Events / Achievements

Happy to share that MSME Incubator of Vishnu Institute of Technology received Funding for Aerator Monitoring System (AMS) Project from MSME which is sanctioned for 10Lakhs. The details of MSME project are given below. Ref.no: INC23CAP027060 Student Names: 1. Prayaga Sita Ratna Shanmukh 2.Satya Rishitha Narra 3.Chunduri Udaya Kavya Sri 4.Paipuri Puja Ramya Sai Title of Idea- Aerator Monitoring System(AMS) Mentors: Dr.V S N NARASIMHA RAJU, Associate Professor of EEE, Mr.P. NAVEEN, Associate Professor of EEE

   

Department of Electrical Engineering has organized an industrial visit 220KV Undi Substation for II B.TECH students. 45 students along with 2 faculty members visited the Place.

Following sections of the Industry have been visited.

1. 220kV Bus
2. 400kV Bus
3. Auxiliary Substation
4. Battery room
5. Control room

The main objective of this visit was to make our students familiar with the operation and functions of various substation equipments. The team of Engineer received us at the entrance and showed their premises by giving a briefintroduction about the substation. We were divided into two groups of students each group was led by TRANSCO officials. We sawdifferent parts of the substation like lightning arrester, Transformer, Isolator, Circuit Breaker etc.

Students had a great interactive session of their doubts with working engineers during the visit. The visit came to end by a interactive session conducted by Transco members Mr.G.Srininvasarao, A.E.andMr.P.Srinivasarao, A.Efor solving the doubts raised by the students.

   

Day 1:

ICSSES 2024 Inauguration and Keynote Addresses The inaugural day of ICSSES 2024 commenced with a serene Prayer Song performed by students, setting a harmonious tone for the event. Prof. Bhanupriya, the Moderator, welcomed the gathering, and Dr. R V D Rama Rao, the Organizing Chair, initiated the proceedings with a warm welcome.

The Presidential Address by Dr. M Venu, the Principal of VITB, highlighted the significance of the conference. Dr. D Suryanarayana, the Director of VITB, delivered a Felicitation Address, acknowledging the collaborative efforts that made the event possible.

The day's highlight was the insightful Chief Guest Addresses. Dr. Akbar Ahmad, an International Academic Consultant, and Visiting Professor from Britts Imperial College University, Dubai, shared valuable perspectives. Dr. V Karthikeyan, Associate Professor at NIT Calicut, Kerala, India, provided another enriching address.

Dr. Raju Aedla, Dean R&D at SVES, expressed appreciation, and a Souvenir Release by the dignitaries was followed by a captivating Virtual Photo Session. The day concluded with a Vote of Thanks from Dr. S. Pragaspathy, the Convener of ICSSES 2024.

Day 2:

Tracks, Addresses, and Reflections The second day of ICSSES 2024 saw a continuation of the conference's momentum. Dr. R V D Rama Rao, in his second address as Organizing Chair, set the stage for another day of enriching discussions.

Chief Guest Address by Dr. B. Chitti Babu from PV Research Laboratory, IIIT D&M, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, added depth to the academic discourse. Dr. S. Pragaspathy, the Convener, provided insights into the conference proceedings. Addresses from Dr. M Venu, the Principal, and Dr. D. Suryanarayana, the Director of VITB, enriched the participants with institutional perspectives. The Feedback session allowed participants to share their thoughts, enhancing the collaborative spirit.

A Virtual Photo Session captured the essence of the event, providing visual memories. The conference concluded with a gracious Vote of Thanks from Dr. I. Kasireddy, the Convener of ICSSES 2024, expressing gratitude to all participants and contributors for making the event a success.

Additional Information:

We have received an overwhelming response with 94 full-length technical papers submitted for review. After thorough scrutiny by the review & editorial team, 35 papers have been accepted for oral presentation. Our publishing partner is Institute of Physics Conference Series (IOP): -Earth & Environmental Science (Scopus Indexed). Alongside, we have been displaying the technical posters (Poster Presentation) of some of the submitted papers, as recommended by the reviewing & editorial team.

   

Students from department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering are winners of Third Prize (Rs. 10,000/-) competing with projects from IITs and NITS in Prestigious INAE- SERB- GITAM YOUTH CONCLAVE 2023.

