IEDC

Visit to Incubation unit

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a visit to Incubation unit of KCG College of Technology on 15th June 2022 to the final year Electronic and Communication Engineering students.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor and Incharge of Incubation centre welcomed the students to the KCG Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre (IIEC) shorlty called as TBI. He introduced the start-ups that currently under incubation and briefed on the role of incubation centre in supporting the start-ups. He also mentioned the types of support services KCG IIEC offers to the start-ups to make their firm self-sustainable. He also highlighted how students can convert their ideas to start-ups and possible funding support from various agencies. He also motivated the students to pursue Entrepreneurship as a career opportunity. Students very eagerly interacted and raised several queries on incubation process and steps. There were a total of 14 students and 1 faculty who visited the incubation unit and got benefitted.

IIC Regional meet

The Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC) organised its first IIC reginal meet on 21st July 2022 at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. IIC members Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, Dr. M. Vignesh Kumar, Mr. S. Sadasivam and Mrs. BrindhaSakthi attended the IIC regional meet.

How to plan a start-up Legal and Ethical steps

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a session on How to plan a start-up – Legal and Ethical steps on 02nd August 2022. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy IIC Convenor and Incubation Incharge was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Secondly, he started the session by discussing what is innovation and entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs change the market and soceity. Followed by that he presented unicorn startups of India and how they achieved the unicorn status. Thirdly, he discussed on the steps to plan for a startup and its legal and ethical steps. He also touched upon the IPR to legally safegourd the startup products and how market research can help them to elevate their growth. Lastly, participants enthusiastically interacted with the speaker and gained knowledge on the startup planning. There were a total of 18 students and 3 faculty who actively participated in the session.

Incubation Opportunities for Students and Faculty

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a session on Incubation Opprotunities for students and Faculty on 05th August 2022. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy IIC Convenor and Incubation Incharge was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Secondly, he started the session by discussing what is innovation and entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs change the market and soceity. Followed by that he presented unicorn startups of India and how they achieved the unicorn status. Thirdly, he discussed on the struggles and challenges faced by the startups and how they can over come the challenges. Later he discussed on the inucbation opportunities and facilities and how inucabtors support the startups and handhold them to overcome the challenges. Fourthly, he presented the facilities and services offered by the KCG Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre for startups from students and community. He also discussed the startups that are currently under incubation. There were a total of 78 students and 2 faculty who actively participated in the session.

Workshop on Business Model Canvas

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a workshop on Business Model Canvas on 06th August 2022. Mr. Surya Bharath, Co-founder and Director of Paltec R&D Pvt Ltd was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Later he introduced the speaker of the session and welcomed Mr. Surya to take over the session. Secondly, Mr. Surya, shared his journey as co-founder of a start-up and how they worked to build the firm with the business model canva. Later, he discussed the elements and components of BMC and how it divided into two parts and where the startups can focus to imporve their model. He also discussed on how to make an effective BMC pitch and their success stories. Lastly, students posted their queires to clarify their doubts. There were a total of 45 students and 2 faculty who actively participated in the session.

Entrepreneurship development 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized a session on Entrepreneurship development for the first year students on 16th August 2022Dr. Mohamad Zakriya, Start-up coordinator and Innovation Ambassador was the resource person.

Firstly, Dr. Mohamad Zakriya, welcomed the participants and started the session on what is entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs change the society and do things differently. He touched upon the essential skills required for the students to pursue entrepreneurship as a career opportunity during or after their graduation. Secondly, he discussed the functions of Institutions Innovation Council on campus and how this council actively supports the student innovations. Later he briefed the support and schemes from governments to promote entrepreneurship among the youth. He also explained the various competitions organized by the ministries to recognise student innovations. Participants were enlightened with the information shared and motivated to pursue entrepreneurship as a career opportunity.

I&E opportunities for beginners

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized a session on Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities for the first year students on 16th August 2022.Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor and Innovation Ambassador was the resource person.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, welcomed the participants and briefed the role of IEDC and IIC in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and introduced the speaker of the session. Secondly He discussed on what is innovation and creativity and how to connect the ideas with stages of innovation. Later he discussed about a few greatest innovations of all that changed the world such as wheels, internet and telephone. Thirdly, the briefed about what is entrepreneurship and start-ups and shared the popular and successful Indian start-ups and their success stories. Lastly, he also highlighted how students can improve their skills on innovating and converting their innovations to start-ups.

Overall it was an informative session and a total of 52 students were present for the session.

One day workshop on IPR, Entrepreneurship and Business Model Canvas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre organised a one day workshop on IPR, Entrepreneurship and Business Model Canvas for the second year students on 18th August 2022 at F14 seminar hall.

Session-1 Conversion of Ideas to Patents

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC coordinator, welcomed the participants of the workshop and briefed the agenda of the workshop and highlighted the activities of IEDC and IIC in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Secondly, Mr. BrindhaSakthi, IPR coordinator introduced the speaker Mrs. Preethi Narayanan, Patent agent and consultant to the audience. Thirdly, Mrs. Preethi started the session with introduction to IPR and its forms and how to file a patent. Later she discussed the forms required for filing the IPR and stages of patent grant process. She also highlighted the criteria for patentability and how application needs to drafted in order to considered for the application examination. Lastly participants raised few queries and interacted with the speaker for clarification.

Session-2 Patent Search

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC coordinator, welcomed the participants and introduced the speaker of the session Mrs. BrindhaSakthi, IPR Coordinator and Innovation Ambassador. Secondly, Ms. Brindha started the session with introduction on IPR and introduced the patent search website of India. She demonstrated how to search a patent document and carryout a patent search. She gave few sample application numbers and asked the students to carryout search and fetches the data. Students very enthusiastically involved in the patent search and gained knowledge on the patent search methods. Lastly, various patent search websites which are helpful in patent search was shared with the students.

Session-3 Entrepreneurship Skill Development

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC coordinator, welcomed the participants and introduced the speaker of the session Dr. Mohamad Zakriya, Startup coordinator and Innovation Ambassador. Secondly, Dr.Zakriya introduced the need for entrepreneurship and how a nation economy depends on entrepreneurs. Later he highlighted the skills required for an entrepreneur with simple examples. He also played a video to connect what is required for entrepreneurs at the early stage. He also discussed on the patents granted and how commercialization was carried out to the industries. Lastly students interacted with Dr.Zakriya to know more about the patents and commercialization process.

Session-4 Business Model Canvas

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC coordinator, welcomed the participants and introduced what is the need for Business Model Canvas to build a successful startup. Secondly, he started the session with a note on innovation, entrepreneurship and start-up. Later he discussed about the BMC and its components with examples. Later a few samples BMC of a restaurant, Swiggy and OLA were discussed to make the students familiar with the BMC preparation. Thirdly, students were divided into groups and assigned an activity to prepare a BMC for their ideas. Students enthusiastically involved themselves in the activity and brainstormed their ideas and prepared BMCs. Lastly, students submitted their prepared BMCs and had a hands on training on preparing a BMC.

Over all, the workshop was well structured to make the students get familiar with the innovation and entrepreneurship steps. A total of 93 students were present for the workshop.

World Entrepreneurs Day

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology celebrated the World Entrepreneurs Day on 21st August 2022 by organising a poster competition on Entrepreneurs.

A poster competition was organised for first year foundation course students in view of the world entrepreneur’s day on the theme Entrepreneurs of India. A total of 14 students submitted their poster for the competition and the following students were judged as winners

I&E opportunities for beginners

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized a session on Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities for beginners for the first year students on 24th August 2022.Mr. S. Sadasivam Innovation Ambassador was the resource person.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, welcomed the participants and briefed the role of IEDC and IIC in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and introduced the speaker of the session. Secondly Mr. Sadasivam discussed on what is innovation a dnstages of innovation. Later he also highlighted few important innovations of all that changed the world such as wheels, internet and telephone. Thirdly, the briefed about what is entrepreneurship and start-ups and shared the popular and successful Indian start-ups and their success stories. Lastly, he also shared a list of unicorn start-ups of India enlightened the session by inspiring the students to move towards start-ups. Overall it was an informative session and a total of 49 students were present for the session.

IPR for Beginners

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized a session on IPR for beginners for the first year students on 24th August 2022Ms. B. BrindhaSakthi, IPR Coordinator and Innovation Ambassador was the resource person.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC Coordinator and IIC Convenor welcomed the participants with introductory note on IEDC and IIC and introduced the speaker of the session. Secondly, Ms. Brindha started the session with an introduction to intellectual property rights and its forms and elaborated on the functions and responsibilities of IPR cell in supporting innovations. Thirdly she discussed the IP policy of KCG College of Technology and how the policy supports the student invention to file for IPR. Later she also disclosed the number of applications filed by the College on behalf of students and faculty and their inventions. She also touched upon the patent search process to initiate a prior art search. Students clarified their queries during the Q&A session.Overall it was an informative session and a total of 58 students were present for the session.

Demo day of start-ups

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a Demo day of startups on 29th August 2022. Startups incubated in KCG TBI were the speakers of the session.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, KCG TBI incharge welcomed the participants and breifed on the activities of TBI and its role in supporting startups from students and community. He also highlighted the services offered by the KCG TBI to startup to make the self-sustainable. Secondly, he listed the startups founders who will be sharing their experiences and products. Thirdly, Mr.Ajith Kannan, Co-founder of Sandbird R&D Pvt Ltd started sharing their experience as a startup founder and demonstrated their products and its status. Fourthy, Mr. Mathi Sharma, Co-Founder of Vayuratha Pvt Ltd introduced their startup and how they came up with the idea of starting a startup in UHV sector. He also discussed about the norms that are in place for the UHV and opportunities to build a market. Fifthly, Mr. Hariharan, Founder and CEO of Spacezee Technologies introduced their startup and technology they are working on. He also highlighted how he came up with the idea of launching his own firm and struggles and success. He also welcomed the students to take internships in his firm and hone their skills. There were a total of 82 students who actively participated in the session.

Session on Start-up ecosystem enablers

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a session on start-up ecossytem enablers on 29th August 2022. Mr. A. Selva Kumar, Field Coordinator, EDII-MIT Hub, Anna University was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Later he introduced the speaker of the session and welcomed Mr. A. Selva Kumar to take over the session. Secondly, Mr. Selva, started the session with introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship and shared famous entrepreneurs of Tamilnadu which was interesting to listen. Thirdly, he shared the details on startup India and schemes that support the startups and competitions organised by EDII to support students innovations. Later he shared various webistes that support startups and where the startups can avail funding support. Lastly, students raised queries to clarify their doubts. There were a total of 35 students and 4 faculty who actively participated in the session.

One day workshop on Innovation, IPR and Entrepreneurhsip

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized one day workshop on Innovation, IPR and Entrepreneurship to the third and fourth year students of Information and Technology department on 30th August 2022.

Session-1

Dr. Jose Anand welcomed the participants with a brief note on the objective of the session and his experience in Innovation and design thinking process. Secondly, Dr. Jose started the session with an introduction to innovation and he briefed the essential skill sets required to be an Innovator. He also shared a few innovations that changed the world and how they were developed. Thirdly, he introduced the concept of design thinking and how it can help in innovation and solving a problem. He also highlighted the importance of the design thinking process. Lastly, he gave a problem and asked to students to a design a solution for the problem statement. Students actively completed the task and got to know how to design solutions for a problem.

Session-2

Ms. Brindha started the session with an introduction to intellectual property rights and its forms and elaborated on the functions and responsibilities of IPR cell in supporting innovations. Thirdly she discussed the IP policy of KCG College of Technology and how the policy supports the student invention to file for IPR. Later she also disclosed the number of applications filed by the College on behalf of students and faculty and their inventions. She also touched upon the patent search process to initiate a prior art search. Students clarified their queries during the Q&A session.

Session-3

Dr.Zakriya started the session with an introduction to entrepreneurship and he briefed the essential skill sets required to be an entrepreneur. He played couple videos to connect with the audience and discussed on what skills are matching with entrepreneurship. He also took up few case studies on how to transfer technologies to industry as an innovator. Lastly, he asked the students to take up GET test to check their enterprise readiness and ability. Students actively completed the test and got to know how enterprising they are.

Session-4

Dr. R. Lakshmipathy welcomed the participants with a brief note on the objective of the session and introduced the speaker of the session Dr. M. Nagamalar. Secondly, Dr.Nagamalar started the session with an introduction to innovation and he briefed the essential skill sets required to be an Innovator. Thirdly, she touched upon the entrepreneurship skills and how they play a key role in the society. Later she shared a list of successful start-ups to motivate the students and attract the audience and also it is very important to discuss and know the failure start-ups as well and she displayed several start-ups which failed and various reasons for the failure was also discussed. Lastly, she shared information related to the schemes and programs of EDII to support innovation and entrepreneurship.

Overall it was an informative session and a total of 53 students were present for the workshop.

