India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0

The India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0 is a unique tripartite initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Lockheed Martin and Tata Trusts.

Supporting the Government of India’s missions of “Start-up India” and “Make in India”, IIGP 2.0 enhances the Indian innovation ecosystem by enabling innovators and entrepreneurs through the stages of ideation and innovation, to develop technology-based solutions for tomorrow.

Complemented by several implementation partners, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; the programme aims to build an innovation pipeline in India through a high-impact programme focused on the social and industrial innovation ecosystem.

Launched in 2007, India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) has been one of India’s longest standing public-private partners. The programme has provided mentoring and handholding assistance to over 400 innovators coming from diverse sectors from across the country; generated over 350 commercial agreements and over $900 Million of economic value for India. (Source: Second Impact Analysis Report by Ernst & Young in 2015).

Through two annual parallel tracks viz. University Challenge and Open Innovation Challenge, IIGP 2.0 identifies and supports both industrial and social innovations through:

• Phase A: Ideation
• Phase B: Innovation

To read more and register, please visit:

http://www.indiainnovates.in/abouttheprogram.aspx (Accessed on 20 March, 2019)

The big deal

ON OFFER Students graduating from the Arts, Commerce and Science streams are being offered hefty starting salaries in campus placements. The big selling points, say companies, are their soft skills and analtyical capabilities

There’s a rapidly growing number of positions that require data crunching or analysis, for which students from maths, statistics and economics backgrounds are well-equipped. DEVASHISH SHARMA, founding member of HR consultancy PeopleStrong

It’s not just engineering, management and law. Highly paid campus placements offers are now being made in fields beyond the professional and technical courses, to students graduating in arts, science and commerce too.

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This year, a final-year Economics student at Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College received a salary offer of Rs 38 lakh (all salary figures are per annum); last year a Commerce student from Sriram College of Commerce (SRCC) got a starting offer of Rs 31 lakh. In Mumbai, arts and commerce students got offers averaging Rs 6 lakh, with the highest going up to Rs 19 lakh.

Companies are offering better packages because they would rather hire young people who are easy to train than experienced people who need to unlearn practices and come with a higher price tag, says Smita Sharma, placement advisor at SRCC.

Another big draw is the fact that these students tend to be equipped with good soft skills.

The average engineering student, for instance, is less likely to have good communication skills, says Devashish Sharma, founding member of India’s largest HR Technology and Talent Acquisition solutions company PeopleStrong. “There’s a rapidly growing number of positions that require data crunching or analysis, for which students from maths, statistics and economics backgrounds are well-equipped,” says Soni George, placement convener at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. “Students from other departments are also eligible to apply for these. We have had students from life sciences take up analyst jobs too.”

At both Xavier’s and SRCC, campus recruitment picked up around 2004-2005 and has been growing steadily since. “This year, we added 20 more companies. Some startups have started coming to campus too. Though they don’t offer huge pay packages, they do offer a lot of exposure,” says Smita Sharma, placement advisor at SRCC.

The brighter job prospects in these subjects have now allowed more students to choose freely when it comes to picking a stream. “I chose economics because I really wanted to study the subject. I did not even know whether I wanted to do a job right after college or not,” says Yashovat Saharia, who graduated from SRCC in 2017. He received among the highest salary offers of his year, according to his college, and has worked with that company, Parthenon EY, ever since.

Saharia says he doesn’t plan to study economics further but he’s glad he picked it to begin with. “I now firmly believe that one should study the subject one likes and not look for one with ‘better job prospects’ because it gives you a strong foundation when you specialise in one field,” he says. At Parthenon EY, his job is that of a senior associate; it involves crunching data to explain to companies why a deal or acquisitions is or isn’t a good idea. “My background in economics and my grooming in presentations made me both good with numbers and capable of communicating what those numbers say, effectively,” Saharia says. Economics has been on the top of recruiters preference for a long time but now recruitments in good honours courses in both sciences and humanities have a lot of takers too, says Sharma of PeopleStrong. “Whereas campus recruitment for general science courses are increasing in fields like pharmaceuticals and chemical research, in the humanities and social sciences there is a rise in recruitment from among psychology students, by corporates and institutions like hospitals and schools. Also, the services side of new age Internet companies are employing humanities graduates with good communication skills in their customer support teams,” Sharma adds.

Source: Hindustan Times (Mumbai edition) e paper dated 20 March, 2019.

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Prakalp 2019 at SFIT

Department of Computer Engineering, SFIT presents the most awaited competition of the year !!

Prakalp-2019 is an Inter-college Project Competition being held successively for the 2nd year. This competition provides a platform for final year students of Computer, Information Technology, Electronics and Telecommunication Departments to exhibit their final year projects.

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!!

Venue : St. Francis Institute of Technology (Borivali West), Mumbai.

Date : 30th March 2019

PRAGATI 2019 AT SFIT WINNERS

Technical Competition:

1st Winner: Complete the incomplete (Vidyavardhini's College of Engineering and Technology)
Sanchitsagar Singh
Shreyans Gosalia
Aditya Manze
Sushmita Mahajan

2nd Winner: Ground Surveillance Rover (Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering)
Raj Gandhi
Aniket Jadhav
Tushar Jadhav
Shivraj Jadhav

3rd Winner: Case Link (St. Francis Institute of Technology)
Ritika Bhole
Manas Acharya
Sahil Nirkhe
Dwayne Fernandes
Sanket Dalvi


Business Plan:
1st Winner: Blue (St. Francis Institute of Technology)
Trilok Dattajirao Sawant
Aakash Ashok Salunke

2nd Winner: Besto
Sarang Jitendra Bora

(Inputs by Dr. Prachi Raut, E-Cell Convener)

PRAGATI 2019 at SFIT Photos

Entrepreneurship Cell SFIT presents the most awaited competition of the year !!

PRAGATI 2019 is a national level technical innovation and business plan Competition offering a platform for students with different innovative project to compete against each other for investment. Aspiring entrepreneurs can transform their simple ideas into a market ready business plan and present it in front of a wide range of investors.

For Details, visit  http://pragati.ecellsfit.com

Some Snapshots:

 

  All Photos Courtesy: Mr. Sunil Pansare (In-Charge HOD - Mechanical Department, SFIT)

Project and Research Help for Faculty and Students of Engineering

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The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for “research and discovery”. “Gangotri”  is one of the largest glacier in the Himalayas and source of origination of Ganges, the holiest, longest and largest of rivers in India. The Ganges is the symbol of age-long culture, civilization, ever-aging, ever-flowing, ever-loving and loved by its people.

Under the initiative called “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars / research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit electronic version of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme. The repository on one hand, would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand it would avoid duplication of research. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later be mapped to full-text theses in "ShodhGanga". As such, once the full-text thesis is submitted for a synopsis, a link to the full-text theses would be provided from ShodhGangotri to "ShodhGanga"

Source: https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/# (Accessed on 18 March, 2019)