an executive summary
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an executive summary
AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering was established in the year 1996 by Dr Shiv Nadar, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer of HCL Technologies, as an Unaided Engineering College, to provide quality technical education of global standards with a view ‘to give back to the society’ that nurtured him. The college, run on ‘not for profit’ basis and to benefit students from all economic strata of the society, is located on a sprawling campus of 250 acres, 29 km from Adyar, on the Rajiv Gandhi Salai, the Cyber Corridor of Chennai. The college, approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu and All India Council of Technical Education, is presently affiliated to the Anna University, Chennai. Progression of the College Started with 68 students, 8 faculty and 3 B.E. degree programmes in EEE, ECE and CSE, the college has now grown to offer 8 UG and 12 PG programmes besides research programmes of MS and Ph.D., with about 4500 students and 275 faculty. The college was accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council as well, in the year 2011 with A Grade, for a period of 5 years. All the programmes, eligible for accreditation, have been accredited by NBA-AICTE earlier. The B.E./B.Tech. programs in EEE, ECE, CSE, IT and Biomedical have been accredited by NBA, New Delhi, for a period of 5 years with effect from 01.07.2015. Applications have been submitted to NBA, New Delhi, for the accreditation of all other eligible programs in B.E./B.Tech. and M.E. degree programs. It has now established a name as ‘a much sought after college’ in Tamil Nadu, due to good infrastructure, by way of quality faculty - 176 of them Ph.Ds, modern teaching methods such as electronic learning, computerized library, Wi-Fi enabled campus, 24 hour free internet connection with a bandwidth of 310 Mbps, 86 excellent laboratories besides sports fields, halls of residence and transport from remote corners of the city of Chennai to the college. The earning of First Rank by way of overall pass percentage of students among 540 Engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University in the State, no capitation fees, merit as the only criterion for admission even for Management quota seats, successive University Ranks in many branches, providing large number of scholarships – to the tune of about Rs. 4 crore a year, excellent th placement records, earning the best engineering college award from ISTE, 7 rank among all private engineering colleges in India as per the survey done by EDU-Rand, “Asia’s Best Private Institute Award” for the year 2013 1 from World Consulting and Research Corporation processed by KPMG, high rankings by National Magazines like Data Quest, Competition Success Review and Outlook, has resulted in the seats getting filled up within a week from opening of the Single Window Admissions of Anna University, the admitting agency of the State. Philanthropy the main stay With a distinct care for the society at large and the less privileged in particular, the college has been admitting 25 students from Government Rural Schools of Tamil Nadu, who are all toppers in their respective schools and offers their engineering education absolutely free under the Rural School Toppers Scheme. These schools are located in remote areas, and the children do not even have access to information about higher education, not to say about professional education. We give them training for about 3 weeks, prior to the opening date of the college, for them to come out of their shell of ‘rural shyness’ and also coach them in Spoken English, so that they are at home with their urban counterparts when the college commences for regular students. In addition, 25 students who secure the top ten ranks in their Higher Secondary programme of any Board and in any State in India are given absolutely free education for all the four years under the Walk-in Walk-out Scholarship Scheme. The best mind dwells in the best body. In an effort to encourage sportsmanship in the youth, 25 students who have excelled in sports, as evidenced by National Sports Accreditation bodies, are given scholarships for all the four years, besides paying the cost of a coach, if they need it. This has paid enough dividends and to cite a few, the all rounder Mr. Ravichandran Ashwin, Indian Cricketer and Ms. Anaka Alankamani, International Squash Player are the products of this college. Besides the above, students who are excelling in studies are awarded Merit scholarships while students who come from challenging economic or socio economic back ground, but exhibit their academic acumen are given Merit cum means scholarships to pursue their studies. To promote all round development of the students, Classical Music Scholarships are also given for students who are good performers of Classical Music in vocal as well as instrumental. The Alumni also contribute towards the scholarships. CTS, the computer giant in Tamil Nadu, Redington a global multi trading company and several individuals have also joined the scheme to support a few students. Social Responsibility Members of the institute have been giving computer training to school children in the schools surrounding the college, besides training the women folk in the surrounding villages to establish information kiosks for providing 2 information regarding day to day activities. They have also trained Police personnel to handle computers as well and have visited about 200 Government Higher Secondary schools and addressed the students and their parents, of the need for educating their wards, detailing the programmes, opportunities and scholarships available for pursuing higher education, not necessarily engineering education, just to tell that higher education is not beyond their reach. Government schools in educationally backward areas are chosen as the children who study there are normally from the lower strata of the society and lack information on higher education. The programme was christened ‘Vidiyal’ meaning ‘dawn’ rightly to show the path to the bright side of life to them. Research a way of life After establishing a name as ‘a much sought after college’ in Tamil Nadu, institute has moved towards a paradigm shift to Research & Development and cooperation with reputed Research Laboratories, Universities and Industries. The departments of EEE, ECE, CSE, IT, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, besides Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry have been recognized by Anna University as ‘Research Centres’ for doing independent research leading to doctoral degree under the guidance of as many as 110 Research supervisors. A Research Advisory Council manned by renowned researchers and administrators to direct the faculty to the futuristic domains of research, an exclusive SSN Research Centre with as many as seven scientists exclusively concentrating on Applied Research and Management providing seed money to faculty and students as well, to promote Research in the college, creation of a Centre for Crystal Growth, all have paved the way for earning projects from several funding agencies and stimulating academic research. These have resulted in the organization of several National and International Conferences, besides producing a large number of research publications in Journals of repute. Incidentally, it has also benefited the staff in acquiring their doctoral degrees. Way Forward Having performed reasonably well over a period of 19 years, the management decided to examine the possibility of offering newer programmes in the less explored avenues such as Mechatronics, Bioinformatics, Genetic Engineering, Drug synthesis etc., to serve the mankind better. Most of them though dwell in life sciences, need extensive use of computers, in which the college has the expertise. Further, to innovate, modernize the examination systems, introduce regulations to allow students to migrate between disciplines and make collaboration with renowned 3 Universities anywhere in the world needed an independent body, and the natural choice is to go in for a University status. We have already made an application and it is yet to see the light of the day. The present application for renewal of Accreditation by National Assessment and Accreditation Council is a step in that direction. The college is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai and hence, its roll to modify the curricula and syllabi is rather remote. However, the inclusion of some of its faculty in the various Boards of Study (BOC) and Academic Council, have paved way to suggest some changes in them whenever the University proposes to revise the syllabi and curricula. Otherwise, the faculty has to meticulously follow the curriculum and syllabi prescribed by the University. The following indicates briefly some of the steps taken to implement the prescribed curriculum: SWOC analysis of the Institution and Future plans: Strengths: • Well qualified faculty with diverse research interests. • Sufficient number of externally funded research projects to trigger interest in students. • Meritorious students with a lot of interest in hands on approach. • Well equipped labs and digitally enabled classrooms for conducive learning environment. • Academic collaboration with Institutes of repute, like Carnegie Mellon University. • Periodic research interventions like International and National Conferences and workshops on varied topics of interest. • Structured system for inducting students into research at an early stage. • Culture of all-round development in Academics, Sports, Music and Arts. Weakness: • Unable to attract interaction and funding from industries. • Difficulty in getting sufficient workable MoUs. Opportunities: • Good job market for SSN students. • Students displaying fabrication skills as in manufacturing cars for SUPRA and Go-Kart competitions. • Interaction with CII , FICCI and IMTMA(Confederation of Indian Industries, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association) as member. • Students winning several external awards in recognition for their projects. • Students being all-rounders in various areas including sports. • Alumni who are Entrepreneurs. 4 Challenges: • Many of the research done at SSN have the potential to be converted to Industrial application (for example-friction stir processing, quenching using nano materials, phase change materials for energy savings). The challenge is to create visibility for our research among the industries. • While placements have been good at 80-85%, the core company placement is a small share of the lot. The challenge is to improve the technical content of the students and make them more employable in core companies. PROFILE OF THE COLLEGE 1. Name and address of the college: Name: Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Address: Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Kalavakkkam – 603110 City: Thirupporur Pin code: 603 110 District: Kanchipuram State: Tamil Nadu Website: www.ssn.edu.in 2. For communication: Office Name: Dr. S. Salivahanan Principal Vice Principal Steering Committee Coordinator, Dr. N. Nallusamy, Professor/Mechanical Engg. Residence Name: Dr. S. Salivahanan Principal Vice Principal Steering Committee Coordinator 3. Status of the Institution: Area/ STD Tel. No. Fax No. E-mail Code 044 27469700 / 27469772 [email protected] 27469752 044 27469700 27469772 [email protected] Extn.: 442 Area/STD code 044 044 Tel. No. 27497393 24765291 It is an Affiliated College 4. Type of Institution: a. By Gender It is a Co-educational College b. By Shift: It is a Day college 5 Mobile No. +919444189433 +919444538798 5. Is it a recognized minority institution? It is not a recognized minority Institution. 6. Sources of Funding: It is a Self Financing College 7. a. Date of establishment of the college: Date 17 b. University to which the college is affiliated Month 10 Year 1996 : Anna University, Chennai c. Date of UGC recognition: Not Applicable d. Details of Recognition / Approval by Regulatory Bodies (AICTE) Under Approval of Section / Day, Month & Yr Validity Remarks Programmes Clause UG PROGRAMMES EEE 1996 First Approval (60) ECE 1996 First Approval (60) CSE 1996 First Approval (40) CSE 1999 40 to 60 Increase IT 1999 First Approval (40) ECE 2000 Increase from 60 to 90 CSE 2000 Increase from 60 to 90 IT 2000 Increase from 40 to 60 IT 2001 Increase from 60 to 90 EEE 2002 Increase from 60 to 90 ECE 2002 Increase from 90 to 120 CSE 2002 Increase from 90 to 120 EEE 2004 Increase from 90 to 120 Chemical 2004 First Approval (30) Engg. Biomedical 2005 First Approval (60) Engg. IT 2007 Increase from 90 to 120 Mechanical 2007 First Approval (60) Engg. Chemical 2011 Increase from 30 to 60 Engg. Mechanical 2011 Increase from 60 to 120 Engg. Civil Engg. 2011 First Approval (60) PG PROGRAMMES MBA 2000 First Approval (60) Communication Systems 2003 First Approval (18) CSE Applied Electronics 2003 First Approval (18) 2004 First Approval (18) 6 Under Section / Clause Approval of Programmes Power Electronics and Drives Day, Month & Yr Validity Remarks 2004 First Approval (18) Computer and Communication Communication Systems 2005 First Approval (18) 2010 Increase from 18 to 36 CSE MBA VLSI Design Software Engg. 2010 2010 2011 Increase from 18 to 36 Increase from 60 to 120 First Approval (38) 2011 First Approval (18) 2012 First Approval (18) 2013 First Approval (18) 2014 First Approval (18) 2014 First Approval (18) Manufacturing Engg. Energy Engg. Medical Electronics Environmental Science and Tech. Current 2015 Approval Enclose copy of the recognition/approval letter All existing programmes 8. Does the University Act provide for autonomy of Affiliated / Constituent Colleges? Yes No If yes, has the college applied for autonomy? Yes. Anna University is yet to come for inspection. 9. Is the college recognized? a. b. By UGC as a college with a potential for Excellence (CPE) No For its performance by any other Governmental agencies: Yes i. By ISTE : Best Chapter Award in Tamilnadu & Pondicherry In 2013 ii. By ISTE: Best Overall Performance in the field of technical education in the country, 2006 10. Location of the campus and area in Sq.m.: Location Rural Campus Area in Sq.m. 9,14,560 Built up area in Sq.m. 1,57,000 11. Facilities available in the Campus: a. Auditoria: 1000 seats capacity One 300 -do- One Seminar halls 200 -do- Ten All the above are Air conditioned. 7 Sl. No. b. Sports Description 1 Details of the outdoor games available 2 Details of the Indoor games available Details of gymnasium available Total area of the play ground 3 4 Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 c. Hostels Details Number of Hostels Number of Rooms Capacity (No of Persons.) Facilities Details Area in Sq.m 1. Basketball 704 2. Squash (2 Nos.) 146 3. Table Tennis Hall 114 4. Gym for men 114 5. Gym for women 75 1. Basketball (2 Nos.) 1800 2. Football (1 No.) 7500 3. Volleyball (2 Nos.) 2304 4. Tennis Synthetic (2 Nos.) 2176 5. Cricket Turf Wicket (1 No.) 21133 6. Ball Badminton 414 7. Throwball 380 8. Handball (1) 175 9. Athletics (400 m track) 16150 For men (2 Nos.) 200 One for women 75 Outdoor: 44532 Sq.m. Indoor: 2375 Sq.m. Boys Hostel 6 930 1602 Room for indoor games, TV room, Basket ball court (for boys), Shuttle (for girls), medical facility (central facility), van for emergency, Wi-Fi connectivity for both the hostels are available d. Residential facilities Type of Quarters Allotted to A Principal B Professors C Associate Professors D Assistant Professors E Lab Technicians F Maintenance staff Total e. Cafeteria f. Health Centre Girls Hostel 6 813 1589 Number available 1 6 10 30 6 12 65 Canteen One Coffee kiosks Four One part time qualified Doctor One full time qualified Nurse Dispensary with First Aid facility, Emergency care facility and two beds. 8 g. Other facilities: (i) an extension counter of a bank with ATM facility (ii) One book shop (iii) Bus facilities for day-scholars & faculty to commute from the city (42 buses); Pooled car pick up facility for Professors (iv) An animal house of 200 Sq.m. attached to the Department of Biomedical Engg. (v) Eight Standby Generators with a total capacity of 1580 KVA (vi) A full fledged Sewage Treatment Plant is available and treated water is used for gardening; A pond in the campus is used for rain water harvesting and a network of channels discharge into the RWH system. (vii) The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled (viii) Eco friendliness: Solar Street Lighting, Limited Carbon Emissions, 500 bicycles provided for, in campus commuting, Copious Greenery Entry Qualification Four +2 English 120 120 1996 Four +2 English 120 120 1996 Four +2 English 120 120 1999 2004 2005 2007 2011 Four Four Four Four Four English English English English English 120 60 60 120 60 120 60 60 120 60 Communication Systems 2003 Two English 36 36 PG Computer Science and Engineering 2003 Two English 36 36 11 PG Applied Electronics 2004 Two English 18 18 12 PG 2004 Two English 18 18 2005 Two +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree English 18 18 English 36 36 English 18 18 1 UG 2 UG 3 UG 4 5 6 7 8 UG UG UG UG UG Electrical and Electronics Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Information Technology Chemical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering 9 PG 10 13 Name of the Programme/Course Power Electronics and Drives Computer and PG Communication 14 PG VLSI Design 2011 Two 15 PG Software Engineering 2011 Two 9 Medium of Instruction Sanctioned students strength Number of students admitted Duration (years) 1996 Sl. No. Programme level Year of starting 12. Details of programmes offered by the institution: (Give current year’s data) [Academic year 2015-16] 16 PG Manufacturing Engineering 2012 Two 17 PG Energy Engineering 2013 Two 18 PG Medical Electronics 2014 Two 2014 Two 2000 Two Environmental Science and Tech. Master of Business 20 PG Administration In all disciplines except 21 Ph.D. English and Civil Engineering 19 PG Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree Engg. Degree English 18 18 English 18 18 English 18 18 English 18 18 Any degree English 120 120 Total 1152 1152 13. Does the college offer self financed Programmes? The college being a self financed one, all the Programmes are self financed. 14. New Programmes introduced in the college during the last five years, if any: Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Name of the Programme UG Programme Civil Engineering PG Programmes M.E. in VLSI M.E. in Soft ware Engineering M.E. in Manufacturing Engineering M.E. in Energy Engineering M.E. in Medical Electronics M. Tech. in Environmental Science & Technology Year of starting Sanctioned Intake 2011-12 60 2011-12 2011-12 2012-13 18 18 18 2013-14 2014-15 2014-15 18 18 18 15. List the departments: Departments Department of Science & Humanities (comprising English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry divisions) Arts (Language and Social sciences included) Commerce Any Other (Specify) Engineering Departments of EEE, ECE, CSE, IT, Chemical Engineering, BME, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Management. Total 16. Number of Programmes offered under Semester system: All Programmes offered are under Semester system 17. Number of Programmes with a. Choice Based Credit System b. Inter/Multi Disciplinary Approach 10 Nil Nil Numbers 1 Not Applicable 9 10 c. Any other (specify & provide details) All programmes are evaluated with courses assessed by marks earned by the student through two components i.e. Continuous Internal Assessment and an End Semester Examination. The marks earned by the student are then converted into letter Grades on a 10 point scale. 18. Does the college offer UG and /PG programmes in Teacher Education? No 19. Does the college offer UG and / PG programmes in Physical Education? No 20. Number of Teaching and Non-teaching positions in the Institution: Teaching Faculty Non Technical Associate Assistant Teaching staff Professor Sl. staff Professor Professor Positions No. M F M F M F M F M F 1 Sanctioned by UGC/’varsity/State Government Being a self financing college these do not arise Recruited Yet to recruit 2 Sanctioned by the Mgmt.* / Society / 35 85 160 65 68 other authorized bodies Recruited All have been recruited Yet to recruit Nil (*) Sanctioned number is taken on the basis of student strength /faculty, ratio of 15 for teaching faculty of UG & MBA and 12 for M.E.; Technical staff is taken as one per lab. Non teaching staff is taken as 1.5% of student strength. There is no gender specification in any of the categories. The Cadre ratio, viz. Professor: Associate Professor: Assistant Professor is taken as 1:3:6 for UG & MBA and 1:1:1 for M.E. for an intake of 18. 21. Qualifications of Teaching Staff: All those who are recruited are permanent staff. There is no temporary or part-time staff. Associate Assistant Professor Sl. Highest Prof. Prof. No. Qualification Total M F M F M F 1 D.Sc./D.Litt. 2 Ph.D. 29 16 70 24 16 21 176 3 M. Phil. 3 1 4 4 PG 4 4 35 52 95 Total 275 22. Number of Visiting / Guest Faculty engaged with the college: 11 Guest Faculty from industry are engaged only for the School of Management. They will teach one segment of a course or a specific topic as the Professor might feel necessary. Number of such Guest faculty used during 2014-15 is 8. 23. Number of students admitted to the college during the last 4 academic years: 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-16 Sl. Category No. M F M F M F M F 1 SC 50 35 51 42 65 29 50 34 2 ST 4 0 4 4 0 1 3 2 3 OBC 345 194 333 192 342 142 286 190 4 General 157 123 171 123 186 144 138 120 5 Others 1. Sports 10 6 11 6 8 3 6 8 2. WIWO 2 3 1 2 2 1 1 3. Rural 10 15 10 15 14 11 11 14 24. Details of students enrollment in the college during the current academic year (2015-16) M. Sl. Type of Students UG PG Ph.D. Total Phil. No. 1 Students from the same state where 789 306 75 1170 the college is situated 2 Students from other States of India 19 9 28 3 NRI students 9 9 4 Foreign Students 16 16 Total 833 315 75 1223 25. Dropout rate in UG and PG (average of the last two batches) (Average of passed out batches of 13-14 & 14-15) (Those who have discontinued after Second year for UG and First year for PG only be considered, excluding Lateral entry students. The data can be given as a ratio i.e. 3/120, 1/36) UG 7.5/780 PG 1.5/243 26. Unit Cost of Education (Unit cost = total annual recurring expenditure (actual) divided by total number of students enrolled) (a) Including the salary component = Rs. 1,69,552/(b) Excluding the salary component = Rs. 69,672/27. Does the college offer any programme in Distance Education Mode? NO 28. Provide the Teacher-student Ratio for each of the Programme offered: Sl. No. Programme Faculty - Student Ratio UG PROGRAMMES 1 Electrical & Electronics Engineering 1:15 2 Electronics & Communications Engineering 1:15 3 Computer Science & Engineering 1:15 4 Information Technology 1:15 5 Chemical Engineering 1:16 6 Biomedical Engineering 1:15 12 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Science & Humanities PG PROGRAMMES Computer Science & Engineering Communication Systems Power Electronics & Drives Applied Electronics Information Technology VLSI Soft ware Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Energy Engineering Medical Electronics Environmental Science & Engineering Master of Business Administration 1:15 1:15 1:13 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 1: 12 29. Is the college applying for Accreditation, Cycle 1 / Cycle 2 / Cycle 3 ……. The college is applying for Accreditation Cycle 2 30. Date of Accreditation Accreditation Outcome: Cycle 1 Grade A 08.01.2011 (3.13/4) 31. Number of working days during last academic year (2014-15) 180 + examination days for regular Odd & Even semesters 32. Number of teaching days during the last academic year (2014-15) 180 days 33. Date of establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) ISO was established in Dec. 2001 by QCERT 34. Details regarding submission of Annual Quality Assurance Reports to NAAC: The Annual ISO audit reports relating to the college were prepared by external auditors and were given to the college. They were not sent to NAAC earlier. The copies of the ISO audit reports for the years 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 are now enclosed. 35. Any other relevant data not covered:Quality of Graduating Students for the last five years Year 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 Appe ared 864 759 675 674 674 FWD* 147 101 88 124 413 UG I Class 666 566 508 476 238 II Class 51 35 35 22 1 Pass % 93.7 92.49 93.48 92.28 95.85 * First Class with Distinction 13 Appe ared 207 193 175 98 86 FWD 39 52 38 10 17 PG I Class 167 133 126 84 65 II Class 1 1 3 - Pass % 98.57 96.37 95.42 95.91 95.34 No. of Anna University Ranks Year 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 UG 103 87 69 92 35 PG 63 51 38 11 11 Students Achievements • Ms. K.V. Iswarya, M.E. (PED) won the 1st Prize in “Danfoss-Innovator Project Award 2014-15” conducted by Danfoss Industries Pvt. Ltd. She has won a cash prize of two Lakh rupees and a certificate for her project entitled, "Velocity Control of Linear Switched Reluctance Motor" under the guidance of Dr. M. Balaji, Asso. Prof./EEE. • Tamil Pavai, Pratyusha Jonna and Rajyalakshmi Moorthy, IV B.E. (ECE) students won second prize for their project in Techknow 2014 conducted by Anna University. • Arun Srinivas P, Deepak N, Ganesh Kumar K, Navathej G, students of BME won Rs. 10000 in Texas Analog Design contest for their project “Design of a Switch Controller for Paralytic Patients using EEG” in 2013. • Mukundan and M. S. Vishwanath (2009-2013) of CSE won first prize (iPad) in “ CIO’s Challenge” National level contest conducted by CTS in year 2013. • Archana J and Lakshmi, III B.E. (BME) won Sahajanand Laser Technology Sushrutha Innovation Award for innovation “A cost effective prototype for long term blood glucose monitoring using non-invasive adaptable laser technique” in 2012 (Rs.50,000/-). • B. Sriram and M. Tarun, IV B.E. (Mech.) were awarded first prize in Tier-2 National Level SAE Student Innovation Contest 2012. • Nirupa, IV B.Tech. (IT) won the award in National Social Entrepreneurship proposal contest to eliminate child labour in 2012. • Kamal Prakash & Karthik Singaram students of EEE secured award for Best Algorithm for Robotic Design at NIT Trichy in year 2011 -12. • 11 students from IT(3), EEE(3), BME(3), ECE (1), CSE(1) have received the “BEST NSS Volunteer Award” from Anna University. • Karthik Narayan student of CSE was the 1st runners up and received Rs. 3 Lakh in cash award in Tanishq Swarna Sangeetham. Students of Mechanical Engineering, best endurance, best driver and 4th overall place in the Imperial Society of Innovative Engineers, National level design and Karting competition. • • Students of Biomedical Engineering have won a cash prize of Rs.3.1 Lakh in Innovation Challenge – Smart Living contest for their project “Optimized switch control for elder and disabled patients using EEG”. 14 2. CRITERIA –WISE INPUTS CRITERION I : CURRICULAR ASPECTS 1.1 Curriculum Planning and Implementation 1.1.1 The Vision and Mission statements of the institution are: Vision Statement To be a world-class institution for technical education and scientific research for the public good. Mission Statement SSN will strive continuously to: Make a positive difference to the society through education Empower students from all socio-economic strata Be a centre of excellence in education in emerging technologies in accordance with the industry and industrial trends Build world class research capabilities on par with the finest in the world and broaden students' horizons beyond classroom education Nurture talents & entrepreneurship and enable all-round personality development of students The Vision and Mission statements are communicated to the students, teachers, staff and other stakeholders by including the statements in the college calendar and issuing them to every student and faculty at the start of the academic year itself and displaying the statements at all places of congregation such as, laboratories, library, conference halls, seminar rooms, canteen etc. It is also indicated in the college website www.ssn.edu.in. 1.1.2 Action plan for the effective implementation of the curriculum The faculty has been directed to propose the course plan in a sequential and cogent manner and present it for the approval of the concerned HoD. Every student, on admission, is advised to have a laptop to facilitate the viewing of various information relating to the college in the intranet, wherein circulars from the college/teacher/his own class mates might want the students to know, have been uploaded. After scrutiny of the course plan by the HoD, the teacher prepares his pre-class material, and uploads it in the intranet. The students can see it before coming to the class, at their own pace and location, so that they will be coming to the class with some basic knowledge of the portion of the course that is to be taught in the class. The teacher will elaborate the topic through a regular lecture, sometimes through a power point presentation, or by a video and also by chalk and talk, so that the student grasps the fundamentals of the course, without much difficulty. 15 1.1.3 Support the teacher receives from the college for effective translation of curriculum to class Students being the consumers, the college is following a student centric method of teaching. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled, so that any transport of information can be done through intranet/ internet. Every teacher is provided with a desktop/laptop for his official use and is permitted to use the web for any of the academic purpose. The students have access to the internet, as and when and also from a location of his choice e.g. hostel room or home as the case may be. All the classrooms are equipped with laptop, LCD projector and screen besides the conventional blackboards. The teacher having already indicated his teaching plan in the Intranet will explain the salient features of the lesson and proceed to explain them in detail. He/she may even show videos or photos he might have collected from the web. Expenditure, if any incurred by the teacher, in this regard will be reimbursed. 1.1.4 Initiatives by the institution for the effective curriculum delivery Just before the end of a semester, the faculty members of a department meet under the chairmanship of the HoD, and decide on allocation of faculty for handling the different courses of the curriculum for the following semester, taking into consideration, the teacher’s specialization, his commitments with particular reference to research etc. viz. the faculty on the verge of submission of his Ph.D. thesis, a lady staff member who is in the family way, a staff member who is likely to travel overseas for a conference, a faculty being a key person to organize a conference etc., his work load may be reduced. Having decided on the faculty, the faculty will start planning for the teaching of the course in the following semester. On a monthly basis, the HoD reviews the students’ attendance, and the portion of the syllabus that the teacher has already taught. In case of a course, which is common to several classes, a course coordinator discusses with the individual teachers in a meeting convened during the beginning of the semester, decides on the pace and cogency of delivery of the course so that the course proceeds at a uniform pace and in an orderly manner in all sections. A class committee is formed in the beginning of the year, comprising, at least five students – one bright student, one average and one below average from the class, one hostel student and one day-scholar, ensuring a proper blend of gender, as student members, the course coordinators, individual teachers teaching the various courses to the particular class as members and a senior professor, who is not handling any course to that particular class, as Chairman. This class committee meets atleast thrice a semester. The first meeting will normally be about the Regulations, and the approximate schedule for the cycle tests. Students are free to voice their academic grievances which will be addressed to for any mid stream correction in the course delivery. The teachers 16 are also free to express their opinion on the general decorum of or the prevalence of absenteeism in some specific cases etc. to the student members, so that they could convey them to their classmates. The Principal is provided with copy of the minutes of the class committee meetings for further action. 1.1.5 Interaction with research bodies and industry to improve operation of the curriculum The interaction with the research bodies and Industry happens through guest lectures, industrial visits, tours and internships during vacation and while doing project work, if the student chooses to do his project in that organisation in the final year. Guest lecturers from the industry and research laboratories periodically visit the college, to give inputs about the current trends in the industry. During the conferences that the departments organise, there is always a confluence of industrialists and scientists from reputed research organizations. The college makes it a point to request them to address the students, so that they will be aware of the current status of their domains of choice. These will be summarized at the end of the semester and if need be, will be discussed in the department, collated and put forward to the faculty who are members of the specific Board of studies, for necessary follow up action for incorporation in the curriculum, after getting the approval from the University. This is usually a semester long process. 1.1.6 Contribution of the institution in the development of the curriculum Being an affiliated college, the curriculum is framed by the affiliating University and the role played by the faculty of the college is minimal. However, some senior faculty of the college are members of the Boards of Studies (BOS) of the various Faculty and also Academic council of the University. They collect information from the Industrialists, Research Scientists and Alumni, whenever they happen to visit the campus, collate them and make suitable recommendations to the BOS for incorporation/modification in the curriculum. 1.1.7 Independent development of the curriculum by any faculty Some times, a teacher might feel that a special topic must be included in the curriculum to facilitate employability of the student. This may be due to his own personal research or from interactions with industry. In such cases, he can frame a syllabus and indicate the same to the BOS through the Principal that he is willing to teach such a course. This is considered by the respective Boards of the University and can be offered by the faculty as ‘a directed study’. 1.1.8 Ensuring that the stated objectives are achieved The essential objectives of an engineering education are that after completion of the programme a student should be strong in his analytical skills, 17 capable of expressing himself in a manner that could be properly understood by the listener, willing to work as a team and at the same time, capable of leading as well, must be humane, strong in his ethics and above all willing to be a lifelong learner. This is ensured from the student feedback during the class committee meetings, the examination results and also during the placement interviews. During these events, they express that they are comfortable with the method of delivery of classroom lectures, during the seminars when they express freely their views, interviewers of companies wherein they assess the students attitude more than the subject proper. During annual Alumni meeting, we often hear from them that they (the alumni) realize the importance of what they have learnt, at the college, only when they are in the field. It is heartening to know that our academic activities are really fructifying from the above observations. 1.2 Academic Flexibility 1.2.1 Skill Development Courses offered by the Institute The students are given adequate training in the courses prescribed by the curricula to earn their degree. In addition, the following value added programmes are offered: i. Foreign language courses in German, French, Spanish and Japanese ii. Personality Development Programmes iii. Training in Communication skills resulting in BEC I, BEC II certificates of British Council iv. Special training programmes in C++, JAVA 1.2.2 Offer of twinning programmes As the college is affiliated to Anna University twinning programmes are not offered. As none of the programmes are truly interdisciplinary cross migration from one programme to the other is also prohibited by the University. 1.2.3. Institutional provisions for enrichment of the syllabi The Regulations and Curricula being fixed by the affiliating University, the only flexibility available for enrichment is through a wide range of electives offered by the college. These electives are sometimes common to many branches, viz. Environmental Science, Professional Ethics, and Engineering Economics. The undergraduate programmes will have to be, to some extent, generalistic, for, we do not know the job, the student will be landing after graduation. However, some courses are offered in an effort to provide additional inputs to the students, so that they have the built in capacity for self 18 study and feel at home when they join an industry. For example, special short term courses like Wind Energy by EEE department, Advanced Imaging Techniques by ECE department and Fundamentals of Accountancy by the School of Management are offered, as non-credit courses, for students who desire to learn them. 1.2.4 Self financed programmes The college being an unaided college, all the programmes offered by the college is self financed. However, when special programmes for the enrichment of the students are offered, they will be charged to meet the cost of the external trainers engaged for the said purpose, e.g. Japanese and German Language programmes and Personality Development Programmes. 1.2.5 & 1.2.6 Additional skill oriented programmes and Combining Conventional & Distance Mode Programmes The University prohibits conduct of such programmes. 1.3 Curriculum Development 1.3.1 Supplementing University’s Curriculum One of the goals of the institution is to make students ready for higher studies, employable and if possible train them to be entrepreneurs. In this direction only, the Foreign Language courses, Communication skill development courses are conducted. In addition, we train them in the traits to become an entrepreneur by conducting a one day programme with participation by industrialists, bankers, lawyers and industrial licensing authorities, so that atleast a few will shape themselves as entrepreneurs. 1.3.2 Efforts made by the institution to enrich and organize the curriculum to enhance the experiences of the students The college having been affiliated to Anna University, the curriculum is designed by the University. However, based on the suggestions from industry, students and faculty a few courses can be included in the curriculum, such as ‘Mathematical modeling’, ‘Fibre reinforced plastics’, ‘Regional Language Key boards’ etc. As these are the prerogatives of the University we suggest them to the appropriate Board of studies, through our faculty who are also member of the Board thus, enhancing the experience of students. We try to give our students exposure to such courses either through guest lectures or by encouraging them to refer library resources such as books and videos on the topics. 19 1.3.3 Efforts for cross cutting issues such as Gender, Climate Change, Environmental education, Human rights and use of ICT etc. Man is an active limb of the community, and he cannot live in isolation without caring for the society he lives in. A Model United Nation (MUN) club is available in the campus, in which students volunteer to discuss about global issues such as Terrorism, Racial Discrimination, Gender Bias, Global Warming, Human Rights, Capital Punishment etc. Environmental study is already a course in most of the UG curriculum, based on the dictum of the Legal Authorities of India. Every student is advised to have a laptop. As a natural corollary, everyone has one. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled, so that the students can browse the net from any part of the campus at any time. A lot of information is passed on to the students through their college email id [email protected] . The access to the intranet, which has the lesson plans and study materials posted by the individual teachers, cycle test schedule, placement related information, information regarding the impending visit of eminent people to the campus are informed through the intranet. Hence, ICT is being used extensively in the campus. 1.3.4 Programmes for the holistic development of the student The skills needed for employment as well as communications have been enunciated earlier. In addition, the college has National Service Scheme (NSS) as well as Youth Red Cross (YRC) units available in the campus, so as to acquaint the students of the needs and struggles of the rural people of India. Every year, for about a week, the volunteers live with the villagers, helping them with information such as how to get an LPG connection, a ration card, a community certificate etc. besides arranging blood donation and health camps. Students frequently visit one particular village for about three years, so that they can physically see, all their efforts to make the village self sufficient, clean, self empowered, illiteracy eradicated, minimal reliance on government and above all with self respect, bearing fruits. It is gratifying to note that they have developed an attachment with the village, as evidenced by their timely help, as alumni, during recent ravaging floods. 1.3.5 Enrichment of the curriculum from feedbacks from stack holders The feedback is collected from employers, who come for recruitment; Alumni who come to share their experience in industry also indicate what the employers are looking for, from the students. Occasionally, parents too give information that certain things could have been taught to their ward. The college collects these feedbacks, sort them domain wise and send to the teachers who happen to be the members of the Boards of Studies of Anna 20 University. If possible, they will arrange to include the same in the curriculum, thus, enriching the curriculum. 1.3.6 Monitoring the enrichment of the programme The feedback from employers, the number of students who get placed after all the training programmes, number of students who go overseas for higher education, students who take up research as a career, feedback from the alumni, all will indicate the results of the enrichment training given to students. More and more companies come for placement and many of them recruit good number of students, many of them having multiple placements. These facts go well to indicate that our enrichment programmes have given good dividends. 1.4 Feedback system 1.4.1 Contribution of the college in the design of the curriculum From among the faculty, there are faculty who are members of the Boards of Study and Academic Council of Anna University. They collect information from their colleagues in the college, from Industrialists, employers, Alumni and scientists, when they visit the college, and these are discussed among the faculty and the outcome of the discussions are put forward to the Boards for adoption in future years. As the number of colleges affiliated to Anna University is considerably large, the adoption of suggestions by the colleges for modifications to the curriculum cannot be but minimal. 1.4.2 Feedback mechanism There is a full-fledged feedback mechanism as far as students are concerned. But it mostly relates to the teaching learning process. The employers when they come for recruitment give only oral comments that a certain item can be added to or deleted from the syllabus for having become obsolete, or that students are not aware of a particular aspect in a course. Even then, they are discussed in the faculty meeting and rectification to the extent possible is made, and those which could be carried forward to the Boards of Studies will be made. 1.4.3 New courses and their rationale During the past four years, no new UG programmes have been added in the college. The policy of the Management is to have more PG programmes which will ultimately result in developing research scholars. Hence, a few PG programmes such as Manufacturing Engineering, Energy Engineering, Medical Electronics and Environmental Science and Technology have been added during the last four years. Chennai is the hub for automotive, manufacturing and electronics industries. All our energy sources are fast dwindling. Hence, a 21 new PG programme in energy was added. The planning without understanding the impact of industries on the environment such as pollution of ground water, draught, flooding, disappearance of bird species etc. warrant study of environment and hence its inclusion. CRITERION II TEACHING - LEARNING AND EVALUATION 2.1 Student Enrolment and Profile 2.1.1 & 2.1.2 Transparency, criteria in admissions, criteria adopted and process of admission The admission to UG programmes in Self Financing Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu is done in two parts, one relating to admission through what is called a single window of admissions (SWA), by the Government and the other, relating to that made by the Consortium of Self Financing Colleges (CA). While the first part is for 65% of sanctioned strength, the second is for 35% of the sanctioned intake. In either case, the admission is through merit only, merit being defined by the qualifying marks (Q) earned by the candidate in his/her +2 examinations, following the reservations prescribed by the Government of Tamil Nadu, both for SWA and CA. The qualifying mark Q = [M + (P+C)/2], where M, P and C are percentage marks earned by the student in his +2 examinations in the subjects Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, irrespective of the Board. The admission to PG programmes is based on the marks earned by the candidate in the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) only, irrespective of the programme. Even in this, 50 % of seats are admitted through SWS, while the balance is admitted by the Consortium. At SSN College of Engineering, all PG programmes are residential. No advertisement is given for admissions, be it UG or PG, and if at all an advertisement is given, it is only to indicate the programmes available in the college. The popularity of the college can be easily gauged by the fact that there are as many as 6500 applications for 273 Consortium seats in the First year of the UG programme. 2.1.2 2.1.3 Minimum and Maximum marks for admission at entry level The quality of intake of students as marked by the qualifying marks in their qualifying examinations for the preceding year 2014-15 is given below: Sl. No. 1 2 Qualifying marks or TANCET marks Maximum Minimum Programme UG (for 200) Electrical & Electronics Engg. Electronics & Communications Engg. 22 199.3 200 178.75 183.5 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Computer Science & Engineering Information Technology Chemical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering PG (percentage) Communication Systems Computer Science & Engineering Applied Electronics Power Electronics & Drives Information Technology VLSI Design Soft Ware Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Energy Engineering Medical Electronics Environmental Science & Technology MBA 200 199.7 197.8 198.3 198.8 200 177.5 176 180 183.25 181 181.25 40.0 38.1 34.5 39.9 29.1 34.1 28.4 34.7 37.3 39.5 22.6 64.7 22.7 22.4 22.5 23.1 23.51 26.712 26.91 20.8 26.55 26.08 22 22 2.1.4 Mechanism in the institution to review the admission process and student profiles The institution does not have a role in the admission process. 2.1.5 Diversity and inclusiveness in admissions The reservation policy of the Government of Tamil Nadu, takes care of the marginalized sectors of the society, viz. SC/ST, OBC, Differently-abled and Minority communities, there being no segregation or preference based on gender. Government higher secondary schools in rural areas are deplorably illequipped both by buildings and teachers; with the result, the students, if at all they are academically performing, they are doing so with their native intelligence. And almost all of them are from economically challenged families. In an effort to educate and uplift such students, the college admits 25 of them every year, and offers them all four year education absolutely gratis, including hostel facilities. The change in the status of their families, when the student graduates, is to be seen to be believed. This scheme has been very much appreciated with no exception, by all the visitors to the campus. 