Dr. Adusumalli Balaji is a distinguished academician and able administrator with more than 11 years of experience. He has grown from the ranks right here in the institute, starting his teaching career as Lecturer in the year 2012. Before assuming the position of the HOD, he was the Assistant Professor at Rise Group of Engineering Colleges, Ongole. He obtained his Ph.D. from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, and his Master's Degree from Bharath University, Chennai. He has published 21 research papers in various reputed National and International journals, besides a couple of patents to his credit. In his impressive teaching and administrative career, he has consistently promoted innovative teaching practices and imaginative thinking. He has endeared himself to his students and colleagues alike through his affable nature and empathetic leadership style. He has attended 20 Workshops.

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Being a HOD of Chalapathi Institute of Engineering & Technology, what are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

We want to observe regular attendance whether the student is properly coming to the college or not. We want to inform the parents and also monthly attendance will be displayed for every month so that if the student is in the regularity mode then his performance will automatically be good. 

How do you tend to establish healthy relations with the students and fellow faculty?

Healthy relations can be maintained between the students and fellow faculty through daily interaction between them. A faculty meeting will be conducted every week to identify the problems within the department. And also, every month, we conduct a CRC meeting so that the CRs will tell the problems happening in the class and also on the part of academics whether the syllabus is going in the right manner or not.

How do you try to bring in a practical approach toward subjects and make them industry-oriented?

We continuously conduct workshops and webinars so that all the students will have the minimum knowledge and they will meet the industry needs.

What are the best practices offered by the department to the students which help them gain the necessary skills?

The best practices that will be offered by the department to students will help them gain the necessary skills. Every week on Saturday we conduct a programming club. In the updated technology program, students have to write on their own in two to three different programming languages. If you give a question on C programming, the same question you have to write in Java and Python also so that they can be updated and it will be matched to the industry need. So this is one of the best practices for students to meet the industry requirements.

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How do you strategize the curriculum and how often does it get updated to make it befitting for the students?

Each and every year there will be a BOS meeting, a Board of Studies meeting. In that meeting, we will discuss the curriculum and if there is any upgradation required towards the technologies, we automatically modify the curriculum so that it will be benefited to the students and to meet the industry needs.

What are your views upon the placements and higher education about the students from your department or How does your department prepare students for higher education?

In the view of placements and education of the students, the department always supports both placements and higher education. There will be a CRT campus recruitment training within the college and whenever the companies come to the college, we will provide the campus specific training so that the students will able to perform very well in the examinations in and also higher education. So in our college we will support the higher education by giving GRE or GATE training.

Do you have any extracurricular activities/ programs to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to real-world challenges?

There are both curricular and Co-curricular activities that will be actively participated by the students and we have CSC techniques. It is completely an extracurricular activity. Though all the students in the CSC will take part actively in order to fulfill the requirements. The challenges that will be faced for uplifting the latest educational policy. So based on the upgrading technologies we will always modify the syllabus and also we will conduct the student specific seminars and webinars from the industry oriented persons.

When you came to the college, what was your vision and how are you trying to achieve the same?

The vision of the college and the vision of the department is to uplift the student's technologies to meet the industry needs.

How does the department/ college/University enhance the skills of the faculty and prepare them according to the industry standards?

We always connect the FDP programs for the faculty so that the faculty is also ready to meet the industry needs.

What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from the curriculum to train/ teach the students?

So whenever there are webinars and seminars in the talk most universities, our faculty will go to the universities and make the curriculum ready so that the same curriculum will be included in our college.

What do you see the department’s/ college’s greatest strengths and how can it be enhanced?

Department’s and college’s greatest strength is the students and their best practices will be applied to those.

What valuable advice would you like to the students for them to have a prosperous career ahead?

I would like to suggest students always be good learners so that they will be able to work with the growing industrial needs and they, in turn, will become a good resource for the institute.