SJEC-AICTE IDEA LAB

SJEC is fortunate to be one of the institutions selected by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for establishing the AICTE IDEA Lab in the year 2021. The SJEC AICTE IDEA Lab encourages students to apply Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fundamentals towards enhanced hands-on experience, learning by doing, and product visualization. The IDEA Lab aims to make students more imaginative and creative, in addition to imbuing skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, design thinking, collaboration, communication, and lifelong learning.

The lab covers an area of 5000 plus sq. ft equipped with advanced machinery, tools, and consumables to support the translation of an idea into prototype development or the solution of a problem. Recognizing the significance of skill development in an individual’s academic and professional journey, the SJEC AICTE IDEA Lab offers several hands-on courses for undergraduate students, starting from the first semester through the sixth semester.

The IDEA lab conducts workshops, training, ideation sessions, boot camps, competitions, etc., to nurture ideas, imagination, and creativity among stakeholders. The facility is open to SJEC students, faculty, and staff, as well as students from other schools or colleges, industries, entrepreneurs, startups, and alumni. With available industrial-grade advanced machinery, electronic tools, and testing equipment, wrapped in open-source software and staffed by trained personnel, the IDEA Lab is a platform for learning, innovation, and technical prototyping, and provides a stimulus for on-campus and local entrepreneurship.

From an academic perspective, the SJEC AICTE IDEA Lab conducts training sessions on various fronts where students engage in hands-on activities, imagine, design prototypes, and iterate to find solutions for problems. For entrepreneurs, the IDEA Lab is an ideal place where they can utilize machinery and tools to build prototypes and iterate to bring ideas to life. The IDEA lab can play a substantial role for industries by serving different objectives, such as training their personnel with advanced machinery available in the lab, rapid prototyping of industry products/components, and low-cost, on-demand manufacturing.