Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology

Alagappa Chettair College of Engineering and Technology
Established 1952
Type Autonomous
Location Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Website http://www.accet.in

Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology (ACCET-Karaikudi) is an autonomous (with effect from 2009) college of engineering in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1952, it is under the control of the government of the State. The college is a member institute under the TEQIP - Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme in India (11 colleges were selected from Tamil Nadu).

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History

Dr. R.M. Alagappa Chettiar founded Alagappa Chettiar Educational Trust with the aim of developing the backward area of Karaikudi into a centre for higher education.

On 21 July 1952 ACCET started with three faculties - Civil, Mechanical and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The foundation tablet for the main building of the college was laid by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, on 19 February 1953.

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The institution has been awarded the status of the best engineering college of 2006-07 in Tamil Nadu. Chief Minister Dr. Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi honoured the Principal in a function at Anna University, Chennai, on September 1, 2008 for this cause.[1] The college is now affiliated to Anna University of tech.,Madurai from 2010-2011.Amenities like Canteen,PostOffice,Xerox and STD are available.

TEQIP

The college has been selected by the world Bank to participate in Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme(TEQIP)Phase-2 and Rs.12.5 crores has been sanctioned as programme life allocation by National Project Implementation Unit,Govt.This amount will be incurred towards the purchase of sophisticated equipments and further development of the college

students associations

To encourage the students in extra curricular activities various associations are functioning in the campus.To name a few:
  • Fine Arts association
  • Tamil Mandram
  • Photographic Society
  • TechLit
  • N.S.S
  • N.C.C
  • Rotaract Club
  • Leo Club
  • S.A.E
  • Red Cross Society,etc.,

Campus Facilities

NRSC building

The Non Resident Students Centre Building was declared open on the 27th March 1981 for the benefit of day scholars. It houses a couple of spacious dining halls with furniture. A room for the students association and a few guest rooms are also available in the NRSC Building.

Sports and games

The college offers facilities for outdoor and indoor games such as cricket, hockey, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, tennis and table tennis and chess. There is a 400 m track for athletics and the necessary equipment for jumps, throws, power lifting and body building. The membership of the tennis club is open to staff and students of the college. An indoor stadium and gymnasium are also available. Student’s

cooperative store

Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology and Alagappa Polytechnic Students Co-operative Society Limited was registered on 19.1.1956. Every student on admission to the college automatically becomes the member of co-operative store. The store primarily caters to the requirements of the students.A co-operative store with students and staff as members is functioning in the campus.A co-operative thrift society is also functioning in the campus for the benefit of the faculty and staff members of the college.

Medical Facilities

A dispensary is functioning in the hostel campus with an attached in-patient ward to accommodate students and staff in case of illness. The unit is under the charge of a part-time medical officer assisted by a pharmacist. The dispensary functions during forenoon session on all weekdays except Sunday.

Auditorium

The college auditorium (Dewan Bahadur Murugappa Hall) is the college auditorium seating a capacity of 600. It also has a spacious stage for conducting cultural programmes and entertainment.

Post office

Alagappa Engineering College Post Office is located in the college campus. You can avail postal services just in a few steps of walking.

Bank

You can avail SBI ATM facility in CECRI shopping complex near the campus. Indian Bank along with ATM facility is also situated near the college campus. ICICI bank along with ATM facility is reachable in a few metres in College Road.

Courses

Undergraduate

The engineering courses that are available at the undergraduate level are:

Postgraduate

Most of the courses are made available with the assistance of the Government of Tamil Nadu, CSIR, AICTE,UGC, UNESCO and World Bank.

Principals

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Structure

The department is the first in the State to offer a B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Magazine

SYNETICS magazine reflects the students ideas in engineering and management fields, including management topics like JIT, KANBAN, TPM, and TQM.

Electrical and Electronics

Lab

The lab houses AC and DC machines manufactured by ABB, GEC, Parkinson, Crompton, and Westinghouse. The lab allows a study of electrical machines, their characteristics, applications and testing. The lab is also used for research and training.

The electronics laboratory allows the study of semiconductor devices, design and testing of analog and digital circuitry, and design and implementation of high powerboscope, IC trainer kits, analog and digital machining equipment, and peripherals for the design and testing of circuitry.

