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Dear Alumni members,I am glad to see that a news letter is being brought out in connection with the 50th annual general body meeting of TKMCE Alumni Association. The meeting carries tremendous importance since the technical education in our state is passing through major transformations. The quality of education, the employability of graduates and performance of graduates in their respective fields are accounted as components of equal importance in global systems for accreditation. So alumni associations like ours with a rich tradition have a lot to play. Engineering and technology bring a wide realm of swift changes to the life due to the untiring researches that are taking place across the world. Naturally our contribution in building a new world will be evaluated by civil society and the generations to come. Hence new avenues of research and development are to be brought into the campus and more collaboration is to be made with the industrial world. In fact, the management and the faculty have put some efforts in recent years by making infrastructure and bringing projects in many novel areas of technology. At this juncture, our alumni have to rise to the occasion and support their alma mater in addressing the needs of the institutions to achieve our social goals…. I wish this venture all success

Shahal Hassan MusaliarChairman, Governing Body

January 2016Volume 1 No.19 News Letter for, to and by the former students of TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Registered under Travancore-Cochin ACT(KLM/TC/692/2013)A Publication from TKMCE Alumni Association

Cadet Darshita Babu (2011-2015, Mechanical Engineering) bagged both the Chief of the Naval Staff Gold Medal (for best performance in overall order of merit) and the Flag Officer Commanding in-chief South Gold medal (for the best woman trainee). Darshita Babu crowned herself with glory at the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala. She was emerged as the best cadets among the 330 outgoing cadets of the ninth batch of the INA course, beating all others drawn from across the nation.Cadet Darshita Babu receiving (double)

gold medal from Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mr. R.K. Dhowan

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION WINNERS-2015

KRISHNA RAJ R.MECHANICAL STREAM

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING [2008-2012 BATCH]

BHAVIKA MANGALANANDANELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS

ENGINEERING[2003-2007 BATCH]

SUJITH DAS SMECHANICAL ENGINEERING

[2005-2009 BATCH]

CONGRATULATIONS

Justice Mr. V. Raja Vijayaraghavan is an alumnus from1989 b a t c h o f C i v i l Engineering. After graduation from our college, he opted for legal studies and en ro l l ed a s an advocate in 1994. He had started his practice at Kollam C o u r t s a n d thereafter before

the High Court of Kerala. He has sworn in as additional Judge of the Honourable High Court of Kerala on 10.04.2015

Dr. Suresh Somanof Civil Engineering Department has won the Best Engineering Professor Award ,constituted byKerala Engineers Association

Dear Alumni,

I wish all of you a successfu l year ahead...

As you are aware, TKM College of E n g i n e e r i n g i s proud to support a

s t r o n g a l u m n i network that extends across many continents. The recent initiation of Alumni chapter in Tanzania is a notable achievement in this direction. The enthusiasm that our alumni have shown in the developmental activities of the alma-mater was very much visible in the recent annual get-together meetings at UAE and Kuwait. The overwhelming support we received from these chapters is worth mentioning. We need to develop activities that may ensure and foster mutually beneficial interactions between TKM College Trust, faculty, alumni and our present students. It is worth mentioning that globally, alumni associations are becoming more and more popular as educational institutions receive moral, emotional and financial supports from them. Of late, the recent advancements in the infrastructural facilities of many reputed institutions of the world would not have been possible without the laudable support from their alumni. It is high time for us to initiate an action plan in this direction by proposing avenues for our alumni to play a role in the developmental activities of our college and in the mentoring of our students.

Standing on the position of hope, I feel our parent chapter may refine and re-orient our activities so as to ensure the fullest support from all branches wide across the globe. I request, the alma-mater and all other chapters to frame an action plan in this direction. I hope the central theme of this get-together and deliberations in the meeting may focus more on deriving proposals for ensuring a more fruitful association between the stake holders...

I wish this annual get-together and 'alumni times' all success..

Dr. S. Ayoob

Principal

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

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held on 26 January 2015 at the College AuditoriumMeeting started at 10.30 AM with a silent prayer. One minute silence was observed to pay homage to the departed students on New Year morning and Dr. J. Abdul Jaleel, alumnus and former Principal of TKM Institute of Technology. Formal welcome was offered by Er. K. Sivadasan, Chairman, Alumni Association. President of the Meeting Dr. T.M. Amarunishad, Principal offered presidential address in which he outlined the developments in the campus for enhancing the ambience of academics and research. Janab Shahal Hassan Musaliar, Hon’ble Chairman,TKM College Trust inaugurated the AGM with an exhortation to all alumni to pledge their solidarity and support to the alma mater to address the challenges posed by the swift advancements in technology and to bring more avenues of research into the campus. Dr. T.A. Shahul Hameed, Secretary of the Association presented the minutes of 48th AGM held on 26/01/2014 and report on the activities during 2014-15. The meeting resolved to pass both. Dr. K.A. Shafi presented the audited accounts of the year 2014 which the committee approved.The awards “Instituted by Millenium Global TKM 60 plus” to best outgoing student was given to Mr. Vishnu Suresh (2010-14 Mechanical Engineering) by Janab Shahal H. Musaliar. The award to the best meritorious first year student was handed over to Keerthana M.J.of Chemical Engineering branch by Er. Jacob Varghese, Founder, TKM 60 plus. The report of Global Millenium TKM 60 plus was presented by Er. George Titus and Trivandrum Chapter report was presented by Prof. Krishnamoorthy. Then Campus News was released by Hon’ble Chairman by handing over a copy to Er. K. Sivadasan.This was followed by the honouring of 1965 batch alumni on their 50th year of graduation. 33 engineers received ponnada and memento from the Hon’ble Chairman, TKM College Trust .Felicitations were offered by Prof. P.O.J. Lebba, G.Vijayaraghavan, Prof. P. Nizzar, Rear. Admiral B.R. Menon and College Union Chairman Karthik Tharool. Then the election of new office bearers took place. Prof. S. Parameswaran, HOD Mechanical Engineering was the Returning Officer. The following people were elected to lead the Association in 2015-16.

Chairman : Anil Kumar G.S

Secretary : Prof. Ashfak A, Prof. Sajith V

Vice Presidents : Prof. Ansamma John, Dr. K.A. Shafi, Er. George Titus,

Er. Sreekumar

Treasurer : Prof. Shabeer S

Executive Committee Members: Dr. Sajeeb R, Prof. Sunitha Beevi, Prof. Fathima Kassim, Prof. Nizad A, Prof.Abid Hussain M, Dr. K.K. Abdul Rasheed, Dr. Seema K. Nayar, Dr. A.S. Abdul Rasheed, Dr.M.Jayaraju, K. Sivadasan, Satheesh Kumar, Shajahan M, Dr.Sunil Kumar.B, Nalinakshan, Prof. Laila Mony L.P, Shiras A, Dr. T.A. Shahul Hameed (Ex Officio)

Meeting was well attended by the Alumni and final year students. Secretary M. Shajahan offered vote of thanks. Final year students and members made a cultural feast followed by lunch.

Our Vision

Our Mission

Excellence in education and research with socio-economic and environmental outlook

To offer state-of-the-art Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes

To enhance knowledge by engaging in cutting edge research and by undertaking collaborative projects with industry

To instill ethical, social and environmental perspectives in designing systems for sustainable development

To nurture creativity, self learning and interpersonal skills

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

It is my pleasure and privilege to be a part of the team elected for running the activities of the association during 2015-’16. The p e r i o d c a r r i e s

tremendous importance in our history since we are all set to be assessed by national accreditation agencies. The face of the campus has altogether been changed with novel outlooks in teaching- learning process and infrastructural transformations.

We envision excellence in education and research with socio-economic and environmental outlook. Our mission towards this altar demands dedicated and holistic approach from all stakeholders where alumni have a pivotal role to play. In order to catalyze the teaching-learning process and resolving real life problems with t a n g i b l e t e c h n o - c o m m e rc i a l solutions, the alumni have a lot to do. I earnestly believe in a close introspection on our contributions in this respect and corrective actions for a better bondage.

