KUMARARANI MEENA MUTHIAH COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE DAY REPORT 2015-16 12/03/2016 Respected Dr. Mrs. Meena Muthiah, Secretary and Correspondent, Respected Professor, Mr. Kiruba Shankar. , Members of the college governing council, Heads of Sister Institutions, special invitees, faculty members, parents and my dear students- Good evening. Every seed has in it the potential to become a forest Every rock in it has a potential to become a statue Every human being has in him the potential to become great. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me; you'll love it up here. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” It gives me immense pleasure to present the report of the college 2015-16 Founded in 1996, Kumararani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science is one of the premier educational institutions of Chennai, affiliated to the University of Madras. Dr. Mrs. Meena Muthiah, Secretary and Correspondent, granddaughter of a great visionary late Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar is a living legend and a pioneer in music, arts, education and health. Under her dynamic leadership the college strives to impart holistic education, with a clear vision of empowering, enhancing and enabling the students to possess the required skills in all facets of managerial, communication and life skills. Her aim is to inculcate a sense of moral and cultural superiority of our nation in student’s minds, thereby making them responsible and responsive citizens to suit the national and global needs. Her dream is to teach the younger generation the dignity of life and make them understand that they are born to win and succeed through hard work. The college offers today ten undergraduate and two postgraduate courses in Shift I and two undergraduate courses in Shift II with strength of 1200. The college has state of the art infrastructure with well equipped library, labs and effective coaching by a team of dedicated staff members. Healthy exposure to faculties, skill enhancement programs though Entrepreneurial Development training, conduct of workshops, Faculty Development Programs, execution of community based projects, ensuring that every individual is given ample opportunity towards holistic abundance as they are seeds of tomorrow. College provides value based skill development programmes as certificate courses for all the students. All the first years undergo vocational training courses which include tailoring and embroidery, Jewellary making, computer hardware and networking. For second years the college offers Journalism in Tamil and English, Vermi composting, Photoshop and flash, accounting and tally. For third year finishing school- placement training titled “campus to corporate” is given for all the students. Entrepreneurial training is given. Apart from this, the college offers compulsory yoga, aerobics and gym for the students. The college's exclusive USP is that all the constituents’ work towards developing each student towards growth in their life and career. Flexibility in the work environment and modernity in approach, the college continues to sustain the value based education on one hand and catering to the needs of the society on the other hand. The college focuses to march with academic excellence and drive towards techno savvy societal transformation fused with traditional culture and values. ACADEMICS: Excellence is a quality of being outstanding. Excellence is an art won by training. It is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution. It representts the wise choice of many alternatives- choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit. Students excel in academics and the college produces university ranks every year. Students Achievements The following students received University ranks. ➢ Kamakshi.N of B.Sc(computer science) secured 18st rank in Major ➢ J.Jennifer of B.Sc(Bio Technology) secured 2nd rank in English ➢ Mythili A of B.Com secured 18th rank in Tamil ➢ Reshma R. Padval of B.Com(CS) secured 12th rank in Sanskrit ➢ Srinivasan R of B.Com secured 16th rank in Sanskrit ➢ Akshita B of B.Com secured 16th rank in French ➢ Inbusuhodd Fathima Sharmila of BBA secured 14th rank in Major ➢ S. Geetha of B.Com(A&F) secured 4th rank in Major and also she got 6th rank in Sanskrit. ➢ J. Poornima of B.Com(A&F) secured 14th rank in Sanskrit. The following students secured centum in the university papers. ✓ Shanthosh Priya.M II B.Sc(Mathematics) got centum in Vector Calculus Fourier series and Fourier Transforms ✓ J. Ramya , II BCS secured centum in Statistics I ✓ Swetha, S.Vignesh, Murshid wazhar.M.W, Puvaneshwaran, Mithuna, Duhara, Azra Razeedin and Ibnu suhood Fathima sharmila of III BBA Secured centum in project. ✓ Aswini.S, Gayathri.D, Girija.M, Reshma Poduval III- B.Com(CS) Secured centum in Institutional Training. ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS: Association activities provide the students all necessary requisites like talent, competence, drive, initiative and innovation in their journey at KRMMC. New teaching methodologies and traditional methods of teaching are mix match of our college that it helps in the individual growth of the student. It tries to provide more of learner centric education and aims to check quality of delivery at all levels. KRMMC tries to prepare students catering to the changing market demand to suit them to the industry needs. To make them competitive to face the challenges, associations of every department organize workshops, quiz, exhibitions, paper presentations, guest lectures, seminars, street plays, poetry, creative writing etc. Departments’ conducts inter intra and inter collegiate events to enhance the skills and to bring out their innate talents. Associations of every department organize workshops, quiz, exhibition, paper presentations, seminars, street plays, poetry, creative writing etc. Each department brings out its own magazine edited by the students. Extracurricular activities play a very vital role in shaping the young minds to enhance their personality. The college conducts Indradhanush- Inter departmental Culturals, Hues- Inter collegiate culturals. The highlights of the activities of various departments are as follows:- Department of Languages: Tamil Tamil students of our college actively participated in the lyrics competition organized by the Kamban Kazhagam, Quiz competition held at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai. Hindi SAAWAN Intradepartment poem competitions was conducted on 25th January 2016. The Judge for the event is Dr.Sangamithra, Asst.Professor. Dept of Microbiology. The certificates and prizes were distributed to the winners. Sanskrit Sanskrit students had participated in Kanigaparmeshwari College, Yogasudha of II B.Com(CS) , Sai Raveli of II B.Sc(Maths) , Ramprasad –I B.Sc(Bio.Tech) and Praveen- IB.Sc(CS) won the 1st prize in quiz conducted by the Sanskrit department. Further Yogasudha II B.Com(CS) and Sai Ravali - II B.Sc(maths) won the 1st prize in quiz conducted by the Sociology department. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH The department organized a State Level Preparatory Workshop on UGC-NET (English Paper II & III) on 20th August. The resource person was Dr.V.P. Anvar Sadath, Associate Professor, New College, Chennai. The department conducted interactive sessions for seventh standard students at Sunnambukulam School to speak and learn English on 26th August. The sessions included language games such as missing letters, flash card games, fun with words, and grammar through games, spin a yarn etc. II year students went for an industrial visit to “The Hindu” office on 10th March 2016. DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS The Department Alumni Mr. Abhijit Tagade addressed the department students on 19th August and Alumni H.Vinoth conducted Intra Department Quiz Competition on 25th August 2015. Inter Department Quiz Competition conducted by III year students on 11th March 2016. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE A Seminar was organized for the Students of CS and M.Sc (IT) in Web Development by Image Infotainment. Mr. R.D.Sathish Kumar, an educator and public speaker oriented the students and focused on the importance of web Designing compared to Web development. Students and faculty members of M.Sc.(IT) and Computer Science visited the Sunnambukkulam. The students formed into a group and taught classes on various topics in computer. Games like connexions, jumbled words, dumb charade were also conducted and prizes were distributed. Live Wire conducted aptitude test for the students on 1st Sep 2015. 9 students were selected for the first round and attended the grooming session on Networking concepts. Rahul S. of II Computer Science was selected for the final round conducted in MCTM School, Mylapore, on 15th Sept 2015. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Workshop on “Software Testing” along with assessment was conducted by EASYDOCS-IIT, Chennai on 8th Feb for BCA & B.Sc (CS) students. 6 students were selected for Internship and placement and also organized a workshop on “Advance concepts of Networking” in association with CMS on 9th March 2016. PG DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The Department organized a workshop on “Android App Development” for M.Sc (IT) & III B.Sc(CS) students conducted by Mr. Saravanan & Mr. Irfan, Software Developers of u.n.i.q technologies, on 08th September 2015 and also organized the “Aptitude Test” on 12th February for B.Sc(CS),BCA & B.Sc(ECS) conducted by NIIT. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY The department has organized a workshop - Popularization of Science for school children along with Biotechnology on 24th July 2015. Charts were displayed on various significant topics and explained to the student’s batch wise and also organized a Model presentation competition for school children for classes IX to XII.