University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) was established in 1917, under the name Government Engineering College, by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, and was then affiliated to Bangalore University. It is the fifth engineering college to be established in the country. UVCE is a constituent college of Bangalore University which gives it a special status of a university.UVCE is one of the few technical institutions in the country that is vested with the status of a university. It is one of the oldest technical institutions in the country, imparting technical education leading to B.E, B.Arch, M.E, M.Arch and PhD degrees in the various disciplines of Engineering and Architecture. The college is approved by the AICTE and the Government of Karnataka. The departments are accredited with five A+ for three years by the National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. UVCE has a NAAC rating of five stars for the past four consecutive years. The college receives financial aid under the TEQIP program from the World Bank.
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History
In 1917, the then Diwan of Mysore, Sir M. Visvesvaraya, felt a need to have an engineering college in the state as the Civil Engineering College Madras and College of Engineering Poona were unable to accommodate enough students from Mysore State.
He started the college in 1917 in Bangalore as a School of Engineering with 20 students in civil and mechanical engineering branches in the PWD building. It was the fifth engineering college to be started in India and the first one in Mysore State. In 1965, the name of the college was changed to University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering after its founder.
Situated at K R Circle and in the neighbourhood of Vidhana Soudha, Government of Karnataka, the city campus houses the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering. Department of Electronics Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Amidst the Jnana Bharathi campus, the hub of Bangalore University, Post graduate Academic activities, the Engineering campus has departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
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Campus
UVCE is a constituent college of Bangalore University which gives it a special university status, a privilege granted to only a few institutions in the country. The campus has an academic sector equipped with modern laboratories and facilities. The residential area has hostels for both the boys and the girls. There are playgrounds and spaces where events and functions happen from time to time. UVCE is situated at KR Circle and in the neighborhood of Vidhana Soudha, Government of Karnataka, with a campus area spreading over 15 acres, housing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science Engineering. The institute runs Civil and Architecture courses at Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore occupying land area of 50 acres.The college provides hostel facilities for boys and girls separately both in the Jnana Bharathi and city campus.
The college updates the curriculum and syllabus regularly. The college has conducted over 50 workshops, 6 International Conferences in the last four years and has published more than 500 Research/technical papers in various International journals. Repute publishers have brought out 35 books authored by the staff of UVCE.
Admission
The institute admits students based on the following entrance exams.
- Undergraduate programmes
- Common Entrance Test, conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority
- Postgraduate programmes
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology, IITs.
- Post Graduate CET (PGCET)
Academic programmes
The institution offers seven undergraduate (B.E / B.Arch) and twenty-four postgraduate (M.E / M.Arch.) programmes. The institute has awarded 153 Ph.D degrees. At present there are 135 candidates pursuing their Ph.D. The Department of Civil Engineering being a recognized QIP center from MHRD, has completed more than 50 consultancy projects. The teaching faculty has completed / engaged in number of R & D projects sponsored by UGC, AICTE, MHRD, AR&DB, ADA, Naval Research Board, National Highways, etc. including an Indo-European project. Forty three Books have been published by the faculty members of UVCE.
Undergraduate programmes
Regular (B.E., B.Arch.)
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Information Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Architecture
Part-time undergraduate programmes
- Civil engineering (started recently)
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Postgraduate programmes
Masters in Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computer Networks
- Web Technologies
- Information Technology(incorporating 50% seat sharing with people from non CS background)
- Software Engineering
- Bioinformatics
Electronics and Communication
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
Electrical Engineering
- Power & Energy Systems
- Power Electronics
- Control & Instrumentation
Civil Engineering
- Construction Technology
- Geo-Technical Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Highway Engineering
- Pre-stressed Concrete
- Water Resource Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
- Machine Design
- Manufacturing Science Engineering
- Thermal Science Engineering
- Advanced Material Technology
Architecture
- Construction and Project Management
- Landscape Architecture
PhD programme
The PhD degree is awarded by the Bangalore University UVCE which is a constituent college of Bangalore University serves as a research centre for the award of PhD degree in several research areas of the following branches:
- Civil Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering (Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed Computing, Web Mining, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Image Processing, Bio-metrics, Bioinformatics, Signal Processing, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Analytics, Data Auditing, Internet of Things, Social Networks, Network Security and many other Computer Science related research areas.)
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Architecture
Endowments
The college receives endowments from World Bank under TEQIP Scheme. TEQIP Phase 1 endowments were about 13.5 crores and TEQIP Phase 2 endowments reached about same level.
Student life and festivals
MILAGRO
MILAGRO is the biggest inter-collegiate cultural event that is organized in UVCE. This event has the capacity to draw crowds touching up to 5000, during the course of its two days of organizing. It was organised on April 29 and 30, 2016.
IMPETUS
IMPETUS is a national level Technical Extravaganza organised by IEEE UVCE. It is the biggest technical fest in UVCE. Every year the event witnesses the footfall of over 1000 students. Corporate companies like IBM, Yahoo!, NIIT, Motorola, Cognizant, Infosys etc. sponsor for this fest. The event will host both technical events like Circuit Debugging, OSP, Web Designing, Technical Quiz and non-technical events like Mad Ads, Ad-Venture, Team building event, Marketing event, Mock stock etc.
FIESTA
FIESTA is one of the occasions, when we see UVCE all lit up, effervescent and oozing festive cheers from all directions. It is the intra-ccfrft, cultural ebullience that is celebrated during the second half of every year.
KAGADA
KAGADA is a National Level Annual Technical Paper Presentation Contest organized by IEEEUVCE.