I must mention here the magnanimity of our alumni in terms of the scholarships and other supports they offered during this period. Also I must congratulate TKMCE 60 Plus for instituting the prestigious award for the best outgoing student. Great gatherings organized by all chapters spreading across different continents pledged solidarity to their alma mater in its leap towards excellence. I think it is high time for the alumni to come forward with their convincing support in bringing more avenues of research and development to the campus.

I believe the association has been successful in implementing decisions taken in our meetings with a democratic pace in deliberations. On the way, the inestimable help received are from many - I thank all who have been generous in supporting me to deliver the duties assigned.

Thank you

A.Ashfak

Secretary

The present Committee has taken over the charge in a combined Executive Committee Meeting held on 31st July 2015. During the period, Committee met four times to plan and implement the activities of the year. The major activities are listed below:-

An amount of Rs.100, 000 was given by Qatar Chapter Alumni for giving scholarships and the Committee decided to give a one time scholarship to UG students and that the amount was disbursed to 8 sixth semester students. The selection was made by the respective senior advisers. Committee decided to donate an amount of Rs. 1,15,000/- to MCM scholarship fund.

Committee decided to support the students who have won zonal level robotic competition with Rs. 5000/- as travel expenses to participate in the National level competition at IIT, Bombay.

The Cultural Fest of students RITHU 15 was supported by an amount of Rs. 30,000/- .The Fest was attended by hundreds of students from various Engineering Colleges in the State.

The Committee decided to support the maintenance of the Shuttle Court in our College with an amount of Rs.30,000/- as per the request from the HOD, Physical Education.

There was a general opinion in the committee to encourage genuinely useful engineering projects from final year students. Committee had a long deliberation on this matter and decided to support one product oriented UG project each from all departments. Rs.40,000/- has been sanctioned for this purpose. (7 B. Tech projects plus 1 B.Arch project) Selection procedure has been initiated for this.

The Committee decided to give Rs.50,000/- for the upcoming FAB Lab (APJ Dream Park) for purchasing the electrical accessories.

The Committee decided to communicate with various Alumni Chapters inside and outside the country for getting ideas, suggestions and intellectual contributions to complete the dream FAB Lab project (APJ Dream Park).

As per the request from the Principal the Committee has decided to support the renovation work in the College Library and decided to give an amount of Rs.2,50,000/-

The Committee has decided to give Rs.5000/- each to 40 first year deserving students on the basis of Merit Cum Means.

Two awards are instituted by TKMCE 60 Plus for the best outgoing student and the best deserving first year student. The guidelines for the selection was given by TKMCE 60 plus and committee has carried out the selection procedures. Ms. Darsitha Babu of Mechanical Engineering won the award of best outgoing students and Mr. Noufal C.S. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has been selected as the best deserving first year student.

The Committee decided to honor 1966 batch on their 50th year of graduation.

I thank the TKM College Trust, Principal, All Alumni Chapters and Executive Committee Members for their support. The report is placed here for approval.

Secretary, TKMCE Alumni Association

Hats off to the 2016 pass out batch!!!!!!!!!!

The present academic year (2015 – 16) is a very successful placement year. The 2016 pass out batch has brought laurels to the institute by grabbing an all time record number of offers from various MNCs.

The number of offers as on 13 January 2016 is 492. The final results of the campus drives conducted by five more MNCs are yet to be announced. By then we will definitely be able to cross the five hundred mark. Many core companies are there in the lineup for campus recruitment in the days to come. Hope we will be able to achieve somewhere near 600 offers this year. We started our campus drives on 31 August 2015 and it is still going on. So far more than 20 companies visited our campus for recruitment. The stream wise number of offers is as below.

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ACTIVITIES OF THE YEAR 2015-‘16

that was given by our College that kept us united and oneness at heart, which kept the flame lit and zest to gather back to our nest. Even though we graduated from different disciplines we always felt that we are all one family, it did not matter where and how we are in our professional lives. The spirit of unity imparted from the college kept us together. This was also an opportunity to meet our Friends some after 25 years. Also gave us an opportunity to show our next generation children how we valued and respected our relationship with our teachers, college and management. We understand from our teachers, ‘REWIND 2015’ was one of the largest gathering of any batch since the first batch of our college. We pray that every future batch get-together should be bigger than ours. A word of advise to the current students of this great institution, After your college you all will go different ways and to different parts of this Globe. But do try and keep in touch and at least make it a point to have a get-together and say a word of thanks to your Teachers, College and The Management for all the efforts they are imparting on making who you will be in the days to come. We take this opportunity to thank the Cha i rman & the Management, the Principal Dr. Ayoob.S , all the past and present faculty of the college and all its staff for making us who we are today.

We, the office bearers assumed office on 28th January 2015 after taking the pledge at the Oath taking Ceremony. First EXCOM Meeting of 2015 was conducted immediately after the handing over meeting. A new year get-together “ Welcome 2015 “ was conducted at Abudhabi by the outgoing committee on 30th January 2015. Activities of the year started with Family Picnic at Creek Park Dubai on 20th February .It was a crowd pulling activity with participation of more than 170 people. We witnessed an Historic win during the year 2015 - Team TKMCE became the Champions of KERA cricket Tournament conducted on 20th February. Congratulations to the Captain & Team members for the outstanding performance in the entire tournament , by winning all the matches we played. TKMCE Alumni conducted a Felicitation Meeting to congratulate the TEAM on 6th March @ Fortune Plaza. BBQ Party was conducted at Abudhabi on 27th Feb 2015 at Al Wathba Park – Baniyas. The Laughter Yoga was an interesting session in it. We Office bearers had a Nostalgic feeling while we visited to TKM College on 6th April and met with the Principal Dr.Amar Nishad. Two successful movie nights were conducted onMay & June respectively at VOX cinemas, Deira Citycentre& another

ACTIVITIES OF UAE CHAPTER

Stream Number of offers

Civil Engineering 77

Mechanical Engineering 79

Mechanical Production 24

Computer Science and Engineering 88

Electrical and Electronics 89

Electronics and Communication 91

Chemical Engineering 31

MCA 08

PG Computer Science 04

PG Electronics and Communication 01

Total 492

Sanjiva

It was a musical socio - cultural event aimed at promoting and preserving the forgotten art forms of our cultural landscape. The event took place at Layam Koothambalam ground in Thripunithura was inaugurated by renowned music director and composer Bijibal.

Aardra

A state wide stem cell donor registration camp was held in various colleges across 10 districts in Kerala. The event was inaugurated by renowned Neurosurgeon & Ex- Vice Chancellor of Kerala University Dr. B. Iqbal. It was a huge success with 4232 registrations in just 15 days.

Rithu 2k15It is the annual cultural fest with 70 art based competitions and several initiatives. ‘Lend the World a Hand’ is the social theme of Rithu. It was inaugurated by Sri. Rishiraj Singh I P S and music director Sri. Ratheesh Vega. Renowned poet Sri. MuruganKattakada inaugurated ‘Immini Balya Onnu’, the book fest conducted in assosiation with Rithu.

The Parent Teachers Association of T K M College of Engineering is very active and is providing significant support and financial assistance for the improvement of facilities of the institution. Dr. S Ayoob (President) , Najeeb Mannel (Vice President), Dr. Mohammed Sajid N K (Secretary ) Prof Anu Assis (Treasurer) and Dr. Shafi K A (Joint Secretary) were elected as office bearers of the PTA on 25 July 2015 in the general body meeting.

Activities of PTA from August 2015 :

Purchase of computers for computer laboratories in Computer Science, MCA and Chemical Departments. Sponsorship of “RITHU”, the cultural festival conducted by students. Providing monthly salary to an employee for the upkeep of the newly constructed Student park. Financial Assistance to faculty and staff members accompanying study tour. Financial support for launching website of ‘APJ Dream Park’,

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TKMCE Kollam. Financial assistance to purchase chairs to Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical Department Libraries. Purchase of Automatic cleaning machines for Facility M a n a g e m e n t C o m m i t t e e ( F M C ) . Replacement of an air-conditioner in PTA Hall. Maintenance of water coolers in college campus.Purchase of a Laptop, Printer, UPS and copier machine to college and KTU examination offices. Providing monthly financial assistance to FMC. Financial support for setting up of Maker Space in newly setup FAB lab. Rewarding text books to top ranking students in each branch.

