Английская Википедия:Government College of Engineering, Salem

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The Government College of Engineering, Salem in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, is an engineering education center in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the three institutions offering Metallurgical Engineering as a full-time course in Tamil Nadu.

GCE-Salem was started during the Third Plan period in 1966 and is located on a beautiful site surrounded by hills. Its area is Шаблон:Convert. This is the third government engineering institution formed in Tamil Nadu. The first batch of students was selected for 1966 for courses in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. In 1973 the metallurgical engineering branch was started. The Electronics Engineering and Communication Engineering branch was introduced in 1985. Computer science and engineering was started in 2001. All the undergraduate courses except Computer Science and Engineering are accredited by NBA.

Affiliations

The institute was affiliated to the University of Madras until 2001. After a brief affiliation with Periyar University, it was a constituent college of Anna University which is a statewide centralized engineering university. From the year of 2009, GCE Salem has been promoted as one of the Autonomous Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu.

The college is a Regional Centre for Anna University for Ph.D. and M.S., programmes. It is the zonal office for the conduct of Anna University Examinations in the 21 colleges belonging to this zone. The institution is one of the eleven technical institutions of Tamil Nadu selected for World Bank financial assistance under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP). The institution has received an approval for a sum of Rs. 10.967 crores as lifetime allocation for the project implementation spread over a period of four years from 2003 to 2007.

Buildings

The Administrative block or Main block is the capital of the College. The streams of Engineering have dedicated buildings. All the Engineering departments are equipped with technologies aided by funding from World Bank through Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP). In TEQIP Phase II ( from 2011-2014), the institution has received Rs.12 crore for enhancing research activities.

Admission

Admission to the institute is through single window counselling system of Anna University. Undergraduate students are selected based on competitive student rankings in higher secondary examination and then subjected to counselling.

Postgraduate students are selected based on competitive rankings in Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) and few seats through GATE Examinations.

Academic and departments

• Administrative Block
• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering
• Physics department
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• English
• Physical Education
• Library
• Digital Library

Master courses

• Structural Engineering
• CAD
• Thermal Engineering
• Power Electronics and Drives
• Welding Technology

Planetarium

The Planetarium of Government College of Engineering, Salem-11. was commissioned on 6 February 1979 by Dr. M.G.Ramachandran the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The sky is projected on the dome of the Planetarium.

Notable Alumni

• Vijay Kumar (filmmaker)
• E. R. Eswaran, Politician

See also

• List of Tamil Nadu Government's Educational Institutions
• List of Tamil Nadu Government's Engineering Colleges

External links

• GCE Salem home page Шаблон:Webarchive