Entrepreneurship Development Cell BNMIT

Success Stories in the year 2015-16 Project Champion award winners of IPL winter 2015. V. Prajwal Rao, Varun Kumar D, Skanda Bhagavath, Vijeth V of 5th Semester Mechanical Branch for their project “SHREDDRTRON 6000” had participated in VTU Business Plan Competition and won Rs. 15000/- among the VTU colleges. Best project award winners, Basha K, Saleeth A Sab, Satish Kumar D M  had been shortlisted in the top 10 for the final MANTHAN 2016 Business Plan Competition 2016 conducted by Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FKCCI) for their project HANDYMOTE. Vasudev ,EEE ,VI semester has started his own campus company name Reverb Instruments. His company is into selling acoustic electric violin to overseas customers who are based out of United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK). He also won one lakh prize money in FKCCI Business plan competition held in the year 2015. V. Prajwal Rao,. Varun Kumar D, Skanda Bhagavath, Vijeth V of 6th Seme

BNMIT Entrepreneurship Cell conducts Innovative Project Lab Competition twice in a year for BNMIT students in order to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship and to create innovative technical thinking among the students. The best projects from different engineering streams were selected for the final IPL summer competition held on April 22, 2016 at BNMIT. The Chief Guest and Judges for the Exhibition were Mr. D P K. Muthukumaraswamy, Innovation Leadership Consultant, Innomantra Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore &                    Dr.S. Ramamurthy, Professor-IPR, Jain University, Bangalore. 22 Best Project Teams from various Engineering Streams of BNMIT were selected by their respective Departments to compete in the event. The Evaluation Criteria was based on Possibility of conversion of project in to product, high innovative ideas, Feasibility and Use to the society. The Project Champion award of Rupees.10000/- was awarded to Achyuth G R, Ashrith Pradeep from Computer Science

NEN DEBUT AWARD BNMIT-ECELL had received NEN Debut Award for the year 2016 on March 5, 2016.

20/2/16 Panel Discussion on Innovative ways in SCM & Entrepreneurship: Innovations in Supply Chain management and entrepreneurship & career opportunities is been discussed with MBA students of BNMIT on 20/2/16. Panel discussion members Dr. Anil Chinnabandar, Vice-President- Supply Chain, Life Style. Mr. Debaprasad Chakraborty, AVP- Delivery, Sourcing and Procurement Practice,    Infosys, BPO. Mr. C. Subbukrishna, Director, Global Institute of Supply chain Management. Dr. S. K. Prasad, Dean, MBA, BNMIT. 21/02/16 Social Cause -Garbage cleaning Around 20 students of BNMIT participated in cleaning the garbage in the KR Road near to Tata motors showroom .The main aim of this activity is to make the people aware of keeping the environment clean .This is one of the innovative ways of keeping our own environment clean. This activity was conducted on 21stfeb 2016 between 7:30am to 12:00 noon 22/2/16 Idea Labs&Entrepreneurial Innovative exercis

Participants of FDP along with BNMIT college management and EDI Programme Director Faculty from all over south India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andra, Telangana, and Kerala) participated in the 2 week faculty Development programme. Topics Covered in the Training Programme are Steps in starting an Enterprise, Entrepreneurship Competencies, GETT Selecting tool and Self-rating questionnaire, Action Plan for fostering Entrepreneurship among Students, Games – Ring Toss, Team Building Activity, Implementation of EDP steps involves, Innovation in product development, Marketing, Financial support and Raw material assistance, Angel Investor talked about the angel investors and their ways of looking into a project and their expectations, Tower Building Game, IP Monetization and Business Plans. Trainers in the Programme were Mr. Raman Gujaral, South Regional In charge, EDII Mr. Yeshaswi, Program Director, EDII Dr. S. K. Prasad, HOD, Department of MBA, BNMIT Dr.L. Vijayashree, Prof & Chief Coo

Opening Remarks about the programme was done by Dr. L. Vijayashree followed by              Smt. Prabhavathi Rao, Program Coordinator, WTO & IPR Relay Cell, Visvesvaraya Trade Promotion Centre Dept of Industries & Commerce, Govt of Karnataka. Session 1 was about Flavor to Innovation Management & Unleashing Creativity handled by          V Raghuram, Senior Advisor – IP & Technology Commercialization. Session 2 was about Overview of Intellectual Property Rights Spectrum: Significance for Academia in Business and Research handled by Dr.S Rama Murthy Head – IPR, Centre for Emerging Technologies, Jain University, Bangalore. About 60 students of E Cell attended the workshop and gained the knowledge of IPR and its importance. V Raghuram, Senior Advisor – IP & Technology Commercialisation, with         Dr. Suresh, Dean BNMIT Dr. S Rama Murthy, Head – IPR, Centre for Emerging Technologies, Jain University, Bangalore with Dr. Suresh, Dean BNMIT. Smt

BNMIT Entrepreneurship Cell conducts Innovative Project Lab Competition twice in a year for BNMIT students in order to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship. The Heads of all the Engineering departments were asked to select the best projects from their respective Streams for exhibition in the IPL winter Competition which was conducted recently at BNMIT. The Project Exhibition was graced by the presence of two eminent personalities. The Chief Guest for the competition was Mr. Venkata Raghavan, Joint Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Company & Mr. Sumeet Kurana, Director -Tax, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Company. 19 Best Project Teams from various Engineering Streams of BNMIT were selected by their respective Departments to compete in the event. The selected participants exhibited their project in the Exhibition. The Evaluation Criteria was based on Feasibility of the project, the Inventiveness of the Idea & Usefulness to the society. As the judges where from Inte

BNMIT, one of the top 5 engineering colleges in Karnataka, encourages entrepreneurship among students. E-Cell at BNMIT conducts lot of entrepreneurial events to motivate the student community towards entrepreneurship. This semester E-Cell conducted E-Week wherein eminent personalities like Ms. Rashmi Bansal (India’s No.1 Entrepreneurship Author, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish),                               Ms. Nandini Vaidhyanathan (Founder and Mentor-CARma & Former CEO -UTV),   Mr. Muki Regunathan (Founder Pepper Square) were been invited to have E-Talks with students. On 21st September, 2015,                          Mr. Muki Regunathan (Founder Pepper Square), a man who has tasted success after failing 7 times, who considers in self as a template of failures came to BNMIT to enthrall the audience of about 1000 students and faculty members. He also explained that “Success is different to different Person”, as everyone has their own perception regarding success. “Do larger than life

Faculty members of engineering departments of BNMIT, KSIT, Dayananda Sagar, and KSSEM participated in the programme. The Faculty members for the Programme were:   a. Smt. Prabhavathi Rao Program Coordinator WTO & IPR Relay Cell Visvesvaraya Trade Promotion Centre, Dept of I & C,  GOK b. Dr. M N Bheemesh Senior Advisor ALMT Legal, Bangalore c. Ms. Brinda K Patent Attorney Bangalore