Pondicherry Engineering College

Pondicherry Engineering College
Motto Prosperity Through Technology
Type Public
Established 1984 under VII Five Year Plan
Affiliation Pondicherry University
Principal P. Dananjayan
Undergraduates 1,700
Postgraduates 300
Location Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
12°00′47.74″N 79°51′13.78″E / 12.0132611°N 79.8538278°E / 12.0132611; 79.8538278Coordinates: 12°00′47.74″N 79°51′13.78″E / 12.0132611°N 79.8538278°E / 12.0132611; 79.8538278
Campus 240 acres (0.97 km2)
Nickname Pecians
Website http://www.pec.edu

Pondicherry Engineering College (or PEC) is an engineering institution situated in South India on East Coast Road in Pondicherry, Puducherry on the exact border of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

The college is an institution sponsored by the Union Territory of Puducherry. The college was started in 1984 under the VII Five Year Plan. PEC is an autonomous institution for the purposes of administration, staff recruitment and College development and is managed by a Board of Governors. The college is autonomous for Undergraduate acedamic purposes also. And affiliated to the Pondicherry University for Postgraduate and Phd academic purposes. The institute offers eight Undergraduate, eight Postgraduate and PhD programme in the disciplines of engineering and technology.

Location

The college campus is situated at Pillaichavady, which is about 12 km from the railway station and bus-stand in Pondicherry. It is about 150 km south of Chennai (Madras) on the shores of Bay of Bengal.

Electrical & Electronics Engineering department

Campus

The 240 acres (0.97 km2) of the college campus has departmental buildings, an auditorium, library, hostels, students' amenities centre, open-air theatre, residential quarters for staff and laid out with roads, lawns and gardens.A central library with over 48000 books, 72 national journals, 98 international journals and INDEST (Indian National Digital Library of Science and Technology) facility is available for the use of staff and students.

Besides this there is a well furnished guest house and a well equipped dispensary are available. a well planned fibre-optical campus network with 12 Mbit/s leased line internet connectivity is available in the campus.

The institute has 2 basketball courts, one football ground and one cricket ground.

Departments

Chemical Engineering Department

There are 12 department:

Student life

Festivals and functions center of PEC

Students' Council

The department has its own students' council organising various conferences, Workshops and seminars on the cutting-edge technologies to provide the students with a unique opportunity to keep in touch with the latest trends in the domain. The Council also encourages students to conduct various Online and Offline events so as to help them gather a good rapport with the staff and fellow students.

Cybrus

Cybrus is symposium,conducted by student's Council of computer science department, Cybrus 2k18 was conducted and participated more than 1000 students from different colleges.

Revelation

Revelation is a Quadrennial Technical festival of the department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College. Its being taken charge by the student council of EIE, fusion. It puts the various creative and technical ideas of students all over the nation to test, provides the biggest stage for competitions and reward the best with glory and fortune! Its truly a unique fest that beckons the spirited.

Mechnium

Mechnium is a Quadrennial Technical festival organised by the students of Mechanical engineering department on behalf of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College. The latest version of Mechnium was named as MECHNIUM 2K18[1]. It hosted more than 500 participants from more than 100 colleges. Some of the main attractions of MECHNIUM 2K18 were Paper presentation competition, Robo wars, Technical quiz, Poster Presenation, Design competition. It also hosted Technical workshop on latest topics of Mechanical engineering.

Intronix

Intronix is an annual inter collegiate technical festival organised by students of electronics and instrumentation engineering department of PEC. This fest was launched with the aim of cultivating interest among on robotics and technology. a wide range of competitions, workshops and events are organised every year to upgrade the students with new technologies

Marakriti

Marakriti(robot in Sanskrit), the robotics club of Pondicherry engineering college, was started on the year 2009 and has been an active club till date.Housed in EIE department it is one of the premier robotics club of pondicherry The students of EIE have been taking the initiative to implant the seed of motivation inside every enlightened minds for the past three years with immense support from the department staff.

Marakrithi is to boost the interested, inspire the uninterested to excel in the field of robotics and to gain knowledge, confidence and experience. The field of robotics isn’t a single domain where one gains a specialized knowledge or intelligence about specific thing, instead it is a domain where everyone gets specialized in every aspects like mechanical, electronics, software.

This club is one of the few clubs which, not only from class room sessions, but also provide hands on sessions and course end competitions to encourage the young talent to learn new technology and ruminatively design modern RO

PEC Alumni Association (PECAA)

The Alumni Association is formed to provide a forum for the students who have passed out of the college to keep in touch with each other and with the Alma Mater. The membership is open to all students passing out from the college. It is obligatory for every student to become the life member of the association by payment of Rs.100 at the time of admission to the college. The faculty of the college is its honorary members. An Executive Committee elected by the General Body at its annual meeting manages the office of the Alumni Association.

Rankings

College rankings
Engineering – India
NIRF (2018)[2] 53

Pondicherry Engineering College was ranked 53 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mechnium 2K18 Official website".
  2. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
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