Kerala Students To Compete In Designing A Mars Rover

KOCHI: Students of an engineering college in Kerala have been selected to compete in a challenge to design a rover for the U.S. Mars exploration mission.

A team of students from the Toc-H Institute of Science and Technology (TIST) is competing in the University Rover Challenge (URC) to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside human explorers in the field.

"We are extremely happy to announce that our students have been selected to participate in the prestigious competition," said V. Job Kuruvilla, director of TIST.

"The participating team comprising five members is named CHRONOS. The team will exhibit their academic, technical and managerial skills at the competition," the director added.

Besides the URC 2014, the five-member team will also compete with students from across the world in the prestigious international aeronautical contest -- CanSat -- in the U.S.

The purpose of the CanSat is to mimic the functions of an actual satellite and hence involves intertwining of various fields of engineering.
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