Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)

Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of EPCET was established with the aim of offering specialized knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship. In response to the global shortage of jobs across both government and private sectors, which has contributed to unemployment and underutilization of human resources. EDC cell works to identify and nurture talented youth for entrepreneurial ventures.

EDC organizes programs focused on entrepreneurship-development. EDC helps to groom & develop young entrepreneurs among students of EPCET. EDC helps students to inculcate innovation skills. EDC organizes various activities to promote entrepreneurship skills among students of EPCET.

Entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in creating job opportunities by fostering innovation & Creation of new businesses. Entrepreneurs are drivers of new businesses & help to grow existing businesses by introducing innovative ideas. Entrepreneurs drive innovation and create new business models that didn’t exist before. Entrepreneurs helps create jobs in regional economies & Social Entrepreneurship- that focus on solving social, community problems, creating jobs & addressing societal needs. A Social Enterprise can offers training to low-income groups in areas like healthcare, education and technology, can create meaningful job opportunities.

Technical startups in software development, mobile applications and ecommerce has created millions of jobs worldwide in fields like Travel, digital marketing and product management.

EDC Committee:

Sl.No. Name of the Member Role/ in EDC Designation Email
1 Dr. Prahlada Rao B.B Director Director-R&D prahladaraobb@eastpoint.ac.in
2 Dr.Sudhanshu Saurabh Dy Director Professor AI&DS saurabh.ds.ai@eastpoint.ac.in
3 Mrs. Bakkiya Lakshmi B Member Asst Prof. CSE bakkiyalakshmi.cse@eastpoint.ac.in
4 Mrs. Shreedevi B. C Member Asst Prof. ISE shreedevi.bc.ise@eastpoint.ac.in
5 Dr. Savita Garg Member Asso Prof. ECE savita.ise@eastpoint.ac.in
6 Dr. Komala Member Professor, ISE dr.komala@eastpoint.ac.in

EDC Objectives & Activities

Objectives

  1. To raise awareness among students about entrepreneurship as a viable career option.
  2. To conduct training programmes in the field of entrepreneurial skill development
  3. To design entrepreneurship-focused course curricula for integration into engineering programs.
  4. To offer guidance and support to first-time entrepreneurs during the startup phase.
  5. To foster entrepreneurial mind-set and ecosystem among students & Create young Entrepreneurs.

Activities & Initiatives of EDC

  1. Organize Seminars and workshops on business development, ideation, and funding.
  2. Hand holding students to develop Innovative Ideas
  3. Visit to Companies & Organize student visits to Incubation Centers
  4. Proposals for Funding, Create Startups
  5. Build network with industry experts, successful entrepreneurs and investors.
  6. Create Incubation centers for student startups. and IDEA Lab

Achievements of EDC

Awards and Recognition

  1. LLP Registered: 2
  2. MSME UDYAM: 2
  3. Section 8 Company Registered: 1
  4. AICTE IDEA Lab: Proposal Selected : 100 Lakhs Ref Nu: 1-1097519492
  5. Patent Filed: Tittle” An Artificial Intelligence Based Iot And Lidar/Lorasystem And Method For Optimizing Agriculture Yields”, NAME : N Rohit