Mentor: Dr. V S N NARASIMHA RAJU

The following students are participated in MODEL PROJECT EXHIBITION EVENT conducted as part of the 6th INAE-SERB-GITAM YOUTH CONCLAVE on 3rd& 4thNov, 2023 at GITAM University, Visakhapatnam.

1.Mr.Kaza Gowtham Siddharth -22PA1A0225

2.Mr. Pasupuleti Veera Venkata Chaitanya -20PA1A0275

3.Mr.N Siva Sankara Vara Prasad Naik -21PA5A0217

4.Mr.Mukkavalli Sai Srinivas -22PA1A0243

   

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has organised a guest lecture on "real-time applications in IoT" on 18-08-2023. The resource person was Mr. Guruprasad Ramarao, General Manager-Marketing, Electrohms. Pvt. Ltd. He shared his Industrial expertise and inspired the students to launch their own businesses.The target audience for the guest lecture was third-year B. Tech students and the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

   

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Vishnu Institute of Technology is excited to announce that it will provide Technical Consultancy Support for SPREN ENERGY (P) LTD, Hyderabad, in the development of a Solar Panel Cleaning Machine. The Consultancy Agreement has been signed, and the project, with a sanctioned amount of Rs. 90,000, will be initiated shortly.

Mr. B. N. Ch. V. Chakravarthi, Associate Professor of EEE, will serve as the Principal Investigator. The project is set to be completed in 45 days, contributing to the advancement of renewable energy solutions.

   

The Researchers Day event organized by the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering was successfully held on 27/06/2023. The event aimed to promote a research culture, foster collaboration, and provide a platform for knowledge exchange and skill development

Convener: Dr.R.V.D.Rama Rao, Professor& HOD
ProgramCoordinator: Dr. Idamakanti Kasireddy, Associate Professor

Chief Guest profile:

Dr. T. Ramesh
DepartmentofElectrical Engineering,
NationalInstituteof Technology,Tadepalligudem, AP

   

B.Tech Third Year Students of Electrical Engineering went for an educational tour to visit Dr.Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Plant (APGENCO) in Ibrahimpatnam;Vijayawada, 77 students along with 4 faculty members visited the Place on 20th, 21st April, 2023.

During the visit the students observed various processing units such as Coal Handling Station, Boilers, conservator, Economizer, Dust Collectors and Bag Filters, Air Preheaters, turbine unit, Generator with Exciter and control Board Room, Coaling tower

Faculty Coordinators:

Mr.N.Veeraiah, Mr.Ch.Srinivasarao, Dr.S.Pragaspathy & Mr.N H V Pavan Kumar

   

Best Poster Award is awarded to Dr. V S N NarasimhaRaju, Associate Professor, EEE, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram at "Global Tech Summit 2023" held on 16-17 Feb in Vishakhapatnam for startup idea "Aerator Monitering System"

   

Blue Wingler WON Best Elevator Pitch Award

The Bluewingler, a team from Vishnu institute of Technology WON Best Elevator Pitch and received Rs. 25000/- Prize money in the TiE Grad Business Idea Competition-TiE Hyderabad Chapter Finals held on on 05th April 2023 at The Botanika Club, THE BOTANIKA, Jayabheri Enclave, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032. The competition had 10 teams/startups from various institutions. One team from Vishnu Institute of Technology was shortlisted from Vishnu Institute of Technology accompanied by faculty members Dr. V S N Narasimha Raju (EEE), Mr. B Chakravarthy (EEE), and Mr. Mahaboob Hussain (CSE), Faculty Champion, TiE Hyderabad.

Team Details:

"BLUEWINGLER is a one stop destination for all the requirements in water distribution for commercial, residential and agricultural needs. It mainly controls the water losses and detects the leakages. It also provides the real time data and stores for the future estimation"

This idea was pitched by Mr. S. Sai Kumar and S. Sandeep Kumar along and the Elevator pitch was given by S. Sri Hemambica, EEE.

EventDetails:

Prof. Katta Narsimha Reddy, Vice Chancellor, JNTU Hyderabad and Prof. D Ravinder, ViceChancellor,Osmania University attended the program and presented the awards to the winners.

