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Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2021-03-09T08:20:58Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a graduate in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become a research engineer in the field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT. Since his childhood, he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn something through self-paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of the International organization Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part in the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make the ACM student chapter one of the best student chapters made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently, he is working as a System Engineer at Infosys Limited and also doing his research in Big Data Technologies.

        Sai Kumar is also part of the team that hosted the "INDIA REGIONAL MEET-UP" at VVIT in January 2020. He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with a great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

          
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Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2021-03-09T08:19:42Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a graduate in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become a research engineer in the field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT. Since his childhood, he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn something through self-paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of the International organization Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make the ACM student chapter one of the best student chapters made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently, he is working as a System Engineer at Infosys Limited and also doing his research in Big Data Technologies.

        Sai Kumar is also part of the team that hosted the "INDIA REGIONAL MEET-UP" at VVIT in January 2020. He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with a great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

          
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Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2021-03-09T08:16:01Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a graduate in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become research engineer in field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT. Since his childhood he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn some thing through the self paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of the International organization Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make the ACM student chapter one of the best student chapters made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently, he is working as a System Engineer at Infosys Limited and also doing his research in Big Data Technologies.

        Sai Kumar is also part of the team that hosted the "INDIA REGIONAL MEET-UP" at VVIT in January 2020. He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with a great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

          
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Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2020-07-23T07:58:52Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a final-year under graduate student studying in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become research engineer in field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT. Since his childhood he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn some thing through the self paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of International organisation Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make ACM student chapter one of the best student chapers made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently he is working on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

        Sai Kumar is also part of the team that hosted the "INDIA REGIONAL MEET-UP" at VVIT in January 2020. He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

          
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Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2020-07-23T07:57:06Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: Update of Info.

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a final-year under graduate student studying in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become research engineer in field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT. Since his childhood he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn some thing through the self paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of International organisation Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make ACM student chapter one of the best student chapers made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently he is working on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

        Sai Kumar is also the part of team that hosted the "INDIA REGIONAL MEET-UP" at VVIT in January 2020. He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

          
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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:51:43Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: /* Related Links */

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

<div>[[File:VVITFellows.jpg|right|430x430px]] </div>

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[[Venkata Sai Charan Sattu|'''Venkata Sai Charan Sattu''']]

[[Marella Yasaswini|'''Marella Yasaswini''']]

[[Manogna Avula|'''Manogna Avula''']]

[[SM Raiyyan|'''Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan''']]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[[Krishna Chaitanya Velaga|'''Krishna Chaitanya Velaga''']]

[[Harsha Teja|'''Pullagura Harsha Teja''']]

[[Yamini Biruduraju|'''Yamini Biruduraju''']]

[[Iswarya Lakshmi|'''Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi''']]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:26:41Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

<div>[[File:VVITFellows.jpg|right|430x430px]] </div>

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:24:52Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: /* Regional meetup @ VVIT */

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

<div>[[File:VVITFellows.jpg|right|430x430px]] </div>

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:20:44Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: /* Regional meetup @ VVIT */

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

<div>[[File:VVITFellows.jpg|right|250x250px|center]] </div>

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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[[Category:Universities]]

School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:15:29Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

<div>[[File:VVITFellows.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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File:VVITFellows.jpg

2020-04-03T16:09:52Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

A group pic of fellows from VVIT with UIF India Program Manager Mr. Ghanashyam S

School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T16:00:51Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

<div>[[File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg|alt=|center]] </div>
VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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[[Category:Universities]]

File:IndiaRegionalMeetUpGroupPic.jpg

2020-04-03T15:44:57Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

A group pic taken at the end of India Regional Meetup @ VVIT

School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2020-04-03T15:36:17Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

==Overview==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png|alt=|center]]</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div> Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT arial View.jpg|alt=|center]] </div><div></div></div>

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

==Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div> The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div> VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

==Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

==University Technology Transfer Function==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

==University - Industry Collaboration==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>

*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>

*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

==Regional meetup @ VVIT==

VVIT UIF got a wondrous opportunity to host a regional meetup on our campus. The meet up was held for 3 days from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in the VVIT campus. It became the first-ever student-led meetup for both the fellows and faculty champions in India. The meetup was designed around our theme "Global Partnership for sustainable development" and was presided by Ghanashyam (UIF India director), FABs from different cohorts, fellows, non-fellows, student leaders from the campus and faculty champions! A total of 90 people attended the meetup and it was one of a kind of experience for us, the fellows at VVIT. We had design thinking challenges, speaker sessions that were lauded by the audience, fun activities, sessions by the fabs, career counsel panels, company visit and many more!

The first day witnessed ignites from two fellows including one from our very own campus fellow followed by speaker sessions by Mr. Venkat from APNRT and Abhay Rangan, UI Fellow and founder of plant-based dairy products company, Goodmylk. Followed by Efftronics company visit where we have all learned about design thinking applications in technical aspects. Finally, the last day observed a few more ignites by FABs, career counsel panels by faculty champions and FABs about employment and start-up culture, and, speaker series by Mr. Shailesh Krishna from ITC, Guntur and Mr. Karayil Suresh, faculty champion at VVIT. The meet ended with a thunderous applaud and a great photo session.
It was a great learning experience and also one of the most fun times for us and also the fellows, from the feedback received. It was one of a kind :) 

==Other==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

=Related Links=

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Fall 2019 Batch:'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI KIRAN CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|VIdhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

 

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Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2020-03-18T06:11:46Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: /* Related Links */

== Overview ==

= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorites are shown below:

#Hands-on Learning
#UNSCRAP
#Clubs
#Peer Teaching
#CapGen

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

=== ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We are planning it as a workshop/ interactive session, twice a month.</li>
<li>Our tentative schedule is to conduct it on a day in a week and continue it on alternative weeks.     </li>
<li>We will use resource persons who are specialised in the know-how of the hardware( computers, laptops, phones, etc).</li>
<li>Initially, we will create a registration link in our online school platform, namely, Byndr.</li>
<li>We will bring awareness among students by using our network of student bodies OR We will use faculty in promoting awareness as that might bring the desired outcome.</li>
</ul>

=== What exactly are the students going to learn? ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>Abnormal Screen blank</li>
<li>Windows won’t boot</li>
<li>Slow performance of computer</li>
<li>Strange noises</li>
<li>Hard drive failure</li>
<li>Overheating</li>
</ul>

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===
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<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>
<li>We will conduct a follow up session to the same students, who were registered in the first session. </li>
<li>The students who grasped well during these sessions, will be used as an instructor for the upcoming session under the guidance of a resource person.</li>
<li>In this way, we envision a network of students who will continue this learning process.</li>
<li>At present, we have focussed on hardware training, depending upon this outcome we will extend it to other dimensions of hands-on learning too.</li>
</ul>

== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this? ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Inter-branch projects<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Foundational Skills of Hardware

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Real world exposure<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Summer Camps & Classes

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Faculty Guidance<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Freshmen - Hardware Training

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Hackathons<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Sophomores & Juniors - R&D

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Project Expo’s<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Seniors - Megaprojects & Start-ups

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Garage Experience Sessions
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== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members
*Extending timings to twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
*Making membership at clubs permanent at least for the course of a semester each, and assign grades to club participation.
*Better resource persons and lesson planning.
*Club resource needs (materialistic) must be met.
*Organising Summer Camps for Clubs
*Fridays could be for lessons at respective clubs, and Wednesdays a repeat of more popular clubs and practice sessions.
*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.
*Assigning THEMES for each day and making the students to speak on said themes.
*Differed themes based on year of study, department and other aspects.
*The decision of themes chosen will be taken by a special team of five members consisting of both faculty and students.
*Assigning a teacher to each class and making sure the program runs successfully.
*To make students participate actively by motivating and assigning grades to them.
*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: CapGen ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

* Setting up a CapGen team in the college to organize this event.
*They look after all the affairs and financial aspects of the CapGen events.
*The CapGen team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.
*Selling away what's unnecessary and unused at college or home and sell them to someone who's in a great need of that.
* Gather all the student bodies at college and make effective utilization of human and other resources at a time.
*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the CapGen Event ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.
*Fundraising through alumni.
*Food community game. By selling food made by students in the college.
*Selling and buying game .
*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

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== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
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=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
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*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
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=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peer teaching.png]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
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In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
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=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
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The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Timetable.jpeg]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awareness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the interesting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Integrating research methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and interested faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and successfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The institution can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from government as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

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== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
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It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

[[File:DesignThinking.jpg]]

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati ]]

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]]

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[[Venkata Sai Charan Sattu|Venkata Sai Charan Sattu ]]

[[Marella Yasaswini|Marella Yasaswini]]

[[Manogna Avula|Manogna Avula]]

[[SM Raiyyan|Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]]
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'''Spring 2018:'''

[[Krishna Chaitanya Velaga|Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]]

[[Harsha Teja|Pullagura Harsha Teja]]

[[Yamini Biruduraju|Yamini Biruduraju]]

[[Iswarya Lakshmi|Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|Hemanth Challa]]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|Suswetha Kolluru]]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|Navya Sri Kalli]]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|Sai Kumar Natukula]]

'''Fall 2019'''

[[Mounica Lanka|Mounica Lanka]]

[[Dhaneesha Oruganti|Dhaneesha Oruganti]]

[[SAI_KIRAN_CHALLA|Sai Kiran Challa]]

[[Juhi Yeturu|Juhi Yeturu]]

[[Vidhyamini Routhu|Vidhyamini Routhu]]

[[Mazumdar Anirudh|Mazumdar Anirudh]]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[[Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology|Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute Of Technology]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video]

[https://youtu.be/ci0lJFqSLK4 Change Story Video 2019]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Fellow:Suswetha Kolluru

2020-01-20T16:05:45Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

<div>[[File:IMG 20180522 173740015 HDR.jpg|right|250x250px|thumb]]I'm Suswetha Kolluru, a University Innovation Fellow from Vasireddy Venkatadri Institution Of Technology, currently persuing Bachelor's of Technology Under Electronics and Communications stream.</div><div> </div><div>During my 10th grade, I've joined an NGO called Make A Difference where volunteers teach kids at shelter home. I have been an ed-support volunteer for two years where I taught English to kids studying 6th and 7th grades. This place has taught me so much and made me open up in the way she thinks and changed my perspectives. Later, I have joined VVIT. Though I belong to ECE stream, I like to code and learn latest advancemnts in Software sector too.</div><div> </div><div>I love reading books and is also a public speaking aficionado. I am one of the founding members of Guntur Toastmasters, a non profit
organisation which aims in nurturing people into good public orators and leaders. I have also  served as Vice president membership and Vice president - Public relations for an year at Guntur Toastmasters. And, I can be found sitting with laptop for hours together editing En wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Wikidata etc I'was also a  lead co-ordinator of my college's VVIT WikiConnect club and organised several events to promote the idea of Wikimedia Moment.
</div>

Fellow:Suswetha Kolluru

2020-01-20T16:03:14Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

<div>[[File:IMG 20180522 173740015 HDR.jpg|thumb]]I'm Suswetha Kolluru, a University Innovation Fellow from Vasireddy Venkatadri Institution Of Technology, currently persuing Bachelor's of Technology Under Electronics and Communications stream.</div><div> </div><div>During my 10th grade, I've joined an NGO called Make A Difference where volunteers teach kids at shelter home. I have been an ed-support volunteer for two years where I taught English to kids studying 6th and 7th grades. This place has taught me so much and made me open up in the way she thinks and changed my perspectives. Later, I have joined VVIT. Though I belong to ECE stream, I like to code and learn latest advancemnts in Software sector too.</div><div> </div><div>I love reading books and is also a public speaking aficionado. I am one of the founding members of Guntur Toastmasters, a non profit
organisation which aims in nurturing people into good public orators and leaders. I have also  served as Vice president membership and Vice president - Public relations for an year at Guntur Toastmasters. And, I can be found sitting with laptop for hours together editing En wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Wikidata etc I'was also a  lead co-ordinator of my college's VVIT WikiConnect club and organised several events to promote the idea of Wikimedia Moment.
</div>

Fellow:Suswetha Kolluru

2020-01-20T16:01:35Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

<div>I'm Suswetha Kolluru, a University Innovation Fellow from Vasireddy Venkatadri Institution Of Technology, currently persuing Bachelor's of Technology Under Electronics and Communications stream.</div><div> </div><div>During my 10th grade, I've joined an NGO called Make A Difference where volunteers teach kids at shelter home. I have been an ed-support volunteer for two years where I taught English to kids studying 6th and 7th grades. This place has taught me so much and made me open up in the way she thinks and changed my perspectives. Later, I have joined VVIT. Though I belong to ECE stream, I like to code and learn latest advancemnts in Software sector too.[[File:IMG 20180522 173740015 HDR.jpg|right|140x140px|IMG 20180522 173740015 HDR.jpg]]</div><div> </div><div>I love reading books and is also a public speaking aficionado. I am one of the founding members of Guntur Toastmasters, a non profit
[[File:IMG 20180522 173740015 HDR.jpg|thumb]]
organisation which aims in nurturing people into good public orators and leaders. I have also  served as Vice president membership and Vice president - Public relations for an year at Guntur Toastmasters. And, I can be found sitting with laptop for hours together editing En wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Wikidata etc I'was also a  lead co-ordinator of my college's VVIT WikiConnect club and organised several events to promote the idea of Wikimedia Moment.</div>

School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2019-10-12T04:14:43Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

=== ===

== Overview ==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png]] </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div>Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT.jpg]] </div><div></div></div>
== ==

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div>The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div>VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

== University Technology Transfer Function ==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

== University - Industry Collaboration ==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>
*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>
*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

== Other ==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

= Related Links =

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Hemanth Challa''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

 

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Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-10-12T04:13:19Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorites are shown below:

#Hands-on Learning
#UNSCRAP
#Clubs
#Peer Teaching
#Fundraising Activities

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

=== ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We are planning it as a workshop/ interactive session, twice a month.</li>
<li>Our tentative schedule is to conduct it on a day in a week and continue it on alternative weeks.     </li>
<li>We will use resource persons who are specialised in the know-how of the hardware( computers, laptops, phones, etc).</li>
<li>Initially, we will create a registration link in our online school platform, namely, Byndr.</li>
<li>We will bring awareness among students by using our network of student bodies OR We will use faculty in promoting awareness as that might bring the desired outcome.</li>
</ul>

=== What exactly are the students going to learn? ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>Abnormal Screen blank</li>
<li>Windows won’t boot</li>
<li>Slow performance of computer</li>
<li>Strange noises</li>
<li>Hard drive failure</li>
<li>Overheating</li>
</ul>

