Department of Humanities  1957


HOD's Desk

Welcome to the Department of Humanities !

Learning economics is of immense importance for engineering students as it would help them in appropriate decision making, become aware of the countries economy, make them responsible citizens, manage people and become excellent professionals and entrepreneurs in their respective industries.
The department of humanities has a single minded focus on exposing the students to current relevant critical issues in the international economic system so that he/she can be ready to face the challenges upon graduation.
With the team of excellent faculty we offer different courses designed to meet the growing need for an analytical and quantitative approach to problem solving in charging corporate world by the application of latest technology involved in the fields of economics and management . The department also includes faculty experts in finance, risk management and econometrics.

Dr.Santhi V. , Associate Professor & Head

The Department of Humanities is functioning as a full-fledged department for the past seven decades in the campus. At present ten faculty members serve in the department. The department offers Economics for Engineers as a regular course and Indian Constitution as a mandatory course for all BE & B.Tech Regular, Sandwich and Part-Time programmes. The department also offers Principles of Management and Entrepreneurship for MCA and M.Sc five year integrated programmes. The department offers a course on Professional Ethics for the first year BE Production Engineering students. The department also conducts value added courses like 'Emotional Intelligence' and 'Accounting and Financial Statements' for the students. Once in four years the department organizes National Level Conference on "Integrating Humanistic Values and Ethics with Higher Education". Two faculty members are recognized as supervisors for the PhD programmes in Anna University. The department has produced three PhD scholars. At present four full time and one part time scholars are pursuing PhD in the department.


Vision

The Department of Humanities aims at improving the humanistic values of the engineering students and to develop the interpersonal skills for the societal well being.

Mission

Our mission as a department is to acquaint students of engineering with economic and managerial concepts and models with a view to
1. Enabling them to make better decisions at work place.
2. Making them understand and realize their responsibilities in the environment in which they are going to operate, and
3. Motivating them to strive for excellence through socially and environmentally acceptable means.

  • Dr.R Sreenivasan 1985 - 2017