Priorities:JNTU College of Engineering Strategic Priorities
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STRATEGY#1: ATTRACT STUDENTS TOWARDS INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
· Provide a platform for the students to express their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas
o Students participate in workshops and other interactive events to express their ideas.
o They meet the directors, administrators and entrepreneurs to know what they need do to make the idea a good project to work on and to know the market needs.
o Good and fetching ideas will be appreciated and encouraged to work on.
· Mentorship programmes by young entrepreneurs
o The students learn from the life stories of entrepreneurs and be encouraged towards entrepreneurship.
· Introduce an Audit course on Entrepreneurship for undergraduate students
o Interested students can take an audit course in the third or final year of their graduation.
o It should include elements of design thinking, lean start up, negotiation with partners, risk analysis etc.
STRATEGY#2: PROMOTION OF INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COLLABORATION
· Inter-disciplinary projects must be taken up
o Projects on subjects like robotics, hardware, machine building are done through active collaboration between students of various streams of engineering.
o Such projects must be encouraged in third as well as final year of graduation.
· Extra-curricular clubs
o The activities of co-curricular and extracurricular clubs must be extended to include the students from all departments.
o Any project which is done as a college event in a club should be done with active participation of students from all departments.
o All the clubs should ensure that each student is a part of some club or the other
· Regular group discussions and other events must take place
o Through group discussions and such events, students from various backgrounds and streams interact and collectively solve common problems.
STRATEGY#3: CONNECTING THE CAMPUS WITH THE INDUSTRY
· Internships for the students
o The college administration should collaborate with the industries.
o The industry should conduct some screening tests and other things and provide internships to the students so that the students can get used to the working environment.
o Industry professionals should teach the students the courses related to the technologies and tools which they are using.
o For this purpose E-learning platforms should be developed and made more familiar.
· Provide hands-on experience to students
o By collaborating with the administration the industry should give students some live projects and assignments.
o They should also provide mentorship regarding these projects.
STRATEGY#4: ENHANCING THE CULTURE OF I&E IN SCHOOL
· Taking up government or industrial projects to solve the problems of the society
o Students must be encouraged to look around and identify problems.
o The probable solution to the problem is to be discussed in the Innovation centre programmes.
o They should collaborate with the government and industry to get sufficient financial and mentorship aid from them.
· Forming a society for I&E
o There should be autonomous society formed by the industry professionals, government officials, alumni and students leader in the incubation centre.
o The society should not be controlled by the university.
o They should have regular meetings and should discuss the projects they are working on, the problems which are faced by the people.
· Entrepreneurship cell
o JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada has an entrepreneurship cell which conducts many events related to entrepreneurship.
o Its activities must be extended to promote culture of I&E in the school.
Written by:
Likhita Nukala,Srilekha Murapaka, Bhargavi Sarilla, Sandhya Balu
