K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Sion, Mumbai, is one of the reputed engineering institutes approved by AICTE, DTE and is permanently affiliated to the University of Mumbai. It was established by the Somaiya Trust in the year 2001, at Sion campus in the heart of Mumbai city. KJSIEIT received accreditation by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for three Programs of the institute viz. Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics Engineering in 2018 for 3 years. It is accredited with ‘A’ Grade by the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) of India for 5 years with the CGPA of 3.21.
What is NISP?
The ‘National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty in HEIs was launched by Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on 11th September 2019 at AICTE, New Delhi.
This policy intends to guide HEIs for promoting students’ driven innovations & start-ups and to engage the students and faculty in innovation and start up activities in campus. The policy aims at enabling HEIs to build, streamline and strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in campus and will be instrumental in leveraging the potential of student’s creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mind-set, and promoting a strong intra and interinstitutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different stakeholders at regional, national and international level. The policy is being implemented by MoE’s Innovation Cell and in coordination AICTE, UGC, state/ UT governments and universities.
Vision
To be committed in creating an aspiring ecosystem and culture in the field of engineering to promote the student driven innovation, startup and entrepreneurship.
Mission
- To nurture creativity and innovation while encouraging multidisciplinary interaction.
- To create an environment to boost the startup for aspiring students and faculties.
- To create support ecosystem for pre-incubators, incubators, startups and entrepreneurs
- To enable, build and enhance the network of experts and mentors for consultancy and project funding to make the innovation and venture successful.
Short Term Goals of NISP
- To critical thinking and innovation among students and faculties.
- To promote and help the students for ideation and prototyping of potential inhouse startups.
- Planning of various activities like FDP, expert talk, seminars and workshops related to innovation, statups and entrepreneurship to create awareness among students/faculties.
- To enable, build and enhance the network of experts and mentors for consultancy and project funding to make the innovation and venture successful.
Long Term Goals of NISP
- Improve quality of research to attain commercially viable patent.
- Incubation facility for student and faculty driven start-ups.
- Provide an environment to nurture creativity and innovation for potential startups.
- Developing innovative projects using the emerging technologies for potential problems in the field of agriculture and healthcare.
- Creating association with DST, CII, MSME, academic/research institutions etc for funding/grants.