   

Department of Electrical& Electronics Engineering has organized an industrial visit at Hitech Print Systems Limited, Pedaavitapalli (v) for 2nd year students. 72 students along with 4 faculty members visited the Place on 24/03/2023, & 25/03/2023

All students reached Hitech Print Systems Limited, Pedaavitapalli Village by 10.00 AM on 24/03/2023 & 25/03/2023 along with faculty coordinators. The students were guided to the basic knowledge of Printing machinery, OMR sheet, barcode printing & other various machinery used in plant. They also bestowed students with details of quality of Paper printing, Books preparation. Answer booklets & all other colour coated papers printing. All students were divided into small batches of 10. Training supervisor from Hitech Print Systems Ltd accompanied students group and showed them control room and automated printing machines.

Faculty Coordinators:

Mr.Ch.Phani Kumar, Mr.P.Rajasekhar, Mr.P.Naveen & Mr.N.Pavan Kumar

   

Department of Electrical& Electronics Engineering has organized an industrial visit at Andhra Packages Private Limited, Pedaavitapalli (v) for 2nd year students. 72 students along with 4 faculty members visited the Place on 24-25 March 2023.

All students reached Andhra Packages Pvt Limited, Pedaavitapalli Village by 01.00 PM on 24/03/2023 & 25/03/2023 along with faculty coordinators. The students were guided to the basic knowledge of Paper cutting machine, paper rolling Machine, Preparation of 3layer, 5 layer & 7layer boxes using machinery, & Boxes folding using machinery used in plant. They also bestowed students with details of quality of Paper printing, Boxes preparation, printing on boxes & delivery to transportation. All students were divided into small batches of 10. Training supervisor from Andhra Packages Pvt Ltd accompanied students group and showed Quality testing laboratory of packing boxes.

Faculty Coordinators:

Mr.Ch.Phani Kumar, Mr.P.Rajasekhar, Mr.P.Naveen & Mr.N.Pavan Kumar

   

Institution of Engineers India (IEI) student chapter of the department of EEE, Vishnu Institute of Technology have organised "Engineers Day Event" on 15-09-2022 under the sponsorship of IEI. More than 100 Students have participated and won the prizes in various technical events like, project exhibition, paper presentation, Quiz, word puzzle, memory games etc.

   

Mr. V S N NARASIMHA RAJU has been awarded a doctorate in electrical engineering by National Institute of Technology, Trichy for his thesis entitled "A Novel Control Strategies For Enhancing The Performance of Grid Connected Hybrid PV/Battery and Wind/Battery Systems" under the guidance of Dr. M.Premalatha.

   

Energy Swaraj on essence of sustainability is organized by Sri Vishnu educational society by inviting Prof.Chetan Singh Solanki is an educator, researcher, innovator who is currently on unpaid leave from IIIT Bombay. Prof.Solanki has undertaken energy swaraj yatra through a solar bus for 11years until 2030.In the proposed event Prof.Solanki has addressed about CO2 emission, pollution and their after effect on climatic & environmental pattern.

Prof.Solanki, conveyed the importance of transmission towards the renewable sector and also added the adverse effect of conventional energy resources in the near future.

Professor also have given some mentors like AMG, i.e., Avoid Consumption of More energy, Minimize consumption of more energy and generate by own in our area. Various awareness regarding on solar energy, resources ongoing program, Projects and future development have been discussed and students were given with various links for their participation in the energy swaraj movement Finally, the students were witnessed the swaraj yatra bus and learnt a lot from the expert.

   

Department of Electrical Engineering has organized an industrial visit at Vennar Ceramics Private Limited, Perikigudem Village for 2 nd year students. 84 students along with 6 faculty members visited the Place on above Mention Date.

Vennar Ceramics Limited (VCL) was established in the year 1998 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of APCL in the year 2001. The plant is located at Perikigudem village of Mandavalli mandal in Krishna district. The company has the distinction of being the first gas- based power generating plant in India with a capacity of 2.7 Megawatts. The 3000 KW rated engine has been sourced from Wartsila of Sweden and the generator from A.B.B., France.

Later on due to nonavailability of natural gas the company is forced to stop producing power and in the year 2011 the company established a joint venture with Kajaria Ceramics Ltd for production of Wall Tiles with an investment of more than Rs 70 crore. The plant was successfully comissioned in record time and presently producing more than 7,500 SQMTS per day.

