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SARANATHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai-25)
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSTITUTION
INDEX
Sl No Particulars Page Number
1 Annual Report 2018-2019 1-8
2 Annual Report 2017-2018 9-15
3 Annual Report 2016-2017 16-21
4 Annual Report 2015-2016 21-27
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SARANATHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TRICHY - 12
ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2018-19
Distinguished Chief Guest, Dr. K.Narasimha Rao, Honourable Secretary,
Respected Members of the College Committee, Dean(R&D), Dean(S&H), Heads of
various Departments, Members of the staff (both teaching and non-teaching),
invited guests, parents and students, a pleasant evening to you all.
I take great pride & pleasure in presenting the Annual report for the year 2018-19 of
our prestigious institution which celebrated its Phenomenal Bi- decennial year in a
grand manner with lots of achievements. One of the most significant achievements
is the NBA accreditation of SIX eligible UG branches which includes CSE, ECE,
EEE, ICE, IT and MECHANICAL.
To add a feather on the cap, I am extremely happy to announce in this august
gathering that our institution has got Permanent Affiliation from Anna University –
Chennai for the four departments namely CSE, ECE, EEE and MECHANICAL.
Infrastructure / Development:
A foundation stone for bi-decennial block at an estimate of Rs.4.6 crores was
laid by Sri. N.Srinivasan Vice Chairman and Managing Director, India
Cements Ltd during the bi-decennial celebrations.
Concrete & Highway lab, Soil Mechanics lab and Environmental lab are
established at cost of Rs.39 lakhs for Civil department.
We added the centralised Computer Facility of hardware Rs 40lakhs worth
and in addition to that we invested Rs 7 lakhs by the way of software,
computer peripherals and accessories.
For the Department of ECE, Rs 9 lakhs was invested in procuring equipments
like Analog Discovery Kit and user licenses for software.
Mechatronics lab facilities are updated with state of the art Simulation
Software & Digital video development platform at a cost of Rs 6 lakhs.
To facilitate fabrication work, a MIG welding machine is added at a cost of
Rs. 90 thousands in the Department of Mechanical.
A total of 2199 books have been added to our Library collection this year
bringing the total to 54,739 books.
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Admissions:
Thanks to the brand image the college has created and sustained and the
continued confidence that the parents and students have reposed on our
institution, we have been able to meet admission requirements this year also
with enviable ease.
As on date, we have 2769 students on rolls - 1570 boys and 1199 girls.
Academic performance of the students:
I am very pleased to register at this juncture that the college proves to produce
good results in the Anna University examinations this academic year also.
I am very proud to announce that from the 2018 batch of B.E., B.Tech., M.E.,
MBA, 667 students have successfully completed their course.
It is again a moment of pride and pleasure to report that among 667Graduates,
13 of them have passed with distinction and 571 have passed with 1st class. 9
students have brought laurels to the institution by obtaining University ranks
Co-curricular activities:
In addition to attaining its mission of providing a quality academic education,
the institution encourages and facilitates the students to participate in other co-
curricular activities like seminars, symposiums and paper presentations. Due to
paucity of time, we are not able to cover all such achievements but would like to list
a few significant student contributions:
Techies team with the students of G.Sri Swarna, T.Sakthi, K.Rajalakshmi,
K.Swathi, K.Keerthana from ECE and R.Kamalesh from CSE mentored by
Prof.Sriraman balaji , won the First prize of Rs. 1 Lakh in National level
competition Smart India Hackathon organized by Government of India at
Dehradun for the problem statement given by GAIL India Ltd.,
In the National level IOT competition held at IIIT Kottayam, Varun Baskar,
Yellamraju Venkata Naga Anjani Jyothi and Shaik Ayisha Kareema of II ECE
bagged the second place and won Rs.20,000/- . G.Sri Swarna, T.Sakthi,
K.Swathi of II ECE, got third place both the teams were mentored by Prof.
S.Venkatasubramanian and Prof. Sriraman Balaji. In the same event S.Kerisan
and R.Siva Ganesh of III year IT mentored by Mr.V. Monoj Kumar won Third
place - both team got Rs.5000/- .
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R.Balaji of Final year CSE has participated in Zoho Cliqtrix- App development
competition and won 2nd prize worth Rs 50,000 and he has also received
placement offer from Zoho Corporation.
The final year CSE students, K.N. Padma Pooja, S. Sharanaa Fathima and J.
Samyutha mentored by Dr. Sahaya Arul Mary and Prof. Senthamilselvi
participated in a 24 hour “ACM 3rd National level Women Hackathon”
organized by ACM, Ahmedabad University, Oracle Academy and TCS at
Ahmedabad University, Gujarat on the 7th and 8th October, 2018 and won The
Best Innovation Award.
