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About ACET 

Achariya College of Engineering Technology– a temple of learning, is an ISO certified institution was founded by the great Educationalist and Philanthropist, Tr. J . Arawindhan. The main objective of our college is to advance the knowledge base of the engineering professions and to influence the future directions of engineering education and practice.

ACET – Best Engineering College in Pondicherry. We believe not only in educating the students, but also in grooming characters, with moral and ethical values to build the nation. Since inception, the college has been providing world-class facilities & infrastructure in education and learning. The emphasis is on transformational leadership rather than directional leadership. We aim to establish new trends, introduce innovative training methodologies, and thus guide students towards the road to success.

HISTORY

The founding group ACHARIYA World Class Educational Institutions had its humble beginnings more than a decade ago by the launch of The ACHARIYA Teacher Education Academy and ACHARIYA College of Education in the year 2000. This was followed by the starting of the ACHARIYA Siksha Mandir and gradually classes were added. In the year 2001 ACHARIYA Bala Siksha Mandir was inaugurated at Thengaithittu Campus and its satellite branches were started at various places in Puducherry. In the year 2004 ACHARIYA Arts and Science College was started followed by Sri Sampourna Vidyalayam in the year 2005. ACHARIYA School of Business and Technology came into being in the year 2006.

ACHARIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (ACET) was inaugurated on 29.09.2010 and commenced from the academic year 2010-11with a sanctioned strength of 420 students with six branches:

  • B.Tech.-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA SCIENCE
  • B.Tech.-CIVIL ENGINEERING 
  • B.Tech.-COMPUTER SCIENCE  AND ENGINEERING 
  • B.Tech.-ELECTRICAL  AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 
  • B.Tech.-ELECTRONICS  AND  COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 
  • B.Tech.-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 

OBJECTIVES

  1. Inculcate appropriate changes in the PHYSICAL wellbeing of every student.
  2. Develop every student into a MENTALLY strong and intelligent citizen.
  3. Refurbish the native intelligence with knowledgeable INTELLECT required for engineering.
  4. Balance the EMOTIONAL quotient and logical reasoning of every budding engineer.
  5. Refresh the SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY of every individual and to develop and elevate them to lead a higher degree of life
  6. Excel in every students present nature and elevate appropriately to become an ACHARIYAN.
  7. Provide the best of world class infrastructure with opportunities for Educational, vocational, Social, Cultural & Leadership development.
  8. Promote learning skills for lifelong personal achievement meeting the diverse and changing needs of humanity
  9. Make Personal – Team achievements and accomplishments by Manifesting Human potential.
  10. Evolve every ACHARIYAN as a superior individual widely accomplished and acclaimed in all essential and intellectual practices in order to become a responsible citizen.
  11. Make Personal – Team achievements and accomplishments by Manifesting Human potential.
  12. Evolve every ACHARIYAN as a superior individual widely accomplished and acclaimed in all essential and intellectual practices in order to become a responsible citizen.

COLLEGE PROFILE

WHY ACHARIYA ?

In this 21st century education and learning should meet the competitive development in job market. ACHARIYA keeps updating the teaching and learning methodology to meet the demand of the industry. This special arrangement made various industries specific to the skill development beyond the campus. Experience and Exposure gives very good personal development for the students, the hands on experience in learning what engineering is all about in this Global competition. The one who is competent has to be really updated and that is why it is needed to be in ACHARIYA when others have outdated practices. What we do in ACHARIYA is to up to date Engineering. That’s why you need to choose ACHARIYA for your own advantage

WHY ENGINEERING IN ACHARIYA IS SPECIAL?

When every other college is more focused on result and curriculum delivery we in ACHARIYA directly focus on learning and teaching Engineering. ACHARIYA will focus and place where Engineering is learnt not studied. Activity based learning is created beyond the routine curriculum and the limitation of the syllabus. We go beyond the campus and help you learn Engineering to give moral development so as to enable you to have the edge in the industry with a practical life, problem solving approach during the college time.

Motto: “CHANGE : EVOLVE : TRANSCEND”

To make suitable changes in the Physical, Mental, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual personality of every individual; develop and elevate him to lead a higher degree of life enabling him to outdo and excel in his present nature to convert and renovate to become  an ACHARIYAN.

  • To promote all-round development of the student
  • To stimulate love of learning for a lifetime
  • To develop physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual strength
  • To encourage team spirit, and to nurture individual and group excellence
  • To provide world-class infrastructure and faculty
  • To focus on multiple intelligence in the upbringing of children
  • To nurture human values that help the student face the challenges of life
  • To inculcate an enhanced aesthetic sensibility to improve and maintain the quality of life
  • To decipher between right and wrong and to take unerring decisions with a futuristic vision
  • To nurture overall personality of the students through voluntary parental participation in pertinent college activities
  • To develop scientific attitude towards problem solving using the latest available scientific and information technologies
  • To develop positive attitude towards saving environment and appreciate nature besides being proud of the institution and motherland India
  • To help find the real potentials lying hidden in the children and bring them out

ACHARIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

A place for academic excellence and holistic development. ACHARIYA College of Engineering Technology is approved by All India Council for Technical Education and affiliated to Pondicherry University and was established during the year 2010. ACHARIYA offers technology education in 5 streams. ACHARIYA College of Engineering Technology is a distinguished institution, in that, it goes beyond curriculum, by offering training in current technologies, soft skill, preparation for competitive exams etc. A hands-on training and exposure aims at delivering employable candidates. The campus has Wi-Fi networking. Students are provided with free laptops. Scholarships are offered by the management to motivate students. The faculty are well qualified, well experienced and dedicated. The labs are state-of-the-art with well trained technicians.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dr. J. Arawindhan, the chief mentor and managing trustee is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from SRM University. He has an unquenchable thirst for empowering educational revolution in the state of Puducherry, quietly spreading his aura to neighbouring areas to make and position ACHARIYA Group of World Class Educational Institutions into an institute of world recognition.

Mrs. J. Athilakshmi, trustee is the mother of the chief mentor, a highly energetic and dynamic individual who takes keen interest in the developmental activities at ACHARIYA.

Mrs. A. Vinothini, is also a member and trustee of the ACHARIYA Institutions. She is the backbone of the administrative process and many organizational activities at ACHARIYA.

OUR MENTOR

Empowering Minds … Enriching Lives…

I Can, You Can, We can

MD Message

I am very happy that ACHARIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY is taking appreciable shape in the ACHARIYA family after eleven years of Experience and Expertise in the field of education. I am sure this college will fulfill the long awaited need for an institution of International Engineering Caliber in Pondicherry. ACHARIYA WORLD CLASS EDUCATION will maintain high quality standards and ensure that every graduate of Achariya College of Engineering Technology is readily employable with all necessary skills, clarity and critical thinking in their chosen field of Engineering and Technology. I congratulate the students and their parents for having chosen ACHARIYA which will provide a lifetime advantage in their career. I welcome each and every one of you into the ACHARIYA family where excellence and peak performance is our language. We believe in International brotherhood but at the same time value Indian Culture and Heritage.

 Tr. J. Aravindhan
 CHIEF MENTOR
Achariya group of EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Principal

I am delighted to welcome you to the ACET. I hope to convey the passion and enthusiasm that both staff and students bring to you and all that they do here, making ACET a wonderful place to learn. It is found that the institution has achieved so many feathers to its growth during the last 10 years. The efforts taken by the Management, Principal, Faculty, Staff, and students to reach this success are commendable The purpose of education is to teach our students to think creatively, innovatively and to develop the capacity to reason out facts and this is achieved by providing them an excellent academic environment. We endeavor to equip our students with both technical and non-technical skills, so that they may contribute to the industry as excellent professionals. Let us together tap the depth of the ocean and explore the universe through the wings of knowledge and the power of innovation. The Experiment will initiate an attitude akin to positive and protective thinking.

