Students make all-terrain vehicle

Updated on: Monday, January 25, 2010

Four stroke engine with four speed manual transmission. Driven by a 340 cc and 11 bhp petrol engine, when this All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) roars to life, it is just ready for any road condition. Put together by the Mechanical Engineering students of Chaitanya -Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), the vehicle is heading for BAJA SAE India, an inter-collegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students, scheduled to be held at Peethampur, Indore from January 29 to 31.

Designed by a team of 26 students and fabricated in 45 days, the vehicle is capable of safe operation over rough land terrain including obstructions such as rocks, sand jumps, steep inclines, mud and shallow water. The hallmark of this ATV is the ruggedness of its structure and the simplicity of its design that makes it commercially viable for manufacture which is the primary objective of the BAJA event, the students say.

It has been driven and tested on rough terrain and found to be stable at 60 kmph which they describe as appreciable given the capacity of the engine. The CBIT sponsored the entire project cost as Rs.1.65 lakh and the students ended up working out entire nights at time to ensure its completion in time. “We are working hard to solve the engineering and managerial problems that we faced,” says Aditya, a student of the team that put the ATV together.

A total of 77 colleges from across the country are participating in the Indore event whose objective is to stimulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges.

Students make all-terrain vehicle

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