2020-2021 Sanctioned Programmes:

Online Faculty Development Programme

JSSATEB-STEP has organized the DST (NSTEDB) sponsored two week online Faculty development Programme on "Opportunities & Challenges in Entrepreneurship” from 18.07.2022 to 30.07.2022 with the objective of -

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

Exposing the faculty to the area of entrepreneurship development process and equip them to develop road map for EDP activities in their campus.

Enhancing and developing the requisite skills in faculty to introduce entrepreneurship oriented course in their academic campus and take up research and consultancy in the area of entrepreneurship.

Around 229 faculties had registered for the FDP programme from various colleges attended the programme.
The FDP started off with the Inauguration function on 18.07.2022 at 9.00 AM through online mode. The inauguration was followed by the programme sessions for two weeks. Expert resource persons from Academia, Consultants, and successful entrepreneurs handled the sessions for three days. The programme concluded with a Valedictory function in the afternoon. Dr. Deepthi Shanmugam explained that the key objective of the event was to equip the teachers and the trainers with skills and knowledge that are essential for inculcating entrepreneurial values in students, guiding and monitoring their progress towards an entrepreneurial career. She summed up the programme activities and its outcomes. Quizzes were conducted and feedback has been collected from the participants regularly. She also thanked the resource persons, Dr. D.R.Swamy, Principal, JSSATEB, CIR team members, NSTEDB and all the participants for supporting STEP in successful completion of the Faculty Development programme. The certificates were distributed to the participants through online mode to all the participants.

Online Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme

JSSATEB-STEP has organized the DST (NSTEDB) sponsored six weeks online Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme on “Internet of Things and Embedded Technology” for a period of 6 weeks from 17.05.2021 to 26.06.2021.
TEDP is a structured training program of 6-weeks duration designed to motivate and develop entrepreneurs in specific products/technologies/processes developed by CSIR labs, R&D institutions, universities etc. Since this is a digital program, we had advertised in facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Linkedin and other digital platform. We were able to reach around 10,000 people and had got nearly 235 registrations and based on DST criteria and personal interview shortlisted 33 candidates looking into their interest in Entrepreneurship and Internet of Things technology.

The Inaugural function of the Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme was held online on 17th May 2021 at 10.00 am. After the Inaugural function we had an Orientation programme and had interaction with all the participants and the stake holders and discussed about their views, aim and objectives and also about objectives of the programme. The next session started off with Tech track sessions on Internet of Things and Embedded Systems Introduction to Embedded Systems, Systems Architecture Overview, Introduction to Hardware design and Interfaces, Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT).
Mr. Prakash Sonwalkar and Mr. Madhu Hardhur from M/s. Pradin Technologies handled these sessions.
The EDP track covered the salient aspects of Entrepreneurship traits, Fundamentals of market research, Selection of projects & right target customers, Feasibility study / DPR, Consolidation of business idea, Pilot launch, Go2market strategies, Working capital, BEP analysis, Business modelling, IPR , Pitch deck preparation etc. They also provided insights on the various seed funding options, how to develop teams & Leadership attributes to sustain and grow in the Entrepreneurial journey.

Samuel. K. Sudhakar and Dr. Balamurugan from M/s. Growth Hacking Partners handled the above topics involving & engaging all the participants in an extensive, interactive sessions using break out rooms, relevant case studies, videos and assignments etc.

We had sessions on both EDP and Tech track on Internet of things and Embedded systems alternatively for 6 weeks through online mode.

Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme on
IoT Embedded Tech

Finally we had Valedictory function on 26th June 2021 and all the participants of the programme, College Dean’s, Head of the Departments, Administrative officer were also present. The online certificates were distributed to the participants and the feedback of the programme was collected by them.