Abstract

Author(s): S. Ravi

This paper discusses about the use pattern of internet by the engineering professionals in Annamalai University, Annamalainagar. The relevant data collected from the students registered for Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) & Master of Technology (M.Tech.) of various graduate and post graduate degree programmes and teachers at the Annamalai University, Annamalanagar. The sample was random in the sense that the sample of the present study consisted of teachers and students selected randomly from the University under study. It found that It is evident from Table 7 that 68.3% of the respondents use the Internet primarily for the educational purpose, followed by 61.7% respondents for the research purposes, further followed by 43.3% for the communication purposes, 30.0% of the respondents also admitted that they use Internet for entertainment purposes.<