National Institute of Technology,Tiruchirappalli

LIBRARY The college has a modern central library with more than one lakh documents consisting of technical books, reports, standards and back volumes of journals. The library subscribes to 179 periodicals (print) plus 1000+ (e-Journals) besides a holding of 15943 bound volumes of journals (back numbers). The library also contains 15,000 books in the book bank. Besides the central library, each department has its own library. The open access system is observed in the library. Our Institute is holding membership with British Council Library, Chennai. We are also holding membership with DELNET, New Delhi for Interlibrary loan. The CD-ROM workstation and the Audio visual section are recent additions to the library. Library Automation The Library functions such as Acquisition, Circulation control, Cataloguing and Serials control have been automated using an integrated software called “LIBSYS”. Computer Support Group The sterling hallmark of this campus is the OCTAGON - Computer Center. This center serves the campus-wide LAN in close association with the user departments. This LAN caters to 1500 users across the campus at the same time and has a 10 Gbps fiber optic backbone. It also acts as a resource centre to supplement classroom instructions with laboratory sessions. The OCTAGON accommodates the central computing facilities, it has a server room with 25 high-end servers and 200 high-end computers. Its laboratories includes four labs -Lab 1 with 39 Pentium based PCs, Lab 2 with 52 Pentium 4 based PCs, Lab 3 also known as RECAL-Sun Lab with 33 Sun Computers, Graphics Lab with 30 Pentium 4 based PCs, R & D Lab with 10 Pentium 4 based PCs. A Printer room equipped with two high-speed Hewlett Packard 9000DN - A3 Network Mono Laser Printers which can print 50 pages per minute (PPM), a high-speed Hewlett Packard 9500N - A3 Network Color Laser Printer which can print 24 pages per minute (PPM), a high-speed Hewlett Packard 4350DTN - A4 Network Mono Laser Printer which can print 55 pages per minute (PPM) and high-speed Line Matrix Printers which can print 1500 lines per minute (LPM), a Library for software, CBTs and manuals, Conference and Seminar facilities, a CAD/CAM Centre with 20 high-end workstations and an in-house maintenance facilities. The centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). The CSG also offers courses under its Continuing Education Programme for the students as well as the local community. It also provides consultancy services to a range of organizations. Octagon is kept open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout the year, also has centralized 2 x 60 kVA redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply with 200 kVA standby Power Generators and Central Air Conditioning. A new Annex building with an additional capacity of 198 computers has come up next to Octagon to meet out the additional requirements. Annex building has two labs, each with 99 computers, one lab is connected to the Internet via 12 Mbps (1:1) leased line from Software Technology Park of India (STPi) and the other lab is a general lab used for programming and CAD. * Hardware * Software * Continuing Education Programmes * CAD/CAM * CSG Staff * Contact Address * Photo Gallery Physical Education The department provides and maintains the sports facilities required by the students and the staff. Sports Centre. The Sports Centre which is the hub of sports activities was inaugurated 1999. The Sports Centre is a multi-facility multi-disciplinary sports complex aimed at developing well-rounded personalities of students. The building has an indoor stadium with two shuttle courts and a fitness centre. The construction of the Sports Centre has been carried out by the State P.W.D. at a cost of Rs. 97 lakhs. The Director has ordered two more indoor stadiums which can accommodate two shuttle courts as well as a couple of table tennis tables in the student hostel avenue. The fitness centre which also has a wooden flooring houses many exercise machines such as multi-station gym, tread mill, stairs, air walker, rowing machine, exercycle and so on. These are used by the students, staff and other residents of the campus. Outdoor Stadia The outdoor stadium has a 400M track. The cricket ground here hosts matches for the city league. The campus is dotted with two football grounds, one hockey field, two volleyball courts, two basketball courts, three tennis courts and two ball badminton courts. Besides each hostel has separate playgrounds and indoor games such as table tennis and carroms We thank the Director for sanctioning two basket ball courts of international standards worth 65 lakhs just in front of us behind the Swimming pool. Two Tennis courts are in pipeline. Aqua Sports Complex Constructed in 2003, this houses a 25M swimming pool. The 5 lakh litres of water is circulated through a filter once every ten hours with the use of a pump Separate time slots have been assigned for different segments of users. The institute also employs coaches for men and women. I again thank the director on behalf of the students and faculty for re inagurating the swimming pool after closure for more than two years. Credit for Sports In our revised credit - based curriculum, NSO (National Sports Organisation) activity carries credits in the undergraduate engineering education. By offering credits on power with academic ones, the students are encouraged to take up sports pursuits. The sports centre offers the facilities required to train and evaluate the students. The Swimming Pool Our Institute is endowed with a beautiful swimming pool of 25 metre length. It caters to the students, faculty, and other residents of the campus. The shallow pool for the tiny tots The pool is maintained by a group of dedicated workers and managed by two coaches. All those who want to use the pool on regular basis must duly register themselves in the Office of the Physical Education Department. They must also strictly abide by the rules in force. The swimming pool has three parts. There is a very shallow pool for the tiny tots. There is a wading pool for the learners. A deeper pool with a maximum depth of 8 feet is available for the more experienced swimmers and to those who train for competitions. The 25m long deep pool The wall separating the wading pool from the deep pool The deep pool is separated from the wading pool for the learners by a net. Care should be taken by the learners not to slip into the deeper part of the pool. Suction dredger The accumulated dirt at the bottom of the pool is cleaned by using a suction dredger. A team of workers do the suction dredging daily to keep the pool clean. If dirt, which is mostly from the bodies of the swimmers, accumulates in the pool, it will accelerate the growth of algae in the pool. This spoils the water quality in the pool. Another factor that accelerates algal growth is the presence of urea in the water. Urea salt gets into the water through unwashed sweat on the body and urine. That is why all the swimmers must thoroughly wash themselves with soap before entering into the pool. Remember, if you do not wash well before entering the pool, you are spoiling its water quality. Never relieve urine while swimming in the pool. It is not only a nutrient to the algal growth, it may also react with the chemical used to disinfect the water in the swimming pool. Also it is unhygienic. Another source of nutrients for algal growth is the dust from foot wear. Therefore always leave the foot wears outside the pool premises and wash the feet inside the copper sulphate solution before getting inside the pool. A crystal clear pool is what we should always have. Just look at the picture and remember that we should always keep it that way. Bathrooms and toilets Make full use of the bathrooms and toilets to keep the pool in good condition. Also do not use soiled swimming costumes. The use of any clothing other than swimming costumes is strictly prohibited. Cubicles to keep clothing Cubicles are provided inside the bath rooms to keep your cloths. Never keep valuables inside them. The administration or the workers are not responsible for the valuables kept inside these cubicles. The depth of the deep pool is marked on the perimeter wall Pool worker cleaning the pool When the swimmers are inside the pool, the workers have to look after their safety. Hence, the swimmers should obey them if the workers ask them to desist from doing something risky - like for example jumping into the deep pool. Now let us see how our swimming pool works. The swimming pool contains roughly 5 lakh litres or 500 m3 of water. Keeping this amount of water in crystal clear condition is a very difficult task. For that we use filters and disinfecting chemicals. The 5 lakh litres of water is circulated through a filter once every ten hours with the use of a pump. Most of the solid particles get trapped in the filter. The filter is back-washed every two days to keep it clean. To disinfect the pathogens in the water, metered quantities of sodium hypochlorite is added to the water when it is recirculated. Sodium hypochlorite is applied in swimming pools for water disinfection and oxidation. It has the advantage that microorganisms cannot build up any resistance to it. Because sodium hypochlorite is used both to oxidize pollutants (urine, sweat, cosmetics) and to remove pathogenic microorganisms, the required concentration of sodium hypochlorite depends on the concentrations of these pollutants. Especially the amount of organic pollution - like sweat and urine - determines the required concentration. If the water is filtered before sodium hypochlorite is applied, less sodium hypochlorite is needed. When sodium hypochlorite is used in swimming pools, it sometimes causes red eyes and it gives off a typical chlorine odor. When there is a lot of ureum (a mixture of urine and sweat) present, hypochlorous acid and ureum react to form chloramines. These chloramines irritate mucous membranes and cause the so-called ' chlorine smell'. In most swimming pools, these problems are prevented by water purification and ventilation. Eyes irritation disappears after a while. Now you know another reason why you must not enter the pool with sweat on your body and not urinate inside the pool while swimming.