The 19th Graduation Ceremony for presenting the degrees and awards to the grandaunts of Easwari Engineering College, Chennai was held on Sunday,21st April 2019 at the Easwari Engineering College, TRP Auditorium, Ramapuram, Chennai. The Chief Guest Dr. M.K. Surappa, Vice Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai, delivered the convocation address by congratulating the rank holders. He dwelt in length the importance of education in the current scenario. It is not just something you do to advance in life. He advised the grandaunts Engineers the need to embrace broader vision of the professional role to inevitable progress of the nation with new innovation and leadership quality. He also advised that every Engineer needs to adapt to the changes that are taking place in the global economy.
He
also stressed the need for new outcome based learning by pursing professional
ethics and accountability. He advised the grandaunts to enhance their
communication skills and also develop managerial quality which is very much
important in the present global scenario. During the occasion, Dr. C.
Ravichandran, Deputy Director, Easwari Engineering College, Dr. T.
Muthamizhselvan, Governing Council Member, Easwari Engineering College, Dr. T.
Sridhar, Director General, SRM Group of Institution, Ramapuram & Trichy
campus, Dr. M. Sethuraman, Governing Council Member, Easwari Engineering
College, Dr. Sandeep Sancheti, Vice Chancellor, SRM IST, Dr. Subbiah Bharathi,
Director, SRM Group of Institution, Ramapuram, Dr. B. Venkatachalapathy, Dean
Research,
Easwari Engineering College, Dr. K.
Kathiravan, Principal, Easwari Engineering College were present. The Principal
of the College, Dr. K. Kathiravan presented the Annual report which highlighted
the significant contribution of the College in creating young engineers and
technocrats for the nation building activity. 1061 Students received their
degrees out of which 877 from Under Graduate stream, 184 from Post Graduate
stream. From the UG stream 37 students and from the PG stream 22 students achieved
University ranks and awards. TCS Best Student award was secured by our
engineering students every year for their outstanding achievement in co
curricular and extracurricular activities. Awards were also won by students of
Engineering and Management for paper presentation in research journals. The
College has been accredited by leading industries and it has been considered as
the preferred destination for Campus recruitment.
More
than 275 companies have visited our campus, to quote a few companies like TCS,
Wipro, L&T Infotech etc and a record number of 419 students have been
placed till date for the academic year. The Departments of ‘Computer Science
and Engineering’, ‘Electrical and Electronics Engineering’, ‘Electronics and
Communication Engineering’, ‘Mathematics’, ‘Physics’, ‘Computer Applications’
and ‘Chemistry’ have been approved as Nodal Centers for Research by Anna
University, Chennai for pursuing M.S.(Research) and Ph.D. We have recognized
supervisors under various universities. Our college is imparting special value
added training programme to students to make them employable by signing an MOU
with more companies such as, TCS, CLRI, CWRCV, WTTY, Incorp., Kiran Global
Chems Pvt. Ltd., National Instruments, USA, to name a few.