Annual Day Report 2016 – 2017
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COLLEGE DAY REPORT 2016- 17 25/03/17 BIDECENNIAL CELEBRATIONS: 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION : Kumararani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science celebrated 20 years of success in the field of education on September 1st at Kamaraj Arangam. Dr.(Mrs). Meena Muthiah, Secretary and Correspondent, Kumararani of Chettinad, presided over the function. Guests of Honour included Dr. G. Viswanathan, Chancellor, VIT, Col. Dr. G. Thiruvasagam, Vice Chancellor, AMET University, Dr. Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., and Dr. P. David Jawahar, Registrar, University of Madras. A Centre for Business Excellence was officially launched and installed by Dr.Mrs.Meena Muthiah, Secretary and Correspondent of the college. The Centre for Business Excellence is a knowledge hub and has partnered with South Indian bank and has established a simulated bank inside the college premises. It provides practical exposure to students to acquire knowledge in Business and managerial skills. The centre has also collaborated with Finmark to provide practical exposure in capital market sector. The capital market sector in the centre for business excellence provides practical exposure to students to trade in stock exchange ACADEMICS: The following students secured centum in the university papers. ✓ S.Lathik Lekha Bcom(A&F) Secured Centum In ✓ K.Prabhakaran, T.Venkatesan, M.Deepika , J.Ramya , S.Sangeetha, K. Thilagavathy & D.Thulsi Kharel B.Com (C.S) Secured 100% In Institutionaltraining: ✓ Sriram M.ScIT Secured Centum In Project. ✓ P. Gowtham Raj, K. Jagathratchagan, N.Karthik, Roshan Choudry,S. Santhosh Kumar, Johra Jabeen, K. Keerthana, M. Anupriya,C. Srivignesh,K. Megala,R. Mohanapriya ,N.Priyadharshini,M.Vinitha,Vellala Sumithra of BBA Secured Centum In Project. DEPARTMENTS CONDUCTED VARIOUS EVENTS AT INTER, INTRA DEPARTMENT LEVEL- Hindi- Debate(Tamil) , debate(English), Dumb charades, Speech(English), Speech(Hindi), Translation and off stage events Photography, hand writing , Paper presentation ,“video presentation about college life”,Bridal makeup” . 1 Sanskrit Power Point Presentation, Dumb charades, collage and logo designing ENGLISH • The department organized a poetry reading session -Mr.Ragavendra Madhu, poet, founder,Poetry Couture, a Pan-India, Multi-lingual Poetry Movement and Mrs.Shuvashree Chowdhury, poet, novelist and short story writer were the resource persons. • A seminar on English as an essential means of communication was conducted by spell bee for the third year students. Quiz, Connections, Painting, Creative writing, Literary Potpourri, comprises dumb charades, quiz, connections, drawing, treasure hunting and rapid fire rounds • A Guest Lecture was organized on the topic ‘Critically Thinking on Literature’.The resource person was Dr.Anvar Sadath, Associate Professor, New College and the dept. magazine, Excalibre was released by him. MATHEMATICS Paper presentation in the topic “Application of Mathematics -Mr. Mahesh Babu Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Danish Ahmed College, Alumni was the chief guest of the day The events included Infinitalk, Cubic Mind, Analytic Mind, Amazing Pirates, Number Ninjas, and Differential Dimensions. The III year students visited the NSS camp at Thanderai village Chengelpet. Various events like Quiz, Maths Pictionary, Thambola and Rangometry were conducted for the school children. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE A Seminar on Game Programming was conducted for the II and III year B.Sc(CS), M.Sc(IT) and BCA(shift –II) students. Mr. Mohammed oriented the students about the importance of Game programming in current scenario. Live Wire conducted an aptitude test for II and III year of computer science students. The department of M.Sc.(IT), B.Sc.(CS) and BCA (shift –II) jointly organized InterCollege event. Mr Sathish from Image, Head, 3D Dept was the chief guest gave an interesting speech on the background work behind animation in the movies and film making. Quiz, Online Photography and off stage events debugging, paper presentation and e-waste were conducted. 2 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Intradepartment onstage events Just-a-minute, variety, Adapt tune, solo singing and offstage events Content writing, Technical Quiz and Tattoo designing were conducted. An Inter-Department Workshop on ‘PYTHON’, “Open source” in association with Mozilla Developers, JAVA, App development in association with mationalytics was conducted. PG DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The PG Department of Information Technology organized a Faculty Development Programme on “Creative Thinking” for two days, in collaboration with ICT Academy. The trainer for the session was Ms. Kalpana Gopal.. Faculties from various colleges’ all over the state enthusiastically participated and got trained. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY The department has organised a workshop - Popularisation of Science for school children along with Biotechnology. Mr. N. Wilson , St. Mary’s Boys Higher Secondary School The department has inaugurated Jenner’s Club. Dr Rani addressed on the “importance of vaccination and meticulous use of antibiotics”. The MEMBERS of the club have conducted a workshop and a survey on Hygiene - Hand washing for B.A English Lit. Students DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE The Department organized an “Inter School Workshop – Techfiesta 2016” on for the 11th & 12th students. Dr. N.Nedumaran Associate Professor, Head i/c, department of Central instrumentation & service Laboratory addressed the gathering on the career opportunities of electronics fields and Mr.E.David physics teacher gave a motivational talk. Around 150 students from various schools participated in the workshop. The Department also organized an “intercollegiate technical fest” at regional level. Mr.G.Sundaresan CEO A.G. Automation addressed the students on the “role of electronics students in Industry”. Around 70 students from various colleges in Chennai participated in competitions namely Project Expo, Fun Xerox and Make best out of e-waste. 3 PG DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECH The Department of Biotechnology organized a State level workshop on “NANOTECHNOLOGY- INNOVATIVE APPLICATION OF METAL NANOPARTICLES” for UG, PG, Research scholars and Academicians on 7th October 2016. Around 100 participants from various colleges around the state were benefited. A plenary lecture on “Synthesis and Innovative scientific usage of Metal Nanoparticles” was delivered by Dr. S. C. G. Kiruba Daniel, Post Doc Fellow, Optics and Microfluidics Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Two mini projects apart from curriculum was designed and executed by the department students on the socio-beneficial Topic “Vector borne disease” and “Treatment of Microbial contaminants using Herbal derived Nanoparticles” from 26th December 2016 to 05th January 2017 and the report was submitted to the department. A one day seminar on “Importance of Food, Health and Nutrition to Teenagers” was conducted on 22nd February 2017. A guest lecture was delivered by Dr. Preetiraj, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Food &Nutrition, Ethiraj college of Arts and Science for Women and also founder of Wootu Nutrition, Chennai. benefited. An interdepartmental event “Rhymezone – Guess the word” was conducted. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE The Department of Commerce conducted a National conclave on Corporate Social Responsibility- Future Perspectives. The Resource persons - Dr. B.Ravi Managing Partner B. Ravi&Associates, Company Secretaries spoke on the significance of the Companies Act with reference to CSR, Dr. Selva Shanmugam M.S (Siddha) Phd.President, World Siddha Trust, Secretary Health India Foundation Research, Professor, World Institute of Scientific Exploration(USA) Prof(Academic & Research Vetha centre for Transdisciplinary Studies New Jersey Institute of Technology )New Jersey, spoke on holistic healthcare & CSR. Mr. Velu Jaya Prakash Founder Swarna Prashna, Life coach spoke on natural farming, tree plantation and eye donation. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION The Department of Business Administration and Economics conducted its Inter Collegiate Admin Fest Competition – Chetna 2K17 on 7th Mar 2017 under the name BIZZ START UP. 4 Dr. G. Ravi kumar – Director CED (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development), Anna University was the chief guest, released the students news letter “Bits and Pieces” and Department Magazine “Insight and Foresight” DEPARTMENT OF CORPORATE SECRETARYSHIP: The Department organized a guest lecture on “ Income tax- Profits & Gains from business or profession- Dr.S.Thothadri, Assistant professor, department of Commerce, new college, Chennai Master Minds – Intra department events Couverture-de-magazine & Best book keeper , The Instigator & Read-a-Thon were organized: The inter-department events Jiggling and Mind mapping were organized . Department of Computer Applications (Shift II) organized a workshop on PYTHON. Mr.Senthil CTS served as a resource person. Mr. FENITON ROHAN (CTS) &Mr. SAGAR MULLA (IIT) Accompanied with him and provided hands on training. Around 127 students from various colleges enthusiastically participated and gained knowledge on Python. DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE The Department conducted “Workshop on Interview Tips and group discussion” by Dr.K.R.Subramany- International certified business coach and mentor. On 27/09/2016 an Intra – departmental activity “Mock interview on Accounting concepts “ was conducted. The Department also organized Onam Celebration, an interdepartmental Pookolam, face painting competition