ECE students of Chitkara University H.P. turn entrepreneurs @Chitkara Mandi

Chitkara Business School organizes Chitkara Mandi every year during Oct-Nov at Paras Downtown Zirakpur where MBA students are evaluated for their Sales & Marketing Skills. From last couple of years ECE department of Chitkara University Himachal Pradesh is also taking part in the event where ECE students demonstrate, promote and sell their low cost, innovative electronic products designed by them in university labs.

Students posing inside their stall

Last year Chitkara Mandi was held during November 6-7 and around 20 ECE students participated with 4 electronic products all designed, developed and manufactured in university labs. Schematic and PCB layout design of electronic circuits was carried out using Proteus PCB designing tool. PCBs were manufactured in-house using copper clad boards etched using Ferric Chloride followed by assembly of components. Once the electronics was ready, the circuits were beautifully packaged inside aesthetically designed casings by the students.

The products designed by students were

MBox - MBox was a portable music box which contained an audio amplifier circuit and an inbuilt speaker.	3D Floral Lamp - This product was designed keeping festival in mind. The lamp contained LEDs and timing circuit that gives the fading effect.
Automatic Lamp - An LED Lamp that turns-on automatically during evening and turns-off during morning.	LED Cube - This product based on microcontroller. It uses ATMEGA328 8-bit microcontroller from ATMEL which is programmed to give 18 different set of patterns in 4X4X4 LED cube matrix.