Technovation 2021 held at NIT, 86 teams participate
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, March 10
The Innovation Club of Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology organised a two-day mega event ‘Technovation 2021’ held recently. The event aimed at creating an inspiring and vibrant environment for helping the students and society as a whole to study and foster creativity and innovation culture to come up with newer technologies and innovations. The mega event witnessed huge participation of around 86 teams from various institutes of repute across India and Bangladesh.
The event was inaugurated by Prof LK Awasthi, director, Subash Chandra Ralhan, chairman BOG, and Upkar Singh Ahuja, president Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU). Technovation 2021 comprised of national workshop on innovation, IPR, and commercialisation (IIC-2021) and national symposium on innovation, IPR, and entrepreneurship (IIE-2021).
In the symposium, participants from various institutions presented their innovative ideas, projects and research findings through PPTs/poster. The tracks included crucial concerns of our society and environment such as healthcare, biomedical devices, agriculture rural development, smart vehicles/electric vehicle/electric vehicle motor and battery technology, robotics and drones, food processing, renewable and affordable energy, waste management, clean and potable water, IoT-based technologies (eg security and surveillance systems etc, ICT, cyber-physical systems, block chain, cognitive computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other emerging areas of innovation and start up opportunity.
Prof Awasthi in his address stated, “NIT enunciates and upholds the fundamental principles and commitments of higher education in the rapidly altering milieu of a global and digital innovative world.” He further added, “Critical thinking, creativity and collaboration is the need of hour. Information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy are the skills of 21st century. Technical events such as ‘Technovation’ are an opportunity for students to collaborate across disciplines and nations. The students should strive for excellence to contribute to growth of the nation by solving problems. The faculty and industry should nurture the innovative ideas and mentor the students.” Prof Awasthi also appreciated NITJ faculty members as the institute has filed more than 60 patents during the pandemic period and transferred four technologies to industry for commercial use.
Subash Chandra Ralhan, chairman BOG, also emphasised, “We should sensitise our students towards the quandaries of our society by employing innovative ideas and techniques”. He applauded the initiative taken by the Innovation Club. Dr Upkar Singh also highlighted the need of strong interaction between industry and academia. Dr LP Singh, the faculty coordinator, Innovation Club, traced the journey of the club. Dr RK Garg, president, Institute Innovation Council, Dr Samayveer Singh, Dr Mahesh Kumar Sah, Dr Shyamkiran Kaur were also present at the inaugural event. The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. T. Srinivasa.
Dr Lakwinder Pal Singh and Dr Mahesh Kumar Sah were the experts of the national workshop. The workshop encompassed hands-on practice sessions for preparing proposals for patent filing, copyright, and design.
The mega events motivated the young minds to express their ideas and will give them a hope and chance for a successful start-up. The director congratulated and applauded efforts of the team and student coordinators Roshan, Arsh Goyal and Sushant Sethi.
