12TH NATIONAL ENGINEERING ROBOTICS CONTEST 2014
A JOINT VENTURE OF NUST AND CAREERS PROGRAMME – HEC

National Engineering Robotics Contest (NERC) is an annual event hosted by Department of Mechatronics Engineering, EME (NUST). This year event took place from 17-21 June, 2014. Total of 145 teams from all over Pakistan were competing in this event. SIX teams from UET Taxila, sub-campus Chakwal participated in NERC this year. We took both hands in hand the accuracy and the speed and developed sound and balanced robots to compete in 12th NERC 2014. The teams were enthralled by the new theme and worked really hard for to make their presence felt.

The arena was full of participants and robots when the qualifying rounds began at 19th June and with every moment passed, the contest got more and more enthralling. Every robot entered the arena with its own unique name and applauding roars from the crowd which made the start of event more exciting .There were lights, up-beating noise, cheering from the crowd which gave a sizzling feeling to the competition. By sheer commitment and dedication FIVE teams from our campus made it to the top 32 teams. The dawn of 21st June came as a test of nerves of all the teams. With spectacular performance, FOUR of our teams were in top sixteen and TWO of them made it to Quarter-Finals. At this point the game seemed to be more of ‘’EME (NUST)” versus “Chakwal Campus (UET Taxila)’’ since these were the only teams left to compete at this stage.
What made the later prominent was its unique robot mechanical design and the audience got to see some spectacular moves. Teams from Chakwal campus gave indeed a tough competition to NUSTians and there was a gasp and awe of amazement from the crowd and even from the faculty of NUST for UETians.
In the quarter finals, Chakwal campus teams competing against NUST were indeed worth watching. It wasn’t made easy for NUSTians to win through the game.

Our performance at NERC was rewarded and as our teams deservedly won two awards in this prestigious event. Our teams won “Best Engineering Design Award” with prize money of Rs. 30,000 and “Special EME Performance Award”. With limited resources at their disposal Chakwal, it was JOB WELL DONE by Chakwal campus. The credit for such performances indeed goes to participants for their hard work with minimum resources available and of course to faculty especially the supervision of Engr. Shoaib Aslam and Engr. Muhammad Asif.
We plan to send TEN teams in 13th NERC and have set our goal to win the event in 2015

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