Faculty Development Program on Entrepreneurship

With a view to create awareness & importance of entrepreneurship among the faculties of Science & Technology background, a Two Week Faculty Development Program on Entrepreneurship sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi was organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E - Cell) of Department of IT, at Institute of Technology & Science, Mohan Nagar Ghaziabad between 28th January - 9th February, 2019.

Considering the objectives of the Faculty Development Program on entrepreneurship awareness and the expectations of the participants, the programme contents, delivery and sequence was fine-tuned on the very first day of the programme. The participants were encouraged to challenge the concepts, ask questions and participate actively in the class-room interactions. The class room learning was supplemented by well compiled course material and handouts.

The FDP was inaugurated on 28th January, 2019 by the chief guest Dr. Usha Dixit Director DST, Dr. S. P. Mishra – A well known expert in Entrepreneurial Development, Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey - Director-IT, Event Coordinator Prof. Saurabh Saxena and Prof. Varun Arora. Total 25 Faculties from different institution  attended this Program.

Prof. Saurabh Saxena Coordinator-E-cell briefed the participants about the structure, design of the programme and spelt out the expectations of the organizers from the participants. The session was devoted to an interactive session on “Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Charms of becoming an entrepreneur”. He briefed the participants about the primary objective of this camp was to make the participats aware about the different areas of skills where they can establish themselves as Entrepreneur and create the job for others. Participants were aware about various components of entrepreneurship development process through lecture, panel discussion, interaction and experience sharing by existing entrepreneur.