Silver Jubilee Year of 1986-1990 Batch

A note of thanks and gratitude to the TKM Management, College and Faculty from our heart. We are extremely proud to be an Alumnus of this great institution. Looking back to day we started at TKM College of Engineering to the day we graduated, we owe a lot to this college, it’s Founder, Management and Faculty for moulding us into who & what we are today. We can never forget the words of wisdom, encouragement and guidance we received from the Faculty. Not that we were all saints during those days, at a time and age when we feel we were right and parents and teachers are wrong. The faculty, teachers and campus were patient enough, guided us and gave us the opportunity to grow our skills to face the tough world outside. When we were planning to celebrate our batch’s S i l v e r J ub i l e e Ge t toge the r, t he encouragement and support we received from the teachers and management was heart warming. Even at short notice - The Chairman and Teachers accepted our invitation, graced the event and blessed us with their presence and congratulated us on our Silver Jubilee of Graduation. We will always cherish this in our memories for the rest of our lives. We were a generation that graduated with NO - EMAIL, WHATSAPP, TWITTER or MOBILE PHONES, Years before internet came to India, a time when we only had a Postal Address that never moved with you and a home phone number which too changed adding digits. With the minimal data and contact info we had of our batch mates, from a total strength of 400+ who were all in one spirit and one at heart, scattered all across the globe. We managed to use the modern tools of communication to gather 200+ of our batch mates with family, to spare 2 days of our life to say thanks to our Teachers, College and Management. Even we had two of our Tanzanian batch mates attend our get together ‘REWIND 2015’. Those who could not attend were mostly due to work or other commitments. It’s the environment

REWIND 2015

meeting was conducted on 20thNovemebr 2015. General Secretary presented the detailed report of activities and Treasurer presented the annual accounts for the current year. Abu- Dhabi reports & accounts were presented by Auh joint secretary & Joint treasurer respectively. New Office bearers were unanimously elected for the year 2016 at the General Body meeting. General body entrusted the office Bearers & organizing committee to conduct the Annual get together on 2nd DEC 2015 at Ramada Hotel, Ajman.

1985 batch alumni members is maintaining a corpus fund of 10 Lakh Rupees and supporting the Merit cum Means scholarship of college since 2012. This is in memory of their batch mates who passed away during and after graduation

In the B. Tech Degree examinations of 2014, conducted by the University of Kerala, the following students secured ranks-Athul M Madhu –II Rank, Anjelina Catherine-III Rank, Meghna V.S. -IV Rank, Karthika Jayan -VI Rank and Dhanya P. and Archa Baiju -IX Rank. Kerala University first rank for M.Tech. Degree Examination 2015, was bagged by Rupin Sidharth and second rank by Nayana Narayanan.

Students Publications

In the Third International Conference on Modelling and Simulation in Civil Engineering ICMSC 2015, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam (Dec 9-11, 2015), the following students papers were published. a). Akhila V, Gouri Gopan, Sandeep Vijay, Saraswathy B. b) Namitha Jacob and Adarsh, S. c) Renju Francis, Sajida Razak and Anitha Joseph.d) Shilpa K.P. and Sulphia Beevi U. E) Deepak Vijay, Chinsu Mereena Joy, Dr. Anitha Joseph.f) Soumya Shaw Nawaz and Sulphia Beevi U.g) Rupin Sidharth and Sajeeb R Sreelekshmy S., C.P. Pavithra and Adarsh S published in International Conference HYDRO 2015, IIT Roorkee on 17-18 December 2015.

Students Achievements

Arjun Raaj (First Semester) bagged the first prize in FACE to FACE Competition and second pr ize in Inquisto Vitouso Competition, Monica Shine (First Semester) bagged the first prize in Informals Treasure Hunt conducted as part of Tathva ’15 at NIT, Calicut. Akshay, Anandu, Anoop, Alin, Sachin Venu won the Treasure Hunt at GEC Barton Hill. In the Bridge Design Contest held at the college, Anoop Raj, Akshay R S, Anandu Sreerag, Sachin Venu and Bibin Benny (Final year) bagged the first place, Vipin Shaji, Rohith Ranga Prasad, Priyanka Pandey, Mukesh Yadav, Lakshmi Sudhakaran and Krishna Priya (Final year) got the second place

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two at Abudhabi in February & November. Alumni Members & Family actively participated on these occasions. Our Alumnus Anish Samad was the General Secretary of Kerala engineering Alumni ( KERA ) for the year 2014-15 and we actively participated in all Programs conducted by KERA including annual get together Ensemble 2015 on 5thJune at Kempinski Ajman. Grand Finale of Youth Leadership program, Master Chef Cooking competition and Cultural Carnival - Talent Fiesta, was conducted on 12th June 2015 at Abu Dhabi. Iftar was conducted at Foodlands Restaurant on 20th June 2015.Send Off meeting was conducted on the same day for the Farewell to Former President / Advisory Member Mr. B.G Nair who was leaving UAE for.Iftar meeting at Abu dhabi was conducted on 26th June at Nihal restaurant. Office Bearers & Senior members attended the 50th wedding anniversary celebration of our founder president Mr.G. Nadrajan and presented memento and adorned Ponnada at India Club on 20th July. International Tour to United States was conducted successfully on August 2015. It was a 14 days Tour to US & covered almost all Major tourist Destinations. It was a memorable & a cherishing experience for all the participants. Also conduct a tour from Middle East to the cultural capital Istanbul on September 2015. It was an unforgettable and an exhilarating experience in every sense. Our Harvest Festival Ponnonam 2015 was conducted in a befitting manner on 2nd October at Habitat School, Ajman. We celebrated the Festival with AthaPookkalam, Procession, Vadamvali and different cultural activities along with sumptuous Onam Sadya. Maveli’spresence, Thiruvathira, Drama were the special attractions of the event. Total 281 adults and 58 children attended the program.

As a part of Social Activity, a Blood donat ion camp was conducted successfully in coordination with Dubai Health Authority on 09th October 2015. A Bowling night was conducted on 22nd Oct 2015, at Zayed Bowling center, Abu Dhabi. All the members especially children enjoyed the sporty event. A Desert Drive was also conducted in Abudhabi during November 2015. Oursports team participated in the badminton, volley ball and football tournament conducted by KERA. Dubai & Northern emirates conducted 7 Executive committee meetings and a Combined Excom Meeting with Auh & Alain . Abu Dhabi & Alain conducted 5 Executive committee meetings .Various subcommittees were formed for smoothly conducting the year long activities. Annual general Body

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and Veena S Suthan, Hari krishnan P., Chithu Babu, Alif Ray A. Rahim and Jerin Mathew (III Year) secured the third place. Sethulekshmy Menon participated in the workshop, “SHIKSHA” at IIM, Kozhikode from October30 to November 1, 2015

Faculty Achievements

The Kerala Engineers’ Association honoured Prof. (Dr.) Suresh Soman as the best engineering professor. He is currently the Dean of Post Graduate Courses of the institution.

Dr. Najee M. and Dr. Anu V. Thomas were awarded Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Kerala and from N.I.T. Calicut respectively in March 2015.

Dr. Sajeeb R. and Prof. Amal Azad Sahib have been selected as members in Technical Expert Committee, Kollam Corporation.

Dr. I. Bushra and Dr. M. Nazeer have been approved as research guides in the University of Kerala in September, 2015

Faculty publications

Dr. S. Ayoob co-authored a publication titled ‘Risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediments of a tropical lake’ in the international Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment in 2015.

Dr. S. Ayoob co-authored a publication titled ‘Effect of formation pH, molar ratio and calcination temperature on the synthesis of an anionic clay based adsorbent targeting defluoridation’ in the international Journal of Applied Clay Science in 2015.

The book titled ‘Fluoride in drinking water; status, issues and solutions’ by Dr. S. Ayoob is accepted for publication by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA.

The first publication of Dr. S. Ayoob in the international journal ‘Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology’ in 2006 is credited with 370 citations in scopus and is still adjudged as one of the best cited papers of the journal.

Adarsh, S. and M. Janga Reddy (2015). Multiscale analysis of suspended sediment concentration data from natural channels using Hilbert Huang Transform. Aquatic Procedia, Elsevier, ICWRCOE’15, NIT Suratkal, Vol 7, pp. 780-788

Janga Reddy M. and S. Adarsh (2015). Time Frequency Characterization of Subdivisional Scale Seasonal Rainfall in India Using Hilbert Huang Transform. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment Springer (ISSN 1436-3240/ISSN3259/ doi: 10.1007/s00477-015-1165-7 IF2014:2.06)

Adarsh, S. and M. Janga Reddy (2015) Gravitational Search algorithm for probabilistic design of HBPS canals. ISH

Civil Engineering Association for the academic year 2015-16 in October 2015. She talked on “Application of Theoretical Knowledge in Practice”. An inter semester technical quiz competition; CIZZLE’15 was conducted in October, 2015. Mr. Rahul Leslie, Director, DRIQ Board, Kerala PWD, gave a technical presentation on “Applications of Finite Element Method in Civil Engineering” in October, 2015. Mr. Somasekhar S., Deputy General Manager, Advisory Engineering, Bharat Petroleum, Kochi Refinery, delivered a lecture on “HR Practices in Kochi Refinery” in October, 2015.Dr. Devadas Menon, Professor, IIT Madras delivered a talk on “Self Awareness” in December 2015.Mr. George Abraham, Head-Business Development-Factories Buildings and Factories IC, Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Chennai gave a lecture on “Career Prospects in Construction Industry” in January, 2016.

A Study group was formed in the department to study the issues faced by the people of Munroe Island, Kollam.

Prof. S. Parameswaran Retired from service on March 2015.

Prof. Leena R obtained Rs. 2 lakhs funding from CERD.

Dr. Nizar Hussain M. was awarded Ph.D Degree from Kerala University.

Prof A.S. Saleem published two text books - Hydraulic Machines & Heat Engines and Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. S. Jose published a text book on Advanced Mechanics of Materials.

Prof. Reshmi published a text book on Engineering Mechanics.

Dr. S. Jose and Dr.Aju Kumar conducted a FDP on Advanced Mechanics of Materials.

Dr. K.K.Abdul Rasheed chaired a session on Traditional Food at Indian Convention of Food Scientists and Technologists, 2015.

Dr. Nizar Hussain M paper is accepted for presentation in POMS 2016 Conference, Orlando, USA.

Dr. Rijo Jacob Thomas published a paper in the Elseveir Science direct proceedings in December 2015.

Prof. Leena R published a paper in IEEE Transactions.

Prof. Jessin T.A. and Prof. Rakesh R Pillai presented a paper in NCSEE 15.

Prof.A.Ashfak, Prof. Ahammed Vazim K. A, Dr.Dileep P N, Prof. Hashim V, Prof. Jesna Mohammed, Dr. Jose Prakash M, Dr. K. A. Shafi , Dr.K. E. Reby Roy , Dr.K. K. Abdul Rasheed, Prof. KrishnakumarT. S , Prof. Leena R , Prof. Mathew Skaria, Prof .

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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 21(3), 290-297 (ISSN 0971-5010 (Print), 2164-3040 (Online) IF2014 :0.158)

Adarsh, S. and M. Janga Reddy (2015) Trend Analysis of Rainfall in four meteorological Subdivisions in Southern India Using Non Parametric Methods and Discrete Wavelet Transforms. International Journal of Climatology, 35(6), 1107-1124 (Online ISSN: 1097-0088/ IF2014:3.315)

Adarsh S. and M. Janga Reddy also published articles in the Proceedings of CEASIDE 2015, Govt. Engg College Thrissur Dec 9-11, 2015,HYDRO 2015, IIT Roorkee ID:141and ICMSC 2015, TKM College of Engineering Kollam pp. 356-36

Amal Azad Sahib presented a paper at the 6th International Geotechnical Symposium on Disaster Mitigation In Special Geoenvironmental Conditions, at IIT Madras on 21st January, 2015.Amal Azad Sahib delivered a lecture on “Motivation- Need of the Hour” as Visiting Faculty, in College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 2nd July, 2015.

Gouri Antherjanam, “Estimation of Shallow Landslide Susceptibility using GIS Integrated Support Vector Regression”, International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering– IJCSE, Vol.2, issue1 (30 April, 2015), ISSN : 2372-3971,

Gouri Antherjanam presented a paper in Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Technology & Applied Sciences - ICETTAS 2015 on April 30, May 1 & 2, 2015.

Muhammed Siddik A. presented a paper, in “ I n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e r e n c e o n Environmental forensics (IENFORCE2015)”, August 2015, conducted by Environmental Forensic Research Center, University Putra Malaysia, Putra Jaya, Malaysia. Above paper was published in International Journal,” Procedia Environmental Science” (published by Elsevier)

Saraswathy B, Udaya K L, Rahul Leslie (2015) Effect of vertical Irregularity on performance of reinforced concrete framed buildings, International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering- IJCSE, Vol.2, issue1( 30 April, 2015), ISSN 2372-3971, 309-313

Saraswathy B, Rahul Leslie Abhilash R, (2015) A New Procedure to Include Torsional Effects in Pushover Analysis of Torsional Buildings, International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 1, ISSN 2372-3971, April 2015.

Seema K. Nayar presented a paper at the 36th IAHR World Congress held at the World Forum, the Hague, the Netherlands from 28th June to 3rd of July, 2015.

M. Sirajuddin, “Study on Emperical Seismic Codal Guidelines for Masonry Buildings in Kollam, Kerala, India, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC), Taylor’s

University, Malaysia.

Vivek Philip, Anitha Joseph , Chinsu Mereena Joy presented paper in the International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering ( ICWRCOE 2015) , NIT Surathkal , Mangalore.

Ravikumar K and Udayakumar J, Proc. National Conference on Innovative materials and technologies in Civil Engineering, Bishop Jerome Institute, Kollam.

ICMSC 2015

The Department of Civil Engineering organized the 3rd International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering, ICMSC 2015, from December 9 – 11, 2015. ICMSC.Dr. Bindu S. and Dr. Anu V. Thomas were the coordinators of the conference. The Conference was inaugurated by Dr. Gangan Prathap, Honorary Professor, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and former Vice Chancellor, CUSAT. The keynote lectures were delivered by Dr. P. K. Aravindan, former Professor, IIT Madras, Prof. Devdas Menon, Professor, IIT Madras, Prof. K. C. Iyer, Professor, IIT Delhi, Prof. Tom V. Mathew, Professor, IIT Bombay, Prof. P. Basak, Professor, NIT Jamshedpur and Prof. ZulkifliYusop, Professor, UniversitiTeknologi Malays ia. A panel discuss ion on ‘Sustainable Transportation Systems’ with Prof. Tom V. Mathew, Professor, IIT Bombay, Prof. Samson Mathew, Professor, NIT Trichy, Dr. Sreedevi, Director NATPAC and Dr. Reebu Zachariah Koshy, Professor, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam as panelists, was held.

EVENTS

A QIP Short Term Course on “Emerging Trends in Construction and Maintenance of Structure” was coordinated by Prof. Sajida Razaque and Prof. Sulphia Beevi U. A Workshop on “Concrete for Present and Future” was coordinated by Prof. Benny Joseph and Prof. Hazeena R.

Sri. Althaf Hussain, Senior Project Manager, HSL Ground Engineering P/L, Singapore addressed the students.He talked about “Career opportunities for civil Engineers”. Mrs. M. Pennamma, Chief Engineer Buildings, Kerala PWD, inaugurated the

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Mohamed Iqbal Pallipurath, Dr.Nizar Hussain M, Dr. Rijo Jacob Thomas, Dr. S. Jose, Prof. Sheeba A, Prof. Syed Muhammed Fahd Published papers in the proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (ICAME’15

Darsitha Babu Student of 2011-15 batch received Gold Medal award for best woman Cadet of Naval Academy, Ezhimala for the year 2015 she is also credited with TCS award for Best student of TKMCE for the year 2015.

