Can we meet in Chennai?

Hi Friends,

It is long time since we meet in Chennai. Can we meet on 26th January in Chennai? It is Sunday. I met Kalyanaraman last week and he is ready. Also I talked to Civil Kamaraj. He had the same feeling.

If we meet with family, Sudharsan will arrange Thermal power plant visit on that day. But we have to get prior permission. Please give your view on the meeting (with family or alone).

Rajesh will be back from US. Mostly he will be joining us.

Saravanan

Income Tax Exemption

I am happy to share with you that ACCET87 Foundation has been granted Income Tax exemption under section 12AA. Our original application was rejected due to some technical issues and we had to reapply in March 2013. Getting the approval under 12AA was an onerous task and the credit goes to Boby Thomas for the extensive research and consistent follow-up with the Income Tax department to get this approval.  Sudarsan & Saravanan (VP) also pitched in and actively helped Boby in this initiative. Thanks Boby, VP and Susee!

Our next initiative is to get 80G exemption which will help in getting donations for the Trust.

Approval of Income Tax exemption u/s 12AA of the Income Tax Act to ACCET87 Foundation.

 

ASSET Program Started Delivering Results

Hi All,

We have seen the first result of our program ASSET87. Zoho Corporation a software company visited our college for campus selection. Zoho is a software product company, which conducted first round of aptitude test and then programming test. Finally they conducted two interviews one HR and the other technical. Students with programming knowledge alone attended the aptitude test.

Around 35% of the final year students attended the aptitude test. In that group only 21% of the students completed the aptitude test. From the selected students, 45% of the students completed the programing test and qualified for the interview.

From those who attended the interview 41% has cleared both technical and HR interview and got selected. This percentage is very good compared to the number of students who cleared the aptitude.

Zoho has visited our college many years for campus interview and this is the first time more students got selected (last year five got selected in campus).

In spite of tougher approach from Zoho (as there are lesser companies visiting campus interview to various colleges due to economical slowdown), our juniors did well in the campus interview. Below message was sent by one of the students.

Hello sir,

I feel immense pleasure to inform you that 7 students from ACCET are placed in ZOHO corporation(Adventnet). Without your part it couldn’t be possible. So i feel highly privileged to express my gratitude to the team ASSET-87.

—
Sayanora,

K. Sampathkumar
Home: + 91 43 27236557
Chase: +91 9500446264
Write: sampath1704@gmail.com
Life is an experiment…

I thank Vilva, Rajeshwar, Sudhir and team for their effort to make the first year ASSET87 program a success one. We have got very good feed back from students also.

Saravanan

Get Together on May 25th @ Ashburn, VA (USA)

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Suresh  wrote:
Hello all,

The exciting day is near and eagerly awaiting to meet all of you and your family. Many of you arriving on May 25th (Late morning).

Sailesh Family, Srinivasan Family, Rajesh “The Eternal Bachelor” and Vadi Family are staying with us on the 25th night. Shivaram indicated that he would book a hotel. For folks planning on staying in a hotel, some useful information below Hotels near Ashburn.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/IADAS-SpringHill-Suites-Ashburn-Dulles-North

May 25th Tentative Agenda
· Lunch @ home (Please indicate how many of you are going to be around lunch time)
· Evening Refresh, Meet and Greet, Games, and Music (May 25th)
· Kids/Boys/Girls Performance – Music / Dance (I have not broken this in to who is going to do what. I have spoken to Meena, Sailesh, and Vanchi about their Kids performances – I do have an outline).
· Adult Games – Dumb Charades / Anthakshari and other games.
· Kids Dinner
· Adults Dinner
· Adults Fun Continue

Meena Balasubramanian 10:34pm Jun 2
Friends –

We had a great North America 2013 gathering at Suresh/Rajshree’s house followed by a visit to Srikanth/Priya (our Junior at ACCET)’s house. The hosts did a phenomenal job – considering how difficult it is to control the ACCET mates! Suresh did well in coordinting a nice music program. Special thanks to all the wives and children – you made it special. The wives in particular, for your outstanding bartending and active listening skills!

R.S.Srinivasan a.k.a. Srini a.k.a. Vasan

On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Sailesh Murthy  wrote:

All,

It was yet another memorable get together, well organized by Suresh & Raji, with Rajesh providing the usual
backbone support to put the even together.

With Suresh hosting, it was no surprise that we had a lot of music.
He did a great job getting the kids to participate.
All the kids gave performances with plenty of music, a little bit of dance and even a Karate demo!!
We also had a few adults participate this time. Meena’s soulful rendition of a Hindi song was superb!.
Vadi, you sang well too!!.

