College of Engineering, Pune

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College of Engineering, Pune
Motto Strength Truth Endurance
Established 1854
Type Public Co-ed
Staff 400
Students 3,000
Undergraduates 2,300
Postgraduates 700
Location Pune, India
Campus Urban, 36 acres
Website www.coep.org.in

College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) is one of the most prestigious engineering colleges in India. Established in 1854, it is the third oldest engineering college in Asia, after the College of Engineering, Guindy (1794) and IIT Roorkee (1847). It is located in Pune (formerly Poona), Maharashtra. The students and alumni of COEP are colloquially referred to as COEPians.

In 2004, the institute was granted complete autonomy by the state government, and declared a center for excellence in technical education. The institute now is an autonomous engineering school with permanent affiliation to the University of Pune.

The college's study model referred to in the early 50s as the 'Poona Model' is highly respected by the industry and public works. The institute contends that its autonomy now grants it greater flexibility in dynamically changing its syllabus to suit the changing needs of the industry.

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[edit] History

The College of Engineering, Pune, established in the year 1854, is one of the oldest engineering colleges in Asia. The college was one of the first few colleges established by the British to serve the Indian subcontinent. Initially, it was started as the 'Poona Engineering Class and Mechanical School' to train subordinate officers for carrying out public works like buildings, dams, canals, railways and bridges. Later on, the school became the 'Poona Civil Engineering College', and subsequently in the year 1911, the name was changed to the 'College of Engineering, Poona'. The institution was initially affiliated to the University of Bombay (now Mumbai) for a degree of Licentiate in Civil Engineering known as LCE. The certificate course was converted into a degree course and the first batch of the Bachelor of Engineering degree came out in the year 1912. In around 1967/1968, the three year degree course was converted to a 4 year (semester based) course.

The Mechanical Engineering Department was also established in 1912. Courses for Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication, Metallurgy, Production, Instrumentation and Control, Computer Engineering and Information Technology were introduced subsequently. The post-graduate degree courses are being conducted in the various branches regularly since 1959.

[edit] Degrees

The following list gives the years when each branch was introduced:

        1866: Civil
        1914: Mechanical 
        1932: Electrical
        1948: Metallurgy
        1956: Electronics & Telecommunication
        1965: Instrumentation & Control
        1992: Computer
        1995: Production
        2001: Information Technology

The Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree is offered in all the above branches from the year 2003 onwards. The sandwich pattern course, the only one of its kind in India, was introduced in Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgy (1974) and Production (1995) and is well accepted by the industries and the students. In the sandwich degree courses, students spend their 5th and 8th semesters working in the industry.

Master of Technology (MTech) and PhD degrees are also offered with numerous specialisations.

[edit] Admissions

COEP is among the most selective engineering colleges in India. Admissions to COEP are highly competitive and is based on merit. The cut-off percentages are within the top percentile of high-school graduates. In year 2005-2006,COEP E&TC BTech course admissions closed at an ever high of 187/200 in the common entrance test, with Computer engg following it at 183/200.COEP E&TC was said to be the "most sought after course by students from maharsahtra (Sakal, July 2005)" on the basis of number of students applying for it through CET. Affirmative action programs exist, including programs for students from north-eastern India and migrants from Kashmir. There are also programs for children of non-resident Indians (NRIs).

[edit] Notable alumni

  • Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
  • C. Kumar N. Patel - Vice-chancellor of research at University of California-Los Angeles, inventor of the carbon-dioxide laser, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1996.
  • Thomas Kailath - Hitachi America professor of engineering at Stanford University, winner of the IEEE Shannon Award in 2000 for profound contributions to the field of information theory. Indutee to the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame (2005)
  • Leela Poonawala, Former Chairperson of Alfa Laval India and Padmashree awardee.
  • Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director and Sanjiv Bajaj, Executive Director of Bajaj Auto
  • Atul Kirloskar of Kirloskar Ltd.
  • Professor Suhas Patankar - Inventor of the groundbreaking SIMPLE algorithm for solution of Navier-Stokes equation that revolutionalized the world of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  • B.G. Shirke
  • H.K. Firodiya
  • Vijay L. Kelkar (renowned Economist, Dir IMF, ex Finance Secretary)

[edit] Activities

COEP is situated in central Pune. Pune is the cultural center of the state of Maharashtra. The citizens of Pune take great pride in the culture of their city, and citizen involvement in governance is high. The city has rapily expanded and modernized in the early part of the 21st century and is now among the trendiest cities in India.

The college houses a popular Boat Club (referred to by Coepians as the BC) which plays host to the annual Regatta. In the annual regatta there is a special entertainment show called Punt Formation popularly called PF Students also practice rowing at the Boat Club and have won many laurels for the college at national contests. The Boat Club Quiz Club (BCQC) that meets every Saturday is one of the premier quizzing bodies in Pune. The Robot Study Circle in COEP is working with an aim of producing prospective winners for the national level robotics competitions like Robocon, Techfest and Shaastra. Currently it has around 200 members and has collection of state-of-the-art facilities in robotics lab. It owns its own Biped, hexped robots, a robosapien, and a few microcontroller eduboards. Orientation lectures are held every Saturday for the same. Students at COEP participate and frequently win the honours at the Purushottam Karandak, an inter-collegiate talent show in Pune, where students present a host of artistic talents from music, acting, dance, painting and such others all during a play. The Department of Electronics and Telecommunication has an Amateur Radio Club with the call-sign VU2COE. The college magazine called Abhiyanta (engineer in Marathi) consistently wins the top honours among college magazines.

The college is also home to the Boat Club Quiz Club[1]. This is Pune's leading quizzing club, and its quizzers regularly dominate the quizzing circuit in and around the city. BCQC quizzers have also achieved many national level awards like MastermindINDIA and other famous quizzes.

The college has close ties with the many manufacturering industries in and around Pune including Bajaj, Telco and Kirloskar Oil Engines, where students participate in academic projects. The presence of the several world-class research laboratories including the Meteorological Survey of India, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), National Centre for Radio Astronomy (NCRA), Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) provide reserarch-oriented students access to world-class facilities. In addition the city is home to the recent vibrant software and hardware industry (The Hinjewadi Hi-Tech Park), thus enabling more students to pursue final-year projects in these industries.

The college hosts a few technical festivals, Fervor(Mechanical), Nexus(Electrical), Chrysalis (Electronics and Tele.), Metavista(Metallurgy), Xearch (Civil) and Threshold to name a few.

[edit] Sesquicentenary Celebrations

In 2004 COEP celebrated the 150 years of its existence. The celebrations were marked by a visit by the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam. A postal stamp to mark the 150th anniversary of the college was released.

[edit] Name Controversy

In 2000, COEP claimed independence from the state government and was declared an autonomous institute in 2004. Considerable confusion ensued over a proposed name change from COEP to Pune Institue of Engineering and Technology (PIET) which was strongly opposed by alumni and students. The COEP name was later retained in November 2005.

[edit] Placements(2006)

In 2006, the first B.Tech. graduates from newly-autonomous COEP passed through the T&P process. Six students were offered a package of Rs. 9.1 lakhs (910,000 rupees) by Microsoft. Information technology giants like IBM, Google, TCS, L&T also recruited a large number of students and highest ever placement percentage record was achieved in a very short span of time.

[edit] INDIA TODAY Rankings

COEP was rated as 20th among the top 20 engg colleges in the recent survey conducted by AC nielson (Year 2006)[citation needed].

[edit] Land Allotment Controversy

The College is situated in the central part of the city. Since the college was first established, Pune has grown to a metropolis with a large population. The Bombay - Pune Road (formerly NH4) is a major artery and cuts through the college. In December 2005 the Pune Municipal Corporation asked the college for some of its land for road widening. This led to considerable outrage amongst students, and currently the issue is under heated debate. It is noted that the College is protected as a 'heritage complex' by the state government.

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