The microprocessor lab allows study of using microprocessors as an industrial control tool. The lab has trainer kits like Z80, 8085, 8086, 80286, MC6800; dedicated controllers like 8051; circuit emulation equipments; computer aided IC testing,and microprocessor based measuring equipment.

The lab has stepper motors, amplidynes, tachogenerators, transfer function analysers, servo motors, level process work station, PID controllers, thyristors controllers, and sun tracking cum solar power generation systems.

The lab is equipped with Pentium processor base machines with peripherals like colour printers, scanners and application and development software like C, C++, Java, Visual Studio and circuit analysing software like PCB EXPRESS, SPICE, VHDL, Electronic Workbench, and MATLAB.

Electronics and Communication

Laboratory

The laboratory helps the student understand the fundamentals of electronic devices and the dsign of electronic circuits. The laboratory has dual trace oscilloscopes, digital storage oscilloscopes and high frequency signal generators.

This lab teaches analog and digital communication, and modulation techniques such as PCM, PIM, ASK, FSK, and PSK, enhanced by trainer kits.

The lab has ten microwave test benches, spectrum and network analysers.

This lab allows study of modulation techniques, filter design using window functions, 2D image processing, wave generation using TMS320C25 processors a

Civil

Structure

The Department of Civil Engineering began in 1952. The department offers undergraduate programs, full time and part time. The department offers computer-aided design of structures (CAD), design and optimization technique and also a brief introduction to expert systems (artificial intelligence and inference mechanisms).

Laboratories

Students learn an awareness of quality, consistency and setting time of cement; quality and grading of fine and course aggregates; quality and strength of tiles, including mix designs.

This laboratory provides teaching on soil investigations like compaction, shearing strength, stress distribution, permeability, and particle size distribution.

This laboratory is equipped with equipment for analyzing water and sewage. Some of the equipments are B.O.D incubator, nephelometer, digital flame photometer, spectrophotometer, conductivity meter and jar test apparatus.

The geology laboratory has a museum containing thousands of minerals, rocks and fossils. The laboratory has been equipped with petrologic microscope, UV lamp, mirror and packet stereoscopes.

The department has its own computer centre. The students develop their programming skills using FORTRAN, C, and C++. The laboratory teaches the students civil engineering software packages like STAAD-III, NISSAN, STAR DYNE, 3D HOME, AUTOCAD-2000, AUTO CIVIL and SCADSS.

Computer Science

Laboratories

The department has three computer labs consisting of 120 systems and two servers with networking. A broadband connection is available.

The lab has microprocessor kits and other PC (learning models) hardware. The department has a facility for EDP and CAD learning for advanced graphics and image processing.

Placement

The Department of Placement and Training of the college functions with a Placement Officer. The Department maintains information regarding career opportunities for graduates. It provides information to the out-going graduates as well as the unemployed old students of this college about employment opportunities and helps them to communicate with the employers to seek employment.

The department arranges campus interviews and employment tests with organizations for the final year students to get employment immediately after graduation and to become familiar with employment interviews and tests which they may still have to face in future. The department arranges interviews for the pre-final year and final year students for the direct entry into the Indian Navy under the University Entry Scheme. The department also liases with government departments like Highways, and Public Works, for the Civil Engineering graduates.Major companies like TCS,HCL,infosys,TVS Group,FLSmidth,CTS,Sterlite,Dalmia cements,Total environment,CCCL,Billmoria,Coramendal construction,East Coast construction are regularly visiting the campus for placement.

Lateral Entry Counseling

The institution is the official center for Lateral Entry admissions every year under Anna University to colleges across Tamil Nadu. Using admissions software developed by its own students, the institute organizes the counseling process (invitation of applications, scrutiny of forms, preparation of merit list, dispatch of call letters and allotment of seats) for direct entry into second year B.E/B.Tech courses all over the state. The team for admissions functions under the leadership of the Principal, who is the secretary for admissions.

The details regarding the counseling schedule and rank lists are usually posted on to the institute's official website http://www.accet.in

ACCET alumni

The Old Students Association maintains contact between the ex-students of the college and the college itself. It was called as Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology Old Boys Association (ACCETOBA) but now it is re-christened as ACCETOSA (Alagappa Chettiar College Of Engineering and Technology Old Students Association).

See http://www.accetalumni.ning.com for alumni information.

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