S.R. Gururaj, VIII semester Mechanical Engineering student was awarded prize in the National level ISTE – Srinivasa Ramanuja Mathematical Competetive Examination.

International Conference on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (ICAME’15)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted an International Conference on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (ICAME’15) during 14-16 December 2015. (ICAME’15) was sponsored by TEQIP-II and co-sponsored by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC),Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),Thiruvananthapuram, TKM College trust and Institution of Engineers (India), Kollam local Centre.

The Conference was inaugurated by Sri. S.Somanath, Director, Liquid Propulsion System Centre, ISRO, Thiruvanthapuram . The abstract of the conference proceedings was released by honorable Treasurer of TKM College trust Sri T.K. Jalaluddin Musaliar. The keynote speaker of the conference was Dr. Luigi Serio, Scientist, CERN, Switzerland. The invited speakers include Dr.Arend Nijhuis (University of Twente, Netherlands), Dr. Jung Kyung Kim (Kookmin University, South Korea), Dr. Rajinikumar Ramalingam (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Dr. S. Kasthurirengan , Indian Institute of Science, and Dr. P.Muthukumar (Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Guwahati). 105 delegates participated in the conference. The proceedings of the conference is published by McGraw Hill Education.

Additional highlight of this conference was the unique ‘Space Technology’ workshop

conducted by the scientists from ISRO. An exhibition showcasing various rocket propulsion and space systems was also arranged as part of this workshop.

Collaborative Research Project and Internship to Students

Dr. K.A. Shafi, Prof. Mathew Skaria and Dr. Rijo Jacob Thomas obtained a consultancy research project for Rs. 22 lakhs from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences(BRNS) ,Government of India for conducting emissivity measurements at cryogenic temperatures in collaboration with Institute of Plasma Research(IPR) and IISc Bangalore.

During the academic year 2014 -15 two of our final year M.Tech Students of Industrial Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering got opportunity to pursue their final year M.Tech thesis work in renowned European Universit ies, University of Twente, Netherlands and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Mr. Anvar V.A did his thesis on t h e t o p i c h i g h t e m p e r a t u r e superconductivity under the guidance of Dr. Arend Nijhuis, of University of Twente Mr. Anvar got selection for PhD programme at University of Twente which is having collaboration with University of Wollongong Australia. After successful completion he will be awarded a dual Ph.D degree from the respective Universities.

Department of EEE secured the first position in Kerala University in the first year B.Tech Degree examination 2015.Students of EEE secured ranks 1-5,7-10 in Kerala University in the B.Tech Degree examination 2015

Rank Name of student CGPA

1 Libin Sam Babu 9.69

2 Govind V. 9.21

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3 KrishnanandaPrabhu 9.09

3 Treasa Maria Joseph 9.09

4 Nikhil Ouseph 9.07

5 Nandagopan M. 9

7 DivyaS.Nair 8.9

8 JobinSukumaran 8.89

9 Subith S. 8.88

10 VidyaS.Nair 8.87

Dr.T.P.Imthias Ahamed took charge as Head of the Department on 15/9/2015.

Prof. Saramma P. George and Prof. S.D.Umarani retired from service on May 2015 & June 2015 respectively.

Faculty Achievements

Prof.Sheeba R. secured Ph.D. degree from University of Kerala.

Prof. Fathima M.Kasim secured M.Tech degree in ‘Control Systems’ from University of Kerala.

Department of EEE organized TEQIP II Academic sponsored FDP on ‘Power System Operations’ from November 23-28, 2015.

Department of EEE organized IIIC TEQIP 2 sponsored 2 days workshop on ‘ETAP simulation software’ for final year B.Tech students on September 29 and 30,2015.

Department of EEE organized IIIC TEQIP 2 sponsored 2 days workshop on ‘Effective management and maintenance of electrical supply system and UPS’ from December 7-9, 2015.

Faculty Publications

Dr.T.P.ImthiasAhamed published a paper entitled “Load scheduling with Maximum Demand using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization” in IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Power and Energy (TAP Energy), 2015

Dr.T.P.ImthiasAhamed published a paper entitled “Consolidated demand bid model and strategy in constrained Direct Load Control program” in IEEE 8thGCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), 2015

Prof. Shyba S. published a paper entitled ‘Performance Analysis of Path Planning Techniques for Autonomous Mobile Robots’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies, ICECCT 2015

Prof. Shyba S. published a paper entitled ‘A Path Planning Technique For Autonomous Mobile Robot Using Free-Configuration Eigenspaces’ in International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA), 2015

Prof. FathimaM. Kasim published a paper entitled ‘ Lyapunov based target tracking control of a mobile robot’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electrical, C o m p u t e r a n d C o m m u n i c a t i o n Technologies, ICECCT 2015

Daya Abraham (6th sem) received Best first year student award sponsored by Computer Society of India Trivandrum Chapter(CSI).Vinnie Ann Varghese received Best final year student award sponsored by CSI. Parents of Late Ganesh Sankar (2007- CSE branch) and his classmates instituted Ganesh Sankar Memorial Scholarship Fund to support four needy students from each year of the Computer Science and Engineering branch

Number of publications by Faculty is 14(International conference) . Number of p u b l i c a t i o n s b y S t u d e n t s i s 16(International conferences)

EVENTS

Invited Lectures were conducted on “Practical Challenges in implementing a blacklist search algorithm”by Syam S. Pillai (sponsored under Computer Society of India Trivandrum Chapter(CSI) ) and “C loud Comput ing by Dr. S .D Madhukumar (sponsored under CSI ). Mr. Krishna Sharma was conducted a Video Conference on “Ethical Hacking” and a Two day Workshop on “Python Programming and Ethical Hacking “(sponsored under CSI ). A Faculty Development Programme on “Machine learn ing and Natura l Language processing(6 days) “was conducted by Dr.M.R Kaimal (sponsored under TEQIP II).

Shan S,Manikandan P M and . Adil Muhammed are the new faculty members joined last year

Achievements of faculty members/ students in last year.

Nithin Sebastian Kuncharia and Kiran Abraham Jacob presented paper at SCHEMCON’15, Annual National Student Chemical Engineering Meet held at MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune. They received best paper Award- First Prize

Kiran Abraham Jacob, N Akshay, Muhammed Shaifal K and Mohammed Murad K V participated in ‘TATHVA’ National level Tech fest, NIT Calicut, October / November, 2015 and won Second Prize for AQUA ROCKET Competition

Kiran Abraham Jacob, N Akshay , Muhammed Shaifal K and, Mohammed Murad K V participated in ‘TATHVA’ National level Tech fest, NIT Calicut, October / November, 2015 and they have won Third Pr ize for CHEMICAL Competition

Akshay Dileep, Ashraf N and Akash K participated in ‘TATHVA’ National level Tech fest, NIT Calicut, October / November, 2015 and won Th i rd Pr ize for INTERUPTEUR Competition

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Students’Achievements

FathimaWafa P.P. eighth semester student of EEE was a member of the college team which secured the second place in the Kera la Univers i ty Inter-Col leg iate Chess(women) tournament.

Mahesh.P.J, sixth semester student of EEE participated in IEEE R10 Students Young Professional and Women in Engg Congress at Sri Lanka, 9-12th July 2015 with a financial support of $300/- from R10 SIGHT group. He has also done a poster presentation on the activities of IEEE SIGHT chapter of TKMCE.

Shefia Shershah, sixth semester student of EEE was the member of college team who won the Kerala University tennis women championship-2015 &is selected to represent the Kerala university team for the South India inter university tennis tournament.

FasilFiroz, sixth semester student of EEE secured second place in Startupi3, State level entrepreneurship competition on October 2015

ArjunJayakumar, sixth semester student of EEE has participated in the Kollam district shooting championship 2015 and won first prize for 10m open sight (junior men). He has also participated in the Kerala state shooting championship 2015 for 10m open sight and is qualified for South Zone level.

JobinP.John, student of second year EEE secured second place in LINK QUIZ conducted as a part of IEEE Day celebrations 2015

Harikrishnan R., AsifNoushadSharafudeen, YethinMohith, Adarsh G. students of second year EEE secured second position at zona l l eve l o f Nat iona l Robot i c Championship conducted at GEC, Barton Hill.