Thanks to the event, I could meet a few more batch mates after 25+ years.
Thanks Shivram and Vanchi for making it to the event with your families.

As usual, we partied well into the night and still were left with the feeling, “wish we had more time”.
We would have liked to get to know all the kids a bit more.
Well, next time!.

Special thanks to Srikanth and Priya for the excellent breakfast the next day at their house – for the whole crowd!.

This time we had a larger international participation via skype.
Vasittar, Vimal & Raji – from Canada
Felix – from California
Badran – from Dubai
Did I miss anyone?. Thanks to all that participated.

Personally, a special thanks to Suresh and Raji for putting up with us, as as we stayed back a few more days!!.
Srini and Meena, you were also excellent hosts for our stay at your house, the previous night.

–
Shyamala and Sailesh

On Jun 7, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Vadivazhagu Rajarathinam wrote:

Nice and crisp narration and wonderful summary. Thoroughly enjoyed the time with children and friends. I should admit that the company made me to laugh so much with all the teasing and jokes. Thanks to every one who made it to the event and special thanks to Suresh, Rajii, Sreekanth, Priya and Rajeshwar for pulling all this things together!

Sent from my iPhone

vanchi – Jun 7

No words to write about the get together. we are really excited and enjoyed the whole day with joy. everybody participated in the events and the hosts are very kind enough to handle all. thanks every one for making this event a wonderful day!!!

Rajeshwar Jun 9

Aha! Ψ has done a great summary, except for the undue credit to Rajeshwar. Many thanks to our hosts, Suresh and Raji. They took care of everything and the whole event management from infrastructure, to nourishment to entertainment was awesome. The only blemish was the missing goose!

Many thanks to all the spouses who tolerated us gracefully. Special thanks to Priya and Friend Srikanth.

It was great meeting up all of you and I am already excited about the next one.

Ψ and I have discussed about it and we are exploring if we can organize it in September-October. Any ideas?

Vadivazhagu Rajarathinam Jun 9

Hmm….. How could have this crowd miss out that great Goose!!!!!!!!!!! Great catch Rajeshwar!

The next meet –
Sailesh proposed and I am considering a trip to Toronto during the Summer – potentially during the July 4th long weekend – Not sure of Sailesh and other friends availability. Will follow up and surely comments and suggestions welcome

September & October – I suggest and I am looking forward to host a big meet in Richmond VA. No specifics at this time – But definitely we can follow on soon. Again suggestions and comments welcome!!

Regards/ Vadi

ASSET Program – Award Function

I am happy to share with all of you that the training of first batch under the ASSET87 program has been successfully completed. We trained a total of 490 students of the third year. We had 16 sessions of 3 hours each spread throughout the year and we had an overall attendance of over 70%. (More statistics will be shared in a future post).

There were some disruptions to our schedule due to the closing of all colleges in Tamilnadu due to the Sri Lankan Tamils issue but thanks to the unstinting support of the Principal and the staff of ACCET and the dedication and commitment of the training team lead by Mr. Sudhir, we managed to complete the training program in this academic year.

The final session of the program was conducted on April 17th the ASSET Program for 2012-13. We concluded the session with an closing ceremony which was attended in full strength by the 3rd year  and 2nd year students, The Principal and HODs also attended the function.

The closing ceremony started off with a speech by the ASSET87 Coordinator Vilva.

We had instituted awards for Top Leader, Top Communicator and Top Learner based on their performance during the training sessions. The selection of the students was made by the trainers using the guidelines provided by us. The following students were selected for the three awards:

Top Leader:    R Rhema (ECE)
Top Communicator:  K Jerlin (EEE)
Top Learner:  KJ Archana (ECE)

They received a cup, certificate and a pen-drive as part of the award. Each one of them expressed sincerely how this program has changed the way they talk and behave among their peers and family. Interesting to note that the top 3 were women and all of them had attended almost all the training sessions.

Ten other students were picked for their marked performance during the course of the training program

  1. M Yogalakshmi (CSE)
  2. Ragul (EEE)
  3. M Anees Ahmed (CSE)
  4. Osor Pertin (EEE)
  5. Shamitru (CSE)
  6. M Parani Bharathi (EEE)
  7. B Kohila (EEE)
  8. G Lakshmi Nivedetha (CSE)
  9. PM Hariharan (ME)
  10. Catharin Arathana (EEE)

These students received a merit certificate and a pen drive. All of them spoke for a couple of minutes and were very vocal in expressing gratitude to the ACCET 87 batch for giving them this training program.