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===
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<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>
<li>We will conduct a follow up session to the same students, who were registered in the first session. </li>
<li>The students who grasped well during these sessions, will be used as an instructor for the upcoming session under the guidance of a resource person.</li>
<li>In this way, we envision a network of students who will continue this learning process.</li>
<li>At present, we have focussed on hardware training, depending upon this outcome we will extend it to other dimensions of hands-on learning too.</li>
</ul>

== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this? ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Inter-branch projects<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Foundational Skills of Hardware

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Real world exposure<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Summer Camps & Classes

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Faculty Guidance<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Freshmen - Hardware Training

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Hackathons<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Sophomores & Juniors - R&D

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Project Expo’s<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Seniors - Megaprojects & Start-ups

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Garage Experience Sessions
<div> </div>

== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members
*Extending timings to twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
*Making membership at clubs permanent at least for the course of a semester each, and assign grades to club participation.
*Better resource persons and lesson planning.
*Club resource needs (materialistic) must be met.
*Organising Summer Camps for Clubs
*Fridays could be for lessons at respective clubs, and Wednesdays a repeat of more popular clubs and practice sessions.
*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.
*Assigning THEMES for each day and making the students to speak on said themes.
*Differed themes based on year of study, department and other aspects.
*The decision of themes chosen will be taken by a special team of five members consisting of both faculty and students.
*Assigning a teacher to each class and making sure the program runs successfully.
*To make students participate actively by motivating and assigning grades to them.
*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: Fundraising Activities ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

* Setting up a fundraising team in the college to organize this event.
*They look after all the affairs and financial aspects of the fundraising events.
*The fundraising team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.
*Sellting away what's unnecessary and unused at college or home and sell them to someone who's in a great need of that.
* Gather all the student bodies at college and make effective utilization of human and other resources at a time.
*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the Fundraising Event ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.
*Fundraising through alumni.
*Food community game. By selling food made by students in the college.
*Selling and buying game .
*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

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<div></div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

</div> Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|Hemanth Challa]]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|Suswetha Kolluru]]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|Navya Sri Kalli]]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|Sai Kumar Natukula]]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2019-10-12T04:11:34Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

=== ===

== Overview ==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png]] </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div>Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT.jpg]] </div><div></div></div>
== ==

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div>The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div>VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

== University Technology Transfer Function ==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

== University - Industry Collaboration ==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>
*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>
*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

== Other ==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

= Related Links =

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Challa Hemanth''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

 

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2019-10-12T04:10:19Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

=== ===

== Overview ==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png]] </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div>Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT.jpg]] </div><div></div></div>
== ==

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div>The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div>VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

== University Technology Transfer Function ==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

== University - Industry Collaboration ==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>
*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>
*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

== Other ==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

= Related Links =

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Challa Hemanth''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru|''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

 

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2019-10-12T04:09:34Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

=== ===

== Overview ==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png]] </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div>Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT.jpg]] </div><div></div></div>
== ==

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div>The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div>VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

== University Technology Transfer Function ==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

== University - Industry Collaboration ==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>
*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>
*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

== Other ==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

= Related Links =

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Challa Hemanth''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

[[Suswetha Kolluru'''Suswetha Kolluru''']]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

 

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Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-10-11T13:19:55Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorites are shown below:

#Hands-on Learning
#UNSCRAP
#Clubs
#Peer Teaching
#Fundraising Activities

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

=== ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We are planning it as a workshop/ interactive session, twice a month.</li>
<li>Our tentative schedule is to conduct it on a day in a week and continue it on alternative weeks.     </li>
<li>We will use resource persons who are specialised in the know-how of the hardware( computers, laptops, phones, etc).</li>
<li>Initially, we will create a registration link in our online school platform, namely, Byndr.</li>
<li>We will bring awareness among students by using our network of student bodies OR We will use faculty in promoting awareness as that might bring the desired outcome.</li>
</ul>

=== What exactly are the students going to learn? ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>Abnormal Screen blank</li>
<li>Windows won’t boot</li>
<li>Slow performance of computer</li>
<li>Strange noises</li>
<li>Hard drive failure</li>
<li>Overheating</li>
</ul>

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>
<li>We will conduct a follow up session to the same students, who were registered in the first session. </li>
<li>The students who grasped well during these sessions, will be used as an instructor for the upcoming session under the guidance of a resource person.</li>
<li>In this way, we envision a network of students who will continue this learning process.</li>
<li>At present, we have focussed on hardware training, depending upon this outcome we will extend it to other dimensions of hands-on learning too.</li>
</ul>

== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this? ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Inter-branch projects<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Foundational Skills of Hardware

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Real world exposure<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Summer Camps & Classes

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Faculty Guidance<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Freshmen - Hardware Training

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Hackathons<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Sophomores & Juniors - R&D

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Project Expo’s<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Seniors - Megaprojects & Start-ups

