Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Students during the FIRST and SECOND semester work in a team not more than 5 students, get connected with the society by sufficiently spending time with the needy people in the society to understand the problem and finalize the root cause of the problem. Through the Design Thinking approach systematically through the phases of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototyping and Testing students give unique solutions to the societal problems in the real time.

The “Avniya Varsh and Avinya Shishir”, a project exhibition of Design Thinking for Social Innovation provides the students a platform to share their unique learning experience of looking for the possible design challenges in the society through the engagement with the potential customer which further can lead to a product or service creation leading to social entrepreneurship. During the project expo the students can substantiate the importance of role of engineer in the society, enhance team work, presentation skills and solve problems in the society.