IEDC

Musaliar College of Engineering proved to be the stage for yet another exciting student venture through the inauguration of Kerala Startup Mission’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre from 10th February 2015. Named as Musaliar IEDC Boot Camp (ABC), the chapter aims at improving the entrepreneurship and technical skills of passionate students and at the same time, coming out with produces which would have the potential of generating revenue. Musaliar IEDC Bootcamp is working its best to spread the message of Innovation, Incubation, and Entrepreneurship among students in the college/region.

Among the 216 IEDC’s in the state, Kerala Startup Mission has selected Musaliar IEDC Bootcamp as the best IEDC in the state for the past 3 years. Also received the Entrepreneurship Enabler Award 2018 for the notable contribution to the startup ecosystem. In order to enhance the creativity and design thinking among students, every year we conduct Innovation Challenges which get reflected as a startup culture ecosystem in the campus. IEDC also organizes entrepreneurship awareness camps, skill development programs, design thinking workshops, patent support systems, Hackathons, Startup Bootcamps, product expos, outreach training programs, Meet the mentor and investor programs for the overall development of the ecosystem.

We also have a Business Hub with 1435 sq ft space as a pre incubation facility for our student startups. This Co Working Space is been used by our students who have registered startups. The space consist of Conference tables, necessary tables, chairs, white board, Wifi and table tennis board too.

Achievements

Activities

• As a part of enhancing the eco system and promoting young minds, Musaliar IEDC in association with Asianet News has been organising an innovation challenge named Musaliar Asianet News Young Scientist Award for the past 3 years where the winners get an opportunity to visit NASA, USA.
• Musaliar IEDC in association with HACK CLUB, USA conducted an International MLH Local Hackathon for both school and college students.
• As a part of enriching the creativity and innovation among our students Musaliar IEDC in association with KSUM has been conducting an innovation challenge named APJ ABDUL KALAM INNOVATION CHALLENGE for the past 3 years where we identify potential student projects, mentor and fund them to convert it into a marketable products.
• Musaliar IEDC in association with ICT Academy has conducted a series of Intercollegiate Design Thinking Workshop for enhancing the creative capability among students to develop a marketable product.
• As a part of building relationships with Industry and solving their problems Musaliar IEDC has conducted a series Factory Workshop on INDUSTRY 4.0. We also got special appreciation from Apollo Tyers for conducting the same.
• In order to encourage female entrepreneurship, Musaliar IEDC in association with 4Tune Factory conducted a series of Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Workshops (Prayaana) for girl students of MCE.
• As a part of ‘Mentoring our campus startups’ Musaliar IEDC conducts an Alumni Entrepreneurs Conclave. It’s a platform for our Alumni Entrepreneurs to share their stories and experiences, which got reflected as a strong mentoring mechanism.
• As a part of providing funding to our student projects IEDC conducted a 1 min elevator pitch challenge, where students pitch their idea and get funding for their campus projects.
• IEDC also conducts Faculty Development Programs (FDP) like IPR, PATENT, Latest Technologies, Entrepreneurship Training for enhancing the interest of our faculty members towards Entrepreneurship.
• In order to strengthen the technical skill sets of the student community Musaliar IEDC conducted a series of Workshops on Latest Technologies like Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Engine Assembly, Drone Making, Fab Lab basics and 3D printing, Android app development, Web Development, Virtual reality Game Development etc.