GTU Innovation Council

The Proposal for GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

An Executive Summary

A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation

Introduction: Till 1197, when India’s last University of that era was burnt out1, Indian society

was highly innovative in both applied & social sciences and arts. Thus India had products,

which were used all over the world, known at that time. Students from all over the world

came to study at Indian Universities and Indian secular and religious thinking influenced the

world.

However when we did not set up any new University for 650 years and when the traditional

village Pathsahala system fell into disuse, a large part of our population became illiterate.

During 1850s, after the East India Company was able to establish itself, a new educational

system for India was planned by the then rulers and in 1857, three Universities at Calcutta,

Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai) were set up.

After independence, the University and the School system, with some modifications, was

made available all over the country. But this system continued to operate with shoe-string

budgets and without much of an inter-action with the society. Our university system has not

been able to nurture the creative abilities of the young and has not been an agent for

innovation. In addition to the traditional system, a number of new modern institutions were

set up by the central government. These institutions have been well-funded. But India’s

share in innovation in either products or thought-processes continues to be negligible, by all

metrics, used for measuring innovation. GTU is setting up the Innovation Council to help the

GTU community make its ‘due’ contribution towards making the world a better place

through innovation.

GTU innovation Council: While the first objective of the Council is to nurture creativity and

innovation within the University community, it is designed to act as a catalyst of change for

the whole of the society. The Council will send out its students and teachers to businesses,

industries and various organizations to continuously prepare projects and case studies for

changes, which may lead to improvement in products or processes. When 400,000 students




and 27,000 teachers (our likely numbers in 2013-14) start working as a force for innovation,

we expect that the education and research at the University will be rejuvenated through

anchoring it with the real-life problems in businesses, industries and the society. More

importantly it will make our SMEs, and our society more innovative.

Innovation through a new model of Collaboration: India had missed the industrial

revolutions of the nineteenth century and early part of twentieth century. Our industries

had not benefited from research at Universities and the two have not yet been able to come

together in any meaningful way, in spite of all the efforts during the last 63 years.

Innovation cannot occur at industries, which have no active inter-action with Universities.

Innovation at Universities, where the learners & researchers and laboratories & workshops

have no contact with the real world is very difficult. The Soviet Russian experiment has

proved that research laboratories, without an active relationship with Universities, may not

be as innovative as expected.

To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industries & businesses and the

students & faculties in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses like Engineering,

Management, pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnics and the faculty members in GTU, GTU, with

the help of TechPedia, has designed a joint action plan for creation of 25 communities from

the 166 industry clusters and 500 colleges of GTU. Each community will be managed by a

GTU Innovation Sankul Committee. The capacity of each Sankul will be built by involving

faculty members, professionals, students and owners & professionals of industries and

businesses. During the summer, thousands of students and faculty members will work

jointly with industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may relate

to improving the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems,

relating to the processes at the industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the

output from the students will be evaluated and it will be uploaded on the TechPedia.

GTU Innovation Sankuls will cut through the inertia of non-contact and will develop a new

model of Industry-Institute Collaboration, based on innovation at the grass roots level.

When in three years, every one of its more than 100,000 final year students and more than

20,000 faculty members are out in the field with the requirement that an innovative Final




Year project is to be completed and put on the TechPedia, when there will be no way to

hide the work, when good work will be awarded year after year, when thousands of small

and big industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with young minds and faculty

members about continuous improvements in their products & processes and when the law

students work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely new environment

of innovations will be created.

GTU Innovation Sankuls will cater to the following needs :

� To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries (45,000 MSMEs of

Gujarat as well as the larger industries) through regular consulting cells at 500

colleges of GTU.

� To help industry associations work better through students efforts.( ASSOCHAM has

presented this module to Finance Minister of India in its Annual General Meeting in

December 2010 and has proposed that it would contribute towards mapping the

IDPs in a big way.)

� To help develop a relationship between GTU and industries for keeping the

employees of the industry more up-to-date through specially designed educational

programs (User Defined Education ecosystem).

� To have summer internships in the industries. (The students will spend significant

amount of time in academic curriculum in mapping real floor issues)

� To have engineers from the industry to regularly give seminars and inter-act with the

students. (A new trend of practical learning environment will be stimulated to

manifold the efficiency of the knowledge ecosystem.) and to work out exchange of

teachers and professionals from the industry to impart quality educations in even

the Rurban areas of state.

� To map every SME with the corresponding GTU institutions, with which the SME can

inter-act to mutual advantage. To bring every one of the ASSOCHAM’s and other

chamber’s 200,000 members in touch with the corresponding GTU institutions, with

which the member may be able to inter-act to mutual advantage.( In 83 industrial

clusters for different vertical industry groups )




Management Architecture: The GTU Innovation Council: chaired by the Vice Chancellor. The

Council committee (CC) will include Professor Anil Gupta, Techpedia, Chairs of State level

Chambers and Vertical-associations, ASSOCHAM,GCCI and other associations, government

officers, Registrar of GTU and others.

Five Regional Committees: managed jointly by two co-chairs; –one would be a Director/

Dean and the other would be a prominent person from the industry; the Managing

Committee (MC) to consist of representatives from the Sankuls, associated with it.

Every one of the 25 Innovation Sankuls: managed by two Co-Chairmen: one from a GTU

College and the other from the industry, a Secretary and a Joint Secretary: an industry

engineer and a student; the Sankul Committee (SC) with representations from Colleges,

District Industry Officers, industries and prominent citizens.

An Udisha Executive Committee (EC) at each GTU College: will co-ordinate with its Sankul.

Excellent projects of students, faculties and colleges in all will be awarded jointly with

Techpedia and GTU at State level.( For the best projects in each field/For the best Mentor in

each field/For the best Sankul/For the industrialist, who contributes best towards industry-

institute inter-action/For the Principal/ Director, who contributes best towards industry-

institute inter-action/For the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer), who

contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action/For the Professor, who contributes

best towards industry-institute inter-action).

The above will trigger a “Feel the difference” initiatives for teachers, students and others.

Inspiration driven knowledge based innovation ecosystem is key among the targets.

Strengthening Technology Education at Colleges and Polytechnics in Gujarat from 2011:

GTU wants every final year project to solve some real problem of businesses & industries or

of the society. To achieve the objective, during summer, at the end of the pre-Final year,

students will visit some industry and work out 3-4 problems, with the following output:

� Define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined format.( Industrial Sodh

yatra will bench mark the technical issues at every single shop floor). The College

will evaluate the problems at the beginning of the studies at the first semester of the

Final year




� The College will upload the problems in www.techpedia.in The project will be

executed by the students during both the semesters of the Final Year. The faculty

will try to understand whether there is a knowledge gap or technology gap or skill

gap and to document it

Some student or some students, under the guidance of their faculty members may select

the project/ research problem, without a reference to an industry. Such problems will be

called User Defined Problems (UDPs). The Consortium of GTU and Techpedia will attempt to

find mentors from industries or research institutions both for IDPs and UDPs by using web

based National mentoring network (NMN), which is an open source environment for

strengthening the knowledge ecosystem breaking the barrier of space and time.

More than 50% of the students in GTU Colleges are from families, which are sending their

first member for a University level education. GTU has nearly 30% Colleges in small towns

and rural areas. Hence innovation at GTU will be an inclusive process and it will encourage

progress at BOP level.

Sankuls will improve access, affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and

competitiveness in the needy domain of socio-technical applications. This will foster an

innovation eco-system across domains and sectors to strengthen entrepreneurship modules

even among students.

GTU and Techpedia has conducted during the last four months successful experiments to

prove the viability of the project. GTU students have successfully cracked a number of

Industry Defined Projects (IDPs) posed by various MSMEs, bigger Industries and even by

grass root NGOs. A few students have converted their projects work to new enterprise

modules during the last few months and they are scaling up towards the effort in socializing

technologies. To execute the entire algorithm, Techpedia team has started visiting the GTU

colleges to interact its pre final and final year students and faculties guiding them.

Techpedia found out from initial GTU college survey that nearly 25% more students will

finish their prototypes within UG if they can be provided some resources. A virtual

incubation cell at GTU can play a vital role in nurturing the budding techno- entrepreneurs

of the technical domain even at the UG level.




CONTENTSCONTENTSCONTENTSCONTENTS

Sr.No. Chapter Page #

1 Introduction 8

2 Successful Innovation at GTU Colleges

2.1 Three layered System and Shodh Yatras

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3 About GTU in brief

3.1 Culture of Innovation at GTU

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4 Creating an environment of innovation at GTU

4.1 Processes in the Faculties of Engineering,

Computer Science and Pharmacy

4.2 Processes in the Faculty of Business Studies

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5 The GTU Innovation Sankuls

5.1 Searching for IDPs

5.2 Execution of the Projects

5.3 GTU Innovation Sankuls

5.4 Micro-venture Innovation Fund

5.5 Annual Awards

5.6 A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation

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6 Benchmarks and Outputs 28

7 Financial Requirements 29

Appendix 1: GTU’s Footprint 34

Appendix 2: Industry’s Problems Solved by GTU

students

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Appendix 3: GTU and Techpedia 39

Appendix 4: Gujarat Technological University 42

Appendix 5: Industries Departments and Officers of

Government of Gujarat

50

Appendix 6: Time-line 51

Appendix 7: Clubs in GTU Colleges 53

Appendix 8: Mappings 58

Appendix 9: List of GTU Innovation Sankuls 60

Appendix 10: GTU – Skills Council for Marketing 61

Appendix 11: GTU – Council for Human Resource

Studies and Organizational Structures

63

Appendix 12: GTU – Financial Services Skills Council 65




1.0 Introduction:

Gujarat Technological University is a relatively new University, established with the

objective of developing the knowledge of science, engineering, technology, management,

pharmacy and environment for the advancement of quality of life of the mankind. The state

government by an Act has affiliated Degree and Diploma Engineering, Degree and Diploma

Pharmacy colleges and the post-graduate programs of MBA, MCA, M.E. & M. Pharm and

P.D.D.C courses all over the state with GTU. Its first regular Vice-Chancellor took charge on

8th

June 2010. In January 2011, the University would be starting its Doctoral program.

Today the University has 495 Colleges. More than 90% of seats in the technology fields in

the state are with GTU (Appendix 1) and the share of all the other Universities, taken

together is less than 8%. Moreover since every year, the number of seats is increasing in

self-financed institutions only, the foot-print of GTU is expected to become larger. Therefore

the quality of learning outcomes and the quality of research work at GTU will largely

determine the health of education in this state in these disciplines. The conventional

universities and educational systems in our country have not been able to ignite the

inherent creativity and innovation of our young men and women. GTU is determined to

ensure that the spirit of innovation is fostered and encouraged in every possible way so that

the creativity of our young is able to contribute to building the world of tomorrow.

During the last few months, through a small successful experiment, GTU’s under-graduates

have proved that they can innovate in a creditable way. (Section 2.0 and Appendix 2) GTU,

therefore, has decided to scale up the experiment by setting up the GTU Innovation Council.

This platform will explore opportunities to improve access, affordability, sustainability,

efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in the needy domain of socio-technical

applications and key focus on BOP. This will foster an innovation eco-system across domains

and sectors to strengthen entrepreneurship modules even among students. To ensure

sustainability, durability and quality and to expand the space for dialogue and discourse on

innovation GTU have already started taking initiatives.




1.1 Objectives:

• To involve the entire society, along with the students and faculty members, in an

innovation campaign

• To create a management system, which uses the existing structures and facilities by

bringing them together for working for innovation

• To document every single success and to make the information available to all the

stake-holders to develop self-confidence in the whole of the system

• To develop inter-relationship for national and international collaborations for

innovation in the fields of Science, Engineering, Technology and Management.”

• To establish close linkages with industries and businesses to make research and

development at the University relevant to the needs of industries at national and

international levels.

2.0 Successful Innovation at GTU Colleges

That students at Engineering Colleges, even in non-metropolitan places, have creative

capabilities, which if tapped can lead to innovations, which have not yet been demonstrated

in India was brought out graphically by an experiment, done jointly by GTU and Techpedia.

Mr Hiranmay Mahanta, managing director of Techpedia.in visited many GTU Colleges and

presented some problems, posed by some industries, most of them SMEs. To the great

credit of the creativity of our students, these Industry Defined Problems (IDP) were solved

by our students, well within the time limits, prescribed by the industry (Appendix 2). Thus an

IDP, given by L&T was solved by an undergraduate student of a GTU College within 5 weeks,

whereas L&T had estimated that the problem would take about 4 months.

Probably in an effort to convey as much of information as possible to every student, the

space for innovation and creativity gets crowded out. One has to be able to experience faith

from the institution in a student’s capability. One has to have the space, consisting of

laboratories and workshops and temporality to be able to produce the kind of results, which

these students produced.




GTU proposes to create the necessary space and an eco system for innovation through the

GTU Innovation Council. The Council will architect an eco system, which would work on the

basis of both confidence in the ability of the young and the availability of the facility of

mentoring to every project, be it industry defined or student-defined. Innovation is

universal. But it is nurtured and permitted to grow in a local context. So GTU proposes to

use its Innovation Council to bring the processes of innovation closer to businesses,

industries and local institutions. To take up the challenges of innovation, the processes have

to be nimble enough that it is able to take up the smallest task with excellence. The

centralized structure along with the decentralized clusters will help achieve the right

balance.

2.1 Three layered System and Shodh Yatras

To have a close inter-action of GTU’s students and the industries & businesses, GTU has

created a new model, consisting of three different but inter-connected entities.

The first is an Udisha club, created at every College. The Club works to obtain student

internships at industries and businesses (I & B) and to arrange regular lectures by

professionals from I & B. In addition it challenges the creativity of young persons by asking

GTU students to help I & B by attempting to improve their products or processes. An Udisha

club is chaired by the Principal and consists of some of the faculty members and students of

the College.

In different areas of Gujarat, GTU is establishing 25 GTU Innovation Sankuls. The Sankuls are

designed to link 495 colleges ( engineering, polytechnics, pharma, MBA, MCA etc.) with 166

industry clusters (MSMEs) in collaboration with Techpedia.in, to create innovation zones

which will create a platform where industries can pose real life problems which would then

be solved by students as a part of their academic course. This will enrich the learning

process of students, inculcate entrepreneurship and provide industry with solutions to their

problems. An experimental study of this process was carried out by GTU along with

Techpedia.in in 2010 and it was observed that such a platform often brought forth low cost,

innovative solutions. A sample of the results are given in Appendix 2.




Each Sankul Committee is co-chaired by the Principal of a College and a leader from I & B. Its

other members will be all the other Principals from all the GTU Colleges/ campuses and

some of the prominent persons from industries and businesses of the area. A Sankul

Committee will work with the Udisha Clubs in its area to provide to every student some

experience at I & B. GTU expects that with excellent teaching in the Colleges and with a

close inter-action with I & B, its graduates will be well-prepared to work in the real world.

The GTU Innovation Council will work with the 25 Sankuls to make our Colleges as well as

the industries and businesses more innovative. GTU Innovation Council will have Sectoral

Advisory Council, consisting of vertical nation-wide or Gujarat-wide associations in the fields

of engineering, pharmacy, computer science or business studies.

Besides Sectoral Advisory Council, GTU Innovation Council has three GTU Skills Councils to

act as a bridge between the service industry and GTU and to enhance professionalism in

their respective fields. The three Councils are:

1. GTU – Skills Council for Marketing (Appendix 10 – Page 57)

2. GTU – Council for Human Resource Studies and Organizational Structures

(Appendix 11 – Page 59)

3. GTU – Financial Services Skills Council (Appendix 12 – Page 61)

Some key figures:

No. of GTU innovation Sankuls 25

Number of students involved during 2010-11 250,000

Disciplines: Engg., Pharmacy, MBA,

Polytechnics, MCA

No. of faculties to be linked to SMEs for a week along

with students: 10,000

No of SMEs to be directly linked to students : 34,500

No. of Udisha Clubs in Colleges 495

A group of 6-7 students from multiple disciplines along with a core faculty will be linked

to a particular SME for a year




Phase I of the project involves 37000 graduate and 1900 post graduate engineers, 41,800

Diploma engineers, 6800 B. Pharma, 1900 M. Pharma, 12000 MBA graduates and 4900 MCA

graduates. Each GTU innovation Sankul will on an average involve 5000 students from 11

engg., 12 MBA, 5 Pharmacy, and 8 MCA colleges working with 3000 SMEs for a year.

Techpedia.in will provide an online real time platform where database of Industry Defined

Problems, past projects and current work in progress will be maintained. The platform will

help students select projects from the IDP database, review past progress on the problem

by other students and progress ahead from that point. The innovation ecosystem is

deploying a relay model to avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ problem and encourage original

work. Local customization of previous solutions along with new solution will be encouraged.

The best solutions will be nurtured for techno-entrepreneurship modules for wider socio-

technical needs.

To create a progressive knowledge ecosystem, Industrial Shodh Yatras are being organised

involving 1 lac technical youth and 10,000 faculties to map four aspects of technology, in use

at MSME clusters and in the neighbouring rural and urban communities. The first aspect is

benchmarking the current level of energy, material and technology youths in the enterprise.

To identify any innovation that the MSME unit may have tried is the second aspect. A set of

well-defined problems, which may be solved by the students jointly with the faculty may be

the third output. These problems may be taken up by students as their final year project or

as a challenge project. The last i.e. the fourth is to identify the policy bottlenecks which are

coming in the way of realizing fully the entrepreneurial potential. GTU has successfully

organized four industrial Shodh Yatras in different industrial estates in the state. Before the

end of this academic year, all institutes associated with GTU will kick start the process. Many

success stories have been created in linking the socio-technical issues of MSMEs and tribal

areas in Gujarat like Dang. During the very first Shodh Yatra, it was discovered that the

research work of a GTU faculty, done in the laboratories of an educational institute, could

satisfy the need of an SME unit. This has initiated the process of technology transfer. The

Shodh Yatras have brought the floor people of industries in touch with the faculty and

students. This may bring the professionals from the industries to the class rooms and may

pull faculty members into a closer embrace with the industries. Many UG Students’ instant




solutions to MSMEs during Shodh Yatras have started energizing the industry-institute

collaboration.

The respective Udisha clubs of GTU colleges connect with clusters of MSMEs in the

neighbourhood during the Industrial Shodh Yatras. The first Industrial Sodhyatra by GTU and

Techpedia was at Naroda Industries Association (NIA), Ahmedabad. Vishwakarma

Government Engineering College. Chandkheda, Gandhinagar sent 30 teams along with a

guide in each team to work with MSMEs. A Brief Training Session for students on Scouting

and Documentation was conducted by Hiranmay Mahanta, Prof M.G.Desai and Mr Ajay

Patel (from Industries) at NIA. The Industrial Shodhyatra was guided by Professors and SME

technocrats. It provided a real-life floor exposure of MSME issues to the students. On the

Spot Suggestions by students in improving product, process and suggestions for use of

innovative interdisciplinary strategies was well appreciated by the MSMEs. Students and

faculties had carefully focused on Documentation/mapping of IDPs (Industry Defined

Projects) from the shop-floors of MSMEs. The waste was defined as follows: “ Waste is that

whose optimum usability is yet to be found”. Students, faculties, floor persons and

technocrats brainstormed about efficient waste management processes. This exercise was

found quite effective when some research work done by Prof M.G Desai in waste

management of rerolling mills was well appreciated by rerolling mill SMEs in NIA MSME

clusters. The Shodh Yatra ended with a very positive Faculty-Industrialist interaction.

GTU innovation council believes even if only a few technology transfers happens from

academia to MSMEs via these Shodh Yatras and even if 1% of the research projects based

on industry needs turn out to be a success, then also GTU students would have delivered a

few hundred innovative technical solutions to MSMEs of the country. After the first Shodh

Yatra, it has been scaled in every week end involving both professors and students at

various innovation Sankuls like Rajkot, Boroda,Vatva, Naroda MSME clusters. The exercise

has got wider appreciation from both academia and industrial domain. GTU’s all 500 udisha

clubs will scale this exercise during weekends for the next two months. Major industrial

Shodh Yatras will be arranged during summer when each student will be assigned to map a

particular MSME in a specific Innovation Sankul. The industrial needs which are going to be

mapped as IDPs (Industry Defined Projects) will be converted to final year projects during




the academic year 2011-2012 at GTU’s 495 colleges. This will certainly increase the

efficiency of knowledge ecosystem via a need based evolution approach.

[A Brief Training Secession for students

on Scouting and Documentation by

Hiranmay Mahanta, Prof M.G.Desai and

Mr Ajay Patel (from Industries) at NIA.]

Faculty-Industrialist Interaction during

industrial shodh yatra to map the floor

issues of MSMEs.

A hand on analytical experience for

Students guided by Professors and SME

technocrats.

On the Spot Suggestions by students in

improving product, process and Probable

insertion of Innovative interdisciplinary

strategies.




The initial work of establishing the GTU Innovation Sankuls has started cutting through the

inertia of non-contact and is developing a new model of industry-institute Collaboration,

based on innovation at the grass roots level. When in three years, every one of GTU’s more

than 100,000 final year students and more than 20,000 faculty members are out in the field

with the requirement that an innovative Final Year project is to be completed and put on

the Techpedia, when efforts of 15 million human months of work on the Final Year projects

are targeted to improve products and processes, when good work will be awarded year

after year, when thousands of small and big industries get the opportunity of thinking,

jointly with young minds and faculty members about continuous improvements in their

products & processes and when the law students work to make patent process and IPR

processes easy, an unprecedented and productive environment of innovations will be

created.

A finishing touch on

Documentation/mapping of IDPs

(industry defined projects) from real

floor of MSMEs.

Students, Faculties, Floor persons,

technocrats brainstorm in efficient waste

management




3.0 About GTU in brief:

GTU offers Bachelor’s and Diploma Engineering programs in 32 disciplines each. Its Master’s

program in Engineering 22 different specialized areas. Its M. Pharma program has six

specializations. It has four different elective areas and five different sectoral areas in

Business Studies.

It has the following Master’s programs:

(i) 2-year M.E. programs offered in 31 different fields of engineering

(ii) 2-year M. Pharm programs in 6 different fields of Pharmaceutical studies

(iii) 2-year M.B. A. program with 4 different elective areas and five different sectorial

specializationsng

(iv) 3-year M.C. A. program , offered at 49 different locations

On March 12th

, 2011, the University conducted the first entrance test for 711 applicants for

its Doctoral program. By April, we expect to admit our first set of doctoral students. By

academic year 2011-12, The University is expected to have about 39,000 Master’s and

Doctoral students.

GTU has set up the Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU Institutions in rural

areas and mofussil, towns. The Board has met twice: On 1st

October 2010 and on 29th

November 2010. The Board has been working with Rural Business Hub Foundation

(http://www.internationalholisticaction.org/)and will try to work jointly with Grassroots

Innovations Augmentation Network (http://www.gian.org/).

GTU’s Board for Environmental and Green technologies had meetings on 22nd

December

2010, 7th

January 2011, 5th

February 2011 and 16th

February 2011. This GTU Board is

organizing four Workshops during the period up to August 2011:

1. Potential of Recycling and Re-use of treated Sewage

2. Urban Air Pollution

3. Renewable Energy for Greener Gujarat

4. Cleaner Production towards Sustainable Development

In addition, it organized a workshop on Trends in Renewable Energy technologies on April 30,

2011. 85 students and faculty members participated.

GTU’s Board for Mobile Computing and Wireless systems is being set up.




GTU Center for nano Technology Applications has started working in January 2011.

GTU is setting up Centers for studies in the areas of

1. Business Ethics and CSR

2. Financial Services

3. Governance Systems in businesses, industries, universities, hospitals, mass

transportation systems, NGOs and governments.

GTU is offering a sectorial specialization in Retail Management in its MBA program. In 2009-

10, it was offered to 5,624 students at 83 colleges. GTU is planning to start a Center for

Retail Management at Gandhi Nagar.

GTU is working on offering an Aviation Engineering program at Indus with the help of a

University in USA.

GTU is offering a BE in Biotechnology program and is likely to offer an ME Biotechnology

program from the next year. It is offering both an ME and BE in Bio-Medical engineering.

GTU’s post-graduate students in M.E. Civil (Water Resources Management) program and

professors are doing creditable work in the area.

GTU is offering an ME program in Textile Engineering. It is also offering BE programs in

Textile Production and textile Technology.

Infrastructure is a major focus in GTU. Thus GTU is offering a Master’s program in

Transportation Engineering. At three places, GTU’s Colleges are leaders in Environmental

Studies and Research and they have helped study, understand and clean up operation in

Saurashtra, Ankaleshwar-Bharuch and Surat.

GTU is planning Centres of Excellence in various areas of technology, in which it has

expertise.

GTU has established a Center for Advanced Studies in Defense and Security at Vadodara.

GTU is working pro-actively for a step-improvement in Learning Outcomes. (Appendix 3),

and it is working to acquire a leadership position in this area.




3.1 Culture of Innovation at GTU:

GTU is expanding the space for innovation by involving its faculty and students in

continuous programs at its Colleges. Its web-site (http://www.gtu.ac.in) will show the

continuing programs of the following type:

1. Best Projects/Innovations/Thesis: We are developing a methodology to pick the best

1000 innovations in UG/PG and at polytechnic level from GTU to be developed for

solutions aiming to solve socio-technical issues. (The process is described in section 5.0.)

2. New Ideas/innovations/projects/prototypes/techno-business module: We are

continuously monitoring any progress in techno-innovation areas in the world. As soon

as our students or faculty are able to succeed in any of these areas, we acknowledge the

success on our website.

3. Media: GTU website is daily followed by thousands of students and faculties. We also try

to use other media for an effective dissemination of innovative happenings at state and

national level.

Techpedia is a partner in the above three processes.

4. Discussion (brainstorming) meetings on some issues of interest: Almost every day GTU is

having some such event in some of its colleges.

5. Debates: GTU colleges are encouraged to have techno-managerial debates. From the

next semester, in every program, one weekly hour is being set aside for discussing one

book, other than a text-book. Innovation can be one key agenda for such discussions.

6. Seminars: Every GTU college is usually having a seminar once a semester, having a wide

pool of audience who can be a part of discussion, development and discourse.

7. Conferences: Both inter and intra university conferences are regular events in GTU. The

context of innovation can start becoming an area of discussion at such conferences.




4.0 Creating an environment of innovation at GTU:

GTU has established an Innovation Council to scale up at all the GTU Colleges the successes

achieved by some under-graduate students at a few Engineering Colleges, with the help of

Techpedia (Please see section 2.0 and Appendix 2). The GTU Innovation Council will work

jointly with Techpedia and we propose that at the University level, the Council will have the

Managing Director of Techpedia.in as a member. The leaders of Sristi will also be invited to

join the Council.

Need for Innovation at GTU:

When GTU wanted to base the Final Year projects on Industry Defined Problems, it was

found that SME were busy 24/7 for survival and had very little energy or space for

innovation. This was a situation, unlike the one in the developed world. In societies, which

have been more innovative, than our Society today is, even when an innovative project is

taken up by a larger organization, most of the innovations in processes and components are

usually done by SMEs, as partners of the big organizations. An organization can be

innovative only when it provides the space for innovation and when it has individuals and

partners, who have successfully tried innovations and who have the confidence and the

ability to attempt innovations. GTU proposes to move towards making its students and

teachers, laboratories and workshops, its class-rooms, open spaces and libraries centers for

creating an eco system of innovations by working jointly with businesses, industries and all

the other stake-holders. GTU has institutions in not only all the bigger cities, it has its

Colleges and Polytechnics in small towns and rural areas all over the state. Its students come

not only from the bigger cities, in fact a majority of its students are from the rurban India.

When GTU works jointly with all the businesses and industries and other research and

governmental institutions on innovative projects, it would create an eco-system of

innovation.

On its part, GTU proposes to create a complementary system by joining together its

Innovation Council and its academic systems. The system will challenge all the members of

the University community to participate in innovation by asking for innovative thinking and




by providing a flexible but structurally sound framework for innovation and by providing for

the necessary mentoring by marshalling all the resources of the University and the society.

GTU Innovation Council will work:

• To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability

and innovation

• To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D

institutions with the help of Techpedia

• To facilitate innovations by SMEs by value addition through support by GTU students

and faculties

• To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation.

More than 50% of the students in GTU Colleges are from families, which are sending their

first member for a University level education. GTU has nearly 30% Colleges in small towns

and rural areas. Hence innovation at GTU will be an inclusive process in that it would be able

to inculcate a spirit of innovation to young men, who are unlike the PLUs in metropolitan

cities. The work of students and more than 10,000 faculty members at 495 Colleges with

SMEs will encourage progress at BOP level.

GTU will facilitate the creation of necessary eco-systems for innovation through:

• 25 Innovation clusters at sub-university level (to be called GTU Sankuls), with each

Sankul to have oorganizational autonomy & flexibility

• Intellectual Property/ Patents (in association with Law students and faculties of the

Law University at Gandhinagar)

• Web & ICT as tools. (GTU bagged the award for the best ICT enabled University of

the Year in e-India 2009)

Techpedia web-site is being used by our students and we have given cross-

references to Techpedia on the GTU site so that Techpedia has been co-opted by

GTU, as far as the project work is concerned.

• Incentives & Awards




• By helping MSMEs of the state to foster innovation by supporting their R&D via

thousands of GTU technical students and faculties every year to scout and sustain

Innovation happening on the shop-floors of MSMEs.

4.1 Processes in the Faculties of Engineering, Computer Science and Pharmacy:

Excellence in education in technology is determined by excellence in practical work in

laboratories, workshops and businesses & industries. The Final year Project is considered as

the capstone of technology education since it integrates the study of different subjects for

designing and developing a product and it leads to a seamless transition from study at a

University to work in businesses & industries.

The issues involved in the Final Year project are of the same kind, that have not permitted

our businesses and industries to develop many new products or to improve the existing

products by using the proverbial ‘jugaad’ of our workers. The genius of ‘jugaad’ has been

essentially used for re-creating tools and fixtures and for making the machinery work

without bringing out many new products to the world’s markets. The issues are as follows:

• The systemic deficiencies in education in design;

• Non-experience of the faculty in the practical field;

• The abject weakness of the workshop and laboratory staff both in numbers,

quality and motivation;

• The absence of a challenging proposition put to our young by the educational

system and

• The non-provision of any mentoring by those, who have a practical experience.

4.2 Processes in the Faculty of Business Studies:

Excellence in education in the field of Business Studies depends upon a continuous research

in the business environment in the local context as well as in the global context. Though our

country has many renowned institutions, which offer MBA or higher degrees, the system

suffers from deficiencies, including the following:




(i) The research relating to the local context is largely absent.

The great efforts by Honeybee (http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/index.php#) and

the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and

Institutions (Sristi: http://www.sristi.org/cms/), the kind of which have never

before been made, is bringing a change at the grassroots level. This effort is led

by Professor Anil Gupta of IIM, Ahmedabad. But these efforts have not yet had

its impact on the educational system in Business Studies.

