Two students from the College of Engineering Roorkee (COER) figured among the top 50 at the national competition held at IIT, Mumbai in which 1200 institutions from across the country participated. The competition was meant to evaluate the theoretical knowledge of the students from the practical aspect as well as to provide them with a platform for research and experiments, the organisers said.
These aspiring entrepreneurs have showed their acumen towards starting their own ventures, they added.
Divyansh Dwivedi and Ankit Joshi from computer science department of COER figured in top 50 list of the students. In another event, Aditya Singh, Nishant and Shiv Tyagi of the same college were listed in the top 10. They showed their talent at Association for Computing Machinery– International Collegiate Programming Contest in which there were 800 contestants.
Speaking to The Pioneer, Major General O P Soni, director general COER, said, “For overall personality grooming of the students, various entrepreneuring programmes have been launched where ITC, JBM, IBM, spoken tutorial, e-journey to IIT and the Robotic Lab have been involved. This is to enhance the academic standards of the students as well as to make them more employable and competent to start their own ventures.”
A special cell has been constituted in the college which works on building the spirit of entrepreneurship among the students.
A training is given to help them blooming into successful entrepreneurs in future, he said and added that any student from Uttrakhand can avail this training free of cost.
Utkarsh Rawat, a third year student of mechanical engineering, has started his company Robotics Trade India, a division of COER, while another student opened The Next Move, a home automation company, Soni informed.
Chairman of the college, professor J C Jain said that keeping in mind the need of technology and research in the field of agriculture, an agriculture department would be set up in the coming session 2019-2020. A special laboratory to test the quality of the soil is also being established in the campus where any farmer from the region can come for getting the soil tested free of cost, he added.
It is, further, learnt that under the aegis of COER Center of Excellence, the college has purchased Timble R8 SDGP, the best quality international level technical equipment, to make the students of Civil Engineering aware of the ‘Learning and Earning’ concept.
Vikhyath Chauhan., Aman Poddar , Sarthak Mathur and Vikashdeep are among those who have successfully entered their second year of entrepreneurship from electronics and telecommunications department of the institute.
Notably, COER is the only institution in the state to own this kind of exclusive technology. This technique is useful in remote sensing in the field of road mapping, land cover mapping and other surveys, the COER sources said.