INNOVATION CELL
In order to foster the culture of innovation among faculty and the students, Innovation Cell was established in the college. The Cell aims to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes. The Innovation cell also strives to create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem in the campus and also provides a forum for scouting Ideas and Pre-incubation of Ideas. Institution Innovation Council (IIC) has been established in Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College by MHRD Innovation Cell (MIC), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India to foster the culture of Innovation among Higher Education Institutions.
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College IIC has been recognized as one of the Best Performing Institution from the South-Central Zone (SCRO) for the Year 2018-19 by MHRD’s Innovation Cell and has been felicitated by Hon’ble Minister of HRD Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank during “First Annual Innovation Festival” held at AICTE Head Quarters, New Delhi on 11-09-2019.
Objectives
- To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities to inculcate a culture of innovation driven entrepreneurship
- To motivate, support and mentor students for identification and development of their innovative ideas.
- Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
- Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini challenges etc. with the involvement of industries.
- To catalyze and promote the development of knowledge-based and innovation-driven enterprises.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF INNOVATION CELL
- Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College IIC has been recognized as Best Performing Institution from the South Central Zone (SCRO) for the Year 2018-19 by MHRD’s Innovation Cell and has been felicitated by Hon’ble Minister of HRD Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank during “First Annual Innovation Festival” held at AICTE Head Quarters, New Delhi on 11-09-2019” .
- We were one among top 25 best performing Institutes among 952 IICs established across India.
- Sanctioned the Host Institute (HI) status for Business Incubator (BI) supported by MSME and submitted 11 ideas for idea incubation under to IDEA NEW INDIA CHALLENGE
- Secured First Rank in the Technology Entrepreneurship Program (TEP) BY Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad in March 2020 for submitting a startup proposal on e-waste management.
- One of our team has been shortlisted for SIH-2020 Grand Finale by MHRD for proposing a solution to a problem stated by Ministry of Women and Child Development.
- Mr. Y Vamsi Krishna, Innovation cell student coordinator was Selected as Developers student club lead from Sree Vidyanikethan engineering college and was also sponsored by Google India to attend DSC2019 summit held at GOA.
- Mr. Y Vamsi Krishna, completed 2 years as Microsoft Student partner and got certified from Microsoft. He served as IEEE Day & IEEE PES DAY Ambassador for the academic year 2019 and got Selected as IEEE Student Branch Chair for Sree Vidyanikethan engineering college.
- Two projects based on AR/VR technology were short listed for finals in “Cognizant Best Students Project Award”-2020.
- Published a Book Chapter: P. Bhanu Prasad, N. Padmaja, B. Satish Kumar and A. Aravind (2020), “Industry 4.0: Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education” , Bharathiar University, Chennai.
- 218 student ideas got qualified of 731 idea submissions for i2E Smart Idea Pinch and Win Contest by APSSDC in 2019.
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