==== <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span><br/> ====
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Students at CMR Institute of Technology are imparted with the basics of engineering from year one. This is done through courses like [http://www.cmrit.ac.in/chemistry Engineering Chemistry], [http://www.cmrit.ac.in/physics Engineering Physics], Computer Aided Engineering Drawing etc. which are all aimed at building the fundamentals. Moving to other years of the course there are specified courses to help students understand the importance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and to give them further insights about the two. ‘Management and Entrepreneurship’ is one such course which is available at the undergraduate courses. More specific and targeted courses such as ‘Risk Management’,’</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Strategic Management’ and ‘Entrepreneurial development’ are offered purely to the students of the [http://www.cmrit.ac.in/mba-master-of-business-administration MBA programme].</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Moving away from the classroom based courses, the college offers all students various opportunities to access resources such as training sessions, workshops and seminars which maybe either technical or non-technical. The technical aspects include [[www.cmrit.ac.in/event/ieee-workshop-applications-and-research-directions-in-big-data|IEEE workshops and training]], [http://www.cmrit.ac.in/makerspace Makerspace ]training and workshops, grant writing training and other such events. Non-technical trainings like ‘Soft skills’ training are at the offering. The college also has numerous clubs, each conducting various events and programmes ( ‘[https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/minerva-litclub/home Literary Club]’, ‘[https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/artclubtarang/ Art club]’, ‘[https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/kiniseis-dance-club/ Dance Club]’, ‘SAE’ etc.) Other events like [[www.cmrit.ac.in/event/barcamp-cmrit|Barcamp ]] and Founders [[www.cmrit.ac.in/event/founders-day |Founder's day ]]also act as motivating factors to the students.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">‘Projects ‘[https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/hnshankar/projects-for fun’-fun Projects for fun]’, ‘Dismantling electronic devices’ and similar events are held occasionally to provide a fun filled approach to understand the intricate technologies, problem solving and even to develop specified skills.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Students of CMR Institute of Technology regularly participate in numerous external competitions with much enthusiasm and in recent times have reaped commendable successes. These include Science and Engineering competitions targeted at I&E as well as ‘FKCCI Manthan’ ‘[http://www.manthan.fkcci.org/index.php FKCCI Manthan]’ which is a business plan competition.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">For those who take a step forward and take up projects and finding solutions to problems earnestly pop up meets are held occasionally to have a healthy discussion with other project teams as well as faculty mentors. The project teams have complete access to the laboratories and makerspace Makerspace to experiment and build prototypes and even test them. The college also collaborates with industry majors like Infosys and IBMand offers resources like the [[www.cmrit.ac.in/industry-connect/ibm-centre-excellence|IBM Centre of Excellence]] and [[www.cmrit.ac.in/industry-connect/infosys-campus-connect|Infosys Campus Connect]]. The college has also set up an [http://www.cmrit.ac.in/incubation-center Incubation centre ] on campus which is up and running. All these resources exposes students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship and aim to get students involved in the same.</span></span></span>
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