B.Tech Computer Science and Business Systems

About the Department

The B.Tech. – The Computer Science and Business Systems (CSBS) programme is designed to meet the increasing demand for engineering talent with digital technology skills. Among the Computer Science and Business Systems colleges in Tamilnadu only our curriculum aims to provide students with essential computer science concepts as well as a mix of humanities and management science, ensuring that they are prepared for the Industrial Revolution 4.0. This state-of-the-art course aims to impart knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and business skills with hands-on exposure to make students industry-ready.

The main goal of this course is to ensure that the students not only know the core topics of Computer Science but also develop an equal understanding of humanities, human values, and management sciences. The students also get good industrial exposure to emerging topics such as Analytics, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, etc.

Objectives:

Understanding of Contemporary Technology
Understanding of Technology Abstraction
Innovation Ability
Strong in Ethics and Life Values
Learning Common Business Principles
Exploring Business Discipline and Service Orientation

Vision

Mission

Continual Education:

To provide autonomous and involved learning thereby identifying their inimitable talent and cultivate it, according to their requirements to pursue higher education.

Workability:

To create employable skill among the students and make them as world-wide challengers in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

Program Educational Objectives Employability:

To innovate the students to take more than just imagination and to give superior technical education for tomorrow’s competitive world.

Higher Studies:

To prepare the students with high standard education to associate with global industry need.

Entrepreneurship and Leadership:

To train the students with perfection and state-of-the art technology keeping in the changing and demanding trends.

Professional Ethics:

To create awareness on Engineering ethics and human values by establishing moral and social values and loyalty that meets the needs of the society.

Dr.R. Rajappan

HOD for MECH

Welcome Message

“To be a centre of excellence in the field of Mechanical Engineering where the best of teaching, learning and research synergize”

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Mailam Engineering College, the esteemed & the fastest growing college in Tamilnadu. As Chair of the Department, I take pride in the fact that our department has well qualified faculty and staff members who are available to the students fulltime. A well equipped state of the art laboratory helps the students to keep in pace with the racing technology.

The faculty members in addition to regular teaching are also busy in consultancy services to local industry and Govt. departments, organizing and participating national/international conferences, workshops and seminars, upgradation of laboratories (through college budget and grants from AICTE and other bodies).

The students of Mechanical Engineering have been recruited by renowned companies like Cooper busman, Sundram fasteners Ltd, TCS, Wipro, HCL etc. They have also brought laurels to the department by winning various competitions at national level co-curricular and extracurricular activities like paper presentations, projects, quizzes, sports etc.

Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs)

PEO 1:

To ensure graduates will be proficient in utilizing the fundamental knowledge of basic sciences, mathematics, Computer Science and Business systems for the applications relevant to various streams of Engineering and Technology.

PEO 2:

To enrich graduates with the core competencies necessary for applying knowledge of computer science and Data analytics tools to store, retrieve, implement, and analyze data in the context of business enterprise

PEO 3:

To enable graduates to gain employment in organizations and establish themselves as professionals by applying their technical skills and leadership qualities to solve real-world problems and meet the diversified needs of industry, academia, and research

PEO 4:

To equip the graduates with entrepreneurial skills and qualities that help them perceive the functioning of business, diagnose business problems, explore entrepreneurial opportunities, and prepare to manage business efficiently. .

Program Outcomes (POs)

PO1: Engineering knowledge:

Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.

PO2: Problem analysis:

Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.

PO3: Design /development of solutions:

Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.

PO4: Conduct investigations of complex problems:

Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.

PO5: Modern tool usage:

Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.

PO6: The engineer and society:

Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.

PO7: Environment and sustainability:

Understand the impact of professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.

PO8: Ethics:

Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.

PO9: Individual and team work:

Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.

PO10: Communicate effectively on complex:

Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as comprehending and writing effective reports and design documentation, making effective presentations, and giving and receiving clear instructions.

PO11: Project Management and finance:

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.

