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Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E-Cell)

Vision of E-Cell :

Developing an ecosystem dedicated to promote and sustain the entrepreneurial spirit among

the youth for the betterment of the society.

About of E-Cell, MEFGI :

The institute is committed to encourage entrepreneurial activities proactively. A separate

entrepreneurship cell know as Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E-Cell) , MEFGI has been

establish to induce the entrepreneurship spirit among students and make them excited to start

their own venture/enterprise.

Entrepreneurs with technical background, like our students, have amazing capability to

innovate both on the technical and business fronts. E-Cell, MEFGI aims at fostering such

capability and provides all possible support to convert their dreams and aspiration into reality.

To meet its vision the cell has been organizing number of events like entrepreneurs interaction

sessions, entrepreneurship awareness camp, lectures, workshops and demo days. We are very

glad to see the early sign of the change in our student. Validating our efforts, the number of

students approaching us with their business ideas has grown quite significantly.

E-Cell also signed the MOU with Viridian Espark Ventures Accelerator, Noida to support and

coach the student driven Start-ups enrolled under E-Cell.

E-Cell has dedicated nodal centre with all the basic facilities. Students can use the centre even

after office hours.

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Faculty Committee Members :

Sr. No. Name of Member Department Role

1. Prof.Mehul Patel Electronics and Communications Engineering Coordinator

2. Mr.Kiran Parmar Senior Manager Skill Development Member

3. Prof. Chintan Patel Computer Engineering Member

4. Prof.Harsh Mehta Information Technology Member

5. Prof. Pushkar Tripathi Electrical Engineering Member

6. Prof. Tejas Bhavsar Mechanical Engineering Member

7. Prof.Bhavik Daxini Civil Engineering Member

8. Prof. Divya Dixit Environmental Science and Engineering Member

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Activities Carried out by E-Cell

Faculty and Student Training Programs/Visits:

1. Academic Year 2016_17 :

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

Program

Name of Attendee Organize

d by

Venue

1.

24/12/16

To

12/01/17

Three

Week

JAGRITI

YATRA_2017

(National Train

Journey to

Build India

through

Enterprise).

1. Madhav V. Patel

(Student of 5th

E&C)

Enrol.No :

130570111028

Jagriti

Sewa

Sansthan

is based in

Deoria,

Uttar

Pradesh

National train

journey that will

travel 8000 Km

across the length

and breadth of

India and cover

12 States of

India.

2.

28/12/16

To

09/01/17

Two

Week

Global

Entrepreneursh

ip and

Innovation

Program

1. Prof. Tejas S.

Bhavsar

(Mechanical

Dept.)

2. Jaimin B. Vora

(Student of 5th

Computer Engg.)

Enrol.No :

140970107052

3. Divyaben V.

Nakum (Student

of 7th

E&C

Engg.)

Enrol.No :

130570111025

KLETU,

Hubballi,

Karnataka

Manning School

of Business,

University Of

Massachusetts

Lowell

3.

26/12/16

To

07/01/17

Two

Week

Faculty

Development

Program (FDP)

1. Prof.Mehul L.

Patel (E&C

Dept.)

2. Prof. Amit H.

Bhmani

(Computer

Dept.)

The

Centre of

Entrepren

eurship

Developm

ent,(CED)

Gandhina

gar

CED, Naroda

GIDC Centre,

Ahmedabad.

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2. Academic Year 2014_15 :

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

Program

Name of Attendee Organize

d by

Venue

1.

16/03/15

To

28/03/15

Two

Week

Faculty

Development

Program (FDP)

1. Prof. Ravi

Bagree (E&C

Dept.)

Entrepren

eurship

Developm

ent

Institute

of India

(EDII),

Ahmedaba

d

EDII,

Ahmedbad

Events Organized :

1. Academic year 2016_17:

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

event.

Speaker/Guest Venue Organized by

1 02/07/16 1 Day

Workshop on

student project to

student startup at

Resource

Persons from

GTU

GTU,

VGEC,

Ahmed

abad

Gujarat Technology

University,

Chandkheda campus.

2 12/09/16 1 Day

One Day IEEE

Event on

Internship and

Entrepreneurship

Development

Program

Mr.Amit Kumar,

Dr.Y.P.Kosta,

Mr. Jatin

chaudhry,

Mr. Pravash Dey

MEFGI

Jointly Organized by

E-CELL, and IEEE

Student Branch,

MEFGI and

Sponsored by IEEE

Gujarat Section and

E-CELL, MEFGI.