2.1.6 The trend of admissions The following Table gives the trend of admissions for various programmes offered by the college during the past four years, where X is the Number of applications received, Y the Sanctioned strength and Z the Demand 23 ratio X/Y. When the number of applications (especially for some PG programmes) is less than the sanctioned strength, the demand ratio is not given. 2012-13 S Programme No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 EEE ECE CSE IT Chemical BME Mechanical Civil Communication Systems CSE Applied Electronics PED IT VLSI S/W Engg. Mfg. Engg Energy Medical Electronics Environmental Science and Tech. MBA 2013-14 X Y Z 3640 3640 3640 3640 1890 1890 3640 1890 42 42 42 42 21 21 42 21 86.7 86.7 86.7 86.7 90 90 86.7 90 X Y 2014-15 Z X Y 2015-16 Z X UG 3360 42 80 3450 42 82.1 4140 3360 42 80 3450 42 82.1 4140 3360 42 80 3450 42 82.1 4140 3360 42 80 3450 42 82.1 4140 2640 21 125.7 2360 21 112.4 3140 2640 21 125.7 2360 21 112.4 3140 3360 42 80 3450 42 82.1 4140 2640 21 125.7 2360 21 112.4 3140 PG Y Z 42 42 42 42 21 21 42 21 98.6 98.6 98.6 98.6 149.5 149.5 98.6 149.5 33 18 1.8 68 18 3.8 38 18 2.1 25 18 1.4 70 12 5.8 71 12 5.9 58 12 4.8 35 12 2.9 11 6 1.8 22 6 3.7 28 6 4.7 10 6 3.3 32 6 38 9 6 18 6 5.3 3 2 18 2.1 3 3 3 2 3 6 65 12 71 4 21 7 6 10.1 35 3 4 8 18 3.9 44 3 1.2 2 3 7 33 3 2.3 14 6 3 18 1 3 3 5.8 2.7 2.4 2 11 4.7 21 5 18 3 12 6 6 3 18 3 3 3 3.5 1.7 1 1 4 2 - - - - - - 2 1 2 7 3 2.3 - - - - - - 2 - - 5 - - 479 120 4 438 120 4 554 120 5 324 120 3 2.2 Catering to Student diversity 2.2.1 Catering to the needs of differently-abled students Corridors with ramps and rest rooms are provided with the differentlyabled in mind, so that to the extent possible, they will be at home in the campus with their friends, without any inhibition. 2.2.2 Assessing the students needs in terms of knowledge and skills A cursory glance of the Table given in the section 2.1.3 will indicate that the average qualifying mark is at about 80%. Due to change of environment and a change in the pattern of teaching at the college compared to that prevailing in the schools, students find it difficult to grasp the subjects 24 atleast during the first semester. It is found that Language contributes heavily to the heterogeneity of students admitted. Hence, all students are given a diagnostic test in English at the very beginning, and depending on the outcome of the test, special language classes are conducted for the non-performing students to equip them with necessary language skills. This is done during the First week of their admissions itself. 2.2.3 Strategies adopted by the institution to bridge the knowledge gap of the enrolled students In Tamil Nadu, five types of students are admitted to the Engineering Programmes. They are: i. Students coming from English medium Central Board schools ii. Students coming from English medium State Board Schools iii. Students coming from Tamil medium schools iv. Students coming from Vocational stream v. Lateral entry students Of these, the first three categories of students, generally do well, except for a portion of category (iii) for whom some training in language is all that is needed, so that they can understand lectures delivered in English. Category (iv) students do not study Physics and Chemistry during their earlier studies. Their understanding of Mathematics is also only up to the level of 10th Std. Hence, we give special coaching classes for these students in English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry after college hours and during weekends. It is found that over a period of a year, they, though may not be 100% in a level playing field, are able to manage to communicate, understand the lectures and analyze problems. Lateral entry students are a class of students who are admitted to the second year directly after completing their diploma from polytechnic colleges. Though they are good in the subjects relating to the trade of their choice, their communication skills and mathematical skills are very much wanting. Hence special classes are arranged for them also in English and Mathematics. 2.2.4 How does the college sensitize its staff and students on issues such as gender, inclusion, environment etc.? The Institute is expressedly a co-ed institute and the term ‘student’ is inclusive for all practical purposes. The gender ratio of both students and faculty on campus is approximately 1:1.The institute promotes free interaction in the class, lab etc. unbiased by gender and has several forums, where a lady is a Chairman and she co-opts men as members. No distinction is made between the genders except where it is warranted. During orientation of the students and faculty, all newcomers are made aware of the institute’s gender and inclusion 25 policies. All facilities are provided in the campus to ensure that both the genders are able to utilize all the infrastructure and opportunities for their development. Sufficient grievance redressal measures are in place to ensure upholding of the gender policies of the institute. The institute strives to inculcate the importance of environment preservation among the students. Students are encouraged to commute in the campus only on bicycles to reduce the carbon footprints. 800 bicycles are available on the campus to be used free of cost, by students. Parking stands are installed outside all academic buildings, hostels and canteens. The campus has a dedicated nursery from where the students and staff are encouraged to procure plants for their personal use. Tree plantation drives are organized by the various cells both inside the campus and in nearby villages. 2.2.5 How does the institution identify and respond to special educational / learning needs of advanced learners? The institute strives to ensure that it is able to assist both slow learners as well as learning needs of the advanced learners. To help advanced learners they are advised to take part in seminars and conferences. They are encouraged to write a paper and publish it in a technical journal under the guidance of faculty members. They are also advised to crystallize their ideas into a project, which might earn them funding from the institute. If it shapes into a viable project for external funding, the student is encouraged to apply for the same. Students, who are desirous of pursuing their studies in foreign universities, are counseled regarding selection of Universities and colleges. 2.2.6 Drop outs among students and addressing them It has been generally observed that the dropping out of students is in the category of Vocational stream students only. Rarely other students tend to drop out, and if at all they do, it is due to heavy back log of subjects. In an effort to minimize this by giving personal attention, during the first year, 15 students are attached to a faculty of Science & Humanities and later on (after first year) to a faculty in their own department, who continues to be his/her mentor for the rest of the programme. The mentors meet the students once a month and are generally able to locate students who need some sort of counseling. The college has a qualified psychiatrist, a student counselor, who collects from the mentors the information of students who have large number of arrears, who are emotionally unstable, weak and depressed. The counselor sits with each student, one-to-one basis as frequently as needed, to advise him suitably and follow him up as well. Hence, drop outs are insignificant compared to the largeness of the student population. 26 2.3 Teaching - Learning Process 2.3.1 Organisation of Teaching, Learning and evaluation process As per the university regulations, the college must have 90 working days per semester. With this in mind, a calendar is prepared to give dates of reopening, holidays and dates for other events such as Annual day, Sports Day, Seminar Week, Graduation day etc. This is printed and given to the student at the beginning of the academic year itself. In a typical 4 year engineering programme, there are about 45 theory courses and 14 practical courses, besides a Project in the final semester. Of these 47% are predominantly lecture based and the rest 53% for which ICT is extensively used. The examination comprises two components, the internal assessment component for 20% and the end of semester examination accounting for the rest. For the Internal assessment, there are three cycles of tests spread evenly over the entire period of the semester. The first unit test generally commences after the first 15 working days of that semester. One cycle of tests lasts for 3 weeks and a week after the test in the last course, next cycle of test will start. The time table for the cycle tests is given atleast a week ahead of commencement of tests. The tests are conducted centrally, during the first two periods of Mondays and Fridays. The end semester examinations are conducted almost after the third cycle test. 2.3.2 How does IQAC contribute to improve the teaching – learning process? IQAC is christened as Quality Management System in the college. It is formed around shared pedagogical interests or practice and is centered on faculty and Students as stakeholders. Focus is on productive Teaching and Learning process through effective implementation of curriculum through experiential learning. Ideally it represents multiple Teaching and learning methods such as classroom teaching (Lectures), Assignments, Lab Experiments, Case Studies, Research, Simulations Exercises and mini projects. QMS identifies a focus of choice that may include active learning, Course Plan, Lesson Plan, Beyond Syllabus exercises, assignment design, application of course concepts, teaching large lecture courses, and integration of technology, to name a few. The QMS then formulates a process through which it engages to focus across the semester. This process may include, but is not limited to: • • Reviewing a sample of Course Plan, Lesson Plan, Assignments and/or class exercises Auditing Continual Improvements 27 2.3.3 Student centric learning and exposure to Technology enhanced learning The teaching-learning process comprises three steps. The teacher prepares the teaching plan and it is approved by the HoD. The teacher informs the students the availability of this in the intranet, in addition to indicating the location of other sources of information such as books for reference, CDs, illustrations, flow diagrams etc. In the class, the teacher gives explanations for the uploaded material and gives additional information regarding the same and calls for any queries. In the case of problem-oriented subjects, he takes the help of another teacher and gives problems for students to solve in the class itself. This is particularly helpful as in this case the instructions are given on a one to one basis, and the students shed all the inhibitions they might have, thus ensuring student centric learning. The library has as many as 2500 CDs of live lectures of eminent professors from institutions of repute viz. IITs, in addition to free access to NPTEL lectures and this forms the self learning part of the teaching-learning process. 2.3.4 How does the institution nurture critical thinking, creativity and scientific temper among the students to transform them into lifelong learners and innovators? Practical exposure to students is an important part of teaching to help students nurture critical thinking, creativity and scientific temper. While the library is open till late in the night, the laboratories of the institute are open to desiring students, provided the lab is free. He is permitted to use the lab after getting permission from the HoD concerned and the requirement is that atleast one faculty/research scholar/M.E. student must be available in the lab, which often happens. The student can experiment his ideas and if the results are encouraging he continues his experiment, prepares a report and presents the same to the teacher, who in turn advises him to continue the experiment or suggests additional resources for further reading. If the student exhibits ‘creativity’ during a lab class, he is permitted to make a working model from resources available, thus rendering lifelong learning a passion among students. Students are encouraged to team up with faculty for submitting innovative proposals to the management. External experts scrutinize the proposals and students present their thoughts and arguments in favour of the project proposals. Students are incentivized for their creativity and critical thinking by the institution by providing seed funding for innovative projects. Most of these projects lead to publications in refereed international journals. 28 2.3.5 What are the technologies and facilities available and used by the faculty for effective teaching? The institute is vigorously adopting the e-learning technology for at least 90% of the courses taught. To facilitate the learning further, NPTEL lecture material are available for browsing in the library for any student to access. Further Anna University beams through ‘EDUSAT’ lectures on specific topics. But the scheduling to match the time of relay, so that students can listen to the lectures, has been the only impediment. A large number of CDs are available in the library, on various subjects and as everyone has a lap top, the student can browse through the contents at his own time and pace. The entire campus is fully Wi-Fi enabled and with repository of teaching materials on the internet ensuring that students can come prepared for the classes and study at their own pace. Classrooms have projectors and laptops to ensure teachers can use all electronic teaching aids at their disposal. 2.3.6 How are the students and faculty exposed to advanced level of knowledge and skills (blended learning, expert lectures, seminars, workshops etc.)? Scientists from Research organizations, persons from industries and academicians from other Universities are invited to deliver lectures to students as well as faculty. Every year students organize an annual seminar on a suitable topic inviting experts and also students from other colleges to give lectures, demonstrations etc., which exposes the students to knowledge that is nascent. Every department of the institute organizes a National level technical symposium where students and experts from all over the country participate and exchange ideas and concepts related to their fields. 2.3.7 Detail (process and the number of students benefitted) on the academic, personal and psycho-social support and guidance services provided to students? The detailed teaching learning process is described elsewhere in this report. A mentor is available for every 15 students, who monitors the students through the entire programme and gives academic counseling where necessary. A qualified student counselor is available in the campus, who identifies the students needing psychological counseling, interacts with them, in camera and guides him/her in the right path. Academic student mentors, help the counselor in identifying the students, who need counseling. It has been observed that counseling is found necessary for students, who are first generation learners, students who could not express themselves in English, those with large number of back logs and also occasionally for those who have relationship issues. 29 2.3.8 Innovative teaching approaches/methods adopted by the faculty and the efforts made by the institution to encourage the faculty to adopt new and innovative approaches. Faculty extensively use technology and teaching aids along with practical aspects to teach students. Course materials are prepared in advance and shared with students on the intranet. This ensures students are well prepared for the classes. Every classroom has projectors and laptops to ensure faculty deliver their lectures in an innovative way. This ensures that classrooms are a place to interact and exchange ideas rather than just for delivery of lectures. When innovative teaching was introduced in 2005, faculty had their own reservations and it was adopted only for courses needing elaborate sketching e.g. Engineering Graphics, Basic Mechanical Engineering, Construction methods etc. But over a period of time, having learnt the nuances of it, it is now adopted extensively except for subjects like Mathematics, English etc. and there is good acknowledgement from students as well. 2.3.9 Library resources used to augment the teaching-learning process. The college has an excellent library having as many as 88,300 volumes of books, about 350 print version journals and almost 10000 journals which can be browsed on line. Students are asked to refer to the library resources on a topic of their choice and give a lecture to their own classmates, which dispel their stage fear and gives them a chance to explore the avenues of knowledge available in the library. Students can access the library resources even from the comfort of their hostel rooms. 2.3.10 Does the institution face any challenges in completing the curriculum within the planned time frame and calendar? A 90 -working day- semester is necessary priori for a student to appear for the semester examinations conducted by the University. The curriculum and the syllabi have been so framed that in about 45 to 55 periods one will be able to complete the syllabus. Due to force of circumstances such as social disturbances, flooding, elections etc. if the number of working days get curtailed, special classes are conducted as the disturbances subside, on Saturdays and curtailing even religious holidays. 2.3.11 Mentoring, counseling, class committee and monitoring teachinglearning As mentioned earlier, about 15 students are linked to one teacher, who is teaching them and will be their mentor. During the First year, where students 30 are fresh from schools, have their own inhibitions. First year subjects are mostly from Science and Humanities, hence faculty from those departments are identified as mentors. The student can meet his/her mentor and pose his/her adjustment and academic problems and seek redressal. From second year onwards, students move to the departments of their choice and hence one of their department faculty is nominated as a mentor, who will be mentoring them during the next 3 years. The mentor keeps a complete record of the student’s accomplishments, his attitudes, interests, weakness etc. In the first year, students come from a protected environment at the school, to the college, where their counterparts may or may not think and behave as he has been accustomed to. They come across fast learners, slow learners and sometimes they might even feel that they have landed in an institution not to their liking and feel depressed. Such cases are referred to the student counselor, who is a qualified psychiatrist, who talks to them individually and counsels them as needed. A class committee, comprising a cross-section of students – slow learners, fast learners, girls, boys, sports-persons and the faculty teaching the class, chaired by one senior professor from the department, is formed during the beginning of the semester. This meets thrice a semester to discuss about the teaching – learning process and to get a feel of difficulties encountered by the students and faculty. During the First meeting, the discussions are about the purpose of the class committee, University regulations, how the students can express their difficulties and get them redressed. The second meeting is after the first Unit test and the Third one will be after the second test. It has been found to be very useful to both the faculty and students; to faculty about the inattentiveness in the class and absenteeism of students and to students that the teaching being fast, not audible etc. For example, the BME students, most of who are Biology students, requested that special classes on computers can be conducted for them. Students admitted under rural quota require that the lectures could be with an admixture of Tamil and English etc. Besides the students’ attendance, the teacher’s log book shows the pace at which the course is conducted and the performance of students during the semester. This is submitted to the Principal to keep him in the know of things. Hence, the material uploaded on the Intranet, minutes of the class committee meetings and the periodical entries in the teachers log book are good tools to monitor the teaching-learning process. 2.4 Teacher Quality 2.4.1 Recruitment Process and quality of teachers The teacher being the key person in a teaching institute, every care is taken to recruit quality persons, devoted to teaching. The number of faculty 31 recruited is aimed so that the faculty strength is not less than 1/15 of the number of students with a cadre ratio of 1:3:6 for UG Programmes. For PG, the number of faculty must be at least 3 for an intake of 18 and the faculty student ratio aimed is 1:12, with atleast one Ph.D. holder for each of the programmes. Care is taken to ensure that all HoDs, Professors and Associate Professors are Ph.Ds. The Faculty selection committee is as prescribed by the AICTE and University viz. Principal (Chairman), with HoD, subject expert from IIT, a nominee of AICTE and a nominee of Anna University as members. Though the committee meets as and when it is necessary, normally the recruitment is done during summer, so that the teacher is available during the beginning of the academic year itself. The directive from the Management, to have as many Ph.Ds as possible without sacrificing the aptitude to teach and at the same time do research, is always borne in mind. The salary is paid as per Sixth Pay Commission pay scales with dearness allowance as proposed by the Government of Tamil Nadu; group medical insurance, special allowance for Ph.D., incentives for earning external funded projects, Ph.D. guidance, publications etc. and good working ambience make SSN an excellent institution to work at. With these perquisites, the attrition rate is as low as one percent and that too for medical and other personal reasons. The following Table gives a glimpse into quality of faculty at present: Sl. No. Highest Qualification 1 2 3 4 D.Sc./D.Litt. Ph.D. M. Phil. PG Associate Prof. M F 70 24 4 - Professor M 29 4 F 16 - Assistant Prof. M 16 3 35 F 21 1 52 Total Total 176 4 95 275 Temporary Teachers and Part-Time Teachers - NIL All faculty are recruited against permanent vacancies and are regularised after a probation period of one year. 2.4.2 How does the institution cope with the growing demand/scarcity of qualified senior faculty to teach new programmes/modern areas (emerging areas) of study being introduced (Biotechnology, IT, Bioinformatics etc.)? The institute has experienced such a situation, especially in the Computer related divisions, when the IT industry was in boom. It was overcome by announcing an additional compensation of about 25% for Computer trained faculty. But currently it is not adopted. The institution has in place policies to attract and retain highly qualified faculty members. The institute offers above market rate compensation 32 alongwith other perks and benefits like management funding for projects, research facilities, academic freedom, housing on campus and other welfare schemes. This has ensured that faculty positions in the institute are much sought after. This coupled with low attrition rates has ensured adequate qualified senior faculty for all areas at all times. 2.4.3 Providing details on staff development programmes during the last four years elaborate on the strategies adopted by the institution in enhancing the teacher quality. a) Nomination to staff development programmes A teacher will have to be a lifelong learner; only then, he will be able to teach the current trends to the students besides updating himself. To achieve this, every opportunity is given to him to participate in Seminars, Conferences, FDPs etc. organized by external agencies, university and other institutions. Faculty development programmes and National and International conferences are organized by the respective departments, to propagate the knowledge that is nascent as presented in the following Table for the year 2014-15: Sl. Number of faculty Academic Staff Development Programmes No. Nominated 1 Refresher courses 4 2 HRD Programmes 10 3 Orientation Programmes 15 4 Staff Training programmes organized by the 22 University 5 Summer/winter schools, workshops etc. 116 b) Faculty Training programmes organized by the institution to empower and enable the use of various tools and technology for improved teaching-learning Number of Faculty Development programmes, conferences, workshops organized by the college from 2012-15 are given below: Sl. No. Description of the Programme Number 1 Faculty Development Programmes 22 2 National Conferences 8 3 International Conferences 5 4 Workshops 34 5 Seminars 43 6 Content Development 2 c) Percentage of faculty Faculty who were invited as resource persons, participated and presented papers in workshops/seminars/conferences as against the total number of faculty of 275 during 2014-15: 33 Sl. No. 1 2 3 Description Invited as resource persons in Workshops/Seminars / Conferences organized by external Professional agencies Participated in external workshops / seminars / conferences recognized by national / international professional agencies Presented papers in external workshops / seminars / conferences recognized by national / international professional agencies Number of faculty 42 112 163 2.4.4 Policies adopted by the Management to improve the knowledge content of faculty The following policies help improve the academic acumen of the faculty Incentive for publication of papers Incentive for earning external funded projects Incentive for guiding research Incentive for organizing a National / International conference Seed money for a prospective project, so that on fructification can be submitted to an external funding agency for funding • Incentive for a worthy innovative idea • Incentive for applying for / winning a patent • Travel Grant The number of faculty who have received such awards during 2014-15 is given below: Sl. Number of Incentives based on No. faculty 1 Number of papers published in journals of repute 143 2 Number of external funded projects earned 7 3 Number of Ph.D. students guided 71 4 Number of Conferences organized: National 11 International 1 5 Number of Internal funded projects earned 38 6 Innovative ideas created 8 7 Number of Patents: Submitted Earned 12 • • • • • 8 Number of faculty granted travel grants 34 8 146 2.4.5 Give the number of faculty who received awards / recognition at the state, national and international level for excellence in teaching during the last four years. Enunciate how the institutional culture and environment contributed to such performance/achievement of the faculty. The institute encourages the faculty to adopt innovative teaching practices. These incentives are designed towards excelling in teaching, study tours to Indian and foreign universities and learning from the Best Practices of peers. The focus on travelling to other institutes for study tours, participation in conferences and seminars and formal and informal collaborations lead to expanding the horizons of the faculty and ensures novelty in the teaching process. This has resulted in several awards as mentioned below for our faculty members. EEE Sl. No. Name of the faculty Awards / recognition received • ISTE Best Engineering College Teacher Award 2013. IET CLN Diamond Salute Award, 2014. • CTS Best Faculty Award in 2011. • TATA Rao Gold Medal from Institution of Engineers (India) for the publication of best paper in Electrical Engineering Division. CTS Best Faculty Award in 2013. Best Academic Researcher award - 2015 ASDF2015. IET CLN – Sir C.V.Raman Research award 2014. • 1 2 Dr. V.Kamaraj Dr. V. Rajini 3 Dr. R. Rengaraj 4 Dr. R. Seyezhai • • 5 Dr. R. Ramaprabha • ECE Sl. Name of the Faulty No. 1 Dr. S. Salivahanan Awards / Recognitions received by faculty • • • • • • Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan National Award for Best Engineering College Principal from ISTE Chairman of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Chennai Chapter. Past Chairman of IEEE Madras Section. Executive Committee Member of IEEE Madras Section. TATA Rao Gold Medal from Institution of Engineers (India) for the publication of best paper in Electrical Engineering Division. Chairman, ASSOCHAM - Education & Skill Development Expert Committee 35 1 Dr. S. Radha 2 Dr. K. T. Selvan 3 Dr. S. Joseph Gladwin 4 Ms. P. Kaythry 5 Dr. S. Sakthivel Murugan CSE Sl. No. 1 Recipient of IETE SK Mitra Memorial Award from India council of IETE and TPC GWS 2015. • Executive Committee Member of IEEE Madras Section. • IEEE AP-S Region 10 Distinguished Speaker, 2015-16 and Past Chairman of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society, Chennai Chapter. • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (UK). • Chairman of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society, Chennai Chapter. • Executive Committee Member of IEEE Madras Section. • Received Best NSS Program Officer award consecutively for four years from Anna University, Chennai. • Young Researcher Award (2015) from Centre for Advanced Research and Design, Venus International Foundation, Chennai. • Name of the Faulty Dr. Shomona Gracia Jacob Dr. Chitra Babu, Mr. V. Balasubramanian, Ms. S. Kavitha Dr. D. Venkata vara Prasad 2 3 IT Sl. No. 1 Chemical Sl. No. Name of the Faulty Mr. R. Vinob Chander and Ms. S. Sasirekha Name of the Faulty Best Young Teacher Award by the GRABS Educational Charitable Trust. MEC Champion faculty. CTS Best faculty award in 2012. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty Won the first prize in May 2015 for the Realtime Parking Management System (RPMS) app developed by them at the Hackathon conducted by Great Indian HP Code Off @ GIDS. They get Round-Trip Tickets to USA for their accomplishment. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty • 1 Awards / Recognitions received by faculty Dr. R. Parthiban • Editorial Board Member in International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Executive Committee Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chennai Regional Centre 36 • 2 Dr. V. Jaikumar • • 3 Dr.K.Jagannathan • • • 4 Dr. R. Anantharaj • • • • • • • 5 Dr. P. Senthilkumar • • Glory of Education Excellence Award 2013 by National and International Compendium, New Delhi. Outstanding Educationalist award 2014 Won Silver medal for Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition 2015 (iidex2015) held at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Won Silver medal for Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition 2014 (index2014) held at Universit Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia during. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Innovative Engineering (JIE) Editorial Board Member of Journal of Computational Methods in Molecular Design (JCMMD) IChemE awards 2014 in Malaysia for The Petrochemical Processing Award in 2014. Full Financial Award by Human Resource Division (HIR), University of Malaya 2013. ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award 2013. CTS Best faculty award in 2014. Received the “Young Scientist Award” with a cash award of Rs.20,000/- from “The Professor Venkatachalam Research Foundation”, K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode. Received the “Young Scientist Award” from Centre for Advanced Research and Design, Venus International Foundation. Received an award from Elsevier for the Top Cited Article in the year 2010 and 2011 for his Article: “Adsorption of dye from aqueous solution by cashew nut shell: Studies on equilibrium isotherm kinetics and thermodynamics of interactions”, Vol. 261, pp. 52-60, 2010. Received Most Cited Authors Award for top cited article in the year 2012 from Elsevier; Article Name: Adsorption behavior of nickel (II) onto cashew nut shell: Equilibrium, thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanism and process design, Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 167 and 2011, pp. 122-131. Associate Editor in Desalination and Water Treatment Journal 37 6 Dr. D. Balaji • Executive Committee Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chennai Regional Centre BME Sl. No. Name of the Faulty Awards / Recognitions received by faculty 1 Dr. S. Pravin Kumar • Best Teacher Award from Schneider - Electric India 2 Dr. V. Mahesh • TI design contest Award • Prof. Satyanarayana Award from Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India International Biopharmaceutical Association Scholarship Award TI design contest award, Schneider - Electric India Award 3 Dr.Mallika Jainu 4 Ms. B. Geethanjali • • Mechanical Sl. No. 1 Name of the Faulty Dr. K.S. Vijay Sekar Awards / Recognitions received by faculty • CTS Best faculty award in 2015. Civil Sl. No. Name of the Faulty Awards / Recognitions received by faculty • 1 Dr. R. Rajkumar Editorial Board Member in International Journal of Design and Manufacturing Technology Science and Humanities Sl. No. Name of the Faulty Awards / Recognitions received by faculty • 1 Dr. N.P. Rajesh Received the “Young Scientist Award” and a Citation from International Organisation for Crystal Growth at Doshishe University, Kyoto, Japan. 2.4.6 Faculty Evaluation by students and usage of the same Every semester the student has to evaluate the teacher who has taught him, with particular reference to his (the teacher’s) regularity, punctuality, clarity, willingness to explain a topic all over again when warranted by the students, usage of ECT, his unbiased evaluation of the students in the tests, returning the scripts in time, subject preparedness, completing the syllabus and maintaining cordial relationship with the students. These grades are 38 consolidated for several courses the teacher is offering and is a component of the Faculty evaluation, the other components being the evaluation by the HoD concerned and evaluation by the Principal and self evaluation. This is never used to penalize a teacher but pitfalls if any, the teacher is called and asked in camera to make good the deficiencies and the credit is always given a good weightage while considering his career advancement, at the appropriate time. 2.5 Evaluation Process and Reforms 2.5.1 Student evaluation The student evaluation comprises essentially of two components viz. (a) continuous internal assessment and (b) end semester assessment by the University. While the former is for a maximum of 20 marks, the balance is for the latter. The total marks earned in the subject are converted in to letter Grades S, A, B, C, D and E with each letter being given a Grade Point, G in numbers. n ∑ C GP i Grade Point Average for the semester GPA = i i =1 n ∑C i i =1 where Ci - is the Credits assigned to the course GPi - is the point corresponding to the grade obtained for each course n - is number of all courses successfully cleared during the particular semester in the case of GPA. The summation is made for the subjects in that particular semester. When the summation is done for all the subjects of all the preceding semesters and including the current semester, it is Cumulative Grade Point Average CGPA. The student is classified to have passed in First Class with distinction, First or Second class based on CGPA he has earned upto and including the eighth semester for the UG and up to and including the Fourth semester for the PG programmes. The test schedule is given in advance and is conducted centrally similar to the University examinations. For valid reasons, if a student is absent for a test, he is given a retest at the discretion of the teacher. The teacher offering the course uploads the test marks in the University web portal almost immediately after evaluation of every test in his subject. 2.5.2 What are the major evaluation reforms of the university that the institution has adopted and what are the reforms initiated by the institution on its own? 39 The University constitutes a board of examiners separately for central valuation of each category (for various sciences, humanities and for various engineering and technology disciplines) consisting of a Chairman, Chief Examiners and Examiners. There is a provision in the University for revaluation of the answer scripts as well as for students to obtain photocopies of the evaluated answer scripts. On the recommendations of HoD and Principal, the answer scripts of University examinations are revalued by the University. In case the student is not satisfied with the outcome of the revaluation or the marks obtained by him, university has a provision to go in for a CHALLENGE. However the marks obtained by the student will be the best of all the above. The institution continuously reviews the evaluation process done internally and necessary changes as and when applicable/ required are implemented. There are three tests which form part of internal evaluation for every subject. The institute encourages the teachers to experiment with various evaluation techniques to test learning of students. In addition to the above, regular assignments are also part of the evaluation process. 2.5.3 How does the institution ensure effective implementation of the evaluation reforms of the university and those initiated by the institution on its own? For the effective implementation of the reforms advised by the university, the college has an exclusive Examination Cell headed by a Professor for overseeing the conduct of all the internal and external examinations. Question papers are set by different faculty and handed over to the Examination Cell for ensuring smooth conduct of the evaluation. The results are analysed and reviewed by the HoD so as to plan and execute corrective actions, if any. The above method ensures a fool proof method of implementation of evaluation reforms. 2.5.4 Provide details on the formative and summative assessment approaches adopted to measure student achievement. Cite a few examples which have positively impacted the system. The institution conducts tests every Monday and Friday for the students. Tests are conducted after the completion of roughly 30% of the overall syllabus of a particular course. Atleast three tests are conducted for any particular course. The tests are so designed that students have to understand the concept and apply it to problems to do well in the tests. This takes care of the formative 40 assessment of the students. The final examinations of the subjects and the practical examinations are the summative assessments and they ensure that students have understood the concepts and their applications. Funded projects and mini–projects test their use of these concepts. 2.5.5 Detail on the significant improvements made in ensuring rigor and transparency in the internal assessment during the last four years and weightages assigned for the overall development of students The University prescribes 80% for end-of-semester examinations conducted by the University and 20% for the CIA component, awarded by the college. The internal assessment is the average of three tests conducted for a course during the semester. The University specifies dates for uploading each of the three test marks in its portal. The tests are conducted centrally, on the same fashion as that of a University examination, thus ensuring rigour and transparency, evaluated for a maximum of 100, giving equal weightage for all the tests and uploaded in the portals of the University, on the dates specified. The uploaded marks are available on the portal for the student to see thus, eschewing any complaint. The University computes the internal assessment marks. The behavioural aspects and independent learning are not quantified and included in awarding the IA marks. However, they are taken into consideration while selecting students as student office bearers for various activities in the college such as Literary club, Music Club, Secretary to organize student seminars etc. in the college. 2.5.6 Graduate Attributes (GA) of the college The college expects the following Graduate Attributes from the students graduating from the college: a. To have good listening skills and ability to communicate b. Consideration to the society at large c. To have excellent engineering knowledge & skills d. Willingness to use modern tools e. Have strong analytical skills f. To design and develop solutions g. To have individual and team working skills h. Willingness to be a lifelong learner i. Strong work ethics The number of students who gain admissions in Institutions of higher learning both in India and overseas, the number of students who get placed in reputed organizations and the count of students who venture as entrepreneurs are indicators of the achievement of the GA. 41 2.5.7 Grievance Redressal mechanisms There are two distinct grievances that could come from students, one relating to the college and the other relating to the University. Grievances relating to the college can be addressed to the teacher concerned, or the HoD concerned or the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) of the college for redressal. The GRC, generally meets once in a month, or earlier as situations warrant, and try to address the student’s grievances. Grievances relating to the University can be addressed to the Registrar or the Controller of Examinations of the University, as the case may be, and routed through the Principal. 2.6 Student Performance and Learning Outcomes 2.6.1 Learning outcomes of the college Learning outcomes (LO) are statements that specify what learners will know or be able to do as a result of a learning activity. Outcomes are usually expressed as knowledge, skills, or attitudes. Through a series of lectures and practical classes, he tends to absorb the knowledge that is ‘spread’ in the class. The LOs can be achieved through the classroom teaching and supplemented by tutorials and practicals. It is expected that the teacher explains the topics in a lucid manner so that the student absorbs them and will be using them in furthering the courses. The verification of the course material by the HoD and the deliberations at the class committee meetings ensure these aspects. The CIA and ESA are assessments to check if outcomes are achieved. Every subject has lesson plans and every lesson plan has the specific learning outcome. Lesson plans are displayed on the college intranet. All lesson plans are reviewed by the HoDs concerned. Also in every class the faculty clearly explains the learning outcomes to the students and in the class, evaluation is designed to test the same. 2.6.2 Monitoring the progress of the students and communicating them during the progress of the course The tutorial sessions are the best period when the teacher closely interacts with the students and the student freely expresses his difficulties. Many faculties decide on giving assignments in between the tests and the performance of the students in them again indicates if the student has assimilated what has been taught. The cycle test mark is yet another indication of the performance of students. The college makes it a point to communicate to the parents the marks the student has earned during the first and second cycle of tests so that the parents are aware of the performance of their wards and 42 corrective actions can be initiated by them also. The average pass percentage of the class in the end of semester examination is also an indication of the general progress of the class as a whole. The average pass percentages of the batch that passed out in 2014-15 as they passed through various semesters of B.E./B.Tech. degree programmes are indicated in the Table below: Average pass percentage of the class during the semester Sl. Branch No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 EEE 85.4 91.3 82.2 69.2 72.6 81.3 93.1 93.8 2 ECE 92.8 84.0 85.0 81.6 80.3 87.8 90.5 94.6 3 CSE 88.9 82.5 78.0 65.8 68.8 75.7 77.1 96.4 4 IT 89.6 90.3 80.8 66.2 66.4 76.9 90.3 97.2 5 Chemical 93.44 85.25 83.6 91.0 95.5 98.5 96.9 100 6 BME 91.4 81.3 64.7 62.4 77.2 84.9 78.8 97.0 7 Mech. 87.2 84.8 85.4 85.4 86.4 91.0 95.9 97.9 8 Civil 90.3 85.5 85.7 88.6 82.9 88.6 97.1 98.6 2.6.3 How are the teaching, learning and assessment strategies of the institution structured to facilitate the achievement of the intended learning outcomes? As mentioned elsewhere the students at the institution are trained to be inquisitive and curious and to master the concepts and their applications. The classroom interactions encourage the presenting and arguing of their technical ideas through project submissions and presentations. The weekly tests ensure that applications and concepts are learned and worked upon. They also provide feedback to the faculty and students. 2.6.4 What are the measures/initiatives taken up by the institution to enhance the social and economic relevance (student placements, entrepreneurship, innovation and research aptitude developed among students etc.) of the courses offered? • Students are trained in communication skills, aptitude and soft skills • Seminars are conducted right from first year onwards where students are encouraged to present their ideas and improve their communication • Students are sponsored to conduct national level technical symposiums. Every department conducts one every year. This helps to develop technical aptitude and organisational abilities. • Students are encouraged to apply for internal funding for innovative ideas and projects. This helps building their research aptitude. Students publish in international refereed journals with the help of their faculty members. • Spirit of entrepreneurship is inculcated among the students by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC). The EDC organises events and talks by eminent entrepreneurs. 43 • Students participate in projects of social relevance through the Youth Red Cross and Rotaract Clubs. Students take up projects such as teaching underprivileged children in rural areas, awareness campaigns etc. 2.6.5 How does the institution collect and analyse data on student performance and learning outcomes and use it for planning and overcoming barriers of learning? The data is collected from the entire faculty at the department level. The head of the department and his office is responsible for collecting all the data from the faculty, monitoring it and disseminating the relevant data for feedback to the students, faculty and parents. A hard copy sheet is maintained for all the courses which comprises of various parameters and the values achieved corresponding to them. This is signed by the faculty and HoD concerned, and shared periodically with parents. The whole process is reviewed department wise fortnightly by the Principal and the corrective steps taken, if required. 2.6.6 Monitoring the learning outcome The second and third class committee meetings, invariably analyse and discuss the performance of the students in the corresponding cycle tests. The students are explained the pitfalls and deficiencies so that they can fare well in the end semester examinations. After the end semester examination results, the Principal convenes a meeting of teachers and discusses with them, if there is any drastically low pass percentage. The teachers give their explanations, such as lengthy questions, out of the syllabus questions, ambiguous questions and the like. Principal in turn makes suitable suggestions like (a) the teachers can make representation to the University immediately after the examination in a particular course that had low pass percentage so that remedial measures can be taken immediately and (b) suggest ways and means so that they do not recur. CRITERION III: RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION 3.1 Promotion of Research 3.1.1 University recognized Research Centres The Anna University, after due verification of the qualifications and research potentials of the Faculty, their publications in journals of repute, Conferences conducted, Funded Projects and patents earned by them etc. have recognized the said departments as Research Centres of Anna University for doing independent research leading to M.S or Ph.D. degrees. Thus, the 44 Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering have been recognized as Research Centres of Anna University. 