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Keeping up the spirit of the Thomsonians!! Wish you all the best

for the competition. - Mr Shreyas Kumar, 1999 batch

IIT Roorkee Motorsports Newsletter (Issue: August 2011)

Greetings to Everyone!!!

We proudly present in front of you, the second edition of our newsletter. After a lot of hard

work by the team, now it is a privilege to let you know about the project developments in

the last 2 months.

About 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, was the time given in the workshop for fabrication and

designing of the car and the team followed this harsh schedule for the entire period of

summer vacations before the beginning of the new 2011-12 session. Team members

enjoyed the vacations working hard in the workshop and trying their level best to achieve

the goals set earlier. Team member Aneesh Mittal, has arrived back from Germany, where

apart from his 2 month practical internship in FH Aachen University, he got an in-depth

practical experience of FSAE car fabrication while contributing to Aixtreme Racing, FH

Aachens FSAE team. Now we are ready to convert his experience into fruitful input for our

team.

A Message from our Faculty Advisor, Dr. R. P. Gakkhar:

The students are working very hard to achieve their goal. One year ago, an endeavour of

this scale was unimaginable. It is very bold on their part that they have successfully

ventured this far into unconquered territory. I wish them all the best to take the name of IIT

Roorkee to new heights in the field of Automobile Engineering. Thanks to all Alumni and

Sponsors for helping them achieve their goal and making their dream come true.

The following milestones were achieved in the last two months:

A healthy amount of funding was raised. All the important designs such as suspension geometry, steering geometry and major

CAD designs were completed

Roll Cage fabrication was completed. Team successfully registered in the FSAE Australasia 2011.

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Next milestone to be achieved:

Complete suspension system fabrication. Wheel, brake, suspension, roll cage assembly.

Above: Manufacturing the suspension A-Arms

Below: Inspecting the welded joints

Above: Completed frame with wheel mock-up

Below: TIG welding being performed by the team welder

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Overwhelming alumni support

We are really grateful to our alumni who are helping us financially as well as

guiding us to develop and maintain a proper approach for our goal. IIT RoorkeeMotorsports is thankful to the below mentioned names:

Name Year Designation

Dr. Shamsher

Prakash

1954 Professor Emeritus, Missouri University of

Science & Technology, USA

Mr. Karan Singh 1961,

Mechanical

USA

Mr. Pramod Saxena 1975, Chemical Chairman, Oxigen Services (India ) Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Pravesh

Srivastava

1975, Industrial Group President, HR & Strategy, Anand

Automotive India Ltd.

Mr. Ravi Sharma 1975, Industrial CEO, Adani Power Ltd.

Mr. A. K. Jain 1975 President, Jaypee Group

Mr. Ajay Rawat 1976 VP, Kronos Solutions

Mr. Pradeep Gupta 1976 Advisor, Dragonfly Education Ltd.

Mr. Abhai Johri 1978, E&C Executive VP, Integral Consulting Services,

USAMr. Sanjeev

Agarwal

1981, Industrial Country Manager, Strategic Principal

Accounts, IBM Singapore

Mr. Archan Pant 1982,

Mechanical

Chief Manager, Excise and Customs, IOCL

Mr. Vivek Verma Mechanical Specialist Senior, Delloite Consulting, USA

Mr. Sanjiv Sinha 1989, E&C USA

Mr. Kuldeep Kumar 1995, Civil Senior Engineer, Abu Dhabi Gas Industries

Ltd.

Mr. Veshaal Singh 1992, Electrical Senior Director, Oracle Corporation

Mr. CK

Vishwakarma

2002, Electrical Senior Manager, Project & Operations, KIT

Digital, Singapore

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Alumni Visits and Mentorship

Our special thanks to those who are giving their precious time and personally

mentoring the team to help us get the right direction.

Our Sponsors

We welcome our new sponsors this month:

Gold Sponsor: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Shamsher Prakash Foundation Media partner:Thinkdigit.com Manufacturing partner: Rockman Industries Apparel partner: Woodland

Mrs. Purnima Gupta 1968, Architecture USA

Mr. Kamendra Kumar 1982, E&C Group GM, TCIL, New

Delhi

Mr. Shreyas Kumar 1999, Architecture Senior Engineer, Oracle,

USA

Left: Mr Shreyas

Kumar on his personal

visit to our workshop.

His inspiring words

will be sincerely

followed by the team.

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Digit magazine

Digit is India's largest selling technology magazine, and also India's fastest growing

magazine across all categories. With a readership of over 1,99,000 nationwide and still

growing, it is rated as No. 1 in the IRS 2011 survey in the technology segment, and No. 9

across all monthly magazines across all segments. A monthly publication, the Digit package

includes a magazine with a 200-page reference guide called Fast Track and two dual-layer

DVDs with 16 GB of software, open source applications, games, movies and videos, e-

learning tutorials, wallpapers, mobile phone content and more. As per recent survey, every

Digit Community member influences tech spending of 8 of his peers. Digit includes a

perfect blend of news, events, latest product releases, process-driven test verdicts, buying

advice and game reviews.

Click hereto visitthinkdigit.com.

Our Sponsors: helping us achieve our dream!

Gold Sponsor: Indian Oil CorporationLimited

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. is India's largest company

by sales with a turnover of Rs. 3,28,744 crore and

profit of Rs. 7445.48 crore for the year 2010-11.

IndianOil is the highest ranked Indian company in the

latest Fortune Global 500 listings, ranked at the 98th

position. IndianOil's vision is driven by a group of

dynamic leaders who have made it a name to reckon

with.

Right: One of the toolkits used by

us to help us build our dream

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Anand Automotives Limited

Anand is among Indias leading manufacturers of automotive systems and components

with a record for supplying virtually every vehicle and engine manufacturer in the country.

With the largest range of automotive components, the Group recorded a sales turnover of

USD 933 Million in 2010, with a target to achieve $ 2 billion by 2014. Anand also has

verticals operating in the areas of Water & Waste Water technology and Luxury

Hospitality.

The group is known for its established and successful Global partnerships with a number

of the leading automotive component companies from around the world - each one being

a world leader in its area of operation. Anand has a total of 14 Joint Ventures and 8

Technical Licenses all of which stand testimony to Anand's well recognised spirit of

partnership.

Anand began operations in 1961 with the establishment of Gabriel India, the Group's

flagship Company in Mumbai for the production of Shock absorbers. Today, the Groupcomprises nineteen companies with 46 manufacturing locations spread across nine states

of the country.

The Group firmly believes that a successful business is substantially about people and its

most valued asset is its dedicated workforce of 10000 people. In order to reinforce its

commitment to its workforce, Anand lays great emphasis on the development of its

employees throughsustained and continuous training, conducted by its in-house technical

and management institute - Anand 'U'.

The strength of the Anand companies lies in their strong brand image, widespread

distribution network, product range, excellent quality, extensive Original Equipment

coverage, export markets, its Cellular manufacturing and JIT Systems, Technology

upgradation and international partnerships. The Group's capability to set up state-of-the-

art and highly efficient manufacturing plants gives it the competitive edge that sets it

apart.

It is a very bold step into the competitive world of

today. We are very proud of you boys!

-Mr. Kamendra Kumar, 1982 batch

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Workshop Photos Collage

Left: Perfecting the tube ends for the chassis with an angle grinder

Down: Checking the accuracy of the tubes on the jig

Left: Tubes prepared for welding

Down: View of the workshop

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We are open to the sponsors and have following slots available:

Title Sponsorship Associate Title Sponsorship Silver Sponsorship

If you are a company and find some interest in sponsoring our team or if you

are an Alumnus and want to offer us any kind of help please contact:

DR. R. P. GAKKHAR ASHMEET SINGH

FACULTY ADVISOR CAPTAIN

+91-9837422780 +91-7669583912

gakhrfme@gmail.com ashmeet.sidhu7@gmail.com

ANEESH MITTAL DIGENDRA RATHORE

VICE-CAPTAIN MARKETING HEAD

+91-9456318295 +91-9557020813

aneeshmittal10@gmail.com dsr.iitr@gmail.com