revista2017-final

R.Kumaraguru IV-Ece
G.Dinesh Kumar I-Aero
S.Purandhar II-Eee

16. S.Arun of III Mech secured Silver Medal in Hammer throw and Short put in Anna
University Zone-2 Athletic Meet.

17. S.Ashok Kumar of IV Aero secured Silver Medal in 1500mts in Anna University Zone-2
Athletic Meet.

18. S.Sakthi Uma Devi of III Aero secured Gold Medal in 1500mts in Anna University
Zone-2 Athletic Meet.

19. P.Dhakshanya of III Bio-Tech secured Silver Medal in 100mts Hurdles in Anna
University Zone-2 Athletic Meet.

20. Sruthi G Srinivas of III Bio-Tech secured Silver Medal in Short put in Anna University
Zone-2 Athletic Meet

21. Our College Volleyball women team secured Second position in Inter collegiate
Volleyball Tournament conducted by Loyola Engineering College on20th Jan 2017

22. Our College Volleyball women team secured Second position in Inter collegiate
Volleyball Tournament conducted by VIT Vellore from 03.02.17 to 05.02.17

23. Our College Volleyball men team secured Third position in Inter collegiate Volleyball
Tournament conducted by Saveetha Engineering College from 22.02.17 to 23.02.17

24. Our College Throw ball women team secured Second position in Inter collegiate
Throw ball Tournament conducted by Saveetha Engineering College from 22.02.17 to
23.02.17

25. Our College Ball badminton men team secured Third position in Inter collegiate Ball
badminton Tournament conducted by CIT Chennai from 24.02.17 to 25.02.17

26. Our College Badminton men team secured Third position in Inter collegiate
Badminton Tournament conducted by KL University Vijayawada from 27.02.17 to
04.03.17

27. Our College Badminton men team secured Third position in Inter collegiate
Badminton Tournament conducted by Kamarajar Engg College from 03.03.17 to
04.03.17

28. Our College Cricket men team secured Third position in Inter collegiate Cricket
Badminton Tournament conducted by SVCE from 28.02.17 to 04.03.17.

29. Our College Basketball women team secured Second position in Inter collegiate
Basketball Tournament conducted by SVCE from 07.03.17.

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CENTRAL LIBRARY

College Library
The College library is located in a spacious building. The library is open to students and staff
members from 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on all working days. The library has a rich collection of
text books, reference books, National and International journals in all branches of
Engineering, Science, Technology, Management and General Studies and the collection is
ever increasing. The books are classified according to Dewey Decimal Classification scheme.
Open access systems is followed in the library
Periodicals Section
The library has separate periodicals section and subscribes to 2480 Journals, 245 National and
2235 International Journals. The library receives Journals, News Letters regularly from
organizations and societies like IEEE, ASME, ASCE, J-GATE, IETE, ISTD IEl, CII, NASSCOM,
ESC, BHEL, CEERI, ERDA, BARC, NRDC, ISTE, ISRS, IAS, NISCAIR, CSI & Nuclear Power
Corporation of India and provides the staff and students latest information in technical
education, research and development activities. The library has subscribed to the complete
package of AlCTE suggested E-Journals with campus wide access to all faculty members and
students. This provides access to reputed journals across various disciplines of engineering
and technology. Besides, NPTEL Learning Resources from llTs are also made available to
faculty and students.
Digital Library
A full-fledged Digital Library also functioning in the library. The Digital Library is a gateway to
the world of e-resources and a one-stop for nascent information handling, transfer and a
boon to the knowledge seeker.

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E-Resources
The subscribed e-resources are IEEE, ASME, ASCE Journals and J-Gate.
Wi-Fi Facility
Wi-Fi facility is available in the library. Wireless access points are provided for the students
and staffs to make use of internet and intranet.
Reference Section
The reference section of the library has rich collection of International editions of reference
books, hand books, conference proceedings, encyclopedias and various reference
documents.
Back Volumes
Back Volume of Journals have been neatly bound and arranged subject wise for reference
Competitive Examination Study Section
A number of books, text guides are available in reference section for competitive exams like
GATE, Civil Service Exam, TOEFL, GRE, IELTS, CAT, MAT, GMAT and JTO.
Electronic Library
The Electronic Library section now has a rich collection of more than 3900 CD- ROMs.
Audio Visual Section
The Library has a separate Audio Visual Section to view NPTEL video lectures and video
lectures of eminent professors of Foreign Universities.
Institutional Membership
The college is an institutional member of Anna University Library and Institution of Engineers
(IEI) Library, Chennai to facilitate the staff and students to access books and Journals from
these library also.
Online Public Access Catalogue (Opac)
The library is equipped with computerised On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for
searching availability of books and CD-ROMs. Barcode system is followed in all transactions.
Various Facilities In The Library
Various facilities available in the Library are Photo Copying Facility (Xerox), Scanning Facility,
Internet Facility, Intranet Facility, Internet Connectivity with other leading libraries,
Downloading / Copying Facilities, Multimedia, Book Bank for SC/ST Students, Current
Awareness Service.

