Changes

<span id="docs-internal-guid-8b5142b5-a78e-a9ef-b79f-2440d74101da"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elements of Innovation and Entrepreneurship can be found in some courses undertaken by students. Apart from subjects related to their core branches, there are subjects such as Management and Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking which have been introduced quite recently. Students are exposed to ways of thinking innovatively. Events on innovation keep happening in the form of technical fests like Avalanche, and students also participate in competitions organised by the Government of India and other entities. We have a Department of Management Studies that offers a major in entrepreneurship. There are a few clubs like the Programmers Club and the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship Development Programme which promote innovative thinking among students. Hackathons organised by the New Age Incubation Network (NAIN) help to identify potential student projects that can be funded by the Government of Karnataka. Students are encouraged towards innovative thinking through mini projects that they have every semester. In addition to this, every branch has a Design Thinking course for a semester in which students have to individually come up with a prototype that solves a unique problem. We have the Industry-Institute Partnership Cell which has facilities like Flexible Manufacturing System, Rapid Prototyping Machine, Coordinate Manufacturing Machine and Surface Roughness Machine, which can be used by students who have undertaken some projects, and also by the industry to train new recruits from the college. The NAIN Incubation Centre has all the facilities conducive to start start-ups by students. Extracurricular teams for the SAE competitions encourage students to think differently, come up with their own ideas for problems that have constraints, and market their creation at the end. The Computer Science and Engineering department has industry partnerships to provide internships to students. The Mechanical Department has a tie-up with Quest Global to provide CAD/CAM training to students. In addition to this, there is the Tata Technologies Ready Engineer program. Start Ups in the IT Incubation centre also provide internships to students.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-8b5142b5-a78e-a9ef-b79f-2440d74101da"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS</span></span>

<div><br/></div>