TIFAN2025

TIFAN stands for “Technology Innovation Forum for Agricultural Nurturing”. It is an initiative by SAEINDIA (Society of Automotive Engineers) which is an international organization. SAEINDIA was started in 1994 and has been working towards the development of the automotive industry in India. TIFAN is a student competition program that aims to promote innovation and technology in agriculture. The program is designed to encourage students to come up with innovative solutions that can help improve the agricultural sector in India.

About SAEINDIA:

SAEINDIA is India's leading resource for mobility technology. As an individual member-driven society of mobility practitioners, the ownership of SAEINDIA lies with its members who are Individuals from the mobility community, which includes Engineers Executives from Industry, Government Officials, Academics and Students.

SAEINDIA is a strategic alliance partner of SAE International registered in India as an Indian nonprofit engineering and scientific society dedicated to the advancement of the mobility industry in India

About Off-Highway board:

In 2010, SAEINDIA Off-Highway board was established, which caters to the aspect of mobility engineering related to all vehicles/equipment operated in rough terrain, mining, farm, and non-track e.g. agriculture, construction and defense. Since its inauguration, the board has been instrumental in focusing on the common issues related to Technologies of tomorrow and the talent pool and has organized several national-level events

Objectives:

  1. To inculcate an innovation mindset among the student community in emerging technologies
  2. To Incubate and nurture skills and capabilities of tractor design in young minds
  3. To provide a platform for Agricultural Students to demonstrate vehicle design expertise
  4. To help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs

Registration Guidelines: 

  • Registration Fee: Phase 1: Rs. 7,000 + 18% GST & Phase 2: Rs. 5,000 + 18% GST per team.
  • Teams can be formed maximum 25 members including Students, 2 Faculty Advisors and 1 farmer.
  • It is mandatory for participating students to become student members of SAEINDIA. It is encouraged to take up the membership under +1 scheme as membership status continues for one more year after the completion of graduation.
  • Faculty are encouraged to become a Faculty Member of SAEINDIA and avail the benefits available for the faculty member of SAEINDIA.
  • Visit: https://www.saeindia.org/become-a-member/ to sign up for membership.
  • Prizes worth up to ₹ 5,50,000 to be won

Early Bird Offer:

  • Avail 75% discount on your 1st and 2nd phase registrations if your team has 100% women students
  • Avail 50% discount on your 1st and 2nd phase registrations if your team has 50% women students or if your team has a minimum of 10 women students
  • 10% discount on registration complete by July 20, 2024

Referral Discount:

  • Avail 10% discount on your 2nd phase registration if a new team is registered under your referral
  • Avail 100% discount on your 2nd phase registration if 10 new teams are registered under your referral

Key Event Timeline

Registration open: June 5, 2024

Registration Close: August 15, 2024

 

Organizing Committee

 

Mr. Sandip Rajput

 Convener-TIFAN2025

 

Event Management Committee

 

 

Industry & Academia interface committee

 

 

Technical Committee

 

 

Finance Committee

 

 

 

Qualifying Round Presentation Format – ClickHere

 

Design Overview of Vegetable Transplanter – Clickhere

 

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session-1 – Clickhere

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SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session-2 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session-3 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session- 4 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session- 5 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session- 6 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session- 7 – Clickhere

SAE-TIFAN2025 Technical Session- 8 – Clickhere

Password: SAE-tifan25

ALTAIR SIMULATION CHALLENGE

Embrace Altair Simulation Challenge: Innovate with Inspire!

Showcase your engineering skills and tackle a real-world simulation challenge with Altair Inspire!

About the Contest:

Altair® Inspire™ transforms simulation into a simple and powerful tool for design optimization. With its intuitive interface and comprehensive features, Inspire helps you push the boundaries of component design and accelerate product development from concept to reality. Whether you are aiming for performance or manufacturability, Inspire offers a seamless experience to create, optimize, and study innovative parts and assemblies.

The Challenge:

Use Altair Inspire to tackle an open-ended engineering problem. The problem statement is flexible, allowing you to explore and apply Inspire in diverse domains. Focus areas include:

  • Structural Analysis with Non linearities
  • Concept Design and Structural Optimization
  • Multibody Dynamics
  • Additive Manufacturing and Manufacturing Simulation

 How to Participate:

  1. Choose Your Model
  • Use CAD models that you design as part of TIFAN, or you can use from com or create your own using Inspire
  • Note: Use only Altair Inspire Software for simulation.
  1. Resources Provided
  1. Submit Your Work: It’s an Individual student contest. Students need to submit the work individually not as a group/Team. From a Team more than one student can submit his work. Also, a student can submit multiple entries.

What to submit:

  1. Altair Inspire Structures Professional Certification (exam-based Course) https://learn.altair.com/enrol/index.php?id=469
  2. Inspire Solved File (.stmod)
  3. Analysis Report (PPT, PDF, or DOC)
  1. Submit a video recording of your Analysis project process via YouTube link.

Example 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnjwq0pek7A

Example 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EDbDCKUVc

Example 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45jq76quSM

Checkout more such Videos submitted in Altair Global Student Contest – Total 36 Videos are available: Altair Global Student Contest

Submission Instructions:

Individual Prizes: SAE TIFAN organizing team will issue the below Amount to the Student

  1. 1st Prize: ₹40,000
  2. 2nd Prize: ₹30,000
  3. 3rd Prize: ₹20,000
  4. 4th Prize: ₹10,000
  5. Participation Certificates will be awarded to all students for valid submissions.

Important Dates:

  • Registration Opens: September 10, 2024
  • Registration/Submission Deadline: December 30, 2024
  • Results Announcement: During the Physical Event Valedictory Ceremony : Tentative – 28th to 30th March 2025

Contact the organizers:

 

 

 

Enquiry form

Contact for Sponsorship Opportunity

Ms. Ayisha | +91 73977 60949 | digitalconnect@saeindia.org

Mr. Sagar | +91 99222 77224 | sagarvm@saeindia.org

Mr.Arun Ragu | +91 9994883958 | arunragu@saeindia.org

The TIFAN organizing committee and SAEINDIA shall not be held responsible for non-fulfilment of their obligations due to the exigency of one or more of the force majeure events such as but not limited to the acts of God, war, flood, earthquake, strikes, lockouts, pandemics, epidemics, riots, civil commotion, scarcity, of water, electricity or such other basic facilities etc and shall inform the participating teams on the occurrence and cessation of the event within one week of such decision being made If the force majeure conditions continue beyond a reasonable period where running the event is not feasible either due to the force majeure conditions or any other reasons, the event may be cancelled for the year.

(a) Earthquake, flood, inundation and landslide, storm, tempest, hurricane, cyclone, lightning, thunder, pandemics, epidemics or other extreme atmospheric disturbances or any other act of God

(b) Strikes, labour disruptions or any other industrial disturbances not arising on account of the acts or omissions of the organisers, war, hostilities (whether declared or not), invasion, act of foreign enemy, terrorism, rebellion, riots, weapon conflict or military actions, civil war, ionising radiation, contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel, any nuclear waste, radioactive toxic explosion, volcanic eruptions or other such occurrences beyond the control of the organisers

(c) Acts of expropriation, compulsory acquisition or takeover by any government agency of the said venue where the event is to be held or any part thereof

(d) Any prohibitory order of any Court.