ENLITE 2018
Proctoring System
The proctoring system at ACE is implemented to continuously monitor and direct students, ensuring their overall development. A subtle degree of enforcing discipline is blended with emotional bonding between the student and faculty supervisor, from orientation all the way to farewell.
Goals
Short-Term Goals:
To seed innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in engineering graduates.
Develop in graduates the knowledge, understanding, and skills from different disciplines to design and create products that enhance the quality of engineering education and outcomes.
Identify brilliant ideas and support the translation of such ideas into successful products.
Goals
Long Term Goals::
To incubate tech-enterprises arising from research findings that promote technological innovation.
Collaborate and co-work with relevant stakeholders on innovation and entrepreneurship development for tech-enterprises.
Develop a complete innovation ecosystem to build students’ entrepreneurial confidence and incubate tech-startups.
To become the focal point for tech-solutions and tech enterprises.
To attain self-sufficiency in conducting all activities planned in J-Hub.
Provide partial funding for innovations that have the potential to be converted into successful products.
HACKFEST 19
HACKFEST 19, a 2-day, 36 hours National Level Students Hackathon was organized by ACE Engineering College Hyderabad during 18 th – 19 th January 2019, in association with J-HUB, JNTUH to promote innovations and entrepreneurial skills of engineering graduates. Organized with the theme of “Skilling Engineers for Rural India” the event provided a platform to the Engineering students to exhibit their ideas and innovations in the domains of Agriculture and Environment, Health and Social Welfare, Education and Skills. The event was organized in collaboration with HYSEA – Hyderabad Software Exporters Association and BENNETT University among others. Speaking at the valedictory, at the end of the marathon 36-hour duration, the Chief Guest, Mr. Narasimha Sekhar, Principal Architect, WIPRO congratulated all the participants who actively participated in the contest. He said that days of coding are passé and Corporate Sector is looking at candidates who are not mere skilled at coding but have the capability to convert the ideas in to products that can solve the problems of society. He advised the budding engineers to develop skills to plan their career paths in the challenging environment of automation where robots are being used to code programs. He appreciated the teams who had done projects that are prototyped to solve problems of agriculture sector. He shared with the participants that though he has witnessed many hackathons, seldom has he come across projects that addressed the problems of farmers. Addressing the gathering, Guest of Honor and founder Director of Idea Labs Mr. Pankaj Dewan, appreciated the Management of ACE Engineering College for providing such an excellent platform to the students and congratulated all the students for participating. He advised the students to participate in many more such events and script their careers. He said that a note worthy and unique feature of this event was that there were appreciable number of teams of first and second year students, a good sign.
Guest of Honor, Mr. Srinvas Pasupulati, founder and CEO of TRECIS Consulting Pvt. Ltd., appreciated the participants who are in their first and second year of study. While he appreciated the ideas of the students, he advised them to make appropriate use of such forums and plan their success in life. General Secretary YV Gopala Krishna Murthy said that the Management has made available all the infrastructural facilities in the College and encourages students who want to showcase their talent. He said that the college is also investing its efforts in honing and nurturing the students of ACE through path breaking and innovative training programs and skill development programs. Principal Dr. BL Raju said that future recruitments shall be based on performance in such competitions and not just based on engineering degree. Earlier, Dr. MV VIjaya Saradhi, Professor CSE, and Chief Coordinator of the program shared with the gathering that 98 teams had registered for the event and 52 teams participated in the HACKFEST. Joint Secretary Mrs. M.Padmavathi and other faculty participated in the valedictory function.
JHUB felicitated the top three best performing teams with gold, silver and bronze medals and Certificates of merit. ACE Management rewarded winners with Rs. 5,000, Rs, 4,000/- and Rs 3,000/- respectively for the three best projects. In addition, three more projects were awarded with consolation prizes by the Management. All the contestants were given participation certificate.