Outcome of the Event

All students reached Vennar Ceramics Private Limited, Perikigudem Village by 9.30 AM on 26/04/2022 along with faculty coordinators. The students were guided to the basic knowledge of manufacturing units and substations. They also bestowed students with details of quality of Tiles manufacturing, substation and control room of Vennar Ceramics Private Limited, Perikigudem Village All students were divided into small batches of 10. Training supervisor from Vennar Ceramics Private Limited, Perikigudem Village accompanied students group and showed them control room and automated printing machine

Faculty Coordinators:

Dr.S.Pragaspathy, Mr.Ch.Phani Kumar, & Mr.P.Ravi Mr.P.Naveen, Mr.B.Swamy, & Mr.N.Pavan Kumar.

   

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering organized CSIR Sponsored Two Day National Level Seminar on "Research Perspectives and Technology Boom in Zero Emission Vehicles - Global Trends and Indian Status" on 29th and 30th April 2022. Main objective of this seminar is to provide wide knowledge to the faculty members, researchers, students and stakeholders on the needs, importance, contemporary issues, innovation, mission, target and scope of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) in India and Worldwide as well. In India, considering the demand for fuels and also the aftereffect owing to the consumption of conventional sources of energies may have the destruction for the next generation with no doubts. In this program, the detailed views on the challenges in research, availed job opportunity from the renewable based ZEVs and future targets, role of advanced power converters in application to ZEVs, discussion on similar concepts in associated areas related to reliability and advancement of technology are to be addressed by the subject experts. Total number of participation is 75, which includes 25 Faculty and 50 students from different colleges across the country.

Organizing Secretary

Dr. S. Pragaspathy

Coordinators

Mr. P. Naveen, Mrs. I.V.V. Vijetha, Mr. N. Veeraiah

   

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has organized a seminar on "GATE 2023 AWARENESS PROGRAM" On 30th April 2022. The speaker was invited from the ACE academy, Hyderabad. This seminar explores the importance of GATE exam. A total of 450 participants were participated from ECE, Civil, Mechanical and EEE departments of VIT Bhimavaram.

Convenor : Dr. RVD Rama Rao
Coordinator : Dr. I Kasireddy

   

Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Vishnu Institute of Technology has organized a Two-week workshop on "Realtime Experience on IoT Technologies" from 15th April to 28th April and trained 135 students from second year EEE and as a outcome of that a project expo was conducted.

   

Energy is the driving power behind all economic activities of a country. Subsequently, the ever-increasing populace and associated energy requirements to meet the increasing living standard has become a matter of great apprehension. In particular, the availability of appropriate and sufficient energy resources and off course the development of environmental friendly utilization technologies and the cost of energy have been extremely important factors demanding the immediate attention. The aim of this particular AICTE/ISTE sponsored Induction/Orientation program conducted on 01-07th February 2022 is to convey the research skills to the faculty mentors and practicing engineers to improve the quality of research in the area of green energy and the technology behind grid integration. A total of 100 participants have joined and this program finally brought a positive renovation among the faculty members towards research work and enables the participants to develop competence in understanding recent advances in the proposed area.

Coordinators :

Dr. R.V.D. Rama Rao
Dr. S. Pragaspathy
Mr. Ch. Phani Kumar
Mr. N.S.D. Prakash Korlepara

   

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Vishnu Institute of Technology in collaboration with Centre for Continuing Education, NIT Warangal has Organized 5 Day Online Faculty Development Program on "Potential research trends in advanced energy conversion technologies and applications" from 6th December 2021 to 10th December 2021.

The program was inaugurated in the presence of Prof. N. V. Ramana Rao (Director - NIT Warangal), Dr. D. Suryanarayana (Principal& Director - Vishnu Institute of Technology Bhimavaram), Prof. M. Sailaja Kumari (Head-Electrical Engineering Department - NIT Warangal) and Dr. R. V. D. Rama Rao (Head - Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Vishnu Institute of Technology Bhimavaram). The speakers and experts were invited from the Central Institutes and Industries. The proposed FDP creates a virtual platform to explore the knowledge in the area of electric vehicles, renewable energy sources and advanced power electronic converters etc. A total of 50 participants were enrolled from different regions of the country. The organizing team includes Dr. B. L. Narasimharaju (NIT Warangal),Dr. I. Kasireddy (VIT Bhimavaram) and Dr. S. Pragaspathy (VIT Bhimavaram).

   

The most auspicious day for the team Blue Leo from VISHNU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY won the prestigious award CHATTRA VISHWAKARMA AWARD 2020 from the honorable central educational minister Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan held on 05 September 2021 at AICTE Headquarters, New Delhi.

