RECAL Scholarships 2019 distribution happened yesterday in the presence of our pride, First (1969) Batch of Alumni. Our Beloved Madam Director was there to grace the occasion.Mr Krishna Sai President RECAL Dr Parthiban Treasurer RECAL also were there. Mr Velmurugan 2001 represented his batch. To brief the process of Scholarship selection - There is a portal created by the Student Council members for the students to submit the applications online. For 2019 we received 467 applications. After screening 156 applications were taken for Personal Interview. Mr Mohanamurali 1976, Mr Vijayarajan 1976, Mr Vigneshwaran 2001, Dr Parthiban Treasurer RECAL and Dr JayaNirmala Joint Sec RECAL conducted the interview for 3 days in Campus. With their great effort 51 deserving Students were selected under 15 different heads of Scholarships initiated by 15 different groups of Alumni across the batches. Total amount disbursed is 11.92 lakhs. This amount is the interest on the Corpus with the RECAL Foundation Account.

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Attend GAM to:
• Revisit all the important friendships
• Listen to Pullela Gopichand
• Meet our Current Director, Past Directors, Deans, Professors & Students
• Listen to interesting panels on AI & Finance
• Talks by Distinguished Alumni & Networking with them. 
• Donate to our Alma Mater
• Workshop on Entrepreneurship
• Top Notch entertainment, beer/cocktails (at cost), sumptuous food & gala dinner. 
• DJ & Dancing Floor (9PM Onwards)
• Event Manager Organising games and events for kids and spouses 
• Kids & Spouses Corner
• Spectacular Pyrotechnics Show (art and technology of fireworks) for 15 Minutes
• Interesting Game Stalls
• Current Dance Troupe 

Most of all tons of memories…

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Did you know?

NIT Trichy USA Alumni Chapter was incorporated as a non-profit organisation in the State of California, USA recently. The chapter received its “exemption” for Federal Income Tax under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and is officially a Registered 501 (c)(3) organisation in USA.

Mr. Raja Renganathan (Class of 1990), Alumnus spear headed this effort with the help of other Alumni in USA.

RECAL is happy to inform that the first donation was received from our Alumnus, Mr. Krish Venkat (Class of 1974, ECE). He has contributed US$ 2500 towards Scholarship Fund. RECAL thanks Krish and the Class of 1974 for their generous contribution. May his tribe increase.

The Class of 1974 lead the way in giving back to our Alma Mater. They have already donated Rs. 30 Lacs to the RECAL Foundation towards Scholarships and have taken a pledge to increase their total contribution to our Foundation to Rs. 1 Crore in the next 5 years. The effort is spear headed by G Chandrasekar, Rajasekar & Srinivasan from the Class of 1974.

*Nearly 50 Alumni from the Class of 1974 will be attending GAM 2020.*

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Jan 4th 2020 @ MGM Beach Resorts Chennai

Group Photo taken by the Class of 1974 with the Director during their Reunion at our Institute in Aug 2019 to celebrate their 50th year of friendship.

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Life at REC around 1985

Just 10 hostels for only 350-400 students, movie screening in EEE-auditorium every week, good mess food, NITT or more appropriately RECT was quite different in the 70s and 80s.

Agate, Diamond, Pearl, Lapis, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, Ruby, Coral and Opal: there were 9+1 hostels. Before the Opal hostel was built, girls were allotted what are now the staff quarters. The first years’ accommodation in Agate is similar to now, 4 per room randomly chosen but 2nd year onwards, when people were allowed to choose their wingmates, the interaction between students, inter-branch and across the years was a very strong bonding.

Topaz marked the boundary since there was nothing behind it but a jungle and people dared not venture near it.

The Shopping Center (SC) had a departmental store selling groceries & stationary, Bank, Post Office, photocopy shop, Juice Bar, Food stalls, Cycle Repair shop and a Cobbler shop.

All the girls shared a single hostel irrespective of the year. Initially their hostel was an extension of the staff quarters near the temple. Subsequently, girls were admitted for post-graduate programmes too and the requirement of a hostel precipitated. Thus the famous Opal was built. 

Opal was even more cut-off much to the dismay of the guys. But the number of regular devotees to the temple increased significantly after the construction of Opal hostel!!!

