The Department of Humanities is functioning as a full fledged department for the past seven decades in the campus. At present 10 faculty members serve in the department. The department offers Economics for Engineers as a regular course and Indian Constitution as a mandatory course for all BE & B. Tech programmes. The department also offers Principles of Management and Entrepreneurship for MCA and M. Sc five year integrated programmes. The department offers a course on Professional Ethics for the first year BE Production Engineering students. The department also conducts value added courses like 'Emotional Intelligence' and 'Accounting and Financial Statements' for the students. Once in four years the department organizes National Level Conference on "Integrating Humanistic Values and Ethics with Higher Education". Two faculty are recognized supervisors for the PhD programmes. At present four full time scholars are pursuing PhD in the department.
The Department of Humanities aims at improving the humanistic values of the engineering students and to develop the interpersonal skills for the societal well being.
Our mission as a department is to acquaint students of engineering with economic and managerial concepts and models with a view to
1. Enabling them to make better decisions at work place.
2. Making them understand and realize their responsibilities in the environment in which they are going to operate, and
3. Motivating them to strive for excellence through socially and environmentally acceptable means.
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2011Best Paper Award -- “Migrant Street Hawkers of Coimbatore City – An Empirical Analysis”.
Best Paper Award -- “Migrant Street Hawkers of Coimbatore City – An Empirical Analysis”.
Received the Best Paper Award at the 32nd annual conference of Association of Economists of Tamil Nadu held at PG Department of Economics and Research, Gobi Arts and Science College, Erode on 19.11.2011 for the paper entitled “Migrant Street Hawkers of Coimbatore City – An Empirical Analysis”.