VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology

VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology

Seal of VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology
Motto	तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय॥ (Sanskrit) IAST: Tamasomā Jyotirgamaya (From the darkness, lead me to light )
Type	Private – Research
Established	1995 (1995)
Principal	Dr. Challa Dhanunjaya Naidu
Director	Nageshwa Rao
General Secretary	Dr. Sarath Kumar
Academic staff	249
Students	6,300
Undergraduates	4,320
Postgraduates	540
Other students	1,440a
Location	Hyderabad, Telangana
Campus	Urban 21 acres (8.5 ha)(Total campus)
Language	English
Alumni	VNRAlums
Affiliations	UGC NAAC NBA AICTE JNTUH
Website	vnrvjiet.ac.in
Location in India

Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNRVJIET) is an engineering college in Hyderabad, India recognized by All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) and affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. It is often referred to as VNR College or Vignana Jyothi Engineering College or VNRVJIET.

As of July 2016, the institute's intake is 249 students towards B.Tech. program, 64 towards its M.Tech. program and 83 towards its Polytechnic program (from 2009), with 24 dedicated faculty

All the undergraduate programs in the institute are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) New Delhi, since 2008. The institute has been conferred "Autonomous" status by its parent university – Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad. The institute has been selected under the TEQIP funding scheme. The UGC inspection team visited the campus in 2012 and awarded "Autonomous" status. In 2012, NAAC accredited the institute with A Grade (3.73/4). In 2016, the Institute was awarded 'College with Potential for Excellence' by the UGC New Delhi. Recently, VNRVJIET has been awarded A++ Grade (3.40/4)by NAAC in its second cycle of accreditation.

The institute is governed by a Governing council with representatives from Vignana Jyothi Society, AICTE, Government of Telangana, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and experts from industry and academia. The council meets at least once in 12 months.

History

It was established in 1995 by a registered non-profit education society "Vignana Jyothi". The institute started primarily as an undergraduate college offering coursework towards a B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) degree. In 2003, the institute started offering coursework towards M.Tech. (Master of Technology) degree.

ECE, departments have been recognized as research centers by JNTU Hyderabad.

Bird's eye view of VNR VJIET

Administration

Departments

The institute is divided into corresponding departments and is headed by a department head:

Research and Consultancy Center

RCC is headed by Dr. G. Ramesh Chandra, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The labs in the research and consultancy center are:

• Mobile Vision application.
• RFID and WSN application
• Software application
• Virtual reality and real time computing
• 3D Motions and servo-drive
• Virtual instrumentation
• Environmental engineering
• Computer aided design
• Robotics
• Embedded systems
• VLSI
• Power electronics
• Android applications

Rankings

VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology was ranked in the rank band of 101-150 among engineering institutions in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018.^[3]

Admissions

Building resources

Student Chapters

The institute has some active student chapters involved in certain activities. The following are the active student chapters:

Student Activity Center

Student Activity Center, most commonly referred to as SAC is a place . It is exclusively for the students of college and no faculty is allowed except for some faculty coordinators. The ground floor of SAC is used as a platform for students' performances (Amphi Theater). The first and second floors accommodate the student chapters like IEEE, ISTE, IETE, ISOI, CSI, VLSI, SAE, Music Club (Crescendo), Choreo Club (Live Wire), Orators club (Stentorian), Readers Club (Rainbow), etc. Third floor is an open gallery to accommodate around 300 students for practice and common activities.

