MIT, CoEP to hold five-day design workshop in Pune

For the first time, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab and College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) will host a five-day design and innovation workshop in the city from January 24 to 28.

COEP director, Anil Sahasrabudhe, said, “The aim is to encourage innovative ideas among students and acquaint them with research in technology at MIT Media Lab.

The objective is to promote hands-on learning, engage and inspire, interact, development of thought process, methods of idea generation among students. 

About 120 students will participate and four teams would be chalked out with 30 participants in each team. The teams will interact, brain storm and would present around five projects, he said.

These projects then would be exhibited on the last day. The MIT team will bring their resource kits. “We are expecting nine people from MIT,” said Sahasrabudhe, adding, “Through such workshops young minds would come together to solve problems such as traffic congestion. The workshop is opened for the faculty, students and industrial people.”

The workshop will culminate in a conference where the key speakers will be faculty of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab Joseph Paradiso, head of the lab’s camera culture research group Ramesh Raskar, research assistance and PhD candidate at MIT Lab, Pranav Mistry.