Kongu Engineering College - [KEC]

About College

Kongu Engineering College (KEC) was founded by the Kongu Vellalar Institute of Technology Trust (KVITT) in the year 1984.

• The Institute is affiliated with Anna University, Chennai and the college has completed 30 years in the field of technical education.
• It is an ISO certified institution.
• The college became an autonomous university in 2009.
• The mission of the institute is to bring out technically competent, ethically strong, and quality professionals to keep the nation ahead in the competitive knowledge-intensive world.

Alumni: The noted alumni of this institute are:

• P. Rathina Kumar, Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks Technologies Pvt Ltd
• B.Prasana Venkatesh, Senior Technical Lead, HCL Technologies
• Pratheep  Shanmugam, Finance Manager, Cash Converts, Australia
• S.Sundaravadivelan, Head/IT, Financial Sofware Systems
• Mr.Guruchandran Rajaram, Manager- Projects, Cognizant

Research: The Research & Development Cell of Kongu Engineering College is established to promote research activities among students. The Institute has 16 research centers in which faculty and students from various institutions belonging to various departments take part with a motive to enhance their qualification in respective disciplines. 

Placements:

• Total Placement as of 10.10.2014 - 1051
• Total no of Companies Visited -12

Activities:

• NCC: These volunteers conduct activities like awareness camps on rainwater harvesting and tree plantation program.
• NSS: This group conducts activities like blood donation camps.
• Women Development Cell: This cell has responsibilities to hold activities in order to fulfill the objectives i.e. to empower the women students to face the challenges in life and create social awareness about the problems of women.

Clubs:

• Creative Club
• Energy & Environment Conservation Club
• English Proficiency Club
• Fine Arts & Culturals  Club
• Photography Club
• Rotaract Club
• Tamil Mandram
• Yoga & Meditation Club

Facilities:

Infrastructure: College campus has an area of 173.25 acres of land.

Hostel: The Accommodation structures include

• Guesthouse
• Alumni Guest House
• Hostels

The men’s hostels provide accommodation for around 2500 students. With good standards in Mess, Computer Centers, Room keeping, Reading rooms no stone is left unturned in ensuring that the students find themselves as at home. 

• Dheeran
• Valluvar
• Bharathi
• Kamban
• Ilang

The ladies hostels provide safe, secure, and homely accommodation for around 2000 students.

• Amaravathi
• Bhavani
• Kaveri
• Vaigai

Library: 

• The institution provides a well-stocked library with an area of 3, 286.43 sq. m. with 12 sections.
• It contains a total of 69, 401 volumes of books and 26,714 titles.
• It subscribes to 194 journals and magazines out of which 192 are National.
• It also subscribes to 10 newspapers. It also has 3, 064 volumes in book bank, 19, 144 online journals, 6, 514 digitals, and other resources including CDs.
• It also has a digital library which has a collection of 5, 700 number of CDs and floppy discs, including sources like GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, ISI codes, etc. In addition, there is a number of 529 Audio and Video Cassettes available in the concerned department Library.
• It provides a number of Online Electronic databases like IEEE, ACM, ASME, and ASCE online CD-ROM databases.
• The Library transactions and library entries are carried out by bar code technology. It has the facility of Web OPAC-online search.

Auditorium:

• Kongu Engineering College has an air-conditioned auditorium that accommodates 5,000 people.
• It also has international standards guest house and alumni guest house. 

Festivals:

• Sciensea:  conducted by the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• MXCEL: A Mechanical Symposium
• Cunosure: Computer Science Engineering Symposium
• Orion: National level technical symposium

Rankings:

• It is ranked 4th overall among the list of private Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
• It comes in the list of top 60 private and government engineering colleges combined in India.

Scholarships: Kongu Vellalar Institute of Technology Trust gives scholarships worth 1 cr. to around 400 students to needy students based on merits.

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