   

Mr. KesireddyBharghav, IV EEE and Mr. Sai TejaGrandhi, IV ECE has WON I PRIZE in Innovation Expo for their Rescue Drone project in E-Summit'21 held at IIT Bhubaneswar during 26th -29th March 2021 online.

E-Summit is a three day event, started as an initiative of the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bhubaneswar with the theme Reign of Resilience. Our students has participated in Innovation Expo which is an event that focuses on boosting innovative entrepreneurship and allows participants to showcase their project/idea. Our students competed in 2 rounds. In Round-1, our team has submitted a graphical abstract of the innovation and qualified. Round-2 is held online with our graphical abstract and a Table-top plant to the judges in Round-2. Overall, 1.2K participants registered in this E-Summit-21 in various events from different institutes like IIT Delhi, IIT Bhubaneswar, Symbiosis- Noida, GHRCE Nagapur and etc.

   

The setting of appropriate reference style of journal manually is not easy and it is very tedious task. If MENDELEY PLUGIN is added to Microsoft Word, in the process of rewriting the lines in content making, it will automatically updates the reference number and reference position. In MENDELEY once we add the paper to library and click the paper, the entire data is absorbed from PDF and adjusted according to our requirement without mistakes and also we can customize our own reference style. The session will eye opens on the clarity of using MENDELEY for our research.

Resource Person: V S N NARASIMHA RAJU

   

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Vishnu Institute Of Technology, has organized a Five Day online Faculty Development Program on "RECENT TRENDS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING" from 8th June 2020 to 12th June 2020.The registered participants to the FDP were around 1350 from 23 different states across the country and few from other countries. The FDP was carried out in MICROSOFT TEAMS meeting App and was organized by Mr. P.Naveen, Assoc.prof, EEE Dept, VITB; Mr.V. SuryaManoj, Asst.Prof, EEE Dept, VITB. The daily attendees to the FDP are on an average of 170 to 200 participants on Microsoft Teams App and an average of 500-600 viewers on YOUTUBE live.

The Speakers for the five days are :

• 1.Dr. Siddhartha Panda, Professor,Veer Surendra Sai University College Of Technology, Odisha on "Improved and Hybrid Optimization Techniques for Power System Control".
• 2.Dr.Ch.V.V.S.Bhaskara Reddy, Professor, Andhra University, Vishakapatnam on "Voltage Stability : Monitoring and Control".
• 3.Dr.Subhransu sekhar Dash, Professor & HOD, Govt. college of Engineering, Keonjhar, Odisha on "Role of Renewable Energy in Smart Grid".
• 4.Dr.Satish kumar P, Assoc.Professor, Osmania University, Hyderabad on "Space Vector PWM and Multi Level Inveter".
• 5.Dr.K.Vijay Kumar, Professor & HOD, SRM University, Chennai on "Power Converters for Smart Grid Applications".

   

The main objective of this visit was to make our students familiar with the operation and functions of various substation equipments. The team of Engineer received us at the entrance and showed their premises by giving a brief introduction about the substation. We were divided into two groups of students each group was led by TRANSCO officials. We saw different parts of the substation like lightning arrester, Transformer, Isolator, Circuit Breaker etc. Students had a great interactive session of their doubts with working engineers during the visit. The visit came to end by a interactive session conducted by Transco members Mr.G.Srininvasarao, A.E.and Mr.P.Srinivasarao, A.E for solving the doubts raised by the students.

Outcome of the Event

All students reached 220KV Undi Substation by 10.30 AM on 25/02/2020 along with faculty coordinators. The students were guided to the basic knowledge of high voltage transmission substations and its difference from other transmission and distribution substations. They also bestowed students with details of transmission and distribution real time data of TRANSCO. All students were divided into small batches of 25. Training supervisor from 220KV Undi Substation Substation accompanied students group and showed them control room and Switchyard.

   

Department of Electrical Engineering has organized an industrial visit at Delta Paper Mills Pvt Ltd, Vendra for 2nd year students. 40 students along with 3 faculty members visited the Place on 31/01/2020.

Delta Paper Mills Limited has recently commissioned a new Captive Power Plant to meet its power requirement as well as the Steam requirement for the process. The Power Plant is a full-fledged modern unit having flexibility to use multiple fuels like High grade (Imported) or Low grade (Indigenous) Coals and / or Rise Husk and/or Natural Gas.

