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Assessment Report for

Institutional Accreditation of
Anna University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Scction 1: Preamble

Anna University is an unitary Technical University, which came into being in the year

1978 by amalgamating four technical institutions at Chennai. One of the institutions, viz.,

College of Engineering, Guindy was the oldest engineering college in India (established

in the ye*;r 1794). The university in the present status, has a main oampus comprising of

100 hectares and two satellite campus with an area of 100 hectares. There are 2l

departments running 144 programmes in all. Some self-funded courses are also offered

by the Institution. The univenity has also 70 research centres.

The university has a frculty strength of about 450 and student strength of about 6000, out

of which about 1500 are doing PG and about 600 are research scholars. The university

also has about 2500 students doing self-funded courses. About 25Yo of the surdents are

females.

The University volunteered to be assessed by the National Assessment and Acoreditation

Counoil, Bangalore and submitted its self-study report in July, 2001. NAAC constituted a

Peer Team to visit the Univetsity and validate the self-study report The team members

comprised Prof Samat Kumar Mrrli*rerjee, Vice Chancelloq Birla lnstitute of

Teohnology, Ranchi as the chairman of the team and Prof M.D" Tiwari, Director,
krdian

Institute o-f Inf,ormation Technology, Allahabad; Prof Vinyshil Gautam, professor

of
 ldanagement, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr.A Sridharan, Hon. Professor,

Indian krstitute of Science, Bangalore, Prof. K.E. Raman, Deputy Director, BITS, Pilani,

Prof. S.M.Chatterjee, Kolkata, Dr.K.Muthukrishnan, NITIE, Murnbai and Prof S.Mohan,

IISc, Bangalore, as rnembers. The Peer Team visited the University from 96 January,

2OO2 to llh January, 2002, Dr. M.S.Shyamasundar, fusistant Advisor of NAAC

faoilitated the Peer Team visit.

The Peer Team carefully studied and analped the Self-Study Report submitted by the

Anna University. During the iirstitutional visit, the team went through all the'relevanf

documents; visited the departments and the fucilities; and interacted with the various

constituents of the institution. The academic, co-ourricular, exfra-cunicular, sports and

extension facilities of the institrtion were examined. The Peer Team interacted with the

Syndicate, the Vice-Chancellor, faculty, students and alumni of the University. Based on

the above exercise, and keeping in mind the seven criteria identified by NAAC, the Peer

Team assessed the institution for the quality of eduoation offered there. The assessment

of the instihrtion under various criteria, the commendable features of the instiflrtion as

well as the issues of concern are presented in the following pages.

Meanwhile, the Govemment of Tamil Nadu, through a state legislation has made Anna

University as an affiliating University for all Enginee ing /teohnological Institutions of

the state. However, sinoe the documents prepared by the university as provided
to the
peet team pertains to Anna University as an unitary Institution, the committee did not
find it possible to go into accreditating any of the Institutions waiting to get
affiliated
with Anna University. Furthei any attempt to accredit such institutions
oould have made
 this committee to overstep its jurisdiction. flence fire report with all its commen6,

analysis and recommendations pertains to only Anna University as an Unitary

lnstitution.

The University has been able to reflect its status ade,qvately through the documents

prepared for the pufpose. Howevor, there are instances of inconsistencies absenoe of

whioh would have furtherraised the level of adequacy and clarity of thesedocuments.

Section 2 : Criterion-wise Analvsis:

Criterion f: Curricular Aspects:

The Universtty has 91 academic units consisting of 2l deparhnents and 7O rtognneA

research centres. It has total enrolment of 5?93 students, out of which 3571 are

undergraduates and 1622 post4nduates. 600 are Fh.D. studen6. 355 students are from

other states. 23 sfudents are from overseas undergo studies in various progrurmmes.

There are 144 academio programme options in the Univenity which inolude as under:

33 undergraduate programmes in all engineering disoiplines like Civil,

meohanical, Electical, Electronics & communication, Chemical, Textile, Bio-

Tech., Aeronautical, Automobile, Production,Instumentation, and Architecture.

57 PG programmes in all above engineering disciplines and also in Science and

Humanities.

37 Ph.D- Programmes,

and a host of other Certificate/Diploma programmes.

Self funded courses, viz., UG & pG courses.

