Priorities:Galgotia's College of Engineering and Technology Student Priorities

Strategy #1 : Increasing the Contribution of First year Students in College

Awareness and Motivation in Students

• Workshop and seminars to be conducted to educate students with respect to the importance of the contribution they might do to their college.  (Expected time of initiation: By April end) 
• Volunteering in activities that helps them to interact with seniors. (Expected time of completion: By September end) 
• Teachers to be more enthusiastic in listening and guiding students. (Expected time of completion: By September end) 
• Motivating students to prepare landscape canvas, so as to analyse the resources in the college and be updated with it. (Expected time of completion: By March end) 

Increasing Activities

• Participation in Club activities. (Expected time of completion: By September end) 
• No competition in joining the club, everyone interested to learn should get an opportunity.( (Expected time of initiation: By March end) 

Strategy #2: Changing the ecosystem to a more innovation encouraging environment

In transitioning from school life to college life, students loose their vision of achieving something great, that is beyond classrooms. A subject focused life takes away their ability and interests of innovating, developing and creative thinking. 

Attendance issue with the students

Apart from awareness problem we realized innovating young minds have to compromise a lot with their attendance in order to bloom their flower of idea, have to arrange for their resources (which is way too much than the actual time it should take), and mostly end up coming back to where they were initially, this time swearing not to think again in this direction, instead focussing in the academia in college (lack of failure accepting mindset at a very initial stage in innovation).

So working in this direction, we thought of addressing the attendance problem of the students where-

• would be allowed to work over their innovation during weekends in labs(Expected time of completion: By March end) 
• students from all branches would have access to these labs (Expected time of completion: By August end) 
• Students lab hours would be increased so that they can access labs after 5pm (in the evening) as well  (Expected time of completion: By March end) 

Addressing attendance issue helps the students by providing time in the college. This is a very basic step addressing the problem of the few students that have ideas that need to be prototyped or experimented. Apart from that innovation can be initiated in college by making students realize its importance.

A Response from Students 

•  Introduction of a weekly response letter/form to be filled by students as well as Faculty to rate the progress and introduce ideas on changing the classroom environment from current (completely marks focused) to an environment where the major focus is on “learning by doing” and actively participating into promoting ideas of every individual present in the class. (Expected to be completed by June)

Workshops for Teachers

• Workshops for Teachers/all Faculty members as on how to connect with students, and rather that only demanding marks and then judging students solely based on academic performance. Equal weightage should be given to the creative mindset and the effort a student puts into brining the idea/entrepreneurship skill into action. (Expected to be completed by December)

Innovation Enouragement Task (IET)

• A monitoring team consisting of an elected student and a professor in the mid 30’s to develop a monthly report on innovation encouragement task (IET) and hence providing their feedback to the respective subjects of this program, to fill the gaps. (professor in mid 30’s as He/She will be having enough experience in the field for such evaluation, and won’t lacking that spark to achieve something He/She was a student not soo long ago. )  (Expected to be completed by December)

Inspirational Talks  

• Playing inspirational videos every week without prior notice, so that students continue into processing their energy to an innovative and focused learning. Also organizing inspirational talks by successful startup leaders about their journey, and what all is waiting for the students in the world beyond campus boundaries. (Expected to be completed by April)

Strategy #3: Increasing Support to Increase Generation of Ideas

Prototype:

INCREASING SUPPORT TO INCREASE GENERATION OF IDEAS

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Imagine an ideal situation; you have a bowl of noodles and a pair of chopsticks. Also suppose you are new to using chopsticks. Now if you are in a Chinese/Japanese restaurant then you would surely feel left out and guess what it’s never your fault, you have the bowl of noodles you have chopsticks it’s just that you don’t know the procedure to use it. Similarly, thousands of children all round the world want to generate new ideas “they want to eat (in case of our example) but don’t know how to use the chopsticks or as in our case generate new ideas. In our college two programs run in a similar direction. One is ICC(Infosys Campus Connect)/PDP(Personality Development Program) and second is Startup Summit’s. ICC/PDP is available from second to the third year of graduation which might not be too late but yes it is late. Why waste a year to start idea generation. Idea generation is like growing a plant, it takes years. Presently, students tend to bunk such sessions so before we implement to first year we would like to improve the present scenario.

Improvement on Present ICC/PDP Classes

·         Creating a Facebook (social media based) page to showcase those students who have benefited from such programs and how their journey started. This would stand as a mode of inspiration and motivation to new comers and those who don’t find its importance. Also, it would act as a virus which could spread cross branches and cross colleges for greater impact. 

Expected Time of Completion : Before mid March 2017 and updation would continue thereby.

·         Spreading awareness regarding the importance of ICC/PDP classes.

Expected Time of Completion : Before March 2017 by faculties and flash mob's and posters

·         Motivating Students to participate in competitions related to ICC/PDP.

·         A Student Body (presently the fellows of the said college have agreed to take charge) under guidance of faculties, who would keep a check on the said program. They would monitor that students do attend such sessions, and if they don’t then motivate them to attend these lectures by telling them about its importance.

Expected Time of Completion : Before April 2017 in which the student body would be ready and recognised in the college.

·         Motivating students to generate ideas by giving them past examples so that they have a basic sketch of how to climb ladders. This was done recently by a senior of our college who created an application for the college attendance, and yes it did come out good.

 

Improvement on Start-Up Summits

• Seminars and workshops (TEDx) workshops should be initiated a month before the startup summits so that those who wish to participate in such events have ideas on what to do and how to do since people tend to be blank about the proceedings of such events.Expected Time of Completion : Before July 2017 as orgainising seminars would require mentors and faculties with sponsorships.
• Funding for the same is needed to be generated (which is approved by the CEO of GEI)
• To be held more than once in a year as many students are not able to attend when it takes place a single time a year. This would ensure more participation and yes motivation to do. Expected Time of Completion : Before August 2017 a Startup Summit shall be conducted.
• Cross branch involvement, as this would ensure that right guidance is provided to beginners and a bigger idea can be brought to life.Expected Time of Completion : Only post the above mentioned programmes work efficiently.

'Future aspects

('Expected Time of Completion : Only post the above mentioned programmes work efficiently.)

Once the above plans are running successfully

·         Implementation to first year would take place. As it would be safe to initiate the whole process to first year after it has been improved where it is presently exercising.

·         More faculties would be involved. This would require fewer efforts as they themselves would understand its importance post its success.

Strategy #4: Ways to Increase Funding for Students

Central Problem

Though the increase and providing funds lies in the hand of the highest levels of management , still we found the following issues.

• There is no proper channel for the students to follow and gain funds from the concerned authorities.
• Students end up in acquring the wrong notions about funding.
•  Lack of motivation from the supporting staff and teachers end up in the project being regarded as a failed idea.

Walk through the most effective channel

•     Redefining the most effective channel to be followed so that the students don't end up in dimissing their ideas.
•     Indulging the faculties and other teachers to support the student and guide them to success.
•     Providing the management with working prototypes so that they have a clearer idea about the upcoming project.

Expected time of Completion : Mid May 2017

A  managerial body would look into the idea soon and confirm the formation of the club or panel for felicitating the Head Of Departments(HOD's).

• The CEO has shown positive thoughts to impelemt the idea and so with regular updates , the idea would be soon implemented

Other Smaller initiatives

• Increase funding through goverment bodies like MSME and SIDBI.
• Organize fund raisers for personal funding .
• Form a platform where stuffs discarded by one person can be used as a raw material for other's need.
• Allocate annual budget for funding extraordinary ideas.

Related Links

Spring 2017 UIF:

Galgotia College of Engineering and Technology

Student Contributors:

Ria Singh

Hari Shankar Aggarwal

Khyati Agarwal

Ayush Karanwal

Shivank Gahlot 

Syed Fouz

Vaishnavi Johri

Akshat Khare