Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering

Placement plays a vital role for the final year students and DCE understands this. To provide its students with proper placement support, the institute has established a Placement Cell. It is behind training the students and helping them in developing their career. It works in monitoring the progress of the students and providing desired job opportunity to them. Training is a part of placement process and to provide proper training to the students, DCE has a dedicated Training Cell. The work of this cell is:

• To enhance the personality and soft & communication skills of the students with the help of Skill Development Cell.
• To build right attitude and confidence in the students.
• To develop basic skills in students like developing CV, resume, and projects.
• To conduct pre-interview tests like aptitude test, mock interview, and group discussions.
• To organise industrial programs like seminars, workshops, live sessions, and guest lectures.

Apart from this, to promote entrepreneurship and the concept of business, the institute has also established an Entrepreneur Development Cell (EDC). This cell is founded to help creative students in finding the right business path and to provide different work opportunities to young minds. This EDC is responsible for:

• Making the students so trained and equipped that they become job creators in place of becoming job seekers.
• Making the students understand the importance of entrepreneurship in the coming future.
• Making the students believe in their ideas and helping them with the process to start their own start-ups.

The recruiters of DCE are Tata Consultancy Services, L&T InfoTech, Zoho, HCL, Bosch, Dell, Deloitte, Ford, Honeywell, HP, Huawei, Tech Mahindra, Vol Tech, Paragon, etc.

This institute is located at Off Tambaram Sriperumbudur Road, Chennai, and possesses state-of-the-art infrastructure that mixes architecture and all the basic amenities. Some central facilities available here are:

• Auditorium: DCE owns a fully-furnished and air-conditioned auditorium with the seating capacity of 400 people. The auditorium is equipped with all the modern teaching and learning tools.
• Library: This institute has several individual libraries as per the departments and one central library. The central library is built on an area of 500 sq. m. and it has a capacity of approx 200 readers in one go. The library has a wealthy collection of 50+ journals, 30,000+ volumes, magazines, and several e-reading facilities as the entire library is digitalized. 
• Sports: The sports department of this institute is spread over 25 acres with all the facilities and sports arrangements. With international standards of game facilities, this institute offers a sports area for games like volleyball, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, badminton, table tennis, chess, carrom, handball, throw ball, etc.
• Hostel: DCE has an ideal location for accommodating the students that are travelling from out-of-stations. The institute has distinct hostel facilities for boys and girls. The girls’ hostel is capable of providing accommodation to 350 female students and the boys' hostel has a space for 500 male students. Each hostel room is fully furnished, well maintained, secure, and equipped with all the major student facilities.
• Transportation: The institute has its own safe and secure transportation service. These buses provide comfortable and rush-free travelling to the students. The buses here ply from various pre-decided locations of the city.