About

The North American PSG Tech Alumni Association is a 501c3 organization dedicated to building a network of alumni from PSG College of Technology, and to further the mission of the PSG & Sons Charities. 

Back when the Internet was taking baby steps on campus networks(1993), two separate initiatives started. Albert Thomas (91 Prod) started an email based alumni registry out of the Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Separately, Baiju Jacob (91 ECE) started a website to register alumni information, share news, display pictures, etc. This website was hosted at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

In 1994, Baiju registered a new domain - PSG.ORG and PSG Tech made its first appearance on the Internet. Over the years, the site evolved, changed domains and helped register and connect over 9,000 alumni.

After 20 years of connecting alumni, the collection, search and display of alumni information was stopped in 2014.  Times had changed and there were many more ways for alumni to stay in touch.

It is 2025 now and the site is back up to help coordinate the PSG Tech Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2026.

04/08/25 - Albert Thomas

Re-launching this site to help coordinate activities for the 75th Jubilee Celebrations.

03/14/09 - Albert Thomas

It's been a along time since we have made any changes or introduced new features. I am trying to make some changes now. We are now using Google Sites to serve up all the static pages. This will make adding content easy. We have converted all the pages. Please let me know if you see any broken links.

Do you have some fresh ideas? Do you have features that you would like to see on this site? Drop me a line.

regards

05/25/01 - Albert Thomas

We have now moved to a new website at www.psgtechalumni.org - This will hopefully be the first step in integrating a number of PSG Tech Alumni Websites into a single site

The domain name www.psg.org will continue to live on as the official site of the PSG Institutions.

We have moved webhosts to Addr.Com

09/01/00 - Albert Thomas

The Login procedures have been changed. You must now login using your Ref No and the Generic password before you can modify your info

We will soon be moving to individual passwords.... hopefully soon

Alumni can only change their own info.

We have added a utility to retrieve your password incase you have forgotten it.

03/18/00 - Albert Thomas

We have added an online database. This currently allows real time registration and modification of alumni info.

A new and improved search engine is back after an absence of more than three years. The search engine has been built from the ground up. You can now search alumni info stored in the database using different search criteria.

The alumni info update form now displays existing info for added convenience

11/31/97 - Albert Thomas

The Guest Book is back. This time we are using the services of Guestworld.

10/02/97 - Albert Thomas

The form to Add/Update Info has been changed. We left out columns that weren't being filled up. This new form also has columns to enter upto three completion courses, branches and years.

09/02/97 - Albert Thomas

The Web page has gotten a facelift. let me know what you think.

02/17/97 - Albert Thomas

The Alumni List And The Search Facility Are Being Revamped. Search Will Be Unavailable Until Further Notice.

05/30/96 - Baiju Jacob

The Alumni Page at the new site is up and running. All search and additions will work at this new site.

05/27/96 - Baiju Jacob

The PSG Tech page has a new location. We haveour own domain name PSG.ORG. The site will be at a server maintained by DigiWeb. We will be paying a fee to maintain this site on a monthly basis.

05/23/96 - Baiju Jacob

Dhillip Anandham ('91 EEE) offers the services of the Web India Web site to house the PSG Tech Alumni Page temporarily. The site is http://www.webindia.com/psg-tech/

05/22/96 - Baiju Jacob

PSG Tech site is no longer available at the GRANADA.COM domain Special thanks to Benjamin Philip bphilip@granada.com for housing our site at his organizatin for almost a year.

08/24/95 - Baiju Jacob

The search screen now works. A few bugs need to be ironed out. After the year you will find name printed. Please ignore that. I will fix it when I get more time. The search is still case sensitive so I will have to fix it some time soon too.

08/23/95 - Baiju Jacob

As of today the PSG Tech page has moved from the original site at http://opus.eng.temple.edu/~bjacob/psg-tech to http://www.granada.com/psg-tech. I apologize for any inconvenience caused you by this. The search functionality is broken so please bear with me while I get it properly compiled. All registrations will be handled promptly and the username and passwords assigned to you before can still be used on this new server.

07/26/95 - Baiju Jacob

The registration form has been fixed. Finally it's up and running. I wish to thank Ben Phillip bphilip@granada.com for allowing me to use some space on his server to store the PSG Tech alumni list and other sundry items. If you get a chance please mail him a thankyou as he has been of immense help in getting my html files from opus and moving it to Granada.

02/03/95 - Baiju Jacob

The first IRC meeting of PSG Tech Alumni will be held on the #psg channel at 9 PM (CST). If you are free please join the channel and meet fellow Techians. Users should be online for atleast three hours so you can join the channel between 9 PM and 12 PM CST and can meet atleast some of the Tech Alumni. We hope to make this a weekly affair and then probably into a daily meeting if there is sufficient response. Hope to see all of you there. Medium : IRC

Channel : #psg

Date : Sat Feb 4 1995

Time : 9 PM to 12 AM (CST)

01/21/95 - Baiju Jacob

A new medium has been added to facilitate Techians to talk interactively. The Inter Relay Chat (IRC), is a commonly used medium for students and professionals to wind down and meet other people of similar interests. Bharat Sunder (sundab@rpi.edu) suggested forming a #psg channel and I thought it would be a wonderful idea too. This has been an idea I was thinking of a long time but wasn't sure if others would be interested. This channel will be always active and I have loaded a bot [Affectionately called the Peelamedu bot] so that it will be a source of information for all users of the psg channel. Thanks a lot Sundar. I hope to see you folks online and talk to you.

