2.3.

7 Detail (process and the number of students \benefited) on the

academic,
personal and psycho-social support and guidance services
(professional
counseling/mentoring/academic advise) provided to students?

Academic counseling given to all students.

Personal/referred counseling for the needy.
Individual attention provided by a professional counselor.
Psycho-social support/scholarships in deserving cases.
Students who are identified as having certain specific issues are given
special and periodical counseling and social support if necessary.
The process
Three levels of counseling

2.3.8

Regular counseling by every faculty/mentor for 15 -20 students in

the dpartment.
General counseling once in a semester for all the students by
teachers from other departments.
Psychological counseling by the professional counselor (refer Best
Practices for details).
Apart from the above career guidance provided by the training and
placement cell and the respective departments.

Provide details of innovative teaching approaches/methods

adopted by the faculty during the last four years? What are the
efforts made by the institution to encourage the faulty to adopt
new and innovative approaches and the impact of such
innovative practices on student learning?

PPTs and Charts are extensively used to augment conventional black board
teaching. Working prototype models are also shown in the class rooms. Role
plays, simulation, field visits, surveys and demonstrations are also
incorporated in teaching methodology.
In the laboratory oriented courses, students are given the freedom to
conduct certain experiments, to strengthen the theoretical concepts they
are taught in the class room, under the supervision and guidance of the
laboratory instructor.
Variety of Software tools are made available to the faculty to enable them to
teach certain topics through extensive simulation techniques.
Apart from classroom interactions, the students undergo in-plant training,
visit industries, present papers, take up paper publication etc., and faculty
give them guidance in all such activities so that the class room learning is
effectively and innovatively supplemented.
In order to impart more innovative approaches in teaching-learning
pedagogy, the institution motivates all the faculties to attend FDPs and
Training
programs,
National
and
International
Seminars,

Conferences/Workshops organized by well reputed institutions of Anna

University, and IITs.
The institution organizes Feel employable programme for the teaching
faculty to improve their teaching methodologies.

2.3.9 How are library resources used to augment the teachinglearning process?
Our institution possess well equipped central library with necessary text and
reference books, periodicals, journals and e-resources in all the subjects
related to engineering, technology, management, science and humanities.
Every class has one compulsory library hour / week for permitting the
students to access the reference books and journals.
Apart from the central library, every department has a library with adequate
collection of text and reference books and journals and details are given as
follows:
Departmen
ts

No. of
.Books

National
Journals

International
Journals

PT

5045

12

Refer Criterion 4 Library Details