CRESCENDO

The official music club of VNR VJIET, CRESCENDO formed in the year 2002 by Prashanth Narayan and Ramakrishna kalicharan with the prime motto of gathering people passionate about making music and jamming for a few hours at the college . Earlier, students used to get their instruments back from their homes and even by rental to practice at college. Later, the college management was impressed with the growth and the increasing number of people interested in joining the club and sanctioned few instruments for the club. The club was successful in gathering people together from the batches entering into and even the ones leaving after their graduation. The club has always been active participating in the cultural activities running up the year such as SINTILLASHUNZ,^[4] VECTOR, CONVERGENCE at VNRVJIET . The club has been part of the music competitions at SAARANG, one of the largest student-organised cultural and social festival at IIT-MADRAS, for about 14 years by now. CRESCENDO, has all around 25 original musical compositions in Telugu, Hindi and English languages. Crescendo being mostly a light music band has musical influences from varied genres like Carnatic classial, Bollywood music, Progressive rock and artists like A R RAHMAN, ILAIYARAAJA, AGAM, MOTHERJANE, INDIAN OCEAN and many more.

Performance visuals

Winners at the CBIT Band Competition

VJ TEATRO

Logo

VJ TEATRO is the official short film club of VNR VJIET. One of the best short films clubs in the South India and it is well known for its short films like Devuda, Swachh VNR, The First Meet, A Phone Call, and How i met myself, among others. In 2015–16 academic year almost 250 students have reported for the auditions. In simpler words it is the pride of VNR VJIET to have a club like that running with the tag line "SHOOT IT. LOVE IT".

Official link: https://www.facebook.com/vjteatro/?fref=ts

Athletics

The institute has a sports complex for use of students. It features a hardwood court for playing basketball or badminton, dedicated rooms for table tennis, cue sports, carroms, chess, gym with showers and locker (cabinet). The college is equipped with a common football and cricket ground, a basketball court, volleyball court. The institute students have won many national events.

Library

The library is located in the ground floor of Vellanki Rama Rao Bhavan having a plinth area of 1140 sq. m. The library holds over 9000 titles, 50,619 books, 152 national journals and 782 international journals (including online journals) and 1750 audio-visual materials. There are 1867 back volumes of the important journals in bound form. The students have access to 32 magazines and 8 newspapers (6-English, 2-Telugu).

The library is fully automated with Libsys 4.0 version and all the collection of library can be browsed with in the college LAN. The following services are provided for the students and staff:

• Current awareness service
• Book reservation service
• Help desk for spot queries
• Guidance at digital library
• Research help for students on particular topics
• Periodical content page service
• General book bank for students
• eBooks and eJournals on CD
• Reference section

The library created a record of single day transactions by reaching a number of (both lending and getting back) 2381 books on 17 December 2012.

Career Vision Promotion Centre

In order to encourage the students to learn through career vision approach, the institute has implemented a Career Vision Promotion Centre. It is a centralised comprehensive resource to assist all the students of the institute with their career management needs. The centre is a full function career planning centre serving all students from first year through graduation. The centre is maintained by the library and information resource centre.

Campus Network Control Centre

Under the department of Information Technology, the Campus Network Control Centre has been established at a cost of 2 lakh Rupees.

The old network has been totally revamped. The new network has around 104+ external switches, 118+ wireless access ports and several network software to safeguard network. A dedicated 1 Mbit/s line has been leased to provide internet facility to the labs, research centre and around the campus. The centre also handles internet facilities of hostels and MBA institute.

Extra-curricular and co-curricular activities

The ECA/CCA system is institutionalized by the establishment of several committees. The senior faculty members of the institute act as chief co-ordinators for the following committees:

• Event co-ordination and management committee
• Committee for literary activities
• Committee for music activities
• Committee for performing arts
• Committee for creative arts
• Editorial board for Vignana Vahini (annual magazine)
• Editorial board for Vignana Vartha (quarterly newsletter)

Cultural and Magazine Committee

The Cultural and Magazine Committee was established in 2006. The committee's responsibilities include conducting the annual three-day cultural event SINTILLASHUNZ, organizing teams to participate in cultural and technical competitions throughout the country, conduct the Cultural and Annual Day and meet regularly to help in all-round development of the students and give a platform for creative outlet.

References

External links

• VNR VJIET Official Web Site.
• VNRVJIET Official YouTube Channel
• VNR VJIET Alumni Association.