 The temporal plan of academic work is semester system. Almost all programmes are

career oriented, The students have some flexibility in opting for electives. Cuniculum

revision generally takes place one in four years, through Board of studies, which consists

of about 40Yo extemal members. Practical aspects of training is through Projects, Lab.

work and Industrial visits. The university offers bridge courses for students rryho come

from different streams to study interdisciplinary courses. Provision is there to incnrporate

ohanges in syllabi as and vihen required, keepirrg in paoe with technological

development.

Almost all programmes conform to standard curricula; however the absence of

humanities or sooial soiences papers is to be noted. There is a need to provide more

support to the studenb to improve the eommunication skills of the students both in UG

and PG. The language departrnent is presendy doing this role to some extc'nt. However

this needs to be upgraded by teaohing the students t0 oover all the aspects oftechnical

communication. The various deparhnents offer programmes in their own discipline

alone; there is soope to introduce inter-disciplinary programmes in whioh more than one

department would be able to contribute. There is a need to strengthen industry and other

sectors based projeot trainirig in all Engineering programmes in the undergraduate level

too. Some percentage of PG studenb do undertake projects in industries. The

departments have the freedom to update the content and syllabi as and when necessary.

The ,Committee noted with appreciation that a number of MoU have been, signed;

however, a follow up mechanism has to be worked out to gain advantage out of the,,same.
 Criterion II Teaching, Learning and Evaluation:

The university follows a well-planned academic calendar which is distributed at the

beginning of the session to the students. Evaluation is continuous and intemal and

external, The academic programme follows a semester system. Students are selected

through State entrance test and interview. Since the evaluation is intemal, there is enough

safe guard for redressal ofgrievances.

There are well-qualified, experienced teaohers. About 30% of faculty possess one step

higher qualification than the mandatory minimum level. The overall teaoher - student

ratio at prese,nt is l:13 which needs to be improved. There are some vacanoies in teaching

faoulty position. However, this has been taken care of by introduotion of an innovative

scheme called 'Teaching Research Associate?' (TRA) progmmme. A few temporary,

adjunct, visiting and parttime teaohers are also employed to meet the short Sll.

Criterian IIf. Research, Consultancy and Extension:

Research, Consultancy and extension. researoh work in the Univenity is carried out

primarily through Master and Ph.D. Programmes. About 90% of the frculty are involved

in active research at various levels and this is commendable. The research output is

measured in terms ofthe deliverables in 4pplioation oriented projecls, consultancy both at

design and development level and oalibration and testing level, publications in joumals

and oonferences and number ofph.Ds produced.

Most of the departmenb have been very suocessful in getting sponsored projects not only

from AfCTE and UGC for modemization bfut also through agencies such as DRDO, MIT,
 DST etc. They have also been successful in interacting with R&D laboratories such as

IGCAR from within the country and also have established good collaborative

programmes with a number of research laboratories from abroad including European

Commissions.

Some departments such as aerospace have established TIFAC centErs, have been

sucoessful in interacting with industries and also have been transferring technologies in

the area of high technolojy as well as sooietal programmes such as artificial limbs,

CNG Cylinders, Avionios control systems etc., Centros such as Bio-Teohnology and

Crystal Growth have succeeded not onty in mobilizing rcsouroes in a big way but also

established good infrastructure useful for human resource development not only at

University level but also usefirl for inter universrty programmes. Alumni Centres

established with the co.operation such as AUKBC Centre for internet and telecorn

teohnologies and AU-TVS programme could be considered as model programmes with

scope for expansion.

Though the staff have been quite successful in participating in intemational and national

conferences and publishing in national joumals, it is disturbing that the publication in

intemational journals at the expected level is not seen. Though it could be attributed to a

certain exten! to the application oriented projects, defence projects and industy related

projecs where the sponsores may not be interested in publishing the results. However,

keeping in mind, the academic and research interactions and Ph.D. Programmes one

should not ignore the importance of publication in intemational joumals. Looking at the

drop outs from the Ph.D Programmes, small number of Ph.Ds produced and the presence

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of TRA Programme should be useful in not only solving this problern but also reducing

the teaching load on the research oriented faculty. If the faculty still feels that there are

certain areas where publioation in intemational joumals is not possible especially in

defence oriented programmes, foous should be on for patent registration.