N. Muthu Karuppan, A.S. Leo Aldrinraj, S. Madhanraj, G. Manoranjan of Final
year EEE mentored by Ms.N.Gayathri won the 1st prize of Cash award Rs.12000
in the contest (Best Innovators 2K18) among 140 Teams conducted by Sri
Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Pondicherry on September 15th 2018
and the same team won the 1st prize of Cash award of Rs.25000 in Shaastra
Smart City Challenge 2019 conducted by IIT- Madras
A.E.Manish, R.Dilip, H.Mohamed Ameenullah, K.Gowtham of III Year EEE
mentored by Ms.N.Gayathri were selected as one among the 14 teams in
National level in EYANTRA Robotics competition 2019 (EYIC). The same
team was recognized as the regional finalist in south zone and bagged Rs.5000/-
Cash award along with the Drone KIT worth of Rs.14000/- in Eyantra Ideas
Competition (EYIC) 2019 contest conducted by MHRD and IIT BOMBAY on
19th Feb2019.
Eight Teams mentored by Dr.S.Vijayalakshmi , Mr.S.Rampasath , Mr.P.Ramesh
Babu(2 Teams), Mr.P.K.Arunkumar, Ms N.Gayathri (2 Teams) &
Mr.S.Sivakumar selected for final round in India Innovation Challenge Design
Contest IICDC 2018 conducted by DST & Texas Instruments. Each team is
sponsored with Texas Instruments (TI) tools worth USD 200 (Approximately
1,12,000 INR cumulatively) for the successful completion of the project.
Mr. P. Ramesh Babu and Mr. R.Vigneshwaran mentored a team SHARIK
comprising 38 students (25 –EEE,13-Mech) secured 2nd Runner up with Cross
Road B&A and Team Spirit award in NSVC (2019) National Solar Vehicle
Challenge held at Reva University, Bangalore and received a cash award of Rs.
32500/- . In the same event Mr.S.Ramprasath and Ms.R.S.Shivaranjani mentored
a team PHEONIX comprising 41 students (24 –EEE,17-Mech) secured 5th place
and received Team Spirit Award with cash prize of Rs.2500/-
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Mr.R.Vijay, Mr.N.Vijayasarathi , Mr. S.Karthikeyan and Ms.R.S.Priyaa
Dharshini mentored a team EZUGKI comprising 41 students (24-EEE, 17-
Mechanical) Secured 1st in Virtual round (south zone), won Guru
Dhuronachariya Award for mentoring and Best Team Spirit Award and received
Rs.4000 Cash for Runner Up in Suspension traction test, Rs.1000 Gift Voucher
for Social Buzz Event in SUVC (2019) Saur Urja Vehicle Challenge held at
Hindustan College of Engineering & Technology,Coimbatore.
Mr.R.Vijay, Mr.S.Ramprasath and Mr.S.Sivakumar, coordinated IoT Hackathon
contest “Processor for Brainy” sponsored by INTEL®. 30 students were
shortlisted and top three winners received an “Intel based UP2 Grove IoT
Development Kit” worth Rs.40,000/- each.
Eleven students of Mechanical department represented the E-BAJA team (The
team flux) in the dynamic event “The Champions of champion”, held in
Vijayawada, Andra pradesh (February 2019). The team won 1st place in the Cost
and sales presentation, as well as “Team spirit award”.
Department of Basic Sciences jointly organized a programme in view of National
Science Day celebrations on 28-02-19. In this connection, quiz competitions,
guest lectures and project expo ’19 were conducted for I year B.E/B.Tech
students.
Our continued efforts to make our students acquire additional internationally
accepted certification have borne fruit when 22 students got the prestigious
CLAD certification conducted by National Instruments, 199 students acquired
Oracle Academy Java Certification, 96 students got Microsoft MTA
certification, 60 students got certification in Autodesk Inventor series and 25
students obtained MEP and CFD software certification. In addition to this various
certification programs have been organised by all the departments.
STAFF ACHIEVMENTS:
One of the reasons for such a creditable co-curricular performance of the
students would undoubtedly be the effort of the faculty to strive and become
role models by constantly upgrading their knowledge and qualifications. This
facet is amply proved by the fact that 9 (nine) faculty members have
successfully completed their doctoral degree. We are awaiting similar good
news from many more existing faculty members who are at various stages of
getting their PhD. Faculty members were participated in various 151
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technical and non-technical programmes like FDP, workshops and
conferences etc., The College has organised 15 training programs such as
FDP, workshops, conference etc., for teaching and non teaching of various
institutions. In addition our faculty members have published 369 articles in
reputed Journals, National and International conferences. Two research
scholars have successfully completed their Ph.D program in our research
centre, recognized by Anna University, Chennai.
