Wabtec Announces Winners for Its "Exceed 3.0 Campus Challenge" in India

BENGALURU, FEBRUARY 3, 2025 — Wabtec Corporation announced today the winners of the company’s 2024-25 “Exceed 3.0 Campus Challenge” in India. In its third edition, the challenge provides these aspiring professionals an opportunity to showcase their creative capabilities and align them with the dynamic, complex realities of the railroad industry. 

"The Exceed Campus Challenge provides an ideal biennial platform to cultivate tomorrow's thinkers and doers," said Dr. Sujatha Narayan, Senior Vice President and Regional Leader for Wabtec Corporation in India. "The winning teams demonstrated the innovative spirit, technical acumen, dedication, and passion necessary to succeed in the rail industry."

The Exceed 3.0 winning team represented VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology), Bhopal who showcased innovative concept for ‘Decoding, Categorizing and Graphical Representation of Errors with their Frequency’. The first runner-up was from Gati Shakti Vishwavidyala, Vadodara who presented ‘Automated Train Scheduling and Routing’. The two second runners-up were from Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune who proposed ‘Safe Siding of Trains’ and VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology), Chennai who proposed ‘Application of Computer Vision for Rail Infrastructure Inspection’. 

These winners for the pan-India contest were among 150 teams and more than 500 students from 70 institutes. Of the 150 teams, eight qualified for a final round and presented projects to the leadership at Wabtec India Technology and Engineering Centre in Bangalore. The top 3 finalist won a total cash price of Rs.2.75 lakh.

“Our campus outreach program has been growing over the past years,” said Anup Kumar Pal, Senior Director of Human Resources for Wabtec Corporation India. “Every version of the Exceed Campus Challenge is an opportunity for prospective employees to learn about how Wabtec is solving Transportation problems in India and across the world. We like ideas that have a larger impact beyond the rail industry.“

Wabtec requested applications for the challenge in August 2024. The challenge was open to students in their first year of college through the final year of Ph.D. The topics posed for this contest covered a diverse range subjects, such as, interdisciplinary innovations in mechanical and software engineering, explorations of cutting-edge technologies like robotics & advanced software development, and alternate fuels and associated safety aspects, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, condition monitoring, vision enhancement, hydrogen-powered locomotive, and braking performance.

About Wabtec
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) is revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations. The company is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for the freight and transit rail industries, as well as the mining, marine and industrial markets. Wabtec has been a leader in the rail industry for over 150 years and is the worldwide leader in the decarbonization of freight rail. Visit Wabtec’s website at www.wabteccorp.com.