3.1.2 Research Advisory Council (RAC) After the establishment of the college as a good teaching institute, there has been a paradigm shift to achieve excellence in research. In this direction, to advise the faculty on the nascent fields of research and also the modern methodologies in current research etc a Research Advisory Council has been established. The composition of the current RAC is given below: 1. Dr. Shiv Nadar, Chairman, HCL Technologies Ltd. Chairman 2. Dr. Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science & Robotics Carnegie Mellon University, USA Member 3. Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc, Bangalore Member 4. Dr. R. Natarajan, Former Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi Member 5. Dr. Damodar Acharya, Director, IIT Kharagpur Member 6. Ms. Kala Vijakumar, President, SSN Institutions Member 7. Dr. S. Salivahanan, Principal, SSN College of Engg. Member 8. Dr. S.V. Albal, Professor, SSN College of Engg. Member 9. Dr. P. Ramasamy, Dean (Research), SSN College of Engg. Member Secretary The RAC meets once in a semester, and takes stock of the research activities in the campus and approves the Research projects proposed by the Faculty. In addition it provides advice about the newer avenues for research. 3.1.3 What are the measures taken by the institution to facilitate smooth progress and implementation of research schemes/ projects? Once the project is sanctioned and the first installment of the funding is received the investigator is requested to give the periodicity at which he/she will need the funds to proceed with his project. The investigator is free to spend the amount within the conditions stipulated by the awarding agency and the college will not interfere in the spending. The money will be released based on his requisition without any delay. He/she is free to use the facilities available in the campus without any restriction. If the project is part of a doctoral programme, or warranting his time during working hours, some leeway can always be given in the scheduled workload. Library can be freely used by the investigator as frequently as needed. Also he can make use of the finance department for timely submission of periodic reports as well as submitting accounts without delay. 45 Promotion of faculty participation by internal funding (Sample only) Department of Mechanical Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Name of the Faculty R. Damodaram Year Title of the Project 20142016 Investigations of the stress corrosion cracking studies of friction stir processed Nickel Aluminium Bronze Assessment of intergranular corrosion resistance of friction stir and gas tungstun arc welded 316 LN Austenitic stainless steel Investigation of machinability and functional characteristics of Nickel based alloys under cryogenic cooling Design, Development and implementation of Robots for Scavenging Applications Determination and attenuation of noise generated from sunroof of automobile Investigation on the influence of weld residual stress and material defects on ballistic resistance of straight and curved target Evaluation of microstructure and mechanical properties of tungsten inert gas welding on AA5083 with Sc and Er Containing Fillers Total D. Anatha padmanaban 20142016 M. Dhananchezian 20142016 G. Satheesh Kumar 20142016 S. Somasundaram 20152017 S. Suresh Kumar K.Subbaiah 20152017 20152017 Amount sanctioned in Rs. Lakh 4 2 4.5 2.6 2 4.25 2 21.35 Department of Civil Engineering Sl. Investigators No Dr. Mohammed Haneefa & 1. Dr. S. Ramana gopal 2 Dr. B. Project Title The use of Alternative Cementitious Materials for Sustainable concrete – Development of Geo polymer concrete using Fly Ash Slag and Sugarcane Bagasse A Study of Self Funding Agency Amount Date of Approval Status Sanc Received tioned SSN Trust Rs 5.5 Lakh SSN Rs 2.25 Rs 1.46 16-10-14 46 Rs 2.44 On 16-10-14 Lakh going On Mahalingam Compacting Concrete Using Alternative Cementitious Materials Study on the Dr.R.Vijayal behaviour of akshmi & 3 concrete filled Stub Mrs.P. columns under Sangeetha compression Trust Lakh Lakh SSN Trust Rs 2.2 Lakh - going 30-09-15 On going 3.1.4 What are the efforts made by the institution in developing scientific temper and research culture and aptitude among students? Participation of students in Research The University by statute requires the PG students to submit at least one research publication in a refereed journal, before earning the degree. But the college encourages research by even UG students. The second year students, evincing interest in research, are tagged with a Ph.D. scholar, helping the scholar in copying and arranging the research papers identified by the scholar, in a chronological order, fabricating the equipment as directed, making electronic circuits etc. under directions from the scholar. Further, if the UG student publishes a paper in journals of repute, a cash incentive is given to encourage him. In addition, it encourages them to earn their project funded by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, even if the amount is meager. If a student presents a paper in an International conference, the Registration Charge is reimbursed, depending on the merits of the case. When duly recommended by the HoD, some internal funding is also given to certain projects proposed by them. The internal funding given to students during 201415 to nurture their research potential is given below department wise: Internal Funded Projects by Students Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 Students Name Project Guide P.Anto Jailyn Dr.V.Rajini Aashish Nikhil Ghosh A.Ajay Rangan, Nikhil Thomas Amirtha Varshini.N Dr.V.Rajini Iswariya M, Bamini R, Avinash C Ramanathan Dr.R.Rengaraj Muthu Selvan N.B 47 Project Title Analysis, design and implementation of active clamp flyback converter A new converter topology for solar wind based LED street lighting systems Small Standalone Wind Turbine System using Automobile Alternator Implementation of Dynamic Demand Control for Smart Energy Management System in Residential Loads Amount in Rs 30,000 30,000 25,000 29,000 5 Balaji Nagaraj K Anbarasan R Ejaman S, Veena S Shrinidhi.S Dr.R.Rengaraj 7 Sangeetha.T.V Sundari.E Vaishnavi.D P. Saravanan 8 Sindhu S L Srilakshmi P S Prashanth P. Saravanan 9 Kuraparthy Mounika (III Yr BE) K Krithika (III Yr BE) Dr Mrunal Deshpande 10 S Celin Breezle (III Yr BE), B Monica Shree (III Yr BE) R. Supriya, R. Shreesha S. Shreenishkala (II year B.E. EEE) Dr Mrunal Deshpande S. Harini, K. Nanditha, S. R. Gautam, A. Chandraganeshan (III year B.E. EEE) R. Priya, P. SadhanaJ. Shiny Auxilia (IV year B.E. EEE) Dr. R. Ramaprabha R. M. Sahdhashivapurhipurun Saikrupa C Iyer Sandhya Sriraman Tulsi S Ramanujam (IV year B.E. EEE) A.Arrul Dhana Mathy (II Year M.E.PED) Dr. R. Ramaprabha S. Rithika (II Year M.E.PED) Dr. R. Ramaprabha 6 11 12 13 14 15 16 P. Saravanan Dr. R. Ramaprabha Dr. R. Ramaprabha Dr. R. Ramaprabha 48 Control and Protection of faults in Smart Grids Modelling, Simulation and Development of power converter for Switched Reluctance Generator Design and Development of Computation Intelligence for Enhanced Adaptive Cruise Control Using Arduino Processors Low cost Battery operated vehicle using JOYSTICK control for Physically challenged Analysis of Switched Reluctance Motor Converter for Power Quality Improvement Simulation and Experimental Verification of Thomson Actuator Systems Rapid Prototyping of a low-cost solar array simulator using an off-theshelf DC power supply Development of a notched DC link inverter for photovoltaic fed brushless DC motor drive Design methodology of a cycloconverter based variable frequency drive for energy saving in induction motor speed control applications Development of fully directional universal DCDC Converter for electric vehicle applications Design and implementation of leakage current minimization technique for single phase grid connected transformer-less PV inverter Design and analysis of control circuit for oscillator based inverter for microgrids 29,300 29,100 21,200 35,100 10,500 10,000 13,360 18,510 18,000 21,800 19,400 15,500 17 Sakina.M.Mota Siddharth.H Dr.M.Balaji 18 A.K.Pandian, R.Srinath, R. Venkatesh Dr.M.Balaji 19 Samyuktha. S, Srinath. V, Vimal. R, Dr.M.Balaji 20 Nilesh .M, Rohit V V Santhosh Kumar.R Syed Riazudeen Nithya Subramanian, Pridhivi Prasanth, Subhesh R & Srinivasan R, IV Year, EEE-B N.Siva Sumanth, P.Siva Priya, Vigneshwar.K &V.Nithin IV Year, EEE-B M.Suudharshana & S.Srivignesh III Year, EEE-B Dr.M.Balaji 21 22 23 Dr.R.Seyezhai Dr.R.Seyezhai Dr.R.Seyezhai 24 Rahul.R, Vageesh.M & YashOza II Year, EEE-B Dr.R.Seyezhai 25 Dharani S, II Year M.E. (Power Electronics and Drives) Dr.R.Seyezhai 24 DarisiVankataAbhilash Gadepalli Sai Krishna Dileep Gowtham CPS Harini.D Janani.V Kaviya.A Mukil Hariharan.T, Premkumar.S, Shreya.S Anitha Roseline Roselyn Jose, Shruti Sriram, Vasudha S, Vasumathi N Digvijay. R, Harish Manikandan. R, and Mukesh. S (IV B.E.) V.S.Nagarajan 25 26 27 V.S.Nagarajan Dr. A. N. Arvindan 49 Fault Tolerant Voltage Source Inverter Fed BLDC Motor Drive Design And Implementation Of Three Phase Multi-Level Inverter With Reduced Number of Switches DC-DC Converter Based Commutation Torque Ripple Minimization in Brushless DC Motor Digital Control Strategy for Brushless DC Hub Motor Implementation of Soft Switched Interleaved Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Application Implementation of a Bridgeless Zeta Converter for Power Factor Correction for Hybrid Electric Vehicles Investigation of Isolated DC to DC Converter for Power Supply of Data Center Investigation of Tapped Inductor Boost Converter for Renewable Energy Source Development of Asymmetric Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches for Fuel Cell Application Solar Electrification of a Classroom 25,000 Design and performance analysis of active and passive Filters for the three phase rectifier based PMSM drive Design and realisation of Power Factor Correction circuits For PMSM drive Three-phase Modified Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulated AC-AC Converter 25,000 23,000 25,000 25,000 15,000 15,000 22,000 10,000 20,000 45,300 25,000 7575 28 Keerthika.D, Krishnamoorthy. D (IV B.E.) Dr. A. N. Arvindan Interconnection of Renewable Energy Based Microgrids using Space Vector Modulated Matrix Converter 6404 Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering: Sl. No. Title 1 Development of a low cost programmable communication 2 Closed loop surveillance quad copter 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Information broadcast through Bluetooth Energy Harvesting using PVDF film Traffic Congestion Prediction Module Internet controlled power management system Optimization of structural design of cantilever Design of servo humanoid robot Automated parental drug infusion system Automatic Skyscraper Window Cleaning System Development of wind speed frequency distribution Development of an energy harvesting microbial fuel cell system A hybrid flexi-mode pricing scheme for smart grid Students Ramesh Ashwath, Shoban Narayan, Varshini T.N G.HarshavarshanRaju, R.Karnik Ram, S.Harish, V.Aditya, V.Ashwin, G.J.Krishna, Divakar B.Motthilal, I.Jayanathan, M.R.Irfan Ahmed K.Sundaralakshmi, S.Swethambari Joseph J.Sankoorikal Guide Amount (in Lakh) Dr.N.Venkateswar an 0.22 Dr.Prita Nair 0.30 Dr.N.Edna Elizabeth Mr.Suresh R. Norman Dr.N.Edna Elizabeth 0.20 0.10 0.25 B.Rahul, S.Rajeshwer, D.Samsunder Dr.B.S.Sreeja 0.12 Shshank Murthy, SibiChakravarthy Ms.S.Kirubaveni 0.25 S.Prakash Ms.S.Kirubaveni 0.25 Dr.R. Jayaparvathy 0.20 S. Joseph Gladwin & Dr. R. Rajavel 0.20 N.Archana Dr.S.Sakthivel Murugan 0.20 P.Janani Dr.S.Sakthivel Murugan 0.25 K.Malarvizhi Dr.R.Jayaparvathy 0.30 SistlaVenkataAnish, L.R.Vignesh, M.Vijayakumar C. Arun Kumar, M.S. Karthik, S. Kavya Department of Computer Science & Engineering Sl. No. 1 Students S. Siddhaarth Samiya Nasim Title of Project Prototype for IoT based Smart Sewage System 50 Amount (in Lakh) Sanct Rece ioned ived Date of Approval Status 0.25 27.10.15 ongoing 0.25 Naveen. H. SaiVeerya Mahadevan Harikrishna.K. Hans. K. Keerthika Rajvel Gokul.K. Dinesh.M.C. Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) – An Automated Audio Language Translation Device Speech Recognition based Chess System for the Visually Challenged Digital Agriculture using Decision Tree Algorithm Digital Polling Booth with Enhanced Security Gesture Recognition to Interpret American Sign Language and Enable Learning of ASL in a Virtual Reality Environment 7 Vijay.V. Sivashanmugam.U Saketh.A.B. Rithesh Rohan.R. 0.18 0.18 27.10.15 ongoing 0.16 0.16 27.10.15 ongoing 0.15 0.15 27.10.15 ongoing 0.14 0.14 27.10.15 ongoing 0.16 0.16 27.10.15 ongoing Obstacle Detecting Shoe for the Visually Impaired 0.10 0.10 27.10.15 ongoing 8 Asritha.M. Krithika.B. Indu.M. Power Consumption Monitoring and Temperature Regulating System for Power Saving 0.27 0.27 27.10.15 ongoing 9 Dineshraj. G. Divya Brindha.R. Brindha Priyadharshini.R. Wheat Grading System using Image Processing and Neural Networks 0.20 0.20 27.10.15 ongoing 10 Satchit N Subramanian Rajan Alwan 0.12 0.12 27.10.15 ongoing 0.22 0.22 27.10.15 ongoing 0.18 0.18 27.10.15 ongoing 0.25 0.25 27.10.15 ongoing 0.21 0.21 27.10.15 ongoing 2 3 4 5 6 Shashaank.D.S Priyanka.S. Sriram.V. Anirudh.T.S. Ashwin Kumar.S. Chaaran.S.* Ms. S. Angel Deborah* Sudha.M.R. Sudar Abisheck Sriraghav.K. C.V. Vishal 11 Ramaswamy Varghese Paul. C.P. Virtual Reality Car Simulator with Gesture and Touch Input An Embedded System for Recognition of English Sign Language to aid Deaf-Mute Problem Kiran Sudhir Swaathika Karthikeyan Design Implementation 12 Rishab Venkataraman of Data Loggers and Varsha Muralidharan Analysis Jerry George Thomas Bi-Modal Biometric Narendra Pradeep System for Person 13 Sasi Kumar Authentication using Soft computing Techniques 14 K. Mohana Priya Brain Tumor Type and 51 Grade Discrimination of MRI using Genetic Algorithm and FuzzyRule based Approach Continuous Speech Recognition for Tamil Language 15 Sivaranjini C 0.15 0.15 27.10.15 ongoing Department of Information Technology Sl. No. 1 Names of Students Project Guide Project Title Amount (in Rs.) 19,500 G. Krishna (II Year) M.Arun Kumar (II Yr) Dr. R. Srinivasan Automated Attendance System 2 S. Ananda Subramaniam T.P. Dwarakesh Dr. T. Sree Sharmila Vacant seat detection System 24,315 3 R. Jagadeesh (II Year) R. Gowtham(II Year) Ms. S. Sasirekha College bus tracking system 9,500 4 Akshay S. Santhanam (IV Year) K. Mahalingam (IV Year) K. Ragavi (III Yr) Priyanka Radja (III Yr) Ms. S. Sasirekha Mr. I. Joe Louis Paul Landslide prediction and alert system 27,000 Dr. S. Chithra 14,300 S. Vigneshwaran (IV Yr) Dr. S. Chithra Portable Text to Speech Converter for the Visually Impaired Implementation of WLAN 802.11/N 5 6 20,600 Department of Biomedical Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 Amount (in Rs.) Student Name M. Kiruthiga, S. KeerthanaPriya, S. Bhavatharani R. Lekha, S. Thariga, G. Ranjitha, M. Shanthini AtulTaneja, S. Susmitha, B. Tanushree Devi, S. B. Vishal Aathira Haridas, M. Keerthana, V. Ritu M. Vaidhav, R. Gopichandran, D. Suryaprakash Title of Project Sanc tioned An armed wearable device for cuff-less blood pressure measurement Enzyme based glucose analyzer using spectrometer technique Received Date of Approval Status 25, 000 - On going 23, 000 - On going Urea and creatinine monitor 25, 000 - On going Non-invasive glucometer 25, 000 - On going Low cost Dialysis Machine 25, 000 - Ongoing 52 27.10.15 6 S.B. Vishal, Arjun Anil Kumar 7 Y. Ahila, S. Nivethithaa, N. Roshini; P. Prabanjan 8 Dugi Hemalatha, D. Nanditha Syringe destroyer Design and development of mobility aid for physically challenged people Antibacterial activity of morilngaolisera protein extract on biomaterials implant Total 25, 000 - On going 25, 000 - On going 20, 000 10, 000 1,93,000 10,000 6.11.15 On going Department of Chemical Engineering Sl. Faculty InNo. charge 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Students Name Title of Project Dr.P. Senthil Kumar Dr.K. Sathish Kumar R. Sundaram Detoxification of Bhardwaj heavy metal Koushik B contaminated wastewater using Nano-zero valent iorn (Fe0) particles: Experimental optimization Dr.K.P. R.Ayyappan Study on Gopinath R.Jyotsna production of Malavikha bioethanol from Rajiv grass biomass Morrthy waste generated at SSN Campus Dr.K. Pranav S Anti-corrosive Sathish Vignesh B coating prepared Kumar from waste PET bottles to inhibit the corrosive effects of water Dr.A. T. Pradeep Studies on Seenivasan Kumar microbial fuel cells Dr.K.P. V. Harisharn Production of Gopinath S.M. polyhydroxyalkan Mubashera aotes (PHA S. Nijanthan Biopolymer) Nano-mat from wastewater sludge Dr.P.Senthil T.V. Harsih Recycling of Kumar Kumar waste J. Shiva polyethylene Subramaian bottles into liquid 53 Date of Approval Amount Sanc Recei tioned ved Status 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going B. Rahul Palsingh fuels in a novel packed bed reactor 7. Dr.R. C. Niveda Preparation of Saravanatha A. Anusuya Mn-Zn ferrite mizhan A.V.R. nanomaterial from Dr.D. Sunithra spent zinc carbon Gnana battery using Prakash ultrasonication 8. Dr.P.Senthil Sengavi T A newly designed Kumar Ritu microbial fuel cell Zaheer (MFC) for power Ahamed generation from the sources of different waste 9. Dr.D. V. Abhinaya Biosynthesis of M. silver Gnana Chevandhi nanoparticles and Prakash M. Mathi its application as Vathani catalyst 10. Dr.A. C. Sankkar Studies on drug Seenivasan K. Sri Surya delivery carriers M. Sharmila for poorly water Priya soluble drugs 11. Dr.K.P. R. Gokul Solvent extraction Gopinath R. Vignesh of oil from algae/oilseeds using solar concentration 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going 06.11.14 20000 20000 On going Total 220000 220000 Department of Mechanical Engineering Sl. No. 1. Name of the Students Nikhil Anto V Sandeepak M Santhosh Manikandan S Title of the Project Comparison of mechanical characteristics of broom grass reinforced epoxy and broom grass-groundnut shell hybrid reinforced epoxy composites Development of an air cooled compact spiral radiator Amount sanctioned 25,000 2. Akhilnandh Ramesh Jaya Arun Prasanth, Kirthivasan A 3. Arun Kumar N, Gokul A G Development of a miniature air cooling cum heating device 15,000 4. Siva Sankar D, Subbiah N Saigopal Vasudevan, Samkamal B Development and characterization of aluminium matrix hybrid foam 20,000 5. Krishna A G, Jaghan S Adithya Vignesh J 6. Bharath K S, Bharath K Manoj Kumar R Development, fabrication and performance investigation of a solar cooking unit with latent heat storage Establishing a experimental setup to evaluate the thermal performance of friction stir welded micro heat sink 54 20,000 22,000 20,000 7. Sushinder K Sudersan S Numerical simulation of ballistic performance of dissimilar welded joints 15,000 8. Manoj Kumar S, Hanush M Experimental crashworthiness determination of welded joints 20,000 9. Sriram Kausik K 10. Tamilselvan P 11. Febi Ponwin S P R 12. Vignesh A 13. Nambiraj K M Biotribology & dynamic study and analysis of total knee replacement materials Experimental investigation of performance combustion and emission characteristics of sterculia striata oil in a single cylinder diesel engine CFD analysis and experimental investigations of low Reynolds number flow over a wind turbine aerofoil blade Investigations on the erosion corrosion behaviour of friction stir processed propeller bronze Synthesis of AIN-TiB2 based self lubricated ceramic inserts for metal cutting applications 25,000 15,000 25,000 20,000 25,000 Total 2.67 Lakh Department of Civil Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sanctioned Amount (in Rs.) 20000 Name of the Students Title of the Project Guide M. Revathi, Shilpa Shashidharan, G. Jaswant I. Sai Saketh Reddy (III year) V. P. Haripriya D. Revathy N. Nowshath Ali, K. Prashanth, R. Karthikeyan (II &III yr) T. Cibi Nandhan A. James Daniel S. Sandeep, S.Nithin (III year) A. Surya Teja K. Gayathri, Ramya Sanjeevan M. V. Swarnalakshmi (II year) S. Swetha P. Sharon Pothigai R.D. AnuVarshini, R. Arvindh Raj (III year) V. C. Balaji V. Kaanchana A. Sathya Development of geopolymer concrete using bagasse ash Dr. S. Ramana Gopal An experimental study on the use of knotted end GFRP fibres in concrete Dr. Y. K. Sabapathy 20000 Compatibility and optimisation studies on paste phase of self compacting concrete Structural performance of buried UPVC pipes-Field investigation and Numerical studies Dr. B. Mahalingam 20000 Dr. R. Rajkumar 20000 Development of bacteria based self-healing concrete Dr. R. Vijayalakshmi & Mrs. P. Sangeetha Dr. K. Mohammed Haneefa 20000 Development of geopolymer concrete using industrial byproducts 55 20000 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R. Sivakumar (III year) V. Karthick V. Munish Kumar, N. Nowshath Ali, P. SathishKannan (III year) R. Dilip Kumar M. Elamathy H. Lavanya, H. Nijandhan (III year) K. Huthesh Reddy K. Madhan Gopal, TammineniSai Krishna (III year) S. R. Aadhitya Bhagirathan S. Santhanabharathi R. Vignesh (II year) G. Dilip Kumar D. Rajashekar, C. Dharani (II & III year) J. Rekha A. Krishna Shrija, Deepak Kumar, S. A. ArjunT. Raghunath V. Gowtham (II year) K. Akshay S. Ridhuvaran, Sudhirr A. Nanda (III year) Experimental study on mechanical and durability properties of nano concrete Dr. R. Rajkumar 20000 Influence of industrial effluents on soil strength parameters Dr. V. Nagarajan & Dr.Sivapriya S. V 18000 Analysis of thermal and sound insulation properties of rubber concrete Dr. R. Srinath 20000 A comparative study of GFRF reinforced concrete columns and steel reinforced columns Dr. Y. K. Sabapathy 25000 A study and development of low cost shake table for seismic study Dr. Y. K. Sabapathy 20000 Seismic studies on masonry walls strengthened by biocomposite fabrics Dr. Y. K. Sabapathy 20000 Analysis of the hydromechanical behaviour of soil at Mugalivakkam, Chennai Dr.Sivapriya S. V& Dr. V. Nagarajan 12000 3.1.5 Give details of the faculty involvement in active research (Guiding student research, leading Research Projects, engaged in individual/collaborative research activity, etc. The institute is in the process of setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoEs) for a few specialized areas to ensure interdepartmental collaborative research. The CoEs are in the following areas: • Energy • Materials • Speech Technology • Healthcare Technology • Machine Learning • Smart Technology The college has entered into a MoU with various R & D organizations & Universities such as DST, NIOT, NRB, IGCAR, AICTE, IBM etc. and has been awarded collaborative Projects, funded by them. 56 In addition to the above, through the MOU it has with foreign Universities such as Carnegie Mellon University and National Tsing Hua University, faculty and research scholars are involved in R & D activities through scholar exchange programmes with these Universities. The organisations with which the college has MOUs and the resulting research activities are indicated below: MOUs entered with Industries and associated research activities stemming from them: Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 Organisation with which there is an MOU Associated research/other activity Remarks Steinbeis Solar Research Center Starcom Information Technology Ltd Hibres Technologies Conducted a workshop -- -- -- -- -- Department of Electronics & Communications Engineering Organisation with Associated Sl. which there is an research/other Remarks No. MOU activity Altera’s 15-User Joint EDA / SoPC 1 Enixs Technologies Quartus II Perpetual Lab centre Licence Cranes Software Texas Instruments International Limited, Development kits Embedded Systems Bangalore based on TIMSP430 2 Lab and Texas (University Program and Analog System Instruments Analog Partner of Texas Laboratory Kit Systems Lab Instruments, India) Collaboration Low Power program of Intel Computing Systems 3 Intel India Atom based Lab based on Intel embedded Atom processor curriculum Department of Computer Science & Engineering Sl. No. Organization with which there is an MOU Associated research/other activity 1 Computer Science Corporation India Pvt. Limited Caterpillar India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India Student project 2 Remarks -- Internships, projects 57 -- Department of Chemical Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 Associated research/other activity M/s. Armats Biotek Private Associated Limited 26.08.2013 research M/s. Sheenlac Paints Limited, Associated Chennai 05.08.2015 research Organisation with which there is an MOU Department of Biomedical Engineering Organisation with Associated Sl. which there is an research/other No. MOU activity 1 Neolight, LLC, Industry-Institute USA collaboration Remarks Nil Separation process with Ionic liquid Remarks 2 Aries Biomed technology Industry-Institute collaboration 3 Wild box technologies Industry-Institute collaboration 4 Texas Instruments Industry-Institute collaboration 5 Phoenix Medical system Industry-Institute collaboration Industry specific training program, Consultancy project & organizing seminar/conferences Industry specific training program, Consultancy project & organizing seminar/conferences Industry specific training program, Consultancy project & organizing seminar/conferences Industry specific training program, Consultancy project & organizing seminar/conferences Projects for UG students under non-degree bases 6 SRMC, Porur Hospital-Institute interaction Hospital visit & external research grant 7 Chettinad Super speciality Hospital Hospital-Institute interaction Diagnostic services, surgeries, health checkup 8 Itie knowledge solution Industry-Institute Interaction Students visit for advanced research work 9 Mediscan group of Institution Medical LaboratoryInstitute Collaboration Exchange of technical data in biomedical science field 58 Department of Civil Engineering Organisation with Associated Sl. which there is an research/other Remarks No. MOU activity 1 JSW Steel Ltd. Salem Strength and 18.02.2015 to Works Durability studies on 17.02.2018 SMS Slag 2 P.A Footwear Pvt. Beneficial use of WB On going Ltd., Tannery Leather Scraps Division, Ranipet 3.1.6 Give details of workshops/training programmes/sensitization programmes conducted/organized by the institution with focus on capacity building in terms of research and imbibing research culture among the staff and students. The details of Conferences / Workshops / Seminars Organized during the last four years are given below: Year January 5 – 7, 2012 January 20 – 21, 2012 Department BME Chemical January 21, 2012 English January 27, 2012 Mechanical February 3 – 4, 2012 BME February 9 – 11, 2012 Physics February 17 – 18, 2012 February 21, 2012 February 21 – 22, 2012 BME EEE ECE February 22, 2012 BME February 23, 2012 BME February 23 – 24, 2012 IT February 27, 2012 Chemical March 01 – 2, 2012 EEE March 02 – 3, 2012 Chemical March 3, 2012 Chemistry Programme Workshop on “Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Computer Interface Applications and Hands on Training on Biostatistics”. Seminar on Sustainable water resource management Workshop on “Staff Development An Awareness Raising”. Workshop on “Inverse heat conduction problems”. Seminar on “Recent Advances in Medical Imaging Techniques”. Workshop on “Advances in Photonics and Optical Materials”. Workshop on “Lab VIEW & Its Applications”. IEEE Workshop on “MATRICKS”. Workshop on “Introduction to Robotics”. Seminar on “Intellectual Property rights Patents &Copyrights”. Workshop on “Energy Audit”. Workshop on “Emerging Directions in Image Processing & Understanding”. National Conference on “Recent Trends – Chemical Energy & Bio-Chemical”. National Workshop on “Simulation Software for Electrical Systems”. National Workshop on “Water Pollution & Its Control (WPC)”. Workshop on “Realms of Electrochemistry”. 59 March 3, 2012 IT March 15, 2012 BME March 15, 2012 EEE March 16, 2012 Chemical March 16, 2012 EEE March 16, 2012 CSE March 21, 2012 Chemical March 21 – 22, 2012 Mechanical March 22 – 23, 2012 EEE March 22 – 23, 2012 IT March 23, 2012 March 29 – 30, 2012 April 6 – 7, 2012 April 10 – 11, 2012 April 12, 2012 Chemical IT ECE Chemical English April 26 – 27, 2012 CSE May 3 – 5, 2012 May 23 – 24, 2012 June 15, 2012 EEE English EEE July 06, 2012 IT July 07, 2012 IT July 24, 2012 EEE July 25 -26, 2012 Mechanical August 17 – 18, 2012 ECE August 18, 2012 CSE September 07, 2012 Chemical September 14 – 15, 2012 CSE September 14 – 15, 2012 EEE National Workshop on “Essentials of Cyber Security and Forensics – A Practical Perspective”. Workshop on (CSI) Image Processing IEEE Workshop on “MICROSOFT DREAMSPARK YATRA – 2012”. Workshop on “Computer Applications In Industrial Processes”. Workshop on “Exploring Engineering with ROBOTS under I- CELL”. Workshop on “CSI Automation of Software Testing”. National Conference on “Applications of Nanomaterials”. Workshop on “Robotics”. Second National Conference on Power Electronics & Renewable Energy Systems – PEARES 2012 National Workshop on “Web Semantics & Machine Intelligence”. National Workshop on “Applications of Nanotechnology in Pollution Abatement”. National Workshop on “A Practical & Systematic Approach to Android Based Development”. Workshop on “Telecommunication and Wireless Communication Networks”. Seminar on “Recent Advancements in Air Pollution Control (RAAPC)”. Workshop on “Writing Articles”. Conference on “Recent Advances in Computing and Software Systems”. Workshop on “Solar Photovoltaic Systems”. Workshop on “Teaching Methodologies”. Workshop on “Logic BOTS”. Workshop on “MIDLet Programming with J2ME”. Seminar on “Proportional Fair Allocation of Airtimes and Packet Lengths in Wireless Mesh Networks”. Workshop on “ARDUINO”. National Workshop on “Design, Development and Simulation of Formula-1/Commercial Cars”. Workshop on “DSP Integrated Circuits”. Workshop on “SCILAB open source software for numerical computation”. National Leven Conference on “Nanomaterials sponsored by DRDO”. National Workshop on “Network Simulator 2 (NS2) – Hands-on Training”. National Workshop on “Renewable Electrical Energy Systems”. 60 September 14 – 15, 2012 ECE September 15, 2012 CSE September 24, 2012 Mechanical November 02 – 03, 2012 EEE November 26 – 30, 2012 IT December 14, 2012 Mechanical December 20, 2012 January 10 – 11, 2013 English Mechanical January 22 – 23, 2013 BME January 25, 2013 January 24 – 25, 2013 Physics Mechanical January 31, 2013 February 02, 2013 February 06, 2013 Chemical CSE CSE February 19, 2013 Mechanical February 22, 2013 Mechanical February 26, 2013 Chemical March 22, 2013 EEE March 01 – 02, 2013 EEE March 14 – 16, 2013 BME March 15, 2013 Mechanical March 16 – 16, 2013 Mechanical March 15 – 16, 2013 ECE March 22, 2013 EEE April 02-03, 2013 ECE April 09, 2013 BME April 09, 2013 Mechanical April 10, 2013 ECE Workshop on “Electronic System Design and Manufacturing”. Workshop on “C Programming Principles and Data Structures”. Training Program “Quality Awareness”. National Workshop on “Feedback Controllers for Power Converters”. Workshop on “HMM Based Speech Synthesis System”. Seminar on “Applied Innovation on behalf of CII”. Workshop on “How to Mentor”. Workshop on “Fundamentals of CFD”. Workshop on “Recent Advancement in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Equipments and their Applications”. Workshop on “Underwater Acoustics (OWUA)”. National Conference on “Strategies for Successful Interaction with Industries”. Workshop on “MATLAB”. Workshop on “Android Hackathon”. Open Source Conference on “OS Ready”. Workshop on “Innovation and Creativity for Product Development”. Workshop on “Friction surfacing and Stir welding of ferrous alloys SURSTIR ’13”. National Student Conference on “Recent Advancement in Chemical Engineering (RACE)”. Workshop on “Control of Power Converters with FPGA using MATLAB Xlinx Interface”. Second National Conference on “Power System, Power Electronics and Drives, PSPED 2013”. International Conference on “Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII 2013)”. Workshop on “Research Trends in Finite Element Analysis”. Workshop on “Aero Modelling”. Seminar on “Advances in Wireless Communications”. National Workshop on “Control of Power Converters using MATLAB Xilinx Interface”. National Conference on “Cyber physical system: Application and Challenges”. Workshop on “Digital Signal Processors”. Workshop on “Automotive Technical cum Practical Training”. National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Technologies (NCETICT-2K13)”. 61 April 10, 2013 ECE April 13, 2013 Mechanical May 06-08,2013 EEE July 20, 2013 ECE July24, 2013 EEE July 25-26, 2013 BME August 2, 2013 Chemical August 7, 2013 Mechanical August 8, 2013 Chemical August 17, 2013 EEE August 19-20, 2013 ECE August 19-20, 2013 August 27-28, 2013 IT IT September 3, 2013 IEEE September 17, 2013 IEEE September 20, 2013 CSE September 20-21, 2013 EEE September 20-21, 2013 ECE September 20-21, 2013 IT September 21, 2013 CSE September 26, 2013 I-Cell October 3, 2013 Mechanical October 4, 2013 Chemical October 4-5, 2013 October 5, 2013 CSE Chemical November 11 13, 2013 December 5, 2013 ECE ECE December 6 – 7, 2013 SASE January 7 – 9, 2014 EEE National Conference on “The road to writing better papers”. Workshop on “Research Avenues in Thermal Engineering”. CSIR Workshop on “Power Conversion Technologies for Renewable Energy Systems”. Seminar on “Research and Publishing” Workshop on “Emerging Energy Scenario in India and its Challenges”. National Seminar on “Transforms on Signal and Image Processing”. National Conference on “Advancements in Adsorption Science and Technology”. Workshop on “Aero Modelling Hand gliders”. National Workshop on “Hands on Training in Heavy Metal Analysis: Atomic Adsorption Spectroscopy”. ISTE Seminar on “Role of Science and Humanities in IIT’s and Engineering College”. Workshop on “Trends and Developments in Signal Processing and its Applications”. Workshop on “SOA in Practice”. Workshop on “Ethical Hacking”. Workshop on “Solar Lamp Design – Hands on”. Workshop on “Solar lamp Design contest”. Workshop on “Introduction to Medical Imaging and Classification Techniques”. National Workshop on “Advanced Power Electronics Interfaces for Distributed Energy”. National Workshop on “ARM mbed Cortex M Processor Platform”. National level Workshop on “Fundamental Analysis and Processing of Image and video with Computing Techniques”. Workshop on “Python Programming”. National Conference on “Recent Trends in Chemical Energy and Environmental Engineering”. Workshop on “Alternative Sources of Energy Issues and Challenges”. National Level Conference on “Nano Biotechnology”. Workshop on “Natural Language Processing”. Research Seminar on “ANN Modeling for the treatment of industrial effluent using electrochemical reactor”. Workshop on “Electromagnetics”. “Reflect Array Antenna Design”. Workshop on “Software Architecture for Managers”. International Conference on “Electrical Energy Systems – ICEES 2014”. 62 January 16, 2014 SSN CE January 27, 2014 CSE February 4, 2014 Mechanical February 10 & 11, 2014 BME February 14, 2014 CSE February 15, 2014 Chemistry February 17, 2014 CSE February 27 & 28, 2014 March 4 & 5, 2014 March 14 & 15, 2014 Chemical Mechanical EEE March 18, 2014 Mechanical March 19, 2014 CSE March 21, 2014 BME Chemical March 21 & 22, 2014 March 28, 2014 ECE Chemical April 4 & 5, 2014 ECE April 7, 2014 ECE April 10, 2014 EEE April 18, 2014 ECE April 19, 2014 ISTE/SSN CE June 20 – 29, 2014 Mechanical Civil July 18 & 19, 2014 July 19, 2014 July 22, 2014 August 7, 2014 EEE SSN ACM ECE Chel Workshop on “Group Discussion and Interview”. Organized ACM Code County 2.0 Workshop on “Automotive Technical cum Practical Training”. Workshop on “MIMICS Innovation Suite: Engineering on Anatomy”. Workshop on “Open Stack”. Workshop on “Recent Trend in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging”. Workshop on “Blended Learning through Massively Empowered Class Rooms”. International Conference on “Recent Advancements in Chemical, Environmental and Energy Engineering (RACEEE 2014)”. Workshop on “Annual Glider”. National Workshop on “Electromagnetic Design & Analysis of Electrical Machines”. Workshop on “Recent Advancement in Alternate Energy Sources”. Workshop on “Natural Language Processing”. National Conference on “Bioelectronics, Biomaterials and Medical Devices (NCBBM 2014)”. National Seminar on “Industry Institute Interaction” Workshop on “System Design Using TI MSP430 MCU”. Workshop on “Artificial Neural Network”. Workshop on “Embedded Systems and Industrial Applications”. Seminar on “Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility”. National Conference on “Recent Trends in Power and Energy Engineering (RTOEE 2014)”. National Conference on “Information & Communication Technology (NCICT2K 14)”. Seminar on “An Engineering Approach to Solve Social Problems”. Workshop on “Automotive Design and Development”. Seminar on “Study on Space Composite Truss”. National Level Workshop on “Power Conversion for Smart Grids”. Workshop on “LaTeX”. TI Analog Design Contest 4th National Level Conference on Recent Trends in “Chemical, Energy & Environmental Engineering (CEEE)”. 63 August 21 & 22, 2014 ECE September 12 & 13, 2014 ECE September 18, 2014 SSN CE September 18, 2014 Chemical September 19, 2014 Civil September 18 to 20, 2014 Physics September 19, 2014 Chemical September 25, 2014 Chemical October 6, 2014 Mechanical October 10, 2014 Mechanical October 10 & 11, 2014 ECE October 17, 2014 Mechanical October 30, 2014 ECE & Maths November 1, 2014. EEE November 4, 2014 Chemical November 5 to 7, 2014 ECE November 6, 2014 ECE November 11, 2014 ECE November 13 to 15, 2014 EEE November 27, 2014 EEE December 16 & 18, 2014 EEE January 06, 2015 IT January 08, 2015 Mechanical January 23, 2015 EEE Two Day National Workshop on “Cryptography & Network Security”. Workshop on “Comprehensive Hands on Experience on Mems Design & Simulation Using Intellisuite Software”. IEEE Student Branch Workshop on “Women Safety”. National Level Seminar on “Application of Nanotechnology for Pollution Abatement (ANPA)”. Technical Workshop on “Engineering for Ocean Hydrocarbon Exploration”. National Level Workshop on “Radiological Aspects of Fly Ash & Environmental Radioactivity”. One Day Workshop on “Recent Practices in Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industries”. National Level Seminar on “Global Warming – Causes, Impacts & Remediation”. One Day Workshop on “CFD Using Star CCM+”. One Day Workshop on “Energy Efficiency”. Two Day Workshop on “Cognitive Software Defined Radio”. National Level Workshop on “XFEM Based Fracture Mechanics & its Applications”. Seminar on “Recent Developments in Medical Image Processing”. International Conference on “Recent Advances in Science & Engineering”. Seminar on “New Launch of TSQ 8000 Evo GCMS/MS”. IEEE AP-S Workshop on “Advanced Antenna Technology”. Speech on the topic “Emerging Broadband Technologies of Optical Wireless communication”. Seminar on “Mathematica software and its features”. Workshop on “Smart Grid & Solar PV System design”. “Simulation and Implementation of Sensored Control of Three Phase BLDC Motor Drive using FPCA”. National Workshop on “Energy Management system in micro grids”. Workshop on “Cyber security and Forensics” International Conference on “sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies”. National Workshop on “Electrical Drives for Defence Applications”. 64 February 04, 2015 Physics February 5 – 7, 2015 Chemical February 6 – 7, 2015 IT February 6 – 7, 2015 Mathematics February 12, 2015 Chemical February 12-13, 2015 ECE & EEE February 20-21, 2015 CSE February 26-27, 2015 EEE February 27-28, 2015 Chemical March 3 -4, 2015 March 4, 2015 March 6, 2015 March 10-11, 2015 EEE Mechanical CSE BME March 19-20, 2015 Civil March 21, 2015 March 21, 2015 ECE CSE March 21, 2015 IT March 30-31, 2015 March 31 & April 1, 2015 April 4, 2015 April 9-10, 2015 ECE & Physics BME IT ECE April 10, 2015 Chemical April 29-30, 2015 ECE & IT June, 2 – 12, 2015 Chemical June 26, 2015 EEE July 1 – 4 2015 CSE July 13 & 14, 2015 SSN CE July 14, 2015 July 14, 2015 July 17 & 18, 2015 SSN - IEEE BME CSE July 27, 2015 Civil Workshop on “Metrohm Autolab Electrochemistry”. Training program on “MALAB and Simulink” Workshop on “Fundamental Analysis and Processing of Image and Video with Computing Techniques”. Workshop on “Computational Fluid Dynamics”. National Conference on “Recent Trends in Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering (CEEE)”. Workshop on “TI Analog System Design by using ASLK Pro”. National conference on “Distributed Machine Learning (NCDML 2015)”. National conference on “Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES 2015)”. National conference on “Sustainable trends in energy and environmental resources (STEER)”. Workshop on “Solar PV System Design”. Workshop on “Non Destructive Testing”. Workshop on “Big Data and Hadoop”. Workshop on “Cadence Tool”. National Conference on “Advances in Civil Engineering”. Seminar on “Entrepreneurship”. Workshop on “Introduction to Linux”. National conference on “Information Technology – NCIT 2K15”. Workshop on “Modelling Photonic Devices”. Workshop on “Embedded Development Module Using Lab VIEW”. Seminar on “Data Analytics”. National conference on “Information and Communication Technology (NCICT 2k15)”. National conference on “Recent Trends in Clean Technology for Sustainable Environment (CTSE)”. Workshop on “Technologies for speaker and language recognition”. One day National Workshop on “Water & Wastewater Analysis (WWWA)”. Workshop on “MatLab-Xilinx System Generated Interface with Hands on Practice”. Workshop on “Upa Yoga”. SAE SSN Collegiate Club Conducted “Tier – I”. Workshop on “Learn 1000 words in 6 hours”. Organized an “Interactive Technical Q & A”. Oraganized a workshop on “LaTeX”. Workshop on “Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering”. 65 Maths July 29, 2015 BME July 31, 2015 Chemical July 31, & August 1, 2015 CSE August 1, 2015 SSN CE August 4, 2015 BME August 7, 2015 EEE August 12 & 13, 2015 ECE September 4 & 5, 2015 Maths September 9 & 10, 2015 ECE September 11, 2015 September 18 & 19, 2015 September 22, 2015 September 24 – 26, 2015 September 25, 2015 Chemical CSE Chemical Maths Chemical October 9, 2015 ECE October 14, 2015 English October 15 – 17, 2015 CSE October 16 & 17, 2015 ECE October 19,2015 ECE October 20, 2015 Civil October 28, 2015 CSE November 27, 2015 Chemical November 30 – December 7, 2015 ECE December 12, 2015 Mechanical Organized the State Level Symposium “eXLog2K15”. Workshop on “Labview”. 6th National Conference on “Chemical, Energy & Environmental Engineering”. Workshop on “Embedded Software Development”. National Workshop on “Simulation Softwares for Power Electronics”. Organized Workshop on “Biomedical Statistics & Information Technology Influencing the Current Medical Field”. National Workshop on “Design of Digital Controllers in FPGA using MATLAB System Generator – Hands on”. Workshop on “MSP430 Wireless Interfacing Modules” Workshop on “Advanced in Applied Engineering Mathematics”. Workshop on “Embedded Systems”. National Workshop on “COMSOL Multiphysics”. Workshop on “Model Checking”. National Workshop on Instrumental Methods of Analysis (IMA)”. National Seminar on “Finite Element Methods (NSFEM 2015)”. National Conference on “Clean Technology for Sustainable Environment (CTSE)”. Workshop on “Internet of Things”. Organized the prize-giving ceremony of the ‘SSN Creative Writing Contest”. Organized a workshop on “Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms”. Workshop on “Cadence Tools”. Workshop on “Antenna & RF/Microwave Simulations using CST Studio Suite 2015”. Seminar on “Drought Vulnerability Assessment in Irrigated Agriculture”. Workshop on “How to write a Research Paper”. National Workshop on “Writing Scientific Research Paper”. Organized FDTP on “EC6602 – Antenna & Wave Propagation”. National Conference on “Recent Advances in Materials & Manufacturing”. 3.1.7 Provide details of prioritised research areas and the expertise available with the institution. The prioritised research areas are as follows: 66 • • • • • • Energy Materials Speech Technology Healthcare Technology Machine Learning Smart Technology 3.1.8 Enumerate the efforts of the institution in attracting researchers of eminence to visit the campus and interact with teachers and students? The institute has set up a Research Advisory Council (RAC) to oversee research activities, provide vision and connect with the research community in India and abroad. The RAC consists of eminent researchers in India and abroad and is given in 3.1.2. Apart from this, International conferences are organized by departments where eminent researchers are invited for keynote speeches and possible collaboration in the areas of research. 3.1.9 What percentage of the faculty has utilized Sabbatical Leave for research activities? How has the provision contributed to improve the quality of research and imbibe research culture on the campus? Around 30% of institution faculty is currently pursuing their Ph.Ds from reputed institutions in India and abroad. They take sabbaticals as and when required for their research activities. This ensures that the faculty is exposed to new ideas and new avenues of research which they can conduct at the institution. 3.1.10 Provide details of the initiatives taken up by the institution in creating awareness/advocating/transfer of relative findings of research of the institution and elsewhere to students and community The institute has started an Innovation Centre to ensure that the research findings can be converted to products wherever possible and be showcased to the students, faculty and industry. This motivates the other students to do research and also helps with industry tie ups. Another initiative is setting up of an incubation centre where faculty who are interested in commercialization of their research can avail of funding and mentorship. 3.2 Research Output and Publications 3.2.1 What percentage of the total budget is earmarked for research? Give details of major heads of expenditure, financial allocation and actual utilization. 67 To promote meaningful research in the college, the Management has provided specific amounts for R & D activities during its annual budget. The budget provision made for research during 2011to 2015 are given below: Sl. No. Year Research Grant in Lakh of Rupees 1 2011 69.89 2 2012 68.10 3 2013 84.70 4 2014 117.92 5 2015 159.70 3.2.2 Is there a provision in the institution to provide seed money to the faculty for research? If so, specify the amount disbursed and the percentage of the faculty that has availed the facility in the last four years? Yes. The amount disbursed by the institution and the percentage of faculty who have availed this facility is shown below. Year 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total internal fund provided (Lakh of Rupees) 36.35 43.60 69.40 65.90 On Rolls 257 264 283 285 Number of Faculty Who have availed Percentage this facility 9 3.5 11 4.2 20 7.1 20 7.1 3.2.3 What are the financial provisions made available to support student research projects by students? Management funds the promising student research projects. About a hundred student projects are funded every year by the management. These projects usually lead to publications in refereed international journals. The Table below shows the funding received by student projects from the management: Seed Fund disbursed to Students Till 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total Number of projects 15 28 50 100 135 328 Funding (Rs. in Lakh) 4 6 11 23 26.5 71.5 The detailed information is given in Section 3.1.4. 68 3.2.4 How does the various departments/units/staff of the institute interact in undertaking inter-disciplinary research? Cite examples of successful endeavors and challenges faced in organizing interdisciplinary research. The interdisciplinary research is in the formation stage and is proposed in six major areas. They are Energy, Materials, Speech Technology, Healthcare, Machine Learning and Smart Technology. Researchers from different departments contribute and collaborate in a particular area and meet regularly to review and discuss the research projects under their areas. 3.2.5 How does the institution ensure optimal use of various equipment and research facilities of the institution by its staff and students? The institution ensures that labs and other equipment are available to the researchers irrespective of their department at any time of the day. There are no restrictions on the lab timings and their usage for the researchers. The Head of the Department ensures that all researchers have access to the equipment in a fair and transparent manner. This ensures that the facilities are used optimally. 3.2.6 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facility? If ‘yes’ give details. The institute has many labs funded by the industry as well by the alumni in various departments. Some of the industries which have funded labs at the institute include Danfoss, CTS, Intel among others. 