School:Sagi Rama Krishnam Raju Engineering College

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Sagi Rama Krishnam Raju Engineering College(SRKREC) is a Co-educational,Autonomous and a self-Financed Engineering college. It is one of the Oldest Seminaries formed in 1980's by S.R.K.R.Engineering College Association to provide a better quality technical education to students. President Sri. S. Prasada Raju is carrying forward the vision of his father Late Sri Sagi Rama Krishnam Raju guiding the society on its path of excellence. The college is located with a  scenic beauty in a 30 acres plot in Chinna Amiram on Bhimavaram-Vijayawada state highway, It was well connected  with rail , road, and air transport that is well known as "Second Bardoli" and is famous for "Pancharamas"(somaramam).

The college has a cluster of beautiful and spacious buildings and spacious buildings with state of art laboratories,class rooms,Seminar halls and play grounds. Eco-friendly environment is developed in the campus with lot of greenery, landscape lawns and gardens. S.R.K.R.E.C. was established with a mission to develop the college into a centre of Excellence in the field of Technical Education, Capable of Training students as sound professionals to carter to the needs of the society in the fields of production and service sectors.The college holds 1st rank in the best colleges of Andhra Pradesh category.Recently, the college is Ranked as 73 in the TOP100 Engineering Colleges in India including IIT's and NIT's by Ministry of Human Resources Department,Govt. of India.S.R.K.R. Engineering College was established with a mission to develop the college into a centre of Excellence in the field of Technical Education, capable of training students as sound professionals to cater to the needs of the society in the fields of production and service sectors.

The college  :

• Is affiliated to Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, recognized by the All Indian Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.
• Secured the status of 2(f) and 12(B) of UGC Act in 1988.
• Celebrated the Silver Jubilee during October, 6th and 7th in 2005.
• Offers6 UG Courses, 7 PG Courses and 5 Ph.D. Programmes.
• Departments of Civil, ECE, EEE, IT & Mech. were recognized as research centers by affiliating university.
• Was Accredited Thrice by National Board of Accredation (NBA).
• Centres of Excellence namely Water and Environment Technology (WET) research Centre and Geospatial Information Centre (GIC)   are established.
• Students activities were recorded in LIMCA Book of Records, Wonder Book of Records and  Unique World Records four times
• Alumni have occupied very high positions at national and international level. 

Student Entrepreneurship

Perhaps the biggest strenght of the college is the support and Encouragement of management for upcoming entreprenuers. SRKREC encourages and promotes the students to think innovatively and develop their entrepreneurship skills in different ways. The management regularly inspires its students by conducting summits on career-guidance,innovation,entreprenuership,etc., It also have departmental organisations like IETE,ACE,AME,IE,CSI,AEE which emphasizes on improving the technical skills of its students which inturn evokes the entreprenurial insights of the students.These organisations helps the students to prototype their ideas which will be later sent to the Technology and Innovation centre of the college. The Tech centre is the base for all the entreprenurial and innovation activities of the college. Students who have ideas or prototypes will be using the tech centre to  develop their product and pitch it to Investors for Funding. In the recent years , SRKREC have produced some top class scientists and entreprenuers with their support and encouragement. Many students have got patents for their prototypes and went on to become succesful entreprenuers. 

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The college faculty is highly involved in entreprenurial and innovation activities.As much as 14 people have patents on their works which explains the faculty's involvement in research and entreprenuership. SRKREC's faculty have been partners in many software and hardware companies. This helped the college to achieve more job oppurtunities to students seeking jobs and stood as one of the very few colleges which achieved 100% campus placement. Some persons from the faculty like Dr.Padma raju have been the founder of NetEnrich Technologies which is one of the  leading software companies in India. Students are getting benifited by the faculty as their contacts are helping the students to build-up carrers of their stuents.The college had a faculty-student ratio of 1:15  which brought extensive care between students and faculty.38%of the faculty holds doctorates from different fields which shows the intrest of faculty in research and entreprenuership. The faculty follows the ploicy of "Aspire to Inspire" 

University - Industry Collaboration

Collaboration between Colleges and industries is critical for skills development (education and training), and for the promotion of entrepreneurship (start-ups and spin-offs). To get the students ready with industry experience College adapt some measures to give hands on experience by Campus Recruitment Training(CRT). College also has signed many MOUs with various companies.

• Microsoft Innovations academic relation center.
• SRKR Engineering College is collaborated with 30 Foreign Universities as a part of Indo-US Collaboration in Engineering Education.
• Certification by M/S Infosys Technologies as “ Centre of Excellence”.
• MOU's with :
• INFOSYS
• HP
• IBM
• HCL and many others.

Regional and Local Economic Development

The college is declared as Regional Develpoment Centre by Government of India in 2016.The Technology centre of the college is the base for a number of regional and national level development activities.MSME have established their regional centre in SRKREC. The college has  the only incubation centre in the district. SRKREC is heavily indulged in the local development and Research activities by providing a centre in the college(WET Centre) for resaearch on local issues like Kolleru lake,Sanitation etc., The High court of Andhra Pradesh has requested the college to provide reports on certain problems due to which the government sanctons have been given based on the courts ruling.Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation sees SRKREC as a base for spreading knowledge to different engineering institutes.

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College Related Website Links :

College Website :

http://www.srkrec.ac.in/Web/Pages/Fordstan/OrganizationHomeWithDetails.aspx?OrganizationId=2&MasterPage=OrganizationMasterPage&PageLayout=OrganizationHomeWithDetails&Theme=Fordstan&SubSite=ORGANIZATION&SubSiteId=2&WebMode=PUBLIC&NodeId=2031

College Technology Centre Website :

http://www.srkrcampus.net/techcentre/

Written By : Dinesh , Ajay , Srikanth , Susruth