Five undergraduate students and an administrator from Guru Nanak Institution’s (GNI) Engineering and Technology Campus in Hyderabad, India, visited Southern Illinois University Edwardsville over the past six days. They met with faculty from SIUE’s School of Engineering and School of Business. View the story.
“SIUE is looking for opportunities to collaborate with India and other international partners,” said Dr. Ron Schaefer, director of the SIUE Center for International Programs. “The potential for partnership between two universities increases when both share similar values.”
“The GNI students were in search of an affordable and safe campus that provided a quality graduate education,” said SIUE School of Engineering Dean Hasan Sevim. “The School of Engineering is interested in recruiting quality students to its graduate programs and exploring the exchange of faculty and research opportunities.”
Students who visited SIUE included: Peddu Reddy Sreeja Reddy, Sardani Harpreeth Kour, Gosukonda Sai Alekhya, Konijeti Vamshi Krishna and Perla Shruti Purushottam.
SIUE has made a big effort to show various aspects of the School of Engineering and the campus, said Alekhya. “I would like to come to SIUE,” she said. “I’ve liked everything I’ve seen so far.”
Three professors from the Department of Computer Science; Drs. Mark McKenney, Igor Crk, and Hiroshi Fujinoki, helped the visiting students with various hands-on projects to give them a flavor of computer science education at SIUE.
“I feel at home here,” said Purushottam. “The campus is good and serene. It’s interesting to learn about the different projects the computer science department is working on. It inspires me.”
The potential for collaboration between SIUE and GNI came about when Sevim and Schaefer participated in a conference in Hyderabad in September 2012. They met Harvinder S. Saini, GNI managing director, and gave him an overview of SIUE. “We thought SIUE was a good match for us,” Saini said.
“If we can get good students like these five, we would like to collaborate with GNI,” said Dean Sevim. “And hopefully some of their faculty can come here to work on research and some of our faculty can go there for seminars, workshops and teaching.”
Photo Information: Pictured are the five students from Guru Nanak Institutions (from left to right): Gosukonda Sai Alekhya, Perla Shruti Purushottam, Konijeti Vamshi Krishna, Sardani Harpreeth Kour and Peddu Reddy Sreeja Reddy.