Faculty development activities.

Dr. P. Chenna Reddy has

• Acted as a Resource person at UGC-Academic Staff College, JNT University, Hyderabad.
• Presented Guest Lectures at Narsaraopet Engineering. College, Narsaraopet and Sri Vidyaniketan College of Engineering, Tirupati.
• Acted as a Judge for the symposiums held at Visvodaya College of Engineering, Kavali, and Vaagdevi College of Engineering, Proddatur.

A.P. Siva Kumar has

• Acted as a resource person in the National level conference on ‘Data Mining’ at KSRM College, Kadapa in 2009.
• Acted as a judge for national conferences in 1) Narsaraopet Engg. College, Narsaraopet and 2) SGIET, Markapur in 2009.
• Acted as Visiting faculty at SSS University, Puttapurty.

Department Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

• State of art facilities
• Blend of experienced and young faculty
• 24 x 7 Internet facility
• Good infrastructure

Weaknesses

• Scarcity of Regular staff members
• Location disadvantage as college is in rural place

Departmental Best practices

The following student committees/Teams are formed in the department.

• Committees
  • Technical activities committee
  • Developmental activities committee
  • Social activities committee
  • Cultural activities committee
• Teams
  • RED Team
  • Open and free source software team
  • English Club
• Technical activities committee is responsible for maintenance of labs
• Developmental activities committee conducts various activities in the department including short term courses and seminars
• Social activities committee gets involved in various activities which have social cause
• Cultural activities committee identifies Literary and cultural talent in the students and conducts events
• RED team identifies Vulnerabilities in the network and suggests suitable solutions
• Open and Free source software team identifies Open and Free source Software available for the conduct of regular labs
• English club to conduct activities related to personality development.

Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Organized

• Sarvagnya-08 an Intra college Student Technical symposium was organized on February 28th and March 1st 2008
• Sarvagnya-09 a National level Student Technical Symposium was organized on October 7th, 8th and 9th 2009
• Workshop on free and open source software was organized by E-Swecha team during Sarvagnya-09
• Workshop on Oracle certification was organized by a team from Institute of Electronic Governance, Hyderabad during Sarvagnya-09

Student Activities in the Department

• Sarvagnya-08, an Intra college Student Technical symposium was organized on February 28th and March 1st 2008.
• Sarvagnya-09, a National level Student Technical Symposium was organized on October 7th, 8th and 9th 2009.
• Workshop on free and open source software was organized by E-Swecha team during Sarvagnya-09.
• Workshop on Oracle certification was organized by a team from Institute of Electronic Governance, Hyderabad during Sarvagnya-09.
• Material worth Rs. 25,000 was distributed to flood victims on 12th October at “Sunkesula dam” and “munugulapadu” which were washed out during the floods in October 2009.
• Cultural activities committee organized Intra college cultural festival.

New Teaching Methods

• L.C.D Projector is used for regular class work
• NPTEL Videos are procured to enable the students watch the lectures of eminent Professors from reputed institutions like IITs, IISC etc
• Video Conferencing System to promote Guest lectures from remote sites