Thiagarajar Polytechnic College awards diplomas to 851 students

The college also awarded medals to 60 students securing top five positions in 12 disciplines at its 62nd graduation day ceremony. 

Thiagarajar Polytechnic College awarded diplomas to 851 students, including 127 girl students, at its 62nd graduation day ceremony. The college also awarded medals to 60 students securing top five positions in each of the 12 disciplines. 

Congratulating the graduating diploma holders and alumni, P Kolandaivel, former-Vice Chancellor of the Periyar University, exhorted them to pursue higher education while imbibing latest technologies. He underscored the need for achieving excellence in their chosen field by working smart. 

Veerabathara Swamy, Centre Head, Cameron, a Schlumberger company, urged the students to apply their knowledge and skills to solve myriad problems facing industry as well as individuals in the deep interiors of the country. C Valliappa, Chairman, Sona Group of Institutions, lauded the college principal, faculty and students for their array of accomplishments beyond academics adding that the students have made winning accolades a habit in a series of technical competitions, hackathons and software contests of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) or the Government of Tamil Nadu. 

Valliappa recalled how a pioneered step of allowing girl students to study at the college in 1976 with a handful of students has grown to over 250 girl students on its rolls. Most of these students are winners of Pragati scholarship of INR 50,000 per annum offered by the AICTE. 

‘Heritage walk’ game to be presented before PM 

Thiagarajar Polytechnic College Principal V Karthikeyan congratulated the graduating students. The multimedia ‘Heritage walk’ game created by a team of students was chosen for presentation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

The college offers diplomas in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, textile technology, computer engineering, architecture, information technology, electronics and communication engineering in addition to programmes in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, robotics, cloud computing and big data, virtual reality/augmented reality, micro electronics, precision manufacturing, construction automation and smart agritech. 

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