A 16-member team of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut is creating an online repository of subject-specific class notes and assignments for engineering courses of premier institutes across the country. The first-of-its-kind initiative in Kerala is promoted by the Technology Business Incubator with the support of the central department of science and technology (DST) and micro small and medium enterprises (MSME).
The team, led by third-year electrical and electronics engineering students Aditya Maheswari and Jagadish Manohar, have launched the initiative on website Jugaadlabs.org.in with the support of NIT alumnus and mentor Prakash Shetty, who is also the founder of Gasotech India.
"We have registered Jugaadlabs.org.in as a company with the MSME department. We have uploaded content on the five subject branches at NIT Calicut - electrical and electronics, biotech and mechanical engineering and partially civil and chemical engineering. With the support of College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET) students, we plan to upload their institute-specific subject content by Feb-end," Aditya said.
"Class notes taken by top students in the class are crosschecked through content management systems on desktops with server support from the TBI. We upload the content designed for file sharing through the internet utility of Dropbox. They have given us 50 GB free space to upload content. The website already has an audience of 1,500 regular users and is accessed by 60% of NIT Calicut residents," he said
TBI manager Preethi M said they offer infrastructure, technology and legal support to startup incubators.
"We promote student entrepreneurship by giving them all facilities and regular mentorship training programmes. It would take some more time for the incubator company to be approved by the selection committee of the TBI and once approved, they will get a seed fund grant of up to Rs 25 lakh or soft loan that requires no security," she said.
TBI supports 15 incubator companies functioning within NIT campus and 22 outside, she said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/NIT-students-create-online-repository-for-engineering-courses/articleshow/18373325.cms
The team, led by third-year electrical and electronics engineering students Aditya Maheswari and Jagadish Manohar, have launched the initiative on website Jugaadlabs.org.in with the support of NIT alumnus and mentor Prakash Shetty, who is also the founder of Gasotech India.
"We have registered Jugaadlabs.org.in as a company with the MSME department. We have uploaded content on the five subject branches at NIT Calicut - electrical and electronics, biotech and mechanical engineering and partially civil and chemical engineering. With the support of College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET) students, we plan to upload their institute-specific subject content by Feb-end," Aditya said.
"Class notes taken by top students in the class are crosschecked through content management systems on desktops with server support from the TBI. We upload the content designed for file sharing through the internet utility of Dropbox. They have given us 50 GB free space to upload content. The website already has an audience of 1,500 regular users and is accessed by 60% of NIT Calicut residents," he said
TBI manager Preethi M said they offer infrastructure, technology and legal support to startup incubators.
"We promote student entrepreneurship by giving them all facilities and regular mentorship training programmes. It would take some more time for the incubator company to be approved by the selection committee of the TBI and once approved, they will get a seed fund grant of up to Rs 25 lakh or soft loan that requires no security," she said.
TBI supports 15 incubator companies functioning within NIT campus and 22 outside, she said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/NIT-students-create-online-repository-for-engineering-courses/articleshow/18373325.cms
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