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Garage Experience Sessions
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== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members
*Extending timings to twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
*Making membership at clubs permanent at least for the course of a semester each, and assign grades to club participation.
*Better resource persons and lesson planning.
*Club resource needs (materialistic) must be met.
*Organising Summer Camps for Clubs
*Fridays could be for lessons at respective clubs, and Wednesdays a repeat of more popular clubs and practice sessions.
*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.
*Assigning THEMES for each day and making the students to speak on said themes.
*Differed themes based on year of study, department and other aspects.
*The decision of themes chosen will be taken by a special team of five members consisting of both faculty and students.
*Assigning a teacher to each class and making sure the program runs successfully.
*To make students participate actively by motivating and assigning grades to them.
*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: Fundraising Activities ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

* Setting up a fundraising team in the college to organize this event.
*They look after all the affairs and financial aspects of the fundraising events.
*The fundraising team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.
*Sellting away what's unnecessary and unused at college or home and sell them to someone who's in a great need of that.
* Gather all the student bodies at college and make effective utilization of human and other resources at a time.
*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the Fundraising Event ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.
*Fundraising through alumni.
*Food community game. By selling food made by students in the college.
*Selling and buying game .
*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

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== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
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=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
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*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
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=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
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=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

</div> Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

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== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
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It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
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'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|Hemanth Challa]]

Kolluru Suswetha

[[Navya Sri Kalli|Navya Sri Kalli]]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|Sai Kumar Natukula]]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-10-11T13:18:16Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorites are shown below:

#Hands-on Learning
#UNSCRAP
#Clubs
#Peer Teaching
#Fundraising Activities

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

=== ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We are planning it as a workshop/ interactive session, twice a month.</li>
<li>Our tentative schedule is to conduct it on a day in a week and continue it on alternative weeks.     </li>
<li>We will use resource persons who are specialised in the know-how of the hardware( computers, laptops, phones, etc).</li>
<li>Initially, we will create a registration link in our online school platform, namely, Byndr.</li>
<li>We will bring awareness among students by using our network of student bodies OR We will use faculty in promoting awareness as that might bring the desired outcome.</li>
</ul>

=== What exactly are the students going to learn? ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>Abnormal Screen blank</li>
<li>Windows won’t boot</li>
<li>Slow performance of computer</li>
<li>Strange noises</li>
<li>Hard drive failure</li>
<li>Overheating</li>
</ul>

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>
<li>We will conduct a follow up session to the same students, who were registered in the first session. </li>
<li>The students who grasped well during these sessions, will be used as an instructor for the upcoming session under the guidance of a resource person.</li>
<li>In this way, we envision a network of students who will continue this learning process.</li>
<li>At present, we have focussed on hardware training, depending upon this outcome we will extend it to other dimensions of hands-on learning too.</li>
</ul>

== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this? ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Inter-branch projects<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Foundational Skills of Hardware

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Real world exposure<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Summer Camps & Classes

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Faculty Guidance<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Freshmen - Hardware Training

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Hackathons<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Sophomores & Juniors - R&D

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Project Expo’s<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Seniors - Megaprojects & Start-ups

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Garage Experience Sessions
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== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members
*Extending timings to twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
*Making membership at clubs permanent at least for the course of a semester each, and assign grades to club participation.
*Better resource persons and lesson planning.
*Club resource needs (materialistic) must be met.
*Organising Summer Camps for Clubs
*Fridays could be for lessons at respective clubs, and Wednesdays a repeat of more popular clubs and practice sessions.
*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.
*Assigning THEMES for each day and making the students to speak on said themes.
*Differed themes based on year of study, department and other aspects.
*The decision of themes chosen will be taken by a special team of five members consisting of both faculty and students.
*Assigning a teacher to each class and making sure the program runs successfully.
*To make students participate actively by motivating and assigning grades to them.
*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: Fundraising Activities ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

* Setting up a fundraising team in the college to organize this event.
*They look after all the affairs and financial aspects of the fundraising events.
*The fundraising team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.
*Sellting away what's unnecessary and unused at college or home and sell them to someone who's in a great need of that.
* Gather all the student bodies at college and make effective utilization of human and other resources at a time.
*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the Fundraising Event ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.
*Fundraising through alumni.
*Food community game. By selling food made by students in the college.
*Selling and buying game .
*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div></div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

</div> Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|Challa Hemanth]]

Kolluru Suswetha

[[Navya Sri Kalli|Navya Sri Kalli]]

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|Sai Kumar Natukula]]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-10-11T13:13:32Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorites are shown below:

#Hands-on Learning
#UNSCRAP
#Clubs
#Peer Teaching
#Fundraising Activities

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

=== ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We are planning it as a workshop/ interactive session, twice a month.</li>
<li>Our tentative schedule is to conduct it on a day in a week and continue it on alternative weeks.     </li>
<li>We will use resource persons who are specialised in the know-how of the hardware( computers, laptops, phones, etc).</li>
<li>Initially, we will create a registration link in our online school platform, namely, Byndr.</li>
<li>We will bring awareness among students by using our network of student bodies OR We will use faculty in promoting awareness as that might bring the desired outcome.</li>
</ul>

=== What exactly are the students going to learn? ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>Abnormal Screen blank</li>
<li>Windows won’t boot</li>
<li>Slow performance of computer</li>
<li>Strange noises</li>
<li>Hard drive failure</li>
<li>Overheating</li>
</ul>

