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AMET COMMEMORATES ITS 15TH YEAR
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31st March 2007 was a red-letter day at AMET.
Ushering in it’s 15th year of operation, the AMET Annual Day – popularly known as Tidal Wave 2007, took off to a great start, sharp at 1700 hours in spite of the Tamil Nadu Bandh.
The Chief Guest was Mrs. Janet Okten, Principal of Glasgow College of Nautical Science, U.K., (GCNS) , which college was the founding collaboration of AMET in December 1992.
The Guests of Honour were, Mr Douglas McHugh, Asst. Principal and Head of Faculty (Engineering) of GCNS U.K. and Mr. S. Dinakar, Field General Manager, Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai.
Mr. J. Ramachandran, Chairman AMET, welcomed the gathering with great nostalgia narrating the humble beginnings with the GCNS collaboration and recounting AMET growth to it’s present stature of reportedly becoming largest pre-sea training maritime institution in the world and boasting of prestigious collaborations with world leaders like A.P.Moller-Maersk Group. He further proudly declared that very soon he would be addressing as the Chancellor of AMET University, which is about to happen.
Capt. S Bhardwaj, CEO & Director AMET, spoke thus, “ AMET-GCNS collaboration pioneered two important initiatives in the country. (a) International collaborations in Maritime education, and (b) Private initiatives in maritime education.
For AMET, it was a foundation well laid. Today we have This AMET, an edifice, almost perfect in its parts and honourable to its builders. AMET now stands tall, in its academic profile as well as in its global role. The underlying drivers to this transformation have been the Vision and Vitality of the organization. Compelling vision, of attaining and retaining leadership position; and above all, the superordinate purpose of creating employment opportunities, has been the main driver. Vitality is manifest at AMET in many ways, including deepening insight into maritime education, breakthrough innovations, ability to rapidly absorb knowledge , and, the growing nimbleness to proactively manage change and adaptiveness to continuously leverage market opportunities. A robust platform is now shaped for embarking on the next phase of aggressive expansion , that would unveil shortly; of which Chairman has already given the hint.”
Mrs. Janet Okten, the Chief Guest, proudly recounted the long and successful collaboration with AMET and hoped it would grow further from strength to strength for which grounds are being laid in her this visit. She declared that GCNS has just been sanctioned large funds from the Scottish Funding Council consequent to the successful inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education, and that this funding will assist in further improving the quality of education at GCNS. She further stated that GCNS was attracting students from various countries, but the ones from AMET stood above all in terms of high levels of academic standards, discipline and general turn-out.
On the occasion of the Annual Day, Long Term Service jewels were presented to Deputy Director Mr. K. Seyadu and the AMET bus driver Mr. Krishnamurthy,HOD Marine Engineering, Mr. Venugopal was felicitated for successful completion of the prestigious ‘Ship-in-Campus’ project.
Senior Cadets Rushil Tandon and Vidyut Narayanan spoke on behalf of their passing out batch with gratitude to the excellent training and education received at AMET and the overall transformations brought out on them to take up the career at sea.
The formal function concluded, brilliant talent in cultural programme was on display by the cadets commemorating TIDAL WAVE 2007.
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