University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering

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{{Infobox university
| motto = For Quality and Excellence
| name = University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
| image = Uvce_logo.jpg
| caption =
| established = 1917
| principal = H N Ramesh
| nickname = UVCEians
| type = Public, [[education]] and research institution
| city = [[Bangalore]]
| state = [[Karnataka]]
| campus = City campus – {{cvt|15|acres}}<br />Jnana Bharathi campus – {{cvt|50|acre}}
| country = [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|12|58|33.8|N|77|35|9.8|E|type:edu_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| administrative_staff = 115
| undergrad = 3300
| postgrad = 800
| website = {{URL|http://uvce.ac.in/}}
| affiliations = as a constituent college of [[Bangalore University]] (1964–present), University of Mysore (1917–1964)
| head_label = Founder
| head = [[Bharat Ratna]] [[Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya|Sir M. Visvesvaraya]]
| mascot =
| free_label = Accreditation
| free = [[All India Council for Technical Education|AICTE]], [[National Board of Accreditation|NBA]]
| colors = Red and grey {{color box|Red}}{{color box|Grey}}
| sports = University-level [[cricket]], [[association football]], [[badminton]], [[basketball]]
| address = K R Circle
| endowment = {{INR}}12 crore<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://uvcebangalore.ac.in/ | title=Home - University Visvervaraya College of EngineeringUniversity Visvervaraya College of Engineering | access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>
}}
'''University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering''' ('''UVCE''') was established in 1917, under the name '''Government Engineering College''', by [[Bharat Ratna]] [[Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya|Sir M. Visvesvaraya]], and was then affiliated to [[Bangalore University]]. It is the fifth engineering college to be established in the country and 1st in Karnataka state. 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 [[All India Council for Technical Education|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.{{When|date=July 2016}} The college receives financial aid<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/world-bank-grants-funds-for-uvce/167243-60.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126215708/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/world-bank-grants-funds-for-uvce/167243-60.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-26 |title=World Bank grants funds for UVCE }}</ref> under the [[TEQIP]] program from the [[World Bank]].

==History==
[[File:3asdasdadad.JPG|thumb|right| Main Block, UVCE [[Bangalore]]]]
In 1917, the then [[List of Diwans of Mysore|Diwan of Mysore]], Sir M. Visvesvaraya, felt a need to have an engineering college in the state as the [[College of Engineering, Guindy]] and [[College of Engineering, Pune]] 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 engineering|civil]] and [[mechanical engineering]] branches in the PWD building. [[S.V. Setty]] was a founder professor. It was the fifth engineering college to be started in [[British India|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.
UVCE has been affiliated to [[Bangalore University]] since 1964. Dr. [[Venugopal K R]], Principal [[UVCE]] was the Special Officer to the Government of Karnataka for Trifurcating Bangalore University. He submitted the report on 26th March 2015 for restructuring Bangalore University into Bangalore University, Bengaluru City University and Bengaluru North University and UVCE to be carved out as Center of Excellence on the model of Indian Institute of Technology. UVCE was granted autonomy by a bill tabled in Karnataka assembly and now UVCE is an autonomous institution with effect from 25 March 2022.

A committee is formed by Govt of Karnataka with [[College of Engineering, Guindy]] graduate Sadagopan as the chairman to explore the procedure of granting autonomy to the institute.<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/committee-formed-for-uvce-upgrade/article31626372.ece</ref><ref>https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/more-than-300-bengalureans-pedal-up-to-celebrate-cycle-day/articleshow/69977593.cms</ref>

==Campus==
Situated at [[Krishna Rajendra Circle]], in the neighborhood of [[Vidhaana Soudha]] (the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council building of the Government of Karnataka), the city campus houses the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering. At the Jnana Bharathi campus, which is located near the suburb of Kengeri and is the hub of Bangalore University, there are the post graduate academic buildings and the departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the UVCE.

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bangaloreuniversity.ac.in/faculties/departments_engineering.aspx |title=Bangalore University }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/gallery/indias+top+50+universities/1/3229.html#photo38 |title=India's Top 50 Universities }}</ref> 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|Electrical and Electronics Engineering]], [[Electronics and Communication|Electronics and Communication Engineering]] 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.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

==Admission==
The college 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 ([[Indian Institutes of Technology|IITs]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gate.iitm.ac.in/ |title=GATE}}</ref>
* Post Graduate CET (PGCET)

==Academic programmes==
[[File:Cyber 'Minchu', UVCE Bangalore.jpg|thumb|right|250px| Cyber 'Minchu', UVCE Bangalore.]]
[[File:6rtrtsrer.JPG|thumb|right|250px| Library, UVCE Bangalore]]

The institution offers seven undergraduate (B.E / B.Arch) and twenty-four postgraduate (M.E / M.Arch.) programmes.

