School:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology
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Overview
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 is in partnership with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC), and Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Academy (APITA), runs a program namely, Technology Entrepreneurship Programme under Indian School of Business.
TEP aims to foster entrepreneurship by guiding engineering students in creating technology enabled products and services. Additionally, the programme helps improve their communication, teamwork, 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:
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, supports many students to visit different universities (including ISB) to adopt new practices. VVIT along with APSSDC are proud to announce the establishment of Google Code Labs, first of its kind in India.
University - Industry Collaboration
- 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
- 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 association with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Developent Corporation (APSSDC) hosted a workshop on Android developers by Google.
VVIT supported the formation of Guntur Toastmasters 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:
Fall 2017 Batch:
Spring 2018 Batch:
Fall 2018 Batch:
Kalli Navya Sri
Suswetha Kolluru
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