Pune to host the Asia Pacific round of Present Around The World Competition

After the successful completion of local and national rounds, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a world leading professional society for engineering and technology, is hosting the Asia Pacific finals of Present Around The World (PATW) Competition in India’s emerging education hub Pune.

Date : July 30, 2010
Venue : Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune

PATW is amongst one of the most awaited and exciting international events organized by IET. The competition judges the contestants by their presentation skills and knowledge on technical content, which are split in 75:25 ratio. This enables young professionals at varying levels of their studies or career to participate at the competition. PATW is arranged in four levels:

1. Local (Students of the engineering colleges in each local network)
2. National (Winners of each local network in the country)
3. Asia Pacific  (Winners of each country in the Asia Pacific Region)
4. Final competition in UK (Winners of each region in the world)

The competition is open to all Students, Apprentices or Young Professionals who have graduated within the last 7 years (whether they are IET members or prospective members). All the expenses of the winners at each level of the competition are being sponsored by IET giving them an exposure at an international level and an opportunity to win £1,000.

Commenting on the occasion Shekhar Sanyal, Country Head, IET India, said, “India would play a very important role for the IET’s future growth as the country turns into a knowledge system powerhouse. The Asia Pacific finals of PATW would certainly be a catalyst for the Mumbai network to give a glimpse of the IET activities in India and around the globe, and also provide an opportunity to the spectators to be a part of it.”

The students of Mumbai network, which includes the city of Pune, have successively won laurels by winning the National, the Asia Pacific Level and the world level competitions in 2008 and 2009.

Rohit Goyal, a student from Smt Kashibai Navale College of   Engineering, Pune, has won National Level PATW Final for his presentation “On-road pedestrian detection for vehicles during night time”. The final was held on the 17th July 2010 at Chennai. Soumya M V from Tumkur College, Bangalore, was the Runner Up for her presentation “Automated license plate recognition system”.

Besides India, this year’s Asia Pacific finals will have national winners from China, Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Pakistan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka competing among themselves to represent the Asia Pacific Region for the final PATW 2010 competition in UK.

The Distinguished judges for the completion are: Ms. Jo McClinton, Director, Human Resources, The IET; Mr. Ajoy Dua, Performance Manager, M/s Montgomery Watson Harza; Mr. Jason Kahrs, Engineering Manager -Telecommunications Division, Black & Veatch Corporation.

About the IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in the UK, Bangalore, Beijing, Hong Kong and New York. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology in the world. For more information, see www.theiet.org

Recently the IET signed an agreement of co-operation with the Institution of Engineers India (IEI), a non-profit making, scientific engineering research organization. The agreement will lead to IET membership being promoted to all 600,000 IEI members all over India. The agreement focuses on linking the engineering and technology communities in India with knowledge, qualifications and networking across the world enabled by the IET.

The IET will be holding a series of events in India throughout the rest of the year, including the Global Engineering and Technology Leadership Summit which took place in May, Smart Grids (August), , Next Generation Networks (September), and, as well as the IET Pinkerton and Lord Austin lectures.