The 29^th Corporate Voice Program was held in our campus on July 12th, 2016 for the benefit of final year students and the main focus of the program was to shape the young Engineers into lead Engineers. It was organised and arranged by Er.SR.Vijay Shrenivas, Managing Director, Vickram College of Engineering, Er.M.S.Vikram, Executive Director, Vickram College of Engineering and Dr.S.Nagarajan, Principal Vickram College of Engineering.Mr.A.Nagaraj, Placement Coordinator, Vickram College of Engineering gave the Welcome address and Prof.Jeyapaul Sathiasaran, Placement Officer, Vickram College of Engineering honoured the chief guest. Mr.L.Balaji,Chairman & Managing Director, Geomatiques Aero Thechnologies Pvt Ltd. commenced the session with his introductory remarks. He observed that an Engineer is primarily a problem solver.The chief guest,Mr. K. Chokkalingam, Geomatiques Aero Technologies Pvt Ltd gave the chief guest address on the topic Building Information Modelling (BIM). Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that equips architecture, engineering, and construction professionals with the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. He explained about Design, quantity surveying, cost estimation, contract awards and administration, project planning and execution, QA and QC of safety, pre commisioning and close out. He gave a brief lecture on Building Infromation Modelling (BIM) which is very essential to optimise the resource in lifecycle of the asset inorder to make better time and cost management. Then he went on to explain the working and the lifecycle of BIM and to be highlighted, he discussed about the difference between the traditional method and using BIM.

Mr. Ashwin Karunakaran, Founder & CEO, Bird view Mapping, Bangalore was an other chief guest, addressed on the topic GIS and UAV. He said that Unmanned Aerial Systems or “drone technology,” is a very hot topic amongst several disciplines, most of which are held together with the linchpin, GIS. They are one of the newest and most innovative tools to be considered for commercial use. They survey data in less time, using fewer natural resources than manned aircraft. He briefly explanined how UAV plays a major role in fields like electrical and utility, Telecommunication, Railways, Metro Planning and development and Flood disaster management. He also explained about ortoSky a new software developed by Services Research and Mapping Consulting (SRM)from a scratch with the premise of building a solid, stable, scalable, multipurpose, easy-to-use system oriented at connection with other systems. At the end of the session a demo was given to the each and every student to have a clear description about BIM, GIS and UAV. Then the program ended with the vote of thanks submitted by Ms. Mona Nikkila, Final year Civil Engineering.

Dear All,

 For the benefit of students, TCS (TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES) has started campus Commune, a platform for students to learn, share & Colloborate with industry in the pursuit of being industry ready.

It is beneficial to all students irrespective of their arrear status. The students are informed to make use of this opportunity and get a chance to be placed in TCS

How to Register?

1. Visit campus commune use the following link       https://nextstep.tcs.com/

2. Click on the getting start dropdown menu present in the tool bar to see how to register on Nextstep.

3. Login to Nextstep after complete the registration and find a link to campus commune.

4. Clicking on the link would take you to campus commune website.

FOSS club – Spoken Tutorial Project IIT Bombay was inaugurated at Vickram College of Engineering on 17/06/2016 at 09.30am. The program started with invocation. Dr. S.Nagarajan, Principal, Vickram College of Engineering delivered the welcome address.

Mr. Mohamed Kasim Khan, Spoken Tutorial project – Tamilnadu Co-ordinator, IIT Bombay inaugurated the club and delivered the inaugural address on the importance of open source software. He described about various projects through which education can be made more innovative and motivated the staff members to update themselves with recent technologies. He also discussed about reliability, stability, flexibility and accountability of using open source software. He also said that open source will over take the proprietary software over a period of time. National Mission of Education through ICT and MHRD are making it possible to popularize open source software in India. The main aim of FOSS is to popularize open source software among students. Students who have experience in open source software can easily get placed in private and public sectors like ISRO, DRDO in future.

Further more IIT Bombay has recognized Vickram College of Engineering as resource center in Sivagangai district. It has also recognized Vickram College of Engineering as resource center for Spoken Tutorial from 2014. So far 39 courses have been conducted under this and about 1024 students and staff were trained in these courses. Mr.P.Pavunraj, Research Center Co-Ordinator, Vickram College of Engineering, delivered the vote of thanks.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR IETKKLN AWARD WINNERS 2016

THE FOLLWING STUDENTS ARE THE AWARD WINNERS IN IETKKLN FUNCTION HELD AT ST.XAVIOR CATHOLIC COLLEGE NAGARCOIL ON 19-04-16

PATW COMPETITION FINALS RUNNER -M.Ramnath 3RD MECH(WON CASH PRIZE Rs.5000)

PATW COMPETITION FINAL PARTICIPATION S.Vinothini 3RD CIVIL

IET KKLN CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD       Rasika.L      2ND CIVIL

IET KKLN RESEARCH AWARD                       Aswin kumar .B   3RD MECH

IET KKLN INNOVATION AWARD                  Janani .S    4TH EEE

IET KKLN REGULARITY AWARD                Krishnaveni.B  3RD CSE

IET KKLN LEADERSHIP AWARD                Arunkumar.B   3RD MECH

IET KKLN BEST ORGANIZER AWARD        Dhivya.M      3RD EEE   

IET KKLN BEST OUTGOING STUDENT AWARD   Muthukumar.B    4TH ECE

ICONIC EVENT OF THE YEAR AWARD     VICKRAMCE CHAPTER