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TRAINING AND PLACEMENT CELL
The Training and placement cell of the college takes constant efforts to improve the
quality of faculty as well as students which in turn reflects the quality of the institution.
The teaching faculty underwent the following training programs conducted by reputed
companies and expert professionals

Faculty Training

Workshops and Faculty Development programs (FDP) for faculty members were
conducted by ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, listed as follows

 Bridge 2016 - 24 February 2016
 Advanced Methods in Data Science and Big Data Analytics -1 to 3 March 2016
 PHP Programming - 06 and 07 January 2016; 02 and 03 March 2016
 Emotional Intelligence - 21 and 22 March 2016
 Big Data Advanced Methods - 01 to 03 February 2016
 VM Ware Day - 20 April 2016
 Autodesk Inventor - 3 May 2016, 25 to 27 May 2016, 13 to 18 June 2016
 REVIT Architecture - 13 to 17 June 2016
 Cloud Infrastructure Services - 23 and 24 June 2016
 INTEL IoT - 20 and 21 June 2016
 Oracle and Java Fundamentals - 11 to 15 July 2016
 Personality Development - 14 to 15 July 2016
 Grid and Cloud Computing - 18 to 23 July 2016
 Team Building - 25 and 26 July 2016
 Hadoop Developer - 18 and 22 July 2016
 REVIT Architecture - 25 to 27 July 2016
 Big Data Analytics - 26 to 30 July 2016; 04 and 05 November 2016
 Emotional Intelligence - 28 to 29 July 2016

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 Autodesk Auto CAD - 26 to 30 September 2016, 23.01.17 to 28.01.17
 Mobile APP Development - 28 and 29 September
 Business Simulation – 20 and 21 October 2016
 Stress Management- 24 and 25 October 2016
 Data science and business analytics - 01.11.16 to 05.11.16
 Autodesk inventor - 12.12.16 to 17.12.16
 Software development fundamentals - 15.12.16 to 16.12.16
 Introduction to R Programming - 27.12.16 to 28.12.16
 Firewall Installation - Firewall Installation
 Introduction to Mobile App - 30.01.17 and 31.01.17
 Oracle Programming by PL - 30.01.17 to 31.01.17.
 Business Strategy -30.03.17 and 31.03.17.
A Guest lecture on ‚Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series‛ was
conducted by TNQ on 20 January 2016. 2 faculty members from REC participated along
with 50 students from the department of Biotechnology.
Wipro Mission 10X Workshop‛ was conducted by Mr. Satheesh, Wipro for 26 faculty
members from all departments on 24 , 25 and 26 February 2016 and another workshop
for 16 Faculty members was conducted by Mr. Bhuvan Sundar from 2 to 4 March, 2016
A One day workshop on ‘Assurance for Business Sustainability & Transformation’ was
conducted by TCS on 01 March 2016. 10 Faculty members from the departments of CSE,
MCA & IT attended
The following Seminars and FDPs were organized by CII’s Indian Women Network
(IWN) Wellness in Workplace
 Workplace Learning Opportunities for Skill India
 Women’s Empowerment in Indian Context

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Ms. Sankari, EEE and Mr. Prakash, Automobile Engineering attended a Sabbatical
Training at TVS LUCAS from 30 May to 3 June 2016.

Mr. K. Bhaskar and Mr. P. M Subramanian, Automobile Engineering attended a
Sabbatical Training at VISA DIESEL & ELECTRICAL SERVICES from 6 to 11 June 2016.

Ms. S. Geetha, Civil Engineering attended a Sabbatical Training at L & T-ECC from 20
May to 26 May 2016.

Mr. P. Chandrasekran and Mr. N. Arun Prakash, Mechanical Engineering attended a
Sabbatical Training at Schwing Stetter from 9 to 13 May 2016.

Mr. D. Prithiviraj and Mr. A. Eswaran, Mechanical Engineering attended a Sabbatical
Training at AUTODESK from 23 to 27 May 2016.

Mr. J. N. Benedict, CSE and Dr. S. Bhagavathipriya, IT attended a Sabbatical Training at
Tata Consultancy Services from 20 to 22 June 2016.

Faculty assessment for all faculty members was done in 3 slots on 30 July, 6 and 13
August by Kings Learning Institute.

A One day Conference on ‚Future of Automotive Design‛ was held on 19 August. Dr. K.
Bhaskar, Dr. S. P. Srinivasan, D. Arjunsingh, R. Karankumar, M. Dharbaranyeswaran and
S. Aravind from CII attended the seminar. 6 members (Faculty and Students) from the
departments of Automobile and Mechanical attended the conference.

A Conference titled ‚CONNECT 2016‛ was conducted by Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) India on 27 and 28 of September and 5 Faculty members from the
departments of CSE and IT participated.

Two days seminar on Institution Engineers Association on 07.10.16 and 08.10.16. 100
students and 10 faculties have participated in the event.

TEDex event was organized by CII on 23.10.16. 10 students from our college rotract
were participated in this event

3 days FDP on Teaching best practices and Pedagogy was conducted by PALS from
09.11.16 to 11.11.16 of CSE,IT department participated.Ms Hemagopal,VP/TCS has
facilitated the programme.

One day lecture on information sharing of centre of innovation was conducted by PALS
on 05.11.16 at IIT Campus.

One day lecture on filling e-forms was conducted by PALS on 05.11.16 at IIT Campus.

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5 Days English Communication Training for Faculty which was given by Kings Learning
from 22.11.16 to 26.11.16
Three days Students residential workshop at IIT Campus was conducted by PALS
from15.12.16 to 17.12.16
15 days PRE ILP Technical Programme Training was conducted by TCS from 12.12.16 to
23.12.16 of CSE, IT department participated.
Several Industrial visits for faculty members is arranged by PALS as mentioned below

 L&T, Chennai on 19.10.16

 Saint-Gobain Chennai on 20.10.16.

 IITM Campus on 10.11.16.

 Mahindra Research Valley on 24.11.16.

 IITM Campus arranged on 25.11.16.

 Wheels India on 30.11.16.

