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Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram (India)
The Government Engineering College Palakkad is a technical education institute established in 1999 in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. The college is owned by the Government of Kerala and is governed by the Directorate of Technical Education, Kerala. The college is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and follow its curriculum and syllabi.
The college is located in the village of Sreekrishnapuram in the Palakkad District of Kerala. Nearest towns are Mannarkkad (15 km), Cherpulassery (15 km), Ottappalam (25 km), Shoranur (35 km) and Palakkad (35 km).
The Main building was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister V.S Achuthananthan on 1 August 2010.
The institute has six engineering departments: Information Technology, Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Civil Engineering.
Organisation and administration[]
Departments[]
Dept. of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Information Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Dept. of Mathematics
Dept. of Chemistry
Dept. of Economics
Dept. of Physical education
Facilities[]
Central Library
Computer Center and Seminar Hall
Gymnasium
Canteen
Ladies hostel
Men's hostel
Technical Business Incubator
Central Stair Case of GEC Palakkad. The staircase inspires the logo for Invento, Life@GEC (a student organisation). Image taken by Allen Kuriakose (student).
New Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department Block under construction
Academics[]
Courses[]
The college offers six B.Tech. courses, with an annual intake of 63 regular students and six lateral entry students for each course.
Undergraduate courses:
Computer Science and Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Information Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Civil Engineering
Admission to undergraduate courses are based on results in KEAM entrance exam.
Postgraduate courses:
Computational Linguistics
Mechanical Engineering (Robotics)
Admission to M.Tech. programmes are based on applicant's result in the GATE conducted by IITs and IISc. Non GATE entries are accepted according to the CGPA in B.Tech.
PhD in department of computer science also started in 2016.
Library[]
The college library has more than 12,000 volumes that mostly cover the syllabus needs of the students. Some international and national journals are available in the college library. Around 9% of the annual budget is allotted for the Library.
The IEEE Magazine Package is made available in the library.
The library has subscribed to the AICTE-DELNET Scheme for online access to DEL resources of e-journals.
Placements[]
GECSKP students have been placed in organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, Infosys, Mphasis, Procsys, IBM, TCS, Wipro, Cognizant Technologies, Siemens, HP, Samsung, Patni, CMC Ltd, Future Soft, HCL, IBS, Kirloskar, Huawei Technologies, Canbay Software, Subex, US Technology, DRDO, Cordys, Hexaware, etc.
In 2013–14, more than 50% of students with 7.5 CGPA having no backlogs had been placed.[1]
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Central Stair Case of GEC Palakkad. The staircase inspires the logo for Invento, Life@GEC (a student organisation). Image taken by Allen Kuriakose (student).
