DHARINI KATHIRVEL

Innovation/Startup fellowship program is a 20-week, full-semester course called ProtoSem during which students are nurtured & guided to develop core technical concepts and key engineering skills and are transformed into 'Innovation Engineers'. We work as a team with students from different engineering/technical/science streams, towards designing, developing and testing an innovative tech-enabled solution to solve a real-world problem (the Minimum Usable Prototype to test the technical feasibility and the commercial viability of the product innovation) sponsored by the industry, government, or social sector etc. We solve real-world challenges using the tools enabled by hardware, software and computing technologies, and evolve as Graduate Innovation Engineers and fully rounded professionals with more balanced skills in the Innovation, Technology, and Engineering talent dimensions. Graduate Innovation Engineers are creative problem-solvers, capable of building deployable/usable prototypes, selecting and applying technology to create cost-effective solutions, and are aware of the tools and techniques of managing the process of innovation to mitigate and reduce risks. They innovate and design solutions by setting and achieving metrics in customer development & discovery, value-proposition validation, market definition & sizing, customer acquisition, revenue model & competition analysis.

First class with Distinction