The University has established a Centre for Professional Development Education which

organises extension activities. This Center'not only offers innovative and outting edge

technology oourses but also generate revenue for the university to augnent the university

and modernize the existing laboratories to some level. In many deparfrnents, faculty arq

very active in organizing summer/winter oourses, short term programmes, conferences at

different levels. In many of these programrnes, scientists from abroad are actively

involved.

It is understood from that University auttrorities that a majority of research scholan have

joined the University and registered for Ph.D only in the last 2 years and as such it is

cxpected that the number of publicatioru of faculty will increase in the forthcoming

period.

Regarding the consultancy programmes departments such as Ooean Developmenq

Remote Sensing offer consultangy of design &, development levels whereas

Instrumentation and Automobile Departnents have the rnechanism to help the industry

in calibnetion end tcsting frcilities. On tho whole, the interaotion uf the fauulty with
industries is considerably good, However, there is much more scope which should
be

further exploited.
 When suoh consultancies are undertaken, the resources utilized by the University for

underaking such oonsultancies should be appropriately apportioned between the

Univenity/faadty /department concerned. There should be a mechanism to provide

University contribution, departrnental contribution and individual personal development

fund which should be created and the activities should be fully monitored as it will lead

to the holistic development the Universiry/Deparhnent.

There should dlso be definite proportion between teaching/research and consultancy.

Criterion fV Infrastmcture and Learning Resources:

The University's various departments have well equipped laboratories and tlrey are

maintained well. However to remove obsolescence periodically, the finances available at

the university, seem to be not adequate. This is the case espeoially in computers,

Electronios and Mechanical. The University has all required support faoilities like Fax,

Xerox, Computer, Internef email etc. for use by students and faoully. Latest professional

grade softwares for engineering applications are available for use by studens & faoulty.

The cenhal Library located in Anna university has got 1,06,000 books and it also

subsoribes 350 journals and the budget provision for oentral library is to the hrne of I l0

lakhs. In addition to the centr:al library the MT campus also has 31500 books and202

journals subscribed. The University also has deparbnental libraries in most of the
departments. Net working of libraries within ohennai has been established and the

students have got access to trT and other University Libraries. Optimum utilization of

library space has not been thought of. There is duplication of facilities in various
 department, for example computer hardware and micro processor lab in ECE and
computer Engineering Deparhnent. Similar situation exists in Centres like Remote

Sensing, Ocean lManagemen! Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Centres.

Care has to be taken in planning laboratory space especially in the oase of computers.

Inadequate air-oondition facilities were noticed in number of deparfinents. A number of

facilities are being utilized even beyond the office hours by the students and this is a

remarkable opportunity provided to the students.

Learning Aids

Most of the class rooms are fitted with a OHP projector for projection of transparencies.

Deparhnent Libraries have provision for P.C., Power point projeotion. T.V. and Video

films is available in selected departrnents for viewing eduoational T.v. films.

For making educationa! T.V. films, an Audio Visual Researoh Centre of this University

can be made use of.

Methods of Up grading Laboratories :

Purchase of major equipments is generally made out of project grants from the UGC,

AICTE and Tamil Nadu Govemment Part II schemes. Instrumentation and supporting

devisos required for sueh equipments can be purchased out of the annual development

grant given by the Uaivenity to the various departments. All major purchases of the

Deparfrnents are made after due planning at the Departrnental Consultative

Committee

headed by the Itread of the Deparhnent

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 Canteen F'acilities:

There is one oanteen each at dre I\{ain Campus and at theMIT Campus of this University.

The canteen is open from 8.00 a.m. tO 8,00 ,p.m, serving snaoks, lunoh and coffee, Tea

and Cool drinks. They also do catering servjces to the departnrents for deparbnental

functions.

Guest House Facilities:

The following Grest Houses are available in the University:

L Univenity GuestHouse

2. Intemational and Continuing Eduoation GuestHouse

3. Alumni Guest House at MIT Campus.

The rent for the stay in the Guest House are nominal and the maint€oance expenses are

fully met by the University. These Guest Houses are under the control of one eare taker

at the *O* and by the Hostel Exeoutive Warden at the MIT Campus.
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Ectate Maintenance:

Tho Estate I!{aintenance is looked after by an Executive Engineer and supported by

Engineers and staff under the overall supe*ision of Estate officer who is a froulfy

member.

Day to day 4pintenance work is being atter-rded to by trained supporting staff. IMajor

ropairs and maintenance and capital works are being executed through Regiitered PWD,

CPWD contactors as per Govemment,nonns.

