The IEDC division of St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology conducted a one-day workshop on Drone Dynamics, organized by the Department of Applied Science and Humanities, led by Mr. Rahul VA , HOD, Dept. of applied science and humanities , Ms. Sujisha PP as Tech Coordinator, and Ms. Jean Mary Jacob as Event Coordinator. 54 students actively participated in the event held at Seminar Hall 1.

The workshop began with Mr. Binu K Jose , introducing drones and their applications, followed by a hands-on session where students learned to assemble drones from scratch under his guidance. After a break, software setup was demonstrated, and various drone models were showcased. The workshop concluded with an outdoor drone flight session, and Mr. Rahul VA  , HOD , presented a certificate to Mr. Binu K Jose.

The IEDC division of St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology conducted the Idea
Arena competition on May 16, 2022, to support the students' start-up concepts. From May 5
through May 11, students had to register and provide an abstract of their ideas. Teams with a
maximum of 4 people registered for the competition. In front of the jury, they presented their
idea. On June 13th, the final presentations were held. The event took place in Seminar Hall
and went on till evening. The IEDC team handpicked the judges for the panel.

The IEDC division of St Thomas College of Engineering and Technology hosted the BizTeck
event on April 18, 2023. On the college campus, the event took place from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.
The event was split into two rounds: an analysis of business failures and an entrepreneurial pitch.
It was made solely to support students in developing their business abilities. The criteria for the
event's judging were also created with this objective in mind. The requirements were
presentation, entrepreneurial thinking, critical thinking, innovation, problem-solving, and
persuasive skills.
Each round was given the appropriate amount of points, and there were a total of seven judges
allocated to the competition. Asst. Prof. Shreekiran Asst. Prof. Manu Thomas, Asst. Prof. Anju
G for the first round and for the second round Asst. Prof. Rahul M, Asst. Prof. Vijila
Balakrishnan Asst. Prof. Nithin C, Asst. Prof. Dhanyaja N was among the IEDC's handpicked
judges.
A total of 9 teams from different departments participated out of which the best team was
announced as the winner.

I’M Startup Studio was launched at St Thomas College of Engineering and Technology with a vision of nurturing the very idea of entrepreneurship among the tech students on 26th September 2019 from college seminar hall. Dr. Shinu Mathew John (Principal) presided the function and the program was inaugurated by Mr. Nithin Madhavan ( CEO, Kannur Technolodge ). Thereafter he enlightened the students on why the startups need incubators. Mr. Aashin Muhammed (Marketing Manager of Tezzla Electric Bicycle) shared his startup experience with the students. Around 100 students attended the event. 10 students were selected as student ambassadors of startup studio and were awarded a badge.

IEDC STM, ICT Academy of Kerala in association with Kerala Start-Up Mission is organized a two day workshop on IoT Application Development for IEDC students on 5th March -6th March 2019. This workshop was aimed to create a platform to learn various components, technique, and applications in IoT.  Furthermore it also help the Entrepreneur to build their product with industrial standards.

IEDC STM, ICT Academy of Kerala in association with Kerala Start-Up Mission is organized a two day workshop on IoT Application Development for IEDC students on 5th March -6th March 2019. This workshop was aimed to create a platform to learn various components, technique, and applications in IoT.  Furthermore it also help the Entrepreneur to build their product with industrial standards. 32 students from various colleges attended the workshop.

IEDC in association with ICT Academy and KSUM organized an inter college level 2 days workshop for aspiring students startup on “Foundation skills on Entrepreneurship” on 26th September to 27th September  2018. 32 students from different colleges including STM participated in the workshop

A campaign was organized in the campus aimed to provide an awareness on E waste management on 30th July 2018. The campaign was inaugurated by the honorable Kannur District collector Mir Muhammed Ali.

# Out of Syllabus

# Out of Syllabus is an experience sharing session by Mr. Rohith Radhakrishnan (co-founder Open Fuel, co-founder Straut Renewables). Around 70 students attended the program.

Hands-on Workshop on Website Development

A four day hands-on workshop on Website Development was conducted from 27th to 30th December’17. The sessions were handled by Prof. Jithin P (HOD, CSE Department). He has designed and developed 10 websites using open source technologies.

The detailed schedule of the workshop is as follows

Day 1

Fundamentals of HTML 5

Fundamentals of CSS

Day 2

Front end design using bootstrap

Client side programming using JQuery

Day 3

Back end development using PHP and Mysql

Day 4

Hosting website

IoT Workshop

A 2 day workshop on IoT was conducted by ECE department in association with IEDC. The workshop was taken by Epsilon labs and it covered all the basics to get started with the electronics/cloud industry. 21 students attended the program with the available IoT kit. The workshop covered following topics

Day 1

An Intro to Arduino Embedded Platform

Session 1 : The Arduino open –Microcontroller Platform

Session 2 : Basics of Sensors and Actuators

Session 3 : Interfacing sensors with Arduino – Programming the device

Day 2

IoT Processing Techniques

Session 1: Modules, Integration and applications

Session 2 : Integrating Wifi –ESP modules

Session 3: Project discussion session

YES 3D

8 students from the college attended YES 3D organized by KSIDC at Le Meridian, Cochin

IEDC Summit 2017

10 students and 2 staff including the nodal officer attended IEDC Summit 2017 held at Adlux International, Angamaly, Cochin.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) was inaugurated by Mr. C Rajan (Chairman, Kerala Dinesh Cooperative Society) by making a call which initiated a contraption mechanism, made by our students, which eventually led to Logo and video launch.

Logo Design Competition

Winner :

Mr. Anand KP (S4 Civil Engineering ) won a cash prize of Rs.1000/-

Winners :

A cash prize of Rs: 3000/- and Rs: 2000/- were awarded to the winning team respectively