Workshop on Design Thinking a Human Centered Approach to Innovation

On 28.02. 2022 a workshop was organised by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of ECE department and IIC through offline mode. The workshop was presided by Mrs. J Friska HOD/ECE and jointly coordinated by EDC director and IIC president Dr. Lourdes Poobala Rayen. ECE Students and ECE faculty participated in the event. The welcome address was given by Miss. Shivani, Second year ECE student and the program was coordinated by Pradheep T Rajan B, Assistant Professor /ECE, Francis Xavier Engineering College. The session was handled by Dr. R Prem Ananth, IIC Convener, IIC Innovation Ambassador for "Design thinking & Innovations", Assistant professor, Francis Xavier Engineering College from 1.30 - 3.00 PM. During his speech he explained the Importance of Entrepreneurship, Introduction to innovation, Myth and reality in innovation, types of innovation, Design thinking and case study in Design thinking. He also highlighted the need to use the process of design thinking in innovation. As the guest speaker belongs to the same department students asked more questions to the guest speaker and he inspired by citing lot of examples. He also underlined the need for opting entrepreneurship as the career option and to go for startup. 49 students and 2 staffs were actively participated in the session.