Pune: Six teams from the Planning section of COEP have won the ‘Wipro Earthian Award 2020’. Wipro Earthian Sustainability is a National Level Competition hosted and organised by Wipro Foundation. The objective of the competition is to discover urban issues in Indian cities.
This year, the scope of the competition was in three domains - Water, Solid Waste and Food. Every year the competition selects eight best projects within the domain undertaken by teams of college students across all disciplines at national level. This year out of the eight winning teams six teams were from COEP.
COEP has been participating and consistently winning awards every year since 2016. Continuing the legacy, this year too six teams from COEP comprising students from Second Year to Final Year B. Planning have won the award. COEP is the only institute to achieve this feat since the inception of this award.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the award ceremony was held online this year on February 13, 2021. Each team is awarded a memento and prize money of rupees One Lakh by Wipro Foundation. Following are the details of the winning projects, student participants, and their faculty mentors.
| Title of the project | Name of the students | Name of the mentors |
| Effect of Farm Bill on Consumers | Gauri Kshirsagar, Gayatri Vhanbatte, Shreyash Kaware and Padmesh | Jaspreet Kaur Chhabda |
| Urban Food | Harshali Patil, Mayur Yeola, Sanved Bartakke and Aditya Deshmukh | Dr Aarti Petkar |
| The unnoticed demon- Biomedical waste | Kaivalya Nandurkar, Chidambari Kulkarni, Suyog Deshmukh, Reva Malvadkar | Amruta Deshpande |
| E-waste Under the Shadow: Case Study of Pune City | Shubh Dhadiwal, Sujit Darandale | Jaspreet Kaur Chhabda |
| Covid Chronicles: Pandemic Protection or Plastic Pollution | Kanika Pillai, Nikhila Pushadapu, Hiteshwar Salunke and Purnav Soundankar | Dr Aarti Petkar |
| Times of e-waste | Kaveri Gaikwad, Rushikesh Kharche, Rudrasen Sheorey and Shubham Rane | Dr Aarti Petkar |