3.2.7 Enumerate the support provided to the faculty in securing research funds from various funding agencies, industry and other organisations. Provide details of ongoing and completed projects and grants received during the last four years. Many new incentives have been introduced to give a boost to the research involvement of the faculty. Management has been giving seed money to start a research project, so that once it shows signs of success, the faculty can apply for external funding. Further, faculty is sponsored for higher studies like Ph.D. Travel grant and registration charges to attend national and international Conferences are met by the Trust. The faculty actively involved in research, are given a reduced workload so that they can concentrate on their research. They are free to use the ICT facilities available in the campus and the expenditure for testing their samples/circuitry at an outside agency/organization is met by the college. The services of the accounts department are made available to them for settling the accounts of the research Projects and timely submission of the completion reports. The list of on-going funded projects earned by the faculty as on date is given below: 69 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sl. Name of the No. Faculty 1 Dr. V. Rajini 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Funding Agency AICTE Title of Project Amount Modernization of High Voltage lab as a unified power Lab Dr. V. Rajini MNRE A novel fused converter for SPVwind based hybrid systems to power rural telephony Dr. Ranganath C-WET Study and Control of Muthu Grid Weak Connected Matrix Converter based DFIG System Dr. Ramaprabha SSN Trust Design and development of efficient Building integrated PV system under partial shaded conditions Dr. Ramaprabha DST– Design and WoSA Development of Flywheel based Power Conditioning System for a Renewable energy fed Micro grid Dr. R. Seyezhi AICTE Development of Cascaded source Multilevel Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications Dr. R. Seyezhi SSN Trust Solar Electric Vehicle using BLDC Drive Dr. M. Balaji Science Design and and Development of Engineerin Hybrid Switched g Research Reluctance Motor Board Drive Mr. V. N. Horizon SMART STREET Thiyagarajan Solutions LIGHTING Ltd SYSTEM Rs. 19.54 Lakh Date of Status Approval 2014 Ongoing Rs.34 Lakh 2014-16 Ongoing Rs. 7.75 Lakh 2011-2015 Completed Rs. 19.54 Lakh 2013-16 Ongoing Rs.17.1 Lakh 2014-17 Ongoing Rs.24.5 Lakh 2013-2016 Ongoing Rs.4.5 Lakh Rs. 22.9 Lakh 2013-2016 Ongoing 2015 Ongoing Rs. 1 Lakh 2015 Ongoing Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Sl. No 1 Principal Investigators / Co Investigators Project Title Fund for Dr.S.Salivahanan Improvement of Dr.S.Radha S&T Infrastructure Funding Duration Agency DST FIST 70 2014 2019 Amount in Rs. (Lakh) Sanc Utilized tioned 50 In progress Current Status on going 2 3 4 5 6 7 Dr.T.Nagarajan (PI) (Dept. of IT) Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi (Co-PI) Dr.A.Shanina (Co-PI) (Dept. of IT) Development of Text-to-speech synthesis for Indian languages MCIT Study of soft errors in 65nm gate length Dr.R.Srinivasan CMOS SRAM and (PI) (Dept. of IT) 30nm gate length Mr. K.K. FINFET, Tunnel DRDO Nagarajan FET and Junction(Co-PI) less FET based SRAM using TCAD Hardware implementation of Linton SPWM control for Univer Dr.B.S.Sreeja sity Standalone Hybrid Dr.S.Radha Renewable Energy College, Malaysia using DSP processor Dr.S.Radha (PI) Intel Embedded Dr.Premanand Curriculum INTEL V.Chandramani Initiative in India (PI) Design and Hardware Implementation of an Adaptive Filter Dr.S.Radha (PI) to Improve the NIOT Dr.S.Sakthivel Signal to Noise Murugan (Co-PI) Ratio due to Wind Driven Ambient Noise in Shallow Water Dr. P. An Assessment and Vijayalakshmi Intelligibility (PI) modification AICTE Dr.T.Nagarajan system for (Co-PI) (Dept of Dysarthric speakers IT) 2012 2015 77 In progress on going 2012 2015 30.5 29.47 Project Comple tion Report Submitt ed 20142015 4.4 4.31 On going 2011 2014 4 4 Comple ted 2010 2012 20.6 20.11 Comple ted 2011 2012 9 9 Comple ted Department of Computer Science & Engineering Sl. No. 1. Faculty Title of Project Dr. Shomona Gracia Jacob Investigation on the effect of Gene and Protein Mutants in the Funding Agency Science and Engineerin g research 71 Amount (in Lakh) Sanc Receiv tioned ed 17.00 17.00 Date of Approval Status 09.11.15 On going Onset of NeuroDegenerative Brain Disorders(Alzheim er’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease): A Computational study Board – Young Scientist SchemeExternal DST Projects using GPU computing nVIDIA – 3 GPU 2. Dr. Venkata Vara Prasad Dr. J. Suresh 3. An Innovative Approach for Dr. T.T. Building an Mirnalinee Intelligent * Network to Maintain Water Quality Chellamm al Agro (State Agency) 4.00 4.00 July 2015 On going 0.25 0.25 15.10.13 Complete d * with students Department of Information Technology Sl. No. 1 2 Faculty Title of Project Development of TEXT to SPEECH SYSTEM in Indian Dr.T. Nagarajan Languages Dr. P. High quality text Vijayalakshmi to speech Dr. A. Shahina synthesis and small footprint TTS integrated with disability aids Study of Soft Errors in 65 nm Gate Length Dr. R. CMOS SRAM Srinivasan and 30 nm Gate Mr. K.K. Length FinFET, Nagarajan TunnelFET and Mr. V.N. Junction-less Ramakrishnan FET-based SRAMs Using TCAD Simulation Funding Agency Amount(Rs) Date of Sanc Received Approval tioned Status DIT, MCIT 76.6 L 26-122011 On going DRDO, Govt. of India 31.629 L 26-122011 On going 72 3 Dr.N.Bhalaji, Dr. S. Chithra Mr.K.Kabilan 4 Dr.G. Muneeswari 5 Mr.Joe Louis Paul, Ms.S.Sasirekha Ms.R.Swathika 6 Dr. T. Sree Sharmila 7 Dr. S. Karthika 8 Ms. S. Mohanavalli Ms. Srividya 9 Mr. R. Vinob Chander Mr. K. K. Nagarajan 10 Dr. R. Srinivasan Customization of IOT protocols for societal applications using QOE Multiagent Process Scheduling for NOC based Multicore Systems Disaster Management System-Next Generation Development of high resolution imaging algorithm for underwater acoustic images Joint link prediction by attribute inference in clandestine social network for curbing future attacks Big data Analytics for economic disparity mining Being Smarter with Smart Objects Ergonomics through image processing SSN Trust 3.42 L NIL 2015 On going 1.2 L NIL 2015 On going 3.45 L NIL 2015 On going 3L 2.8 L 2014 On going 3.5 L - 2014 On going 2.3 L - 2014 On going 3.5 L 0.85 L 2014 On going 0.6 L 0.6 L 2012 On going SSN Trust SSN Trust SSN Trust SSN Trust SSN Trust SSN Trust SSN Trust Department of Biomedical Engineering Sl. No. 1 Faculty Dr. S. Guruprakash, Dr. R. Subashini Title of Project Nano-particle based strategies to combat orthopedic implant associated infections Funding Agency SSN Trust 73 Amount(in Lakh) Sanc tioned 6 Recei ved 6 Date of Approval Status 2014 Ongoing 2 Dr. R. Ocimum Sivaramakrishnan sanctum extract 3 Dr. S. Pravin Kumar 4 Dr. A. Kavitha coating on biomaterial surfaces to prevent bacterial adhesion and promote tissue integration Cardiac risk monitoring system Implementation of finite element analysis (FEA) in bone biomechanics for designing suitable implants using MIMICS and 3D printing technology SSN Trust 2.5 2.5 2015 Ongoing SSN Trust 3.5 3.5 2015 Ongoing SSN Trust 6 6 2015 Ongoing Department of Chemical Engineering Sl. No. 1. 2. Faculty Title of Project Amount Date of Status Approval Sanctioned Recei ved SSN Trust 28.12.12 8.5 Lakh 8.5 Lakh ongoing Funding Agency Hydrotropic Dr.D. extraction of GnanaPrakash bioactive compounds using Ultrasonication Dr.R. Noval SSN Trust 09.11.13 Saravana photocatalytic thamizhan reactor for the Dr.P.Senthil treatment of Kumar industrial effluents 3. Dr.P. Gopinath 4. Dr.C. Feasibility studies on biodiesel production from macro and micro Algae isolated from various water bodies Experimental 2.5 Lakh 2.5 Lakh ongoing SSN Trust 09.11.13 2.5 Lakh 2.5 Lakh ongoing SSN Trust 16.10.14 5.5 Lakh 5.5 Lakh ongoing 74 5. Ravikumar Mrs.B.Chitra investigation of heat transfer enhancement using stable nanofluids as coolant for automobile radiators. Dr.J. Dhanalaskhmi Dr. B. Ambedkar Potential SSN Trust 30.09.2015 4 Lakh Applications of Ionic Liquids in reducing CO2 Capture Proces s Energy Demand 4 Lakh ongoing Funding agency Amount in Rs. Lakh Period AICTE 11 201215 AICTE 18.65 201215 DST 9.26 2013 Engineers India Ltd. 1 Engineers India Ltd 0.5 2015 AICTE MODROB 5.94 2015 AICTE RPS 9.41 2015 17 2015 1 2015 Department of Mechanical Engineering Sl. No. Name of faculty 1. Dr.Ve. Annamalai 2. Dr.K.S.Vijay Sekar Title of the R&D project Industry – Institute Partnership Cell Experimental and finite element investigation of the machining process with composite materials Magnetic moulding of A/SiCp of metal matrix composites. Studies on Enhancement of Charging/Discharging Characteristics of an encapsulated Latent Heat Thermal Storage Develop. of a Low cost Automated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for crop damage inspection Design and Fabrication lab (under the "Innovation in Teaching Learning Practice" ) Study of Mechanical Properties & Surface Features of Steels Quenched in CNT Nanofluid 3 Dr. B. Anand Ronald 4 Dr.N.Lakshmi Narasimhan 5 Dr.K.S.Vijay Sekar 6 Dr.Ve. Annamalai 7 Dr.K.Babu 8 Dr.M.S.Alphin Handle Vibration Design 9 Dr.G.Sathishkumar Smart Street Lighting System SERBDST Horizon Engg Solutions Total 2015 73.76 3.3 Research Facilities 3.3.1 What are the research facilities available to the students and research scholars within the campus? 75 The students and research scholars are permitted to use the research facilities available in the institution and the details of these facilities are listed below: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sl. No. Laboratory Research Equipment 1 High Voltage Lab AC, DC Source Impulse Source 2 Solar Energy Research Lab Solar Stand (Tilting) Spartan 6 FPGA Processor 3 Renewable Energy Scope Corder, DL850 Conversion Lab Digital Storage Oscilloscope, DSO Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Sl. No. Laboratory Research Equipment 1 Digital Signal Processing & Networks Lab Server, Computers, ADSPBF533, TI5416DSK, TI6713DSK, MATLAB, LAN & WLAN Trainer, DSO, FG CRO, DSO, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Antenna Training System, AM/FM Synthesizer Generator, Computers CADENCE Software, TANNER EDA, Mentor Graphics Tool, Xilinx ISE & FPGA Kit, DSP Trainer Kit, ARM Embedded Kit & Software, DSO, Computers, Printer, Scanner MATLAB R11, Computers, DSO, Optical Fiber System & Tool kit, Microwave Trainer Kit, GPS Trainer Kit, MIC Component Setup, WICOM Tool Kit, IE3D Software, Microwave Power meter, APD Module 2 Communication Lab 3 VLSI Lab 4 Microwave & Optic Fibre Lab 5 Low Power Systems & Computing Lab Intel ATOM - Evaluation module, GPS / GSM Module, Computers, Printer 6 Optical Research &Networks Lab Intellisuite MEMs Design tool, Tunable external cavity Laser Module, Optical Spectrum Analyzer AQ 6370, XYZ Manipulators, Computers, Michelson - Interferometer kit + extra optical breadboard, 3 Axis Nanopositioner + accessories, SM Benchtop SLD source (Broadband Source) Thor Labs 7 Research & Projects Lab ADS Software, Computers, Sensor nodes 76 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Sl. Laboratory Research Equipment No. 1 SSN - CTS Open Server – IBM Bladecenter S Source Lab CHASIS WITH C14 2z950/1450W PSU, 20GB (1x2GB) DDR3 RAM, 4x300GB HDD, USB Keyboard and Mouse, Thinkvision L714 17 “LCD Monitor, Rack – Netrack 17U 600/1000 2 High Performance Intel PD 2.8GHz, 1GB DDR2 x 2, 80 GB, 16x Computing Lab DVD Writer, 17" Color Monitor, HCL 107 Mech PS/2 Mech PS/2, Opt USB Mouse, Department of Information Technology Sl. No. 1 2 3 Equipment Description Fujistu 2x Quad Core Xeon 2.66GHz, 16 GB RAM 4 DDR2 RAM, 2 x 160 GB Sata Hard Disk, DVD Super Multi Drive, 26 Inch LCD Monitor, Optical Mouse, Keyboard Fujistu 2X Intel Xeon E5649 2.53GHz 16 GB DDR-3 RAM, SATA 2 500 GB Hard Disk DVD Drive, Fujistu 22 inch Led Monitor, Optical mouse & Keyboard, Display Card Nvida Quadro 600 1GB HCL – Server Processor – Intel Xeon E5506, 2.13 GHz, RAM - 8GB x 4 - DBR3, Hard disk - 600 GB x 2 – SATA, DVD Drive – SATA -DVD W/R, Monitor – HCL, LED 18.5'' TFT, Mouse – 2BUHon Optical USB, Keyboard – 104 key USB, NIC – onboard, Display card No. of Equipment 1 5 1 Special Software T-CAD Software Software – MATLAB 2013 A (for 5 users) Department of Chemical Engineering Sl. Laboratory Research Equipment No. 1 Environmental Jasco - UV/Vis Spectrometer Engineering Lab 2 High temperature vacuum furnace Hindustan Apparatus Mfg. Co. 3 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Elico 4 Sonicator - Sonics & Materials Inc - USA 5 Photo Reactor - Heber Scientific 77 6 7 8 9 10 11 Technical Analysis Lab Research Lab 12 Technical Analysis Lab Thermal Conductivity - Powerlab Instruments High performance liquid chromatography Gas Chromatography FTIR Rotary Evaporator - IKA RV 10 Digital Trinocular Microscope - Deep Vision, USB Camera with Software for Trinocular Microscope Bomb Calorimeter Department of Biomedical Engineering Sl. Laboratory Research Equipment No. 1 Biomedical RMS-windows Based Digital 32 Ch EEG Machine, Instrumentation Bio Radio data acquisition unit and Fetal Lab Monitoring unit 2 Bioscience Lab Spectrophotometer, Binocular light microscope, Mini vertical gel electrophoresis, Analytical balance, Semi auto analyser, Elisa reader, Microtome, Hemocytometer, Hemoglobinometer, Magnetic stirrer with hot plate, Tissue Homogeniser, Thin layer chromatography 3 Pathology and Incubator, Deep freezer, Magnetic stirrer, Microbiology Lab Fluorescent microscope, Hot air oven, Laminar air, flow chamber 4 Medical Software MIMICS Innovation Suite, PSoC development Lab boards and Drivers 5 Diagnostic & Single channel Biopac™ DAQ system for EMG, Therapeutic ECG, PPG and EEG, NI USB DAQ for Labview™ Equipment Lab based applications Department of Mechanical Engineering Sl. Laboratory Research Equipment No. 1 Manufacturing Lab Table Top FSW Machine 2 Automated Attached for FSW machine 3 UTM with High Temperature Testing 4 Optical Microscope with Image Analysing Software 5 Stress corrosion test rig (C-Ring) 6 Pin-on-Disc Wear Tester 78 Cost 1,68,911 2,21,642 8,84,000 10,09,800 2,89,685 4,37,963 7 8 9 11 10 12 13 Mechatronics Lab CAD Lab Thermal Lab Miller Dynasty GTAW machine Autolinear Attachment for GTAW machine Vickers Hardness Testing Machine Dynamometers (Turning, drilling and milling) MEMS development boards ABAQUS software Solar parabolic trough collector Total 5,05,000 1,49,625 1,33,593 8,50,000 1,54,000 8,50,000 2,80,000 59,34,219 Department of Civil Engineering Sl. No. 1 2 3 Laboratory Concrete and Highway Engineering Lab Environmental Engineering Lab Strength of Material Lab Research Equipment Pan mixer, Oven for Geopolymerization (300°C capacity), Flow table for cement paste and mortar, SCC testing equipment, Accelerated Curing Tank, Jaw Crusher, Electrically operated Pulverizer Refrigerated Universal Centrifuges, Orbital Shaker, Deep Freezer Data Acquisition System 3.3.2 What are the institutional strategies for planning, upgrading and creating infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of researchers especially in the new and emerging areas of research? To meet the needs of researchers especially in the new and emerging areas of research, the Institute continuously indentifies and procures new equipment for research work and also submits proposals for getting MODROBS from AICTE. The institution has already procured a project worth Rs. 19.51 Lakh in the year 2013. The Institute constantly encourages faculty to apply to various funding agencies like AICTE, DST, MNRE, NRB, AERB, IGCAR, NIOT, DIT, BRNS, etc. through their various schemes to establish research facilities through sanctioned funded project. In department budget allocation, funds have been allocated separately for R &D through which latest software and equipments can be procured to carry out the research. Faculty and students are always encouraged to interact with industries and research institutes for exploring the new avenues of collaborative research. 79 The Institute then and there reviews the research progress of the researchers. If the progress is promising, funding will be provided to them through internal funded project scheme. Sophisticated instruments, modeling tools, data processing software, and modern equipments will be purchased every year for upgrading and creating the research infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of new and emerging areas of research. 3.3.3 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facilities? If ‘yes’, what are the instruments / facilities created during the last four years. A few organizations have supplied equipment for pursuing research in the campus. Thus, we have three Danfoss Drives given by Danfoss Industries to the Electrical Engineering Department, One entire lab with 15 high end computers given by Cognizant Technology Solutions to the CSE Department, WSN Test Bed components, Antenna Turn table with MAST and AD-08E Multi spectral camera all procured under DST FIST, INTEL has sponsored a lab to the Department of ECE for doing Research. The equipment for PG labs have been procured with research in mind. The equipment that can possibly be listed under this head is indicated in Section 3.3.1. 3.3.4 What are the research facilities made available to the students and research scholars outside the campus / other research laboratories? Research facilities available at Research Institutes, R & D organizations and industries are made available to our faculty, students and research scholars by entering MoUs for mutual benefit. Institutional membership from the leading libraries like British Council Library, INDEST – AICTE Consortium Membership, DELNET – Developing Library Network, MALIBNET – Madras Library Network, Anna University – Industrial Association Scheme Membership etc., allow our faculty, students and research scholars to use these resources. UG and PG students are encouraged to do their project work at Research organizations and Industries like IGCAR, ISRO, DANFOSS, BHEL, SAMEER etc. Anna University recognized Ph.D. supervisors are permitted to carry out collaborative research work in Anna University, Chennai. 3.3.5 Provide details on the library/information resource center or any other facilities available specifically for the researchers? Our central library is fully computerized by automating the issue of books with bar code reader. The library has 35,068 titles (82,947 volumes) 80 covering major areas of Science, Engineering and Management. The library has the following facilities for the faculty, students and research scholars: Description Online Access Details OPAC - to provide book search, book availability status, book renewal and reservation through campus Wi-Fi INDEST – AICTE Consortium Membership DELNET – Developing Library Network Library Networking MALIBNET – Madras Library Network Anna University – Industrial Association Scheme Membership and British Council Library Membership Internet Facilities Library members are able to connect to Wi-Fi from all areas inside the Library. To access subscribed online resources such as e-journals, e-books etc. Scholarly journal subscription National – 169; International - 41 Digital Library IEL – Level 2 (unlimited user) 161 e-Journals 18704 IEEE Conference 5409 IEEE standards with all back files ACM – Association for Computing Machinery 136 Journals ASCE - American Society for Civil Engineering 35 Journals ASME - American Society for Mechanical Engineering 28 Journals ASTM - American Society of Testing and Materials 6 Journals with 13,000 Journals Articles JGATE – Engineering 3818 Journals Science Direct 275 Journals Springer Link 586 Journals McGraw-Hill e-book 321 books NPTEL Video 110 Numbers 81 NPTEL Web Courses 129 Numbers 3.3.6 What are the collaborative research facilities developed/created by the research institutes in the college. For ex. Laboratories, library, instruments, computers, new technology etc. The collaborative research facilities developed/created are listed in Section 3.3.3. 3.4 Research Publications and Awards 3.4.1 Major research achievements of the staff and students The details of Patents obtained and filed are given below: Intellectual Property Rights Obtained Sl. No. Title Inventors Department Number 1 System and method for automated handling of document processing workload Dr. Sriram Kailasam CSE US 2012/0057191 A1 2 Dynamic pre-resolve charge recovery logic Dr. V.S. Kanchana Bhaaskaran ECE Publication Date : 07/02/2014 Dr. Siluvai Michael Chemistry MY – 122753-A Dr. Siluvai Michael Chemistry C01B0060021; C01B0060024 Dr. Siluvai Michael Chemistry C07D2330000 Dr. Davis Presley Chemistry WO 2012/007966 A2 Dr. K. Yamuna Chemistry US005491094A Dr. K. Yamuna Chemistry US006541269A 3 4 5 6 7 8 A process for preparing bulk synthesis of fine particle single-phase battery grade S An improved process for the preparation of lithiummanganese oxide useful as cathode material A process for the preparation of composition useful for treatment of electrodeposited zinc nickle alloy to enhance corrosion resistance. Process for preparation of intermediaties of bendamustine Test strip for free chlorine analysis Calorimetric test strips 82 Intellectual Property Rights Patent Filed Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Title Power Efficient Medium Access Control through Field programmable Gate Array Improved MMSE interference cancellation receiver with maximum likelihood detection for multiuser MIMO MC DS/CMDA systems Micro controller based tabla tuning system A System and Method for Verifying Face/Objects Using Linear Regression and Discriminant Methods A System and Method for Face Recognition Using Regularized Discriminant Analysis. Air inlet regulating device for fluid driven two stroke engines Portable Micromachining Apparatus Airconditioner cum auxiliary cooler with evaporative condenser Multipurpose handheld cooling cum cleaning device Growth of an efficient nonlinear Optical Dπ-A-π-D type benzophenone Derivative single crystal Inventors Department Filing details Dr. S. Radha, Ms.T.S.Padmavathy ECE C.B.R.No:5178 27-08-2008 Mr. N.Prabagaran Mr. S.Arvind Ms. Lakshmi Krishnan ECE C.B.R. No:881 06-02-2009 Mr. Suresh Robert Norman, Mr. S. Karthie S.Arun Kumar, S.Balachandar R.Dayanidhi ECE C.B.R. No.3195 12-05-2009 Mr. J. Suresh CSE 01321/CHE/2014, on 13/03/2014 Mr. J. Suresh CSE 01322/CHE/2014, on 13/03/2014 Mr. Ebenezer Sashank and Tarun Dr. Ve. Annamalai, Dr. Elangovan Dr. M. Suresh Sai Shreenaath, Vishnu Swami, Jigar Golecha and Bruno Augustin Dr. M. Suresh Subash, Gokul, Keshika and Praveen Mr. G.Anandhababu, Dr. P.Ramasamy, Dean (Research) 83 Mechanical Mechanical Mechanical Mechanical Physics 4882/CHE/2013 06.11.2012 3657/CHE/2012, 05.09.2012. 4882/CHE/2013, 18.12.2013 4883/CHE/2013 18.12.2013 C.B.R. No:2903 30-04-2009 Sl. No. 11 12 Title Blue emitting CuxCdx-ySy (x~0.5 and y~0.15) material: Synthesis and deposition of thin films by Chemical Bath Deposition and its optical devices Photonic crystal based tunable optical channel drop filter Inventors Department Filing details Dr. P.Ramasamy (Dean-Research) Physics C.B.R.No.2147 16-03-2010 Dr. Prita Nair Mr. M.Renilkumar Physics 1559/CHE/2011 05-05-2011 3.4.2 Does the Institute publish or partner in publication of research journal(s)? If ‘yes’, indicate the composition of the editorial board, publication policies and whether such publication is listed in any international database? No. 3.4.3 Details of publications by the faculty and students: The number of Journal papers and the books authored by the faculty & Research scholars of SSN during 2011-12 to 2014-15 is given below. Dept. Books 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 EEE 2 106 61 57 71 ECE 4 62 61 39 40 CSE 8 244 48 85 63 IT 48 7 19 8 Chem. 3 33 10 28 5 BME 24 27 15 22 Mech. 13 36 16 20 7 Civil 10 1 2 S&H 12 30 24 34 27 MBA 2 5 4 12 12 The details of journal publications and conference papers published by the faculty of various departments during the year 2014-15 are given below: DEPARTMENT OF EEE Journal publications 1. Renugadevi.V, Margaret Amutha.W and Rajini.V, “A Novel Microgrid Based DC-DC Converter for Rural Telephony”, International Journal of Research in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April-June, 2014, pp. 25-32. 84 2. B. Hemamalini, R. Arumugam and A. Kavitha, “Modeling of Flux Switching Motor with Selection of Pole Arcs for Maximum Torque Production”, International Review on Modelling and Simulations (I.RE.MO.S.), Vol. 7, No. 3, June 2014. 3. Renugadevi.V, Margaret Amutha.W and Rajini.V, “A Novel Improved Fused Converter Based Hybrid System with MPPT Control for Rural Telephony”, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 4, Issue 5, May 2014. 4. R.Seyezhai and P.Chitra, “Simulation of PV with MPPT Algorithm for LLC Resonant DC-DC Converter Employing Burst Mode Control” the Global Journal of Engineering Science and Research Management, June 2014. 5. T. Porselvi and Ranganath Muthu, “The PMSG based Wind Energy Conversion System with CUK Converter and CHB MLI with a single DC Input”, International Energy Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2014, June 2014. 6. R.Subashraj, S.Prabhu, V.Chandrasekar, N.C.Lenin, A.Manikandan and R.Arumugam, “Design and Finite Element Analysis of Switched Reluctance Motor with Exterior Rotor”, International Journal of Engineering Research, Vol. No.3, Issue No.6, pp. 390-395, June, 2014. 7. S.A. Nirmala, B. Veena Abirami and Ranganath Muthu, “Model Predictive Control of Drug Infusion System for Mean Arterial Pressure Regulation of Critical Care Patients”, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 21, pp. 4601-4605, June 2014. 8. M. Venmathi and R. Ramaprabha, “Analysis of Photovoltaic Fed Partially Isolated Three-Port Full Bridge Converter with the Centralised Controller”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 14951506, Jun – July 2014. 9. R.Deepalaxmi and V.Rajini, “Gamma and electron beam irradiation effects on SiR-EPDM blends”, Journal of radiation Research and Applied Sciences, July 2014, Issue 7; pp. 363-370. 10. R.Seyezhai and D.Umarani, "Design and Simulation of Cascaded H- Bridge Quasi Z-source Multilevel Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications", International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Vol.2, Issue 7, July 2014. 11. W.Margaret Amutha, Renugadevi and V.Rajini, “A Novel fused converter for hybrid power systems”, Advanced Materials Research Vols. 984-985 (2014) pp. 744-749. 12. V.Nithin, P.Sivapriya, K.Vigneshwar and R.Seyezhai, “Calculation of Performance Parameters and Reliability Aspects of Phase Shifted Semi Bridgeless Interleaved Boost Converter", International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 5, Issue 6, June-2014. 13. W. AbhithaMemala and V.Rajini, “Virtual instrumentation based analysis of induction Motor”, Advanced Materials Research Vols. 984-985 (2014) pp. 970976. SJR impact factor 0.13 14. S. Malathy, AP and R. Ramaprabha, “Suitability of Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverters for Partial Shaded Photovoltaic Systems”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 622, pp. 173-179, 2014. 85 15. R. Ramaprabha, S. Ajay, G. Deepika and S. Maneesha, “Implementation of an Active Battery Balancer using Fly-Back Transformer”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No.8, pp. 1344-1347, August 2014. 16. R.Seyezhai and A.InbaRexy, "Simulation Analysis and Implementation of Two Phase Interleaved Boost Converter with Ripple Steering for Power Factor Correction", Advanced Materials Research Vols. 984-985, July 2014, pp.10461056. 17. R.Seyezhai, Sudarshan V.J., Sunil Kumar.M. and S.Venkat Brama Vignash, “Design And Analysis of Sub-Harmonic PWM Techniques for a Nine Level Modular Multilevel Inverter", Journal of Engineering And Technology Research, 2014, 2 (3):58-65. 18. M.Tamilarasi and R.Seyezhai, “State Space Averaged Modeling and Power Loss Computations for Fuel Cell Powered Four-Phase Interleaved Boost Converter", Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 984-985 (2014) pp. 1037-1045. 19. R.Sreemallika, and R.Seyezhai, “Investigation of Closed Loop current control strategies for Bridgeelss Interleaved SEPIC Converter”, Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2014. 20. Ganesan P and V.Rajini, “Color space based edge detection for satellite image segmentation”, International Journal of Science Research and Technology, Vol 2(3), Sep -2014, pp. 18-22. 21. Ganesan P and V.Rajini, “Application of Modified K-Means Clustering Algorithm for Satellite Image Segmentation based on Color Information”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Vol. 4, Number 5, 2014. 22. Ganesan P and V.Rajini, “Comparative Study of Denoising Methods for Satellite Image Restoration Using Matlab”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Vol. 4, Number 5, 2014. 23. Ganesan P, V.Rajini, B.S. Sathish and Khamar Basha Shaik, “Segmentation and Comparison of Water Resources in Satellite Images using Fuzzy based Approach”, Springer book series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Publishers, Vol. 309 (1) / 685-692 / 2015, pp. 2194-5357. 24. Ganesan P, V.Rajini, B.S. Sathish and V. Kalist, “Unsupervised Segmentation of Satellite Images based on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm”, Springer book series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Publishers, Vol. 309 (2) / 319-326 / 2015, pp. 2194-5357. 25. Ganesan P and V.Rajini, “CIELAB color space based high resolution satellite image segmentation using modified fuzzy C means clustering", MAGNT research report, Vol. 2, No. 6, 2014, pp. 199-210. 26. R.Seyezhai and D.Umarani, "Investigation of Quasi Z-Source Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for PV System with Maximum Power Point Tracking", International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol.622, pp. 105-110, 2014. 27. Mrunal Deshpande, “Effect of magnetic water on growth of legumes”, European Journal of Applied Engineering and Scientific Research, Vol 3, Issue 3 Sept 2014. 86 28. V.Rajini and Santhi saravana, “Analysis of efficient methods of water production using renewable energy based reverse osmosis desalination process and its applications in India", Hydrology -current research, Vol 5, No. 4, Sep 2014. 29. P.Chitra and R.Seyezhai, “Simulation of an Interleaved LLC Resonant Converter for Renewable Energy Systems”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 9, September 2014 .pp.11885-11891. 30. A.Bharathi sankar and R.Seyezhai, "Sensorless Control of BLDC Motor Using Back emf Based Detection Method", International Journal of Advanced Technology in Engineering and Sciences, Vol.6, Issue 2, July-Dec.2014. 31. R. Seyezhai, “Design, Simulation and Hardware Implementation of a Multi Device Interleaved Boost Converter for Fuel Cell Applications", International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2014, pp. 314~320. 32. Murugesan K, Ranganath Muthu, Vijayenthiran S and Mervin, “Prototype hardware realization of the DSTATCOM for reactive power Compensation”, International journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, pp. 169 – 178, October 2014. 33. Rahiman Zahira, A Peer Fathima and Ranganath Muthu, “Modelling, Simulation and Implementation of the Three-Phase Fuzzy Based Shunt Active Filter for Limiting the Total Harmonic Distortion”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 622, pp. 121-126, October 2014. 34. R.Seyezhai, Abhinaya Venkatesan, M.Aishwarya and K.Gayathri, “A Comparative Study of the Conventional and Bridgeless AC-DC Power Converter for Active Power Factor Correction for Hybrid Electric Vehicles", IPASJ International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 10, October 2014. 35. P. Anto Jailyn, Alagu Dheeraj and V. Rajini, “Analysis of Active Clamp Fly Back Converter"Modern applied science, Vol. 9, No. 1; 2015. 36. R.Seyezhai and Sreemallika R “Investigation of SEPIC Converter Power Factor Correction Topologies for LED Lighting Applications. Inventi Rapid: Power Electronics, 2014(4):1-7, 2014, Oct.-Dec.2014. 37. R.Seyezhai and P.Vaishnavi, “Analysis of PWM Strategies for a Single-Phase Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches for PV Application”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 11, November 2014. 38. R.Seyezhai, K.Arthi, J.Bhavani, A.Archana and M. Deepa, “Design and Control of Switched-Inductor Quasi-Z-Source Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications” International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science, Vol. 3, Issue 10, October 2014, pp.15-28. 39. D.Umarani and R.Seyezhai, “FPGA Implementation of PV based Quasi Z-Source Cascaded Multilevel Inverter', International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Nov.2014. 40. G. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Performance Enhancement of Photovoltaic System Using Soft Switched Multi-phase Boost Converter”, Journal of Electrical Systems, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 381-391, Dec 2014. 87 41. S. Iyappan, M. Vijayalakshmi and R. Ramaprabha, “Analysis of Controllers for Speed Control in Brushless DC Motor Using MATLAB”, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 467-473, Nov 2014. 42. W. Margaret Amutha and V.Rajini, “Techno-economic evaluation of various hybrid power systems for rural telecom", Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 43, pp. 553–561, 2015. 43. Alagu Dheeraj and V. Rajini, “Selection of Isolated DC-DC Converter for Low Power Applications with Current Doubler rectifier", Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8(18) December 2014, pp. 184-194. 44. Raam Meenakshi, Senthil Kumaran Mahadevan and Ranganath Muthu, ‘Dynamic Performance of DFIG Wind Turbine Subjected to Symmentrical Grid Faults’, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Science, Vol. 8, No. 18, December 2014, pp. 408-413. 45. Anitha Johnson, Rajini, Vijayenthiran and Senthil Kumaran Mahadevan, “2D Digital Vector Control Algorithm for Cascaded Multilevel Converters”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8(18) December 2014, pp. 195206. 46. Tamizhselvan Annamalai and V.Rajini, “Performance comparison between Modified and Improved Bridgeless Boost Converters"Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8(18) December 2014, pp. 554-564. 47. K.J Anoop, Sapam Roshini Devi and V. Rajini, “Analysis of DC-DC converter with multiplier cells for high voltage generation", Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 10th November 2014. Vol. 69 No.1. 48. V. Vasan Prabhu, V. Rajini, M. Balaji and V. Prabhu, “A Comparative Study of Operating Angle Optimization of Switched Reluctance Motor with Robust Speed Controller using PSO and GA", J Electr Eng Technol Vol.10, pp. 742- 750. 49. Tamil Selvan Annamalai and V.Rajini, “Analysis of a single phase bridgeless rectifier for SMPS and UPS applications", International journal of Advances in natural and applied sciences, 8(20), special issue 2014, pp. 41-53. 50. S.Krishnaveni and V.Rajini, “High voltage Dc pulsed power supply based on high gain cockroft walton voltage multiplier converter" International journal of Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences” 8(20), Special Issue 2014, pp.100106. 51. P.Anto Jailyn and V.Rajini, “Choice of clamping techniques of flyback converter for LED lighting", International journal of Advances in natural and applied sciences, 8(20), special issue 2014 pp. 85-90. 52. R.Seyezhai and V.Aarthi, “Comparison of Interleaved Boost Converter Topologies with Voltage Multiplier for Battery Charging of PHEV”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 11, November 2014. 53. R.Seyezhai and S.Dharani, “Development of High-Level Asymmetric Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches for Fuel Cells” Global Journal of Advanced Research, Vol-1, Issue 1 pp. 104-113. 88 54. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sanka, “Simulation and Implementation of Active Neutral Point Clamped Multilevel Inverter Powered by PV Source” Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, (21) Special 2014, pp. 22-29. 55. R.Seyezhai and V.Chamundeeswari, “Design, Control and Implementation of High Gain Negative Output Relift DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Applications”, Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, (21) Special 2014, pp. 30-36. 56. T.S.Saravanan, R.Seyezhai and V.Venkatesh, “Modeling and control of split capacitor type elementary additional series positive output super lift Luo converter”, World Journal of Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 10 (2014) No. 4, pp. 280-292. 57. R.Seyezhai, "Simulation, Analysis and Experimentation of Cascaded Z-Source Multilevel Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications", Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 21 (9): 1426-1433, 2014, pp.1426- 1433. 58. R. Seyezhai, K. Abinaya, V. Akshaya and U. Induja, “Analysis of PWM Strategies for a Three- phase Quasi z-source Inverter for PV Applications", Ind. J. Sci. Res. and Tech. 2014 2(5), pp.82-89. 59. R.Seyezhai, “Simulation of fuzzy logic controller for pem fuel cell based hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter”, Electrical & Electronics Journal, Dec.2014. 60. G. Parameswari Ganesan and R. Arumugam, “Comparison of Current Control Schemes for a Three Phase Grid Connected PV Systems with MPPT”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8(18) December 2014, pp. 195-206. 61. V.Rajini and W.Abitha Memala, “Single phasing fault identification using wavelet analysis”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6 No. 6 Dec 2014-Jan 2015, pp. 2712-2721. 62. V.Rajini and M. Subramoniam, “A Semi Automated Method for Identification of Arthritis Using Statistical Features”, International Journal Of Advanced Research In Computer Science, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2014. 63. M.Sudhakaran and R.Seyezhai, “Performance Evaluation of Variable frequency PDPWM Technique for an Trinary Hybrid Multilevel Inverter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research Research India Publications, Vol. 9, No. 24 (2014) pp. 23717-23732. 64. R. Seyezhai and A.InbaRexy, “Analysis and Experimentation of Interleaved Boost Converter with Ripple Steering for Power Factor Correction”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Electrical, Electronic Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, No.2, 2014. 65. Ganesan P and RajiniV, “Segmentation and denoisisng of noisy satellite images based on modified fuzzy C means clustering and discrete wavelet transform for information retrieval”, International journal of Engineering Technology, Vol 5, No.5, Dec 2014, pp. 3858-3869. 66. Ganesan P and RajiniV, “The region of forest fire detection and segmentation using high resolution satellite images based on clustering”, International journal of advanced life sciences, Vol. 7, No.3, August2014, pp. 2320-1827. 67. V.Rajini and W.Abitha Memala, “Single phasing fault identification using wavelet analysis”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 6 Dec 2014-Jan 2015, pp. 2712-2721. 89 68. N. Umadevi, M. Balaji, V. Kamaraj and L. Ananda Padmanaban, “Data Interpolation and Design Optimisation of Brushless DC Motor Using Generalized Regression Neural Network”, Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology, 2015, 10(1) pp. 188-194. 69. M.Sudhakaran and R.Seyezhai, “Performance Evaluation of Variable frequency PDPWM Technique for an Trinary Hybrid Multilevel Inverter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Research India Publications, Vol. 9, No. 24 (2014) pp. 23717-23732. 70. Ganesan P and Rajini V, “Segmentation and denoising of noisy satellite images based on modified fuzzy C means clustering and discrete wavelet transform for information retrieval", International journal of Engineering Technology, Vol. 5, No. 5, Dec 2014. pp. 3858-3869. 71. K. N. Dineshbabu, R. Ramaprabha, V. Rajini, Kamal Bansal and Bala Vinayagam, “Comprehensive Analysis of Auto Synchronization Techniques in Solar Photovoltaic Grid Connected Systems”, Journal of Modern Applied Science, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 278-285, Feb 2015. 72. Ganesan P and Rajini V, “Satellite image segmentation based on YCbCr color space", Indian journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 8, No.1, Jan 2015. 73. Ganesan P and Rajini V, “The region of forest fire detection and segmentation using high resolution satellite images based on clustering”, international journal of advanced life sciences Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 3851-3856, 2014. 74. R.Seyezhai and R.Niraimathi, “Analysis of PWM Switching Techniques for Grid Connected Multilevel DC Link Inverter” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9 No.24 (2014) pp. 8013-8019. 75. R.Seyezhai and V.Chamundeeswari, “Digital control for Negative Output Superlift Luo Converter using ARM Processor”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9 No.24 (2014) pp. 8032-8035. 76. R.Seyezhai and M.Shanthi Murugan, “Simulation and Analysis of Burst Mode Control Technique for Full-Bridge LLC Resonant Converter for Photovoltaic Applications", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9 No.24 (2014) pp. 8041-8045. 77. Anoop K J and Rajini V, “Investigations on voltage multiplier cells for high step up conversion”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2015. 78. R.Seyezhai, “Simulation of Fuzzy Logic Controller For PEM Fuel Cell Based Hybrid Cascaded Multilevel Inverter”, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2015. 79. Pramod Kumar Gouda, Ashwin Kumar Sahoo and P.K. Hota, “Optimal Power Flow Including Unified Power Flow Controller in a Deregulated Environment”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2015) pp. 505-521. 80. Ashwin Kumar Sahoo and Aswin Gautham D, “An Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Controller for Load Frequency Control of a Distributed Grid Systems”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2015) pp. 1591-1604. 90 81. S. Iyappan and R. Ramaprabha, “Performance Evaluation of Canonical Switching Cell Converter fed BLDC Motor Drive for Power Quality Improvement”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 559-567, Feb 2015. 82. R Hemalatha, R Ramaprabha, S. Radha, “A Comprehensive Analysis On Sizing Of Solar Energy Harvester Elements For Wireless Sensor Motes”, International Journal of smart sensing and intelligent systems, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 291-315, March 2015. 83. Mrunal Deshpande, “Novel Displacement transducers for magnetic levitation system”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, March 2015, pp. 460468. 84. M. Shanthi and R.Seyezhai, “A Simple Design and Simulation of Full Bridge LLC Resonant DC-DC Converter for PV Applications", Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 23 (2), pp. 285-292, 2015. 85. Tyagrajan V “Optimization of Grid – Connected Solar Array Using P & O Based MPPT Algorithm with Current Reference Converter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No.4 (2015), pp.-3782-3786. 86. R. Ramaprabha, S. H. Jubair, K. Suhas and A. Lokesh “Design and Implementation of Efficient Curve Tracer for Photovoltaic System under Partial Shaded Conditions”, International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 140-149, March 2015. 87. Abitha Memala.W and V.Rajini, “Single phasing Fault Identification using Wavelet Analysis”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6 No. 6, Dec 2014-Jan 2015, pp.2712-2721. 88. M. Joly and R. Ramaprabha, “Design and Implementation of Three Phase Parallel DC - DC Converter for Low Power and Distribution Applications”, Journal of Modern Applied Science, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 193-199, April 2015. 89. V. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Design and Analysis of Flywheel Energy Storage System for Power Electronic Interface”, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Special Issue 8, pp. 111-114, 2015. 90. R. Ramaprabha, S. Harini, A. Chandra Ganeshan and K. Nanditha, “Design and Modelling of Pulse Generation for DC-Link Inverter Drive for Brushless DC Motor”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 8796-8799, April 2015.. 91. M. Pandikumar, R. Ramaprabha and Ranganath Muthu, “Performance Analysis of the Solar Photovoltaic Fed Water Pumping Systems”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 532-540, April 2015. 92. Abitha Memala.W and V.Rajini, “Wavelet coefficients and statistical parameters in fault diagnosis”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2015) pp. 7837-7842. 93. Saravanan P, Senthil Kumaran M, Veena S and Srilakshmi P S, “Estimation of Position and Speed of SRM Using Matlab-System Generator and Xilinx Nexys-2 Board", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No.5, pp.: 9038-9042, 2015. 94. Saravanan P, Anbuselvi M, Prashaanth R and Sindhu S L, “Design And Development Of Computation Intelligence For ACC Based On RTOS Using PIC 91 Controller”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No.5, pp. 8849-8853, 2015. 95. A. Arrul Dhana Mathy and Ramaprabha, “Detailed Analysis of Modulation Techniques to Reduce Leakage Current in Transformerless Five-level inverters for Photovoltaic Systems”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 9523-9528, April 2015.. 96. S. Rithika and R. Ramaprabha, “Design and Simulation of Photovoltaic based Microgrid under changing Environment conditions”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 9764-9769, April 2015. 97. R. Ramaprabha, R. Priya, P. Sadhana and J. Shiny Auxilia, “PSpice Simulation Design and Implementation of Single Phase Step-down Cycloconverter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 97539757, 2015. 98. R.Seyezhai and Chitra Vallavan, “Design and Simulation of Soft Switched Interleaved Boost Converter in Continuous Conduction Mode for RES”, International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 6, Issue 4, April-2015. 99. Niraimathi and R. Seyezhai, “A Investigation of Multilevel DC Link Inverter to Solve the PV Partial Shading”, Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 2015. 100. V.Rajini and Brindha T, “A Novel Scheme for Harvesting Energy from Partially Shaded SPV System”, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 6, Issue 4, April-2015 364, pp. 364-368. 101. S.Krishnaveni and M. Rasu, “Analysis of Four Switch Positive Buck Boost Converter for portable Battery Applications”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol 10(20), 2015, pp.:16571-76. 102. Margaret Amutha and Rajini V, “A Bidirectional Isolated AC-DC Converter For Hybrid Power Systems”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 7 (2015) pp. 16613-16624. 103. Brindha T and Rajini V, “A Novel Scheme For Extracting Maximum Power From SPV Module Under All Conditions”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 7 (2015) pp. 17827-17836 104. Anto Jailyn and Rajini V, “A Novel Integrated Fly Back Converter with Battery Backup”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 7 (2015), pp. 17871-17882. 105. Johnson Anitha Roseline, Subramanian Vijayenthiran, Rajini V and Senthil Kumaran Mahadevan, “A Novel Quadrant Search Based Mitigation Technique for DC Voltage Fluctuations in Multilevel Inverters”, Journal of Power Electronics, Vol.15, No.3, pp.670-684, 2015. 106. R.Seyezhai and D.Umarani, “A Comparative study of conventional and Quasi Zsource multilevel inverter for photovoltaic applications”, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 2015. Conference Publications 1. S. Lakshmi and R. Ramaprabha, “Review on Design and Analysis of Interleaved Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications”, International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies-2014, 92 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. (ICCICCT-2014), Noorul Islam University, Kumarankoil, July 10-11, pp. 318 – 323, 2014. R. Ramaprabha R. Priya, P. Sadhana and J. Shiny Auxilia “Design Methodology for Single Phase Cycloconverter using PSpice”, International Conference on Energy Materials (ICEM 2014), Sathyabama University, Chennai, July 28-30, 2014. M. Vijayalakshmi and R. Ramaprabha, “Design of Auxiliary Resonant Boost Converter for Flywheel Based Photovoltaic Fed Micro grid”, International Conference on Energy Materials (ICEM 2014), Sathyabama University, Chennai, July 28-30, 2014. G. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Comparative Study and THD analysis of Multilevel Converter and Modular Multilevel Converter”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical Engineering (ICETREE 2014), T. K. M. College of Engineering, Kollam, August 04-06, 2014. M. Venmathi and R. Ramaprabha, “Implementation of SEPIC/Zeta Three-Port Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy Applications”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Inter Disciplinary in Engineering and Technology (ICIDRET 2014), pp. 57-63, August 21-22, 2014, Coimbatore. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sankar, “Investigation of Sensorlesss control technique for three-phase the BLDC Drive”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science & Cutting Edge Technologies, organised by Conference World in association with at Connaught Place, New Delhi. Saikrupa C Iyer, R. M. Sahdhashivapurhipurun, Sandhya Sriraman, Tulsi S Ramanujam and R. Ramaprabha, “Simulation of Fully-Directional Universal DCDC Converter for Electric Vehicle Applications”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Science & Engineering (ICRASE 2014), Department of Conferences Institute for Studies on Recent Advances in Science & Engineering (ISRASE), Bangalore, October 30-31, 2014. Tamilselvan and V Rajani, “The choice of single phase PFC topologies for input voltage and load variations”, Pondicherry section Regional conference on innovations in Engineering education and research 2014 at Rajalakshmi Engg College on 14-11-2014. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sankar, “Simulation and Implementation of Sensored Control of Three-phase BLDC Motor Drive using FPGA”, First International Conference on Science, Engineering and Management Research (ICSEMR 2014) at Vel Tech MultiTech Rangarajan Sakunthala Engineering College, Avadi, Chennai on 27.11.14. R.Seyezhai and V.Chamundeeswari, “Simulation and Control of Relift Negative output DC-DC Converter for PV Applications”, International conference on Emerging Electrical Systems and Control ICEESC-2014 at Sethu Institute of Technology, Madurai on 4.12.14. R.Seyezhai and Niraimathi, “Analysis of PWM Switching algorithms for Multilevel DC Link Inverter for PV Applications”, International conference on Emerging Electrical Systems and Control, ICEESC-2014 at Sethu Institute of Technology, Madurai on 4.12.14. R.Seyezhai and M.Shanthi Murugan, “Simulation and Analysis of Burst mode control technique for Full-bridge LLC Resonant Converter for PV Applications”, 93 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. International conference on Emerging Electrical Systems and Control, ICEESC 2014 at Sethu Institute of Technology, Madurai on 4.12.14. Ranganath Muthu, “Direct Torque Control of Open-End Winding Induction Motor Using Matrix Converter”, IEEE Sixth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE 2014) held at NIT Kurukshetra on December 9, 2014. Ranganath Muthu, “Direct Torque Control of Matrix Converter fed BLDC Motor”, IEEE Sixth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE 2014) held at NIT Kurukshetra on Dec 9, 2014. S. B. Vignesh, V. Muthukumar, R. Ramaprabha and R. Shantha Selvakumari, “Fabrication of Photovoltaic Cell with Organic Dyes Solar Selective Coatings”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 2014. R.Seyezhai and Mrunal Deshpande, “Analysis of PWM Strategies for a Cascaded Multilevel Z-Source Inverter for Photovoltaic applications”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, ICSET 2014 organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dec 11-13, 2014. Mrunal Deshpande and R.Seyezhai, “Analysis of Bearingless Switched Reluctance Motor”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, ICSET 2014 organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dec 11-13, 2014. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sankar, “Design of SiC based Boost Converter for Photovoltaic applications”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, ICSET 2014 organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dec. 11-13, 2014. R.Seyezhai and M.Tamilarasi, “Implementation of GA Optimization Techniques for PEM Fuel Cells”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, ICSET 2014 organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dec 11-13, 2014. U.Shajith Ali, “Z-source DC-DC Converter with a New Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for Photovoltaic Systems”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 11-13, 2014. Alagu Dheeraj and V. Rajini, “Active Clamp Isolated DC-DC ForwardConverter with Current Double Rectifier using Self Driven Synchronous Rectifier”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET 2014) at PSGCT, Coimbatore, December 11-13, 2014. S. Krishnaveni and V.Rajini, “Resonant Gate Driver and series connected MOSFETs Based High Voltage Nanosecond Pulse Generator”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET-2014 held at PSGCT, Coimbatore, December 11-13, 2014. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sankar, “Simulation and Implementation of Active Neutral Point Clamped Multilevel Inverter Powered by PV Source”, International Conference on Electrical Electronics Instrumentation and Computer Communication organized by Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore. R.Seyezhai and V.Chamundeeswari, “Design, Control and Implementation of High Gain Negative Output Relift DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Applications”, International Conference on Electrical Electronics Instrumentation 94 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. and Computer Communication organized by Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore on 13.12.2014. S.Krishnaveni and V.Rajini, “High voltage Dc pulsed power supply based on high gain cockcroft walton voltage multiplier converter”, International conference on Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Computer Communication, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore on 12-12-2014. Tamil Selvan Annamalai and V.Rajini, “Analysis of a single phase bridgeless rectifier for SMPS and UPS applications”, International conference on Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Computer Communication, Karpagam college of Engineering, Coimbatore, on 12-12-2014. P.Anto Jailyn and V.Rajini, “Choice of clamping techniques of flyback converter for LED lighting”, International conference on Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Computer Communication, Karpagam college of Engineering, Coimbatore on 12-12-2014. Tamil Selvan Annamalai and V.Rajini, “The choice of single phase PFC topologies for input voltage and load variation”, ISTE regional conference on innovations in Engineering & Research, November-2014, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai. M.Pandikumar, R. Ramaprabha and Ranganath Muthu, “Modelling Analysis and Simulation of Photovoltaic fed Water Pumping System”, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (ICAMME‘14), presented at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, December 26-28, 2014. S.krishnaveni and V.Rajini, “High voltage pulse Generator based on CoolMOSTM Device”, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering ICAMME -2014 held at Sri Krishna College of Engineering, Coimbatore, December 26-28, 2014. R.Seyezhai, V.Chamundeeswari and V.Divya, “Design and Implementation of P&O MPPT Technique for Negative output Superlift Luo Converter”, International Conference on International Conference on Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies (ISERMAT 2015), Jan. 8-9, 2015 organized by SSNCE. U.Shajith Ali, “Bi-directional Z-source Inverter for Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Systems”, International conference on sustainable energy resources, materials and technologies (ISERMAT-2015) held at SSN College of Engineering, January 8 & 9, 2015. U.Shajith Ali, “A Modified Maximum Power Point Tracking Control for Bidirectional Z-source DC-DC Converter Based Solar Electric Vehicle”, in International conference on sustainable energy resources, materials and technologies (ISERMAT-2015) held at SSN College of Engineering, January 8 & 9, 2015. S. Malathy and R. Ramaprabha, “Improvement in Energy Harvest of Solar Photovoltaic Systems under Partial Shaded Conditions”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies (ISERMAT 2015), presented at SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, January 8 & 9, 2015. M. Pandikumar, R. Ramaprabha and Ranganath Muthu, “Analysis of Controllers for Photovoltaic fed Brushless DC Motor based Water Pumping System”, 95 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. International Conference on Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies (ISERMAT 2015), presented at SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, January 8 & 9, 2015. R.Seyezhai, V.Chamundeeswari and V.Divya, “Design and Implementation of P&O MPPT Technique for Negative output Superlift Luo Converter”, International Conference on International Conference on Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies (ISERMAT 2015), January. 8-9, 2015 organized by SSNCE. A.Tamilselvan and V.Rajini, “A novel control scheme for power factor improvement in modified bridgeless boost converter”, international conference on sustainable Energy resources, Materials and technologies (ISERMAT-2015) held at SSNCE January 8 & 9, 2015. R.Seyezhai and D.Umarani, “A Comparative study of conventional and Quasi ZSource multilevel inverter for photovoltaic applications”, international conference ICRIET 2015 (International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering and Technology 2015) at Mahabarathi Engineering College, Chinnasalem on 14.02.15. M.Sudharshana, S.Srivignesh and R.Seyezhai, “Design and Simulation of PhaseShift Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter for Power Supply in a Data Center”, Third National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy, PEARES2015 at SSNCE on 26.02.15. Nithya Subramanian, Pridhivi Prasanth, R. Srinivasan, R.R. Subhesh and R.Seyezhai, “Investigation of Voltage mode Control for Interleaved Boost Converter with Ripple Cancellation Network for Photovoltaic applications”, Third National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy, PEARES2015 at SSNCE on 26.02.15. M.S. Anandhi and R. Ramaprabha, “Modelling and Simulation of switched Inductor Quasi Z-source Inverter for Photovoltaic Interface”, Third National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES2015), Feb 26-27, 2015. C.Bala Murali Krishna and N.Pandiarajan, “Analysis and Performance Enhancement of Photovoltaic systems at Higher Temperatures”, Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES-2015), SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai, February 2627, 2015 Anitha R Carol and N.Pandiarajan, “Design and Development of an Inverter for PV System with a Half Bridge DC-DC Converter”, Proceedings of the Third National Conference on “Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES-2015), SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai, February 26-27, 2015. V.Durai Raj and N.Pandiarajan, "Design and Analysis of SEPIC Converter in PV Based Battery Charging Application", Proceedings of the Third National Conference on “Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES2015), SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai, February 26-27, 2015. K.V.Iswarya, M. Balaji, Azhagar Raj and Imthiaz Ahmed, "Investigation of Modified Pole Shapes on the Performance of the Linear Switched Reluctance Motor", International Conference on Innovative strategies in Renewable Energies 96 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. and its Applications (ISREA-2015) held at Sona College of Technology, Salem, 5/3/15. A.K.Pandian, R.Srinath, R.Venkatesh and M. Balaji, "Harmonic Mitigation in MultiLevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches", International Conference on Innovative strategies in Renewable Energies and its Applications (ISREA2015) held at Sona College of Technology, Salem, 5.3.15. R.Anbarasan, K.Balaji Nagaraj, Mandala Deekshith, G.R.Venkatakrishnan, R.Rengaraj, "Fault Protection in Two Level Single Switch DC - DC Boost Converter for Distributed Generation Systems", International Conference on innovative Strategies in Renewable Energy and its applications (ISREA) 2015, Sona College of Technology, Salem, March 5 - 6, 2015. Saravanan P, Anbuselvi M, Prashaanth R and Sindhu S L, “Design and development of computation intelligence for acc based on rtos using pic controller", International Conference on Engineering Technology and Science (ICETS’15), pp. 419-423, March 05-06, 2015 at Muthayammal College of Engineering, Rasipuram. Saravanan, Senthil Kumaran M, Veena S and Srilakshmi P S, "Estimation of Position and Speed of SRM Using MATLAB-System Generator and Xilinx Nexys-2 Board", International Conference on Engineering Technology and Science (ICETS’15), pp. 865-870, March 05-06, 2015 at Muthayammal College of Engineering, Rasipuram. R. Ramaprabha and, A. Arrul Dhana Math, “Detailed Analysis of Modulation Techniques to Reduce Leakage Current in Transformerless Five-level inverters for Photovoltaic Systems”, International Conference on Innovative Strategies in Renewable Energies and its applications (ISREA-15), pp. 182-187 March 05-06, 2015 at Sona College of Technology, Salem. R. Ramaprabha andS. Rithik, “Design and Simulation of Photovoltaic based Microgrid under changing Environment conditions”, International Conference on Innovative Strategies in Renewable Energies and its applications (ISREA-15), pp. 431-437, March 05-06, 2015 at Sona College of technology, Salem. R. Ramaprabha, R. Priya, P. Sadhana and J. Shiny Auxilia, “PSpice Simulation Design and Implementation of Single Phase Step-down Cycloconverter”, International Conference on Innovative Strategies in Renewable Energies and its applications (ISREA-15), pp. 420-424, March 05-06, 2015 at Sona College of Technology, Salem. R. Ramaprabha, S. Harini, A. Chandra Ganeshan and K. Nanditha, “Design and Modelling of Pulse Generation for DC-Link Inverter Drive for Brushless DC Motor”, International Conference on Engineering Technology and Science (ICETS’15), pp. 199-204, March 05-06, 2015 at Muthayammal College of Engineering, Rasipuram. R.Seyezhai and Rasan, "Capacitor voltage balancing control for Modular Multilevel Inverter based on Carrier Phase Shifted Sinusoidal Pulsewidth Modulation Technique", International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and S.Dharani, “Simulation and Analysis of Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches for Fuel Cells”, International Conference on 97 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and P.Vaishnavi, “Simulation and Performance Analysis of a Novel Seven-level for Photovoltaic System”, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and V.Aarthi, “Investigation of Interleaved Boost Converter with Voltage Multiplier for PV with Fuzzy MPPT”, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and M.Tamilarasi, "Particle Swarm Optimization for the Modeling of PEM fuel cell", International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and A.Inba Rexy, "Investigation of Performance Parameters for Interleaved PFC Boost Converter", International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai and A.Bharathi Sankar, "Performance Analysis of Three-phase Active Neutral Point Clamped Multilevel Inverter for BLDC Drive", International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, ICEECE-2015 at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchencode, March 13-12, 2015. R.Seyezhai, S. Sathitya, T.Nivedhitya and G.Vaishnavi, "Simulation of High Step-up DC-DC Converter for PV Applications", fourth International conference on contemporary engineering and technology, 2015 at Sri Ramanujar Engineering College, Chennai, 15.03.15. U.Shajith Ali, “Z-Source DC-DC Converter With Improved Perturbation and Observation Algorithm For Photovoltaic Systems”, in International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology held at K.N.S.K. College of Engineering, Nagercoil, 30.3.15 U.Shajith Ali and T.P.Rajalakshmi, “Isolated Quasi Z-Source DC-DC Converter for Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology held at K.N.S.K.College of Engineering, Nagercoil on 30.3.15. U.Shajith Ali and B.Ramasudha, “Bidirectional Quasi Z-Source Converter Based Flywheel Energy Storage System”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology held at K.N.S.K.College of Engineering, Nagercoil, 30.3.15. R.Seyezhai, Sree Mallika and Mrunal Deshpande, “A Novel SEPIC Power Factor Correction Converter For HB-LED Applications", National Conference on Engineering Applications for Developing Smart Cities at Dhirajlal Gandhi College of Engineering, Salem, 30.3.15. K. P. Abhitharan, A. Kalaivani, T. J. Karthik, Dinesh Kumar and Ashwin Kumar Sahoo, “Design and Performance Analysis of Solar PV Based Micro-grid”, 98 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. National Conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (NCAEEE-2015), 17th & 18th April-2014, organized by EEE Department, SVCE, Sriperambudur, Chennai. Santosh SR, Shreyas Srivatchan, Vignesh V, V.S.Nagarajan and V.Kamaraj, “Implementation of Space Vector PWM For Three Phase Inverter Using DSP TMS320F2812”, National conference on Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering organized by Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai, 17/4/15. A.K.Pandian, R.Srinath, R.Venkatesh and M.Balaji, “Differential Evolution Algorithm Based Selective Harmonic Minimization in New Multi-level Inverter topology”, International Conference on Computing, Communication and Energy Systems at Hindustan University, 17/4/15. A.K.Pandian, R.Srinath, R.Venkatesh and M.Balaji, “Design and Implementation of Three Phase Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches”, National Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai, 18/4/15. Sakina Mota, Siddharth Harishankar, Sanjeev Mohan and Balaji M, “Fault Diagnosis and Reconfiguration of Three Phase Voltage Source Inverter Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Support Vector Machine”, International Conference on Soft Computing Systems ( ICSCS 2015) Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, 20/4/15. U.Shajith Ali, “Fuzzy Logic Control of Quasi Z-source Multilevel Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications”, Springer International Conference on Soft Computing Systems -2015 held at Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, 20/4/15. Thiyagarajan V, “Dynamic Power Factor Control of Single Phase AC System with Zero Voltage Switching”, IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy And Materials (ICSTM 2015) at Vel Tech Rangarajan Sagunthala R & D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, 6.5.15 to 8.5.15. V. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Design and Analysis of Flywheel Energy Storage System for Power Electronic Interface”, International Conference on Science Technology Engineering & Management (ICON-STEM’15), March 26, 2015 at Jeppiaar Engineering College, Chennai. U.Shajith Ali, “Quasi Z-source Inverter with Improved Incremental Conductance MPPT for Rapidly Varying Solar Irradiation”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 2015), held in Sydney, Australia. G. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Design Methodology of P-Res Controllers with Harmonic Compensation Technique for Modular Multilevel Converter Fed from Partially Shaded PV Array”, International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IEEE PEDS 2015), Sydney, Australia, pp. 330-335, June 09-12, 2015. G. Ramya and R. Ramaprabha, “Switching Loss and THD analysis of Modular Multilevel Converter with different Switching Frequency”, International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IEEE PEDS 2015), Sydney, Australia, pp. 336-340, June 09-12, 2015. 99 77. S. Malathy and R. Ramaprabha, “A Static PV Array Architecture to Enhance Power Generation under Partial Shaded Conditions”, International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IEEE PEDS 2015), Sydney, Australia, pp. 341-346, June 09-12, 2015. . 78. 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P.Janani, S.Sakthivel Murugan and N.Archana, “Development of Microbial Fuel Cell based Energy Harvesting System using marine sediment for underwater applications”, 4th National Conference of Ocean Society of India (OSICON'15), 22-24 March 2015, pp. 304, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. 13. Malar Vizhi K and R.JayaParvathy, “An Evolution Game Theoretic Scheduling scheme for smart grid”, NCSGRES-2015, 20-21 March 2015, Anna university, Chennai. 14. Namitha S andR Kishore, "An Efficient Image Fusion Technique for Multi-focus Images", 3rd National Conference on Information and Communication Technology (NCICT '2015), 9-10 April 2015, pp. 74-77, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. 15. Sophia P and Venkateswaran N, “Analysis of Image Restoration Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Markov Random Fields”, 5th National Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Systems (NAC- CISS’15), 10 April 2015, pp. 78-81, Salem. 16. 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V.Thanikachalam and K.K.Thyagharajan, “Human Action Recognition Using Motion History Image and Correlation Filter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol.34, pp.27361-27363, 2015. 32. Sripriya.N and Smirthi Prema Vathana.K, “Voiced– Non-Voiced Classification of Noisy SpeechSignals”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol.34, pp.27363-27367, 2015. 33. Karthika S and Vinodhini M, “Prediction of Links in Complex Networks”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol.34, pp.27368-27370, 2015. 34. Mohanavalli S, Srividya and Saranya A, “Change Detection Using Stream Data Clustering”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol.34, pp.27378-27383, 2015. 35. M.Satish, A.Prakash, G.Muneeswari and S.Chithra, “DRRS Task Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Environment”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Special Issue Vol.34, pp.27399-27405, 2015, 36. B. Bharathi and T. Nagarajan, “Speaker verification using speaker-specific-text”, WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing”, Vol.10, July 2014, pp. 320-330. 37. S.Karthika and S.Bose, “Paralyzing Terrorist Network: Removing Pivot Actors and Predicting Second Leaders to curb Future Disaster”, Disaster Advances, 7 (8), August 2014, 2.272. 38. I. Joe Louis Paul, S. Radha and J. Raja, “The Impact of Encoding/Decoding Overhead on Throughput Performance of LT Codes”, National Journal of Technology, Vol.10, No.2, pp. 53-57, 2014. 39. I. Joe Louis Paul, S. Radha and J. Raja, “Performance Analysis of Joint Degree Distribution (JDD) in Luby Transform Codes”, Journal of Computer Science, 120 Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 166-177. 40. Poornima.S and S.Subramanian, “Unconstrained iris authentication through fusion of RGB channel information”, International journal of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, Vol.28, No.8, August 2014. 41. Poornima, S and Subramanian, S, “An Efficient Feature Level Fusion for a Multimodal Biometric System using Correlation Filter”, International Journal of Applied Engineering and Research, special issue 2014, vol. 9, no. 26, pp. 90019004. 42. Thaya. I and Poornima, S, “Comparison Analysis Of Feature Level Fusion in Multimodal Biometrics System”, International Journal of Applied Engineering and Research, special issue 2014, Vol. 9, No. 26, pp. 8908-8912. 43. Poornima, S, Nasreen, F, Prakash ADS and Raghuraman, A, “Versatile and Economical Acquisition Setup for Dorsa Palm Vein Authentication”, Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 50, pp. 323-328. 44. Prabhu, G and Poornima, S, “Minimize Search Time through Gender Classification from Multimodal Biometrics”, Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 50, pp. 289-294. 45. G. Aravind and T. Sree Sharmila, “Study and Analysis of Serial RapidIO Interface in T4240”, International Journal of Advanced Computational Engineering and Networking, Vol.2, Issue 11, Nov.-2014, pp. 54-57. 46. I. Joe Louis Paul, S. Radha and J. Raja, “Throughput and bit error rate analysis of Luby Transform codes with low and medium nodal degree distributions”, American Journal of Applied Sciences, August 2014, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 15841593. 47. E.Umamaheswari, D.K.Ghosh and N.Bhalaji, "Software Engineering Measures Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9, No. 23 (2014) pp. 22629-22639. 48. A Sandana Karuppan and N.Ramaraj, "Optimized Real Time Scheduling Service For Cloud Application", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research Vol. 9, No. 22 (2014) pp. 16671-16681. Conference publications 1. V. Sherlin Solomi, M. S. Saranya, G. Anushiya Rachel, P. Vijayalakshmi and T. Nagarajan, "Performance Comparison of KLD and PoG Metrics for Finding the Acoustic Similarity Between Phonemes for the Development of a Polyglot Synthesizer", Proc. of IEEE TENCON, Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 2014, pp. 1-4. 2. G. Anushiya Rachel, S. Sreenidhi, P. Vijayalakshmi and T. Nagarajan, "Incorporation of Happiness into Neutral Speech by Modifying EmotiveKeywords", Proc. of IEEE TENCON, Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 2014, pp. 1-6. 3. B.Ramani, M.P.Actlin jeeva, P. Vijayalakshmi and T. Nagarajan, "Cross-lingual Voice Conversion-Based Polyglot Speech Synthesizer for Indian Languages", INTERSPEECH - 2014 Singapore, Sept. 14 –18, 2014 4. N. Radha, A. Shahina, G. Vinoth and A. Nayeemulla Khan, “Improving recognition of syllabic units of Hindi language using combined features of throat microphone and normal microphone speech”, Proc. of International Conference 121 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. on Control Instrumentation Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT-2014), pp. 1498-1503, July 2014. Joe Louis Paul S. Radha and J. Raja, “On Improving the Successful Decoding Performance of MDD based LT Codes for Erasure Channels”, Proc. of International Conference on Control Instrumentation Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT-2014), pp. 280-284, July 2014 organized by Department of EIE, Noorul Islam University, Kumarakoil. Aravind G and Sree Sharmila T, “Study and Analysis of Serial Rapid IO Interface In T4240”, Proceedings of Thirteenth IRF International Conference, Chennai, pp. 20-23, 2014. I. Joe Louis Paul, S. Radha and J. Raja, “Studies on the Suitability of LT Codes with Modified Degree Distribution (MDD) for Fading Channels”, Proc. of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014) organized by Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida. Ramya P, Sasirekha S and Mohanavalli S, “Knowledge Extracting System for Non-Expert Miners”, International Conference on Communication and Network Technologies (ICCNT ’14), Mepco Engineering College, December, 2014 S. Sasirekha and S.Swamynathan, “Arduino Powered Environment Monitoring System for Weather Controlled Laboratories”, International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies (ICIIT' 2014), Anna University, December 2014 E.M Malathy and Vijayalakshmi Muthuswamy, “Vertical Handover Performance Investigation with Discrete Event System Simulation in Next Generation Wireless Network”, International conference on Advanced computing (ICoAC 2014), MIT, December 2014. Pavithra Ramasamy, Savitaa Venkateswaran and S.Vidhusha, “An Efficient Transfer of EHRs on the Cloud using Decaying Window Principle”, Proc. of International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT 2015) pp. 673-678, organized by SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore. March 2015 Akshaya B, Narmadha V, Sree Sharmila T and Rajendran V, “Sparse representation to localize objects in underwater acoustic images”, IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies in SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore, pp. 580-584, March 2015. Sundharakumar Balasubramanian, Dhivya Subburam, Mohanavalli Subramaniam, and R. Vinob Chander, “Cloud Based Fuzzy Healthcare System”, ISBCC 2015, VIT, Chennai, March 2015. Poornima S and Faritha Nasreen, Arul Dhana Saam Prakash, Aparrnaa Raghuraman, “Versatile and Economical Acquisition Setup for Dorsa Palm Vein Authentication”, 2nd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud omputing (ISBCC’15) on 12-13 March 2015 at VIT Chennai. G. Prabhu and Poornima S, “Minimize Search Time through Gender Classification from Multimodal Biometrics”, 2nd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing (ISBCC’15) on 12-13 March 2015 at VIT Chennai. 122 16. J. Sofia Jenifer, T. Sree Sharmila and V. Rajendran, “Gradient based image enhancement technique for acoustic images”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, pp.1085-1090, March 2015. 17. R. Swathika, T. Sree Sharmila, A. Muthu Alamelu and V. Janani, “Study and Analysis of Glacial Level Changes using Fuzzy C Means Clustering”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, March 2015. pp.616-620. 18. Kummita Sriteja, Mallemula Vineetha and T. Sree Sharmila, “Efficient quality analysis of underwater acoustic images”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, pp.1041-1045, March 2015. 19. Avinash Vishnu V, Divya Prakash J, Swathika R and Sree Sharmila T, “Detection and Classification of Long Bone fractures”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, pp. 519-524, March 2015. 20. Gowri M, Kiruthika C, Swathika R and Sree Sharmila T, “Satellite image fusion based on advanced color enhanced HIS”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, pp.1571-1576, March 2015. 21. Nivedita N, Noorjahan M v Karthika S, “Big Data – Hand in Hand with Social Networks”, International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Tehnology (ICACSIT) organized by IRAJ Research Forum in Association with Institute of Research and Journals in Chennai, pp. 46-51, March 2015. 22. Vaishali Sarathy, Srinidhin S and Karthika S, “Semantic Analysis using Big Data from Social Media”, International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Tehnology(ICACSIT) organized by IRAJ Research Forum in Association with Institute of Research and Journals in Chennai, pp. 40-45, April 2015. 23. G.Muneeswari and J.Frank Vijay, “Agent based Storage Compaction and BST Load Balancing Algorithm for Multicore Architecture”, 8th International Conference on Soft-computing, E-learning, Information and Communication Technology (IRSEICT-2015)" organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University, NewDelhi, April 2015. 24. S.Sasirekha and S. Swamynathan, “A Comparative Study and Analysis of Data Aggregation Techniques in WSN”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering, Science & Technology – ICON’15, April 2015. 25. S. Uma Maheswari, A. Shahina, A. Nayeemulla Khan and J. Divya, “Spectral Transformation of Lombard Speech to Normal Speech for Speaker Recognition Systems”, Proc. Springer Intl. Conf. Soft Computing Systems, Thukulay, April 2015. 26. Meenatchi.D. Aishwarya.R and A. Shahina, “A Voice Recognizing Elevator System”, Proc. Springer Intl. Conf. Soft Computing Systems, Thukulay, April 2015. 123 27. S. A. Kanagaraj, D. Kamalakannan, M. Devosh, A. Shahina, S. Uma Maheswari and A. N. Khan, “Automated Health Monitoring through Emotion Identification”, Proc. Springer inger Intl. Conf. Soft Computing Systems, Thukulay, Thukulay April 2015. 28. Priyankaa Radja, K.Ragavi and S.Chithra, “Portable Portable Text to Speech Converter for the Visually Impaired”, Impaired , Proc. Springer Intl. Conf. Soft Computing Systems, Thukulay, April 2015. 29. Gomathi Venkatesan and Chithra Selvaraj, “Bio-Sensor Sensor Authentication for Medical Applications using WBAN”, WBAN , Proc. Springer Intl. Conf. Soft Computing Systems, Thukulay, April 2015. 30. Saravanan, M., Aarthi Sridhar, K. Nikhil Bharadwaj, S. Mohanavalli, and V. Srividhya. “River River Network Optimization Using Machine Learning”, Learning Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence, pp. 409-420. 420. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 31. R. Bharathi, G.Durga, N.Vinodh kumar, K.K.Nagarajan and R.Srinivasan, “Performance Optimization of Bulk Junctionless FinFETs through Work Function Engineering”, International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies [ICCPCT], pp.1291-1295, 2014. 32. J.Vadivukkarasi, N.Vinodh kumar, K.K.Nagarajan andR.Srinivasan, R.Srinivasan, “Optimum Gate Voltage search for Junctionless Tunnel FET using TCAD Simulations”, International Conference on Information Communication & Embedded Systems (ICICES), 2014. 33. D.Suresh, N.Vinodh kumar, K.K.Nagarajan and R.Srinivasan, “Mitigation Mitigation of Process Variation in MOSFET MOSFET-Based Narrowband and LNA”, International Conference on Information Communication & Embedded Systems (ICICES), 2014. 34. K.Santhosh Kumar and R. Srinivasan, “Effect Effect of Stress on the Performance of Silicon Solar Cell”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), 2014. 35. Y.V.Bhuvaneshwari, NamaPremsai, N.Vinodhkumar, C.Thiruvenkatesan and R.Srinivasan, “SEU Study of 4T, 6T, 7T, 8T and 10T MOSFET Based SRAM Using TCAD Simulations”, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Information, Communicat Communication ion and Embedded Systems ICICES 2014, S.A.Engineering College, Chennai, February Feb 2014. 36. V.N.Ramakrishnan and R.Srinivasan, “3D Simulation Study of Soft Error on Junctionless 6T-SRAM”, SRAM”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology ICIET ’14, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai, March 2014. 37. Poornima.S and Thaya.I.M, “Biometric Authentication cation for Realtime Digital Images”,, National Conference on Computing, Communication and Signal Processing (NCCCSP 2014), SSN CE/ IT, 3-5 3 April 2014. 38. Priyadharsini, R. and Sree Sharmila, T, “Comparative Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Image Enhancement Techniques”, Techniques”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science Engineering and Technology, NCRTCSET, 2K14, Sree Sastha College of Engineering., 2014. 39. M. Vaikkunth, K. Sri Vishnu Kumar andG. Muneeswari, “Resource Resource Allocation Algorithm for or Cluster Environment with Distributed File System for or Big Data”, Data 124 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. Banupriya.K and Poornima.S, Face Detection from Hazy Samples, “National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15”, organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. E.M Malathy, and Vijayalakshmi Muthuswamy, “VIKOR- Dynamic Programming Approach For Vertical Handover In Heterogeneous Wireless Network”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. V. Sivamurugan and R.Raja Kumar, “Android Based Examination System for Visually Challenged Students”, National Conference on Information Technology NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. L.Meghana, S.Krithika, K.Gokula Priya and S.Chithra, “Enhancement of IoT using LoRa Architecture”, National Conference on Information Technology NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. A.B.Prashanth, P.Jeny Ton Nielsina and S.Sasirekha, “A Study on IoT Based Applications”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. S.Poornima and S. Subramanian, “Personal Authentication through Dorsa Palm Vein Patterns”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. Sundhara Kumar K B, Srividya and S.Mohanavalli, “Survey On Homomorphic Encryption Techniques”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. Ramaswamy Pillai Vinob Chander and Susan Elias, “A Service Oriented Interoperable Architecture for IoT Applications”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. D.Nandan, P.Sanjana, S.Chithra and G.Muneeswari, “Smart Cylinder Pad”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. Hema S and Arul Kumar V, “Improving The Secure Storage In Cloud”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. G.Muneeswari and J. Frank Vijay, “Inductive Learning based Storage Compaction Algorithm for Multicore Architecture”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. V.Thanikachalam and K.K.Thyagharajan, “Human Action Recognition Using Motion History Image and Correlation Filter”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. Sripriya.N and Smirthi Prema Vathana.K, “Voiced - Non-Voiced Classification of Noisy Speech Signals”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. 125 53. Karthika S and Vinodhini M, “Prediction of Links in Complex Networks”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by the Department of IT, SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. 54. MohanavalliS Srividya and Saranya A, “Change Detection Using Stream Data Clusterin”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015. 55. M.Satish, A.Prakash, G.Muneeswari and S.Chithra, “DRRS Task Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Environment”, National Conference on Information Technology - NCIT 2K15 organized by SSN College of Engineering, March 2015 56. Mutharasi, Ayeswarya and G.Muneeswari, “Automatic Room Light Luminance Controller Using Wireless Sensor Network”, National conference on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing- NCWCMC 2015 organized by SRM University, Kattangulathur, March 30-31 2015. Department of Chemical Engineering 1. K. Anbalagan, P. Senthil Kumar, K. Sangita Gayatri, S. Shahul Hameed, M. Sindhuja, C. Prabhakaran and R. Karthikeyan, “Removal and recovery Ni(II) ions from synthetic wastewater using surface modified Strychnos potatorum seeds: Experimental optimization and Mechanism”, Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol. 53 (1), pp. 171-182, 2015 2. N. Minju, K. Venkat Swaroop, K. Haribabu, V. Sivasubramanian and P. Senthil Kumar, “Removal of fluoride from aqueous media by magnesium oxide coated nanoparticles”, Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol.53, pp. 2905-2914, 2015. 3. T. Anitha, P. Senthil Kumar and K. Sathish Kumar, “Binding of Zn(II) ions to Chitosan-PVA blend in aqueous environment: Adsorption kinetics and equilibrium studies”, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy”, Vol.34 (1), pp. 15-22, 2015. 4. P. Senthil Kumar, J. Pavithra, S. Suriya, M. Ramesh and K. Anish Kumar, “Sargassum wightii, a marine algae is the source for the production of algal oil, bio-oil and application in the dye wastewater treatment”, Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol.55, Issue No.5, pp. 1342-1358, 2015. 5. U. Pearlin Kiruba, P. Senthil Kumar, C. Prabhakaran and V. Aditya, “Characteristics of thermodynamic, isotherm, kinetic, mechanism and design equations for the analysis of adsorption in Cd(II) ions – surface modified Eucalyptus seeds system”, Journal of Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers Vol.45, pp. 2957-2968, 2014. 6. G. Manikandan and P. Senthil Kumar, R. Prakalathan, “Comparison of Biodiesel Production from Macro and Micro Algae”, International Journal of ChemTech Research, Vol.6 (9), pp. 4143-4147, 2014. 7. T. Sivakumar and P. Senthil Kumar, “Ultrasound assisted saccharification of saw dust for the production of bioethanol”, International Journal of ChemTech Research, Vol.6 (9), pp. 4386-4390, 2014. 8. D. Prabu, R. Parthiban, P. Senthil Kumar and S. Karthick Raja Namasivayam, “Synthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity of nano zero-valent iron impregnated cashew nut shell”, International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol.7 (1), pp. 139-141, 2015. 126 9. D. Prabu, R. Parthiban and P. Senthil Kumar, “Adsorptive separation of phenol from aqueous solution using nano zero-valent iron impregnated cashew nut shell”, International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, Vol. 6 (2), pp. 129-140, 2015. 10. D. Prabu, R. Parthiban, P. Senthil Kumar, Nupur Kumari and Paharika Saikia, “Adsorption of copper ions onto nano scale zero-valent iron impregnated cashew nut shell”, Desalination and Water Treatment, 2015. 11. P. Senthil Kumar, H. Ethiraj, Anitha Venkat, N. Deepika, S. Nivedha, T. Vidhyadevi, L. Ravikumar and S. Sivanesan, “Adsorption kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic investigations of Zn(II) and Ni(II) ions removal by poly(azomethinethioamide) resin with pendent chloro-benzylidine ring”, Polish Journal of Chemical Technology, Vol. 17, Issue No. 3, 2015. 12. S. Ramalingam and P. Senthil Kumar, “Novel adsorbent from agricultural waste (cashew nut shell) for methylene blue dye removal: Optimization by Response Surface Methodology”, Water Resources and Industry, Vol.11, pp. 64-70, 2015. 13. T. Anitha, P. Senthil Kumar, K. Sathish Kumar, B. Ramkumar and S. Ramalingam, “Adsorptive removal of Pb(II) ions from polluted water by newly synthesized chitosan - polyacrylonitrile blend: Equilibrium, kinetic, mechanism and thermodynamic approach”, Process Safety and Environmental Protection Vol. 98, pp. 187-197, 2015. 14. C. Sreepradha, A. Krishna Kumari, A. Elaya Perumal, Rames C. Panda, K.Harshabardhan and M. Aribalagan, “Neural network model for condition monitoring of wear and film thickness in a gearbox”, Neural Computing and Applications Vol. 24, Issue No. 7-8, pp. 1943-1952, 2014. 15. Sivaram P M, Gowdhaman N, Ebin Davis D and Subramanian M, “Carbon Footprint Analysis of an Educational Institution”, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 787 pp. 187-191, 2015. 16. R. Saravanathamizhan, Kilaru Harsha Vardhan, D. Gnana Prakash and N.Balasubramanian, “RSM and ANN modeling for electro-oxidation of simulated wastewater using CSTER”, Desalination and Water Treatment, 2014. 17. N.Fedal Castro, B.Chitra, R.Pushpalatha and S.Sudalai, “Heat transfer Effects for two different impellers using Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids in an Agitated Vessel”, International Journal of Chem Tech Research, Vol.7 (6), pp. 2802-2808, 2014. 18. Muthulingam Seenuvasan, K.Sathish Kumar, Carlin Geor Malar, Sridhar Preethi, Nagarajan Balaji and Madhava Anil Kumar, “Characterization, Analysis and Application of Fabricated Fe3O4-Chitosan-Pectinase nanobiocatalyst”, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 172 (5), pp. 2706-2719, 2014. 19. P.Shekar, K.Sathish Kumar, S.Anuradha, M.Radhakrishan and M.Balagurunathan, “Optimization of medium components for antibacterial metabolite production from Marine Streptomyces SP.PUA2 using Response Surface Methodology”, International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, Vol. 6(7), pp. 475-480, 2014. 20. Karthiga Devi G, Sathish Kumar K and Arivalagan K, “Microwave assisted nanohydrogels for drug delivery systems”, International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 6(4), pp. 118-123, 2014. 21. Muthulingam Seenuvasan, K.Sathish Kumar, Madhava Anil Kumar, Jeyaraj Iyyapan and John Rini Gnana Suganthi, “Response surface estimation and canonical quantification for pectin degrading Fe3O4-SiO2 nanobiocatalyst 127 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. fabrication”, International Journal of ChemTech Research, Vol. 6, pp. 3618-3627, 2014. Monica Thukkaram, Soundarya Sitaram, Sathish Kumar Kannaiyan and Guruprakash Subbiahdoss, “Antibacterial efficay of Iron oxide nanoparticles against biofilms on different biomaterial surfaces”, International Journal of Biomaterials, Article ID 716080, pp. 1-6, 2014 2014. Muthulingam Seenuvasan, Prabakaran Kalai Selvi, Madhava Anil Kumar, Jeyaraj Iyyappan and Kannaiyan Sathish Kumar, “Standardization of non-edible Pongamia pinnata oil methyl ester conversion using hydroxyl content and GC–MS analysis”, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Vol. 45, pp. 1485-1489, 2014. Seenivasan A, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, Panda T and Thomas Theodre, “Quantification of Lovastatin produced by Monascus purpureus”, The Open Biotechnology Journal, 2014, Vol. 9, pp. 6-13, 2015. R. Sivaramakrishnan, S. Guruprakash, D. Gnanaprakash and R. Subashini, “Ocimum sanctum extract coating on biomaterial surfaces to prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm growth”, Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, Vol. 8(3), 2015. R. Subashini, S. Sruthi, P. Sindhuja, S. Santhini and D. Gnanaprakash, “Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Garcinia mangostana fruit extract and their antibacterial, antioxidant activity”, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4(1), pp. 944-952. D. Manikandan, D. Gnanaprakash and N. Nagendra Gandhi, “A rapid and green route to synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Plectranthus Barbatus (Coleus Forskohlii) root extract for antimicrobial activity”, International Journal of ChemTech Research, Vol. 6(9), pp. 4391-4396, 2014. M. Nandhini, B. Suchithra, R. Saravanathamizhan and D. Gnanaprakash, “Optimization of parameters for dye removal by electro-oxidation using Taguchi Design”, Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering, Vol. 4(4), pp. 227234, 2014. D. Gnanaprakash, P. Pradeep, Sai Madhusudanan and V. Aditya, “Hydrotropic extraction of xanthones from mangosteen pericarp”, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 984-985, pp. 372-376, 2014. S. Sugashini, K.M. Meera Sheriffa Begum and R. Anantharaj, “Removal of Cr(VI) ions using Fe-loaded chitosan carbonized rice husk composite beads (FeCCRCB): Experiment and quantum chemical calculations”, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Vol. 208, pp. 380–387, 2015. Anantharaj R and B.Ambedkar, “Liquid-Liquid equilibrium (LLE) data for ternary mixtures of {[EMIM][EtSO4] + thiophene/benzothiophene + nhexadecane}and {[EMIM][MeSO3] + thiophene/benzothiophene + n-hexadecane} at 298.15K.”, Journal of Molecular Liquid, 212:372-381, 2015. V. Nandhini, B. Suchitra, R. Surendiran, J. Dhanalakshmi and B. Ambedkar, “Feasibilities of using Power Ultrasound and Microwave Treatment in Reducing CO2 Capture Energy Demand”, International Journal of Advanced Technology in Engineering and Science Vol. 3, Issue No. 1, 2015. Conference publications 128 1. P. Senthil Kumar, “Experimental optimization for the adsorption of Zn(II) ions on surface modified Eucalyptus seeds: kinetic, mechanism, isotherm, thermodynamic and design approach”, International Conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, 27 – 29th September 2014, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy. 2. P. Senthil Kumar, C. Prabhakaran, M.Bharathikumar, K. Anish Kumar and K. Ramakrishnan, “Conversion of waste plastics into low-emissive hydrocarbon fuels through catalytic depolymerisation in a laboratory scale batch reactor”, International Conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, 27 – 29th September 2014, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy.. 3. D. Prabu, P. Senthil Kumar and R. Parthiban, “Potential of nano-zero valent iron impregnated cashew nut shell for congo red dye removal from aqueous solution: Application of different adsorption isotherms and thermodynamic studies for congo red dye adsorption”, International Conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, 27 – 29th September 2014, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy. 4. P. Senthil Kumar and S. Ramalingam, “Novel Adsorbent from Agricultural Waste-Cashew Nut Shell for Methylene Blue Dye Removal: Optimization By Response Surface Methodology, 14AIChE”, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 16-21 November 2014. 5. P. Senthil Kumar, R. Kameshwar and K. Prapanchana, “Application of Sargassum wightii: A marine algae in wastewater treatment”, National Conference on Advances in Process Engineering (CAPE – 2014), SASTRA University, 10-11th October 2014. 6. P. Senthil Kumar, Ritu Treisa Philip, T. Sengavi and R. Amalysia, “Adsorption of copper ions onto the surface modified Strychnos potatorum seeds as a new low cost adsorbent”, National Conference on Advances in Process Engineering (CAPE – 2014), SASTRA University, 10-11th October 2014. 7. T. Sivakumar, S. Vigneswari and P. Senthil Kumar, “Bioethanol from red algae: Kappaphycusal varezii”, 1st One Day National Conference on Clean Technology for Sustainable Environment (CTSE), SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, 0512-2014. 8. G. Manikandan and P. Senthil Kumar, “Dual approach: bioremediation and biofuel from algae-a review”, 1st One Day National Conference on Clean Technology for Sustainable Environment (CTSE), SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, 05-12-2014. 9. A. R.Sankaranrayanan, A. Seenivasan, D. Gnana Prakash and K. Ramakrishnan, “Characterization of Terephthalic acid Recycled from Post-Consumer PET Polymer Bottles, Third International Conference on Polymer processing and Characterization”, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatama Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. 