School:Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science

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CAMPUS OVERVIEW:

Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science is established in 1998 in the picture square and pleasant environof Madanapalle and is ideally located on a sprawing30 acrecampus on Madanapalle Ananthapur Highway(NH-205) near Angallu,about10 km away from Madanapalle.It is governed by a progressive management that never rests on laurels and has been striving conscientiously to develop it as one of the best centers of Academic Excellence in India.The Institution’s profile is firmly based on strategies and action plans that match changing demands of the nation and the studentsfraternity.To foster a culture of excellence in research, innovation, entrepreneurship, rational thinkingand civility by providing necessary resources for generation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge and in the process, create an ambiencefor practice-based learning to the youth for success in their careers.

1.PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

 

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MITS always shows more interest on innovation and entrepreneurial environment and puts its hands first to develop such skills in the students. As part of this, a distinct office for INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES has been established on 2nd November-2015 in the MITS campus, which  creates a platform for students to express their ideas. Here the ideas will be groomed with the help of the faculty. In 2015, incubation center has also been established to provide some space to flourish the ideas. The innovative ideas of the students helps them to become successful entrepreneurs. Keeping this in vision Entrepreneurship Development Cell was established in the year 2010 which creates and foster entrepreneurial culture among students by identifying, training and motivating students to become entrepreneurs. ED cell and Innovation cell conducts various workshops and awareness programs. One among those activities is DIYA(Dynamics Ideas by Young Aspirants) which encourages the start-up ideas of students and also the excelled ideas are funded by reputed funding agencies. Apart from these, eminent personnel from industry(entrepreneurs), financial institutions(Banks), and academics will be invited to interact and to empower the knowledge in the concern fields that enrich the students how to start an entrepreneur at their own cost and procedures to be followed further. In addition to this, MITS conducts many competitions help students to showcase their innovative ideas.

 

2.ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

MITS is very keen at selecting faculty. Faculty at MITS not only endeavor innovative thoughts among  students but also proposes many innovative projects, research proposals and MITS helps them to get funded for those proposals  from various organization. The professors and assistant professors from various departments along with teaching students perform various research activities in their respective domains. In many cases they collaborate with the students to achieve excellent outcomes, which eventually leads to a start-up.  Our college also organises many faculty development workshops and guest lectures.

3.ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION:

Our college has TEQIP which provides funds and transfers for students and faculty to complete their projects.It mainly concentrates on helping students financially like a backbone. Students need not worry about the funds and can purely concentrate on their respective projects which ultimately gives the desired outputs.Nextwe have TECHNICAL CLUB where everyone from different departments can collaborate easily in order to share and develop their technical skills.As a resulteveryone can get information about all the current technologies and can execute many projects.It also provides industrial exposure regarding latest trends in technology and can have a practical experience what it is actually about.

4.FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION:

 

Collaboration between universities and industries is critical for skills development (education and training), the generation, acquisition, and adoption of knowledge (innovation and technology transfer), and the promotion of entrepreneurship (start-ups and spin-offs). The Industry-Institute Interaction Cell (IIIC) of our college is a dedicated cell to promote the close interaction of industry and various departments of the institute. The IIIC Cell facilitates industrial and academic trainingsthose are not prescribed in the syllabus in addition to conducting industrial exhibitions and interaction meets. Industry Institute Partnership forms an important activity for any academic institute as its stakeholders interact with the real world. Firstly, the students are benefited due to exposure to current industry practices, challengesand needs and update their skills when changes occur in technology, teaching faculty getsensitized to the latest practices leading them to blend practice with usual theoretical teaching methods. On successful interaction, Industry may realize that Academia has more to offer by way of solving their short term and long term technical problems, provide a manpower resource pool with good industry orientation and a source for updating the knowledge sets of its personnel.

Following MOUs signed:

1.IBM, Hyderabad

2. National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore

3. Altair Engineering, Bangalore

4. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Bangalore

5. Vi Microsystems Pvt. Ltd, Chennai

6. Frontline Electronics Pvt. Ltd, Salem

7. NIST Institute Pvt. Ltd, Chennai

8. Kaizen Green Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Chennai

9. NAFEMS, Bangalore

10. PHILIPS, Bangalore

11. Surface Improvements India Ltd, Bangalore

12. Pushkala Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore

13. Enmax Engineering India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad

14.EEIPL, Hyderabad

15. KK Soft Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad

 

5.ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS:

 

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National Service Scheme(NSS) has been introduced at MITS in 2003 as a part of the academic programs and since then NSS has been functioning as a regular feature in the realm of our academics. Objectiveof NSS is Education and Service to the community and bythe community. It’s students’ programme where we cater to the need of the community, as and when required, it will also help the students to communicate with the society. It helps students to improve various skills how to interact and deal with society and helps them to learn about what’s going on in society and gives them a exposureto explore. The rural projects generally include the working of NSS volunteers in adopted villages for eradicationof illiteracy, watershed management and wasteland development, agricultural operations, health, nutrition etc. Beyond academicsit is also important to have socialresponsibility for a student to be a good citizen of tomorrow.

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Fall 2017 Fellows:

Kusuma Amilineni

Sucharitha Chokkappagari

Umeshwar Reddy

Harshavardhan Bandarla

Spring 2017 Fellows:

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Kollu Nishkala

Praneeth Sai

Manasa Kakarla

Fall 2016 Fellows:

Charan Sai Pala

Sai Kiran

Sameer Ahmed

Sindhu Bhonsley

Anitha Narnavaram

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