Four Narasaraopeta Students Bag Stanford Fellowships

2024-12-22 03:56:56 Education

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Four students Ms. Pujitha Reddy, Mr. Durgi Bhargav, Mr. Gadamsetty Yashvanth and Ms. Gudivalli Sai Sravani of Narasaraopeta Engineering College in the district of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, have been selected for a fellowship program at Stanford University?s Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design (d.school). These 4 engineering students are among the 258 students chosen from 64 higher education institutions in 9 countries for the University Innovation Fellows (UIF) program.

Announcing the list of students selected for the Fellowship during an event at the Narasaraopeta Engineering College, the Vice-Chairman/Director of Narasaraopeta Engineering College, Mr. Chakravarthi Mittapalli said that the four students would take part in the program at the d.school in two phases.

The first phase involves an experiential 6-week online training program where students learn design thinking and start-up methodologies. After completing the training, they attend the Silicon Valley Meet Up in March 2018, where they work and interact with Google, Microsoft, and other MNCs. Besides this, Fellows also receive year-round mentorship (after returning to their home countries from the Meet Up) from experts and represent the UIF and their colleges in national technical conferences held in their respective nations.

The workshops and exercises given by UIF include engineering topics such as movement building, innovation spaces, the design of learning experiences, and new models for change in higher education.

The UIF also says that the fellowship program changes the way students look at the higher education landscape. It equips participants with a fresh perspective that they can use to change that landscape at their colleges. The program imparts the training and knowledge that will help students tackle complex engineering challenges with a design-oriented mindset.

The institution, affiliated to JNTU Kakinada, has also signed MoUs with two other technical universities in the USA for giving its students practice-oriented education. The college will sign more agreements with other foreign universities in the near future ?to give students the opportunity to interact with global communities and develop skills and knowledge to solve complex engineering problems.?

According to the UIF website, ?The University Innovation Fellows program empowers students to become agents of change at their colleges. The Fellows are a global community of students leading a movement to ensure that all students gain the necessary attitudes, skills, and knowledge required to compete in the economy of the future.?

?These student leaders from colleges around the country create new opportunities that help their peers develop an entrepreneurial mindset, build creative confidence, seize opportunities, define problems and address global challenges. Fellows are creating student innovation spaces.?

For more information: http://www.nrtec.ac.in/