EPCET Entrepreneurs

S.No. Student Name Branch Pass Out Year Name of Enterprise Location/ Address of Enterprise Major Activity of Enterprise Type of Enterprise Year of Registration
1 Deepak S Civil Engg 2013 Prashasthi Civil Solutions Araleri Rd, Adarsh Nagar, Malur, Karnataka 563130 Contractor for commercial, builders and developers, Tile contractors, waterproofing contractors Online and Local Advertisements 2015
2 Venu N Civil Engg 2023 SLV Design and Construction Hirandahalli, Avalahalli, Bangalore - 560049 Residential and commercial buildings, Interiors 2023
3 Rahul Civil Engg 2018 Horizon Construction Bangalore, Karnataka Residential and commercial buildings, Interiors 2020
4 Akash, Ajay, and Suhas Civil Engg Durga Construction Gandhinagar, Kolar, Karnataka Residential and commercial buildings, Interiors July 2023
5 Nishant Sekhar CSE 2011 StrategicStack Service Pvt. Ltd. A6 –151 DLF Westend Heights, Akshaya Nagar Courage is taking the first step. Our customer testimonials are the only way of our marketing. 2014
6 Lohith .C CSE 2014 Pralotech Solutions LLP Subhash Nagar, Bhattrahalli, K.R. Puram Setup the company and to make our service presence across the market 2018
7 Shivani Rajput CSE 2016 HapyZone Shamanna Subaiya Reddy Layout, Banaswadi, Bengaluru To find like-minded people. Social media platform (Facebook, Instagram) 2020
8 Sampath T N CSE 2016 TNS Incredible Farm Bengaluru Fast disappearing of grazing land TNS Incredible Farm 2018
9 N. Pavan Bhushan Reddy CSE 2020 Owner / Agriculturer #63, 1st Cross, Navya Nagar, Bengaluru Competition in the field and going through legal Petrol bunk and Farming 2020
10 Aishwarya S CSE 2020 Meraki Event Planners #19, Kanasu, SMR Township, Near Banjara Layout, Kalkere, Bengaluru Collecting contacts for event requirements like decoration was difficult in the beginning Event Planning 2019
11 Uday Kumar Aadusumilli ISE 2019 Cloudwarts Education Pvt Ltd. Bengaluru Time Management Reddit and Google Ads 2018
12 Prasad H D ECE 2017 Sri Basaveshwara Enterprises #307/1, 1st Main Road, Nagarbhavi Main Road, Bengaluru Competition from the City Traders To solve the local needs of Grocery 2018
13 Surya Teja ME 2016 Promech Technologies #14F, Attibelae Industrial Area, Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Working Capital Fabrication and Coating 2021
14 Mohan Murali N ME 2016 1806 Engineering Services #3, Murgeshpalya, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru Delivering Quality service and retaining customers or clients Engineering Services for Industries 2018
15 Kiran M M ME 2016 Radboards #305, 87, Shresta Bhoomi, K.R. Road Mentorship and Funding Leader in Portable Electric segments 2015
16 P Madhusudhan ME 2020 Navabharat Starch Industries #19, KIADB, Dasarahossahalli, Bengaluru Purchasing new machinery and spare parts due to shortage Internet and Telephonic communication 2023
17 Sri Dharan ME 2020 Sree Laxmi Enterprises 7th Block, Kolar main road, Newtown, Bethamangala, KGF Taluk Competition with other established firms Contacting Engineers and Builders 2015
18 Sonnahalli Janardhana Reddy Pavan Civil Engg 2015 Construction Work Ground Floor, Khata No 17/12, Site No 12, Nachohalli Grama, Malur, Kolar, Karnataka, 563130 Construction work Construction 2019
19 Raghavendra R Civil Engg 2018 SM Construction GS Complex, Katamnallur Sustainability and Efficiency Network with suppliers, online marketing, newspapers 2019