3 17/09/16 1 Day

One Day work

shop on

“Showcasing

Carrier

Opportunity in

Media”

Mr. Kaushal

Upadhyay,

Mr. Dhawal

Khunt

MEFGI

Jointly Organized by:

E-CELL, MEFGI

& National Institute

of Mass

Communication and

Journalism,

Ahmedabad

4 21/09/16 1 Day

Live Streaming of

Webinar on

“How to Build

Your Start-Up

from Scratch”

Ja-Naé Duane,

Steven Fisher MEFGI

Entrepreneurship

Development Cell,

MEFGI

Conducted by:

McGraw Hill

Education (India)

Pvt. Ltd

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5

19/01/17

To

21/01/17

3 Days

Entrepreneurship

Awareness Camp

(EC)

Resource

Persons from

various

organizations

associated to

Entrepreneurship

Development

MEFGI

E-CELL,MEFGI

Sponsored by :

The Centre of

Entrepreneurship

Development,(CED)

Gandhinagar

6 24/01/17 1 Day

Start up Eco

System in

Educational

Campuses

Dr. Sunil Shukla,

Director-EDII,

Ahmedabad

MEFGI E-Cell, MEFGI

2. Academic year 2015_16 :

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

event.

Speaker/Guest Venue Organized by

1 25/07/15 1 Day

Launch of book

"you gotta have

balls" by author

Parashar Pandya

Mr. Jatin kataria

Mr. Parashar

pandya

MEFGI E-CELL,MEFGI

2 21 To

23/01/16 3 Days

1st

Entrepreneurship

Awareness Camp

(EC)

Resource

Persons from

various

organizations

associated to

Entrepreneurship

Development

MEFGI

E-CELL,MEFGI

Sponsored by

NIMAT_EDII,

Ahmedabad and

NSTEDB_DST

(Grant of Rs.20000/)

3 28/01/16 1 Day

Industrial

Guidance

Seminar

Experts From

DIC,MSME

Rajkot

Engine

ering

Associa

tion

(REA)

Jointly Organized by

REA, MSME, DIC

4 16/02/16 1Day Empresario

Startup Gujarat

Experts From

EDII,

Ahmedabad

MEFGI

(Rajkot Zone Nodal

Center ) E-

CELL,MEFGI

EDII, Ahmedabad in

association with the

Gujarat CSR

5 18 To

20/02/16 3 Days

2nd

Entrepreneurship

Awareness Camp

(EC)

Resource

Persons from

various

organizations

associated to

Entrepreneurship

Development

MEFGI

E-CELL,MEFGI

Sponsored by

NIMAT_EDII,

Ahmedabad and

NSTEDB_DST

(Grant of Rs.20000/)

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6 17 To

19/03/16 3 Days

3rd

Entrepreneurship

Awareness Camp

(EC)

Resource

Persons from

various

organizations

associated to

Entrepreneurship

Development

MEFGI

E-CELL,MEFGI

Sponsored by

NIMAT_EDII,

Ahmedabad and

NSTEDB_DST

(Grant of Rs.20000/)

3. Academic year 2014_15 :

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

event.

Speaker/Guest Venue Organized by

1 16/10/14 1 Day

Job Vs.

Entrepreneurship

Session

Mr. Jatin Kataria,

Mr. Akshay Makadia MEFGI

E-CELL,

MEFGI

2 10/02/15 1 Day Rotodeal.com

Launch event

Miss.Nisha Kataria

Mr.Pranajay jhala,

Mr.Vivek vyas,

Mr. Kamal

MEFGI E-CELL,

MEFGI

3 27/03/15 1 Day Echai Demo Day

Mr. Jatin chaudhry,

Mr. Akshay makadia

Mr. Vivek vyas,

Mr. Vivek Sancheti

Mr. Tejas Jasani,

Mr. Shital Bhatia

Mr. Ankur Kansagra

MEFGI E-CELL,

MEFGI

4 28/04/15 1 Day Tail A Story Prof. Gandhi

( Head of MBA,MEFGI) MEFGI

E-CELL,

MEFGI

4. Academic year 2013_14:

Sr.

No

Date Duration Name of the

event.

Speaker/Guest Venue Organized by

1 03/10/13 1 Day eChai-On-

Campus

Mr.Rutvik Dave,

Mr.Ateet Bajaj, Mr.

Vivek Sancheti and

other Entrepreneurs.

MEFGI E-CELL,

MEFGI

Prof. Mehul L Patel

Coordinator, Entrepreneur Development Cell,

Marwadi Education Foundation Group of Institute.

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Photographs of Various Events

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