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.
Smart India Hackathon 2020 (SIH) 4th edition is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mind-set of problem-solving. SIH 2020 is the World’s Biggest Hackathon and Open Innovation model, which is an initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development. SIH gives an opportunity to the students to work on the problems of Ministries, Industries and departments and come up with solutions. Few hundreds of problem statements submitted by various wings of ministry and industries are available on the SIH site. The best solutions for the problems will have nationwide recognition and visibility which will ultimately end up in either starting a venture or getting hired by the industries. This year the SIH idea submission process has been revised and it was mandated to conduct an internal hackathon at institute level and nominate 7 teams (5 software and 2 hardware) for SIH 2020.
In continuation of the above, a call for participation for the internal hackathon was circulated by mailto the faculty and students on 17th December 2019 with a link for google form. A total of 52 teams (30 software and 22 hardware) registered for the internal hackathon. An evaluation of the problem statements and ideas and mentoring of the 52 teams were scheduled on 7th and 10th Jan 2020. Mr. DoraiThodla met all the teams and guided them accordingly for the internal hackathon participation. After the evaluation, the date for the internal hackathon was fixed as 20th Jan 2020.
The internal hackathon for both software and hardware concurrently held at F14 and S13 seminar halls.The registered teams were asked to display their prototypes/demos and software ready by 9.00 am at F14 for software and S13 for hardware versions. A panel of Jury comprising of industry experts was invited for the evaluation of the projects. The jury members are as follows
| S.No | Name | Organization | Jury |
| 1 | Ms. AnanthiRajiah, Cyber Security Researcher and Software Developer | HTC | Hardware |
| 2 | Mr. Shriji, CTO | DIYA Labs | Hardware |
| 3 | Mr. Ravi Venkataramani, CEO | Exterpremedia Services | Software |
| 4 | Mr. J. ArasuShanker, CTO | Eshakthi | Software |
| 5 | Mr. Surya Parthasarathy, Associate Technical Director | GAVS Technologies | Software |
| 6 | Mr. RajkumarSivasubramainan, Associate Director | Virtusa | Software |
The Jury members were briefed on the objectives of the event and rubrics for shortlisting the teams for the recommendations. The Jury was split into two panels one for software and onefor hardware and started interacting with the teams and evaluated the prototypes displays by 10.30 am. The evaluation went till 3.45 pm for software and 4.00 pm for hardware versions. Based on the selection criteria scores, the following teams were shortlisted and recommended by the panel members for the nomination of teams by the institute for SIH 2020 participation.
Shortlisted teams
Software edition
| S.No | Team Name | Team Leader | Faculty Mentor |
| 1 | Prometheus | Mohammed Thariq.J | Dr.R. Dhanalakshmi |
| 2 | Hexagous | Syed Saifullah | Dr. A. Balaji |
| 3 | Miracle | Ram Sankar R | Dr. M. Krishnamurthy |
| 4 | Code Green | Hari Krishnan | Ms. A. Anju |
| 5 | Casids | Chetan | Dr. Deepa Jose |
Hardware edition
| S.No | Team Name | Team Leader | Faculty Mentor |
| 1 | Head honchos | Pelluru Sai Sushma | Mr. M. Vignesh |
| 2 | Rakshith | Suraj D | Ms. Jeetha Varghese |
The department of ECE and IETE organized group discussion contest for the welfare of students to improve the communication skill and to know pros and cons of “Social Media in Today’s World”. The contest was held for the 2nd& 3rdyear students with topic “Social Media in Today’s World”, on 03 Feb 2020 at F06 (Optical and Microwave Lab), between 2.00 p.m. and 3.30 p.m.. Dr. KavithaBalamurugan, Professor & Head/ECE, inaugurated the contest. Fourteen students participated in the event and shared their knowledge on Social Media. Dr. Agnes Nirmala J, Assistant Professor/S&H, KCG College of Technology judged the participants, and shared the points that the participants missed to convey. Mr. R. Dinesh Kumar of 2ndyear A section won the first prize, Mr. Achyu N of 2ndyear A section won the second prize and Mr. D. Shri Vaidya Raghavan of 3rdyear B section worn the third prize. Dr. Jose Anand, Associate Professor/ECE, & IETE Student Forum (ISF) Co-ordinatororganized the event.
Founder’s Memorial Day 2020
Completing successfully its twentieth year of service in the field of technical education, with a great sense of pride, KCG College of Technology observed the Memorial Day of the Founder Chairman Dr KCG Verghese on 14th February, 2020.
The solemn occasion witnessed the presence of Chairperson Dr Elizabeth Verghese, Director and CEO Dr Anand Jacob Verghese, Director Dr Annie Jacob, Director Dr Aby Sam, Director Mr Ashok Verghese, Director Dr Susan Marthandan, Principals, Deans, Heads, faculty and students from all units of Hindustan Group of Institution. Well wishers of the Hindustan Group and family members were also present. Mr A John Louis IAS, District Collector Chengalpattu, Mr JCD Prabhakar, Ex-MLA Villivakkam Constituency, Rev. Dr S Xavier Alphonse, Director Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community Education were the special invitees.
Dr Annie Jacob, Director, KCG College of Technology welcomed the gathering and observed that consistent success enjoyed by KCG College was due to the enlightened guidance of the management, accomplished and supportive faculty, hard working students and the abundant grace of Lord Almighty. Dr G. Prabhakar Principal, KCG College of Technology introduced the Chief Guest and highlighted the reasons behind naming the multipurpose auditorium after the former President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam.
The chief guest Mr A John Louis inaugurated APJ Abdul Kalam Multipurpose Auditorium and in his address referred to hard work and perseverance, the qualities that helped Dr Verghese attain success. Mr JCD Prabhakar recounted the philanthropic services of Dr Verghese under the banner of YMCA and Y’s Men International. Rev. Dr S Xavier Alphonse highlighted the accomplishments of Dr Verghese and said that it is fitting to observe the Memorial Day in the auditorium named after Dr Kalam as they both shared similar attributes and interests.
Dr Susan Marthandan, Director, Hindustan College of Arts and Science announced that under the aegis of Dr KCG Verghese Charitable Trust, Rs 20 lakhs will be donated for constructing a separate block with smart classrooms in Government School, Kelambakkam. The Headmaster of the school received a token of the commitment from the Chairperson.
A beautiful Souvenir detailing the myriad achievements of KCG College of Technology and documenting its growth from 1998 was released. All those who were involved in the successful completion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam auditorium were also appreciated.
Dr Anand Jacob Verghese proposed the Vote of Thanks. He said the inauguration of the impressive auditorium with its indoor sports facilities reflected the late Dr KCG Verghese vision that the students should have the latest sports facilities. He thanked all the guests and members of the Hindustan Group, faculty and students for coming to pay their respect to the great educationist and visionary Dr KCG Verghese.
