VAIBHAV Tidke and Darshan Mehta of the University Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT) , Mumbai, today bagged the Agilent Engineering and Technology Awards (AETA) 2007 held at IIT Delhi.

BTech and MTech students from leading engineering colleges in the country participated with their project reports either in the field of Electronics and Communications Engineering or Life Sciences or Chemical Engineering.

I am interested in pursuing research in renewable sources of energy. The dryer has been designed in order to enhance the value of vegetables and fruit produced in the country by adopting effective and less expensive unit and raw materials, said Vaibhav, a third-year student of BTech at UICT, who designed a Solar Pond Dryer.

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