Harikrishnan R, AsifNoushadSharafudeen, Adarsh G. – students of second year EEE were the finalists at National Robotic Championship conducted at IIT Bombay and were also the finalists at Line Follower Robotic Competition conducted at NIT Calicut

17 students of the first semester EEE participated in tathva’ 15 conducted by NIT Calicut

KarishmaPreman, Devi Vidya K.S., Anjitha K.N., SanjanaSajeev, ShyamSekhar – students of first semester EEE secured second position in the event ‘Contraption’ of tathva’ 15 conducted by NIT Calicut

Afsal C.K , student of first semester EEE secured second position in the event ‘CheoPropello’ of tathva’ 15 conducted by NIT Calicut.

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Faculty Publications

Dr. T. A. Shahul Hameed published the paper Design of low power high speed flash ADC in 45nm technology in the international Journal

Prof. AbidHussain M published the paper Medical decision support systems using fuzzy cognitive mapping and fuzzy interference system in International journal. He also presented the paper Performance analysis of RoF architecture for integrated broadband signals transmission in International Conference

Prof. Sajeena A. published paper in International journal

Prof. Ajitha S.S. published the papers Retinal Vessel Extraction-A Comparative Study of Gabor Wavelet Based Kernel Classifiers and Edge Detection Method and Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from Fundus Camera Images in International Journals

Dr. Sheeba O presented paper Performance Analysis of Patch Antenna using slot shaped Metasurface in international conference.

Dr. T. A. Shahul Hameed presented papers Impact of finshaped in FINFET performance, S i m u l a t i o n , F a b r i c a t i o n a n d Characterization of Polymer Light Emitting Diodes and photovoltaics using physics based tool in International Conferences. He also presented the paper RF parameter extraction and performance analysis of nanowire MOSFETs in National Conference

Prof. Reshna S. presented the paper A survey on segmentation and feature extraction of images in Indian sign l anguage recogn i t ion sy s tem in International Conference.

Prof. Nishanth N presented the papers Secure Routing in Mobile adhoc Network using Evidence theory and A novel SYN flood detection mechanism for wireless network in International Conference.

Prof.Nissan Kunju joined the department as Assistant Professor.

Anantha Padmanabhan, Shyna.A, Reshma Sheik, Rahulnath.H.A and Reena Marry George joined the department as Assistant Professors.

Manu J Pillai was awarded Ph.D

Student achievements

Vinnie Ann Varghese secured First Rank in University of Kerala,got second position in Intercollege Badminton Tournament conducted during Tezoro 2015 and also got second position for Kerala University Chess Tournament representing girls team.

Kiran Abraham Jacob , N Akshay, Muhammed Shaifal K, and Mohammed Murad K V participated in Techfest, GEC Thrichur- 2014/15 and won third prize in Chemical Car Competition.

Kiran A J, Nithin S K, Fazil A, Dr. K B Radhakr ishnan presented paper in International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering (ICACE 2015), NIT Surathkal, KarnatakaSachin Mohan, Rahul R R, Angel P Yesudas,Saibi R, Mary Mathew presented paper in International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering (ICACE 2015), NIT Surathkal, Karnataka

Conferences/programmes conducted by the department

Dr. K B Radhakrishnan organized workshop on Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, Simulation using ASPEN and FDP on Renewable Energy: Policies and practices

Details of achievement of special mention from faculty/ students

Nithin Sebastian Kuncharia and Kiran Abraham Jacob received National Best paper Award for Paper presentat ion a t SCHEMCON’15, MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune

Nithin Sebastian Kuncharia and Kiran Abraham Jacob Obtained a financial support from Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, Keral under the Scheme- TECHFEST 2016- INNOVATE for innovative project proposal

Nithin Sebastian Kuncharia and Kiran Abraham Jacob of 5th Semester B.Tech Degree Chemical Engineering deserve special mention for their flare in research interest. They bagged the following achievements in 2015.

Awarded Best paper during National Level Conference SCHEMCON 2015-Annual National Student Chemical Engineering Meet held at MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune.

Obtained a financial support from Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, Kerala under the Scheme- TECHFEST 2016- INNOVATE for innovative project proposal

Presented research work in the form of Poster in the International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering- ICACE 2015, Conducted by Dept . of Chemica l Engineering, NITK Surathkal, Karnataka.

Surya P.S, Parvathy Sagar, and Sambath R.D, joined the department as Assistant Professors.

Dr. Dili A. S. has received the Indian Institute of Architects Kerala State Award for Excellence in Architecture (Commendation) – 2014, December.

Dr. Dili A. S. has been appointed as Editor in the International Journal of Architecture and

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Dr. Dili A. S. has developed “Ferro-cement Lintel Belt” for light weight walls and has been implemented successfully as part of “Cool Home” light weight technology.

Annie John has been awarded Ph D from IIT Kharagpur in 2015.

Santhoshkumar K G,has been awarded Ph D from IIT Kharagpur in 2015. .

Publication.s of faculty/ students last year.

Annie, J., & Barman, J. (2015). Strategic orientation and multiple stakeholder participation in the tourism planning process: Study of a heritage destination in Kerala, India. Spatio-Economic Development Record, 22(1), 14-24. (ISSN 0971-4944)

Dili, A. S. (2014). Case Study - Roofing for a Passive Solar Home. Buildotech, 8(6), 22-24.

Dili, A. S. (2015). The Weathering free House. Buildotech, 9(9), 52-55.

Jolly, J. (2015). Acoustic comfort in school classrooms in tropical humid climate. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 4(4), 13-19. (ISSN 2249-8958)

Jolly, J. (2015). Improvement of Acoustic comfort in school classrooms of Kerala. International Journal for Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 3(2). (ISSN 2320-6802)

Jolly, J. (2016). Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Acoustic Comfort in Classrooms: A comparative investigation of vernacular and modern school classroom in Kerala . Applied Acoustics, 33-41.

Jolly. J. and Deepa L. presented paper in Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering ICMSC 2015

Ms. Soumya I got second rank in the Sixth Semester MCA University Exam conducted in October 2015.

Prof. Nadera Beevi S is awarded PhD on April 2015

Department organized a one day workshop on Advanced Computer Graphics using OpenGL by Dr. Sreeni K G , Assistant Prof., College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 6th Nov, 2015

Department conducted a technical talk on Ethical hacking and Cyber Security by Mr. Albin Thomas, Senior Information Security Consultant, ISYX Technologies, UAE on 18th December 2015

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Department organized a TEQIP – II sponsored FDP on Mathematical Challenges in Cyber Security during 04/01/2016 – 09/01/2016

Faculty Publications

Mathew Varkey T,K, Sunoj.B.S,A note on prime and sequential labeling of finite graphs, Internat ional Journal of Mathematical Combinatorics,Vol.1, (2015), 80-85.

Mathew Varkey.T.K,Rajesh Kumar.T.J, Even Graceful Labeling of a Class of Trees, International Journal on Applications of Graph Theory in Wireless Adhoc Networks and Sensor Network Vol.7, NO.4,Dec.15,1-7.

FDPs

Organized FDP on Mathemat ica l Challenges in Cyber Security organized by Department of Mathematics and Department of MCA

Dr.K.Geetha and Dr.Teena Liza John participated in the faculty development programme organized and conducted by Teacher Learning Centre, IIT, Madras, from 27-29 April-2015.

Dr.K.Geetha participated in the faculty development programme conducted by L.B.S Institute, Poojappura on June-2015.

Prof. Teena Liza John has been awarded PhD from Mahatma Gandhi University.

