ProtoSem is a 20-week full semester course offered as a comprehensive skills and competency development program that embeds an innovation centred approach to engineering education right into the core of the engineering curriculum.

Students work towards designing, developing and testing an innovative solution to solve a real-world problem sponsored by the industry, government, or social sector and are nurtured, guided & transformed into Graduate Innovation Engineers.

A first-of-its-kind program, the course offers expert training, tech & innovation mentoring, adaptive learning, tinkering and exploration apart from tools & creative technologies covering IOT sensors & networks, 3D printing, desktop fabrication, industrial automation, robotics, low-volume electronics manufacturing & assembly, artificial intelligence & machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing etc.

Young engineering/science students solve the real-world challenges using the tools enabled by hardware, software and computing technologies, to create Graduate Innovation Engineers - fully rounded professionals with more balanced skills in the Innovation, Technology, and Engineering talent dimensions. The program imparts sound practical as well as conceptual knowledge in key skill areas in order to enhance their employability across several sectors, to secure immediate term employment as well as to achieve faster career growth.

ProtoSem, a 20-week immersive program that embeds an innovation centred approach to engineering education right into the core of the engineering curriculum.

This first-of-its-kind program aimed at engineering tech enabled solutions for real-world problems using tools offered by creative technologies covering IOT sensors & networks, 3D printing, desktop fabrication, industrial automation, robotics, low-volume electronics manufacturing & assem-->bly, artificial intelligence & machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing etc.

The goal is to impart necessary skills to student innovators for solving localised problems in interdisciplinary teams and build Minimum Usable Prototypes through various means such as expert training, tech & innovation mentoring, adaptive learning, tinkering and exploration.

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HWjunction is the integrated innovation lab for rapid hardware prototyping housed inside FORGE.FACTORY, the 20,000 sq.ft. incubation centre established in Coimbatore, created to catalyse the hardware/tech innovation pursuits of the #innovators #makers #creators #tinkerers #startups #entrepreneurs

A comprehensive suite of equipment, resources, and tech expertise are offered to support up to 25 hardware startups concurrently in the areas of IoT, Electronics design, test & measurement, AI/ML/DL, 3D Digital fabrication, PCB design and assembly, IT computing, drones, robotics, and AR-VR.

The HWjunction portal will provide an exhaustive overview of the 11 constituent labs in HWjunction, covering the specifications of the equipment, tools, and resources on offer.

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