EDC Activities Conducted in EPCET 2023-25

  1. Workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity”, Department of ISE, 10-12-2024, Participants : 100 AY 2024-25.
    • College Name: East Point College of Engineering and Technology
    • Department: Information Science and Engineering
    • Total Number of Students Present :101
    • Total Number of external resource person :01
    • Mode of Workshop: online
  2. Seminar on Global Career Opportunities in Europe for Indian Graduates-23.02.2024, ISE
  3. Seminar on Basics of Intellectual Property Rights and its Importance for Innovators & Enterprenuers, 11-12-24, ISE
    • Department: Information Science and Engineering
    • College Name: East Point College of Engineering and Technology
    • Resource Person Name: Dr S K Murthy
    • Number of Students Present: :100
    • Theme of the Seminar Basics of Intellectual Property Rights and its Importance for
  4. WorkShop Motivational Session by Successful Innovators-Praveen (Cofee Board)-08-10-24, ECE
    • Resource Person Name: Praveen H J, CEO of ATAL Incubation Center of Coffee Board (AIC-CCRI-CED), Bengaluru
    • College Name: East Point College of Engineering and Technology
    • Department: Electronics & Communication Engineering
    • Date & Time: 08th October 2024 & 11:00AM
    • No. of Participant: 127 students , 5th Semester students
  5. Webinar on Empowering Entreprenuers: Navigating the MSME landscape by demonstrating Udhayam, 2nd August 2024. CSE, EPCET
    • Targeted Audience: Students & Faculty members of EPCET.
    • Venue: AI & DS Lab
    • Date: 2nd August 2024, Timings: 10.00am to 12.00pm
    • Event coordinator: Mrs. Neha Gopal N , Mrs. Nivedhitha
  6. Webenair on “Prompt Engineering”, Dept pf AI&DS, 27th Nov 2024
    • Date: 27th Nov 2024
    • Time: 10:00 AM
    • Organized by: Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
    • Audience: Students of AI & DS.
    • Speaker Profile: Ms. Sugandha, Capability Development Manager at EXL Services India Pvt. Ltd., Noida.
  7. Workshop on “Problem Solving and Ideation”
    • College Name: East Point College of Engineering and Technology
    • Department: Mechanical Engineering
    • Date: 10/12/2024
    • Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    • Audience: Students of ME
    • Speaker Profile: Dr. Basavaraj Ganigar, Saptagiri College of Engg Bangalore
  8. Internal Hackathon 2024, EPCET, 09-09-2024
    • Date: 9th September 2024
    • College Name: East Point College of Engineering and Technology
    • Department: CSE - AI&ML Lab,
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
    • Teams Participated: Seven teams participated, each addressing a unique problem statement from different domains, presenting their innovative solutions and ideas.
  9. Seminar on Challenges & Opportunities in Entrepreneurship, 09-11-2024,
    • Event: National Entrepreneurs Day
    • Date of Seminar: 9th November 2024
    • Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00
    • College: East Point College of Engineering and Technology,Bangalore
    • Venue: Jayaram Memorial Seminar Hall, EPCET Campus
    • Resource Person: Asst. Prof. Dhana Prasad R., Dept. of Physics, EPCET
    • Participating Students: 120 Students from CSE, ISE, and ECE
  10. Seminar on Innovation Day 2024”,, 15-10-2024, Physics
    • Date of Seminar: 15th October 2024
    • Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • College: East Point College of Engineering and Technology,Bangalore
    • Venue: Higher Education Seminar Hall, EPCET
    • Resource Person: Dr. Dinesh, Industry Expert in Chip Manufacturing & Innovation
    • Audience: 120 1st Year Students of CSE, ECE, ISE departments
    • Organized By: Department of Physics, EPCET
  11. Intra Institution Project Competition, 15-10-2024, , Physics
    • Date of Seminar: 19-12-2024
    • Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • College: East Point College of Engineering and Technology,Bangalore
    • Ext. Judges: Varun Mahajan (AirBus India Group Pvt Ltd) Prithvi.S. (Accenture)
    • Audience: 58 students of CSE(IoT & CSBT)
    • Organized By: Department of P CSE(IoT & CSBT), EPCET

External Entrepreneurship Workshops & Seminars Participated

  1. FDP-Future Startup Founders- Opportunities for Startups in the Indian Landscape, 24th to 26th Oct 2024 at SIT-Tumkur. Following Faculty Participated.
    • Dr. Prahlada Rao B.B. (Director R&D & Professor CSE)
    • Dr. Manjunath (Professor & HOD- Chemistry)
  2. Future Startup Founders- Opportunities for Startups in the Indian Landscape, 24th to 26th Oct 2024 at SIT-Tumkur.

    The Following Students Participated the Future Startup Founders meet at SIT-Tumkur:

    • N Rohit, (CSE 3B, 1EP23CS102 )
    • CH SK Chaitanya (CSE 3rd Sem, 1EP23CS034)
    • Rohit Kumar M (ECE, 3sem, 1EP23EC081), rekha14km@gmail.com,
    • Jay Shreesant, (ECE, 3sem,1EP23EC039) jayshreesant1234@gmail.com,
    • P. Harshavardhana.(ISE, 3rd Sem, 1EP23IS056).
  3. Entrepreneurship Competitions Participated
    • UNDP-List EPCET Bangalore
  4. Hand Holding & Nurturing Students with Innovative Ideas:

    13-8-2024 Prof. Chandrashekar visited. 10.00am to 2.00pp.
    Students of CSE IDEA LAB, ISC IDEA LAB, and ECE IDEA LAB met me & Prof. Chandrashekar. Prof Chandrasekhar addressed on Design Registrations and LLP Registrations for the Following student incubations:

    • Cropy Tech -Bhanush Gowda ( ISC), Software Product
    • Kisan Madad -Vaibhav Kumar, Software Product
    • Event Mgt – Harshavardhan, Software Product
    • College Task Mgt –Wani, Software Product
    • AI Integrated Job Platform - Mohd. Shariff, Software Product
    • Smart Farming- Rohit, Rakshita, Hardware Product
    • Resume Preperation -Jeevan N, Software Product
    • Soul Care K S Satwika, Software Product
    • Body Fatscale, Dr Abhishek, Hardware Product

For H/W Products Prepare a 3D H/W Designs Drawings earlier. For the incubations where the drawings are ready, we can apply for Design Registry Today. For this you need to fill the 3 forms circulated :

  • Form-1 fill Product Name, your name(s) & address
  • Design representation Sheets with all 6 views colour images, of box (outer) design of your product
  • Authorization Letter of EPCET, with your name(s) & address

For the Ideas that advanced in design stage and want to go for Product Development, and a Co. Registration. From EPCET we are looking for doing LLP Registration.

