Events

The Popularisation of Science Program was organised by KCG College of Technology on the 8^th and 9^th of February, 2018. The Faculty and Students organized experiments with materials used in daily life and demonstrated scientific concepts to the students of schools.

The Physics Staff demonstrated experiments explaining concepts such as surface tension, Magnetic fields, Microwaves and Light propagation.

The Chemistry Staff demonstrated experiments to explain concepts such as States of matter, Combustion, Oxidation, Reduction and Precipitation

The schools covered were Government school, Madambakkam, SAN academy, Pallikaranai, MCC Campus Matriculation School, Tambaram and Narayana E-Techno School, Pallavaram. The program was very well received by the schools and the school authorities asked for continuous interaction with the college.

The team : Dr. Amrutha and Dr Gladwin Pradeep from Physics Department, Dr Andal and Ms Suba from Chemistry Department, Mr Philip Prabakaran, Lab Assistant, Mr Srinivas and Mr Sheik, First year Electronics and Communication Students.

E-week 2018 was celebrated during 10 th February – 16 th February in a very grand
manner living up to the expectations both inside and outside our college campus.
Cloud10 , Our E-cell team with our sincere efforts made sure the theme of the E-
week reached every participants and the public. We have attracted more than 500
students through our E-week events and reached out to hundreds of civilians,
teaching them about entrepreneurship the best way they can understand.
We Kick started E-week celebration with Startup carnival, where successful
Entrepreneurs met and spoke to the students the different ways they can develop the
entrepreneur in them.
We also conducted walkathon in the public, and helped the onlookers and side
walkers understand the theme of E-week. Number of flash mob were also conducted
in the college campus promoting the E-week.
One day in the week was specially dedicated to discover the entrepreneur in the
women through, women entrepreneurship program. Cloud10 also reached out to 3
schools in the sub urban and educated over 200 students about entrepreneurship and
conducted various activities, presented them with gifts to motivate and inspire them.
Our team also reached out to a rural area, Kannagi Nagar in the outskirts of our city
and delivered talks and played videos to help them understand the real difference an
entrepreneur can make in this society. “An Entrepreneurs sees profit and market in
everything he sees.” That’s exactly what was expected when our participants were
given a chance to make product out of wastes and they totally nailed it. Winners
were presented with Books and Gift coupons.

We brought people from the travel & tourism sector who taught the students about
how their organizations work and also offered them with internships. Who can
inspire students than students themselves? One day was entirely dedicated to the
devoted entrepreneurs cum students in our college to share their entrepreneurial
story and how they are living their dream. The participants were promised
internships and even jobs if they really impressed the student Entrepreneurs.
We made sure every participant of the E-week take the E-week pledge to break
barriers, create wealth and change India. Thus, Our E-week 2018 was nothing short
of wonderful opportunities, exposure, educating people and spreading
Entrepreneurship. We also never compromised on attracting the netizens and made
sure we spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp with our Videos and
posts. E-week 2018 let lot of students and people live their entrepreneurial dream.

About the Tournament

Dr.KCG Memorial Tamilnadu inter school Invitation tournament was the initative of  our Director & CEO Dr.Anand Jacob Verghese, Director & CEO (Hindustan Group of Institutions) on the occasion of memorial of our beloved Founder Chairman Dr.KCGVerghese who was the source of inspiration for every one with his Vision statement “To make every man success,and no man failure. Sports plays vital role in imparting overall development in  students and he always encouraged students to play games and sports. Here at KCG, Department of Physical Education organise this tournament every year in his remembrance.

Inauguration

This tournament was inaugurated on 14^thFebuary 2018  by our beloved principal Dr.G. Prabhakaran by kicking off the ball at football court at 9 am in the morning

22 teams in Football, 14 teams in Basketball and 13 teams in Volleyball totalling to 600 students from 49 school teams across tamilnadu took part in this mega tournament and showcased their talents and zeal in their respective games

RESULTS

Football

Winners        – St Gabriel Hr Sec School,Broadway,Chennai

Runners        – Sri RamaKrishna MissionHr Sec School,Chengelpet

Third              – Nava DishaICSE,Velachery

Fourth           – NSN Memorial CBSE,Chitlapakkam

Best player   -Deepak (Sri RamaKrishna  MissionHr Sec School,Chengelpet)

VOLLEYBALL

Winners        -GHSS Periyapalayam

Runners        – PachayappasHr Sec School,Kanchipuram

Third              – Sacred HeartHr sec School,Shouliganallur.

Fourth           – ValluvarGurukulamHr  Sec School Tambaram

Best Player   -N.LokeshGHSS Periyapalayam

Basketball

Winners        – SanthomeHr Sec Scool,Santhome

Runners        – PSBB Girgambakkam,Chennai

Third              – Ellen Sharma Hr Sec School,Shoulinganallur

Fourth           – NSN Memorial CBSE,Chitlapakkam

Best Player   – SaravanapriyanSanthomeHr Sec Scool,Santhome

Valedictory Function

Time: 5.pm

Venue: Zeppelin Theatre

Dr.Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson, Hindustan group of Institutions presided as chief guest. Dr.Anand Jacob Verghese,  our Director & CEO, Dr.Ashok Verghese, Director, Hindustan Group of Institutions, Principal and vice Principal were also present.

Welcome Address was given by Dr.G.Prabhakaran, Principal, KCG

Founders Trophy Report Presentation was done by Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Vice Principal, KCG

Principal presented the memento to the chief guest

Dr.Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson, Hindustan group of Institutions gave the presidential address and distributed the Prizes to the winners

Dr.C.Chinnaraj Registrar gave the vote of thanks

The Tournament concluded with our National Anthem

The Hindustan Group of Institutions observed Founder (late) Dr KCG Verghese Memorial Day on February 14, 2018 at KCG College of Technology. All members of the Hindustan fraternity were present on this solemn occasion. The chief guest Mr. Charles Money, Founder Young Generation Leadership Ministries, combined humour and serious advice to deliver a stirring message in which he asked everyone to follow the three Ps of Passion, Purpose and Prayer. He gave examples of how youngsters had overcome various disadvantages to become figures of inspiration to all around the world. Dr Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson of the Hindustan Group, in her presidential address, shared vivid glimpses of the late Founder Chairman and emphasized the need for ethical values in our lives.

A cheque for a dialysis machine was presented to the Tanker Foundation by Dr Anand Jacob Verghese, Director and CEO, HGI. Receiving the cheque, Ms Latha Kumarasawmi thanked the Hindustan management and mentioned the many times Dr KCG’s family had helped the foundation in their services to patients affected with kidney disorders.

A video presentation on the life of Dr KC G Verghese was shown for the edification of the gathering. Bible Readings and excerpts from the late founders autobiography ‘Wheels and Wings’ by students of the various Hindustan International Schools, hymns by staff choir of KCG, HCAS, and HITS were some of the other events that marked the solemn programme. The ceremony ended with a closing prayer and benediction by Rev. Thomas Alexander, Vicar of St Paul’s Mar Thoma Church, Adyar.

Engineering materials and metallurgy is one of the main courses for Mechanical engineering students in their fourth semester syllabus and part of giving more clarity and understanding in this subject a guest lecture is arranged on “Advances in materials and metallurgy” Mr. Kesapillai, senior metallurgist gave a lecture on the topic.

The following topics were taught during the lecture hours:

1. Basics of Metals
2. Micro Structures of metals
3. Iron carbon diagram
4. Applications of light weight metals
5. Power metallurgy and applications
6. Recent trends and advances in the field metallurgy

And also hands on training were given to the students for study the micro structure of different metals by using mechanical metallurgical microscope.

An interaction section was conducted after the lecture. The section was very interesting and informative.

The KCG MUN club organized a communication skill workshop “Thinking on Your feet” on 24^th February 2018. The resource person was DTM Gautam Sharma, Founder of Sanskaar Acafemy, and an award winning speaker and trainer.

The session opened with Dr Anita Manuel, Dean (SA) welcoming the gathering and explaining the objective of the workshop. It was to equip students with simple techniques that would help them overcome their fear of public speaking and also to help them think quickly and respond clearly during an interview.