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>
<li>We will conduct a follow up session to the same students, who were registered in the first session. </li>
<li>The students who grasped well during these sessions, will be used as an instructor for the upcoming session under the guidance of a resource person.</li>
<li>In this way, we envision a network of students who will continue this learning process.</li>
<li>At present, we have focussed on hardware training, depending upon this outcome we will extend it to other dimensions of hands-on learning too.</li>
</ul>

== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this? ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Inter-branch projects<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Foundational Skills of Hardware

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Real world exposure<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Summer Camps & Classes

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Faculty Guidance<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Freshmen - Hardware Training

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Hackathons<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Sophomores & Juniors - R&D

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Project Expo’s<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Seniors - Megaprojects & Start-ups

<span style="font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-> Garage Experience Sessions
<div> </div>

== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members
*Extending timings to twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
*Making membership at clubs permanent at least for the course of a semester each, and assign grades to club participation.
*Better resource persons and lesson planning.
*Club resource needs (materialistic) must be met.
*Organising Summer Camps for Clubs
*Fridays could be for lessons at respective clubs, and Wednesdays a repeat of more popular clubs and practice sessions.
*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.
*Assigning THEMES for each day and making the students to speak on said themes.
*Differed themes based on year of study, department and other aspects.
*The decision of themes chosen will be taken by a special team of five members consisting of both faculty and students.
*Assigning a teacher to each class and making sure the program runs successfully.
*To make students participate actively by motivating and assigning grades to them.
*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: Fundraising Activities ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

* Setting up a fundraising team in the college to organize this event.
*They look after all the affairs and financial aspects of the fundraising events.
*The fundraising team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.
*Sellting away what's unnecessary and unused at college or home and sell them to someone who's in a great need of that.
* Gather all the student bodies at college and make effective utilization of human and other resources at a time.
*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the Fundraising Event ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.
*Fundraising through alumni.
*Food community game. By selling food made by students in the college.
*Selling and buying game .
*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div></div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

</div> Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|Challa Hemanth]]

Kolluru Suswetha

[[Navya Sri Kalli|Navya Sri Kalli]]

[[NATUKULA SAI KUMAR|Natakula Sai Kumar]]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

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School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

2019-10-11T10:23:48Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

=== ===

== Overview ==
<div>[[File:Vvitlogo.png]] </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><div>Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with an "A" grade certification, with the respective branches - ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, and ME - being accredited by the National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle and bustle of city life, in the village of Nambur, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.</div><div>[[File:VVIT.jpg]] </div><div></div></div>
== ==

The campus is partly run by a 100kW solar power plant, which showcases the usage of green and clean energy by our institute.

VVIT offers undergraduate courses in six disciplines:

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

VVIT also offers post graduate courses, such as Masters of Computer Applications, Master of Technology in Very large scale integrated Systems(VLSI).

== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The focus of VVIT is not only to educate the students but to inspire them to think innovatively and contribute to the society. Our institute has Innovation and Entreprenuership Development Cell under the guidance of experts. I& EDC has a separate space in the college which acts as a platform for innovative thinking.

The institute collaborated with Indian School of Business and has a Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under it. This enables the students from VVIT to get the exposure of the international level of learning in entrepreneurship and business. This helps them 

First among its kind established in India, the objective of commencing Google Code Labs at VVIT has been to introduce corporate culture to the students, to bring about an increase in industry level exposure, as well as maintain product development vibes on campus.
<div>The objective was maintained with various sessions and workshops which brought consistency in the development of real time applications. It is also serving as an incentive for the host Universities to be involved in our training program. It is acting as a platform for students and developers. </div><div> </div><div>VVIT is happy to confirm that the intended objective has been maintained through various sessions and workshops, which have served to bring a consistency in the development of real time applications. It has also been serving as an incentive for host Universities to be involved in our training program. It’s acting as a platform for students and developers alike.</div><div> </div><div>One of the best developer programs started taking place in this very Code labs right after its inauguration - The Nano-Degree certification program from Udacity, with the support of APSSDC. It first started with Android programming, where workshops initially took place for introduction. This later continued with 20 students from 2019 batch to pursue certification in it, which also helped them to pursue good jobs in their career. It continued with the same certification for 2020 students and took a new initiative for front-end development certification from Udacity. We’ve also had major league hackathon by GitHub, Indo-Nordic Innovation Acceleration Cluster(INIAC) and NASA SpaceApps challenge. </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, but also takes care of its faculty. It highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences etc. It always provides conducive atmosphere for the faculty to research & develop, and ensures their active participation. Many workshops, National-level seminars/conferences, training programs are hosted by various departments throughout the year. There is always a strong support and encouragement for the faculty in publishing research papers and projects. 

