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Dr. A. V. Ratna Prasad born on 14th November 1968, obtained his B.Tech degree from Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada in 1989, and Master’s degree from IIT, Kharagpur in 1991 and Ph.D from JNTU, Hyderabad in Mar 2007. Dr. Ratna Prasad worked as a Product development Engineer in Ashok Leyland Ltd., Chennai for 2 years and joined V.R. Siddhartha Engineering college as a lecturer in 1992 and presently working as the Principal of the college since May 2014.

Dr Prasad taught many courses in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the area of Design and is an active researcher in the area of ‘Natural fiber Composites’ and published 60 research papers, in peer-reviewed International and National Journals which are SCI indexed with Clarivate Analytics Impact factor and in International Conferences and filed 4 patents. His papers were cited by more than 1500 researchers across the world in 20 countries. He was recognized twice for highest number of citations for one of his papers in International ‘Journal of Materials and Design’ published by ELSEVIER, UK since 2010 and is placed on the cover page of the journal and also Received ‘Outstanding contributor award’ as Reviewer in 2017 from Journal of Industrial Crops & Products’(Elsevier), Amesterdam, Netherlands.

As a Principal Investigator he obtained a grant of Rs 1.06 cr for Major Research Projects funded by DST, UGC, AICTE & DRDO. He is an active reviewer for many research papers published in more than 20 reputed International Journals.

As a Head of the Institute he implemented several best practices, few of them includes

  • Performance based Appraisal System(PBAS)-Recognized as a best practice at National level by University of Mumbai in association with NAAC.
  • Choice based credit system
  • Establishment of collaborative labs with Industry in every department
  • Development and Implementation of Strategic Plan
  • Setting up of Department Incubation Centres
  • Conduct of Model exhibition cum competition on ‘Innovation Day’/Engineers Day
  • Promotion of R&D through quality research publications, external funding & upgrading qualification of faculty
  • External Academic Audit by inviting experts from premier institutions.
  • Implementation of Industry relevant flexible curriculum leading to Outcome based Teaching-Learning,
  • Student Development and Research.
  • Played a key role in successful implementation and achieving recognition to the institute through
    • TEQIP-II (S.C.1.2.1-R,D&I) project.
    • 141 rank in NIRF 2022 – Successively Ranked below 200 for the last six years – only institute in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
    • SIRO recognition from DSIR, GOI
    • AICTE-CII Platinum rating – Successively for 4 years.
    • AICTE-CII award for Best industry linked technical institute in civil Engg in 2019
    • Extension of Autonomous status for 10 years by UGC without visit to the college
    • Number of patents published – 238
    • Substantial improvement in campus placements both in quantity & quality with highest pay of Rs.46.0 Lakhs and above Rs.5.0 LPA

Dr. Prasad is a recognized master trainer, resource person and ‘Margdarshak’ for National Board of accreditation, New Delhi and mentored many institutions in preparation of Self Assessment Report on outcome based education and accreditation. He is a Certified Member of Chartered Management Institute (CMI) of UK and also life member of professional societies such as IE(I), ISTE & ISSRO.
He visited University of Toronto, University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada and delivered expert lectures and chaired sessions in many International conferences.

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