The speaker began by recounting his personal experiences as to how he developed his own communication skills, which helped the students to relate to the speaker. First he pointed out that one needed content to be able to speak. Though this only counted for 7% of the impact without content, there could be no delivery. Body Language and voice modulation were the other two components that comprised the effectiveness of our communication.

He spoke about different communication styles like passive, aggressive, passive aggressive, manipulative and assertive. He also had relevant activities for the students to participate and understand the communication styles and for the student to understand how the knowledge of the content and familiarity will lead to better communication. He also enriched the students with some tips as how to face an interview – before the interview, during the interview and after the interview. He ended with a Q & A session, where he clearned many doubts raised by students.

One of the club members delivered the Vote of Thanks. Written feedback was collected, which was very positive. Participation certificates were issued to the students who attended.

Sports and athletics have been an integral part of KCG for years and its im memorial.

Its my pleasure to present Annual Sports report 2018. Keeping up the tradition, this year too, KCG College of Technology  organized its 9^th  Dr KCG Memorial Tamil nadu State level inter school  Touranament in Football,Basketball &Volleyball with the same flamboyant spirit, on the 14th of Febuary 2018 saw 600 participants from 49 schools across Tamil nadu.  Dr.Elizabeth Verghese Chair person, Hindustan group of Institutions was the Chief guest and distributed the prizes to the winners.

On 1^st September  we organized Anna University Zone III Handball Tournament at our college campus around 400  Students from 26 Colleges participated.

On 27^th January Department of Physical Education organised an one day Yoga Work shop on the topic “Yoga Today”( Empowering Youth for Tomorrow) for our First year  Sports club & Fittness club members more than 200 club members learned Yoga

This year our management has given us 40 new cycles for the department of Physical Education for the purpose of cycling club and  We have almost completed the MOU with OFO largest cycle sharing company in the  world .

Sports activities is an integral part of student’s career. Our students are enthusiastic sportsmen with zeal and ambition to give their best performance.

2017. Nagajothi III year Aero participated for India in TFF Minime Series & All Thailand Fencing Championship organised by Thailand Fencing Association at Bangkok from 9 to 17 September 2017.

Praveen raj of I year Civil selected for under 21 Indian camp in Judo at Sonipat Haryana from 5^th August to 15^th September organised by Judo federation of India

B.Sabrish  of I year  EIE won the Anna University Inter zonal Tournament and qualified to represented Anna University in All India Inter University Tournament at Punjabi University from 15^th – 28^th November 2017

M.Manoj IV year Mech represented Anna University in All India Inter University Swimming Championship at Punjabi University Chandigarh from 26-30 October2017

R.Surya of  I year Aero represented our     state in 28^th Juniour National Throwball Championship at Mandya, Karnataka organised by Throwball Association of India from 24-27^th August 2017

Pragadeeswaran  III year ECE Represented Pondichery in Senior Nationals Handball Championship  organised by Handball Association of India  at Kaddapa .

Our students have participated in various Games and Athletics events conducted by Anna University at  Zonal and Inter-Zonal level. The following are some of the sports achievements by our students during the academic year 2017-18.   During the month of October 2016 (from 19th to 21^st ) our College Athletic team has participated in Anna University Inter Collegiate Athletic Meet at MNM Jain College campus and Ms.Little Prasanna Soundari of  I  year ME Mech won the Silver medal in 1500 mts run.

It gives me an immense pleasure to inform you that our College Handball team won the Anna University Zonal Hand ball Championship  organised by KCG College of Technology

The college has an appreciative team of volleyball, which has won Runners up in Anna University Zonal Tournament  and VIT Trophy.

Another asset of our college is sparkling players of Football Which won third place in  Anna University Zonal Tournament at MD Sathak College on 12 -15 October 2017 and they also bagged the Third place in Buck Memorial Tournament at YMCA College of Physical Education .

