Jabalpur Engineering College

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Jabalpur Engineering College

Former names	Government Engineering College, Jabalpur
Motto	Onwards on wings
Type	Government
Established	1947; 74 years ago (1947)
Founder	Dr. S. P. Chakravarti (Founding Principal)
Chairperson	Yashodhara Raje Scindia (Minister of Technical Education)
Principal	Arvind Kumar Sharma
Location	Jabalpur , Madhya Pradesh , India
Campus	Urban 255 acres (103 ha)
Website	www.jecjabalpur.ac.in

Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC) is an institute located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the oldest technical institution in central India and the 15th-oldest in India.^[1][2][3] It is the first institute of India to have started the Electronics & Telecommunication engineering education in the country, and also the last educational institution to be set up by the British in India.^[4][5] The Government of Madhya Pradesh is converting it into Technical University.^[6]

History[]

President of India at the Golden Jubilee function of JEC, along with the Chief Minister and the Governor of Madhya Pradesh

JEC was established as the Government Engineering College (GEC), Jabalpur, on 7 July 1947, during the British rule in India. It was inaugurated by the then Minister for Education of the Central Provinces, S. V. Gokhale.^[7] It started functioning from the existing building of Robertson College, Jabalpur, which was constructed in the year 1916.^[8][9] The building now houses the Civil engineering department of JEC, and Robertson College has been shifted to its present and permanent campus in Pachpedi.^[10] Dr. S. P. Chakravarti, the serving Head of the Electrical engineering department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was appointed as its first Principal.^[11]

JEC is the first institute of India to award bachelor's degree in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering, which it is offering since its inception in 1947, and the first institute of India to award master's degrees in Microwave engineering, Telecommunications engineering and High Voltage engineering, which it is offering since 1956. It has installed the first television transmitting station of India, and the first high-voltage lab of India.^[12][7][5]

The Silver Jubilee ceremony of the institute was celebrated in 1972, in the presence of the then Education Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Arjun Singh.^[7] The institute celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997, while the President of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Governor of Madhya Pradesh, Mohammad Shafi Qureshi and the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh, graced the Golden Jubilee ceremony.^[13][14] The Platinum Jubilee year was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Technical Education Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, and the Public Works Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Gopal Bhargava, on 7 July, 2021.^[15]

It was affiliated to the University of Sagar between the years 1947 and 1956, then to the University of Jabalpur until the year 1999, and from 1999 to 2010 to the State Technological University of Madhya Pradesh. In 1997, it was granted an autonomous institute status,^[16] and in the year 2017, it was declared a technical university by the Government of Madhya Pradesh.^[6]

Academics[]

Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC)'s administrative building

Departments[]

Civil engineering department, built in the year 1916

• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electronics & Telecommunication
• Computer Science & Engineering
• Information Technology
• Industrial & Production Engineering
• Department of Humanities
• Department of Applied Physics
• Department of Applied Chemistry
• Department of Applied Mathematics

The institute offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering and applied sciences.

JEC made an announcement in March 2013, that it is starting new courses in engineering like Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, Biomedical engineering, Chemical engineering, Marine engineering, Materials science, Neuroscience, Data science, Artificial intelligence, Mechatronics, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, besides Master of Business Administration, Master of Design, Architecture, Town planning and Pharmacy.^{[17][18] [19][20]}

Admissions[]

• B.E. / B.Tech - Admissions are carried out on the basis of performance in Joint Entrance Examination – Main.
• M.E. / M.Tech - through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
• MCA - through MP Pre-MCA examination, conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board.
• MSc - Every year, 15 seats are allotted for the respective departments i.e. Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. Selection is purely based on the percentage obtained in BSc degree examination, minimum expectation is 50% for the eligibility. Departments may conduct a selection test if the number of applicants exceeds 15.
• PhD - through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), followed by written test and Interview.

Accreditation[]

All the courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, recognised by the Directorate of Technical Education, Madhya Pradesh, and accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.

Projects[]

1.6 million volt impulse generator at the High Voltage Lab

Fire-tube boiler of Mechanical engineering department

The ongoing projects at JEC:^[21]

• CORE (Centre of Relevance & Excellence) by TIFAC (Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)
• CIIILP (Canada-India Institute Industry Linkage Project)
• Indo-Italian Research project
• DSP Lab, Texas Instruments
• Sun Microsystems Training Centre
• Cisco Regional Academy of Networking Programme
• Centre for National & Academic Networking for Continuing Education with AICTE
• Renewable Energy Park – Govt. of India
• Centre of Fuzzy Logic System by Govt. of India
• Microzonation of selected cities of India by Geological Survey of India
• STA (State Technical Agency) and Remote Sensing Centre of Prime Minister’s Rural Road Project - Govt. of India
• Research Project of Robotics & Manufacturing, Ministry of Science & Technology
• Software Technology Park of India, 2 MBPS HSDC Node, Ministry of Information Technology
• Fuller Energy Awards (State level) Selection
• M.P. Chamber consultancy clinic of Katni with MPCON
• Mini Tool Room, Ministry of Commerce & Industries, Government of India
• ERNET- AICTE Facility for Distance Learning & Digital Library
• Remote Sensing Resource Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
• MOUs signed with national & international organisations eg. Infosys, Wipro, TCS, IBM, Cisco etc., for promoting training of students.

Student life[]

Housing[]

Boys' hostel no. 3

Events[]

Jashan auditorium

• TEDxJECollege, an international conference is held annually in the month of February.^[22][23]
• Aureole is the techno-cultural fest of Jabalpur Engineering College.^{[citation needed]}
• Aaghaz is the intra-college, inter-branch sports-cum-cultural fest and is held annually.^[24]

Societies[]

• Unofficial Magazine - Abhiyaam ^[25]
• JEC has its own theatre club - Azaan, which provides a platform for drama, acting and dance.
• Photography society - The Camera Eye.^[26]
• Literary society - The Literary Club.^[26]
• Musical society - Raag.^[26]
• Technical society - JLUG (JEC Linux User Group).^[26]
• Technical society - Automotive Society.^[26]
• Technical society for Electrical Engineering and Robotics - Urja.^[26]
• Technical society for CSE /IT sector - The JEC ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).^[26]
• JEC is also home of Kaarwaan, the social welfare society and NGO of JEC, run by college students that helps underprivileged children prepare for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST) and other similar exams.^[27]

Notable alumni[]

• Ajai Chowdhry – Co-founder & former Chairman of HCL Technologies. Awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India. Chairman of IIT Patna and IIIT Naya Raipur, and former Chairman of IIT Hyderabad.
• Sharad Yadav – Former Union Cabinet Minister of India for Civil Aviation, Labour, Textiles, Food Processing Industries, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Chairman of Janata Dal (United).
• K. S. Sudarshan - He was the fifth Sarsanghachalak (Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from 2000 to 2009, the world's largest voluntary non-governmental organisation.
• Sharat Saxena – Veteran Indian film, television and theatre actor.
• Shreegopal Vyas - Member of Parliament of the Rajya Sabha.
• C. B. Bhave – Former Chairman & Managing Director of National Securities Depository Limited and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
• Shyam Mardikar - Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Jio and former CTO, Bharti Airtel.
• Prakash Naidu – Former Project Director, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Bangalore.
• Hemchandra Kekre – Former Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of Department, Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Bombay.
• Visva Mohan Tiwari - Retired Air Vice Marshal, Indian Air Force.
• Sudhir Kumar Mishra - Director General at the Defence Research & Development Organisation, CEO and Managing Director, BrahMos Aerospace.

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