The question of providing employment

The question of providing employment to the educated young men of the country is assuming threatening proportions. On the one hand, State Governments as well as the Union Government are trying hard to expand educational facilities in both the urban and the rural areas; on the other, our schools and colleges of the existing pattern are swelling the ranks of the educated unemployed in India. These unemployed youths 'are a potential danger to. the functioning of democracy in the .country; they threaten the very foundations of our socio - economic structure and political stability. The country, therefore, faces today the spectra of unemployment more than ever before. This spectra haunts our hard-won freedom with
threats of violent upheavals and mass unrest. There is widespread hunger and poverty in our country, and without proper employment
This problem cannot be solved. 1here is also a yawning gulf between the educated youths and the opportunities of employment. The country has to bridge this gulf to make itself truly prosperous and strong.

Tamilndu Top Engineering colleges

1. Sri Sivasubramania Nadar College of Engineering ranked (3rd),
2. Velammal Engineering (5th),
3. Meenakshi Sundarajan (9th)
4. Pallavan College of Engineering (11th),
5. Sri Sairam Engineering (12th),
6. Prince Shri Venkateswara Padmavathi Engineering (15th),
7. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering-Sriperambudur (16th),
8. Jeppiaar Engineering College (20th) and
9. St. Joseph's College of Engineering (23rd)
Above are the institutions in the "Top-25" around Chennai.
The other 21 colleges are from other districts.

However, the colleges in question say that while in some institutions, the pass percentage may be high; the number of students who appeared should also be taken into consideration. For example, Kongu Engineering College has a pass percentage of 81.87, ranked number 4 in the list.
What clearly sets apart the Tier I schools from the Tier II and Tier III ones is the recruiter's perception. Although the survey gave 40% weightage to placements, it's important to realize that recruiter's perception has a definite and undeniable effect on the placement pattern of an institute. It is also a critical component of brand equity and contributes significantly to the brand building process (read IITs). Interestingly, while SSN College of Engineering in Chennai failed to make to the perception chart despite making it to the Tier I list amongst 150 all-India (the perception score given in the survey is an average that was allotted to all institutes recruiters chose not to rate); IIT Guwahati, which came at #6 in the study, features way below at #21 on the perception chart. This IIT has not only failed to leverage the IIT brand name, but has also fallen victim to the political uncertainty in the state.

STEALING SHOW: V. Bhooma, SSN College of Engineering,

CHENNAI: `As you think, so you become' is the chant of the MAXonians. It was the training of J.N. Reddy in Bahula Siddhi meditation that helped V. Bhooma, an `above average' student studying Computer Science engineering in SSN College of Engineering, perform a double Ashtavadhanam memory feat at the World University Service Centre on Monday.
Volley of questions
Several judges throwing questions at her on 16 different topics, ranging from the latest `India Today' magazine, the periodic table of elements, income tax sections, self-development books in English and Tamil, the Melakarta Ragas, quotations, Chennai pin codes, the perpetual calendar, countries and capitals, historical dates, phobias and micro-processor codes.
Besides answering the questions volleyed at her, Ms. Bhooma also listed out the series in a shuffled deck of cards, recalled random digits and random binary digits in boxes that the audience had given her.
Focussed on getting a place in the Limca book of records, the engineering student was hardly fazed by the crowd at the programme organised by the Madras Academy for Excellence (MAX).
MAX has helped individuals set Limca and world records in memory, and broken the Guinness record in `perpetual calendar memory'. It has also conducted national and Asian memory championships and a world memory fair, Dr. Reddy said. MAX celebrated its 13th anniversary recently. The MAX Excellence Awards were presented to R.S. Munirathnam of the RMK Group of Institutions and G. Santhanam, secretary and correspondent, SBOA Schools.
Earlier there were memory feat demonstrations by Narasimhan, Sriram, Arun and Ayyalusamy, a 63-year-old history teacher. The organisation can be contacted through phone at 044 - 23611432 or 23611492.

SSNCE students represent India in the CSIDC 2005 World Finals

SSNCE students represent India in the CSIDC 2005 World Finals

The IEEE Computer Society conducts an International Design Competition for engineering students every year since 2000, and the sixth being conducted at Washington D. C. in June 2005. The goal of the Sixth Annual Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC 2005) is to advance excellence in education by having student teams design and implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems. The theme of this year's CSIDC is Going Beyond the Boundaries.
Of the nearly 200 teams from 109 colleges from all over the world that participated in the CSIDC 2005, the top ten projects were selected based on their reports by the IEEE Judging Panel. The top ten teams, including one from India, have been invited to compete in the World Finals in Washington, DC, during June 25 – 28, 2005.
The project, “VISION: Engineering Solutions for the Visually Challenged”, submitted by the team of undergraduate Information Technology students, comprising Mayur M., Arjun V. S., and Karthick S., from SSN College of Engineering is the only proposal that has been selected from India for the finals. These students, along with their mentor Dr. V. Seshadri, will be leaving for Washington D. C. to present their work in the finals, for which the travel and local hospitality will be borne by the IEEE Computer Society, and the Visa charges & incidental expenses are met by the SSN college management. The SSN team will vie with the other nine selected teams for the first place that carries a prize money of US $20,000. The second and third placed teams will receive a prize money of $15,000 and $10,000, respectively.
The project envisages assisting visually challenged people by providing a computer assisted tools/system so that they could maneuvre independently in their day-to-day life. This is a conception of our ideology to give back something to the society that has nurtured us. The team has visited several blind schools and the red cross organizations to understand the needs of visually impaired. This project gains significance from the fact that there are 180 million visually handicapped people in the world and 25% of them live in India. Every year 30,000 new blind are added. Hence a serious search for their normal livelyhood is of immediate necessity.
This computer assisted vision for visually handicapped is achieved by the development of three modules namely, the E-Learning system, Interactive Speech Enabled Environment, and SONAR Obstacle Detection System. The E-Learning module can recognize discretely programmed voice commands and can provide study materials in regional languages using a voice feedback system using text-to-speech synthesis or streamed audio. The second module uses wireless technology to turn the environment to respond to the needs of the users. Finally, the collision detection system uses SONAR based technology to help the users to avoid obstacles.
The teams selected for the finals are available at http://www.computer.org/csidc/TopTen.htm. More information about CSIDC can be obtained from its homepage http://www.computer.org/csidc/index.htm