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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

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Prof Samir Brahmachari, DG CSIR and secretary DSIR addressed the GTU Innovation Council

Community and visited the exhibition by Diploma Engineering students at Ahmedabad.

19th November, 2011, AMA Auditorium

Dr. Samir K Brahmachari came down to the Ahmedabad Management Association to

address the Diploma engineering students and other members of the GTU community about

innovation. More than 400 students, faculties, industry people and GTU authorities participated

in the function. Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Hon. Vice-Chancellor, GTU, welcomed Professor

Brahmachari and Padmashree Prof. Anil K Gupta, Executive Vice-Chair, National Innovation

Foundation, India.

The director general of the CSIR, in his address at AMA, said that CSIR is considering

opening its laboratories for validation and value addition of selected innovative projects of

engineering students of GTU. Apart from saying that CSIR will consider lending support to these

projects of GTU students from its 39 national laboratories, Prof. Brahmachari said that CSIR will

also create a fellowship for such innovative projects. He said that the idea is to foster

innovations which are Gandhian in nature and attempts to address the needs of the

economically underprivileged people. Professor Brahmachari also pointed out that the country

needs a special social networking system for technological innovators. He said that such a

networking will help in solving the issues of the 800 million Indians who are economically

underprivileged.

Dr. Brahmachari shared his innovative ways of developing CSIR labs across the nation

and harnessing the top scientist capacities into a new orbit and urged that each single faculty

even from Diploma engineering bears the capacity to lead towards path breaking socio-

technical innovations as per present need of the nation. He termed the current age of R&D and

innovation as the age of collaborative research driven on open source pedagogy for developing

frugal innovations. He said that socio-technical networking will be key aspects of next

generation of innovation development. He appreciated the efforts made by GTU Innovation

Council and shared the vision and action agenda of CSIR where students can play a critical role.

He shared that a creative mind is quite impatient and has a positive spirit, which brings forth

path breaking innovations for society. He said that his vision was of converting mindset of

National Laboratories to Nation as a laboratory, where every single Indian will innovate not only

to survive but also for growth.





Professor Anil Gupta also addressed the audience and praised the efforts of Hiranmay

Mahanta and other young persons in making the function a success within three days.

Padmashree Prof Anil K Gupta, IIM-Ahmedabad shared his insightful thoughts and envisaged

that the steps taken by GTU Innovation Council and Techpedia will set new standard of

benchmarks in the decade of innovation driven by young minds inside colleges. He shared that

in many instances “The minds in the margin are not marginal minds” and the small town techies

are at par innovative than that of at big cities and established higher learning institutions. He

shared that the faculties must take utmost care to pose enough challenge to the budding young

minds even at polytechnic level to harness the best of their delivery capacity. He stressed on

developing collaborative, frugal and co-creative lateral innovation development stages where

young minds can contribute meaningfully to national challenges which are century old and

hence by overcoming the patience over inertia in living with the problems kept unsolved

indefinitely. He declared the Gandhian Engineering award which will be given away by

Padmabhushan R.A.Mashelkar at IIM-Ahd on 1st march 2011 to young technology students for

developing frugal/Gandhian innovations for masses.

As a part of the event, an exhibition was also organized by GTU Innovation Council and

Techpedia at the new campus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The

exhibition displayed various prototypes of innovative ideas like generation of electric energy

from dance floors, combining home appliances to save energy and other innovations for

industrial purposes as well. After the address, Dr. Samir K Brahmachari went to the exhibition

He interacted with each of the students personally as he saw their innovative projects.

Engineering students with innovative projects stand a chance of making their way into the

national laboratories of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) or bagging CSIR

fellowships.

This function was one of its kinds because students from polytechnics of GTU

showcased their fully working innovation models at national stage visited and were able to

personally interact with the DG of CSIR. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta said that the concept of

Gandhian Engineering & sciences /Frugal Engineering & sciences and innovation was for

“Creating more from less for more". He shared the progress report of GTU Innovation Council

with the audience. He shared that the efforts to democratizing the innovation management

process at GTU Innovation Council both in terms of scale and penetration have been unique in

any place in the world. (GTU Innovation council has bagged world education forum award in





2011 for unique and significant effort in forging linkages between industries-academia and

innovation.)

