SRM Bags Seven Prestigious Industry Awards

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur has received seven recognitions in a short span of 45 days. The awards are of national and international importance and have added yet another feather to SRMIST’s cap. The institute is recipient of STEM impact award, Green Metric Award, AICTE-CII IndPact Award for Best Industry-linked institution for Electrical Engineering and Allied Institute, University of the Year Award 2019 from FICCI and three Swachhata ranking awards from AICTE.

Addressing media persons, President of SRMIST Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan said, “This is a special honor for our Institution as we have received seven awards in a short span of time.”

Vice-Chancellor of SRMIST, Dr. Sandeep Sancheti said, “The Swachhata ranking awards were based on toilet adequacy and maintenance, garbage clearance system, hostel kitchen hygiene & sophistication of equipment, water purity, storage, distribution the facility, campus greenery & rainwater harvesting, use of solar systems and villages adopted for hygiene.”

Also present were Registrar SRMIST N. Sethuraman, Joint Director (Research) SRMIST Dr. SRS Prabaharan and Associate Director (Campus Life) Dr. V. Thirumurugan.

Stem Impact Award: SRMIST won the STEM (Society for Technology Management) Impact Award for innovating a cost-effective, Microbial fuel cell for bioelectricity generation and heavy metal reduction from environmentally available biowaste, namely tannery effluents. The project was spearheaded by Dr. S Harinipriya, Associate Professor of SRMIST and has been granted a US patent (US 10,230,122 B2).

Green Metric Award: SRMIST has been ranked 243rd in GreenMetric World University Rankings and third in India. The award was given for the category ‘World’s Most Sustainable University’. This was organized by the University of Indonesia.

AICTE-CII IndPact Award: AICTE-CII IndPact Award for Best Industry-linked institution for Electrical Engineering and Allied Institute (Established-Degree) was awarded to SRMIST. The institution won the award for Best Industry Linked Technical Institute in India 2019 for Electrical Engineering and Allied Institute.

FICCI honour for SRM: SRMIST won ‘University of the Year Award 2019’ (under the category of 11-30 years old Institutes) at the 6th edition of FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards 2019. The award was given based on the facets of university life such as Governance, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Infrastructure, Student Employability, Collaborative Initiatives, Research, Patents, etc.

Three Swachhata Awards: SRMIST ranked No. 1 under the category of AICTE-Residential Universities in the third edition of Swachhata Ranking Award. The ranking was presented to promote environmental hygiene in the Higher Education system and beyond. SRMIST secured the third rank in AICTE’s Clean and Smart Campus Awards. SRMIST also came first in the AICTE’s ‘One student One tree’ campaign, where 50,000 saplings were planted in 26 villages.

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