Goa Engineering College

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Goa Engineering College is located in Farmagudi, Ponda and is the oldest engineering college in Goa. Founded in 1967, it is a government run college also known as Government Engineering College, Goa College of Engineering, Goa. It is an NBA accredited degree level engineering college.

Contents 1 Current Branch Streams 2 Engicos 3 Library Facility 4 Living in the Campus 5 Happenings 6 Current intake 7 Prominent alumni 8 Prestigious events 9 Controversies

[edit] Current Branch Streams

The college presently has six branches of engineering, namely, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics and Telecommunication, Computer Engineering and Information Technology. Courses in Mechanical, Civil and Electrical were started since inception.

Further courses were then added: Electronics and Telecommunication in 1982, Computer Science in 1988 and Information Technology in 2001.

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has accredited 3 branches of the college. (Mar-Apr '06) They are the Mechanical, Civil and Electronics and Telecommunications branches of the College. This means the academic curriculum and the teaching learning process is of a good standard, with adequate infrastructure and faculty, acceptable to the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) the autonomous body, created by a bill in Parliament which overlooks at maintaining standards in technical education in the country..

[edit] Engicos

The students of Goa Engineering College call themselves Engicos.

The college has one of the foremost installations of the E-learning software hosted by the Mechanical Engineering Department. It is a Free and Open Source Software and is called MOODLE (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) loginto http://www.gec.ac.in/me/mymoodle , login as newuser and password newuser to walk through the site.

The college has a very active Nature Club which organises occasional tree planting programmes in the Farmagudi campus and organises treks to many exciting trekking locations in Goa. Some of the treks conducted were to DudhSagar, Keri, Mainapi falls, Tamdi Surla falls etc.

The college has different students associations based on their streams. The are as follows:

MESA - Mechanical Enginnering Students Association,

ACES - Association of Civil Engineering Students,

CURSOR - Association of Computer Engineering Students,

INTENSA -Information Technology Students Association,

ELECTRA - Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students and

ASSETS - Association of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Students.

These associations conduct various events, both technical and non technical mostly once or twice during a semester.

[edit] Library Facility

The college has one of the largest libraries in the state, and is home to a variety of books, journals, magazines etc catering to all the subjects taught in the college. The Library has a Multimedia section which houses all electronic modes of information such as encyclopedias, etc.

The library has a book bank facility with which students can avail books for the entire year and return after the completion of the year, by paying a small amount as a fee.

[edit] Living in the Campus

The college has 4 boys hostels (one of which is not functional) and 1 girls hostel. The campus also hosts a staff quarters (housing complex). Engicos generally hang out at shacks in and out of the colllege. The campus has a new utility center housing photocopying shops, stationery and other day to day needs. Lightning during rains is worth watching.(See picture) /root/Desktop/Lightning_at_Farmagudi.jpg

[edit] Happenings

Happenings: An All-Goa Youth Fest organized by Goa Engineering College It is the oldest youth festival of Goa and most popular among the youth of Goa. The festival had started in 1981 by a group of 6 people in one of the room of hostel 2. For about 27 years now it has witnessed tremendous success and crowd from all over Goa. The college host the Goa’s premium rock show Zero, Millennium in 1997, Parikrama in 1998, Pentagram in 1996 and 1999, Ezee Meat in 1997, Brahma in 2000, PDV, Moksha, Metakix, Psychomotor, Sceptre in 04-05. Rock machine lately known as Indus creed was the first band ever that played in Gec and it was their first biggest show of their career

[edit] Current intake

The college has an annual intake of almost 320 students in different branches. This was increased from the existing 150 in 2001. The college continues to foster competent engineers despite the dilution of talent in GEC due to the commencement of two prominent private engineering colleges in the state and the increase in intake.

[edit] Prominent alumni

Among the prominent alumni of the GEC is Ashank Desai (Class of 1971), who currently heads the prestigious Mumbai-based Indian software firm called Mastek. The other famous alumnus is Prof. Mangesh Korgaonkar of IIT Bombay.

[edit] Prestigious events

Richard M Stallman founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation visited the Goa Engineering College, and delivered a talk in November 2002.

Recently a study by reputed magazine in India ranked this college as the 75th. More information can be found at http://www.dqindia.com/images06/Complete%20Score%20Card.pdf

In 2007, GEC has been ranked 64th,based on the survey conducted by a famous magazine..

[edit] Controversies

• In the year 2006, AICTE issued a notice to GEC stating that recognition some departments would be withdrawn due to lack of proper infrastructure and faculty in these departments. The state government then gave some grants to help the college.
• The college festival "Happenings" of GEC is sometimes marred by violence and rigging is sometimes alleged in the results. One of the best cases was in 2006 when chairs went flying over in the pandal. More so, the rock show had its share of cops stopping and guarding the area.