PSG College of Technology,
an ISO 9001:2000 certified institution is one of the foremost institutions founded by the
PSG & Sons' Charities Trust (1926).
The College was established in the year 1951 and the Founders wisely
decided to locate it in the same campus as the PSG Industrial
Institute for effective industry-institute interaction.
The PSG College of
Technology is situated at about 8 km from Coimbatore Railway Station
and 5 km from Airport. The campus is spread over 45 acres of land,
economically utilized for the College, Hostels, Staff Quarters, Play
Fields and Gardens.
PSG College of Technology,
under the guidance of illustrious Managing Trustees Sri G R
Govindarajulu, Dr G R Damodaran, Sri G Varadaraj, Sri G R Karthikeyan,
Sri V. Rajan, Sri G.Rangaswamy and presently under Sri L
Gopalakrishnan, all with foresight and far reaching vision, has been
in the forefront of innovation in technical education. The founder
Principal Dr G R Damodaran was instrumental in the planned growth of
the institution from the humble beginnings in 1951 to the present
status of a world-renowned technological institution. Dr G R Damodaran
was succeeded by Dr R Subbayyan, Dr K Venkataraman, Dr A
Shanmugasundaram, Dr S Subramanyan, Dr P Radhakrishnan and Dr S
Vijayarangan as Principal's. Presently Dr R Rudramoorthy is Principal.
The College today has a
student strength of about 8518 with 15 engineering and technology
departments besides the computer applications, management sciences,
basic sciences and humanities departments. Among the various
Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate programmes offered by the college, as
many as 18 programmes were accredited in the year 1997 itself by the
National Board of Accreditation of AICTE. The
departments are greatly benefited by the expertise of more than 15
visiting faculty from renowned institutions and industries. Each
department conducts annually at least one National / International
Conference / Seminar / Workshop for effective dissemination of
state-of-art technologies and research findings for the benefit of
teaching faculty and industries. On an average every year, five short
term programmes on current topics of interest are conducted for the
teaching faculty from other colleges with funding from AICTE / ISTE and other agencies.
More than 505 research scholars are pursuing research programmes leading to Ph D / MS / M Tech degrees and the college is a recognized QIP centre for Postgraduate and Ph D programmes.
The college is extremely
proud of its alumni, a considerable number of them being entrepreneurs
or senior executives in industries both within India and abroad. Some
of them are holding prestigious positions like Chief Executive and
Managing Director and also as Chairmen of various disciplines in
universities abroad. A good number of our alumni occupied the position
of Vice Chancellor in various reputed universities in India . A few
educational institutions have also been established by our alumni.
Several advanced centres
are set up with financial support from the Ministry of Human Resources
Development, DST and other agencies. These include: the CAD/CAM/CIM
Centre, Virtual Reality Centre, Virtual Instrumentation Centre,
Educational Technology Centre, Centre for Non-Formal and Continuing
Education, PROJECT IMPACT Centre (a project funded by the World Bank,
Swiss Development Corporation and the Government of India), UNDP Jute
Project Centre, TIFAC - CORE, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing
Centre, Festo-PSG Centre for Pneumatic and Control Engineering, Metals
Testing and Research Centre, Industry Institute Partnership Cell and CII - TDB TNET Centre.
The programmes of the
college are recognized all over India and abroad. The college
maintains close interaction with several R&D Institutions and
institutions of higher learning in India and abroad, through
institutional network programmes and collaborative research
programmes. It also has close collaborative links with industries in
the fields of Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Textile, Machine Tools,
Software Development and Consumer durables.
The college has been the
recipient of several prestigious projects and International funding
support. The college was conferred the AUTONOMOUS STATUS
by the University of Madras in the academic year 1978-79, which is
continued by the Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna
University. This enables the college to frame its own curricula,
update syllabi and introduce new courses as and when needed. The
college is empowered to administer its own evaluation system.
The college has signed MoU
with research organizations and industries in order to promote closer
interaction with other institutions in the areas of technology
development, training of students, curriculum updating and development
of state-of-art centres.
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Establishment of the College
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PSG College of
Technology was established in the year 1951 and the founders wisely
decided to locate it in the same campus as the PSG Industrial Institute.
Thus, today PSG College of Technology and PSG Industrial Institute are
the best examples of effective industry institution interaction and PSG
College of Technology can be considered to be one of the few "TEACHING
COMPANIES" in the world. They take all efforts to impart technology
diffusion and faculty development programs. PSG College of Technology
has been fortunate to have the guidance of illustrious Managing Trustees
and Principals with foresight and far reaching vision. PSG College of
Technology has been in the forefront of innovations in technical
education not only in Tamil Nadu but also in India. The first principal
of PSG College of Technology,
Dr. G.R. Damodaran was instrumental in the
planned growth of the institution, from the humble beginnings in 1951 to
the present status of a world renowned technological institution that
PSG College of Technology is today.
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