About MHRD's Innovation Cell (MIC)
MIC focuses on creating complete ecosystem which fosters the culture of Innovation across all educational institutions from ideas generation to pre-incubation, incubation and then graduating from the incubator as successful start-ups. MIC also works on designing ranking system to identify institutions in the forefront of innovation.
About Institution Innovation Council @ Chandigarh Engineering College-CGC
Chandigarh Engineering College-CGC, Landran, Mohali’s Institution Innovation Council (CEC-CGC IIC) was established in 2019 under Ministry of Education (MoE) -Innovation Cell (MIC), Govt. of India. The main objective of the CEC-CGC-IIC cell is to promote the custom of innovation, entrepreneurship, startup, amd IPR ecosystem at institute level. Both faculty as well as students are engaged for conducting and participating in various activities related to idea creation, problem solving, concept development, IPR and other related activities.
Under CEC-CGC-IIC cell, a number of activities are conducted throughout the year which falls under the categories- IIC calendar activity, MIC Driven Activity, Celebration Activity and Self-Driven Activity. All engineering departments of CEC-CGC, Landran, Mohali actively involve in conducting these activities. The CEC-CGC-IIC council also deliberate on quarterly action plan in synchronization with activities and initiatives of other departments, centres and facilities in the Institute working towards promoting IPR, Innovation and Start up.
Key Functionaries at CEC-CGC-IIC
IIC Role | Name | Designation in the Institute |
Head of Institute | Dr.Rajdeep Singh | Director-Principal (CEC-CGC, Landran, Mohali) |
President | Dr.Sushil Kamboj | Prof & Head-IT dept. |
Convener, CEC-CGC-IIC | Dr.Amanpreet Kaur | Associate Professor (IT) |
Start-up Activity Coordinator | Dr Harbinder Singh | Professor |
NIRF Coordinator | Mr. Sachin Majithia | Assistant Professor |
ARIIA Coordinator | Dr Amresh Kumar | Professor (ME) |
Social Media Coordinator | Dr.Saurabh Chaitanya | Assistant Professor |
Innovation Activity Coordinator | Ms. AnupamBonkra | Assistant Professor |
IPR Activity Coordinator | Dr. Sanjeev Sharma | Professor |
Internship Activity Coordinator | Dr.Mohit Srivastava | Professor |
Member- CEC-CGC-IIC | Dr.Milanpreet Kaur | Assistant Professor |
Member- CEC-CGC-IIC | Dr. Dinesh Arora | Professor |
Member- CEC-CGC-IIC | Mr. Pardeep Singh Tiwana | Assistant Professor |
Member- CEC-CGC-IIC | Dr. Priyanka | Professor |
Highlights of Achievements in 2022-2023
Achievements | Number/ Amount |
Number and Different types of I&E and IPR activities Conducted as Self driven/IIC calendar/MIC activities/Celebration activities | Total: 87 |
No. of students & faculty ideas generated | More than 300 |
No. of students & faculty Innovation/prototypes developed | 120, Uploaded through Yukti and being part of National Innovation Repository |
No. of IPs generated, published and granted | Filed =537, Published =165, Granted =13 (since inception) |
No. of Students & Faculty Start-ups/Ventures established | 12 |
Amount grant or fund supported to student & Faculty lead Innovations, start-ups and IPR | 2 lacs (approx.) |
No. of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation happened | 04 |
Innovation Ambassadors of CEC-CGC-IIC
Name | Designation |
Dr.Sushil Kamboj | Prof & Head-IT dept. |
Dr. Amanpreet Kaur | Professor |
Mr. Sachin Majithia | Assistant Professor |
Dr Sanjeev Sharma | Professor (ME) |
Dr. Saurav Chaitanya | Assistant Professor |
Dr Dinesh Arora | Professor |
Dr. Manjit Singh | Associate Professor |
Dr. Amresh | Professor |
Mr. Ishpreet Singh | Assistant Professor |
Mr. Pardeep Singh Tiwana | Assistant Professor |
Ms. Anupam Bonkra | Assistant Professor |
Dr. Priyanka Kaushal | Professor |
Celebrations
National Technology Day
Startups-Innovations-Felicitations
Expert Sessions
Entrepreneurship Day
G20 Summit
Leadership Talks
Visits