Courtesy of Feeds NITT

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Did you know?
We have a very interesting Panel on AI disrupting Mankind and Future of Work
Moderator
Raja Renganathan (1990), Vice President and Global Head of Cloud at Cognizant

Panel Members
Rear Admiral Sreekumar (1985), Ministry of Defense, Navy
Rajeswari Sridhar, HOD, Computer Science, NIT, Trichy
Srikanth Gopalakrishnan (1990), Senior Vice President, SAP
K S Ganesan (1987), Global Technology Lead and Head of Automation, Cognizant

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The GAM Organizing Committee is eagerly waiting to receive you for the Global Alumni Meet in Chennai on Jan 4th 2020.

*Did you know?*
We will have more than 75 students attending GAM 2020. An exclusive student corner will be created and the students of the various Tech Clubs, Cultural Clubs & Social Clubs will be available to interact with the Alumni.

The Dance & Music Troupe will be available to entertain the GAM 2020 attendees. The Pixel Bug club will be doing the Videography using a Drone. The NITT Student Alumni Cell (NITT SAC) will be interacting with Alumni and will facilitate better Institute Alumni Interaction.
The PSI Racing Team will be available with their ATV to showcase their innovations. The SCIEnT (Student Center for Innovation in Engineering and Technology) will have a booth to explain the activities happening in the Innovation Center.

The students of Design Consortium who developed the Truck Mounted Vacuum Cleaner and deployed the same in Trichy Corporation to successfully clean the Junction Bus Stand area will be showcasing their project.

The DOMS (Department of Management Studies) students who helped in popularizing GAM in Social Media and also helped in getting sponsorship's will be available.

Women in Tech Forum will be announced and the Charter for the Forum will be released. The female student (Student Council Vice President) will be part of the panel that will discuss the various aspects of the Charter along with the Director and Women Alumni of our Institute.
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Jan 4th 2020 @ MGM Beach Resorts Chennai

NIT Trichy Alumni to set up Research Chairs with 5 Crore contribution*

_*By hellomadras*_
-December 13, 2019

NIT Trichy will soon have more PhD’s come out from its portals, thanks to the generosity of its past students , who have together, taken on the responsibility to ensure that NIT Trichy produces more world class research scholars in different engineering verticals from their college.

Addressing the media, an alumni team of successful entrepreneurs like *S. Krishna Kumar"*, CIO, Sundaram Mutual Equity Fund, *K. Mahalingam*, Director, TSM Group of Companies *Mr. Krishna Sai* & *Prof. Raman* from NIT announced that the Alumni would contribute Rs.5 crore in setting up 10 Research Chairs which will sponsor PhD students to pursue research that are aligned to the current industry challenges and future requirements.

This is the commitment made by all the alumni of NIT Trichy. This would be the first tranche of contribution and depending on success; they would consider giving more to the alma mater in the future.

On this occasion a logo of GAM 2020 was unveiled. GAM 2020 stands for NIT, Trichy’s *Global Alumni Meet which is to be held in Chennai on 4th January 2020*. Over 1,200 past students of the college will assemble here in Chennai for a Global get together, which will witness many past students rubbing shoulders with different batches and different age groups.
M. Krishna Sai, President, RECAL said, RECAL is the acronym for REC/NITT Alumni Association. He added that there are active Chapters in Trichy, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, UAE, Singapore and USA (East & West Coast).

Distinguished Alumni of NIT Trichy are heading several leading Corporate Houses like TCS, Tata Sons, Tata Steel, Bloom Energy (USA) Sri City etc. They also excel at Universities & Research Institutions across the globe. Sai pointed out some of the initiatives taken such as Alumni Visiting Faculty Program, Alumni Designing Industry-specific Courses for students, Alumni Mentorship Program and Internship for students in institutions/companies headed or founded by an alumnus.
K. Mahalingam announced that the one day reunion program on 4th January 2020 will be held at MGM Resort on ECR. S. Krishna Kumar of Sundram Mutual Equity Fund added that the keynote address during the inaugural session of GAM 2020 will be delivered by *Padma Bhushan Pullela Gopichand*, the Chief National Coach for the Indian Badminton team.

Professor S Raman, Dean, Alumni Relations, made a presentation that highlighted the fact about NIT Trichy being the top ranking NIT in our country and is ranked among the top 10 Engineering Institutions of India.
An interesting panel discussion will also be held on the theme of *“Tech Disruption & Future of Work”*. There is also a panel discussion on *Women & Technology*, apart from a master class on Finance & Investment, Entrepreneurs’ *My Story & Entrepreneur Workshop by Arpit Agarwal* of Blume Ventures.

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Jan 4th 2020 @ MGM Beach Resorts Chennai
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