Regular activities in this academic year2015-16 includes orientation to NSS volunteers, campus activities, awareness classes in road safety on 6/01/2016, health care, personality development classes, Anti drug Campaign on Anti drugs day 2015, Anti dowry campaign in association with PTA on 28/09/2015, Street play on “Blood donation” for exhibiting the importance of blood donation inside the campus on 01/10/2015 , Observance of important days such as Yoga day on 21st June, Readers day on 2/7/2015 ,help desk and campaign on the first year admission on 3/8/2015 , Independence day celebration on 15/8/2015, sadbhavana day pledge On 20/ 8/2015, Gandhi Jayanthi day- 2nd October, world students day on 15/10/2015- the birth day of APJ, in the campus, and regular activities in the adopted village. Seven day special camp of the academic year 2015-16 was held at MVGVHSS, Peroor ,Kollam from 20th Dec. to 26th December 2015, during Christmas vacation. Main work in the camp was the flagship programme of NSS tech Cell “Punarjani” at the Victoria hospital, Kollam. In the MGVHSS, our volunteers repaired eight damaged bicycles of poor students and had done the maintenance works of benches and desks in the school. The main building of the school was

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Chess (Men) : Runner-up in the Kerala University inter col legiate Chess championship Men held at CET, Thiruvananthapuram.

Chess (Women) : Runner - up in the Kerala University inter-collegiate chess women c h a m p i o n s h i p h e l d a t C E T , Thiruvananthapuram.

Tennis (Men) : Third place in the Kerala University Tennis Men championship held at Sanskrit college.

Members of the Kerala University team

Shefiah Shershah (E5): Member of the Kerala University Tennis Women team

Dia Nainika Nair (R7) : Member of the Kerala University Tennis Women team

Jithin Rocky (C7) : Reserve member of the Kerala University Football Men team

Tournaments Conducted

Kerala University North-Zone inter-collegiate Football Men tournament : 25th September to 30th October 2015.

Kerala University North Zone inter-collegiate Shuttle badminton tournament 2015-16: 16th to 23rd September 2015.

Kerala Univers ity Tennis Women championship: 1st November 2015

Kerala University Inter-Zone Shuttle badminton (Men) Championship: 25th September 2015.

Kerala University Judo Men and Women championship : 5th and 6th December 2015

Kerala University Single Zone Women Shuttle badminton championship: 26th September 2015

George Joseph memorial football tournament : 18th to 23rd September 2015

The Kollam Local Centre was established in 2010 and is housed in the campus of

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painted by the volunteers, Plumbing and electric maintenance works were also carried out .Nearby houses were visited and collected plants for enriching the school garden. Students made a small kitchen – garden and planted the vegetables on the back yard of the school. Other Camp programmes included awareness classes on pain and palliative care,’ Healthy living’ by AIDS control Society, Culturals, debate, Group discussions, interactive sessions with officials of NSS and personalities like Sri. Kadammanitta Vasudevan nair about “Padayani”a local art form. Awards were given to the best volunteers (both male and female), by the chief guests and released the camp papers (Manuscripts). Apart from these formal activities we used to deliver e-learning classes for the inmates of Sisubhavan, kollam and other regular activities in the adopted village.Actively participated in the “Jeevadhayini” blood donation data bank creation with 500 Registrations by our unit on 26/10/2015. NSS stall “Thiranottam” arranged as a part of “Rithu2015” during 14 to16/8/2015, Planted saplings in the college campus on Sunday 8/11/2015. We received an award on 14/06/2015 from Indian Medical Association for promoting blood donation.

STEPS

STEPS is a non-profitable student organization working from our college, under the college union. It was established in 2011 with a vision of engendering social responsibility and compassion to the fellow beings, in the generations to come. STEPS approaches engineering with the motto “where engineering meets humanity “Over the years STEPS have conducted a plethora of activities both inside and outside the campus, such as renovation of hospital equipment, educational activities which include free tuitions, scholarships and distribution of school kits, eye care facilities ,several blood donation camps, promotion of afforestation,frequent visits to old age

homes, awareness programs focused on atrocities against women & children, sustainable use of resources, promotion of safety and training as to how to deal with common accidents and hazards & integrity to the nation. STEPS conducted AARDRA 2015, a blood stem cell donation awareness and donor registration programme in association with DATRI at various colleges across 10 districts in Kerala, resulting for a total participation of 4232 persons. SUKRITA – First of its kind, Socio welfare initiative using technology to assist and empower the differently abled. Sukrita aims to empower and motivate the differently abled in the society by providing a unique opportunity for them to come across the brilliant technical minds which could offer them innovative solutions for their needs, Lok Adalat, where they could put forward their problems to the concerned authority and a job fair to make them self-supportive.

Activities

Tennis (Women) : Champions in the Kerala University inter collegiate tennis women championship 2015-16 held at cashew club

Football (Men): Runner-up in the Kerala University North Zone inter-collegiate football tournament held at TKMCE

Shuttle badminton (Men) : Third place in the Kerala University North Zone shuttle badminton tournament held at TKMCE

Judo (Men) : Third place in the Kerala U n i v e r s i t y i n t e r- c o l l e g i a t e J u d o championship held at TKMCE

Judo (Women) : Runner-up in the Kerala U n i v e r s i t y i n t e r- c o l l e g i a t e J u d o championship women held at TKMCE

Basket ball (Men) : Third place in the district basket ball championship held at YMCA, Kollam.

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Shefia Shershah (E6) Dia Nainika Nair (R8) DARSITHA BABU has won the ‘Best Outgoing Student’

Award instituted by TKM 60 plus Alumni Association (2011-’15

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NOUFAL.C.S.Selected as Best Deserving First Year

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Electrical & Electronics Engineering Branch

Secured Gold medal in the Kerala University tennis women championship 2015-16,

first time in the history of TKMCE

Congratulations

TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. At present, there are 1061 members of the Institution of Engineers (India) located in the districts of Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha are attached to this centre.

Meetings of the Kollam Local Centre are held regularly to discuss and plan about various activities. The 5th annual general meeting of the centre was held in the campus on 17th October 2015. Nearly 100 members attended the meeting. Dr.S.Jose is the Chairman and Er.P.Rajendra Prasad is the Honorary Secretary for the term 2014-16.

Activities during 2015

In association with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, organised a two day workshop on the topic Self Awareness and Purposeful Living. The workshop was held on 9th and 10th January 2015. The sessions were handled by Mr. Arul Dev, the founder and managing director of People First Organisation, Chennai. A panel discussion was organized at Hotel Sea Pearl, Kollam on 22nd March 2015 as part of World Water Day celebrations. One Day Seminar on Cha l l enges and Oppor tun i t i e s o f Entrepreneurs was organized jointly by the Quilon Management Association and Institution of engineers India Kollam local centre. It was conducted on 25th April, 2015 at Kollam Beach Hotel. National Technology day was celebrated by IEI Kollam Local Centre in association with MES Institute of Technology and Management, Chathanoor on 15th May 2015.

World Environment day was celebrated on 5th June in association with M/s Sarathy Auto Cars, Kollam. The programs were free pollution check up for vehicles and free d i s t r ibut ion of t ree sap l ings . An environmental protection awareness programme was conducted on 5th June in Titanium Sponge Plant (TSP) of KMML, Kollam in collaboration with The Institution of Engineers (India), Kollam Local Centre. A faculty development program conducted at TKM College of Engg., Kollam was co-sponsored by IEI Kollam Local Centre. The topic was Advanced Mechanics of Materials and co-ordinated by Dr.S.Jose and Dr.V.N. Ajukumar of Mechanical Engg Dept. The FDP was conducted during 22-26th June 2015.

In association with Quilon Management Association, an interactive workshop on Quality Education was conducted on 8th August, 2015 at Kollam Beach Hotel. Engineers Day was observed on 15th September at Beach Hotel and Convention Centre Kollam. On 30th September 2015 an introductory program on Institution of Engineers (India) student chapter was conducted at Caarmel Engineering College, Perunad, Pathanamthitta.

World Habitat day was celebrated at Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Pattoor.

An all India seminar on Recent Advances in Nano Technology was organized by Institution of Engineers, Kollam Local centre on 16 &17th of October 2015 at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. On 19th October, a Panel Discussion on Cashew Industry -Challenges and opportunities was jointly organized along with Quilon Management Association and was conducted at Hotel Quilon Beach.

Achievements

Formed new Society Robotics and Automation Society. Formed Special Interest group for Humanitarian Technology.

