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Nearly 40 companies from marketing, finance and human resource sectors have offered internships to the first batch students of St. Joseph’s Institute of Management. At the ‘Internship Initiation’ programme held at the college on Tuesday, 60 students received their offer letters from the Secretary of Tamil Nadu Private Bus Operators Association S. Dharmaraj.
The students would undergo a two-month training at the companies as part of their first summer project. Addressing the students, Mr. Dharmaraj drew parallels between the marketing strategies observed decades earlier and technology-assisted strategies of recent days.
Dedication and diligence were the winning mantra of a career in management and students must put in their wholehearted efforts to learn the ropes of the career fast, he told the students. Students who completed their three-month diploma programme in ‘effective management’, were awarded with certificates. The course, handled by the Administrator of the institute Fr. Louis Xavier, sought to hone spoken and written skills of the students and finetune their group discussion and interview-facing skills.
Certificates of appreciation for students who participated in ‘Leadership concave’, a series of management lectures taken by the students of the college, were given away. The winning team comprising Thomas John Paul, Charlie Vinodh Kumar and Antony Rajan were given special prizes. Director Antony Pappuraj presided over the function.
All issues relating to Grid computing and its applications were discussed in detail at the two-day AICTE-sponsored national conference on ‘Grid computing and its applications’ organised jointly by the computer science and information technology departments of Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology (JCET) at Pagalavadi near Thuraiyur recently. The conference was inaugurated by the principal, Oxford College of Engineering V. K. Pandey.
The technical sessions were handled by the HoD of Computer Science, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology, Sahaya Arul Mary. She spoke on Grid job scheduling and network management. The second session was chaired by Sumathi of JJ College of Engineering and Technology. She spoke on ‘High performance computing and Grids’.
On day two, the first session was handled by Sheeba Kezia Malarchelvi, computer science department head, JCET, who spoke on Grid security and challenges, while the second session was chaired by S. Selvakumar, computer science professor, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi (NIT-T), who spoke on ‘grid overview’. He later chaired the valediction where he spoke on research area grids.
Under the auspices of the English Association of M. A. M. College of Engineering, Siruganur, an English oratorical contest was held recently. Jeeva Vekataraman, a student of mechanical department, won the competition and a cheque for Rs. 300. The second prize went to J. Mechelle Valentine of Computer Science Engineering and the third prize to M. Hina Thahseen of IT.
The Humanities Science Association of Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology, Siruganur, organised a seminar on ‘ecological damage’. The Professor of Chemistry, Jamal Mohamed College, Jafer Ahamed, was the resource person. He listed the reasons for ecological damage and gave remedial solutions for saving the earth. Principal D. Rajaraman presided.
The NSS volunteers of the Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, participating in an ongoing 10-day special camp, organised a soil fertility protection camp at Sannasipatti village. The volunteers collected about 100 soil samples in problematic fields and they were sent for soil testing. The volunteers also organised a rural roadways development programme under the leadership of Dean S. Jeyaraman. They also cleared the prosopis plants which posed a great menace for the villagers. In the free veterinary camp, a large number of cattle were treated for various disorders. The Dean-in-charge of the institute, G. Ranganathan, inaugurated the camp.
Contributed by Syed Muthahar Saqaf,
R. Krishnamoorthy and S. Aishwarya.
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