SSET NEWS

National Service Scheme (Technical)

The NSS Technical Cell of SSET conducted a blood donation camp on March 12. This time there were 97 donors from SSET, which included 2 teaching staff members too. The camp was organized in collaboration with IMA Blood Bank and Research Centre Thrissur. Earlier Dr. Babu, of IMA, conducted an awareness programme on blood donation at SSET campus, for NSS volunteers.

Kerala state level valedictory function of NSS (Technical) was held on February 23 at Government Engineering College, Thrissur. four student volunteers and the Programme Officer from SSET attended the function.

Association of Electrical Engineering Students (Vajra)

The activities of Vajra, association of Electrical & Electronics Engineering students, were innagurated at a colourful function held on March 6, by Shri.V.R.Sudhi, Dy Chief Engineer, Kerala State Electricity Board.

Staff Achievements

Prof. M. Madhavan, Principal, SSET, was the resource person for a Short Term Technical Programme on Quality Management, held at Government Engineering College, Thrissur during March 6 - 19.

Shri. P.P. Lalu, Asst. Professor (ME) presented a paper entitled ‘Optional design of pressurized pipe networks, a non-linear programming approach’ at Second National Conference on ‘Advances in civil engineering’, held at T.K.M. College of Engineering, Kollam, during February 21-23.

Shri. Mahesh. R, Asst. Professor (ME) attended a two-day workshop on ‘Lasers in material processing’, held at N.I.T Tiruchirappalli during March 6-7.

Student achievements
Smt.Lakshmi Sudhakaran of final year Civil bagged a Merit certificate and cash prize of Rs 2000 instituted by Ultratech Cement. The award was given away by Shri.Joseph, Regional Manager at a function held at the campus, on March 24.

ISO certification
The ISO certification programme is progressing at full steam towards the final target. The external lead auditors RINA, is slated to visit the campus by mid April for the final audit. The second internal audit by the consultants was conducted on March 3 & 4, and a preparatory external audit was conducted by RINA on March 6. They will be conducting a scrutiny of records on March 27.

Placement activities

The Placement Cell is working in full swing. Conglomerates like HCL, Velozeta and Pro-X have conducted campus recruitment at SSET, during last month and together they have selected around 15 students of 2008 Batch, from all disciplines.

IT based companies like Subex, NAEL, and Civil Engineering and contracting firm, EASA Engineering from UAE are expected to visit SSET for conducting recruitment programme.

IETE students chapter

The IETE students’ chapter of SSET is organizing a one day seminar entitled ‘Your profession from a global perspective, on March 29 at the campus. The resource person for this programme is Major G.K Nair, Chief Executive of Coast to Coast.

An internet based seminar a.k.a “Webinar” on agile computing was conducted on March 26 under the aegis of Infosys Technologies.

Blood donation camp held at SSET Campus