 Sri Renga polymers India on 30.11.16.
A One Day workshop on Thomas Memorial Guest Lecture was conducted by IIT Madras
on 30.01.17 at IIT Campus.20 students took part in the Programme.
Higher Education
A comprehensive database of Second, Third and Final year students interested in higher
education was collected using the College Intranet during the beginning of the
academic year.
Familiarization programme on Higher education was conducted with the help of
experts.
UK Education Fair was conducted on 13 February 2016.
Ireland Education Fair was conducted on 26 February 2016.
Higher education awareness sessions by GATE Forum were conducted on 03 March
2016.
Rochester Institute of Technology conducted an Education Fair on 04 March 2016.
Hot Courses Helpdesk Session was conducted on 14 to 16 March 2016.

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ELS Education helpdesk Session was conducted on 17 & 18 March 2016.
A scholarship examination was conducted by Tomsk polytechnic university on 1 April
2016. 10 students were given full scholarship to pursue their higher studies at Tomsk
University.
Higher education seminars and workshops for 2nd, 3rd and final year students those
who are aspiring to do their higher education overseas were conducted.

 Gate Forum on 25 July

 Princeton review on 4, 5 and 8 August

 ELS on 5 August and 10 September

 Galvanize test prep on 3 August

 Education USA, USIEF 15 September

 Foreign Education Fair on 23 September

 Indo European Educational services on 15

 September

 Sweden University on 3 September.
Higher Education Orientation Programme for Study abroad was organized by British
Council on 27.01.17. Around 300 students actively took part.
Higher Education Orientation Programme for Study abroad was organized by ELS on
27.01.17. 150 students attended.
Higher Education Orientation Programme for Study abroad was organized by IDP on
02.02.17. 100 students participated.
Higher Education Orientation Programme for Study abroad was organized by University
of Twente, Netherlands on 14.02.17. More than 100 students took part.
Higher Education Seminar for Study abroad was organized by British Council on
22.02.17. Dr Gary Ushaw, New Castle University & Stephen Gill Heriot-Watt University
Dubai Campus. Simon Lynch, Teesside University& Dr Craig Stewart, Coventry
University David Collins, Keele University addressed the students.
Higher Education Seminar for Study abroad was organized by University of Maessey,
New Zealand on 28.02.17. Around 100 students attended.

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Student Training

A 10 week timetable embedded programme on ‚Personality Development‛ by
Chinmaya Academy of Management was conducted for the 1st year students.

A 3 day Aptitude training was given to the students of 3rd year BE / B.Tech to help them
prepare for their campus placement.

ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu facilitated the certification training by EMC2 on Big Data.
159 students from 3rd year CSE and IT departments participated.

A certification course on Green Buildings offered by E4U Academy exclusively for the
students of B. Arch, B. E. Civil and Mechanical Engineering. 36 Students from 2nd year
participated.

ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu facilitated the certification training by Autodesk on REVIT.
12 students from 3rd year Civil Engineering participated.

ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu facilitated the certification training by VMWARE on ‚Data
Centre and Virtualisation Fundamentals.‛ 21 students from 3rd year CSE, ECE & EEE
participated.

30 Students of 3rd year ECE and EEE participated in a certification course on JAVA
offered by ORACLE.

A training on Advanced Programming was given for the 3rd year BE / B. Tech students
of CSE and IT departments to enhance their programming skills. 40 students
participated in the training.

A contest titled ‚Prakalpa Competition‛ was conducted by Wipro Technologies on 10
February 2016 in which 10 students from the department of CSE, IT, ECE, EEE
participated.

A webinar on ‚Repeat Design Submission for TCS Gameon‛ was held on 17 February
2016 in which 70 students from CSE, ECE, EEE & IT departments participated.

A webinar on ‚TCS-Post Offer Connect‛ was held on 10 March 2016 in which all
students placed in TCS participated.

A webinar on ‚Assurance Testimony‛ was held on 16 March 2016 in which all students
placed in TCS participated.

A contest titled ‚Eis Technova 2016‛ was conducted by TCS on 12 March 2016. 3 faculty
members of AERO, ECE and BIOTECH and 88 students from the departments of AUTO,
BME, BT, ECE & AERO participated.

A contest named ‚Cyber Security Research and Innovation Contest‛ was conducted by
TCS on 12 March 2016 in which 16 students from the departments of CSE & IT
participated.

A Road show ‚TCS Campus Ambassador‛ was held on 12 March 2016. 93 students from
all departments participated.

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A guest lecture by Mr. Ashok Maharaj on ‚Persuasive Games for Social Transformations‛
was conducted by TCS. 96 students from the departments of CSE, IT, MCA attended on
28 January 2016.

A One day workshop on ‘Assurance for Business Sustainability & Transformation’ was
conducted by TCS on 01 March 2016. 10 Faculty members from the departments of CSE,
MCA & IT attended

A One day workshop on ‚CSS Corp-connectivity‛ was conducted by CSS CORP. 250
Students & 15 faculty members from all departments attended the event on 28 January
2016.

English Language classes were conducted for the benefit of the vernacular medium
students of first year B.E / B.Tech to improve their vocabulary and communication skills.

65 students enrolled for the classes and the classes were held in two batches on 6 & 7
April, 2016 after college hours

A special training programme was conducted for the benefit of the vernacular medium
students of first year B. E / B. Tech to improve their vocabulary and communication skills
by the Faculty members of the department of English, ably organized by the Training
and Placement Department. The classes were held from September, 2016 after college
hours.

Personality development classes were organized as a part of Value Addition Programme
for the 3rd Semester B. E / B. Tech students as a part of training by Dr. Kannan Gireesh
and team from LIVE LIFE institute.