PO12: Life- long learning:

Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change

Laboratories

UG (Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering takes a great pride in turning out successful technocrats who can tender their best service with boundless competence and untiring dynamism. The Department is proud to produce Anna University rank holders every year. Anna University verification committee has awarded third rank to the Department for the best infrastructure facilities available among 225 self-financing colleges for the year 2008. The faculty members and students are regularly engaged in presenting and publishing papers in National and International Journals and Conferences. Research works are being carried out in Thermal Engineering laboratory on ‘Utilization of Plastic Fuel in IC engines’ and ‘Pollution Control in Automobiles’. Also, consultancy works are being carried out in Strength of Materials Laboratory to the industries situated nearby the Institution. The Department regularly applies and receives fund from AICTE, DST and CSIR for projects and seminars. The mission of the Department is to promote academic excellence, widen intellectual horizon and inculcate high ideals for the overall personality development of the students and thereby enhance the image of Mechanical Engineers in the Society. Guest lectures and industrial visits are arranged regularly to students for up-gradation of knowledge on latest technologies available in the market on the thrust areas like Manufacturing, Design, Thermal, CAD, CAM, CIM, etc. The students are encouraged for all round excellence in all non-scholastic activities.

PG (M.E – Engineering Design)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a Post Graduate course on M.E (Engineering Design). The PG Program was started in the year 2004 with team of highly qualified, dedicated and motivated faculty members as well as with well equipped laboratories. The Department is privileged to produce a Gold Medal list in ME (Engineering Design) during the year 2012. The field of Engineering Design encompasses many exciting subjects such as Robotics, Finite Element Analysis, Advance Mechanism Design, Product Optimization, Integrated Manufacturing System, and Mechanical Vibration.

Power Electronic Circuits Laboratory

Objectives

To provide an insight on the switching behaviors of power electronic switches
To make the students familiar with the digital tools used in generation of gate Pulses for the power electronic switches
To make the students capable of implementing analog interfacing as well as Control circuits used in a closed-loop control for power electronic system
To make the students acquire knowledge on mathematical modeling of power Electronic circuits and implementing the same using simulation tools
To facilitate the students to design and fabricate a power converter circuits at Appreciable voltage/power levels
To develop skills on PCB design and fabrication among the students.

List of Experiments

Study of switching characteristics of Power electronic switches with and without Snubber (i) IGBT (ii) MOSFET
Modeling and system simulation of basic electric circuits using MATLABSIMULINK/ SCILAB
DC source fed resistive load and Resistive-inductive load
DC source fed RLC load for different damping conditions
DC source fed DC motor load
Modeling and System simulation of basic power electronic circuits using MATLAB-SIMULINK/SCILAB
AC Source with Single Diode fed Resistive and Resistive-Inductive Load
AC source with Single SCR fed Resistive and Resistive-Inductive Load
Modeling and System Simulation of SCR based full converter with different types of load using MATLAB-Simulink/SCILAB
Full converter fed resistive load
Full converter fed Resistive-Back Emf (RE) load at different firing angles
Full Converter fed Resistive-Inductive Load at different firing angles
Full converter fed DC motor load at different firing angles
Circuit Simulation of Voltage Source Inverter and study of spectrum analysis with and without filter using MATLAB/SCILAB
Single phase square wave inverter
Three phase sine PWM inverter
Generation of PWM gate pulses with duty cycle control using PWM peripheral of microcontroller ( TI-C2000 family/ PIC18)
Duty cycle control from IDE
Duty Cycle control using a POT connected to ADC peripheral in a standalone mode
Generation of Sine-PWM pulses for a three phase Voltage Source Inverter with control of modulation index using PWM peripheral of microcontroller (TI C2000 family/PIC 18)
Design of Driver Circuit using IR2110
Design and testing of signal conditioning circuit to interface voltage/current sensor with microcontroller (TI-C2000 family/ PIC18)
Interface Hall effect current sensor with microcontroller and display the current waveform in the IDE and validate with actual waveform in DSO
Interface Hall effect Voltage sensor with microcontroller and display the current waveform in the IDE and validate with actual waveform in DSO
Design of PI controller using OP-AMP
Construction and testing of 500 W, 220 V IGBT based Buck converter with control circuit and its performance Evaluation
Measurement of Efficiency at different duty cycle with a resistive load
Measurement of Efficiency at different duty cycle with a resistive-inductive load
PCB design and fabrication of DC power supply using any PCB design software (open source- KiCAD/students version)

Course Outcomes

Comprehensive understanding on the switching behavior of Power Electronic Switches
Comprehensive understanding on mathematical modeling of power electronic system and ability to implement the same using simulation tools
Ability of the student to use microcontroller and its associated IDE* for power electronic applications
Ability of the student to design and implement analog circuits for Power electronic control applications
Ability to design and fabricate a power converter circuit at an reasonable power level
Exposure to PCB designing and fabrication
IDE – Integrate Development Environment (Code Composer Studio for Texas
Instrument/MPLAB for PIC microcontrollers etc)

