Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College

It is a self financing institution which owes its foundation to the bold and inspired vision of Siddhartha Academy of General and Technical Education, Vijayawada. Established in the year 1977, the EEE department offers two programs, one undergraduate and one graduate. The undergraduate program is the B. Tech. Program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) with an intake of 144. The graduate program is the M. Tech. Program in Power Systems Engineering (PSE) with an intake of 18. The department has twenty seven qualified faculty supported by twelve technical and administrative staff. The faculty composition is three professors, six associate professors and seventeen assistant professors with four Ph Ds and twenty two M.Techs. Two associate professors have submitted their Ph D theses. The faculty is also committed for research and publishing papers regularly in different areas. The research area comprises optimal control systems, Power System Operation and Control, HVDC Transmission, Electric Drives, Power Quality, Distributed Generation, Gas Insulated Substations, Reduced order modeling, Optimal power flow, FACTS etc. EEE department is well equipped with ten laboratories. The Department is equipped with High Voltage Engineering Lab, AC Network Analyzer and Transmission Line System Training Simulator in Power Systems Lab first of its kind in any private engineering college in A.P. Also the department is actively engaged in consultancy work in electrical meter testing and third party quality assurance for Vijayawada Municipal Corporation electrical works. The technical staff provide the electrical maintenance for the college campus. EEE department produces well disciplined students with high pass percentage and campus placements. For the last thirty six years, the department has produced highly professional and competitive engineers with greater quality and appropriate skills suitable for a rapidly changing industrial scenario. Our alumni are well established in India as well as abroad. Under Graduate Program of our department is accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for a period of 5 years i.e., from 01-07-2015 to 30-06-2020. Copyright © 2010 vrsiddhartha.ac.in