Brief History
Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh having its roots in Lahore has been the foremost institution of higher technical education in the northern part of the country since independence. The institute has immensely contributed to the nation building by providing intellect talent possessing excellent analytical, design, practical and managerial skills.
Our students have probed into all sectors be it government, private or public to serve the country in various capacities. The institute has a flexible and industry oriented academic curricula for UG education on IIT pattern. The key emphasis is on engagement of students with the industry through six months internship, expert lectures during industry week in each semester, projects on industry based problems and many more.
The institute has signed MOUs with many industries, international universities to conduct joint research in cutting edge technologies. The academic practices of the institute are also similar to IIT, e.g. the academic curriculum is based on Choice Based Credit System with flexibility in choice of electives, inclusion of minor and major specializations, inclusion of MOOCs, credit transfer scheme, industrial internship and industrial visits, proper emphasis on basic and engineering sciences, humanities, management, communication skills, ethics and value systems courses and also the co-curricular. The institute puts tremendous emphasis on student learning, creation of a conducive learning environment, faculty and staff upgradation, research and development, development of entrepreneurship skills, industry interaction and alumni networking.
Our institute is also a part of Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) whose aim is to foster and sustain close academic alliances between institutions of higher education and research in Chandigarh region. PEC is spearheading the activities under engineering science domain as the lead institute. The three centres of excellence namely, Cyber Security Research Centre, Centre for Total Quality Management and the Centre of Excellence in Industrial and Product Design are involved in R & D activities in their respective domains.
Currently, the institute is running 8 UG and 14 PG programmes in Engineering and Technology, and also PhD programmes in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. The current student strength across all courses is about 2840. With recent increase in UG intake in place, the strength will increase to 4000 in the year 2020. The admissions to UG programmes are through national level JEE (Mains) test and to PG and PhD programmes through national level GATE examination. Admission to PG programmes also is being done through Centralized Counselling for M.Tech./M.Arch./M.Plan (CCMT). There are 9 academic departments (8 engineering and one applied sciences department), one academic center in Humanities and Management, two Centers of Excellence; Cyber Security Research Center, and COE in Industrial and Product Design (the latter established under TEQIP II). The institute has got TEQIP III grants from MHRD and is mentoring
Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Engineering College, Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh.
Location
The institute campus is situated in Sector-12 at the northern end of Chandigarh. The Campus is 9 km from the Chandigarh Railway Station and 8 km from the main Bus Stand, and about 20 km from the International Airport.
Campus
The institute campus extends over an area of 149 acres of land situated close to the beautiful Shivalik Hills. The campus is divided into various functional zones like hostels, main institute building, new academic block, administrative block, residential complex for faculty and staff and a shopping centre. In addition to lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and drawing halls, the institute has auditorium, library, computer centre, reading rooms, workshops and well equipped laboratories. The institute has spacious playgrounds, tennis courts, squash courts, swimming pool, gymnasium and a student centre. Banking facilities with nationally connected ATMs along with a computerized post office are available. Adequate hostel facilities for both boys and girls are available on the institute campus.
Computer Centre
Computer Centre is the central place for campus-wide networking and Internet connectivity. Backbone connectivity initiates from this Centre and caters to more than 2000 nodes across the campus. The Centre is equipped with Web Server, Academia Server, E- Mail Server, Security Wall, Bandwidth Management and Data Servers. The Computer centre has network infrastructure consisting of routers, firewall, Unified Threat Management (UTM), manageable layer 2, layer 3 switches. It also houses cluster of Windows and Linux based servers for mailing and web application hosting.
The campus is equipped with Controller Based Wireless Network with more than 200 wireless access points across the academic area and hostels for smooth internet access. The wireless network allows users to access network resources from nearest any convenient location within the campus.
Library
The library is housed in an impressive three storeyed air conditioned building, based on modern principles of architecture, with an area of 27,000 sq. feet. It has a seating accommodation for 350 users. The basement of old block has been converted into Digital Library for easy access to online learning material by students and faculty.
The library has open access to all its collections and is organized into various sections viz. Circulation Section, Periodical Section, Reference Section, Multimedia Section, Newspaper/ Magazine Section, Technical Section, Book Bank (General and SC/ST), Binding Section, which are manned by professionally qualified staff. All students, faculty, staff and alumni are entitled to make use of the library facilities provided they enroll themselves as members of the library.
Workshop
The workshop area houses 11 workshops, namely, Machine, Fitting, Electrical, Welding, Sheet Metal, Carpentry, Foundry, Smithy, Automobile, Electroplating and Pattern Shops. Each shop has a well experienced and qualified staff. The students get hands on experience pertaining to use of tools and jobs. The workshops provide basic workshop training to the students during regular semesters. It also undertakes repair and maintenance work of all the departments. It is also being used as a central facility for the fabrication of projects and other research & developmental works.
PEC Incubator
PEC Incubator is an ideal platform for the growing buds; it is something that strives to make a difference and does so, to the minds and mindsets of the people. Apart from conducting lectures and workshops about the start-up creation,
Incubator is a place where student explore new ideas and strive to take them to market. Services and facilities offered by the
PEC Incubator include the following:-
· Mentorship Sessions
· Lectures on ideation, making a product, identifying customers, managing finances & Incubation
Further information can be accessed from Institute Website: www.pec.ac.in
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