Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
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Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (SVCE) is a premier institute located in Pennalur, Sriperumbudur
near Chennai
.
SVCE was founded by the Sri Venkateswara Educational and Health Trust (SVEHT) in 1985. The Trust was founded on August 1, 1984 at the behest of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi
Swamigal. The college, established in the city of Chennai
by the SPIC
group, a prominent petro-chemical corporation in India, is said to be among the top colleges in Tamil Nadu, and a Tier-I institution among self financing colleges.
SVCE's founding objective was to implement a programme of education in engineering and allied sciences, to promote research, disseminate knowledge and to foster the cooperation and exchange of ideas between the academic community and industrial organizations and to develop entrepreneurship skills among students.
, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, awarded by the University of Madras
.
The college complex at Nazarathpet (near Poonamallee
) was inaugurated on April 8, 1985 by Sri S.L Khurana, former Governor
of Tamil Nadu
.
. The buildings were designed by the architect P.T. Krishnan. The inaugural function of the new Campus was performed on July 25, 1991 in the presence of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi
Swamigal; was inaugurated by Shri R. Venketaraman (former President of India
) on January 5, 1992; and received approval from the All India Council for Technical Education
the same year. Courses in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Courses were started in 1994. [3]
The college celebrated its decennial in March 1995 in the presence of former Minister of State for Commerce and present home minister of the Government of India Shri P. Chidambaram
. In 1996 the college began a course in Information Technology
and was the first college in the country to do so. The college obtained an ISO 9001:2000 certification in 2002.[3]
The Principal
of the college is Dr.R Ramachandran who is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, having previously served as Professor and Head of the Departments of Information Technology
and Electronics and Communication Engineering.
The college subscribes to most major technical journals including those by the IEEE, ACM and ASME. Over 59,000 volumes and 200 CDs are available and around 400 print and online journals are subscribed.
Apart from the central library, all departments maintain their own libraries. SVCE is an institutional member of The British Council Library, IIT Madras, American Council Library, DELNET and MALIBNET. The library uses multimedia computers with internet connectivity, CBT
, CDs, e-books and e-journals to promote e-learning.
A library committee headed by the Principal, composed of all the heads of departments and student representatives, meet every semester to discuss the functioning of the library.
, synthetic and clay tennis courts, turf cricket ground , basketball, football grounds, ball badminton, volley ball courts and a 400 meter track for athletics.
350 square metres (3,767.4 sq ft) is dedicated to a table tennis
hall, gym
nasium, and carom
and chess
rooms.
Students participate in intramural, extramural and the Tamil Nadu Inter Engineering Sports (TIES) competitions. The college conducts inter-college tournaments in basketball
, volleyball
, cricket
and ball badminton
.
van available round the clock.
The objective of the cell is to motivate and train students towards science and technology so that students become job creators rather than job seekers.
Since the campus is located 35 kilometres (21.7 mi) away from Chennai
city, transportation is provided between Chennai
city and the college. The college started out with eight buses, and now runs over 65.
Buses are operated on Saturdays and Sundays for special classes, NCC
, Sports etc. On special occasions buses are sent for industrial visits and social service activities. The College owns four of the buses, one ambulance and a van. A transport committee headed by a convener takes care of the smooth operation of buses. A staff member in charge of the bus (one teaching and one supporting) also ensure the smooth functioning of the buses.
The campus is located close to the Hyundai manufacturing plant and Caparo Aluminium.
housing comprises five independent blocks. The first block was built and inaugurated in 1998. The second in December 1999, the third in August 2001 and the fourth block in August 2003. All the four blocks together accommodate 500 boys. A block for girls was built and inaugurated in October 2002, and another in 2008, together housing 200 girls.
Post-graduate programmes:
, and Electronics and Communication Engineering departments have been recognized by Anna University
as collaborative research centers for PhD degrees.
R&D is aided by a technology
innovation
Center, which also houses SPIC
's research center.
FORESE is a pioneer in having a national level management symposium(Kapital) in an engineering college. FORESE also conducts Mock Placements and several expert lectures.
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.
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is an industrial city in Kanchipuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in proximity to Chennai. It is famous for being the birth place of Sri Ramanuja, one of the most prominent Hindu Vaishnava saints as well as the town where former Indian Prime Minister...
near Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
.
SVCE was founded by the Sri Venkateswara Educational and Health Trust (SVEHT) in 1985. The Trust was founded on August 1, 1984 at the behest of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi
Jayendra Saraswathi
Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal is the 69th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham....
Swamigal. The college, established in the city of Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
by the SPIC
SPIC
Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd., or SPIC, is an Indian company that makes petrochemicals. Its core competency is its fertilizer portfolio...
group, a prominent petro-chemical corporation in India, is said to be among the top colleges in Tamil Nadu, and a Tier-I institution among self financing colleges.
SVCE's founding objective was to implement a programme of education in engineering and allied sciences, to promote research, disseminate knowledge and to foster the cooperation and exchange of ideas between the academic community and industrial organizations and to develop entrepreneurship skills among students.
Initial years
In November 1984 the college was granted permission to conduct engineering courses in the disciplines of Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, awarded by the University of Madras
University of Madras
The University of Madras is a public research university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the three oldest universities in India...
.
The college complex at Nazarathpet (near Poonamallee
Poonamallee
Poonamallee is a town in the Poonamallee taluk of the Thiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu...
) was inaugurated on April 8, 1985 by Sri S.L Khurana, former Governor
Governor
A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
.
Expansion
In 1991, the college shifted into its new campus at Pennalur, near the town of SriperumbudurSriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is an industrial city in Kanchipuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in proximity to Chennai. It is famous for being the birth place of Sri Ramanuja, one of the most prominent Hindu Vaishnava saints as well as the town where former Indian Prime Minister...
. The buildings were designed by the architect P.T. Krishnan. The inaugural function of the new Campus was performed on July 25, 1991 in the presence of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi
Jayendra Saraswathi
Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal is the 69th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham....
Swamigal; was inaugurated by Shri R. Venketaraman (former President of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) on January 5, 1992; and received approval from the All India Council for Technical Education
All India Council for Technical Education
The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development...
the same year. Courses in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
Courses were started in 1994. [3]
The college celebrated its decennial in March 1995 in the presence of former Minister of State for Commerce and present home minister of the Government of India Shri P. Chidambaram
P. Chidambaram
P. Chidambaram or Chidambaram Palaniappan, sometimes written Palaniappan Chidambaram is an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress and present Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India. Previously he was the Finance Minister of India from May 2004 to November 2008...
. In 1996 the college began a course in Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
and was the first college in the country to do so. The college obtained an ISO 9001:2000 certification in 2002.[3]
The Principal
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of the college is Dr.R Ramachandran who is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, having previously served as Professor and Head of the Departments of Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
and Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Library
SVCE has a 1338 square metres (14,402.1 sq ft) computerized library spanning three floors with over 21,000 titles covering major fields of science and engineering, a conference room, a study space and a seating capacity of over 200. The ground floor is air-conditioned, with conferencing, multimedia, internet, reprography facilities, a CD-ROM collection and a book bank for deserving students.The college subscribes to most major technical journals including those by the IEEE, ACM and ASME. Over 59,000 volumes and 200 CDs are available and around 400 print and online journals are subscribed.
Apart from the central library, all departments maintain their own libraries. SVCE is an institutional member of The British Council Library, IIT Madras, American Council Library, DELNET and MALIBNET. The library uses multimedia computers with internet connectivity, CBT
CBT
CBT can mean:* CBT, a CBC Radio One station in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador* Ceneri Base Tunnel, a railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland...
, CDs, e-books and e-journals to promote e-learning.
A library committee headed by the Principal, composed of all the heads of departments and student representatives, meet every semester to discuss the functioning of the library.
Placement Cell
The Training and Placement Cell helps get students placed in multinational companies (MNCs) and Indian Companies. The college has an average 90% placement every year.Notable companies that have recruited / are expected to recruit engineers from the college:
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Sports and athletic facilities
The 15 acres (653,400.6 sq ft) facility has a swimming poolSwimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
, synthetic and clay tennis courts, turf cricket ground , basketball, football grounds, ball badminton, volley ball courts and a 400 meter track for athletics.
350 square metres (3,767.4 sq ft) is dedicated to a table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
hall, gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium, and carom
Carom
Carom may refer to:* Ricochet* Carom billiards* Carom seeds or Ajwain, a spice-See also:* Carrom, a family of tabletop games* Caromb, a commune in Vaucluse, France...
and chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
rooms.
Students participate in intramural, extramural and the Tamil Nadu Inter Engineering Sports (TIES) competitions. The college conducts inter-college tournaments in basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
and ball badminton
Ball badminton
Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
.
Medical Center
The campus houses a medical center near the hostel blocks, with a nurse and doctor available round the clock to attend to emergencies. There is an emergency AmbulanceAmbulance
An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient...
van available round the clock.
Entrepreneurship Development Cell
The Entrepreneurship Development Cell was formed in 1996, and has organized awareness camps to motivate students to become entrepreneurs. This Development cell is one of its kind in Tamil Nadu and one among 20 in the country.The objective of the cell is to motivate and train students towards science and technology so that students become job creators rather than job seekers.
Transport
Since the campus is located 35 kilometres (21.7 mi) away from Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
city, transportation is provided between Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
city and the college. The college started out with eight buses, and now runs over 65.
Buses are operated on Saturdays and Sundays for special classes, NCC
NCC
-Companies:*National Certification Corporation, a nursing specialty certification company*National City Corporation, a leading US bank*Newspapers Call Centre, a telemarketing business in Toronto*NCC AB, a Scandinavian company*NCC Group, an IT security company...
, Sports etc. On special occasions buses are sent for industrial visits and social service activities. The College owns four of the buses, one ambulance and a van. A transport committee headed by a convener takes care of the smooth operation of buses. A staff member in charge of the bus (one teaching and one supporting) also ensure the smooth functioning of the buses.
The campus is located close to the Hyundai manufacturing plant and Caparo Aluminium.
Housing
The SVCE dormitoryDormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
housing comprises five independent blocks. The first block was built and inaugurated in 1998. The second in December 1999, the third in August 2001 and the fourth block in August 2003. All the four blocks together accommodate 500 boys. A block for girls was built and inaugurated in October 2002, and another in 2008, together housing 200 girls.
Scholarships and awards
In 2004, the Chairman and governing council initiated a scheme that would distribute 5% of the total college tuition fee income to students as a full semester scholarship,and as prizes to top scorers in college tests and university examinations. Gold medals are awarded to the top 10 university rank holders,and a silver medal is awarded to the college first rank holder. The college also awards Cash Prize to the Best Student Project of the Department. Other notable awards include the Outstanding Undergraduate student Award, Outstanding Sports person Award and the Best Student Award by the Indian Society for Technical Education.Students are given a full semester scholarship on the basis of:
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Societies and extra-curricular activities
With the aim of technical skill and personality development, societies, clubs and forums, headed by members of the faculty, have been formed.Societies of the college:
Associations of the college:
Clubs and forums:
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Academic departments
Under-graduate programmes:- Computer Science and Engineering
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automobile Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Marine Engineering
- Information Technology
- Biotechnology
- Civil Engineering
Post-graduate programmes:
- Power electronics and Drives
- Communication systems
- Computer Science and Engineering
- masters of engineering in computer aided design by students of svce the best placements and third top college in chennai
- Master of Computer ApplicationsMaster of Computer ApplicationsThe Master of Computer Applications is a postgraduate degree in computer application streams awarded in India. Full time MCA programmes normally take three academic years. The primary emphasis in MCA curriculum is on the development of diverse types of application software rather than designing...
- Master of Biotechnology
Research
The Electrical and Electronics Engineering , Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, and Electronics and Communication Engineering departments have been recognized by Anna University
Anna University
Anna University was a premier technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978, as a unitary university that integrated four technical institutions in the city of Chennai , including the College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology,...
as collaborative research centers for PhD degrees.
R&D is aided by a technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
innovation
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
Center, which also houses SPIC
SPIC
Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd., or SPIC, is an Indian company that makes petrochemicals. Its core competency is its fertilizer portfolio...
's research center.
Forum For Economic Studies by Engineers
The Forum For Economic Studies by Engineers (FORESE) (icon) was created to equip engineering students with management skills and to help develop team management and interpersonal skills; to nurture young professionals into tomorrows leaders.FORESE is a pioneer in having a national level management symposium(Kapital) in an engineering college. FORESE also conducts Mock Placements and several expert lectures.
Alumni
The first batch of students graduated in 1989. The alumni of the institution have been placed in companies across the globe, and its students have completed Masters and PhDs from universities that include MIT, Stanford UniversityStanford University
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, University of California, Irvine
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and University of Minnesota
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.