AICTE to establish AICTE IDEA Labs in 49 colleges across India

More than 80% AICTE IDEA Labs will be built in private engineering colleges. States like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka have only a single public college that qualified.

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Team Careers360 | June 15, 2021 | 09:41 AM IST

NEW DELHI: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the top regulator for technical education, has selected 49 colleges and educational institutions for establishing AICTE IDEA (Idea Development, Evaluation, and Application) Lab.

In the first phase of the scheme, the labs will be built in education institutions located in non-metro cities spread across 16 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The proposals for the scheme were invited in January 2021 and were evaluated by the National Steering Committee. AICTE intends to open up the participation of metro cities in the second phase.

AICTE IDEA labs will be a round-the-clock common facility in these 49 institutions where students can learn to apply Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fundamentals on ideas through hands-on learning.

Beyond textbook learning, the focus of IDEA labs will be to train students so that they become imaginative and creative and stay so at the workplaces they join. Each college will be required to organise training sessions for interested students and support projects and by providing online learning materials.

Promoting experiential learning in technical education, Rajive Kumar, AICTE secretary said: “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.”

Science and engineering

“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 said.

The IDEA Lab also intends to encourage teachers to conduct “multidisciplinary education and research” emphasized in the National Education Policy, NEP 2020.

More than 80 percent of the 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 parameter set by AICTE," Kumar said.

List of institutions selected by AICTE for AICTE IDEA labs 2020-21

Name of the Institute

City

State

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

GITA BHUBANESWAR

BHUBANESWAR

Odisha

SRI MANAKULA VINAYAGAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

PUDUCHERRY

Puducherry

POORNIMA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

JAIPUR

Rajasthan

HINDUSTHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

COIMBATORE

Tamil Nadu

K.S.RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

TIRUCHENGODE

Tamil Nadu

MUTHAYAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE

RASIPURAM

Tamil Nadu

R.M.K. ENGINEERING COLLEGE

KAVARAIPETTAI

Tamil Nadu

SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

COIMBATORE

Tamil Nadu

B V RAJU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

NARSAPUR

Telangana

BALAJI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

NARSAMPET

Telangana

GURU NANAK INSTITUTIONS TECHNICAL CAMPUS

IBRAHIMPATNAM,

Telangana

JAYAMUKHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES

WARANGAL

Telangana

ABES ENGINEERING COLLEGE

GHAZIABAD

Uttar Pradesh

JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

NOIDA

Uttar Pradesh

MEERUT INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

MEERUT

Uttar Pradesh

NOIDA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

GAUTAM BUDH NAGAR

Uttar Pradesh

DR. B.C. ROY ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DURGAPUR

DURGAPUR

West Bengal

HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

HALDIA

West Bengal


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