ALUMNI MEET 2019
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Alumni Connect 2019, a reunion of alumni of KCG College of Technology was held on 14th December 2019. Mr NatwarKadel, Head of Employee Relations, Hyundai was the chief guest. 431 alumni had registered and 117 alumni attended the event. The Principal, Dr G Prabhakaran, welcomed the gathering and gave an overview of the recent developments and also the various prestigious awards garnered by the institution and the students.
Mr Saravanan R, President of KCG Alumni Association, presented a report on the alumni contributions to their alma mater for the past two years. He highlighted a few activities that included technical lectures, motivational talks, career preparation guidance, and mock interviews, conducted by alumni.
In his Key Note Address, Mr Kadel packed his speech on leadership skills with several anecdotes drawn from real life and mythology. Speaking on the occasion he said “Introspect on the level of potential you are working with and start contributing to the fullest of your ability”. “Good leaders demonstrate courage, set vision, see beyond, take risks, remain flexible and create difference”, he added.
Alumni from the batches 2002 to 2018 attended the reunion. 2018 passed out Alumni were recognized for securing university ranks. The chief guest Mr NatwarKadel, presented cash awards to four rank holders who had secured ranks among the top 20 Anna University Ranks. The College Music Band and Dance Troupe entertained the audience with their riveting recitals and performances. Dr Anita Manuel, Dean Student Affairs, delivered the Vote of Thanks, and stated the institution was proud of each one of the alumni.
After the meeting, high tea was served. The alumni reflected on their past, shared their beautiful memories and also current achievements in personal and professional fronts with each other. The hall reverberated with the sound of the clicks, the groupfies taken with their friends and teachers. Overall, it was a wonderful moment for each and everyone who participated in the reunion, Alumni connect 2019.
Rally on ‘No Plastic Awareness’
The “Go Green” initiative is nothing new to KCG College of Technology. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced a ban on “one time use and throw away plastics”, with effect from 01.01.2019. But still people use the disposable plastics, without a concern for our future generation.
So, in order to spread an awareness amongst the public to reduce and replace plastic, a RALLY was organized by the KCG College NSS team. Nearly 1,000 students and 250 staff members of KCG College of Technology participated in the rally.
The RALLY was inaugurated by the Chief Guest – Dr R Pratap Kumar – State Information Commissioner, Tamil Nadu by waving a green flag, which headed from SANMAR, Karapakkam to Hot Chips, Karapakkam, Chennai-97.
The Guest of Honour – Dr T G Srinivvasan – Health Education Officer, Chennai Corporation and Mr T Sugumar – Zonal Officer, Zone 15, Sholinganallurdistributed cloth bags to the students which was designed and made by our Fashion Technology Department, to insist on bio-degradable and reusable substitutes for plastic.The students participated in the RALLY by carrying the cloth bags.
The students displayed placards with slogans to create an awareness on the ill-effects of using the plastic, substitutes for plastic, reducing and recycling the plastics.
It’s the responsibility of every citizen to leave this earth GREEN for our future generation.
On 8th January, 2020, a day long workshop on VMware Technology in a Day (Software Defined Storage Concepts) in association with ICT Academy, was inaugurated at KCG College of Technology by Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department – Dr. M. Krishnamurthy.
Dr M. Krishnamurthy Head – CSE, Enlightened students the Purpose of this workshop being conducted for Final Years and the Objectives of this workshop was cited by him. He also emphasised students to learn the cloud technology skills to make them on par with industry standards. VMware has designed the VMware IT Academy Program for Technical Institutions across the Globe to introduce graduating students to VMware technologies and equip them with VMware technical skills to complement their chosen fields of study. VMware provides selected academic institutions through the VMware Regional IT Academy with the courses and programs developed by VMware.
By instituting this program, VMware seeks to create a collaborative relationship with Academic institutions in India whereby their students may obtain the VMware training and certifications which could enable employment in firms seeking skilled workers in virtualization and cloud computing.
Through VMware IT Academy, Software-Defined Storage Concepts provides an overview of the key concepts related to storage in the data center and attributes of software-defined storage. It also introduces the hyper converged infrastructure and storage vSAN. Upon completion of this micro-course, the learner will have the basic understanding of storage virtualization, the software-defined data center, and basics of vSAN architecture. Additionally, the learner will be able to identify types of software-defined storage, the layers of a software-defined storage model, and components of a hyper converged storage vSAN. Online accessible through NDG Online or through a Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) cartridge that can be uploaded into your own Learning Management System (LMS)
Modules Covered
- Welcome
1.1. Before You Get Started
1.2. Course Objectives
1.3. Course Overview
1.4. Additional Resources Available via VMware
- Storage Concepts in the Data Center
2.1. Local Disk Storage
2.2. Network Accessible Storage (NAS)
2.3. Storage Area Network (SAN)
2.4. Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
2.5. Network File System (NFS)
2.6. Virtual Volumes
2.7. Virtual SAN (vSAN)
- Introduction to Software-Defined Storage
3.1. What is Software-Defined Storage?
3.2. Types of Software-Defined Storage
- Software-Defined Storage Model
4.1. Virtual Data Plane
4.2. Policy-Driven Control Plane
4.3. Storage Policy-Based Management
4.4. Virtual Data Services
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
5.1. Benefits of an HCI Model
5.2. Software Stack Components
5.3. Storage Policies Management
5.4. Application Programming Interfaces
- Hyper-Converged Storage vSAN
6.1. vSAN Overview
6.2. Attributes of vSAN
6.3. Cache Layer and Capacity Layer
6.4. Object and Component Layout
6.5. Benefits of a vSAN Environment
- Where To Go From Here?
7.1. Who is NDG?
CSE & IT Students actively participated in this online course and enjoyed earning the Digital badge. Total number of Students Participated is 150+
Coordinators:
Mr S. Prabakeran, Assistant Professor Senior Scale, Department of CSE
Dr R. Anand, Associate Professor, Department of IT
CSEISMIC 2020 – A National Level Technical Symposium organized by the Department of CSE
CSEISMIC 2020, a National Level Intercollegiate Technical Symposium was organized by the Department of CSE on 10th January 2020. The event was inaugurated by Ms. K Jayabharathi, Associate Vice President, Mphasis Ltd, Chennai by 9:00 AM. Around 250 students from various engineering colleges took part in the event across the country. There were 10 technical events conducted on the day namely Paper Presentation, Project Contest, Coding Contest, Technical,Fandom Quiz, Web Designing etc., Winners were given cash prizes and certificates. Dr.Sarukesi K, Dean Academic distributed the prizes during the valedictory programme at 3:15 PM.
