Dr. C. L. V. R. S. V. Prasad
Alternate Chairman, Member Secretary, Governing Council, GMRIT
Principal, GMR Institute of Technology
Dr. Prasad began his academic career way back in 1986 and moved to GMR Institute of Technology in 2005 as Dean-Academic Affairs and later became its Principal in 2008. Obtained Master’s degree(M.Tech) from NIT-Warangal and received Ph.D degree from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. In his early career, served SVH college of Engineering Machilipatnam and Sir C R Reddy College of Engineering, Eluru for over fifteen years as a professor & head of Mechanical Engineering department. Played a pivotal role in developing the institution systems and facilities, creating SoPs for quality assurance and statutory compliances and also served as the Principal in-charge subsequently.
At GMRIT from 2005 onwards, spearheaded and responsible for the overall strategic development and growth of the institution in multiple facets. He initiated and established technology enabled teaching and learning environment supplementing the classroom learning, which finally resulted in creating repository and providing access to the digital learning content for more than 300 courses session wise on campus LAN.
He spearheaded all the Internal Quality Assurance initiatives leading to Accreditation of all the Programs by NBA from 2007 onwards. After getting Autonomous status in 2012 initiated the implementation of Outcome Based Education and responsible for getting all the UG programs NBA accredited under Tier-1 (3rd cycle) for Six years. Achieved NAAC accreditation with ‘A’ grade for the three consecutive cycles since 2010.
He published research articles in several reputed National and International Conferences and Journals. As a Principal investigator, executed DST funded research projects worth Rs 1.75 Cr and supervised three research scholars leading to the award of Ph.D degree apart from supervising many PG students for their M. Tech projects.
He visited countries like Scotland, Canada, USA and Italy to understand higher education systems in various universities apart from presenting the research papers at various international conferences(ASME/CIRP) held there.
He is an UGC expert committee member to evaluate the institutions for the award of Autonomous status. In the year 2016, Govt. of AP has nominated him as a member for the Executive Council of JNTUK- Kakinada, for the term 2016-19. A P state council for higher education (APSCHE) has nominated him as a member of Admission Committee, AP PGECET for the period 2018-19. In the year 2021 he has been nominating as an advisory board member for APSCHE-Quality Assurance Cell for three years term. He is also the member of Academic Council of the Autonomous Private Engg colleges viz. LENDI & NSIRT, Visakhapatnam affiliated to JNTUK Kakinada.