Techpedia is trying to develop ecosystem for scouting, nurturing and disseminating such

innovations via young technology minds. Quite a few colleges under GTU e.g Parul Polytechnic

Institute, LCIT Bhandu, Hashmukh Goswami college of Engineering, Govt. Polytechnic Surat etc

showcased the innovations done by Diploma engineering students in an exhibition at IIM-A

which was visited by Prof Brahmachari. He appreciated that GTU Innovation Council is trying to

foster the technology innovations at various colleges in Degree, Diploma and pharmacy colleges

in association with Gujarat Technology University. 25 Innovation Sankuls /clusters created at

GTU Innovation council have brought significant change in the mind and mindset which is

jointly driven by GTU and Techpedia. 300 plus innovation centers lead by Engineering faculties

and students in this mission at GTU Innovation Council has democratized the innovation

management process even at very ground level for the 1st time in the country.

Mrs. Aggarwal welcomes DG CSIR and Prof Nilesh Jha welcomes Prof Anil K Gupta during the

function at AMA on 19th Nov.





Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Honorable Vice-Chancellor, GTU, addressing the participants and sharing his

vision of making GTU Innovation Council a truly India class innovation ecosystem. He shared that

India needs a contextual innovation pedagogy which will suit the local needs with global standard.

He said that the Innovation Council will make outstanding contribution through the efforts of young

technology minds by infusing the spirit of innovation in SMEs.





Prof. Brahmachari, DG, CSIR addressing the GTU Innovation Council at AMA on innovation- led -

knowledge society.





Dr. D. J.Shah, Prof Sheetal Shah and other principals and Deans from various Engineering

colleges motivated the students to design proof of concept of their works and showcased in this

exhibition. The exhibition was also visited by Hon. Vice-Chancellor of GTU, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

and Deans, faculties, students of GTU to motivate Diploma eng students.

The grand function and exhibition on innovation was a huge success with participation by more than

400 members of the GTU community from across the state under GTU Innovation Council.





Students from various Diploma Engg. colleges across the state under GTU Innovation Council

showcasing their innovations to DG, CSIR and other policymakers. Their innovations were highly

appreciated by the dignitaries who were present during the exhibition at IIM-Ahmedabad.





Few innovative projects which were demonstrated during the occasion includes - Use of

recycled aggregate for previous concrete , Solid waste management for rural areas for better

waste management, Use of industrial waste for manufacturing paver block, recharging of

groundwater utilizing strom water in residential townships, Manufacturing FAL-G bricks using

local material in Assam, Social networking platform for problem solving designed by Diploma

students , Home automation with GSM for tackling common issues, cathodic protection

device, Developing electricity from public areas and dancing floors , smart train engine with

auto loading of goods and passengers and heart beat monitoring Device are quite a few which

were presented in the exhibition and appreciated by DG, CSIR. Many innovations were

presented in poster format too which are under development of Proof of concept.

New Innovative solar cooker, Frugal CNC machine, Turbocharger for Two Wheelers,

multi nut remover, LPG Refrigerator, An improved solar Distillation apparatus , Frugal sprey

pump, Water-petrol fuel kit for efficient engine, and Advanced efficient Peddling washing

machine et were the working model innovations which were highly appreciated during the

exhibition.

Dr Brahmachari interacting with various innovators from LCIT, Bhandu during the exhibition.





Diploma students from Parul institute of Diploma studies are interacting with DG, CSIR. A handful of

innovations were showcased by DE students from the institutes lead by Mrs. Sheetal Shah, principal

of the institutes.Studenst had shared a great amount of enthusiasm in narrating their source of

motive for the innovations and many of them have been asked to showcase their innovations again

in the national exhibition of innovative projects by students at IIM-A on 1st march 2012 which will be

visited by Dr. R.A.Mashelkar, President Global Research alliances.





The entire function and exhibition was made successful due to tireless effort of Mr.

Vishal Jani, Mr. Sachin, Mr. Jayendra Vasani, Mr. Purushottam Patel, Mr. Keyur, Ms. Anamika

Dey, Mr. Unni Krishnan, Prof. Nilesh Jha, Prof. Sheetal Shah and Dr. D.J.Shah and his team. The

young students from various polytechnics of GTU left a very impressive sign via their

innovations to all the audience present at International Management Development Center,

IMDC at IIM-Ahmedabad during the occasion.

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