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PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is affiliated to PSG and Sons Charities Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology was ranked 6th in private engineering colleges by India Today in 2018.[2]

PSG College of Technology

Logo of PSG Tech
Motto	Knowledge and Service
Type	Private
Established	1951; 71 years ago (1951)
Principal	K. Prakasan [1]
Location	Coimbatore , Tamil Nadu , INDIA
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Anna University
Website	www.psgtech.edu

History

PSG College of Technology was first established as PSG Industrial Institute in the year 1926 by PSG and Sons Charities in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. The engineering college was started in the institute campus in 1951 by G. R. Damodaran, who became its first principal.[3] The college was conferred autonomous status by University of Madras in 1978, which was continued by the Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna University since 2001.

About 48 full-time and part-time programs in science, engineering and management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels by the 11 engineering and technology, computer applications, management sciences, basic sciences and humanities departments. The institute offers three 5-year integrated sandwich engineering courses which combines class room coaching with industrial training, one of the few in the country to offer such a course.[4] Among the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the college, many are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation.

Rankings

College rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2020)[5]	85
Engineering – India
NIRF (2020)[6]	49
Outlook India (2019)[7]	23
India Today (2020)[8]	30
Business/Management – India
NIRF (2020)[9]	46

Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology ranked 30 among engineering colleges by India Today in 2020,[8] and 23 among all engineering colleges in India by Outlook India in 2019.[7] The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 49th among engineering institutes in 2020[6] and 85th overall.[5] NIRF also ranked it 46th in the management ranking.[9]

Student life

Clubs

The Students Union is the apex body which controls all the aspects of student life including associations, clubs and societies.

Clubs: Global Leaders' Forum, Tech Music, Drawing and Painting Club, Book Readers' Club, Entrepreneurs Club, Photography Club, Dramatic Club, IEEE association, Radio Hub, Planning Forum etc...

Apart from these clubs, The college also has a Formula student team - Pegasus Racing, a Baja team and student wings of NCC and NSS.[10]

Hostel

PSG Tech hostel was established on 27 February 1958. The hostels accommodates about 4300 students in 14 blocks named from A to N of which 5 blocks dedicated to women. There are five student dining halls, an auditorium, a library,a gym,a computer center and a guest house attached to the hostels.

Symposiums

Since 2005, the college conducts an international techno-management festival called Kriya.[11] Every year in February, PSG also plays host to Renaissance, a two-day inter-collegiate cultural festival. Intrams is the intra-college cultural festival which is conducted in September.

Notable alumni

• Aparna B Marar, classical dancer
• Y. S. Chowdary, former Minister of State, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Government of India
• Cottalango Leon, winner of Academy Award
• Gopal Menon, documentary filmmaker
• Jose K. Mani, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha
• Kalidhindi B. R. Varma, Vice-chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
• Lakshmi Narayanan, ex-vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant and Chairman of ICT Academy
• G. V. Loganathan, former professor, Virginia Tech
• Madhu Bhaskaran, engineer and Professor at RMIT University
• Madhusudhan Rao Lagadapati, executive chairman of Lanco Infratech
• Mahesh Muthuswami, cinematographer
• Mylswamy Annadurai, director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2, ISRO
• Navin Ramankutty, Professor of Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia
• K. Pandiarajan, businessman and politician
• Ramachandran Govindarasu, former secretary of ADMK (IT Wing)
• A. G. Ramakrishnan, professor, Indian Institute of Science
• Shiv Nadar, Founder and Chairman of HCL Technologies
• Siva Umapathy, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Sundar Raman, CEO of Reliance Sports and Cricket Administrator
• Sundaram Karivardhan, industrialist and motorsport pioneer
• C Vijayakumar, CEO, HCL Technologies
• R. M. Vasagam. space scientist and former Project Director, Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment

References

External links

• Official website

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