India’s tutorial ecosystem is present process a monumental transformation to make training extra related to real-world wants. Invention Factory, a summer season program in inventing, is driving this motion ahead. This collaborative initiative between Maker Bhavan Foundation (MBF) and IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bombay, and IIT Jammu has been a catalyst for innovation.
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Rashmi Sanghi-Prof. Amity Uni, Khushboo Rathore-IIT Jammu, Sudarshan Saraf, Co-Chair & MD Technocraft Industries India, Varun Rawat-NIT Trichy, Hemant Kanakia, Founder-Chair, MBF
With 146 college students and 74 provisional patent purposes, this program—initially based within the U.S. by Prof. Alan Wolf (a Physics professor and U.S. Patent Attorney) and Prof. Eric Lima (a Mechanical Engineering professor) from the Cooper Union—empowers younger minds to invent, disrupt, and form the longer term. For the fifth version of this system, Invention Factory shortlisted 60 college students from the 700 who had utilized from science, engineering, and design schools.
Professor Manoj Gaur, Director, IIT Jammu, said, “Invention Factory is an immersive program wherein our faculty, students, and volunteers engage themselves with a wide variety of problems towards physical deployable solutions. This is a very interesting program where we are learning to understand how, on fast track, we can identify a problem, find a solution, and create an IPR worth provisional patent.”
The prime three “Best Inventions” at every location obtained a monetary incentive. Every taking part group has the chance to file a provisional patent utility for his or her prototype in each India and the U.S. This yr, members will file 30 provisional patent purposes, which protects innovations for one yr. This brings the whole variety of provisional patent purposes from this system to over 100.
“Invention Factory offers engineering and design students an opportunity to identify significant problems and create patentable solutions. Participants learn problem identification, solution design, prototype testing, and most importantly patent law, which is usually not covered in their regular curriculum. In six weeks, they develop an inventive mindset and transform into inventors,” mentioned Professor Madhu Vadali, Mech. Engg., IIT Gandhinagar and Professor-in-Charge, Invention Factory.
WINNERS
IIT Gandhinagar
(Tied for 1st Prize)
Nageshwar Kumar and Chaitanya Tandon from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, developed a groundbreaking glove that allows real-time communication for deaf-blind people.
Stavan Mehta from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Kritika Patidar from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, designed a tool that considerably reduces the problems in tooth extraction.
IIT Bombay
Ishan Agarwal from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, and Vrushti Shah from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, developed a therapeutic ache aid gadget designed to alleviate muscle spasms via pulsating stress utilizing air compression.
IIT Jammu
Varun Manoj Rawat from NIT Trichy and Khushbooo Kanwar Rathore from IIT Jammu developed a “multi drug injector,” which is a tool that mixes and injects two fluids immediately whereas guaranteeing exact dosing and efficient mixing.
Ruyintan Mehta, President of Maker Bhavan Foundation, mentioned, “As I traveled to each of the three campuses for the finale, I was struck by the creativity of their inventions. They are more than just ideas—they are seeds of transformation.”
About Maker Bhavan Foundation (MBF)
Maker Bhavan Foundation (MBF) was fashioned in 2019 as a US 501(c) 3 public charity with a imaginative and prescient of modernizing STEM training in Indian science and engineering schools by selling a tradition of creating and energetic studying and nurturing gifted makers – college students and college. This helps college students to study to construct real looking engineering tasks that clear up real-world issues, develop an creative mindset, and purchase important mushy abilities and habits of lifelong studying. MBF works with varied institutes in India, its college, and college students to make training extra related and attentive to the real-life wants of individuals and society.
