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● Preparing and inspiring student minds (PRISM) is an innovative project experience organized

in collaboration with Samsung.
● Industries like Honeywell, JCI, Microsoft, Texas instruments innovation challenge,

Makeathon, Codeathon, Buildathon and Hackathon activities are regularly conducted in VIT

to address real world problems faced by industry.
● Industry practitioners and standards organizations conduct codes and standards concept to our

students every year.
● Industry mentors help our students through various entrepreneurship camps

● Innovative project collaboration between industry and VIT is done through cooperative
knowledge creation and exchange.

5. Evidence of Success:
Industry participation makes students learn from new perspectives and helps create rapport with

industry persons. It provides greater clarity and has an impact on their placement interviews. The
most meaningful aspect is that such tie-ups acknowledge and capitalize on the relative strengths of

the academia and the industry.

Thanks to VIT’s strategy, students are deployed on prestigious projects by the industry. Industrial

mentors recognize the work done by the students, which has in turn resulted in innovation challenge
awards and the prestigious ARIIA award from the Government of India in 2019. A total of 2038

Industrial expert guest lectures have been conducted so far. Industry participation in academics has

resulted in 169 consultancy projects in the last five years. Industry linkages have paved the way for
1926 project-based internships and 700 plus companies visiting regularly with attractive job

opportunities to our students through the “dream” and “super-dream” offers. Industry participation in
academics has facilitated 298 patents published in the last 5 years. Through these practices, VIT-

TBI supported 25 start-ups, conducted 9 Industry conclaves and over 107 workshops on Industry-
Academia Innovative during the last 5 years.