WHAT’S NEW?

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering is organizing a 5-days Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Deeplearning and PYNQ Framework. The FDP is scheduled from 24th to 28th June, 2019. The program is intended to update the faculty knowledge in state-of-the art topics in the subject domain and to improve industry institute interaction and faculty/research peer interaction.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, announces five-day Faculty Development Program (APJAKTU sponsored) on “Recent Advances in Fuel Cells” during 8 – 12 July 2019. For registration,Click Here .

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COLLABORATIONS & MoU’s

GOOGLE’S DSC @ SJCET PALAI
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai has collaborated with Google through Developer Student Club to help the students to build their mobile and web development skills and knowledge.

MOZILLA CLUB @ SJCET PALAI
Mozilla Clubs are a global network of community members that share Mozilla’s mission to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Mozilla provides free training and resources to help clubs succeed and grow digital literacy in community spaces.

IEDC @ SJCET Palai
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai has collaborated with the Kerala Startup Mission, for promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurship ecosystem with in the campus

MoU WITH YOKOGAWA
Dept. Of Instrumentation Engineering, SJCET enters into MoU with industrial automation company Yokogawa India.

COLLABORATION WITH IIT MADRAS
NPTEL is the largest repository of online courses in Engineering, Science & Humanities from India’s best Institutes. Students can experience class room like learning from the experts. SJCET Palai is now a Local Chapter of NPTEL managed by IIT Madras. The students of SJCET can access all the courses of NPTEL even without an Internet connection.

COLLABORATION WITH RED HAT
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai has collaborated with Red Hat for providing training to the students within the campus. More

MoU WITH IIT Bombay
The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India. The Spoken Tutorial project is being developed by IIT Bombay for MHRD, Government of India.

SJCET PALAI

MoU WITH IIT KHARAGPUR
SJCET Palai is a remote center of IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur. Over 6 years ago, IIT Bombay started conducting ISTE training programmes for empowering teachers of this college. Started to engage several teachers at a time, in subject specific training workshops of two week duration. Together with IIT Kharagpur- a partner Institution in this project, mandated through a funded project from the National Mission on Education using ICT (NME-ICT) of MHRD, to train teachers in several such workshops.
CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

RAEREST – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The international Conference on Global Colloquium in Recent Advancement and Effectual Researches in Engineering Science and Technology (RAEREST) focus on providing an international opportunity for sharing the ideas, knowledge and information of eminent and experienced professionals from industries, research organizations, faculty, research scholars and students from academic institutions among experts and researchers working in their area of interest.

SARGAM- ANNUAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL
SJCET Palai are actively engaged in providing the students with an extensive range of cultural and co-curricular activities. Keeping in line with this commitment our college organizes Annual Cultural Fest Sargam. It is the much awaited events with multiple events in dance, music, fashion, drama, literary and various other cultural fields and offers a plethora of opportunities to the students to showcase their talent.

ASTHRA -ANNUAL TECHNICAL FEST
Asthra is the annual technical festival of SJCET Palai. With an annual footfall of more than 5,000 visitors and participants, Asthra is one of the biggest inter-college fests in Kerala. Asthra will keep you engrossed in a plethora of professional shows, competitions, lectures and workshops that have a lot to offer to everybody.

SPANDANAM – A CHARITABLE GROUP
Spandanam is a charitable group that aims to improve the lives of people around the college. A 20-member working group is formed to collect evaluate and process the application forms of students with financial difficulties inside and outside the campus Other schemes under this project include technical advice /seminars for schools socially committed works for the community blood donations visit and assistance to orphanages and poor homes etc.

SOCIAL SERVICE CELL
he Social Service Cell is the one of the latest student driven initiatives by SJCET Palai. It aims to contribute to the society in a meaningful manner by utilizing the managerial expertise and technical skills of the students for the benefit of those that work for the society

PACE -ANNUAL INTER COLLEGE SPORTS MEET
Two weeks of PACE will give students an opportunity to play with passion and enthusiasm. Various events like. Cricket, Volley Ball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Chess, Carom, Basket Ball and Foot Ball will be part of this mega event which will provide an ideal platform to the students to showcase their sports related skills.

SARGASADHANA
The SJCET School of Management conducts a National Level Management Conclave in the name of Sargasadhana every year .The management event consists of a National Seminar followed by competitions purely related to management concepts, theories and practices in the areas of Marketing Management, Human Resource Management and Financial Management.It gives an opportunity to management students across India to participate in various management events that enables them to showcase their managerial talents and skills by applying the concepts, theories and principles they have learnt in the classrooms.

FENSTRA
Fenstra is the prestigious National Level Inter-Collegiate meet. Conducted by the association of MCA students SMASH of St Joseph’s College Of Engineering and Technology Palai.

NSS
SJCET NSS unit is affiliated to department of Technical Education , Government of Kerala .It was inaugurated on 27-04-2008 by Mr K. A .Kalith programme coordinator ,RIT ,pampady. The motto or watchword of the National Service Scheme is ‘NOT ME BUT YOU’. This reflects the essence of democratic living and upholds the need for selfless service and appreciation of the other person’s point of view and also to show consideration for fellow human beings. It underlines that the welfare of an individual is ultimately dependent on the welfare of society on the whole. Therefore, it should be the aim of the NSS to demonstrate this motto in its day-to-day programme
ENTREPRENEURIAL INITIATIVES

SJCET BOOTCAMP
As part of promoting the entrepreneurship culture among students, the St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai (SJCET PALAI), in association with the Kerala Startup Mission, has decided to set up an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Center(SJCET Startup BootCamp) at the college. It was inaugurated on the 9th of march, 2015.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CLUB
Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Kerala formulated a scheme to set up Entrepreneurship Development Clubs in schools and colleges of the State to inculcate Entrepreneurial Culture amongst youth and equip them with the skills, techniques and confidence to act as torch-bearers of Enterprise for the new generation.SJCET Palai started ED club in the year 2006.

