The document discusses the importance of open innovation at IIT Guwahati. It suggests assigning undergraduate students challenging research projects so some projects may result in complete products by graduation. It outlines various areas of focus for open innovation projects, including robotics, aerospace, environment, materials, housing and transportation. The goal is to encourage students to dream, explore and develop technologies to meet national needs through a comprehensive approach to open innovation.

2. “We must restore the pride and prestige of
Science and scientists in our nation; revive the
romance for science in society, rekindle the love
for it in our children; and, encourage our scientists –
to dream, imagine and explore”
SHRI NARENDRA MODI
Honorable Prime Minister of India
Call for Open Innovation
Undergraduate students of IITs can be assigned challenging research projects at an
early stage so that they can complete the work by the time they graduate.
As a result some projects may culminate into complete product.
The route to Open Innovation has
to be Understood and Strategized
in a Comprehensive manner

3. IIT Guwahati Open Innovation Forum
IITGIncubation and
Entrepreneurship
Social Work
Innovative
Means
Music, Dance,
Drama, Writing
Painting
Design
(Ceramics,
Glass etc)
Flexible Electronics
ROBOTICS &
AUTOMATION
Nanotechnology
Self Assembly

4. HQPACK
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Country needs today (Drones are making the rounds in Asia)
Autopilots are computer software
to control the aircraft. The
software reads the aircraft’s
current position, and then
controls a Flight Control System to
guide the trajectory of the
aircraft.
Can be developed by our UG and
PG students working in “Controls”
in CSE, EEE and ME Departments
CSE/ EEE/ ME

5. AEROSPACE/ MECHANICAL/ ELECTRICAL
WHAT WHY OUTCOME
Technology
Solutions for
Micro Air Vehicle
Development
Enhancement of
Wind Tunnel
Testing
Capabilities
large number of
civilian applications
including search and
rescue, disaster
management traffic
monitoring etc
Developing aircraft
with lower
ownership and
maintenance costs
and reduced fuel
consumption
Design, develop, fabricate
and flight test of sub 200
mm class of fixed and
flapping wing MAV’s.
Technologies in the areas
of avionics and flight
controls, aerodynamics
and aero-acoustics,
advanced materials,
propulsion, structural
analysis.

6. ENVIRONMENT (CHEMICAL/ BSBE/ CIVIL)
WHAT WHY OUTCOME
Swachh Bharat
Abhiyaan
Clean Water
In Villages
Waste
Utilization &
Management
To provide
pollution free
ambience to
different regions
of the country
Providing
adequate clean
drinking water
based on scientific
and technological
advancements
To develop globally
competitive,
innovative processes
and technologies
•Industry specific cleaner emissions
technology packages for highly air
polluting industries, viz. thermal
power, steel etc.
•Demonstration of artificial
recharge technique, grey water
recycling, recovery and recycle of
industrial & domestic wastewater
as well as water body
rejuvenation for scarcity
reduction
•Molecular Environmental and
Energy Technologies (MEET)

7. CERAMICS, GLASS & MATERIALS (CHEMICAL/ ME/ EEE/
DESIGN)
WHAT WHY OUTCOME
Specialty Glass and
Optical Fibre
Technologies for
Engineering,
Medical and Energy
Applications
Development of
Novel Technology for
Manufacturing
Tailored and Patient-
Specific Bio-Ceramic
Implants and
Biomedical Devices
at Affordable Cost
(ME Dept. has made
a terrific start)
To develop indigenous
capability for meeting
civil and strategic
needs of the country
with the promise of
global leadership.
To develop indigenous
implants and
prosthesis primarily
for providing
affordable health care
services to the
citizens
•Package all fibre CW/pulsed kW level
laser modules (for micro-machining,
automated manufacturing, jewellery
polishing, medical treatment, solar
cell fabrication
•State-of-the-art orthopaedic
implants like functionally graded hip,
knee, elbow, finger joints and fillers
for trauma, craniofacial and
maxillofacial surgeries including
patient specific joints using rapid
manufacturing technology

8. ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION (EEE/ ME/ CSE/ MATHS)
WHAT WHY OUTCOME
Robotics and
Micro Machines
To develop
cutting edge
Robotic
systems
including
mobile
robotics,
underwater
robotics,
micro
machines
and devices
with multi
functional
capabilities.
•The important prototypes
envisaged from this project
include Mobile Robots
Micro machines , devices for
nano-fabrication

9. 9
Lab on Chip/ Micro capsule
Automobile safety/ Vibration/Shock
Medical diagnosis and
therapy
MEMS
Bio-MEMS
Retina Implant Micro Fludics
Drug delivery/ Robotic
Surgery
Sensor
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Pressure
flow
Optical / RF Communication/ Camera/ Imaging
Importance of Intelligent ACTUATORS and MEMS (NANOTECH)

10. HOUSING, ROAD, CONSTRUCTION & STRUCTURES (CIVIL/ CL)
WHAT WHY OUTCOME
Innovative
Materials &
Technologies for
Next Generation
Green Buildings
Development
and
Application of
Technologies
for Sustainable
Transportation
To enhance energy-
efficiency of buildings
by developing various
innovative
environment friendly
construction materials
and technologies
To develop
technologies for
utilizing waste &
marginal materials,
for reducing
pavement thickness
using high
performance
materials.
•Newer construction material as a
substitute to the conventional
materials.
•Reduction in energy
consumption and green house
gas emission.
•Cost effective mass housing
system.
•Pilot Study to demonstrate
Integrated Intelligent Dynamic
Information System
• Advanced Public Transport
Information Systems using
ITS, Sustainable NMT and
Integrated Mass
Transportation System

11. Structural Engineering (CIVIL/ EEE)
Landslide and Rockfall Site on
Mumbai-Pune Expressway
Commonwealth Games Village –
Quality Assurance of Residential Flats
FBG sensors for on-line temperature monitoring of high voltage transmission lines
Sensor housing Sensor probes FBG temperature sensor installed on a
400 KV transmission line
High-End Technology Intervention

12. Initiate Innovate Inspire Include
4 i- Lab To be located initially at the - New SAC
Lead Faculty Mentors: Prof. Harshal Nemade (EEE) and Prof. Karuna Kalita (ME)
Work may be started by the
Students under the umbrella
of Technical Board (fountain
Head of open innovation)
Some selected projects may be
Converted into BTECH or
MTECH Projects
Through rigorous requirements
of meeting Academic Standard

13. Balance both
Sides of the Brain

14. Education
is
cultivation
of four
main
axioms
Knowledge
(not to
instruct but
to impart it)
Love
(love for
humanity)
Beauty
(beauty is in
the eye of man
to see every
child beautiful
Power
(to empower
with
intellect)

15. The main functions of education can be summarized
as follows.
To bring out the real man in oneself
To build the power of the human mind and spirit i.e.
evoking of knowledge, character and culture
To enable the individual to establish a clear
continuity between the past, present and future.
To enable the individual to establish right
relationship within himself and outside-world.

16.  True education, is not only
spiritual but also rational, vital
and physical.
 Education to be complete must
have five principal aspects
relating to the five principal
activities of human being:
1. physical
2. vital
3. mental
4. psychic
5. Spiritual
This education is complete
complimentary to each other
and continued till the end of
life

17.  Meditation is an act to concentrate
mind on a single train of ideas
which work out a single subject.
 The first internal condition
necessary is concentration of the
will against the obstacles to
meditation.
 The second is to be free from all
disturbing reactions such as anger,
grief, depression, anxiety etc
 The object of an integral yoga is
self perfection

18. Creativity is
cultivation
of various
cognitive
senses
Dance form
Music: Vocal
Instruments
Various
Languages
Creative Writing
Drama/
Cinema/
Painting