Meeting with Niranjan arranged at 3pm. come with the Tittle of company, PAN card, Aadhar card and Bank statement today 3.00pm

Networking Events: Organizing meet-ups with venture capitalists and angel investors

Incubation Projects Sudents List:

  1. Cropy Tech -Bhanush Gowda ( ISC), Software Product
  2. Kisan Madad -Vaibhav Kumar, Software Product
  3. Event Mgt – Harshavardhan, Software Product
  4. College Task Mgt –Wani, Software Product
  5. AI Integrated Job Platform - Mohd. Shariff, Software Product
  6. Smart Farming- Rohit, Rakshita, Hardware Product
  7. Resume Preperation -Jeevan N, Software Product
  8. Soul Care K S Satwika, Software Product
  9. Body Fatscale, Dr Abhishek, Hardware Product
Dept S.No USN NAME Semester Title
ISE 1 1EP23IS161 SHREENIVAS 3 Innovation Track
2 1EP23IS117 PRATEEK KUMAR GARHE
3 1EP23IS071 KRISHNA JEE
4 1EP23IS112 PAVITHRA S
5 1EP23IS122 PRIYANKA
6 1EP23IS160 SREELAKSHMI N
1 1EP23IS040 CHARAN S E 3 CAREBRO-X
2 1EP23IS046 HARSHVARDHAN P
1 1EP23IS164 SHREYAS S 3 Travel and Tourism
2 1EP23IS093 MEGHA S N
3 1EP23IS186 YASHAS S H
4 1EP23IS104 NAVEENA B
5 1EP23IS120 PREETHI M
6 1EP23IS105 NAYANA G L
AI & DS 1 1EP22AD028 Khushi Jain 5 AI Healthcare Bot
2 1EP22AD060 Swetha Upadhyay
3 1EP22AD025 Jayanth G
1 1EP22AD106 Divya Chetana 5 Yoga Poses Detection
2 1EP22AD012 Chandana V
3 1EP22AD030 Kushi P
1 1EP22AD015 Dhakshi Reddy C 5 Facial Emotion Detection
2 1EP22AD024 Jagadish Chandra R
3 1EP22AD032 M Dhanush Kumar Reddy
1 1EP22AD010 Bulty Burman 5 DEEP-FAKE-VIDEO
2 1EP22AD055 Shipra
3 1EP22AD062 Pooja D
4 1EP22AD057 Sonali Biswal
AI & DS 1 1EP21C016 Deepak S 5 Enabled Gadget for
2 1EP21C014 D Naveen
3 1EP21C012 Chandrika SS
4 1EP21C051 Subhash
1 1EP21C005 Anjan Ramachandra Naik 5 Smart Sensor Dustbin
2 1EP21C028 Kushitha
3 1EP21C029 M Prem Venkat
4 1EP21C033 Nandini
5 1EP21C035 Nisha
6 1EP21C041 Punith Kumar
7 1EP21C050 Shreyas SS
1 1EP21C062 Vivek Tarnaliya 5 3D iPhone Clone
2 1EP21C034 Nikhil George
14 1EP21C020 Gagandeep R
15 1EP21C043 K Krishna Sagar
CSE 1 Maaz Ahmed Hussam 2024 (Passed) IOT-Based Human Monitoring
2 Venkatesh N
3 Gopi DS
4 Karthik R
1 Bhavana G E 2024 (Passed) Gupta-Yantra: Spying Robot
2 Divya Shree G V
3 Lavanya P
4 Manasa Kulkarni
1 Chaithanya HN 2024 (Passed) Enhancing Agriculture
2 M. Shrushti
3 Pallavi M K
4 Ramya
ECE 1 Gautham R 2024 Exopioneers
2 Bhanu Prakash M C
3 Bhavani M
4 Chandana Shree S
5 Boge Ramya
6 Charan M
1 Shreyas S 2022-26 VoltHex
2 Nehar Changappa M
3 Samith R
4 Rohit Kumar M
5 Akilash RB
6 Jay Shreesant
1 Uravakonda Abubakar Siddik 2023-27 GH?
2 Varun Reddy S
3 V S Sreenath
4 Nagireddy Chandra Sujitha
5 Susmitha K N
6 Shivana Gouda Goudar
1 Samith R 2022-26 VoltHex
2 Nehar Changappa M
3 Rohit Kumar M
4 Trisha CN
5 Rajmohan Arabani
6 Shivani Gupta

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