About REC

ABOUT THE INSTITUTION

Established in the year 1997 by the Rajalakshmi Educational trust, headed by Mr.S.Meganathan, a Mechanical Engineer by profession and a successful Industrialist, ably assisted by Dr. (Mrs.) Thangam Meganathan, an Educationist and an expert Career guidance advisor, Rajalakshmi Engineering College is an autonomous Institution affiliated to Anna University. The Institution is located at Thandalam on the National Highway (NH-4) between Chennai and Bangalore. The College offers 12 U.G.., 9 P.G. and 9 Doctoral Programmes. The college is approved by AICTE, New Delhi and accredited by NACC with ‘A’ grade. All the eligible programmes are accredited by NBA. Over the years, the college has developed expertise in a number of niche areas such as MEMS, Machine Vision and CFD etc. and carried out several sponsored projects and provided solutions to leading national research organizations and industries.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering was established in the year 1999-2000. Presently, the department offers B.E. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) with an intake of 180 students, M.E. (Power Electronics and Drives) and M.E. (Embedded systems Technologies) with an intake of 18 students. It has also been recognized as a research centre by Anna University, Chennai, leading to Ph.D. and M.S. (by research) degrees. A number of candidates are undergoing Ph.D. Programme in the area of Power Electronics and Drives, Power Systems and Renewable Energy Sources. The department has also been reaccredited by the National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi (NBA). The department has full-fledged faculty members who are dedicated and well- experienced in different fields of specializations. A large number of research papers have been published by the faculty members in reputed journals in the area of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems. The department is presently engaged in one AICTE sponsored project on Modernization of Power Electronics and Drives laboratory and another UGC sponsored project on ‘An efficient FPGA based Embedded Controller for wheeled Mobile Robots for Agriculture Applications’.Thus well equipped laboratories in these areas and also on Electrical machines, Control Systems, Power System Simulation and Measurements and Instrumentation, are available for carrying out UG, PG and Ph.D. Projects. The UG students have also won several TNSCST awards for their innovative projects in a number of emerging fields of industrial and social relevance.

Website : http://www.rajalakshmi.org