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Overview: EXCITE is a 5 week summer workshop/Internship programme aimed at product engineering, innovation and entrepreneurship. The whole programme has been conceptualized with an aim to rekindle the spirit of engineering which essentially revolves around building usable solutions. The first edition of EXCITE was conducted last year in 2015. Out of the 200 teams from 40 plus colleges that applied, about 225 students, 75 teams from 25 colleges were shortlisted. In addition, 50 faculties from these colleges were also part of the initiative. Agenda: In the first week, the participants are taken Ideation workshop with a detailed understanding of conceptualizing product ideas and followed up with a survey with target user group to validate their ideas. This is followed by a workshop on Design thinking and applying the same to their product ideas. The whole group was divided into two technology tracks of Internet of Things (IoT) and Android and they are given hands technology workshop on Android and IoT. The participants are then asked to build their prototypes in the over a span of two weeks under the supervision and mentoring of Industry mentors drawn from relevant companies. All the 75 teams successfully completed their prototypes in a host of domains including Smart cities, Health, environment and security. The final prototypes are then showcased to a very distinguished jury comprising Industry mentors, Academicians and Incubators from IIT, IIIT and BITS The top 20 teams of EXCITE 2015 were funded by TASK, from RS.15k to 50K, to continue the product development effort. Additionally, the participating faculty was given honorarium by TASK. The support for placement and product development is being continued thus ensuring a logical end to the programme. Feedback: The feedback for the programme has been very satisfying and it has received extensive coverage in media and appreciated by Industry and Academia. There has also been a marked improvement in the quality of placements of EXCITE participants. A host of companies have appreciated the initiative and have shared their willingness to consider EXCITE students for internships and placements for current and future EXCITE participants. Maker Space: The success of EXCITE programme lead to the launch of Maker Space initiative where structured activities are being conducted round the year on the lines of EXCITE on college campus. As a pilot, 12 colleges were chosen for setting up Maker Space with a prescribed inventory comprising of latest IoT devices and sensors. The college procures the inventory and the enrolled students go through a series of workshops and hackathons on college campus. The winning teams of these hackathons are called for centralized workshops, hackathons and industrial visits. Maker space initiative has now been endorsed by Hyderabad Product Leaders forum (an industry forum with top product development companies). HYSEA is actively communicating with its member companies to treat Maker Space students get additional weightage points during recruitment and also conduct special recruitment drives. The top Maker Space teams of all colleges also get pre-selected to EXCITE programme in the summer. Maker Space workshops and hackathons are conducted by chosen implementation partners like Idealabs, IoI and Collabhouse under active monitoring of HYSEA and TASK. The organizing team of EXCITE and Maker Space believe these are very substantive initiatives in improving the overall quality of engineer graduates and positively motivating them towards Product development, innovation, better employment opportunities and entrepreneurship. The results so far are very encouraging and an active cooperation of colleges with TASK and HYSEA will certainly go a long way in achieving this goal. We look forward to your active participation and seek constructive suggestions in achieving this goal.