School:KLS Gogte Institute of Technology Belagavi

PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The elements of innovation and entrepreneurship have been quite visible on campus by the students. Apart from the subjects that have been inducted in the curriculum, there have been courses like Design Thinking and Innovation, Management and entrepreneurship and B. Honors that are harnessing innovation and entrepreneurship amongst the students. There has been a consistent support from the college towards the students by providing platforms like annual technical fests “Avalanche”, where a student gets an exposure to implement innovation with design thinking and entrepreneurship, through paper presentations, business models and their entities. There are a many clubs like the Programmers Club and the Entrepreneurship Development Programme which promote innovative thinking among students. Hackathons organised by the New Age Incubation Network (NAIN) help to identify potential student projects that can be funded by the Government of Karnataka. Also, students are sponsored by highly reputed government organisations like KCTU under Technical Business Incubation(TBI) in the direction of promoting entrepreneurship. We have the Industry-Institute Partnership Cell which has facilities like Flexible Manufacturing System, Rapid Prototyping Machine, Coordinate Manufacturing Machine and Surface Roughness Machine, which can be used by students who have undertaken some projects, and also by the industry to train new recruits from the college. The NAIN Incubation Centre has all the facilities conducive to start start-ups by students. The teams  like SAE,BAJA,CSI,ASME,IEEE,DST-TI make the students go for lateral thinking, incubate their ideas and come up with their own business and technical models. The Mechanical Department has a tie-up with AEQUS  to provide CAD/CAM training to students. In addition to this, there is the Tata Technologies Ready Engineer program. Start Ups in the IT Incubation centre also provide internships to students. A group of 4 students from across departments from our college  have incubated their project at IIM Bangalore and funded by Government Of India and Texas instruments for their distinctive performance at DST-TI a national level competition encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship. They now own a start up named Sylus. There are start ups namely Bitjini, Ecobilz, Nidhi Consultancy services, Scrap Karo cash that are designated at college incubation centre which provide internship opportunities to the students on campus.

 

ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship by faculty has become a recent trend on campus, our faculty members have shown keen interest to develop an interest of innovation and entrepreneurship among students. Few of our faculty members have started their start-ups in the IT incubation centre of our college. This has provided equal opportunity to faculty and students to groom their innovation and entrepreneurship skills and utilise it for the good. The college management has also been supportive and has decided to provide funding patent the projects, post screening. The projects would be patented on the basis of service or product, research or working device. This has been a good move to encourage entrepreneurship activities on campus. Prof Gajendra Deshpande, faculty from CS Department, Prof Nadpurohit , faculty from Electronics and Communication department also provide opportunity for the students to undergo on campus innovation and entrepreneurship through incubations.

 

FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION

Every department in the college has  a Board of Studies, which consists not only of senior professors of the department, but also experts from the industry. Industrial experts from recognised MNCs and resource persons from nationalised institutions form the crux of the council. We are also collaborated with a start up in the city by Sandbox Start ups at our sister institution KLS IMER. In the IT Incubation Center in our college itself, provides start-ups with an address and takes no fees for the first six months. Startup India, an initiative by the Government of India, provides 75% of patent filing fee and 100% of company registration fees. The College has also a tie up with Mercedes Benz under its venture Mercedes for Mech. An MoU has also been signed between Government Of Japan and KLS Gogte Institute Of Technology for a student exchange program named SAKURA. As a part of this MoU, a team of 5 students would be visiting Japanese University.

 ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

Start-ups from around the city recruit students from the college full-time or as interns. The college is involved in socio-economic causes through the NSS,LEAD and Rotaract clubs, in which students are deeply involved in social innovation. The projects upheld by these organizations of the college are improving the social and economic conditions of the people The college is also involved in many Government initiated socio technical activities and has contributed intellectually for the cause. Apart from this the students also take up technical assignments at various organisations of the region.

Leadership circle - Fall 2018:

Chethan Kumar R E

Mirage Joshi

Neeraj Deshpande

Pratiksha Nagarkatte 

Leadership circle - Fall 2017 :

Sanjana Baliga

Sanjana Gombi

Sagar Shinde

Ajay Chandrapattan

Leadership circle - Fall 2016 :

Shriya Hukkeri

Samarth Mendke

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