Ms. Nyein Nyein Aye, 1st year student of Ph.D. course (Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering),        Mr.Futa Shimazu, 3rd year student of undergraduate course (Dept of Mechanical Engineering), and Mr.Taketeru Yoshii, 3rd year student of undergraduate course (Dept of Mechanical Engineering) participated in Entrepreneurship Educational Program at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, from March 19th to 24th, 2018. It was not a commercial-based seminar or workshop for a large number of usual students, but a special seminar for only the students of our university without any charge. It was held with the efforts of Prof. MH Bala Subrahmanya of the former Department Chairman and Prof. Parthasarathy Ramachandran, the present Chairman. The Indian Institute of Science is only one school in Bangalore, compared to multiple schools of the famous Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), It is a research-oriented university with a higher ratio of Ph.D. students than the ratios of undergraduate and master students different from IIT as the top school of science and engineering except medical school. In addition, the Dept. of Management Studies has an older history than any Indian Institutes of Management as business schools. The students stayed at the guest house (Hoysala House) on the campus this time.

Schedule of the training

 

March 19 (Monday)

   Greetings from the Department Chair                     Graduate  Student Room      

   and chief and former Department Chair

         

 

We arrived at the airport at Sunday midnight, but two Ph.D. students picked us up at the airport. From 10:00 AM on Monday, there were greetings from the current and former Department Chairs. Young teachers and external lecturers participated to hold seminar lectures about each special field until evening, while some schedules were changed. And each session, we also held a lively questioning time. The photo on the upper right is the room of a graduate students (There are no undergraduate students in DMS. Only graduate students are enrolled with more Ph.D. student than master students).

 

March 20 (Tuesday)

  Ms. Nyein Nyein Aye’s presentation  to                    Ph.D. students who participate in her

  Ph.D.student                                                                  presentation    

                          

 

    Inviting student at our university                             Commemorative photo with Ph.D.student     

         

 

On the 2nd day, seminars and discussion were held by mainly external experts’ lecture-style on the Bangalore start-up ecosystem. For example, the speakers included a management consultant in the city, a start-up founder who came back from the United States and holds a concurrent post as a part-time professor, a senior government officer, a founder of a company evaluation firm, a senior IT company executive, and a chairman the Innovation Development Association and Ph.D. student. In the evening, Ms. Nyein Nyien Aye’s research presentation seminar was held for Ph.D. students. A number of sharp questions were given by students especially good at mathematics, and active discussions took place. Some students, in the memorial photo on the upper right, directly entered in the Ph.D. course after graduating from the engineering bachelor course without master course.

 

March 21 (Wednesday)

  Visit to Center for Nano Science and Engineering    Visit to Ducom Instrum Pvt.Ltd      

          

 

On Wednesday as the third day, we visited Trans Disciplinary University, Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Ducom Instruments Pvt. Ltd, etc. for the off-campus training. The objective is to visit the field and verify the contents of the seminar in the university. Bangalore is promoting not only the software industry but also the next generation teachnology and industry such as the development of nanotechnology and the manufacturing industries like machine tools.

 

March 22 (Thursday)

  Mr.Futa Shimazu Takita’s Presentation of                  Mr.Taketeru Yoshii’s Presentation of           

   business plan to master course student                    business plan to master course student

            

 

On Thursday, the fourth day, seminar speakers included a IT company senior executive who is a chairman of Innovation and Development Association and a Ph.D. student, a young faculty in charge of finance engineering and real options, a former government research institute researcher, a start-up founding support consultant, Prof. MH Bala Subrahmanya, and a spokesperson for public relations. After seminar, each business plan was respectedly presented to master students by Mr. Futa Shimazu and Mr. Taketeru Yoshii. In the evening, we were invited to dinner at an elegant restaurant in the nearby Hindu temple, sponsored by volunteer Ph.D. students. There, informal underwater discussion and jokes of research were exchanged. It was realized that the thickness and potential of the talent were very high. Some students have participated in a one – week training at our university in the past at JST Sakura Science. In addition, Ms. Nyein Nyien Aye also had the opportunity to exchange information and to receive some still sharp questions, although in a peaceful atmosphere, about research methods from students who were good at mathematical modeling. It could be felt that students’ seriousness, enthusiasm, and motivation for enterprising even in the relaxed atmospsphere.                                                                                

 

March 23  (Friday)

  Seminar by a professor with concurrent                       Meeting with university executive

  post at Department of Engineering and                        responsible for the new campus

  Department of Management Studies                            initiative

             

 

The schedule of the fifth day (Friday) included the energy industry seminar by a senior executive, current faculty members of both Dept. of Engineering and Deat. of Management Studies, and each meeting with the university staff responsible for the academic and industrial collaboration and the technology transfer and the senior executives for new campus initiative. After that, there was a seminar on on venture capital research in Bangalore by a student of Prof. MH Bala Subrahmanya and associate professor of the National Institute for Advanced Studies on campus. The venture capital research was academic research and could be relatively deeply discussed. Both current post faculty and senior executive in charge of the new campus were very familiar with Japan and discussed with us in a relaxed atmosphere. Especially, the executive in charge of the new campus initiative asked us for feedback on the concept then we were pretty nervous, but we were sent off when we returned to the Department of Management Studies.

 

March 24 (Saturday)

 Pilgrimage visit to the Hindu temple                               Commemorative photo in front of Karmataka

                                                                                                Parliament Building 

              

 

On Saturday the last day of out stay, the schedule was at excursion, including visit to the nearby Hindu temple, the walk in the park, commemorative photo taking in front of the Parliament House, and purchasing souvenirs at the shopping mall, etc. We were able to watch the daily life and culture of the general people outside campus with a fence. Later of that, we were invited to a dinner hosted by Prof. MH Bala Subrahmanya’s family. We made a comprehensive discussion on the general understanding of people, funds and information exchange, including the role of IISc playing in Bangalore’s start-up ecosystem, and the human network of supporters such as surrounding venture capitalists and accessors. Then, we promised to deepen our ties between mutual universities in the future. After that, we got a taxi arrangement to the airport.

 

In this program we were deeply grateful for their supports as the lecturer service, guest house, meal, domestic travel expenses etc without any charge. Now, Japanese universities are changing in line with the trend of Westernization, but we felt the commonality of cultural exchange in Asia as unexpected correspondence at Western universities.

 

 

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