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Startup Funding and Mentoring Event at VGEC of GTU

GTU affiliated Vishwakarma Government Engineering College has organized one day event “VGEC SSIP Conclave on Innovative Projects”.


The college received 90+ entries of the projects varying in all the branches of Engineering like Computer, IT, Electrical, Electronics and Communication , Power Electronics, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Instrumentation and Control Engineering all these projects were showcased to experts and the best projects were mentored by the experts. The conclave celebrate presence of Dr. Sunil Shukla, Director, Entrepreneurship Institute of India, Dr. N.M. Desai, Space Application Centre, ISRO, and Dr. Subroto Mukherjee, Dean Academic, Indian Plasma Research Institute and other renowned dignitaries and 18 industry expert to fulfill the purpose of the event.

Government of Gujarat released Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP) to support innovative and startup based engineering projects, with the financial support of SSIP students are promoted to take up innovative challenges. The institute provides all necessary support to the students from ideation, prototyping, proof of concept to working model that leads to patents/copyrights/market sellable products.

Purpose of this event was to cultivate and encourage young minds as per the need of society as well as Industries. Through these event students can showcase the creativity and talent in their projects.

The VGEC students who had been already been recruited by multinationals have decided to opt in order to pursue their startup, this goes to show the high level of potential of the startups presented today in the event.

  The Guests for the program were:

  1. Smt. Anju Sharma, IAS, Hon. Principal Secretary, Education Govt. of Gujarat

  2. Shri K.K. Nirala, IAS, Hon. Director, Directorate of Technical Education, Govt. of Gujarat

  3. Prof. Navin Sheth, Hon. Vice-Chancellor, GTU

  4. Dr. Shunil Shukla, Director, Entrepreneurship Institute of India, Bhatt, Gandhinagar

  5. Dr. Subroto Mukherjee, Dean Academic, Indian Plasma Research Institute, Gandhinagar

The experts for your department are:

  1. Chemical-Mr. R. V. Patel,Gujarat Pollution Control Board

  2. Chemical-Mr. Ankit Parmar,OK Water Systems

  3. Civil-Mr Vivek P Kapadia,Kalpsar (WRD)

  4. Civil-Shri Harshal Parikh, L&T

  5. Computer-Dr. Haresh Bhatt,SAC, ISRO

  6. Computer-Mr. Nikunj Patel,CapGemini

  7. Electrical-Dr. URMIL B PARIKH, ABB

  8. Electrical-Mr. Dipak Patel,Kokila Electricals

  9. Electronics & Communications- NILESH M.DESAI,SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE (SAC/ISRO), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

  10. Electronics & Communications-Nilesh Ranpura,einfochips

  11. Information Technology-Mr. Harish Chib,Sophos Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd.

  12. Information Technology-Mr. Hitesh Poojara,Synoverge Technologies Pvt Ltd

  13. Instrumentation & Control-Dr.-Ing. Suryakant B.Gupta,Institute for Plasma Research

  14. Instrumentation & Control-Mr. Kalpesh Trivedi,TRIO Elevator Company India Ltd.

  15. Mechanical-SNEHAL MEHTA,ENERGY MISSION MACHINERIES INDIA PVT LTD

  16.  Mechanical-ALPESH PATEL,SAFEX INDUSTRIES LIMITED

  17.  Power Electronics-Mr. Harshad Chaudhari,Plasma Induction

  18.  Power Electronics-Mr. Kirit Sutariya,KINCO AUTOMATION INDIA PVT. LTD.

Project Highlights

  1. NaVic/GPS based pollution control

  2. Smartcity parking system

  3. Foldable water pot

  4. Ultra light folding slabs for pandals

  5. New design for city manhole covers

  6. New concrete design for roads

  7. Coastline security system

  8. City Bus real time information

  9. Agriculture by Internet

  10. Sentiment Analysis by Social Media

  11. Crop harvesting design

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