Innovation Hub · Student Achievement Section
Wins our students can put on a resume
Newest first: hackathon trophies, granted patents with student and alumni co-inventors, and the recurring programmes that keep producing them.
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Featured wins
Top 100 nationally — ThinkForBharat 1.0
Mou Rani Hutait's team has been shortlisted among the Top 100 teams nationwide — out of 2,000+ registrations — in ThinkForBharat 1.0, a National Ideathon organised by Code Capital & Coffee, with the Presentation Round held on 15 July 2026.
“A Method for Determining Design of Printing Nozzle of a 3D Printer”
Patent No. 590190, granted by the Patent Office, Government of India, to Dr. Somnath Das (Mechanical Engineering faculty) together with alumni Mriganka Maity and Joydip Kumar Mondal (ME, Batch 2019–2020) — student research carried all the way through to a granted national patent.
View the patent certificate (PDF) →
Team INDROVE wins Ovaku Engineering Excellence Award
At the 24-hour OMTECH Hackathon 2026 (22–23 May), hosted by OmDayal Group of Institutions, our Mechanical Engineering team INDROVE — Mou Rani Hutait, Sahanowaz Hossain Molla, Sandip Bhandari and Arpan Dolui — won “Best Futuristic Thinking.” The hackathon was primarily CSE-focused, which made the recognition stand out even more.
View the certificate →Beyond individual wins
Students in research
More than 100 journal papers, 13 Indian patents, 2 international patents, and more than 50 national/international conference papers and book chapters have been published by SVIST in the last five years — and students have taken active part in that output, co-authoring journal and conference papers and joining patent filings alongside faculty. Some faculty members and students have also received best paper awards at inter-college research-article competitions organised by other colleges.
Open to students every year
Recurring programmes & competitions
Run through the Institute Innovation Cell (IIC) and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) — the pipeline that produces wins like the ones above.
Smart India Hackathon
Students and faculty take part every year to promote innovation and start-up culture on campus.
National Level Entrepreneurship Camp, IIM Kolkata
SVIST participates every year in this camp organised by IIM Kolkata.
Incubation facility visits
Regular organised visits to incubation facilities such as the IIM Kolkata Innovation Park and the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups warehouse.
HR & Entrepreneurship Conclave
A One Day HR & Entrepreneurship Conclave run routinely in both online and offline mode.