Anem Apparao is the Head of the Department of EEE at the Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology. He holds a B.Tech. in EEE and an M.Tech. in Power Engineering from JNTUH. He has 22 years of experience working at renowned institutes like Sir C.R.R. College of Engineering in Eluru and GMRIT Rajam.

Anem Apparao has attended over 17 Faculty Development Programs. Moreover, he has published more than 20 papers in international and national journals. He is also a lifetime member of ISTE and IE.He organized 2 national and 1 international FDPs.

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology

What are the factors that make this program the best for the students to opt?

For students who opt for this programme, the course is mainly based on practicals that include laboratory and hands-on experience. Besides the laboratory sessions, there are also regular classes that students have to keep up with. Students will be working on day-to-day items like a light fan, a transformer, a transmission line, or an ACS. The course enables students to practise their skills firsthand when completing the course.

What are the best practices in the course you are offering?

We have several modern laboratories for our electrical engineering programme. We also have centers of excellence along with our curriculum that are a part of the curriculum. Students also need to complete internships, community service projects and a main end-of-the-course project. We also regularly organise industry visits and guest lectures for the students, besides which they also get to give technical presentations.

How does the program ensure that the best bring? how does the program ensure that students are being prepared for the future?

Education is necessary to have a good life, and we enforce learning good life skills apart from the subject or curriculum. We try to make our students complete individuals. Electrical engineers gain analytical power, communication skills, interpersonal skills, and other skills throughout their four-year degree. We have training sessions projects and assignments that force our students to develop these skills.

How do you tend to build an industry connect with the program?

Industry connections are mainly established with the university through internships and projects. Our internship students will work in the industry and there they will learn for one and half months in the second year and third year. These are meant to bridge the gap between the classroom working and working in the industry. Similarly, while doing the projects, students also go through research papers that they use for their projects. Apart from that, we arrange industrial visits so that they learn what the latest technology which is being used in the industries.

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What were the challenges that you faced while inculcating this program in your curriculum?

To run this programme successfully, whether it is in the curriculum or not, students must have industry exposure. Nowadays, industries are not that welcoming towards students because of some safety issues. So, they have to take LIC for that day and provide safety devices, and all these things make it somewhat difficult to send the students into the industry.

What are the types of projects that the students are working on this program through this program? 

Nowadays, there is a lot of scope for students to do the projects. There are YouTube videos and even IIT professors’ lectures available online. Our students have worked in solar electric vehicles, automatic DEP irrigation systems, and drones. In the case of robots, students do not work on complete robots but a part of robots.

What are the benefits and career options after pushing this course after pursuing this course?

For electrical and electronics engineering courses, the scope is wide. Its usage is found in day-to-day life, even in power, every piece of equipment, and machine that uses power and electronics. So, our students will have multiple opportunities in terms of jobs. Some of our students also prepare for competitive examinations like GATE and higher studies. We prepare our students for all of these options. Our students also work in government, state government, central government, railways, and private industries.