School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology

Overview

Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with "A" grade, and the branches: ECE, IT, EEE, CSE, ME have been accredited by National Bureau of Accredition. The campus is located amidst the lush greenery away from hustle bustle of the city life, in the village Nambur, Guntur District.

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

The institute is 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 installed a 100 KW roof top solar power plant to promote the use of green enery resources.

Student Entrepreneurship

The college encourages entrepreneurship among students and pays utmost attention in inculcating them through its Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Cell (I&EDC). Apart from these cells, the college in partnership with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC), and Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Academy (APITA), runs two programs namely, Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under Indian School of Business, and Venture Development Programme (VDP) under North Eastern University. 

TEP nd VDP aimsto 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 a series of workshops on Design Thinking, Prototyping and Idea to Market. The programme helps the students validate their business ideas through mentoring sessions with industry experts

To promote the I&E culture on the campus, 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, 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:

• Patents
• Ongoing research projects
• Complete research projects
• Books authoured
• 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 and VDP, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT alongside of APSSDC are proud to announce  the establishment Google Code Labs, first of its kind in India.

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 etc.

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.Govinda & Sons
• Kalpah

Training MoUs:

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

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

VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Tostmasters 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 

Sowmya Narukullapati 

Poushya Munipalle 

Venkata Sasank Pamulapati  

Fall 2017 Batch:

Venkata Sai Charan Sattu 

Marella Yasaswini

Manogna Avula

Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan

Spring 2018 Batch:

Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

Pullagura Harsha Teja

Yamini Biruduraju

Ravipati Iswarya Lakshmi

Training Links: 

VVIT Project Pitch Link 

Student Priorities Wiki page

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