Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology

Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering & Technology

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Motto	Luceat Lux Vestra Let your Light Shine
Type	Education and research
Established	2010 (2010)
Religious affiliation	Jesuit (Roman Catholic)
Principal	Dr. Jose Swaminathan
Director	Fr Francis P Xavier SJ
Location	Chennai , Tamil Nadu , India
Campus	Urban, 99 acres in Nungambakkam
Affiliations	Anna University of Technology, Chennai
Website	licet.ac.in

The Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET) is an engineering and technology school in Chennai, India. It is approved by AICTE and affiliated with the Anna University of Technology, Chennai. It is a Christian Minority college, founded in 2010 by the Jesuits as part of the Chennai Jesuit Mission's efforts to empower the Dalits, the poor and the marginalized.

History

In April 2009 Loyola College, Chennai, founded in 1925, and the Jesuit Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers, founded in 1898 in Lille, France, entered on a joint venture to found an engineering college in Chennai which would prepare Indian students to serve in European industries and European students to work in Indian industries. Pursuant of this agreement, the Jesuits of Madurai Province founded Loyola-ICAM engineering college at the Loyola College campus in 2010. It was officially inaugurated by Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi on 27 October 2010. Based on principles of the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum with its humanistic emphasis, the study program aims at comprehensive personal development and at the ability to work as a team, develop communication skills, appreciate cultures, and be sensitive to ethical and social issues.

Academics

The college offers courses at undergraduate levels (Bachelors) in engineering and technology, including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology. In 2015-16 the sanctioned intake was 60/course, but 120 for Mechanical Engineering.

One aspect of Loyola's affiliation with the Catholic Institute of Arts & Business (ICAM) in Lille, France, is the Master of Engineering degree for which Loyola-ICAM students may study two years in France after finishing their Bachelor studies in India. Students at Lille, in turn, can spend their fifth year of studies for the Master of Engineering in India.

Facilities

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LICET library contains over 25,000 books and receives 42 technical journals, besides E-resources like IEEE, ASME, ASTM, Springer, and Elsevier. It is wi-fi fitted and has the capacity to accommodate 445 students.

Mechatronics lab joins mechanical, electronics, and computer engineering to train students in such areas as hydraulics and pneumatics, microcontrollers and PID controllers, as well as simulating pressure, flow, and temperature for process and automation industries. The lab has simulators and a robot facilitating the initial stage of process and human machine interface (HMI) to control, monitor, and integrate the whole process of factory automation.

Centre for Intelligent Systems (CIS) allows web-based and mobile-based projects by final year students for their undergraduate project. Workshops related to Android APP and IOS APP development are conducted by experts from industry. Currently CIS is used as the centre for developing an Android/iOS Mobile App for an international client in France.

Centre of Peace is a common prayer hall of 4000 sq. ft., open to students of all faiths to pray and spend time in meditation, with the intent of raising all the students' GQ, "God Quotient."

External links

• Official website
• ICAM website