Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE), a non-government organization, was formed about our year back to establish collaboration between Indian and US universities. IUCEE is the brain child of Prof. Krishna Vedula, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Executive Director, IUCEE.

Under this banner, 23 one week workshops were conducted for 581 indian faculty participants at Infosys Campus, Mysore during summer 2008 by Indo-US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute in which 23 US expert faculty delivered the content. In order to scale up and sustain the impact, a few Regional Centres were established throughout India. Two of these Regional Centres are established in Andhra Pradesh, one in Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women, BHIMAVARAM and another in Sri Bhoj Reddy Engineering College for Women, HYDERABAD. Similar programs will be conducted over the next 5 years in all UG courses in Engineering to impact a large portion of engineering faculty all over India. The improved quality of engineering education will catalyze and mobilize engineering talent.

During the visit to various US Universities, MOUs were signed by Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women (SVECW) with University of Massachusetts (U.Mass) and Purdue University (PU).

More details are being worked out to collect necessary information and enter into MOU with some more universities in specific areas of common interest including exchange of students and faculty and collaboration in research activities.