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 with state of art laboratories, classrooms, Seminar halls and playgrounds. An eco-friendly environment is developed on the campus with a lot of greenery, landscaped lawns and gardens. S.R.K.R. Engineering College was established with a mission to develop the college into a center 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 holds 1st rank in the best colleges of Andhra Pradesh category.Recently, the college is Ranked as 81 in the TOP 100 Engineering Colleges in India including IIT's and NIT's by Ministry of Human Resources Department, Govt. of India. 

Salient features of the college:

• Affiliated toJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada (JNTUK).

• Autonomous Institution (UGC Approved) from theyear 2016-17.

• Approved byAll Indian Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.

• Accredited with‘A’ Grade by NAAC with CGPA of 3.60/4.00 scalewhich is a National level highest score in Engineering Colleges.

• Ranked as81 in top 100 Engineering Colleges in India inNIRF Ranking 2017 by Ministry of Human Resource Department, Govt. of India.

• Ranked as73rdin top 100 Engineering Colleges in India inNIRF-2016 by MHRD, Govt. of India.

• Selected for financial support underFIST programme-2016ofDST, New Delhi.

• Recognized asScientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

• Recognized asBusiness Incubation Centre (MSME) byMinistry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India.

• Offers 6 UG Courses, 6 PG Courses and 5 Ph.D. Programs.

• AccreditedThrice by National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

• Secured thestatus of 2(f) and 12(B) ofUGC Actin1988.

• RecognizedunderPradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana for Technical Institutes (PMKVY-TI) for giving training program for unemployed youth.

• Awarded asBest Institute in South India byDataquest in 2017.

• Academic Excellence Award for theyear 2017 by Indian Technology Congress

• ReceivedBest Engineering College Award inIndian Engineering Educators and Administrators Conference 2017.

• Ranked as17 in top 100 Private Engineering Colleges Survey 2017 by Higher Education Review.

• Ranked as45 in Top 100 Private T-Schools 2017 in IndiabyData Quest.

• Best Accredited Student Branch Award forCSI Student Chapter (AP-69) by Computer Society of India (CSI).

• RatedAAAAby Careers 360,1stposition in AP.

• Our College Rankedas79 in Top Private Engineering Colleges in India and 51 in South Zoneby The Week –Hansa Research Survey 2017.

• Awarded asNational Employability Award 2017 by Aspiring Minds.

• Awarded as INDIA 5000 BEST MSME for Quality Excellence

• Ranked as25thin top 100 Private Engineering Colleges in Indiaby Higher Education Review.

• Ranked as32ndin Top 100 Engineering Colleges in Indiaand10th in Top 12 Engineering Colleges in South Indiaby Silicon India

• Ranked as59 in Top 100 Private T-Schools 2016 in India by Data Quest.

• Awarded asBest Engineering College in South India by National Education Excellence.

• Higher Education Review recognized our college as Engineering College of the Year 2015.

• Silicon India recognized our collegeasCollege of the Year 2015.

• AP State Government Knowledge Mission graded us A-Grade College.

• Our college is recognized as e.gov campus by Engineering Watch.

• IBM Ranked Our College asOne of the Top 30 Colleges in India for Excellence in Great Mind Challenge.

• Consortium Member inIndo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE)

• 56 MoU’s with Foreign Universities, Institutions and Industries.

• International MoUs

  • Jeju National University, South Korea

  • University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria

  • UIT The Arctic University, Norway

  • INNES Institute Vienna, Austria

  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  • PSB  Academy, Singapore

  • Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

  • Department of Computer Science of University of  Verona, Italy

  • Omsk State Transport University, Russia

  • Indo - Us Collaboration For Engineering Education (IUCEE)

  • University of Technology, Sydney

  • University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA

  • WAGENENGEN University, Netherlands

• MoU withHarvard Business School, USA to conduct Soft Skills Training Programme. One among the four colleges in Andhra Pradesh.

• University Innovation Fellows Program by Stanford University, USA.

• Collaboration with ZF Technologies for Innovative Product Development.

• Collaborative Research Works with Netherland Universities, American and Australian Universities.

• 15 Center of Excellences are established.

  • Water and Environment Technology Research Center (WET Centre)

  • Geo-spatial Information Center (GIC)     

  • Kolleru Lake Information Centre (KLIC)

  • Centre for Collaborative Product Development (CCPD)

  • Centre for Metal Matrix Composites (CMMC)    

  • Centre for Spatial Data Processing & Research (CSDPR)

  • Centre for Bioinformatics Research (CBR)

  • Centre for Knowledge of Life (CKOL)

  • Centre for Internet of Things (CIOT)

  • Centre for Interactive Intelligence (CII)

  • Centre for Organic Manuring Biogas and Jeevamrutham(COMBJ)

  • Centre for Biomedical & Image Processing (CBIP)

  • Centre for RF Systems and Antennas Research (CRFAR)

  • Space Technology Research Centre (STRC)

  • Technology Centre (TC)

• 68 pursuing Ph.D and all other are M.Tech/M.Phil/Post Graduates.

• Excellent infrastructure. Adequate Research Labs are available.

• Wi-Fi Enabled Campus, Microsoft Cloud Enabled Campus.

• MOOC’S Online Courses, Digital Libraries, Technology Initiative Labs are available in the Campus.

• Best EAMCET Rankers selects our College.

• Got All India 1st, 2nd, 4th,6th, 8th,12th, 14th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, 27th, 47th and 83rd  GATE Ranks

• Bagged Most of the Top 10 University Ranks, Best awards from Research Organizations and Multinational Companies.

• Best Placements in the state of A.P. from last 20 years. All Most All the MNC’s Visit our Campus, Max salary Package 14.25 Lacks.

• Student’s Activities were recorded in LIMCA Book of Records, Wonder Book of Records and Unique World Records four times.

• Innovation Centers, Incubation Centers, Entrepreneur Development Center, Career Development Center, GATE Coaching, GRE and CAT Training Centers are in Campus.

• Nodal Centre for AICTE Smart India Hackathon

• Nodal Centre for ESCI, The Institution of Engineers (India)

• AP Smart Skill Grid Centre

• i-Hub (Innovation, Incubation, Industry) to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students.

• 13 startups established at i-Hub

• Ongoing Research Projects worth of 7.59 Crores funded by DST, AICTE, UGC and Foreign Universities are in the Campus.

• We offer the Consultancy to ONGC, Reliance, NRSC, IDEA, A.P. Transco, Indian Railways, Panchayath Raj, Irrigation, A.P. State Government and Central Government Departments.

• Most of our students are working in Fortune 100 companies.

• Alumni have occupied very high positions at National and International Level.

• Hostel facility for Boys and Girls is available, Transport facility available.

Student Entrepreneurship

Perhaps the biggest strength of the college is the support and Encouragement of management for upcoming entrepreneurs. 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, entrepreneurship,etc., It also has departmental organizations like IETE, ACE, AME, IE, CSI, AEE which emphasizes on improving the technical skills of its students which in turn evokes the entrepreneurial insights of the students.These organizations help the students to prototype their ideas which will be later sent to the Technology and Innovation center of the college. The Technology center is the base for all the entrepreneurial and innovation activities of the college. Students who have ideas or prototypes will be using the tech center to develop their product and pitch it to Investors for Funding. In the recent years, SRKREC has produced some top class scientists and entrepreneurs with their support and encouragement. Many students have got patents for their prototypes and went on to become successful entrepreneurs. 

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The college faculty is highly involved in entrepreneurial and innovation activities.As much as 14 people have patents on their works which explains the faculty's involvement in research and entrepreneurship. SRKREC's faculty have been partners in many software and hardware companies. This helped the college to achieve more job opportunities 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 benefited by the faculty as their contracts are helping the students to build-up careers of their students.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 interest of faculty in research and entrepreneurship. The faculty follows the policy 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 for 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 has 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 Development Centre by Government of India in 2016.The Technology Center of the college is the base for a number of regional and national level development activities.MSME have established their regional center in SRKREC. The college has the only incubation center in the district. SRKREC is heavily indulged in the local development and Research activities by providing a centre in the college(WET Centre) for research 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 sanctions 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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Student Priorities Link :

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sagi_Rama_Krishnam_Raju_Engineering_College_Student_Priorities

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/

College Pitch Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHA2zzINaf4&feature=youtu.be

Written By: Dinesh, Ajay , Srikanth , Susruth, Uday Sai Tyada, Sala Tapaswi Neelakanta Phani Kumar, Sripada Satya Ramya, Ravula NagaMani

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