Dr.R.Parthiban
Professor & Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering.

Dated: November 10, 2009

BIOTECHNOLOGY STUDENTS WON CASH PRIZE IN A PROJECT COMPETITION:

GE Edison Challenge Competition is a research project competition organized by the JFWTC GE Edison, India and the Indian government’s Department of Science and Technology, through DSIR TEPP program. The competition announced an award of Rs 20,000 for each team that shows the “proof of concept” for projects that they design. Moreover, the winner team gets prize money of Rs five lakhs and the runner gets one lakh.

Ms. L. Netrah and her team members Mr. Rahul and Ms. C. Neha, students of the final year BTech Biotechnology from the Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, are involved in a project to produce electricity using local resources in a village near Chennai. This team named as “Energy Booster” proposed to produce power supply round-the-clock for the villages instead of just two hours of supply per day. This team chose Kaliyapettai village near Chennai, which has a textile mill nearby discharging industrial effluents. In a preliminary study, the team used the effluents from the textile mill to grow algae (Cholorococcus) which can convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into different types of oils which are then converted into biodiesel to generate electricity using a diesel generator. The team grew algae in a tank and extracted the oil. The team currently has been involved in analyzing the oil for its power potential. Neha says that the oil produced in 5 days can power the lightings for the village’s 600 families throughout the day and the initial cost to set-up a plant is as little as Rs. 1 lakh.

Judges reviewed their project presentation on the economics, the scientific principles and technology, and the novelty of the ideas. The judges announced the winners on the November 6, 2009, at Bangalore. Of the two hundred teams from all over India, eighteen teams were selected in the preliminary rounds and were awarded Rs. 20,000 for the “proof of concept” of their projects. The Energy Booster is one of the eighteen teams that received Rs. 20,000. These eighteen teams were in the finals and this Energy Booster team came-up as the runner-up with Rs. 1 lakh prize money and a trophy in this GE Edison Challenge Competition.

The Department of Biotechnology and the SVCE Management congratulate Ms.L.Netrah, Ms. C. Neha Mr. Rahul, and for their success in this competition.

Dated: October 23, 2009

PRINCIPAL Dr. R. RAMACHANDRAN CONFERRED WITH BEST FACULTY AWARD: 

Principal Dr.R.Ramachandran was conferred the "BEST FACULTY AWARD" constituted by Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), Chennai for the services and contributions made by him in moulding the character and destiny of students of SVCE.

The nominees for the award were from premier Engineering Colleges in Chennai and were short-listed based on very specific parameters. The award consisting of a Gold Coin and a Certificate was presented to the Principal on 15^th October 2009 in a brief ceremony held in SVCE.

Dated: August 01, 2009

IT STUDENTS BAG "BEST PAPER AWARD" IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

R. Sindhuja, and P. Varsha, students of final year IT department bagged the "Best Paper Award" for the paper "ID Based Entitled Verifier Cryptography For Grid Systems" presented in the 4th ICEMC2 conference, PESSE Bangalore.

The paper, which dealt with ID based cryptography for grid systems, was completed under the guidance of Dr. G. Sumathi, Prof & HOD, IT.

The conference was sponsored by PESIT and co-sponsored by ISRO and Microsoft Research.

Arathi L .Kurups Secured Admission into NASA Funded Project 

Arathi L Kurup a final year student of Mechanical Engineering has secured admission into masters degree in University of Alabama USA

for the NASA funded project on "space structures" coordinated by Dr.Amit Roy.

She has also secured tuition fee waiver and financial aid for her MS programme.

The management, staffs and students of SVCE Wishes Arathi all the very best.

NIKILA SRINIVASAN NOMINATED FOR "GOOGLE INDIA WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AWARD" (Dated: 26-Feb-2009)

Nikila Srinivasan, a final year student of computer science department, was invited for the "Google women in Engineering" conclave that was held on February 12th and 13th at Google premises at Bangalore and Hyderabad. She thus got an opportunity to interact directly with engineers working with Google.

She was selected as one among the 22 finalists from a pool of 200 plus Graduates and PhD applicants for the "Google India Women in Engineering Award 2009".

Our heartiest congratulations to Nikila Srinivasan.

IIChE STUDENT CHAPTER OF SVCE RECEIVES AMBUJA'S BEST STUDENT CHAPTER AWARD - 1st PRIZE (Dated: 05.12.2008)

IIChE (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers) Student Chapter of SVCE has been bestowed with the Ambuja's Best Student Chapter Award - 1st Prize, for the year 2008.

