Second batch bids adieu

The second batch of engineering students of SSET will be moving out of the college very soon. There are 288 students from Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science and Electronics & Communication Engineering in this batch. A majority of them are already well placed before they move out.

Placement Activities

• Sobha Developers will be visiting the campus during third week of May to recruit Civil and Mechanical students of 2006 batch. Other conglomerates who are expected to visit during the month of May are : Subex Systems to recruit 2007 batch students, Robert Bosch to select students from 2006 batch and Furnace Fabrica, Mumbai for placing 2006 batch students.

• Negotiations are in progress to rope in Patni Computers, Mumbai, Larsen Toubro, Mumbai and Essar Oil, Mumbai. V-Guard Industries has shortlisted five of our final year Mechanical students.

IETE Chapter News

• Shri.Jiby Varghese, Lecturer, Electronics & Communication has been nominated as staff in charge of the IETE chapter. Smt.Sonal Ayyappan, Lecturer – Computer Science and Smt.Annah Manoj George, Lecturer – Electrical were co-opted as departmental representatives.

• A one-day seminar on New Trends in Communication was conducted at Hotel Abad Plaza on February 23 by IETE, Cochin Centre. The seminar was attended by Shri.Jiby Varghese, Lecturer, Electronics & Communication and student members.

•  The following one-day workshops were conducted by IETE students chapter at our campus :

(1) Network Security – conducted by B’soft Technologies on April 5.

(2) Power Systems – an in-house programme on April 6.; and

(3) A paper presentation competition for students.

Staff Development Programmes

• Shri.Anil, Library Assistant, had attended a one-month course on Compilation of Bibliography at Central Reference Library (Govt. of India) Kolkata during February-March.

•  Smt.Praveena S.Kammath and Smt.Lini Pyari, Lecturers in Electronics & Communication, attended an eight-day programme during February 18-25 at Sophisticated Test & Instrumentation Centre (STIC), CUSAT Campus on Embedded System Design using Microcontroller. The Programme was conducted by Shri.S.Ramgopal, Dept. of Instrumentation, IISc, Bangalore.

Kairali TV at SSET campus

Kairali TV Channel had visited our campus on April 19, to shoot their popular programme Students Only.

 SSET Annual Day

 The college annual day of SSET was celebrated on April 24 at a colourful function held at college campus presided over by Prof.M.Madhavan, Principal, SSET. Dr.G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group was the Guest of Honour. In his inaugural address, Dr.Nayar enlightened the student community of SSET, on the need for discipline in life and the qualities to be fine-tuned to make them better citizens. Certificates of merit for first prize winners of various items of Vipanchika 2005, the college cultural extravaganza was also given away by the Chairman. The Principal read out the annual working report of the college. The function also marked the valedictory day of the outgoing student union members and office bearers.

SSET Annual Magazine Released

College annual magazine Pratidhwani was released at the above function by Dr.G.P.C.Nayar. Mr.Aneesh Abraham, Student Editor of the magazine and Mr.P.P.Premachandran, Asst. Professor (Staff Editor) also spoke on the occasion.

Dr. G.P.C.Nayar re-elected as President

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group had been re-elected as the President of Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements Association at General Body meeting held on March January 28, at Cochin.

Dr. Nayar is the founder President of both KSECMA and Association of Self-Financing Management Institutions in Kerala. He is also the National Vice President of the Federation of Associations of Managements of Unaided Professional Educational Institutions in India.