General Information

Accomplishments
  • Established Sophisticated equipment facilities like HRXRD, PL, XRD, SEM, FTIR, UV-Visible, Hall system and I-V measurement system costing Rs.5.20 crores at Crystal Growth Centre and made them available to the researchers all over the country.

  • Established a Liquid Phase Epitaxy Laboratory for the cost more than Rs. 40 lakhs with a funding from Government of India and Japan collaboration.

  • One of the Coordinators of Erasmus Mundus bilateral projects of European Commission with Italy, Sweden, France and Belgium and a total grant of about 12 million Euros has been operated for the exchange of students to do semester abroad, full degree programs with a scholarship of Euro 1000 per month for more than 150 students in addition to faculty exchange.

  • Introduced double master degree programmes in Anna University with top five Ecole Centrals Engineering Institutions in France.

  • Several Japanese language books have been brought to Anna University under Japanese Library donation programme. Native language teachers were brought from Japan and France to teach languages in Anna University through the grants of respective governments.

  • Enhanced the admission of foreign and NRI students through single window transparent admission and increased the revenue of Centre for International Affairs, Anna University, from less than rupees one crore to rupees 36 crores by increasing students admission strength to over nine hundred within four years.