Research and Development:
As a fitting reward to the sustained efforts by our faculty members to get
consultancy projects and research projects with funding, we have had quite a few
successes this year.
Mr.M. Sriram Prasanth, Asst. Prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering
received a Fellowship grant of Rs 67,010/- under TNSCST - Young Scientist
Fellowship Scheme. He is currently pursuing research in Combustion Research
Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore under this scheme.
Dr.N.Baskar, Prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering has received
research grants of Rs.22,500 from IEI & TNSCST for research work in the field
of Friction welding & Tool design. His co investigators are Dr.M.Ganesan &
Mr.S.Karthikeyan.
Mr.A.Sridharan, Asst.Prof, Department of Mechanical Engineering has received
a research grant of Rs.45,000 from IEI for research work in the field of Solar
Hybrid Heaters & Hybrid flow Heat Exchanger.
Dr.M.SANTHI, Head, Department of ECE, received the research grant of
Rs.7500/- from TNSCST under Student Project Scheme.
Dr.V.Mahalakshmi, Assistant Professor of MBA received Rs 40,000/- grant
from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi to conduct
Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp.
Dr.L.Muruganandam, Head, Department of Chemistry received Rs. 7,500/- from
TNSCST under Student Project Scheme.
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PLACEMENT:
We have an impeccable campus placement record during this academic year
2018-2019. The important companies in which our students have offers include
Members of the College Committee, Respected Director, Heads of various
Departments, Members of the staff (both teaching and non-teaching), invited
guests, parents and students, a pleasant evening to you all.
I take great pride & pleasure in presenting the College Annual report for
the year 2015-16.
Infrastructure/Development:
The existing high speed 16mbps internet facility is being upgraded to 40
mbps and will become fully operational very soon.
Our electric supply has been upgraded from LT to HT at a total cost of Rs 1
Cr.
Embedded systems lab worth Rs 7.0 lacs and Edgecam Lab valued at Rs.3.5
lacs were added
Additional Labview software worth Rs.4.5 lacs was procured.
Mobile Application Development Lab was set up at the cost of 17 lacs
One new bus costing 20 lacs was added to the fleet to facilitate the logistics
Admissions:
Thanks to the enormous confidence reposed on us by the parents and
students our college is the first one to have filled all its seats. We have on our
rolls as of date 2766 (1349 Boys + 1417 Girls) students. In addition to the current
6 UG courses on offer and subject to approval of AICTE, we intend introducing
“Civil Engineering” as an additional UG course from the next academic year.
Academic performance of the students:
The college maintained its mission of achieving enviable academic
performance. 19 university rank holders out of which one 1st Rank holder and 1
each of 2nd and 3rd rank holders brought laurels to the college. The Graduation
Day was conducted on 19th March. Mr Thothathri Visvanathan, Vice President,
Infosys Inc was the Chief Guest. He delivered a very inspiring Graduation Day
Address.
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Co-curricular activities:
In order to develop the overall personality (both academic and non-
academic) of the students, they are encouraged to participate in various
seminars, competitions. While it would be fitting to list all of them and
congratulate them, paucity of time forces me to highlight some of them.
The students attended 90 symposiums/workshops/seminars/conferences and
presented 143 papers. There were 22 publications.
Robosee - A Versatile Flying Robot with Vision and Audile And Skyfi Labs -
the project of M.Shrinath. D. Nishanth R. Sreyash S. Sriram of final year
ICE students has been shortlisted to the top 50 final year projects in India.
Further process in this contest is on. The management of our college
awarded a Cash Award of Rs.12000/- in appreciation.
J.JairusPriyanka, V.Premkumar, and D.Sharon Mary of Final year Mechanical Engineering participated in INNOVATION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY IET’16 State level paper presentation contest. 112 teams participated and they won the award under the category of Top 30 best performing institutions getting 8 CPE credits out of 10.
Our students from EEE participated in the prestigious contest EI-16 (Student Project Competition) concurrently with ELECRAMA, at Bangalore. 4 projects were short listed and identified for a grant of Rs 14000 each.
131 students and 14 members of the staff have been certified as Microsoft Technical Associate (MTA) conducted by Microsoft.
78 students have obtained Cloud Infrastructure Certification conducted by EMC2 one of the leading MNCs in Cloud services
22 students have obtained the CLAD certification conducted by National Instruments. Very pertinent to document here is the fact that all these 22 students have either been already placed or in an advanced stage of negotiating their internship and placement.
The college conducted PRUDENTIA - National Level Technical Symposium with a wide participation of students. The program was organised by our Mechanical Branch as per the rotation policy that we have to expose all branches to such symposia.
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The department of Management Studies conducted Lakshya 2016 with participation of more than 300 students from various other colleges.
A significant change in the scenario this year has been the increase in the number of paid internships that the students have taken up. We have currently 40 students undergoing internships in various corporates. These internships will culminate in the students being offered a placement in the company. These students have in fact started earning their stipends as interns even before they graduate.
Placement:
More than 70% of our eligible and willing students of this batch have already been placed and we still have not closed our placement season. Like all other years we would continue to keep in touch with the students on group mail and keep them informed on placement opportunities.
Major segment of our students have been placed in Infosys, IVTL, CES-IT,
CTS, TCS, CSS Corporation, Sutherland, Econ etc.
Extracurricular Activities:
Ms Jayashree R won the ICTACT Youth Icon Award. This was a National
level competition on Presentation skills. Apart from cash awards she
became eligible for a 3 day educational tour to Singapore.
The NSS team in the college conducted a special camp for one week at the
South Paganur village and conducted various awareness programs like drug
addiction, village cleanliness and self- employment opportunities.
The Youth Red Cross is very active in the college. They have conducted a
voluntary blood donation camp as well as a symposium on drug addiction.
Our college has been adjudged the best performer in the YRC movement.
In an exemplary exhibition of their social responsibilities, our students very
actively participated in the collection and distribution of relief materials to
the flood affected persons of cuddalore and Chennai.
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Sports:
Our college students have consistently won laurels for our Institution by
winning in various sports events at Anna University Zone level as well as
intercollegiate level.
Intramural tournaments besides track and field events were conducted at
the college level. The performances of the sportspersons were recognised on the
Sports Day conducted on 21st March. Shri G.E. Shridharan, Head Coach of the
Indian Volleyball team was the Chief Guest.
Staff Achievements:
It is a very satisfying fact that faculty members as part of their efforts to
motivate the students to deliver academically, do themselves focus on enhancing
their qualifications. We are proud to mention that the following faculty members
obtained their PhD degrees in their respective fields;
Our learned Dean (R & D), Dr. Y. Venkatramani under his guidance was
instrumental in the following six members of the ECE Department obtaining
their Ph.D degrees. They are Dr.S.A.Arunmozhi, Dr..P.Shanmugapriya,
Dr.V.Mohan, Dr.S.Rajeswari, Dr.M.Baritha Begum and Dr.M.Padmaa.
Other Ph.D awardees for the year are
o Dr. R. Kavitha from Physics department
o Dr.A. Narayanan, from English department.
o Dr.S.Vijayalakshmi from the department of EEE.
o Dr.Senthamizhselvi from the Library
Ms.P.K.Lakshmidevi, of Maths and Mr.V.Balamurugan from Chemistry
department have submitted their thesis for the award of Ph.D.
Mr.LeninPrakash of the department of EEE was awarded National Doctoral
Fellowship (NDF).
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It is necessary to reiterate on behalf of the Management here that their
support will continue as usual to facilitate and motivate many more of the faculty
members to enhance their qualifications.
Our Faculty members have published 122 articles in various technical journals
and 30 conference publications. Our faculty members also attended 120 Faculty
development programs and/or workshops. The College has organised 14 training
programs such as FDP, workshops, conference etc., for teaching and non teaching
of various institutions.
One of the proudest moments of our college was when our consistent
efforts were duly recognised and we were awarded “the best overall LabView
Academy Partner Award” by National Instruments Inc. What is significant to note
is that we have been honoured with this award within the 1st year of our
becoming an academy partner of National Instruments.
Library:
Books worth Rs 2.71lacs have been added to our collection this year. We
have at present 47,876 volumes. We also subscribe to 300 journals and the
annual subscription charges are about Rs.15 lacs. In order to inculcate and foster
the reading habit in our students our library has a reading room section where
non-technical magazines and books are made available besides technical books
and journals.
Alumni Meet:
Branch wise alumni meets are being conducted periodically and the
increase in the numbers attending is indeed heart-warming. These sessions are
used to request alumni to address and motivate current students, give us usable
feedback or suggestions for improvement and create new and stronger bonding
for placements
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I would like to thank the Management of this institution in general and our
Secretary and Director in particular for giving me this opportunity to be part of
our joint efforts to enhance the status of this noble Educational Institution. I must
thank the students, the biggest stakeholder here, for maintaining discipline and
the love and respect that they shower on me. The members of the staff both
teaching and non-teaching deserve my sincere thanks for their unstinted support.
I am sure with all your support I can safely assure all the stake holders that we
would certainly enhance the premium position that the institution currently