The award carries a Certificate, Trophy and Cash prize of Rs. 15,000/-. This will be presented during the inaugural day of the 61st Annual Session-cum-Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (Chemcon-2008), to be held at Chandigarh on December 27, 2008.

Well Done!

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT BAGS THE AWARD FOR THE BEST PRESENTATION OF TECHNICAL PAPER

Ms.Fathima Jalal, a final year student of the Department of Chemical Engineering has been awarded the LATE LAKSHMI NANDAKUMAR AWARD of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, for the year 2008 by a Lady Student.

This award was given for the paper on "Production of Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil", presented in SCHEMCON 2008 held at NIT, Jalandhar, in September 2008.

The award carries a certificate and a cash prize of Rs.4000/-

Congratulations to All the University Rank Holders in April / May 2008 Examinations as per list below - Well Done!

FWD - First Class with Distinction

STUDENTS WIN PRIZES IN CONFERENCES

Ms.FATHIMA JALAL, Mr.R.C.SRIRAAM and Mr.A.SUMANT of IV, B.Tech., (CH) have presented a paper titled "Production of Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil" in the 4th Annual Session of Students' Chemical Engineering Congress SCHEMCON 2008 on 26th &27th September 2008, held at NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, and won the FIRST prize.

R.VISHAL and K.SUBRAMANI of III, B.Tech., (CH) have presented a paper titled 'Effluent Treatment By Simultaneous Biodegradation And Adsorption Technique' in the National Level Student Seminar conducted by JNTU College of Engineering., Anantapur, on 12th September 2008 and won the FIRST prize.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS - SAE COLLEGIATE CLUB OF SVCE

The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Collegiate club of SVCE took part in the much awaited recently concluded convention'08 at SRM University on 26th & 27th September 2008 and they have created news and done SVCE proud. The convention provided the students an opportunity to showcase their technical knowledge. The convention consisted of three levels, namely Tier I, II & III.

Results of TIRE - II Competitions held at VIT, Vellore.

Results of National Level TIRE - III Competitions held at SRM University, Chennai.

Mr. Arun Prasad from final year, Automobile was awarded Scholarship from SAE India.

OUR SAE STUDENT MEMBERS AND FACULTY ADVISOR AT SRM UNIVERSITY
WINNER OF SCHOLARSHIP	I-PLACE IN PAPER PRESENTATION

Mr K Bhaskar, Assistant Professor
Faculty Advisor for the SAE Collegiate Club, SVCE

WELL DONE - CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL

SVCE STUDENTS BAG INAE AWARDS

The following 2 projects of our final year EE and CS students (2008 batch) have been selected for conferment of Innovative Student Projects Award - 2008 by the Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi.

It is noteworthy that of the several projects by engineering students from all over the country, 48 were short listed for an oral presentation and finally five were selected for the awards. Out of the five, two are from
our college.

EE department:

Project: Remote Navigation of an Electric vehicle.

Students:
(1) Mr.Arivarasan.K
(2) Ms.Jeevitha.S
(3) Ms.Jyothi Lakshmi and
(4) Ms.Ramalakshmi

Internal guide: Mr.K.Sundararaman

CS department:

Project: Rule based text prediction in mobile messaging.

Students:
(1) Mr.Arvind.T
(2) Ms.Nithya.M
(3) Ms.Pranayini.G

Internal guide: Ms.V.Vidhya

The award ceremony will be held in Goa on 5th December 2008.

Well done !

PRINCIPAL

BROADCAST OF ONLINE CONVERSATION OF MR. R.S.ANAND, III YEAR BIOTECHNOLOGY DEPT. WITH DR. A.P.J.ABDUL KALAM

Mr.R.S.Anand, III year Biotechnology student participated in Independence day celebration competition, conducted by All India Radio, Chennai on "IDEAS FOR A BETTER INDIA" His idea on Ecofriendly system "Genshakthi- utilizing floating wind turbines, Photo Bioreactors and artificial coral reefs" was selected and called for an online interview with Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam on 13th August, 2008 at All India Radio station, Chennai. The idea was appreciated by Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.

This conversation will be broadcasted on 15th August, 2008 between 10am -11am in the AIR-FM Rainbow (107.1 MHz)

I Prize in Quiz event organized by CTS

M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions arranged Transition'08, on 19^th January, 2008 at Image Auditorium, R.A.Puram, Chennai. About 250 teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh participated in this event.

Ram Kumar L, III Year EEE and Ranjani M, III Year Chemical teamed together to secure the First Prize in the General Quiz.

These winners were given an iPod Nano Media Player and a Job Offer from CTS. The prizes were given away by Mr Bhaskar, VP of Human Resources, CTS.

