The CONNAISSANCE technical symposium series is an annual event started in 2005, and in a short span of seventeen years has been highly successful in bringing industry and academia together by which the students have benefited immensely through exposure to state-of-the-art practices in the broad area of Mechanical Engineering. The central idea of the two day meet is to bring out the innate talent, creativity, innovation, public speaking skills, organizing capabilities/leadership skills and esprit de corps of the students to the core. This gives them an opportunity to prove their mettle and gain invaluable domain and field experience required to succeed in their careers, be it: academics, industry, R & D, government sector, entrepreneurship, etc.