Thangavelu Engineering College, Chennai Campus Facilities - Hostel Fees, Infrastructure, Address

The College imparts world class training and research. The College provides state of the art computing facilities to the students. It also promotes active industry-institute collaboration by identifying areas of interest and taking part in sponsored research projects and consultancy services. Some of the major research areas which the faculty members and students working on are Networks, Database, Theoretical Computer Science, Multimedia, Image Processing, Software Engineering and Data Mining. TEC Central Library houses nearly 28,000 volumes of books and 5,800 titles enables the students in their study and research. An online journal database with a link to IEEE is also available. The spacious reading area lends a calm and comfortable atmosphere for students and faculty members to pursue excellence in academics. The library is equipped with all modern facilities on par with international standards. NPTEL video lectures are also available in various disciplines. This facility can be accessed inside the campus through intranet. Interactive lectures through Anna EDUSAT Ku-Band is also available for the faculty and students. It functions from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The library owns a book bank section for the needy students.

National Service Scheme [NSS] is an extension aspect to the higher education system to learn about the student youth to community service while they are studying in educational institutions, under the guidance of Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India. 

Objective: 
To understand the community in which they work; 
To understand themselves in relation to their community; 
To identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem solving process. 
To develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility. 
To utilize their knowledge in finding practical solution to individual and community problems. 

Activities: 
Various activities undertaken by the NSS volunteers in adopted villages/slums for community service on yearly basis.

Young volunteers can make a significant contribution to meeting the needs of the most helpless people within their local communities through Red Cross youth programme. This has been designed to involve young people as much as possible in the movement and its activities not only as workers and also as beneficiaries, but as partners in management.
Some of the activities of YRC are: 

Blood Donation Camps