Innovation centre set up at NITT

To enable students of various disciplines work on their ideas and convert them into prototypes

December 25, 2015 12:00 am | Updated March 24, 2016 12:00 pm IST - TIRUCHI:

The newly inaugurated Student Centre for Innovation in Tiruchi on Thursday.— Photo: A.Muralitharan

The newly inaugurated Student Centre for Innovation in Tiruchi on Thursday.— Photo: A.Muralitharan

A multi-disciplinary student innovation centre has been established at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, to enable engineering students of varied disciplines work on their ideas and convert them into prototypes.

The Student Centre for Innovation in Engineering and Technology – SCIEnT, is an initiative of the class of 1990 batch of the institute many of whom are entrepreneurs now.

The innovation centre would be unique as it would be operated round-the-clock on all days. The class of 90 has provided funds for equipment and interiors for the centre in collaboration with the institute.

Equipped with modern gadgets across different engineering disciplines, the centre would have mentorship system in place. The centre has been opened to enable students work on their ideas during their free time. It would enable them to collaborate with peers across branches and tap the knowledge of the faculty as well as the alumni across the globe to make their projects practical.

S. Sundarrajan, Director, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, said the institute had changed the academic curriculum to industry orientation. Observing that industry based research was the need of the hour, he said the number of technical clubs had increased in the institute to motivate innovation. The institute had plans to establish a research park within the campus which would be extremely useful to students carry out industry-oriented research.

R. Umamaheswaran, Mission Director, GSLV, Indian Space Research Organisation, inaugurated the centre and traced the history of the country’s space programme.

Dr. Bakthavatsalam, faculty advisor, SCIEnT and Rajan Narayanan, president, RECAL, spoke.

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