Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi is one of the reputed private Engineering Colleges started under self-financing scheme on 17th October 1984. MEPCO refers to the Metal Powder Company, Thirumangalam and Schlenk is the German collaborator of the company. The institution is sponsored by the Mepco Schlenk Charities, a social welfare organisation of the Metal Powder Company Limited, Thirumangalam, which has won many National Awards for the outstanding performance in export promotion and R & D. The Board of Directors of our college are dynamic men with far sighted vision and wisdom, experienced in running several successful industries over three decades and also well-versed in running other educational institutions. The college was affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and now it is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai from 2001.

Sri. A. Grahadurai, Thiru. A. Vairaprakasam and Dr. S. Balakrishnan serve as the President, Correspondent and Principal of the college respectively.

Our college was selected by the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) for prestigious Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan National Award for having the Best Overall Performance in the year 1998 and 2005. Five of our undergraduate courses were subjected to accreditation by the National Board of Accreditation and all of them have been awarded the highest grade of ‘A’. Our college has received ISO 9002 certificate from M/s. DNV, Netherlands. Our college has been selected as an Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Industrial Safety and was inaugurated by Bharat Ratna Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Placement

The cell is headed by the Training & Placement Officer (TPO) Prof. S.P. Asok, having more than two decades of teaching and research experience. The TPO holds independent charge and each department is represented by nominated faculty members and student representatives.

The placement season has two phases. The first phase is from June to October and the second from January through March. Excellent facilities are available for conducting campus interviews like five air conditioned seminar halls with state-of-the-art audiovisual equipments for making presentations (capacity ranging from 100 to 250 seats), huge halls for conducting tests, air conditioned conference room for conducting GD's & personal interviews, etc. We also have a well furnished guest house offering both boarding & lodging with a/c suites for the recruiters to comfortably stay inside the campus.

Our college is very easily approachable, connected on the broad gauge railway line on the Chennai-Kanniyakumari route and visitors can detrain at Virudhunagar junction. The college is located on the Virudhunagar - Sivakasi state highway 15 kms from Virudhunagar. The nearest airport is Madurai from where our college can be reached in an hour’s travel by road.

Over the years, we are in frequent association with the following reputed companies by way of arranging Training and Placements for our students with them: