Two students of the Masters of Design (MDes) course, Paridhi Verma and Parag Bhoyar, had devised an electronic gadget to be attached to a walking stick, which would warn the visually impaired about any obstacle within the range of 900 millimetres. The gadget, which costs between Rs 700-1,000, failed to find a place in the market due to lack of marketing.

Former faculty member Manohar Prasad did extensive research on the proper utilisation of solar energy as heat and light energy but failed to create awareness about it. Now a director at a private engineering college in Banda district, Prasad still awaits a suitable platform for promoting his ideas. Similarly, retired faculty member G C Ray developed a device for people with hearing impairment, an anaesthesia monitor and a digital signal processor. After failing to get suitable support from government agencies, he himself held meetings with social organizations to promote the device for people with hearing impairment. Now settled in Kolkata, Ray claimed that such a device would cost around Rs 1-1.5 lakh in the foreign market but he prepared it for merely Rs 6,000. Ray was invited by IEEE, an American organization of engineers, to demonstrate the use of the device but he failed to find an industrial partner in his own country.