PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated to Anna University. The college offers a total of 48 full-time and part-time programs in Science, Engineering and Management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The college was founded in 1951 by Dr.G.R.Damodaran as the first private engineering institution established in Tamil Nadu. It is affiliated to PSG & Sons Charities Trust. Administrative Block of PSG College of Technology Peelamedu bridge over Avinashi Road that connects both the campuses on either side of the road PSG Industrial institute was established in 1926 by PSG and Sons Charities in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. The engineering college was started in the institute campus in 1951 by Dr. G.R.Damodaran, who became its first principal.[6] The college was conferred autonomous status by University of Madras in 1978, which was continued by the Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna University since 2001.
About 48 full-time and part-time programs in science, engineering and management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels by the 11 engineering and technology, computer applications, management sciences, basic sciences and humanities departments. The institute offer three 5-year integrated sandwich engineering courses which combines class room coaching with industrial training, one of the few in the country to offer such a course.[7] Among the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the college, many are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation system. Since 1960, PSG College of Technology has been publishing the "PSG Design Data Book", the engineering Data hand book, used throughout the country by engineers and students. PSG College of Technology was ranked 14[8] in India Today's Best Engineering Colleges in India of 2014[1] and 18 in Outlook India's Top Engineering Colleges of 2012.
[2] In rankings limited to private colleges it was ranked 4 by Mint's Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges of 2009. The Students Union is the apex body which controls all the aspects of student life including other clubs and societies. The college has many student-run clubs including Fine arts (drawing, multimedia and photography), Dramatics (cultural), English Literary Society (English literature and communication), Entrepreneurs Club (entrepreneurship), Martial Arts Club (martial arts), Pathshala (Hindi literature), Tech music (music), Tamil Mandram (Tamil literature),Radio Hub, Rotaract (social welfare), Youth Red Cross (health and well being), Global Leaders Forum (innovation and leadership), Cap and Nature Club (environment), Astronomy Club (astronomy), Association of Serious Quizzers (quizzing),Women development cell(WDC), Brains trust (mathematics and problem solving) and Higher Education Forum (higher education). Apart from these clubs, student wings of NCC and NSS also function on campus.
PSG Tech hostel was established on 27 February 1958. The hostels accommodates about 4300 students in 14 blocks named from A to N of which 5 blocks dedicated to women. There are five student dining halls, an auditorium, a library, a computer center and a guest house attached to the hostels. Since 2005, the college conducts an international techno-management festival called Kriya.[10] Every year in February, PSG also plays host to Renaissance, a two-day inter-collegiate cultural festival. Intrams is the intra-college cultural festival which is conducted in September. ^ a b c d eIt's pretty hard to tell from this question quite what titles to recommend, so I'm going to try to address the "Where can I get...?" question rather than the other question you might have asked about what to get. As for the "What?" question, there are resources out there ranging from big, general handbooks (such as Mark's Standard Handbook and Machinery's Handbook), to books specific to mechanism design and specific mechanisms, to articles and web pages on very specific topics.
You probably already know what you need. If you cannot afford to purchase the materials you have in mind, I'd suggest starting at the Internet Archive and plugging in some search terms. I have just had mixed success with the following search terms.mechanismlinkagemachine designYou know what you're looking for, so do search that, too.As you find things, keep an eye on the dates. There are publications there that are old enough to be in the public domain. We've learned more than a few things about mechanical engineering and machine design in the past 100 years. You'll also find a miscellany of slightly more recent conference papers and reports, some of which may be more to the point for your project than others. On the bright side, most of what you find there is public domain. (Of course, if you're just looking for mechanical diagrams to copy for your steampunk montage, some of those old manuals would be a gold mine.)A search in Google Books or Google Scholar might reveal similar resources, alongside more recent matter.
For a particular mechanism, do also have a look in Wikipedia. For example, in Four-bar linkage, you will find both a pretty good summary of the basics and a good list of references to follow for more information.If you are looking for general design information and you do not need a particular book or format, you could also dig around in Machine Design, eFunda, and Engineer's Edge, to name a few. As usual, you have additional options if you are willing to invest some money. If you are, or wish to become, an ASME member, they have a Digital Library (open to members) and a section on Engineering Books. (I haven't dug around there lately, but you may want to compare prices to those at Amazon or elsewhere.)One more thought, if you are thinking you need to spend the money for one of the big manuals, you might see if you can track it down in a library before you buy, and make sure it has the sorts of things you need. Some good public libraries have such stuff. A good academic library almost certainly will, if it has engineering books at all.