TceHelp Updates
It's been a long time since I updated everyone about the group activities. So here goes:
Membership:
We have now about 320 members and growing. We have members all the way back from 1965 batch and up to the current fresh TCE-ians (those who joined TCE in 2005). Thanks to all the alumni and the students who have eagerly joined the group. I would ask current students to request their friends to become member of this group so that they have instant access to the alumni.
My Recent Visit to the College:
I recently visited our college during my vacation to India last November. I had extensive discussions with our Principal and our Principal showed me around the changes that he has been doing both infrastructure-wise as well as from academic point of view. Our College is now ISO 9001 certified. They are now implementing an ERP system for College Operations (Yes, college office is all automated, now :)). Thiagarajar Advanced Research Center (TARC) is up and running. Our College is gearing up for the upcoming Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Words cant do justice to all the changes in our college. So here are some of the pictures I took.
How do we participate in TceHelp:
As I have said before, TceHelp is the one of the ideal forums where current students and professors can interact with the alumni. The success of TceHelp is entirely up to how effectively students/professors/alumni use it to help each other. Students particularly should post any questions/doubts they might have about the job opportunities and/or post graduate studies or any other topic for that matter. Let me repeat some important features of TceHelp that I have mentioned before:
I would like to highlight two sections in the group where alumni can upload information to - The "Files" section and the "Links" section. Please feel free to upload useful information to these areas. You can get to these places at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TceHelp/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TceHelp/links
Please use folders to organize the links and files so that it's easily scanned through.
Group Database:
We have a Group Member Database, where you can update your personal details – Name, Year/Branch, Company/University, Email address and Area(s) of Expertise etc. This would not only serve as a central database for the students to know where all the alumni are but also would provide an idea of what areas different people in the group are working on. This will help us to identify where different alumni are and help us organize local alumni meets and plan our alumni activities better. Students can also update their information to help identify their areas of interest.
Please remember that only members can access this database. Your privacy is protected. Also, this is only on a voluntary basis. If you chose not to provide your details, that is just fine. Alternatively, you may also choose to ignore some fields of the database – like phone number etc and provide partial information.
The Group database can be accessed here.
Some of us have already updated this database. I strongly suggest that every member enters their information into this database.
TceHelp Blog:
I have started a Blog for TceHelp at http://tcehelp.blogspot.com. This Blog can be used to post messages & notices for TceHelp members and anything that would be of interest to us. I haven't posted many messages there yet. I would like to invite interested alumni & students to be contributors to this blog. Please email me and let me know if you'd be interested in taking up this task.
Future Plans:
We are working on a few big things for our Alumni network and those plans are being worked out with our College Alumni Association. Details would soon be unveiled. If you would like to know more about these, please send me a personal email.
So in closing, I thank all of you again for joining the group. Let's keep the discussions going and grow together.
Membership:
We have now about 320 members and growing. We have members all the way back from 1965 batch and up to the current fresh TCE-ians (those who joined TCE in 2005). Thanks to all the alumni and the students who have eagerly joined the group. I would ask current students to request their friends to become member of this group so that they have instant access to the alumni.
My Recent Visit to the College:
I recently visited our college during my vacation to India last November. I had extensive discussions with our Principal and our Principal showed me around the changes that he has been doing both infrastructure-wise as well as from academic point of view. Our College is now ISO 9001 certified. They are now implementing an ERP system for College Operations (Yes, college office is all automated, now :)). Thiagarajar Advanced Research Center (TARC) is up and running. Our College is gearing up for the upcoming Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Words cant do justice to all the changes in our college. So here are some of the pictures I took.
How do we participate in TceHelp:
As I have said before, TceHelp is the one of the ideal forums where current students and professors can interact with the alumni. The success of TceHelp is entirely up to how effectively students/professors/alumni use it to help each other. Students particularly should post any questions/doubts they might have about the job opportunities and/or post graduate studies or any other topic for that matter. Let me repeat some important features of TceHelp that I have mentioned before:
I would like to highlight two sections in the group where alumni can upload information to - The "Files" section and the "Links" section. Please feel free to upload useful information to these areas. You can get to these places at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TceHelp/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TceHelp/links
Please use folders to organize the links and files so that it's easily scanned through.
Group Database:
We have a Group Member Database, where you can update your personal details – Name, Year/Branch, Company/University, Email address and Area(s) of Expertise etc. This would not only serve as a central database for the students to know where all the alumni are but also would provide an idea of what areas different people in the group are working on. This will help us to identify where different alumni are and help us organize local alumni meets and plan our alumni activities better. Students can also update their information to help identify their areas of interest.
Please remember that only members can access this database. Your privacy is protected. Also, this is only on a voluntary basis. If you chose not to provide your details, that is just fine. Alternatively, you may also choose to ignore some fields of the database – like phone number etc and provide partial information.
The Group database can be accessed here.
Some of us have already updated this database. I strongly suggest that every member enters their information into this database.
TceHelp Blog:
I have started a Blog for TceHelp at http://tcehelp.blogspot.com. This Blog can be used to post messages & notices for TceHelp members and anything that would be of interest to us. I haven't posted many messages there yet. I would like to invite interested alumni & students to be contributors to this blog. Please email me and let me know if you'd be interested in taking up this task.
Future Plans:
We are working on a few big things for our Alumni network and those plans are being worked out with our College Alumni Association. Details would soon be unveiled. If you would like to know more about these, please send me a personal email.
So in closing, I thank all of you again for joining the group. Let's keep the discussions going and grow together.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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