Rajeswari  IV EEE won the silver medal & Kaviraj II EEE  won the bronze medal at 36^th Tamil nadu State karate Championship held at Chennai on 5^th December

B.Sabarish I EIE won the gold medal at Chennai District Boxing Championship on 9^th & 10^th September 2018 organised by Tamil nadu boxing Association at Nehru stadium

Happy to inform you all that Accountant General ( AG an central govt enterprise) have signed Allan Raul of I year CSE and Richard of I year EEE  to play for their football club in upcoming First division league to be held at Nehru stadium. we wish them to get Appointment in the same)

Thank you

“Drone Technologies and Applications”

For the first time in India KCG college has brought in National level Drone    Racing to Chennai on March 2nd and 3rd.  KCG Drone PitStop 2018 happened to be the most exciting event for the Drone lovers of this country where flying drone has become a passion for most of the youngsters. This event was planned in such a way that young minds have to design their own drone not just flying the off the shelf commercial one. This was a spectacular event for the audience witnessing the several drones competing with each other and flying through challenging obstacles. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, KCG college of Technology in association with, Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI) and Aerospace Industry Development Association of Tamilnadu (AIDAT) has conducted the Mega event KCG Drone Pit Stop 2018. On 2nd March 2018 eminent speakers from Drone Industry have delivered the lectures in the Seminar “Drone Technology and Applications” at Mirza Seminar Theatre of KCG college of Technology. The seminar program was started with welcome address by Dr. K. Vijayaraja, HoD Aero followed by the Lightning of Lamp by the Dignitaries. The Special address was given by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal KCG College of Technology. The Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour for the event were Dr. S. R. Chakravarthy, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IITM and Coordinator National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) and Mr. Subbian Seetharaman, Asst Vice President, Siemens-Gamesa. More than 270 students from KCG College of Technology and 38 students from various Colleges and professionals from Industries have attended the seminar. Chief Guest spoke on the different engineering principles and shared his vision how the engineering should be. His key note address covered various topics including grounding of CONCORDE, air taxis in future, VTOL, comparison of US GDP and Indian GDP growth and the possibility of India becoming the second biggest economy in the world within twenty years and necessity of our younger generation commitment. Guest of Honour shared his experiences in the industry, usage of drones in wind turbines and solar power plant and his current projects at the outset. He spoke on various drone applications in the current market and its future prospects. The Dignitaries unveiled the Logo of Critical Thinkers club and its Year Magazine followed by the prize distribution to the achievers in the club. After the tea break the Seminar started with the first session given by the Resource Person Mr. Syed Mubashar Ali, Director, D-EPSAT Pvt Ltd. He spoke on DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly). He stressed on the importance of manufacturing machine components with less parts which would reduce the weight and leading to additional benefits. He introduced a new term EVIATION which deals with electric planes. Finally he wished to be a partner of Hindustan group in innovating new technologies in air travel  Second session was handled by Mr. Bhaskar Raghunathan, Director and CEO, Takvaviya Tech Pvt Ltd. He shared his passion towards the drones and hisexperiences in the industry. In the interactive session about the out of the box applications of Drones and he explained about his companies involvement in developing drones for specific applications in agriculture NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), studying the tide waves and collecting the data for safety precautions on Tsunami. His work was highly application/task oriented and inspired the students to take up a career on drone technology.After Lunch Break the third session was conducted by Mr. Sai Patabiraman, Founder, Sree Sai Aerotech Innovations. He introduced the regulations of Drones in India and said it was one of the best in the world and how the regulations will create more opportunity in the future. He said every registered drone will get a Unique Identification Number. He stressed the importance of autopilot in the drones and the requirement of four data points to develop an AI (Artificial Intelligence). Final session was handled by Mr. Rakend Dubba, CFD Engineer, Sukra Helitek. He spoke on various application of CFD with drones and their company’s contribution towards the development of drones. 18 teams participated in the event. On the first day, the teams were involved in assembling their drones as per the specifications provided by the organising team of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, KCG College of Technology. Points were awarded for their assembling skills and for the innovation. On the second day, in front of drone lovers of various colleges and public, racing event have started with loud cheering. Professional flyers have flown their UAVs and demonstrated their various aerobatic skills of flying. MMC_UAV and SKYPORT Innovations, an Indo-Chinese MNC, have flown their UAV showing its capability of crowd monitoring and patrolling, which was well appreciated by the knowledgeable crowd. This is the first ever college event in India for drone racing which will become a         yearly event.