Patent drafting

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organized a session on Patent drafting for the foundation course students on 29th September 2022. Dr. T. Mothilal, Professor and Head, Department of Automobile was the resource person for the session.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy IIC Convenor and IEDC Coordinator welcomed the participants and briefed the activities of IEDC and how innovation and entrepreneurship is supported through IIC. Secondly, he introduced the speaker of the session Dr.Mothilal and handed over the session. Thirdly, Dr.Mothilal started the session on introduction to patents and its forms and later he explained which are patentable and which are not patentable with examples. He later discussed the forms required for filing patents and how to draft a patent application with claims. He also discussed the procedure for filing a patent application in India along with criteria for patent grant. Lastly, participants raised queries to clarify their doubts and made the session interactive and prolific. A total of 131 student participants were present for the session.

National Start-up Day

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology celebrated the National Start-up Day on 1st October 2022 by organising a poster competition on the theme Unicorn start-ups in India.

A poster competition was organised for first year foundation course students in view of the National Start-up day on the theme Unicorn start-ups in India. A total of 24 students submitted their poster for the competition and the following students were judged as winners after an online presentation

National Innovation Day

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organised a essay competition to the first year students in view of National Innovation Day.

An essay competition was organised to foundation course students as part of National Innovation day on 15th October and the theme for the essay submission is Indian Inventions/Innovations. A total of 16 students submitted their essay’s to take part in the essay competition and a total of 10 students presented their essay on 20th October and the following students were judged as winners. Ms. Brindha Sakthi, Innovation Ambassador and IPR activity coordinator was the jury. The follwing were the winners of the competition

Innovation outreach program to schools

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised an Innovation outreach program to schools on 14th November 2022.

Dr. Jose Anand, Innovation Ambassador and Innovation activity coordinator of IIC of KCG College of Technology visited Chennai Higher Secondary School, MR Nagar, Chennai (ATL school code: 2283555) on 14th November as part of the mega tinkering activity event organised by the AIM for all ATL schools across the nation. The activity was aimed to

• Promote Innovation Spirit among students
• Build a simple Tinkering Project together in a group

A small Do it Yourself (DIY) activity was initiated to student groups comprising of 3-4 students. The project kindled the spirit of innovation among the school children and made them to be curious to learn things on their own and create new devices. Dr. Jose facilicated the activity and helped the students to create a small working model. A total of 18 students and 2 teachers were involved in the orientation and activity session.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a workshop on Entrepreneurship and Innovation as career opportunity on 26th November 2022 for the first year Aeronautical and Computer science Engineering students at KMC auditorium. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor, IEDC Coordinator and Incharge Incubation centre was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Later he introduced the concepts of innovation and why it is essential and how innovation has become inevitable part of our life. Secondly, He discussed on the steps to successful innovation with simple examples and with a few problem statements, an idea generation activity was performed. Later, he discussed about the role of entrepreneurs in building the economy and shared a few examples on how entrepreneurs work towards providing employment. Thirdly, he discussed about the start-ups and a few indian unicorn start-ups and their story was discussed to motivate the students. Lastly, students posted their queires to clarify their doubts. There were a total of 106 students and 2 faculty who actively participated in the session.

Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop

A half Day session on “Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop”, was organized by IEDC &MoE’s Institution & Innovation Council (IIC) of KCG on 26th November 2022. The Programme aims to provide opportunities to Undergraduate Students, Postgraduate students and faculty members to augment Knowledge & skills in key areas involved in Problem Solving and Ideation process.

The Expert Speaker Dr.S.Gopinath, Innovation Ambassador, Assistant professor (S.G), KCG College of Technology, Chennai, shared his knowledge & experience on the multiple aspects and the many steps involved in problem solving and ideation process. He further elaborated on Good idea Vs Bad idea and Best Student Entrepreneurship Practices that can be adopted to enhance the student’s abilities in solving critical problems. Conducted the brainstorming session to enhance their thinking skills.

My Story- Motivational Session by Innovator”

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre hosted a Session on “My Story- Motivational Session by Innovator” as part of the Institution Innovation Cell on 26 November 2022. Mr Sadasivam S, Assistant Professor (S.G)& Innovation Ambassador, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, KCG College of Technology was the resource person for the Session.

The session started at 1.30 PM which mainly focuses on fostering and instilling innovation and Entrepreneurship skills in the young minds. It was more of a motivational session which explained about innovation and its process, 10 types of innovations and its detailed explanations. The highlight of the session was about Creative thinking which was explained through an activity.

Further the session included information about Emotional Intelligence and 4 skills of Emotional intelligence. Individual Student EQ was determined by a activity which inspired the students. Then the session turned to Entrepreneur ship skills and Unicorn companies in India and their success tales. The session ended with an Ideation activity.

Achieving Problem- Solution Fit and Product Market Fit

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre organises a Session on “Achieving Problem-Solution Fit & Product Market Fit” as part of the department’s Institution Innovation Cell on 17th December 2022.

Dr.S.Gopinath, Assistant Professor (S.G) & Innovation Ambassador, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, KCG College of Technology was the resource person for the Session. The main objective of the program was to identify the importance of developing new, original or unexpected solutions with the primary purpose of being able to put themselves in the shoes of customers and developing a better understanding of customer needs. The webinar aimed to build entrepreneurship skills in students.

Resource person inspired the participants by highlighting various examples of companies that failed due to ignoring the concept Problem-Solution Fit & Product-Market Fit. He emphasized the importance of being flexible by a company in changing markets, identifying strong market demand, repurposing or reorganizing old ideas, meeting the needs of customers, and keeping an eye on the future.

Entrepreneurship Skill, Attitude and Behaviour Development

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre conducted a workshop on “Entrepreneurship Skill, Attitude and Behaviour Development” on 17th December 2022 exclusively for the first-year students at S13 Seminar hall.

In the workshop, Ms. TephillaJoice P has spoken about “How to promote their product and themselves using social media”. Case studies of entrepreneurs who succeeded using social media platform, Necessity of social media for entrepreneurs and Tips to use social media like a pro were discussed in detail. Later, students were given group activity on “How will they promote their products in social media” Students actively participated and demonstrated in front of the audience. A total of 61 students were present during the workshop.

Design Thinking and Innovation Design

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organised a workshop on Design thinking and Innovation Design on 17th December 2022 for the first year students at F14 Seminar hall. Dr. Jose Anand, IIC Innovation activity coordinator and Innovation Ambassador was the resource person.

Firslty, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the students and briefed about the IIC activities on campus and role of IEDC in motivating and inspiring the students innovation and entrepreneurship. Later he introduced speaker of the session Dr. Jose Anand to the audience. Secondly, Dr. Jose Anand introduced the concept of innovation and how it can be achieved through design thinking. Further he shared the types of design thinking process to achieve a problem solution and how to validate it. To make it more interesting and engaging an activity was given to the students on design thinking and create a solution. Design thinking statements were given to students as below

1. Setting up a musical room for 30 students.

2. Setting up of a Smart Class Room

Then students were splitted into groups and assigned individual design project to each group. Each group has given 20 minutes for brainstorming, and then 30 minutes for representing their ideas into the chart, and 10 minutes for presentation. Students actively engaged themselvees in the activity and came up with several designs to the statements. Lastly students teams presented their design to the other teams. There were a total of 91 students and 2 faculty who actively participated in the session.

Workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship as career opportunities 

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre organised a workshop on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship as career opportunities” on 22^nd December 2021 at 10.45 am for first-year students at F14 seminar hall. Innovation Ambassadors of KCG College of Technology Dr. Jose Anand, Dr. Mohamed Zakriya, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy and Dr.Vignesh Kumar were the resource persons for the workshop.

Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the participants of the workshop and briefed them about the IIC activities on campus and its achievements in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among students and faculty. He also introduced the Innovations Ambassadors of KCG College of Technology to the participants.

Dr. Vignesh Kumar took over the session and explained how to innovate and the steps involved in prototype development with lucid examples. Dr. Jose Anand briefed on design thinking and how design thinking can lead to successful innovations with examples and case studies. He also took through some of the greatest inventions and innovations of all time. Dr. Mohamed Zakriya briefed on entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurs in elevating the society to next level. He also made the session interactive with a simple activity that makes the participants understand the profit and losses in business with respect to commitments and timelines. Dr.R. Lakshmipathy briefed on the role of business incubators in handholding the start-ups to become self-sustainable and financial support and services extended by incubators to start-ups. He also invited the participants to visit the business incubator functioning on campus. A total of 46 first-year students across the disciplines were part of the workshop and got benefited.

My story: Motivational session by successful entrepreneurs

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organized the 6th Voice of the start-up series on the topic “My story: Motivational session by successful entrepreneurs” on 07th January 2022. Mr. Vishnu Vardhan, Director, Crion Technologies was the resource person of the webinar.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the participants and briefed on the Voice of the start-up series webinars. Secondly, Dr.Vignesh Kumar, PDC Coordinator introduced the speaker to the participants. Thirdly, Mr. Vishnu Vardhan started the session by introducing about the company and his experience in the industry before who took up the entrepreneurship as his career opportunity. He discussed various aspects of launching a start-up from the scratch and building a strong team. He also highlighted Delta 4 model and drafting a business plan in a simplest way. Fourthly, students started interacting with Mr. Vishnu that turned the session to be highly interactive. Lastly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy IIC Convenor delivered the vote of thanks. A total of 147 participants comprising of faculty and students across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology organized an interactive session on “Problem Solving and Ideation workshop” on 11^th November 2021 for the first year students. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convener and Innovation Ambassador of KCG were the resource person of the session.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy welcomed the participants and briefed about the functions of IIC in bolstering the innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Later he started the session on various opportunities in innovation and entrepreneurship. Followed by that he explained the stages of innovation and how creativity can help in ideation. He highlighted the innovations that changed the world with examples. Later he spoke on the role of entrepreneurs in changing the society and their risk taking abilities. He discussed with few case studies on how entrepreneurs see a problem and assess it and solve it. Lastly, participants interacted and raised a few questions.

A total of 75 student participants across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

My story: Motivational session by successful innovators

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) of KCG College of Technology in association with Aeroclubhas organized an interactive session on “My story: Motivational session by successful innovators” on 11^th February 2022. Mr. Mohan Rishikesh, Founder and CEO, Vayuratha Pvt Ltd were the resource person of the session.

Firstly, Mr. Ashish C, Aeroclub coordinator introduced the speaker of the session to the participants. Secondly, Dr.Asad Ahmed Professor of Aeronautical department facilitated the gathering. Thirdly, Mr. Mohan started the session in an interactive way and he shared his experience in starting a startup and how he got motivated to get into entrepreneurship as his career opportunity. He also discussed the new regulations implemented by Govt. of India in drone manufacturing and UAV’s and how it will benefit the community. He also demonstrated the products they manufacture to make it more enthralling.  Lastly, students of the aeroclub interacted with the speaker and clarified their queries. A total of 42 participants comprising of faculty (3) and students (39) across the disciplines part of aeroclub attended the session and got benefited.

Visit to Incubation Centre

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) of KCG College of Technology in association with IIT Madras PALS has organized an virtual visit to IIT Research park Incubation centre on 29^th September 2021.This visit to arranged to create awareness on incubation and how incubators supports start-ups at nascent stage.

Firstly, Dr. R. Krishnamurthy welcomed the participants with an introductory note. Secondly, Mr. Pradeep of IITM Research park briefed on the activities of IITM Incubation cell and the number of start-ups housed in the incubation cell. He also highlighted the support systems extended by the incubation cell to start-ups. Thirdly, start-up founders housed in the IITM Incubation cell presented their products and played videos of their product developments to the participants.  Lastly, students and faculty interacted with the start-ups and got motivated. A total of 168 participants attended the virtual visit and 31 students were from our institution.

Prototype validation and conversion to start-up

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology has organized the 5^th Voice of the start-up series on the topic “Prototype Validation and Conversion to start-up” on 21^st October 2021. Mr. Suresh kumar, Founder & CEO, Pepul and Co-Founder & CEO, McApp studio was the speaker of the session.

Mr. Chandramohan, Head Placement started the session with introduction of the speaker and welcomed the participants. Mr. Suresh Kumar started the session in regional language to make connections with the audience and kept the session very interactive and lively. Mr. Suresh shared his experience in starting a start-up company hailing from a rural background. He also disclosed the motivational factors that help in starting a start-up. He also deliberated on the financial management for start-ups and building a team. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy IIC Convenor delivered the vote of thanks. A total of 34 participants comprising of faculty and students across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

Mr. Suresh Kumar twitter handle
https://twitter.com/hisureshg

Pitching for financial support by start-ups

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship development centre of KCG College of Technology organised a pitching sessions for financial support for start-ups under Samriddhi scheme of AICTE on 25^th and 26^th October 2021. A total of 8 student teams participated in the pitching sessions and pitched for their idea and start-up.  After a couple of rounds of pitching, two teams were shortlisted for financial support under the Samriddhi scheme.

