NEWSLETTER APRIL ISSUE SEASON 2015
ASHWA RACING LIVE IT LOVE IT RACE IT
IN THIS EDITION
ASHWA RACING
Dear Readers, We have successfully completed our Hybrid car RZX5H. We also had a launch held in our college for the same. At the same time the welding of the RZX5C has completed and is undergoing its assembly phase. We expect it IN THIS ISSUE: to roar on the track soon! 1. BODYWORK OF RZX5H @ FIETECH 2. HYBRID LAUNCH 3. HYBRID SHIPPING 4. IN THE WORKSHOP 5. SPONSOR FOCUS 6. ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK CONNECT WITH US
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ASHWA RACING The body of a car is what attracts the people towards it and so we would like to thank Mr. Vinay of Fietech for fabricating such an amazing bodywork for our hybrid car and we look forward for such elegant bodyworks in the future.
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ASHWA RACING We had a launch for the Hybrid Prototype in our college premises. We had our partners and our faculty members attending the launch.
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ASHWA RACING IN THE WORKSHOP We had Mr. ,Dilbaugh Gill Team Principal Team Mahindra Racing, Formula Electric Boston visiting our workshop and sharing his ideas and scope of improvement in our hybrid prototype.
The Chief Srutineers for Formula Hybrid U.S.A., Mr. and Mrs. Michael Royce visited our workshop and said that they were “quite impressed” with our car.
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ASHWA RACING IN THE WORKSHOP The chassis welding has been completed. We would like to thank the Foreman of Industrial Engineering and Management Department of our college, Mr. Shekar for providing us with the TIG Welding machine because of which we could do our welding in house. Also we would like to thank Siddhivinayaka Enterprises for providing us with their skilled welders who have got us a very neat and uniform weld throughout!!
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ASHWA RACING SPONSOR FOCUS
DYNAMATICS FOR MANUFACTURING THE BEAUTIFUL HUB AND UPRIGHT ASSEMBLY
MR. JOESEPH ALSO CALLED AS „JOE‟ FOR OUR SERVICING OUR CHAMP, HONDA CBR 600RR. ITS NOW ALL SET TO ROAR
VENUS INDUSTRIES AND ACCUPRECISION FOR THE SOLID FIXTURE BLOCKS, A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT FOR THE CHASSIS WELDING
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ASHWA RACING SPONSOR FOCUS KALBHORZ FOR MENTORING US AND SUPPORTING US TOWARDS THE MAKING OF OUR HYBRID ARCHITECTURE.
SIDDHIVINAYAKA ENTERPRISES FOR HELPING US WITH THE MANUFACTURING OF OUR A-ARMS AND OTHER COMPONENTSHELPED US THE WELDING OF OUR A-ARMS.
TE CONNECTIVITY FOR PROVIDING US WITH THE ELECTRICAL CONECTORS
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ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK KIRIT ROSARIO Kirit Rosario was the lead designer of the „05 Ashwa racecar. With a strong intuition for mechanical systems and years of fabrication experience, he brought a heavy focus on common sense design and pushed to fabricate a majority of the vehicle in-house. Kirit went on to design special effect robots in Bangalore before pursuing his MS at Michigan State. For 5 years after, he worked at Caterpillarâ€&#x;s Technical Center in Illinois doing product development on large diesel engines and mining equipment. In 2012 after receiving his MBA from Chicago Booth, he started his career as a Management Consultant at A.T. Kearney. CLICK TO FOLLOW KIRIT ON LINKEDIN
Kirit is an avid designer, inventor and craftsman, with a full-fledged workshop at home for metal, wood and leather. He is currently working on a robotic horse for his daughter to ride, which will balance and walk independently. Below is some of his handiwork, that he does in his free time
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ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK VARUN GANDHI Varun Gandhi holds a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas A&M Varun works for Mathworks as a UI Platform Engineer . Varun was one of the unsung heroes of the founding team of Ashwa Racing 2003-2005. He contribution of work showed great signs of hardwork and determination and led the team as the Chief Engineer in the debut event for Ashwa Racing participation in 2005 edition of Formula Student . CLICK TO FOLLOW VARUN ON LINKEDIN
Varun was also responsible in partnering Sun Microsystem an IT firm to support Ashwa Racing Student Racing team which today has inspired to form an in house IT team which is an essential part or race car development . Varun along with the team had strategically laid the foundation stone for Ashwa Racing which has stood strong till date and days to come . He was responsible for creating many foundation process in each sub system which is still followed with evolutionary improvements in the team operations Certainly he has been a key contributor in Ashwa Racing sustainability .
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ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK AKSHAY SANGOLLI Akshay Sangolli ,an ace Architect with a Master‟s Degree gradutation in Health Care Design from University of Texas A&M Akshay has also been awarded fellowship from Tradewell Fellowship Program in the year 2012 Akshay joined Ashwa Racing in 2005 as a trainee .Akshay Sangolli was the Project Manager for the 2006 and 2007 Ashwa Racing „s participation in Formula Student – Australia and Germany respectively He contributed to the field of Ergonomics in the design phase of the vehicle deriving data from Anthropology . His contribution did not stop there . CLICK TO FOLLOW AKSHAY ON LINKEDIN
Akshay Sangolli is credited with the idea of founding the Hybrid Division of Ashwa Racing in the year 2006 and it took many years to make his dream come into reality. His vision and contribution to the team enabled him to foster partnership with many Organization ,one such being Ansys Inc whose strategic entry in the list of partners of Ashwa Racing changed facet of the team and its technical abilities in to the next level .
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ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK MAYUR GOWDA Mayur Gowda works for Bhaghvati Tools Inc and is Graduate with Master‟s Degree in Manufacturing System Engineering from University of Warwick Mayur Gowda was the Head of Logistics in the year 2010 ,Ashwa Racing‟s participation in Formula Student Italy . His relentless efforts showed signs of improved logistics co-ordination for the team and also worked on the Brakes Module . Mayur was also one of the Driver for 2010 Formula Student Italy .
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Mayur currently helps the team by supporting in manufacturing and also recommending the team to other manufacturers to do the job fee of cost thus reducing the financial burden of the team . This time, we have been able to do in-house welding of the chassis because of the skilled welders from Siddhivinayaka Enterprises. We also weld our A– Arms, one of the most important component in the car. Mayur has helped us reduce the manufacturing cost by a huge amount. We will always be grateful for this help and would like to continue this relationship in the future.
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ALUMNUS OF THE WEEK SHARATH PRABHAKAR Sharath was last working as a QC engineer at FMC Technology and currently doing his Masterâ€&#x;s program in the U.S Sharath was the head of Chassis module in the year 2010 and later lead the 2011 team of Ashwa Racing in the capacity of Chief Engineer. Sharath participated consecutively in 2010 and 2011 edition of Formula Student Italy A really cool headed ,Chief Engineer who is known to have an amazing sense of humor and can de-stress the team with his sense of humor attitude His contribution in the field of Chassis has taken the Chassis development to the next level and is credited with using the Chromoly Material CLICK TO FOLLOW SHARATH ON LINKEDIN
Sharath „s involvement with the 2011 team was a very crucial and much needed for the team to be directed toward participating the endurance race and complete all dynamic events .
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ASHWA RACING R.V. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SEASON 2015 PAGE 16
TEAM STRUCTURE FACULTY Name
Designation
Dr. R. S. Kulkarni
Faculty Advisor
ENGINE/SPONSORSHIP & MARKETING
COMBUSTION Ashish Manohar
+91 7760115368
ashishmanohar.ashwa@gmail.com
Prof. M. S. Krupashankar
Faculty Advisor– Hybrid
Anush Chakravarthi
+91 9902164422
anush.ashwa@gmail.com
Dr. M. R. Srinivas
SAE Wing
Manjeeth R
+91 9632600628
manjeeth.ashwa@gmail.com
Dr. H. D. Gopalkrishnan
IIPC Wing
Sachin Malgavi
+91 9686255592
sachinm.ashwa@gmail.com
Vignesh A S
+91 9740604149
vignesh.ashwa@gmail.com
Karan Chatrath
+91 9900878330
Diksha Bhagat
+91 9801191854
dikshabhagat.ashwa@gmail.com
Shobhit Jain
+91 9900195906
shobhit.ashwa@gmail.com
Aditya Ghodgaonkar
+91 9632801487
adityag.ashwa@gmail.com
Aamoda Hegde
+91 8277113554
aamoda.ashwa@gmail.com
Pranav Narahari
+91 9886132069
pranav1512.ashwa@gmail.com
Nithin Krishnan
+91 9482087180
nithin.ashwa@gmail.com
STEERING COMMITTEE Name
Telephone
E-mail ID
Arunraj Subbaraj
+968 9913 2457
raj_ashwa@rediffmail.com
Shubham Saurav
+1 734 239 2995
shubham.ashwa@gmail.com
Siddarth Mandal
+91 9619991933
sid.ashwa@gmail.com
Nikhil Jali
+1 765 476 3370
nick.ashwa@gmail.com
SUSPENSION/ADMINISTRATION
COMBUSTION Vadiraj Patil
+919731852018
vadiraj.ashwa@gmail.com
Rishav Ranjan
+91 8861695037
rishav.ashwa@gmail.com
Anshul Dhakar
+91 9632791303
anshul.ashwa@gmail.com
Aakash Maskara
+91 9916322460
aakash.ashwa@gmail.com
Sohan J. Shetty
+919482673143
sohan.ashwa@gmail.com
Upendra B. A.
+918970896969
upendra.ashwa@gmail.com
Nidith Rai
+918496897985
nidith.ashwa@gmail.com
HYBRID
DRIVETRAIN/HUMAN RESOURCES
COMBUSTION Aditya S
HYBRID
+91 9945820986
adityas.ashwa@gmail.com
Ankur Jairath
+91 9008003015
ankurj.ashwa@gmail.com
Rajat Kabra
+91 9663245193
rajat.ashwa@gmail.com
Gokul Suresh
+919738664458
gokuls.ashwa@gmail.com
Nikhita Bhushi
+919972348952
nikita.ashwa@gmail.com
Manraaj Singh
+91 9660096688
manraaj.ashwa@gmail.com
ASHWA RACING
HYBRID
karanchatrath.ashwa@gmail.com
CHASSIS/MANUFACTURING COMBUSTION Abhinandan Viswanath
+91 9164431505
abhinandan.ashwa@gmail.com
Abhishek Shekar
+91 9916611179
abhishek.ashwa@gmail.com
Brian Nikil Quadras
+91 8147755719
brian.ashwa@gmail.com
Uday Kumar
+91 9743285183
uday.ashwa@gmail.com
Krishna Kashyap Singh
+91 9964844743
kashyap.ashwa@gmail.com
Ayush Pandey
+91 9632787201
ayush.ashwa@gmail.com
GY Rohith
+91 9008472462
gyrohit.ashwa@gmail.com
Abdul Rehman Sadiq K
+91 8095772640
abdulrahman.ashwa@gmail.com
Pranjal Tyagi
+91 9686984750
pranjal.ashwa@gmail.com
N. Raghuvamsridhar Reddy
+91 9177956956
raghun.ashwa@gmail.com
Vignesh
+91 9738971836
vignesha.ashwa@gmail.com
HYBRID
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TEAM STRUCTURE STEERING/FINANCE COMBUSTION Vadiraj Patil
+91 9731852018
vadiraj.ashwa@gmail.com
HYBRID
COMBUSTION
BRAKES/LOGISTICS
Pavan Reddy
+91 9742388815
pavanreddy.ashwa@gmail.com
Saichand S
+91 8050372155
saichand.ashwa@gmail.com
HYBRID
Eshwarmurthy
+91 8095998863
eshwar.ashwa@gmail.com
Vamsi Naramesetty
+91 9986292442
vamsi.ashwa@gmail.com
Mohammad Hannan
+91 9008708994
hannan.ashwa@gmail.com
Pallav Rawat
+91 9590958383
pallav.ashwa@gmail.com
Abin Vincent
+91 7204377300
abinpv.ashwa@gmail.com
Santosh V N
+91 8123424663
santosh.ashwa@gmail.com
Sathyadeep Reddy
+91 9980448899
sathya.ashwa@gmail.com
Shamveel Mohammed
+91 9895093888
shamveel.ashwa@gmail.com
Pranith C Prasanna
+91 9741122120
pranith.ashwa@gmail.com
ELECTRICAL COMBUSTION
Mohit Lal {FINANCE}
+91 9611192648
mohit1.ashwa@gmail.com
Shreenidhi Patil
+91 9738670897
shree.ashwa@gmail.com
SPONSORSHIP, MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS HYBRID
HYBRID
Saif Aziz Absar
+91 8892177864
saif.ashwa@gmail.com
Anushree HN
+91 8147264020
anushree1995.ashwa@gmail.com
Aditya Kambil
+91 9590668617
adityak.ashwa@gmail.com
Aishwarya
+91 9880433144
aishwarya.ashwa@gmail.com
Biswajit Roy
+91 8553568641
biswajit.ashwa@gmail.com
Rounak Maru
+91 8277564198
rounak.ashwa@gmail.com
Chandrakanth C
+91 9035304699
chandu.ashwa@gmail.com
Govind Shenoy
+91 9035710867
shenoy.ashwa@gmail.com
Lalith Keerthan
+91 9900461054
Lalith.ashwa@gmail.com
Kiran B M
+91 8095173892
kiranbm.ashwa@gmail.com
Yashaswini B
+91 9731238209
yashaswini.ashwa@gmail.com
Shanthilal
+91 9900306030
shanthilal.ashwa@gmail.com
Syed Faraaz
+91 9632109317
faraaz.ashwa@gmail.com
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