Electrical Drives Laboratory

Objectives

To impart the theoretical and practical knowledge on
To design and analyse the various DC and AC drives.
To generate the firing pulses for converters and inverters using digital processors
Design of controllers for linear and nonlinear systems
Implementation of closed loop system using hardware simulation

List of Experiments

Speed control of Converter fed DC motor.
Speed control of Chopper fed DC motor.
V/f control of three-phase induction motor.
Micro controller based speed control of Stepper motor.
Speed control of BLDC motor.
DSP based speed control of SRM motor.
Voltage Regulation of three-phase Synchronous Generator.
Cycloconverter fed Induction motor drives
Single phase Multi Level Inverter based induction motor drive
Study of power quality analyzer

Course Outcomes

Ability to simulate different types of machines, converters in a system.
Analyze the performance of various electric drive systems.
Ability to perform both hardware and software simulation.

Product Design and Reverse Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organized Workshop on the topic of “Product Design and Reverse Engineering’’ on 3rd October 2023. This workshop has been conducted to improve skills of students in the field of Product Design and Reverse Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a one Day Webinar on “Mechatronics’’ programme on 30th September 2023. During this program chief guest gave lecture on latest trends on Mechatronics Engineering.

Industrial Visit

Internal Symposium

The Dr. S. Senthil, Principal, MEC honouring Dr.A.Gnanamoorthy, Assistant Professor, University College of Engineering Villupuram during the Internal Symposium

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a one-day Internal Symposium on 17 Mar 2016. The program was inaugurated by Dr.A.Gnanamoorthy, Assistant Professor, University College of Engineering (Villupuram campus). He delivered the inaugural address as well.

Research & Development
Our college management has sanctioned Rs.20,OOO for the R&D Division of Mechanical Engineering to teach automation for II Yr Mechanical Engineering students. This money is spent on procuring equipment such as PIR, Bluetooth, ultrasound sensor, Andeno Board, Breed Board, Bosh K.

Guest Lectures
Mr.Suseel Jai Krishnan, Asst. Prof., SA Engineering College, Chennai, gave a guest lecture on “Thermal Engineering” for II Yr students on 12 Apr 2016.

Mr.M.Subaramanian, Asso. Prof., Aditya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore gave a guest lecture on “Design of Transmission System” for III Yr students on 11 Apr 2016.

Dr.S.Suresh Kumar, Asso. Prof., SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, gave a guest lecture on “Finite ElementAnalysis” for III Yr students on 12 Apr 2016.

Staff Activities
Dr.R.Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Mechanical Design and Development of Agricultural Robot’ in “Intemational Journal of Advancements in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering” Volume 2: Issue 1 -2015 (pg 94-97) : 23724153]

Dr.R. Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Buckling Analysis in Uni Directional Glass Epoxy Laminated Plate” in “Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences” (special edition pg 247-255) [ISSN: 0974-2115]-2015

Dr.R. Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Testing and Analysis of Kenaf Fibre Reinforced Polymer’ in “Joumal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences” Special Issue (pg.270-274) [ISSN: 09742115]-2015

Dr-R. Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Performance and Emission Characteristics of Vaiable Compression ratio Direct Injection Diesel Engine using Tamanu oil” in “Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences” Special Issue 7: 2015 (pg 40-43) [ISSN: 0974-]

Dr.R. Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Performance and Emission Characteristics of Variable Compression ratio Direct Injection Diesel Engine using Plastics oil” in “Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences” Special Issue 7: 2015 (pg 4447) [ISSN: 0974-

Dr-R. Rajappan, Dean and HOD, published a paper titled “Ionic liquids: A Green Solvent for the Biosynthesis of MgO Nano particles Using Banana Stem Plant Extract” in “Journal of Nano Engineering and Non Manufacturing” (Vol. 5, pp. 1 7, 2015) [ISSN: 2157-9326]

Mr.P.Saravanan, Asso. Prof., presented a paper titled “Performance Emission and Combustion Characteristics of Single Cylinder 4-Stroke LHR Engine using Plastic oil” in the 3″ International Conference on “Engineering Technology and Science” held at Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram, during 18 – 19 Mar 2016.