Date: 25-10-2021                                                                    Venue: Oasis conference room

Date: 26-10-2021                                                                    Venue: Oasis conference room

Awareness of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre and the IPR Cell of KCG College of Technology in association with Intellectual Property Office, Chennai has organised an Awarness session on Intellectrual Propoerty Rights in view of World IP Day under the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) initiative on 26th April 2022 at 11.30 AM to 1.00 PM in F14 Seminar Hall.

SPEAKER:
Mrs.Susi K
Examiner of Patents & Designs, Group A Gazetted

Indian Patent office, Chennai

DISCUSSION:

• There are about 87 participants were attended. Her presentation began with explaining ‘What is the important of patent’ & ‘How do we apply patent?’ & ‘How novelty it is?.
• She gave a brief introduction on IPR and explained the various related terms such as copyrights, patents, GI, Trademark & Design etc.
• The webinar created a great impact on the Students. Students were taught on how IPR restricts copying others ideas and how this will help the development of new ideas for the betterment of the society.
• Students learnt how IPR provides total licence over a new innovation and its creator. They were also given a platform to discuss how small innovations influence societies at large and how they should indulge in innovating and patenting ideas that will be useful for all the classes of individuals in the society
• Finally very good discussions are made to clarify many aspects regarding IPR related doubts by faculty and students.
• She gave an example of “michael jackson shoes patent” It gives even more interest towards patent for easy understanding.
• In short the webinar provided a valuable awareness of IPR.

National Pollution Control Day

Department of Civil Engineering in association with Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) celebrated the National Pollution Control Day on 2^nd December 2021 by hosting an interactive session with Shri. Jatinder Singh Kamyotra, Director, Centre Pollution Control Board, New Delhi on the topic “Delhi’s Air Pollution Saga: the past, present and future”.

Firstly, Dr.Vandhana Devi, Head of the Civil Engineering department welcomed the gathering and briefed on the National Pollution Control day motive and current scenario of environmental pollution. Secondly, Ms. Bharathi Lakshmi, Principal of Hindustan International School, Karapakkam welcomed the speaker of the day. Thirdly, Shri Jatinder Singh started the session on Air pollution and its sources and the influence of meteorology on air pollution. He took the participants through the demographic conditions of the cities and how demography plays a role in Delhi’s air pollution crisis during the winter. He mentioned the neighbouring countries cities air pollution and remedial measures initiated by the respective governments. He also highlighted how the Indian government is taking steps to manage the pollution levels in-country by implementing BS norms.  Fourthly, faculty, students of KCG and Hindustan School raised several questions on air pollution and made the session more interactive and Shri. Jatinder Singh lucidly explained the queries or questions raised by the fervid students. Fifthly, a short film on environmental pollution made by students of civil engineering was played to create awareness of environmental pollution. Lastly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor, delivered the vote of thanks for the session. A total of 135 participants (37 online and 98 offline) comprising of students and faculty were present during the session and got benefited.

National Technology Day

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) celebrated the National Technology Day on 11^th May 2022 by hosting an Emeritus talk with Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai, Honorary Professor – emeritus, HITS, Father of Brahmos, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Order of Friendship Awardee on the topic “Technology for Strong and Self-Reliant India – The Role of Youth”.

Firstly, Dr. Uma Kumari, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication welcomed the gathering and briefed on the National Technology day. Later she introduced the speaker to the audience and welcomed Dr. AS. Pillai. Secondly, Dr. A.S. Pillai started the session with credentials of ancient India and how India was leader to world in technology and knowledge. He then introduced various types of space technologies developed by Indian scientists and collaborative projects carried out with other developed nations. He also touched upon the space launchings of various Indian satellites and its success stories. Later he discussed about the nuclear fusion reactor testing in France and role of India in the billion dollar project. He also mentioned about mining Helium isotope from Moon. India will be sending its own rocket to moon with its astronauts in 2023. Defence and space sector has huge opportunities for technology based innovations and youth should join the avenues and contribute to the country. It was wonderful and enthralling to listen to Dr. A.S. Pillai.  Thirdly, students interacted with Dr. Pillai to clarify their questions and understandings. Lastly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor, delivered the vote of thanks for the session. A total of 347 participants comprising of students and faculty were present during the session.

Workshop on Patent Search and IP Management

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre and the IPR Cell of KCG College of Technology has organised a Workshop on Patent Search and IP Management for the students on 13^thMay 2022 at F14 Seminar Hall.

SPEAKER:
Mrs.Brindha Sakthi
IPR Cell Coordinator and Innovation Ambassador

Firslty, Dr. Jose Anand, Innovation Ambassador and Innovation coordinator of IIC welcomed the participants. Secondly,Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor and Innovation Ambassador briefed on the importance of Intellectual Property and their role in fencing the technology. He also highlighted how a start-ups can develop and build their firm with IP and its management. Later he introdued the speaker of the workshop and welcomed to take over the session. Mrs. Brindha started the session introduction to IP and different forms of IP and the filing process. Later, she discussed how to carryout a patent search and collect relevant information related to any idea. Students were exposed to various IP databases such as Indian IPO, USPTO, WIPO and Google patents. Students were asked to search for information with help of their mobile phonese by giving them sample patent application and grant numbers. Students enthusiastically learnt how to caryy out a patent search and retrieve the data. Lastly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy delivered the concluding remarks of the workshop. A total of 28 students took part in the workshop.

E-symposium day-1

The Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (MIC) organised an e-symposium on Building Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Educational Institutions as part of Innovation week celebration from 10^th to 16^th January 2022. The inauguration session of the e-symposium was circulated as MIC activity.

The inauguration started with welcome address by the Prof. Anil Shahrabude, Chairman AICTE and followed by appreciation of Manthan hackathon winners. Shri. Sanjay Murthy, Secretary, Ministry of Education addressed the participants and later 75 technologies with startup potential were announced for funding and mentoring support from MIC. Shri Anurag Jain, Secretary, DPIIT addressed the participants and followed by that a presentation on Toy business league was done. Chief Guest Dr.RajkumarRanjan Singh, Honourable Minister of states addressed the participants of the session. The session came to an end with a vote of thanks by Dr.Abhay Jere CIO of MIC. Following the inaugural session, series of key note address and panel discussions were organised. A total of 22 faculty members and IIC members attended the inaugural session and got benefited.

E-symposium day-2

The Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (MIC) organised an e-symposium on Building Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Educational Institutions as part of Innovation week celebration from 10^th to 16^th January 2022. Day-2 Key note address by Prof. K. Vijayraghavan, PSA, Govt of India held on 12^th January 2022 was announced as MIC driven activity.

Shri. Amit Dutta introduced the speaker Prof. Vijayraghavan to the participants and welcomed the speaker. Prof. Vijayraghavan started the session with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and how innovation and ideas can be sustain with the available resources. He also highlighted where we come from and how innovations can solve science and technology problems. Innovations in agriculture are very high due to training of people and this is very much essential in other R&D sectors. He also highlighted the research funding availability for 90% of students going to the institutions with 10 % research funding. He linked the vision of country related to highways and water with the talented people and innovation requirements. Lastly, questions from students were addressed by the Prof. Vijayraghavan. Followed the key note address, series of panel discussion were held. A total of 21faculty members and IIC members attendedthe inaugural session and got benefited.

IIC 4.0 orientation session

The Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (MIC) organised an orientation session on IIC 4.0 on 24^th January 2022. The session was hosted and Webex and telecasted on MIC YouTube channel. Mr. Dipan Sahu, Assistant Director was the speaker of the session.

Mr. Dipan started the session with the various activities and promgrammes of MICin promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship in higher education institutions. He then discussed about the star ratings of IIC for the year 2020-21. Later, new programmes of MIC such as ATL schools mentoring, mentor-mentee, e-repository of sessions and refer institutions to establish IIC was elaborated and discussed. Followed by this, a series of Q&A sessions were planned for various regions with the regional coordinators. A total of 12 faculty members who are members of IIC attended the session.

Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Institutions Innovation Council organized Innovation and Entrepreneurship activities virtually to students and faculty of our institution.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) has organized a session on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship as career opportunity” on 21^st December 2020 for students and faculty.Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, Convenor, IIC and Coordinator, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre were the speaker of the session.

Dr.Lakshmipathy started the session with introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship and later touched upon the innovation and entrepreneurship from Indian scenario. He briefed how innovators and entrepreneurs change the society with their perseverance. The life we lead with comfort is just due to innovations and this point was highlighted with examples. Some of the popular innovations that changed the life andsome of the most successful Indian innovators and entrepreneurs who are successfully running there firms were shared. 63 participants comprising of faculty and students across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) has organized a My story motivational session by successful innovator on 24^th December 2020 for students and faculty. Mr. Ajith Kannan, Co-Founder Sandbird research foundation, Chennai was the speaker of the session.

Mr. Ajith started the session with a small to story on how creative thinking and being unique can change the situation and handle the difficult times into a fruitful one. He shared his experience on how college education and mentors played a vital role in innovating and achieving his dreams. He also discussed about how he started the Sandbird research foundation and how the team did managed financial for the establishment. Finally, students interacted Mr. Ajith to get clarified their queries and Mr. Ajith session was enthralling and motivated the students. 80 participants comprising of faculty and students across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) has organized a My story motivational session by successful entrepreneur/start-up founder on 31^st December 2020 for students and faculty. Mr. SrivasAnantharaman Founder First feet, Taste studio and Co-founder Jinglebidwas speaker of the session.

Mr. Srivas shared his journey of becoming successful entrepreneur. He shared how his education and work experience motivated him to step into entrepreneurship. He also shared how his education and MBA from IIM Trichy helped him to hone his entrepreneurial skills and managing start-ups. He holds a total of 6 start-up firms till date and all the firms are running successful. Mr. Srivas explained how he is managing the firms successfully with the motivated employees. He also highlighted how to manage finance for the business. Students enthusiastically interacted and Mr. Srivas was gentle during the interaction. There were 87participants comprising of faculty and students and across the disciplines attended the session and were benefited.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) organized a pitching workshop and linkage of innovators with Innovation Ambassadors on 05^th December 2020 for students. A total of 20 student teams presented their ideas during the pitching session. Dr.Mothilal, HoD Automobile, Prof.Karthikeyan, HoD EIE, Dr.Bharathi, Professor, EIE and Dr.Lakshmipathy, Innovation Ambassador and IIC Convernor were the moderators of the workshops. The innovators were connected with the Innovation Ambassador for taking up the ideas to next level. The following student teams and mentors were present during the workshop.

Aeronautical

Computer Science

Mechanical

Electronics and Communication

Information Technology

Electrical and Electronics

The Voice of Start-ups webinar

Institutions Innovation Council of KCG college of Technology organised its first Voice of the start-ups webinar series on 17^th April 2021 on the title “Building an innovation/product fit for market”. Mr. S.P. Balamurugan, Co-founder of GUVI was the speaker of the session.

Firstly, Mr. Chandramohan, Head – Industry Institute Interaction introduced the speaker of the session. Secondly, Mr. Balamurugan introduced about the firm GUVI and how it emerged as a start-up and the motivation behind the firm. Mr. Bala lucidly handled the session on building an innovation or product depending on the market requirements with case studies. He also stressed on the importance of understanding the market and validating the built product. Thirdly, the session was very interactive and fervid students interacted with Mr. Bala to get their doubts clarified. Lastly, vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC Coordinator and IIC Convenor.

Overall, the session was highly enthralling and a total of 80 participants attended the webinar via Zoom platform.

Institutions Innovation Council of KCG college of Technology organised its second Voice of the start-ups webinar series on 22^nd May 2021 on the title “Interactive session with successful start-up founders”. Ms. Mekhala, Director of Soliton Technologies Pvt Ltd was the speaker of the session.

Firstly, Mr. Chandramohan, Head – Industry Institute Interaction introduced the speaker of the session. Secondly, Ms. Mekhala introduced about the firm Soliton and how it emerged as a start-up to a successful firm and the motivation behind the firm. Mr. Mekhala took through how start-ups could struggle and how to overcome by creating conducive environment. She also stressed on the importance of understanding the market and preparing ourselves to cope up the changes and advancements. Thirdly, the session was very interactive and fervid students interacted with Ms. Mekhala to get their doubts clarified. Lastly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IEDC Coordinator and IIC Convenor delivered vote of thanks.

Orientation session for students by Innovation Ambassadors

Institutions Innovation Council of KCG college of Technology organised an orientation session for students by Innovation Ambassadors on 6^th May 2021. Innovation Ambassadors Dr. Jose Anand (Design Thinking) and Ms. BrindhaShakthi (IPR) were the speakers of the session.

Firstly, Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, IIC Convenor welcomed the participants of the session and introduced the innovation ambassadors. Secondly, Dr. Jose Anand, Innovation Ambassador trained on Design thinking took the participants through design thinking aspects and the importance in innovation. He also highlighted how to inculcate critical thinking for creative designs. Thirdly, Ms. BrindhaShakthi, Innovation Ambassador trained on IPR introduced the basics of IPR to the participants. Various forms of IP were discussed during the session. Lastly, the participants raised several queries and the session was interactive and informative.

