PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated to Anna University. The college offers a total of 48 full-time and part-time programs in Science, Engineering and Management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The college was founded in 1951 by Dr.G.R.Damodaran as the first private engineering institution established in Tamil Nadu. It is affiliated to PSG & Sons Charities Trust.
History
PSG Industrial institute was established in 1926 by PSG and Sons Charities in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. The engineering college was started in the institute campus in 1951 by Dr. G.R.Damodaran, who became its first principal. The college was conferred autonomous status by University of Madras in 1978, which was continued by the Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna University since 2001.
Academics
About 48 full-time and part-time programs in science, engineering and management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels by the 11 engineering and technology, computer applications, management sciences, basic sciences and humanities departments. The institute offer three 5-year integrated sandwich engineering courses which combines class room coaching with industrial training, one of the few in the country to offer such a course. Among the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the college, many are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation system. Since 1960, PSG College of Technology has been publishing the "PSG Design Data Book", the engineering Data hand book, used throughout the country by engineers and students.
Rankings
Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology ranked 13th by India Today in 2017, 17 by Outlook India in 2017 and 33 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017. Careers360 has given it the second best rating, "AAAA+", among engineering colleges in 2017.
Student life
Clubs
The Students Union is the apex body which controls all the aspects of student life including other clubs and societies. The college has many student-run clubs including Fine arts (drawing, multimedia and photography), Dramatics (cultural), English Literary Society (English literature and communication), Entrepreneurs Club (entrepreneurship), Martial Arts Club (martial arts), Pathshala (Hindi literature), Tech music (music), Tamil Mandram (Tamil literature),Radio Hub, Rotaract (social welfare), Youth Red Cross (health and well being), Global Leaders Forum (innovation and leadership), Cap and Nature Club (environment), Astronomy Club (astronomy), Association of Serious Quizzers (quizzing),Women development cell(WDC), Brains trust (mathematics and problem solving) and Higher Education Forum (higher education). Apart from these clubs, student wings of NCC and NSS also function on campus.
Hostel
PSG Tech hostel was established on 27 February 1958. The hostels accommodates about 4300 students in 14 blocks named from A to N of which 5 blocks dedicated to women. There are five student dining halls, an auditorium, a library, a computer center and a guest house attached to the hostels.
Symposiums
Since 2005, the college conducts an international techno-management festival called Kriya. Every year in February, PSG also plays host to Renaissance, a two-day inter-collegiate cultural festival. Intrams is the intra-college cultural festival which is conducted in September.
Notable alumni
- Mylswamy Annadurai, Director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2, ISRO
- Anand Chandrasekaran, business executive at Facebook
- Y. S. Chowdary, Minister of State, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Government of India
- Sundaram Karivardhan, Industrialist and Motorsport pioneer
- Madhusudhan Rao Lagadapati, Executive Chairman of Lanco Infratech
- Cottalango Leon, Winner of Academy Award
- G. V. Loganathan, former professor, Virginia Tech
- Jose K. Mani, Member of Parliament
- Aparna B Marar, Classical dancer
- Gopal Menon, Documentary Filmmaker
- Mahesh Muthuswami, Cinematographer
- Shiv Nadar, Chairman and CSO of HCL Technologies
- K. Pandiarajan, founder Director of Mafoi Consultants
- A. G. Ramakrishnan, Professor, Indian Institute of Science
- Sundar Raman, cricket administrator
- Siva Umapathy, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Kalidhindi B. R. Varma, Vice Chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
- C Vijayakumar, CEO, HCL Technologies
References
External links
- PSG tech official website
- PSG tech Alumni website
