Mission

The PSG Center for Academic Research and Excellence was founded in October, 2015 by the PSG & Sons Charities Trust with a mission to promote teaching excellence in all the colleges under the Trust. Toward this end, CARE will encourage the use of learner-centric pedagogical practices that facilitate effective learning and will foster dialogue and reflection on effective teaching through workshops, seminars, one-to-one consultation and other activities. The center also focuses on creating and sustaining effective faculty student relationships and aims to pursue its mission by:

• Helping educators at PSG to practice a learner-centric course design, innovative pedagogy and effective assessments so as to shift the focus of the teaching learning process from delivery of knowledge to facilitation of knowledge acquisition
• Offering an effective one-to-one mentoring system to the faculty in various topics pertaining to learner-centric pedagogy and effective faculty student relationships
• Promoting the use of technology in the PSG classrooms and establishing an environment for effective use of technology in enhancing the teaching- learning process.
• Helping faculty members assess the effectiveness of their teaching through appropriate student and peer feedback mechanisms
• Encouraging research activities that enhance the quality of teaching at PSG and supporting dissemination of research findings about the teaching learning process.

The Management

Shri. L. Gopalakrishnan, Managing Trustee, PSG & Sons Charities

From the Desk of Managing Trustee

PSG Center for Academic Research and Excellence is promoted by PSG & Sons Charities Trust, one of the oldest charitable Institutions in India. The Trust has created over 29 educational institutions of academic excellence, ranging from kindergarten to Doctoral Studies across Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Medical, Management and more, that have grown into centers of excellence and have several national and global collaborations to their credit.

Technology has infiltrated today’s classrooms, which are filled with Millennials. The teaching learning process should undergo constructive changes to adapt to the tech-savvy students. Faculty should keep themselves updated and become tech-savvy too. They should also constantly innovate pedagogies not only to educate but also to engage the students in the classrooms. Toward this end, CARE will encourage the use of learner-centric pedagogical practices that facilitate effective learning and will foster dialogue and reflection on effective teaching through workshops, seminars, one-to-one consultations and other activities. The center also focuses on creating and sustaining effective faculty-student relationships.

Teachers who invent creative pedagogy and deliver the same with technology will be the most powerful educators of the 21st Century. I request faculty to make the best use of PSG CARE programs to transform themselves into effective educators for the Millennial student. I am confident that with proactive support from PSG CARE, the quality of teaching at the PSG Institutions will continuously improve, thereby contributing to the mighty cause of empowering youth through quality education

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela

Let us change the world by imparting quality education to our future generations 

The CARE Team

Dr. R. Rudramoorthy, Director, PSG CARE

Professor Rudramoorthy, did his B.E (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering in 1981 and Master’s in Heat Power Engineering in 1984. He obtained his Doctoral Degree in Mechanical Engineering in the year 1995 from PSG College of Technology. He joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at PSG College of Technology in the year 1984 and has more than 35 years of teaching experience. He served as Principal of PSG College of Technology from 2005 to 2019.
His areas of research are Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning and Energy Engineering. He has completed many research projects and guided 12 PhD scholars. He has authored 5 books in engineering and has over 60 publications in International and National journals. He has visited many countries, including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Canada, USA, UK, Australia and Germany for research and development activities.
Professor Rudramoorthy was the former Chairman of AICTE, Southern Region and Council Member of AICTE, New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a Life Member of the National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, the Indian Society for Technical Education, and the Solar Energy Society of India.

Advisory Committee

Sl.No	Name	Designation	Institute
1	Dr.G. (Subbu) Subbaraman, Ph. D	Institute Fellow and Project Development Director	GTI Energy, USA
2	Prof. Jayanta Kapat	Professor and CATER Director	University of Central Florida, USA
3	Prof. S. Lakshmivarahan	George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus,	School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, USA
4	Prof.C. Rajendran Ph.D	Dr.rer.pol.h.c., Professor & RAGS Family Foundation Institute Chair,	Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, India
5	Dr. Kovaichelvan	Former Director – TVS Institute for Quality & Leadership at TVS Motor Company, Organization Design Professional	TVS Institute for Quality & Leadership at TVS Motor Company

Executive Committee