MIC activity sessions

The Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (MIC) periodically organize sessions on various topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship and our students and faculty actively took part in the following sessions

• Why IP is important in academia
• National webinar on “Research, Innovation and Ranking”
• Methods of exploring and capturing values from Indian agriculture and Health sector
• From your Ph.D/Masters thesis to start-up

KAPILA

The Ministry of Education Innovation Cell launched “KAPILA – Kalam Program for IP Literacy and Awareness” program on 15^th October 2020 and telecasted in MIC YouTube channel.The program was launched with an intention to promote the IP literacy in HEI’s and file more number of patents in order to protect the innovations from students and faculty of HEI’s. In continuation of the launch event, National Intellectual Property Literacy Week was followed with series of events organised centrally by MIC and events at Institutions level. Faculty and students of our institution actively took part in the online sessions conducted by MIC and also in events at institute level. A total of 121 students and faculty benefited with the literacy week.

Quiz on Creativity, Innovation, IPR and Entrepreneurship

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) of KCG College of Technology organised an online quiz for students and faculty on 30^th July 2021 on Creativity, Innovation, IPR and Entrepreneurship.

A total 25 questions comprising of questions from creativity, innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship was set and they were added to the google forms as a quiz. The quiz form link was shared on social media for promotion and access to students and faculty. The response for the quiz was extraordinary and 385 participants comprising of students (84.2 %) and faculty (15.8 %) all over India took up the quiz and submitted the responses. All the participants who secured 50 % or more points were provided with the e-certificates.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Start-ups: Opportunities and Challenges

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) of KCG College of Technology in association with EDII IEDP HUB, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Anna University organized a session on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Start-ups: Opportunities and Challenges for students on 7^th June 2021. Mr. Rajkapoor, Field Coordinator, EDII IEDP Hub, CED, Anna University was the resource person of the session.

Institutions Innovation Council (IIC 2.0) was launched by MHRD Innovation Cell(MIC) with systematic implementation of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start-up activities on campus. Dr. Bhanurekha and Dr. R. Lakshmipathy attended the orientation session of IIC 2.0 organised by MIC on 31st July at VelTech University, Chennai. On 3rd September, members of Institutions Innovation Council comprising of internal faculty and external experts from industry, IP firm and start-up unit was formed as per the guidelines of MIC. The members of IIC met on 14th September to discuss the implementation of IIC activities on campus lucratively on quarterly basis as suggested by MIC.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) organized an Ideation workshop on “Where do ideas come from?” for students to inspire and inculcate the spirit of innovation and creativity on 26th September 2019 at S13 Seminar hall. In order to motivate and enthral the students on innovation, Mr. Dorai Thodla, Technopreneur, Mentor and Teacher was invited to chair the workshop. A total of 62 students across the disciplines from first year participated in the workshop.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) organized an Entrepreneurship motivational talk for students to inspire them and pursue entrepreneurship as a career on 28th September 2019 at 10.30 am in S13 Seminar hall. In order to motivate and enthral the students towards entrepreneurship and innovation, Ms. Suryasree Rao Chowdhury, Entrepreneur and Alumna of our college was invited to deliver the motivational talk. Ms. Sruyasree is the founder and CEO of CityWiz start-up which is incubated by NASSCOM start-up 10000. A total of 93 students from Mechanical and ECE departments were present for the motivational talk.

October 15th – the birth anniversary of former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was celebrated as Innovation day on our campus. Various activities pertaining to Innovation and Entrepreneurship were carried out on campus.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) organized a field exposure visit to a village and school on 24th October 2019. Pattikadu village near Tirukalkundram was selected for the visit. Firstly, Students visited a government secondary school in the village and engaged in conversation with students. The interaction with school students helped our students to identify the problems the school students are facing with lack of basic facilities and amenities. Secondly, the students were taken to the hefty rainwater harvesting system installed in the village which supplies drinking water for the entire village. The students had the chance of understanding the process of rainwater harvesting. Lastly, the students were involved in developing a conversation with village people and farmers and tried to identify the technical problems the farmers are facing in the agricultural fields. Overall, a total of 31 first-year students across the disciplines and 7 faculty members actively participated and interacted with the villagers and secondary school students and got exposure to the village ecosystem.

As part of community outreach programs under Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan, KCG Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) organized a field demonstration of innovative technologies developed by students and faculty of KCG for the farmers of Acharapakkam village on 7th December 2019. The field demonstration was planned in order to create awareness for the farmers on the technologies that will alleviate their problems on the field and also to understand the real-time problems they face frequently at their farmlands.

The MHRD Innovation Cell (MIC) is organizing series of Innovation Ambassador training on Innovations and Design Thinking, IPR and Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship Development Program and Pre-incubation and Incubation Management for Institute nominated Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) members. The Innovation Ambassador training for SRO region was held on 8th and 9th January 2020 at RMK Engineering College, Chennai. The following faculty who is part of IIC were nominated to attend the training series.

The Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) has organized a one-day IPR and IP Management awareness session for students and faculty on 14th March 2020 at F14 Seminar hall. Mr. O. Prasad Rao, Deputy Controller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, IP Office, Chennai was invited as a speaker for the session. There were a total of 87 participants comprising of faculty and first-year students from across the disciplines attended the session and got benefited.

MHRD Innovation Cell organized 17 online sessions during the lockdown to foster the innovation and entrepreneurship and students and faculty of our college actively participated in the sessions and received certificate of participation.

INAUGURATION OF KCGIIEC

4^th October 2017
KCG IIEC a Technology incubator was inaugurated by our Chairperson on campus on 4^th October 2017. This is recognised and the incubates will be supported by MSME. The KCGIIEC will function as an important tool in the economic development of the area that would be a means to create job opportunities for the students, local residents, community SMEs to better leverage intellectual property from the college and colleges in the vicinity and other research institutes, create job opportunities, contribute to the growth and success of emerging technology businesses. KCG IIEC will support students / alumni of KCG, Student / Alumni of Institutes in and around Tamil Nadu, existing entrepreneurs/start-ups and local community Entrepreneurs from idea stage to market ready business.

It offers Wi-Fi enabled, air-conditioned work space with shared office facilities and business and professional services to promote, nurture and support early stage growth of technology and technology based enterprises in the areas of Software, Electronic products, Mechanical Design & products, and Renewable energy. This will empower innovators and entrepreneurs with MSME Funding. Currently operates with 3 Alumni Start-ups.

INTEL IoT TRAINING

19^th December 2017 to 22^nd December 2017
46 students across all the departments from II & III year attended Intel IoT Training Program organized by KCG –Intel Centre of Excellence in IoT, on Intel Galileo Boards and Edison boards from 19^th December 2017 to 22^nd December 2017. The participants presented their ideas and they were mentored by the team from Intel Corporation during the process of project development.

NEN WF 100 COURSE ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

6^th January, 2018
WF 100 Entrepreneurial Experience online NEN course was started on 6^th January 2018 and  40 students across the departments attended. This is MOOC based Certification Course, which cover the areas of entrepreneurship, idea generation, evaluation and value proposition. The course encouraged students to inculcate the culture of entrepreneurship. All the 9 modules were taken by the students. This course/module enhanced their understanding and sharpens the knowledge of Ecell, 5 M Model of Entrepreneurial Styles, barriers to implementation, design thinking, customer profiling, milestone, risk management etc.

INNOVATION CHALLENGE

 9^thFebruary 2018
The “Innovation challenge 2018” the event organized by the Innovation and entrepreneurship development center is a platform for the students to explore their projects ideas and to express their innovative ideas. This, in turn, channelized their knowledge and energy towards becoming active partners in the economic development process.

The zeroth review of “Innovation challenge 2018” was conducted on 9^thof February 2018 in IoT Lab. Mr. Dorai Thodla (Founder iMorph), Dr.Sumathi Poobal (Vice Principal), Mrs.Anju (Assistant professor/IT) were the panel members. Around 35 batches had participated in the first level and 16 batches were shortlisted for the semi-finals which took place on 15^th Feb 2018. Students were judged on various basis such as innovation, technology, social impact, feasibility, etc., They were also trained on the presentation skills.

On 23^rd Feb, the final round took place in KCG TBI, Mother Teresa Block where the students showcased their ultimate skills in their projects. The final round of the challenge was judged by Mrs.N.Alamelu (Sole Proprietor-ANSI Technique/IIT PALS Team), Mr.Pragadish Nandakumar (Founder-Operation Manager, Snap Consulting- Alumnus 2014), Mr.S.D.Kishore Kumar (Sales Manager, Flexible Automation System Private Ltd – Alumnus 2002), Mr.Dorai Thodla (Founder iMorph) and Dr.Sumathi Poobal (Vice Principal). Out of 16 batches, three batches have been announced as winners of Innovation Challenge 2018. They were appreciated with cash prizes and certificates during College day function held on 1.3.18.

WINNERS:

1. Project Title: Experimental Investigation on Partial Replacement of Natural Course Aggregate with Plastic Aggregate

 Ranjith Prassana S R, Satharkhan R, Vignesh S, Venkatesh B – Civil Dept

2. Project Title: BIM Modelling using Alternate Realities

Vijayaraghjavan M, Pradeep A, Vinod Krishna C, Joshua Ebenezar – Civil Dept

3. Project Title : Learning Module for Kinesthetic Dyslexia

Joseph A, Jemi Anugraha, Joel Andrews – ECE Dept

E-WEEK

February 10^th to 16^th, 2018
E-week 2018 was celebrated during 10^th February – 16^th February in a very grand manner living up to the expectations both inside and outside our college campus. Our E-cell team with our sincere efforts made sure the theme of the E-week reached every participant and the public.  We have attracted more than 500 students through our E-week events and reached out to hundreds of civilians, teaching them about entrepreneurship the best way they can understand.

We kick started E-week celebration with start-up carnival, where successful Entrepreneurs met and spoke to the students the different ways they can develop the entrepreneur in them.

We also conducted walkathon in the public, and helped the onlookers and side walkers understand the theme of E-week. Number of flash mob were also conducted in the college campus promoting the E-week.

One day in the week was specially dedicated to discover the entrepreneur in the women through, women entrepreneurship program. Cloud10 also reached out to 3 schools in the sub urban and educated over 200 students about entrepreneurship and conducted various activities, presented them with gifts to motivate and inspire them. Our team also reached out to a rural area, Kannagi Nagar in the outskirts of our city and delivered talks and played videos to help them understand the real difference an entrepreneur can make in this society. “An Entrepreneur sees profit and market in everything he sees.” That’s exactly what was expected when our participants were given a chance to make product out of wastes and they totally nailed it. Winners were presented with Books and Gift coupons.

We brought people from the travel & tourism sector who taught the students about how their organizations work and also offered them with internships. Who can inspire students than students themselves? One day was entirely dedicated to the devoted entrepreneurs cum students in our college to share their entrepreneurial story and how they are living their dream. The participants were promised internships and even jobs if they really impressed the student Entrepreneurs.

We made sure every participant of the E-week take the E-week pledge to break barriers, create wealth and change India. Thus, our E-week 2018 was nothing short of wonderful opportunities, exposure, educating people and spreading Entrepreneurship. We also never compromised on attracting the netizens and made sure we spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp with our videos and posts. E-week 2018 let lot of students and people live their entrepreneurial dream.

KCG CLOUD10 BAZAAR

2^nd & 3^rd March, 2018 
“The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer”. Cloud 10, the Entrepreneurship Cell of KCG College of Technology, organized the Cloud 10 KCG Bazaar, an annual event lasting for two days that aims to kindle and bring out the entrepreneurial skills dwelling within the students. It aims to do so by providing a platform to showcase their skill, ability, imagination, entrepreneurship and eventually make money out of it. Each team of students was given a defined space with required amenities to run a shop for two days and students put to good use to take home a good chunk of profit from their shop through their hard work, dedication and entrepreneurial skills.

Mr. Subbian Seetharaman Asst. Vice President, Wind & Solar Engineering, Siemens – Gamesa, the chief guest for the occasion declared the bazaar open on 2^nd of March 2018 at 9:30 am. He then paid a visit to all the stalls along with Dr. G. Prabhakaran Principal and Dr.Sumathi Poobal IEDC co-ordinator. The dignitaries actively interacted with every stall put-up and eventually motivated the young student entrepreneurs for their effort. Shops varied from boutique to snack outlets, with students showcasing their skills in marketing, oratory, cutlery, and creativity. The sales of each shop started to take a turn after their co-students arrived. But the participation was not just limited to college staff and students but parents of students, inhabitants of the locality and the participant and the coordinators of the national drone flying competition that took part simultaneously also attended the bazaar.

The same continued on 3rd of March, the second day of Bazaar. The student entrepreneurs opened a new chapter as they learned from their previous day’s mistake to fetch more profit.  Students reported that the two days taught a lot to them in a way books couldn’t. The bazaar closed at 4.00pm marking a success and a promise to return next year.

@ SCHOOLS EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

On the third day of E-week, our E-cell team set out of the college campus to three different schools in the city. One of which is an primary school and other two were high schools. Our target for the day was to educate students about Entrepreneurship according to their level of understanding.

In the first high school, Nehru Govt. Hr. Sec. School, we conducted an activity called, “Mock Sales”. A finished product is available at the market for different selling price and at different qualities. Identifying the best product you would get at the best possible price is a art and it plays a crucial role in today’s scenario. This particular activity aimed on educating students exactly about this. Students were put in a mock situation of buying the best product at the right price. This event helped the students to learn the skill of being a responsible buyer as well as a sensible entrepreneur. Two sensible buyers were selected and prizes were distributed.

Karpaga Vigneswara Mat. Hr. Sec. School, was our next school. Here, we explained students about the role of Entrepreneur in today’s society and also conducted an activity called, “ Idea Box”. In this activity, we split the class into 8 teams and asked the team to think of an product, name it and also the different marketing ways they would adapt. We gifted two teams that stood out of the rest. We also presented a student with the book, “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson for boldly explaining to her mates about Entrepreneurship.

The third school we visited was a primary school. We grouped two classes into one and questioned, answered, explained them about marketing and entrepreneurship the best way they can understand. We also presented three little emerging entrepreneurs for beautifully interacting with their peers and our team.
E-week pledge was also taken at all the three schools, lead by, Anirudh H, Head programs and events, Cloud 10.

FLASH MOB

12^th Feb, 2018 
Tuesday evening saw our campus beaming with whole new level of of excitement and vibrancy as it witnessed “FLASH MOB” by our college’s dance team, “The immortals” on the third day of E-week. This is our second flash mob performance in regards to the E-week. The open air theatre witnessed a huge gathering of students and faculty members watching and getting to learn about the struggles experienced by an entrepreneur expressed elegantly through our dance team’s performance. At the end of our dance team’s performance, one of our Alumni, former E-cell member came on the stage and briefed the gathering about Entrepreneurship and the upcoming week. The message was very well received by the audience.

Faculty Training

• Dr.Rosy Fernando and Dr.Sumathi Poobal attended  an awareness workshop conducted by EDI, Chennai to participate in incubation, R&D and other developmental schemes of Government of India, on 13th June 2016.
• Mr. Presenna Prabu attended NEN Entrepreneurship Educator Program during 30.6.16-2.7.16 at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Mr.Jose Anand Associate Prof, ECE visited Michelin Tyres Ltd to discuss about their CSR activity on 5th July 2016
• Mr.Presenna Prabu conducted the ‘Train the Trainers programme on Online Course offered by NEN’ to e-cell coordinators of all departments.
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Mr.Dorai Thodla were review panel members for HTBI Campus Company  on 21-07-2016, at Hindustan University
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Dr.Krishnamurthy HoD CSE attended National Summit on “Sustainable Institute Industry Partnership – SIIP 2016”  held at the India International Centre, New Delhi on  22nd July, 2016 and received SIIP-2016 award on behalf KCG College of Technology.
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Mr. Presenna Prabu AP Mech, Ms. RN Sharmila, AP IT, Mr. Bairavel, AP CSE, Mr. R.Sankar,AP S&H, Mr.Akin AP Civil, Mr.Prabu, AP Aero, Mr.Thomas Lenoid, AP ECE,  conducted NEN Learnwise WF100 lecture at e-cell, KCG College of Technology from 27th Aug 2016
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal, was a mentor and Jury member at Epiphany 2016 , an ideation boot-camp conducted by NIT, Trichy, at Anna University on 21st Oct 2016
• Dr.Rosy Fernando and  Dr.Sumathi Poobal conducted Orientation Programme for I year students on 29th Sep 2016
• Mr. Akin AP Civil attended ‘MVB Boot camp on 7th &8th October 2016 conducted by Forge Accelerator, Coimbatore.
• NEN E-Leaders  Workshop was conducted on 25th & 26th October 2016  by Ms.Vishnu Priya, Regional Manager, Tamil Nadu & Hyderabad/Telangana, Wadhwani Foundation(NEN)
• Mr.Presenna Prabhu, A.P, Mech, attended a FDP on Entrepreneurship Development from 15th December to 28th December, at Sri Sairam Institute of Technology, Chennai
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal , Mr.S.Cloudin, and seven students from CSE III year attended IET-IOT Congress from 6-8 Sep 2016 at Bengaluru.
• Mr.Dorai Thodla, Mr. A, Balaji AP CSE & Ms.Minju P George conducted a ACM ICPC training programme for programming club students on 24th Sep 2016

Hackathon

• About 15 teams of students from CSE , IT and MCA attended CII HACKATHON on 17th Sep 2016 at Tech Mahindra Premises, Chennai
• Mr. Dorai Thodla conducted training for shortlisted candidates of Zoho Corporation.

Centre of excellence

• Established KCG-Intel Centre of Excellence on IoT in association with Intel Corporation on 22nd Sep 2016

Proposal Presented& Approved

• Dr.Sumathi Poobal & Dr. R. Lakshmipathy A.P(Sr), S& H, presented a proposal to MSME  on HI/BI in Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of SMEs through Incubators’ MSME on 27th July 2016 at New Delhi and approved by MSME on 9th August 2016. This grant will nurture the Incubatees with a financial support of Rs.6.25 lakhs for a period of one year.
•  Entrepreneurship awareness camp sponsored by EDII, Ahmedabad was conducted on 16.8.16
• Submitted a proposal for Atal Incubation Centre under the aegis of NITI Aayog, New Delhi on 21st July 2016

Awareness programme on Social entrepreneurship

An awareness programme cum workshop on social entrepreneurship – start a business and change lives on  28.03.17 with the support of Canara Bank under women empowerment. Practicing /teaching Social entrepreneurship were the resource persons for this programme.

Intel Mou Signing ceremony

• MoU between Intel Corporation and KCG College of Technology was signed on 7.2.17 to train our students and faculty on IoT product development.

Intel workhop on Intel Galileo

• A workshop on Intel Galileo Gen 2 board, held between 07.02.17 to 10.02.17. There was a brief explanation about Intel Gallileo Gen 2 board. The explanation included hardware construction and procedure for connecting it. The basics of Arduino and simple programs were taught as apart of the programme. The following day was a class on sensors in IOT. In 3rd day program in python to enable Wifi was taught. The last day was evaluation day and the students were asked to pitch the ideas.
• The workshop was attended by 10 faculty members and 60 students . Fourteen projects were presented and they will be developed by the teams and presented.
• The project presentation was reviewed every week.

Consultancy Work

• Discussion on Consultancy work in software development with MELSS is in Progress. Mr.Sankar, Associate Professor, CSE Dept., is identified to take up this work.

• Dr. Sumathi Poobal , Mr. R.V.Sankar, Dr.Deivasundari,Ms. Jayashree, Ms. R.N.Sharmila attended TiECON 2015 on 31st October 2015
• Mr. R. Sankar is a certified NEN Trainer on Mentoring Skills Finishing School.
• Mr.R. Sankar attended a four modules of ‘Capacity Building Programme on BI ‘ conducted in association with PSG college of Technology and EDI, Chennai between Dec 2015 to March 2016
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal attended ‘CII Startupreneurs ‘ on 10th Feb 2016 at Leela Palace , Chennai
• Mr. Presenna Prabhu , AP, Mechanical Engineering attended ‘NEN Kick-Starting the Entrepreneurial Campus’ conducted by NEN at Sri Ramachandra College of Management, Sri Ramachandra University on 19th Feb 2016
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal was the resource person for the ‘NEN Kick-Starting the Entrepreneurial Campus’ conducted by NEN at Sri Ramachandra College of Management, Sri Ramachandra University on 19th Feb 2016
• Eweek celebrations ( Content is already sent to you which contains the information about Bazaar also)
• NEN awarded ‘E week Runner up award’ for the support given to our next generation of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders at college campus , on 5th March 2016
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal attended NEN Member Institutes Directors’ &Principles Roundtable on 19th April 2016 at IITM Research Park

KCGIIEC

As the innovation and entrepreneurship go hand-in –hand, and the IEDC matured to grow as Technology Business Incubator (KCG Innovation , Incubation and Entrepreneurship centre) entirely supported by our Management on 2nd February 2015, to house technical startups by aspirant entrepreneurs at C Block, HIET Campus, Chennai with thrust areas in IT and IT services, Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics.
The experience of operating a campus company has enriched the skills to become their own boss. This achievement of i-cell and e-cell made our management to invest in setting up a Technology Business Incubator- KCGIIEC in 2015. Today this TBI houses 6 businesses operated by entrepreneurs from the community as well as an alumnus of KCG College of Technology. KCGIIEC provides opportunity for students to intern with the incubatees.

Plant Walk

July 27th commemorates the exciting “Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day”. Plant owners proudly stroll their plants through the streets, exchanging hellos, plant-care tips and general merriment. KCG IEDC along with COWE joined hands to conduct a Plant Walk in Karapakkam Government School. The event gave a significance and importance of growing plants to the young minds

Entrepreneurship awareness programme by NSIC Technical Services

All the final year students were given an awareness programme on entrepreneurship by Mr. Arun Prabakar and Mr.Sampath Kumar of National Small Industries Corporation(NSIC) on 21st and 23rd July 2015. The guest speaker for the day, Mr. Arun Prabakar is the Assistant Manager (Technical) in National Small Industries Corporation. He started the program by enlightening the student on the importance of entrepreneurship. He also gave details about the courses and internships offered to the students. He spoke about various projects carried out at NSIC. He highlighted on the different schemes and programs provided by the Government of India for micro, mini and small scale businesses. He briefed on how to start an industry &narrated it step by step followed by thedetails of Incubation Centre present in NSIC. NSIC has taken a lot of initiatives in entrepreneurship development. Apart from these they also arrange for a Job Mela where all the MSME companies recruit the eligible engineersassociated with NSIC. He concluded the event by conducting a few activities for the students.

Why Waste Waste

An awareness talk on ‘Waste management and waste as resources’ was conducted in association with COWE on 11th August 2015 by Dr.Mangalam Balasubramaniam, Socio Enviromentalist and President COWE. About 40 student members of KCG-COWE attended the meeting.
In today’s world disposal of garbage is a major issue for which she had intrigued us with her speech on waste management and how usefully it can be converted into a byproduct without polluting the environment. Dr. Mangalam showed us a presentation on how garbage creating a menace for which she gave us the solution, her magic word “Segregation at source” is the answer to it. Then a small activity was conducted where students were asked to list out the kind of wastes which they come across in their everyday life. After an active discussion for about ten minutes there were a total of 21 wastes listed by the students. Using these wastes as a resource she had explained the useful byproducts which can be obtained like the briquettes from the dried leaves which can be used as a fuel for cooking, plastic pellets for laying roads and so on. On hearing this students were enthralled and volunteered themselves in implementing this process in our college campus.

Startup walk

Mr.R.V.Sankar , Asst.Professor, S&H Dept., went on a Startup Walk on 18th Aug 2015, to Check out the spaces, meet the founders and get a behind-the-scenes look at the most innovative companies in Chennai.
Meet-up for the student entrepreneurs conducted by NEN was attended by Ms.Divya.S, IV year EIE, on 19th Sept , 2015

Webinars by NEN

Students attended webinars on topics

• Student Onboarding Webinar’ FY 15-16” on 29th July 2015
• How to facilitate blended MOOCs’ on 3rd Sep, 2015
• 5 Things I Wish I Knew before Starting up’ on 10th  Sep 2015
•  Should I worry about my Business Model or Business Plan?’ on 9th Oct 2015

Online training programme by NEN

About 30 students started attending MOOC to explore the importance of entrepreneurship and start their journey to become a successful entrepreneur offered by NEN.

Software Training

A course on ‘MIT Scratch software’ was taught by Mr.Dorai Thodla to the KCG Progamming club students on 22nd &23rd August 2015.

Apps for Chennai

• About 40 students from III and IV year CSE, IT, ECE , EEE and EIE attended a lecture on apps development
• About 6 teams registered their ideas for apps for Chennai on 15th Aug 2015
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Mr.S.Ramanayagam,Ms.Shinyand Ms.Sonia attended the finale of apps for Chennai at IITM Research Park, Chennai on 8th Oct 2015. KCG College of Technology was one of the sponsors of the programme.

In 50 Hours

Kishore KJ, GV Pranay Naidu IV Year participated in “In 50hours” and won third prize worth a cash award of Rs. 25,000 and the MediaTek IOT prototyping kit worth Rs. 15,000 21st -23rd Aug 2015

YMC 2015

The Young Mind Challenge 2015 (YMC2015) is a project competition was held on 29th September, 2015 organised by IET and i-CELL, designed to identify research projects and to be funded by KCG Management, IET, i-CELL, and other funding agencies for the best innovative , cost effective project ideas on IoT. The panel of judges officiated are Mr. Dorai Thodla, Founder & CEO, iMorph Inc. and Dr. Sumathi Poobal, Vice-Principal.

