The MEA Report for 2011 -12

MEA REPORT

            Respected Vice Chancellor, The Dean Faculty of Engineering & Technology, The Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman MEA, Prof N. Viruthagiri, Vice Chairman Literary council,  Dr. M. Ramajayam Vice Chairman Placement council, Invited dignitaries off the dais  the student presidents of the various councils and my dear student friends.. A very Good Afternoon to you.

I stand before you to deliver the report of the Mechanical Engineering Association activities for the academic year 2011 – 2012.

As the department has seen the success of the enlarged association in the previous year, to keep activates on the upbeat further events were added to the council activities in the present year.

The installation of these office bearers was on 7^th September 2011, wherein our revered Vice chancellor had installed the office bearers… A new council - The Class council was formed and the class representatives formed a part of it. During the installation the calendar of events for the various councils were presented. Most of the events were followed as per the calendar planned.  Now to give a report of the activities of each council.

To start with – Literary council

The first activity of this council was an essay competition on 20^th August 2011 – Rajiv Gandhi’s Birthday celebrated as the renewable Energy Day. There were 60 Participants of which 10 were selected for prize in 5 different themes.

This was followed by a General Quiz competition in the month of October 2011 in 3 levels

As a part of MECHSEM the following events were conducted:

MECHSEM QUIZ

Extempore

Debate

Paper Presentation

CAD Competition – CAD MANIA

Photography

Short film

Drawing & Sketching

Unlike the previous years, the events of Mechsem were spread over the entire even semester The Quiz and debate took place in the month of January 2012. The paper presentation, extempore and CAD competition took place in the month of February 2012. The inauguration of the paper presentation was on 13^th February 2012, The Dean, FEAT Inaugurated the event, and was spread over 4 newer themes like Nanotechnology, Reduce reuse recycle, aero structures & weapon technologies Advance technologies and fuels. 19 group of students participated in the paper presentation.  All the events of MECHSEM were conducted after 4.30 PM. thereby not compromising on the regular class hours. The judges for the event were Dr M. Ramajayam, Dr. T. Shanmugavadivel, Dr M. Loganathan, Dr James Gunasekaran, Mr S. Saravanan, Mr C M Raguraman and Mr P Ramesh

The new events introduced at MECHSEM were CAD Competition, Photography, short film and Drawing/sketching.

The CAD MANIA took place in two categories – 3D & 2D around 20 students Participated. The results were judged by Dr. Rm. Chandrashekaran, Prof V. Srinivas from the computer science Department.

Photography was in 2 categories Technical and non technical, 52 entries had been registered in both the categories.

Short film competition had 8 entries being a maiden effort by most of the groups; All the short films had professional aspects incorporated in them. The short film “Karpom Karpippom” was adjudged to be awarded the first prize.

Eight entries were received for the drawing competition.

The staff coordinators for literary events were Mr S. Sathish kumar, Mr S. Krishnan & Mr R. Senthil Kumar  Asst Prof’s of Mech Engg

Coming to the Cultural council.

The council started its activity for the Teachers day, wherein the students showcased their talents in singing and dancing and entertained their gurus on 10^th Sept 2011.

Thereafter the preliminary round of singing competition took place on 17^th Sept 2011. The judges for the singing competition were from the Music College. The finalists were selected.

The final round of singing was conducted on 21^st January 2012.

The dancing competition was held on 28^th January 2012.

A cultural quiz was conducted which enthused as many as 170 Participants of which 20 participants were filtered for the finals. The finals were conducted on 17^th February 2012, the event was overseen by Prof V. Srinivas of CSE Dept.

The Grand finale of all the winners showcasing their talents took place today morning from 10.00 AM.

All the events of cultural council took place on Saturdays and in the evenings thereby saving class hours.

The staff coordinators for cultural events were Mr N. Alagappan, Mr M. Premnath & Mr P.Deivajothi  Asst Prof’s of Mech Engg

The next is the sports council

As the activities of the sports council of the previous year was a grand success hence this year more events were added to the sports activities. The events added along with Cricket Football & Volley ball were:

Chess

Carom

Badminton

This year women’s matches were conducted in carom & badminton

For the staff members Chess, Carom, Badminton Singles and doubles were conducted along with Cricket.

In cricket 38 Matches were played and the year wise champions are :

IV Year – K Batch

III Year – I Batch

II Year – H Batch

In Football 17 Matches were played and the year wise champions are :

IV Year – I Batch

III Year – I Batch

II Year – C Batch

In Volleyball 19 Matches were played the year wise champions are :

IV Year – K Batch

III Year – J Batch

II Year – N Batch

In Chess 76 Matches were played, In Carom both men and women 92 matches were played and women’s badminton 8 matches were played.

For the staff matches – In cricket 4 matches were played and the supporting staff team emerged as winners. Staff chess 24 matches and carom 32 matches were conducted.

The staff coordinators for the sports events were Mr V. Sugumar & Mr Gunabal Asst Prof of Mech engg for outdoor events

Mr A. Malaichamy  & K Manikandan Asst Prof of Mech engg for Indoor events

A mention of the field discipline has to be made here. All the registered team members maintained the decorum of the field be it in attire or in attitude.

We thank Dr G Ravindran Dean of Physical education, Dr Subramanian and the PG students for umpiring and having accommodated our teams to play at the Pavilion.

In conclusion may I thank one and all for gracing this occasion and making this valedictory function a grand success

Thank you.