Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering

The SVU College of Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University (abbreviated SVUCE) is a public engineering college and a division of Sri Venkateswara University located in Tirupati, India. The college offers 4-year B.Tech degree courses and 6-year Dual Degree(B.Tech & M.Tech), and two-year post-graduation courses with ten specializations with a total intake of 560 in B.Tech programmes and 180 in postgraduate programmes.

Sri Venkateswara University College Of Engineering, Tirupati, India
Motto
జ్ఞానం సమ్యగవేక్షణం (in Telugu)
ज्ञानं सम्यगवेक्षणम् ( in Sanskrit)
Motto in English
Wisdom lies in Correct Perspective
TypeEducation and research institution
Established1959
Parent institution
Sri Venkateswara University
PrincipalProf.S.Narayana Reddy
Location, ,
CampusUrban
NicknameSVUCE
Websitesvuce.edu.in

The admission into undergraduate programmes is through a state level common entrance test EAMCET. The admission into postgraduate programme is through GATE or AP PGECET.

The college has well-equipped laboratories in all disciplines, improved and modernized through different schemes like MODROBS, TEQIP etc. The faculty is well qualified, most of them being Ph.D. degree holders and actively engaged in teaching, research and consultancy testing services, besides disseminating knowledge by conducting Workshops, Seminars, Conferences, and Symposia.

History[1]

SVUCE, a constituent college of Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, was established in 1959 and started functioning from 10 August 1959.

The foundation stone for the college Main Building was laid on 13 October 1959 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. It was declared open on 21 November 1968 by Sri. K Brahmananda Reddy, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

From the year 1977-78, the names of BE and ME were changed as B.Tech and M.Tech. The institution achieved autonomous status in 2005.

SVU Secured 63rd Rank out of 100 Ranks, out of about 850 Central, State, Deemed, Private Universities, Central Institutions in India. S.V.University stands 13th position in Research Component.

S.V.University also stands 186th Rank in the BRICS World Ranking – 2016.

Disciplines

Currently the college offers B.Tech courses in:

At first three conventional disciplines of Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering were offered with an intake of 40 in each as part of Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) degree. Subsequently, new disciplines were introduced in tune with the emerging trends and needs - Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1971-72, Chemical Engineering in 1977-78 and Computer Science and Engineering in 1986-87.

Part-time degree course for diploma holders and serving engineers was run for a number of years from 1973-74 until recently in three conventional disciplines of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communications.

Postgraduate courses (ME) in engineering branches were started in the year 1971-72 in Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering. Subsequently, PG courses were introduced in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.

Each discipline admits a maximum of 60 students in the bachelor's stream and a maximum of 24 students in each of the postgraduate specializations per academic year.

Extracurricular activities

  • NCC - Air Wing
  • NSS

Principals

Sr.No.NameDuringSr.No.NameDuring
1.Prof. G. Ramakrishnan1959-772.Prof. B. Mohan Rao1977-78
3.Prof. K. Gopichand1978-814.Prof. P. Subramanian1981-82
5.Prof. C. Venkataramaiah1982-836.Prof. P. Pratapa Mouli1983-85
7.Prof. C. Raja Rao1985-878.Prof. D. R. Raju1987-90
9.Prof. T. Rangaswamy1990-9110.Prof. K. L. Narayana1991-93
11.Prof. M. Krishna Murthy1993-9512.Prof. K. Ranganadha Babu1995-97
13.Prof. T. Krishna Parandhama1997-9914.Prof. B. Swamy1999-2000
15.Prof. D. Changal Raju2000-0216.Prof. G. Ram Prasad2002-02
17.Prof. B. Subramanyam2002-0418.Prof. N. C. Eswar Reddy2004-06
19.Prof. K Ravindranath2006-0820.Prof. M. M. Naidu2008-10
21.Prof. M. Muralidhar2010-1122.Prof. A. Prabhakar2011-12
23.Prof. A.Ramakrishna Rao2012–1324.Prof. J.Karthikeyan2013-15
25.Prof. P.Mallikarjuna2015–1726.Prof. G.Padmanabhan2017– 2018
27. Prof. G.N. Pradeep Kumar 2018–

Present

Alumni Association

The college alumni has presence all over the globe. The alumni association of SVUCE was started in 1965. It was formally registered in the year 2001. The association is currently presided by B. Gangi Reddy.

There are hundreds of SVU alumni based in western countries such as the UK, Canada, Australia, and UK. This powerful alumni network has led to job opportunities for many graduates.

The official Alumni Network of SVU College Of Engineering website is svucealumni.org.

References

  1. "SVU College of Engineering [SVUCE.EDU.IN]". svuce.edu.in. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

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