Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences strives to impart quality technical education as it stated in its vision statement. In this endeavor, the college takes feedback from all the stakeholders, i.e. from the students, parents, alumni, recruiters, academicians etc, to improve the quality of the teaching-learning process and also to enhance employability skills. As part of this continuous process, revisions were made in the examination, evaluation and assessment system.

As per the guidelines of UGC and NAAC, an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was constituted to monitor the quality of education offered by the college. The IQAC was set up under the chairmanship of the Principal Dr. A. Sudhakara Reddy and coordinator of IQAC Dr. S. Mohana.

The members of IQAC include the Student Representatives, Alumni, Heads of the Department, Representatives of the Management & Administration, and industry experts.

Functions

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

• Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
• Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process.
• Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
• Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education.
• Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality-related themes and promotion of quality circles.
• Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement.
• Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices.
• Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality.
• Development of Quality Culture in the institution.
• Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.