Zoho Specific Training was given to the 4th year students from 7 to 9 July 2016 (3 days).

Oracle Certification training was given to the 3rd year and 2nd year students of CSE and
IT departments from 23 to 27 August 2016 (5 days).

VMware Certification training was given to third year students of ECE and EEE from 13
August 2016 (On Every Monday)

Wipro Specific training was given to final year students from 30 September to 1
October 2016 (2 Days) for Wipro Eligible Students.

Hitachi Training was given to final year students of CSE, IT. Ethical Hacking Certification
Training Programme was started for 2nd year students from 29 August 2016 (On every
Monday)

Kaizen Robotics Certification Training Programme was started for II year students from
29 August 2016 (On every Monday).

UTLP Training for Third Year students was organized for ten batches from 6 to 8 July
2016

TCS Technical Training was given to the final year students by Mr. Bhuvaneshwaran and
Team from 13 to 14 August 2016 (2 days) for CSE, IT students

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TCS Specific Technical Training was given to the final year students by Mr.
Bhuvaneshwaran and Team from 16 to 18 August 2016 (3 days) for AERO, AUTO,
BME, BT, CIVIL, ECE, EEE & PG students TCS Specific Aptitude Training was given to the
final year students from 19 to 21 August 2016 (3 days) and from 22 to 24 August 2016 (3
days)
A new initiative to offer a Technical Selling Programme for our students - Persuasive
selling Skills Training Programme was conducted for 3rd year students at RSB campus.
BOSCH Training for 3rd Year and Final Year (Mechanical and Automobile) Students
were provided in the following modules. Automotive Electricals (252 students from
Mechanical, 63 from Automobile department, REC ) Fuel Injection Pumps (109 students
from Mechanical).
A Road show on ‚Code Vita‛ was conducted by TCS on 6 July by Mr. Vignesh. All final
year students attended.
Project contest titled ‚Project Hackathon‛ was conducted by TITAN on 14 July. Around
50 final year students from various colleges participated.
The Training and Placement Department helped in bringing the following experts from
the Industry as Adjunct Faculty members for handling various courses during the odd
semester of 2016-17:
Mr.Karthik – Vernalis
Mr.Nagarajan – Vernalis
Mr.Jonathan- TCS
Ms.Mercy – TCS
Mr.Sathya Narayana–TCS
Mr.Nirvana Kushalani – Hitachi
Mr.Ramakrishnan Kannan- Hitachi

Best project award was given by TCS on 10 August. Mr. Raja Elangovan & Mr.
Veeramanikandaprabhu were the chief guests of honor. Final year Students of
CSE, IT, ECE and EEE attended.
An awareness session on EIS as career option was organized on 19 August. Mr.
Ramkishore Ayyagari conducted the session. AUTO, AERO, MECH, ECE and EEE students
participated.
As part of Madras Day Celebrations, ‚Talk on Madras Day‛ was conducted on 30 August.
Mr. P. Selvadurai , Chief planner CMDA addressed the final year students of Civil and B-
arch .

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Mr.Anandkrishnan – TCS, CTO, Mr. Vaidyanathan, APA Engineering, D. V. Ramkumar,
Engines-PD, Ashok Leyland presented Campus Lecture on 18 August in REC campus.
Around 550 students participated.

PALS organised campus lectures on 4, 17, and 24 August in PALS partner institutes.
More than 75 students were nominated and sent for the campus lecture.

Theory to practice lectures were organized by PALS in IIT Campus on 19 & 26 August
and 07th September. More than 75 students participated.

An orientation on Civil Services was presented by Mr. Ganesh from Ganesh IAS Academy
on 12 August around 225 students participated.

An orientation on Indian Armed Forces was presented by Mr. Ganesh from Defence
Academy on 1 September, students from 3rd and final year participated.

One day Seminar on first 5 design principle in OOAD on 01.10.16 which was delivered
by Mr Jonathan Thiagarajan, TCS.

One day Seminar on Generation Communication system design challenges &solutions
using NI Platform on 14.10.16 which was delivered by Mr Andy Bell, Academic
Programme Director, and National Instruments.

One day webinar on Emerging Trends in distributed agile development on 01.12.16
which was delivered by Ramanath Murali,Agile Coach,TCS

English Department Staff members conducted English classes for the benefit of the
vernacular medium students of first year B.E / B.Tech to improve their vocabulary and
communication skills. 37 students enrolled for the classes and the classes were held in
two batches on every Wednesday and Thursday after college hours.

A 3 day Personality development training was given to all the 1st year students in 11
batches from Jan 2017 to Mar 2017. Around 1300 students benefitted from this
programme.

A 3 day Aptitude training was given to the students of 3rd year BE / B.Tech in order to
help them prepare for their campus placement

UTLP Training for Third Year students was organized for ten batches from 09.01.17 to
25.03.17

A One Day Campus Lecture was organized by PALS on 31.01.17.Mr Asai Thambi,
Technip solutions, Mr Ramnath Mani, IIT KGP Alumnus, Mr Krishna Kumar, BHU IIT
Alumnus addressed the students.25 students attended the Programme.

A One Day Campus Lecture was organized by PALS on 15.02.17 Mr Natarajan, Wheels
India, Mr GS Nathan, Wipro Technologies, Mr SC Barath, Technip solutions addressed
the students. 25 students participated in the Programme

A One Day workshop was conducted on IOT Entrepreneurship on 16.02.17 by PALS at IIT
Campus.3 students attended.

