Milestone of IT
The department of Information Technology was started in the year 2001 - 2002 with the intake of 45 students under the affiliation of Periyar University.
2001 – 2002
1. B.Tech (IT) with an intake of 45 affiliated to Periyar University with the name of R.R. Engineering College.
2. Department Students strength – 47
2002 – 2003
1. Department Students strength – 112
2. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
3. Increase Intake 45 into 60.
2003 – 2004
1. Department Students strength – 129
2. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2004 – 2005
1. Department Students strength – 161
2. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2005 – 2006
1. Department Students strength – 145
2. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2006 – 2007
1. Department Students strength – 114
2. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2007 – 2008
1. Department Faculty Strength – 7
2. Department Students strength – 129
3. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2008 – 2009
1. Department Faculty Strength – 9
2. Department Students strength – 159
3. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
4. Department of Information Technology Accredited by NBA for 3 Years.
2009 – 2010
1. Conducted a National Level Technical Symposium.
2. Department Faculty Strength – 11
2. Department Students strength – 184
2010 – 2011
1. Conducted AICTE sponsored National Workshop on Cloud Computing.
2. Department Faculty Strength – 14
3. Department Students strength – 220
2010 – 2011
1. Department Faculty Strength – 16
2. Department Students strength – 241
2011 – 2012
1. Department Faculty Strength – 17
2. Department Students strength – 244
3. National Seminar - Department of Science and Technology -DIT, New Delhi.
4. AICTE - FDP - Research Initiatives in Data Mining for Web Intelligent.
5. National Seminar - CSIR - A Wireless Sensor Network for the Surveillance of Nuclear Radiation
2012 – 2013
1. Department Faculty Strength - 18
2. Department Students strength – 233
3. Start PG Course - M.Tech Information Technology with Intake of 18 Seats.
4. Autonomous Status.
5. AICTE Sponsored FDP on Security Issues in Utility Computing was organized
2013 – 2014
1. Department Faculty Strength – 17
2. Department Students strength – 223
2014 – 2015
1. Department Faculty Strength – 17
2. Department Students strength – 221
3. Department got the Permanent Affiliation from by Anna University, Chennai.
4. National Seminar - SERB - Data Mining Trends & Development for Geospatial Technology and its Applications
2015 - 2016
1.Department Faculty Strength -18
2.Department Students Strength - 95
3. FDTP - IT 6602 - Software Architectures by Anna University, Chennai.
4. National Conference on Cutting Edge Technologies in Information and Communication with the association of CSI Chapter, Salem.
2016 - 2017
1.Department Faculty Strength -18
2.Department students Strength - 95
3. Faculty Development Programme on Free and Open Source Software in association with Anna University, Chennai.
2017- 2018
1.Department Faculty Strength - 17
2.Department students Strength - 99
3. Organized International Conference on Information and Computational Science - ICICS'18