Mobile phones and Android apps at the hands of young students of SKP Engineering College are
ensuring safety and societal peace for the entire town of Tiruvannamalai
S
tudents in a college are supposed to avail education and look
for jobs and accordingly institutes engaged in the same routine
procedure of imparting education in young minds, what
marks the uniqueness of SKP Engineering College and its
students is that they have made life easier for the people in
Tiruvannamalai, a town in Tamil Nadu who can enjoy a good night's
sleep. The students of SKP Engineering College who unlike attending
the routine classroom lessons have applied in practice and introduced
a safety app "˜Stay Safe,' a GPS based android application that sends SOS
messages to chosen numbers of family and friends during emergencies
when you are traveling. This is not just one attempt of these students
With a view to provide
high caliber technical
manpower to our
country, SKP Engineering
College was established.
As we take care
of students to perform
with good academic records
along with extracurricular
activities simultaneously,
I assure
all the students would
have bright future.
-K. Karunanithi
CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
but there are many of these offering various facilities for
people's convenience in this region of the state.
The students, aka, the app developers released these
mobile applications since last year under the "˜Mobile
Application Center of Excellence' and have obtained a
number of apps such as Tiruvannamalai app, Students
tutor App, Book socio App, Attendance App, Emergency
Screensaver and BT Messenger. While some of them
are yet to be launched, the Tiruvannamalai app is said
to be the prominent among those, helping tourist to
move around the temple city. The Institute encourages
and develops entrepreneurial skills among the students
by conducting Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps in
collaboration with National Science and Technology
Entrepreneurship Development Board and promotes
innovations by these students. SKP is prominent in their number of MOUs and
collaborations with various organizations and institutes
fostering research and innovation under the Industry
Institute Partnership Cell. These collaborations are
intended to bring in research opportunities along with
exposure to students and faculty members as well.
Prominently, Tokyo Institute of Technology and New
Jersey Institute of Technology have been signed in to
foster collaborations between staff and students, to
organize and perform joint research projects, academic
seminars, guest lectures and to exchange scholarly
materials, research reports and publication.
To further enhance research, SKP Group of
Institutions has partnered with Wikimedia for Wikipedia
research to encourage growth of Wikimedia projects.
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This program is an academic
setting for educators and
students around the world to
contribute to Wikipedia and
other Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia India is to facilitate
the setup of a Language
Computing Lab at SKP Group
of Institutions providing
adequate learning opportunities
for students and faculties in the
technologies they work under
this partnership and would
cater to the specific issues that
occur due to the lack of freely
available computing tools for
Indian languages other than
English. After 15 years, the institute
stands proud securing 95
percent in placement record.
Every year, SKP witnesses over
60 major organizations such
as Amazon, iNautix, HCL and
IBM recruiting students for
highest salary of 5 Lakh per
annum. Offering U.G, P.G
and PhD in seven verticals of
Placement record of past
two years: 95%
Seminars
and
workshops
organized
(2014 - 15): @ Glance
I am proud to be a part
of the very first batch of
Mechanical Engineering
of SKP Engineering
College which proved
to be a good platform
to start my career as an
engineer. Apart from
academics, the institute
has instilled discipline
and good managerial
skills in me which
turned out to be one of
the main reasons for my
professional success.
Vasanth Balasundaram (2003-07),
currently works at
L&T Technology Services
ALUMNUS SPEAKS
engineering, SKP Engineering College acquires student
strength of 3600 w.r.t 281 faculty members. Established
in 1999, SKP College of Engineering aims to impart
world class technical education producing industry ready
engineers with competence and confidence. As the institute
intends to build a reputation of international standards by
cultivating good relationships among the faculty members,
students and industrial partners, this cultivation holds
a number of intertwined exchanges of knowledge and
partnerships for acquiring better opportunities. Being set
up in rural vicinity, SKP faced a lot of challenges during
its establishment but has overcome with flying colors.
To serve the main objectives of bringing in more
opportunities, the institute was formed with the idea
of facilitating every possible academic need of the
students which is otherwise possible for institutes
with an urban establishment.
Under the ever changing industrial scenario,
the institute takes charge of producing a number of
human resources trained in technical knowledge. By
exposing them to the latest technical training through
the existing well equipped seven laboratories, the
institute is grooming tender minds into young professionals
developing career through skill development. Setting up an
innovation lab and increasing number of collaborations with
national and international institutions and industries in near
future, SKP Engineering College is all set to give a new face
to its established reputation.