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On 21.04.2022 a seminar on “Transforming Engineers as Startup reneurs” was organized by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of IT department and IIC through offline mode. Dr. Lourdes Poobala Rayen, EDC Director & IIC President and the Innovation Ambassador was the guest speaker. The programme was presided by Dr.J.B.Shajilin Loret, the Head of the Department of Information Technology. This program was organized for III year B.Tech students.
The guest speaker being the Director of Entrepreneurship Development Cell explained the importance of engineers becoming as startupreneurs. He highlighted the entrepreneurial opportunities available to the budding engineers. He said that for starting the startup one need not go to some other place in search of business opportunity. Rather, one must try to address the problems which are in the social domine. One must identify an opportunity and give a suitable solution to address the problem. During his talk he gave few examples of medicinal plants which are having high potential for export.
The resource person also highlighted the scope of some of the local resources as the value- added products. During his talk he insisted on how to convert product into value added product. He gave some examples like tomato, coconut shell, coco peat, Allovera, Tulsi, Cow dung, etc.
The session was an eye-opening session for the students wherein how the local resources can be converted into value-added products. The session was an interactive one where the students were very much participative. Totally 55 students were participated in the session. The program was coordinated by Dr.L.Gandhimathi, EDC Coordinator of IT department.
