Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)
Entrepreneurship Development Cell was established in the college with the vision “Turn around the “Job seekers” into “Job Creators” in the year 2011. Currently the AICTE Sponsored IIPC and ED Cells are working. EDC has 1450 Sft space and its own audio-visual equipment. It has a library with 300 printed titles and 400 volumes and also has repository of digital content of successful Entrepreneurial stories. Entrepreneurship Lab in the college is supplementing the existing UG Courses namely ‘Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Intellectual Property Rights’.
Vision: Turn around the “Job seekers” into “Job Creators”.
Mission
- Create conducive atmosphere to motivate young students towards Entrepreneurship.
- Develop necessary infrastructure and facilities to initiate venture start-ups
- Integrate entrepreneurial resources like financial, infrastructural and government policy matters.
- Creation of first generation entrepreneurs in a conducive environment where budding entrepreneurs can venture into start-ups and realize the path for a successful Entrepreneurship through the resources of EDC Cell.
Objectives of EDC
Entrepreneurship is a mindset that can be developed by any student who aspires to become an employer. The increasing demand and recognition for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for ensuring the welfare of the society and economic growth of an individual have motivated this great leap forward to promote the Entrepreneurship Development Cell. With proper motivation, Entrepreneurship can be inculcated into the minds of young professionals. Thus this Cell aims to foster Techno-entrepreneurship more systematically and comprehensively with a focus on incubating all feasible ventures through technology intervention.
The following are the major objectives,
- Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.
- Incubation of technical projects/start-ups.
- Creating awareness about Transfer of Technology.
- Encouraging entrepreneurs to promote Small & Medium Enterprises.
- Commercialization of R&D products and processes.
- Helping towards marketing of Products & Processes.
Coordinator of EDC
Dr. T.A. Janardhan Reddy is the founder Professor of EDC at CVRCE. He was formerly Professor & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osmania University and currently senior Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, CVRCE. He had been a successful Entrepreneur for 3 years and is also a social worker. He established Mechanical Engineering Department, its laboratories and positioned teaching and non-teaching staff. He is an alumnus of Osmania University Hyderabad, NIT Warangal and IIT Madras. He conducted several entrepreneurship programs like SIMAP’s-(11) (14 weeks duration each), STUP (1), ED workshops (6), EAC’s (32) FDP-(2) and TEDP (1)
Activities of EDC
The EDC has been conducting EAC’s and guest lectures on Entrepreneurship related subjects for the past 6 years. Several Workshops were conducted on themes like ‘Venture Start-Ups’, ‘Life Science businesses’, Launching of Technology Ventures’ and ‘Venture capital funding’, with the collaboration of Institutions like SIDBI, NABARD, MSME, SME Bank Lead Managers, IKP Knowledge Park.
Entrepreneurship club
In order to create Entrepreneurial ambience in the college premises, a constant and continuous perseverance is required. Formation of a Club with student and Staff members is under process. Sharing ideas, helping each other to make prototypes, collecting information jointly, conducting camps and help in promoting enterprises will be the major activities of the club.
Contact Us:
Entrepreneurship Development Cell,
Room Number: 302, PG Building,
CVR College of Engineering,
Vastunagar, Mangalpalli (V), Ibrahimpatnam (M),
Rangareddy (D), Telangana 501 510
Email: [email protected]
Intercom: 319
We are very happy to share that Mr. Sankalp Reddy, the Director of the movies "Antariksham 9000 kmph" (2018) and "The Ghazi" (2017), is our alumnus of the 2006 passed out batch and that Mr. Kunal Kaushik, also an alumnus of the same batch, was a supporting actor in the movie "The Ghazi". We are equally happy to share that Mr. Prashanth Varma, the Director of the movie "AWE" is our alumnus of the 2010 passed out batch.
We congratulate all of them for having made a mark in the film industry and wish all of them the very best for many things in the future.
Dr. M.V. Seshagiri Rao, Ph.D.
Dr. M.V. Sheshagiri Rao is a double postgraduate in Structural Engineering and Software Engineering, with a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering. He is having 37 years of research, teaching, consultancy and construction experience. In the first seven years of his career in A.P. Engineering Research Laboratories, he was involved in the model analysis of prestigious projects like Godavari Barrage, Priya Darshini Jurala project, third railway bridge near Vijayawada and gauging of left and right canals of river Krishna.
At JNTU, he worked in various capacities like Project Engineer, Project Officer for the UGC Academic College building, Head of Civil Engineering Department, Vice Principal, Director, BICS and Chief Engineer, BOS Chair person, Member, Board of Governors, JNTUHCEH. He was also the Coordinator for Academic and Research for JNTUHCEH and NBA Nodal Centre, JNTU Hyderabad. He has published over 190 research papers and won eight awards for his publications and works. He was named Outstanding Concrete Technologist 2006 by the Indian Concrete Institute for his contribution to the field concrete technology, given the BEST TEACHER AWARD by Govt. of AP in 2009 apart from other awards for his papers.
He has guided 20 Ph.D. scholars, more than 150 M.Tech. projects and completed R&D projects sanctioned by DST & AICTE and others.
He was a member of National Programme for Capacity Building Of Civil Engineers In Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM) by MHRD for training field engineers in Earthquake Risk Management. He was also an expert member for UGC, AICTE, UPSC and for APPSC. He has published two books on Engineering Mechanics and Concrete Technology.
