● Proceedings of Statutory Bodies

NIRF without any difficulties. • To appoint faculty members on contract basis for a period of 4 years and 11 months and to review the performance at the end of the contract period, as this procedure is followed in almost all educational Institutions across the globe and some premier Govt. Institutions in

India. • Faculty members who have published more than 10 Indexed Journal publications were honoured with an appreciation letter and cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- each apart from the regular incentive for publications.

ACADEMICS

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DEPARTMENT ACHIEVEMENTS

AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING

● Established "HITS-Okinawa Skill Next Centre" to introduce an innovative course on Electric Vehicle 2-Wheeler Technology, first in South India ● Introducing 3 new major Hon’s Specialization courses viz., Motorsport Engineering (first in Asia to offer this specialization), Autotronics and Electric Vehicles and Mobility. ● Introducing 2 new programmes B.Sc. Automobile Maintenance, and BBA Automobile Management from the academic year 2020-21. ● Signed MoU with o Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), TUAS, Germany - Dual Master Degree Programme. o School of Design, TUAS, Germany - Student-Staff Exchange Programme. o Greaves Cotton Ltd., - Student’s Research Projects.

MECHATRONICS (ANRO)

Team "Vulcun" comprising Mr. Lena Sekar, Mr. Gian Carlo, Mr. Haran Pragadeesh and Mr. Mukesh Sriram, mentored by Dr. RM. Kuppan Chetty and Mr. G. Deenadayalan won “Design Excellence Award” in the 1st AUAP - MRSP International VEX-Robotic competition held in Manila, Philippines, during September 2019.

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

● NBA Accredited. ● Obtained First Patent on “A Prior Warning Method and Mixed Mode Communication System for the Natural Calamities” ● Opened a Research Centre - Machine Intelligence and Data Analysis Research Centre MIDARC-

AI/ML Research ● Signed MoU with o HTC ITMR - Continuous education and research in Cyber Security & Forensics. o Grant Thornton - Continuous education and research in Block Chain Technology. ● Issued IBM Digital Badge for students who have completed degree in IBM Specialized Course.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

● Developer Student Club (DSC) - Trained 500 students in Google Cloud, Tensor Flow and Flutter within and outside the university by conducting around 15 events initiated through Google Student

Ambassador Programme. ● Achieved 100% Publication of Final Year Projects (2015-2019) batch in Scopus Indexed Journals.

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

● Received Funded Projects worth Rs. 1,28,60,581. o “Development of an on-line measurement system for hydrogen concentration in steam environment” from AERB –DAE. o “B. Wall Climbing Robot with reduced sound levels using Active Noise Control” from

ERIPR – DRDO. o “Development of automatic Tea leaf cutter for inclined terrain harvesting” from POABS Tea

Pvt. Ltd. o “Development of position control system” from GTRE, DRDO. • Dr. M. Sujatha and Dr. A. K. Parvathy published a Book Chapter titled “Investigation of

Reliability of DC–DC Converters Using Reliability Block Diagram and Markov Chain Analysis” .

SPADE

● Obtained “Best Department Award” for generating revenue from Summer and Winter programmes.

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

● Obtained below Rankings & Rating. o Top 11th Outstanding B-School of Excellence and Top-4th B-School in Tamil Nadu by Competition Success Review. o Top 102nd B-School in India, 44th in terms of Living Experiences and among the Top 5 BSchools in Chennai by India Today. o Top 111th Private Institution in India, 48th among Top 60 B-Schools in South Zone and 65th among university constituent colleges in India. o Top 92nd B-School in India, 76th among top private B-Schools in India, 23rd among Top BSchools in South Zone and 3rd among Top B-7 Schools in Chennai o Rated B++ in National Level and in private institution category ranked 15th in South Zone & 2nd in Chennai by Chronicle.

LAW

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● A tie up Exchange Program with Kent Illinois University, of Chicago, USA was formed. ● MOU was signed with Surana and Surana, International Lawyers for the promotion of the law

School.

CHEMISTRY

• Dr. M. Chandrakala, Asst. Prof. received Doctoral Degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during Nov. 2019.

LANGUAGES

● Introduced 14 Open Electives for Engineering students, Introduced Foreign Languages Spanish and Mandarin.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS