Mysuru: The 17th edition of cogNIEscience 2018, a National-level technical paper presentation competition, will be held at the National Institute of Engineering (NIE), here on Mar. 2 from 10 am to 5 pm. Students from various engineering college across the country will be presenting 60 papers across Mechanical Engineering disciplines.

Mahesh Jambardi, Chief Operating Officer, Excelsoft Technologies Pvt Ltd, Mysuru, will be the chief guest at the inaugural function to be held at Bharat Ratna Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Hall at 10 am. G. S. Ramachandra, Hon. Secretary, NIE, will preside. Dr. M.V. Achutha, Head, Department of  Mechanical Engineering, A. Anand and H.P. Vinod Kumar, Assistant Professors and Staff Conveners of cogNIEscience will be present.