Faculty Development Programme

JSSATEB-STEP has organized two week offline Faculty development programme on "Opportunities & Challenges in Entrepreneurship” from 15.03.2021 to 27.03.2021. This programme was sponsored by DST-NIMAT (NSTEDB), Government of India through Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII). Around 27 faculty members from different Engineering colleges attended the training progamme. Expert resource persons from Academia, Consultants, and successful entrepreneurs handled the sessions.

Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme

JSSATEB-STEP has organized Six weeks offline "Technology based Entrepreneurship Development Program” on Drone Technologies from 05.08.2022 to 17.09.2022 sponsored by DST-NIMAT (NSTEDB), Government of India through Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII). Around 26 Engineering and Science graduates attended the programme.

The objective of the programme was:

Enabling the students to guide, motivate and counsel them towards entrepreneurship.

We are exposing them to the entrepreneurship development process and equipping them to develop a road map for TEDP activities to build their career.

It enhances and develops the requisite skills to introduce an entrepreneurship-oriented course and take up entrepreneurship research and consultancy in entrepreneurship.

An industrial visit to KNOWX Innovations,a Bangalore-based leading Technology Service Provider involved in Embedded Systems Design, Product Engineering, and the Internet of Things (IoT) Incepted in 2005 was organized. The sessions were handled by eminent resource persons like Mr. Mrutyunjaya Hiremath, CEO& Director of eMath Technology Pvt Ltd, Ms. Shantala S Hiremath, Senior Specialist, Sony Software Center,and Mr. Bhimsen. G V,CEO & Director of KNOWX Innovations (P) Ltd, Mr.Anath Sowmyaji, Senior Technical Consultant, Mr. Gopal Krishna, Project Manager from CISCO, and our trainers, Mr.Basavraj and Mr. Sumanth Joshi.

Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme

This program was sponsored by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India-Ahmedabad to JSS-ATE, Bangalore, organized by JSSATE-STEP, Bengaluru. Total number of participants registered were 40 and 25 potential participants were selected on their interest & enthusiasm towards learning Entrepreneurship. Participants were given 4-week intense training on Garment manufacturing and self-employment after training participants were found confident enough to set up small unit starting from their home and few participants were interested to learn in-depth about the industry and express their interest towards getting trained in garment industry, and 2-3 group of women wanted to start their own entities.
Sufficient skillset, motivation and support extended by project officer and resource person Mr. Chandrashekhar & Trainer Ms. Chitra Saraswathi to support & handhold them to set up their dream startups.

Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme

JSS Academy of Technical Education –Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park had organized three 3 days Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp sponsored by NSTEDB-EDI, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India under DST-NIMAT scheme for the year 2019-20. The objective of the programme was to create awareness among students of Engineering about various facets of Entrepreneurship as an alternative career option and also to highlight the merits of perusing such an option.
The course was delivered by the team of Experts from Academia, Consultants, successful entrepreneus etc., to make the students understand about why entrepreneurship is important, how can students become entrepreneurs and what is the reality of entrepreneurship in India. Three programmes were conducted and students from different branches of Engineering college attended the programme. The awareness program was based on workshop methods which can engage the students to start thinking like an entrepreneur.
The first programme was held from 18th February to 20th February 2021 for first year engineering students of Computer Science and Information Science students of JSSATE. About 98 students participated in the programme. Expert resource persons from Academia, Consultants, and successful entrepreneurs handled the sessions for three days. The second programme was held from 12th March to 15th March 2021 for first year students of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering students of JSSATE. About 99 students participated in the programme. Expert resource persons from Academia, Consultants, and successful entrepreneurs handled the sessions for three days.
The programme was held from 16th March to 18th March 2021 for first year students of Electronics & Communication and Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering students of JSSATE. About 111 students participated in the programme. Expert resource persons from Academia, Consultants, and successful entrepreneurs handled the sessions for three days.

The concluding session was “Interaction and Feedback” Here the speakers interacted with the students and clarified their doubts about Entrepreneurship, starting a venture, start-ups, various schemes in the Government, Incubation space etc.

We were able to create awareness among engineering students about the various facets of Entrepreneurship as an alternative career option and also highlighted the merits of perusing such an option.