Come in with an idea. Leave with a company.

TBI MESCE is a collaborative innovation space where students build ideas, connect with mentors, and launch startups, on the campus where they study.

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Aerial view of the MES College of Engineering campus at sunrise, with its white dome and red-and-white buildings among palm trees
5 cabins · 4–6 seats each FabLab access Unlimited WiFi

MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram

Why TBI exists

Most student ideas die in a hostel room. Not because they were bad. Because there was nowhere to sit down with them. The canteen is loud, the library won't let you talk, and nobody in the group chat has registered a company before.

Here, that changes.

A student working alone on an electronics prototype at a desk with a whiteboard behind him

Between classes

  1. OneA desk that stays yours between classes.
  2. TwoA mentor who's already done the paperwork.
  3. ThreeTen honest strangers to test it on by Friday.
  4. FourA deadline you didn't set for yourself.

The cabins

Five cabins built for collaborative building.

Each cabin seats 4–6 students and comes with unlimited WiFi, PCs on request, FabLab access, and a Break Zone for tea, snacks, and brainstorming.

A room at TBI MESCE with a desk and office chair, a green steel cupboard, orange visitor chairs, framed certificates and awards, and a "Creative" gears-and-lightbulb mural on the wall

Inside TBI MESCE

Ideas on every wall.

Framed certificates and awards, brainstorm murals and a wall that literally says Creative.

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Cabin 1 at TBI MESCE: a desk with a monitor in the corner, a table, two black office chairs and a wide window with trees outside

Cabin 1

A desk by the window.

A workstation with a monitor, a table for the team and a wide window onto the trees.

Seats
4–6
WiFi
Unlimited
PCs
On request
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Cabin 2 at TBI MESCE: a wooden table with sticky notes, red and black office chairs, a plastic chair, a computer desk and a green steel cupboard beside a large window

Cabin 2

Plenty of daylight.

A shared table, a computer desk and a steel cupboard for your files, beside a big window.

Seats
4–6
WiFi
Unlimited
PCs
On request
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Cabin 3 at TBI MESCE: a wooden table with plastic and office chairs, a computer desk, frosted glass partitions and a green steel cupboard with a monitor on top

Cabin 3

Quiet behind frosted glass.

A shared table, a computer desk and a monitor, with frosted partitions so you can focus without closing yourself off.

Seats
4–6
WiFi
Unlimited
PCs
On request
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Cabin 4 at TBI MESCE: a long wooden table, a red office chair, a computer desk and power sockets along white walls

Cabin 4

Room to spread out.

A long table, a computer desk and power sockets along the walls, with floor space for whatever you’re building.

Seats
4–6
WiFi
Unlimited
PCs
On request
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Cabin 5 at TBI MESCE: a long wooden table with red office chairs, a computer desk with a monitor in the corner, a green steel cupboard and a Zaina Solutions sign on the frosted glass partition

Cabin 5

A table for the whole team.

A long meeting table, a computer desk in the corner and a steel cupboard, for planning the week and arguing a plan into shape.

Seats
4–6
WiFi
Unlimited
PCs
On request
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What's included

What comes with the space.

Every cabin team gets the same things: the internet, the machines, the lab and the people to talk it through with.

Break Zone

Tea, snacks, and a place to connect and brainstorm.

WiFi

Unlimited, in every cabin.

PCs

Provided if you need one.

FabLab

Hands-on access to prototyping tools in the college's digital fabrication lab.

Mentors

People to talk your idea through with while you build it.

IEDC MESCE logo

An initiative under IEDC

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell that TBI operates alongside on campus.

MES College of Engineering crest

On campus, between classes

TBI MESCE sits inside MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram, a short walk from your next lecture.

After class

From an idea to a startup.

What students do at TBI, from the first sketch on a whiteboard to a company with a name.

Three students sketching an idea together on paper
01

Build the idea

Bring something half-formed to a cabin and work on it between classes.

Close-up of hands soldering a small circuit board
02

Prototype it

Take it to the FabLab and turn the whiteboard sketch into something you can hold.

A young team talking through a plan around a table of laptops
03

Talk to mentors

Pressure-test it with mentors who have already done the paperwork.

04

Launch the startup.

Come in with an idea. Leave with a company.

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Incubated at TBI MESCE

Startups that started here.

Teams incubated at TBI MESCE that kept building after they walked out. Yours could be the next logo on this wall.

The team

The people who run TBI MESCE.

The faculty head and the student manager who keep the space running.

  • Portrait of Dr. Harikrishnan GR

    Dr. Harikrishnan GR

    TBI MESCE Head

    Assistant Professor

  • Portrait of Adil Abbas

    Adil Abbas

    TBI MESCE Manager

    Student

Every day at TBI

Build ideas. Connect with mentors. Launch startups.

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Bring your idea in.

Tell us who you are and what you're building. Half-formed is exactly our favourite stage.

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