Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Amal Jyothi Metallurgy Students Association was officially inaugurated on Mar 23, 2015 by Dr.A.Sreekanth, Associate Dean, Students Welfare & Asst.Professor, CECASE, NIT Trichy, being the first in Kerala. The association aims to conduct technical symposiums, talks and workshops to boost the technical aspects, at the same time without compromising on the extracurricular interests of the students. The function was succeeded by a Lecture on “Introduction to corrosion” by Dr.A.Sreekanth. The toppers in the examinations and Mr.Dileep Chandran (S6 MT, State award for NSS Volunteer) were given awards.

A two day workshop on ferrous extractive metallurgy was conducted on behalf of Metallurgists’ desk in association with Department of Metallurgy, AJCE during Jan 8-9, 2015. The main objective of this workshop was to cultivate the knowledge of process metallurgy on metallurgical engineers and to know about an ancient field of metallurgy existing in India. Mr.Ashok k, CSIR-NML,Mr.R saravanakumar, Air Bus (IIT kanpur alumni), Mr.S Nagaraj, JSW steel ltd. were the resource persons. The workshop was well appreciated by the Principal, faculty and the students.

The first copy of the department news letter was released on Mar 23, 2015 jointly by Dr.A.Sreekanth and Rev.Fr.Dr.Jose Kannampuzha, Principal, AJCE. The new initiative was well appreciated by the deans, HODs of all departments and the students. The news letter exhibited the various achievements of the students and department in the previous semester, together with some technical aspects on metallurgy.

The preliminary round of Prof.Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz was conducted at AJCE on Sep 3, 2015 for the senior secondary school students from Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta and alappuzha districts. The St.Antony’s Public School, Anakkal were the winners and they were awarded cash prizes and certificates.