Dr. S. Gurulingam
B.E., M.E., Ph.D., MISTE,
Principal

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS

Organizational Chart

Committees

Institutional Committees

1.ANTI SEXUAL HARASSMENT CELL

As Per the guidelines of UGC, NAAC and the Supreme Court, Government of India an Anti-sexual Harassment Cell has been established in our institute to provide a healthy and congenial atmosphere to the Female Staff and Students of the College.

The cell has been constituted to meet the three basic objectives:

  • To develop the guidelines and norms for a policy against sexual harassment.
  • To develop principles and procedures for combating sexual harassment.
  • To work out details for the implementation of the policy.

Faculty Representatives

  1. Mrs. A. Kannagi @ Vasanthaazhagu, HOD/CSE
  2. Ms. S. Syamala Gowri, HOD/S&H
  3. Mrs. B. Priya, AP/EEE

Student Representatives

  1. Ms. S. Aarthiya, IV Yr/ Mech
  2. Ms. N. Sona Namitha, III Yr/ Mech

2.INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL

As per AICTE regulations every accredited institution should establish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC will become a part of an institutions system and work towards realizing the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance.The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the performance of institutions.

The committee members of Internal Quality assurance cell are as follows

  1. Dr. S. Gurulingam, Principal
  2. Mr. F.D.Anfinston, HOD/ECE
  3. Mr. P. Manibalan, AP/Civil
  4. Mrs. S.Rajalakshmi, AP/CSE
  5. Mrs. B.Navalakshmi, AP/ECE
  6. Mr. R. Sivakumar, AP/Mech

3.STUDENTS GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL COMMITTEE

As per AICRTE regulations regarding establishment of students Grievance Redressal Mechanism in Technical Institutions, Regulations 2012, and our Institution has now hereby re-formed a Grievance Redressal Committee for the purpose of Redressal of the Students and Parents.Grievances of students related to academics and personal grievances of students within campus and hostel may be addressed to the following committee members.

Faculty Representatives:

  1. Dr. S. Gurulingam, Principal
  2. Mrs. A. Kannagi @ Vasanthaazhagu, HOD/CSE
  3. Mr. F.D. Anfinston, HOD / ECE
  4. Dr. E. Kumaressan

4.ANTI RAGGING COMMITTEE

Our institute has zero tolerance for ragging and proud to state that we are ragging free; Students are informed to follow the act and ensure a ragging free campus. To ensure compliance as per the UGC Regulations on curbing menace of ragging in higher Educational institutions,2009, the Anti- Ragging committee with following members.

Committee Head

  1. Dr. S. Gurulingam

Committee Members

  1. Dr. E. Kumaressan, DPE
  2. Mr. F.D. Anfinston, HOD/ECE
  3. Mr.G.Manikandan, AP/Mech
  4. Mr. Latchoumininarayanan, Advocate
  5. Mr. Rajasekar Vellat, SP
  6. Mr. Selvaraj, Parent Representative

The committee will ensure compliance with the provisions of the Anti-Ragging regulations; monitor and oversee the performance of the Anti-Ragging Squad in prevention of ragging in the institution.

5.PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTRE

In order to provide services like individual counseling and developmental group activities for the Students and Staff, Psychological Counseling Centre has been set up in our Institution. The Counselors shall help the students in their day-to-day concerns. It also enhances their overall functioning in general and addresses Psychological issue in particular.The Counseling Centre is comprised of the following Counselors and Psychiatrist.

Counselors

  1. Dr S.Gurulingam, Principal
  2. Mr S.Anbusezhian, AP/Mech
  3. Ms S.Syamala Gowri, HOD / S&H

Psychiatrist

  1. Dr Avin, MBBS, MD(DNB)

The Counseling Centre is open on all working days and its hours are adapted to students needs and the Psychiatrist will be available once a week.

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