About Department

Department of English was established in the year 1994 with the introduction of engineering programmes. The Department serves as an integral part of the Science and Humanities Division, upskills the students with English Language Skills. It periodically organizes and conducts training programmes such as soft skills, verbal, group discussion and mock interviews. The Department caters to the Master of Ceremony needs of the engineering departments and of the entire institution as well. The Department also facilitates the language correction and editing of journal papers and articles, research articles and PhD Dissertations of the engineering faculty and students. The members of the Department are well-qualified faculty team and they are exclusively attached with the engineering departments for academic collaborations and teaching-learning effectiveness.


Department Contact

Department HoD

    Dr.A.Palaniappan
    9894366121

From the Hod's Desk

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Dr.A.Palaniappan

Professor & Head

English Language Teaching

AICTE Faculty ID: 1-461678131

College ID: CTENF001

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Dr.A.Palaniappan has been teaching English to engineering and MBA students for the past 24 years. He secured his Under Graduation (1993) and Post Graduation (1995) in English Literature from St.Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli. He completed his MBA with Marketing and HR as specialization at Periyar University in 2001. He also completed his M.Phil at Madurai Kamaraj University in 2004 and Doctorate in Linguistics at Bharathiar University in 2015 respectively. During his undergarduation, he was a NCC B Certificate holder and had underwent a cycle expedition on the western coastal pockets of South Tamil Nadu covering a distance of 788 km in 10 days. He received Silver Medals for securing first rank in all four semesters of his Post Graduation and received the same from the hands of the then Scientific Advisor and former President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. He served as Training coordinator in KSRCT for 15 years from 2007 to 2021. He is an in-house trainer on softskills, HR Interview Tips and Résumé Building, Also, he has a flair in motivational speech and training on psychological enrichment. He had presented 15 papers in national conferences and 12 papers in international conferences. He had been resource person for 12 Faculty Development Programmes and presented 35 invited talks. He had facilitated as Resource Person to the English Faculty of Salem and Erode Zone for the conduct of Bridge Course to I B.E. / B.Tech. students (academic year 2013-14). He had served as the Workshop Coordinator for the Technical Communication workshop conducted by IIT Bombay for the engineering faculty. He has completed 19 NPTEL Swayam courses on different domains such as JAVA programming, Python, DBMS, NLP, German,Design Thinking, Six Sigma and so forth with Silver Elite. He has been awarded with NPTEL Enthusiast and Believer Certification twice.

Mail-ID: [email protected], [email protected]


Our Intellectuals

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Dr.R.Rajmohan

Associate Professor

ELT & Indian Writing in English

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Dr.M.Umai Arasi

Associate Professor

ELT & Jewish American Fiction

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Mrs.N.Bhuvaneshwari

Assistant Professor

Indian Writing in English

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Mrs.C.Vijayapriya

Assistant Professor

Indian Writing in English

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Mr.R.Selvarasu

Assistant Professor

English Literature

Our Non-Teaching staffs

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Mrs.R.Kavitha

Lab Attender

College ID: CTENS001

Mail-ID: [email protected]

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Academic Laboratory

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Language Enrichment Centre
Lnaguage Enricment center is a Specialized space designed for language learning and proficiency development in English.
Area : 16.85m x 13.65m - 230 sq.m
Lab Incharge - Faculty & staff : Dr.A.Palaniappan, Mrs.R.Kavitha

Research Centres (Anna University Research Centre Recognition Number 4260700)

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Centre of Excellence

    National Instruments Academy(NICE)
    Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education(QEEE)
    Parametric Technology Corporation(PTC)
    Internet of Things(loT)
    Virtusa's CoE on CRM

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