Goa Engineering College

Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi – Goa
Motto Work is worship
Type Public
Established 1967
Principal Dr. Vinayak N. Shet
Students 2200
Undergraduates 1900 (2015)
Postgraduates 300 (2015)
Location Farmagudi, Goa, 403401, India
15°25′23″N 73°58′48″E / 15.42306°N 73.98000°E / 15.42306; 73.98000Coordinates: 15°25′23″N 73°58′48″E / 15.42306°N 73.98000°E / 15.42306; 73.98000
Campus Semi-urban, 300 acres (1.2 km2)
Language English
Nickname Engicos
Affiliations Goa University
Website gec.ac.in

Goa Engineering College or Goa College of Engineering (abbreviated and colloquially referred to as GEC) is a public college in Goa, India, offering courses in engineering disciplines and affiliated to Goa University. Founded in 1967 at Farmagudi plateau, Ponda, it is the oldest engineering college in Goa, with over 2,200 students.

Academics

The college started in 1967 with undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering. The Electronics and Telecommunication course was introduced in 1982, Computer Science in 1988, Information Technology in 2001 and Mining in 2011.[1] All courses in the college are affiliated to Goa University.

It currently has eight masters programmes, the duration of each being two years:

Sr. No. Course Department Year of commencement
1 Foundation Engineering Civil Engineering 1986
2 Industrial Engineering (Part Time) Mechanical Engineering 1986
3 Microelectronics Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 2008
4 Electronics Communication & Instrumentation Engineering (ECI) Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 2008
5 Power & Energy Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2010
6 Computer Science & Engineering Computer Engineering 2011
7 Industrial Automation & Radio Frequency Engineering Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 2012–13
8 Structural Engineering Civil Engineering 2016
9 IT and Engineering Information Technology 2017–18[2][3]

The college is recognized as a research institute under Goa University. The affiliation to Ph.D. programs in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science & Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering are recognized from academic year 2014–15 onwards.

The college has a memorandum of understanding with IIT Bombay, and many of its faculty go there to pursue Ph.D. degrees.

The Farmagudi campus also houses National Institute of Technology Goa (NITG) and Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IITG).[4][5][6]

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has accredited four branches of the college – the Computer, Mechanical, Civil and Electronics and Telecommunications branches.[7] This means the academic curriculum and the teaching learning process is of a good standard, with adequate infrastructure and faculty, acceptable to the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

A study conducted in 2006 by the magazine Dataquest India ranked the college at 75th in India.[8] In Dataquest's 2011 survey the college was unranked.[9]

Campus

Goa Engineering College main building

The college has one of the largest libraries in the state. It is home to over 86,000 books, journals, and magazines, catering to all the subjects taught in the college. The library has a multimedia section that houses electronic modes of information such as encyclopedias. The library has a book bank facility with which students can obtain books for the entire year and return after the completion of the year, by paying a small fee.

With the largest campus in Goa, spread well over 285 acres atop Farmagudi hill, the college has four boys' and two girls' hostels, staff housing, and guest house facilities for visiting faculty and students.

Besides the main canteen and multiple mess facilities, the college has small stalls and a restaurant that are frequented by students. The campus shopping complex has a restaurant, as well as shops that cater to student needs ranging from photocopying to stationery and other day-to-day needs. The campus has a post office and a computer center.

The college gymkhana houses a power gym, which is accessible to students during non-working hours. There is an indoor badminton court, a basketball court, and a full-length natural grass football ground that can be used as a cricket field.

Student life

The students of Goa Engineering College call themselves Engicos. However, not all post-graduate students identify themselves with this term.

The college has many active clubs:

  • The college has a Nature Club which organizes tree planting programmes in the surrounding regions and organizes treks to locations in Goa.
  • The college Photography Club has been organizing Photoflare, an international photography festival, since 2010.
  • The college Quiz Club organizes quizzes for the college events.
  • The college Music Club conducts workshops and organizes open mike sessions at the college's festivals. It has its own music room with equipment in the Mining Department.
  • The college Literary and Debate Club organizes many small activities and helps organize TEDxGEC.
  • The college has a Coding Club.
  • The college Theatre Club was one of the oldest clubs, and has been restarted after a gap of almost seven years (as of 2018).
  • The college also has active student chapters of the IEEE, CSI, Google Developers Group (Goa) and Goa Android User Group (GAUG).
  • The college also had a Robotics club and a Linux User Group.

Student associations, based on their departments, are as follows:

  • MESA – Mechanical Engineering Students Association,
  • ENEXSA – Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students Association (previously known as ELECTRA),
  • ACES – Association of Civil Engineering Students,
  • CURSOR – Association of Computer Engineering Students,
  • INTENSA – Information Technology Students Association
  • ASSETS – Association of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Students.
  • MINESCO – Mining Engineering Students Council

These associations conduct events, technical and non-technical, once or twice per semester. They also come together to organise Spectrum, the college's technical festival.

Festivals

Happenings

Happenings is the cultural festival organized by the college. Started in 1981, it is officially the oldest college festival in Goa.

The college has hosted the rock show Zero, Millennium in 1997, Parikrama in 1998, Pentagram in 1996 and 1999, Ezee Meat in 1997, Brahma in 2000, PDV, Moksha, Metakix, Psychomotor, Sceptre in 2004. Rock machine, lately known as Indus Creed, was the first band that ever played in GEC.

In 2008, Goa witnessed the biggest youth festival in Goa so far, at Farmagudi. 35 events were conducted over three days in February. The biggest attraction was the Pronite on 22 February featuring Jal the Band from Pakistan and Rock show on 23 February featuring Decibel from Delhi and Fahrenheit.

2009 saw two other big names performing for the rock show, Bhayanak Maut And Reverse Polarity, both based in Mumbai.

After a break of six years, Happenings was officially organized again in 2014. Happenings 2015, a two-day event witnessed a pronite by local band Within Ceres and a DJ night featuring the GEC Alumni Anish Sood.

In the year 2016 the venue of Happenings was shifted outside college campus for the first time in its history. Happenings 2016 was held at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium. The Happenings 2016 pronite witnessed a performance by a local band, The 3 Horsemen, and the DJ night organized in association with Vh1 Supersonic featured Lost Stories.

The Happenings 2017 pronite was organized in association with Coke Studio and featured bollywood sensation Jonita Gandhi, while the DJ night, in association with Vh1 Supersonic featured Zaeden.

Happenings 2018 had a pronite witnessed a performance by Akash Mangueshkar, the Kingfisher Voice of Goa, 2014. The DJ night, in association with Vh1 Supersonic featured internationally acclaimed DJ Shaan.

Spectrum

Spectrum[10] is the technical festival organized by the college. It was started in 2016, after a decision to merge the technical events organized by the individual student associations of each department.

Spectrum 2017 pronite featured Sapan Verma and Sorabh Pant from the comedy group EIC.

Spectrum 2018 pronite was held in association with Sunburn and featured Sartek and The Unknown.

Notable alumni

Events

References

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  4. ↑ "Land trouble finally over for NIT Goa – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  5. ↑ "Goa Engineering College ready to welcome IIT | The Navhind Times". www.navhindtimes.in. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Three's a crowd! Goa's NIT, IIT and a state engineering college share the same campus". CatchNews.com. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  7. ↑ "NBA – National Board of Accreditation". www.nbaind.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  8. ↑ http://www.dqindia.com/images06/Complete%20Score%20Card.pdf
  9. ↑ "Dataquest : Top Stories : India's Top Engineering Colleges 2011 (DQ-CMR Top T-Schools Survey 2011)". Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  10. ↑ "LOKMAT E-Paper". Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  11. ↑ https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-filmy-story-of-a-national-award/113900.html
  12. ↑ https://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2004/08/msg00033.html
  13. ↑ "Goa College of Engineering: Spreading ideas through TED". www.navhindtimes.in. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  14. ↑ http://www.navhindtimes.in/year-round-celebrations-to-mark-gec-golden-jubilee/
  15. ↑ https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/GEC-golden-jubilee-to-be-monumental-/103262.html
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