Dr. Yenda Srinivasa Rao is the Principal at Sri Sivani College of Engineering. Dr. Rao is a distinguished academician and admirable administrator. He did his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from V. R. Siddhartha Engineering College and M.E (Industrial Engineering) from Andhra University. He also obtained a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University. He has 20 years of Teaching and 4 years of Industrial Experience in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanical Maintenance respectively. He has guided several M. Tech and more number of B. Tech students for their projects. He has published about 25 papers in various National and International Journals/Conferences and participated in several Conferences/Workshops/FDPs. He received the Best Teacher award from JNTU, Kakinada in 2010.

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You have held key positions at education institutes throughout your professional career. What are the key factors that keep you connected with the education sector?

Actually, quality education is important for students and all others. The critical factors I found in my career include the recruitment of qualified faculty members, student attendance, student results, and placement. 

As the principal of Sri Sivani College of Engineering, what is your leadership philosophy? How would you describe your leadership style?

We have certain guidelines from the AICTE & JNTU and also from our management, we have certain policies. According to the guidelines, first of all, what is the discipline of the student all faculty and all other community is important. The second one is punctuality. So, in the timely Conducting class works. In addition to that for the stakeholders like students, we are conducting guest lectures, we are conducting workshops, and we are conducting some cultural activities and sports for the students’ exposure.

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How do you strategize about the key programs and plans for the marketing and administration of your school?

Yes, actually Sri Sivani College of Engineering is located in Chilakapalem, which is a rural area. Most of the students come from a rural background, what they are going to see, first of all, they will enquire about faculty. We have a transport facility for our students. From their village to college and college to their village and also, we have hostel facilities for both boys and girls, around 600 members we can accommodate. So that it is also one of the factors they are looking for. The entire infrastructure is used for only a single college that will benefit, and also the atmosphere of greenery atmosphere for their inner peace, pleasant atmosphere is available for learning.

How does the curriculum of Sri Sivani College ensure the best practice of industry?

Yeah, actually our college is non autonomous college. We are affiliated with JNTU. So, our curriculum was framed by some experts, the industry people, and some academic people. Definitely, we are following that. That will be useful for our students and also it will be useful for the industry.

Any insights into how your university could be more welcoming to students of different races or economic backgrounds?

A fee Regulation Committee, Andhra Pradesh Fee Regulation Committee will fix the fee structure for every three years. For that, the colleges need to submit their accounts. Likewise, we also submitted and we have only a minimum fee structure so far up to 2022-2023 our college fee is Rs. 35,000 and from 2023-2024 again they revised it to Rs. 43,000 minimum. So, we are running the college for minimum fees only, which are suitable fee structures for rural background people Because most of the students come from rural backgrounds. So, I feel that it is attractive to all communities.

What do you think your roles and responsibilities to the University and the students are?

Being a principal, my role is to look into good administration, what good administration means? First of all, I have already told you timings, punctuality, dedication, determination and discipline.