Some of the links about the research papers and workshops attended by faculty are mentioned below:

*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/patents Patents]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/ongoing Ongoing research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/completed-projects Complete research projects]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/books-authored Books authoured]
*[https://vvitguntur.com/departments/r-d/seminar-sponsorships Seminar sponsorships]

== University Technology Transfer Function ==

VVIT has been recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with APSSDC. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of INR 13 million. These help students to develop skills to meet the present day industrial needs. The I&EDC Cell along with TEP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment of [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/VVIT-set-to-get-Googles-first-code-lab-in-India/articleshow/54491836.cms Google Code Labs], first of its kind in India.

== University - Industry Collaboration ==
<div>The students of VVIT have succeeded in establishing their identity as a new breed of winners in the academic and the corporate world. Over the last few years, they have taken full advantage of emerging placement opportunities in the fast growing service sector of the booming Indian Economy.</div><div> </div><div>VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION etc.</div><div> </div><div>Following is the list of MoUs signed:</div><div> </div><div>Industrial MoUs:</div>
*Infosys Campus Connect
*Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation
*Jawahar Knowledge Center
*Indian School of Business
*Quality People
*Robotics Core School
*Social Agro Industries
*PSSTT
*M.Govinda & Sons
*Kalpah
<div> </div><div>Training MoUs:</div>
*Cocubes
*Monster
*Seventh Sense
*Ikya Global
*Talents Show
*Oompfh
<div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==

VVIT, a social responsibility initiative, adopted a village named Brahmana Koduru to help them improve their standards of living in this fast growing world. VVIT has become one of the top three colleges under JNTU Kakinada in significantly less time as it was established only 10 years ago. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by APSSDC.

== Other ==

Apart from curriculum, VVIT also encourages students to bring out their passions through various clubs. It offers fine arts such as painting, dance, music, theatre arts and on the other hand provides clubs like animation. VVIT prides itself on having great NSS volunteers with social responsibility and NCC cadets with their patriotic streak.

Every year, VVIT organizes a 33KM walk in the memory of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integration Walk. The walk starts a Muslim Dargah, and continues along the way of a Jain Temple, a Church, and finally concludes at a Temple, thereby intergrating several religions.

VVIT hosts a national-level techno-cultural fest, VIVA-VVIT with 50+ events, attracting large number of students, around 5000 visitors every year. Student Activity Council (SAC) of the college organizes the fest and also all other extracurricular activities taken up by the college. 

VVIT in association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google. 

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters club, which has been initiated by a student from the college. Now the club is attended by several students from other colleges as well.

VVIT organized a series of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, to train the students and staff to contribute to the world's largest free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia movement. As a results of these, a Wikipedia Club namely "VVIT WikiConnect" was formed, and has been performing consistently.

= Related Links =

'''Spring 2017 UIF Batch:'''

[[Naveen Kumar Salipalli|Naveen Kumar Salipalli]] 

[[Sowmya Narukullapati|Sowmya Narukullapati]] 

[[Poushya munipalle|Poushya Munipalle]] 

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]  

'''Fall 2017 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]

'''Spring 2018 Batch:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Fall 2018 Batch:'''

[[Hemanth Challa|'''Challa Hemanth''']]

[[Navya Sri Kalli|'''Navya Sri Kalli''']]

'''Suswetha Kolluru'''

[[Sai Kumar Natukula|'''Sai Kumar Natukula''' ]]

'''Training Links: '''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Project Pitch Link] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities Student Priorities Wiki page]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS71VqIN_IvbYqAZVSQ-fDh4HL2SFD_Rva2iAZXsEdQ/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]

 

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Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:58:27Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

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<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Venkatadri_Institute_of_Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:53:22Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Fellow:Sai Kumar Natukula

2019-05-30T08:44:02Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a final-year under graduate student studying in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become research engineer in field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT.Since his childhood he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn some thing through the self paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of International organisation Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. He is also the secretary of the ACM student chapter. Currently he is working on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

        He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

Fellow:Natukula Sai Kumar

2019-05-30T08:37:24Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

[[File:Nsk pic.jpg|right|250x250px|Nsk pic.jpg]]         Sai Kumar is a final-year under graduate student studying in the stream of Information Technology at Vassireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology(VVIT). His passion to become research engineer in field of computers made him choose the stream of Information Technology at VVIT.Since his childhood he is very excited to learn the concepts of science and is now highly interested in learning about the latest technologies that contribute to the world of computers. He always tries to learn some thing through the self paced learning environments. He is very good at managing a team form which we can understand that he posses good team spirit and he believes that it is his strength.         

        In his efforts to know much about the latest technologies he became a member of International organisation Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is taking an active part to the ACM student chapter of his college to improve the student's skills in computer science. His contributions to make ACM student chapter one of the best student chapers made him the secretary of the student chapter.  Currently he is working on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

        He is planning to conduct interactive sessions in his college to improve the industrial awareness among students with the help of alumni networks. He is a man with great positive spirit and believes that he can do it!!

