Fehmida Shaikh 

(SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai)

Among the applicants, Fehmida Shaikh’s consistent academic records and research presentations during the course of her studies at SIES College of Printing and Packaging, Navi Mumbai, was outstanding. She showed a special zeal for package designing. It was reflected in the project she undertook to develop a model to estimate the compression strength of a CFB box; theoretically based on the attributes of the linerboard and fluting medium used and thereby determining the stackability. She completed the project in one year at Kraft Foods formerly Cadbury India. Her responsibility was to conduct box compression test, edgewise compression test and ring crush test and also to study the various factors affecting the stacking strength of a CFB container.

Besides her project, she has won a third prize in national level inter-college technical paper presentation on Six Sigma during the Versatalia festival in 2011 at PVG’s COET College, Pune. She has also won the second prize in a technical paper presentation during Impressions 2011, the annual festival of SIES College, Nerul. The achievements of Fehmida Shaikh have made her a worthy winner of the PrintWeek India Student of the Year Award.

Commended       

Dattatray Jagade (PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology, Pune)
Ganesh Hagawane (PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology, Pune)
Pooja Mayekar (SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai)