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Author: Siva
Thiagarajar College of Engineering also known as "mottai arasar" college is where I spent 4 good years of my undergraduate days.** Our college is preparing for its Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2007-2008. As part of the preparation, the correspondent, the principal and the registrar were in
The principal gave a wonderful presentation about our college and where it stands now. 7 years doesn't seem too long. But I was able to see that the college has transformed itself totally in these 7 years. All for good. Some of the good things that I observed about the college.
- The emphasis is shifting towards research. Well atleast in the ECE, Mech and EEE departments. The young departments, like CS, are yet to follow. I found the collaborations in International virtual lab really interesting.
- The attitude of the administration is totally different now. In the current principal the college has found a man with a vision. This surely is going to help. For e.g.: They are visiting US universities and analyzing how to improve our college, Starting from simple things like having a t-shirt for TCE to having a separate program administration type of department to market the college. (T-shirts are banned in college now as it is in most of
- The infrastructure, industry cooperation, everything seems to be improving. The Motorola’s R&D center in campus seems to be great idea.
- The first and foremost, our college was not ranked in the outlook's survey of
- Too few faculties with PhDs. There seems to be an effort to push the existing faculty to go for the PhD. But it may just improve the quantity rather than quality. They should target hiring PhDs. Attractive pay packages and benefits should do the job.
- Too few students go for higher studies. In fact the principal didn't list the numbers. The college can never be considered a research institution if it is not motivating people for higher studies. There could be multiple reasons behind it. Some key reasons could be
- The student population in our college is predominantly from rural areas. So getting a job is mostly the primary goal when students enter college.
- Lack of motivation due to high paying jobs. (I don't believe this myself, people from madras leave high paying jobs to join ms/Phd)
- Lack of guidance in terms of career options, advantages in doing higher studies etc.
- No active fund raising efforts. Even in the silver jubilee year the college is still not having a fund raising effort. From the reactions, I understand they are not very comfortable with it. This mindset should change and the college should seriously consider raising funds from Alumni.
I am planning to prepare one such booklet for our college. Of course, I am going to take help from a few others. A lot of info is available in the net. But the consolidation is going to take some effort. I would love to get questions from others to add to the booklet. If you happen to read this post and have tips /questions about the booklet send me an e-mail or leave a comment.
More photos of the alumni meet can be found in TCE Atlanta Alumni site.
** I carefully avoided the word "studied" in that first sentence :-)
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5 comments:
First half karan johar padam madhiri irukku .. second half ram gopal verma padam madhiri irukku .. orey ranakalam! But solla vantha matter-a crisp-a solli irukka .. gummu!
Our Principal is one of the persons that I most admire. He is a visionary. When he was promoted as principal of the college it was like the movie 'mudhalvan' where a perfect CM takes charge of tamil nadu. I have seen him in action closely for 4 years. He is a man who leads by example. Though he has good technical and administrative skills he only loves research. It's bad that he is stuck at administrative job. Anyways it's good for our college. when he visited US last time I met him. Irony, I couldnt meet him in India. Okay, enough of Principal puranam.
It's pretty good that emphasis is going towards research. It would be a big challenge to motivate people to drop their placements and go for higher studies et all. But slowly the things will change, lets hope.
There was a similar ranking in India Today also and TCE did not participate in that survey. My wife is from Amrita. I have never even heard of that college when I was in college. But Amrita was there in the ranking in both India Today & Outlook.
Good initiative siva, with that booklet.
By the way what is SVCE? Is it your school's name?
yeah, it is his vision that is driving the college now. The correspondent is also very active now.
SVCE - Sri Venkateswara College of Engg. This is one of the colleges in TN that sends the most number of students to higher studies. And they are not in some low ranked Univs. Quite a few of them are in top 40/50 Univs doing Phd/Masters.
alwa dai ennada karan johar padmanu sollitte ... athu ore sentiment kuppai thotti ache ?? :-)
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Dear Siva,
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with smiles :)
-Sateesh
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PS: can not find your email id from your blog. thats why adding this as a comment