The main objective of this visit was to make our students familiar with the operation and functions of various Quality Writing and Printing Papers with VIRGIN PULP equipments. The team of Engineer received us at the entrance and showed their premises by giving a brief introduction about the manufacturing Unit. We were divided into two groups of students each group was led by Delta officials. We saw different parts of the Plant like lightning arrester, Transformer, Isolator, Circuit Breaker, Power Plant, boiler, chimney, Ash Handling System & control room etc.

Students had a great interactive session of their doubts with working engineers during the visit. The visit came to end by a interactive session conducted by Delta members Mr. P.Gopala Raju, G.M.and Mr. T.D.V.Siva Prasad, A.G.M for solving the doubts raised by the students.

   

A team of Smart Solar Panel Cleaning Machine of III year EEE won cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- for their innovation to clean the solar panels using Arduino, gear motors, and nylon mixed fiber brush in Dr.Kalam Innovation festival Organised by Join for Development Foundation & Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram on 27th& 28th February 2020.

A team of Multipurpose agricultural drone of ECE won cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- for their innovation in drones with 7 different systems which could be attached to the drone and used for spreading, spraying, seeding, health assessment of crop, delivery, soil moisture and as load carrying vehicle in Dr.Kalam Innovation festival Organised by Join for Development Foundation & Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram on 27th& 28th February 2020.

   

QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, recognized the engineering students from Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh as the winner of the ninth edition of "Ingenium", a global initiative aimed at encouraging innovation and imagination amongst engineering students.

The projects presented at Ingenium final were evaluated based on innovation, relevance to industry and society, and marketability by eminent jury members. The panel of judges included Parag Marathe, Executive-Engineer GE Power & Site Leader Hyderabad Technology Center, GE, Ashish Dugar, Chief Technology Officer, MAN Truck & Bus India Pvt. Ltd., and Venugopalan C. V., Chief Engineer, QuEST Global.

The budding engineers from India and the UK showcased projects across Software & Digital, Power, Healthcare, Automotive, Embedded & Electronics and Mechanical streams and focused on solving the various challenges around digital transformation and Industry 4.0. The winning team consisting of Gubbala Phani Chandra, Buddarapu Sai Rakesh Kadali, Sai Tarun and Mahankali Prem Kumar from Vishnu Institute of Technology demonstrated an original way to sort out issues caused during export of shrimps and offer digitization solutions for proper monitoring and temperature maintenance.

   

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering organized CSIR sponsored Two Day National Level Seminar on "Innovations, Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Frameworks of Renewable Energy System for the Future India" on 30th & 31st August 2019. Main objective of this seminar is to provide wide knowledge to the faculty members, researchers, students and stakeholders on the needs, importance, contemporary issues, innovation, mission, target and scope of renewable energy in India, on defending the energy requirements for the future. In this program, the detailed views on the challenges in research, availed job opportunity from the renewable developments and future targets, role of advanced power converters in application to renewable energy, discussion on similar concepts in renewable systems related to reliability and advancement of technology are to be addressed by the subject experts. Total number of participation is 60, which includes 20 Faculty from 12 different colleges, 20 students from IEI student chapter and 20 participants from Electrical & Electronics Department.

   

Solar Power Plus Solutions team at Silicon Valey, California, United States - Nominated for TYE (TiE Young Entrepreneurs) Global University Pitchfest for 2019 & TiE Con 2019 - Santa Clara (Silicon Valey), California, US - 09th to 11th May 2019

A team of two members Mr P Prasanna Kumar, IV EEE student (CTO, SP+) and Mr S Mahaboob Hussain, Asst. Prof, CSE (In-charge EDC & Faculty Mentor TiE Hyderabad) participated in TYE University Global Competition 2019 held at TiE Global HQ, Santa Clara, California, United States during 09th May 2019 to 11th May 2019. This team was nominated by TiE Amaravati on this global stage for winning the overall championship in TiE Business Idea Competition earlier on 09th March 2019 at Hyderabad.

Overall 17 teams have participated from all over the world in the TYE University Business Idea Competition. Mr Prasanna Kumar (CTO, SP+) pitched about the Solar Power Plus Solutions Business model/idea along with the value proposition/product market fit, differentiation from the competition and operational/execution approach, leadership/teamwork, financial viability/returns.

Participations:
Team SP+ participated in the Startup Bootcamp where Educational & Coaching Session offered by TiE Silicon Valley instructors (and serial entrepreneurs). Attended a session by Dr Naeem Zafar (Serial Entrepreneurs, Professor of the Practice & Lecturer, University of California Berkeley & Brown University) and Raj Jaswa, serial Entrepreneur and Professor at IIT, Bombay.