===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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article2524871.ece |title=Many benefit from UVCE's evening classes}}</ref>====
* Civil Engineering (Started recently{{When|date=July 2016}})
* Electronics and Communication Engineering
* Mechanical Engineering

===Postgraduate programmes===

====Masters in Engineering====
'''Computer Science and Engineering'''
* [[Computer Science]]
* [[Information Technology]]
* [[Computer Networks]]
* Web Technologies
* [[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==
===Cultural events===
==== Milagro ====
Milagro<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://new.visionuvce.in/4_01_mil.html |title=Milagro}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kurups.org/UVCE/Milagro/history.html |title= MILAGRO UVCE}}</ref> is the annual inter-collegiate cultural fest that is organized in UVCE. This event draws crowds of up to 2,000 and is organized during March - April.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uvcemilagro.in|title=MILAGRO 2016 - UVCE|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uvcemilagro.in |title=Milagro 2016}}</ref>

====Inspiron====
Since its inception in 2009, Inspiron has been hosted by The Training and Placement Office, UVCE.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://campusuvce.in/ |title= TPO UVCE}}</ref>

====Impetus====
IMPETUS is a national-level technical extravaganza organised by IEEE UVCE which was started in the year 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|title=IEEE Bangalore section : History|url=http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/bangalore/history/history.html|website=www.ewh.ieee.org|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>

Corporate companies like IBM, Yahoo!, NIIT, Motorola, Cognizant, Infosys, DELL etc. and Government organisations like [[BWSSB]] and [[BESCOM]] sponsor the fest. The event hosts 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.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

====Kagada====
KAGADA<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ieeeuvce.tk |title=KAGADA}}</ref> is a National Level Annual Technical Paper Presentation Contest organized by IEEEUVCE.

====Convocation====
Every year convocation<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vidhyaashram.com/uvce-glitters-with-16-gold-medallists/ |title=UVCE Glitters with 16 Gold Medalists}}</ref> is held in June, where degrees are awarded to graduating students.

===Student organizations===

====Training and Placement Office UVCE====
The Training and Placement Office <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://campusuvce.in/ |title= TPO UVCE}}</ref> is functional in the institute since 1989 founded by Dr. M Channa Reddy and further developed by Dr.Sathya Narayana Makam, Dr. Paul S Vizhian, Dr. P Deepa Shenoy and Dr. K B Raja. The current placement officer is Dr. B M Rajaprakash,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr B M Rajaprakash|url=https://campusuvce.in/}}</ref> Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering..

====IEEE UVCE====
IEEE UVCE<ref>{{cite web|title=IEEE UVCE|url=http://ieeeuvce.in/|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref> 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.

IEEE UVCE has 13 Special Interest Groups.

==Notable alumni==
{{unreferenced section|date=April 2021}}
* [[Venkatesh K. R. Kodur]], University professor at [[Michigan State University]] and a pioneer in structural fire design.
* [[Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar|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)|Prahlada]], missile scientist and former Vice Chancellor of DIAT
* [[G Guruswamy]], Principal Aerospace Scientist who pioneered computational aeroelasticity in 1978.
* [[Rajkumar Buyya]], Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the [[University of Melbourne]]
* [[Roddam Narasimha]]
* [[V. K. Aatre]]

==UVCE IEEE Fellow awardees==
* M A L Thathachar{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* [[Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar|Dr. S. S. Iyengar]]
* Viktor Prasanna<ref>[http://halcyon.usc.edu/~pk/prasannawebsite/ Dr. Viktor K. Prasanna]</ref>
* V. Prasad Kodali<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ethw.org/V._Prasad_Kodali|title=V. Prasad Kodali - Engineering and Technology History Wiki|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>
* [[V. K. Aatre|Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre]]
* Rajkumar Buyya<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buyya.com|title=Professor Dr. Rajkumar Buyya's Cyberhome|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>
* Venugopal K R<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venugopalkr.com|title=Dr. Venugopal K R, Special Officer, DVG Bangalore University|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>
* [[N. Ahmed]], 1985 "for his contributions to engineering education and digital signal processing."

==Alumni Associations==
Instead of typically one per institution there are three associations formed by different groups:
VisionUVCE;<ref>http://www.visionuvce.in/</ref>
UVCE Foundation;<ref>http://www.uvcefoundation.org/CMS_UI/NewUserPage.aspx?pagename=Home)</ref>
UVCE Graduates Association.;<ref>http://www.uvcega.org/</ref>
UVCE_ALUMNI

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