About Department

The Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, under the scheme " Fund for Improvement of S & T Infrastructure in Higher Educational Institutions" (DST-FIST) sanctioned an amount of Rs.1.37 crore to Rajalakshmi Engineering College in 2021 at Level'0'. The scheme is intended to augment the Teaching and Research facilities through acquisition of Equipment, Software, Books, Networking, Computational facilities and maintenance of equipment.

The Institution

Rajalakshmi Engineering College, an autonomous institution affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, was established in the year 1997 under the aegis of Rajalakshmi Educational Trust. The College has grown from strength to strength in the last 25 years and progressing towards Excellence in Engineering Education, Research and Development. The College presently offers 19 Under Graduate and 9 Post Graduate programmes including MBA program, with an annual intake of 2070 students. 9 of our departments are recognized as Research Centers of Anna University to conduct Ph.D. and M.S. (By Research) programmes and many scholars have obtained Ph.D. through these research centres. The College is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with "A++" Grade.

Personnel

Dr.S.N MURUGESAN

PRINCIPAL
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AGENCY CHECKER
Email: principal@rajalakshmi.edu.in

Dr.K. RAMALAKSHMI

Professor and Head, Department of Food Technology
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AGENCY MAKER
Email: ramalakshmi.K@rajalakshmi.edu.in

Mr. R. ANAND

Research Associate & Facility In-charge
DST-FIST Lab
Email: dstfist@rajalakshmi.edu.in

Facilities

Five sophisticated analytical instruments were procured under DST-FIST project funded by DST, New Delhi and placed in DST-FIST Laboratory in CSRC Block at REC, Chennai. The Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility (SAIF) was inaugurated on 15th Feb, 2023, by Prof. KSMS Raghava Rao, Dean Administration and finance, IIT Tirupathi, Former Director CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore. The SAIF is equipped with analytical instruments which include

Real Time RT-PCR

-86°C deep freezer

Nanodrop UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

Fluorescence Microscope

Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC)

These facilities are available to students, research scholars and faculty of Rajalakshmi Engineering College and other Colleges, Universities to ignite a scientific curiosity in the minds of future scientists. The development of infrastructure strengthened the research capabilities and will result in an increase in the number of publications and paper presentations. In Scopus indexed, Web of Science, UGC Care listed and Peer reviewed journals by the faculty and research scholars from the departments of Food technology, Biotechnology. Conferences, Workshops, Certificate courses, have been conducted to expand the knowledge on recent scientific topics. Over this period students of undergraduate and post graduate had access to the infrastructure facilities for hands-on training, practical classes and projects. Faculty and research scholars from REC and other institutions are also utilising the infrastructure for the conduct of their research work. The infrastructure created by the DST-FIST 2021 grant will be a long-standing resource for Rajalakshmi Engineering College and the larger community in the years to come. The scheme has enriched the experience of students, research scholars and faculty in our college and other colleges, networking among researchers and equipped them for professions in their field.