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A One Day Campus Lecture was organized by PALS on 21.02.17. Prof Ashwin
Mahalingam,IIT Campus, Mr Suresh, Technip solutions, Mr Thiru
Srinivasan,IRO,IITM,PALS Chairman addressed the students.25 students took part.

A One day ICTACT Bridge Event 2017 was conducted on 01.03.17 by ICTACT.10 faculty
members attended.

A Two days meet - THINK EDU CONCLAVE 2017 was held on 03.03.17 and 04.03.17 by
New Indian Express.21 students and 2 faculty attended this programme.

A One Day PALS Research Summit-2017 was conducted on 03.03.17 by PALS. 5
students attended.

A Two day workshop was conducted on Renewable Energy-Present Scenario on 03.03.17
and 04.03.17 by Institution of Engineers (IE).

Empowering young Indian women Lecture was held at IIT Campus on 28.02.17.

ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu facilitated the certification training on REVIT
CERTIFICATION (AUTO CAD) by ICTACT for the 2nd year BE / B.Tech students and 3rd
Year of Civil departments. 30 students participated in the training which happened on
every Monday.

This was a certification course on Green Buildings offered by En3 Academy for 3 days
exclusively for the students of B. Arch, Civil, and Mechanical. 17 Students from 2nd year
participated

TCS ILP Aspire training was given to the final year TCS Placed students from 03.02.17 to
07.02.17. Around 400 students attended this training programme.

ZOHO Creator Certification training was conducted for 92 third year students who also
got certified in the software

Pega Systems Specific training was held from 24.02.17 to 05.04.17, 2017 for third years
and around 92 students attended this training programme.

TCS ITIS training was given to the third years from 16.03.17 to 21.03.17. Around 60
students attended this training programme.

ZOHO Mentorship was offered to the third years for 6 weeks. Around 87 students
benefitted from this mentorship

Big Data training was conducted for the third year students from 16.03.17 to 01.04.17.
Around 65 students attended this training programme.

Orientation programme for German Language Training was organized by Digiterati on
04.02.17. 200 students attended.

Orientation programme for GATE preparation on ‚How to Crack the GATE‛ was
organized by Ace Academy on 10.02.17.120 students participated.

Orientation programme was organized for Green Building Certification on 10.02.17 by
En3 .50 students attended.

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Orientation Programme for Career Development was conducted for First Year students.
Mr J.P Gandhi, Career Consultant and Analyst addressed the students on 15.02.17 and
16.02.17.Around 1300 students attended.
50 students attended an Education Fair organized by Study Overseas on 22.02.17 at
Stella Maris College, Chennai.
Rajalakshmi Engineering college has been chosen by TCS as part of its ‚100 Best‛
initiative to honour the best outgoing student of the 2017 passing out batch. At an
award ceremony held at the campus on 16 Mar 2017, Mr T.S. Rengarajan, Principal
Consultant, TCS Chennai conferred the award to S. Bharatwaaj a final year Computer
Science and Engineering student.

Achievement!!
The most rewarding achievement of the Training and Placement Cell is the fact that 658
students of the college have been placed in various core and IT companies.

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STUDENTS CO-CURRICULAR AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
ATRIUM –COLLEGE LITERARY CLUB

With about bazillion thoughts going through an average human brain per day, it may
be well established that many of them get imprisoned for the lack of a proper platform to
express. You may be a writer, a poet, a reader, a speaker or a thinker. You may be all, or you
may be none. But what really matters is your zeal and zest to express your individual self, the
way you want to After four years of college, when you are made ready to step out into the
real, big world and face people, challenges and situations that life throws at you, you might
wonder why you never really tried coming out of your protective, little shell right here, at
college. This is perfectly the right time to get out of your cocoons, not be the big frogs in the
small pond anymore, but transform into the iridescent butterflies you wish to be. Atrium is for
that, and much more.

Atrium, REC’s very own literary club aspires to contribute in the development of the student
community. To all those people who are daunted by the thought of expressing and
communicating, Atrium gives them the platform to overcome and excel as a speaker, a writer,
a reader and much more. The club holds meetings periodically for the students with various
challenging activities that tend to improve their oratorical skills, develop the leadership
quality, gain confidence over their command of language, and on the whole bring out a
drastic change in their personality.

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Scintillations, the annual magazine of Atrium feature the exclusive articles written by the
students that puts the readers in awe. The magazine is launched every year at our literary fest,
War of Words (WOW) organized by the board members of Atrium in collaboration with the
Debating Union. Through War of Words, an intercollegiate event, we bring all the like-
minded people from various colleges across Chennai, sharing the same love for literature
under one roof. Debate, Quiz, Block & Tackle, The Great Game, Green Screen, Shipwreck,
Channel Surfing and Creative Writing are few of the events that test the participants’
intelligence, creativity, dexterity and sense of humour.

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With the world getting digitalized, Atrium also spread its reach. Through Facebook and
Instagram, we influence a larger group of people beyond the walls of our college. Daily Posts,
Project a Thousand Words, Rebus and many other online activities showcased the enthusiasm
and the potential of the youth today towards literature.

DEBATING UNION

The club members attended an array of competitions from April 2016 to March 2017. Firstly,
club core members V. Badrinarayan (III Year Mechanical), S. Ram Arvind (III Year Mechanical),
B. Hariprasath (III Year Mechanical), Jayesh Jose (III Year Civil) attended India’s most
prestigious debating tournament, the NLS DEBATE, at National Law School India University,
Bangalore, in the month of April. The members participated for the first time in the Asian
Parliamentary Debate format, and got valuable experience from debating with India’s most
talented debaters.

Also in April, Debating Union members Sudarshana (II BIOTECH) and Sunanda (II BIOTECH)
won the War of Words 2016 Debate conducted by Rec Atrium and Rec Debating Union.
Rameez (II Year Civil) and Anchana (II Year ECE) qualified for the finals of the same WoW’16
debate.
In August 2016, the new members of the Debating Union, along with senior members
attended MS RAMAIAH PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE 2016 (MSRMPD’16). The students who
attended the competition are mentioned below :
Joshua Paul (II Year ECE)
Rameez Mohammed (II Year Civil)

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Sudharshana S (II Year Biotech)
Sunanda Kannapadi (II Year Biotech)
Badrinarayan V (III Year Mech)
Syed Shahbaaz Ahmed (III Year EEE)
Maanasa Krishnan (III Year ECE)
Sairam (II Year CSE)
Anchana (II Year ECE)
Ravi Varman (II Year CSE)
Venkatakrishnan (III Year CSE)
Jayesh Jose (III Year CSE)
Shruthi Sundar (III Year IT)

All the debaters and adjudicators performed well at the tournament which saw many
established speakers from various parts of the nation. The team of Sudharshana and Sunanda
broke-into the Semi-finals of the tournament in the novice category. The achievement is
great, as they performed better than at least 55 teams in the national level competition. The
whole group gained great exposure in the world of British parliamentary debating, from this
opportunity.

In September 2016, 2 teams and 1 adjudicator attended the VIT Debating
Tournament(VITDT). The teams are : Sudharshana and Sunanda, Rameez and Joshua, and
adjudicator Sairam. The entire contingent made our institution proud, with the two teams
breaking into the semi finals, and the adjudicator chairing the preliminary rounds. The entire
debating union congratulated them for their achievements.

In January 2017, Sudharshana and Sunanda attended the Hindustan Young Leaders
Conference (HYLC 2017), a Model United Nations simulation, conducted by the students of
KCG college of technology. Both of the Debating Union members got recognized for their
speeches and articles in the conference

ENACTUS

Enactus REC, a social entrepreneurship club of the Rajalakshmi Engineering College, believes
in investing in students who take Entrepreneurial ACTion for others thus creating a better
world for US all. The idea of bringing about a concrete change in our society without clinging
onto to the tag of ‘charity’ led to the inception of Enactus REC in 2006. Every earthly soul
would indeed be happy to be a part of their own success, to know that what they have is a
fruit of their hard work and not something that came by charity. Hence, we at Enactus REC
tickle and channel the ingenuine entrepreneurial skills that had been lying dormant within
the youth to set up business models for the economically challenged thus bridging the gap
across communities.

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WHAT DO WE DO?
PARISUTHAM
Project Parisutham kick-started in the late 2014 at Ennore with the view of leading a hygienic
and wholesome life by the manufacture of high quality cleaning aids. The target audience,
who were the victims of the disastrous 2004 Tsunami, were trained to manufacture and
market the phenyl they made. Parisutham, one of our most celebrated projects has made its
way across various local retailers and government organizations thus giving the target
audience a sustainable living.

DHANIYAM
Project Dhaniyam that rolled out in the early 2014 was a potent step toward healthy cooking
and eating practices. Dhaniyam was incepted at the MMDA Colony where the target
audience where trained to make lip-smacking delicacies made of ragi, a variety of millet. The
initiative garnered the attention of various retailers and temples thus production ebbed and
flowed across the city.

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AVANTIK
Avantik vouches for environment-friendly agricultural practices by narrowing the use of
pesticides on crop plants. This innovative idea employs the organic wastes of the rural
population for manufacturing bio-manure through vermicomposting thus enriching the
agricultural soil. Avantik is a sure-shot way of flourishing agriculture bringing in sunshine not
just to the farmers but to the entire rural troop.
SURVEY
We conducted survey sessions across different parts of the city to know about the living
conditions of the people and to know more information about what they do for a living.
Analysing the various situations, we had to come up with a new project idea for an indigent
set of people in need and hence we came up with our new project.

KAGIDHAM
Kagidham is an initiative that was constituted in the year 2016. Through kagidham, we reach
out to the intellectually-challenged population and train them in the manufacture of
notebooks by binding the blank sheets of paper that would be provided to them. The
distribution of these notebooks would find its way across several educational and corporate
organizations.

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GRANTS WON
 Walmart grand 2016
 2nd place at ‘2030 sustainable developmental goals’, held at Ethiraj College,
Chennai.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL (E-CELL)

10th February, 2016 - EDC - Coordinator attended CII Startupreneurs conference.
12th February, 2016 - EDC, REC Facebook page was launched.
15th February, 2016 - E-Awareness Camp’16 was organized for I Year (UG & PG) students in
REC to create awareness amongst students about Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups. 150+
students attended the E-Awareness Camp.

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15th February, 2016 - 20thFebruary, 2016 - E-Week’16 celebration in REC. An entire week to
celebrate and promulgate the spirit of Entrepreneurship in our campus. Though it is
celebrated nationally, E-week 2016 stands distinct. It is the first-ever attempt to dedicate an
entire week for Entrepreneurship in REC. The main aim of E-week was to focus on the concept
‚Entrepreneurship through Fun and Fun through Entrepreneurship‛Entrepreneurship
Awareness Camp, Team building workshop, Desi Amalgamations, Business plan, Business Quiz
and Acepreneur were conducted which assessed the students on various skills required for
Entrepreneurship.Two events which have never been attempted anywhere nationally was
Dexter Tester and H.U.S.T.L.E. Dexter Tester - I was a gamified version of Risk taking with
bookmaking modules while H.U.S.T.L.E was another gamified competition which emulated
the Start-Up ecosystem; the students got to know of Venture Capitalists, Incubators, Angel
Investors and Seed Investments.The E- week 2016 was a grand success in terms of
participation (375+ Students), fun, infotainment and organization.

25th February, 2016 - E-Conclave’16 website was launched.

28th February, 2016 - EDC presented its progress in the 16th CDC meet of REC.

01st March, 2016 - Alumni Registration Form was developed with the concern of the
management to source nominees for Alumni Entrepreneur Award.

10th and 11thMarch, 2016 - E-Conclave’16:March 10th and 11th, 2016 witnessed one of the
greatest events, E-Conclave’16 that inspired and exhilarated the idea of
entrepreneurship. The E-Conclave’16 had its grandeur inauguration by our beloved
Chairperson, Dr. (Mrs.) Thangam Meghanathan and our Principal, Dr. G.Thanigaiyarasu and
Dr. S.N.Murugesan, the Vice Principal of Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.Guest
Lectures, Panel Discussion, Motivational Talks, Workshops, Debate on entrepreneurship and
start-up showcase were events scheduled. Alumni entrepreneurs were honoured.With nearly
500 participants and 15 Start-Ups, applauses & criticisms, the team effort with the support of
the Management, E-Cell Coordinator and Students, the event was thus recorded a grand
success in the history of REC as the National Level E-Conclave. An event of such grandeur was
successfully organized to make students aware of the ethos of entrepreneurship.

14th March, 2016 - A study tour to TBI - VIT University, Vellore.

21st March, 2016 - EDC-Coordinator attended I-Quest’16 organized by Innovative Project
Cell, REC.

15th April, 2016 - Internship Opportunities offered by Qronos (Slog) - Student Start-Up.

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25th April, 2016 - Inauguration of Incubation Cell in EDC, REC.

25th April, 2016 - EDC exhibited it’s work to NAAC committee.

08th May, 2016 - Magnum Technologies (Student Start-Up) distributed 1000+ Tee Shirts to
our students on the Graduation Day.

08th May, 2016 - EDC exhibited it’s work to AICTE chairman.

July, 2016 - Took initiatives to launch TBI in our campus with the assistance of experts from
TiE (ATAL Innovation Mission’16). Later, it was taken forward by RCAB.

19th July, 2016 - EDC - Coordinator attended Start-Up mentoring Sessions (Innovation in
Med-Tech organized by Tech London Advocates) in Bangalore.

24th August, 2016 - EDC exhibited it’s work to our first year students on Initiation Day

14th - 21stSeptember, 2016 - EDC organized book exchange campaign in Student’s Corner
(Student Start-Up)

30thSeptember, 2016 - EDC - Coordinator attended EDI sponsored IEDP and Top Level
Management Program to launch ED curriculum for our students.

25th 26th and 27th October, 2016 - EDC - Coordinator attended FDP programme on
Entrepreneurship Development organized by EDI-Chennai, Anna University and NEN.

18thNovember, 2016 - Three student Start-Ups have filed their annual profit to
EDC.RECkoning Receptacle - INR 1,50,000Ingènuir’s Cafè - INR 1,05,000Magnum
Technologies - INR 54,000These start-Ups have decided to share 10% of it’s profit (INR
30,090) with EDC as a token of gratitude. These funds will help to build EDC, a self sustained
entity in the long run.

04th January, 2017 - Venture’17 - A Business Hackathon was organised by E-Cell in REC.The
event had various stages that tested the student's creativity, innovation, idea, business plan
and it's feasibility. The students had to write an abstract for their idea which were mentored &
evaluated by faculty members from our college. For the second stage, the participants had to
make a poster representing their solution and finally they built a virtual product for which
they pitched to the judges.

07th February, 2017 - EDC Coordinator attended ED Course launch - Review meeting in Anna
University by EDI, Chennai

14th February, 2017 to 18thFebruary, 2017 - E-Awareness Camp and E-Week’17 was
celebrated in REC. 500+ students participated in the event.

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14th March, 2017 - ED - 3 years certified course launched in REC
22nd, 23rd and 24th March 2017 – National Conclave on Entrepreneurship, E-Conclave was
conducted by E-cell in REC. The E-Conclave is a distinct annual happening and is meant to
showcase the prowess of the institution's commitment and to open the windows of the world
to the students. The primary goals of the E-Conclave are to bring about an awareness among
the students on the various opportunities available and providing top-notch guidance to
seize such opportunities for quenching their entrepreneurial thirst and for the betterment of
the nation at large.

ENTREPRENEURS AT E-CONCLAVE

The Chief Guest, Mr. C K Kumaravel, CEO of Naturals Saloon Ms. Sethulakshmi,
and Spa Private Limited Manager of ECO Kitchen.
Guest of Honour Mrs. Madhuvathi Arun, an educationalist.
Mr. Suneel Musuluri, Managing Director, Shri Technologies

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Mr. K. Rajaraman, IAS, Director of Mr. Nagappan Valliappan, Econimic Expert,
Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Independent Non-Executive Director,Tamil Nadu
Newsprint and Papers Limited

Mr. A.V. Anoop, Managing Director, AVA Health Care. Dr. Raja Ramanan, Founder of TechMed.
Dr. Kannan Gireesh, an educationalist

Mr. Sam Paul, Managing Director, Tony and Guy, Mr. Sujith Kumar, Director, Maatram Foundation.

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ROTARACT CLUB

The Rotaract Club Of Rajalakshmi Engineering college has successfully completed 7 years of
Rotaraction and is stepping into its 8 th year. Over the years our club has been a support
system for the growth of many youngsters. The endeavors of our club are unique in every
aspect and have always struggled to achieve perfection in whatever we do. We’ve also been a
part of various fund raising events that had resulted in an affirmative change to the society.
Our parent club, Rotary Club of Chennai K.K. Nagar has always encouraged us in our ventures
and act as a strong pillar of support. With the combined efforts and involvement of the
students of our college, our club has crossed several milestones and will continue to do the
same in the upcoming years.

INSTALLATION:
The club which holds a legacy of 7 years, armed with thousands of rotaractors each year was
made to crown for installation on August 6, 2016. Memories are timeless treasures of the
heart, our installation was the most priceless of all. We are indebted to those who shared the
splendid moments with us and boosted the day to be the best day to start our endeavors with
all their support.
ASSEMBLY:
PRISM OF POSSIBILITIES- Annual district rotaract assembly for the year 16-17 at Sigapi Aachi
convention centre, chettinad health city, kelambakkam held under the presence of eminent
personalities, presidents and the office bearers of various rotaract clubs and fellow
rotaractors. The sessions held for the core members were indeed an eye - opening one which
portrayed the role of each and every avenue in detail for the effective functioning of the club
in serving the society even better. Green rotaractors were given a brain storming session
were they got to know what rotaract is all about.
BLOOD DONATION CAMP:
The most significant project of RCREC was "SENEER" - a blood donation camp to
aid the people in need has occurred in phases. We are proud to inform you that we have
collected a record breaking amount of 519 units of blood in just 5 hours. Without the kind
donation and support from the rotaractors and college management, this success would have
not been possible. We express our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming response to help
this noble cause.
RECord:
This record collection drive project is a signature project with numerous accolades. This
project initiative brought together people from various streams to help the visually
challenged people by donating their records for Braille sheet manufacturing. This project

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turned to be a project which also instilled us the importance of paper resources and the
potentiality to reuse resources.
SUVADUGAL:
One such project that strived to promote unity which was a proud moment where everyone
got to teach kids that bonded them into a single unit of togetherness. A team of enthusiastic
rotaractors from each department packed their bags and teaching stuffs and introduced the
orphan kids to the world of computers. The project was made to continue in different phases
upon success to cover as much of orphanages as possible.
CONFERENCE:
FLASH, the last Annual District Rotaract Conference of RID 3230 was to recognize the
innovative projects of various college rotaract clubs. A platform to brainstorm society
oriented project ideas with personalities from diverse background. This is where we found
that the team spirit and coordination plays a predominant role to bring a change to the
society. The motivational speakers
inspired us with their best.

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NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)

Our college National Service Scheme volunteers have organized and participated in various
social service activities, as dreamed by Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi to
streamline the energy of youth for the development of thenation, by developing the village
people. NSS volunteers have organized 7-day Annual camp at Nayapakkam village, from 29-
March-2017 to 04-04-2017, on this day students have conducted avariousactivity for the
benefit of village people, like Medical camp, bringing the awareness on organic farming and
women’s workshop on self-defense during the 7-day camp.

Medical camp in association with Annai Medical College and Hospital at
Nayapakkam village, on 01-04-2017.

Thulir, a National Service Scheme project held for the development and betterment of our
farmers who give us one of the basic needs of life, the food that was organized by the NSS
members of Rajalakshmi engineering college.

Thulir – workshop for farmers about organic farming on 25-09-2016 at veppedu,
Kanchipuram.
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The event was held at a school at veppedu, a small village, near kanchipuram.The chief guest
for this event was Mr.Gnana kannan and Mr.Jaikumar, active socialists who have more than 5
years of experience in the field of organic agriculture. Mr.Karthick, an agriculturalist was the
person who stood as a backbone for this project.
On 23/10/2016 our student volunteers and nss program officer in association with
Annamalaiyar Arappani Kuzhu conducted a temple cleaning process(Uzhavarapani) at
kanchipuram Egambareswarar Temple. The students cleaned the pillars and floor of
Utpraharam Aayiram Kaal Mandapam, or the "hallway with a thousand pillars" and cleaned
the basement of 1008 lingam deposited with oil.

Uzhavarapani at Kanchipuram Egambareswarar Temple on 23-10-2016.

UNISON BAND

Our College band Unison has won several laurels consistently in several competitions
conducted across the state.

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COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENTS

 The college has been reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC in the month of April
2016.

 REC is listed as one among top 15% institutions in NIRF Rankings 2017 (101 to
150) by MHRD, Govt. of India.

 ICT Best Practices award for Faculty Empowerment.
 REC continues to be one of the 100 best institutions in the country recogonized by

TCS, fifth year in succession.
 REC is awarded a shield by Centre for Technology Development and Transfer,

Anna University for filing maximum number of patents.

Dr. (Mrs.) Thangam Meganathan, Chairperson conferred ‚CSI Honorary Fellowship Award‛ by
Computer Society of India at its National Convention held at Coimbatore on 23-Jan-2017.

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STAR-STUDDED WOMEN’S DAY PROGRAMME

Celebrities who visited the institution on Women’s Day Chairperson
honouring the Iconic Indian Classical dancer

Padmabhusan Dr. Padma Subramaniyam

Kalaimamani Dr.Anuradha Sriram Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

Ms. Balambal Balasubramaniyam Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

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Dr. Jayashree Gajaraj Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

Dr.Nandita Dass Gupta Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

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Ms.Preethi Unnikrishnan Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

Ms.Rathika Ramasamy Receiving the Women’s Achievements Trophy from
Chairperson

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