Accessing the #psg channel

To access it use the irc program on your system (usually called irc) and then when you are in the program and have connected to a server (usually most systems connect you by default to a server) type /join #psg . Alternative server names are irc-2.mit.edu, irc.bu.edu, irc.uoknor.edu and irc.pitt.edu. All IRC commands are preceded by a / and anything not preceded by a / is sent to the channel directly as a message. Well join the channel and ask someone on the channel for help.

01/18/95 - Baiju Jacob

I have added a small file that contains job leads mailed to me by alumni. [Only one so far, but it's a start]. Please note I do not want to start another misc.jobs.offered here, but it will be a more selective job postings that will help Tech Alumni specifically and hopefully these are non advertised positions. [Hint, Less competition]. If you have any leads please mail them to me and I will include them. If you wish to remain anonymous please indicate so and I will delete the email id from the message. It is under the PSG Tech Alumni List and it requires the same username and password that was given you when you registered.

01/17/95 - Baiju Jacob

Hope you all had a wonderful new year ...

I am still waiting for volunteers to contribute articles or perhaps suggest some ways for us Techians to get together. If anybody has any suggestions please mail them by clicking on the mail icon on the speed bar.

11/29/94 - Baiju Jacob

Arasendran is leaving to India and would like to take back information about different graduate schools back with him. Please mail as much information to him directly via e-mail at asellaka@hellcat.uoknor.edu This will be of great assistance to other students at Tech. This also assures them of access to accurate information.

10/19/94 - Baiju Jacob

Shanthakumar Palaniswami (ECE '74) has been organizing programs and picnics in the Michigan area. He also produces an annual news letter. He is looking for suggestions and contributions [articles and ideas]. Get in touch with him to get more details.

10/18/94 - Baiju Jacob

I was thinking of having a small meet of sorts for Tech Alumni in the Northeast (PA/NJ/NY/VA) area. Let me know by e-mail if you are interested [with suggestions about location and time].

10/10/94 - Baiju Jacob

A picture of the PSG Industrial Institute has been added to the Home Page. If anybody has a better idea for Logo's let me know. 

This Website was made possible due to the time and effort volunteered by several alumni and friends.

We thank from the bottom of our hearts, every one who contributed to this effort. We would like to make special mention of the following individuals and organizations.

• Albert Thomas (91 Prod) for managing the website from 1998 until 2014 and for funding it from 2003 until 2014.

• Baiju Jacob (91 ECE) for coming up with this whole idea of a website. Baiju started this page way back in 1994 and registered the original psg.org domain and funded it until more sponsors came along.

• Dhillip Anandam (91 EEE) and webindia.com for having hosted the Tech site temporarily at www.webindia.com  before we moved to our current site. Thanks Dhillip.

• Special thanks to Benjamin Philip bphilip@granada.com for housing our site at his organization(granada.com) for almost a year in 1994.

• Former PSG Institutions CE Mr. C.R, Swaminathan and Dr. P. Radhakrishnan for consistent support and encouragement over the years.

• Last, but not least, we are thankful to the alumni listed and those who wished to remain anonymous for monetary contributions over the years and especially early on when costs were a lot higher.

  1. R V Subbiah - 1960 BE EEE

  2. Shanthakumar Palaniswami - 1974 BE ECE

  3. Chandrakumar Natrajan - 1980 BE EEE

  4. N Nandhakumar - 1981 BE ECE

  5. Srini Sankaran - 1984 BE ECE

  6. Manivannan P - 1984 BE Mech

  7. Raveendran Ramaswamy - 1984 BE Mech

  8. Gertrude Premela Pannirselvam - 1984 BE PROD

  9. Meenal Veerappan - 1985 BE ECE

  10. Pushparaj Venkitasami - 1988 BE PROD

  11. Seenivasan Ramanujam - 1988 BE PROD

  12. Seshaprasad Krishnamurthy - 1988 BE PROD

  13. Srini Sankaran - 1988 BE PROD

  14. Sendhil Kolandaivel - 1989 BE Civil

  15. Suresh Soundarajan - 1989 BE MECH

  16. Vikram Raghupathy - 1989 BE MECH

  17. Thirumaran Kuppusamy - 1989 BE PROD, 1993 ME PROD

  18. Ranjith Kumar - 1990 BE EEE(SW)

  19. Muralidharan Mariappan - 1990 BE MECH

  20. Prabhu Palanisami - 1990 BE MECH

  21. Sudhakar Jayaraman - 1990 BE PROD

  22. Palaniappan Rajaram - 1991 BE CSE

  23. Baiju E Jacob - 1991 BE ECE

  24. Jerome A Joseph - 1991 BE ECE

  25. Karthikeyan Aiyaswamy Mahalingam - 1991 BE ECE

  26. Mahendrakumar Ganesan - 1991 BE MECH

  27. Albert R Thomas - 1991 BE PROD

  28. Anandtha Subramanian Rajamani - 1991 BE PROD

  29. Arasendran Sellakannu - 1991 BE PROD

  30. Gunashekar T.J. - 1991 BE PROD

  31. Srinivasan Mandala - 1991 BE PROD

  32. Satish Purushothaman - 1992 BE CSE

  33. Sarath Ranganathan Kottur - 1992 BE MECH

  34. Satyanarayanan Venkatapathy - 1992 BE PROD

  35. Vinod Kubher - 1993 BE MECH

  36. Venkat Gopalakrishnan - 1994 BE Prod