School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

Overview

Vasireddy Venkatadri institute of technology, accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle bustle of the city life.

The undergraduate programs in engineering is offered in six disciplines namely Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Information Technology. The post graduate programs are offered in Computer Science and Engineering, Very Large Scale Integration, Power Electronics, Machine Design and Structural Engineering.  

The institute, affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada has set a benchmark in providing its students the very best in terms of education, extracurricular activities and placements. It strives to impart quality education through exploration and experimentation and generate socially conscious engineers, embedding ethics and values for advancement in science and technology. 

Its objective is to equip the institute with state of the art infrastructure comparable to the best in the industry, encourage the students to become global entrepreneurs and responsible citizens and to provide conducive atmosphere to the faculty for Research & Development and ensure active participation of the students. 

It is certified by ISO 9001:2008 for providing quality technical education up to the year 2017. The institute have installed roof top solar power plant of 100 KW with an aim of producing green power.

Student Entrepreneurship

VVIT encourages entrepreneurship among students and pays utmost attention in inculcating them through its Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC). Under this cell, students aspiring to become entrepreneurs are further trained through a programme TEP .  

Technology Entrepreneurship Programme (TEP) is a semi virtual programme offered by the Indian School of Business(ISB), tailored specifically to motivate and generate interest in entrepreneurship among engineering students. ISB has partnered the Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Academy (APITA), Andhra Pradesh to offer this programme.  

TEP aims to foster entrepreneurship by guiding engineering students in creating technology enabled products and services. Additionally, the programme helps improve their communication, teamwork and problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Through TEP, the primary goals of the institute at its core are

• To provide an environment/experience for engineering students to create investable technology based start-ups.
• To promote technology entrepreneurship as a viable career option and nurture the culture of entrepreneurship in the region.
• Link entrepreneurial and innovative behaviour to educational and career pathways.

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

VVIT not only strives for excellence of the students, it often takes care of its faculty. VVIT highly encourages the faculty to organize and participate in workshops, training sessions, national conferences. It always provides conducive atmosphere to the faculty for Research & Development and ensures active participation of them. Many workshops, National wide seminars, training programs in every department will take place throughout the academic 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:

Department of Civil Engineering

University Technology Transfer Function

VVIT is recognised as Centre of Excellence by Siemens in collaboration with AP State Skill Development Corporation. They established highly sophisticated, fully equipped Labs worth of 13 million INR. They help students to develop skills to be ready for the Industry needs. Entrepreneurship Development Cell on the campus partnered Indian School of Business to train students under Technology Entrepreneurship Program(TEP). Under this program students are trained for advancements in science and technology. VVIT alongside of APSSDC are proud to announce setting up of Google code labs, first of its kind in India for development of students. 

University - Industry Collaboration

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.

VVIT is proud to have 10 Industry MoUs and 7 Training MoUs. The list includes premier organizations like Infosys, APSSDC, Monster, TCS - ION.

Following is the list of MoUs signed:

Industrial MoUs:

• 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.Govind & Sons
• Kalpah

Training MoUs:

• Cocubes
• Monster
• Seventh Sense
• Ikya Global
• Talents Show
• Oompfh

Regional and Local Economic Development

VVIT, with social responsibility 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 is established only 9 years back in 2007. VVIT projects and labs are partly funded by AP State Skill Development Corporation.

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.

VVIT organizes a 33km walk on the remembrance of Sri Swamy Vivekananda birth anniversary by the name of National Integrity Walk. Every year, students actively participate in walk vowing themselves to protect integrity of India.

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

Related Links

Naveen Kumar Salipalli E-Mail: nanisalipalli@gmail.com

Sowmya Narukullapati E-Mail: sowmyan229@gmail.com

Poushya Munipalle  E-Mail: poushya.munipalle@gmail.com

Venkata Sasank Pamulapati  E-Mail: venkatasasankp@gmail.com

VVIT Project Pitch Link 

Student Priorities Wiki page

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