Congratulations & Well Done.

Sub: National Integration Camp

10 NCC (Army) Cadets attended the National Integration Camp, Bhilai held during 12.11.2007 to 23.11.2007, headed by
Lieutenant (Dr) A Bhaskaran, ANO Army & Asst. Professor, Department of Applied Physics.

In the camp, SVCE NCC (Army) team which participated on behalf of Tamil Nadu Directorate got the following awards in All India level:-

• Best Directorate award for Discipline.
• 2^nd in National Integration Awareness Program.

Sub: Award of Rolling Shield

We have great pleasure in informing you that your Institution has been awarded VUMMIDI SREERAMULU CHETTY ROLLING SHIELD which is given for mobilizing the third highest number of donors from among Colleges.

Bhanu Raghunathan,
Honorary Secretary,
Association of Voluntary Blood Donors,
The Madras Voluntary Blood Bureau,
6, Cathedral Road, Chenai - 600 086.

Final year EEE students (Anupriya Selvaraj, Deepika M, Gayathri M A, and Anandhi) have developed a micro controller based system for automatic navigation of an electric vehicle. The path profile for the vehicle is pre programmed and the vehicle executes the path while checking for any obstacles that may be present. Safety interlocks like checking for closed doors, are available.

Details have been published in the "Education Plus" supplement of the "The Hindu" dated June 25, 2007.

Well Done.

The Department earlier also received MODROBS grants from AICTE- 5.5 lakhs during 1998-99 for the Computer Aided Process & Equipment Design and 11.7 lakhs during 2002-03 for the Process Control Laboratory.

Chemical Engineering Department was given the PEDILITE INDUSTRIES BEST STUDENT CHAPTER AWARD (for the year 2006) of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers by the President of the Institute at CHEMCON-2006 confernce held at Bharuch on 27th December, 2006. The award was given for being the most acitive among the 55 such Student chapters under IIChE in the country during 2005-2006. The award carries a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize of Rs.15,000/-.

Based on the project reports submitted by the students, the following students of the 2002-2006 batch of SVCE have been selected for conferment of the Innovative Student Projects Award 2006 - Bachelor Level by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), at the all India level.

Mr C Girinandh, 3 rd year Mechanical Engineering student of our college was invited to give a fusion music concert along with his band "OXYGEN" at the world famous Maha Kumbabishekam festival of the Lord Shri Venkateswara Temple (Trividale Birmingham U.K) . OXYGEN was felicitated by Dr Somasundaram Rajah (Founder of the Temple). The concert was attended by the Honorable Prime minister of England Tony Blair, Amitab Bachan and many other eminent personalities. To our surprise the concert had over 10,000 devotees. Apart from giving many concerts, Mr C Girinandh has released two music albums of their own compositions "OXYGEN" and "DIMENSIONS" which is well received across the globe.

We congratulate Mr C Girinandh for his success.

The award also included a cash prize of Rs.25,000/- besides certificate presented by Prof. P. Balaram, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 29th July 2006.

Ajay S. Nath	S. Ashwin

OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE DONE
THE COLLEGE PROUD. WELL DONE.

SYLVESTER VIJAY R of IV Year EEE and RAMKUMAR of I Year EEE won the first place in the inter-collegiate quiz competition I-Quiz conducted at Womens Christian College Chennai on 23rd March 2006

CUO A.LAVAN KUMAR (NCC ARMY WING III YEAR CSE A) has been adjudged as the Best Sr. Cadet in the Competition held in 13 (TN) BN NCC, Chennai on 11th March06 .

NCC (ARMY) Wing, SVCE has been adjudged as III BEST MARCHING CONINGENT in the Competition

V. Barath of VIII Sem A Batch B.E. EC is the only candidate from South India to clear the Army-14 Services Selection Board Interview in BATCH-CUES-71147 held at Allahabad during 29th Jan - 2nd Feb 2006 for the post of Engineer.

TENNIS (WOMEN)-Runners up

1.MITHRA.V IV CSE
2.PRATHIBA.V II EEE
3.SARANYA.G I CSE
4.A.MEENA III ECE

The Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Student Chapter of SVCE (in the Chemical Engineering Department) was awarded "Ambuja's Best Student Chapter award - 2nd. Prize" for the year 2005 at CHEMCON - 2005 & 58th Annual Session of IIChE held at IIT Delhi during 14-17 December, 2005. The award carries a Certificate, Momento and Cash prize of Rs.10,000/-.

This is a National Level Prize given to two of the most active student Chapters chosen among the 55 such Student Chapters spread all over the country.