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<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 Engineering Chemistry, 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 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">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 to experiment and build prototypes and even test them. The college also collaborates with industry majors like Infosys and IBM. The college has also set up an 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>

<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">The faculty at CMRIT are very passionately involved in research mainly in their fields of study. The many technical papers presented and published are a testimony to the same.</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">The feasible ideas and products that come up are taken through the incubation centre to present it to the market.</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">The college has a standard MoU for tech transfer with industries. In recent years many such &nbsp;MoU’s have been signed, notably with Hitachi, Sherpify and IBM.</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">Being located in the IT corridor is also advantageous to us.</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">A handful of projects aimed at improving the quality of life in the city are being worked on by teams in the college. The biggest projects include a solution to purify the many contaminated lakes in the city, which is being tested by local authorities, and an improvement to the operation of current traffic signals. These have been lauded by local authorities for serving the need of the hour.</span></span></span>