11-13 October 2014, 134. 10. P. Senthil Kumar and S. Ramalingam, “Novel Adsorbent from Agricultural Waste-Cashew Nut Shell for Methylene Blue Dye Removal: Optimization By Response Surface Methodology, 14AIChE”, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 16-21 November 2014. 11. A. Seenivasan, D. Gnana Prakash, K. Ramakrishnan, R. Sankaranarayanan, P. R. Vignesh and V. A. Pritham, “Characterization of Terephthalic acid recycled from 129 post-consumer PET polymer bottles, Polymer Processing and Characterization and 11 – 13 October, 2014”, Organized by International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Department of Biomedical Engineering 1. R.Sivaramakrishnan and C. Arun, “Lukasiewicz logic based fuzzy similarity classifier for Denver group chromosomal classification”, Bioscience Journal Uberlandia, 30(3), 2014, 843-852. 2. M.Supraneni Krishn and J. Mallika, “Effect of pioglitazone, quercetin, and hydroxy citric acid on the lipid profile and lipoproteins in experimentally induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis”, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, 48, 2014, 132-38. 3. Pravin Kumar S, Kavitha.A, Geethanjali.B and Mahesh.V. “Analysis Of Cognitive Load For Bilingual Subjects: Based On Lexile Measures”, International Journal of CoginitiveInfomatics and Natural Intelligence, 8(1), 2014, 320 – 323. 4. M.Supraneni Krishna and J.Mallika, “Comparative effect of pioglitazone, 1uercetin and Hydroxy Citric acid on the Status of Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidants in experimental non alcoholicsteatohepatitis (NASH)”, Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology, 65(1), 2014, 67-74. 5. R.Sivaramakrishnan and C. Arun. “Chromosomal edge detection using modified bacterial foraging algorithm”, International Journal of Bio-Science and BioTechnology, 6(1), 2014, 1111-122. 6. R.Sivaramakrishnan and C. Arun, “Classification of denver system of chromosomes using similarity classifier guided by OWA operators”, Current Bioinformatics, 9, 2014, 5499-508. 7. R.Sivaramakrishnan, S.Guruprakash and P.Padmanaban, “Effect of hen egg white on microbial adhesion and biofilm growth of biomaterial associated infection causing pathogens”, International Journal of Bio-Science and Bio-Technology, 6(2), 2014, 99-106. 8. M.Supranenikrishna and J. Mallika, “Pioglitazone, quercetin and hydroxy citric acid effect on hepatic biomarkers in non alcoholicsteatohepatitis (NASH)”, Pharmacognosy Research 6(2), 2014, 1-10. 9. M. Supraneni Krishna and J. Mallika, “Biochemical study of cardiac markers Troponin protein in myocardial infarction patient”, International Journal of Biotechnology, 2(4), 2014, 15-19. 10. J. Mallika, A. Hemaprabha, S. Vinutha, Sarah Rajitha and T.S. Ranjani, “Alphalinolenic acid, a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase - antimycobacterial agent”, BMC infectious Disease, 14(S3), 2014, 1024-26. 11. S. Usha Rani, M. Chitra and J. Mallika, “Hepatoprotective effect of wattkakavolubilis extract on aluminiumsulphate induced liver toxicity”, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, 6(2), 2014, 169-173. 12. R.Sivaramakrishnan, V. Ganesh and C. Arun, “Performance evaluation of nature – inspired optimization techniques in disentangling text pattern overlaps”, Journal of Multiple valued Logic and Soft Computing, 23(5-6), 2014, 503-527. 13. E. Priya and MallikaJainu, “Study of Adverse Effects of Vildagliptin and Insulin Treatment in Diabetes Mellitus Patients”, Research journal of Recent Sciences, 3, 2014, 1-8. 130 14. Navathej Gobi, ArunSrinivas, B Geethanjali and S Pravin Kumar, “Computerbased Communication Aid using EEG for Paralytic Clients”, Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, 25(2), 2014, 105-108. 15. Pravin Kumar S, Subashini R, AYEShaSamreen, Deepthi G and Mythili S, “Detection of Diabetic disorders in the lower extremities: A cost effective screening device”, Biomedical Research, 25(4), 2014, 483-488. 16. Monica.T, Soundarya.S, Satishkumar.K and Guruprakash.S, “Antibacterial efficacy of iron-oxide nanoparticles against biofilms on different biomaterial surfaces”, International Journal of Biomaterials, 1-6, 2014. 17. R. V. Shree Shyamalee, G. Vaishali, P. Vyshnnavi, S. Pravin Kumar and V. Mahesh, “Comparison of Classifier Performance in their Ability to Classify Respiratory Sounds”, International Journal on Computer Applications, 1, 2014, 15. 18. Pramila P.V. and Mahesh Veezhinathan, “Performance assessment of Optimized Extreme Learning Machine based on Evolutionary Computing for Spirometric Data Classification”, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Transaction on Biology and Biomedicine, 11, 2014, 147-156. 19. LavanyaJagannathan, Santhosh Ganesh, Sasikala T and Mahesh Veezhinathan, “Analysis of Pacemaker Performance and Design of a Holistic Pacemaker Monitoring Tele-communication System”, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Transaction on Biology and Biomedicine 11, 2014, 111117. 20. Muthuvijay, Nandini.T and Mallika Jainu, “Quantum dots based bio-conjugates in cancer treatment”, International journal of Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 5(5), 2014, 2295-97 21. R.Sivaramakrishnan, G. Sona, J. Kavitha and K. Sadhani, “Desing of a Functional Training Prototype for Neonatal Resuscitation, Children”, 1, 2014, 441-456. 22. B. Geethanjali and Kanagasabai Adalarasu, “Assessment of depression, anxiety and stress among female students”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 16(2), 2014, 33 – 38. 23. Balasubramaniam G, Adalarasu K., Rajasekaran R and B.Geethanjali, “Analysis the Mental Task Performance While Listen to Music Using EEG Signal”, Neuroepidemiology, 43, 2014, 92 -93. 24. Balasubramaniam G., Pooja R. Eswari R. and Bhavani J, “Brain Computer Interface for Gaming Applications”, Neuroepidemiology, 43, 2014, 104-105. 25. K.M. Supraneni. V.V.Priya and Mallika Jainu, “Pioglitazone, quercetin and hydroxy citric acid effect on cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) enzyme levels in experimentally induced non alcoholicsteatohepatitis (NASH)”, European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 18(18), 2014, 2736-2741. 26. SubashiniRajakannu, Pooja Chandrasekaran, Banusaranya and Arumugasamy, “The Role of Buckminster Fullerenes in Preventing Allergy”, American Journal of PharmTech, 4(6), 2014, 138-143. 27. B.Muthuraj, V.Mahesh, R.Senthil, and S.Pushparaj, “Modeling and Analysis of PET Bottle Manufacturing System Using Hybrid Petri Net”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 9(26), 2014, 9175-9178. 28. Mallika Jain, P. Swetha and S. Sruthy, “Automated Interpretation of Apoptotic cell death from isolated circulating DNA from blood in Hepatic carcinoma patient”, Journal of cell and tissue research, 14(2), 1-5. 131 29. B. Muthuraj, V. Mahesh and R. Senthil, “Simulation of Three Tank System Using Hybrid Petri Net for Batch Process”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 10(2), 2014, 4789-4798. 30. SivaramakrishnanRajaraman, Ganesh Vaidyanathan and Arun Chokkalingam, “Performance Evaluation of Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms in Resolving Chromosomal Occlusions”, Journal of Medical Imaging and health Informatics, vol. 5, pp. 264-271, 2015. 31. Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Guruprakash Subbiahdoss, Gnanaprakash Dhakshinamoorthy and Subashini Rajakannu, “Ocimum Sanctum extract coating on biomaterial surfaces to prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm growth”, Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 229-233. 32. R. Subashini, Sruthi Shankar, SindhujaPerumal, Santhini Subramanian and Gnana Prakash Dhakshinamoorthy “Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using Garciniamangostana Fruit Extract and their Antibacterial, Antioxidant Activity”, Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci (2015) 4(1) 944-952. 33. L. Suganthi, M. Manivannan, K.Brajeshkumar, J. George, and D. Debashish, “Morphological Analysis of Peripheral Arterial Signals In Takayasu’s Arteritis”, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, Vol.29, pp.87–95, 2015. Conference Publications 1. S.Vidhusha and A.Kavitha, “Analysis and Evaluation of Autistic Brain MR Images using Learning Vector Quantization and Support Vector Machines”, Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), pp. 911-916, May 2015. 2. C.Sandhya and A.Kavitha, “Investigations on EEG Coherence during repeated learning and recall of a foreign language”, Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), pp. 905-910, May 2015. 3. C.Sandhya and A.Kavitha, “Analysis of Speech Imagery using Brain Connectivity Estimators”, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'15), pp. 352-359, China, 2015. 4. S.Vidhusha and A.Kavitha, Assessment of functional connectivity in Autistic Brain fMRI, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'15), pp. 169 – 74, China, 2015. 5. Sumathi. K, Anandh.K.R, Mahesh.V and Ramakrishnan. S., “Anisotropic Diffusion Filter based Edge Enhancement for the Segmentation of Carotid IntimaMedia Layer in Ultrasound Images Using Variational Level Set method without Reinitialisation”, Proc. of 36th IEEE, EMBS Conference, Chicago, USA, 2014, Aug. 26 – 30. 6. Sumathi K, V. Mahesh and Ramakrishnan S., “Analysis of Intima Media Thickness in Ultrasound Carotid Artery Images using Level Set Segmentation Without Re-Initialization”, Prof. of International Conferenc eon Informatics, Electronics and Vision, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 23-24, 2014, May, pp. 123. 7. S. Saravanaprakash and S. Pravin Kumar, “Mobile Recording Microscope”, International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation ICARI Conference Issue, pp. 322-324, 2015 132 8. Geethanjali.B and Pravin Kumar, “Analysis of the Mental Task Performance while Listen to Music Using EEG Signal”, ICNI, November 6-8, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 9. Thenmozhi D, Anugna R, Guruprakash S and Sivarama Krishnan R, “Biological Evaluation of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles”, International Conference on Advances in Micro/Nanotechnologies For Biological Applications (ICAMB 2015), 7 – 8 August 2015, Nanotech Research, Innovation and Incubation Center, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore. 10. Hemnath N, Krishna Raj T, Sivarama Krishnan R and Guruprakash S, “Biofilm formation and bacterial growth analysis in microfluidic devices”, International Conference on Advances in Micro/Nanotechnologies For Biological Applications (ICAMB - 2015), 7 – 8 August 2015, Nanotech Research, Innovation and Incubation Center, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore. 11. Thenmozhi D, Anugna R, Guruprakash S and Sivarama Krishnan R, “Biological Evaluation of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles”, International Conference on Advances in Micro/Nanotechnologies For Biological Applications (ICAMB 2015), 7 – 8 August 2015, Nanotech Research, Innovation and Incubation Center, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore 12. Hemnath N, Krishna Raj T, Sivarama Krishnan R and Guruprakash S, “Biofilm formation and bacterial growth analysis in microfluidic devices”, International Conference on Advances in Micro/Nanotechnologies For Biological Applications (ICAMB - 2015), 7 – 8 August 2015, Nanotech Research, Innovation and Incubation Center, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore. 13. MallikaJainu, K.Vijaimohan, Sarah Rajitha, T.S.Ranjani, A. Hemaprabha and S. Vinutha, “Alphalinolenic acid, a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase antimycobacterial agent”, 2nd International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2014). 14. Priya Ebenesan and Mallika Jainu, “Vasculitis Treatment Intervention Through Intravenous Immunoglobulins”, International conference on Focis 2014, Spotlight on translational immunology, Chicago, Illinos June 22-28. 15. M. Dhanalakshmiand and P. Vijayalakshmi, “Intelligibility modification on Dysarthric speech using HMM-based adaptive synthesis system”, Proceedings of IEEE sponsored International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE 2015) Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia, pp.-31-35. Department of Mechanical Engineering 1. K.Subbaiah, M.Geetha, B.Shanmugarajan and S.R.K Rao, “Effect of Focal Position on CO2 Laser Beam Welded Al-Mg-Mn Alloy”, Int. J of Adv. in Engg Research, Vol. 8, Issue No. I, July-2014. 2. D.Elilraja and S.Vijayan, “Fixture Layout optimization using FEM, Int. J of App. Engg Research”, Vol.9, No. 23, pp. 21797-21805, Dec- 2014. 3. S.Rajkumar and Gowrishankar Sudarshan, “Multi-zone phenomenological model of combustion and emission characteristics and parametric investigations for split and multiple-injection in common rail direct injection diesel engines”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, Dec-2014. 4. A.K.Lakshminarayanan C.S.Ramachandran and V Balasubramanian, “Feasibility of surface-coated friction stir welding tools to join AISI 304 grade austenitic 133 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. stainless steel”, Journal of Defence Technology, Vol.10, Isssue 4, pp. 360–370, December 2014. A.S. Ramana, R. Venkatesh, V. Antony Aroul Raj and R. Velraj, “Experimental investigation of the LHS system and comparison of the stratification performance withSHS system using CFD”, Journal of Solar Energy, Vol. 103, pp. 378-389, May 2014. M. Dhananchezian, M. Pradeep kumar and S. Rajesh, “Tool Wear and Chip Morphology in Turning Ti-6Al-4V Alloy under Cryogenic Cooling”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 9, No.23, pp. 22423 – 22434, Dec- 2014. S.Suresh Kumar, Murugappan and Manikanda Balaji, “Numerical and Experimental Crashworthiness etermination ofAluminum Tube Sections”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols. 592-594, pp. 1130-1135, July 2014. S.Suresh Kumar, Veeraraghavan, Vimalesh and Sanjay Bharadwaj, “Mixed mode Stress Intensity Factor determination for single and multiple cracks in an aircraft wing”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols. 592-594, pp. 2528-2533, July 2014. Raghu.P, Gowtham R and Nallusamy N, “Experimental exploration of fuel spray characteristics with various injection duration using bio-diesel”, J of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, JCHPS Spec Issue 4: Dec 2014, pp282-285. P.Raghu, N. Nallusamy and K.Pitchandi, “Effects of fuel temperature on biodiesel spray characteristics- An in depth study”, TERI information Digest on Energy and Environ., Vol.13(4), pp.431-438. Dec 2014. C. Arun Prakash, “Vision algorithm for seam tracking in Automatic welding system”, Int. Jl of Recent Adv. in Mech. Engg., Vol.4(1), pp. 125-131, Feb 2015. Arun Prakash. C, Ramakrishnan. K.S, Saileshwar.C.S and Rajkumar.R, “Vision Algorithm for capsule inspection system”, Int. J of Adv. Technol in Engg and Science, Vol.3, pp. 262-265, Feb 2015. Inian Roy. A, Karthick raja. B, Chakkaravarthy. G and Arun Prakash. C, “Line following Robot based on vision techniques”, Int. J of Adv. Technol. In Engg and Science, Vol. 3, pp. 266-269, Feb 2015. Arun Prakash. C, Ramakrishnan. K.S, Saileshwar.C.S and RajkumarR, “Design of Vision based inspection system for washers”, Int. J of Adv. Technol. In Engg and Science, Vol. 3, pp. 270-274, Feb 2015. Arun Prakash. C, Saileshwar. C.S, Rajkumar. R and Ramakrishnan. K.S, “Vision Based Liquid Level Inspection System For Beverage Industries”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2 (2015) pp. 1289-1292. S. Suresh Kumar, V. Naren Balaji and P.M. Prrithvi, “Influence of Residual Stress on Stress Intensity Factor Estimation of Multiple Cracks in a Dissimilar welded Joint”, Procedia Engineering, Vol.86, pp. 234-241, Dec 2014. S.Suresh Kumar, K.Sushinder and S.Sudersan, “Finite Element Simulation of Ballistic Performance of Dissimilar Metallic Plates Welded Joints”, Int. J of Vehicle Struct. & Systems, 6(4), 88-92, 2014. P.Senthil Kumar, M. Bharathikumar, C. Prabhakaran, S. Vijayan and K. Ramakrishnan, “Conversion of waste plastics into low-emissive hydrocarbon fuels through catalytic depolymerisation in a new laboratory scale batch reactor”, Int. J of Energy and Environ. Engg, February 2015. K. Koushik Balaji and M.S. Alphin, “Computer-aided human factors analysis of the industrial vehicle driver cabin to improve occupational health”, Int. J of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, January 2015. 134 20. J. Paul Chandra Kumar, M.S.Alphin and M. Anbarasan, “Kinematic simulation of human gait cycle using MSC Adams”, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, pp. 148-154. March 2015. 21. Poovazhagan.L, Kalaichelvan.K and T. Sornakumar, “Processing and performance characteristics of aluminum alloy-boron carbide metal matrix nanocomposites”, Materials and Manufacturing processes, March 2015. 22. A.Kirthivasan, Akhilnandh Ramesh, Amitesh Jain.J, D. Ebenezer and R.Prakash, “Experimental optimization of ethanol gasoline blends for a two stroke commercial gasoline engine”, J of Chemical and Pharmaceutical sciences, Issue 7, pp190-193, March 2015. 23. A.K.Lakshminarayanan, M.Suresh and M.Sibi Varshan, “Thermal performance evaluation of friction bolted cold plates with Al/Cu interface Stir welded”, Jl of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Vol.67(5), pp. 1032-1044, April 2015. 24. A.K. Lakshminarayana, V.E. Annamalai and K. Elangovan, “Identification of optimum friction stir spot welding process parameters controlling the properties of low carbon auto. steel joints”, Feb 2015. 25. P.S.Srivathsan, B.Praveen Ramanujam, V.V.S.S. Raneeth, K.Prasanth and S. Rajkumar, “CFD Modeling of Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Lean Premixed Combustion Engine”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2 (2015) pp. 1590-1595. 26. M.Senthamil Selvan, P.Raghu and N.Nallusamy, “Experimental study on diesel engine to analyse the spray characteristics of biodiesel by varying injection pressure”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.8 (2015) pp. 5968-5971. 27. Raghu P, Gowtham, Srinivasan R and N. Nallusamy, “Experimental study of spray characteristics using dimensionless analysis”, J of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Spl. issue 7: 2015, pp. 116-120. 28. M. Gajendiran and N. Nallusamy, “Application of solar thermal energy storage for the enhancement of marine heavy fuel oil systems”, J of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2015, Vol. 7(5), pp. 434-438. 29. P Raghu, R Srinivasan, R.Gowtham and N.Nallusamy, “Experimental study of mixture formation in biodiesel spray with preheated fuel”, Int. J of App Engg Research, Vol. 10, No. 19, 2015. 30. Rengarajan Satish and Vaddi Seshagiri Rao, Dattaguru Ananthapadmanaban, Balappa Ravi, “Tensile Strength and Hardness Correlations with Microscopy in Friction welded Aluminium to Copper”, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, March 2015. 31. B.Ramesh, D.Anantha padmanaban, Arvindh Ananthan and C Mathews, “Friction welding of 4140 steels”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol.10, No.168(2015), pp. 530-533. 32. S.Santosh, K.Rajkumar and A Gnanavelbabu, “Effect of hBN solid lubricant concentration on machinability of Titanium (Ti-6Al-4V) alloy”, Mater. Sci. Forum, Vols. 830-831 (2015) pp. 87-90, (2015) TTP, Switzerland. 33. C.Muthazhagan, Rajkumar, A.Gnanavelbabu and S.Santosh, “Effect of Cooling Rate on Distribution of Boron Carbide and Graphite in Al 6061 Composites During Solidification”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2 (2015) pp. 1429-1433. 34. R.Panneerdhas, A.Gnanavelbabu, K.Rajkumar and Javed Syed Ibrahim.S, “Effect of Open Central Hole Stress concentration on Mechanical Properties of Luffa 135 fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composite”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2, 2015 pp. 1763-1766. 35. NikhilAnto.V, Sandeepak.M, Santhosh Manikandan.S and Raj Kumar.K, “Comparison of Mechanical Characteristics Of Broom Grass Reinforced Epoxy And Broom Grass – Groundnut Shell Hybrid Reinforced Epoxy Composites”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2 (2015) pp. 1808-1811. 36. M.Sankar, A.Gnanavelbabu, K.Rajkumar and S.Santosh, “A Study On Sic Abrasive Assisted Electro Chemical Machining Of Aluminium Boron Carbide Composite”, Int. J of App. Engg Research, Vol. 10 No.2 (2015) pp. 1848-1851 Conference Publications 1. Poovazhagan L and K.Kalaichelvan, “Dry Sliding Friction and Wear Properties of SiC Nanoparticulates Reinforced Al Matrix Nano Compo”, Inter. Collo on Mater. Manuf. and Metrology, 8 & 9, Aug- 2014, IITM-Chennai. 2. K. Jayakmar, Jose Mathew and M. A. Joseph, “Synthesis and machinability studies on A356 alloy-15% SiC composite”, Conf. on All India Manuf. Technol. Design and Research, IIT Guwahati, 10-12 Dec 2014. 3. M Manohar, K. Jayakumar, Roy M Cherian and Koshy M George, “Experimental study on the machinability of Inconel 718 alloy using coated carbide tool”, Inter. Conf. on Sustainable Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT 2015, Jan 9, 10 – 2015. 4. K. Jayakmar, Jose Mathew and M. A. Joseph, “Experimental analysis and forecasting of material removal rate and cutting force in end milling on A356 alloy-SiC metal matrix composites”, Inter. Conf. on Sustainable Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT 2015, Jan 9, 10 – 2015. 5. K.Rajkumar and S.Aravindan, “Effect of sliding speed on tribo performance of microwave sintered copper-CNT composites”, AIMTDR 2014, IIT, Guwahati, Inter.Conf. on All India Manuf. Technol.Design and Research, 10-12 Dec 2014. 6. K.S. Vijay Sekar and M. Pradeep Kumar, “Sensitivity analysis of material constitutive model parameters in numerical simulation of the orthogonal turning process”, Inter.Conf. on Mech. Manuf. and Control (ICMMC 2014), Nov. 21-23, 2014, Singapore. 7. Raghu. P, Nallusamy. N and Pitchandi. K, “Spray characteristics of diesel and biodiesel fuels for various injection timings under non-evaporating conditions”, Inter. Conf. on Sustainable Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., 2015, Jan 9, 10, 2015. 8. V. Venkatesan and N. Nallusamy, “A Review on Microalgae Biodiesel Production and its Usage in Direct Injection Diesel Engines as AlternateFuel”, Inter. Conf. on Sustainable Energy Resources, Mater. and Technol - ISERMAT Jan 9-10, 2015, Chennai. 9. M. Senthamil Selvan, P. Raghu and N. Nallusamy, “Effects of injection parameters on spray characteristics of karanja oil methyl ester and its blends in DI diesel engine”, National Conf.on Smart Engg Technol., GKM College of Engg, Chennai, 17th - 18th April 2015. 10. S. Jeyanthi, A. Johnny Varghese, B. Anand Ronald and S. Rajesh, “The Dynamic Mechanical Analysis and Recycling Properties of Bio Composites as Auto. 136 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Structural Beams”, Inter. Conf. on Green Technol.for Environ. Pollu. Prevent. and Control – Trichy, 27-29 Sept. 2014. S. Arokiasamy and B.Anand Ronald, “Synthesis and Characterization of Lead Alloy reinforced With Graphite & Silicon Carbide”, Inter. Conf. on Inno. Trends in Mech. and Civil Engg (ICITMC 2015), 10 April 2015, pp.83. S. Arokiasamy and B.Anand Ronald, Hardness and Wear behavior of Lead Metal matrix Composites, National Conf.on Trends and Inno. in Mech.Engg (TIME 2015), 17, April-15. KL. Hari Krishna, S R. Koteswara Rao and V.V. Subba Rao, “Studies on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of GTAW, Laser and FS welded ZM21 Magnesium alloy”, Inter. Conf. on Sustain. Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT-2015, 9 & 10 Jan. G.Manimaran, A.K.Lakshminarayanan and S.Balaji, “Understanding the parameters controlling the resistance spot welding of DP980 steel”, Inter. Conf. on Sustain. Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT 2015, Jan 9, 10 – 2015. R. Jayaraman, T.Balusamy and A.K.Lakshminarayanan, “Assessment of Microstructure and Wear Resistance of FS Processed Cast Mg-Al-Zn Magnesium Alloy”, Inter. Conf. on Sustain. Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT 2015, Jan 9, 10 – 2015. A.K.Lakshminarayanan and M.Suresh, “Thermal Performance Evaluation of Friction Stir Welded Flat Plate Heat Sink Using CFD Analysis”, Inter. Conf. on Sustain. Energy Resour., Mater. and Technol., ISERMAT 2015, Jan 9, 10 – 2015. S. Rajkumar and G. Sudarshan, “Influence of engine speed on mixing and emission characteristics of multiple-injection common rail direct injection diesel engine”, Inter.Conf. on Sustain. Energy Res, Mater. and Technol, (ISERMAT 2015), Jan 9-10, 2015. G. Sudarshan and S. Rajkumar, “Zero-Dimensional Analysis of Combustion in a Multiple-Injection CRDI Engine using Wiebe Law”, Inter.Conf. on Sustain. Energy Res, Mater. and Technol, (ISERMAT 2015), Jan 9-10, 2015. Thangaraja and S. Rajkumar, “Effect of Saturation and Unsaturation of Fatty Methyl Esters on Biodiesel NOx Emission Characteristics”, Inter.Conf. on Sustain. Energy Res, Mater. and Technol, (ISERMAT 2015), Jan 9-10, 2015. Department of Civil Engineering 1. 2. 3. 4. Y.K.Sabapathy, “Fabrication and Testing of FRP open Coil Spring” Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols.592-594 July. 2014, pp. 1065-1069. B.Mahalingam, “Effect of processed fly ash on cement mortar for standard and Normal Sand”, Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology, Vol. 1 No.1, August 2014, pp.1-4 B.Mahalingam, “Fly-Ash an effective replacement of cement in mortar” International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol.8, No.3, June 2015, pp. 1460-1466. S.Muthulingam, “Consistent models for estimating chloride ingress parameters in fly ash concrete” Journal of Building Engineering, No.3, May 2015, pp. 24-38. 137 5. S.Muthulingam, “Numerical assessment of non-uniform corrosion scenarios of rebar in concrete exposed to natural chloride environment” Sadhana Vol. 40, Part 4, June 2015, pp.1313-1341. 6. K.Mohammed Haneefa, “Development of an Efficient procedure for Sustainable Low Carbon Cement Manufacturing Process”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 787, April 2015, pp. 142-146. 7. R.Rajkumar, “Performance of self compaction concrete using Fly ash and M sand – An Experimental Study”, Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology, vol.1, No. 2, Aug. 2014, pp. 65-67. 8. R.Rajkumar, “Study on High Performance Concrete”, Journal of Basic and Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 2, No.4, Jan-Mar 2015, pp. 252-256. 9. P.Sangeetha, “Experimental and Analytical behaviour of Space Truss Structure”, WULFENIA Journal, Vol 22, No. 1, Jan 2015, pp. 38-47. 10. P.Sangeetha, “Finite Element Analysis of Space Truss Using MATLAB” ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 8, May 2015, pp. 3812-3816. Department of Management 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Vijaya Mani, “A Multivariate Approach to Determine the Drivers of Absenteeism Australian”, International journal of Humanities and Social Studies - Online, Vol01, Issue I, July, 2014. Vijaya Mani, “Investigating the drivers of Innovative Organizational Climate in an R & D organization”, IRJSSM, Vol - 04, Issue I, August, 2014. T. Thiruvenkadam, “Impact of Employee Engagement on Organizational Citizenship behavior- BVIMSR”, Journal of Management Research - 0976-4739, Vol-6, No.1 Oct, 2014. T. Thiruvenkadam, “Strore Patronage and store choice Decision of Shoppers”, Vishwakarma Business Review, 2229-6541, Vol-5, No.1, Jan 2015. Vijaya Mani, “Analysing the Impact of Employee Engagement on Attrition Levels at an IT Firm”, Intern Continental Journal of human resource research review, Vol. 03, Issue 2, Feb- 2015. 3.4.4 Details of research awards and recognition received by the faculty and incentives given to faculty. Please refer to Sections 2.4.4 and 2.4.5. 3.5 Consultancy 3.5.1 Give details of the systems and strategies for establishing instituteindustry interface. The institute has a centralized placement cell to interact with industry. The cell headed by the placement officer acts as a liaison between industries and the academia. Every department has a faculty member who is the department placement co-ordinator. They liaison with industry not only for 138 student placements but also for other industry requirements such as consultancy and joint projects. The alumni of the institute play an important role to interacting with industry. The graduates of the institute are well regarded and have been instrumental to placements as well as collaborations. Being a part of a larger umbrella of our Founder, who heads one of the largest IT conglomerates in India, we draw on the expertise from HCL technology for various projects and events. 3.5.2 What is the stated policy of the institution to promote consultancy? How is the available expertise advocated and publicized? Every department has a faculty member nominated to the centralised placement cell who works in tandem with the Placement Officer not only to place students but also for collaborations with industry and to obtain consultancy projects. The said faculty member is aware of all the expertise available for the industry in his/her department and will pitch the same to the industry through talks or pamphlets wherever applicable. 3.5.3 How does the institution encourage the staff to utilize their expertise and available facilities for consultancy services? Consultancy and research are given due weightage in assessing the faculty members for their annual appraisals. An incentive of 1% of the amount generated through consultancy work is given to the Principal investigator. The academic and administrative workload shall be reduced while executing consultancy work. 3.5.4 List the broad areas and major consultancy services provided by the institution and the revenue generated during the last four years. The data is mentioned in the Table below. 3.5.5 What is the policy of the institution in sharing the income generated through consultancy (staff involved: Institution) and its use for institutional development? As of now, most of the consultancy services to industries and organizations are advisory in nature. The list of such services done so far is indicated below: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Sl. Amount in Name of the faculty Area of consultancy No. Rs. (Lakh) 1 Dr.S.Radha, Dr.K.T.Selvan RF and Microwave 139 0.725 Ms.S.Esther Florence Dr.M.Gulam Nabi Alsath Mr.S.Ramprabhu measurements 2 Dr.R.Rajavel Course on Digital Signal Processing at BARC Training School, IGCAR 0.45 3 Dr.S.Radha, Dr.R.Jayaparvathy Dr.R.Kishore, Dr.K.Muthumeenakshi HCL Technologies – Industry oriented short term course on Wireless Technologies 1.97 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Organization to which Sl. Area of Year Faculty No. consultancy is consultancy offered 1 2015- Dr.Chitra Babu Caterpillar Big data 2016 India Pvt. Ltd, Analytics, Dr.T.T.Mirnalinee, Chennai, India Cloud Dr.R.Kanchana Computing, Dr.J.Suresh User Dr.V.S.Felix Enigo Experience 2 2015- Dr.T.T.Mirnalinee, ACI Systems Image 2016 Dr.R.Kanchana, and processing Dr.V.S.Felix Enigo Automation, applications Chennai, India 3 2014- Dr.Chitra Babu Manatec, Kernel 2015 Mr. H. Shahul Puducherry Optimization Hammed India. Department of Mechanical Engineering Areas of consultancy, 2014Training 2015 M/s.TAFE Ltd. INR 13,000 M/s. Fenner India Ltd. M/s. Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics Ltd. M/s. Wendt India Ltd. NIL NIL NIL 20132014 20122013 20112012 - - - - - - - - 140 Amount earned (Rs) INR 30,000 INR 15,000 - INR 45,000 3.6 Extension Activities and Institutional Social Responsibilities 3.6.1 How does the institution promote institution-neighbourhood community network and student engagement, contributing to good citizenship, service orientation and holistic development of students? The institute encourages promotion of community service through setting of various forums and cells to guide the students in these directions. Some of the initiatives are Good Citizens Cell, Youth Red Cross, Rotaract Clubs etc. The Institute also partners with industry bodies to conduct survey and social works in the areas surrounding its campus. One such successful initiative of the college is “Samudhay”, which enumerated the economic, literacy, cultural and health needs of 16 surrounding villages. 3.6.2 What is the Institutional mechanism to track students’ involvement in various social movements / activities which promote citizenship roles? Faculty members are assigned to all the bodies which encourage student involvement in social activities. Faculty keep track of all the activities including the objectives, finances, outcomes and initiatives and present them to the management every month. 3.6.3 How does the institution solicit stakeholder perception on the overall performance and quality of the institution? The parent body of the institute commissions a survey by a reputed independent market research agency to solicit the perception of the students, parents and industry. 3.6.4 How does the institution plan and organize its extension and outreach programmes? Providing the budgetary details for last four years, list the major extension and outreach programmes and their impact on the overall development of students. Outreach Programmes The college was selected to conduct a 10 day Computer Training Programme for Police Personnel by the Government of Tamil Nadu which was successfully done and appreciated by the trainees and their officers. The Women Empowerment Cell is part of its parent organization at Anna University. Through this, at the instance of the Govt. of Tamil Nadu, we trained ladies from Kanchipuram district, numbering about 30, in fundamentals of computers and gave them training to set up Information Kiosks, to disclose 141 the processes of day to day activities dealing with the government and public bodies for their clients’ needs such as changing address in a ration card, Patta transfer, RTI act, applying for women self help group etc. At least 10 of them are earning their livelihood, by establishing Information Kiosks in their own villages. 3.6.5 National Service Scheme (NSS) and Youth Red Cross (YRC) There is a unit of NSS with one Programme Officer and 100 student volunteers, another unit of YRC with about 100 student members with a corresponding Coordinating Officer and a Women Empowerment Cell in the college with a lady faculty member in-charge of it. Efforts for acquisition of service attitude by students The NSS wing of the college conducts programmes in villages around the college to educate the villagers on hygiene & sanitation, literacy, women and their status in the society – how to improve it, the employment opportunities available for the youth of the village, protected water supply system, ecology, girls education, awareness of AIDS etc. Students stay in the village for about 10 days a year, live with the villagers, refurbish the school buildings, give a patient hearing to the woes of villagers, discuss with them possible remedies, arrange a veterinary clinic, arrange for health check up by doctors etc. These have certainly inculcated in the minds of the participant students, the dignity of labour and a desire to serve the have-nots. In addition to these, the NSS and YRC wings jointly organize blood donation camps and organ donation awareness camps in conjunction with the NGOs in the city, the neighbouring Rotary clubs and hospitals. These have been very successful that the hospitals and Rotary clubs are willing to associate themselves with all such activities of the student community. Tobacco is the villain for many human illnesses. The entire campus is tobacco free and a pledge taken by 4000 students, with their palms painted with anti tobacco slogans organized in the campus has gained entry in the Guinness book of world records. Students in most of the remote villages do not have any idea about the possible scopes for higher studies after +2, and the various scholarship schemes available for them for higher education. Even their parents think that higher education, which will light up the lives of their wards in the future, is beyond their reach. To dispel this, students conduct a programme called ‘Vidiyal’ (meaning dawn) in at least 27 Government Higher Secondary schools spread over four backward districts, Vellore, Thiruvannamalai, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri of Tamil Nadu. This programme was very much appreciated by the Collectors of the respective districts and the Directors of Higher Education. 142 Partnership with University for extension activities The NSS unit of the college is part of the NSS wing of the affiliating University viz. Anna University. The University periodically involves the Programme Officers, of the colleges under its control, for discussion with them the activities that could be initiated for the betterment of the society at large and specifically that of the villages around. In pursuance of the ‘Clean India’ campaign, students did an extensive survey of about 800 households in about 6 villages to assess the requirements particularly, the lack of toilets and lack of proper drinking water facilities. Benefits reaped by the villages because of the activities The NSS & YRC units of the college have repaired the school buildings and provided protected water supply lines to the school from the village overhead tank, arranged health camps for the school children, villagers and ladies from the village separately so that they could continue their treatment in the hospitals brought for the health camp. They choose to do them for three continuous years in the same village so that the fruition of their efforts is visible. Benefits reaped by the institution by the outreach activities The institute is yet to reap any benefit from the villages, except earning the good will and getting some work force as employees at the college. 3.6.6 Give details on social surveys, research or extension work (if any) undertaken by the college to ensure social justice and empower students from under-privileged and vulnerable sections of society? In pursuance of the ‘Clean India’ campaign, students did an extensive survey of about 800 households in about 6 villages to assess the requirements particularly, the lack of toilets and lack of proper drinking water facilities. Please refer to Section 3.6.5. 3.6.7 Reflecting on objectives and expected outcomes of the extension activities organized by the institution, comment on how they complement students’ academic learning experience and specify the values and skills inculcated. The activities ensure that the students are aware about their surroundings. They become sensitive to the needs of the societies and the activities are designed to ensure that students are well rounded and aware of 143 their responsibilities towards the societies apart from just excelling in their own careers. By living with the villages, the students tend to know, the dignity of labour, the difficulties faced by the villagers and these result shapes them to be considerate with down trodden and trains him as a social worker or at a later date head an NGO. 3.6.8 How does the institution ensure the involvement of the community in its reach out activities and contribute to the community development? Detail on the initiatives of the institution that encourage community participation in its activities? The activities being organized such as Flood Relief, Blood Donation Camps, Clean India campaign etc are not possible without the involvement of the community as a whole, be it the staff residing nearby or the residents of villages. All these require a commitment from all the stakeholders. This commitment is built up by first reaching out to the community through their members working for our college. 3.6.9 Give details on the constructive relationships forged (if any) with other institutions of the locality for working on various outreach and extension activities. The NSS unit of the college is part of the NSS wing of the affiliating University viz. Anna University. The University periodically involves the Programme Officers of the colleges under its control, discusses with them the activities that could be initiated for the betterment of the society at large and specifically that of the villages around. 3.6.10 Give details of awards received by the institution for extension activities and/contributions to the social/community development during the last four years. The college NSS Unit has received the Best NSS Programme Officer Award, Best NSS Unit award and 11 volunteers received the Best NSS Volunteer Award for three successive years and State Award for one year from Anna University, Chennai. 3.7 The industry-institute collaborations The MoUs with Industries, R & D organizations, NGOs and Universities of repute are listed in 3.1.5. The college has been conducting National and International conferences on various themes. These conferences have several sessions chaired by eminent scientists besides academicians from 144 reputed institutions. Some of them are funded by the SSN Trust and others by funding agencies. A list of National / International conferences organized by the college during 2014-15 is given below: Department Chemical Mechanical Chemical CSE EEE Chemical Civil IT ECE Chemical Title of the conference Fourth National conference on Recent Trends in Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering (CEEE) International Conference on Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies (ISERMAT 2015) Third National conference on Recent Trends in Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering (CEEE) National conference on Distributed Machine Learning (NCDML 2015) 3rd National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES 2015) National Conference on Sustainable trends in energy and environmental resources (STEER) National Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering National conference on Information Technology – NCIT 2K15 3rd National conference on Information and Communication Technology (NCICT 2k15) 2nd National Conference on Clean Technology for sustainable environment – CTSE Date 7.8.2014 8.1.2015 & 9.1.2015 12.2.2015 20.2.2015 & 21.2.2015 26.02.2015 & 27.2.2015 27.2.2015 & 28.2.2015 19.3.2015 & 20.3.2015 21.3.2015 9.4.2015 & 10.4.2015 10.4.2015 CRITERION IV: INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES 4.1 Physical Facilities 4.1.1 What is the policy of the Institution for creation and enhancement of infrastructure that facilitate effective teaching and learning? The stated policy is to provide world class infrastructure to the students of the institute. In line with this policy, the institute has a sprawling campus spread over 250 acres with modern buildings, technology enabled classrooms (Eg. E-learning, Moodle based teaching etc.), well stocked libraries, spacious hostels for the students, seminar halls and auditoria. The institute focuses on overall development of students and hence, infrastructure for sports and extra145 curricular activities is a very important focus. The institute has a modern indoor sports complex as well as facilities for outdoor sports such as Basketball and Tennis alongwith an international standard cricket ground and football field. 4.1.2 Infrastructural facilities available The college has 105 classrooms, 86 spacious laboratories and 10 seminar halls for the conduct of the courses for all the eight UG and twelve PG programmes. In addition, 190 faculty rooms, rest rooms exclusively for boys and girls and a students activity centre for organizing students’ events centrally, such as blood donation camp, entrepreneur week etc., separate halls for the conduct of examinations, two drawing halls, a hall for NSS activity are available. For Sports, besides spacious play fields and courts for outdoor games, there is a Sports Centre housing a basketball court of international standard, two squash courts, a spacious hall for a number of indoor games and two fitness centres separately for boys and girls. The physical academic infrastructure and information on the supporting infrastructure are shown in the following tables: Physical Infrastructure for academic activities Class Rooms Unit No Area Sq.m Sl. No. Dept 1 2 EEE ECE 3 CSE 4 IT 5 Chem 6 7 8 9 8 16 6 3 100 95 115 48 6 115 4 112 1 55 BME 3 112.5 Mech 10 93.2 4 112 Civil 2 55 MBA 6 90 Tutorial Rooms Unit No Area Sq.m Laboratories No Unit Area Sq.m Seminar Halls Unit No Area Sq.m Departmental Library Unit No Area Sq.m 1 3 54 58.7 14 12 227.5 136 1 1 194 100 1 1 78 100 3 48 12 117 1 188 1 60 2 49 7 1 137 180 2 152 1 120 2 55 6 210 1 196 1 54 2 1 112 101 196 125 1 1 24 56 55 1 196 1 54 2 30 241 245 241 55 151 1 1 2 6 15 8 1 2 1 350 1 315 Supporting Infrastructure Sl. No. 1 2 Description Auditoria Sports facilities Details of facility available One each of 1000, 300, 200 capacity. Indoor One basketball court, 2 badminton courts, table tennis hall, 2 squash 146 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 courts and two fitness centres one for boys and the other for girls. Outdoor Cricket ground of International standards with pavilion and facility for net practice, Foot ball ground surrounded by running track, Synthetic Tennis court two Nos., Volley ball court one & two Basket ball courts with gallery and flood lights. Power TNEB Power supply with sanctioned load 1320 kVA Number of Diesel Generators: 8 with a total capacity 1580 kVA. Networking Entire campus networked with fibre optic cables; 24 hour Internet connectivity with a band width of 310 Mbps; about 450 Wi-Fi points spread over the entire campus including hostels. Medical Aid A full fledged doctor, nurse and an emergency van available; A dispensary with two beds and essential medicines available for the use of students and faculty in the quarters. Transport 42 buses available for students to commute from the city to the college and back. Community service One NSS and One YRC Units are functioning Park, Green cover, The entire area is landscaped and a park by name STP and rain water Vamasundari park is available in the campus harvesting over an area of about 3 acres. A full fledged STP is available and the treated water is being used for maintaining the landscaping and park. The rainwater over the area is drained into a pond thus harvesting rain water. Nine 7m diameter and three 15m diameter shallow wells serve the water needs of the campus. Drinking water Drinking water is through 7 Nos. of 500 litres per hour for the hostels and canteen and 70 Nos. of 50 litres per hour for the academic blocks RO plants located at various points including hostels. Quarters Quarters are available for 65 families within the campus. Canteen with a seating capacity of 750. Canteen Food Courts Four numbers of food courts are available. 147 4.1.3 Master Plan The master plan of the campus is given below: 148 4.1.4 How does the institution ensure that the infrastructure facilities meet the requirements of students with physical disabilities? Provision of wheel chairs, ramps for most of the buildings, location of most of the labs in the ground floor and disabled friendly toilets are features meant to assist students with physical disabilities. 4.1.5 Residential facilities The details of hostels and the residential quarters for the faculty and staff within the campus are shown below: Details of Staff Quarters within the Campus Sl. Unit Area in Details of the Quarters Floors No. Sq.m 1 Principal Quarters (1 No.) 170 G+1 2 Professors Quarters (4 Nos.) 1020 G+1 3 (2 Nos.) G+1 4 Asso. Professors Quarters (4 Nos.) 1332 G+1 5 (6 Nos.) G+2 6 Asst. Professors Quarters (12 Nos.) 2700 G+1 7 (18 Nos.) G+2 8 Non-teaching 9 Lab Attenders (12 Nos.) 624 G+1 10 Lab Assistant (6 Nos.) 430 G+2 Details of Students Hostels Room with Att. toilet Name of the Hostels Tl. Pl. Carpet Area Area No. of Total in in Rooms beds Sq.m Sq.m Nos. Single Rooms Double Rooms Cp. Cp. Area Area in Nos. in Nos. Sq.ft./ Sq.ft./ Room Room Triple Rooms Cp. Cp. Area Area in Nos. in Sq.ft./ Sq.ft./ Room Room L. H –I 3085 2715 88 176 0 0 0 0 88 165 0 0 L.H –II 1557 1370 48 80 4 109 12 113 32 183 0 0 L.H –III 2191 1928 48 142 1 120 0 0 0 0 47 235 L.H-IV 4905 4316 96 290 2 120 0 0 0 0 96 235 14585 12835 517 449 94 168 347 97 4 72 72 199 L.H.V (PG) LHV (PG) interna tional Student 149 L.H-VI 6164 5424 131 393 Total 32487 28588 928 1602 173 G.H –I 3923 3452 112 224 0 0 0 0 112 165 0 0 G.H –II 3657 3218 96 192 0 0 0 0 96 183 0 0 1683 1481 75 75 8 125 67 97 0 0 0 0 5516 4854 96 284 2 120 0 0 0 0 94 235 9990 8791 189 569 2 120 0 0 0 0 189 235 9675 8514 245 245 111 120 134 100 0 0 10777 9484 327 327 185 142 45221 39794 1140 1916 308 343 G.H –III PG G.H-IV G.H-V G.H VI(PG) G.H-VII (PG) u/c Total 4.1.6 131 359 124 208 235 274 0 283 What are the provisions made available to students and staff in terms of health care on the campus and off the campus? An allopathic doctor is available round the clock in the campus. A qualified nurse, a small clinic with two beds, essential emergency drugs, a van to commute between the nearby Chettinad Hospitals and the college, in case of emergencies, to meet the health needs of students and residents of the campus are in the campus. 