School of Engineering
The School of Engineering at SNU, Chennai offers futuristic programs that will enable the graduates to contribute effectively to the society.
The programs offered
These programs are mutually reinforcing. The School focuses on creating future engineers who will master the technology and develop skills that will contribute to the futuristic growth of society. In short, the School will be future focused on education and research, the launching pad for a successful career
- Programs in thrust areas prescribed by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
- Faculty members are PhD holders from reputed institutions
- Well-balanced curriculum, giving weightage to the core-courses, required math-courses, and courses related to application areas in AI, DS, and IoT
- STIRS - Stimuli for Technological Innovation & Research for Students
- Special scholarship scheme through which Shiv Nadar University Chennai funds student projects from the first-year of study
- Industrial training as a part of the program (The University is located in the IT-corridor, that strengthens the industry-institute interaction.)
- Ofering micro-specializati on, over-and-above the curriculum, for the students with good academic record
- Choice-based credit system (CBCS)
- 1 and 2-credit courses in the curriculum itself and Credits for online courses
- Visiting Faculty – Experts from globally reputed institutions and industry
- Single credit courses ofered by experts from internationally reputed institutions and industry (get a waiver from a professional/open elective)
- Professional Electives in Baskets (each basket for one specialization)
- Encouragement for undergraduate students to publish their research work.
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ICT-enabled teaching | Online digital repositories for lectures/ course-materials | Wi-Fi enabled campus | Flipped classroom based teaching |
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Well-equipped classrooms with LCD Projectors | Conducive ambience for the students | Apart from all these a Green campus |
The students may undergo courses in SSN to get Micro-specialization
a. MedTech
(Shall be offered to all the programs)
- Sensors for healthcare
- Medical Instrumentation
- Wearable devices and Mobile health/ IoMT/Big data analytics in Healthcare/ Neurorehabilitation and Brain Computer Interface
b. Applied Robotics
(Shall be offered to all the programs)
- Robotics for Engineers
- Robot System Design
- Intelligent Robotics
Stimuli for Technological Innovation & Research for Students (STIRS)
- Special scholarship scheme through which Shiv Nadar University Chennai funds student projects from the first-year of study
- Students can apply for an internal-funded projects by submitting a proposal, taking a faculty member as supervisor.
- Short-listed projects will be funded upto Rs. 30,000/- to carry out their ideas.
- Come with an idea, experiment it, make it as a product, and patent it.
- This will further enable the undergrad students to publish their work in conferences and journals.
Thrust areas of research
- Speech technology
- Internet of things and Blockchain technology
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning
- Data Science
- Graph theory and its applications
- Fibreoptics and Silicon Photonics