This team also invited and participated in TiE Con 2019 which is the Worlds largest entrepreneurship conference by TiE Global Silicon Valley Chapter at Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California held on 10th and 11th May 2019. Nearly, 1500+ Entrepreneurs, Investors and CEOs of several companies in Silicon Valley and all over the world attended this conference. Also, got an opportunity to participate in the youth track specifically for young entrepreneurs. It's a showcase of several young children, as well as high schoolers who have formed their startups.

Achievements:
This SP+ Solutions team will be receiving $1000 credits for Amazon Web Service and $1000 credits for Microsoft Azure for the most emerging start-up idea. Mr Steve Lucas, CEO, Mareto, ADOBE presented this team with his personally signed book "Engage to Win- Steve Lucas" in this event.

Tour visit:
This team visited "Stanford University" - one of the world's leading teaching and research institutions in the world on 11th May 2019 along with Dr Paul Lopez, President, TiE Atlanta, Ms Mohini Suchanti, Program Manager at TiE Global and other TiE charter members and directors arranged by Mr Animesh Koratana, Scholar of Computer Science, Stanford University. Explored various departments, the first Google Server, HP Garage and Solar Car Project and Stanford's Entrepreneur cell in the campus.

   

Entrepreneurship Development Cell is happy to inform that Solar Power Plus (SP+) Solutions formerly known as Team 8 won Overall championship jointly with BITS Pilani - Hyderabad inThe GRAND Finale of TiE GRAD Business Idea Tournament 2018-19 held on 9th March 2019 at Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad. Winners received the Championship award and a cash prize of Three Lakhs from TiE by Mr. Suresh Reddy, TiE President, Mr. Subbaraju Pericherla, Tie Board member & Program Chair, in presence of Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS and Shri J A Chowdary, IT Advisor to the chief minister, AP.

Dr. Dasika Suryanarayana, Principal & Director of Vishnu Institute of Technology Bhimavaram said, TiE announced the joint winners of 2ndedition of TiE Business Idea Grand Finale Tournament by Solar Power Plus Solutions for building an automated solar panel cleaning Technology with IoT technology and through an mobile app to control the board of our Institute along with Vinan Labs a team from Bits Pilani Hyderabad for designing HOMA Robot for reducing the infections by cleaning Hospitals.

Start-up Name: Solar Power Plus (SP+) Solutions

Product: Solar Panel Automated Cleaning Ecosystem (SPACE)

Faculty Mentor: Mr. BNCHV Chakravarthi, Asst. Prof EEE
Department : Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Team Members:

1. T. Harini (CEO) - IV EEE (15PA1A0293)
2. S. D. V. Prasad (Co- Founder, R&D)- IV EEE (16PA5A0226)
3. P. Prasanna Kumar (CTO) - IV EEE (16PA5A0220)
4. D. Srikar (COO) - IV EEE (15PA1A0223)
5. M. Nagendra Babu (CFO) - IV EEE (16PA5A0217)
6. T. Narasimha Naidu (General Manager) - IV EEE (15PA1A0294)
7. T. Padmini (Asst. General Manager) - IV EEE (15PA1A0297)

In this competition, 16 colleges around 2600 students participated from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to compete for this championship. TiE granted three lakh prize money for the winners and also funds raised from the various investors at the venue. TiE also supporting these teams for establishing their own start-ups in the future. These teams also got a chance to participate in RISE competition which will be held in the USA soon.

Winners received the Championship award and cash prize from Mr. Suresh Reddy, TiE President, Mr. Subbaraju Pericherla, Tie Board member, Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS and Shri J A Chowdary, IT Advisor to the chief minister, AP.

The principal of the college congratulates the Entrepreneurship Development Cell In charge and TiE Faculty Champion Mr. Mahaboob Hussain, the faculty mentors Mr. Chakravarthy and Gayatri Sharman for their contribution.