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 Physical X'acilities:

Witer coolers are provided almost in all departments/buildings, Urinals; Latrines of

Indian types are provided separately fot women and men in each and every building.

Environmental Sustainability:

Usage of plastic cups is dispensed with. Waste water is treated and utilized for effeotive

utilization of ground water. R.ain water harvesting has been provided for reoharging

groundwater. Burning of wood is prohibited. Noise producing vehicles are restrioted

inside the campus. Smoke emanating vehicles are prevented from entering the campus

for maintaining environmental sustainability. Campus rules are enforced.

StaffClub:

Staff recreation club is available for non-teaohing and administrative staff. Alumn-i have

creatod a club facilities at Anna Univenity land slightly outside the campus for the

benefit of Alumni Members. This facility is extended for the use of teaohing staffalso on

nominal membership charges. This club has play ftcilities in Tennis, Table Tennis and

Basket ball and this facilities are extended to the famrlv members of teaohers also. Also a

swimming pooifu"itity is available within the campus.

Health Centre

Health Centre facilities with attached in-patient Ward are available at the Main Campus

and at MIT oarnpus. Consultation is free for all the strdents and employees. The centers

provides out-patient treatment both in the moming *a ,rr*ing

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 In the lvlain Campus, the services of a male Medical Offroer and a female Medical

Officer are utilized. The Fara-Medical Personnel include one Pharmaoist, one Staff

Nurse and a Male Nursing Assistant.

Criterian V: Students Support And Progression

The employment availability to the students particularly belonging to Engineering and

Professional programmes run by the Institute is quite high with the overall"figure of

around 80% of such intending students. However, the percentage of students going for

establishing self ownod organizations or going for public service examinations was not

available. The institute recently started an Incubation cell within the Cente for

Biotechnology to encourage entrepreneurship in that area.

The university has recently etablished a separate cell for Alumni interaotibn headed by

one of its retired Professors as Director. It has started coordinating amongst the several

alumni assooiations existing at departmental and campus levels. There are evidences of

aotive participation of Alumni of all strata in the development proc€ss of the University.

There are instances of direct oontribution made by Alumni towards:establishment of

specialized research ceirter. They also participate in ensuring societal development for

tho Urriversity in its entire_f. The alumni rryho were present duiing the interaction with
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the Peer team had expressed adequate satisfaction in the status of the uiiversity and the

projected development path as reflected through the vision, mission and objective
 slatements. The Alumni also provide career guidance to the students as well as help the

irrslitute in ensudng adequate campus plaoement.

Academic oounseling is available to the students in the form of an Academic Advisor for

0 group of 25 studenb. Besides there are advisors for the whole class as well as Resident

counsellers for the students living at different hostels.

'l'he statistics of students enrolled for different programmes of the University reveals
that

lcss than 5%o of the students from other states getadmission to the institute. This seems

to bo an impediment in the way of continuing the national image for the University.

I{owever, there is strong evidence to show that the University acts in a way to provide

opportunities for higher studies i.e. Post graduate, M.Phil, and Ph.D levels to the students

groduating from other institutions of learning in the region. Therefore tfie University

supports the entire technical and professional education system for the state by providing

trained manpower to man the teaching and / or iesearch deparbnent of the other
institutions in the state. In this rcgard, the TRA sc-heme introduced by the University

vory recently deserves a special mention and shows the long term stake identified
by the

Univenity in the form of an attempt to fulfill its sooietal oommitment to the state
of
Tamilnadu.

The percentage of student in the PG and research programmes

coming through GATE /
NET / csIR fellowship examination is very small. However, only a very few ph.D
students face the problem of procuring stipend / fellowship because the large irumber of
sponsored projects.

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 The University follows the Govt. of India guidelines for admitting Foreign / NRI

students. At present the number of such students was reported to be around 30. The team

felt that special drive should be initiated by the University to atfaot more Foreign i NRI

students for not only generating revenue but also strenglhening its oredentials further in

foreign countries.

Criterian VI. Organisation and management:

The organization hierarchy funotionaries are well laid out. However, there is a further

sgope of clarity for organization of system as a whole. There ate seven Deans taking care

of responsibilities of academic courses, aoademic research, sponsored research, entrance

examination, students affairs and "Engineering and Technology" at MIT Campus. Apart

from the above, the University has a number of Professors designated as Directors

heading of centers ofProfessional Development, Curriculum Development Audio Visual

and Industry Interaction. It may be mentioned that the activities of aoademio reforms,

cuniculum development and aoademic oourse be clubbed and be rested with one Dean

(Aoademic affairs). Side by side to administer the other allied functional aotivities of the

University like personnel management, financial management estate adminisnation and

logistic administration and library administration, planning and development Extemal

and Intemal Relation, Office Administration, Campus / Amenities / Community facilities

adminisnadon, faculties partioipate effectively,

The Committee observed that adequate motivation, leadership, decentralization and

delegation of power, involvement of faculty, commitment, attitude, effeotiveness exist in

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 the management style of the, University. However, the comrnittee could not identifu

speeific reward and punishment seheme to,€nsure the sustained development.

The available sanctioned stength of teachers and proportionate size of technical support

staff is adequate. The University follows a practice of block sanotion stre,ngft and

therefore can suitably create aprpropriate ratio of Professors, Asst.Professors and

Leoturers in the Deparunent, Cenfres, Schools and Institutes proportional,to the level of

their activity. The University also follows guidelines regarding qualification, experienoe

as prescribed by UGC and other authorities. It is noted that despite reported attempts

made by the Universrty the percentage of teachers coming ftom other states is practioally

nil. In general, the teaohers/students ratio as well as the teaching load for the frculty are

satisfactory. However, such adequacy gets adversely affeoted if the self-supported

students and part time students are taken into acpount

The Peer Toam observed that Instifirte has got 5 different types of entities like

Deparfinent School, Centre, Institute, Division Faculties. However, there is no

document which defines the exact oharacterisation of each of these entities. The team

howevef feels that in absenoe of suoh clwity such oontinuance with sueh 6 entities may

lead the Instihrtion to adminishative problems, in future. Further filore, the team also
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observed that there are many oourses with almost similar nomenclature and similar
syllabi is being run b5' the University. Existence of different oourses with almost same
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syllabi leads to avoidable duplication pressure on the faculty members as well as dre

adminisfative staff dealing with examination.

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 In some oases, the grouping of disoiplines are quite exfraordinary like the Faculty of

Science and Humanities, The Peer team wondered about the principles on which such

amalgamation have taken place,

Creation of too many Centres/ Schools/ Institutions according to the Peer Team may lead

to fragmentation of disciplines ultimately oausing avoidable de-motivation for the

teachers, research workers of the originaUparent department.

The statutory Govemment Rules have been followed by the University, However, it is

necessary that the University makes attempts to increase the number of faculties

belonging to women and physioally challenged group. The University has froulty
development programmes such as short term and long term QIP, Summer and Winter

Schools, Refresher Courses etc. The University has also well established procedures for

faculty appiaisal which considers amongst other students feed back as one of the notable

inpu6,

Though, many researahes on IT & Communication Techniques have been oarried out in

the University no visible effort of the University could be observed to absorb results of

such researches in its own management effors. However, the institrtion has well

established network of computers located in its main carnpus as well as between the

campuses. It is felt that application of Information Technology partioularly in the

doma-in of accounting could create a much more effective financial management system

for the Universrty"

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 Though, there are certain welftre and dovclopmmtal sohemes available for,,the teaching

community, but such scheme for adminisfation 1nd ottrer caiegory of staff were not
brought to the notice of the Peer Team. It is,observed that the university is yet to

introduoe sabbatioal leave for the faculties whioh is an aoknowledged mode of faculty

development.

The grievance redressal mechanism,for studonb ls appropriably in the form of studenb

assoeiation. ,trtrowever, suoh mechanisms applioablc for teachers and other category of

staffw6re not biought to tho notioo of the team.

The budgeting, aocounting and auditing system in general needs modenrization with the

application of Information Technology. The Univorsity should initiate conscious steps

to reduce the number of audit objections as fri as pbssible.

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The U:riversrty has already dernonstrated its ability to mobilize r€sources to ca$y out

research and even to support notmol toaohhg prograftm-es through such

ltivities
aotivities. However the tearn has obserued that the proportion of firnds genenated by

consultancy needs to be strengthened. The Universigy should clearly distinguish the

consultancy projeot from thd sponsored research project It has been sbserved in many

cases grants received from Govornment agenoies like AfCfB, DST, UCC tras Ueen
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sho,ryp,rrnder the sqnsultanoy category which thg tpam,feels incsnsGter-rt. The team also

observ-ed the uqiversrtx $rias able to mobilise zubstantial r€sour€es frcm.,foreign counhies

and agencies udrich is b oommerrds!-le aefiievsnent.

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 Criterion VIf. Ifealthy Practices :

I'he University runs self-funded courses viz,, B.E. (part-time), MCA as a PG programme

and post degree certificate courses. About 1500 shrdents are currently registered.

The University has implemented some of the educational reforms like semester system,

internal evaluation, credit system, courses directed towards needs of industry etc. The

University meticulously follows a pre-designed academic calendar with timely

declaration of resulb. Student advisors at a ratio of l:25 see that unhealthy practices like

ragging and indisoipline are cheoked and the students are provided enough opportunities

to channelise their energies in purposeful aotivities like NSS, NCC, NSO, extra cunioular

aotivities, etc.

The University has Quality Assurance Cells to implement Total Quality lWrnagement. A
number of centers supported by industries & Government Agencies are also working

well.

Number of faoulty members have eamed recognition at National level.

The Peer Team has appreciated the fact that the institution has not seen strike or unrest

from students and staff.

Overall Analysis:

The Peer Team is oonvinced that there are a,number of the Llniversity's approach to

the assurance of the quality and standards which the Peer Tead would wish to
oommend, as well as others about which would wish to bring to the altention of
the
University for further consideration. The Peer Team would like to commend the

University for its many good practioes, in particular,

 Wide rangitig acade.mic

Twining programine with. It W,ith some uriversities :in

Germany and some other

Credit s5atem and flexi'bility

Optimum mix of UGand PG

Student admisg,isn threuglh

Continuous internal evaluation of

OVerall amb'ianoe,,of,the Carnpus,

The propensity, of the,frculty. to attsa$t Ogvornment agenoies.

the oommendable partioipation of lfiDorting the e><tra ounicular

aotivities and L:rtension seryices suoh f,f, a!0.

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t> The well developed cen@l fac-ilities fcf r ngmp,utof oenter,, health cdrrter

and hostels wfth suffcient rnd frpulfl memters to avail

them.

as fiber optio networ.k, CD-ROM netwo* ad *nd; number of their outlets for

the use of departrnents, adminishation, frouftff,mmlm ud sfudents

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Instnrmentation ceriter in MIT Campus,

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The well designd bro-ohure.s of the activ.idel qf th: univ.rnity ar a whole .and flre

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The efficient and effeotive placement servis #
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The no-teruq-rthy intetap,tion with the alurilhi asSociation

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The recognition and awards receivod by romo of tho faoulty

Regular comprehensive review of ourrioulr rt lorct onco in 4 years.

Inclusion of external members in Boardc of Studior

Effective Resource Mobilisation

Vibrant and effective interaotion with Indurtry und govemment departments and

agoncies.

Ar it continues to work towards its Vision and for assuring the quality of its

oducotional programmes, the,Peer Committoo wichos tho University to consider the

following for furthor consolidation and continuanco of its status.

Avoiduroo of duplioation of courses of similar naturo emong various departmens.

lnoroasing further the opportunities availablo for professional development of

tsachers,

Providing opportunities to the students and scholars for undertaking challenging

industrial projects

to sophistioated facilities.

oross departmental

> Efforts to dooument the researoh ouQut in forms of publication, especially in reputed

refereed joumals, patents, produots otc,

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Nlrtto nnd Signature for the poor ternt mltttlterr

Nrmr Signafure

I Nrrrro of the Chairman Prof. Sanrl Kumtt' MrtlhllJoo

I Nlnro of the member Prof. M.D.'l'lwrrl

I Nrurrtr ol'the member Prof. Vinyrhll (Jrulrnt

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I Nnrrro of the Member Prof.A Sridhnrnrr

i NEnrcr of the member Prof. K.E. Ramrn

F Nnrrro of the member Prof. S.M.ChnltorJoo

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'l Nurrrr: of the member Prof.ILMuthukrhltnrn I t*

I Nnrrro of the member Prof.S.Mohnn

I ngloc with the observations and recommondnlitrrr tturle lry llro prr,cr team in this report.

Nrrrrt rnrl fllgnrltrlo of the llead of the fnstitution