The Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET) is a private

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and

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run by the

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. It is approved by AICTE and affiliated with the

Anna University, Chennai Anna University is a public state university located in Tamil Nadu, India. The main campus is in Chennai. It was originally established on 4 September 1978 and was named after C. N. Annadurai, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. History & ...

. It is a Christian Minority college, founded in 2010 by the

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as part of the Chennai Jesuit Mission's efforts to empower the

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s, the poor and the marginalized.

History

In April 2009,

Loyola College, Chennai Loyola College is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1925 by the French Jesuit priest, Francis Bertram, along with other European Jesuits. It is an auton ...

, founded in 1925, and the Jesuit Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers, founded in 1898 in

Lille, France Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

, entered on a joint venture to found an engineering college in Chennai which would prepare Indian students to work in European industries and European students to work in Indian industries. Pursuant of this agreement, the

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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

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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 Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

levels (Bachelors) in engineering and technology, including

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Electrical and Electronics Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

, Electronics and Communication Engineering,

Computer Science Engineering Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (including th ...

and

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...

. In 2015–16, the sanctioned intake was 60/course, but 120 for Mechanical Engineering.annauniv.edu/cai/Affiliated%20Colleges%20list%20by%20Alphabetical/Affiliated%20Colleges%20- %20PDF%20Files/Loyola-ICAM%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology.pdf Anna U.
/ref> One aspect of Loyola College's affiliation with the Catholic Institute of Arts & Business (ICAM) in Lille, France, is the

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degree for which Loyola-ICAM students may study for 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

in India.

Facilities

LICET library contains over 25,000 books and receives 42 technical journals, besides E-resources like

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ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

, ASTM,

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, and

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. It has

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facility and has a capacity to accommodate 445 students.

Mechatronics Mechatronics engineering also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering systems, and also includes a combination of robotics, electronics, ...

lab to train students in such areas as

hydraulics Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counte ...

and pneumatics, microcontrollers and

PID controller A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuou ...

s, as well as simulating pressure, flow, and temperature for process and automation industries. The lab has simulators, a robot and a human machine interface (HMI) to control, monitor and integrate

factory automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

processes. Centre for Intelligent Systems (CIS) facilitates students do web and mobile-based projects. Workshops related to Android and

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application development are conducted by experts from the industry. Currently CIS is used as the centre for developing an Android/

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
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References

External links

Official website

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History

Academics

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