All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the leading regulatory body for technical education in India has announced a development scheme, AICTE-IDEA Labs for engineering students throughout the country.
AICTE has plans to launch AICTE- Labs in engineering colleges. The initiative is aimed at training engineering students to become imaginative and creative. Meanwhile, AICTE also collaborated with CareerLabs to launch NEAT 2.0 to help students build a profile for an apt professional career.
AICTE to Launch AICTE-IDEA Labs in Engineering Colleges
The idea behind AICTE IDEA labs to be set up in different institutes of the country is to promote creativity and new ideas that can provide meaningful and positive changes in society.
AICTE has selected 49 engineering institutes throughout the country that will be installed with IDEA labs. A large number of private institutions, more than 80%, have been selected for this purpose.
These labs will be built and developed in a phased manner as per the announcement. The first phase is set to include education institutes that are established in non-metro cities of 16 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Proposals for the schemes were invited in January of 2021 and were then evaluated by the National Steering Committee. The second phase of the scheme is planned to include metro cities.
The motivation behind IDEA labs is to provide students with knowledge that is beyond the textbook so that students can learn to become imaginative and produce creative ideas that can be then developed into meaningful inventions.
The approved institutions are given directions to organise training sessions for interested students and provide insights and support to the projects which are thus brought forward. The training material and sessions are currently being planned to be provided in an online format.
Rajive Kumar, AICTE secretary asserted, “There should be no lock put on IDEA Lab which should work on trust, allowing free access to facilities 24x7. The IDEA Labs in smaller cities will strengthen the innovation ecosystem of the country.”
“As a common facility embedded in the institution, the IDEA Lab will make engineering graduates more imaginative and creative, besides getting basic training in the 21st-century skills like- critical thinking, problem-solving, research, collaboration, communication, lifelong learning, etc,” an official statement reads.
The IDEA Lab also intends to encourage teachers to conduct “multidisciplinary education and research” emphasized in the National Education Policy, NEP 2020. About 80% of educational institutions selected by AICTE are private. According to Kumar, about 600 colleges had applied to set up the labs including government colleges. " The participation of government colleges was low and many such colleges were rejected as they did not meet the parameters set by AICTE," Kumar said.
List of selected institutes by AICTE for AICTE IDEA Labs:
| Name of Institute | City | State |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur | Haldia | West Bengal |
| Haldia Institute of Technology | Durgapur | West Bengal |
| Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology | Gautam Budh Nagar | Uttar Pradesh |
| Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology | Meerut | Uttar Pradesh |
| ABES Engineering College | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh |
| JSS Academy of Technical Education | Noida | Uttar Pradesh |
| Muthayammal Engineering College | Rasipuram | Tamil Nadu |
| R.M.K. Engineering College | Kavaraipettai | Tamil Nadu |
| Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu |
| Gita Bhubaneswar | Bhubaneswar | Odisha |
| Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College | Puducherry | Puducherry |
| Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology | Jaipur | Rajasthan |
| Balaji Institute of Technology & Science | Narsampet | Telangana |
| Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus | Ibrahimpatnam, | Telangana |
| Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences | Warangal | Telangana |
| Potti Sriramulu Chalavadi Mallikarjuna Rao College of Engineering and Technology | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh |
| QIS College of Engineering & Technology | Ongole | Andhra Pradesh |
| Sagi Ramakrishnam Raju Engineering College | Bhimavaram | Andhra Pradesh |
| Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College | Rangampet | Andhra Pradesh |
| Vignan's Institute of Information Technology | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh |
| Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management And Technology | Guwahati | Assam |
| Bhilai Institute of Technology | Durg | Chhattisgarh |
| Shri G.S.Institute of Tech & Science | Indore | Madhya Pradesh |
| D.K.T.E. Society's Textile & Engineering Institute | Ichalkaranji | Maharashtra |
| K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research | Nashik | Maharashtra |
| Kasegaon Education Society's Rajarambapu Institute of Technology | Islampur | Maharashtra |
| Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management & Technology | Raipur | Chhattisgarh |
| A.D.Patel Institute of Technology | Anand | Gujarat |
| G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology | Vallabh Vidyanagar | Gujarat |
| Panipat Institute of Engineering & Technology | Panipat | Haryana |
| Acropolis Institute of Technology And Research | Indore | Madhya Pradesh |
| Lakshmi Narain College of Technology | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh |
| Oriental Institute of Science & Technology | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh |
| Samrat Ashok Technological Institute | Vidisha | Madhya Pradesh |
| B V Raju Institute of Technology | Narsapur | Telangana |
| Birla Institute of Technology | Ranchi | Jharkhand |
| B V V Sangha's Basaveshwar Engineering College Bagalkot | Bagalkot | Karnataka |
| Kle Dr. M. S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering And Technology, Belgaum | Belgaum | Karnataka |
| Malnad College of Engineering | Hassan | Karnataka |
| Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu |
| K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology | Tiruchengode | Tamil Nadu |
| Siddaganga Institute of Technology | Tumkur | Karnataka |
| St. Joseph Engineering College | Mangalore | Karnataka |
| Amal Jyothi College of Engineering | Kottayam | Kerala |
| Rajadhani Institute of Engineering And Technology | Attingal | Kerala |
| TKM College of Engineering | Kollam | Kerala |
| Kolhapur Institute of Technology's College of Engineering Autonomous Kolhapur | Kolhapur | Maharashtra |
| Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering And Technology | Nanded | Maharashtra |
| C.V. Raman Global University | Bhubaneswar | Odisha |
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