GTU has as many as 35 MBA Colleges in mofussil towns and rural areas. It has

convened special meetings of the Directors and trustees of these colleges on

October 1, 2010 and November 29, 2010. At the second meeting a forum called

Swa-Prabandhan has been set up, with six regional groups in Gujarat to study the

needs of these Rurban areas and to suggest changes, which have to be made in

the MBA program, applicable to all the 106 MBA Colleges affiliated with GTU.

GTU’s LJ Institute of Management Studies, located at Ahmedabad, asked its MBA

students to prepare hypothetical business models for sustainable rurban

businesses. The students were able to prepare magnificent models and these

were presented by the students on December 13, 2010 at a program called

‘Archetype- Reinventing Rural India’. The studies on Chestnut farming in Jhabua,

Eco-tourism, Village safari in Bhuj, corn and ethanol production, a self-sustained

village and Shiksha bus turned out to be excellent and were adjudged to be

financially viable business models.

(ii) The research relating to global business environment:

Our management institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students

by using Harvard case studies as well as similar material from other good

sources. Our management and business schools have also conducted many good

studies about businesses in China, USA and a few other countries. However

Indian Universities must study the business environment from the Indian

perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A study from the Indian

perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding as compared to a




study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such studies may

be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the world’s

store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to

the available studies from the American, European and the Chinese perspectives.

GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than a 1,000 faculty members.

Many of the faculty members are interested in the global business environment.

So GTU is uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-house of

information about the business environment in the 200 countries of the third

and the fourth world. GTU proposes to encourage its students and faculty

members to conduct such studies and it proposes to put such case studies on its

cloud, so that the work may be widely disseminated for obtaining feedback.

When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him

become a more creative person.

The issues involved in the MBA program are that most of the programs in their syllabus

content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage the spirit of

creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new MBA

program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local context,

while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ world of today and (ii) to deliver the

program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student is sharpened

and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his own ideas, along with the ideas of

great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The objective is that a

GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his work place by

calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.

5.0 The GTU Innovation Sankuls:

GTU proposes to establish an Innovation Council to scale up at all the GTU Colleges the

successes achieved by some under-graduate students at a few Engineering Colleges, with

the help of Techpedia (Please see section 2.0 and Appendix 2). The GTU Innovation Council

will work jointly with Techpedia and we propose that at the University level, the Council will




have the Managing Director of Techpedia.in as a member. The leaders of Sristi will also be

invited to join the Council.

5.1 Searching for IDPs: When the issue of anchoring the Final Year projects on Industry

Defined Problems was discussed at GTU, it was found that SME were busy 24/7 for survival

and had very little energy or space for innovation. So most of the SMEs were unable to

define the problems. This general impression among the faculty at GTU was confirmed

when it was learnt that Techpedia also found that it took quite some time for SMEs to

define any problems, which they would like the engineering students to solve.

Solution: From 2011, during summer, pre-final year students –preferably in groups- will visit

some industry and work out 3-4 problems. The action plan will be as follows:

• Each group will define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined format.

• Each group will try to understand whether there is a knowledge gap or

technology gap or skill gap and will document it.

• The College will evaluate the above two outputs from each group at the

beginning of the 7th

semester.

• The College will upload the problems to the University’s and Techpedia website.

Some students or some students, under the guidance of their faculty members may select

the project/ research problem, without a reference to an industry. Such problems will be

called User Defined Problems. (UDPs). The Council will attempt to find mentors from

industries or research institutions both for IDPs and UDPs.

5.2 Execution of the Projects: GTU wants every final year project to solve some real

problem of businesses & industries or of the society. GTU also wants to have a close inter-

action with businesses & industries or with the society by way of

• Identifying the problem,

• Designing and developing the product,

• Mentoring during the project and




• Evaluation of the project.

5.3 GTU Innovation Sankuls: GTU will establish 25 Regional Clusters of educational

institutions and businesses and industries. GTU will try to involve all industry associations

and government departments, associated with industries (Appendix 4) with the project. GTU

has talked to Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industries (GCCI) and the local unit of

Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). GTU has also

established a contact with Gujarat Chemical Association and Vatva Industries Association.

Dr Rajesh Khajuria, Director of GTU-affiliated MBA College at Vadodara, has established an

active contact of GTU with Vadodara Chamber of Commerce & Industry (VCCI), Baroda IT

Association (BITA) and the Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGi). Shri Pravinbhai Maniar of

GTU-affiliated VVP Engineering College, Rajkot has connected GTU with Rajkot Engineering

Association (REI). With the help of Hiranmay Mahanta, Managing Director of Techpedia,

GTU has been able to establish a contact with Jamnagar Chamber of Commerce (JCCI), the

national president of ASSOCHAM, CII and FICCI. ASSOCHAM has decided at its AGM, held in

December 2010, to closely work with us in linking its 200,000 plus MSMEs to our academic

domain wherever there is a possibility. The SME problems of floor level will be addressed by

thousands of students of GTU to enable them to innovate and make it a sustainable

ecosystem .We have decided to classify different verticals of SME clusters and discrete

industries and to link them to respective engineering colleges and their subject experts.

Each such cluster will be called a ‘ GTU Sankul’. The objective of each GTU Sankul will be as

follows:

• To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industry and GTU

• To decide about the Final Year projects in consultation with industries

• To be able to seek and get the help of industries in execution of the project by

way of

o Mentoring

o Help by way of materials

o Help in evaluation of the project




• To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries through regular

consulting cells at institutes

• To help industry associations work better through student volunteers

• To help develop a relationship between professional associations and industries

for keeping the employees of the industry more up-to-date

• To organize continuing education program by assessing the needs of the

industry

• To have students and teachers visit industries

• To have summer internships in the industries

• To have engineers from the industry to regularly give seminars and inter-act

with the students

• To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the industry

• To map every SME with the corresponding GTU institutions, with which the SME

can inter-act to mutual advantage

• To map every GTU institution with the corresponding SMEs, with which the GTU

institution can inter-act to mutual advantage

• To bring every one of the ASSOCHAM’s 200,000 members in touch with the

corresponding GTU institutions, with which the member may be able to inter-act

to mutual advantage

5.4 Micro-venture Innovation Fund: GTU Innovation Council will look at both the IDPs and

the projects, presented by research units to select excellent projects and provide support as

follows:

• 1,000 excellent BE projects (GTU has 34,079 seats at first year of BE in 2010.) @

Rs15,000 per project on an average




• 1,000 excellent DipE projects (GTU has 41,565 seats at first year of DipEin 2010.)

@ Rs10,000 per project on an average

• 1,000 excellent Master’s projects (GTU has 1,206 seats at first year of ME in

2010 and 1,546 seats in MPharma) @ Rs25,000 per project on an average

This may help the students develop their projects to completion by creating a workable

design, closer to a product, than may be the case without the support.

5.5 Annual Awards: GTU Innovation Council will give the following awards:

• For the best projects in each of the 32 fields of DipEngg and 32 fields of BE, 31

fields of ME,B Pharma, M Pharma, MBA and MCA (Awards to students)

• For the best Mentor in each field (Awards to professionals working in industries):

64 awards

• For the best GTU Sankul

• For the industrialist, who contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action

• For the Principal/ Director, who contributes best towards industry-institute

inter-action

• For the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer), who contributes

best towards industry-institute inter-action

• For the Professor, who contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action

5.6 A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation: India had missed the industrial

revolutions of the nineteenth century and early part of twentieth century. Our industries

had not benefited from research at Universities and the two have not yet been come

together in any meaningful way.

Innovation cannot occur at industries, which have no active inter-action with Universities.

Innovation at Universities, where the learners & researchers and laboratories & workshops

have no contact with the real world is very difficult. The Soviet Russian experiment has




proved that research laboratories, without an active relationship with Universities may not

be as innovative as expected.

GTU Innovation Council along with its 25 Sankuls will cut through the inertia of non-contact

and will develop a new model of Industry-Institute Collaboration, based on innovation at the

grass roots level. When in three years, every one of its more than 100,000 final year

students and more than 20,000 faculty members are out in the field with the requirement

that an innovative Final Year project is to be completed and put on the Techpedia, when

there will be no way to hide the work, when good work will be awarded year after year and

when thousands of small and big industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with

young minds and faculty members about continuous improvements in their products and

when the law students work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely

new environment of innovations will be created.

6.0 Benchmarks and Outputs:

GTU Innovation Council will start its working with establishing 25 Sankuls by working jointly

with industry associations, industries, government’s departments of industries, Techpedia

and GTU’s educational institutions. The capacity of each Sankul will be built by involving

faculty members, professionals, students and owners of industries and encouraging each

Sankul to develop a methodology of working, which inculcates innovation through joint

working. At the end of every year, the working will be modulated after a review of the work

during the year is done. This will lead to a cycle of capacity building and renewal during the

year.

During the summer thousands of students and faculty members will work jointly with

industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may relate to improving

the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems, relating to the

industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the output from the students will be

evaluated and it will be uploaded on the Techpedia.




The synopsis of the projects will be studied and the Micro-venture fund support will be

provided to the proposed projects, which are adjudged to be the best.

When the projects are being executed, the Councils will work to map as many of the

projects as possible with mentors from the industry and businesses.

The GTU Innovation Council will work with industries and businesses to assess the need for

Continuing Education areas. It will also work with the Alumni to assess if GTU could help the

alumni by providing to him the continuing education in the area, required by an alumni. The

Council will provide the necessary Continuing Education Programs.

At the end of the year, when the students have completed the projects and these have been

evaluated, the projects will be uploaded on Techpedia.

The Council will work with the industry and the students and their faculty to see if the

project could be converted into a product, which can be commercialized. If so, it will work

with the Law students for developing an appropriate Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

agreement and for filing patents, where required.

7.0 Financial Requirements:

A) Young Technology Venture Funding System: This will help support conversion of students

ideas to prototypes/products

We are looking ahead at creating a micro innovation funding system to help the needy

students to develop their prototypes. (Hiranmay Mahanta, Managing Director of

Techpedia.in estimates that today more than 70% of UG thesis is not being converted to

prototypes/products.) GTU Innovation Council (GTU-IC) aims at improving this factor

significantly. Excellent projects of students will be given support. GTU-IC will encourage

students to develop prototypes into products. Students will be helped in developing

enterprise modules based upon innovative socio-technical solutions at BOP. Value addition

will be given stress for grass root Innovations. We are trying to transform the prevailing

environment into a system which harvests technology based entrepreneurship and

innovation. GTU-IC will help set up a transparent system for protection and transfer of IPR




of the innovators and contributors of the idea till it is transformed into a product even at the

BOP.

GTU would like to support the following:

o 1,000 excellent BE projects (GTU has 34,079 seats at first year of BE in 2010.) @

Rs15,000 per project on an average

o 1,000 excellent Dip. Eng. projects (GTU has 41,565 seats at first year of Dip Eng. in

2010.) @ Rs10,000 per project on an average

o 1,000 excellent Master’s projects (GTU has 1,206 seats at first year of ME in 2010

and 1,546 seats in MPharma) @ Rs25,000 per project on an average

Total= 5.00 Crores

Similar awards for Pharmacy (6 Branches), Computer Science and Business students (4

Electives) will be considered.

B) Awards at University Level: 32 vertical in Diploma and 32 verticals in Engineering;

Pharmacy (6 Branches), Computer Science and Business students (4 Electives):

Description-In 32 categories both in UG-PG/Polytechnic, awards for the best project will be

given depending upon uniqueness and distinctiveness of contribution. Relay of projects will

be managed so that new students take up selected projects for further work. Award

function costs may include travel of awardees, faculty guides, selected industrial

entrepreneurs/local communities leaders whose problems have been solved and other

distinguished guests, press conference, workshops at award function for two days and

boarding and lodging costs.

64*2=128 awards in an annum in engineering plus awards for Pharmacy (6 Branches),

Computer Science and Business students (4 Electives)

For the best projects in each field (Awards to students) 30 Lacs

For the best Mentor in each field (Awards to professionals) 20 Lacs

For the best Sankul (Certificate)

For the best contribution towards industry-institute inter-action




• To an industrialist (Certificate)

• To the Principal/ Director (Certificate)

• To the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer) (Certificate)

• ¨To the Professor (Certificate)

50 lacs will be spent in over all arranging infrastructures and other expenses including

awards at University level.

C) Web architecture/ICT tool/Maintenance /Portal management/Database/HR expenses of

the concerned People: Portal development, maintenance, management & support

infrastructure, web architecture, database managements, Real time Mentoring Network

formation etc

25 Lac per year

D) 25 Persons to look after 25 Innovation clusters/ Innovation Sankuls

They will be coordinating to link all SME clusters (300 nearly SME clusters) linking some

50,000 MSMEs. Industry defined projects will be scouted from MSMEs and channelled to

40,000 students of GTU.

The MSMEs will be mapped based upon their exact technical Problems in various verticals in

the state.

Salary: 25*24,000*12 for each year=72 Lac @ 24,000 PM

TA/DA/Running Expenses /Managing Expenses of 25 clusters/Inter Process Communication

Charges etc=28 Lac for 25 clusters per year.

Team’s travel to different institutions, state government, state technical universities,

colleges, industrial clusters, local communities to document problems, connect them with

students, etc. Visits to industrial units in 166 industrial estates and 83 clusters, reaching out

to 50,000 SME shop-floors to map their technical problems ( industry defined projects).

Total= 1 Crore




E) Data Processing and Audio Visual Content creation of all Students projects and creating

a centralized Portal for 495 colleges and nearly 50,000 Students. Scanning, spell check,

typing in some cases, hard data on each project. Most of the data does not follow common

format and thus putting title, authors, guide, college name and abstract time to format,

editing of data entry, supervision, manual tagging will have to be introduced to facilitate

search.

50, Lac per year @ Rs. 10,000 per College on an average

F) Training and capacity building for developing innovation culture in 495 colleges in 32

verticals: 50 Lac

Capacity building for: Principals, Coordinators, grass root innovators, Best students,

Promising technology modules etc in 25 Innovation Sankuls . To provide a robust platform

for extensive sharing and dissemination of knowledge across all stakeholders of education in

general and higher education in particular under GTU.

G) Workshop, Seminars, Conferences, 25 Zonal Conferences including Industry Chambers,

Periodic review meetings with specific industry clusters etc.

Many chambers and industrial bodies like ASSOCHAM, GCCI, GIDC and VCCI have agreed to

help initially to locate the IDPs (industry defined projects) and we need to channelize them

to technical students and faculties in real time manner. One has to make at least 2-3 visits

prior to each workshop to the 166 existing SME clusters in different verticals. The cost of

venue, two tea, snacks and lunch for about 100 participants, AV aids, exhibition material

(posters, CDs and notebooks and pen), TA, DA in some cases, honorarium to experts, report

preparation, editing, publication and circulation to the participants)

25 Sankul, 2 times a year in each Sankul, capacity building of students, faculty and industry

professionals in IDP scouting:

4 Lac * 25= 1 crore




H) Coordinating the above process and contingency like the team of coordinators

and others who will be helping in segmental areas in different geographical locations: 50 lac

for 500 colleges in 25 Sankuls. We are aiming at Benchmarking, certification, codification

and replication for creating market and learning opportunities at every level. Periodic

interposes of communication with all academic and industry units, state government, other

state technical universities, colleges, industrial clusters and local communities to connect

them with students to keep them regularly in loop. Literatures and Documents printing and

periodically circulating and updating the literature.

GTU can solve / make a serious attempt to solve

• IDP (industry defined projects) scouting from MSMEs

• NMN (national mentoring network) creation on web where 10,000 faculties will

have web presence for vibrant participation in all process.

• BD: social business development modules.

• Creating awareness in scouting/value addition / module development for grass

root innovations.

I) IPR and Technology transfer: 500 Drafting* 15,000= 75 Lac (Students/faculties will be

helped in getting low cost patenting process on a wider scale. Workshops and awareness

campaign for prior art search, drafting, licensing, protecting IPR will be done for the above.)

Total 10.00 Crore per Year

For 3 Years= 10.00*3= 30.00 Crores

GTU will provide supervisory persons at the regional level and at the state level.

GTU will also provide the facilities and equipment like computers for the work. The costs for

these will work out to about 25% of the project costs. However these costs will be borne by

GTU through its budget.




GTU’s Footprint: Appendix 1_page1 of 1

Course Total Available

Seats in Gujarat

at first year

No. of

seats with

GTU

No. of seats with all

the other Universities

in Gujarat

Detailed break- up with

other Universities

B.E.

(93)

37,103 34,079 3,024 Nirma: 600

DDIT(GIA): 345

DDIT(SFI): 249

ChU: 660

GanU: 660

MSU: 510

B.Pharm

(85)

6,878 6,728 150 Nirma:60

MSU: 30

DDIT(GIA): 60

D.E.

(82)

42,895 41,565 1,330 DDIT(GIA): 40

MSU: 690

Nirma: 600

D.Pharm

(18)

840 840 - -

ME

(30)

1,897 1,206 691 ChU:72

DDIT: 162

MSU: 385

GanU: 72

M.Phram

(32)

1,875 1,546 329 ChU: 36

MSU: 72

SP: 30

SauU: 81

GanU: 110

MBA

(106)

12,070 10,830 1,240 GU: 90; BhU: 60; DDIT:

60; AhU:120; ChU: 120;

Kadi SV: 120; GanU: 240;

MSU: 40; KU: 60; NGU:

60; SPU: 60; SauU: 90;

VNSGU: 120

MCA

(49)

4,900 3,960 940 GU: 30; BhU: 60; DDIT:

60; AhU: 60; ChU: 120;

MSU: 20; KadiSV: 120;

SPU: 100; SauU: 60;

VNSGU: 60; NGU: 60;

Nirma: 60

Thus the total annual enrolment is 101,054 students. Besides, GTU is going to start its

doctoral studies program in August 2011 with about 350 doctoral students.

GTU has one of the largest graduate programs in the world:

� 2010: Total No of seats in the Master’s program: 39,044.

2011: Master’s seats may increase a little during 2011.

� Every ME student has to complete a 2-semester dissertation. Every M.Pharm

student has to complete a 1-year project. Every MCA student has to work on her

project for one full semester. Every MBA student is required to write a major paper

in the last semester and she has to complete a number of case studies during the 3rd

and the 4th

semester.

� Doctoral program: to be started in August 2011; 350 applicants have cleared the

entrance test.




Appendix 2_page 1 of 4

INDUSTRY’S PROBLEMS

solved by

STUDENTS OF GTU INSTITUTES

Student Mithilesh Patel, from GOVT. POLYTECHNIC, DAHOD has successfully designed a

module to Run IC engines (vehicular, agricultural pump, generator ext.) with mixed water

injection. Though being a student from Civil Engineering has successfully experimented in

his bike for approximately 800km in 4.5 month with his so called h2o kit. He claims specialty

/unique benefit of his innovation is in improving mileage from 10 to 100% and h.p. 5 to 10%,

remove co2 and hc exhaust 70% up. He suggests that his models will be suitable where it

can be used in any place like agricultural automobile, medical, welding, cooking, etc.

An industry defined project (IDP) posed on online platform techpedia.in by Royal Solar,

Rajkot has successfully done by a student of AITS, Rajkot which can be used in tribal

people’s domain due to its low cost. Similarly a team led by Malav Kansara, an UG student

from Mehshana has successfully attempted in solving “Photo sensor based Sun tracking

system for Solar Power Plants” a problem posed by L&T. The attempt is to sense the sun

position within 0.1 deg accuracy. For this, the control system designed will continuously

change the sensor position till maximum radiation is sensed. This sensor system then can be

interfaced with solar reflectors to point them towards the sun.





A group of UG students of GTU including Mr Rashesh Dhave from AITS has cracked a

problem posed by again L&T on Infrared sensor based Vehicle Classification System for

wider applications. This project has successfully verified by a group of experts at SVNIT Surat

early this month. They have got wider applause to go for possible testing it in BRTS

application system in Ahmedabad in due course of improvements in precession. Similar

innovation modules have been nurtured in more than dozen places so that students can

develop new enterprise modules.

Hitesh Rana a final year student of Electronics and communication in ADIT, Karamsad has

put his hand on solving many real life socio technical issues and adding value to grass root

innovations. He has worked in areas like plough for farming on hilly regions, safety helmet

for 2 wheeler riders, portable helmets etc. This working process has taken a way ahead in

socializing our technologies that have remained unsolved since centuries in common man’s

life.





A Student project Guided by Mr Amit Degada on I-Wikipedia has progressed significantly

involving UG students at VVP Engineering College, Rajkot. The biggest advantage of this

project is that everybody is just one click away to the right information and we can connect

the pool of the knowledge and people can get immediate solution to their queries. Similar

innovative works has been guided by Mr Dhruv Dave, L.J Institute of Technology in areas like

fast Full search Algorithm for motion estimation and other related soft technologies.

Adjustable Multi-Spindle Drilling Attachment, String Milling Fixture, Fabrication of Plastic

Injection Moulding Machine, Non-Conventional Speed Breaking are a few of the innovations

developed at BIT Barnama .

Going way ahead a student of R. K. College of Engg. & Tech in GTU, Amit Siroya has applied

an innovative way to conserve energy. He has developed a linear motion system, using scrap

vehicle wipers and a timer linked arrangements. This system provides a way for addressing

the problem of dust cleaning on solar PV modules for solar street lights in remote places.

This increases the efficiency for this photovoltaic device in the longer run (an industry

problem posed by one solar industry at techpedia). Many Solar energy companies have

appreciated this innovative solution and a few of them are likely to use the solution in the

production environment. He has availed a great deal of mentoring support in furnishing his

idea via the mentors from online NMN (National Mentoring Network) of techpedia.in and

from other colleges of GTU.





Pharmaceutical project:

Evaluation of the CNS Activity of Ayurvedic Formulation “DHASARA” of Acorus calamus Root

in Mice and related work has been completed at S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot.

Development and evaluation of Polyherbal formulation for Cancer and other need based

research are undergoing in the institute to deliver a solution by March 2011. The work is

being supervised by Dr. Manish A. Rachchh.

Other Developments:

In a few cases students have gone one step ahead in converting their UG projects for their

new techno entrepreneurship modules. A UG students from Surat has successfully created

innovative green lighting system as a pre final year project and has now successfully

converted it into a profitable techno-entrepreneurship module namely “Angadia

Enterprise”. The students have successfully used the lab infrastructures after college hours

and started their ventures right from the labs to a significant market presence now. These

students are yet to pass out from their UG courses. This is motivating a wider range of UG,

GTU students to think out of box now and link their ideas and innovative spirit to industrial

needs.

Mentoring and Micro-venture Fund:

Many faculty members from GTU have been helping the students at various places in

converting their ideas to products and in realizing their dreams via online NMN (National

Mentoring Network) as an open knowledge pooling linkages breaking the barrier of space

and time. To cater to the need of assisting the students in developing their ideas in to

prototypes, Techpedia is looking forward to creating a micro venture innovation funding

system (MVIF) to help these students in shaping their models in a ripple funding manner.

This will raise the innovation quotient of the system and it can improve to a better ‘idea-

innovation-solution-enterprise modules’ algorithm in converting students’ work to fruitful

socially applicable technical outcomes than the existing situation.

LET’S POOL OUR SPIRIT AND RESOURCES IN CONVERTING THE EXPERIMENT OF TODAY TO

BE THE HYPOTHESIS OF TOMORROW.





EFFORTS IN LINKING THE TECHNICAL STUDENTS/FACULTIES OF GTU TO MSME TECHNICAL

ISSUES

BY

GTU AND TECHPEDIA

AGENDA: Breaking barriers between “Industries – Academia”; Endorsing innovation

fuelled Techno-entrepreneurship; Commandeering break-through solutions for Industries

and Society; Pioneering Open innovation and harvesting need based technological

evolution

Techpedia.in ( www.techpedia.in ) as a national platform for bridging the gap existing

between Industries, Academics and Innovation is trying to develop possible linkages

between the academic domain of GTU and MSME clusters of the state. The novel mission

has been able to amass an exhaustive database of more than 100,000 technical projects

and write-ups from more than 500 technical colleges (AICTE approved) across the country,

including IITs and NITs. Recently concluded NIT consortium’s meeting of its Deans at NIT

Surathkal on April 3rd this year has liked the concept to take it ahead at a faster pace.

Every year approximately 6 lac students graduate out of technical colleges in India and as

per the norms set by AICTE, 1.25 lac projects prepared by the students and guided by the

faculty are submitted to the college authorities. It is sad but true that no one knows about

the fate of these projects and their usability in industries. As noted by former director

general of CSIR, Padmabhushan Dr R.A.Mashelkar on Techpedia recently that over 3 million

human months of our Yuvashakti are being spent on solving real life problems on college

campuses. For the first time, Techpedia has an access to the outcomes of this huge

endeavor. Techpedia believes in transforming ideas into products and products to techno-

entrepreneurship modules keeping IPR linked to the innovators.

If out of these 1.25 lac projects which are submitted every year, even 1000 (1%) have the

potential to be developed into commercial products or solutions that could provide

breakthroughs in the fields of Science and Technology, it could be a phenomenal success in





itself. Techpedia is in the process of transforming the prevailing environment into a system

which harvests technology based entrepreneurship and innovation, and at the same having

a transparent system for protection and transfer of the due credentials to the innovators

and contributors of the idea till it is transformed into a product.

(http://www.techpedia.in/problem_search_details.php?problem_type=I) posed by

industries and management students address modules similar to developing ERPs to raise

the sick units of SMEs and others and new student developed Enterprises. An NMN

(National Mentoring Network) http://www.techpedia.in/nmn/ is being developed to guide

these students and faculties to address the industry projected problems/projects(IDPs)

consisting of retired scientists, policy makers, faculties and expert professionals from all

corners of industry and academics headed by Dr.R.A.Mashelkar.Muliple student and faculty

groups irrespective of time and space attempt these problems via the web and lead a relay

model in developing faster solutions saving the major R&D investments of many industries

as an open innovation virtual Lab.

Techpedia database has an exhaustive collection of more than 100,000 technical projects

but that accounts for only 4-5% of the total extractable data across all the technical colleges

in the country. By accumulating all these it is felt that one can provide a better interfacing

for the SMEs to get an idea of real research trend in the UG level even. The effective

solutions can be linked to corresponding SMEs keeping the IPR intact to the search students

and faculties.Techpedia is trying to develop smaller enterprise units based on technology

inputs in developing a wider knowledge society globally. The socio-technical problems of 50

most backward districts are being posed to these students to be taken up in July 2011 with

the hope that the problems that have remained unsolved for centuries could be cracked.

We are trying to create a collaborative culture and virtual knowledge network, by which

India can harness the full potential of young technological, legal and management minds in

an integrated approach.





Techpedia is aiming for benchmarking, certification, codification and replication for

creating market and learning opportunities at very bottom level too. There are lot of

traditional skills which with some improvement or blending of new skills, resources or

designs can create opportunities for employment and poverty alleviation. There are also

new skills required to be incorporated in polytechnics, ITIs, community colleges, etc., so that

local resources are linked with either existing or new skills such that viable markets can be

created for skills as well as skill-based enterprises Many chambers and industrial bodies like

ASSOCHAM, GCCI, GIDC and MIDC have helped initially to locate the IDPs (Industry Defined

Projects) and channelize them to technical students and faculties via a section called “

problems in search for solutions” at www.techpedia.in.

To execute the entire algorithm techpedia team has started visiting the GTU colleges to

interact its pre final and final year students and faculties guiding them. The following are

few of the notable outcomes found out soon after the 1st

round of visits to some few dozen

colleges of GTU.The fact that has been found in this interaction with thousands of students

and faculties is that there can be a well trusted link possible between the MSME and

academia, specially GTU .Students have successfully attempted the Industry Defined Projects

(IDPs) posed by various MSMEs, Bigger Industries and even by Grass root Innovations. Few

students have converted their projects work to new enterprise modules in last few months

and they are really scaling up towards the effort in socializing technologies. If a little

resource could be provided to the students a handful of students can convert their

theoretical ideas to prototypes from where a better visibility of the innovation can be

created. Techpedia found out from initial GTU college survey that nearly 25% more students

will finish their prototypes within UG if they can be linked a very minimum resource. Highly

experienced faculties can explore in sharing their expertise beyond their own institutes to

link the needy students across the country via web based NMN which is an open source

environment in strengthening the knowledge ecosystem breaking the barrier of space and

time. A virtual incubation cell centralized at GTU can play a vital role in nurturing the

budding techno- entrepreneurs of the technical domain even in UG level.






Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has been established with the prime objective of developing

the knowledge of science, engineering, technology, management, pharmacy and environment for

the advancement of quality of life of the mankind. The University is required to create centers and

institutes of excellence in basic and applied science, engineering, technology and management.

GTU offers Bachelor’s and Diploma Engineering programs in 32 disciplines each, its Master’s

program in Engineering 22 different specialized areas and its M. Pharma program has six

specializations. Its Business Studies program has four different elective areas and five different

sectorial areas.

GTU has set up the Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU Institutions in rural areas and

mofussil towns has met twice: On 1st

October 2010 and on 29th

November 2010.

GTU’s Board for environmental and Green technologies has met on 22nd

December 2010, 7th

January

2011, 5th

February 2011 and 21st

May 2011. It is planning four workshops.

Objectives:

• “To create institutes and centres of excellence to impart state of the art education, training

and research in the field of Science, Technology and Management in general.”

• “To create capabilities to develop knowledge, skill and competence at various levels.”

• “To create capabilities to upgrade infrastructure to global standards for education, training

and research in the areas related to Engineering, Technology and Sciences.”

• “To provide inter-relationship for national and international participations in the fields of

Science, Engineering, Technology and Management.”

• “To establish close linkages with industries to make teaching, training and research at the

University relevant to the needs of industries at national and international levels.”

All the grant-in-aid and SFI colleges imparting education in Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of

the state have been brought under one roof for establishing common standards, for promoting Inter

constituent collaboration and competition.





GTU start-up:

2008: Started Degree and Diploma programs in Engineering and Pharmacy

2009: Started PG programs: MBA (four electives and five sectorial specialization areas), MCA,

M.Pharm. (Five specializations), ME (Twenty two specialization).

2010:

• Continuous modernization of syllabi in all branches, with a major change in MBA teaching.

• Increasing the importance of practical work and attempting to have projects with the help of

industries and businesses.

2011:

• Starting Ph.D. programs in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, and Computer Science.

Organizational Structure

GTU has a centralized examination process and a common syllabus across the state for all colleges in

a particular discipline and for a [particular program of study. This serves the following objectives:

o common standards;

o Inter constituent collaboration – for example between MBA and Engineering

students;

o Inter constituent competition

GTU’s administrative offices are being constructed at Chandkheda.

It also proposes to have University Colleges and Centers of Excellence at Gandhi Nagar.

GTU proposes to establish Regional Academic Centers at Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot. These will help

GTU have higher quality academic work by bringing it closer to institutions, businesses and industries

and it will enable it to use local strengths to build the university, since though universities are

universal, they derive their strength from their local connectivity. GTU is a big-sized University so

that it should be able to take up academic challenges for competing with the best in the world. At

the same time, it wants to be nimble enough that it is able to take up the smallest task with

excellence. The centralized structure along with the decentralized Regional centers will help achieve

the right balance.

GTU is offering a sectorial specialization in Retail Management in its MBA program. In 2009-10, it

was offered to 5,624 students at 83 colleges. GTU is planning to start a center for Retail

Management at Gandhi Nagar.





GTU is working on offering an Aviation Engineering program at Indus with the help of a University in

USA.

GTU is offering a BE in Biotechnology program and is likely to offer an ME Biotechnology program

from next year. It is offering both an ME and BE in Bio-Medical engineering.

GTU’s post-graduate students in M.E. Civil (Water Resources Management) program and professors

are doing creditable work in the area.

GTU is offering an ME program in Textile Engineering. It is also offering BE programs in Textile

Production and textile Technology.

Infrastructure is a major focus in GTU. Thus GTU is offering a Master’s program in Transportation

Engineering. At three places, GTU’s Colleges are leaders in Environmental Studies and Research and

they have helped study, understand and clean up operation in Saurashtra, Ankaleshwar-Bharuch and

Surat.

GTU has established a Center for Advanced Studies in Defence and Security at Vadodara.

GTU is planning Centers of Excellence in various areas of technology, in which it has expertise.

Steps for Leadership in Learning Outcomes:

To improve the teaching learning processes for the teachers as well as students, GTU has

initiated several activities.

• Continuously up-dated curriculum in all the fields: GTU is engaged in a continuous process of

updating the syllabi in all its fields for meeting the ever changing needs of society. It is

attempting to make the issues of human values in education and ethical working of

professionals, trained by it as its continuous focus.

• Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for PG Courses Gujarat Technological

University

(GTU) has as many as 40 PG level courses in various disciplines such as Master of Engineering

(ME), Master of Pharmacy (MPHARM), Master in Computer Application (MCA), and Master

in business management (MBA). GTU has decided to make cluster of more than 2500

courses websites for various PG level courses to achieve the following objectives such as

organizing and sharing resources; providing effective ways to reach remote learners and

connect them in a virtual course; to appeal to students' visual and interactive learning





modes; to help teach students real-world skills such as handling large volumes of

information, developing research skills, analyzing and evaluating information.

Such Learning Management Systems are today used in every University in the

developed countries. However in India, this may be the first large-scale use of

launching such a large number of courses website.

Please see: http://www.gtupgcourses.org/

• GTU Wikis

GTU Wikis (“using collective intelligence for improving Learning Outcomes”). GTU

Wikis are intended to serve teachers of GTU consortium colleges (PPP colleges) to

achieve the following objectives:

• Enable group of teachers teaching the same subject in different institutes to

share their experience.

• Building a community of learners located in different parts of the State, by

working on the same document and adding their own parts.

Please see: http://www.gtuwiki.wikispaces.net/

• Self-study Facility for Good Students:

GTU has provided at six Colleges, rooms with 12-15 computers connected to a

central server, on which the entire video course-set of IIT Mumbai has been

mounted. Thus any student can take advantage of any of the lectures to supplement

his study in the class room. By the end of April 2011, we shall estimate the usage of

the facility to see whether our students find the facility to be useful.

•••• GTU Discussion Boards (“Exchanging Tips and Discussing Topics”)





GTU Discussion Boards enable teachers, senior faculties and principals of GTU

affiliated colleges to interact with each other. GTU aims to achieve the following

objectives through discussion boards to get educational as well as administrative

inputs for decision making; to build relationship with institutes and among

institutes and to enable discussion and debate topics which will give each other tips

and ideas. The first four Discussions Boards for Principals/Directors of PG courses is

being launched.

Please see: http://www.gtucampusconnect.org/forum/

•••• GTU Campus Connect

For Continuous Feedback from Students and a help-site (“For the, Of the & By the

Students”)

Gujarat Technological University (GTU) enrols about 1.1 lacks students per year in

various courses from undergraduate level to postgraduate level. GTU Campus Connect

is the welcome website for students where they can simply register and post their

queries regarding grades, syllabus, previous papers and other exam related things.

Please see: http://www.gtucampusconnect.org/

•••• Faculty Development Programs:

GTU is making a huge and continuing effort, conducted through IIT Teachers, NITTTR,

Bhopal and local resources for faculty development. Thus its FDP program of 17-22Aug

2010 was probably the largest such programs, which updated 166 faculty members of

GTU affiliated colleges.

• Facilitation of Research:

GTU is in the process of setting up a Virtual Research Center to help its alumni and

existing students get quality research education through world-class master’s and





doctoral theses work. For this purpose, it seeks the collaboration of the research

community of the whole of the world.

GTU also wants to encourage its colleges to develop ‘Scholar in Residence for A Week’

programs so that its faculty members and the students may learn about the

methodologies of rigorous research work. It also encourages every College to develop a

regular mentoring and feedback mechanism. The University has devised a common

framework for the program. GTU has programs of teaching relating to technology.

Hence industrial collaboration is very necessary. GTU and its teachers and students are

making a major effort for an effective participation of competent professionals from

industries in the academic processes of the University.

Through Techopedia and the Foundation for MSME Clusters’ program for development

of Human Resource for Medical Devices, GTU is attempting to bring industry-oriented

problems for the Final Year projects to its Diploma and Degree Engineering students.

For MBA students during the fourth semester’s Global Business Strategy studies, the

students are being encouraged to study and prepare their own case studies about some

aspect of a country’s business for about 100 different countries.

GTU is going to give, in September 2011, the best principal and the best faculty member

award to the teachers to recognize both excellent teaching and research.

GTU: Efforts for all-round Growth of the young:

First Annual Sports Festival-2010:

The festival began on 26th

October 2010 with Regional Football competitions at SPCE,

Visnagar & SIGMA, Vadodara. During the first year, 9 games have been included and the

festival will continue up to the last week of November 2010. More than 10,000 students and

775 teams are participating in the festival at 7 places across the state.





The University has no DPI. An Ad-hoc board with Professor Chaitnaya Sanghvi as the

Convenor was formed to conduct the Festival this year.. The advice of DPIs of the other

Universities in Gujarat was sought and a program to use the strength of all its Colleges was

developed. No more than 20 Colleges out of 495 Colleges have a regular qualified sports

teacher. It was decided that the Principal of the host institute will work as the Organizing

Chairman and that the sports In-charge will be appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the

sports being conducted at a College.

It is proposed to take up 20 different games next year.

GTU: Development of a Positive Outlook:

A new system of continuous meetings with faculty members of affiliated Colleges, both

senior faculty and new entrants to teaching, has been set up. Students, who have an

excellent academic record are continuously invited for discussions. The University officers

are continuously visiting Colleges to have meetings with teachers, students and their

parents and the Trustees. Regular meetings with Trustees, who have built the self-financed

institutions are being organized. Continuous efforts for inter-action with the government

officers, responsible for managing government’s engineering colleges and polytechnics are

being made.

This has resulted in a positive outlook, a hope for improvement in the system and a

confidence among the stake-holders. Thus the first conference, organized by GTU on

“Business Ethics for Global Success of Indian Businesses” jointly with a GTU Roundtable on

25th

and 26th

September proved to be a grand success, with widespread participation from

all over the country. Recently ISTAR, a GTU- affiliated College, organized a training

workshop, to which came 60 persons from IISc, Bangalore, IITs, NITs, BITS and many other

prestigious institutions to get training in NS 2. Three of the Summer Internship program

competitions, conducted by three of our MBA colleges, have attracted entries from MBA

Colleges all over India, including from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, considered to

be the best management School in India.





GTU: Leader in Examination Process:

Successful implementation of soft papers for exams across the state in professional

courses.

• Conventional paper printing is replaced by the encrypted CD’s by the university

• Safe delivery of question paper every day by electronic mode.

• Seven such exams spanning 400 plus exam centers have been successfully

completed in a span of two years.

• GTU declare the results in one month for degree programs and in five weeks for

diploma programs.

• First University to take online exam of GCET for MBA and MCA entrance to take

online.

Achievements:

The Gujarat Technological University has been awarded as ICT (Information Communication

Technology) Enabled University in Digital Learning Category of the year by the jury in the E-

India 2009. The E-India 2009 awarded at a glittering ceremony held at Hyderabad

International Convention Centre, Hyderabad on August 26, 2009.The Event was organized

by Centre for Science,

Development and Media Studies CSDMS and Co organized by the Ministry of

Communication and IT, Government of India as well as National E governance plan.

It is noteworthy that the University was established in August 2008, and just within a year,

the University has bagged prestigious awards.

GTU has also won prestigious MANTHAN AWARD SOUTH ASIA – 2009 for the innovation and

ICT content in its application.





Industries Departments and Officers of Government of Gujarat

1. Principal Secretary (Industries)

2. Industries Commissioner

3. GIDC :

166 functional industrial estates; 91 in various stages of planning in 25 of the 26

districts of the state.

GIDC is now establishing:

o Special Investment Regions and Special Economic Zones

o Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), at the

Bharuch-Dahej Investment Region, through a joint venture company —

ONGC Petro Additions Limited (OPaL) — between Gujarat State Petroleum

Corporation (GSPC) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)

Reference: http://www.gidonline.com/industrialresources/gidc.htm as of 6th

December 2010

4. Industry Clusters

o 83 industrial clusters for different industry groups exist in Gujarat.

o 22 clusters: being developed, through interventions such as technology up-

gradation, quality improvement, setting up of common facility centres, skill

development facilities, etc. with the active assistance of R&D institutions, as

well as industry associations

Reference: http://ic.gujarat.gov.in/Ind_guj/cluster_development.html as of 6th

December 2010




Appendix 6: Time-line

0-4 months Setting up 25 GTU Sankuls;

Recruiting officers for the Sankuls;

Capacity Building at College, sankul and industry, Sankul and Business &

industry started.

4-8 months Thousands of pre-final year students industries visit industries and

businesses and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-

defined format.

8-12 months The first group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.

The projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through micro-venture

fund.

Mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs

12-16 months The first Review of the first cycle started and capacity building at College,

Sankul and industry & Business level re-started.

16-20 months Projects evaluated

Awards declared.

Projects uploaded to TechPedia.

Second group of thousands of pre-final year students work in industries

and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined

format.

Working with Law students for IPR and patenting process initiated.

20-24 months The second group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.

The second group of projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through

micro-venture fund.

The second group of mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs.

Product development for IDPs and entrepreneurial work for UDPs initiated.




24-28 months A review of the first cycle completed and Capacity Building at College,

Sankul and industry & Business level re-started.

28-32 months The second group of projects evaluated

The second group of Awards declared.

The second group of projects uploaded to TechPedia.

The third group of thousands of pre-final year students work in industries

and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined

format.

Working with Law students for IPR and patenting process for the second

group initiated, while the work for the first group may be nearing

completion. (If a patent application had been filed out of the projects of

the first group, it may take about 18 months. If a UDP project is being

incubated, it usually takes 3 to 5 years for the project to become mature

and move out of the incubator.)

32-36 months The third group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.

The third group of projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through

micro-venture fund.

The third group of mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs.

Product development for the second group of IDPs and entrepreneurial

work for UDPs initiated.

36-40 months A review completed and Capacity Building at College, Sankul and industry

& Business level re-started.

Preparation of the Final Report; The completion seminar conducted.

By the end of this period, the third group of projects would have been

completed. Some of the first group of projects would be nearing

commercialization launch.

Awards for the third group declared.





Udisha Clubs in GTU Colleges

GTU Sankuls:

To bring industries, businesses and GTU Colleges together, GTU is setting 25 Innovation

Sankuls, as a part of the GTU Innovation Council. Each Sankul will represent a cluster of GTU

Colleges and the industries in the area. Every College, affiliated to GTU, will be associated

with one of the Sankuls.

A Club at every GTU College:

To take advantage of the Sankuls and to organize other placement activities at each College,

every GTU college is setting up a Club. The Club may be called the Udisha1 (Universal

Development of Integrated Skills through Higher Education) Club of the College.

General Guidelines for setting up a Club:

• Each club has an Executive Committee (EC).

• The Executive Committee will have some faculty and students of various branches as

members. One of the faculty members will act as its coordinator.

• Faculty Members: As far as possible, each Branch has one faculty member in the

Executive Committee.

• Student Members: As far as possible, from every Branch, there is one student from

each year. Thus for a 4-year degree program in a branch, there will be four students,

one each from the first, the second, the third and the fourth year respectively.

The members of the Executive Committee at a College will be nominated by the Principal/

Director of the College. The Training and Placement Officer of the College may be an

important member of the Club.




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The Principal/ Director will be the Patron of the Club.

Objectives:

a. To coordinate the activities of its Sankul at college level.

b. To establish a close and continuing inter-action between

the industries and the College

c. To help students decide about the Final Year projects in

consultation with industries

d. To be able to seek and get the help of industries in

execution of the Final Year project by way of

i. Mentoring

ii. Help by way of materials

iii. Help in evaluation of the project

e. To have summer internships in the industries

f. To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the

industry

g. To participate in the activities of the industry associations for

developing a closer inter-action by helping the to

organize continuing education programs for industries

by assessing the needs of the industry and society.

h. To harness the effective potential of young technical

minds and faculties.

i. To have students and teachers visit industries

j. To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries.





Placements: The Club will work towards ensuring that every student gets an

excellent placement after she/ he completes his/ her studies. For this purpose, the

activities will be as follows:

a. providing information about career options and job avenues

b. career counselling and placement.

c. training for developing Soft skills

d. organizing motivational activities

e. organizing mock-interviews to equip students with interview

etiquettes at college level

f. arranging campus – interviews

The Club may consult the Principal if it wants to take up any other extracurricular activity.

Additional Activities for MBA Colleges: MBA students have to prepare studies on

strategies required for global businesses. So they have to study and prepare papers on some

specific countries.

When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him become a more

creative person. MBA students would require four different types of activities:

TYPE 1: Working with GTU-FSCC to study a financial service offered by some organization

and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.

TYPE 2: Working with GTU-CHRSOS to study an organizational structure or the HR policies of

some organization or of some large Department of an organization and to determine the

skills required for those, who are at various levels in the organization or for those, who are

providing a HR service.

TYPE 3: Working with GTU-SCM to study a marketing service offered by some organization

and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.





TYPE 4: GTU Objectives in developing country-specific studies: Our management

institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students by using Harvard case

studies as well as similar material from other good sources. Our management and

business schools have also conducted many good studies about businesses in China, USA

and a few other countries. However Indian Universities must study the business

environment from the Indian perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A study

from the Indian perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding as

compared to a study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such

studies may be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the

world’s store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to

the available studies from the American, European and the Chinese perspectives.

GTU Strength for becoming a leader in country-specific studies: Universities can conduct

such studies and keep them updated only through ‘relay studies’, whereby a student

performs the study and it is then carried forward, improved and updated by the next year’s

student. GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than 1,000 faculty members. Many

of the faculty members are interested in the global business environment. So GTU is

uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-house of information about the

business environment in the 200 countries of the third and the fourth world. GTU proposes

to encourage its students and faculty members to conduct such studies and it proposes to

put such case studies on its cloud, so that the work may be widely disseminated for

obtaining feedback.

The process for the study of global strategy:

a. During the visits to the businesses and industries, every student should learn about

linkages of these businesses with countries in the third and the fourth world. Then one

should try to locate an Industry Defined Problem (IDP) for a case study.

In case no business, with external linkages, can be located through visits to the industry,

one may take the help of trustees, teachers and friends to locate some such businesses.





b. During the summer after the first year, preparation of a report about a couple of

countries by a class. Each report should include the following for each country: (each

component may be taken up by a Group of about 6 students.)

(i) Its economic history and its historical context

(ii) Its trading partners and the products

(iii) Its economic linkages with India

(iv) Its major companies

(v) Any Indian-owned businesses

(vi) Any prominent Indians in the country

(vii) Good Business Colleges

c. Submission and Evaluation of the Report at the start of the third semester

d. Using the IDP, preparation of an “Intent to do- a Case study” about some business

aspect in the country of interest by every group of 6 students during the third semester

If possible, some students may plan to visit the country-of-interest during the term-break

between the third and fourth semesters for one to two weeks.

e. During the fourth semester, analysis of a global strategy problem currently or recently

facing a firm/country of interest. The case study should identify mechanisms for winning

the global strategy game overcoming cultural/social and institutional differences in the

country. The outputs should be a Case-study and a 30 minute presentation.

The issues involved in the MBA programs in our country are that most of the programs in

their syllabus content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage

the spirit of creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new

MBA program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local

context, while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ and wired world of today and

(ii) to deliver the program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student

is sharpened and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his/ her own ideas, along

with the ideas of great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The

objective is that a GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his

work place by calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.

1The name has been borrowed from the Clubs, being promoted by the Commissioner for

Higher Education, through the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat.




Appendix 8

Mappings

Chetan, Chintan, Mayur, Prakash and Pratik have mapped the proposed GTU Sankuls on the

map of Gujarat. The following maps have been prepared:

1. Location of GTU Sankuls

2. Location of GIDCs (90 out of 166 operational GIDCs have been

mapped. The data for the remaining 76 is being collected.)

3. Location of Degree Engineering Colleges

4. Location of Colleges offering Master of Engineering programs

5. Location of Colleges offering MBA programs

6. Location of Colleges offering MCA programs

7. Location of Dip Pharmacy Colleges

8. Location of Colleges offering M Pharm programs

However we are attaching only one map as a sample.







Appendix 9

GTU INNOVATION SANKULS

1. Vadodara - 1

2. Vadodara- 2

3. VV Nagar-1

4. VV Nagar- 2

5. Godhra:

6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch

7. Junagarh

8. Kutchh

9. Valsad-Vapi

10. Navsari

11. Mahesana

12. Himmatnagar

13. Chhatral

14. Jamnagar

15. Surendranagar

16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval)

17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt)

18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC)

19. Surat-

20. Morbi

21. Ahmedabad- Naroda

22. Ahmedabad- Vatva

23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar

24. Bhavnagar

25. Patan

.





GTU – Skills Council for Marketing

(GTU-SCM).

Objectives of GTU-SCM :

• to enhance professionalism and talent in the field of marketing across the

State of Gujarat and India .

• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU

Sectors GTU-SCM: The Skills Council shall have the following sectors

• Creative Advertising • Brand Building • International Marketing • Rural Marketing

• Sales and Distribution • On-line Marketing • Marketing of Services • Marketing Research Analysis

All eight of these sectors will have Sectoral Panels. The purpose of a Panel will be to

rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying

professionals in its sector. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-

Chairperson (Academic) and a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of

the Sector Panels will represent the sector on the GTU- SCM.

Management : The GTU-SCM shall have a Board as a policy making body . The

board shall have top notch professional heads of various companies in the eight

sub-sectors and leading educationists and independent professionals . The size of

GTU-SCM Board could be broadly representative but at the same time manageable

.

Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation

to various segments of sub-sectors of GTU-SCM.

Activities of GTU- SCM:

1. to rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of skills, required for

professionals in each one of its sub-sectors

2. to develop standard manual for Summer Internships for MBAs

3. to advise GTU on various professional examinations that could be

undertaken by the students to be fit for industry absorption .

4. to design and to organize short training programs to enhance skills and

knowledge of professionals in the industry, faculty and students of GTU .

5.





6. to organize seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences jointly with

companies and GTU colleges

7. to help industry through knowledge and research partnership and by making

available faculty members of GTU for empanelment on various committees of

industry

8. to bring industry professionals as resource persons to Colleges in the area of

marketing

9. to give opportunities to GTU Innovation Sankuls to identify problems of sub-

sectors and to provide support to students for undertaking research projects

for solving problems of industry

10. to aid in curriculum development of various courses in Marketing area of the

MBA Program of GTU.

Each of the Sectoral Panels will take responsibility for the set of organizations falling

under its area of interest and start a study of its practices and its goals and the

requirements of skills for professionals in businesses and industries in the .

GTU’s Skills Council for Marketing is designed to be an association of Corporate

Professionals, Faculty members, researchers and post-graduate students. The

Council will actively register all the faculties having marketing specialization and

doctoral and MBA students who have opted for marketing at GTU. The association

of students and researchers with the Corporate Professionals will provide an active

platform for implementation of innovative ideas and for research and test the market

before commercialization stage of products or services. Let us all see that each of

the Panels is able to enroll all the major players in industries and businesses as its

members.

* * * *

Note: Discussion Paper: prepared for GTU by Professor Bhavin Pandya, Head of Department, S.V. Institute of

Management, Kadi, based on the GTU-FSSC paper prepared for GTU by Dr.P.G.K.Murthy, Professor & Director

- MBA Department, P I ET





GTU – Council for Human Resource Studies and Organizational Structures

(GTU-CHRSOS)

GTU-CHRSOS shall consist of Senior HR Professionals from industry and businesses as well as from

the academic fraternity.

Objectives of GTU- CHRSOS :

• to study the organizational structures of large organizations in the governmental or business

or NGO environment

• to study the deployment of human resources and design of organizational structures for

creation of dynamic and efficient systems.

• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU and to provide a platform for

professionals to interact on various issues in the area of HR

Sub-Sectors GTU- CHRSOS: The Council shall have the following sub-sectors

• Mfg Sector –Large

• Government , Quasi government sector

• Co-operative Sector

• Agriculture and Agro-related sector

• Mfg Sector –SMES

• NGOS

• Service Sector

• NGOs

All eight of these sectors will have Sector Panels. The purpose of a panel will be to critically study the

HR practices and the kind of organizational structure being used in the sector all over the world. Each

Panel will have businesses and industries working in the field and Professors and researchers in the

field as members. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-Chairperson (Academic) and

a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of the Sector Panels will represent the sector on

the GTU- CHRSOS.

Management : The GTU- CHRSOS shall have a Board as a policy making body . The board shall

have top notch professional heads of various companies in eight sub-sectors and leading

educationists and independent professionals . The size of GTU- CHRSOS Board could be broadly

representative but at the same time manageable .

Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation to various

segments of sub-sectors of GTU- CHRSOS.

Initial Activities:

A greater inter-action between professors of HR and researchers at GTU with the HR professionals in

industries and businesses may result in better research, anchored in the needs of today and

requirements of tomorrow. Its initial set of activities may be as follows:





1. To undertake research studies in various facets of HR through live projects and real life problems:

• To study and to conduct research in Performance Management and appraisal

systems, Assessment Centers, Feedback systems, HR Score cards, competency

mapping for teaching and non-teaching staff of GTU affiliated institutes.

• To conduct surveys and researches on compensation management, Best HR

Practices, Right Sizing (Man power) of organizations, succession planning in different

industries, etc.

• To study and analyze the HR systems being used in our industry and to put them in

proper perspective with existing published knowledge in the area?

• To study the organizational structures in corporations, governmental organizations,

large NGOs to determine how well the structures

o satisfy the goals of the organization;

o motivate the employees and

o are perceived to be client-friendly.

• To research the measures for employee satisfaction in India (Reference: the best

employer studies, published in the popular press in North America and in the IT

magazines in India.)

• To develop a metric for measuring the performance of HR managers

Example: the GTU system:

i. We may start a study of the University admin systems in the world and determine

what the organizational structure in GTU should be.

ii. We may devise measures for measuring success of the University’s admin structure?

iii. As the University evolves and develops, can we continuously study and provide a

critique of what the University is doing and what changes in the organizational

structure would be required at every stage of its evolution?

2. To organize seminars , conferences , symposia etc. focusing various issues in HR

3. To organize training programs and undertake consultancy assignments .

4. To undertake collaborative exercises for enriching ties with Institutes of higher learning in

India and in other countries .

5. To work closely with industry bodies like FICCI , ASSOCHAM , CII etc. and professional

bodies like BMA, AMA , SMA , RMA , VCCI ,etc., in various projects undertaken by them .

6. To depute members to study various important issues of contemporary importance .

7. To organize Faculty Development Programs in the fields of HR and Organizational Structures.

The Council may become an important member of various National and International bodies like

National HRD Network, ISTD, NIPM, Academy of HRD (Ahmedabad)

Wherever HR is being offered as a specialization in a good College, the College may take

responsibility for one class of organization and start a study of its HR practices, its structures

and its goals. In other words the College may have the responsibility for one of the Sectoral

Panels. Let us all see that each of the Panels is able to enroll all the major players in

industries and businesses as its members.





GTU – Financial Services Skills Council

(GTU-FSSC).

Objectives of GTU-FSSC :

• to enhance professionalism and talent for finance, taxation , accountancy and

financial services across the State of Gujarat and India .

• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU

Sub-Sectors GTU-FSSC: The Skills Council shall have the following sub-sectors

• Accountancy & Taxation • Banking • Project Financing • Commodity and Currency

Markets

• Insurance • Mutual Funds • Capital and Money Markets • Venture Finance and Private Equity

All eight of these sectors will have Sector Panels. The purpose of a panel will be to

rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying

professionals in its sector. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-

Chairperson (Academic) and a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of

the Sector Panels will represent the sector on the GTU- FSSC.

Management : The GTU-FSSC shall have a Board as a policy making body . The

board shall have top notch professional heads of various companies in eight sub-

sectors and leading educationists and independent professionals . The size of GTU-

FSSC Board could be broadly representative but at the same time manageable .

Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation

to various segments of sub-sectors of GTU-FSSC.

Activities of GTU-FSSC:

11. to rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying

professionals in each one of its sub-sectors

12. to develop standard manual for Summer Internships for MBAs

13. to advise GTU on various professional examinations that could be

undertaken by the students to be fit for industry absorption .

14. to design and to organize short training programs to enhance skills and

knowledge of professionals in the industry, faculty and students of GTU .

15. to organize seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences jointly with

companies and GTU colleges.





16. to help industry through knowledge and research partnership and by making

available faculty members of GTU for empanelment on various committees of

industry .

17. to bring industry professionals as resource persons to Colleges in the area of

financial services.

18. to give opportunities to GTU Innovation Sankuls to identify problems of sub-

sectors and to provide support to students for undertaking research projects

for solving problems of industry .

19. to aid in curriculum development of various courses in Finance area of MBA

Program of GTU

Wherever Finance is being offered as a specialization in a good College, the College may

take responsibility for the set of organization falling under one of the Sub-Sectors and start a

study of its practices and its goals. In other words the College may have the responsibility

for one of the Sectoral Panels. Let us all see that each of the Panels is able to enroll all the

major players in industries and businesses as its members.

* * * *

Note: Discussion Paper: prepared for GTU by Dr.P.G.K.Murthy, Professor & Director - MBA Department, P I ET




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While the first objective of the Council is to nurture creativity and innovation within the

University community, it is designed to act as a catalyst of change for the whole of the

society. First, the Council is being set up as a collaboration between the technology

community in the University and the corresponding community in the society. Secondly the

very first task, set before the University community is to create a bridge, between the

learning community at the University and the outside world, through a specific time-bound

job, which is a requirement in the academic programs of the University. Thus from the

beginning, GTU Innovation Council will not only seek to imbue the spirit of innovation within

the ivory towers of the University institutions, it proposes to create an environment of

thinking about innovation in the societal systems so that the systems can break themselves

free from the cobwebs of past and move towards becoming creative and ever-new entities.

To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industry and the students and

faculty members of Gujarat Technological University, GTU has designed an action plan for

creation of 25 Innovation Sankuls in Gujarat. (166 industry clusters+ 495 colleges of GTU

have been divided into 25 innovation clusters of GTU Colleges and industries, called

Innovation Sankuls). population of 250,000 in all the undergraduate and postgraduate

courses like Engineering, Management, pharmacy, MCA and Diploma and 10,000 plus

faculty members in GTU.

When in three years, every one of its more than 400,000 students and more than 20,000

faculty members are out in the field with the requirement that an innovative Final Year

project is to be completed and put on the TechPedia, when there will be no way to hide the

work, when good work will be awarded year after year, when thousands of small and big

industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with young minds and faculty members

about continuous improvements in their products & processes and when the law students

work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely new environment of

innovations will be created.




Management Architecture:

The GTU Innovation Council: chaired by the Vice Chancellor. The Council committee (CC) will

include Professor Anil Gupta, Techpedia, Chairs of State level Chambers and Vertical-

associations, ASSOCHAM, GCCI and other associations, government officers, Registrar of

GTU and others.

An Innovation Sankul: A Sankul is managed by two Co-Chairmen: one from a GTU College

and the other from the industry, a Secretary and a Joint Secretary: an industry engineer and

a student; the Sankul Committee (SC) with representations from Colleges, District Industry

Officers, industries and prominent citizens. Each Sankul have been created taking about 20

colleges from multiple fields for developing an inclusive innovation ecosystem.

Udisha (Innovation Club) at each GTU College: An Udisha Executive Committee (EC) at each

GTU College will co-ordinate with its Sankul.

Work In progress:

• Under this project 398 Udisha Clubs have been set up till today. The target is 495 by

30th April 2011.

• 25 Innovation Sankuls are at various stages of formation. This job will be completed

by 30th April 2011.

• About a thousand students have gone on Shodh Yatras in Rajkot, Ahmedabad,

Vadodara and Ahwa. Such Shodhyatras are conducted at the week-ends.

• About 30 thousand students are being mapped to industries and they will all be

going to industries in June and July (after their pre-Final Year exams in May).

Objectives:

• To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry and confidence in their

ability as innovators

• To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D

institutions with the help of Techpedia

• To facilitate innovations by MSMEs through support by GTU students and faculties

• To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation by

identifying the problems, designing and developing the product or improving the

business / industrial processes, mentoring students/researchers during the project

and evaluation of the project.

Report on the meeting of 16th

April 2011:

The three Innovation Sankuls at Ahmedabad had been planned at a meeting on 3rd

March

2011. On 16th

April, a meeting for working out of 18 more Innovation Sankuls in various

parts of Gujarat was organized. To the meeting were invited the Principals and Directors of

some of the Colleges along with the Managing Trustees of the Colleges. The managing

trustees of colleges were also key participant in this meeting along with Co-Chairpersons of

the Sankuls. The meeting was chaired by the Honorable VC, GTU.




The meeting of 16th

April was initiated with a welcome address by Honorable VC, Prof

Akshai Agrawal. He discussed the purpose of creation of the GTU Innovation Council. He

outlined the action agenda for the Council for the next three months. A presentation on

GTU Innovation Council was presented to the Sankul authorities by Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta

from Techpedia. The stories of achievements and successes during the last six weeks of

work of one of the Innovation Sankuls at Ahmedabad were narrated by Prof M.R.Patel (Co-

Chairperson, Academic-Naroda Sankul). He presented both qualitative and quantitative

aspects of achievements during the industrial shodh yatras carried out at various industry

clusters in and outside the Sankul. An open discussion session involving the Sankul

authorities and Honorable VC, GTU brought out a methodology, which can help develop a

progressive knowledge ecosystem at GTU based on innovation. Prof K.N.Mistry, Prof J.V.

Desai, Prof M.R.Patel, Dr S.S.Pancholi and other principals of respective Sankuls shared

some significant ideas for further strengthening the innovation management system and for

bringing each Udisha club at every GTU college into the main loop of action agenda. Prof

Ved Vyas Dwivedi stressed on harnessing the technical potential of younger students even

at very 1st

year level and shared some exciting success stories based on his experiments at

Junagarh. The managing trustees from various institutes like SCET, Surat, Parul Institute of

Engineering and Technologies shared some critical thoughts which will ensure the

productivity of each Innovation Sankul and help bring industries and academia a step closer.

A detailed discussion was held on involving pharmacy student in solving the real life issues

of related industry clusters. Prof Akshai Agarwal shared his thoughts on creating clusters of

MBAs and associated disciplines by bringing service industries and IT/ITES industries into the

loop. Mr Gandhi from SCET (Innovation Sankul at Surat) suggested the creation of new

motivational factors for both students and faculties. These can create an environment of

awareness on IPR so that the dream of bringing Laxmi and Saraswati together as envisaged

by Padmabhushan R.A.Mashelkar (President Global Research Alliance and former DG, CSIR)

may be realized. Every participant through this discussion agreed on creating a mindset for




innovation by informing each of the GTU student and faculty about the objectives and

action agenda of the Council at the college level. There was a consensus for making an effort

for better utilizing the summer of innovation agenda and linking students to industries

through industrial shodh yatras to obtain the Industry Defined Problems. IDPs will be

evaluated in August when the first semester of Final Year starts. The best 1000 IDPs will be

given awards by GTU. It is expected that the professionals from the industries will come

forward to both mentor and nurture the creativity of students during both the semesters of

the Final Year. GTU will assist the best student/faculty projects for protecting their IPR and

will help the students use the existing incubators and venture capital firms for converting

their projects to marketable products.

At the meeting, 18 Principals/ Directors of GTU Colleges, were appointed as Co-Chairpersons

(academic) of the 18 Innovation Sankuls. Prof G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar GTU gave away the

letters to various Sankul Co-Chairpersons (Academic). It was decided that the Chairperson

(academic) of each Innovation Sankul will nominate five directors (academic) from each of

the five domain: MBA, Pharmacy, Engineering, Diploma-Engineering and MCA, very soon.

GTU will nominate a Co-Chairperson from the industry zone in each Sankul to assist the

process of forging industry-academia relationships.

It was decided that the following meetings for disseminating the idea of GTU Innovation

Council may be arranged by each Sankul without any delay: (i) A meeting of all the College

Principals/ Directors in the Sankul: every College, which has not yet formed the Udisha Club

will be asked to form it without any delay. (ii) A meeting of all its faculty members by every

College Principal/ Director (iii) A meeting of the entire Sankul Committee consisting of all

the Principals/ Directors of the Colleges in the Sankul and the industry personnel (iv) A

meeting of all the Udisha Clubs of the Sankul to be hosted by the Co-Chairperson (industry

zone). It was also decided that the information about software industries in the region of

the Sankul will be collected by the two Chairpersons and sent to GTU. Moreover the two

chairpersons will take steps to bring the software industries into the fold of the Sankul.

In addition at the meeting of 16th

April was discussed the design of a roadmap for

developing innovation culture in both industry and academia. It was decided that by the end

of May, through shodh yatras or otherwise, all the pre-Final Year students will be mapped to

some industry so that during June and July the students can all visit and study the processes

at the industries and develop their plans for the Final Year project anchored in improving

some product or process in some industry.

Prof M.R.Patel gave the concluding remarks and a vote of thanks.










Appendix 1


1. Vadodara - 1: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. S.S.Pancholi; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Ms. Abe Sabawala

2. Vadodara- 2: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Vilin P Parekh

3. VV Nagar-1: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.V N Kamat

4. VV Nagar- 2: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.F S Umrigar

5. Godhra: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Bharat B Mistry

6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J M Patel

7. Junagadh: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi

8. Kutchh: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. N G Hiranandani

9. Valsad-Vapi: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Sh. N M Patel

10. Navsari: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic):

11. Mahesana: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Prahlad Kulkarni

12. Himmatnagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Natavarlal M Patel

13. Chhatral : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. M M Patel

14. Jamnagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. Siddharth B Jadeja

15. Surendranagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Gopal R Kulkarni




16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval) : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J V Desai

17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt) : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.R B Jadeja

18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC) : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Sachin P Parikh

19. Surat: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. K N Mistry

20. Morbi: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. P C Vasani

21. Ahmedabad- Naroda: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.R.Patel; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Sailesh

Patwari

22. Ahmedabad- Vatva: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.N.Patel; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Archit

Shah

23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor J.V.Dave

24. Bhavnagar

25. Patan




Appendix 2

Unique features of GTU Innovation council

• Creating User Defined Innovation Eco-system- To create value for the research

work, that has already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a

User defined innovation ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU

are now defining the user’s need (User: industry, society, business) through

Industrial Shodh Yatras which will be converted to a final year project /thesis in UG,

PG, PhD level at GTU from July 2011.

Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based on real industry floor issues at GTU

and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to MSMEs (Micro,

Small & Medium Enterprises) every year.

• Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research- All GTU research works in UG

and PG level are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at

www.techpedia.in .This will map the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and

innovation quotient of the university will go up in a single stroke. By scouting the

IDPs (industry defined projects) from the floors of MSMEs, GTU students and

faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry clusters of Gujarat from all the

engineering disciplines.

• Democratizing innovation management process- To ensure the active participation

of each student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised a 3-

stage system by creating GTU Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and

Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. 398 Innovation Clubs (Udisha) have already been

established in GTU colleges by now and by 30th

April 2011, 495 innovation clubs will

be institutionalized in the entire GTU system. An udisha club consists of students

and faculties of each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all

vertical industry association representatives, who will take care of specific branch of

engineering and technology in innovation clusters/Sankuls.

• Industry-Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges-

Involving GTU colleges and MSME clusters, 25 GTU Innovation Sankuls are being set

up in various parts of Gujarat. Every Innovation Sankul will have 18-25 colleges of

engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand MSMEs.

Some industrial clusters have been created to address the need of specific sectorial

industries in state. However every technology college caters to a broad spectrum of

industries and businesses. Hence in case of such clusters, the students of more than

one Sankul may be associated.




• Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers - GTU will reward 2

credits in its academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined

projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) of the State. Best

1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to University in August after

industrial Shodh Yatra in the summer will be supported by the university to drive the

ideas to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to

solve these IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.

• Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module

development- Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works

at GTU for every industry defined project in real time. This will make it possible to

crack the problem through a few cycles of attempts of research. Some set of

students will be able to convert the raw IDPs (MSME industry problems) to products

or solutions. GTU will support the best solutions to reach a product level

conceptualization. Students will be encouraged to develop entrepreneurship at both

the UG as well as the PG level. As a pilot project, some UG students were able to

successfully solve some IDPs during august –December 2010. This proved that our

students have the talent to be able to do what they have not yet been challenged to

do. GTU Innovation Council will foster innovation fueled student enterprise modules

and a few dozen student startups can certainly be realized at the end of the

academic year 2011-12.

• Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st

time GTU Innovation Council will

not only focus on the desired production solution for industries but it is also

emphasizing on documenting the best ways to succeed in specific type of research

work and to note down the ways which increase the time cycle of developing

solutions in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties

at multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of

collaborative research and product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the

time cycle of developing innovative products and processes for industries.

• Socializing Technologies- GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor

issue of industries but also scouting and documenting the socio-technical issues of

tribal people and the most backward districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh

Yatras, GTU students are interacting with the rural and tribal people to map their

socio-technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing low

cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji

seeds in Dang districts.

• Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi

together (promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)-GTU Innovation




Council will help the best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get

promoted and the University will help them in protecting their intellectual property

rights(IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable knowledge economy with proper

credit protection for the innovators. Awareness will be created among students and

faculties about IPR issues to increase the efficiency of the system at each Innovation

Sankul and Udisha Club.

• Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations- In an attempt to promote the concept of

Gandhian engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association

with Gujarat Technological University (GTU), has initiated one of its kind of award to

honour the best cost effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the

masses. The categories for the awards have been instituted after the 32 engineering

disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in each category of under-

graduate, post-graduate and diploma courses. The awards will encourage and

support students and faculty to design cost-effective and eco-friendly products and

services for the larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put

their efforts together in socializing technologies. Students and researchers at GTU

will not only innovate to create value for money but also to create value for many.

The innovation clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from less

for more and more.

• Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation

creation- GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in

attempting to solve projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while

putting 10 months of effort per year constitute nearly 1 million human months of

efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will effectively harness the

students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative

environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming

3 years with a “feel the difference approach”.

• Exchanging mentors from industry and academia- GTU innovation Sankuls will

exchange floor engineers from various MSMEs with corresponding faculties of

particular stream which will further lead to design a road map in academia for a

need based evolution. Students will get a practical insight and feedbacks from

industry floors. This will enable them in blending their thoughts with proper

orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real life issues.




GTU appoints 7 more Co-Chairmen from industry and academia for GTU Innovation Sankuls

Date: 27/4/11

Venue: GTU Conference Hall

GTU Innovation Council appointed seven more co-chairmen for industry and academia in a meeting

chaired by Honourable Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akshai Agarwal held at GTU Conference Hall. Prof.

Agarwal assessed the work of various sankuls which were set up in the first phase. Dignitaries like

Prof. N.G. Hiranandani , Prof. J.K.Rathod, Shri Dipak Shah, Mr. Ashok Panjwani, Prof. Jivraj Patel, Dr.

K.N.Mistry, Dr .Hiren Patel and Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta were present, who shared their views based

upon the initial experiments carried out at various Sankuls.

Prof. Ashok R. Pandya has been nominated as the Sankul co-chairman (Academic) in the Vadodara 1

Sankul . He shared some innovative strategies in linking institutions of various streams under each

Sankul to harness the optimum potential of technical minds. He also shared his thoughts on inclusive

Innovation Sankul development by appointing directors from all streams like Engineering, MBA,

Pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnic. Mr. Deepak P.Shah was appointed as Co-Chairman (Industry) for

Surendranagar Innovation Sankul. He shared his vision and thoughts in linking small industry clusters

of central Gujarat and mapping their industry-defined problems from various floors. He stressed on

the need for special efforts at the grass root level when the professional students start their

academic work even at the first year level. He also said that he would be able to bring all the

associations and chambers in the area into the Sankul. He also said that he would be able to use all

the media for disseminating the information about the GTU Innovation Sankul widely.




Mr. Ashok Panjwani has been nominated as Co-Chair (Industry) for Ankleshwar-Bharuch Sankul. He

pointed out innovative strategies for reaching out to SMEs and scouting Industry Defined Projects

(IDPs). Prof. Jivraj Patel suggested that in addition to the Principals/ Director, the managing trustees

should also be invited to the Sankul meetings.

Dr. K N Mistry has been nominated as Co-Chair (Academic) of Surat Sankul. He shared his attempts

for improving innovation quotient and skill parameters of each student. He suggested initial support

to innovative works based upon the problem thesis submitted after the summer industrial shodh

yatra.

Dr. Ajoy P. Bhattacharya (President, SGCCI) has been nominated as the Co-Chair (Industry) for Surat

Innovation Sankul. Ms. Avi Sabavala (President, VCCI) has been nominated as the Co-Chair (Industry)

for the Sankul Innovation at Vadodara -1.




Kutchh Sankul Co-Chair (Academics ), Prof N.G. Hiranandani stressed the design and development

of solutions for local needs in various part of the state and to to develop viable as well as sustainable

projects for the industry. Professor Aggarwal appreciated the excellent work by Tolani Institute for

Industry-Institute interaction and he said that Prof Hiranandani was required to play a bigger role in

leading all the Colleges in the Sankul to have a closer inter-action with the industries.

Hiranmay Mohanti suggested creating sector-specific Sankuls (moving from geographic dividend to

vertical dividend). Empathetic model of innovation scouting and development was widely discussed

in the meeting. In needy areas correlations will be drawn to find out possible linkages between

public policy, industrial requirement and ongoing research trend. Steps to avoid repetition of the

same project without considerable value addition were widely discussed. The relay model of

innovation was also discussed upon.

The Honorable Vice Chancellor, Prof Akshai Aggarwal suggested the following points while sharing

visions and action agenda:

• To arrange a meeting of all college Principals/ Directors under each Sankul as soon as

possible to design a road map for inclusive innovation agenda pertaining to a need

based evolution.

• To ensure that all the Principals/ Directors are made aware of the concept fully and

share their inputs while designing action agenda at each Sankul level so that every single

faculty and student can be involved.

• To involve the industry co-chairman and his nominated members in each Sankul so that

industry views point maybe known while forming concrete action agenda.

• To have periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee and regular meetings of each

UDISHA Club Executive Committee.

• 30-40 students of pre-Final Year class may be allocated to a faculty member of each

college for developing a strong linkage during the summer of innovation agenda. These




6-7 teachers of each college will act as focal connecting points for communication along

with the Udisha coordinators of the respective college.

• Problem statements (industry defined problems, IDPs) scouted from industry floor have

to be assessed within the first month of submission at college (internal) level in a well-

defined and transparent manner.

Mr. Ashok Panjwani, Co-chairman

(industries), Ankleshwar – Bharuch

innovation Sankul is sharing his views

and strategies for developing inclusive

innovation agenda.

Prof Akshai Aggarwal, VC, GTU welcomes

Mr. Deepak P.Shah as co-chairman

(Industry) for Surendranagar Innovation

Sankul.




Appendix 1


1. Vadodara - 1: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-chairperson (Academic) Prof. Ashok R. Pandya

Co-chairperson (Industry) Ms. Avi Sabavala (President, VCCI)

2. Vadodara- 2: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Vilin P Parekh

3. VV Nagar-1: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.V N Kamat

4. VV Nagar- 2: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.F S Umrigar

5. Godhra: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Bharat B Mistry

6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J M Patel

Co-Chairperson (Industry) : Mr. Ashok Panjwani

7. Junagadh: : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi

8. Kutchh: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. N G Hiranandani

9. Valsad-Vapi: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Sh. N M Patel

10. Navsari: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic):

11. Mahesana: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Prahlad Kulkarni

12. Himmatnagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Natavarlal M Patel

13. Chhatral : appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. M M Patel

14. Jamnagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011





15. Surendranagar: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Gopal R Kulkarni

Co-Chairperson (Industry) : Mr. Deepak P.Shah

16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval) : appointed on 16th

April 2011


17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt) : appointed on 16th

April 2011


18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC) : appointed on 16th

April 2011


19. Surat: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. K N Mistry

Co-Chairperson (Industry): Dr. Ajoy P. Bhattacharya (President, SGCCI)

20. Morbi: appointed on 16th

April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. P C Vasani

21. Ahmedabad- Naroda: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.R.Patel

Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Shailesh Patwari

22. Ahmedabad- Vatva: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.N.Patel

Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Archish Shah

23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar: appointed on 3rd

March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor J.V.Dave

24. Bhavnagar

25. Patan




ORGANIZING INNOVATION SANKULS

Report

A Conference

for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at

Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi and Navsari





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Conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at

Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi and Navsari

at SCET (Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat,) Surat

A conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi

and Navsari was organized at SCET, Surat on 3rd

April 2011. Prof. Akshai Agarwal, Honorable

VC, GTU, Principals/ Directors of Colleges affiliated with GTU from Navsrai, Vapi-Valsad,

Surat and Ankleshwer-Bharuch participated in this meeting. An equal participation was

from South Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industries and MSMEs & Bigger industries

from the region.

from the Industries

The session started with a welcome address by Shri Rajani Kant Marfatia, Chairman of SCET,

Surat and Prof K.N.Mistry, Principal, SCET. Prof Akshai Agarwal described the concept of GTU

Innovation Council, Innovation Sankuls and Udisha Clubs. Dr.Ajoy Bhattacharya, President,

Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI), welcomed honorable VC for the

initiative of GTU Innovation Council. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta from Techpedia shared the agenda for

the Innovation Sankuls and briefed about a few successful pilot cases of Innovation Sankul attempts

under GTU Innovation Council. Mr. Tanmay Mehta, Secretary GCCI promised that GCCI would work

for strengthening the Innovation Sankuls and assured of cooperation from MSMEs and industries to

Dr.Ajoy Bhattacharya, president, Southern

Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry

(SGCCI), welcoming Prof Akshai Agarwal , VC,

GTU.

Conference of GTU principals, industry

chamber authorities, various discrete

industry leaders and representatives from

SVNIT Surat, GCCI and Techpedia.




this excellent initiative. Some of the Industry leaders shared some valuable insights pertaining to

specific vertical and geographic industry clusters in the region. Prof K.N.Mistry presented the work,

already done by the Udisha club at SCET, Surat. A Principal from a College in Valsad-Vapi region

shared valuable inputs especially in the pharmacy sector. To promote a user defined research

ecosystem and to map the MSME issues of southern Gujarat industry leaders from GCCI and SGCCI

and others strongly recommended the proposed Industrial Shodh Yatra by faculties and students

coordinated by each Udisha clubs at GTU colleges. The industry defined problems will be converted

as real project work by students and faculties at GTU from the next academic year. Some of the

Principals from polytechnics suggested relay model of innovation where a product/service can be

conceptualized and realized via a few cycle of research and development work in multiple

places and multiple groups. A few principals strongly recommended to create awareness

about IPR and associated culture so that even at UG level research works will lead to some

significant solutions. An empathetic model of innovations was the common tone shared by

each participant in the conference. Industry leaders shared thoughts on distributed

product/solution development via GTU students by modularizing the bigger problems into

smaller ones and sharing it with multiple groups of students, guided by mentors from inside

and outside of the college. General manager (HR) from L & T, Hazira industrial zone, Surat

shared thoughts on moving ahead of conventional industry visit/training to a model where

students and faculties will realize and document a problem from industry floor via

interaction with shop-floor workers. He said that this will provide a better insight of the IDP;

(industry defined problem).GTU will evaluate these IDPs in early part of the final year and

give awards to the quality proposals of students. Principals who participated in this

discussion said that this inverted model will at least enhance the innovation quotient among

each faculty/student. Dr Bhattacharya offered full co-operation from SGCCI, the leading industry

chamber in southern Gujarat, and offered meaningful partnership with each of the Innovation

Sankuls and Udisha Clubs in the region. He along with Mr. Rohit Mehta , VP & IPP of Surat

Diamond Association promised to provide all possible help to the youth of the colleges in

the Innovation Sankuls of the region through continuous monitoring and feedback.

Principals of respective Sankuls proposed to make sector specific objectives and approaches

in various verticals of engineering and specially in designing ecosystem for interdisciplinary

research works. Prof K.N.Mistry gave vote of thanks at the closing of the meeting and

wished to design an action plan for the SCET-based Sankul with inputs from both industry

and academia within a few weeks.




Appendix 1

1. Ankleshwer-Bharuch Innovation Sankul: 14 GTU colleges and businesses and

Industries of the area

2. Navsari Innovation Sankul: 14 GTU colleges and businesses and Industries of the

area

3. Surat Innovation Sankul: 19 GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and Industries

of the area

4. Valsad-Vapi Innovation Sankul: 11 GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and





Appendix 2

List of a few participant from the Industries

Sr.

No. Name of the Organization Name of the Participant Designation

1 GJEPC, Surat Mr. Chandrakant R. Sanghavi Chairman

2 Sanghavi Exports,Surat Mr. Aagam Sanghavi Director

3 Sahajanand

Chemicals,Surat Mr. Dhirajlal Kotadia CEO

4 Indian Diamond Inst., Surat Mr. Samir D. Joshi Dy. Director

5 Venus Jewel, Surat Mr. Sevanti P. Shah

6 Fairdeal Filaments Shahlon

Ind.,Surat Mr. Nitin Shah Director

7 SGCCI, Surat Dr. Ajoy Bhattacharya President

8 RIL, Hazira Mr. Suresh Lachhwani Asst Vice President

9 Lexus, Surat Mr. Janak Mistry CEO, MD

10 Himson Groups, Surat Mr. R.S. Bachkaniwala Director

11 RIL, Hazira Mr. Rajendra Mehta AVP

12 Guj. State Elect. Co. Ltd.,

Ukai Mr. D. N. Panchal TPS

13 SGCCI, Surat Mr. Rohit Mehta VP& IPP of Surat Dimond

Asso.

14 ONGC, Hazira Mr. Ajay Garg Chief Engineer (P)

15 ONGC, Hazira Mr. Rajan Asthana Chief Manager

16 UPL, Surat Mr. Ashok Panjwani Ex. Director

17 Rachna Group, Surat Mr. J. P. Aharwal Chairman

18 Garden Silk Mills, Surat Mr. Kamal Desai G.M. Mktg.

19 L & T, Hazira Mr. Atul Desai Head HR & Adm Sec.

20 Sargam Const. Pvt. Ltd.,

Surat Mr. Bharat Shah

21 Surat Manav Seva Sangh,

Surat Shri Bharat Shah Vice President

22 SIECC, Surat Shri Rajendra Chokhawala Director

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Minutes of First Meeting of Udisha Club

Held at S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College , Rajkot on

30th

April, 2011, Saturday (12:00 to 01:00 pm)

S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot has organized first meeting of ‘Udisha Club’, framed as

per the direction of GTU, on 30th

April, 2011, Saturday during 12:00 noon to 01:00 pm. Following

Staff and student members were remain present in aforesaid meeting (Annexure – I)

Sr. No. Name of member Designation

1 Dr. Manish A. Rachchh Chairman

2 Mrs. Parula Patel Executive members

3 Mr. Pinakin Jadav Executive members

4 Mr. Mehul Rana Executive members

5 Ms. Jagruti Vaghela Coordinator

6 Mr. Bipin Patel Committee members

7 Mr. Hardik Bhalodiya Committee members

8 Mr. Hitesh Prajapati Committee members

9 Mr. Vishvesh Kanabar Committee members

Following agendas were discussed during this meeting.

Agenda – 1 Objectives of Udisha Club

Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, chairman of this club welcome all the members and give idea regarding

inception and actualization of ‘Udisha Club’ policy framed by GTU.

Agenda – 2 Presentation about “Innovation Sankul”

Ms. Jagruti Vaghela, co-ordinator of this club gave the oral presentation about ‘Innovation Sankul”

sent by GTU and elaborate it among the members. All the members appreciate the innovative task

initiated by GTU.

Agenda – 3 Identification of Industry Defined Project (IDP) and arranging „Shodh Yatra”

Dr. Manish A. Rachchh discussed with all club members regarding policies which are at

discussion level at GTU regarding final year student projects by identifying Industry defined

problems (IDP) and to do so arrange ‘Shodh Yatra” in upcoming 7th

and 8th

semester of B. Pharm.

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Agenda – 4 Pre-preparation for „Shodh Yatra‟

Dr. Manish A. Rachchh suggested that, we have to first approach indirectly to different pharma

SME and MSME by sending a letter highlighting our objectives for IDP as well as for ‘Shodh

Yatra’. Faculty and student members were given responsibility to compile, collect and co-ordinator

with different pharma industrial cluster, which are mentioned as per below.

Sr.

No.

Regional of Pharma

SME / MSME

Faculty Member Students Member

1 Ahmedabad Dr. Rina Gokani Mr. Bipin Patel

2 Baroda Ms. Jagruti Vaghela Mr. Hardik Bhalodiya

3 Rajkot Mrs. Parula Patel Mr. Mohit Rokad

4 Surendranagar Mr. Vipul Jambukiya Ms. Khyati Jobanputra

5 North Gujarat Mr. Mehul Rana Mr. Vishvesh Kanabar

6 South Gujarat Mr. Pinakin Jadav Mr. Hitesh Prajapati

Ms. Parula B. Patel has suggested to send college brochure highlighting skill and potential of

college for positive feed – back from Industries in this regards.

Finally meeting was ended with vote of thanks of chairperson and each members agreed to

schedule such meeting on last Saturday of each month.

(Ms. Jagruti Vaghela) (Dr. Manish A. Rachchh)

Co-ordinator Chairperson

Udisha Club, Udisha Club,

S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, (264) S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, (264)

Rajkot – 360 005 Rajkot – 360 005

Mo. : 9904230519 Mo. : 9099063164

Emial : [email protected] Email : [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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Meeting of UDISHA Club Members

Chairman addressing members

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Handover of Pamphlet of “Innovation Sankul” to Mrs. Parula B. Patel

Handover of Pamphlet of “Innovation Sankul” to Ms. Jagruti P. Vaghela

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Linkages between MSMEs and Academia

GTU Innovation Sankuls have started the process of developing roadmaps for inclusive

innovation based upon the need of local industry clusters through Udisha clubs. A few

Sankuls have done significant progress in conducting some brief industrial Shodh Yatras and

mapped a few dozen industry defined problems (IDPs) which will be converted as the Final

Year projects by GTU Students. Industry clusters across the state have shown significant

enthusiasm. The authorities from floor engineers to top authorities have cooperated open-

heartedly in the mapping process.

Looking to the objective of mapping MSME issues during summer 2011, the GTU’s Udisha

Clubs, jointly with GTU Innovation Sankuls, have started training its young pre-final-year

students who will map the industry issues and look for a better product or process while

working upon it in the final year project/thesis.

Similarly the inaugural meeting of all pre-final-year students and Udisha coordinators was

held at MLIDS Bhandu. In this discussion faculty coordinators and students took part in

sharing their own views in addition to the context proposed by GTU Innovation Council. The

students and faculties suggested in co-creating innovation clusters including all verticals of

applied sciences, engineering and other disciplines. Prof K.R.Patel shared a brief agenda

Meeting was held at Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application

(SRIMCA) on 28.04.2011 where the Udisha members brainstormed for designing an innovation

ecosystem in the Indian context.




based upon the inputs taken from each stake holder in the entire discussion. A decision was

taken to inform the concept and action agenda to each of pre-final year students so that the

optimum potential of technology youth can be harnessed in GTU in the innovative process.

Similarly the meeting of UDHISA Club members & HODs, Directors –ME, CE, E&C, EE and

R&D was held at Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama chaired by Dr. S.S Pancholi. He

briefed about the working of GTU Innovation Sankuls & UDHISHA Clubs under it thru a

PowerPoint presentation. The specific point of discussions was about Shodh Yatra for

identifying the projects for final year students of 2011-2012. After a detailed discussion, it

was decided that, with the help of the database of VCCI (Vadodara Chamber of Commerce &

Industry) Directory, all the four departments will identify at least 15-20 industries per

department. These industries will be approached in the first week of June (i.e. immediately

after the examinations of the Pre Final Year of Sem VI (degree engineering programs) of

each department are over. This process, it was decided, will be supported by staff members

of respective departments. The Club will have to collect an adequate no. of projects from

industries. They will also find out about the technical personnel from the industries, who

can provide help for working on the projects.

The list of industries to be approached will be submitted by 30th April and the list of

students (at least 2/industry) who will carry out the Shodh Yatra along with the staff

members for support will be submitted by 3rd May 2011 to the T&P Department (office of

the UDHISHA).This information along with the future plan of action for Shodh Yatras will be

forwarded to GTU and Techpedia immediately after 3rd May 2011. Prof H.G. Rajput shall

provide guidance to the team of each department for proper approach to industries; if

requested by each department. The Schedule of concluding the Shodh Yatra has been

delayed due to less availability of students & staff members in recent weeks, due to term

work preparation and semester-end teaching effort.

Similarly at C. U. Shah College of Master of Computer Application, the meeting of the GTU

Udisha Club was chaired by Dr. G. R. Kulkarni, Principal of CCET, and & CoChairperson of the




Surendranagar Sankul. Dr. H. B. Bhadka, Patron of UDISHA Club of CCMCA, Wadhwan also

shared his valuable inputs in this meeting. The meeting started with a welcome address by

Dr. H. B. Bhadka and sharing inputs regarding the Objectives of UDISHA club, an initiatives

by GTU, Ahmedabad. The PPT presentation was discussed by Dr. G. R. Kulkarni and shared

with the UDISHA club materials & documents to all the members. As a part of the Club

activities, Dr. H. B. Bhadka met District Director Officer (DDO) Shri K. K. Nirala, IAS of

Surendranagar on dated 31-3-2011 at DDO Office, Surendranagar and they are ready to

extend their support to invite students/faculties to develop the real-life IT applications

needed to be implemented across the villages of Surendranagar District. Shri Nirala is

impressed with the initiatives and he has assured to work together regarding such creative

activities. Shri Nirala assured that they would make arrangements for financial support,

appreciation to the students, faculties, institute in the form of shield/award & certification.

Shri Nirala also assured that they would definitely extend their cooperation as the society &

students will be the most beneficiary. The team also met Shri Prakashbhai Varmora, CEO of

Varmora Group of Industries & President, GIDC Wadhwan and briefed him about the

objective of UDISHA club and GTU Innovation Council.

Dr. G. R. Kulkarni, Principal of CCET & Co- Chairperson (Academic) of Innovation Sankul is

addressing the students and faculty members during the conference.




Ms Trupti Pandya Co-ordinator Udisha Club, MGITER, Navsari conducted a meeting with

faculty members & student members of the Udisha Club. It was the 4th meeting of the Club.

R K University team is brainstorming in designing an effective innovation ecosystem with

excellence.

Principals/Directors of GTU Colleges interacting with their pre final year students and faculty

members.




Majority of Innovation clubs at engineering, pharmacy, diploma, MBA, MCA colleges under

GTU have significantly progressed significantly in developing their own roadmap suitable to

local context .This has significantly pushed the mission ahead with scaling in both inputs and

outputs with proper orientation.

Mr. Kaushal Patel, faculty of Shree Samanvay Pharma Education & Research, BOTAD &

Coordinator of GTU’s Udisha Club discussed an action plan at a meeting on 27 April 2011

with the students and faculty members.

A meeting of the UDISHA Club at A. D. Patel Institute of Technology was held on at 4:00 pm

on 27th April, 2011, at Computer Dept. Lab. Twenty eight club members (faculties as well as

student members) attended the meeting. Members were briefed about the objectives and

activities of the Club by Institutional Coordinator, Dr. Dhaval Jani and Principal R K Jain. The

presentation "Innovation Sankuls" was circulated to the members and discussed. It has also

Prof Sudeeb Bagchi is sharing his views with his Udisha Club members on the theme of GTU

Innovation Council to bind industry-academia and innovations.




been planned to boost activities of "Shodh Yatra" through training and placement cell of the

institution.

As per the discussion at the GTU Innovation Sankul meeting on 16th

April, 2011, Udisha

Club at VVP Engg. College has geared up with the activities of the Innovation Sankul at

Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC). Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta of Techpedia.in had visited the colleges

during the last semester and he had held inter-active sessions with the students to map the

academic need factors.

Mr. Amit Degada, Convenor of UDISHA club and his team is in regular touch with

students and their corresponding industries since last 4 months for initial level mapping and

have already established the coordinators from each department. Mr. Ashvin Karemore, Dr.

Krishna Joshi, Mr. Bhavesh Dobaria, Mr. Sachin Rajani, Mr. Dipesh Kundalia, Mr.

Girish Mulchandani and Mr. Kunal Khimani are the Co-coordinators from the different

branches. For the ‘Shodh Yatras’, the students of 6th

semester Mechanical and Electrical

have linked with Kadvani Forge LTD., Metoda since 1st week of March, GIDC. They are

working with Mr. Jayant Jamuvar (Head, Designing Department) with two projects. Milap

Vadi, Nishank Dholakia, Hiren makwana and Rahul Kundnani of 6th

Semester are making

progress on the project of Power Factor Improvement and Pneumatic Control of a forging

machine to improve Efficiency of the Forging Machines. Prof. Sachin Parikh, Co-Chairman

(academia) of Rajkot Innovation Sankul-3 has guided the above teams for linking maximum

possible MSMEs of nearby GIDCs to the student groups.

GTU Innovation Club members attending a meeting at A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.




The above Udisha Club and a team lead by Mr. Utkarsh Mehta and Mr Rashesh Dave

have successfully arranged a dozen industrial Shodh Yatras involving students of various

colleges and disciplines in different colleges. They have successfully linked around 100

industries in 4 GIDC estates with various departments of respective colleges where a few

students and faculties have started working, based upon the IDPs taken from the floor of

MSME and larger industries and business.

Prof. Mitesh Dadhania has added a similar effort at Sri Aurobindo Institute of

Management, Rajkot. They have explored many frugal ways for socializing the

technologies and management applications with impact at BOP and MSMEs for whom these

young management students can be a great resource person.




The GTU Innovation Council-enabled UDISHA clubs in various colleges prove that ‘Practice

is the best of all instructors ‘by facilitating industrial visits in an empathetic manner where

the user defined issues are being taken as the key target to be solved. These ‘Shodh Yatras’,

as the name suggests, are quests for innovation. On 21st March 2011, the students of

Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot had visited Rainbow Technocast

industry for the same and subsequently a half a dozen industries after this visit.. The

industries were visited under the guidance of Prof. Ashish Kothari and lead by Mr.

Rashesh Dave and Mr. Utkarsh Mehta. There were 24 teams from various disciplines of

engineering who returned with a rich, first-hand, practical experience of industrial practice

and started working upon the located issues even in multidisciplinary context. They have

mapped around 4 dozen industries basically from MSME sectors during the past 3 months

and 13 attempts have been made to design the prototypes of the proposed value added

solutions for corresponding industries either in improving a product or process parameter.

64 GTU Udisha Clubs at various MBA colleges

in different GTU Innovation Sankuls have

started working under the guidance of their

Udisha coordinators and Innovation Sankul

authorities. GTU Innovation Council is soon

going to integrate the vertical specific clusters

and service sectors with these MBA Innovation

Clubs to provide a practical case to each of

GTU’s young student guided by mentors both

from MSMEs and academia. A holistic and

inclusive innovation agenda is being

articulated looking to these 10,000 plus

students who can significantly add to BOP.




Industrial Shodh Yatras are aiming to 4 basic aspects: 1) To benchmark the current level of

energy, material and technology youths in the enterprise.2) To identify any innovation that the

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) unit may have tried 3) To locate a set of well-

defined problems, which may be solved by the students jointly with the faculty and floor persons

from MSMEs/Users.( These problems may be taken up by students as their final year project or as

a challenge project).4) To identify the policy bottlenecks which are coming in the way of realizing

fully the entrepreneurial potential of 1 lac young minds at GTU.




The first meeting of the Principals/Directors of

GTU Innovation Sankul-Mehasana

Date: 26/4/11

Venue: Board room of Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar

This Innovation Sankul consists of a significant no of Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA, MCA and

Diploma institutes and a few clusters of MSMEs. Prof. Prahlad T. Kulkarni (Principal

Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar) has been nominated as the Co-Chairman

(Academics) for this Innovation Sankul.

The very 1st

meeting of Principals/ Directors of this Sankul was held at Sankalchand Patel

College of Engineering for developing a road map of inclusive innovation in the ecosystem. Prof.

Prahlad T. Kulkarni chaired the discussions and initiated the Sankul activities.

Dr Kulkarni welcomed all those, present at the meeting. Since it was the 1st meeting of the

Principals/Directors of Mehasana Sankul, all the members were requested to introduce

themselves. Dr Prahlad Kulkarni made a presentation on GTU Innovation Council. It led to a

nice brainstorming session. Many Principals/Directors shared their ideas & gave useful

inputs for the successful implementation of this dream project of our honourable Vice

Chancellor.

As proposed by GTU Innovation Council, each Innovation Sankul has to nominate directors

from each vertical like engineering, diploma, MBA, Pharmacy and MCA. The following

authorities were nominated as Directors in the respective verticals of Mehasana Innovation

Sankul:




Field Name of the Director College

Degree Engineering/PG Dr D J Shah LCIT, Bhandu

Diploma Prof. K C Patel Merchant Polytechnic

College, Basna

Pharmacy Prof. R D Bharadia B S Patel Pharmacy College,

Linch

MBA Prof. J Sethi Nootan MBA College,

Visnagar

MCA Prof. Vikram Kaushik Nootan MCA College,

Visnagar

All the members were requested to offer suggestions for the Co-Chairman (Industry) and for

other members from industries. In the next meeting (to be organized by Prof. K C Patel -

Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna), each group will meet separately and share their

experience/success stories and help the other members of their group. GTU Innovation

Council will provide the list of Industries & the contact persons for need sooner. The

Principals/Directors who were involved in the above meeting agreed to make joint efforts to

explore the maximum possible collaboration with industry/business/MSMEs.

Prof Kulkarni proposed a vote of thanks to all the esteemed Principals/Directors present,

for their cooperation and active participation.




Appendix 1


GTU Innovation Council has set up an Innovation Sankul at Mehasana consisting of

following colleges.

Sr. No.

College Code INSTITUTE NAME ADDRESS

1 029 Laljibhai Chaturbhai Institute Of

Technology, Bhandu

Mehsana-Unjha Highway, At & Po:

Bhandu,Dist: Mehsana - 384120

2 039 S. P. B. Patel Engineering College,

Saffrony, Mehsana

Holiday Resort At & Po. Linch,

Ta. & Dist. Mahesana - 285720.

3 040 Sankalchand Patel College Of

Engineering, Visnagar

Sankalchand Patel Sahakar Vidyadham,

Kamana Char Rasta, VISNAGAR – 384 315.

4 065 Merchant Engg. College, Basna.

Visnagar

Visnagar - Mehsana Highway, Basna,

Ta.Visnagar,Dist. Mehsana.

5 068 Sardar Patel Institute Of Tech.,

Piludara, Mehsana

Visnagar-Mehsana Highway, At. Piludara,

Ta. & Dist. Mehsana.

6 091

SHRI SATSANGI SAKETDHAM `RAM

ASHRAM` GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS,

Vadasma

At & Post: Vadasma ; Ta & Dist: Mehsana,

Pin: 382708.

7 232 Nootan Pharmacy College, Visnagar P. Sahakar Vidyadham, Kamana Crossing,

Ambaji Road, Visnagar - 384315.

8 238 Radhe School Of Pharmacy & Bio-

Research Institute, Hirpura HIRPUR, TA: VIJAPUR, DIST : MEHASANA.

9 240 B. S. Patel Pharmacy College, Linch,

Mehsana

Nr. Saffrony Holiday Resort, At & Po.

Linch, Ta. & Dist. Mahesana - 285720.

10 245 Sarvjanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana Nr. ARVIND BAUG, MEHSANA - 384 001.

11 255 Shree Krishna Institute Of Pharmacy,

Shankhalpur

KRISHNA CAMPUS, SHANKHALPUR,

BECHRAJI, TAL & DIST: MAHESANA

12 512

K. J. Patel Jeeva Deep Education Trust -

The College Of MCA, Rampura AT & PO: VADASMA, TA: MEHSANA,

MEHSANA - 382708

13 515 LALJIBHAI CHATURBHAI Institute Of

Technology , Bhandu

LALJIPARK, BHANDU, VISNAGAR,

MEHSANA - 384120




14 524

Nootan Sarva Vidyalaya Kelavani

Mandal Sanchalit, M.C.A. College

Visnagar

SAKANCHAND PATEL SAHKAR

VIDYADHAM, GANDHINAGAR- AMBAJI

STATE HIGHWAY, LINK ROAD, VIANAGAR

- 384315

15 529 Sankalchand Patel College Of

Engineering, Visnagar


Kamana Char Rasta, VISNAGAR – 384 315.

16 548 Patel Group of Institutions (SFI)

Village-Moti Dau,Tal-Di:Mehsana MOTI DAU, MEHSANA - 384002

17 550

Shree Marutinandan Institute of

Computer and Management

Studies,Nalanda Vidhya

Sankul,Mehsana-(SFI)

NALANDA VIDHYA SANKUL, NR. RUPABEN

RIVER, UMTA, VISNAGAR-384320,

MAHESANA

18 552 VJKM Institute of Management and

Computer Studies,VADU, TA- KADI,

DIST- MEHSANA (SFI)

AT & PO: VADU, TA: KADI, MEHSANA -

382705

19 739

Nootan Sarva Vidhyalaya Kelavani

Mandal Sanchalit Mba College

Visanagar


Gandhinagar Ambaji Link Road, Visnagar.

20 752 Sakalchand Patel College Of

Engineering Visnagar

"VASANT VAGDO", NR. K-7 CIRCLE,

GANDHINAGAR- 382026

21 754

Sardar Institute Of Management And

Computer Application, Vijapur Near Visnagar-Bhavsor Link Road, At &

Post. Vijapur, Ta. Vijapur Dist. Mehsana,

Pin 382 870

22 764 Shree Sarswati Education Sansthan

Group Of Institutions, Rajpur, Mehsana AT & PO: RAJPUR, TA : KADI, MEHSANA

23 779 SPB Patel Engineering College Mehsana

Nr. Saffrony Resort, Ahmedabad -

Mehsana Highway, At & Post - Linch,

Dist. Mehsana - 384435.

24 783 Swami Vivekanand Mba College ,

Mansa,Gandhinagar P.G.Rao

Pathdarshak Campus, Mansa-Vijapur

Road, B/h. Veda Bus-stop, At Veda, Ta.

Mansa, Dist. Gandhinagar - 382855.

25 800

Oxford School of

Management,Baliyasan,Dist: Mehsana-

(SFI)

BLOCK NO. 214/B,, B/H. WATER PARK, AT

& PO: BALIYASAN, MEHSANA - 382732

26 803 Patel Group of Institutions (SFI)-Moti

Dau,Tal-Dist-Mehsana

MOTI DAU, MEHSANA - 384002

27 635

M. L. Institute Of Diploma Studies,

Bhandu

Lajipark, Unjha-Mahesana Highway,

At & PO : Bhandu, Ta. Visnagar Dist.

Mahesana.




28 636

Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna

Mehsana Visnagar Road, AT & Po. Basna

Ta. Visnagar, Mehsana-384315.

29 644 B. S. Patel Polytechnic, Kherva,

Mehsana

Ta. Limdi, Dist. Surendranagar.

30 650 Swami Sachchidanand Polytechnic

College, Visnagar

Gandhinagar Ambaji State Highway, Link

Road, Kamana Char Rasta, Visnagar -

384315.

31 668 Narayanbhai Bhikhabhai Patel

Polytechnic,Piludara, Mehsana Piludara, Ta & Di. Mehsana Pin. 384 380.

32 669 Savitaben Dahyabhai Patel Polytechnic,

Mehsana

At & Po. Gadha, Ta. & Di. Mehsana - 384

380.





List of Participants in the meeting

April 26, 2011 at 3 PM

Venue: Board room of Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar.

1 Prof. Hitesh Panchal LCIT, Bhandu

2 Prof. Gudeb Bagchi S P B Patel Engineering College, Saffrony

3 Prof. P T Kulkarni Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering, Visnagar

4 Prof. Y C Joshi Merchant Engineering College, Basna

5 Prof. J K Patel Nootan Pharmacy College, Visnagar

6 Prof. P D Bharadia B S Patel Pharmacy College, Linch

7 Prof. S S Patel LCIT, Bhandu

8 Prof. Vikram Kaushik Nootan MCA College, Visnagar

9 Prof. Bijendra Agrawal VJKM Institute, Vadu

10 Prof. J Sethi Nootan MBA College, Visnagar

11 Prof. R M Patel M L Polytechnic, Bhandu

12 Prof. J D Patel Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna

13 Prof. K C Patel Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna

14 Prof. S K Patel Swami Sachidananda Polytechnic College, Visnagar

15 Prof. V P Lunja S D Patel Polytechnic College, Gadha




Frugal and Gandhian Engineering

Innovations: the unique strength of GTU Innovation Council

The students and faculties of GTU are being encouraged and supported to design and develop

products and services with more performance, from less material, less cost, less time, less

environmental pollution and for the benefit of the four billion people, whose income levels are

even less than two dollars a day. The concept of Gandhian Engineering & sciences /Frugal

Engineering & sciences and innovation for “Creating more from less for More and More" is

being insisted to focus on socio-technical needs of the country.

GTU has become the 1st

such large scale university in the world to take a lead in this challenge.

Mr Hiranmay Mahanta from Techpedia represented a team to benchmark such

frugal/Gandhian innovations at various colleges at GTU including polytechnic. The study reveals

that a huge potential of young students and researchers in these colleges can be tapped and

from which meaningful solutions/products can be developed. A few labs of GTU colleges were

visited to map the innovation quotient of the diploma students and it was revealed that a

decent quality research trend is propelling the innovation agenda at even UG level. The key

challenge is to protect the IPR of the corresponding innovators at various GTU colleges and look

forward to either possible technology transfer or entrepreneurship modules development even

at UG/Diploma level. GTU innovation council found a great deal of possibility in patenting such

innovations at University and a low cost channel is being developed at GTU for filing 1000

patents for those frugal and efficient innovative projects/solutions for these students and

faculties. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta visited a few college labs in Mehshana Innovation Sankul like

LCIT and similar colleges and found a great possibility in creating sustainable knowledge

ecosystem fuelled by innovation in the coming days.




Present work from LCIT by Shaikh Shehbaj G is

for New Innovative solar cooker called

“Portable Solar cooker”. This Project shows

the analysis of portable solar cooker.

Temperature was measured with the help of

thermocouples as well as Suryamapi. The

efficiency of the portable solar cooker is found

to be higher than that of the conventional

solar cooker. No tracking mechanism is

required in this innovation. Concentration

ratio is obtained up to 3. Students claim an

advantage of flat as well as concentrating

collector, which optimizes the efficiencies.

While many stepper based NC packages are

available, in this project, drivers have been

developed to drive the motor up to a specified

distance and rotation. Using this machine

developed by Chavda Bhupendrakumar P.,

Gambhva Govindbhai B, Suthar Sureshkumar

R, Bihari Mahebilkhan M, Panchal Chiragbhai

V, and guided by Prof. M. K. Modh and Prof. Y.

L. Raol, human effort become very less as

compared to manual operation. It can be used

for cutting design, milling, drilling and reaming.

Three axis movement of the cutting tool is the

USP of the machine.




An attempt has been made to fabricate the

Turbocharger for Two Wheelers in this

project. The exhaust gas is used to rotate

the turbine with blower arrangement.

Exhaust gas is used to rotate the blower and

this air is given to the ignition input supply.

It is a low-cost system, which improves

engine efficiency. Detonation is greatly

reduced by use of this turbocharger.

Turbocharger can be easily made by locally

available material. The output can increase

as much as 25% as compared to the output

from conventional two stroke petrol

engines.

Students have designed a multi nut remover

system in approximate 2000~3000 INR. The

ordinary spanner removes one nut in 60sec and

multiunit remover removes the entire nut in

60sec. so time is saved. Multinut remover is the

device which reduces the time and human

effort. The device is very useful in H-Bag car.

The function of Nut remover can be summed

up “to provide the most effective spanner

tools system” at low cost. Prof. M.K. Modh

and Prof. V. K. Pandya guided this innovation.




We have not yet been able to explore all possible opportunities for improving access,

affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in the needy domain of

socio-technical applications and for focusing on bottom of the pyramid of our society. These

innovations are one more step in that direction. The students and faculties are being

encouraged and supported to design and develop products and services with more

LPG Refrigerator is designed to work up to

a capacity of 125 Liters. It was found that a

fall of temperature of -5 degree inside

refrigerator could occur within a short time

in testing. It is very handy as well as

portable. Payback time is also good

compared with conventional refrigerator.

It can also be used in low temperature

application like pharmaceutical industry,

dairy industries, cold storage etc. Prof. A. B.

Patel guided the student group led by Patel

Birenkumar K and Patel Chintan D .

An improved solar Distillation method has been

designed by Prof. D. M. Patel and a group of

students. It can receive radiation from all sides and

hence no tracking is required. Maximum distillate

output of 4.2 Liter per day/meter square area can

be achieved. The output can be increased up to 40%

by varying parameters like using coal, fins,

perforated plates etc.




performance, from less material, less cost, less time, less environmental pollution and for the

benefit of the four billion people, whose income levels are even less than two dollars a day.

The Innovative flexible arm designed by GTU

students can be used to lift heavy materials.

Loading and unloading of tools and parts are

possible quite easily. USP of the device are-

(1) Versatility: One Flexible Arm Does All Your

Tapping

(2) No need for additional tooling, since the

necessary tooling is included in the system

(3) Multiple Operations: It can perform

various operations like drilling, tapping,

boring, screw tightening/loosening,

welding.

(4) Can operate in 720°.

(5) cost effective

The aim of this project developed by GTU

students is to reduce the burden on farmers

and to spread maximum mass flow rate from

the spray pump. Hence it has been named as

the push operated spray pump. It costs less

than Rs 6000. It can be used in hilly areas,

home, and field, for the purpose of sprinkle of

water, pesticides and other liquids. It can be

easily handled by any unskilled person. This

innovative product has been guided by Prof.

H.N. Panchal along with Bhambi Vikaskumar

P. as the team leader.




GTU Innovation Council is tapping the best innovations which have been developed by GTU students

and faculties at various colleges and monitoring the ongoing research works by the Innovations Sankuls

and GTU’s Udisha Clubs at GTU colleges. To create awareness among students and researchers at GTU,

the Council is developing modular programs so that a few hundred best innovations can be tried for

patents, at PG, UG and Polytechnic levels. GTU Innovation Council will support such frugal and socially

viable innovations to get patented for preserving credentials and IPR of the innovators. GTU Innovation

Council will support the innovations with some novelty to enable the possibility of mind to market

journey .This will lead innovation fuelled techno-entrepreneurship modules in GTU colleges.

• * * * *

Peddling washing machine is an innovative

product designed by Prof. V. K. Pandya and

his team. It is very useful in rural areas. It

saves detergent and gallons of water. It is

very easy to operate with less effect of

chemicals on the women’s hand. Physical

exercise is also done while using the pedal. It

is very cheap and compact as compared to

other washing machines. It is non-polluting

and saves electricity.




Appendix

PATENTS GRANTED TO INNOVATORS FROM DIFFERENT STATES OF INDIA BETWEEN 1976 and JULY,

2004 AT UNITED STATES PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE (Total patents granted to Indians at USPTO:

1819)

Sr.

No.

State No. of patents filed

1. Maharashtra 545

2. Delhi 226

3. Karnataka 251

4. Andhra Pradesh 176

5. Uttar Pradesh 166

6. Tamil Nadu 65

7. West Bengal 61

8. Gujarat 51

9. Kerala 50

10. Haryana 45

11. Himachal Pradesh 22

12. Goa 17

13. Madhya Pradesh 12

14. Others 132


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GICEA joins hands with GTU Innovation Council

for creating

Innovation Ecosystem in Civil Engineering at GTU

3rd

May 2011

After establishing UDISHA clubs successfully in all the Sankuls, GTU Innovation Council has been

establishing working relationships with state-wide associations in different vertical areas. Dr Rupesh

Vasani organized a meeting of the Executive Committee Members of Gujarat Institute of Civil

Engineers and Architects (GICEA) with Dr. Akshai Aggarwal at GTU Conference Hall on 3rd

May 2011.

Dignitaries like Mr. Bharat Modi, Mr. Vatsal Patel, Mr. Bhadresh Shah, Mr. Dilip Patel, Mr. Mukesh

Majeethia and Mr. Bakul Desai from the GICEA and Prof. Rupesh Vasani from SAL Institute were

present.

GTU Innovation Council expects GICEA to join hands with Civil Engineering (CE) departments of GTU

Colleges to create an ecosystem for teachers and students to revolutionize the present state of

education in CE and Architecture. Most of the Builders and many of the CE firms lie outside the

conventional industrial estates. It was decided that GICEA will give one or two senior members for

each of the 25 Sankuls so that every Sankul Committee may be able to deal with the requirements of

the students in the fields of interest of GICEA. Mr. Modi said that GICEA has around 5000 members

across the state and hence few members would be nominated in each Sankul form GECIA.

During industrial Shodhyatras, 4-5 students and faculty will be linked to dedicated industry of this

sector to define their flow issues and problems scouted from the floors of industries by professors

and industry people. The field engineers may support the students work as mentors when the

students are working on the Final Year project during the next two semesters.

Mr. Bharat Modi, President, GICEA said that GTU Innovation Council could effectively use the

infrastructure of GICEA for optimum benefit by various civil engineering departments. Mr. Bhadresh

Shah emphasized on the need for creating experts in every niche field in civil engineering, especially

transportation and environment. He also suggested benchmarking the present curriculum with

respect to the present industrial needs and joint evaluation of the problem statements.

GICEA members suggested that small modular courses during holidays/week-ends could be designed

for civil engineering students and faculty, based upon the need of cutting edge demands at present.

Dr. Aggarwal said that any Innovation Sankul could take up Continuing Education programs, in

consultation with the Council.

Some experts suggested breaking bigger problems into smaller modules and sharing it with multiple

student groups for a better innovation process. Also, a mindset of ethical, innovative research work

has to be brought about.




A few industries may also support students financially in shaping their theoretical ideas. At the

meeting an emphasis was laid on more practical work at polytechnics and engineering colleges.

GECIA offered to profile labs for material testing, CAD and other state-of-the-art facilities available at

their premises. A top team of GECIA authorities will support GTU Innovation Council in the civil

engineering vertical

Prof. Rupesh Vasani pledged to take a lead role from the academic side for designing the required

framework.

Prof Akshai Aggarwal , VC, GTUdiscussing with industry leaders and authorities from Gujarat

Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects,GICEA for creating innovation ecosystem in these

fields at GTU Innovation Council.




Appendix 1

Meeting with the Executive Committee Members of

Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects

(GICEA)

3rd

May 2011

at GTU Conference Hall

Name Organization (with which the person is affiliated)

Mr. Bharatbhai Modi President, GICEA

Mr. Vatsal Patel ex-President GICEA, Deputy Town Planner, AMC

Mr. Bhadresh Shah ex-President GICEA

Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta Managing Director, Techpedia

Mr. Dilip S Patel Vice-President, GICEA

Mr. Mukesh Majeethia Vice-President, GICEA

Mr. Bakul N Desai Secretary, GICEA

Dr. Rupesh P Vasani Principal, SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering

Research, Ahmedabad

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Naroda Industries Association

hosts

Naroda Innovation Sankul Committee

meeting at Paryarvaran Mandir , Naroda

28/4/2011

The Naroda Industries Association (NIA) hosed a dinner for all the college prinicipals of the Vatva

and Naroda Sankuls at the Paryavaran Mandir, Naroda. The meeting was chaired by Shri

Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Sankul.

The ‘Shodhyatras’ carried out, by the professors and students at Naroda had proved to be hugely

successful. Both the industries and the academia realised that the interaction between the industries

and industries through the Sankuls should be promoted further. The objective of the meeting was to

have an open discussion with principals of various colleges of Pharmacy, Engineering, MBA and MCA.

Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari has played a leading role in the GTU Innovation Council from the very

beginning. The welcome address by Mr. Patwari was followed by a short presentation. Dr. S.

Sharma, Director, Indus Institute of Technology suggested that more floor persons or workers at the

basic levels in industries and students should interact with each other as intensively as possible.

Dr. Rupesh Vasani, Principal, SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering Research, Dean

Engineering at GTU and Director Engineering at the Naroda Sankul said that one needs to find out

various sector wise needs of industries and then determine the sector wise strength in GTU and co-

relate the two by modular programs.

Dr. Subhash Shit from CIPET offered to take a lead role in linking the industries related to plastic

engineering to the corresponding academic establishments/institutions under GTU.

A review of the past activities in the Naroda Sankul was given by Prof. M. R. Patel, Principal, VGEC

LDCE and Co-Chair (Academic) for the Naroda Sankul. He also demonstrated how many students

benefitted from the Shodhyatras.

Mr. Ajay Patel from Akash Dyes and Int., Naroda, pointed out how the industry would benefit by this

new interaction where the user is the key focus. Various industry personnel praised this empathetic

model of scouting and documenting problems and innovations from various sectors.

Prof. M. N. Patel, Principal, LDCE and Co-Chair (Academic) for the Vatva Sankul, shared his vision and

thoughts on increasing the efficiency of the above process.

Mr. Sailesh Patwari offered the infrastructure and human resources of NIA for use by the Sankul. He

also offered to nominate 20 persons from industries of various disciplines who would be members of

the Sankul Committee. Both trained/untrained, educated/uneducated industry workers at all levels

could help evaluate the problem statements. He requested all the Principals to motivate students

and faculties to visit the industries and document their observations. He narrated a few successful

cases wherein waste was converted into useful raw material for producing energy and economy.

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Dr. Akshai Aggarwal and Hiranmay Mahanta shared the vision of a progressive university and

Techpedia, which jointly with industries can create a research ecosystem where academia will map

their industrial needs directly. Dr. Aggarwal stressed on the importance of linking as many SMEs as

possible to GTU students during the summer vacation so that every pre-Final Year student at GTU is

able to obtain an Industry Defined Problem for his Final Year project.

Principals of various pharma colleges requested to be linked with the pharma-related industries so

that the interested students could start hunting for problems and work towards possible solutions.

Malav Kansara, one of the student co-ordinators, shared his experience of various Shodhyatras and

suggested ways to improve and develop the process. Shahzad Karkhanawala, another student co-

ordinator, said that he had been able to select four problem statements in the environment sector

for the students of LDCE.

It was decided that periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee will be arranged either at a college or

at so that formal as well as informal relationships can be built up within the entire innovation

ecosystem.




GTU Innovation Council Nominates Directors for Degree Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy,

MBA and MCA for Innovation Sankuls

6th

May 2011

A meeting to welcome the Directors of various Innovation Sankuls was held at GTU conference

room on 6th

May 2011.

Every Sankul Committee has two Co-Chairmen, one from the industry and the other from a GTU College.

The Principals of all the Colleges in particular Sankul area are members of the Committee. Other

members of the Committee will be some prominent industry leaders and industry chamber authorities

for facilitating the process. Every Sankul has Directors (preferably the Principal of an institute under the

Sankul) for sectors like Degree Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA in each Sankul who will

represent their respective sectors in the Sankul activities. The Directors of the various verticals will have

to take care of the following activities:

1. To arrange periodic meetings among other Principals of the same vertical under a particular

Sankul to design branch-specific road maps.

2. To ask the Principals to allocate specific teachers to 30-40 students of each College who will take

care of Industrial Shodh Yatras.

3. To develop an implementation protocol for ensuring that every Pre-Final Year student gets and

understands the Form for scouting and documenting of IDPs (Industry Defined Projects) from

industries during Industrial Shodh Yatras during the months of June and July. (For this purpose, a

draft Form can be obtained from GTU Innovation Council. However the Form may be modified

or redesigned, if required)

4. To design an algorithm to map every 3-4 student (along with their faculty, if possible) to a

specific industry / MSME.

5. To monitor evaluation of IDPs in early final year and to submit them to GTU.

6. To maintain healthy interaction with nearby industries of the same vertical through periodic

meetings both at industry chambers and at various colleges under the respective Innovation

Sankul.

7. To provide periodic updates / reports of activities / research developments / needs / meetings

and associated things to GTU Innovation Council. These will be shared in the public domain so

that Sankuls can learn about best practices from one another.

8. To locate innovative ideas / projects of your domain and Sankul, which need support in IPR,

product designing support and any further requirement which can be directly taken care of by

GTU Innovation Council.




9. To arrange periodic interactions with Udisha Clubs, students and faculties of various institutes to

take their inputs in designing the local policies and disseminating information about the

progress and programs of GTU Innovation Council and respective Sankuls.(The objective is to

motivate the faculty members to participate in the industry-institute inter-action and to help

make it more intensive.)

10. To work for ensuring that all the Udisha Clubs in each of the Colleges are activated and that they

play a significant role in policy designing and executing it.

Honorable VC, GTU, Prof Akshai Aggarwal felicitating the nominated Directors for Degree

engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of respective of Innovation Sankul of Boroda-1

and Mehshana .




A Report on the Progress of Udisha Clubs in Colleges all over the State

GTU‘s Udisha Clubs have achieved significant progress during last week. Many Innovation clubs have

attempted to build the capacity of students and faculties who will lead the Industrial Shodh Yatras

during summer 2011. At these Shodh Yatras, students will map the industrial needs (Industry Defined

Projects, IDPs) across the MSMEs and business sectors. GTU is the first university to establish more than

350 innovation clubs inside the university, consisting of faculties and students of Engineering, Pharmacy,

Diploma, MCA and MBA.

Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot has organized the first meeting, of the UDISHA Clubs at

‘GTU Innovation Sankul – Rajkot- 1’ on Saturday, 30/04/2011, from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. Dr. J. V.

Desai, the Principal of Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, welcomed the delegates from various

GTU institutions and a vibrant discussion was held to explore the available possibilities and

opportunities.

Dr. J. V. Desai (Principal, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot), Dr. T. R. Desai (Principal,

R.K. Group of Pharmacy, R.K. Group of Colleges), Dr. M.V. Garach (Principal, Government Engineering

College, Rajkot), Dr. Abhay Dharmsi (Principal, Atmiya Institute of Pharmacy, Rajkot), Dr. Vikas Arora

(Dean MBA/MCA, Atmiya Institute of Pharmacy, Rajkot), Prof. D. D. Shukla (I/C Principal, Atmiya

Institute of Technology & Science for Diploma Studies, Rajkot.) and Prof. A. M. Kothari (Faculty

coordinator UDISHA club, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot.) took part in the discussion

to develop a locally relevant framework for the Innovation Sankul.

Similarly C. K. Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology, Surat arranged a meeting between

4:00 to 5:30 pm at the institute seminar room. Dr. A. H. Gandhi shared the necessary info and

appreciated suggestions from pre final year students and their faculty members. They decided to keep




each of the students in a direct loop of information networks on innovation. This will inspire them to be

more innovative both in product and process designing.

Dr. H N Shah, Coordinator of UDISHA club at CSPIT, discussed about the aim and vision of innovation

Sankuls and informed the participants about coordinator of each Sankuls as recently announced by

GTU.The participant among student and faculty members appreciated the inclusion of industry defined

projects and practical learning approach based on innovation into academic system.

A meeting of UDISHA club executive committee was conducted on 28 April 2011 in the presence of Dr.

Abhijeet Chatterjee at Dr. J. K. Patel Institute of Management where all executive committee members

along with faculty coordinator were present and took active participation at the institute. The most

encouraging part of the meeting was all the members are quite confident on the initiative of University

and support. Apart from the routine industry visit the member suggested that they could generate some

additional leads with industry for Innovation.




Prof. Chintan Modi, UDISHA club coordinator, GCET arranged a similar meeting on 29th April, 2011 at

the college level.

GTU Udisha club at GOVT ENGG COLLEGE, SURAT arranged an interactive discussion secession led by

Prof. Jayesh Patel and udisha members.

Dr. S. T. Rajan, Principal, Om Shanti Engineering College and Prof. A. K. Dhandhiya , co-ordinator

Udisha club organized an Awareness Program at the college on 30th April at 10:00 AM in conference

Room.

LDRP – ITR - Gandhinagar organized first formal meet of the Executive Committee of the UDISHA Club

of LDRP –ITR on 28th April – 09. Prof. Keyur Shah welcomed all those, present at the meeting. A

decision was taken to inform the whole of the student community about the oncept and action agenda

of the GTU Innovation Council so that the optimum expertise of technical community can be harnessed

in GTU. Dr. Gargi Rajpara (Principal – LDRP ITR) presented detailed guidelines of activities under

UDISHA Club. As a part of future planning, initiative steps were decided like spread awareness about the

club activities amongst the students; identify the industries of various engineering field during summer

vacation, plan for industrial visits during the next semester etc.

Mr V.P.Lunja Chairperson of the GTU Innovation Club at S.D.Patel Polytechnic-Gadha arranged a

meeting of the Club last week. Mr. Akshay Kansara, Co-ordinator of this club gave an oral presentation

about the ‘Innovation Sankul” to the members. All the members appreciated the innovative task

initiated by GTU.




Dr. Gargi Rajpara (Principal – LDRP-ITR) and Prof. Keyur Shah (Coordinator-UDISHA Club) are sharing

their views with their Udisha Club members on the theme of GTU Innovation Council to bind industry-

academia together.

Mr. Pravesh Bhadviya (Director – Project and Corporate Affairs, Sabar Institute of Technology for Girls

and Mr. Rajesh Lavingia, Coordinator of Udisha club arranged a meeting on 29th April, 2011 . In this

meeting, following decisions were taken:

(1) To plan a ‘Shodhyatra’ in due course of time till 30th and to make it a regular practice from the

upcoming semesters.

(2) To affiliate the institute with 4-5 industries in the region within a short duration for regular

Industrial visits & summer training etc.




(3) To upload the presentation on the institute’s website to make students and their parents aware

about the initiatives taken by GTU and its affiliated Colleges

Ms. Mansi Patel, Ms. Kruti Lavingia, Mr. Jigar Shah, Ms. Neelu Kanabar, Mr. Ajit Pujara and Ms. Atashi

Ajmera were the key faculty members who participated in the above brain storming secession.

Silver Oak College of Engg & Tech arranged a conference chaired by Principal Dr. P. K. Shah on 29 April

2011 at 12.15pm. Udisha Co-coordinator Prof. J .B.Sarvaiya , T & P Officer Mr. Jagat Shah, Faculty

members Ms. Krupa Patel, Mr. Aashish Kacha, Mr. Amit Agrawal, Mr. Jagat Shah, Ms. Hasumati Patel

and student members were invited to share their thoughts and inputs.

Shantilal Shah Pharmacy College has conducted

the meeting and presentation to all pre final

year students and faculty members on 30th

April 2011 about GTU Innovation Council.

Dr.Pankaj H. Prajapati of Shri Sarvajanik

Pharmacy College, Mehsana conducted a

seminar-cum-presentation and shared his ideas

on innovation-driven pharmacy education

ecosystem.




S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot has organized the first meeting of ‘Udisha Club’, framed as per

the direction of GTU, on 30th April, 2011, Saturday during 12:00 noon to 01:00 pm. Dr. Manish A.

Rachchh, Mrs. Parula Patel, Mr. Pinakin Jadav, Mr. Mehul Rana and associate team participated in

discussion on developing innovating innovation ecosystem in pharmacy education sphere. Dr. Manish A.

Rachchh discussed about GTU policies regarding the final year student projects by identifying Industry

defined problems (IDP) and to do so by arranging ‘Industrial Shodh Yatras” during the upcoming

summer. Dr. Manish A. Rachchh suggested approaching directly to different pharmacy SMEs and MSMEs

by sending a letter highlighting our objectives for IDP as well as for ‘Shodh Yatra’ in the beginning stages.

Faculty and student members were given responsibility to compile collect and co-ordinate with different

pharmacy industrial clusters across Gujarat and specific faculty members were assigned for each

pharmacy cluster of Gujarat.




Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering - UDISHA Club has organized a meeting at “Techsat Seminar

Hall, S.K.Campus- Visnagar on 27th April, 2011 during 4:00pm to 5:00pm. At the beginning of the

meeting Mr. Krunal K. Patel - Training and Placement Officer gave a brief introduction regarding

objectives of “UDISHA CLUB” set-up by GTU. Dr. P.T. Kulkarni – Patron of the Udisha Club and Co-

Chairman of GTU’s Mehasana Innovation Sankul, gave an oral presentation about the ‘Innovation

Sankul”. All the members of the club and students appreciate the new initiative introduced by the GTU.

All Club Members including students jointly worked on an Action Plan to conduct Shodh Yatras, as

proposed by GTU. The Training and Placement Cell has been given the responsibility to develop a full

project report up on “Shodh Yatras” by 15th May, 2011. Finally it was decided to schedule such

meetings on 15th of each month.

Mr. Shailesh K. Patel (i/c Principal of SSPC) and Mr. Sanjay K. Soni (L.E.E. & Co-ordinator of UDISHA

club) arranged a meeting of the Club at SSPC College on April 29/04/11.




Dr. Jayeshkumar S. Patel, Principal, VADODARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, KOTAMBI & Patron –

UDISHA Club arranged a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Club and Professors and HODs on

30/04/2011 at the institute. Prof. Praful P. Chudasama, Prof. A. S. Mandot, Prof. Pranav Bhagaonakar,

Prof. Praful P. Chudasama & Prof. Amit Chuahan shared their views on research ideas and the role of

UDISHA members. Prof. Pradip Rana , Prof. Spruha Lad and Prof. Ajaysinh Rathod discussed the issues

of innovative projects and models to the members . It was proposed to establish a research centre on a

specified field in the college campus.




G.P.Rajkot arranged a meeting chaired by Shri K.R.KHATRI ( I/c Principal G.P.RAJKOT) . Shri K.V.Dave,

Institute Co- ordinator –UDISHA Club, Shri V A Chikhalia, Shri K L Makwana, Shri N R Suchak, Shri N N

Hansalia, Shri T P Chanpura, Shri J B Vala and Shri V N Kaila were key participants in the discussion.

Shri K.V.Dave Institute Co- ordinator –UDISHA Club explained the implementation of Shodh Yatra. The

mechanism for sending the pre final year students during the summer to various industries of Rajkot

zone and to start finding out prevailing technical problems in industries was which can be solved by

Diploma Level students. At the same time it was decided to strengthen the Industry Institute Interaction

of institute at staff level with integrated efforts of Training & Placement Cell and all Exe. Committee

members.

Similarly the first meeting of Udisha Club was organized at H.J.D. College on 3nd May, 2011. Dr.Ashok

Kandya, the chairman of Udisha Club addressed the members of executive committee. The concepts

like Innovation Sankul, Industrial Shodh Yatra were discussed by the Coordinator Ms. Maitry Vyas .The

meeting ended with question-answer session. The chairman appreciated this step of GTU and said that

this type of activities will surely benefit students in their career.




The first meeting of UDISHA Club of N. G. PATEL POLYTECHNIC, ISROLI-AFWA was held on 4th May,

2011, Wednesday during 12:45 pm to 2:00 pm. Mr. J. B. Misty, Chairman of this Club described the

process of inception and actualization of ‘UDISHA Club’ policy framed by GTU. Mr. M. B. Dhangar,

coordinator of this club gave the power point presentation about ‘Innovation Sankuls” sent by GTU. All

staffs and students showed their enthusiasm and discussed with Mr. M. B. Dhangar the guidelines given

by Dr. Akshai Agrawal, at SCET, Surat where industrial persons were also present. Students were given

the guidelines about the Industrial Defined Problem (IDP). Mr. M. B. Dhangar gave information about

‘Techpedia.in’ website and preparation of documentation.

S.T.B.S.College of Diploma Engineering organized the first meeting of ‘UDISHA CLUB’, under the

Chairmanship of Prof. Y.S. Choupare, Patron of UDISHA Club. Mr K.K. Joshi, Coordinator of UDISHA

Club gave an oral presentation about ‘Innovation Sankul”.




Principal/ Patron of UDISH club NSIT, and all other branch wise Coordinators of UDISHA Club arranged

a meeting on 2nd of May. In this session participants discussed the future plan of the Club. As a part of

Shodh Yatra they arranged one site visit for all 6th semester students of Electrical and Mechanical to

Saradar Sarovar dam. The institute arranged one site visit for 4th semester civil students at Bopal site

for Bakeri Infrastructure. A group of 4th semester civil engineering students is also working for one

project "How to minimize the cost of energy of college building and reduce the temperature inside the

building in summer", under the guidance of Prof Shakil Malek of NSIT.

A meeting of UDISHA club of Government Engineering College, Rajkot was held on 4 May 2011 at 11.30

a.m. in Seminar Hall of E.C. Department. 25 club members (faculties as well as students) attended the




meeting, chaired by Prof. M.P.Jani, Institute UDISHA Coordinator. The presentation on ‘GTU Innovation

Sankuls: Building a new Collaboration Model’ was delivered by Dr. S. S. Singh. Prof. A.J. Mankad

discussed the role of institute and students in UDISHA club. She also discussed the possible ways to

achieve the objectives of the club. The members also discussed about future course of action regarding

GTU innovation Sankuls, final year projects and Shodh Yatra.

The below points were appreciated as the unique features of GTU Innovation Council after interacting

with around 5 dozen GTU’s Udisha clubs (Innovation Clubs ) and their members in last week.


1) Creating User Defined Innovation Eco-system- To create value for the research work, that has

already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a User defined innovation

ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU are now defining the user’s (industry,

society, and business) need via Industrial Shodh Yatras which will be converted as final year project

/thesis in UG, PG, and PhD level at GTU from July 2011. Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based

on real industry floor issues at GTU and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to

MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) of country every year.

2) Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research- All GTU research works in UG and PG level

are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at www.techpedia.in .This will map

the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and innovation quotient of the university will go up in a

single stroke. By scouting the IDPs (industry defined projects) from floors of MSMEs (Micro, Small &




Medium Enterprises) GTU students and faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry clusters of

Gujarat from all engineering disciplines.

3) Democratizing innovation management process- To ensure the active participation of each

student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised 3 stage systems by creating GTU

Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. 370 Innovation Clubs

(Udisha) have already been established in GTU colleges by now and by April 2011, 495 innovation clubs

will be institutionalized in the entire GTU system. An udisha club consists of students and faculties of

each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all vertical industry association

representatives, who will take care of specific branch of engineering and technology in innovation

clusters/Sankuls.

4) Industry-Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges- Involving GTU

colleges and MSME (Micro, small and medium enterprises) clusters, 25 GTU innovation Sankuls have

been created in various parts of Gujarat. e.g.- Ahmedabad, Vatva, Gandhinagar, Naroda, Vadodara,

Godhra, Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Surat, Vapi, Ankleshwer, Rajkot, Morbi, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh,

Kuchchh, Surendranagar, Mehshana, Patan etc. The Innovation Sankuls will have 18-25 colleges of

engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand MSMEs. Some clusters /Sankuls

have been created to address the need of specific sectorial industries in state.

5) Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers - GTU will reward 2 credits in its

academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small

and medium enterprises) of the State. Best 1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to

University in July after industrial Shodh Yatra in summer of 2011 will be supported by the university to

drive the ideas to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to solve these

IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.

6) Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module development-

Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works at GTU of each industry defined

projects. For the very 1st time GTU will document the progress of its all research works in real time so

that a few cycles of attempts of research in coming year will lead the raw IDPs (MSME industry

problems) to products or solutions which can be absorbed by industries. GTU will support the best

solutions to reach a product level conceptualization and then students will be encouraged to develop

entrepreneurship at the UG level as it has been successfully done in experimental module in august –

December 2010. This will foster innovation fueled student enterprise modules and a few dozen student

startups can certainly be realized at the end of the academic year.




7) Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st time GTU Innovation Council will not only focus

on the desired production solution for industries but it is also emphasizing on documenting the best

ways to succeed in specific type of research works and to note down the ways which increases the time

cycle of developing solution in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties at

multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of collaborative research and

product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the time cycle of developing innovative products

and processes for industries.

8) Socializing Technologies- GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor issue of industries

but also scouting and documenting the socio-technical issues of tribal people and the most backward

districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh Yatras GTU students are interacting with the rural and

tribal people to map their socio-technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing

low cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji seeds in Dang

districts.

9) Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi together

(promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)-GTU Innovation Council will help the

best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get promoted and the University will help

them in protecting their intellectual property rights (IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable

knowledge economy with proper credit protection with respect to the innovators. Awareness will be

created among students and faculties about above issues to increase the efficiency of the system at

each Sankul and Innovation Club level.

10) Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations- In an attempt to promote the concept of Gandhian

engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association with

Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has initiated one of its kind of award to honour the best cost

effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the masses. The categories for the awards

have been instituted after the 32 engineering disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in

each category of under-graduate, post-graduate and diploma courses. The award will encourage and

support students and faculty to design cost-effective and eco-friendly products and services for the

larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put their efforts together in socializing

technologies. Students and researchers at GTU will not only innovate to create value for money but also

to create value for many. The innovation clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from

less for more and more.

11) Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation

creation- GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in attempting to solve




projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while putting 10 months of effort per year

constitute nearly 1 million human months of efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will

effectively harness the students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative

environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming 3 years with a “feel

the difference approach”.

12) Exchanging mentors from industry and academia- GTU innovation Sankuls will exchange floor

engineers from various MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) with corresponding faculties of

particular stream which will further lead to design a road map in academia for a need based evolution.

Students will get a practical insight and feedbacks from industry floors will enable them in blending their

thoughts with proper orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real life issues.

GTU Innovation Council will work

•To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability and innovation

•To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D institutions with the help

of Techpedia and existing R&D infrastructures and ecosystem.

•To facilitate innovations by MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) by value addition through

support by GTU students and faculties

•To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation by identifying the problems,

designing and developing the product or improving the business / industrial processes, mentoring

students/researchers during the project and evaluation of the project.




GTU innovation Sankul Vadodara-2

Report of the 1st

Meeting of the Members of the Sankul Committee

29th

April 2011

The first meeting of the GTU innovation Sankul Vadodara-2’s Committee was held

at Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology on Friday, 29.04.2011 in the presence of Dr.

Akshai Aggarwal, Honorable Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Technological University.

AGENDA

The Agenda for the meeting with Honorable Vice Chancellor of GTU, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal at

Parul Campus, At. Limda, Tal. Waghodia, Dist. Vadodara scheduled on 29-04-2011 at 02.00 P.M

1. Consideration of objectives of Innovation Sankul (IS)

2. Design activities for attainment of objectives of IS

3. Selection of modality for activities of IS

4. Determination of planning, phasing & scheduling of activities to be undertaken.

5. Delegation of duty, responsibility & authority of members of the IS.

6. Formation of task group for accomplishment of the activities.

7. Design & delegation of assignment of task group members.

8. Design instruments for implementation & assessment of the scheme.

9. Finalization of Projects to be undertaken by Final Year students of Degree / Diploma

Engineering, MBA, MCA students. Projects should be live and useful to the industry.

10. Finalization of co-chair person from industry & members of industry for the GTU

Innovative Sankul.




Following Illustrative objectives & activities of GTU Innovation Sankul were discussed in the

meeting with the Honorable Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Technological University

Objectives:

To make the Industry – Institute Interaction meaningful, clear understanding of educational

objectives is essential on the part of teachers, industry and the students. These educational

objectives could be:

• To make technical teachers aware of the engineering needs of the industry, working

environment of the industry and latest industrial techniques and practices.

• To incorporate industrial training and some other inputs from the industry in technical

curriculum so as to make the students fit for industrial environment and to develop

capabilities of becoming self employed.

• To inform the industry about the programs of technical education and have their ideas

for system improvements, thereby benefiting both the systems.

• To provide assistance to the industry in the selection of suitable candidates in campus

interview and otherwise.

• To undertake Research and Development facilities at institutional level for developing

new products, processes and technologies for the industry.

• To offer suitable training programmes for working personnel from the industry and to

offer consultancy for solving some of the industrial problems.

• To organize campus placement for mutual benefit of institutes & industries.

Activities:

Over the years, several Research Institutions in the country have conducted a lot of research in

the field and chalked out some of the areas for improving industry – institute interaction.

• Technical Institutes should invite experienced engineers from the industry at all stages

of design, development and review of appropriate curricula.

• Technical institutions should organize periodic visits of the students to the industry for

achieving curricular objectives.

• Engineering Colleges / Polytechnics should plan to send their teachers for industrial

training in order to make them aware of the changing technological scenario.




• In order to promote involvement of teachers with the world of work, the institutes

should undertake consultancy services and research and developmental activities to

help industry in developing new products, processes and technologies.

• Technical Institutions should organize industrial in-plant training during summer

vacations in a planned manner. Actual industrial problems should be given to the

students. Such projects can develop entrepreneurial qualities among the students.

• Technical Institutes should organize campus interviews in cooperation of MNC & large /

medium / small scale industries.

Advantages:

The close collaboration of industry and institute will greatly benefit both the systems. The

major outcomes will be better teaching – learning with relevant curricula and instructional

resources producing better quality technicians with appropriate level of practical knowledge

and skill required by the industry. The education system will have technical teachers with

improved awareness of industrial techniques and practices, emerging technologies and actual

problems in the industry related to production or otherwise.

Industry will be benefited through enhanced quality of technical manpower and easy selection

of right type of persons. As engineers working in the industry will be actively involved in design,

development and revision of technical curricula, they can make it according to the needs of

industry. Consultancy and testing facilities provided by the instate will also be beneficial to the

industry. The research and development facilities undertaken by the institutes will be an

additional advantage to the industry and the industry will willingly sponsor and finance such

projects. By rendering Research and Development services, the technical institute will have

additional budget which can be spent for the betterment of quality of education. .

Decisions:

1. To see that an Udisha Club is made active at every College

2. To arrange periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee either at a college or at an industry so

that formal as well as informal relationships among the Committee Members can be built up

3. To organize meetings of teachers (and of 3rd

Year and 4th

Year teachers in particular) and

students (pre-final year students in particular to inform every pre-final year student about the

requirement of finding an Industry Defined Problem during June and July.




Appendix 1

The following members were present during the first meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul

Vadodara-2 held on 29-04-2011 at Parul Campus, At. Limda, Tal. Waghodia, Dist. Vadodara

scheduled on at 02.00 P.M:

Sr. No. Name Designation Institute / University

1 Dr. Akshai K. Aggrawal Vice Chancellor Gujarat Technological University

2 Dr. Vilin P.Parekh Principal Parul Institute of Engineering &

Technology

3 Dr. Tolaram L. Popat Principal Parul Institute of Technology

4 Dr. Rajesh K.S. Principal Parul Institute of Pharmacy

5 Dr. Vandana B. Patel Director Baroda College of Pharmacy

6 Dr. PGK Murthy Director

Parul Institute of Engineering &

Technology –

MBA Programme

7 Dr. Abhijeet Chatarjee Director Dr. J.K. Patel Institute of Management

8 Prof. Narendra K.

Kapoor Director Parul Institute of Management

9 Prof. Shital T. Shah Principal


Technology –

(Diploma Studies) - 1st

Shift

10 Prof. Archana Nanoty Principal


Technology –

(Diploma Studies) - 2nd

Shift

11 Prof. Jatin S. Vaidhya Principal Parul Polytechnic Institute – 1st

Shift




Sr. No. Name Designation Institute / University

12 Prof. Devang Shah Principal Parul Polytechnic Institute – 2nd

Shift

13 Prof. Varang Acharya Associate

Professor


Technology -

MCA Programme

14 Prof. Nikunj Patel Assistant

Professor & TPO Parul Institute of Pharmacy

15 Prof. Amod Kolte Associate

Professor & TPO


Technology

16 Prof. Akshay Palvankar Assistant

Professor & TPO Parul Institute of Management

17 Prof. Sudeshana Pai Assistant

Professor & TPO Dr. J.K. Patel Institute of Management

18 Dr. M. Geetha Principal Prashant & Mittal Kansara Pharmacy

College

19 Dr. S.S. Pancholi Principal Babariya Institute of Pharmacy

20 Dr. Ashok R. Pandya Director Babariya Institute of Technology

21 Prof. Samip S. Shah Assistant

Professor Pioneer Institute of Pharmacy

22 Dr. Dhanajay Meshran Professor Sigma Institute of Pharmacy




Appendix 2

During the first meeting of the Sankul Committee (SC), it was decided to request the following

persons to join the Sankul Committee of GTU Innovation Sankul Vadodara-2 as members

representing the industries.

Sr.

No. Name Designation Name of Company

Sankul

Designation

1 Ms. Geeta Goradiya President Federation of Gujarat Industry Co -Chairman

2 Mr. Brijesh Patel Director Makcur Laboratories Ltd. Member

3 Mr.Ambalal Patel Director Centurion Laboratories Member

4 Mr. J. D. Patel Director Baroque Pharmaceuticals Pvt.

Ltd. Member

5 Mr. Ketan Parekh CEO Astral Pharmaceutical Industries Member

6 Mr. Himanshu Jani Sr. HR Manager Alembic Ltd. Member

7 Mr. Anand Swaroop AGM - HR Torrent Research Centre Member

8 Mr. Dayaram Damle Manager HR Sun Pharma Advance Research

Company Ltd. Member

9 Mr. J. J. Chaudhuri Director Gujarat Liqui Pharmacaps Pvt.

Ltd. Member

10 Mr. Mitul Patel Manager- CSS Ambuja Cements Ltd Member

11 Mr.Durba

Bhattacharya Manager HR

Cube Constructions Engineering

Ltd. Member

12 Mr. Paresh Patel Head - Technical Jaypee Cements Ltd. Member




Sr.


Sankul

Designation

13 Mr. Prerak Joshi Manager HR Ceat Tyres Ltd. Member

14 Mr. Rajesh Varghese Head - HR Sayaji Tempo

(Force Motors) Member

15 Mr. Jiten Jesing Director Utility Power Test Member

16 Mr.Bhavin Rana Director Net Xpert Web Solution Pvt.

Ltd. Member

17 Mr. Deep Trivedi Project Leader I-Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Member

18 Mr. Ramchandra

Bhatt HR- Manager Hirel Electronics Pvt. Ltd. Member

19 Mr. Prajose John Manager -

Training E-Infochips Ltd. Member

21 Miss Rinku Patel Manager HR System Level Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Member

22 Mr. Nitin Paranjape Director Edutech Systems Pvt. Ltd. Member

23 Mr. S. Sunder Technical -

Manager Matrix Comsec Pvt. Ltd. Member

24 Mr. Harshvadan Jani Head - Technical Huawei Telecommunications

Ltd. Member

25 Mr. J.J Pandya Manager –

T & D Essar Steel Ltd. Member

26 Mr. G.T Patel Director Twin Engineers Member

27 Mr. R.B.Patel Head - Technical Twin Engineers Member




Sr.


Sankul

Designation

28 Mr. Richard Pintoo Head - HR Danke Power Ltd. Member

29 Mr. Kiran Pradhan. Manager - HR Shailey Engineering & Plastics

Pvt. Ltd. Member

30 Mr. Yash Thakkar Chartered

Accountant Shirish Desai & CO. Member

31 Mr. Priyanshu Singh Manager HR &

ERP Collabera Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Member

32 Mr. Ashutosh Sandhe Company

Secretary A. A. Sandhe & Co. Member

33 Mrs. Sonali Mungale

Manager- Site

People

Development

Areva T&D India Pvt. Ltd. Member

34 Mr. Rajesh Palkar Head - HR Rubamin Ltd. Member

35 Mr. Nitish Shah Executive Vice

President Kotak Securities Ltd. Member

36 Mr. Hardik Dave Project Manager Gujarat Maritime Board Member

37 Mr. Hiren Antani Resident Editor Gujarat Samachar Member

38 Mr. Anil K. Kapoor GM-HR Transpek Industry Ltd. Member




Appendix 3: A few photographs

Members of Management & Engineering Faculty

Members of Pharmacy & Engineering Faculty




Honorable Vice Chancellor addressing the

Members of GTU Innovation Sankul




Appendix 4: A few press clippings

Media Coverage of the first meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul

Sandesh Vadodara Edition, 30-04-2011




Divya Bhaskar, Vadodara Edition, 30-04-2011




Gujarat Samachar, Vadodara Edition, 03-05-2011




GTU Innovation Sankul Rajkot-3

Report of meeting between GTU Innovation Sankul Colleges and GIDC Lodhika at GTU

Innovation Sankul Rajkot-3 Hosted by VVP Engineering College.

On 12th

of May 2011, VVP Engineering College invited the representative of all the colleges and

GIDC (Lodhika), Kalawad Road Rajkot. The Agenda of meeting was to quick start the activity

of GTU Innovation Sankul Rajkot 3 and gear up UDISHA Club at each and every college. This

meeting was organized under the guidance of Co-chairman of Sankul, Dean of GTU Academic

and Principal of VVP Engineering College Dr. Sachin Parikh by UDISHA Club VVP

engineering College. Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman of VVP Engineering College was

especially present to attend and inspire the activities of GTU Innovation Sankul.

The program was attended by the Mr. N H Kantesariya and Mr. Uttambhai Patel of GIDC

(Lodhika), Kalawad Road, Rajkot and various representatives of the Sankul Colleges. The

program was attended by SJ Thaker Pharmacy College, LTIET, Christ Inst. Of Polytechnic,

Christ Inst. of Management, KNV Inst of business Management, KNV Inst of Pharmacy,

Aurobindo Inst of Management, Shri Sunshine Education Trust etc and staff members of VVP

Engineering College.

The main point we discussed in the meeting was;

1. How the Concept of GTU Innovation Sankul emerging.

2. To make the colleges of the Sankul familiar about concept of GTU Innovation Sankul.

3. What is the objective of GTU Innovation Sankul.

4. Why India need to tie the academy and industry.

5. The various awards at International level for the concept of GTU innovation Sankul.

6. Features of GTU innovation Sankul.

7. Role of Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MCA and MBA colleges.

8. Role of Industry.

9. Final Year Projects.




10. Success story of students at GTU.

11. Activities for the Sankul Hosted by VVP Engineering College.

12. Next Goal of the Sankul Activities.

13. Industrial Sodh Yatra.

The program was anchored by Dr. Krishna Joshi, UDISHA Club member, Bio-Technology

Department. The program was started by giving the bouquet of flowers to the representatives of

GIDC (lodhika), Chairman of VVP Shri Pravinbhai Maniar and Principal of VVP Engineering

College and Co-chairman of Rajkot 3 GTU Innovation Sankul.

The welcome speech for the Program was given by Co-chairman of the Sankul Dr. Sachin

Parikh. He had given the idea for what is the basic logic of Foundation behind the idea of GTU

Innovation Sankul. He said that Indian Society is highly innovative and educated. In past, the

products of India were widely used across the globe as India had some of the unique products

available from the society due to innovative and scientific background. But gradually due to

collapse of the Great universities of India and failure of traditional ‘Pathshala’ system. The

universities, established by the English and after Independence by us, have failed to make their

students more practically sound. He emphasized on Practical Knowledge of the students and said

that for that we can take the maximum advantage to change this scenario by the novel concept of

GTU Innovation Sankul and invited all to work together to strengthen the activities of the

Sankul.

Prof. Amit D Degada, UDISHA Club Convener, VVP Engineering College gave a presentation

about GTU Innovation Sankul and UDISHA Club. He presented the idea of GTU Innovation

Sankul and Key factors behind it. He conveyed the Vision of GTU VC Dr. Akshai Aggarwal and

Techpedia MD, Mr. Hiranmaya Mahanta about Final year Projects. He briefly presented the idea

of “Shodh Yatra” and said how the shodh yatra can be helpful to nurture the creativity and

innovation of the Students and what the GTU wants from every Final year students of




Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA. He informed all the invitees about the 9th

April, 2011 Meeting between GTU VC and Leading Industrialist of Rajkot Hosted by the VVP

engineering College and GIDC Lodhika Industrial Association. He also presented the role of

UDISHA Club to realize the concept of GTU Innovation Sankul. Finally he gave the idea of

some of the success story of GTU students. Finally Prof. Amit Degada and One Techpedia

member, Mr. Shrey, sent from Ahmedabad by Techpedia.in, addressed the questions of the

invited members. In the Question answer session, the following questions were raised.

Q. Can we go to any industry, if any Industry Specific to the branch is not available in city?

Ans. Yes. With some examples and said that GTU has tied-up with ASSOCHAM, Electrical-

Electronics Association, Pharmaceuticals and Civil Engineering Association. This would

facilitate GTU students visit the Industries

Q. Can we go to industry that is not falling in our Sankul e.g. Morbi ceramic Industries?

Ans. Yes.

Prof Amit Degada, also emphasized to academician that we should work with positive

mind set and make Industralist more ‘feel Good’ by the efforts of the faculties and the students.

He said that it’s said that in 21st century whole world looks for progress it look at India and

when India look for progress, it looks at Gujarat but we should make this further that

when Gujarat looks for progress it will look at GTU Innovation Sankul. Let’s make the #1

state further strengthen its position.

In that session it was suggested by one faculty that GTU should try to omit some first

year subjects which is not useful for students in future (e.g. MOS is not useful for EC, IC, CE, IT

and Electrical) and introduce some subjects that will enhance the creativity of the students.




Mr. N H Kantesariya, Secretary of GIDC Lodhika Industrial Association (GLIA), in his

speech gave full assurance to all academicians that the GLIA would be ready to take any steps

for advancing the concept of GTU Innovation Council. He also asked to put more emphasize on

long term training of the students in terms of 30 to 45 days in between semesters. He praised the

effort of Dr. Akshai Aggarwal of GTU Innovation Sankul for the first time in INDIA.

Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, who is the source of Inspiration for VVP engineering college also

praised the efforts of GTU VC Dr. Akshai Aggarwal. He also said that GTU also knows the

importance of Rajkot as Educational and Industrial hub and that’s why Dr. Aggarwal has given 3

GTU Innovation Sankuls. He also presented the concept of ‘DARSHAN YATRA’, in which we

should take our first year students to visit the local industry as soon as they come to the first year

and develop the atmosphere from the first year itself. For Second year Students, he suggested to

organize ‘ANUBHAV YATRA’ in that all the second year students should be taken into the

industry which was visited in the first year for a longer duration. He wished his feelings towards

GTU VC Dr. Akshai Agrawal by saying that ‘May God make the novel ideas of GTU VC A-

kshaya (which will never end)’.

At last Vote of thanks was given by Mr. Kunal Khimani, UDISHA Club member, IT

Department, VVP Engineering College.

To make this program successful Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Dr. Sachinbhai Parikh (Co-chairman of

Sankul), Prof. Amit Degada, Convener UDISHA Club, Prof Ashvin Karemore, Co-convener

UDISHA Club, Dr. Krishana Joshi, Prof. Girish Mulchandani, Mr. Bhavesh Dobaria,

Mr. Kunal Khimani, Mr. Kuldeepsinh Rathod, Prof. Dipesh Kundalia and Prof. Jay Joshi had put

the efforts.




Dr. Krishna Joshi, Anchor, Member of

UDISHA Club, Bio-Technology

Department

From Left: Mr. N H kantesariya(

Secratery GIDC Lodhika ind Asso.),

Mr. Pravinbhai maniar (Chairman

VVP Eng College, Mr. Uttambhai

Patel (GIDC Lodhika), Dr. Sachin

parikh (Pricipal VVP and Co-

chairman of GTU Innovation Sankul

Rajkot 3)




Invited Guest Invited Guest

Guest Welcome by Prof Amit Degada Guest Welcome by Prof Ashvin

Karemore

Guest Welcome by Prof Bhavesh

Dobaria

Guest Welcome by Prog Girish

Mulchandani




Welcome speech by Dr. Sachin parikh

(Co-Chairman, Rajkot -3 GTU

Innovation Sankul)

GTU Innovation Sankul Presentation

by Prof Amit D Degada, Convener

UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering

College, Rajkot




College, Rajkot




College, Rajkot




Mr. N H Kantesaria, Secratery GIDC

Lodhika Industries Association

Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman

VVP Engg. College inspiring efforts

of UDISHA Club

Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman

VVP Engg. College presenting the

concept of ‘DARSHAN YATRA’

Mr. Kunal Khimani, UDISHA Club

Member giving Vote of thanks.




UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering College.

From left: Prof Dipesh Kundalia (Mech), Prof Jay Joshi (Mech), Prof. Bhavesh

Dobaria (Elect), Mr. Amit D Degada (Convener, UDISHA Club VVP Eng College),

Dr. Sachin parikh (Co-Chairman, Rajkot 3 GTU Innovation Sankul), Mr. Ashvin L

Karemore (Co-convener, UDISHA Club VVP Eng College), Prof Girish h

Mulchandani (Computer Science), Mr. Kunal Khimani (IT), Dr Krishana Joshi (Bio-

Technology Dept). Behind-Mr. Kuldeepsinh Rathod (Elect).




GTU Innovation Council nominates Directors for Various Innovation Sankuls

12th

May 2011

GTU Innovation council has nominated 24 Directors for various Sankuls in Phase 2 and they will be

taking care of the following activities.

1. To arrange periodic meeting among other principals of the same vertical under a particular

Sankul to design branch specific road maps.

2. To work for ensuring that all the Udisha Clubs in each of the Colleges are activated and that they

play a significant role in policy designing and executing it.

3. To ask the Principals to allocate specific teachers to 30-40 students of each college who will take

care of Industrial Shodh Yatras.

4. To distribute (and to redesign, if required) process formats of scouting and documenting of IDPs

(Industry Defined Projects) from industries during shodh yatras.

5. To design an algorithm to map every 3-4 student (along with their faculty, if possible) to a

specific industry / MSME.

6. To monitor evaluation of IDPs in early final year and to submit it to GTU.

7. To maintain healthy interaction with nearby industries of the same vertical through periodic

meetings both at industry chamber and at various colleges under the respective Sankul.

8. To provide periodic updates / reports of activities / research developments / needs / meetings

and associated things to GTU Innovation Council. These will be shared in the public domain so

that Sankuls can learn about best practices from one another.

9. To locate innovative ideas / projects of your domain and Sankul, which need support in IPR,

product designing support and any further requirement which can be directly taken care of by

GTU Innovation Council.

10. To arrange periodic interactions with Udisha Clubs, students and faculties of various institutes to

take their inputs in designing the local policies and disseminating information about the

progress and programs of GTU Innovation Council and respective Sankuls.(The objejctive is to

motivate the faculty members to participate in the industry-institute inter-action and to help

make it more intensive).










Prof(Dr) M G Bhatt Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (Degree Engineering)

Prof. Shyam Varghese Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul. (Diploma Engineering)

Prof. Himal Pandya Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)

Prof. Ms. Saroj Vatsa Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)

Dr. R G Kapadia Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul. (Degree Engineering)

Mr. M M Dalchawal Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)

Mr. Rajesh Dodiya Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)

Mrs. Trupti S Almoula Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul. (MBA)

Ms. Igna Joshi Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (MCA)

Prof. Kantibhai C Patel Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)

Prof. P D Bharadia Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)

Prof. Jayaashish S. Sethi Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)

Prof. Vikram Kaushik Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (MCA)

Mr. Jayprakash V Bholanda Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (Degree Engineering)

Mr. A S Vyas Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)

Dr. Saurabh S Pandya Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul. (Pharmacy)

Dr. M S Trivedi Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)


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GTU’s Udisha Innovation Clubs

GTU Innovation Council has been working to rejuvenate the spirit of innovation and to

nurture and encourage creativity among more than 250,000 students and 10,000 faculty

members in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of Engineering, Management,

Pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnic.

Techpedia had been working to make the information about all the projects done by

engineering students widely available through its web-site. It had also been working on

developing a National mentors Network for student projects.

Since students projects are an important part of the strategies required for the work of GTU

Innovation Council, GTU readily agreed work jointly with Techpedia.in as soon as the

Managing Director of Techpedia.in met the new Vice-Chancellor in June 2010. On 13th July,

2010 GTU invited Prof Anil Gupta to address a conference of the Directors of the MBA

Colleges, affiliated with GTU. While a joint pilot project for offering industry problems to

undergraduate students was taken up in Rajkot region by Mr Hiranmay Mahanta, GTU

organized and participated in a number of industry meetings at Ahmedabad, starting from

August 2, 2010. Once the pilot project started bringing successful results, GTU Innovation

Council work was developed further.

GTU Innovation Council has created 25 Innovation Sankul in Gujarat involving 166 industry

clusters and colleges of GTU. The capacity of each Sankul is being built by involving

faculty members, professionals, students and owners & professionals of industries. Each

Sankul is being encouraged to develop a methodology of working, which inculcates

innovation through joint working. At the end of every year, the working will be modulated

after a review of the work during the year. This will lead to a cycle of capacity building and

renewal during the year. During the summer, thousands of students and faculty members will

work jointly with industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may

relate to improving the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems,

relating to the processes at the industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the output

from the students will be evaluated and the best proposals will be given awards. The project

problems will be uploaded on the Techpedia, the national knowledge portal.



To work with the Sankuls, GTU is establishing Udisha Clubs in every College. More than

300 Udisha Clubs have already sent the working reports. Some of the recent reports are

available on the GTU web-site at:

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/11May/Report%20on%20Last%20week%20activit

ies%20of%20GTU's%20Udisha%20Clubs.pdf

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/11May/meetings%20of%2024%20Udisha%20Clubs_30th%20April%202011.pdf .

Appendix 1 gives briefly the features of the GTU Innovation Council.

Appendix 2 is the note prepared for the College Principals/ Directors of GTU Colleges for

establishing Udisha Innovation Clubs.

* * *



Appendix 1

GTU (Gujarat Technical University) Innovation Council

Her Excellency, the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil has declared the decade of Innovation

2010‐2020 for inclusive growth of the nation. GTU has conceptualized and implemented the

roadmap of innovation in the Indian context and created GTU Innovation council at University level.


Creating User Defined Innovation Eco‐system‐ To create value for the research

work, that has already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a

User defined innovation ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU

are now defining the user’s (industry, society, and business) need via Industrial

Shodh Yatras which will be converted as final year project /thesis in UG, PG, and PhD

level at GTU from July 2011.

Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based on real industry floor issues at GTU

and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to MSMEs (Micro,

Small & Medium Enterprises) of country every year.



Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research‐ All GTU research works in UG

and PG level are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at

www.techpedia.in .This will map the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and

innovation quotient of the university will go up in a single stroke. By scouting the

IDPs (industry defined projects) from floors of MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium

Enterprises) GTU students and faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry

clusters of Gujarat from all engineering disciplines.

Democratizing innovation management process‐ To ensure the active participation

of each student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised 3 stage

systems by creating GTU Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and

Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. More than 300 Innovation Clubs (Udisha) have already

been established in GTU colleges by now and all GTU colleges will be establishing

Udisha clubs by this academic year. An udisha club consists of students and faculties

of each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all vertical industry

association representatives, who will take care of specific branch of engineering and

technology in innovation clusters/Sankuls.

Industry‐Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges‐

Involving GTU colleges and MSME (Micro, small and medium enterprises) clusters,

25 GTU Innovation Sankuls have been created in various parts of Gujarat. e.g.‐

Ahmedabad, Vatva, Gandhinagar, Naroda, Vadodara, Godhra, Vallabh Vidya Nagar,

Surat, Vapi, Ankleshwer, Rajkot, Morbi, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kuchchh,

Surendranagar, Mehshana, Patan etc. The Innovation Sankuls will have 18‐25

colleges of engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand

MSMEs. Some clusters /Sankuls have been created to address the need of specific

sectorial industries in state.

Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers ‐ GTU will reward 2

credits in its academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined

projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) of the State. Best

1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to University in July after industrial

Shodh Yatra in summer of 2011 will be supported by the university to drive the ideas

to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to solve

these IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.

Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module

development‐ Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works



at GTU of each industry defined projects. For the very 1st time GTU will document

the progress of its all research works in real time so that a few cycles of attempts of

research in coming year will lead the raw IDPs (MSME industry problems) to

products or solutions which can be absorbed by industries. GTU will support the best

solutions to reach a product level conceptualization and then students will be

encouraged to develop entrepreneurship at the UG level as it has been successfully

done in experimental module in august –December 2010. This will foster innovation

fueled student enterprise modules and a few dozen student startups can certainly be

realized at the end of the academic year.

Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st time GTU Innovation Council will

not only focus on the desired production solution for industries but it is also

emphasizing on documenting the best ways to succeed in specific type of research

works and to note down the ways which increases the time cycle of developing

solution in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties at

multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of

collaborative research and product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the

time cycle of developing innovative products and processes for industries.

Socializing Technologies‐ GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor

issue of industries but also scouting and documenting the socio‐technical issues of

tribal people and the most backward districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh

Yatras GTU students are interacting with the rural and tribal people to map their

socio‐technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing low

cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji

seeds in Dang districts.

Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi

together (promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)‐GTU Innovation

Council will help the best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get

promoted and the University will help them in protecting their intellectual property

rights (IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable knowledge economy with proper

credit protection with respect to the innovators. Awareness will be created among

students and faculties about above issues to increase the efficiency of the system at

each Sankul and Innovation Club level.

Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations‐ In an attempt to promote the concept of

Gandhian engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association

with Gujarat Technological University (GTU), has initiated one of its kind of award to

honour the best cost effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the

masses. The categories for the awards have been instituted after the 32 engineering



disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in each category of under‐

graduate, post‐graduate and diploma courses. The award will encourage and support

students and faculty to design cost‐effective and eco‐friendly products and services

for the larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put their efforts

together in socializing technologies. Students and researchers at GTU will not only

innovate to create value for money but also to create value for many. The innovation

clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from less for more and

more.

Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation

creation‐ GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in

attempting to solve projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while

putting 10 months of effort per year constitute nearly 1 million human months of

efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will effectively harness the

students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative

environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming

3 years with a “feel the difference approach”.

Exchanging mentors from industry and academia‐ GTU innovation Sankuls will

exchange floor engineers from various MSMEs (Micro, small and medium

enterprises) with corresponding faculties of particular stream which will further lead

to design a road map in academia for a need based evolution. Students will get a

practical insight and feedbacks from industry floors will enable them in blending

their thoughts with proper orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real

life issues.

GTU Innovation Council will work

•To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability and innovation

•To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D institutions with the help of Techpedia

•To facilitate innovations by MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) by value addition through support by GTU students and faculties

•To create appropriate eco‐systems and environment to foster innovation by identifying the problems, designing and developing the product or improving the business / industrial processes, mentoring students/researchers during the project and evaluation of the project.



Appendix 2

Clubs in GTU Colleges

A Note for Colleges

GTU Innovation Sankuls: To bring industries, businesses and GTU Colleges together, GTU is planning to set up Innovation Sankuls. Each Sankul will represent a cluster of GTU Colleges and the industries in the area. One such Sankul of which your college would be a member will be set up soon by GTU.

A Club at every GTU College: To take advantage of the Sankuls and to organize other placement activities at each College, it has been suggested that every GTU college should set up a Club. The Club may be called the Udisha1 (Universal Development of Integrated Skills through Higher Education) Club of the College.

General Guidelines for setting up a Club:

Each club will have an Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee will have some faculty and students of various branches as members. One of the faculty member will act as its coordinator.

Faculty Members: As far as possible, each Branch should have one faculty member in the Executive Committee.

Student Members: As far as possible, from every Branch, there may be one student from each year. Thus during this semester, from each branch, there may be three students, one each from the first, the second and the third year respectively.

The members of the Executive Committee at a College will be nominated by the Principal/ Director of the College. The Training and Placement Officer of the College may be an important member of the Club.

The Principal/ Director will be the Patron of the Club.

Activities:

1. The club will coordinate the activities of corresponding Navsarjan Sankul at college level.

a. To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industries and the College

b. To decide about the Final Year projects in consultation with industries

1 The name ‘Udisha’ has been borrowed from a similar project of the Commissioner of Higher Education, Government of Gujarat and Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat



c. To be able to seek and get the help of industries in execution of the Final Year project by way of

Mentoring

Help by way of materials

Help in evaluation of the project

d. To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries.

e. To have students and teachers visit industries

f. To have summer internships in the industries

g. To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the industry

h. To participate in the activities of the industry associations for developing a closer inter-action by helping the

i. To organize continuing education programs for industries by assessing the needs of the industry and society.

k. To harness the effective potential of young technical minds and faculties.

2. The Club will work towards ensuring that every student gets an excellent placement after she/ he completes his/ her studies. For this purpose, the activities will be as follows:

a. Providing information about career options and job avenues

b. Career counseling and placement.

c. Training for developing Soft skills

d. Motivational activities

e. Organizing mock-interviews to equip students with interview etiquettes at college level

f. Arranging local campus – interviews

The Club may consult the Principal if it wants to take up any other extra curricular activity.



3. Additional Activities for MBA Colleges: MBA students have to prepare studies on strategies required for global businesses. So they have to study and prepare papers on some specific countries.

When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him become a more creative person. MBA students would require four different types of activities:

TYPE 1: Working with GTU-FSCC to study a financial service offered by some organization and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.

TYPE 2: Working with GTU-CHRSOS to study an organizational structure or the HR policies of some organization or of some large Department of an organization and to determine the skills required for those, who are at various levels in the organization or for those, who are providing a HR service.

TYPE 3: Working with GTU-SCM to study a marketing service offered by some organization and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.

TYPE 4: GTU Objectives in developing country-specific studies: Our management institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students by using Harvard case studies as well as similar material from other good sources. Our management and business schools have also conducted many good studies about businesses in China, USA and a few other countries. However Indian Universities must study the business environment from the Indian perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A study from the Indian perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding as compared to a study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such studies may be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the world’s store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to the available studies from the American, European and the Chinese perspectives.

GTU Strength for becoming a leader in country-specific studies: Universities can conduct such studies and keep them updated only through ‘relay studies’, whereby a student performs the study and it is then carried forward, improved and updated by the next year’s student. GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than 1,000 faculty members. Many of the faculty members are interested in the global business environment. So GTU is uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-house of information about the business environment in the 200 countries of the third and the fourth world. GTU proposes to encourage its students and faculty members to conduct such studies and it proposes to put such case studies on its cloud, so that the work may be widely disseminated for obtaining feedback.

The process for the study of global strategy:

a. During the visits to the businesses and industries, every student should learn about linkages of these businesses with countries in the third and the fourth world. Then one should try to locate an Industry Defined Problem (IDP) for a case study.



In case no business, with external linkages, can be located through visits to the industry, one may take the help of trustees, teachers and friends to locate some such businesses.

b. During the summer after the first year, preparation of a report about a couple of countries by a class. Each report should include the following for each country: (each component may be taken up by a Group of about 6 students.)

(i) Its economic history and its historical context

(ii) Its trading partners and the products

(iii) Its economic linkages with India

(iv) Its major companies

(v) Any Indian-owned businesses

(vi) Any prominent Indians in the country

(vii) Good Business Colleges

c. Submission and Evaluation of the Report at the start of the third semester

d. Using the IDP, preparation of an “Intent to do- a Case study” about some business aspect in the country of interest by every group of 6 students during the third semester

If possible, some students may plan to visit the country-of-interest during the term-break between the third and fourth semesters for one to two weeks.

d. During the fourth semester, analysis of a global strategy problem currently or recently facing a firm/country of interest. The case study should identify mechanisms for winning the global strategy game overcoming cultural/social and institutional differences in the country. The outputs should be a Case-study and a 30 minute presentation.

The issues involved in the MBA programs in our country are that most of the programs in their syllabus content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage the spirit of creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new MBA program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local context, while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ world of today and (ii) to deliver the program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student is sharpened and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his own ideas, along with the ideas of great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The objective is that a GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his work place by calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.




GTU Innovation Sankul (VALSAD-VAPI SANKUL) Meeting Report

Date : 02/05/2011

Co-Chairman (Academia) Prof. N M Patel

Co-chairman (Industries) Mr. Ashok Shukla (Chairman, Vapi Industrial Association, Vapi)

The 1st

Meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul (Valsad-Vapi) was held on 2nd

May, 2011 chaired by Prof.

N.M.Patel at Valsad. Prof Patel introduced the members of the Sankuls and following things were

discussed and decided in the 1st

round of Sankul meeting.

• Discussion for appointment of Co-Chairperson for Innovation Sankul from Industry.

• After discussion, Sankul committee has decided that the Sankul might recommend to GTU

Innovation Council the name of Mr. Ashok Shukla (Chairman, Vapi Industrial Association, Vapi)

as the Co-Chairmen from industry for the Valsad Vapi Sankul .

• The following Principals were appointed as the Directors (Academia) from different academic

disciplines.:

MBA & MCA: Dr. Kayur M Naik (Laxmi Institute of Management, Sarigam)

Engineering: Shri N S patel (Laxmi Institute of Technology, Sarigam)

Shri C S Rao (Dr. B.B.A. Govt. Poly, Karad)

Pharmacy : Dr. D D Santani (Shri G M Bilakhiya College of Pharmacy,Rofel,Vapi)

Shri Mittal Dalal (Shri G M Bilakhiya College of Pharmacy,Rofel,Vapi)

• Nomination of Committee members for the Sankul from industries will be worked out by the

Directors, jointly with the Co-Chairpersons. The tentative distribution may be as follows:

MBA & MCA: 08 Members

Engineering : 09 Members

Pharmacy : 08 Members

• The Sankul committee members from industry side may be Chairmen of different industrial

association of Valsad -Vapi district region and prominent industry leaders.




• Next meeting of the Sankul is planned after two weeks to review the progress of the Sankul and

it will be held at Vapi.




Appendix 1: The GTU Colleges in the Valsad –Vapi Innovation Sankul

Name of Institute

Name of Principal/Udisha

Co-ordinator/

Representative

Email Address

Dr. B.B.A. Govt. Polytechnic, Karad (D.P.) Shri. C. S. Rao [email protected]

Laxmi Institute of Tchnology, Sarigam Shri N. S. Patel [email protected]

Smt BNB Swaminarayan Pharmacy College,

Salvav-Vapi Shri J. B. Joshi [email protected]

Government Polytechnic, Waghai, Dist - Dang Shri N. A. Sangani [email protected]

Laxmi Institute of Management, Sarigam Dr. K. M. Nayal [email protected]

Government Polytechnic, Valsad Shri. S. R. Parikh [email protected]

Government Polytechnic, Daman Shri. A.T. Patel [email protected]

Rofel Shri G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy Dr. D. D. Santani [email protected]

Rofel Shri G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy Shri. Dhaval Mittal [email protected]

Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. A. M. Patel [email protected]

Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. N. M. Patel [email protected] om

Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. V. P. Pandya [email protected]




Congratulations to Naroda Innovation Sankul for completing formation of its Sankul

Committee involving Co-Chairmen, Directors and Industry counterparts of various Sectors.

Naroda Innovation Sankul has geared up in setting up the complete architecture of

corresponding colleges and GIDC clusters with excellent cooperation from President Naroda

Industry Association. This Sankul have finished half a dozen industrial Shodh Yatras and located

around 50 industry defined projects by now.The faculties of the colleges have helped the

students in modularizing the problems and accompanying them in Industrial Shodh Yatras for

enabling the students to have a greater visibility and practical aspects of floor MSMEs.The

Industrial Shodh Yatras have been lead by Prof Uday Trivedi, Prof M.G.Desai and others from

various branches. The Service sector of industries has been brought into the loop for MBA and

associated streams.

Co-Chairman (Academia): Prof. M R Patel, Principal, Vishwakarma Govt. Engg. College,

Chandkheda, A'bad

Co-Chairman (Industry) : Mr. Shailesh Patwari, P resident, Naroda Industries Assn., A'bad

The Naroda Industries Association (NIA) hosed a dinner for all the college prinicipals of the

Vatva and Naroda Sankuls at the Paryavaran Mandir, Naroda on 28/4/2011. The meeting was

chaired by Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda

Sankul. The ‘Shodhyatras’ carried out, by the professors and students at Naroda had proved to

be hugely successful. Both the industries and the academia realised that the interaction

between the industries and industries through the Sankuls should be promoted further.

GTU Innovation Council has nominated the following Directors in their respective fields in

Naroda Innovation Sankul.

Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Sankul has

provided excellent support to each Industrial Shodh Yatra and has hosted periodic meetings

with Principals and students. He has nominated members from various industry domains for

smooth functioning of the Innovation Sankul and has assured all cooperation for the excellent




cause. Naroda Industry Association and its members have shown extra ordinary support to GTU

students and faculties from the very beginning. For the Shodh Yatra led by Prof Uday Trivedi

and Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta in February 2011, NIA provided all possible infrastructure support.

The Principals and Directors jointly are working out an action agenda by this week end. The Innovation

Sankul is allocating specific faculty to specific group of students very soon so that proper mentoring can

be provided to all the students at all the stages of work starting from scouting floor issues and

developing them as part of the Final year project during the academic year 2011-12. It is expected that

dedicated sector specific groups of faculties will come forward to design and execute the local policies

relevant to the MSMEs/Colleges of particular Sankul.

Completing formation of the Naroda Innovation Sankul committee:

The nomination of the five Directors for each of the disciplines of MCA, MBA, Pharmacy, Degree

Engineering and Diploma Engineering (Appendix 1) was completed on 12th

May 2011.

The nomination of industry leaders (Appendix 2) to the Sankul Committee has completed the

formation of the Sankul Committee.

The 5th

Meeting of Naroda Innovation Sankul for Director Nomination is being addressed by Prof.

Akshai Aggarwal, VC, GTU




Mr. Sailesh Patwari has offered the infrastructure

and human resources of NIA for use by the

Sankul. He has also nominated 17 persons from

industries of various disciplines who would be

members of the Sankul Committee. He has

requested all the Principals to motivate students

and faculties to visit the industries and document

their observations. He narrated a few successful

cases in dinner meeting hosted on behalf of

Naroda Industry Association wherein waste was

converted into useful raw material for producing

energy and economy.

“We believe that workers and engineers from our industries can help evaluate the

problem statements / industry defined problems as desired by GTU. A vibrant

linkage between each stake holder of GTU Innovation Council including students,

faculties, Industries and Sankul authorities can certainly improve both the products

and processes of MSMEs and business units.”

Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari,

President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Innovation Sankul




Appendix 1: Directors of the Naroda Innovation Sankul committee:

Name Institute Director

Dr A.R.Prasanna L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications

Ahmedabad

MCA

Prof. Rupesh

Vasani

Sal Institute Of Tech. & Engg. Research,

Ahmedabad

Degree Engineering

Prof.V.N.Soni R. C. Technical Institute, Sola , Ahmedabad Polytechnic

Prof. Ashwin

Mehta

Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of

Management & Research Ahmedabad

MBA

Dr. K.N.Patel SAL Institute Of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad Pharmacy




Appendix 2: The member of Naroda Innovation Sankul Committee from industries

Name of the Unit Address Contact Person

AKASH DYES &

INTERMEDIATE

PLOT NO. 1401/B, PH-IV PATEL AJAY

DINESHKUMAR

DISHMAN

PHARMACEUTICALS

PLOT NO. 1216, PH-IV ARVIND SUTHAR

BARODA MINERALS PLOT NO. 42, PH-III TEJAS PATEL

CONTINENTAL CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 632, PH-IV SATISH K AGRAWAL

MINAL INTERMEDIATES PLOT NO. 1405, PH-IV MAYURKUMAR K JANI

JAY MINERALS PLOT NO. 1003, PH-IV JAY SHAH

J B INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1304/1-4, PH-IV JATIN BHANUBHAI

PATEL

KINJAL CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 1606, PH-I BHAVESH PATEL

MERCURY DYECHEM

INDUSTRIES

PLOT NO. 184/8&9, PH-I MANSUKHBHAI D

MAKADIA

NARAYAN INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1303/1, PH-IV DAHYABHAI PATEL

SHIV CERAMIC PLOT NO. 404, PH-IV PATEL GOPALBHAI B

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL

INDUSTRIES

PLOT NO. B-2/3, PH-III PRASHANT PATEL

RADHA CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 25/1, PH-III SHAILESH I PATWARI

SHAH INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. C-1/257/270+271,

PH-I

PARAG SHAH

AMBICA INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1305/5, P-IV DIPAK KANUBHAI PATEL

HALCYON LABORATORIES PLOT NO. 409, PH-IV MAHESH TALATI

SHREE ORGANO CHEMICAL PLOT NO. 143/3/154, PH-II J V SHAH




Appendix 3: The GTU Colleges in the Naroda Innovation Sankul

College Code INSTITUTE NAMES OF GTU INNOVATION SANKUL, NARODA

632 K. P. Thakkar Institute Of Technology, Viramgam

730 L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications Ahmedabad

517 L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications Sarkhej Chokdi,

Ahmedabad

032 L. J. Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Ahmedabad

519 L. J. Institute Of Management Studies Sarkhej Chokdi,

Ahmedabad

227 L. J. Institute Of Pharmacy, Sanand Chokdi, Ahmedabad

633 L. J. Polytechnic, Ahmedabad

640 R. C. Technical Institute, Sola , Ahmedabad

277 SAL Institute Of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad

067 Sal Institute Of Tech. & Engg. Research, Ahmedabad

017 Vishwakarma Government Engineering college, Chandkheda

675 F. D.(Mubin) Institute of Engineering & Technology, Dehgam,

Bahiyal, Gandhinagar

746 R. B. Institute Of Management Studies Ahmedabad

790 Divaba Institute of Management & Computer Application

(DIMCA)- Dascroi

807 Sal Institute of Management (SFI) ,Opp. Science City,

Bhadaj,Ahmedabad

748 Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of Management & Research

Ahmedabad

535 Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of Management & Research

Ahmedabad




Congratulations to GTU Innovation Sankul -Junagadh for startingd allocation of students to

industries so that the pre-Final Year students can work out the Industry Defined Problems (IDP)

during the months of June and July

GTU Innovation Council has created an Innovation Sankul in and around Junagadh consisting of 23 GTU

colleges. This Sankul has successfully congregated the team from both industry and academia.GTU

Innovation Council has nominated the following authorities as Co-chairmen for the Sankul:

Co-Chairman (Academia) Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi,

Director & Principal

Noble Engineering College, Junagadh

Co-Chairman (Industry) Mr. Shashi Thanki

Chairman and President, Austin Engineering Co.

Pvt. Ltd.

As per directives of the honorable VC Dr Akshai Aggarwal, a meeting of the UDISHA Clubs under the

GTU Innovation Sankul- Junagadh was held at Noble Group of Institutions, Junagadh on May. 11, 2011

at 02:30 under the guidance of Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi (Academic Co-chairman of Junagadh Sankul).

The representatives of different colleges including degree/diploma engineering, pharmacy, MBA colleges

from Junagadh district discussed many topics related to UDISHA Club activities.

1. Each college will submit the hierarchy of the committee members working in their UDISHA

CLUB by May 12, 2010, 5.00 pm.

2. Each college is going to make a list of industry persons who will help their students to improve

their practical aspects.

3. The students of 2nd

& 4th semester (degree engineering) will be divided into groups of 20-25 each.

One faculty member will be allocated to each group for their supervision.

4. The students of 6th semester (degree engineering) are individually (or in a group of two/three)

going to have training of approximately 1 month after completion of their 6th semester final exam.

They will be monitored by one of the faculty members from the department.

5. The students are provided an NOC from their respective colleges for industrial training.

6. The students of 2nd

semester MBA are having compulsory summer training after completion of

their 2nd

semester final exam.

7. All the students will submit their training report after Industrial Shodh Yatras.




8. The presentation session will be conducted in the next semester to share their knowledge with

their classmates.

9. The students will take snaps of their training session if permitted and will submit the same to their

department.

10. The Pharmacy will plan for their students for summer training.

11. MCA institutions will prepare the same what has been discussed in the agenda.

12. The list of participating colleges is attached.

13. A sample NOC was distributed to these institutions.

14. Also a sample copy (roughly prepared) of report was given to all representatives.

15. All the students of semesters VI, IV and II to be informed/addressed in person especially during

GTU exams about the objectives of this Sankul.

16. They should be assigned with internal guides / supervisors for the visits, projects, training and

interaction in groups of 20-25 (Sem. II, IV) and 1-3 (Sem. VI).

The Innovation Sankul has started allocating students to industries so that the pre-Final Year

students can work out the Industry Defined Problems (IDP) during the months of June and July.