MAKER SPACE
A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside SJCET Palai for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools. This space are open to students and have a variety of maker equipment including 3D printers, developer boards, soldering irons etc. This is a joint initiative by Kerala Startup Mission and SJCET Palai.
KALEIDOSCOPE




PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS @ SJCET Palai
IEEE opens the door to opportunities that will help students to develop their professional identity in IEEE’s designated fields of interest: sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In addition to accessing a range of membership benefits, students will make global connections with people who can help students along their targeted career path through IEEE’s international community of members and volunteers.

COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA
Computer Society of India is the first and largest body of computer professionals in India. It was started on 6 March 1965 by a few computer professionals and has now grown to be the national body representing computer professionals. It has 72 chapters across India, 511 student branches, and 100,000 members.

INSTRUMENT SOCIETY OF INDIA @ SJCET Palai
The Instrument Society of India (ISI) was established in the year 1970, with the headquarters at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – to act as a link between academic institutions and the instrumentation industries, by organizing several programmes.Student Chapters of ISI have been set up in several engineering institutions across the country, with the aim of conducting several programmes such as short-term courses, symposia and topical reviews. The ISI – Student Chapter has been set up at SJCET, Palai, with the motive of imparting the latest knowledge in the fields of instrumentation & applied electronics to the student members – by arranging invited talks, popular talks, short term courses, etc.

SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS INDIA @ SJCET Palai
SAEINDIA is India’s leading resource for mobility technology. As an individual member driven society of mobility practitioners the ownership of SAEINDIA wrests with its members who are Individuals from the mobility community, which includes Engineers Executives from Industry, Government Officials, Academics and Students
SAEINDIA is an affiliate society of SAE International registered in India as an Indian nonprofit engineering and scientific society dedicated to the advancement of mobility industry in India.
SAEINDIA Collegiate clubs offer student members well organized programs and activities, fellowship, and leadership experience. SAEINDIA student members are also entitled to many of service available to SAEINDIA members.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY @ SJCET Palai
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society. A student chapter of ACM is working in St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai
Student Chapter provide unique opportunities for networking, mentoring and bonding over common interests. They provide support both within the student community and to local communities outside the institution.

THE INDIAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION @ SJCET Palai
The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is a National, Professional, Non – Profit making Society registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860. It has 70058 members among technical teachers and more than one and a half lakh student members in the country.ISTE @ SJCET has 170 institutional members.
The major objective of the ISTE is to assist and contribute in the production and development of top quality professional engineers and technicians needed by the industries and other organizations.

ASME STUDENT CHAPTER
The ASME SJCET student chapter at the college was formed on 25th January, 2018 with the motto “Excellence is our obsession” and “Synergy at work”. The chapter is focused on providing training to the students to become experts in learning, encouraging innovation and excellence in students through various means, promoting better career development opportunities and services for students, arranging expert industrial and research lectures, extending full support for all the national seminars and technical events in the college, enhancing the self-confidence and self-esteem of students.
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

KERALA STARTUP MISSION IDEA GRANT
Lamaara, a student startup incubated at Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center (SJCET Bootcamp) selected for the Idea Grant of Rs. 2 Lakhs from Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM). Congratulations!!! Fayas Muhammed, Anto P Biju (EEE) and Thomas Cyriac (ECE) founders of Lamaara
Congratulations!!! Ajith P Jose, Akash Joseph, Antony Jose, Bissmon Thomas of seventh semester Mechanical Engineering students for getting their project Multi-Nutter selected in 6th Idea Day by Kerala Startup Mission(KSUM) and fetched the Idea Grant of Rs, 20,000/- for developing the prototype.

GHCI 17 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Pritika Merryl Prasad, Stefy Thomas & Sheby Mariam Babu of Seventh Semester Computer Science & Engineering students are selected for the Grace Hopper Celebration India’s GHCI 17 student scholarship award. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Congratulations!!! On your achievement.

GOOGLE APPLIED CS WITH ANDROID FACILITATOR
Applied CS is a free online course by Google designed to prepare students for their CS career through hands on coding experience. Congratulations!!! Reon Saji , Third Semester Computer Science & Engineering student for being selected as the facilitator for the Google Applied CS with ANDROID

NATIONAL STARTUP SUMMIT 2017
Our student Startup Lamaara has been shortlisted in National Startup Summit 2017 held on 15th October 2017 organized by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology and All India Council for Technical Education. Congratulations!!! Lamaara.

6TH CSI- INAPP NATIONAL PROJECT AWARD 2017
Avees Joseph, Jerin Thomas, Aiswarya Sambath & Anjaly Manuel, students of Department of Computer Science & Engineering students emerged as the first runner up in the 6th CSI- InApp National Project Award 2017 jointly organized by the Computer Society of India (CSI) and InApp Solutions.

WINNER STATE FREE RIFLE PRONE JUNIOR SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP 2017
Congratulation!!! Ron George Valiaveetil , Third Semester Computer Science and Engineering student for being the gold Medallist in Free Rifle Prone Junior Men & Silver Medal in Free Rifle Prone Senior Men in the State Free Rifle Prone Junior Shooting Championship 2017.

FROM SJCET PALAI TO THE LAND OF MOUNT VESUVIUS NAPOLI, ITALY
Congratulations!!! Vyshak S, Juvan Josias Thattil & Sanson Reji Mathew, Students of Department of Mechanical Engineering along with Dr. Rajesh Baby, Associate Professor, SJCET Palai has presented a paper during the Seventh International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer at Naploi, Italy on 30th May 2017.