   

II B.Tech EEE Branch

Department of Electrical Engineering has organized an industrial visit at Kamavarapukota 400kV Substation for 2nd year students. 90 students along with 5 faculty members visited the substation on 9/3/2019. The main objective of this visit is to make our students familiar with the operation and functions of various substation equipments. The team of Engineer received us at the entrance and showed their premises by giving a brief introduction about the substation. We were divided into two groups of students each group was led by TRANSCO officials. They saw different parts of the substation like lightning arrester, Transformer, Isolator, Circuit Breaker etc. Students had a great interactive session of their doubts with working engineers during the visit. The visit came to end by an interactive session conducted by Transco members Mr. G.Srininvasarao, A.E. and Mr. P.Srinivasarao, A.E for solving the doubts raised by the students.

III B.Tech EEE Branch

B.Tech Third Year Students of Electrical Engineering went for an Industrial visit to Dr.Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Plant (Apgenco) in Ibrahimpatnam, Vijayawada on 16th February, 2019. Dr.Narla Tata Rao Thermal Power Station (Vijayawada Thermal Power Station) complex consists of four stages.TPS Stage-I, II, III & IV has Installed capacity is 1860.0 MW (6x210 MW+ 1 x 600MW). During the visit the students observed various processing units such as Coal Handling Station, Boilers, conservator, Economizer, Dust Collectors and Bag Filters, Air Preheaters, turbine unit, Generator with Exciter and control Board Room.

The power plant is categorized into 4 houses based on its functioning. At first they visited coal storage and coal handling station. In the second stage they visited coal pulverization equipment. The third stage consists of a set of three parts, each containing a low pressure, high pressure turbines coupled with an alternator and each has generating capacity of 210 MW. In the final stage they visited the cooling towers. At Last they visited the Unit control Board Room where the whole process is monitored by control board members and at the time of emergency they will inform the authorities concern.

A total of 45 students visited the above industry, accompanied by the Department faculties- Mr.P.Naveen, Mr.Ch.PhaniKumar and Mr.G.Jayaprasad.

   

The selected students of Entrepreneurial Ideation Event in collaboration with IIT Bhubaneswar, organised by Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) on 18 December 2018 were invited for final round at E-Summit'19 at IIT Bhubaneswar.

Our students WON I PRIZE in Entrepreneurial Ideation Event and II PRIZE in Pitch your Product Event with CASH PRIZES in E-Summit'19 held at IIT Bhubaneswar, during 18th to 20th January 2019. Also, participated in various events, workshops and explored The National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar along with the faculty mentor Mr. S. Mahaboob Hussain, Asst. Prof CSE & In-Charge ED Cell.

I Prize winners of Entrepreneurial Ideation Event are G. Siva Shankar (II CSE), S . Madhav Sai (II CSE) and P. Jagadeep Chowdary (II CSE).
II Prize winners of Product Pitch Event are K Srimanarayana (II CSE), M. Sumanth (II EEE), D. Sai Phani Chandra (I ECE).

   

The National Instruments (NI), a Centre of Excellence has been started by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering under the aegis of Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram in collaboration with National Instruments (NI). This centre was inaugurated on November 23rd, 2017 by our respected Chairman Shri. K. V. Vishnu Raju Garu. The NI LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) Academy was initiated to establish connections and communication between different departments to create interdisciplinary specializations. The centre aims at interdisciplinary research programs, scientific research projects, research relationships with other research centre's or distinguished researchers in collaboration with industry

OBJECTIVES:

• Conducting Training on LabVIEW software and related hardware to both students and Faculty of ECE, EEE and Mechanical engineering
• Transforms teaching - learning to Research and Development and industry collaboration
• Provide opportunities to integrate teaching, research and service
• Doing experiments beyond the curriculum
• Doing in-house real time projects
• Competing with strong engineering knowledge with globally challenging students of the premier institutes.
• Career development, Internship and Placement opportunity for the students in core engineering industries with help from NI Corporation.
• Conducting Faculty Development programmes, workshops, summer/winter courses, conferences.
• Enhance partnership between researchers, scientist to create advance technologies.

COURSE OUTLINE:

The course structure is framed such that it comprises of LabVIEW Core-1 and LabVIEW Core-2 courses. The entire course is to be conducted for the duration of 3 Years. The LabVIEW courses is planned to start when a student enters in the II Year of his/her B. Tech curriculum.

   

Hearty congratulations to the students of II EEE who have been associated with the erection and commissioning of 100kWp Solar Power Plant established on VIT Block-1.

The Chairman Sri. K. V. Vishnu Raju and Sri. M. Kamalakar Babu, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of NREDCAP presented the certificates to the participants in the presence of Dr. D. Suryanarayana, Principal, Vishnu Institute of Technology.