ESPORTIVO
ESPORTIVO is the only Sports Fest in Bangalore that is organized solely by students. UVCE has always nurtured and supported passion, hard work, will power and an entrepreneurial bent of mind- be it a simple student body like ART FORUM or a large scale endeavor like The Training & Placement Office. ESPORTIVO is one such endeavor, which enables and empowers the student organizing committee to truly DREAM IT and WIN IT!
Sport and games
The following students have won laurels for the college. Lakshmi N ( World Women fencing championship), Varun Shetty (national-level winner and captained Bangalore University -Lawn Tennis), Tejasvini V (Inter University Swimming champion) Supriya (Volleyball), Uma B ( Throw ball), Sridhar (table tennis), UDay Kumar J ( Volleyball), Ranjitha V ( Table Tennis), Kavi Kumar (Kho-Kho), Kulkarni Vinayaka (c Chess), C R RaviKiran (baseball, softball), Arathi Kashipathi (Softball Nationals).
Convocation
Every year convocation is held in June, where degrees are awarded to graduating students.
Student organizations and activities
Training and Placement Office UVCE
The Training and Placement Office is functional in the institute since 1989 founded by Dr. M Channa Reddy and developed by Dr.Sathya Narayana Makam, & Dr.S.Paul Vizhian. The current placement officer is Dr. Thriveni J, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. It acts as a liaison between the industry and students fulfilling the ambition of the students in getting the right job. It helps students to achieve their career objectives through systematic training in soft and technical skills and exposure to corporate environment through campus placements. It focuses not only on maximum placements but also on the diversity and variety of companies from all sectors of industries thereby ensuring complete placements for students of all branches of the college.
IEEE UVCE
IEEE UVCE is an IEEE student branch under the aegis of IEEE Bangalore Section. This branch revived in 2001. Symposiums, guest lectures, KAGADA- the National Level Paper Presentation Contest, IMPETUS- the National Level Technical Fest and collegiate activities- RIPPLES are some of the events held all through the year.
They have won several awards at the Bangalore Section of IEEE which include the Best Student Branch Award, Best Student Volunteer Award and Best Student Branch Website Award. The student branch counselor has won the Best Branch Counselor Award and Best Volunteer Service Award. The major aim of IEEE UVCE is to provide technical support to students by means of workshops, seminars, fun technical events and competitions in trending technological fields. The student members have won laurels at prestigious competitions, presented papers at renowned conferences and have been very active at IEEE Bangalore section level as well. Besides these, IEEE UVCE has 11 Special Interest Groups.
Entrepreneurship cell UVCE
Entrepreneurship Cell UVCE (ECell UVCE), was set up with a motive to build a strong student driven community that is passionate to have an Entrepreneurial career.
The prime focus of this initiative is to promote Entrepreneurship and develop a sustained platform that supports students from UVCE in starting up their own venture; thereby realizing their ideas and converting them into reality. The body plans to provide Incubation for Startup ideas, training and mentorship.
SAEINDIAUVCE
SAEINDIAUVCE, a collegiate club affiliated to SAEINDIA, was established in the year 2012. It aims to bridge the gap of the students with the industry. To celebrate the wonder of automobiles and machines. It conducts seminars, workshops among the students to spread the word on present technological advances in automobiles. It took part in National Go Kart Championship NGKC 2014 held by ISNEE,Meerut,and achieved a 6th place in India.
VisionUVCE
VisionUVCE is a group of UVCE alumni who are focussed on "Giving Back to UVCE" by creating awareness among the strong alumni that UVCE has and make them understand the potential that the creation, of an alumni group working for the betterment of college, brings about. It is our responsibility to make sure, the flag of our alma mater flies high in the air and also as alumni of this college, there is a need to take part in the operations in the college.
UVCE Foundation
The UVCE Foundation. was created by alumni, faculty and well-wishers of UVCE in 2003. The Foundation has members from around the world and has already executed various projects at UVCE to address immediate needs of the students of UVCE. UVCE foundation is the active Alumni wing which has been looking to strive for reviving of brand UVCE.
UVCE Alumni Centenary Foundation, UACF
The objective of UACF is to restore the status that the college enjoyed many years back. UVCE will celebrate its centennial in 2017 and the foundation aims to ensure that college retains its lost glory by then.
Notable alumni
- Venkatesh K. R. Kodur, University Distinguished professor at Michigan State University and a pioneer in structural fire design.
- Professor S.S. Iyengar, Ryder Professor and Director of Computer Science at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
- Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre, scientist, former head, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
- N. Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer and Engineering, University of New Mexico
- Mano Murthy, entrepreneur and composer
- Roddam Narasimha, eminent scientist
- Lakshmi Narayanan, Ex-CEO at Cognizant
- Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Former chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
- H. G. Dattatreya, actor
- Ramesh Arvind, actor
- Vijaya Bhaskar, composer
- Arvind Bhat, badminton player
- Prakash Belawadi, actor
- Prahlada (scientist), missile scientist and former Vice Chancellor of DIAT
- K R Yogendra Simha, Professor of Fracture Mechanics in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Dr. A.C. Bhaskar Naidu, former Principal, BMS college of engineering, Bangalore.
UVCE IEEE Fellow awardees
- Dr. M A L Thathachar
- Dr. S. S. Iyengar
- Viktor Prasanna
- V. Prasad Kodali
- Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre
- Rajkumar Buyya
- Venugopal K R
References
External links
- UVCE principal felicitated
- Moily Pushing IIT tag for UVCE
- UVCE should chalk out roadmap for 21st century
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