Presentation by National Institute of Technology, Silchar(Assam)

Venture @cademy-Indovation Lab ®
National Institute of Technology Silchar
Assam
Meeting of National Innovation Clubs
Festival of Innovation
Rashtrapati Bhavan
10th March,2015
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NIT Silchar at a glance
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Venture @cademy- Indovation Lab
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Path travelled so far
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Mission to be accomplished
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 Students Strength – 2772 (Including 168 Ph. D Scholars)
 11 Patents, 10 Awards and 610 Journal, 925 conference
Publications in last three years.
 R & D Projects Rs. 475.43 Lakhs.
 NBA accredited under Tier-I : (4 UG programmes)
 A Research Promotion Cell (RPC) has been established with all
required infrastructure, which remains open to students for 24x7.
 Venture @cademy-Indovation lab- promoting innovation and
design for entrepreneurship and start-ups
Striving for excellence
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 NASSCOM – Governing Council
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FSIPD and Off Highway Vehicles
 Research Park established with
Industries- ETH, TATA Technologies
 Industry Participation in academics
with the convergence of IITs, BARC,
C-DAC, TCS.
 16 MoUs signed with Industry and
Academia
 MoU with University of Illinois, UC
Striving for excellence
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Supercomputing facility in
collaboration with CDAC
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11th CDAC Center established at NIT
Silchar for entire NE
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MoU with NRDC for Innovation
Facilitation Center
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State Nodal Agency for the State of
Manipur under PMGSY
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Regional Test Centre –Solar Radiation
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Best TEQIP-II performing institutes in
the country
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Remote Center under NMEICT with
IITB and IITKgp
Infrastructure
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 MHRD – Amiable Facilitator.
 Increase in resource generation through
alumni, consultancy etc.
 124 International Students from Ethiopia,
Bangladesh, Srilanka, Bhutan, Mozambique,
Mongolia, Mauritius
 State-of-the-art Infrastructure
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Academic Building, Administrative
Building, Guest House, Health Centre
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11 Hostels + 2 upcoming
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Kendriya Vidyalaya and Nursery School
Infrastructure Projects
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 Ongoing Infrastructure Projects
 Boys Hostel No - 9 (1000 capacity)
 Central Library
 Sports Complex (One of its kind in
North East)
 Upcoming Infrastructure Projects
 NABL Lab under Civil Engg.Dept.
PG/ Ph.D Hostels
 Administrative Building
 Girls Hostels (600 Capacity)
Consultancy & Projects
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 32 ongoing projects
 Granting authority: DST,
MCIT, KVIC, MESc, RPS,DeitY
ICSSR, MODROB,AICTE, NRB,
IBM, MNRE, NRDC
 Consultancy: ≈Rs. 475 Lakhs (2013-14)
Research Promotion Cell (RPC):
The cell is incepted after visiting UIUC. The aim of RPC is:
•To promote innovative and state of the art project ideas by UG students.
•To encourage researchers to pursue their ideas into prototypes.
•To encourage product development.
•To inculcate the creative minds ready for social-problem solving
Presently around 35 different project ideas are endorsed by RPC.
Research Grant of Rs. 1.00 Lakh for each for one year for prototype development.
The funds are extended after reviewing the progress.
• NIT Silchar is coming up with a new idea of Funding Projects from any institute.
• BoG , NIT Silchar has approved the proposal and endorsed Rs1.00 C for first year .
• The projects will be invited from institutes across the country.
• Evaluated by a screening committee constituted by experts from reputed Institutes.
• The IPR and Technology Transfer, Patent etc will be full or partial –modalities under process.
Collaborative MOU with University Library & Mortenson Centre of University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA:
To facilitate the creation of a world-
class, innovative and flexible library
system to enhance campus learning,
support research, and provide
community outreach and service at
NIT Silchar.
To create a North Eastern Library
Network for sharing of e-content,
resources & best practices.
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Mission:
•To promote innovation and design in the country
•To promote innovative product development for social needs
•To initiate start-ups and endorse product ideas
•Nurturing creative minds of techies and entrepreneurs
•To be a unique platform where innovation meets design
•Skill development and creation of job through entrepreneurship
Support: BoG, NIT Silchar has already approved Rs 1.00 C for
Indovation lab® -for lab development and start-up initiative
Adviser, CM, Assam, visited the lab and appreciated
SP, Cachar visited lab and extend their support. First
automated light control to be installed at SP office, Cachar.
Innovation and Design in Curriculum:
 An Audit Course on Innovation and Product Design was introduced
for UG and PG last year.
 A Credit Course “Innovation and Product Design” is introduced for
PG students of ME.
 The course is designed to promote Innovation and design among the
students.
 The course is designed by Prof. N. V. Deshpande, Professor in ME &
Director, NIT Silchar, in consultation with industry and academia.
 A Credit Course entitled as ‘Design Lab’ is already introduced in 6th
semester UG Electronics & Communication Engineering to encourage
students in Electronics Circuit Design
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NANO QUADCOPTERSDRONES
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Solar Energy Initiatives @ NITS
•Regional Test Centre
•200 KW Solar Plant
•75 nos. of solar street light
•Green Office & Zero Energy Sports Complex
•Solar Powered Projects- solar fountain, dc fan, solar pump,
solar bamboo rickshaw.
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Proposed North East e-Connectivity with NITS Supercomputing Centre
Robust backbone connectivity for
HPC –supercomputing facility in
collaboration with CDAC.