ACM ICPC

Five teams participated in Asia Chennai First Round Online Programming Contest (2015) held on 28th October 2015

TiECON 2015

Mr.DoraiThodla, Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Dr. Rosy Fernando, Dr.P.Deivasundari, Mr.S.Ramanayagam, Mr.R.V.Sankar, Ms. R.N.Sharamila, Ms.Jayashree attended TiECON 2015on 31st Oct 2015 . They attended sessions like Inspirational Track, Master class for TBI in institutions, Outsourcing, founders.

Ingenious 2015

Eight students were interns with the event management team of Times of India , at Ingenious 2015- an inter school competition, conducted at KCG College of Technology on 30th Oct 2015.

Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IET’16)

The Zonal Contest Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IET’16) organised by Recruitment Analysis Council(RAC) was conducted on 13th Feb, 2016. 31 projects were presented in total by the students from various colleges. There were 3 venues identified for the presentations covering projects related to Aeronautical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, EEE,ECE, CSE , IT Engineering domains and won prizes at various category.

E-WEEK

A week from 21to27 Feb 2016 was dedicated to celebrate the spirit of Entrepreneurship among the E-cell of different colleges in the country. E- week award was a great recognition which kick started us to conduct many unique events this time. The topic being Innovative ideas, we planned things in sectors like healthy lifestyle, nutritious foods, helping in saving turtles, digital marketing, awareness on road safety & entrepreneurship, technical talk on aerospace and more. NEN e-week-2016 Runners –up award was received which is to recognize institutes who inspire, develop and support our next generation of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders – young people who will take India to the next level of development and growth.

• M.N.Pragadish, presented a project CII Innovator 2014 on 24th & 25th of July 2014 at KCG College of Technology, Chennai
• The recorded programme of one our students project (Solar Vehicle by Pragadish of Final year Mechanical, Snake Robot by Balasubramaniam, IV year ECE, Wave and wash by Venkateshwaran IIIYear ECE and Elanthamizhan, II year Aero, Electro Chlorinator, by Ganesh Kumar, III Year Civil was telecasted in Vasanth TV.
• V.Vignesh and Naveen Honest Raj II year EEE won II prize in All India Project presentation at Adhiyaman Engineering College, on 15-16 September 2014 by Institute of Engineers .
• V.Vignesh and Naveen Honest Raj II Year EEE won First place in IEEE Paper presentation , conducted at KCG College of Technology on 22.9.2014.
• Nijandhan. N , II year EEE won I Prize in project presentation in National Conference at Veltech, Chennai on 21st August,2014
• Nijandhan. N , II year EEE received special appreciation  in international Conference at SRM University, Chennai on 25-26 August, 2014
• Nijandhan. N , Purushothaman and Priya Dharshini II year EEE won II Place in project presentation in National Technical symposium at RMD Engineering College on 11th August 2014.
• Venkateshwaran, IV Year ECE, Elanthamizhan III year Aero conducted a work shop at KCG College of Technology on 2-D Animation under the banner of their startup Haavani on 11-12 July 2014
• Venkateshwaran, IV Year ECE, Elanthamizhan III year Aero conducted a work shop at Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering on Robotics using Arduino under the banner of their startup Haavani on 11-12 August, 2014
• M.N.Pragadish, presented a project CII Innovator 2014 on 24th & 25th of July 2014 at KCG College of Technology, Chennai
• The recorded programme of one our students project (Solar Vehicle by Pragadish of Final year Mechanical, Snake Robot by Balasubramaniam, IV year ECE, Wave and wash by Venkateshwaran III Year ECE and Elanthamizhan, II year Aero, Electro- Chlorinator, by Ganesh Kumar, III Year Civil was telecasted in Vasanth TV.
• Dr.Kulasekaran, S&H Department and students attended a programme conducted by NEN on ‘Student –Entrepreneur-Support: High impact Programs’ on 2nd September ,2014, at Anna University.
• Dr.Lakshmipathy and Mr.Sankar of S&H Department attended a programme conducted by NEN on ‘Innovation &Incubation’ on 30th September 2014 at Great Lakes Institute of Management

Webinars

• Students and faculty attended a webinar on ‘Learning it by doing it at your campus’ conducted by NEN on 19.8.2014
• Students and faculty attended a webinar on Inculcating an Entrepreneur Mindset conducted by NEN on 9.9.2014
• Students and faculty attended a webinar on ‘Essentials of Mentoring’ conducted by on 14 October, 2014.

TRAINING PROGRAMMES

• Three workshop on “ONLINE TRADING’ was conducted by Mr. T.R. Arul Rajhan of ECTRA, Chennai in association with Canara Bank, for about 35 students drawn from I & II Year MCA  ,    III CSE , IV ECE and IV EEE starting from 20th ,28th FEB   and 1st Mar, 2014
• Training programme on Textile Printing’ for women students sponsored by Canara Bank
• I Year Orientation on E-cell & i-cell activities for all batches
• Foot Prints’ an entrepreneurship awareness program for First year students on 29.9.14
• Awareness programme on startup and business strategy for all final year students.

IEDC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING

4th IEDC Advisory committee meeting was conducted on 27th September,2014.The members reviewed the projects completed in the year 2013-14 and selected the projects to be completed in the year 2014-15

KCG-TBI

As KCG college of Technology is maturing from IEDC, KCG-TBI is established at HIET Campus on 2nd Feb 2015

EWEEK AWARD FOR KCG

KCG College of Technology has been selected for E-week 2015 awards by National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). This award was given by NEN to acknowledge KCG College of Technoloogy as one of the elite group of institutions, doing extraordinary work in building support for engaging young minds to develop future entrepreneurs.

EVENTS DURING E-WEEK

E-week is promoted by National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN) in partnership with educational institutions to create an entrepreneurship ecosystem for student community and to kindle the growth of startup ventures. Every year NEN comes out with a theme in alignment with nation’s vision and this year’s theme was ‘Creating Job For Millions’ and it was experienced during 14 Feb-21 Feb 2015. Around 10 events were organised for E-week 2015. Each event focused on building entrepreneurial skills in different sectors. The following events were held during e-week 2015.

Visit to Pammal Green project:

We started with a visit to Pammal green project. Wherein students were exposed to various fields of solid waste management and biogas plants. They gained a lot of ideas on “How waste could be a raw material for business”. This was followed by a talk on Solid Waste Management by Dr.Mangalam Balasubramanian. At the end of the session, students formed a group to work with the resource person on their future projects.

Paper Quilling workshop:

Ms.Kavitha Gopalakrishnan, an alumna of KCG College of Technology trained the students on the art of paper filigree otherwise called quilling. Students learnt to roll, shape and glue paper together to create decorative designs. The students rolled, looped, curled, twisted the manipulated paper to create shapes which make up designs to decorate greeting cards, pictures, boxes and jewels. The students enjoyed the session and were eagerly learning the business skills for promoting paper quilling accessories.

A talk on Career Opportunities:

Mr.Dorai Thodla started off the session by differentiating knowledge from skill. He continued by explaining the students on what interviewers expect from candidates applying for a job. Students gained knowledge on the various career opportunities that are available other than engineering field.

Tamil as a career

Ms.Chithra enlightened us on how to use our knowledge in language to make a business. She started off with screenplay writing and opportunities of language in the field of film making. The beauty of the language is well seen in poetry. She taught on how to write poems in an impressive way. She explained us about the wide opportunities available in the field of news reading and content reading and how Tamil language can also be used to make applications for android powered and for blogging

A talk on stock trading:

The Stock Trading workshop was very useful in the manner that it not only included various ideologies about pursuing the finance sector for job opportunities, but also brought out the entrepreneur in everyone. Mr. Sekar spoke about the various factors to be practiced on starting a new venture. He emphasized on the importance of holding a share in a company and the various advantages it possesses. The various nuances of an industry could be easily understood with the help of a share in the company. He gave us a detailed and clear view of holding a share in the market and how stock trading can be carried out as a business.

Kitchen Garden workshop:

Mr. S Kathiresan, an organic farmer explained to the students about the various techniques involved in roof gardening and organic farming. The information and the pictures he shared were very intriguing. We were mind boggled to know about easy gardening techniques with zero percent investment. He also taught how to make organic manure from kitchen wastes. Almost all the students joined hands to help and setup a kitchen garden in our campus.

Photography workshop:

Mr.Gowrishankar Sivabala, an alumus of our college conducted a seminar on Photography. He started learning professional photography and is currently running his own crew and they are into all genres of photography. He explained about various modes of operations available in a DSLR Camera and its functionalities. The session was very interesting and he also guided the students on how to set their own crew. He gave us a lot of information on how we need to adjust the shutter speed and aperture for good quality pictures, how to launch a fashion calendar and various opportunities for photographers in fashion, food and events. Students understood that it is more of a one man battle and they need to work smart and always stay in touch with the people in the same field.

Comic as a learning tool:

Mr.Murari started with “Octofeb – Education through Comics”. Octofeb is a concept that spreads education through visual narratives and storytelling through comic characters. The Power of visual communication was clearly thought to the students. He gave a humble request to the students to improve the Indian education system through comics and he assured to assist them. He started the session by narrating his life through comic strips. Then, he asked the students to try to make their own strips and narrate the story. Students realised that even boring stories could be made interesting through comics. Interesting fact was that, some of them chose to make comic strips as their career.

Career as RJ/VJ/ Event Producer

Ms. Aruna is a freelancer who conducts several training programs for students who are interested in the field of media. She is a vibrant and a passionate script writer. She started the session by explaining the importance of radio. She also explained the opportunities in field of dubbing since there is no new voice coming into the industry. She also emphasised on various opportunities in media for passionate and interested students. Students were asked to do their own show. Almost 10 students tried their hand at radio jockeying, a few even came up with concepts and they even interviewed IEDC of the college. As the workshop concluded, a radio club was formed to make sure students can try out their skills.Overall, the e-week gave an enthusiastic boost to the students to improve their entrepreneurial skills in various fields. The workshops not only gave the business ideas but also illustrated how to make a business out of zero investment and how their venture can solve social needs. Students were excited about the prospect of starting their own company. The most admiring part was that the resource persons also assured to offer internships to the interested candidates and to support their firm in all needs.As a part of the elite group of institutes, doing extraordinary work in building support for entrepreneurship, engaging young minds, growing the number of India’s new and future entrepreneurs and creating “buzz” for entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship cell of KCG was awarded ‘National Runners-up Eweek 2015’ by NEN.

Cloud10 Bazaar 2015

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Centre of KCG College of Technology, made, 14th & 15th March, 2015 the most memorable day for students who wished to take the path less travelled ie starting a business.
The bazaar was well received by the aspiring budding entrepreneur’s over 200 students operated stalls. The student entrepreneurs began their preparation ambitiously for trying their hands on doing business. A wide variety of products were offered for sale ranging from Leather items, Foot wear, Home accessories, Jewellery, 3D Bags, Clothing, Ethnic wear, Handmade products, Photography, Pasteries, Icecreams and wide range of Food items .
Dr Vasanthakumari, Director, INCAD Foundation officiated the opening ceremony of Cloud10 Bazaar on 14th March, 2015 at 10:00 am. She was astonished at the efforts taken by the boys and girls in bringing the right choice of products keeping the prospective customers in mind.
The bazaar left behind a strong message as said by the business tycoon Dhirubai Ambani ‘ If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs’. The two day bazaar left the enterprising dreamers with a sales turnover of Rs 4,12,975 and appreciation for their efforts by 5450 visitors which will fuel their desire to enhance their skills towards innovation and entrepreneurship.

Certificate Program for students on Empowerment of Entrepreneurship Government of India) Ministry of MSME

The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) is an apex body under the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India established in 1983 for coordinating and overseeing the activities of various institutions/agencies engaged in entrepreneurship development particularly in the area of small industry and small business.
It was established with one of its objective to organize, conduct and co-ordinate training programs for Entrepreneurship development in collaboration with various institutes and organizations. The entrepreneurship wing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development centre of KCG College of Technology conducted the training programme by Shri. A.Din. Pangotra, NEDC to promote entrepreneurship among the students of Professional Colleges on 29th January, 2015.
The course introduced the foundation of Entrepreneurship using the 3S
(Scale, Speed and Skill) principle of Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi, to the students. They enjoyed the session as the lecture was interwined with humor and real life stories connecting every aspect of entrepreneurship and the expected traits of an entrepreneur. The session on the various schemes of the government implemented by various agencies was an eye opener for the engineering students to think of the great opportunity in entrepreneurship.

