Mandatory Disclosure by Institutions Running PGDBM/PGDM/MBA Programmes to Be Included in Their Respective Information Brochure
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MANDATORY DISCLOSURE BY INSTITUTIONS RUNNING AICTE APPROVED ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY/PHARMACY PROGRAMMES TO BE INCLUDED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE INFORMATION BROCHURE, DISPLAYED ON THEIR WEBSITE AND TO BE SUBMITTED TO AICTE EVERY YEAR LATEST BY 30TH AUGUST TOGETHER WITH ITS URL The following information is to be given in the Information Brochure besides being hosted on the Institution’s official Website. “The information has been provided by the concerned institution and the onus of authenticity lies with the institution and not on AICTE.” I. NAME OF THE INSTITUTION ADHIPARASAKTHI ENGINEERING COLLEGE MELMARUVATHUR KANCHEEPURAM DISTRICT- 603 319. Telephone Numbers : (044) 27529247, 27529502 Fax Numbers : (044) 27529094 Email : [email protected] Website : www.adhiparasakthi.in NAME & ADDRESS OF THE PRINCIPAL Dr.S. Jayashri Adhiparasakthi Engineering College Melmaruvathur Kancheepuram District- 603 319. Telephone Numbers : (044) 27529247, 27529502,27529881 Email : [email protected] Website : www.adhiparasakthi.in III. NAME OF THE AFFILIATING UNIVERSITY : ANNA UNIVERSITY 1 IV. GOVERNANCE Members of the Board and their brief background The college is governed by a governing council. The composition of council and brief background of the members of the council are as follows: Members Nominated by Trust 1. Thirumathi Lakshmi Bangaru Adigalar: Chairperson 2. Thiru B.Anbalagan, Member : Member 3. G.B.Senthil Kumar : Correspondent A.P.E.C , Melmaruvathur 4. Thiru R.Karunanithi, Trust, Member : Member 5. Thiru A.K.Venkatasamy, Trust : Member Member & Industrialist, 6. Thiru. Thirumalaiappan : Member Industrialist, 7. Thiru. R. Somasundaram Retaied : Member Chief Engineer, PWD 8. Prof. VRA.Saathappan : Member Principal, sister Institution 9. Dr. P. Purushothamaraj, Eminent : Member Professor Members nominated by AICTE/UNIVERSITY/DTE 10. Nominee of AICTE : 11. Nominee of Anna University : 12. Nominee of DTE : Member Secretary 13. Dr. S. Jayashri : Member Secretary Principal, A.P.E.C 2 Members of Academic Advisory Body / Planning and Monitoring Board 1. Dr. S. Jayashri, Principal : Chairperson 2. Prof. R. Senthil, HOD(ME)& Vice-Principal : Vice-Chairman 3. Dr.P. Purushothama Raj : Member (Senior faculty) 4. Prof.VRA. Saathappan, HOD (CE) : Member (Senior faculty) 5. Prof. K.S. Pandian, Prof, S&H : Member (Senior faculty) 6. Senior Faculty from University/Other College : Member 7. Thiru. A.K. Venkatasamy (Industrialist) : Member 8. Thiru. Thirumalaiappan (Industrialist APEC, Kalavai) : Member 9. Thiru. R. Somasundaram (Architect) : Member 10. Prof. R. Karthiyasamy, HOD(EEE) : Member 11. Mrs. R. Dhanalakshmi, HOD(CSE) : Member 12. Prof. R. Rajasekaran, HOD(CHEM) : Member 14. Mrs. A. Poonguzhali, HOD(IT) : Member 15. Dr. R. Senapathy, HOD(MBA) : Member 16. Dr. Popayee, HOD(S&H) : Member 17. Mr. S.P. Ponnusamy , HOD(MCA) : Member Secretary Frequency of the Board Meetings and Academic Advisory Body The Planning and Monitoring Board meeting is convened atleast twice a year and the interval between two consecutive meetings is not more than six months. The Governing council meeting is convened twice a year. 3 Organizational chart and processes GOVERNING COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON CORRESPONDENT PRINCIPAL HOD s ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER Professors Office superident/Accounts officer Assistant Professors Accountants/Assistants Lecturers Junior Assistants Attendents 4 Nature and Extent of involvement of faculty and students in academic affairs/ improvements Involvement of Faculty Faculty involves themselves with academic, research, consultancy, administration and extension activities. In addition to the self growth they actively strive hard for the departmental and Institutional growth by actively associating with relevant activities. High standard of education and consistent achievements made by the students can only be attributed to the wholehearted involvement of the faculty in every respect. Punctuality, effective preparation of teaching materials, guidance and counseling to students, lucid presentation in Teaching using modern multi-media systems and so on do indicate the committed involvement of the faculty. Faculty voluntarily associate themselves with students and in addition to the main duty of imparting knowledge, guide the students in co-curricular and extra curricular activities, to bring out the best in them and to mould them to be rounded personality. The highly committed faculty is constantly striving hard to improve the quality of teaching in the class room and in the laboratory. Every laboratory has a lab manual and handout. The faculty initiates and involves in the following activities to improve the teaching and learning experience. Regular use of audio visual aids Frequent industrial visits Improving the skills of the students through imaginative assignments Industry oriented live student projects Access to internet Competitions such as technical quiz , seminars, paper presentation in students chapter Frequent use of teaching aids such as charts and models Construction practical in the regular time table Special coaching for GATE and other competitive exams Coaching for communication skills in regular time table Counseling services Extent of involvement of Faculty in academic affairs Lectures Lectures are planned on various topics of each unit covering fundamental concepts, mathematical background (if necessary), applications, illustrative examples for 5 problems and designs and teaching schedule is prepared to cover the entire syllabus within the time frame. Lectures are delivered using audio visual aids, adopting modern teaching methods and giving opportunity to the students for interactions. In order to improve the creativity, assignments are given on different topics in such a way that the students can complete the assignments using the library facilities. Tutorials Tutorial class of 1 period per week is allotted for each course. Students are individually checked for their problems solving ability and understanding of the subjects. In addition 1 period is allotted in the timetable to help the students to solve their individual difficulties on different subjects. Course file Every faculty member prepares a course file with the following details for each theory subject that he/she is assigned to teach: Copy of the syllabus for the particular course. Schedule of teaching. Brief contents of each topic to be taught. List of text / reference books. Details of assignments. Question papers for the internal tests. Set of O.H.P. transparencies for the course etc. LABORATORY CLASSES Teaching schedule for lab classes are planned to cover the experiments included in the syllabus. In addition, innovative experiments are also given wherever it is necessary to support the theory classes handled on various subjects. Lab. manuals are prepared and distributed to the students at the commencement of the course. Each Lab. manual consists of the objective of the test, detailed description of the equipments / exercises, experimental and calculation procedures. Record note books are maintained in the laboratory until the end of the academic year. Mechanism/Norms & Procedure for democratic/good Governance Academic pass percentage is the index of good governance. Every faculty member works hard and takes all efforts to produce 85% result in each subject such that the college rank comes in the top 5% among all affiliated colleges. The students and faculty are involved in the governance of academic matters. The students are given chance to express their academic expectation and problems. To achieve the overall goal of improving teaching learning process class monitoring committee and course committee are formed. For each class, separate class monitoring committee is formed, comprising of students (different caliber), faculty advisor and Head of the department. Normally the committee is used to meet twice a semester. The class monitoring committee discusses about the course syllabus coverage, need for career development programmes for the students, Requirements for extra coaching, non-performance of duty by the faculty, etc. and these suggestions are implemented after scrutiny by the HOD. 6 Each common theory course offered to more than one discipline has a course committee comprising of all teachers teaching the common course to ensure uniform evaluation of test and uniform approach of handling that common course. The different chapters, committees, societies and associations, such as Student Welfare and Disciplinary action Committee, Student’s Council, Career Guidance and Employment Bureau, are formed with the staff and students as members to ensure effective and smooth functioning of college activities. All the above activities ensure the good and democratic governance of the institution. Student Feedback on Institutional Governance/faculty performance At the end of each semester / year, every student is given an opportunity to evaluate the faculty members by means of performance appraisal form in addition to the opportunity given in the course monitoring committee. This helps the Principal / Management in assessing the performance of the faculty members. Grievance redressal mechanism for faculty, staff and students Grievance redressal procedure for faculty and Staff. The grievance redressal committee for the faculty and Staff comprises of Principal, Director and Correspondent. When staff expresses the student related grievance, it is sorted out in the Principal level. The monetary related grievances are sorted out in the Director and Correspondent