Er. Perumal Manimekalai College of Engineering (PMC Tech) — home AutonomousAccredited by NAAC with 'A' Grade Approved by AICTE, New DelhiAffiliated to Anna University, Chennai 
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An idea can travel a long way at PMC Tech — from a second-year idea competition to a funded prototype, an industry hackathon, a patent and a start-up of its own. The Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell rated the institution’s Innovation Council three stars for 2021–22.
Idea to venture
Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are practised from the first year to the last, each year asking a little more of an idea.
From the first year
Innovation clubs and ideation camps, run through the Innovation Council.
Second year
An idea-collection competition for second-year students.
200+ ideas collected
Third year
Innovation product development: an idea made into a working product.
₹1 lakh DST funding a project
Final year
Techkathon, with leading industries: a real problem, solved and shown to its experts.
Beyond
A patent, a pre-incubation space, time and credit for a start-up — under the policy.
Where ideas take shape
Three bodies make innovation part of the timetable rather than an extra: they set the calendar, provide the room and tools, and carry students’ projects forward.
Set up under the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell to encourage, inspire and nurture students — through a network of innovation clubs — by exposing them to new ideas and processes while they are still forming. It runs the innovation and start-up policy and the Ministry’s calendar of activities.
Dr. A. Senthil Kumar Principal — Chief Mentor 
Dr. C. R. Balamurugan Professor, EEE — Faculty Co-ordinator 
IEDC
Builds an innovation-driven, entrepreneurial culture through students’ own projects. Among those from Computer Science and Engineering:
Show and compete
An idea is tested in front of people: visitors, industry experts, juries and rivals.
The institution’s grand technical exhibition, where engineering, polytechnic, ITI and school students show their projects — around 700 of them on the day, before school students and people from industry.
A talent hunt of eight to ten hours. Teams of three to five students take real problems set by core industries, and present their solutions — an idea, a prototype or a working model — to the industry experts who set them. The best win internships and placement offers on the spot.
2019
PMC Tech hosted an edition of TANCAM’s hackathon for women in science and engineering on 4 April 2025, in its auditorium, on innovative design for Industry 4.0 — with TANCAM, Dassault Systèmes and TIDCO. At two other TNWISE 2025 events, PMC Tech computer science students won special prizes of ₹10,000.
PMC Tech faculty have won Gold awards at the Quality Circle Forum of India’s Hosur Chapter conventions on quality concepts — in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. The Quality Improvement Cell’s photographs are from the convention of 9 October 2022.
Patents & start-ups
When an idea works, the institution helps protect it and turn it into a business.
The MSME Business Incubator is there for entrepreneurs who take on the region’s social problems with technology. It offers:
The R&D Cell’s Centre for Incubation and Centre for Entrepreneur Development work alongside it.
Innovation & start-up policy
PMC Tech’s Institution Innovation and Startup Policy sets out what a student or a faculty member with an idea can ask for. The Innovation Council carries it out; its President is the single point of contact for innovation and start-ups.
A student team can present its proposal to the Council, which may fund mentoring, laboratory equipment, consultancy and technology.
A pre-incubation space with work benches, computers, Wi-Fi, audio-visual equipment and room to meet mentors.
Support for filing and licensing intellectual property, business planning, feasibility studies and technology mentoring.
A student may defer a semester or more to work on a start-up, on the Council’s recommendation.
Work on a start-up or its first product may count towards a mini project, major project or internship.
Annual awards for the outstanding idea, the innovation champion and the start-up of the year. Faculty may take leave to build a venture, and mentoring one counts in their appraisal.
