapter of ICACI. We feel proud to announce that 3 Students from following each Nodal Centres were selected as 1st, 2nd and 3rd Rankers for the Cube Test Competition.
| COLLEGE AND STUDENTS NAMES | RANK | COLLEGE AND STUDENTS NAMES | RANK |
| TERNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE: | D.Y. PATIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: | ||
| MENTOR:DR. PRIYANKA JADHAV | MENTOR:DR. S. M. SHIYEKAR | ||
| Mohammed Umair Choudhary | I | Abhishek Shinde | I |
| Rohit Borate | Rahul Bhuse | ||
| Irfan Shaikh | Sanskruti Chintawar | ||
| Deepak Nayansing Rajput | II | Kiran Krushnaji | II |
| Harshil Rasik Koladiya | Aryan Adhau | ||
| Yashasvi Anilkumar Yadav | Girisha Pawar | ||
| Kunal Dhurandhar | III | Siddhi Kolekar | III |
| Aaditya Gupta | Payal Thakore | ||
| Sahil Koli | Vishwa Nikam | ||
| SANJAY GHODAWAT UNIVERSITY: | ST. JOHN COLLEGE OF ENGG & MANT: | ||
| MENTOR: DR. CHETAN PATIL | MENTOR: PROF. SHREESHAIL B. H. | ||
| Anushka S. Kore | I | Asmita Dethe | I |
| Mayuri S. Ligade | Vaishnavi Patil | ||
| Omkar S. Tulsankar | Lingaraj Birajdar | ||
| Ashish Ayrekar | II | Shreya Bari | II |
| Prathmesh Powar | Prerna Kasar | ||
| Prathmesh Wangle | |||
| Khushal Patel | III | Bhushan Malvi | III |
| Atharav S. Patil | Chiraj Patil | ||
| Rohan Patil | Sagun Parab | ||
| KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE: | KPR INSTITUTE OF ENGG & TECH: | ||
| MENTOR: DR. G. S. RAMPRADHEEP | MENTOR: DR. MEENAKSHI B. S. | ||
| Arun.R | I | Siddarth S. | I |
| Dharanyaa.R | Vineshwaran P. | ||
| Alex.S | Jaiprakash | ||
| Arun J. | II | Nithishkrishnanaa K. | II |
| Dhanushri M. | Chiranjeevi M. | ||
| Dilbar Mohammed Naseer | Swathika M. | ||
| Nandhini.J | III | Lokesh Kumar M. S. | III |
| Kalam Jawhar Hameed.S | Dhamodaran R. S. | ||
| V.V.Suthakaran | Girinath R. | ||
| Sundaravalli .R | III | ||
| Subashri .S | |||
| Umabharathi. C | |||
| MARWADI UNIVERSITY: | SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECH: | ||
| MENTOR: DR. ANKUR BHOGAYATA | MENTOR:DR. SINDHU S. | ||
| Priyankaba Jadeja | I | Deepu A | I |
| Aryan Shigrakhia | Purushothaman | ||
| Drasti Buddh | Lokeshkumar B | ||
| Dimple Virsodiya | II | Vikraam Chandra R S | II |
| Anu M. Nakum | Vedha Varshini S | ||
| Mansi J. Chavda | Porchezhian S | ||
| Varasada Shubh Niteshbhai | III | Pavan Raj N | III |
| Bumatariya Chirag Jayeshbhai | Shriram S | ||
| Parmar Vivek Rajeshbhai | Suriya R | ||
| PSG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: | RAJARAMBAPU COLLEGE OF ENGG: | ||
| MENTOR: PROF. S. ELAYRAJA | MENTOR: PROF. MAYUR MASKE | ||
| Karthick.A.R | I | Hemant Pandurang Lohar | I |
| Manikandan.K | |||
| Santhosh.D | |||
| Muthulakshmanan.M | II | Shivam Dhananjay Mali | II |
| Aejaz Ahamed.A | Pratikesh Sanjay Phadtare | ||
| Afra.M.K | Smita Smbhaji Patil | ||
| Madhan Kumar G | III | ||
| Keerthiprakash.M | |||
| Sanjay.J | |||
| NANDHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE: | |||
| MENTOR: DR. E. K. MOHANRAJ | |||
| G. Sugesh Kumar | I | ||
| S. Vasantha Kumar | |||
| S. Aravinth | |||
(2) 2022 Essay Competition:
Essay Competition was organised in 10th September 2022 for students from Civil Engineering Colleges. The topic of Essay was “Fire Protection to Concrete”. The essays have been scrutinised by dignitaries and 3 students are selected as top 3 winners from the following college for this Competition.
| KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE | |
| MENTOR:DR. G. S. RAMPRADHEEP | |
| STUDENTS’ NAMES | RANK |
| Dharanyaa.R | I |
| Dhanushri M. | II |
| Baraneetharan R. | III |
The winners of the above two competitions has been awarded by India Chapter of ACI with appropriate plaques, certificates, and with cash prizes of Rs.10000/- for 1st Rank, Rs.7000/- for 2nd Rank, and Rs.3000/- for 3rd Rank, and certificates to the participants on 7th October 2022 during Its International Conference on “Moderns Trends in Construction Technology” held at hotel Lalit Mumbai.
Wide publicity was given to these competition given through the Chapter’s Journal and other technical journal, Chapter Website, and social media.
IC-ACI Board of Direction congratulated the winners of the above competitions and wishes them all the best for their future career.
Dr. Rampradheep G.S. is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Dr. Yogini Deshpande holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Mumbai University.
Shashank V. Mehendale is the founder and Principal Consultant of M/s Shashank Mehendale & Associates (SMA) – a multi-disciplinary organization that has been serving the construction industry for the last two decades.
Mr. Suhas R. Barve completed his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from IIT Bombay in 1983. At present he runs his owns consultancy firm, M/s. Barve Consultants, which specializes in Structural Designing, Architectural Planning, Interior Designing, Consultancy for Structural Repairs and PMC for Re-Development etc.
An internationally acclaimed authority on several aspects of cement, manufacturing and concrete technology, Dr. Subrato Chowdhury is the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Concrete Technologist’ Award from Indian Concrete Institute in 2012.
A renowned Consulting Structural and Civil Engineer, Mr. Dhupelia has for the past 45 years designed Structures of various kinds and complexities. He has adopted both conventional and modern technologies of construction in his projects spanning large housing and commercial complexes, industrial projects, high rise buildings, sewage and water treatment plants for private and public bodies and for World Bank aided projects.
Since 1984 Umesh Magar has been in the construction industry building some of India’s most successful ‘Sustainable Integrated Townships’.
