NPTEL - (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) local chapter was established in Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem on 30th March 2017 which was another milestone in the history of Mahendra College of Engineering. NPTEL has a largest repository of courses in Engineering, Science and Humanities from India's best institutes.

The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati and Madras) along with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It is a programme under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, initiated in 2003 for the creation of web and video courses in various disciplines of engineering, basic sciences, management and humanities. Currently more than 940 + courses are available on the web portal http://nptel.ac.in for viewing and download at no cost.

NPTEL has initiated open online courses with certification for full semester (40 hr- 12 week) courses and for courses offered on the model of Moocs (20 hr - 8 weeks) and (10 hr - 4 weeks) on its online courses portal http//onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in. The enrollment to the courses is free and the learning involves no cost while the certification exam involves an exam fee. The objective of enabling students to obtain certificates from courses is to make students employable in the industry or pursue a suitable higher education programme.

Mr.D.Balaji, AP/ECE was the Single Point of Contact Coordinator (SPOC-NPTEL) and Six Faculty coordinators from various departments. students were encouraged to join the certification courses. Total 338 students registered for 20 hour course and 27 students registered for 40 hour course. The Students were also guided by NPTEL mentors in their respective departments. The 20 hr course was successfully completed by the student which was of 8 weeks of duration and the certification examination was taken on 27th March 2016. The 40 hr Examination is scheduled on 24th April 2016.

In the NPTEL examination conducted in the month of Jan-April 2018, the following students were the Toppers of NPTEL having received the ELITE Certificates (January 2018 to April 2018)

S.No	Name of the staff	Course Name	Final Score	Certificate Type
1.	DR.M.SUGANTHI	Emotional Intelligence	64	Elite
2	SOUNDARYA.A	Bioenergy	60	Elite
3	PREETHA S	Mechanical Operations	47	Successfully completed
4	ABINESH K	Problem Solving through Programming in C	40	Successfully completed
5	SABARIVASAN S	Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using Python	42	Successfully completed

In the NPTEL examination conducted in the month of July-October 2017, the following students were the Toppers of NPTEL having received the ELITE Certificates (July 2017 to October 2017)

S.No	Name of the staff	Course Name	Final Score	Certificate Type
1	VANITHA P	Design of reinforced concrete structures	64	Successfully completed
2	RUDHRA.U	Forest Biometry	66	Elite
3	M.RAVICHANDRAN	Design of reinforced concrete structures	68	Elite
4	RAJA R	Design of reinforced concrete structures	47	Successfully completed

In the NPTEL examination conducted in the month of July-September 2017, the following students were the Toppers of NPTEL having received the ELITE Certificates (July 2017 to September 2017)

S.No	Name of the staff	Course Name	Final Score	Certificate Type
1	AARTHIKA.R	Biomedical nanotechnology	51	Successfully completed
2	RUDHRA.U	Biomedical nanotechnology	47	Successfully completed