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:31:14Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

So to avoid the above mentioned students, the primary target of the college must be to attain automous status from the university. Considering the college is autonomous from the university, it'll have the choice to design its own, even to a significant extent.  After this, the college has to conduct an extensive survey among the students, staff, stakeholders, and its recruiters. Doing so the college will be able to analyse the need for a particular subject considering the interest of the students in a subject, ease of teaching for the faculty, risks involved can be given by the stakeholders, and the present day requirement of the industry can be understood from the recruiters. After a desiging a curriculum that suits all of the above mentioned categories of people on campus, the college ought to give at least one departmental elective, and one open elective (inter-disciplinary) for each semester. The the number of the subjects given for the choice of electives should be gradually increased as the student moves towards the end of his/her graduation. In this way, the student can will have more chances to secure a job in the field of his/her interest.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:30:22Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:27:12Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

[[File:Oalogo.jpg]]

The first step of this strategy is create awarness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the intersting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

After there creating awareness on the campus, the next step is faculty engagement. A workshop for "Intergrating reasearch methodology into Wikipedia and its sister projects" should be organized. All the articles & papers published are to be made sure that they are indexed with Google scholar, and an e-copy is to be sent to R2C. Faculty can be trained to contriute to Wikiversity (Open Education Resource), and intersted faculty can trained on MediaWiki as well.

The step involves student engagement. This step invovled organising Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, and sucessfully form Wiki-club on campus. This part has already been started and is in implementation phase. The next step is to make the Computer Science Engineering students to learn MediaWiki, and take up projects to develop tools, bots, gadgets on MediaWiki. A resolution is to be made across the campus, by students, to release the images related to educational content through CC BY-SA licenses.

The final step of this strategy is administrative engagement. The instituion can form a "Open Access Repository" with all the required resources, and partner with various online databases to access their paywalled content through a collaboration. The college magazine must be incude Open-ed, and is to be published under CC BY-SA.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from goverment as well.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:25:25Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS" ''' ==

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:21:12Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

== Overview ==

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

{{#Widget:Youtube|height=480|width=854|id=VPJeSRysRJw}}

<div>
== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes
#Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.
#At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be experimented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.
#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.
<div>
=== '''Possible issues:''' ===
</div>
*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.
*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.
*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
<div>
=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===
</div>
==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

[[File:Peerteaching.JPG]]

== '''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

[[File:TED Ed.png]]

=== How it works: ===
<div></div>
In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

[[File:Ted-ed.jpeg]]

'''Identify Your Passion: "'''What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the Clubs, curriculum has members explore the ideas they're passionate about. By diving into activities that expand curiosity, club members will identify and discuss what matters most to them.

'''Choose Your Idea: '''"What is your big idea?" As members journey through the Clubs curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, members will craft their very own TED-style talk.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
<div>
=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===
</div>
The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

'''How our new time table is different from the regular one?'''

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.



[[File:Time table.png]]

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==
</div>
 Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

[[File:Redesign Assignment system.jpg]]

What are the obvious flaws because of this?

It is a waste of time, doesn’t make a student to think innovatively or in a problem-solving way and marks are being taken for granted.

How we want it to be?

# Students are divided into random groups as the professor wishes and each group is given a separate set of assignment(Not necessarily a written assignment).
# Time limit for assignment submission should just be enough(not more/less).

<div>
== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

[[File:Alumni Interaction.jpg]]
</div>
It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

'''[[File:Design Thinking.jpg]]'''

The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

[[File:Communication.jpg]]

As of now, students are not being trained in soft skills or communication skills unless they enter their 3rd year and register under placement cell in our campus.

Why it is important to concentrate on these skills?

Most of the students (almost 65%) who join the college do not have a strong foundation in basics of English and have no idea of communicating properly/ speaking impromptively.

Since we spend almost 10 hours on an average in college everyday, it is important that we inculcate these skills during college hours because

it not only helps us get placed but also attributes in leading a successful career.

So we want to allocate at least 2 hours a week to classes where students get to interact among themselves and develop their Vocabulary/communication skills.

This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Naveen%20Kumar%20Salipalli Naveen Kumar Salipalli] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sowmya%20Narukullapati Sowmya Narukullapati] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Poushya%20munipalle Poushya Munipalle] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/Venkata%20Sasank%20Pamulapati Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]  

 '''Fall 2017:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Venkata_Sai_Charan_Sattu Venkata Sai Charan Sattu] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marella_Yasaswini Marella Yasaswini]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Manogna_Avula Manogna Avula]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/SM_Raiyyan Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]
<div> </div>
'''Spring 2018:'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Harsha_Teja Pullagura Harsha Teja]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yamini_Biruduraju Yamini Biruduraju]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Iswarya_Lakshmi Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi]

'''Campus Overview Wiki :'''

[http://universityinnovation.org/Vasireddy%20Venkatadri%20Institute%20of%20Technology Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJeSRysRJw VVIT Pitch Video link]

[[Category:Student Priorities|v]]

File:Time table.png

2019-05-30T08:19:41Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:15:37Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:11:19Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T08:07:30Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

File:TED Ed.png

2019-05-30T08:03:33Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:58:21Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:57:38Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:53:51Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:50:57Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:47:30Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:44:43Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

File:Peer teaching.png

2019-05-30T07:37:47Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:34:16Z

NatukulaSaiKumar:

Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2019-05-30T07:16:19Z

NatukulaSaiKumar: