DMI College of Engineering is a Christian Minority Institution of Higher Technical Education, approved by All India Council for Technical Education [AICTE], Government of Tamilnadu and affiliated to Anna University, Chennai. The College is promoted and managed by the Sisters of the Society of DMI, which was founded in the year 1984 by Rev.Dr.Fr.J.E.Arulraj. The Society manages several educational, technical, health, welfare and social development institutions. The vision of these Institutions is to provide a discipline life with a spiritual base to remain ‘fully alive and fully human’. Further, it strives to achieve excellence and provides opportunities to the students to achieve technical excellence. The college also commits itself to promote self disciplined and holistic personalities among the marginalized, oppressed and disadvantaged sections of the society so as to mould persons in pursuance of making a better human life through science and technology. It enhances the core strength of the students and enables them to make significant contribution to the development of the society in particular and the nation at large.
This College is spaced out in a sprawling campus of 55 acres of land, more than double the stipulated area of the AICTE. It is located in a serene atmosphere at Mevalurkuppam’B’ Village, Palanchur situated on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway.