The Department of Automobile Engineering organized a webinar on Electric Vehicles (EV) with the theme ‘Design & Development of Electric Vehicles using Ansys’. The aim of the webinar was to make the students and faculty aware of the latest features of software Ansys, that is used in designing EV.

At the start of the webinar, Dr. Devendra Vashist Prof & Head, Department of Automobile Engineering, welcomed the speakers and the participants. He informed the audience about the major EV companies who had their presence in this emerging sector and were looking for manpower with having the skill set in this area. He further informed about the major systems of EV on which more research work is presently undergoing.

The Chief Guest of the webinar was Dr. Pradeep Kumar, PVC, MRIIRS who informed the audience how Ansys in EV can help students fraternity in acquiring skills needed by Industry. He further informed that these skill sets will not only enhance their employability but also help in starting a new enterprise in the design sector.

The technical speaker of the session was Mr. Kartikesh Kumar Jha (Application Engineer) at ARK Infosolutions Pvt Ltd. (Elite channel partner of Ansys). The areas that were covered in his talk were:

· Ansys Electrification solution

· Battery Module and pack: Thermal Abuse and runaway Mitigation

· Cell and Electrode performance

· Battery design and development solution

· Electrified Propulsion system

· Testing and Validation

A question-answer session was followed at the end of the session. All the participants found the session immensely informative.