IIC

OBJECTIVES:

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, IIC’s 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. The IIC model is designed to address the existing challenges/issues in HEIs such as less numbers, occasional and unplanned Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) activities organized in HEIs with low involvement of top leadership, lack of coherence and absence of synergy in resource mobilization, deployment and underutilization of creative potential of youths as major barriers for vibrant I&E ecosystem to emerge from HEIs.

ABOUT CEC-IIC:

Capital Engineering College, Bhubaneswar has established Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) under Ministry of Education (MOE), Govt. of India in the year February 2022 to systematically foster the culture of Innovation. The main objective of IIC at CEC is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform these ideas into prototypes while they are still in their informative years.

MEMBERS OF IIC:

• President: Dr. Chinmaya Ranjan Patanaik
• Convener: Prof. Rakesh Kumar Sahu
• Co Convenor: Mr. Saroj Kumar Parida

CEC IIC ACTIVITIES 2022-23: