Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College

Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College or VRSEC was the first private institution to offer undergraduate education in engineering in Andhra Pradesh, India.

The college was approved to be an autonomous institution by Nagarjuna University in the year 2006

1 Introduction
2 Management
- 2.1 Siddhartha Academy
3 Features
4 Mission
5 Vision
6 Engineering Departments
7 Courses offered
8 External links
9 References

Introduction

Named after the eminent industrialist and former Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, Velagapudi Ramakrishna, the College was founded in 1977 and has a good reputation for engineering education in Andhra Pradesh. Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College is a self financing institute established in the year 1977.

The institution is ideally located in a large expanse of 40 acres (160,000 m²) of land in Kanuru on the out skirts of Vijayawada city at a distance of about 6 km from the city centre, on the Vijayawada-Machilipatnam Highway (NH 9). The buildings are located in close proximity to each other with wide open spaces all around. The playing fields and other student and staff amenities are within easy walking distance of the faculty blocks.

Management

Siddhartha Academy

The Siddhartha Academy of General & Technical Education, better known as the Siddhartha Academy, came into being in the year 1975 with a Corpus Fund of Rs.25 lakhs (Rs.2.5 million) through the efforts of 250 life members drawn from different walks of life having a philanthropic bent of mind. It was registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act in the same year.

The main objective of the Academy is to provide education at all levels in the fields of general, technical and professional education. The establishment of the Academy followed by the establishment of other educational institutions in the last 28 years have transformed Vijayawada into a major educational centre. As India's second largest railway junction and as one of the biggest agricultural commodity trading centres and the commercial hub of the Krishna region, Vijayawada has become the third most important place in the state after Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.

Today the Siddhartha Academy runs fourteen educational institutions, three colleges offering intermediate(+2) and degree (undergraduate) courses for men and women along with a post graduate centre (graduate programmes), two schools one of which is fully residential, two engineering colleges, a medical college, a college of law, a college of education (B.Ed), a college of pharmaceutical sciences and a college of hotel management and catering technology. All Siddhartha institutions are duly approved by the respective Central and State Governments and other concerned bodies.

Mr.K.Mohana Rao, an eminent professor from IIT Kharagpur, is the Principal of the VRSEC.

Features

Approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.
An ISO 9001-2000 certified college.
Conferred Autonomous Status by the University Grants Commission, India.

Mission

To impart high quality technical education in order to mould the learners into globally competitive technocrats who are professionally deft, intellectually adept and socially responsible. The Institution strives to make the learners inculcate and imbibe pragmatic perception and pro-active nature so as to enable them to acquire a vision for exploration and an insight for advanced enquiry.

Vision

To nurture excellence in various fields of engineering by imparting timeless core values to the learners and to mould the institution into a center of academic excellence and advanced research.

Engineering Departments

Information Technology

The information technology course was started in the academic year 2000-2001 and ran by the Computer Science and Engineering Department until the 2003-2004 academic year.

In the academic year 2004-2005, the Department of Information Technology was established as a separate entity. The syllabus of the course has been changed by the Board of Studies of Nagarjuna University from time to time for the benefit of students to include the latest developments in the IT field.

The IT Department excelled under the guidance of Head of Department Dr.Tripuraneni Lakshmi garu. During her tenure between 2005-2008 she made a great effort to help the students excel in their careers. She organised various hardware and software workshops like JIP (Jawahar Interns Program) of IEG and kept the students up to date with the latest software developments.

Linux

The students take a great deal of interest in unix-like operating systems.^[1]

Placements

The campus placements at VRSEC have greatly increased during the last four years. During 2005-2006 the total number of campus placements were 113 and this figure has significantly increased year by year. By 2008-2009, the placement count had reached 223.

Mr. Vijayamaruti Babu holds the chair in the Training and Placement Cell and his considerable efforts have helped the college to succeed in the professional placements arena.

Major recruiters are TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, CommVault Systems, iGATE, Broadrige, Virtusa, CSC, Essar, Cognizant, L&T Info, Sandvik, Keane, Syntel, BSCPL, BEL, Maytas, Efftronics, Honeywell, LML, Accenture, Infotech, Sonata, Polaris, HCL, Thermal Systems, IVRCL, Juno Online Services, Zeta, Moldtek, Life BP, SPACE, L&T, SOMA, Accenture, Nagarjuna Construction Company, SEW, Astra Microwave, Sutherland, Kenexa, Gayatri, Aliens, Navayuga, ICOMM, Amerigo, Assurgent, Cordys and PTII.^[2]