Mahesh P.J. of 3rd year EEE , participated in IEEE R10 Student Young professional and Women in Engineering Congress at Sree Lanka , 9-12 July 2015, with a financial support of $300 from R10 SIGHT group

Mohammed Rashid of 4th Year EC ,participated in IEEE R10 Student Young professional and Women in engineering congress at Sree Lanka , 9-12 July 2015

Main events

All Kerala Student Congress ( AKSC-2015)

Industrial visit to Paruthipara substation and GIS substation at LA on 7th Feb 2015. Sixty students participated.

In the WIE Face to Face on 4th April 2015 at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam number of Participants were 65.

How to present technical paper was another program on 28th July 2015 at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. The number of Participants was 25. Basic Electronics Workshop for Beginners on 10th August 2015at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam

was attended by 63 Participants.

In IEEE SIGHT TKMCE Conceptual Project Survey on 21st September 2015 “ Automated water pumping system” at Manroethuruth, Kollam, Kerala Mahesh, Vipinkumar, Nivedya, Rahul, Minhas Naheem, and Vinayak of 3rd year Electrical Engineering participated

PES Hub level Quiz Competition on 31th October 2015

held at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam 31 participants were present. Seminar on Energy Management in Domestic Domain held at Auditorium; TKM College of Engineering on 17 December 2015 the target group was

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housewives in and around Kollam. Event Focus was to convey energy management lessons to housewives to make them aware that “energy management” is the need of the hour.

Club Millennium Tkm 60 Plus

The Club is a forum of TKM Alumni, with 252 members of over 60 years of age. The patron of the Club is Jb.Shahal Hassan Musaliar, Chairman of TKMC College Trust.

The founder members are Er. Jacob Varghese (1965 M) (Founder- the advisor to CEC), Er. Antony Prince (1968M), Er. George Titus (1968 C), Er. K.A. Cherian (1968 E), Er.K Rajendra Prasad (1968 C), R Adm. (Rtd) Ravi Menon.B (1965M), A. Luke (1969 E) and Jb. T.K. Jalaluddin Musaliar, Er.Karim Musaliar, Er. A. Salim, Er. Anwar Hashim. The club is in existence since 2010 with registered office at Kochi.

The Central Executive Committee which manages the club presently consists of Er. Er.George.T.Jacob (President), Er.K P Mohandas (Vice President), Er.John Va r g h e s e ( H o n . S e c re t a r y ) , E r. Balachandran V (Hon. Treasurer), Er. Manilal Narayanan (Jt. Secretary), Er. KS Sasidharan - Joint Secretary, Er. V Krishnakumar- Head Cultural Activities.

The AGM 2015 followed by MUSICAL NITE of the club was held at KTDC Samudra Hotel, Kovalam,Thiruvanthapuram. 90 members (16 new members) attended the AGM Meeting. During the AGM election of office bearers for the year 2015-16 was held, and the Returning Officer Er. Jacob Varghese announced following office bearers for year 2014-15.

Er. Jacob Varghese Founder - the advisor to CEC, Prof K.P. Mohandas –President, K Sreekumar -Vice President, Manilal Na ra yanan -Hon . Sec re t a r y, E r. Sivasubramonian P. - Hon. Treasurer, Er.KG Muralidharan -Joint Secretary, Er. K.S. Sas idharan-Joint Secretary, Er. V Krishnakumar- Head Cultural Activities.

The AGM was addressed by following:

1. Er. George T Jacob 2.Er.Antony Prince 3.Er. Jacob Varghese 4.Prof.Salihu 5.Prof.POJ Labba

Ponnada was presented to teachers & those completed 50 years passing out TKM , during AGM.

The Secretary presented annual report & Joint Secretary Manilal Narayan thanked members & teachers present.

There was skit presented by Asianet fame senthil & team sponsored by Er.Raj Mohan.The musical night was compeered by Er.Krishnakumar. The program was highly impressive with active participation of members & Orchestra. The meeting concluded with dinner for all participants.

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TKMCE UAE Alumni Association General Secretary, Mr. Haris Aboobaker interacts with final year Mechanical Engineering students on ‘Jobs in UAE opportunities and challenges’

Career Guidance from a Traditional Industry Point of View

Career Guidance from a Traditional Industry Point of View. The talk was conducted by Pradeep Kumar and was held at the PTA hall from 3pm to 6pm. He pointed out the enormous gap between what you learn and what you need to do at an industry and also to make that gap stringent. His story of the growth from a fresher worker to a man owning a core company abroad was really inspiring. From the start to the end the talk was filled with motivation, ideas and techniques to achieve better in life .He also came up with graphs of career growth which was something new for everyone present there. He explained that those with mere soft skills can have the same career growth as those with both tech and soft skills.

The audience never came across such a talk where real life situations are so openly discussed. He pointed out certain skills which makes one a good engineer. Some of it included soft skill, reasoning, ability to survive worst scenarios, tech basics, practical approach to everything and humanitarian considerations.

ALUMNI TALK

Mr. Nithin Sebastian Kuncheria and Mr. Kiran Abraham Jacob, 6th Semester Students of Chemical Engineering Department has won special prize and cash award in TECHFEST-2016, a State Level Contest for Innovative Engineering Projects conducted by Science & Technology Department, Govt. of Kerala in association with APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) and Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), for their innovative idea entitled “New Carbon Nano-Catalyst Support w i t h a S p h e r i c a l F i b ro u s Morphology” during the First Kerala Technological Congress (KETCON 2016) held at Kottayam from 8th to 9th January 2016. This project is under the supervision of Prof. Fazil A, Department of Chemical Engineering, and is funded by KSCSTE.

Congratulations….

Women Empowerment Throught Entrenuership

Mrs. Bindu Sunil, Technical Director at GeostructuralsPvt Ltd., Ernakulam, in her session explained about the importance and necessity of women empowerment through education ,economic independence and entrepreneurship. She also highlighted the challenges faced by women professionals adding that passion ,confidence ,basics and determination are the key to successes .

The subject of empowerment of women has becoming a burning issue all over the world including India since last few decades. Women want to have for themselves the same strategies of change which menfolk have had over the centuries such as equal pay for equal work. Their quest for equality has given birth to the formation of many women’s associations and launching of movements.Fostering entrepreneurship is a key policy goal for governments of all countries which share the expectation that high rates of entrepreneurial activity will bring sustained job creation and boost the development of new products, processes, and organisational innovation. Public policies to promote female entrepreneurship includes fostering a gender neutral legal framework for business, reducing administrative burdens on firms and excessive regulatory restrictions.

The 1995 Alumni Batch of TKMCE lead by Raghuram Iyengar, Rajesh Sudhakaran and Anoop P. Ambika Organized “CONNECT 95-15”, interactive sessions for all branches on career opportunities and personality development during their reunion “U&Me 95” after 20 years of their graduation

09.30 am Registration

10.30 am Annual general body meeting

11.15 amHonoring 1966 Batch Alumni and Best Outgoing Student

12.00 noonElection of new office bearers

12.30 pm Interactive session

1.00 pm Culturals & Lunch

TKMCE Alumni th

50 Annual General body meeting

Schedule (26.01.2016)

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Rank Holders of B.Tech Degree Examinations 2015

Release of Abstracts of ICAME-2015 by

Jb. T.K. Jalaluddin Musaliar, handing over a copy to Dr.Luigi Serio,

Scientist, CERN, Switzerland

Jb. T.K. Shahal Hassan Musaliar inagurating,

ISTE sponsored FDP

on INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION & MECHATRONICS

New Facilities in the Campus

Innovation and Entrepreneur Development CellCentral Computing Facility

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New Facilities in the Campus

Get together Moments

Jubilee Hall APJ Hall

Department Library of Architecture CFD Lab (Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Kuwait Chapter UAE Chapter

Tanzania Chapter Trivandrum Chapter

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OBITUARY

Prof. G. George, Former Professor

Department of Mechanical Engg

KJ AMAL MCA student - 2015 Batch

Govind Ramadas M.Tech Student 2013 Batch

Ahmed ShazS5 student of Architecture

Mrs Najma MusaliarW/o.Hon’ble Chairman

Jb. T.K. Shahal Hassan Musaliar

OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING INSTITUTE AWARD-2015

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