Venture @cademy-Indovation Lab ®

National Institute of Technology Silchar Assam

Meeting of National Innovation Clubs

Festival of Innovation

Rashtrapati Bhavan

10th March,2015

Outlines:

NIT Silchar at a glance

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Path travelled so far

Mission to be accomplished

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Education

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.

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NASSCOM – Governing Council

Member

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

11th CDAC Center established at NIT

Silchar for entire NE

MoU with NRDC for Innovation

Facilitation Center

State Nodal Agency for the State of

Manipur under PMGSY

Regional Test Centre –Solar Radiation

Best TEQIP-II performing institutes in

the country

Remote Center under NMEICT with

IITB and IITKgp

Striving for excellence

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Infrastructure

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

Academic Building, Administrative

Building, Guest House, Health Centre

11 Hostels + 2 upcoming

Kendriya Vidyalaya and Nursery School

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Infrastructure Projects

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)

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Consultancy & Projects

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.

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.

Collaborative MOU with University Library & Mortenson Centre of University

of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA:

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.

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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

Innovation and Design in Curriculum:

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NANO QUADCOPTERS-DRONES

•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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Solar Energy Initiatives @ NITS

Proposed North East e-Connectivity with NITS Supercomputing Centre

Robust backbone connectivity for HPC –supercomputing facility in collaboration with CDAC.

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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

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.

Skill Development :

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.

Handicrafts

Food Processing

Units

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NITS is aiming to develop a state of the art Pineapple food

processing unit at Lakhimpur- renovate and reopen the closed

factory.

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 :

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• 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.

Renewable Mission : Solar Training for employment

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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

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

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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.

To provide specialized health care services to the rural population in Silchar, Assam, C-DAC, 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.

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A NIT Silchar and C-DAC- Mohali collaboration:

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Development of Video Book for

Engineering and Technology

Sciences and HSS

Development of Video book for

Science, Mathematics and English

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

ICT based Video Book on Technical, Vocational and School

Curriculum for human resource development in North East

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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.

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.

Entrepreneurs from local village:

A success story of a villager

Nando

Madhutilla

A complete echo proof state of the art auditorium is build by Nando

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•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

Incubators & young Technopreneurs :

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.

Other modalities: • 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.

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• Lack of Proper National Guidance for academic institutions to

promote Innovators and Incubators

• Lack of recognition and rewards at different levels

• Lack of proper inter-network between institutes

• Lack of national level archiving of ideas and projects

• Duplication of efforts and miss utilization of time

• Nurturing innovators and incubators is a real challenge

• Availability of fund and resources

• Lack of Industries around –geographical barrier

Difficulties faced:

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

Vision:

National Institute of Technology Silchar

Assam, 788010 www.nits.ac.in