Industry-Institute Interaction
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Prof. O.V.P.R. Siva Kumar, Professor - ECE
Industry Institute Interaction Committee, comprising of the following members, was setup for Department of ECE, GCET with the objectives and outcomes as envisaged below.
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S.No. Name Designation Role
1. Prof. O.V.P.R Siva Kumar Professor Professor-in-charge
2. Dr. M Satyanarayana Adjunct Professor Adviser
3. Dr. G. Sreelakshmi HoD, ECE Member
4. Mr. V.S. Ramachandram Sr. Asst. Prof Member
5. Ms. L Uma Maheshwari Assistant Professor Coordinator
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Objectives:
To facilitate faculty and students to gain practical exposure to the industrial environment. The interaction will enable working on research topics which are of relevance to the industry, thereby providing a strong linkage, resulting in good employment opportunities to the students and taking up consultancy. This interaction will help in tailoring the curriculum as per needs of the industry.
Outcomes:
Faculty and students gain broader exposure to the industrial environment so that they can understand the different types of problems being worked upon by the industry. This will enable the students to get absorbed in the industry smoothly and be productive from the very beginning. The technical lectures by the experts from the industry will strengthen the practical knowledge of the faculty members and students. The experts can also suggest research topics to the faculty leading to papers / publications / Ph.D which will potentially result in overall value addition to the Teaching Learning Process.
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The process of Industry Institute Interaction is accomplished through following mechanisms:
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Conduct industrial visits to faculty and students
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Execute MoUs and encourage the students to work on Industry Oriented Mini Projects and Major projects
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Invite industry experts as resource persons to deliver guest lectures in the college
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Encourage students to take up Internship in industry.
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Understand the industrial problems of relevance and encourage faculty and students to get associated for a collaborative consultancy / research effort.
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Key Points
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Industry Expert as Board of Studies (BoS) Member: A senior technical expert Dr. K.V.N.S.V.P.L. Narasimham, Scientific Officer (G), Group Head – Electronics Support Group, National Centre for Compositional Characterization of Materials (NCCCM) / Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Government of India with good experience in industry, was nominated as one of the members in our Department BoS during 2021-22-2021. The objective is to understand industrial requirements and the latest trends from the technological / practical perspective and incorporate the right kind of courses in our curriculum to improve job opportunities to our students.
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Industry Experts nominated as Members of Research Advisory Committee of GCET: We have the following experts from reputed organizations nominated for needful advice on research.
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Dr. V.S. Manorama, Chief Scientist, IICT (CSIR), Hyderabad.
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Dr. G. Venkat Reddy, Scientist 'H', RCI (DRDO), Hyderabad.
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Mr. Phani Kumar Varanasi, Founder and CEO, Hanbit Automation, Cherlapally, Hyderabad.
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Dr. S.N. Joshi, Ex Scientist “G”, CEERI (CSIR), Pilani, Rajasthan and Ex National Coordinator, Gyrotron Project, sponsored by DST.
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Dr. J. Janardhan Reddy, Scientist “G”, Ceramics and Composites Group, DMRL (DRDO), Hyderabad.
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Faculty members possessing industrial experience inducted into the department: Senior faculty members possessing substantial industrial / research experience are recruited as faculty members to impart practical knowledge to the students which will help the students understand the concepts in a better way.
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Profiles of the faculty members with industry experience are given below:
1. Dr. Satyanarayana Malladi (Dr.Malladi) is a veteran in Optical Engineering, Laser Technology and Applications, Instrumentation and Thin Film Technologies. In his long and illustrious stint at VSSC and ISRO, he had been leading the team which had designed and led the prestigious inter-central "Space Borne Lidar" project, led the Design and Development of various Lidar systems and other optoelectronic systems including Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) among many other mission critical projects. Dr. Malladi had retired as the Project Director, Lidar systems and Advanced Optics in ISRO. Apart from his illustrious 34-year career as a Scientist, Dr. Malladi also has given back to the society through teaching various courses namely Opto-electronics, Laser Remote Sensing, Advanced Optics, etc. as a Professor in various Universities for more than 15 years. Dr. Malladi has supervised 8 research scholars for their PhD, and 26 MPhil and M.Tech. students for project work. Dr. Malladi is also a senior member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Photonic society, Member of ISRS and Fellow IETE. He has published about 100 research papers and technical/project reports in peer reviewed journals and presented more than 50 papers in the international and national conferences. He was also listed in the World Book "Who is Who in the World" Marques, (USA), 2008.
2. Prof.O.V.P.R Siva Kumar, Professor and Group Head – Analog Electronics, Instrumentation and VLSI: Worked in industry for 20 years starting his career as a Scientist in Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO, Hyderabad in the design and development of hardware and software for Onboard Computer Systems for avionics applications. He subsequently worked in different MNCs namely Cadence, Motorola, Intel, Infineon and AMD in VLSI Chip Design with responsibilities ranging from design, functional verification, people management and Project management involving chip specification through fabrication to volume production in a cross-functional global team environment. For the past four and half years, he has been a Professor in GCET.
3. Dr. G. Sree Lakshmi, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, has over 21 years of experience in academics and industry with emphasis on Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture and VLSI Design. She pursued her doctoral research on “Model for Vinculum Arithmetic-Case Study on Floating Point Multiplier”. She worked briefly in ECIL as a trainee in the domain of testing BASE stations in Wireless Local Loop (WLL) Systems for BSNL project. She also worked in Precision Electronics on quality testing of different types of resistors.
4. Mr.V.S. Ramachandram, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE: Worked in industry for 15 years starting his career as a testing and maintenance engineer in Atron electronics (in Television SMPS and IF Amplifier) for one year. Subsequently, he worked as technical assistant in National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO, Dept. of Space for 14 years for maintenance of 28-track High Density Tape Recorders, FSDU, VAX 11/780, VAX 11/750 and Silicon Graphics Systems.
5. Ms. L. Uma Maheshwari, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE: Worked in industry for 2.5 years started her career as Verification and Validation engineer in Cognizant technology solutions Hyderabad and Chennai locations, she worked in projects like Westlock railway systems, Trident systems and velocity projects.
Establishment of Industry Sponsored Laboratory in the Department of ECE, GCET:
Physitech Electronics established state-of-art Industry Sponsored Laboratory in IoT with the objective of training the faculty members in the Train-the-Trainer mode for the benefit of the students. Several skill enhancement workshops are planned to inculcate the mindset of research and development amongst the faculty members and students to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and facilitate lucrative employment opportunities for the students.
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The particulars of the sponsored items/equipment are given below:
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S.No. Name of the item Quantity (Nos.)
1. Phy_1402, IoT Development Trainer Kit for Arduino 4
2. Phy_1403, IoT Development Trainer Kit for Raspberry Pi 4 4
3. Phy_1412B, Universal IoT Trainer 2
4. Phy_1700, NODE MCU Trainer Kit 4
5. IOT Web Dashboard by PCS 1
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