4.1.7 Common Facilities available on the campus A placement cell, headed by a qualified Placement Officer, with an office is available in the campus. The Placement activities start during the early seventh semester and continue till the end of the eighth semester. An exclusive building of about 1800 sq.m. has been built for placement activities, near the library so that online tests and interviews can be conducted without detriment to classroom and library activities of the college. Please refer to Sections 2.5.7 and 4.1.2. 4.2 Library as a Learning Resource 4.2.1 Does the library have an Advisory Committee? Specify the composition of such a committee. What significant initiatives have been implemented by the committee to render the library, student/user friendly? Yes, the library has an Advisory Committee. One of the HoDs will be the Chairman for the Library Advisory Committee, and one faculty from each department will be members with 150 Librarian as the Secretary. For the year 2014-15, the HoD, Mechanical Engineering Department was the Chairman. The objectives derived for the committee are: • To provide general directions to the Library. • To review the functioning of the library with regard to its support to the conduct of academic programmes of the institute. • To outline the library collection & development policy and ensure its implementation. • To monitor and evaluate, from time to time, trends and developments in library related information, usage of ICT, networking, library automation, library cooperation etc., and to direct the library towards modernisation. • To evaluate the suggestions made by the library users and adopt them if feasible. 4.2.2 Provide details of the following: Total area of the library : 1800 Sq.m. Total seating capacity : 150 Working hours (throughout the year): Working days – 8.00 am to 8.40 pm Holidays – 8.00 am to 3.40 pm • Layout of the Library Individual reading carrels : 764 Sq.m. (no individual cabins are given, the figure indicates reading area provided) Lounge area for browsing and relaxed reading : 101 Sq.m. IT zone for accessing e-resources : 86 Sq.m. • • • 4.2.3 How does the library ensure purchase and use of current titles, print and e-journals and other reading materials? Specify the amount spent on procuring new books, journals and e-resources during the last four years. The faculty, after visiting reliable bookshops and their interaction with their colleagues and research counterparts, indicate to their HoDs the need to add required books. This is discussed in the departmental faculty meeting and after a consensus indicated to the Library committee, which recommends the list to the Principal who in turn directs the librarian for procurement, as long as the budget is not exceeded. Occasionally, books are purchased directly from book exhibitions and the purchase ratified later. As far as journals are concerned, they are subscribed as a package as recommended by the AICTE and also through information from Professional societies. The number of books procured for the library and the cost incurred during the past 4 years is given in the following Table: 151 Year -1 Year - 2 Total Total Number Cost Number Cost Rs. Rs. Library holdings Text books 6278 2053130 5251 Reference Books 194 956149 145 Journals/ 242 45210 440 Periodicals General and 6278 2053130 5251 Story books Year - 3 Number Year - 4 Total Number Cost Rs. Total Cost Rs. 2126547 794462 4696 117 2224419 681937 4784 160 2705120 870900 90947 645 56891 620 60238 2126547 4696 2224419 4784 2705120 12 Data 12 Data 12 Data 12 Data 3484120 4464396 4762538 5403321 bases bases bases bases e-resources DVD - English Movies RF ID and Library Management Software 34 24967 - - - - - - - - - - - 2230625 - - 4.2.4 Provide details on the ICT and other tools deployed to provide maximum access to the library collection? • • • Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OPAC Library Management Software KOHA Electronic Resource Management package for e-journals Online Resources Details IEL – Level 2 (unlimited user) ACM - Association for Computing Machinery ASCE - American Society for Civil Engineering ASME - American Society for Mechanical Engineering ASTM - American Society of Testing and Materials JGATE – Engineering Science Direct – Engineering + Computer Science Science Direct – Chemical Engineering Springer Link 152 161 Journals – Full Text 18704 IEEE Conference 5409 IEEE Standards with all back files 136 Journals 35 Journals 28 Journals 6 Journals with 13, 000 Journals Articles 4091 Journals 275 Journals 30 Journals 586 Journals 10 EBSCO Host - Business Source Elite 11 12 13 14 JGATE – Management McGraw-Hill e-book NPTEL Video NPTEL Web Courses • • 1108 Journals - Full Text 5138 Journals – Indexing and Abstracting 4345 Journals 321 books 110 Numbers 129 Numbers Federated searching tools to search articles in multiple databases: -NilLibrary Website : http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/SsnIntranet/ The library can be accessed through Intranet • • • • • • • In-house/remote access to e-publications: Department News Letters Library automation : KOHA Library s/w Total number of computers for public access: 20 Total No. of printers for public access: 5–Canon 8080 model Internet band width/ speed : 310 Mbps Institutional Repository : -NilContent management system for e-learning: It is done by the Departments Participation in Resource sharing networks /consortia: AICTE Consortium 4.2.5 Provide details on the following items: • Average number of walk-ins : 370 Users • Average number of books issued/returned : 100 • Ratio of library books to students enrolled : 20:1 • Average number of books added during last three years : 16858 Vols. • Average number of login to OPAC : 500 • Average number of login to e-resources : 300 • Average number of e-resources downloaded /printed : 200 • Number of information literacy trainings organized: -Nil• Details of “weeding out” of books and other materials: So far, no books or other materials have been weeded out from the library. 4.2.6 Give details of the specialized services provided by the library • Manuscripts : -Nil• Reference 1. Location of materials is displayed in the stack area. 2. Help Desk – Library Assistants are always available for 153 • • • • • • • • • • • Personal assistance to identify various library resources and provide library services. 3. Library related information / queries are provided by the Librarian through intercom / phone and email. Book search assistance through OPAC software. Reprography : 5 numbers – Canon 8080 model ILL (Inter Library Loan Service): DELNET, MLIBNET, Anna University, British Council and IIT Libraries Information deployment and notification :Through Display Board Down load: Facility available & permitted Printing : Five printers are available Reading list/ Bibliography compilation : -NilIn-house/remote access to e-resources : Available User Orientation and awareness : Available on request Assistance in searching Databases : Available INFLIBNET/IUC facilities : Not available 4.2.7 Enumerate on the support provided by the Library staff to the students and teachers of the college. 1. To arrange Inter Library Loan. 2. Online learning facilities such as NPTEL. 3. Send articles through email. 4.2.8 What are the special facilities offered by the library to the visually/physically challenged persons? Give details. Ramp with handrails is available for physically challenged persons. Braille material is not available in the library for use of the visually challenged person. 4.2.9 Does the library get the feedback from its users? If yes, how is it analysed and used for improving the library services. Feedback form is used for rating the library services. Based on this we have introduced (a) barcode (b) RF ID (c) online renewals and (d) Book Bank for Rural Scholarship students. 4.3 IT Infrastructure 4.3.1 Give details on the computing facility available (hard ware and software) at the Institution: • Computers and their configuration: the college 154 2,364 computers are available in The cluster of computers and their configurations are given below: Sl. No. Type Configuration Number 1 Desktop HCL Intel Core i7 81 2 Desktop HCL Intel Core i5 389 3 Desktop HCL Intel Core 2 duo 401 4 Desktop HCL Pentium D 173 5 Desktop HCL PIV 106 6 Desktop HCL Amd Athlon 45 7 Laptop HCL Laptop 165 8 Desktop Dell Intel core i5 182 9 Laptop Dell Laptop 24 10 Desktop HP AMD Desktop 576 11 Laptop HP Laptop 66 12 Server Server 47 13 Thin Sun thin client + HCL thin client 60 14 Apple Apple 49 • • • • • • Computer-student ratio : 1:2; Besides every student has a computer Stand alone facility : Available LAN facility : Available Wi-Fi facility : The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled; No. of Wi-Fi points 450 Licensed Software : Campus wide software available Number of nodes with Internet facilities: All computers are having internet facility 4.3.2 Detail of the computer and internet facility made available to the faculty and students on the campus and off-campus: The Internet facility is available for all faculty and students in campus. The college is about 35 km away the city; hence, it is for the individual, to have the net connection on his/her own for Off-campus browsing. 4.3.3 What are the institutional plans and strategies for deploying and upgrading the IT infrastructure and associated facilities? The bandwidth has been progressively increased from 256 kbps to 310 Mbps over a period of 19 years as the need arises. For ease of access, the entire campus has been made Wi-Fi enabled with about 450 Wi-Fi points spread over the entire campus, including hostel rooms, library, labs and canteen thus enabling the student to browse the web from a location convenient to them. Printers at about 15 per machine are provided in the labs, Central and 155 departmental offices and hostels besides library. This is generally done at the request of the faculty concerned or HoD or Librarian. 4.3.4 Provide details on the provision made in the annual budget for procurement, upgradation, deployment and maintenance of the computers and their accessories in the institution for the last four years. There is a group designated as Computer and Internet Software COmmittee (CISCO), headed by a senior professor, with a mandate to recommend the management the need for upgrading existing machines, replacing the obsolete ones with new ones, maintenance of the networking system, purchase of ancillaries such as switches, routers, printers etc. The AMC is given only for those equipment, which could not be repaired and maintained by the technical staff of the college. Based on the recommendations of the committee, provision is made in the annual budget. The suggestions for upgradation normally comes from the departments, discussed in the departmental faculty meetings and then forwarded to CISCO group to take them forward. In addition, heavy duty printers and associated servers etc., as specified by the University for the conduct of examinations are also made available. The provision made in the annual budget during the past four years is given in the following Table: Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 Nature of the recommendation Procurement Upgradation Replacement Maintenance Provision made in the budget during the years in lakh of INR 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 191.69 191.60 180.57 477.17 59.16 54.00 102.40 85.93 5.0 2.00 4.00 6.00 24.95 26.38 33.15 42.80 4.3.5 How does the institution facilitate extensive use of ICT resources including development and use of computer-aided teaching/learning materials by its staff and students? Most of the circulars to and replies from the faculty, unless mandated to be in printed form, are by default through e-mail. The information about academic schedule (other than that from university), transport, events information, visits of dignitaries are all posted on the Web. The pre-class material by the teacher, as indicated earlier, is uploaded in the intranet for students to see and have an idea of what is to be done in the immediately following class. A studious student makes a study of it and comes prepared to the class and even posts his doubts to the teacher through intranet. In the class, all classes are equipped with a laptop, a roof mounted LCD projector, white screen facilitating the teacher to project teaching material he might have 156 brought or directly from the net, which the students can see or access them for later; thus, making the class more interesting. The teacher also indicates information on various resources available. Students, forming their own groups, interchange ideas, get to know the schedule of events and other information through the intranet. Thus, the ICT resources are extensively used in the campus. However, it must be admitted that the advanced versions of cell phones have usurped the use of the campus ICT facilities. 4.3.6 Elaborate giving suitable examples, on how the learning activities and technologies deployed (access to on-line teaching-learning resources, independent learning, ICT enabled classrooms/learning spaces etc.) by the institution, place the student at the centre of teaching-learning process and render the role of a facilitator for the teacher. A typical entry in the teacher’s log book submitted to the HoD is indicated below. The uploaded learning material relating to the course “Linear Integrated Circuits” for 3rd Semester, EEE and the course ‘Solar Energy Storage Systems’ for Third semester M.E. Power Electronics & Drives is available at the following addresses of SSN intranet for viewing. 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 Sample E -learning contents for some of the courses offered are indicated below http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/LIC2015 (3rd semester EEE) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/SOLARANDENERGYSTORAGESY STEMS ( 3rd semester M.E. PED) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/EceIntranet/EC2302-B-13 (5th semester ECE - Principles of Digital Signal Processing) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/EceIntranet/AE-VL7201(E)-13 (3rd semester M.E. – Applied Electronics – CAD for VLSI) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/MechIntranet/MechEngDynofMach (ME6505 Dynamics of machines -MS.Alphin V sem A section http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/MechIntranet/MechStrenofmater (ME 6411Mfg Tech lab II-M.Dhanancezhian-IV sem A Section) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/CivilIntranet/CE2401AY1516 (B.E. Civil Engg. - VII Semester – CE2401 Design of Reinforced Concrete & Brick Masonry Structures – Ms. P. Sangeetha) http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/PhyIntranet/PhyElearning http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/EceIntranet/EceEngPhy-A-15 4.3.7 Does the institute avail of the National Knowledge Network connectivity directly or through the affiliating university? If so what are the services availed of? Anna University relays lectures of some topics of certain subjects, generally found by student community to be tough, as interactive lectures through EDUSAT, with the help of experts in the subjects. To the extent the timetables permit, students assemble at a hall in the college, where it is projected, and if they have any doubt, they clarify it, which the exponent will answer on line for the benefit of all the viewing student community. The relaying time and the college time table do not match very often. However, students have attended one or two such lectures. To obviate this difficulty of non synchronisation of the relay time and the time of availability of student, the college has procured some lectures in the form of CDs, and they are available at the library, which a desiring student can view in the room meant for this purpose; alternatively, he can borrow the CD from the library and view it in his laptop at his own place of convenience. As many as 2000 such CDs are available in the library for students to use. 4.4 Maintenance of Campus Facilities 4.4.1 Financial resources for maintenance and up keep of campus facilities: The funds allotted for various facilities and spent for maintenance of the same are given below for four years: Sl. Budget allocation and amount spent during the years in lakh of Rupees 167 No. 1 2 3 4 5 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Item Allotted Spent Allotted Spent Allotted Spent Allotted Spent Building 1650 1332 4473 1773.5 2318 1914.8 3793 2764 Furniture 62.43 90.88 58.84 49.94 67.58 80.94 88.00 87.72 Equip 48.87 47.41 57.11 72.72 138.32 148.19 302.41 285.85 ment Computer 191.69 148.87 191.60 120.60 180.57 145.63 477.17 422.37 Transport 18.00 7.47 20.40 27.56 5.95 6.13 4.00 4.08 4.4.2 Institutional mechanism for maintenance and upkeep of the infrastructure There are specific personnel appointed for maintenance of infrastructure by way of buildings, furniture and transport. These people, on a daily basis, will report to the Head of Construction & Facilities (HoC & F) any breakages and other maintenance required, and HoC & F will arrange to get them rectified. The technical staff attached to the respective laboratories will be servicing the equipment to the extent possible. When they become non serviceable, they report the matter to the faculty in-charge of the laboratory and he in turn refers the same to the HoD, who arranges to get them repaired. Due to the large number of computers and networking, a Systems Administrator and a Network administrator with their staff look after the maintenance of computers and the networking. Any major fault is reported to the Professor incharge of CISCO, who will arrange to undertake the repairs. 4.4.3 Calibration of various equipment and instruments This is left to the faculty in-charge of the respective laboratories, to decide as to when the meters are to be calibrated and instruments serviced. Calibration of one meter in a particular group is outsourced to a Standards Organisation or its authorized agents. Using this calibrated meter as the standard, the other meters are calibrated by the technicians in the laboratory. The equipment are serviced annually by the local technical staff and if it is beyond their capacity, they refer it to the HoD, who arranges for repairing them. 4.4.4 Maintenance of sensitive equipment, Power and Water supply The power is supplied by the Electricity Board with a peak load of 1320 kVA, and it is augmented by eight diesel generators capable of giving a backup power of 1580 kVA. The generators are maintained as and when the repair occurs, on a call basis; the day-to-day maintenance is done by the technical staff attached to the substation. There are about 120 UPS systems of various capacities in the campus, for server rooms and the lab equipment needing uninterrupted power supply. They are normally maintained by an AMC. 168 Water supply is from nine 7m diameter and three 15m diameter shallow wells, water being pumped to the over head reservoir and the outflow to the campus is by gravity. The drinking water is through 7 Nos. of 500 litres RO plants for the hostels & canteen and 70 Nos. of 50 litres per hour RO plants for the academic blocks, providing drinking water supply to the campus 24 x 7 at various service points. There is a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), which effectively treats the waste water. This treated water is used for maintaining the green campus. CRITERION V: STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION 5 5.1 Student Mentoring and Support: 5.1.1 College Calendar The college calendar, which is distributed to all faculty and students, contains besides Vision and Mission of the college, information regarding first and last working days of odd and even semesters, probable dates for cycle tests, dates for prominent events, holidays, facilities available and hostel rules (University regulations & rules are available in the University website). 5.1.2 Student scholarship schemes SSN is known for its liberal scholarship schemes, that ensures ‘nobody is deprived of quality Engineering education for want of funds’. A write up is enclosed below: General: The institution offers attractive student scholarships to encourage merit and to make education accessible to students of all economic strata. The Institution has initiated a thriving tradition of about 500 scholarships extended every year to meritorious and deserving students. Types of scholarships: There are seven types of scholarships: a. Walk-in Walk-out Scholarships b. Merit Scholarships c. Merit cum Means Scholarships d. Tuition fee waiver Scholarships e. Sports Scholarships f. Rural Scholarships and h. PG Scholarships Walk-in Walk-out Scholarships: If any student earns any of the top ten ranks of any State or Central Board of +2 or equivalent examinations and opts to study in this college, he/she 169 will be entitled to this scholarship. He can undergo all the four years of study of the B.E./B.Tech. degree Programme absolutely free, including hostel charges. The number of scholarships under this category is limited to 10. Merit Scholarships: These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students, based on their academic performance at the qualifying examinations, for freshers and based on their performance in the preceding two semester examinations for senior students. This is tenable for the year for which it is awarded. This entails the student of the full fee concession and Rs 15,000/- towards hostel charges/grant towards living expenses, if he is a day-scholar, and an allowance of Rs 5,000/for books. Merit cum means Scholarships: The criteria for these scholarships are the academic performance and demonstrated economic need of the student. This is also tenable for the year for which it is awarded, and the quantum is the same as that of Merit Scholarships. Waiver of Tuition fees: This type of scholarship is awarded to make the scholarships available for larger number of students. This defrays the entire tuition fee to be paid by the student. This is further subdivided into Merit and Merit-cum-Means types. This is also available only for the year for which it is awarded. Sports Scholarships: In an effort to encourage sports, Sports Scholarships are awarded to students who excel in sports, having represented the State at the National level games conducted by Accredited Boards. The scholarships, in addition to meeting the academic and residential needs of the student, will cover the cost of employing a coach as well. This is tenable for the entire period of study. Rural Scholarships: To support students from Government HSC schools located in rural areas of Tamil Nadu, where the number of students opting for higher education is dismally low, 25 scholarships are awarded to students who are toppers in the +2 examinations of Rural Government Higher Secondary schools of Tamil Nadu. The quantum of money is the same as that for the Walk-in Walk-out Scholarships and is tenable for the entire 4 years of the programme. PG Scholarships To encourage meritorious students to pursue post graduate studies and to promote research, scholarships are awarded to candidates with University Ranks or GATE score of 90+ percentile and who have chosen this college for their higher studies. 170 Others In addition to the above, Scholarships are awarded by the Alumni of the college and also by external philanthropists for students who excel in Specific Games and also for Fine Arts like Classical Music as well. The quantum of the above scholarships, disbursed during 2014-15 is given below: Total Total Sl. Type of Scholarship Course No. of Scholarship No. students in Rs. B.E./B. Tech. / 1 Merit Scholarship 183 9,191,400 M.E./MBA Walk-in Walk-out B.E./B. Tech. / 2 15 1,893,250 Scholarship M.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E. 3 Means Scholarship 69 3,064,000 /MBA 4 Rural Scholarship B.E./B. Tech. 98 16,698,910 B.E./B. Tech. / 5 Sports Scholarship 41 3,058,250 M.E. B.E./B. Tech. / 6 Alumni Scholarship 35 914,963 M.E./MBA Classical Carnatic 7 Music Vocal B.E. / B. Tech. 5 210,000 Scholarship 446 35,030,773 5.1.3 What percentage of students receive financial assistance from State Government, Central Government and other National agencies? About 25% of students apply and get the State and Central Government Scholarships under various scholarship schemes and the amount is directly credited into their bank accounts. 5.1.4 Specific support services / facilities available for students While the State and Central Governments take care of financially and socially deprived students from SC/ST, OBC, the Management extends a helping hand to economically weaker students, rural students, students who are excelling in sports, Fine Arts etc as described in 5.1.2. by way of a large number of scholarships. Ramps and special toilets have been constructed for the students with physical disabilities. A full-fledged doctor, a qualified nurse and a two bed clinic, and a van meet the emergency medical needs of those living in the campus. Chettinad Medical college Hospitals always extend a helping hand to SSNites. 171 The institute though admits students under NRI and PIO quota as permitted by the Government, it does not admit other over seas students. Though the college as such is not conducting coaching classes for competitive examinations, a group of students with the help of Alumni of SSN do conduct such classes for GATE, TOEFL and TNPSC examinations on their own. When they want class rooms, SSN provides them free of rent. Special classes for the needy in English and Foreign languages are conducted. Special coaching classes in the regular subjects are also conducted during evenings for the benefit of rural, lateral entry and vocational stream students. It is the policy of the Institution that good innovative ideas come from a free mind. This is best achieved by making them participate in as many extra curricular activities as the student desires. To facilitate this, we have several clubs like elocution club, quiz club, music club and fine arts club in which students eagerly participate irrespective of region, board, language, sex or community. Special classes are conducted for slow learners during the First and second semesters, as mentioned earlier. During third semester, special classes are conducted for lateral entry students, specifically in Mathematics and English communication. During the first year, to facilitate Tamil medium students, special classes are conducted, after college hours to remove the inhibitions they might have, to attend classes conducted in English, irrespective of the communal status. A qualified psychiatrist student counsellor, available in the campus, freely mingles with students to gain their confidence, identifies and mentors students with depression, psychological problems and even gender related issues. A team of faculty with a lady faculty as Chairperson is available, to deal with cases of sexual harassment within the campus. It is happy to note that, so far, there was no need for a meeting of that team, for good. Each major department publishes a quarterly magazine, to high light the activities of the departments. It also encourages the students to exhibit their literary, scientific achievements and artistic talents. 5.1.5 Describe the efforts made by the institution to facilitate entrepreneurial skills, among the students and the impact of the efforts. The institute has set up an Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) on campus. EDC is purely a student run body and encourages entrepreneurial spirit by organizing B Plan contests, events and talks by entrepreneurs. 172 The institute has also entered into an MoU with Ministry of MSME to set up an incubation centre and provide funding opportunities to emerging entrepreneurs in the MSME space 5.1.6 Enumerate the policies and strategies of the institution which promote participation of students in extracurricular and cocurricular activities such as sports, games, Quiz competitions, debate and discussions, cultural activities, etc. SSN offers good facilities for sports. There are gyms and playing areas for various sports. Dedicated coaches at the sports centre help students fine tune their games. Sports tournaments are organized and students participate in tournaments in other states and cities. Sports uniforms are sponsored either by management or other industry organizations. Management funds students to conduct technical and cultural festivals. Students are encouraged to participate in cultural fests in other colleges. Additional academic support is reported earlier. University does not permit flexibility in examinations except permitted withdrawals due to illness / accidents. Special diet is available to the needy in the hostels. 5.1.7 Enumerating on the support and guidance provided to the students in preparing for the competitive exams, give details on the number of students appeared and qualified in various competitive exams such as UGC-CSIR- NET, UGC-NET, SLET, ATE / CAT / GRE / TOFEL / GMAT / Central /State services, Defense, Civil Services, etc. Career Development Cell of the institute organizes talks and events by experts from industry from various fields. It also ensures that various external agencies conduct classes on campus to train students on GRE/GMAT, GATE, IAS, TNPS examinations etc. Officers from defense services address students. Also, experts from foreign universities address the students on nuances of studying abroad from time to time. 5.1.8 What type of counselling services are made available to the students A qualified psychiatrist student counsellor, available in the campus, freely mingles with students to gain their confidence, identifies and mentors students with depression, psychological problems and even gender related issues. A team of faculty is available, to deal with cases of sexual harassment within the campus. It is happy to note that so far there was no need for a meeting of that team, for good. 173 5.1.9 Does the institution have a structured mechanism for career guidance and placement of its students? If ‘yes’, detail on the services provided to help students identify job opportunities and prepare themselves for interview and the percentage of students selected during campus interviews by different employers. Placement training is given to all students during their Third year, during the college hours, allotting two hours a week in the time table itself, using external trainers. The success of the training is reflected in the number of companies visiting the campus for placement. The companies which have visited the campus, the programmes and the percentage of students who were placed during the previous four years are shown in the following Table: Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Year Companies visited 2011-12 Ascendant Technologies Ashok Leyland Ltd Ebay Paypal Ltd Global Scholar Honda Ltd Lister Technologies Rane group of Companies Thought Works Technologies UCAL Fuel Systems Hyundai Motors Sundaram Fasteners Cognizant Technologies Infosys HCL Technologies Wipro Technologies Exeter Group of Company TATA Elxsi Ltd Sanmar Group of Company Flextronics Verizon Data Services Ltd Microsoft HCL Infosystems Ford Motors India Beroe Inc 174 Eligible Programmes B.E./B.Tech. B.E B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E B.E./B.Tech. B.E B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. % of students placed 93.04% 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 L & T ECC Division Ford Technology Services India KLA Tencor Corporation FL Smidth Mu Sigma Shriram EPC India Ltd Briosys Hinduja Foundaries Ltd Amararaja Bateries Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd Hyderabad Industries IGATE Patni Brakes India Ltd Rajsree Sugars & Chemicals Saint Gobain Petrofac Engineering Ltd Robert bosch Archean Chemical Ltd Visteon Technical & Services Centre Pvt. Ltd. RBS Business Solutions Ltd Temenos India Daimler Benz India M. H. Alshaya Company W. L. L. Retail Division, Kuwait. Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India Pvt. Ltd. WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Real Image Media Cognizant HCL Tech Shiksha Edu Tech Axis Bank HCL Infosystems Beroe Coca-Cola GSK Sundaram Fasteners ITC(Through Naukri) Secova BNP Paribas Security Services Ltd. Aspire Systems Club Mahindra Visual Bis Alletech 175 B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.Tech B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA 75% 68 69 70 71 72 73 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Shriram Transport Finance Sundaram Business Services ISEO Systems Get it info Services TI Diamond TCS 2012-13 Thought Works Technologies Ltd Arabian Industries LLC (New) Ashok Leyland Ltd Lister Technology Ltd Athena Health Technology Ltd Zoho Corporation Ltd (New) Ascendant Technology Hospira (New) Ericson India Global Service Ltd (New) Intix Internet (Pvt) Ltd (New) Microsoft India, India Development Centre, Hyderabad (New) Renault Nissan Tech & Business Centre India Pvt. Ltd. Rane Group of Company Exeter group of company Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Mumbai.(New) Sanmar Engineering Technology (ENG.DIV) Sanmar Engineering Technology (Foundry.DIV) Chemplast Sanmar Ltd (Chemical Div) Ford Motors India. Ford Technology Services India. Larsen & Toubro Ltd - ECC Division Global Analytics India (New) Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd. Infosys Ltd HCL Technology Ltd Intergraph Consulting Ltd (New) Tata Elxsi Ltd Petrofac Engineering Ltd Flextronics MU Sigma Madras Cement (New) Fuji Xerox (New) 176 MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. / B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / 90.16% 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 Technip India (New) Enzen Global Solution Ltd (New) Computer Science Corporation Siva Group (New) L&T Valdel Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. (New) Zifo Technology, Chennai (New) Temenos (New) Asahi India Glass Ltd, Gurgaon. (New) Health Mantra India Ltd, Bangalore (BME) NTT DATA GLOBAL DELIVERY SERVICES Ltd MYBOWERBIRD L&T Infotech, Mumbai. (New) (VLSI) Albatross Solutions Lucas TVS Ltd. (M.E. PED) Concentrix Global English Composite Pipe Industries LLC, Oman.(New) Saint Gobain Glass India Hyundai Motor India Engineering Pvt. Ltd, R & D, Hyderabad. PNB Paribas (New) Black N Green, Chennai. (New) Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. Hibrise Technologies Pvt. Ltd (New) Trimble Spime India Tech. Pvt. Ltd American Megatrends India Pvt. Ltd (AMI INDIA) Info Trellis, Chennai. Visteon Accenture Technologies Xitadel Lucid Software Technologies IBM, Bangalore City Union Bank L & T Infotech Zoho GSK One Globe Systems Janalakshmi Finance Services Vista Soft ITC Covenant India Shriram Capital 177 M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. M.E B.E. M.E B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA 73.4% 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 HCL Tech Sundaram Fasteners TCS Loyal Textile Mills Smartmegh Solutions Kaleesuwari Aspire Systems Coca Cola Sinto Bharath Madras Cements X Code BNY Mellon Axis Bank Eurocon Tiles Butterfly Appliances TNQ Books & Journals Tring Apps Karya Technologies Trans Learn Solutions Kumaran Systems Real Image Media Auro Media Systech Solutions 99 Acres Enzotech 2013-14 Amazon.Com The Elitists Thought Works Technologies Ltd Mu Sigma Zoho Corporation Ltd Latent View Analytics Lister Technology Ltd ITC Paper Board & Speciality Paper Division Multicoreware, Chennai Dell India R&D Ascendant Technology Loyal Textiles Danfoss India. Info Trellis India Indian Navy Wipro Technology Cognizant Technology Trimble Information Technologies 178 MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. / M.E B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. 90.01% 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 India Pvt. Ltd L&T ECC Infosys Technology Ashok Leyland Ltd Microchip, Chennai. Unisys India Pvt. Ltd. Sanmar Engineering Technology (Eng. Div) Sanmar Engineering Technology (Foundry. Div) Chemplast Sanmar Ltd (Chemical Div) Ford Motors India Ford Business Services Centre Pvt. Ltd. Ford Technologies Services India (FTSI) Zifo Technology Indix India Ltd, Chennai. Fuji Xerox, Japan Hibrise Technology Polaris Financial Technology Ltd Verizon Data Service India Pvt. Ltd. Mobius Knowledge Services Datacert Sundaram Clayton Prodapt Solutions India Property Online Pvt. Ltd. Zoho Corporation - Developing & Content Writer Division Precision Equipment Pvt. Ltd, Chennai. Flextronics India Ltd Sonata Software India Ltd Godrej And Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. Visteon Technical & Services Centre BNP Paribas India Solutions Intergraphs Solution Ltd IBM, Bangalore. Alcatel Lucent Saint-Gobain Glass India Asahi Glass India. Ba Continuum India Pvt. Ltd. Technip India Pvt. Ltd. 179 B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. 55 56 57 58 59 60 Computer Science Corporation Athena Health Technologies, Chennai. Kone Elevator India Pvt. Ltd. Citrisys Solutions Tata Consultancy Services 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 Rane Group Of Companies, Chennai. Shasun Pharmaceuticals Ltd Coding Mart Technologies, Chennai. Saipem India. Samsung Research India. Bangalore. Cofrugal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Igate Global Solutions Ltd, Bangalore. Health Mantra, Bangalore. Practo Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Excelacom Technologies Saint-Gobain (Adhesive Division) Tata Communications L&T - Powai, Mumbai. Nokia Software Solutions Sinto Bharat, Chennai. Tata Elxsi Ltd Indiapiston, Chengalpat. Archean Groups Ebay Paypal Vvdn Technologies, Chennai. Parry Agro Industries (Murugappa Group) Samsung Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. HCL Infosystems Indus Ind Bank ING Vysya Bank HCL Technologies CTS Naukri.com Janalakshmi Finance Services TCS GRE Edge Videocon 99 acres.com GATI India RBS Citi Bank Latent View TTK Prestige ITC Hotels Smartmegh Consultants 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 L & T Infotech 180 B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA 66.6% 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 1 2 Karya Technologies Justdial ICICI Securities Vodafone Axis Bank Echo VME KVN Promo Aspire Systems Akzo Nobel Shiksha.com 2014-15 Amazon.com 3 4 Mu Sigma 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Zoho Corporation Vembu Technology Ascendant Technology L&T ECC Division Success Factors Latent View Analytical Lister Technology Fidelity India, Bangalore Vulcan Technology, Chennai ITC Paper Board Division Polaris FT Thoughtwokrks Technology Accenture Technology Cognizant Technology Infosys Technology 18 19 20 Wipro Technology Bosch Ltd 21 22 23 24 25 Temenos Aspire Systems Infotrellis TATA Communications 26 27 Tech Mahendra Ltd Multicoreware Technology L&T Infotech Ltd Verizon 181 MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. 91.35% 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 Prodapt Solutions Ltd Excellacom Daimler India Commercial Vehciles Pvt. Ltd Thorogood, Banglore. Fuji Xerox, Japan. HP R&D, Banglore. Danfoss India Datacert India, Chennai. Intergraph, Hyderabad. Sundaram Fasteners Sanmar Engineering Division Sanmar Chemplast Wipro Global Infrastructure Services Saint-Gobain India, Chennai. BA Continuum India Ford Technologies Service India. Ford Motors Caterpillar India Pvt. Ltd. Computer Science Corporation Ltd Mobius Knowledge Services Evive Software Pvt. Ltd. HCL Technologies Ltd. Petrofac Engineering Services India Pvt. Ltd. Astra Zeneca Ashok Leyland Ltd. Microchip India TATA Elxsi Global Analytics NMSworks Software Pvt. Ltd. GlobalSoft Solutions ideas2it Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Technip Flextronics Lucid software India, Chennai. CaratLane, Chennai. Rane Groups, Chennai. Shriram Transport & Finance Ltd. Karya Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Oracle India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad. Visa Inc, Bangalore. Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd. 182 B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. 69 70 71 72 73 Plintron India, Chennai. Bonfigiloli Transmissions Pvt. Ltd. Manali Petro Chemicals Ltd. Fesh Desk 74 Symantec Software and Services India Pvt. Ltd, 75 76 77 78 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 Enmas GB Power Systems Project Ltd. Turbo Energy Ltd. Sellerworx SAP Labs India Ltd, Bangalore. Cloudcherry Analytics Pvt. Ltd, Chennai. Hyundai Motor India Ltd. TransSys Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Sunoida Solutions Pvt. Ltd. HCL Technologies Smartmegh Consultants Axis Bank BNP Paribas HCL Infosystems CTS Aditya Birla Insurance Kotak Mahindra Bank Sensiple Software GRE Edge TCS ICICI Securities ITC Cerebrus Consultants Hexaware Technologies ING Vysya HDFC Mutual Fund Titan AMUL India Magicbricks.com Hitachi Turbo Energy Bhartiya Fashions Dell India Janalakshmi Financial Services IndusInd Bank Credit Mantri Idea Cellular Preethi Kitchen Appliances Audi Cars 183 B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E./B.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. / M.E./M.Tech. B.E. B.E./B.Tech. MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA MBA 80% 114 115 116 SRF Ltd. Vodafone Reliance Communication MBA MBA MBA 5.1.10 Does the institution have a student grievance redressal cell? If yes, list (if any) the grievances reported and redressed during the last four years. Yes. Please refer to Section 2.5.7. 5.1.11 What are the institutional provisions for resolving issues pertaining to sexual harassment? A qualified psychiatrist student counsellor, available in the campus, freely mingles with students to gain their confidence, identifies and mentors students with depression, psychological problems and even gender related issues. A team of faculty with a lady faculty as Chairperson is available, to deal with cases of sexual harassment within the campus. It is happy to note that so far there was no need for a meeting of that team, for good. 5.1.12 Is there an anti-ragging committee? How many instances (if any) have been reported during the last four years and what action has been taken on these? Anti ragging committee is functioning as directed by the Affiliating University. 5.1.13 Enumerate the welfare schemes made available to students by the institution. Scholarships are one of the key areas providing for students welfare. Students are offered scholarships in various categories such as Merit, Meritcum-Means, Rural Scholarships, Walk-in Walk-out out scholarships etc. Students availing rural scholarships are offered free education alongwith material support such as laptops and additional training and mentoring. 5.1.14 Does the institution have a registered Alumni Association? If ‘yes’, what are its activities and major contributions for institutional, academic and infrastructure development? Institute has an Alumni Association with chapters in different parts of India, Europe and Asia. The institute is currently under process of registering the Association. The alumni meet twice a year; once in campus on every first Saturday of January. The alumni contribute in research by sponsoring student projects in 184 placements by providing contacts and training to the current students, through scholarships- have provided Rs. 11 Lakh worth of scholarships in 2015 and by sponsoring research labs-having contributed Rs. 11 Lakh towards lab facilities. The alumni studying abroad also help in linkages in research with faculty of Universities abroad. 5.2 Student Progression 5.2.1 Progressing to higher education or employment Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 Progression as a percentage during 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Given for the respective departments NA Details of Progression UG to PG PG to Ph.D. Employed through Campus Recruitment Employed other than Campus recruitment 93.04 90.16 90.01 91.65 NA 5.2.2 Programme wise progression of students over a period of 4 years, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sl. No. Year of Entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 124 120+22 123+24 124+20 121+24 116+16 120+11 110+17 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 110 113 118 113 114 117 117 102 102 124 117 126 112 114 114 114 119 112 104 117 112 135 141 131 130 116 Department of Electronics and Communication Sl. No. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1styr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2ndyr 1 2 3 4 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 120 120+20 120+20 120+27 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 113 115 128 105 109 105 106 113 118 139 185 5 6 7 8 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 120+25 120+9 120+9 120+11 111 108 105 128 105 104 112 119 100 95 117 121 134 120 121 125 Department of Computer Science Engineering Sl. No. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 120 1 120+25 120+29 120+29 120+12 120+12 120+12 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 101 102 121 104 106 98 98 108 102 121 105 105 98 115 120 121 110 112 107 109 120 121 129 118 118 126 Department of Information Technology Sl. No. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 120 120+14 120+23 120+28 120+29 120+12 120+11 120+11 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 100 110 108 115 104 101 100 115 105 106 87 97 108 91 125 117 106 110 103 Q 102 121 139 130 114 117 123 Department of Chemical Engineering Sl. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 64 63+7 61+6 61+6 31+4 26+3 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 62 54 57 52+6 22+4 23+3 58 61 61 30 19 62 64 35 25 64 36 27 186 7. 8. 2008-09 2007-08 29+2 28+1 25+2 28+1 29 29 29 29 28 29 Department of Bio Medical Engineering Sl. No. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 60 60+4 60+7 60+6 60+7 60+2 60 60 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 44 55 52 47 39 46 51 50 48 49 36 47 39 34 43 56 61 54 51 50 59 56 65 60 57 62 Department of Mechanical Engineering Sl. No Year of entry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 122 + 23 = 145 120 + 23 = 143 126 + 23 = 149 125 + 20 = 145 63 + 10 = 73 60 + 7 = 67 60 + 5 = 65 56 + 8 = 64 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year 116 113 119 106 50 46 50 50 126 126 123 56 54 51 58 133 132 62 58 58 58 Fourth Year 142 70 66 62 64 Department of Civil Engineering Sl. No. Year of entry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 No. of Students admitted in 1st yr + those admitted thro’ Lateral entry in 2nd yr 63 + 09 63 + 10 63 +11 62 + 08 Number of Students who have successfully completed First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year 54 57 52 53 55 55 62 57 62 69 187 School of Management Sl. No. Year of entry No. of Students admitted in 1st yr 1 2 3 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 111 119 108 Number of Students who have successfully completed 1st Yr 2nd Yr. 3rd Yr. 4th Yr. 95 52 80 113 98 Not Applicable 5.2.3 How does the institution facilitate student progression to higher level of education and / or towards employment? The Career Development Cell helps students towards employment by guiding them based on their aptitude, attitude and interest. Students are also given counseling by faculty members on higher education, and facilities are made available to them in terms of expert talks and coaching classes to take the best decision toward their future objectives. 5.2.4 Support provided by the Institution for slow learners Special classes are conducted for slow learners during the first and second semesters, as mentioned earlier. During third semester, special classes are conducted for Lateral entry students, specifically in Mathematics and English communication skills. 5.3 Student participation and activities 5.3.1 List the range of sports, games, cultural and other extracurricular activities available to students. Provide details of participation and program calendar. & 5.3.2 Furnish the details of major student achievements in cocurricular, extracurricular and cultural activities at different levels: University / State / Zonal / National / International, etc. for the previous four years. Student participation and Activities A. Sports: Excellent facilities are available in the college for sports as listed below: 1. Cricket ground of International standard with pavilion. 