A group of five B Tech third year mining engineering students of IIT- ISM have earned laurels for the institute and country by securing third position in Student Design Competition (SDC)-2021 of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), the results of which were declared on Wednesday.

The first prize of the event went to the team of National University of Engineering of Lima (Peru) while the second prize was won by Universite Laval of Quebec, Canada.

The IIT-ISM team titled, Team Stabilizers, of Madhav Singhal, Amara Venkata Sai Srujan, Battula Sreeshma, Anjali Atreyi and Nimmangada Sravani, made the design of a metal mine as part of the competition competed with 167 participants across the globe at the initial webinar for the competition held on April 9.

Anjali Atreyi Gautam Dey

Madhav Singhal Gautam Dey

Only 40 teams of 29 universities from 17 countries could register for the competition of which 21 teams could submit their entries. Out of these 21 teams, six were selected after the first round for the presentation of their design and finally IIT-ISM team secured the third prize.

Though, the official result is yet to be published on the website but Gang Han, Incoming President of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) has posted the result of his Linkedin account https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gang-han-b6596a5_rockmechanics-geomechanics-activity-6813269031076843520-M1Rm/.

Amara Venkata Sai Srujan

Battula Sreeshma

S.K. Sinha, a faculty member of Mining Engineering department of IIT-ISM, who mentored the participating students for the competition said, “All the participants were given the same problem of making the design of slope of mine or metallic ore deposit suffering from the problem of water seepage.”

“The challenge before the team was to develope the deepest and safest mine by developing stable slope to extract ore in most economical manner and we are happy that our team won the third prize,” said Sinha.

Nimmagadda Sravani

“It is a great achievement of IIT-ISM as for the first time the students of university won the prize at such an international level competition,” said A.K. Mishra, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering of IIT-ISM.