DON BOSCO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING’S INSTITUTION INNOVATION COUNCIL AWARDED FOUR-STAR RATING—BEST PERFORMING IIC AT NATIONAL LEVEL

Don Bosco College of Engineering’s Institution Innovation Council has been awarded FOUR-STAR Rating out of five by MHRD’s Innovation Cell and has been recognized as the best performing IIC at State as well as one among the best at National level for promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship related activities prescribed by MHRD’s Innovation Cell (MIC) for the academic year 2020-2021. DBCE received the highest rating among all IIC’s established in institutions in Goa. With participation of 2680 institutions and universities, 269 colleges have received the highest rating and DBCE is one among them.

Throughout the year various activities were organized like Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity, My Story – Motivational Session by Successful Innovators, Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop, Exposure and Field Visit for problem identification, Pitching workshop and linkage of innovators with Innovation Ambassadors, Panel Discussion on Atmanirbhar Bharat- Vocal for Local, Workshop on Prototype/Process Design and Development –  Prototyping, Session on Business Model Canvas (BMC), Session on identifying Intellectual Property component at the early stage of Innovation, and Institute level Proof of Concept (POC) competition.

The Institution Innovation Council IIC 3.0 team comprised of President Dr. Varsha Turkar, Vice President Dr. Gaurang Patkar, Convenor and ARIIA Coordinator Michelle Araujo, Social Media Coordinator Avila Naik, Innovation Activity Coordinator Swapnil Ramani, Internship Activity Coordinator Dr. Vivek Jog, IPR Activity Coordinator Oswyn Soares, Start-up Activity Coordinator Satyesh Kakodkar, NIRF Coordinator Suraj Marathe and Members – Selvyn Fernandes, Natasha D’souza, Kimberly Morais, and Grebian Alemao. 

Eminent personalities from various fields such as Mr. D. S. Prashant, CEO – FiiRE, Mr. Gajanan Nagarsekar, MD, Kallows Engineering India, Mr. Milind Anvekar, V.P. – Open Destinations, Mr. Sharavan Hedge, Co-Founder, Earnestek, Adv Shalini Menezes along with student representatives were part of the core IIC 3.0 Committee .

Dr Neena Panandikar , Principal informed that our country needs its education system to play a more important role in awakening students to entrepreneurship and preparing future entrepreneurs and Installing MHRD’S IIC at DBCE was a step in this direction.

With the constant support and encouragement from the Director, Fr. Kinley D’Cruz and Principal Dr. Neena Panandikar, the IIC 3.0 team created a vibrant ecosystem to foster culture of innovation and start-ups at the institute.