The Appendices contain the following useful information about

GTU Innovation Sankul Junagadh

Appendix 1 Directors for Junagadh Innovation Sankul Page 3

Appendix 2 Members from Industries in the Sankul Committee of Pages 4-6

Appendix 3 Sankul activities at Noble group of Integrated Technical Education-

Junagadh campus

Page 7

Appendix 4 List of Colleges under GTU Innovation Sankul, Junagadh Pages 8-9

Appendix 5 Detailed plan of Sem VI EC Engg students for Summer Projects for

locating IDP

Pages 10-

11

Appendix 6 Detailed plan of Sem VI Mech Eng. students for Summer Projects

for locating IDP

Pages 12-

13




Appendix 1

The following authorities were nominated as Director for Junagadh Innovation Sankul:

Name Director

Prof. Megha Mehta Degree Engineering

Prof. Kaushal Thaker ,

Prof. Harsh Modha

MBA

Prof. Amit Modi

Polytechnic

Prof. Mukesh Parecha

MCA

Prof. Jayrajsinh Sarvaiya

Pharmacy




Appendix 2: The following members were nominated as the members from Industry

No. Name of organization Address President/Person

1. Austin Engineering Co.

Pvt. Ltd. Chairman and President, Junagadh Shri Shashibhai Thanki

2. Factory Owners Asso. –

JUNAGADH

Plot No. 1101/1 GIDC Estate – II

Sabalpur, Junagadh.

Shri Laljibhai Mavani

3. Gondal GIDC-2 Industries

Asso.

C/O Ball Teck Engineering,

Shed K- 165-1/2,

GIDC – 2 Jamvadi, Gondal – 360 311.

Shri Prafulbhai Tolia

4. Porbandar GIDC

Industrial Welfare

Association

Off. Giriraj Lime Products

Plot No. 282/6, G.I.D.C. Estate,

Dharampur, Porbandar - 360577

Shri Jinubhai T. Dayatar

5. Vanana Industrial

Association

C/o. Bhagyesh enterprise

F-14, Modern Complex,

Liberty Cross Road,

Porbandar – 360 375

Shri Dilipbhai R.

Sundavadara

6. Veraval Industries

Association

201, GIDC Estate,

Veraval: 362 269.

Shri O. N. Sharma

7. Gondal (Part-2) GIDC-2

Industrial Association

C/o. Ball Teck Engineering,

Shed K- 165-1/2,

GIDC – 2 Jamvadi, Gondal – 360 311.

Shri Prafulbhai R. Tolia

8. Dhoraji Vegadi G.I.D.C.

Industries Association

C/o. Prashant Petrolium, Upleta

Road, Dhoraji-360410

Shri Arvindbhai J. Gajera




9. Junagadh Industries(GIDC-

1) Association

C/o. Aroma Paints

C/2-208/4, GIDC-1 Vasahat,

Junagadh

Shri Bhurabhai J. Desai

10. Vanana Industrial

Association

C/o.Bhagyesh enterprise, F-14,

Modern Complex, Liberty Cross

Road, Porbandar – 360 375

Shri Dilipbhai R.

Sundavadara

11. Porbandar GIDC Industrial

Welfare Association

Off. Giriraj Lime Products, Plot No.

282/6, G.I.D.C. Estate, Dharampur,

Porbandar - 360577

Shri Jinubhai T. Dayatar

12. Factory Owners Asso, Plot No.

1101/1 GIDC Estate – II

Sabalpur, Junagadh

Shri Laljibhai Mavani

13. Amreli Small Industries

Association

, C/O Ghanshyam Tiles Ind., Plot No.

51 GIDC Estate, Amreli – 364 601. Shri Chandulal S. Chav

14. Dhoraji Vegadi G.I.D.C.

Industries Association

C/o. Prashant Petrolium, Upleta

Road, Dhoraji-360410 Shri Arvindbhai J. Gajera

15. GIDC Association Babra Plot No. 8/D, Rajkot-Bhavnagar

Road, GIDC-1, Babra-365421, Dist.

Amreli.

Shri Devangbhai Jani

16. Gondal GIDC-2 Industries

Asso.,

C/O Ball Teck Engineering,

Shed K- 165-1/2, GIDC – 2 Jamvadi,

Gondal – 360 311

Shri Prafulbhai Tolia

17. Austin Engineering Co Ltd

Junagadh Works Manager Mr. Dhariyawala

18. Creative Casting Pvt. Ltd,

Junagadh Vice President, Mr. Siddharth

19. Gokul seeds Mr. Rakesh Dobariya




20. Sintex Mr. Dinesh Patel

21. N.Kamlesh Trading Mr. Jayesh Badani

22. Chemical Industry, Sahyog Tank

(Mangrol) Mr. Chhagan Akbari

23. Mother Dairy Head, HR, (Junadadh) Mr. Ashok Malvia

24. C.A. (Chartered Account) Mr. Atul lakhani

25. Head, HR (Mahindra

Finance) (Saurashtra, Kutch) Mr. Harikrishna Sarvaiya

26. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad Mr. Manoj Goswami

27. Production Manager,

Nicholas Piramal Mr. Amit Vegad

28. Ultratech Cement Kodinar

29. Reyon - Aditya Birla Group Veraval

30. Sukum Porbandar

31. Empower solutions Ahmedabad Mr. Hardik Parikh

32. I square technologies Ahmedabad Mr. Saurabh Shiyara

33. Head, Planning: Austin

Engineering Co. Ltd. Junagadh

34. Austin Engg Co. Ltd

Junagadh

Mr. Hitesh Ajmera (B.E.

Mechanical, MBA)




Appendix 3: GTU Innovation Sankul - Junagadh activated following activities at Noble group of

Integrated Technical Education-Junagadh campus

[1]. A Tacheometric project work was completed by 51 students of 4th semester along with 5 faculty

members of Civil Engineering on 4th March, 2011 at P.T.C. college campus ground, Junagadh.

[2]. An industrial shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of EC branch at BSNL

on 25th April 2011. Total 62 students and three faculty members visited BSNL Exchange

Junagadh.

[3]. An industrial shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 5th semester students of EC branch at

DOORDARSHAN, Rajkot on 26/09/2010. Total 62 students along with 6 faculty members

visited DOORDARSHAN KENDRA.

[4]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 4th semester students of EC branch at SONIC,

Gandhinagar on 1st April 2010. Total 62 students along with 8 faculty members visited the

company.

[5]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of IT branch at ISRO, Gandhinagar

on 28/02/2011. Total 50 students along with 4 faculty members visited the company.

[6]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of MECHANICAL branch at

JYOTI CNC, Rajkot on 10/05/2011. Total 60 students along with 5 faculty members visited the

company.

[7]. The students of semester 1st and 3

rd sem (total 50) along with 4 faculty members of MBA visited

two companies named PRINT VISION PVT. LTD and AMBA OFFSET at Ahmedabad on 2-3

October 2010. They visited Akshay Patra (NGO) at Gandhinagar




Appendix 4: The following colleges are under GTU Innovation Sankul Junagadh

College

Code Institute Name Address 035 Noble Engineering College, Junagadh ’Parth Vatika’, Junagadh-

Bhesan Road, Bamangam,

Junagadh -362310.

083 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal`s Group of

Institutions-Engg, Junagadh

Dr. SUBHAHSH PALACE, Dr.

shubhash road, nr. Railway

crossing, Junagadh - 362 001

619 Government Polytechnic, Junagadh Technical School Campus,

Junagadh – 362001

663 Balaji Insti. Of Eng. & Tech, Junagadh At. & Po. Makhiyala,

Junagadh - Dhoraji Highway,

Junagadh - 362014.

665 Om Insti. Of Eng.& Technology,Junagadh Bheshan Road, Chokli,

Dist. Junagadh - 362310

679 N.R.Vekaria Insti. Of Tech. , Junagadh Bikha Road, Junaghadh,

Junaghadh - 362001

231 N. R. Vekaria Institute Of Pharmacy, Junagadh C.L. College Campus, Bhikha

Road,

Junagadh - 362 001.

269 Vivek Bharti Trust Pharmacy College, Junagadh Junagadh, Bamangam,

Junagadh.

287 DR. SUBHASH PETHALJIBHAI CHAVDA AHIR KELVANI MANDAL'S

GROUP OF INSTITUTION-PHARMACY

Dr. SUBHAHSH PALACE, Dr.

Shubhash Road, Nr. Railway

Crossing, JUNAGHADH - 362

001

534 Shri Brahamanand Institute Of Computer Science,Junagadh C/O. Shri Brahmananad

Dham Education Campus,

Ta: Visavadar, Junaghdh,

Chparda - 362120

543 Dr. Bharat Barad Institute of Management & Computer Science,

Sutrapada, Junagadh (SFI)

Veraval - Kodinar Highway,

Ta: Sutarpada, Junagadh -

362275

544 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal's Group of

Institutions,Khamdhrol Road, Junagadh (SFI)

Dr. Subhahsh Palace, Dr.


Crossing, Junagadh - 362 001




551 Smt. Vanitaben Bachubhai Nandola MCA College,Bhacha, Tal.Una,

Di:Junagadh (SFI)

At & Po: Bhacha, Ta: Una,

Junagadh - 362560

736 N. R. Vekaria Institute Of Business Management Studies Junaghadh Bilkha Road , Cl College

Campus,

Junagadh 362 001.

738 Nobel Engg. College (Integrated Campus) “Parth Vatika”, Junagadh -

Bhesan Road, Via. Vadal, Nr.

Bamangam, Junagadh - 362

310.

748 Shree S. P. Patel Mba College, Junagadh Tapovan Sheikshanik Sankul,

Bikha Road, Nr. Palasava

Patiya, Dungarpur /

Padariya,

Junagadh - 362001

767 Shri Brahmanand Institute Of Management, Junagadh At : Chaparda Tal: Visavadar

Dis: Junagath

777 Smt.Vanitaben Bachubhai Nandola Mba College, Una, Junaghadh At.Bhacha, Taluka: Una, Dist.

Junagadh, State: Gujarat Pin

- 362560.

793 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal's Group of

Institutions, Khamdhrol Road, Di:Junagadh-(SFI)

Dr. Subhahsh Palace, Dr.


Crossing, JUNAGHADH - 362

001

627 Government Polytechnic, Porbandar C/O. Govt. Polytechnic, Opp.

Airport, Porbandar - 360

577.

810 Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Management & I.T.Porbandar. (SFI) Chhaya Main Road, At & Po.

Chhaya, Porbandar - 360

578.

627 Government Polytechnic, Porbandar

C/o. Govt. Polytechnic, Opp.

Airport, Porbandar - 360

577.

810 Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Management & I.T.Porbandar. (SFI)

Chhaya Main Road, At & Po.

Chhaya, Porbandar - 360

578.




Appendix 5: Detailed plan of Sem VI EC Engg students for Summer Projects for locating IDP

Name of Student COMPANY DATE

No.

of

days

ACHARYA CHINTAN

MAHESHKUMAR AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7

AMBALIYA TUSHAR HARSUKHBHAI AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7

AMRUTIYA MANISH PRANJIVAN GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5

BABARIYA PRASHANT ARVINDBHAI INSDUSTRY SAGUNA,JETPUR 26/5/2011 7

BHANDERI BHARGAV

BOPALIYA KETANKUMAR

PRAGJIBHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5

BORICHA KRUNAL KANABHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5

CHANDEGARA DHARMIK

ARUNBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

CHAUHAN VIJAYKUMAR

SHANTILAL BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

CHOITHANI KIRAN TEKCHAND BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

DANGAR SANDIP BALVANTRAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

DAVE MANISHKUMAR RAMNIKLAL GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5

DHOLARIYA KAVITABEN

MANSUKHBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7

DOBARIYA PURVISHABEN

BABUBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

DODIYA JIGARKUMAR NANUBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28

DOSHI PARTHKUMAR

ASHWINKUMAR BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011

GODHASARA NIMESHKUMAR R. BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011

GOSWAMI PALLAV RAJESHPURI REAL INDUSTRIES,RAJKOT 25/5/2011 5

HERAMA CHANDRESH

BHIKHUBHAI

KADCHHA RAHUL SAVDASBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7

KAMDAR NIRALI

PRAKASHCHANDRA ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7

KANANI KALPESH BHUPATBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

KANERIYA NIKHIL DILIPBHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5

KARASALIYA JALDEEPKUMAR G. ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED, THERMAL 1/6/2011 7




POWER PLANT

KOTHARI KALPESH JAGDISHBHAI MICRO SHIV ELECTRONICS 25/05/2011 15

MAKWANA JAYKUMAR J.

MOJANIDAR FIROJ IQBALBHAI

MONANI SHRUTI

RAJENDRAKUMAR

MORI MEHULKUMAR

MAHENDRABHAI REAL INDUSTRIES,RAJKOT 25/5/2011 5

MUNJAPARA VIJAY RAMESHBHAI

PANDYA KINJAL HARESHBHAI

PATEL ABHAYKUMAR

RAMESHKUMAR

ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED, THERMAL

POWER PLANT 1/6/2011 7

PATEL HARDIKKUMAR

NARENDRABHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28

PATEL MAYUR RAJESHBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2012 28

PATEL PRIYANK SURESHKUMAR ELECTRONICS ESTATE,GANDHINAGAR 25/5/2011 28

PATEL RADHIKA DEINESHBHAI

PATEL RAJESH BHARATBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28

PUROHIT HIRENKUMAR

PRAVINKUMAR AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7

RAITHATHA NIRAVKUMAR

NILESHBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

RAJODIYA PRAJNIKKUMAR R.

RANK DIPEN RAMESHBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD

INSDUSTRY JANKESHWARI,JETPUR

29/5/2011

26/05/2011 7

RATHOD SHAYAR RAMESHBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14

SAKHIYA RUPAL HANSRAJBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7




Appendix 6: Detailed plan of Sem VI Mech Eng. students for Summer Projects for locating IDP

Student Name Name Of Company Adress Date

No Of

Days

BALADHIA JANAKBHAI MADHABHAI 1/6/2011 21

BATHANI DARSHANKUMAR

VALLABHBHAI Jyoti C.N.C Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

BHATT JAYDEEP MANOJKUMAR Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21

DESAI DIVYESHKUMAR

MANSUKHBHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21

DOMADIYA NILESHKUMAR

DHANJIBHAI 1/6/2011 21

GADHIYA MAYANK MAHESHBHAI Ultra Tech Cement. Rajula 1/6/2011 21

JAVIA VISHAL HARSUKHBHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21

JOSHI JIGNESHKUMAR RAJNIKANT Max. Engg. Works Junagadh 1/6/2011 21

JOSHI SUSHILKUMAR RAMESHBHAI Indian Rayon Veraval 1/6/2011 21

KABARIA HIRENKUMAR BHOLABHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21

KAPADIYA PIYUSHKUMAR

RAMESHBHAI Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21

KORADIYA BHARGAVKUMAR

AMRUTLAL Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

MAHETA AMITKUMAR

MAHESHKUMAR Saurastra Cement Ranavav 1/6/2011 21

MALAVIYA RAVIKUMAR FULABHAI 1/6/2011 21

MANDVIYA SMIT HIMATLAL G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

MEHTA BHAVIN HARSHADBHAI Chirag Foundary Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

MEHTA NAVNEETKUMAR LALITBHAI Kadvani Forge Ltd. Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

NIMAVAT SANDEEP NARENDRABHAI Saurastra Cement Ranavav 1/6/2011 21

ODEDARA RAMBHAI BHIKHABHAI O.N.G.C Mehsana 1/6/2011 21

OZA PRATIK YOGESHBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

PARMAR DHIRAJKUMAR MANILAL 1/6/2011 21

PATEL APLESHKUMAR

BHAGAVANBHAI 1/6/2011 21

PATEL APURVA RASIKBHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21

PATEL DHAVALKUMAR JAYANTILAL Gujarat Apollo India Mehsana 1/6/2011 21

PATEL HARDIKKUMAR NAVINBHAI 1/6/2011 21

PATEL MEHULKUMAR BHARATBHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21

PATEL NISHIT KUNJVIHARI 1/6/2011 21

PATEL PARESHKUMAR RATILAL Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21

PATEL SAGAR MANSUKHBHAI 1/6/2011 21




POSHIA SAVANKUMAR NATVARLAL 1/6/2011 21

RAFALIYA NIKSHITKUMAR BABULAL Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21

RAMANI JAGDISHBHAI HANSRAJBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

RANPARIYA VISHALKUMAR

DAYABHAI Creatve Castings Pvt. Ltd. Junagadh 1/6/2011 21

RATHORE RAJENDRASINGH V. 1/6/2011 21

RAVAL KIRTILAL HARISHANKARBHAI 1/6/2011 21

SAHOLIA SAGAR RAJESHKUMAR Apple Internation Jamnagar 1/6/2011 21

SANGANI VISHAL RAMNIKLAL Apple Internation Jamnagar 1/6/2011 21

SARDHARA HITESH JAYANTIBHAI Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21

SATA ANKIT VATSALKUMAR Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21

SAVALIYA PIYUSHKUMAR FULABHAI Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

SHYARA RAKESH KESHUBHAI 1/6/2011 21

SIROYA BHAVESH LALJIBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

SONAGARA NIKUNJ KANJIBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

SORTHIYA DHANANJAY JODHABHAI Chirag Foundary Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

THUMMAR NARENDRAKUMAR

PUNABHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21

UKANI SAVAN PRAVINBHAI Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

VADSOLA GAURAVKUMAR JAYNTILAL Ozon Ceramics Pvt. Ltd. Morbi 1/6/2011 21

VARIA NIRVAKUMAR MANAHARLAL Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21

VASOYA BHAGYESH MANSUKHBHAI 1/6/2011 21

VYAS CHIRAGKUMAR RAVJIBHAI 1/6/2011 21

YADAV UPENDRA GOPALDAS Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21

DOSHI SAURABH G.N.F.C Bharuch 1/6/2011 21

MAKWANA KETAN 1/6/2011 21

MALAVIYA VIJAY Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21

MAKHANSA RAVI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21

VORA MEHBUB G.F.L Limited Bharuch 1/6/2011 21

DOMADIYA ASHISH Essar Steel Ltd. Surat 1/6/2011 21

DAVERA ALPESH 1/6/2011 21




Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul gear up to finish Sankul committee formation

Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul consisting of 12 institutes has successfully formed the Sankul

committee. Looking to the diversified industry sectors in the region, the Sankul has tried to

bring the MSMEs and GTU Colleges together on a common platform.

Co-Chairman (Industry)- Shri Pankaj Pandya , President Saurashtra Chamber of Commerce

Co-Chairman (Academic )- Dr .G.D.Acharya, Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute

The 1st

meeting in this regard was held on 29-04-2011 at Bhavnagar. The first coordination meeting

of GTU innovation council (MBA, Pharmacy, Engineering polytechnic directors) was held on 20th

may

2011. The key agenda were as below:

1 To fix up strategy to implement objectives of innovation council(ic)

2 To design IDP ( Industry Defined Project ) format for concerned area.

3 To set up mechanism for effective coordination between institute, industries and GTU.

4 To prepare format for submission of progress report to GTU Ahmedabad

5 To plan for summer vacation training and project work planning of final year students.

The Sankul committee decided to include 20 members from various industry domains for smooth

functioning of the Sankul with equal emphasize on each academic domain.




Directors of Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul

Name Institute Director Mail ID

Prof Shyam Varghese

Principal, Dr J.N.

Mehta govt

polytechnic Amreli

Polytechnic [email protected],

[email protected],

Prof Himal Pandya

Principal -S.S

Pharmacy college

Bhavnagar

Pharmacy [email protected]

Prof Dr.M.G. Bhatt Head -Production

Engineering

Dpt.(T.P.O) S.S.

Eng. College,

Bhavnagar

Degree Engineering [email protected]

Prof Ms.Sarojvatsa M.B.A. DPT. Shree

Sahjanand Institute of

Management,

MBA [email protected]

The Sankul Committee arranged a meeting on 20th

may 2011 to design the course of action to engage

the pre-final year students in Industrial Shodh Yatras to scout the industry floor problems/projects. The

Directors of each sector shared their thoughts to optimize the efficiency while harnessing the research

works of young minds.




Appendix 1: List of the GTU Colleges under Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul

College

Code

Institute Name Address

256 Shri Samanvay Institute Of Pharmacy,

Botad

At : Bhambhan, Tajpur Road, Opp. Maruti

Ashram, Botad - 364 710, Dist. Bhavnagar.

043 Shantilal Shal Engineering College,

Bhavnagar

Bhavnagar University Campus, Gaurishanker

Lake Road, Bhavnagar

414 Shantilal Shah Pharmacy College Bhavnagar University Campus, Gaurishanker

Lake Road, Bhavnagar

652 Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute,

Bhavnagar

Vidhyanagar, Bhavnagar - 364002

761 Shree Sahajanand Institute Of

Management, Bhavnagar

C/O. SHREE SAHJANAND GURUKUL, GHOGHA

ROAD, BHAVNAGAR - 364002

762 Shree Samanvay Institute Of

Management And Business

Administration, Bhavnagar

At Post: Bhambhan, Taluka: Botad,

Dist: Bhavnagar. (Gujarat)

021 Government Engineering College,

Bhavnagar

BPTI CAMPUS, BHAVNAGAR

611 Dr. J. N. Mehta Government Polytechnic,

Amreli

Dr. Jivraj N. Mehta Govt. Polytechnic,

Amreli - 365 602.

251 Shree Leuva Patel Trust Pharmacy Mahila

College, Amreli

Chakkargadh Road, Amreli - 3650601

Shaikshanik Sankul, Chakkarghad Road,

Amreli.

253 K. V. Virani Institute of Pharmacy And

Research Centre, Badhada

Savarkundla-Mahuva Road, At Badhada - 364

522, Dist. Amreli.

760 Shree Leuva Patel Trust Mba Mahila

College, Amreli - (Womens Only)

Smt. Shantaben Haribhai Gajera Shaikshanik

Sankul, Chakkargadh Road, Amreli – 365601.

722 K. K. Parekh Institute Of Management

Studies Amreli

DR. JIVRAJ MEHTA VIDYA VIHAR, LATHI ROAD,

AMRELI - 365 601




ORGANIZING INNOVATION SANKULS

Report

A Conference

of

Stalwarts from Industries at Rajkot





Phone: +91-79-2630 0499; +91-79-2630 0599; +91-79-2630 0699

Fax: +91-79-4020 0644




Conference for organizing GTU Innovation Sankuls in Rajkot

A conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at Rajkot was organized at Decora Hall,

GIDC Lodhica Industries Association, Metoda, Kalawad Road, Rajkot on 9th April 2011. Prof.

Akshai Agarwal, Honorable VC, GTU and stalwarts from industries in Rajkot participated in

this meeting. Some of the Principals/ Directors of Colleges affiliated with GTU from Rajkot

were also present. (To discuss formation of the Innovation Sankuls, a meeting of the

Principals/ Directors of Colleges from Saurashtra region had been organized on 4th

Feb 2011

at B.H.Gardi College of Engg and Technology, Rajkot by Prof. Siddharth B Jadeja. Hence only

those Principals/ Directors, who were associated with organization of the Conference of the

Stalwarts from the industries were present at this meeting of 9th April 2011.)

The conference started with a welcome address by Shri Pravinbhai Maniar- Chairman, VVP

Eng. College. Prof Akshai Agarwal shared the vision of GTU Innovation Council, Innovation

Sankuls and Udisha Clubs. He also described the success stories of the pilot project that was

executed successfully by students of the Saurashtra region in September 2010. Shri

Parakaram Sinh Jadeja suggested that GTU may implement a policy through GTU Innovation

Council in which industry can offer resource to the students. The deserving candidates can

be decided during the first year of curriculum. The students may have to come regularly to

the company/MSMEs and also have to attend classes and training specific to

company/MSME which provides the resource support. He showed keen interest in this

initiative and said that he is committed to accept 15 GTU students from the coming

academic year. Shri Vora, Co-chairman of Metoda GIDC (Lodhika) Association, praised the

effort of Dr. Aggarwal and the Techpedia team to link Industry, academy and innovation. He

put strong faith in the agenda and assured that GIDC (Lodhika) will provide all possible

support to GTU Innovation Sankuls at Rajkot and needy students and researchers. Prof

Girish Mulchandani, from Computer Eng department of VVP Eng College, offered to provide

various IT services to the Industry people free of cost in case of smaller and cottage

industries where GTU students can be effective resource persons to improve the efficiencies

of products and processes. Shri S.C. Mamtora (Secretary, Rajkot Electroplaters And Metal

Finisher Association) said that the area of Electroplating is required to be included in the

curriculum of engineering colleges in India. Dr Sachin Parikh pointed out that GTU has

already done it. Shri Jayant Jamuvar (Head, Designing, Kadvani Forge), offered to help GTU

in designing the curricula of GTU in the area of Material Science so that its graduates may be

able to satisfy the demands of the industries. Dr. Aggarwal welcomed the offer. Shri

Deepakbhai Sachde (Chairman, Management Association) and Shri Naresh Patel of Rajkot

Engineering Association provided assurance that they would extend all needed cooperation

in this industry-academia joint effort at every stage. From each industry/business association

of Rajkot, a few persons were present. Every one appreciated this first-of-its-kind initiative

by GTU. Dr Aggarwal appreciated the excellent work done by Pravinbhai Maniar and VVP

Engg College for organizing the conference. He added that the contribution of Utkarsh and




other students for the conference was praiseworthy. He asked the students to stand up to

receive the ovation from all. Prof. Amit Degada gave vote of thanks at the end of the

discussion.




Appendix 1

1. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Metoda- Lodhika industry region): 18 GTU colleges and

businesses and Industries of the area


2. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Aji industries cluster): 20 GTU colleges and businesses

and Industries of the area


3. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Shaper-veraval industry region): 19 GTU colleges and

businesses and Industries of the area


4. Jamnagar Innovation Sankul: ?? GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and






Appendix 2

List of some of the Key Participants in the Conference

at GIDC Lodhica Industries Association, Metoda, Kalawad Road, Rajkot

Date: 9th April, 2011

Sr

No. Industry Name Contact Person

1 Jyoti CNC P.G.Jadeja

2 Seico International Dhansukhbhai R. Vora

3 Comfort Enterprise Hemant Kapadia

4 GRCCI Shirishbhai Batavia

5 Machine Tools Manufacturers Association Sailesh Kawa

6 Gujarat Lethe Mfg. Co. Pvt. Ltd Dinesh N Khambhayata

7 Tarak Machine Tools K J Gohil

8 UNIDO Jitendra Mehta

9 Creative Appilicationns Amrutbhai Patel

10 Creative Engg. Mahendra Patel

11 Swati Enterprise Nishu Shah

12 Asiantic Bearing Co. Karshanbhai Saparia

13 REMA Suresh C. Mamtora

14 Orbit Bearing Pankaj Varasada

15 TRD Bearings & Housed Unit Nilesh Ganatra

16 Spkra Aluminium Extrausion Pvt Ltd.

17 Pelican Rotoflex Pvt Ltd Uttam Javia

18 Angel Pumps Limited Ashvin S Adroja

19 Gokul Automanufacturers Gokul Patel

20 AGIGA and Suzuki Engineering Shirish Ravani

21 REA Amit G Jalavadia

22 REA Bhavesh Patel

23 Sensitive Industries Amrit G Jalavadia




24 Robin Precision Product Pvt Ltd Ramesh Vora

25 Kadvani Forging Jayant Jamuar

26 Vitagreen Kishor Kadvani

27 Vitagreen Ishan Kadvani

28 Gujarat Technological University Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor

29

Member of Parliament(Rajya Sabha)

Rajkot Bhaveshbhai Patel

30 Aaji Vasahat GIDC Association Shirishbhai Ravani, Chairman

31 Aaji Vasahat GIDC Association & Nishubhai Shah, Co-Chairman

Rajkot Greater Chamber of Commerce Nishubhai Shah , Secretary

32 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Jamanbhai Bhalani, Chairman

33 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Mr. Vora, Co-Chairman

34 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Mr. Kantesariya

35 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Jayant Jamuvar, Head Designing Dept

36 Rajkot Plastic Mfg. Association Kiritbhai Kanani, Chairman

37 Saurashtra-Kutchh Plastic Assocation Pravinbhai Patel, Chairman

38 Electroplaters & Metal Finisher Assn. S C Mamtora, Member Secretary +

Electroplaters & Metal Finisher Assn. 3 others

42 Kitchenware Association Savajibhai, Chairman

43 Rajkot Chamber of Commerce Jitubhai Desai, Chairman

44 Management Association, Rajkot Dipakbhai Sachde

45 VVP Engineering College Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman

46 VVP Engineering College Prof. Sachin Parikh, Principal

47 GEC, Morbi Prof P C Vasani

48 HNShukla Group of Colleges Nehal Shukla, Chairman

49 VVP Engineering College Prof. C K Vibhakar

50 VVP Engineering College

Prof. Amit Degada,Convener Udisha

Club

51 VVP Engineering College Prof. M A Popat




52 VVP Engineering College Prof. Ashvin Karemore

53 VVP Engineering College Prof.Girish Mulchandani

54 VVP Engineering College Prof. Adeshara

55 VVP Engineering College Kuldeepsingh Rathod

56 VVP Engineering College Kunal Khimani

57 Utkarsh and other students




Date:- 04.02.2011, Honorable Vice Chancellor and Principals Meet at B.H. Gardi Collage of

Engineering and Technology,

Sr

No Name of Dignitaries Institute

1 Mr. Hiranmay Mahata Techpedia

2 Mr. Amit Degada V.V.P. Engg. College

3 Dr. Sachin Parekh V.V.P. Engg. College

4 Mr. Kaushal Patel Samanvay Pharmacy College, Botad

5 Mr. Ankur Bhogayata Marwadi Education Faculty of Engg.

6 Mr. Ashok Bhuva Om Shanti Diploma Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. M.E.)

7 Mr. Ayush Srivastava Om Shanti Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. I.T)

8 Mr. R.G. Dhamsaniya Darshan Inst.of Engg. & Tech.

9 Mr. M. T. Rupareliya K.N.V. Pharmacy College

10 Mr. J. R. Chavda B.K. Modi Govt. Pharmacy College

11 Mr. K.P.Modi B.K. Modi Govt. Diploma College

12 Mr. Mit H. Dave Om Shanti Diploma Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. I.T)

13 Prof. S.B. Jadeja B.H. Gardi Collage of Engg.

14 Dr. Ashalata Kulshrestha K.I.T. Jamnagar

15 Dr.(Prof.) Vikas Arora Atmiya Inst. Of Tech. and Sci. Rajkot

16 Dr.(Prof.) J. V. Desai Atmiya Inst. Of Tech. and Sci. Rajkot

17 Mr. Suraj Parmar R.K. Group of Collages

18 Mr. Jay Teraiya G.K. Bharad Inst. Of Engg.

19 Mr. Dilip Kumar Brahma Matrushree V.B. Manver College of Pharmacy, Dumiyani

23 Mr. Hemal Rajyaguru Om Shanti Engg. College Rajkot,

24 Prof. P.C. Vasani L.E. College, Morbi

25 Prof. M.V.Garach Govt. Engg. College-Rajkot

26 Mr. Dipal D. Patel Dr. Subhash Group of Inst.-Junagadh

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