The convocation address will be delivered by G. Satheesh Reddy, chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO.) NIT Andhra Pradesh
The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Andhra Pradesh, will conduct its second and third convocation on November 13. A total of 381 candidates of the 2016-20 batch and 412 candidates of the 2017-21 batch will be awarded degrees on the occasion.
Both convocations will be held offline at 4 PM.
The convocation address will be delivered by G. Satheesh Reddy, chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO.) Dasarath Ram Yadav, director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), will be the guest of honour. Mridula Ramesh, chairperson, Board of Governors (BoG), NIT Andhra Pradesh, will preside over the ceremony.
The second convocation will see 381 students, including 152 women, receiving degrees.
The institute topper for the second convocation is V. Karthik Reddy, Mechanical Engineering.
Of the 412 students receiving degrees in the third convocation, 99 are women. B Anusha, Electronics & Communication Engineering, is the institute topper for the third batch.
“Three batches of students have graduated successfully so far and a total of 793 candidates will receive their degrees at the joint convocation. Two students will get institute topper medals and 16 BTech students will receive gold medals for the securing highest CGPA in their respective branches,” said C.S.P. Rao, director, NIT Andhra Pradesh.
“A good number of candidates are anticipated to attend the convocation physically with their parents. The institute is rapidly growing and reporting good results in all aspects of academic, research and infrastructure activities and become competent to old NITs in the country. Further, Institute wishes to participate in the NIRF ranking this year after successful graduation of three batches of students in full-time UG programmes,” Rao said.
NIT Andhra Pradesh has a total of 140 faculty members and 2,657 students, of whom 2,299 are undergraduate students, 100 are postgraduate students and 258 are PhD research scholars.