Project Name: Schema for Students' Sustainability @ MITS

Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidates Balaji Ramanujam and Vijaya Lakshmi Udayagiri

Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows?

Change is imperative. The project’s focus is the meaning and purposeful involvement of the students on campus. MITS IRO strives hard to establish international students' collaborations. MITS UIFellows to give an impetus to transform the ecosystem.

Description

“Quality education is every student’s birth right” and all systems have to empower the students, the custodians of the planet. To prepare them for tomorrow’s world, driven by knowledge, machine-intelligence and digital pathways, we want to groom our millennials to leverage the limitless opportunities. We have created a platform for deep research orientation, innovation and incubation to establish a robust academic ambience in the ecosystem. We would like to create impact through addressing academia-industry linkages, cross disciplinary initiative’s by international collaborations. “Continuation of life on the planet, making our world more sustainable, healthy, secure and joyful,” MITS’ student community being epicenter of this wellness program, ready to present in a humble way, the captured imagination of the global engineering community and to showcase in the website their innovation, talent building, research, creative project experience, multidisciplinary training, entrepreneurial mindset.

Stakeholders served

Students
Faculty
Management

Key Milestones

December 2020: Student Wellness (Mental wellness, Counselling, Mentoring, post-pandemic Trauma handling), Mentoring the Freshmen through Orientation. Yoga, Meditation, Counselling Services through helplines & webinars (as we are working remotely)
March 2021: UIF Strategic Priorities & their implementation (Alumni Consortium, Toastmasters Club, Nexus Learning, MITS WIZZ, MITS Flash), DT Workshops (via online/offline)
June 2021: Faculty Student Research Collaborations (SHARP), Short term in-house cross-disciplinary projects, channelizing & monitoring of Student Clubs
September 2021: Innovation and Entrepreneur skill development, Hackathon, Workshops, and Seminars
December 2021: Showcasing the progression of Student Club Activities (Drone, Robotic and Hybrid Vehicle), Progression of International Collaborations.
March 2022: International Collaborations, Internship activities, International Fellowships and Global immersion programs.

An Innovation Portfolio

To share is to care: MITS strives hard to improvise the surroundings of the ecosystem through extending its multidimensional services. MITS replicates kaleidoscopic activities of all the stakeholders, their insights and the ongoing innovative activities in the digital platform. With the established interface, MITS hosts various projects and showcases the success stories. The digital platform will serve as a unity matrix to reflect the strategic and customizable approaches, which can be accessed globally as a point of reference.

Kindly connect us through the following url: https://sss.mits.ac.in/

Project Name: (Design Thinking Hub) MITS DT-Hub for fostering 21st century skills in the ecosystem.

Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidates Arjun Chakravarthi Pogaku

Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows?

To imbibe 21st century skills among the students to empower them to create a better future. To enable them to take up a mindful global citizenship, To prepare them to evolve feasible solutions. This project is dedicated to empower every freshman and sophomore.

Description

The magic of Design Thinking for the past 5 years in both personal and professional life transformed me a lot. The journey from home, experiences challenging scenarios. DT experience played a major role in creating solutions which are my memorable experiences. This experiential learning to transform the students started in 2016 with UI fellows in this campus promoting the same in the workshops. A lot of effort was put in to nurture the 4Cs - Creativity, Critical thinking, Collaboration Communication, which has reached only a small number. “How might it reach 7000 students?” Recently the Govt of India through the National Education Policy 2020 focussed on 6th Gen learning methodologies, promoting 4Cs. So by taking up this initiative, innovative mindset and entrepreneurship, embracing 21st century skills will be established. We strongly believe, the formation of DT-Hub at institutional level, will create an inspiring and congenial learning environment which cultivates empathy and compassion among the students to be mindful in utilizing the resources. It paves a way for the new generation to adapt to the ever changing global requisites for sustainable progress.

Stakeholders served

Every Freshman and sophomore in the ecosystem
International Relations Office (IRO) I Centre, Clubs,
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Innovation and Incubation Center (IIC)
Research & Development Cell (R&D)
Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)
MITS Skill Development Centre (MSDC)

Key Milestones

December 2023: Phase - 1: Establishment of DT-Hub; Mission & Vision Statements (and policies too); Manifesto; Advisory council; Roles & responsibilities of members; Student representatives;
March 2024: Phase - 2: Structure and functioning of the cell
June 2024: Phase - 3: DT approach on 21st century skills for freshmen & sophomores; Feedback mechanism and analysis of phase - 2;
September 2024: Phase - 4: Implementing pivotal objectives based on the feedback; Reflections;
December 2024: Phase - 5: Create Thinkers' space for cross-disciplinary collaborations; Maker’s space
March 2025: Phase - 6: National Level Faculty Development Program;