Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 29 (IANS): Entries are being invited from engineering students across the country to take part in the 7th edition of 'National Level Engineering Contest Ingenium' here in Kerala.

The contest is conducted by QuEST Global, a premier engineering solutions provider, which has one of its three centres in the country at the Technopark campus, here.

QuEST, a global player in the AIT industry for many Fortune 500 companies took over one of the divisions of Kerala's pioneering IT company-NEST almost three years ago.

"At the last edition of Ingenium, we received 9,000 entries and the winner was send to the factory of Airbus in the US. This is the first time that we are holding this event in Thiruvananthapuram and we expect a record number of entries," Ajay R. Prabhu CEO, QuEST Global told reporters.

"Last year we saw entries from all over the country and this year we expect an even bigger participation."

"All engineering students in the pre final and final year can submit their projects, which will be screened by their team and the finals will take place here in September this year. All those students who figure in the final list will be able to site this in their Curriculum Vitae, as this programme is widely acclaimed by NASSCOM and other similar agencies," Prabhu added.