Student Category:

First prize – Agni College of Technology, Chennai

Second Prize – RV College of Engineering, Bangalore

Third Prize – Sri Krishna College of Engineering, Coimbatore

Consolation prizes:

1. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
2. Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

Open Category:

Winner: Mr.Mohammed Riyaz

Consolations Prize: Mr. Janarthan

Judges for the Event:

Mr. Vinoth Kumar, Engineer, Boeing India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Manoj Kumar, Technical Engineer, Boeing India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Bhanu Praveen, R&D Head, SKYPORT Innovations

Mr. Suresh, Assistant Professor, HITS, Padur

Mr. Dinesh, Project Lead,  UCAL

Mr. Parvez Alam, Head Corporate Marketing, UCAL, India and Mr. Justin Kwok, Overseas Manager, MMCUAV, China were invited for the valedictory function as Chief Guest and Guest of Honour respectively. Mr. Parvez Alam has appreciated KCG College of Technology for conducting such events. He also spoke to the students insisting the importance of drones in future. Mr. Justin Kwok explained the need for drones in present and future, he also detailed the type of drones used for various applications. The dais was decorated by the presence our Principal Dr. G. Prabhakaran and Vice-Principal Dr. Sumathi Poobal. The prizes  under various categories were awarded to the winners by eminent personalities on the   dias. The participants and winners have appreciated the way in which the event was planned, organised and executed.

KCG WOMEN’S CODING CLUB is an exclusive club for women to learn Coding and Associated Skills. It is a platform to create an awareness and interest among girl students on programming. As an initiative, we have conducted a Bulid2Learn session for the girl students on 2^nd March 2018 at Watts Humphrey Lab. The session was handled by Ms. Bhavani an alumnus of our college, presently working as a Product Developer at Focus InfoTech and Ms. Krthika also from Focus Infotech. On the first session, students were introduced to the concept of turtle in python. Using turtle they were taught to draw lines, shapes and eventually various sceneries. The students were made to apply their mathematical knowledge and they were also enabled to think in a logical manner. After learning session, the students were asked to prepare a scenery as the theme for the competition Creative Colors that was conducted on 8^th March at Steve Jobs Lab. Around 60 students had registered for the competition and participated with much dedication and enthusiasm. All the students applied their knowledge in creating beautiful scenarios with several themes for the competition. They also explained the hidden meaning behind the scenes and proved their technical abilities. Mr.Dorai Thodla and Dr. Sumathi Poobal Vice principal had judged the demonstration. All the competitors presented their work with much excitement. This, in turn, channelized their knowledge and energy towards becoming active participator.

The main objectives of KCG Women’s Coding Club are to improve computational power, logical thinking of students and motivate the students to participate in various events in and outside the college. We also want to help girls fearlessly explore their idea and create the next generation applications. The long-term goal of our Club is we want this club to become a movement to empower more and more girl students.

Dr. Sumathi Poobal Vice-Principal inaugurated KCG Women’s Coding Club by launching club’s official website during Women’s Day Celebration. Faculty and students from various departments had attended the session and made this event fruitful. . We have prepared an AV by collaging all activities related to our club and presented to the audience. Top 5 coders of Creative Colors event had recognized during the function with cash prizes and certificates. Overall the celebration and functions went well.

Anju.A

Coordinator- KCG Women’s Coding Club

A session on Psycho sexual well-being was held for students of First year on 6th March, 2018. Dr. T. Santhanam Ph.D., Director of SDS Institute of behavioural Sciences and his team members – Ms. Shruthi & Ms. Divya, conducted the session for boys and Dr. Anitha Manuel, Dean of Student Affairs, KCG College of Technology, conducted the session for girls.
The session gave an insight about characteristics of adolescents, adolescent behaviour patterns, life goal and its purpose. It also helped them to learn to handle their emotions, to improve their self-esteem and self-confidence and to bring in a change in their behaviour and attitude. The focus was also on stress management and SWOT analysis. It also focussed on as how to have a healthy relationship with opposite gender and how girls can cope with increasing gender violence.
The response from the participants was positive.