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2010-07-13T03:16:00.000-07:00

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12 new engineering colleges getting consent of AICTE

2010-06-26T21:54:00.000-07:00

Uncertainty prevails in the total number of seats available for counselling this year, 2010. Apart from existing 454 colleges in the State, 12 new engineering colleges have got the consent of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). TamilNadu Engineering Admissions official said instructions on the number of seats and other details were awaited.

Without including the new colleges and any reduction in seats due to the approval process or other reasons nearly 1.08 lakh seats had earlier been estimated by officials to be available under single window counselling this year.

As per,Dr. Mannar Jawahar, who is also the southern regional chairman, AICTE,
New technical institutions applied for approval this year: 94

Cleared the scrutiny: 63
Cleared by AICTE: 13 institutions (10 engineering colleges, 2 integrated campuses (offering engineering as well as MBA courses) and 1 management studies)

TNEA 2010 counselling for engineering as per schedule

2010-06-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

The TamilNadu state government told Madras High Court that counselling for engineering admissions will start as per schedule on June 28. As per the schedule, counselling for sports quota is scheduled for June 28, for vocational candidates between June 29 and July 3, and for differently abled persons on July 4. General counselling for academic candidates would start on July 5.

A batch of writ petitions challenging the new norms of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for engineering colleges seeking renewal of approval. The AICTE submitted that 309 colleges had submitted the applications according to the new regulations. The council would process them. The submission may be recorded and the court may allow the writ petitions filed by colleges, which had complied with the new regulations.

The government counsel said the very fact that 309 colleges had submitted their applications meant that they had accepted the new regulations and could be included in the counselling. On behalf of some individual colleges, it was argued that counselling could be postponed. Counsel for some private colleges said the problem arose mainly because of the AICTE issuing the circular very late.

The court stated that not a single parent should be deprived of his right to select the best available college for his ward.

CHOOSE A COLLEGE OR COURSE - NEED OF ACADEMICS

2010-06-24T01:59:00.000-07:00

The heavy focus on the admissions to take up professional courses might raise many questions with an aspiring student. Variety of information and suggestions for various parameters to judge the choice of college or course add dilemma as over informed scenario is equally make situations worse. The prime factor is to judge the individual's aspiration or attitude towards an engineering course and to know more about the course such as subjects being taught, competency of the college offers those courses and of course job market fitness.

Those kinds of information may be completely or rather correctly brought out by the eminent professors, academics related to that area of study. So, as mentioned in the previous article of this series it would be better to understand the individual’s capability interest before choosing a course in a main stream engineering branches such as Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. The availability of many derived or specialized branches from these main streams make the choice much more visible and clear to fit an individual’s aptitude. Then the choice of college on this basis could make the option more comfortable to have a final decision.

So, students should be aware of their aptitude and discussing with an appropriate academic community to find a better way to choose a college and a course there or a course then a college which offers the course of choice. With more opportunities and more knowledge pool it is important to decide on a right choice of a course or a college to meet the challenges of the future
ALL THE BEST

TNEA 2010 Counselling Seat Matrix

2010-06-22T01:11:00.000-07:00

Counseling for admissions to engineering college in the state will begin on June 28. To know your rank visit, http://www.annauniv.edu/tnea2010/rankaca.html.

The counseling Vocational Candidates and Differently Abled Persons category is scheduled on June 28, 2010 and you can find the details at http://www.annauniv.edu/tnea2010/vocschedule.pdf. Candidates are advised to be present two hour before the commencement of the counseling session. Candidates are also advised to see the vacancy positions on the Display Screens at the counseling centre or in the website: http://www.annauniv.edu/tnea2010

Also, the schedule for the remaining candidates will be announced later.

It’s more important to know about the availability of seats under different categories of colleges and the reservation policies prescribed by the Government of Tamilnadu.

*Type of Institution*	B.E / B. Tech		B. Arch
*Type of Institution*	*Total Intake*	*Seats for Single Window*	*Total Intake*	*Seats for Single Window*
Anna University	3,220	3,220	60	60
Universities colleges	2,880	2,880
Government Aided Colleges	4,785	4,396	40	32
Self-Financing Colleges (Non-Minority)	1,15,830	75,276	420	273
Self-Financing Colleges (Minority)	44,155	22,078	100	50
Total	1,70,870	1,07,850	620	415

Community	Reservation %
Open Competition	31
Backward Class	26.5
Backward Muslim	3.5
Most Backward Class & Denotified Communities	20
Schedule Castes	15
Schedule Caste (Arunthathiyars)	3
Schedule Tribes	1

Please refer with http://www.tn.gov.in/gorders/bcmbc/

ALL THE BEST

2010-06-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

In the available 29 courses among the self financing engineering colleges in TamilNadu, the accredited courses are comparatively in low proportion.

This condition prevails even in popular courses such as ECE, CSE and etc., though they are slotted in the top places in the accreditation process.

The accreditation process can also be understood over the zone wise segmentation that bring more insight in to the details of quality initiatives

Zone	Courses	AE	AU	AR	BT	BM	CH	CE	CS
Chennai	Available	15	4	3	13	7	8	62	141
Chennai	Accredited	0	1	0	9	0	2	5	30
Coimbatore	Available	19	6	6	5	3	3	56	117
Coimbatore	Accredited	0	0	0	2	0	3	7	22
Trichy	Available	6	3	3	4	3	3	36	74
Trichy	Accredited	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10
Tirunelveli	Available	6	3	0	4	1	0	32	65
Tirunelveli	Accredited	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6

Zone	Courses	EC	EE	EI	EN	FD	FT	IT	ID	IC	ME
Chennai	Available	146	125	19	0	0	0	115	1	3	115
Chennai	Accredited	34	29	4	0	0	0	24	0	2	22
Coimbatore	Available	124	108	16	1	1	2	88	0	2	103
Coimbatore	Accredited	21	21	5	0	0	0	17	0	0	15
Trichy	Available	77	67	8	0	0	0	54	0	3	66
Trichy	Accredited	10	10	3	0	0	0	7	0	0	7
Tirunelveli	Available	70	59	4	0	0	0	44	0	2	50
Tirunelveli	Accredited	5	5	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	4

Zone	Courses	MR	MC	MD	MX	PR	PE	TX	TC	PL	TE	TF
Chennai	Available	5	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
Chennai	Accredited	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coimbatore	Available	0	5	1	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	2
Coimbatore	Accredited	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Trichy	Available	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Trichy	Accredited	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Tirunelveli	Available	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
Tirunelveli	Accredited	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

2010-06-20T05:01:00.000-07:00

Accreditation of Engineering Colleges

Over the past few years, the technical education sector has witnessed unprecedented expansion that has brought questions about the quality of education imparted, the competence of the graduates. The ISO standardization movement in the industrial scene has highlighted the need for accrediting programs. The National Board of Accreditation (NBA, http://www.nba-india.org) was set up by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in September 1994, for the purpose of assessment of Quality and Accreditation of Technical program in India. For Accreditation of for Engineering (UG) programs in India, NBA has brought out a scheme of accreditation that based on eight major criteria with specific objective and minimum score as eligibility standards

Criteria No	Description	Score		Remark
Criteria No	Description	Minimum	Maximum	Remark
1	Organization and Governance, Resources, Institutional Support, Development and Planning	100	150
2	Evaluation and Teaching-Learning Process	115	175	Based on past 3 years record
3	Students’ Entry and Outputs	100	150	Based on past 3 years record
4	Faculty Contributions	100	150	Based on past 3 years record
5	Facilities and Technical Support		75
6	Continuous Improvements		75
7	Curriculum		125
8	Program Educational Objectives – their Compliance and Outcomes		100
Total			900

Accreditation Criteria

1. The Program gets the status ‘Accredited’ for next 5 years from the date of issue of the letter from NBA, if it gets a minimum score of 750 points and scores minimum qualifying marks in the criteria specified.

2. The Program gets the status ‘Provisionally Accredited’ for next 2 years from the date of issue of the letter from NBA, if it gets a minimum score of 600 points.

3. The Program gets the status ‘Not Accredited’ if it gets the score less than 600 points.

Significance of Accreditation

To ensure

· a teaching-learning environment as per accepted good practices

· Essential and desirable features of Quality Professional Education.

· that the students passing out has competence based on well grounded technical inputs

· that the institutional performance is based assessment

· to signify institutions’ strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for future growth.

· The quality of institutional capabilities and Skills & Knowledge.

2010-06-18T00:31:00.001-07:00

COURSES SCENARIO

Location matters?

Not only a student is focused on the spectrum of courses, some of us could be interested in the place of institution though few courses are available exclusively in certain parts of the state. The four regions based on the four Anna Universities in the state make the list more comprehensive instead of district wise categorization. With the abbreviation used in our previous article in these series, following display brings the information based on the location and the trend over the three decades

Figure 1: Number of colleges started based on the regions

Not only the year, the type of course and the location of the institution are significantly related factors when a new course is offered in a college. A glance of the following figure could make us to understand this association and help us to decide the place of study.

Figure 2: Spectrum of courses over the four regions of Anna University, Tamilnadu

Choice of a course could be associated with many factors and influenced by more information, but still the interest and focus of an individual is more important deciding factor and all these information available here has been targeted to enrich every individual about the admission knowledge pool

2010-06-17T23:21:00.000-07:00

COURSES SCENARIO

Number about Courses availability

When number of self financing colleges has increased the most important factor we can understand from the numbers is the choice of courses such colleges have introduced and later increase with additional courses or additional seats for the existing courses. These factors may not be easy to decide and there is a need to observe a critical market trend regarding the students’ interest during the period, job market scenario and more importantly experts’ opinion. The art of decision making is highly important before the authorities have decided to introduce a course and policy makers and academics join together to form new courses and curriculum from the standard stream of engineering like Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering

Today’s scenario
The practice of creating new courses has made a good platform to identify key areas of emerging trends time to time that keeps the present list of courses offered by self financing colleges as 29 varying from Architecture to Communication; to Electrical; to Petroleum; and to Faculty of Textile. The complete list of courses offered over the Self financing colleges in Tamilnadu with the code (codes adapted similar to the hand book of TNEA 2010 – Anna University) is presented as a quick reference.

Table 1 List of courses available in Self financing colleges in Tamilnadu

SNO	COURSE	CODE
1	Aeronautical Engineering	AE
2	Automobile Engineering	AU
3	Civil Engineering	CE
4	Computer Science and Engineering	CS
5	Electrical and Electronics Engineering	EE
6	Electronics and Communication Engineering	EC
7	Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering	EI
8	Instrumentation and Control Engineering	IC
9	Marine Engineering	MR
10	Mechanical Engineering	ME
11	Biomedical Engineering	BM
12	Production Engineering	PR
13	Chemical Engineering	CH
14	Information Technology	IT
15	Polymer Technology	PL

16	Textile Technology	TX
17	Biotechnology	BT
18	Textile Technology(Fashion Technology)	TF
19	Petroleum Engineering	PE
20	B.Arch (Architecture)	AR
21	B.Arch (interior Design)	ID
22	Material Science Engineering	MX
23	Mechatronics Engineering	MC
24	Food Technology	FD
25	Medical Electronics Engineering	MD
26	Textile Chemistry	TC
27	Environmental Engineering	EN
28	Fashion Technology	FT
29	Textiles Fashion Technology	TE

Apart from these courses, Anna University campuses or Government / Aided colleges offer a various array of specialized courses that makes the list much bigger and the options provided for the students are multi folded to choose with. Following is the list of courses offered exclusively in such campuses.

SNO	COURSE	CODE
1	Agriculture and Irrigation Engineering(SS)	AI
2	Apparel Technology(SS)	AP
3	Automobile Engineering(SS)	AS
4	Biomedical Engineering (SS)	BY
5	Biotechnology (SS)	BS
6	Ceramic Technology (SS)	CR
7	Chemical and Electro Chemical Engineering(SS)	CC
8	Civil Engineering (SS)	CN
9	Computer Science and Engineering (SS)	CM
10	Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SS)	EY
11	Electrical and Electronics (sandwich)(SS)	ES
12	Electronics and Communication Engineering (SS)	EM
13	Textile Technology(Fashion Technology)(SS)	FY
14	Food Technology (SS)	FS
15	Geo Informatics	GI
16	Industrial Bio Technology	IB
17	Industrial Bio Technology(SS)	IS
18	Industrial Engineering	IE
19	Information Technology (SS)	IM
20	Instrumentation and Control Engineering (SS)	IY
21	Leather Technology	LE
22	Manufacturing Engineering	MN
23	Mechanical Engineering (SS)	MF
24	Mechanical Engineering (sandwich) (SS)	MS
25	Metallurgical Engineering	MT
26	Metallurgical Engineering (SS)	MY
27	Mining Engineering	MI
28	Petro Chemical Technology	PC
29	Petro Refining and Petro Chemical Technology (SS)	PP
30	Pharmaceutical Technology	PH
31	Pharmaceutical Technology (SS)	PM
32	Plastic Technology	PA
33	Printing Technology	PT
34	Production Engineering (SS)	PN
35	Production Engineering (sandwich) (SS)	PS
36	Rubber and Plastic Technology	RP
37	Textile Technology (SS)	TT
38	Fashion Technology(SS)	FY
39	Material Science and Engineering	MA

Trends over the years

whether the trend changes over a period and the location of the colleges? Yes, the courses have been introduced taking in to account of many factors (partially listed above) that will benefit al most all stake holders of the system. Interesting facts could be revealed from the data available and a snap shot has been presented.

Figure 1: Status of the Courses offered in the self financing colleges over the three decades

The picture could be a guide for knowing the criteria for starting a course and the need for new courses over the three decades. As an example the need based analysis might make a necessity to start a separate course only during 2000-09 and specialized courses from the basic engineering faculties have shown a steady growth over two decades but still keeping the fundamental courses at high stake.

2010-05-25T20:46:00.000-07:00

TNEA 2010 Admission - Counseling Guide

What exactly the numbers mean for us?

     With the increasing number of Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu, courses and fields that are offered today, students’ requirement for getting information about the colleges has increased by leaps and bounds. There is more information available today than ever, thanks to the web which helps largely to disseminate the information more effectively and quickly. However, the daunting search over the web (or some times over informed) may yield very similar line of information and especially the facts revealed by numbers may not be looked accurately and seriously. This series would bring the facts behind the numbers pertains to Tamilnadu Engineering Colleges and their features.

How did colleges become so competitive?

     The 1980s saw not only an increase in the number of engineering aspirants, but also an increase in the percentage that decided to attend such colleges. Today Tamilnadu has as many 454 colleges under different category – University Departments, Government, Aided and Self financing Colleges with remarked differences in their numbers. Among what we have now, the establishment of self financing colleges in the state started in 80s with hardly 4% of colleges; this number has a steady increase in the subsequent period; another 20% by the 90s, and remaining 76 % have started with in a decade 2000 - 2009.

     The Split-up of the affiliating Anna University in to four regions (CHE-Chennai, CBE-Coimbatore, TRY-Trichy, TVL-Tirunelveli) the numbers have still interesting insights to understand which parts of the state have more thrust on this establishment.

     The statistics regarding the sale of engineering admission TNEA 2010 application forms (Over 1, 90,000) indicates the further and steady growth in these areas and the number of college-bound graduates is expected to gradually increase over the next few years we may still expect more number of colleges in the state. All these make the present day colleges more and more competitive in establishing their infrastructure, faculty, and many other amenities.

What can students do now?

     Be informed. There is more information available today than ever, attend every information offered to know which courses students should take and to decide which into college later during counseling . Pay attention to the different levels of academic subjects. Besides gathering information, understand your faculty of interest – mechanical or circuit branches or computing etc by fixing your career and professional goal. Compare the colleges which are available based on their basic details such as course available, when it was started (quite essential to analyze the performance) and if possible the quality certifications too (its all available today in the form of accreditation process) and of course your interest and ability to handle the courses - care a great deal about the level of difficulty in completing course work. Note that colleges prefer to see a student become accomplished in one activity rather than dabble at a variety of interests.

     Remember, with many people involved in this pool of information its YOU to embark the journey in a chosen course and a successful profession – Do it with very great care! All the Best.

Why SaaS is best for SME’s?

2010-05-09T23:49:00.000-07:00

Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced [sæs]) is a model of software deployment over the internet. With SaaS, a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand, either through a time subscription or a “pay-as-you-go” model. [WikiPedia]

With SaaS model SME’s doesn’t have to much spend on the software which needs high maintenance and importantly they don’t have to worry about maintaining the secure infrastructure.

Cloud computing and SaaS model has enabled very good support for SME’s in India where they can get a very good support directly from vendors without spending much of money.

Majorly most of the SME’s are worried about data security and availability. It’s just that SME’s have to choose the vendors who has SAS type-II data centres and also who have local presence.

There are certain other aspects which SME’s can consider SaaS which we can discuss on next posts.

SWOT Analysis - Admission Season – 2010 - Opportunities and Individual Potential

2010-04-26T23:52:00.000-07:00

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell

The undergraduate / post graduate / research program admission season 2010 has commenced with usual participation of many institutions’ advertisements and information banks. The aspiring students will have to choose a course, irrespective any faculty may be Arts, Engineering, Medicine, Science or Law and decision making on this become more complex process year by year. With mushrooming Institutions around the state or the country, it is very difficult to understand what parameters are highly necessary for students and parents to decide on the choice of courses or degrees.

With abundant opportunities for the individual potential, it is more important that students should know to identify their power of excellence and perform a SWOT analysis before select a course. Institution choice could also be made based on these analysis that provide more scope and platform to show case their talents and academic performance.

Though the opinions from friends and family members play critical role, today students and parents must depend on well informed scientific analyses before embark an academic journey. With high energy talent pool on one side, and more opportunities for every deserving student on other side, find a suitable bridge that connects these two sides of your life!