Shri Pranab,
IndiaMukherjee,
Hon’ble President
of India commented
at Rashtrapati
Bhavan during the
conference with
the NIT’s
Directors held on
29 – 30 Oct 2014
at New Delhi
ICSIT-2015
10-13 March,2015,
Orlando,
Florida, USA
Skill Development :
NITS-CIT (National Institute of Technology Certificate in Information Technology)
Course Objective:
To up skill the rural and
unskilled people with basic
computer literacy
Course Outcome:
High expectation to enable them
finding vocational and
entrepreneurship opportunities by
observing themselves in
indispensable employability.
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Pine Apple Food Processing Unit:
NITS association with
Barak Valley Pineapple
Growers Association will
open new avenues for
skills development &
generate
employment
opportunities in the entire
NE region.
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Handicrafts
Food Processing
Units
NITS is aiming to develop a state of the art Pineapple food
processing unit at Lakhimpur- renovate and reopen the closed
factory.
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Photochemical Machining :
Institute has initiated R&D projects in collaboration with Bamboo
& Cane Development Institute, Agartala and Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre, Mumbai.
Training on Photochemical Machining is conducted by NITS
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Renewable Mission :
• SESI Student Chapter
• MoU with MNRE
• NITS conducted Solar Training in Guwahati- 3 villagers from
Silchar were supported for training.
• Villagers became entrepreneurs in manufacturing a prototype.
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Renewable Mission : Solar Training for employment
In view of Hon’ble PM’s vision and Govt. of India’s initiative in Solar Energy-NITS
started empowering villagers with training on Solar for employment
Two days skilled
development
program
on Solar system
at Venture
Academy-Indovation
lab
Manual in four
languages
The aim of the workshop
was to strengthen the
knowledge & skills of
villagers from nearby
villages on solar
system
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Renewable Mission :
Kitchen Waste Bio-Gas Plant:
Kitchen waste of 500 capacity boys hostel-8 is used for Bio-Gas plant which is
using for hot water generation.
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A NIT Silchar and C-DAC- Mohali collaboration:
To provide specialized health care services
to the rural population in Silchar, Assam, CDAC, Mohali is establishing Telemedicine
Consultation Centers (TCC) at NIT Silchar &
two villages on a pilot basis.
It is proposed to establish TCC at 3
locations namely
• Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research
Centre (specialist node) CCHC,
• Babutilla/Madhutilla
• Tukagram/Bhanga (remote node) at
Silchar.
Venture @cademy - Indovation Lab®-Video Book
ICT based Video Book on Technical, Vocational and School
Curriculum for human resource development in North East
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Development of Video Book for
Engineering and Technology
Sciences and HSS
Development of Video book for
Science, Mathematics and English
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for Primary Schools for NE states.
Development of Video book for
Vocational Skill Development for
NE region.
The entire storage will be maintained at
NITS Cloud which will be shared to
institutes as per MoU and requirement.
Project submitting to DeitY
Entrepreneurs from local village:
Solar Water Treatment
Plant :
Nando and Khurmi of
Madhutila Village is
manufacturing a low
cost solar water heating
unit which is capable of
producing
800-850c
with 100L per day
capacity.
Solar Tree- Inspired by Solar Tree
structure Prof N V Deshpande, Director,
NIT Silchar plan to implement a
prototype unit at NITS.
Mr. Nando of Madhutila Village is
manufacturing a low cost unit with two
PV Cells of 8W and is under field test
with a DC fan connected to it.
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A success story of a villager
A complete echo proof state of the art auditorium is build by Nando
Nando
Madhutilla
Incubators & young Technopreneurs :
•Incubated at NIT Silchar
•Registered Enterprise Pvt Ltd Company
•Registered under Amazon for online retail
•Earned around 2L and got over 1500 orders
•Getting project from USA
•Working with a national level NGO for their
theme development and sharing online resources
•Venture Academy is coming up with a unique
Comic Character to spread social awareness
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Modalities of funding for start-ups: (proposed and under finalization)
• Funding of Rs 1 L for product prototype and business ideas
• Funding upo Rs 5.00 L for enterprise startups and product manufacturing
• Funding upto Rs25.00 L for potential start-ups with full or partial IPR
protection and equity.
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Relaxation for innovators and entrepreneurs in academics with optional credit
courses, attendance relaxation etc.
Incubators are sponsored for attending workshops and other events
Summer Industrial Internship for UG/PG students
Any one –students, faculty, staff, technical assistants and entrepreneur outside NITS
School Children (V to XII) to join Innovation Club. One hour on
Innovation in every week to be attended by KV and other school children.
Difficulties faced:
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Lack of Proper National Guidance for academic institutions to
promote Innovators and Incubators
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Lack of recognition and rewards at different levels
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Lack of proper inter-network between institutes
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Lack of national level archiving of ideas and projects
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Duplication of efforts and miss utilization of time
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Nurturing innovators and incubators is a real challenge
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Availability of fund and resources
Lack of Industries around –geographical barrier
Vision:
NIT Silchar is aspiring to be a preferred institute by the year 2020
with its honest ENDEAVOURS for innovation and design and
transforming society into a better place for generations to come.
E - EDUCATION
N - NEW AVENUES
D - DEDICATION
E - EQUITY ASSURANCE
A - ATTITUDE
V - VALUES
O - OPTIMISTIC
U - UNITY
R - RESEARCH
S - SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND START-UPS
National Institute of Technology Silchar
Assam, 788010
www.nits.ac.in