Pen drives were given to the student volunteers who helped in organizing transport, food and logistics for the 16 training sessions.

Mr. Ravikumar (Placement Coordinator) gave a short speech where he suggested some changes in the training program content.

The Principal Ms. Mala gave her continued support for the program and said that she has been trumpeting this program wherever she talks as being one of a kind in any Engineering College in Tamilnadu.

The second year students had come in great numbers and expressed their eagerness to undergo this training program for the next year.

We presented the Master Trainer Mr. Sudhir with a ACCET87 Foundation watch as a souvenir. He has been a great source of inspiration for the students and he is extremely popular with all the students.

It was a great ending to the first year of the ASSET program.  As usual, Siva concluded the event with his Vote of Thanks.

On behalf of ACCET87 Foundation, I would like to place on record our sincere appreciation of our friend Sivanantharaja. Much credit for the great success of this program goes to Siva. He not only coordinated the program in Karaikudi but was always there to iron out the many issues that came up and he also took great taking care of our batchmates who went to the college to monitor the sessions.

I also want to thank  all our batchmates who attended the various sessions and gave their valuable feedback which helped us improve the program as it went by. I am sure that the next year’s sessions are going to be even better.

A many thanks are also due to Boby Thomas & Vilva. Boby has been in the background at all time taking care of the financial management and providing administrative support. From conceptualisation to execution, Vilva has been in the thick of the action at all times and has successfully steered the program. These two guys did an awesome job.

And many thanks to each of you for your financial & moral support. You made it happen!

ASSET Program – Closing Ceremony

The first year of the ASSET program is coming to a close next week.

The last 2 sessions of the ASSET Program will be conducted on Mar 19th (Tue) and Mar 20th (Wed). With this the students would have gone through 16 sessions over a period of 2 semesters. The feedback from the students and HODs have been very encouraging and they are eagerly looking forward to continuing this next year too.

The plan is to have a short closing ceremony on the last day (Mar 20th – Wed) where we will distribute some awards to the students who have shown very good progress. At the same time we would like to thank the trainers for conducting the sessions and the college for providing the infrastructure.  This will lay the foundation for the ASSET program for the next year.

Sivanandaraja has got permission from the Principal to have the sessions on the 2 days. On the second day (Wed – Mar 20) around 5 PM all the students, Trainers, HODs, Principal and Alumni from our batch will get together in Murugappa Hall to conclude this year’s program. The program should last about 45 minutes. Here is the tentative plan

  • Introduction and recap of the 16 session program (someone from ’87 batch)
  • Impressions/feedback on the program (volunteers of ’87 batch who attended the sessions)
  • Trainer’s view (Sudhir)
  • Comments from Ravikumar (placement officer)
  • Comments from Principal and HODs (who ever is willing)
  • Comments from the Students
  • Award ceremony
  • Vote of Thanks

Please feel free to give your ideas on the above program.

Most important –

Need as many of you to come to KKDI on the 20th for the closing ceremony. We started the ASSET program with a big band, lets close the first year the same way.

Thanks.

ASSET Session #10

I visited Karaikudi last month 6th to have a look at our ASSET program. I went to college around 10 am. The training program started at 10:30 am. There were four trainers involved in four halls.

It was a workshop (for email communication, time management and Team work), where the students are grouped into two European Car companies, which has five sub-groups (divisions). The Company has a GM and five Managers and they were competing for a deal. The two groups should do a car design and do a model in Three hours. During this period, the GM has to send periodic report to the trainer. During this program, they have to plan, interact, design and implement. It was really a good exercise for the students. All of them were enthusiastic and involved completely into the program. It is really value adding session for the students. In real field this is what happening for most of them but in their own industry.

Few students asked me why are you giving me a car model design I am a CSE student. I explained them, even though it is a car model, the principle behind this workshop is applicable irrespective of the branch. If you take a software industry, we have a product (CRM or ProectMgmt tool) to be delivered. You have various activities like design the product, DB design framework, UI flow, integration etc. Same with Civil industry where we have to have design the foundation and structure, and in execution, we have to have structural erection, interior & exterior finish and infrastructure development. All these need proper communication, time management and teamwork etc.

The student’s participation was really great.

I asked the students feedback on the program. They were highly happy and they gave few suggestions.

It was a nice experience.