Students Achievements

• Venkateshwaran, IV Year ECE, Elanthamizhan III year Aero conducted a work shop on Robotics using Arduino under the banner of their startup Technobreed on 23-24 Jan 2014.
• Venkateshwaran, IV Year ECE, Elanthamizhan III year Aero completed a project on Modular Robotics – 4 Legged spider- under the banner of their startup Technobreed
• S Venkateswaran, III year ECE and S Elanthamizhan II year Aero won second and third place in load pulling and rope pulling conducted by South Indian Robo – Championship league, Chennai.
• S A E WORLD CONGRESS: A paper on “Design, Fabrication and testing of a regenerative strut” by M N Pragadish, IV year, Mechanical, has been accepted for SAE World Congress, Michigan, USA in April, 2014.

e-week 2014

e-week was celebrated to spread the spirit of entrepreneurship among school and college students the following events were conducted during the period 1.3.14-7.3.14
Innovation in schools, 50 rupees activity ,Startup showcase, Innovative talk , Future of Engineering, Online Trading, Hacking , Think Design, Design opportunities in civil Engineering

Cloud10 BAZAAR 2014

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell of KCG College of Technology organized the Cloud10 Bazaar on the 15th and 16th of March, 2014. The planning for the Bazaar began six months ahead of the event.
Cloud10 Bazaar, the annual event of the IEDC was held on 15th and 16th March, 2014 serving as a platform for the Engineering students to hone their business and trades skills. The Bazaar attracted 240 students to test their entrepreneurial potential. The Bazaar showcased products ranging from clothing, accessories, gaming, photography and mouth smacking delicacies. The Bazaar had footfall of over 4600 visitors who encouraged the budding entrepreneurs with a purchase to the tune of Rs.2.50 lakhs. The profit soared to Rs.1.05 lakhs which marked 42.35% on sales.
The budding entrepreneurs left their sales venue with confidence that they would be contributing to the economy a few years from graduation as entrepreneurs.

TBI Initiatives

• Mr. Dorai Thodla, Dr.Sumathi Poobal , Dr.Rosy Fernando, Mr. S.Ramanayagam attended a webinar on TBI organized by NEN on 4th Feb, 2014
• Mr. Dorai Thodla, Dr.Sumathi Poobal , Dr.Rosy Fernando attende a meeting on TBI funding addressed by Mr.Jamkhandi (Director, MSME) on the 19th Feb 2014

TRADING BUSINESS

S.Ramachandran II Year Mechanical engineering, is doing Trading Business with Sri Lakshmi agro foods , Chennai.

TRADING BUSINESS INCUBATOR

The Aavin parlour “Mega Bites” an initiative of IEDC commenced operation on 4th October, 2013. Mr. Vignesh and Mr.Sri Prakash IV year BE CSE, are the founders of the Aavin operation. This serves as the platform for interns to hone their true skills.

CONSULTANCY WORK

• M.Tamil Magan, Vignesh, Yogeshwaran, Ramkumar, VijayaKumar,Anatha Krishnan, Dwarakesh of IV Year ME are doing a project on ‘Solar Concentrator’, at SECO –India, Chennai
• T.S.Manikandan , C.Gokul, Karun S.Ravi, A. Mohamed Mudasir IV year EEE are doing a consultancy project on Low RPM DC generator for windmill at SECo-India, Chennai
• Patrick, Payal Dasharma, Emmanuel Morais IVyear EEE are doing a consultancy project on Concentrated Photovoltaic cell at SECO-India, Chennai
• Automated Greenery’ a prototype developed by Haavani (a student start up) is being improvised for Green waves , Chennai

E-LEADER WORKSHOP

9 students attended the E-Leader workshop conducted by NEN at Shri Sunderlal Shasun Jain College for Women, T.Nagar, on 18th October, 2013.

START-UP INTERNSHIP SERIES

The start-up internship series had its first start up internship.event. Mr Anoop Nishanth, Founder and Designer of Maxx Speed addressed 70 students of B.E. CSE, Mechanical & ECE. 7 students will be working as interns in his organization.

STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Students entrepreneur Mr.Vignesh and Mr.Sri Prakash  of IVB.E. CSE running their business “Landmark Caters” participated in the Global student entrepreneur award at Bangalore on 24th August, 2013 and ranked fourth at the Regional level.
• Students entrepreneur Mr. Gautam K , CEO, Enchanter Corporation , participated in Finals of the Global student entrepreneur award at Raipur,  on 24th August, 2013
• Diya Labs a student startup by M N  Pragadish, IV year, Mechanical  conducted a workshop on Robotics  for students of MIT on 29th September, 2013 and for the kids of  Safe India, Kalaiselvi Karnalaya, Chennai on 22nd September, 2013 as a CSR activity.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT BY TECHNOBREED

Venkateshwaran, IV Year ECE, Elanthamizhan III year Aero developed Automated Greenery, Wave & Wash.

PROVISIONAL PATENT

M N Pragadish IV year, Mechanical, applied for provisional patent for his innovation ‘Hybrid Shock Absorber’ – ‘4306/CHE/2013’.

TECHNICAL TRAINING

• Python programming training was conducted for i-cell students
• Mr.Venkatesh, alumnus of MCA , conducted a workshop on php for MCA students.
• Brain Storming sessions, ideation sessions and identification of IEDC Projects  2014-15

YMIC 2014

Believing in the power of youth, this year the IEDC jointly in association with the student startup “Enchanter Corporation” organised the National Level competition titled “Young Minds Innovation Challenge” on the 24th and 25th of January 2014. The challenge provided a platform for school and college students to converge their research ideas into new products and prototypes. We believe that this platform will ignite and inspire the spirit of research, innovation and creativity among students.

LECTURE ON NEW ERA OF INNOVATION

A lecture on ‘New Era of Innovation in Global Science and Engineering’ by Prof.Subra Suresh, President, Carnegie – Mellon University, USA, on 18th July, 2013 was attended by Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Mr.Dorai Thodla, Mentor, I-Cell, KCG College of Technology at IIT Chennai.

MENTORS AS RESOURCE PERSONS

Dr.Rosy Fernando and Mr.Dorai Thodla were resource persons for many of the NEN Programmes on ‘Entrepreneurship’,’Innovation’ and ‘e-leaders workshop’ conducted during this period.

PROJECT DISPLAY

Best projects were displayed at The New Indian Express Education expo at Chennai trade centre on 19th and 20th April, 2014

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS WITH SECO INDIA

• M.Tamilmagan, M.Vignesh, K.Yogeshwaran are doing a consultancy project Urban Cooling System with SECO- INDIA, Chennai
• M.Ananda Kumar, N. Vinod, S.Gayathri, P.Shruthi are doing a consultancy project Oxygen Analyser with SECO- INDIA, Chennai.
• R.Surya Kumar , T.Hemalatha, R. Keerthana, R. Mohan raj are doing a consultancy project on Solar energy with SECO- INDIA, Chennai

NATIONAL IEDC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING

Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Mr.Dorai Thodla attended National IEDC Advisory Committee meeting at Coimbatore on 10-11 April 2014. In this meeting they bagged the web portal development for IEDC as a consultancy work for NSTEDB, DST, GOI

• IEDC Advisory committee meeting was organized to select projects for the academic year 2012-13 on 16.7.12.
• A WORKSHOP ON ROBOTICS was attended by II year III year students of ECE and EEE during 21.7.12- 25.08.12 Conducted by i-cell  in association with CREATE
• Students of Social causes club of i-cell visit regularly to Olcott memorial school , Besant Nagar and Venkata Ramana Primary School as an outreach in education in association with DEEPAM
• Python Programming course conducted by Mr. Dorai Thodla, founder, imorph, USA for MCA I year students .
• Gowtham Raj, IV IT , has been selected for II level in NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours -2013 for his project ‘Robo Teacher’ .
• Gowtham Raj,  and  Jatin Chabbariya, IV IT attended Global Student Entrepreneurship awards- South Asia  2012 , on 25th August 2012, at Ahmedabad .
• Gowtham Raj,  secured Third place at Global Student Entrepreneurship awards- South Asia  2012 , conducted on 25th August 2012, at Ahmedabad .
• i-cell students have attended, an online programming course conducted by ‘unclassroom’
• i-cell students have participated College Talent, an online programming contest conducted by ‘unclassroom’ on 13.10.12.
• Mr. Somya Kundu (IV EEE), Mr.V. Harikrishnan (III EEE) attended three day course at Centre for Wind Energy Technology, during 18th-20th July, 2012
• i-cell in association with IET (India), conducted a project competition’ IET Young mind Challenge-2012-Green Technology’ on 1.8.2012 and five projects were selected for execution.
• Python Programming workshop was conducted for MCA and IT Students.
• Social Causes club members visited schools as an out-reach programme and worked with the students teaching them the use of technology and engaged them with e- learning tools. This activity has motivated several students to aspire to become IT Professional.

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

• NEN Orientation program on 16.6.12 at Sheri SS Shaun Jain College of Women, Chennai -17 by MS. J.Jeyagowri, Ms.K.Radha (ECE ) Ms. A. Niranjana Singh (EEE), Ms.S. Anuradha(CSE), Mr. R.V.Sankar (S& H).
• NEN Building Tech Ventures, was attended by  Ms.K.Radha (ECE ) Ms. A. Niranjana Singh (EEE), Ms.S. Anuradha(CSE) at VIT ,Chennai during 16-18th August 2012
• Mr. Pawan Gnana Raj(IV ECE), Mr. A.Naresh( IV MECH),  Mr.Sasikumar ( IV MECH),   Mr. Vijay( IV MECH),  attended NEN Building Tech Ventures, at VIT ,Chennai during 16-18th August 2012
• Mr.R.V.Shankar (S& H) , attended NEN Kick starting Programme during 19th -21st July at Bangalore
• TEDx Chennai was attended by 10 students , Mr.Prabu Sankar, Placement officer and Dr.Sumathi Poobal on 30.9.12

WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED

• 3 Day Entrepreneurship awareness program by KITCO attended by 10 Students from each branch of study including MCA from 5th Sep-7th Sep, 2012. The speakers for the programme were Mr Satish Kumar, Deputy Director MSME-DI Chennai, Mr T.Vasudevan,  Lead District Manager, Indian Bank, Zonal Office, Kancheepuram, and Mr Mariappan S. Entrepreneur, SGM Technologies, Chennai
• ‘Talk Your way to Success’ was delivered by Dr Geetha PremKumar, Director, Vector Indojanix (P) Ltd., Chennai , on 17th Sep., 2012 and  attended by 10 Students from each branch of study including MCA
• On 21st Sep., 2012 , III year MCA attended a lecture on the ‘Opportunities in Internet marketing’ by Ms Sundari, Asst.Dean National Management School, Chennai
• NEN Successful Leaders workshop was conducted by Ms. Vishnupriya, Senior Consultant, NEN for students from KC Tech and other NEN associated institutions on 7th – 8th Sep 2012.

• Gautam K, III yr IT student, Founder of   “Enchanter Corporation”  a student startup was adjudged as one of the top -5 Student start-up companies at the national level by NEN First Dot on Jan21st 2013.

• Gautam K, III yr IT student was also a finalist at AUDACIA 2013, a national level business plan competition conducted by Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai .

The following events were conducted as a part of the e week celebrations.

• 20 Hr Workshop on ‘Be your Own boss’ was conducted for 46 students from all the departments participated.
• As an experiential learning One day on campus Business was organized by two teams of students.
• Cloud10 Bazaar on 16.3.2013 & 17.3.2013. A platform for Budding Entrepreneurs to hone their enterprise skills. Nearly 40 stalls were operated by the students. This event was open to the public and expects a foot fall of over 5000.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

• Dr. SumathiPoobal, Vice Principal, KC Tech ,Mr.JoseAnand, Associate Professor, ECE, Mr. V Gopal, Assistant Professor, MECH ,Mr.Kasiram, II MCA, Mr.V.S.Vignesh, III CSE ,Mr.Prakash, III CSE attended the EDI  – Aavin Business Model for Students , Campaign on 9th February at Anna Institute of management.
• Dr. SumathiPoobal attended TEDxHindustan on 16th Feb, 2013.
• TiECon Chennai -2012 was attended by Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Dr. Kulasekaran on 4th December, 2012

• e – cell activities 2011 – 12, were inaugurated and the new team sworn in on 13.07.2011.
• Press visited the e-cell to focus on Campus Companies and the article featured in “The Hindu’ on 21.7.11
• NEN Kick Starting programme on entrepreneurship was attended by Ms. T. Lavanya Suja MCA Dept., Mr. R. Prabhu Aeronautical Engineering Dept., during 28th – 30th July, 2011.

• Mr. A.R Srinivas III Year MCA, attended NEN Kick Starting programme on entrepreneurship during 28th – 30th July, 2011 and won a prize in ’50 Rupee exercise’.
• Recycle week was celebrated at KC Tech from 8th – 12th August, 2011.
• Recycle rally was organized by e – cell on 12.08.2011 to bring awareness on recycling.

• Video screening and entrepreneurial games were conducted for e-cell students by Dr.Namita Gopal
• Guest Lecture by Mrs. Saundarya Rajesh, President AVTAR, career creators and the certificates were distributed to the students, who successfully completed the entrepreneurship experiential course on 25.08.2011.

