About STORM – Thermax Case Challenge

STORM is an Online Case Challenge for II & III Year students; with an objective to provide a platform to the bright young minds to solve real-world engineering problems & to use their ideas and concepts to come up with unique perspectives and creative solutions.

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How STORM will work

Get ready to compete in the new Thermax Case Challenge! The challenge is an opportunity to test your analytical, technical and problem-solving skills while honing your business acumen by thinking through real-world technical issues that we solve for our customers at Thermax

  • Live business case/ problems will be shared with the students for them to come up with a solution within a pre-defined period.
  • Post solution submission all entries will be evaluated by Thermax judges (first level shortlisting) and the top 5 teams will get an opportunity to present their solution to the Thermax jury in final virtual round.
  • Top 3 teams will be invited for Virtual Award Distribution & presentation of their solution to the Thermax Leaders. Students from the respective colleges and Thermax Employees will be attending the award function.
REWARDS

National Winners will receive cash prize of INR 50,000 + Certificates + PPI for 3rd Year Students & Internship Opportunity for 2nd Year students

National 1st Runner up will receive cash prize of INR 30,000 + Certificates + PPI for 3rd Year Students & Internship Opportunity for 2nd Year students

National 2nd Runner up will receive cash prize of INR 20,000 + Certificates + PPI for 3rd Year Students & Internship Opportunity for 2nd Year students

Winners will get an opportunity to present their solution to Thermax Leadership.

Participants will get a participation certificate

rules and regulations for storm

Eligibility Criteria & Team Formulation

  • Students pursuing BE/B.Tech full time degree.
  • Current second-year (passing out in 2023) and third-year students (passing out in 2022).
  • Students must have CGPA of 6.32 & above or 60% aggregate.
  • This contest is open to the Third year and Second year students of the following Engineering Colleges selected by Thermax.
  • Formulate your cross year (second-year and third-year) and cross stream*(e.g. mechanical, electrical, instrumentation) teams as per case numbers and given streams for the selected colleges, provided below.
  • Case number will be mentioned in the case for further reference.

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    *except for one stream case study

 

SL No. College Case # Streams for Cases
1 Cummins College Case #4 Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation
2 HBTU, Kanpur Case #2 Chemical
3 ICT, Mumbai Case #2 Chemical
4 MN NIT Allahabad Case #2 Chemical
5 MN NIT Allahabad Case #5 Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics
6 Nirma University Case #3 Mechanical, Chemical, Instrumentation
7 NIT Calicut Case #1 Mechanical, Chemical
8 NIT Hamirpur Case #2 Chemical
9 NIT Silchar Case #4 Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation
10 NIT Warangal Case #1 Mechanical, Chemical
11 NIT, Agartala Case #3 Mechanical, Chemical, Instrumentation
12 NIT, Trichy Case #3 Mechanical, Chemical, Instrumentation
13 SGGS, Nanded Case #2 Chemical
14 SGGS, Nanded Case #5 Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics
15 Sri Vishnu Case #1 Mechanical, Chemical
16 SVNIT Surat Case #2 Chemical
17 SVNIT Surat Case #5 Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics
18 Thapar University Case #2 Chemical
19 Thapar University Case #5 Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics
20 NIT Rourkela Case #4 Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation

How to apply

  • Students can formulate a cross stream and cross year team of 3 to 5 members and nominate one designated Team Leader.
  • The Team Leader will register to enter the competition on the team's behalf to complete the team's registration process.
  • Only students from the same institute can form a team.
  • There is no restriction on the number of teams from an Institute.
  • We suggest to have gender-diverse & cross year and stream composition of Teams.
  • Only one account per team is allowed to register.
  • Modification of team post registration will not be allowed.
  • Deviation from any of the above mentioned rules will lead to immediate disqualification.
  • Any questions or inquiries regarding the competition should be directed to Campus.Recruitment@ThermaxGlobal.com with a mandatory subject line of STORM_COLLEGENAME_QUERY strictly.
  • Thermax reserves the right to check the validity of the information submitted during registration.

Phases of STORM

Preliminary Round (Case Study Solution Submission)
  • All registered teams will receive the case from the FirstNaukri team over email.
  • Student should follow the Evaluation parameters mentioned in the case study while preparing the solution.
  • All the registered teams will have to submit the solution in MS Word and we suggest to keep the document crisp.
  • For supporting calculations/ analysis you may attach an excel sheet
  • The last day of submission of entries will be 31st January 2021, 11:59 PM.
  • All the teams are requested to submit their entries well in advance to avoid any last-minute hassles.
  • Once submitted, no team will be allowed to revise, substitute, add, delete, or in any other manner alter their original submission.
Submission Guidelines:
  • The first page should include details of team members and their college.
  • Font Type: Calibri with a text size of 12, Headings text size 14
  • Save all the solution documents in one folder and name folder as Team Name (CollegeName_TeamName) and upload the zip folder on your Firstnaukri Contest Platform
  • The maximum size of the zip folder should not exceed 20MB.
  • Post that send the link of the zip folder to FirstNaukri platforms, with subject line should be STORM_COLLEGENAME_TEAMNAME_SOLUTION.
Final Round (Virtual Presentation)
  • The Final Round will held on 11th February 2021 & 12th February 2021.
  • Shortlisted teams will have to share their final presentation on Wednesday, 10th February 2021 by 5:00 pm, failing to do will lead to disqualification of team.
  • The Shortlisted teams will present a detailed presentation on the case to Thermax Panel.
  • 3 teams shortlisted from each case domain will be announced as the Winner, 1st Runner up and 2nd runner up.
  • Each team will get 8 minutes to present and 7 mins for Q&A (A total of 15 minutes).
  • Winner, 1st Runner up and 2nd runner up for each case domain will be announced on 15th February 2021.
Virtual Award Ceremony
  • The event will be held on 23rd February 2021.
  • The national finalists, will get a chance to present to the senior leadership team of Thermax.
  • Students from the respective colleges and Thermax Employees will be attending the award function.

* Thermax reserves the rights to change the date/venue of contest stages. In case of any changes, we will give prior information to all participants and College Placement team.

*Further details of the rounds will be disclosed after all the completion of each rounds.

About Thermax

Thermax Group is an INR 5,831 Cr. (822 Million US$) company headquartered in Pune, India. Its business portfolio includes products for heating, cooling, water and waste management, and specialty chemicals. The company also designs, builds and commissions large boilers for steam and power generation, turnkey power plants, industrial and municipal wastewater treatment plants, waste heat recovery systems and air pollution control projects.

The systems, products and services developed by Thermax help industry achieve better resource
productivity and improve bottom lines, while maintaining a cleaner environment. Even as we convert costs to profits, we help to protect the environment in our own limited ways. A win-win for industry and the
society at large.

We operate globally through 29 international offices and 14 manufacturing facilities – 10 of which are in India and 4 overseas.

Our presence spans 88 countries and supports customers through an extensive sales & service network spread over Asia, South East Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

The group consists of 7 wholly owned domestic subsidiaries and 21 wholly owned overseas subsidiaries.

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