University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering

University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering

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Motto	For Quality and Excellence
Type	Public, education and research institution
Established	1917
Endowment	₹12 crore
Principal	H N Ramesh
Founder	Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya
Administrative staff	115
Undergraduates	3300
Postgraduates	800
Address	K R Circle , Bangalore , Karnataka , India 12°58′33.8″N 77°35′9.8″E
Campus	City campus – 15 acres (6.1 ha) Jnana Bharathi campus – 50 acres (20 ha)
Accreditation	AICTE, NBA
Colors	Red and grey
Nickname	UVCEians
Affiliations	as a constituent college of Bangalore University (1964–present), University of Mysore (1917–1964)
Sports	University-level cricket, association football, badminton, basketball
Website	uvce.ac.in

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 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 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.

History

Main Block, UVCE Bangalore

In 1917, the then 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 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 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.

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. 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 and Electronics Engineering, 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.

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 (IITs).
• Post Graduate CET (PGCET)

Academic programmes

Cyber 'Minchu', UVCE Bangalore.

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

• Civil Engineering (Started recently)
• 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 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.

Inspiron

Since its inception in 2009, Inspiron has been hosted by The Training and Placement Office, UVCE.

Impetus

IMPETUS is a national-level technical extravaganza organised by IEEE UVCE which was started in the year 2001.

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.

Kagada

KAGADA is a National Level Annual Technical Paper Presentation Contest organized by IEEEUVCE.

Convocation

Every year convocation is held in June, where degrees are awarded to graduating students.

Student organizations

Training and Placement Office UVCE

The Training and Placement Office 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, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering..

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.

IEEE UVCE has 13 Special Interest Groups.

Notable alumni

• Venugopal K R, Former Principal UVCE and Vice Chancellor Bangalore University.
• Venkatesh K. R. Kodur, University 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, 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
• Dr. S. S. Iyengar
• Viktor Prasanna
• V. Prasad Kodali
• Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre
• Rajkumar Buyya
• Venugopal K R Former Principal UVCE and Vice Chancellor Bangalore University, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Educator, for his contributions to "Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Education".
• 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; UVCE Foundation; UVCE Centenary Foundation; UVCE Graduates Association.; UVCE_ALUMNI