2. Indoor sports complex with facilities for a. Basketball b. Squash courts – 2 Nos. c. A Hall for indoor games such as chess, caroms & Table tennis d. Badminton court – 2Nos. 3. Tennis courts with synthetic flooring - 2 Nos. 4. A 400m standard track 188 5. Provision for net practice 6. Basketball courts – 2 Nos. 7. Volleyball courts – 2 Nos. 8. Separate indoor fitness centres for both boys and girls 9. Football court The Table below gives the list of Individual and Team event achievers of the college in various sports events held during the year 2014-15 Academic Name of The Event Position Type of Event Year 2014-15 I. Gokulalakshmi, III B.E. (ECE) International (Individual and B.V.Ramya Tulasi (II year Achievements) Civil) have participated in the International Badminton coaching camp held at Malaysia organized by New Vision Badminton Academy, Kuala Lumpur. R.Sharmila, II B. Tech. (IT) has International participated in the National Women under-18 basketball coaching camp held at Aurangabad for 23rd FIBA Asian U-18 Championship P.S. Nirmalkumar, IV B. Tech. International (IT) has played the VIZZY Trophy organized by BCCI held at Mumbai. M.R. Prahalad, II B.E. (EEE) has National represented the Tamil Nadu state under - 19 cricket team and participated in the Cooch Behar Cricket Trophy organized by BCCI. R. Bharathi, IV B.E. (ECE) has III National participated in the National women team chess championship representing Airport Authority of India R.Sharmila, II B. Tech. (IT) has National represented the Tamil Nadu State Junior basketball team in the 65th National basketball championship held at Ernakulam, Kerala. D.Sammerakumar, III B.E. III National (Mech.) has participated in the Inter FCI Institution Table Tennis 189 2014-15 (Team Achievement Championship held at Pune and he secured bronze medal in the individual event. K.Devi Rajalakshmi, I B.E. (ECE) has represented the Tamil Nadu state women basketball team in the 35th National games. B.V.Ramya Tulasi, II B. Tech. (IT) has participated in the National senior Badminton ranking tournament held at Hyderabad. SPORTS FEST organized by VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, Tennis, Badminton & Chess–Men. SPREE Organized by BITS, GOA Badminton (M), Tennis (M) & Table Tennis (M). REVELS CUP Organized by MIT, Manipal. Athletics (W), Cricket (M) & Badminton (W). KL TROPHY organized by KL University. Badminton(M) & Table Tennis(M). RIVIERA organized by VIT Vellore. Badminton ( M&W). Colloseum 2015 organized by SASTRA University Chess (M), Tennis (M), Badminton (M) & T.T (M&W) TIES-2015 – Over all Position in games and athletics. AC Muttaiah Rolling Cricket Trophy organized by SVCE. MGR Cricket Trophy organized by Sathyabama University. II National I National I National I National I National I National I National I State II State I State I State B. Extracurricular activities Students are encouraged to participate in as many events as per their interest, so that they can shed all their inhibitions and will bring in a sense of 190 camaraderie and increase their attachment to the Institute. We have essentially the following clubs, which are active: a. English Literary club b. Oratory club c. Quiz club d. Fine Arts club involving Dance, Music and Painting e. Tamil Mandram The following list gives the names of achievers during the events held in 2014-15. Co-curricular Activities for the academic year 2014-15 Dance Club of SSN, the N2K • • • • • • • • First place at Ignite, Loyola College First place at Nakshatra, Vels Institutions Second place at, IIT Saarang’s Choreo-nite First place in RAPTURE conducted by MNM Jain Engineering College First place at Annai Velankanni College Fest Second place in SPECTRUM conducted by National Institute of Fashion Technology Second place in DEEPWOODS conducted by Madras Christian College, Chennai Third place and special mention in FESTIVE 2015 conducted by Woman’s Christian College, Chennai, SRISHTI conducted by Ethiraj College for Women, MITAFEST conducted by MIT, Chennai Theatrical Club - Lights Out Please. • • • In association with Crea Shakti, they have staged 4 public shows. They have also been placed first in IIT Saarang Theatricals and in Dramalog conducted by Gothe Institute. Second place in FESTEMBER 2015- for the play “Wisdom of Solomon”, adapted to stage by scriptwriters, Sreenivas.V and Mira of third year. The English Literary Club (ELC) Literary club has been one of the most active groups. They have been the winners of various literary events like debate, shipwreck, JAM and creative writing conducted by prestigious institutions like CEG, NIT and IITM. Saaral Tamil Mandram • In NIT Trichy’s Festember and IIT’s Saarang, their street play bagged the fifth place. 191 SSN Photography& Film Club • 15 short films have been directed in a span of one year by SSNites. • Whatsapp Kadhal, directed by Pradheep, got the Best Short Film Award in IIT Saarang, NIT Festember and became sensational on YouTube with over 4 Lakh views. SSN Quiz Club Q ! • 1st place at the MOP JIF Quiz, • 1st place in Techofes India Quiz and IFMR Biz Quiz. SSN MUN (Model United Nations) • MOP MUN Delegates from SSN won laurels and swept the awards at the following MUNs 2015. Young Leaders Conference 2015, SRM MUN 2015, VIT Chennai MUN 2015, St. Joseph’s MUN • Vishal Vasanth, was invited to be part of the Executive Board at London International MUN • SSN bagged the best delegation awards at HYLC 2015 and SRM MUN 2015 • Mr. Jerry Thomas, IV B.E. (ECE) has been selected as one of the top three winners (from 566 essays in a competition from all over the country) in Climate Change organised by the European Union and The Hindu. He will be sent on a study tour to Europe in June next year. C. Societal activities: We have an NSS cell and a YRC cell, which, under the guidance of two faculty members as coordinators, are fully involved in social activities; Our NSS team has won the best NSS team, best NSS volunteer and best NSS coordinator awards from the Anna University. In addition, the cell organized several rallies creating awareness for wearing helmet, need to vote, need for women’s education, awareness rallies to bring to the fore evils of alcohol, evils of use of tobacco etc. About 3000 of our students painted their palms with the logo against the use of tobacco, on a day and this has earned an entry in the Guinness Book of world records. The activities of the students in the above units during 2014-15 are given below: National Service Scheme – 2014 -2015 No. of Sl. Name of the Event Date Venue Volunteers No. participated th 1 NSS Orientation 9 Sep. College campus 200 2014 2 Datri Stem cell 25th& 26th College campus 25 192 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 drive Dengue Awareness Programme Samudhay – village survey Election Awareness campus ambassador training Eureka – child run Youth Day Meet Group Discussion on Service Through NSS Lecture on eGovernance Organic Village visit Thai Manne Vanakkam NSS orientation to Volunteers GD on “Are we Water Conscious” Orphanage Visit GD on “Feminism is…” Conference on Volunteerism IIT Madras Open House ECO Walk Sep. 2014 27th Sep. 2014 12th Oct. 2014 14th Oct. 2014 College Campus 120 Poondi & Mullipakkam Village Chengalpattu 50 2 16th Nov. 2014 th 7 Jan 2015 Marina Beach 50 Vel’s Univeristy 15 19th Jan 2015 College Campus 45 29th Jan 2015 7th Feb 2015 College Campus Vengambakkam 35 57 21st March College Campus 2015 26th& 27th PA College of Engg. March 2015 & Technology 30th March College Campus 2015 4th April Good Life center 2015 Tambaram th 9 April College campus 2015 12th April IIT Madras 2015 18th April IIT Madras 2015 19th April Nagalapuram, 2015 Andhra Pradesh 50 5 50 15 54 4 10 25 YRC Activities for the year 2014-15: • Campus Clean Up to create awareness on proper collection of garbage which will aid proper disposal.(15 July, 2014) • Blood Donation Camp in association with Association of Voluntary Blood Donors, Tamil Nadu (1 August, 2014) • Thyroid screening camp (2 August, 2014) • Stem Cell donation organized with Datri (25 September, 2014) 193 • • • • • • In association with Ekam (NGO), cleaned up both in-patient and outpatient wards of Childrens’ Hospital, Egmore as part of Joy of Giving week (6 October, 2014) Annual three day village camp at Alathur (4-6 February, 2015) Campus Clean Up (31 March, 2015) Visited the orphanage, Arul Illam near Kolapakkam and donated to the inmates of the orphanage, dresses, stationery items and food materials. (25 April, 2015) Visited the orphanage, Arul Illam and taught subjects like Science and Mathematics to the 10th standard students. (13 April, 2015). Visit to Goonj (NGO) as part of Joy of Giving Week. D. Other Activities: To infuse the entrepreneurial spirit among students, a one day workshop is conducted by Entrepreneur Development Cell, every year, where the students exhibit their marketing skills by selling a product specified by the team, by advertisement, slogans, organizing events etc. on a specified day. The best seller gets a prize. A model United Nations meeting (MUN) is held with participation from several colleges in and around SSN, which received appreciation from the media. An annual event that students eagerly look for, is INSTINCTS, meant to make a forum for other colleges to present their histrionic talents, SSN being the host. There are as many as 20000 footfalls during this three day event. 5.3.3 How does the college seek and use data and feedback from its graduates and employers, to improve the performance and quality of the institutional provisions? Feedback is taken from the company executives who come to recruit the students on the performance of the past students. Placement cell works closely with industry and participates in industry interaction programs to gather this information. The institute regularly interacts with the Alumni to benchmark best practices and implement them wherever necessary. 5.3.4 How does the college involve and encourage students to publish materials like catalogues, wall magazines, college magazine, and other material? List the publications/ materials brought out by the students during the previous four academic sessions. Students of all departments publish a quarterly magazine detailing the activities of the department and other news items relevant to their areas. 194 The following are the magazines published by the Institute and the departments: 1. Vibrations – Institute 2. Redeem – EEE 3. Impulse – ECE 4. Smriti – CSE 5. IdentITy– IT 6. Synergy – BME 7. Spark – Chemical 8. Aspire – Mechanical 9. CivicZone - Civil The Institute magazine “Vibrations” is published quarterly in printed version, and the department magazines are uploaded in the college intranet. 5.3.5 Does the college have a Student Council or any similar body? Give details on its selection, constitution, activities and funding. The college does not have a student council, but there are societies / clubs the heads of which are part of the council which oversee all the cultural activities at SSN. Similarly, the heads of the technical clubs are responsible for all technical activities at SSN. 5.3.6 Give details of various academic and administrative bodies that have student representatives on them. Every class has a class committee which consists of the students and faculty members. Class committee sets the rules and the regulations for the class behavior. It serves as the voice of the students in front of faculty and has a say in academic matters such as conduct of tests and so on. The class committee meets twice a semester. The Institution also provides avenues for the development of technical skills, updating knowledge, personality development and service to the society through various technical associations / societies. • • • • • • • • Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (AEEE) Association of Electronics and Communication Engineers (AECE) Association of Computer Engineers (ACE) Association of Information Technologists (AIT) Association of Chemical Engineers (ACE) Association of Biomedical Engineers (ABE) Association of Mechanical Engineers (AME) The Student Branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) 195 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Association of civil Engineers (ACE-CIVIL) Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) IETE Student Forum Student Chapter of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Society of India (CSI) Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) National Service Scheme (NSS) Youth Red Cross (YRC) Tamil Mandram English Literary Club (ELC) Fine Arts Club Music Club Dance Club Drama Club Photography Club Management Association Rotaract Students’ Chapter Electrical Research Fraternity (ERF) 5.3.7 How does the institution network and collaborate with the Alumni and former faculty of the Institution? The institute has a very active alumni cell with a full-fledged Alumni Officer. The institute has Alumni chapters in US, Chennai, Europe, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other locations. The office bearers of the chapters meet twice a year. On every first Saturday of January, the alumni meet called ‘Tribute’ is organized in Chennai at SSN campus, and on every first Saturday of Feburary, the alumni meet is organized in US. CRITERION VI: GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 6.1 Institutional Vision and Leadership 6.1.1 The Vision and Mission statements of the Institution are: Vision Statement To be a world-class institution for technical education and scientific research for the public good. 196 Mission Statement SSN will strive continuously to Make a positive difference to the society through education Empower students from all socio-economic strata Be a centre of excellence in education in emerging technologies in accordance with the industry and industrial trends Build world class research capabilities on par with the finest in the world and broaden students' horizons beyond classroom education Nurture talents & entrepreneurship and enable all-round personality development of students The Trust: The SSN Trust was founded in 1994 by Dr. Shiv Nadar, Chairman, HCL Technologies and (Late) Justice Pratap Singh, a legal luminary and judge of the Madras High Court. The Trust has established SSN College of Engineering in 1996 and the SSN School of Management in 1998. The SSN Institutions are managed by a Board of Management, comprising: 1. Dr. Shiv Nadar, Founder, SSN Trust 2. Mr. R. Srinivasan, Director and CEO, Redington Ltd., Global Management and Business Leader Chairman Ms. Roshini Nadar Malhotra, Trustee, SSN Trust Member Mr. T.S. Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner Member 5. Dr. M.S. Ananth, Former Director, IIT-Madras Member 6. Mr. Subbiah Nagarajan, Senior Advisor, Daimler India Commercial Vehicle Member Mr. Sriram Rajagopal, Vice President, Human Resources, Cognizant Member Mr. P. Sivaprasad, Advocate, Madras High Court Member Ms. Kala Vijayakumar, President, SSN Institutions Member Secretary 3. 4. 7. 8. 9. Permanent Special Invitee SSNCE has the legacy of having Dr. Shiv Nadar, a beacon in IT industry, and an embodiment of Philanthropy, guiding the college. The Board of Management meets at least twice a year to take stock of the current situation 197 and progress made and makes policy decisions to improve the functioning of the college to take it forward. To monitor and advice college on academic matters, the college has a Governing Council comprising educationists, meeting once a semester. The composition of the Governing Council is as follows: 1. Mr. Sivaprasad, Advocate, Madras High Court Chairman 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ms. Kala Vijayakumar, President, SSN Institutions Member Mr. K. Ananthakrishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Member Dr. P. Swaminathan, (Formerly) Scientist, IGCAR Member Dr. V. Sankaranarayanan, Dean, BS Abdur Rahman University Member Mr. R. Vaidyanadhan, (Retd.) HCL Technologies Member Nominee of Commissioner of Technical Education, Directorate of Technical Education, TN Member Nominee of AICTE SRO, Southern Region, AICTE Member Dr. S. Salivahanan, Principal SSN College of Engineering Member Secretary 6.1.2 What is the role of the top Management, Principal and Faculty in design and implementation of its quality policy and plans? The top management and the Principal ensure that the QMS committee carries out its objectives in an effective way. The QMS committee reports to the Principal of the college, and he and the top management review the activities of the QMS committee every quarter. 6.1.3 What is the involvement of the leadership in ensuring: • The policy statements and action plans for fulfillment of the stated mission • Formulation of action plans for all operations and incorporation of the same into the institutional strategic plan • Interaction with stakeholders 198 • • • Proper support for policy and planning through need analysis, research inputs and consultations with the stakeholders Reinforcing the culture of excellence Champion organizational change The Principal and the HoDs concerned take decisions in all academic matters. The President conducts periodic discussions with the faculty and students and offers them suggestions. She also discusses with the Principal, Chairman of the Board of Management on important matters related to the college functioning, and decision is taken by her through building consensus. Implementation is stressed by the leadership of the institution. Most rules and regulations are circulated among staff, and decision is taken only after a thorough discussion with the stakeholders. The final decision taken is circulated among all stakeholders for adoption. The discussions normally emanate from the faculty, in the faculty meeting with the HOD, then in the HoDs meeting with the Principal, and then with Principal and HoDs meeting with the President. Most of the information travel from bottom to top for approval by the Management, be it organising conferences, permitting a faculty to travel overseas for presenting a paper, etc. If it is negated, reasons are given for negation. If there is a common rule governing all concerned, it comes from top to bottom, that too after initiating the talk with the faculty or HoDs as it might concern. 6.1.4 What are the procedures adopted by the institution to monitor and evaluate policies and plans of the institution for effective implementation and improvement from time to time? Please refer to Section 6.1.3. 6.1.5 Give details of the academic leadership provided to the faculty by the top management? 5. 6. Dr. Shiv Nadar, CEO, Shiv Nadar Foundation, Mr. R. Srinivasan, Chairman, Board of Management of SSNCE are doyens of Management. Atleast one member of the Governing Council is in the Management Cadre of an industry. Their wise counsel is always available for any major decisions. 6.1.6 How does the college groom leadership at various levels? The college has identified the second rung of leadership, and these leaders are given opportunities by the management to develop their skills and competencies in leadership and groom their team. These leaders as a cohort attend leadership conclave of the parent body and undergo training and are 199 exposed to talks by motivational leaders as well as interact with other leaders of the organization. 6.1.7 How does the college delegate authority and provide operational autonomy to the departments / units of the institution and work towards decentralized governance system? The department heads have both academic and financial autonomy. HoDs and Principal are given imprest amount by the management so that they can use it for any expenditure in their department/institute and is replenished once a month. As far as academic aspects are concerned, the HoDs are permitted to take routine decisions in accordance with the situations in exigencies and get it ratified by the Principal later. 6.1.8 Does the college promote a culture of participative management? If ‘yes’, indicate the levels of participative management. Major decisions are usually taken after brainstorming and by consensus. Once a decision is taken, the implementation is done by a succession of officers / faculty. 6.2 Strategy development and deployment 6.2.1 Does the Institution have a formally stated quality policy? How is it developed, driven, deployed and reviewed? Quality Management System team consisting of faculty representatives is the prime body that develops, drives and deploys the quality policy. This is reviewed by the Top Leadership and Principal. The institute is ISO 9002 certified by TUV Nord, and it audits the quality annually. 6.2.2 Does the Institute have a perspective plan for development? If so, give the aspects considered for inclusion in the plan. Projections of the institute for 5 years are presented to the management for consideration, and it either approves or suggests modifications of the proposals. The institute has applied for a deemed University status to the UGC, and the UGC is yet to come for inspection. 6.2.3 Internal organization structure The organizational structure of the college is given below: 200 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE College Governing Council RAC Board of Management President Principal DEANs RS & RA HoDs Librarian Faculty Library Staff PED PO HR Counsellor Admin Staff Hostel Wardens HoC & F Maintenance Staff 201 AO FM 6.2.4 Give a broad description of the quality improvement strategies of the institution for each of the following Teaching & Learning, Research & Development, Community engagement, Human resource management and Industry interaction Of the five, Teaching Learning, Research and HR management are taken care of by QMS of ISO of the college. Teaching must culminate with good pass percentage, good placements, creation of start-ups and increased number of students opting for higher studies. R & D must result in earning projects and patents. HR management must ensure quality and motivate teachers. 6.2.5 How does the Head of the institution ensure that adequate information (from feedback and personal contacts etc.) is available for the top management and the stakeholders, to review the activities of the institution? All the departments share a monthly report covering all the activities of their departments with the Head of the Institutions which is then shared with the leadership. Quarterly reviews happen for all departments where they present their achievements and shortcomings to the Head of the Institution and the leadership. 6.2.6 How does the management encourage and support involvement of the staff in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the institutional processes? The President, the management representative, interacts with the faculty of each department in turns and gets to know the activities and their suggestions towards improvement of the processes. Joint brainstorming sessions are held once a month with all the Heads of the department. 6.2.7 Enumerate the resolutions made by the Management Council in the last year and the status of implementation of such resolutions. The following additional courses / increase in intake was approved by the Board of Management in the meeting held on 29.01.2015. Increase in intake: 1. Increase in intake from 120 to 180 in ECE 2. Increase in intake from 120 to 180 in CSE New Programs: 1. M.E. in Biometrics and Cyber Security with an intake of 18 2. M.E. in Power Systems Engineering with an intake of 18 202 Applications have been submitted to AICTE and Anna University for approval to start these programs from the academic year 2016 – 17. The Board of Management in its meeting held on 30.10.2015 approved to establish SSN Innovation Centre and sanctioned an amount of Rs.14 Lakh for the same. The work is in progress to establish Innovation Centre at SSN. 6.2.8 Does the affiliating university make a provision for according the status of autonomy to an affiliated institution? If ‘yes’, what are the efforts made by the institution in obtaining autonomy? Anna University to which the institute is affiliated has not been giving autonomy to any of the affiliating colleges till 2014. Post that it has informed that the institutes interested in getting autonomous status can apply for the same and SSN College has submitted its application which is under consideration. 6.2.9 How does the Institution ensure that grievances / complaints are promptly attended to and resolved effectively? Is there a mechanism to analyse the nature of grievances for promoting better stakeholder relationship? Grievances are strived to be resolved in the Class Committee meeting itself for the students. In addition, there is a Grievance Redressal Committee for students. The faculty can express his / her grievances to the HoD and then to the Principal. If it is not resolved he / she can refer to a committee comprising the Principal and other HoDs. 6.2.10 During the last four years, had there been any instances of court cases filed by and against the institute? Provide details on the issues and decisions of the courts on these? No. 6.2.11 Does the Institution have a mechanism for analyzing student feedback on institutional performance? If ‘yes’, what was the outcome and response of the institution to such an effort? Yes. The parent body, viz. Shiv Nadar Foundation commissions a perception survey from a reputed market research team which interacts with a wide cross section of students cutting across branches, years and genders and obtains feedback. This feedback is communicated to top leadership for requisite action. 203 6.3 Faculty Empowerment Strategies 6.3.1 What are the efforts made by the institution to enhance the professional development of its teaching and non teaching staff? At the time of the starting the college, a good number of faculty were raw graduates, and the Management took a wise decision to depute faculty to do their Masters programme either through part time or if not feasible, through full time. At a certain stage, everyone was an M.E. Then it thought of deputing faculty for doing Ph.D. and now over 60% of the faculty are with Ph.D. More than 110 faculty became research supervisors to guide the faculty who are yet to acquire the doctoral degree. Non-teaching staff are encouraged to acquire additional skills and qualifications. 6.3.2 What are the strategies adopted by the institution for faculty empowerment through training, retraining and motivating the employees for the roles and responsibility they perform? Faculty are encouraged to organize and attend national and international conferences. The SSN Trust provides funds as seed money to the faculty for their research activities. Study and recreational tours are organized for the faculty periodically. 6.3.3 Provide details on the performance appraisal system of the staff to evaluate and ensure that information on multiple activities is appropriately captured and considered for better appraisal. The Institute has arrived at a faculty appraisal methodology over a period of time. It comprises, a self assessment based on the work load, qualifications, pass percentage of the classes the incumbent has taught, research publications etc. Another section of assessment is done by the HoD, mostly relying on the faculty’s regularity, returning the test sheets in time, his research activities, his attitude to work as a team etc. and a third component by the Principal, counting mostly on his involvement in the development of the Institute. Obviously different weightages are given to each aspect. The form was discussed with the teaching faculty over many sittings, and the finality was reached. The marks obtained, together with the credit given by students through their feedback is considered during career advancement evaluation. Any negative indication is brought to the notice of the faculty, by the Principal, allowing him to mend himself. This is never used as a tool for penalizing the faculty, unless it is of serous nature, affecting the regulation of the institute. 204 6.3.4 What is the outcome of the review of the performance appraisal reports by the management and the major decisions taken? How are they communicated to the appropriate stakeholders? Please refer to Section 6.3.3. 6.3.5 What are the welfare schemes available for teaching and non teaching staff? What percentage of staff have availed the benefit of such schemes in the last four years? Teaching Staff: The following incentives help in improving the working ambience and academic acumen of the faculty • Incentive for publication of papers • Incentive for earning external funded projects • Incentive for guiding research • Incentive for organizing a National / International conference • Seed money for a prospective project, so that on fructification can be submitted to an external funding agency for funding • Incentive for a worthy innovative idea • Incentive for applying for / winning a patent • Travel Grant • Group Medical Insurance • Free Transport Non-Teaching Staff: • Education, support – sum of Rs. 7000 per child per year (Maximum two children) • Gift for marriage and new born baby • Diwali Bonus – Rs. 7000 every year • Twenty one days Earned leave for every year • Fee concession for the wards of staff members who secured admission in SSN institutions • Group Medical Insurance • Monthly Food allowance • Part time B.E./M.E. • Free Transport All the Non-teaching staff are availing the above listed benefits. 6.3.6 What are the measures taken by the Institution for attracting and retaining eminent faculty? The benefits listed above, with good academic ambience and freedom attract and retain eminent faculty to the institution. 205 6.4 Financial Management and Resource Mobilisation 6.4.1 What is the institutional mechanism to monitor effective and efficient use of available financial resources? Institution and its parent body employ a finance and accounting team through which all the expenses and use of financial resources are monitored by the leadership. As a second level of check the finance team of the parent body, viz. Shiv Nadar Foundation further monitors all transactions. 6.4.2 What are the institutional mechanisms for internal and external audit? When was the last audit done and what are the major audit objections? Provide the details on compliance. The institute has adequate mechanism for auditing by both internal and external auditors. The parent body of the institute publishes the audited financial account through an annual report which is in public domain. The last annual report was released in June 2015. 6.4.3 What are the major sources of institutional receipts/funding and how is the deficit managed? Provide audited income and expenditure statement of academic and administrative activities of the previous four years and the reserve fund/corpus available with Institutions, if any. 1. The Trust has provided initial funding during the formative years i.e. 1996-97 for the physical assets such as land, building, roads, equipment for the various departments, furniture, water supply and sanitation, power supply, computers and networking etc. Over a period of time, as and when programmes were added, the additional infrastructure necessary was also funded by the Trust. Loans also have been taken from the HCL Technologies, when necessary. As of now the only income to the college is by way of fees collected from the students. The major expenditure is for the salary and maintenance of the infrastructure. The college is not charging any capitation fee and hence, the budget will always be deficit. The audited income and expenditure statements for the four years 201112 to 2014-15 are given below: 206 207 208 209 210 211 6.5 INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM (IQAS) 6.5.1 Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) SSN has set up a Quality Management System for education and research. SSN is one of the early educational institutes to be certified by ISO 9000:1998 in the year 2000, and it is a pioneer in setting International Quality Standards in education and research. At present, SSN is certified by TUV India Limited (TUV Nord Group) with ISO 9001: 2008 Some of the quality initiatives by the institutions are highlighted below: • It has created a Repository of Academic Resources for innovative teaching methods and research contributions in the field of Science, Engineering, Technology and Management. • Improvement of credibility and image: This initiative has established premier position among all the stakeholders of the society. The college is now the first choice for all aspiring students and a quality resource bank for Employers. 212 • • • • • Improvement of customer satisfaction – One of the quality management principles of the ISO 9001 is to improve customer satisfaction by planning and striving to meet customer requirements. SSN has always strived for improving customer satisfaction. Better process integration – SSN has achieved overall process interactions through the process approach of ISO 9001. This initiative has resulted in improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of academic delivery system. Improved evidence based decision making – A management principle of ISO 9001 is the need to use evidence-based decision making. SSN has inculcated this culture among all internal stakeholders. Created a continual improvement culture – Continual improvement is another management principle of ISO 9001. SSN has adopted and integrated this culture to every quality system in the organization for improving processes and organizational output. Engagement of employees – SSN Employees are involved in the improvements of the processes they work with, and they are happier and more engaged employees. 6.5.2 Does the institution have an integrated framework for Quality assurance of the academic and administrative activities? If ‘yes’, give details on its operationalisation. Yes. Every department has at least one ISO Coordinator. Depending on the size and number of programs offered by the department, it has multiple coordinators. Apart from coordinators, each department has two qualified internal auditors. Auditors perform semi annual quality audits periodically and submit reports for continual improvements. All staff members are provided with orientation, and all staff members undergo periodical audit of their academic activities and administrative activities. 6.5.3 Does the institution provide training to its staff for effective implementation of the Quality assurance procedures? If ‘yes’, give details enumerating its impact. Yes. The college organizes training programme periodically for internal auditors and lead auditor by inviting ISO training experts and also by qualified internal auditors and Departmental Coordinators. 6.5.4 Does the institution undertake Academic Audit or other external review of the academic provisions? If ‘yes’, how are the outcomes used to improve the institutional activities? 213 The institute was inspected by a Peer Review committee comprising eminent academicians from all over the country led by Dr. R. Natarajan, former Chairman, AICTE. Its observations were made available to the top management as a review document. The college analyses the results of university examination after every semester and decides as to how best the percentage of result can be improved. This meeting is attended by the faculty of respective departments. For NBA, the college has conducted a mock accreditation drill to bring out any shortcomings in the process which has already been indicated so that a corrected version can be uploaded in the web. 6.5.5 How are the internal quality assurance mechanisms aligned with the requirements of the relevant external quality assurance agencies/regulatory authorities? Every year an audit is carried out by external auditors and internal audit is carried out once in six months. The observation, opportunity for improvement and non-conformity indicated by the auditors are rectified at the earliest. 6.5.6 What institutional mechanisms are in place to continuously review the teaching learning process? Give details of its structure, methodologies of operations and outcome? The academic Quality Management System team meets once a year to review the proper functioning of the teaching learning process. 6.5.7 How does the institution communicate its quality assurance policies, mechanisms and outcomes to the various internal and external stakeholders? Every department publishes a monthly magazine comprising the events in the department including conferences, research publications and visits of eminent scientists. This is electronically sent to all stakeholders namely teachers, students, alumni and industries for their perusal and comments if any. Chapter VII INNOVATION AND BEST PRACTICES 7.1 Environment Consciousness 7.1.1 Does the institute conduct a Green Audit of its campus and facilities? The institute has not conducted a Green Audit of its campus and facilities, per se. Nevertheless, it is conscious of the need for keeping the campus green and eco-friendly. The steps taken are: The virgin greenery of the campus is maintained. To compensate for the loss of greenery due to the built 214 up area, extensive green coverage has been created. The sewage is treated with a full fledged STP, and the treated water is extensively used to maintain the lawn and watering the trees. Periodical maintenance is done to the STP, so that it functions efficiently throughout the year without interruption. The rain water is diverted through wide green shallow channels spread over the entire campus which are connected to a pond located on the North East end of the campus, thus ensuring the conservation of rainwater. The college is about 5 km from the sea, and deep wells will result in saline water intrusion and hence, all the sixteen wells spread over the entire campus are shallow, not more than 10m deep. There is a network of well laid out lined channels, which, during heavy rains, discharge the surface water in to the nallah there by preventing flooding. The bank of solar panels located in the open terrace, is essentially used for research; yet, it is used to light partially the street lamps in the campus during nights. A wind mill is on the cards for erection, near the EEE block. The power position is rather bleak in the state; hence, we are left with no alternative other than relying on the diesel power for the effective running of the Institute. Perhaps, after commissioning of the second unit of IGCAR, the reliance on the DG sets may decrease. 7.1.2 What are the initiatives taken by the college to make the campus eco-friendly? The college periodically de-silts the two lakes on the sides of the campus, and annually cleans the feeder channels of the wild growth, thus maintaining the water body. The extensive growth of trees in the campus is ample proof of the intent of the Management to make the campus eco-friendly. The college periodically issues instructions to switch off the lights, fans and AC units when not in use, contributing to a certain extent for the conservation of energy. Vamasundari Park, over an area of three acres in the midst of the campus is a very good example for the attitude of the Institute to maintain the green cover in the campus. Hazardous materials/chemicals are not used in any of the laboratories. The e-waste is periodically segregated, collected and sent to Thirupporur Panchayat. The Panchayat collects the e-wastes from software companies, on payment basis and segregates and sent to some place for reclamation. 7.2 Innovations 7.2.1 Innovations introduced during the last four years Digital delivery of Courses All classrooms are digitally enabled, with dedicated laptop, projector and Wi-Fi connectivity. Most lectures are through power point presentations uploaded in Intranet and available for students at any point in time. 215 Beyond Syllabus Learning Beyond syllabus learning is encouraged through workshops, conferences and guest lectures. On an average, each department conducts one conference, five workshops and five guest lectures every year. Students get an exposure to external world and industry activity through these interventions. Research Orientation at UG level The Institution has a system of calling for proposals from students, evaluating them through external experts and then sanctioning funds for projects, if worthwhile. For example, in 2015 August, 132 projects have been sanctioned with a funding support of Rs.26 Lakh. This benefits 360 students guided by 86 faculty. Such a support has helped in creating a conducive atmosphere for research, leading to students publishing in International Journals of repute. Emphasis on Project Based Learning Several external trainers are brought in to expose students to Automotive and Robotics areas. This has resulted in our students fabricating their own cars for competitions like SUPRA, BAJA etc., conducted by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). As a highlight to all these achievements, the Management has decided to start an Innovation Club, guided by Prof. Idichandy of IIT Madras. Facilitation of Leadership Development Every year students are permitted to run a major cultural event called “INSTINCTS” and department level technical Symposiums. This exposes the students to event management and networking thereby, enabling Leadership Development. 4. BEST PRACTICES 1. TITLE OF THE PRACTICE (1) Usage of electronic media in (2) Early induction of a student into teaching & Learning: research. 2. GOAL This is being extensively used for The aim is to create a desire in the almost all the courses, so that the students to pursue research either as a student is able to understand the topic career or as a part of earning a better. research degree e.g. M.S. or Ph.D. The aim is to see that the student has a clear perception of what is being taught and he is able to pursue it on his own, based on the material provided by the instructor. 3. THE CONTEXT 216 The faculty teaching a subject splits the Over a period of a year, it is possible syllabus into convenient modules, so to identify a student, who has a that the prerequisites of one module research potential or ambition. have already been taught to the student During his second year, he can be earlier, and there is cogency. For each tagged on to a research scholar, who module, he/she prepares a set of is pursuing research i.e. Ph.D. to information, sketches, graphs etc. and assist him in Literature survey, uploads it in the intranet, which the formation of a circuit or fabrication of student can browse and see and an experimental set up, during his understand at his own pace and comes free time without detrimental to his prepared to the following class. The own studies. He will be asked to teacher elaborates the uploaded notes study, understand and reproduce in with illustrations or case studies or even his own words an already published videos, so that the topic gets embedded article. Thus he will get himself into the minds of the students. In involved into the nuances of research. addition, he gives a set of locations, where additional explanations are given or where information for further studies is available. http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/ PhyIntranet/PhyElearning http://www.ssn.net/twiki/bin/view/ EceIntranet/EceEngPhy-A-15 4. THE PRACTICE It has been made mandatory for the Encouragement is given to students to entire faculty to pursue, except for submit a project proposal, on an item those teaching subjects like he feels will qualify as a research Mathematics, Accounting, Ethics etc. topic or innovation, for funding by which need elaborate use of chalk and the Trust. A team of faculty talk. It is being overseen by the HoD scrutinizes the methodology and concerned. The students express their grants or suggests improvements for opinion either in the class committee funding. meetings or in their feedback on the teacher. 5. EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS The evidence of success is the The evidence of success is the percentage passes and the marks earned number of students, who choose in the subject over a period of say three research as a career, after graduation years. Number of Students who Sl. No. 1 Subject PH 2161 Pass percentages in the years 2012- 2013 201413 -14 15 98.33 98.00 98.00 217 Sl. Bran No. ch have opted for research as a career after completing their degree in the year 2012- 20132014-15 13 14 Engineering Physics II 1 2 3 4 EEE ECE CSE BME 1 2 1 1 2 4 2 - 4 5 2 1 6. PROBLEMS ENCONTERED AND RESOURCES REQUIRED In this age of Internet and mobiles usurping The continuous engagement of the all the time of the student, it is rather student with his own programme difficult to make him go through the pre and the lack of time, normally class material posted in the intranet prior to prevents him to take a serious look the class. Except for the unit test spread at research, even during his free over a period of 90 days, it is difficult to time. test the class, on a specific topic. The college being an affiliating one, the pattern of question paper, of which the student is more concerned, is not eliciting the knowledge but ability to reproduce and the teacher has no say in this. Over a period of time it will certainly change. 8. CONTACT DETAILS Name of the Principal : S. Salivahanan Work Phone : 044-27469700 Name of the Institution : Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engg. Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR) Kalavakkam – 603110, Tamil Nadu Web Site : www.ssn.edu.in City: Kalavakkam : Mobile: 09444189433 Pin Code : 603110 Fax : 044-27469772 Accredited Status : Accredited E-Mail : Principal: [email protected] Institution: [email protected] 5. POST ACCREDITATION INITIATIVES Early induction of students into research The students who are expressive and exhibit some intuitive ideas are selected based on their performance in the tests and other college activities, irrespective of the domains. Such students are tagged on to one of the Ph.D. scholars, essentially to assist him in the scholar’s research. He gets to know the broad area in which the Ph.D. scholar is interested. The scholar gives an article dealing with the fundamentals of the area in which he intends doing research. The student is asked to write the same paper, in his own style, thus making him 218 understand the experimentation or circuitry or fabrication the author has done and its limitations. The student is informed of the locations where further information is available. The student gets to know the area in which he would like to pursue, in case he is to do research. He might propose a project, with the guidance of a teacher, and if found that it could be tried, the Trust would fund it to the extent possible, thus moulding him to research. Quite a number of projects are being funded by the Trust to encourage students to venture into their innovative ideas. Project based learning There is a saying “Seeing is believing and doing betters it”. In pursuance of this it is felt, a small project could be given to students while they are in their Fourth semester itself, something in which they may be interested. The student gives his ideas; faculty examines them and even if it is remotely feasible, allows him to experiment, without worrying about the failure. He may create a circuitry or programme to make, say, an unmanned level crossing safe, make a machine to bowl the ball during net practice, what to do to maintain the whiteness of the white board over a period of time and the like. He presents his ideas to a set of juries and they may give some more suggestions, and they may recommend it for funding by the Trust. They may or may not be successful in their effort, but this helps them understand the sequence to be followed, intricacies of events and introduces him to the challenges in the projects. Incidentally it also prepares him to face a failure as well, upright. It has been experimented in most of the departments for implementations, and we are still in the evolving stage. Research included in the QMS There has been a paradigm shift to research from 2000 onwards. In order to make it shape in an orderly fashion, it was also brought into the folds of QMS from 2013. Hence, the publications, projects both internal and externally funded, purchase of equipment for research, travel cost, and the settling of accounts have been brought under the QMS. 219 6. DECLARATION BY THE HEAD OF THE INSTITUTION I certify that the data included in this Self-Study Report (SSR) are true to the best of my knowledge. The Self Study Report (SSR) is prepared by the institution after internal discussions, and no part thereof, has been outsourced. I am aware that the Peer team will validate the information provided in this SSR during the peer team visit. Signature of the Head of the Institution with seal Place: Kalavakkam - 603110 Date: March 08, 2016 220