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

• NEN orientation program was attended by Dr. Sumathi Poobal, Dr. R. Amrutha, Ms. T.Lavanya Suja, MCA Dept, Ms. S. Kavitha, IT Dept, Mr. R. Prabhu, Aero Dept on 25.06.2011 at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.
• Dr. Sumathi Poobal attended an advanced level faculty course ‘Getting to Market’ conducted by NEN at Bangalore during 1st – 3rd July, 2011.
• High Impact Impedance – IEDC – Course conducted by NEN was attended by Dr. R. Amrutha, Mr. S. Ramanayagam, Ms. S. Kavitha (IT) on 26th & 27th Aug, 2011.
• Dr. Sumathi Poobal, Mr. Ananda Narayanan, Mr. Krishna, Mr. Krishna Kumar (Iyr ME) attended a workshop an organic farming and agri marketing conducted by e – farm, Chennai on 24.09.2011.
• Varun, Paul Chandran, Gowtham Raj, Goutham, Mohammed Nyem, Jatin, Preetham, R. Vignesh, Asif of e-cell attended Tata NEN First DOT Workshop Business Model on 30.09.2011 at MOP Vaishnav College, Chennai.
• III Year e-leaders Varun, Krithika, Jatin , Govindan  attended TATA First DOT Leaders Workshop at  on 01.10.2011.
• Dr. E. Baskaran addressed the students of Cloud 10, on Govt. Policies on entrepreneurship on 27.09.2011.
• Orientation on entrepreneurship was conducted for the First year students by e-cell leaders and faculty on 11.10.11
• Coffee shop’ workshop was conducted for the Second year e-cell students by Ms.Lavanya suja, A.P.,MCA and Mr. Prabu, A.P., Aeronautical Engg. on 26.9.11 and 13.10.11
• Ananthakrisnan, Jagan, Arvind of I Year ME attended ‘Idea Conference’ at Anna University , Chennai on 15.10.11
• Dr.Namita Gopal is certified as an entrepreneurship educator by NEN and Stanford Technology Ventures program (STVP).
• State level Entrepreneurship Conference conducted by EDI ,Tamilnadu was attended by Dr.SumathiPoobal and Dr.Rosy Fernando on 21st Jan 2012
• MMA Annual Convention was attended by Dr.SumathiPoobal at Hotel TajCoromandal, Chennai, on 2nd Feb 2012
• Course on Python programming was started on 30.07.2011.
• Workshop on ‘Presentation Skills’ was conducted by effect works, for students and faculty on 06.08.2011.
• Ms.Kiruthika Somasundaram III year EEE, Mr.Sunny ,II Year CSE participated in ‘50hours Startup’ during 12.8.11 to 14.8.11
• Mr. Ve. Sakthivel, IIIyr ECE attended Py con, at Pune during 16th – 18th Sep, 2011.
• Sunny III sem CSE, Varun V sem ME, Naresh V sem ME attended 32 hours start up SSN Lakshya on 24.09.2011 & 25.09.2011.
• Ve. Sakthivel attended ‘Hacking event’ at IIT Sastra on 29.09.2011 & 30.09.2011.
• Guest lecture on Robotics was delivered by Mr.Naresh ,Lema Labs, Chennai for the First year students on 12.10.11
• Workshop on php was conducted by Mr.Shrikrishna Shrin on 20.8.11
• Workshop on ‘Nanotechnology’ was conducted on 21.10.11 by Quantum nanoscience, Australia-Chennai.

ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES BY E-CELL STUDENTS

• P.S.Paul Chandran, R.Vignesh,V.S.Vignesh,Sri prakash, Preetham II Year alongwith Mr. M.Elangovan, AP, ECE  had an entrepreneurial experience by putting-up a Fruit juice stall at Nehru stadium, Chennai during  Tamilnadu state level Inter–School Athletic Event, on 3.8.2011
• Business Plans submitted in various Forums:
• A.R.Srinivas submitted business plan for ‘ Eureka’ at IIT –Bombay, and ‘Wantrepreneur’ at Villgro.

PROJECTS PRESENTED IN VARIOUS COMPETITIONS

• Siranjeevi. J and Sathish Kumar Final year ECE R won 1st prize for their innovative project ‘Kitchen guard and Wireless Flame Adjustment Control System. ‘ at Veltech Engineering college.
• Govindan Induchoodan, III Year Aeronautical Engineering submitted his innovative project ‘Cyclopes ‘ to  NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2012 and moved to the Level II phase.
• Ganeshram, Final year ECE submitted his innovative project ‘Chronos EZ430’ to ‘Engineer Infinite 2012 Student Project Competition- EI12 ‘conducted by IEEMA
• Siranjeevi. J and Sathish Kumar R Final year ECE submitted their project  ‘Kitchen guard and Wireless Flame Adjustment Control System to ‘Engineer Infinite 2012 Student Project Competition- EI12 ‘conducted by IEEMA .

IEDC Advisory Committee meeting

IEDC expert advisory committee meeting was held on 16.07.2011 to approve the fire DST funded project of 2010-11 and recommend the new fire projects for 2011-12 to DST.

ESDP by KITCO

17 MCA students attended a six week workshop, organized jointly by KCG College of Technology & KITCO (Kerala Industry and Technical Consultancy Organization), Chennai on ESDP (Entrepreneurship skill development program), from 20 Dec ’11 and to 1 Feb’12.
These students received hands-on knowledge and experience in marketing, finance & various other businesses like auto spare parts etc.

Mentor Program on IEDC

Vinoth kumar, Alumni (2011) is being mentored for his innovative ,entrepreneurial venture by i-cell and e-cell. He attended the mentor mela conducted in association with IBM on 6.8.11

EDSP TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SIX WEEKS

KCG College of Technology and MSME –DI jointly organized a 6-week ESDP for SC Women –taking its first steps towards CSR – at KC Tech campus. The objective of this event was to train 20 underprivileged SC women on agro-based skills so that they are empowered to start their own business and earn a decent livelihood.
The event started on 4 Nov’11 at 11.00 a.m. with a motivational talk on ESDP. Training was given from 7 Nov’11 to 16 Dec’11.In the first two weeks, the participants were trained on basic managerial skills like time management, planning, organizing, customer orientation, quality controls, etc. In the next four weeks, they learned how to prepare agro based products like pickles, appalams, jams, etc. and also, household chemicals, candle making, paper cup/plate making.The event was a grand success and the enthusiastic participants left the campus with determination to earn a decent living.

FORUMS ATTENDED

• Dr.Sumathi Poobal attended a meeting  on Pico-Satellite at ‘National Design and Research Forum’, at Institution of Engineers(India), Bangalore on 5th Nov.,2011
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal attended TiECON 2011,Chennai on 24th Nov.,2011 ct Chennai Trade Center, Chennai
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Mr.Dorai Thodla Presented talk on “Collaborative Students Projects & Funded Program of NSTEDB” at “Transformation of Students into Industry suitable talent, enhancement into employability and beyond (TRANSEE), CLT, IITM, Chennai o 25th Nov.,2011
• Dr.Sumathi Poobal and Mr.S.Ramanayagam, attended Connect 2011, held on 21 December 2011, at Chennai Trade centre, Chennai .

• A NEN ‘Orientation program’ was attended by  Dr.A.Kulasekaran (Professor S&H) and Mr.M.Elangovan (Asst.Professor ECE) at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai on 10th, July 2010.
• A NEN Faculty Development Course on ‘Kick-starting the Entrepreneurship Campus Essentials’ was attended by Dr.A.Kulasekaran (Professor S&H) and Mr.M.Elangovan (Asst.Professor ECE) at Sri Ramachandra College of Management, Chennai from 23rd – 25th, July 2010.
• An Orientation program was conducted for about 400 students from 2nd and 3rd year of B.E. and B.Tech of KCG on 18.08.10.
• On 25th August, an entrepreneurship program was conducted in KCG campus and 28 bed packages (bed-pillow-bucket-jug) were sold to new students who were occupying the hostel.

Awards Won

• Yuvaraj Pandian (CSE) has been selected as “student rock star of the week” by Twenty 19
• Aditya Vasan (CSE) and ALAGU MURUGAPPAN(CSE)  Won Second Prize In Paper Presentation For The Topic “Fibre Reinforced Polymer” Held In Sairam Engg College
• Aditya Vasan (CSE)And Alagu Murugappan (CSE) Won Third Prize In Paper Presentation For The Topic “Matrix Application” Held In Sairam Engg College
• Naresh And Natraj (Mech) Won Second Prize In Paper Presentation For The Paper “Nanomaterials” Held In Sairam Engg College(2010)..
• Aditya Vasan(3rd year-CSE) and NARESH(3rd year-Mech) presented paper on “Renewable Energy” in state level symposium held at Manakula vinayagar Engineering College, Pondicherry won 2nd prize.(2011)
• Aditya vasan(3rd Year-CSE) has been selected as “campus ambassador” for KC TECH by TWENTY19.
• Russel Nickson (4th year-CSE) is selected as intern to work in 3G simply for Blackberry applications .
• Aditya Vasan (3rd year-CSE) is selected as intern at  I-Logo for designing T-Shirts
• Nitin Mathew (4th year-ECE), Vivek Kumar and Raghavendra (2nd year-ME) demonstrated a prototype of the IEDC project.
• Yuvaraj  Pandian (4th-year CSE) was selected to Participate in Google Summer Of Codes.
• Naveen and Neelagandan (AERO) secured 3rd prize in Bottle Rocketry held at P.B College.
• Yuvaraj Pandian (III CSE) organized Proto.in and Barcamp Chennai, on 27June ’10.
• Marsh (3rd year-Mech) won for THE BEST IDEA conducted by Barcamp held in ebay PayPal.
• Yuvaraj Pandian (4th-Year CSE) also participated in Yahoo Open Hack Day 2010 and presented two hacks.
• Yuvaraj Pandian(4th-year CSE)  has mentored IIT Madras students for their Mini-Projects during the winter Break.
• V.Natraj,  Naresh  and  Ashwin  (Mech)  presented  a  paper  on ‘Direct  Methanol  Fuel  Cell’  in  an  International  Conference  organized at Hindustan College of Arts and Science.
• Yuvaraj Pandian (4th year-CSE) presented a talk on “Using Python to  Build  Multimedia  Applications”  (http://in.pycon.org/ 2010/talks/61-building-multimedia-applications-using streamer-and-python), in PyCon India , Bangalore, on 25-26 Sep ’10.
• Yuvaraj Pandian, Kishore and Nachiappan, (CSE) were placed 50th in the Regional Finals of ACM ICPC, (International Collegiate Programming Competition) in Dec’10.
• Jagadish Chandrasekar(4th year-CSE) is selected as intern at I-Morph on Facebook Applications
• Yuvaraj Pandian (4th year- CSE)  delivered a talk and conducted workshops on Open Source Technologies (GNOME & GTK) during Pragyan at NIT  Trichy in Feb’11

KCG @ NEN FIRST DOT

An initiative of the NEN Entrepreneurship Cells in Chennai and the NEN Trust, the First Dot, brings together student start-ups from across the country, providing them an opportunity to showcase their products and services to a panel of successful entrepreneurs, expert mentors, national print and electronic media, as well as a large number of peers.

This year the showcase took place at the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai on January 10th and 11th, 2011. This grand event saw 600 start-ups competing. From among these only 200 start-ups were shortlisted to be showcased on 9 and 10 Jan’12. It was a prestigious moment for e-cell KC Tech as 3 of our student start-ups reached the last 25 and one of them – telvegy by Gautam, II IT , was adjudged as one of the top 5! (http://www.tatafirstdot.com), other start-ups BUK It by Vijayaraghavan IV EEE, and Water gun marketing by III IT

• The College is a member of National Entrepreneur Network(NEN) E-Cell have been regularly conducting discussions and meetings. These are well attended by staff & students with lots of interaction. Entrepreneurs from all industries are invited to share experience.
• Two students Gowrishanker final year mech and S.Vignesh final year ECE have received the Certificate of Leadership 2008 – ’09 by NEN for ‘significant contribution to developing a vibrant ecosystem of entrepreneurship on campus’.
• E-Cell launched its website – http://cloud10.in/ – on 12th Jan 2010.
• The website was launched by Mr.Venkat Rangan CEO Market Simplified USA. This websites aims to provide information regarding E-Cell activities to all its members.
• E-Week was organized by the E-Cell between the 6th and 13th of February, 2010. The following events were organized:-
  • Perspective of the Education System in India – This was a survey conducted to identify the poor areas in our present education system.
  • Panel Discussion – A gripping session with a host of experts who represented the stakeholders of the education system.
  • Bridge the Divide – An effort to reach out to the economically disadvantaged children in collaboration with ‘Deepam’, an NGO.
  • Book Drive – A book donation drive was conducted throughout the campus to collect books of all types to be donated to various community libraries and welfare centers.
  • Virtual Talk – La Gesse, Director of Customer Development at Rackspace Hosting, USA delivered a virtual talk to around 150 of our students.
  • Entrepreneur Talk – Mr. M Venkata Subramaniyam, Founder, Matchbox Solutions and eFarm gave a talk on his experiences after being in the IT industry for 12 years.

The innovation cell, popularly known as KC Tech i-cell, was launched on 6 May 2009 with the aim of guiding and encouraging the members of the cell to take up projects that evolve with new ideas.