Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai

Ranked among the top ten of Tamil Nadu’s 225 engineering colleges and third in Chennai based on Anna University exam results, SEC is distinguished by its value-added engineering education Sprawled over 200 acres of landscaped gardens with a scenic lotus pond as its epicentre, the Sai Ram Group of 12 education institutions in the West Tambaram suburb of Chennai, offer a unique — by Indian standards — campus. Promoted by Melvin Jones Fellow, Lion (MJF. Ln) Leo Muthu, a successful Chennai-based real estate tycoon and industry leader, the Sai Ram Group (SRG) comprises a dozen educational institutions including the Sai Ram Matriculation School; Sri Sai Ram Engineering College (which also houses the Sai Ram Polytechnic, Sai Ram Institute of Computer Applications and Institute of Management Studies); three siddha, ayurveda and homoeopathy medical colleges in Chennai; the Shirdi Sai Engineering College, Bangalore; an ITI in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu; four teacher training institutes (two in Chennai, one each in Pondicherry and Madurai) and the Sai Ram College of Education, Pondicherry. Though Muthu expresses satisfaction with the evolution and development of all SRG institutions which are administered by the Sapthagiri Educational Trust (estb. 1995), he acknowledges that the Sri Sai Ram Engineering College (SEC) — the flagship institution of the group — promoted in 1995, has earned the best reputation for delivering high quality technical education to rural and urban students in the state. Within a short time span of 11 years, the college, affiliated to the Chennai-based umbrella Anna University, has received the ISO 9001:2000 certification from Bureau Veritas International and all its engineering programmes have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Ranked among the top ten of Tamil Nadu’s 225 engineering colleges and third in Chennai, based on Anna University examination results, SEC is well-known for developing outstanding young achievers who have won national and international awards for socially relevant projects and inventions. SEC inducts 600 students annually and offers six undergraduate and two postgraduate programmes. Currently it has 2,012 students instructed by a team of 175 well-qualified faculty on its muster rolls. Student counsellors are appointed for every group of 12 students, to aid and advise undergrad students in particular. “Our focus is on promoting learning beyond textbooks. Therefore classroom instruction is supplemented with guest lectures, seminars, frequent visits to industry establishments for in-plant training, industry-oriented project work and active participation in student chapters of ISTE and the Computer Society of India (CSI). This comprehensive curriculum ensures that students are abreast with latest developments in technology and are well-equipped to meet industry requirements when they enter their workplaces,” says Dr. S. Seetharaman, principal of SEC who has over 35 years experience in teaching, research and consultancy in academia in India and abroad. A tour of the spacious SEC campus indicates that the management has pulled out all stops in providing state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities for students. The college’s air-conditioned, fully computerised and wi-fi enabled library with separate reference and reading sections sprawls…