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Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)

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MoE's Innovation Cell & Institutional Council

Empowering Future Innovators

In the year 2018, the Ministry of Education (MoE) through MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) launched the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) program in collaboration with AICTE for Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to systematically foster the culture of innovation and start-up ecosystem in education institutions.

Primarily, IICs’ role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, Problem solving, Proof of Concept development, Design Thinking, IPR, project handling and management at Pre-incubation/Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEIs.

Vision

Vision

To achieve greater recognition in our chosen fields of Endeavour and to excel as one of the renowned engineering institutions with respect to technical education and research so as to produce competitive student’s workforce to compete in the current Global Scenario.

Mission

Mission

  • To achieve the recognition as one of the elite engineering colleges through research, innovation in education, and the transfer of concepts and results to technology and engineering practice.
  • To provide students with the fundamental knowledge, interdisciplinary problem solving skills, societal and business awareness, and confidence required to excel in their chosen professions and be leaders in a Global environment.
  • To maintain a collegial, supportive, and diverse environment that encourages our students, faculty, and staff to achieve and compete to the best of their abilities.

Major Focus

  • To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
  • Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
  • Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements framework.
  • Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
  • Develop better cognitive ability among students.

Function of IIC

  • To conduct various Innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
  • Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
  • Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
  • Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
  • Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
  • Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement of industries.

Flexibility

Integrates functionalities of flexibility calendar activities and Scoring systems.

Sustainable Model

Emerged as a very sustainable and scalable model for promoting innovation within HEIs.

Global Recognition

Contribution towards the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking, reflecting national excellence.

Global Impact: IIC model is unique and distinct as it integrates the functionalities of flexibility calendar activities, scoring and reward system, decentralizing operation with division of work, progress monitoring and incentive mechanisms in coordinated manner through a robust digital platform. In last two years, undoubtedly, IIC has emerged as a very sustainable and scalable model for promoting innovation within HEIs and the efforts of these IIC Institutes can be seen as impactful contribution towards making country’s innovation and start-ups ecosystem more vibrant and dynamic. The recent achievement of India’s 48th position in Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking reflects the same.

IIC Official Certificates

Establishment Certificate

Official certificate recognizing the establishment of the Institution's Innovation Council (IIC) by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell.

Rating Certificate (2023-24)

Annual performance rating and recognition for the academic year 2023-24, highlighting our institutional innovation achievements.

IIC Event Activities

S.No Event Details Date Guest Speaker
1 Launch of 5G Services 01.10.2022 Launch of 5G services by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi
2 Effects of Mathematics Innovation and Technology on Students Learning Performance 11.10.2022 Dr. K. Kalaiarasi, Cauvery College For Women, Trichy
3 Design Thinking 14.10.2022 Dr. C. Shobana Nageswari, RMD .Chennai
4 Engineers Roles in Society and Innovative Project Ideas 21.10.2022 Dr. I Alagarasan, AEC
5 Intellectual Property Rights 27.10.2022 Mr.T K Sundaramurthy, Former Scientist, ISRO
6 Session on Funding Opportunities for Budding Entrepreneurs 11.11.2022 Mr. M.Jestin Joseph, Associate Professor , AEC
7 FDP on Patent Drafting and Filing 25.11.2022 & 26.11.2022 Dr.Agalya V ,Professor/EEE and Associate Head R&D(IPR Cell), New Horizon College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
8 Innovations in Smart Grid Systems 28.11.2022 Prof. Ravi Samikannu,Associate Professor,Botswana
9 Innovations in Digital System Design 23.12.2022 Mr. Udhayakumar M AP/ECE K S R Institute For Engineering And Technology Namakkal
10 Orientation Session on IIC 5.0 & its features 11.01.2023 All IIC Council Members & Innovation Ambassadors
11 AI Art and Indian Patent Registration 12.01.2023 Mahendra Institute of Technology, Namakkal
12 Entrepreneurship and innovation as career opportunity 24.01.2023 Dr. P. Kalidoss ME.,PhD. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering School of Engineering and Technology Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University, Samayapuram, Trichy
13 Leadership Talk with Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Hon'ble Chairman, AICTE 30.01.2023 Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Hon'ble Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
14 Workshop on Entrepreneurship Skill, Attitude and Behaviour Development 30.01.2023 Dr.K.Raju Assistant Professor,Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.Kumarasamy College Of Engineering, Karur.
15 Design thinking, Critical thinking and Innovation design 01.02.2023 Dr. A.Saravanan Associate Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, M.A.M college of engineering and Technology, Trichy
16 Session on Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop 07.02.2023 Dr. R. Karthikeyan, Professor / HoD Department of mathematics Annapoorana Engineering college
17 Exposure and Field Visit for Problem Identification 09.02.2023 Annamalayar Electronics
18 Innovation Day Celebrations. Innovative Industrial Exposure to Engineers 17.02.2023 Dr.R.Duraisamy M.E.,Ph.D, Junior Training Officer, Government Industrial Training Institute, Salem.
19 Expert talk on Process of Innovation Development, TRL & Tech-Transfer 22.02.2023 Dr. Chandrasekar Venkatachalam Professor Department of CSE, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Kankapura Campus, Bangalore
20 My Story – Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneur/ Startup Founder 22.02.2023 Mr. P. Nitheesh, CEO and Founder, PALFTECH Research and Development Private Development
21 Latest Innovations in Automotive Industry 27.02.2023 Dr.N. Nedunchezian, Professor / HoD, Department of Automobile Engineering, Annapoorana Engineering College, Salem
22 National Science Day Celebrations. 28.02.2023 Dr.J.Sivakumar M.E.,Ph.D,Associate Professor/Head of the Department,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Annapoorana Engineering College (An Autonomous Institution), Salem.
23 Innovative Design Thinking and Critical thinking - Review 28.02.2023 Dr.J.Sivakumar M.E.,Ph.D,Associate Professor/Head of the Department,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Annapoorana Engineering College (An Autonomous Institution), Salem.
24 Design Thinking and Microprocessors 07.03.2023 M.M.Arun Prasath, IIC President, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K S R Institute For Engineering and Technology, Tiruchengode.
25 Budding Entrepreneurs 13.03.2023 B.Nandhagopal, Assistant Professor ,Department of Civil Engineering, Annapoorana Engineering College (An Autonomous Institution), Salem.
26 Field Visit to Design Centres 15.02.2023 Institute Industrial Design

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