Activities and Events

The production Engineering association has been organizing seminars and workshops on a regular basis incorporating services of eminent engineers and other professionals for the benefits of the students. The department organizes a national level paper presentation contest ‘PINNACLE’ every year. The department also plays a leading role by organizing training programs in association with ISTE student chapter and student chapter of Institution of Engineers (India), Continuing Education Centre and industry Institution Interaction Cell.

2015-16

1.   Production Engineering Association Inaguration

Production association inaguration was conducted on 17^th November 2015, Tuesday.  Production Association Secretary , Mr. Abin Antony, delivered the welcome note . Prof. Jayasree N., Head of the Department, addressed the function. The chief guest Mrs. KRISHNA GOPINATH  inagurated the function. After Inaguration,  an interactive session was conducted among the students and a talk was delivered by the chief guest on the topic “ Contributions of  Engineers to this Society”. The program was conducted in the esteemed presence of Prof. M. Parameswaran ,   along with other teaching and non teaching staffs in the department.

2.  Workshop on modelling of LPP and solving with excel by  Dr. T RadhaRamanan, Professor, NIT Calicut

The Department of Production Engineering, Govt. College of Engineering Thrissur conducted a workshop on “Modeling of linear programming problems and solving it using Excel spread sheet” on 29^th August 2016 Monday under the visiting faculty scheme. The targeted audience was first and third year M. Tech. students of the department. Dr. T. Radha Ramanan from NIT Calicut was the resource person. The session elaborated on the mathematical modeling and solution of the problem “Allocation of the production facility problem”. Hands on training included modeling and solving a live problem from automotive manufacturing industry. Professor Jayasree N, Head of the Department and Umarali K, Asst.Professor, coordinated the program.

  3.    Mr. Ramdas  T., Ph.D. scholar under the guidance of Prof. Satish K.P. finished his Ph.D. open seminar on 26th August 2016 . Topic- “Stuctural equation modelling of success and barrier factors of implementing lean manufacturing in small and medium enterprise”.

  4.  Mr. Biju P.L. working under Prof. Shalij P.R.  finished his Ph. D. open defence on 31st August 2016 . Topic-“Investigation on improving sustainability and customer satisfaction on new product development under multi criteria decision”.

 5. A seminar on “Modern Trends in Manufacturing”  by Dr. P. Rajan, Scientist F, NPOL, Kochi was conducted on 22/10/2016 for B.Tech and M.Tech. students of Production Engineering department sponsored by III cell(TEQIP) and  coordinated by Dr. Manjith Kumar B.

 6.  Second National Conference on advances in Manufacturing, Systems and Processes (NAIMSAP’13) at Production Engineering Department, Government Engineering College, Thrissur during 9-11,  October, 2013, sponsored by Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme, Phase II (TEQIP Phase II) coordinated by Dr. Satish K.P

 Faculty Training Programmes

1. Short term training programme on “Quality Engineering and Management – Tools and Techniques”, at Production Engineering Department, Government Engineering College, Thrissur-680009, during 11-16, March 2013, sponsored by Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Kerala  coordinated by Dr. Satish K.P
2. Workshop on “Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights” at Government Engineering College, Thrissur – 680009 during 11-13, December 2013, sponsored by Centre for Engineering Research and Development (CERD) coordinated by Dr. Satish K.P.
3. Faculty Development Programme on “Research Methodology” at Government Engineering College, Thrissur – 680009 for Kerala Technological University, during 29-31, July 2015, sponsored by  sponsored by Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme, Phase II (TEQIP Phase II)    coordinated by Dr.Satish K.P.           
4. Training programme on “ISO 9001 Internal Quality Audit” at Government Engineering College Thrissur during 27-29 June 2016 sponsored by Technical Education Quality Improvement  Programme, Phase II (TEQIP Phase II) coordinated by Dr. Satish K.P.