College of Engineering, Guindy

Coordinates: 13°00′40″N 80°14′08″E / 13.010979°N 80.235426°E

College of Engineering, Guindy

கிண்டி பொறியியல் கல்லூரி
Seal of College of Engineering, Guindy
Motto	Labor omnia vincit (Latin)
Motto in English	Work conquers all
Type	Public, Autonomous
Established	1794[1]
Dean	Dr. P. Narayanasamy
Location	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Campus	Urban, 223.27acres
Colours	Brick Red
Nickname	CEGian
Affiliations	Anna University (1978 – ) University of Madras (1862 – 1978)
Website	ceg.annauniv.edu

The College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) is a public engineering college in Chennai, India. Founded in 1794 as a survey school, and 1858 as a Civil Engineering School, it is one of the oldest engineering institutions in the country.

History

In 1794, the survey school was started with eight students in a building near Fort St. George by Michael Topping. The school became the Civil Engineering School in 1858 and was rechristened as College of Engineering in 1859, with the inclusion of a mechanical engineering course.^[2]

Academics

College of Engineering, Guindy offers undergraduate engineering degrees in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Geoinformatics, Agricultural & Irrigation Engineering, Bio Medical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mining Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Printing Technology. It also offers postgraduate degrees such as MBA, MCA, M.E., M.Sc. M.Tech M.S. by Research and Ph.D.programmes.^[3]

Rankings

College of Engineering, Guindy has been ranked as the 48th best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015.^[4] The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American thinktank.^[5]

Student life

Clubs

The college has many student-run clubs including Capitalize (the entrepreneurship club), Quizzers Anonymous (the official quiz club), Sruthilaya (music), Twisters (dance), Snap It (photography), Theatron (dramatics), Robotics Club, CSAU (Computer Society of Anna University), Literary club, Guindy Times (campus magazine), Aakriti (women empowerment), Siruthuligal (charity), Leo club, Rotract Club, Students' Quality Council (SQC), and Green Brigade (environment). Apart from these clubs, student wings of NCC9National Cadet Crops) , NSS(National Service Scheme), NSO(National Sports Organisation) and YRC(Youth Red Cross) also function on campus.

Hostels

The campus has 16 hostel blocks named after flowers of which five are exclusively for women. Dining facilities are provided in five large centralized halls. The hostels accommodate only undergraduate students and there is a separate hostel for NRIs and foreign nationals.

Events

Since 2007, the CEG conducts an international techno-management festival called Kurukshetra.^[6] Every year in February, CEG plays host to Techofes,^[7] a four-day inter-collegiate cultural festival. In October, Agni, the intra-college cultural festival is conducted. Sangarsh is an annual fundraiser conducted by Rotaract.^[8]

Notable alumni

• Verghese Kurien, architect of Operation Flood and India's White Revolution and winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the World Food Prize^[9]
• Venu Srinivasan, Chairman of Sundaram - Clayton Limited and TVS Motor Company
• Dhiraj Rajaram, founder of Mu Sigma Inc
• Raj Reddy, Turing Award winner, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University^[10]
• Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, former Indian cricketer
• Avinash Kak, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Purdue University.
• Upendra J. Chivukula, American politician^[11]
• Munirathna Anandakrishnan, an educationist and the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and former vice chancellor of Anna University, Tamil Nadu
• A. C. Muthiah, Indian industrialist and ex-President, Board of Control for Cricket in India^[12]
• R. K. Baliga, the father of the Electronics City in Bangalore, India.
• V. S. Mahalingam, a distinguished DRDO scientist and Director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian film actor and Producer^[13]
• S. Somasegar, Former Corporate Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft^[14]
• Krishnamachari Srikkanth, former Captain of the Indian cricket team and the Chairman of the selection committee^[15]
• P. S. Veeraraghavan, director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre^[16]
• Ravi Jagannathan, Economist and Professor, Kellogg School of Management
• V.M. Muralidharan, Chairman, Ethiraj College Trust and Global COO, Bahwan CyberTek Group
• Ravi Ruia, Essar Group
• Crazy Mohan, Tamil comedy actor, script writer and playwright
• Kavithalaya Krishnan, an Tamil film and television actor
• Mendu Rammohan Rao, Dean Emeritus, Indian School of Business^[17]
• Gopalapuram Parthasarathy, diplomat and author, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Australia and Myanmar^[18][19]
• Kutraleeswaran, Marathon swimmer, The youngest Arjuna Award winner
• Bhargav Sri Prakash, Entrepreneur and Hedge Fund Manager
• Rajkumar Bharathi, Classical singer and music composer
• Raaghav, on screen, film actor and television personality in Tamil Nadu, India^[20]
• Madhan Karky, Tamil film lyricist
• Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder and Chairman of Mindtree
• Rangaswamy Narasimhan, cognitive scientist who developed TIFRAC, the first indigenous Indian computer, Padma Shri winner^[21]
• Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra Designs^[22]

See also

• List of Tamil Nadu Government's Educational Institutions
• Heritage structures in Chennai

References

1. "Established". CEG History. CEG. 1978-09-04. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
2. College of Engineering, Guindy, a 219-year journey
3. "CEG - Degree Courses" (PDF). Retrieved August 11, 2011.
4. "Best engineering colleges in India". digit.in.
5. "Case Studies, Leaders, Policy, Administration, Industry Focus, Campus, Technology". www.edu-leaders.com.
6. "Education Plus : Kurukshetra – Sprawling innovation in science and technology". The Hindu. 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
7. "The Hindu : ‘Techofes 2010’ off to colourful start". The Hindu. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
8. "IBN Live : 'Annual Fund raising concert held - South India - Chennai - IBN LIVE publisher=IBN LIVE". 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
9. "Verghese Kurien". amuldairy.com. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
10. "Raj Reddy". rr.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
11. "Upendra J. Chivukula (D)". njleg.state.nj.us. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
12. "A. C. Muttiah". cegalumni.org. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
13. "Akkineni Nagarjuna". lifestyle.iloveindia.com. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
14. "Somasegar's Blog". microsoft.com. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
15. "Krishnamachari Srikkanth". cegam.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
16. "Veeraraghavan new VSSC director". The Hindu. October 31, 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
17. "Dr.M.Rammohan Rao speaks at CEG Global Alumni meet". cegam.in. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
18. "Rethink policy to empower Sri Lankan Tamils economically". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
19. "Mr.G.Parthasarathy's profile as a faculty of Centre for Policy Research". http://www.cprindia.org. Retrieved 9 August 2012. External link in |work= (help)
20. Raaghav
21. "Narasimhan, doyen of Indian computer science, dead". The Hindu. 4 September 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
22. "Meet Ananth Narayanan, Myntra's new CEO".

External links

• Official website