| Government Engineering College, Kozhikode | |
|---|---|
| GEC Kozhikode | |
| Motto | വിശ്വാസം. അഭിമാനം. നിര്ണയം.(Viswasam.Abhimaanam.Nirnayam.) |
| Motto in English | Trust. Pride. Decisiveness. |
| Established | 1999 |
| Principal | Prof. Zoya |
| Undergraduates | B.Tech |
| Location | Kozhikode, Kerala, India |
| Affiliations | University of Calicut, AICTE |
| Website | www.geckkd.ac.in |
The Government Engineering College, Kozhikode (GECK) was started by the Government of Kerala, India, in August 1999. It is one among the prestigious engineering institutions under the Department of Technical Education, Kerala. GECK has been rated consistently among the top technical institutes in kerala, with students admitted purely on the basis of merit. The students belong to the top strata of candidates appearing for the entrance examination.
GECK graduates are employed in a wide range of public and private sector companies within India and abroad. Many of the alumni occupy top managerial and key technical position in top corporates across the globe.
The institution is located in WestHill. The institute has four major engineering departments: Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, and Applied Electronics and Instrumentation.
The college offers four B.Tech. courses, with an intake of 60 regular students and six lateral entry students per year for each course. The college is affiliated to the University of Calicut and follows its curricula and syllabi.
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The Education Minister of Kerala has inaugurated the new Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering block and the Chemical Engineering block. The sanction for MTech in Chemical Engineering and BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering has been approved.
GECK has a vary good placement history.It has a tie-up with other colleges to give the help for the students to attend the off campus recruitment. The CGPC also conducts workshops and training programmes for students.
An Entrepreneurship Development Club (EDC) functions in this institution since March 2004. EDC is an initiative of Dept. of industries and commerce, Govt. of Kerala through Kerala Institute for Entrepreneurship Development, KIED.
The NSS unit of the college provides opportunity to the students and staff to gain valuable practical experience in social service activities. The unit organises programmes inside and outside the campus for the personality development of volunteers through social service. The volunteers also get a great deal of opportunity to develop leadership qualities by organising and attending seminars and orientation programmes.
The college Arts Club organises various cultural events in the college in association with the College Union Inauguration and Annual Arts Day. It provides chances for young talents to enhance their artistic skills by organising workshops and training programmes.
The EEEC, functioning under the Energy Conservation Society of Kerala, conducts various programs to enlighten the students with energy and environment related problems. The objective of EECC is to foster conservation of all kinds of energy and protection of environment so as to promote sustainable development of man kind. The society caters to energy auditing, reuse and recycling technology for waste water utilisation, pollution control, environmental protection measures and promoting awareness among the public.
The Continuing Education Centre has started functioning in our college as a sub-centre of CCE, Trivandrum. The objectives of the centre are to import need based training to unemployed youth, to offer full time and non formal programmes to upgrade the management skills, to conduct vocational training to meet specific needs of industry and business, to conduct in service training to workers in industries, to develop and publish training materials for regular and distance programmes etc.
IIIC functions as a forum of interaction between industries and institute through product-testing, consultancy, and research and development. Industry helps the institution by sponsoring R&D activities, involving themselves in the curriculum preparation and providing placement to deserving candidates. The testing and laboratory facilities in the college are utilized by the industries for their day to day needs. Further, the innovative ideas of the students are pooled for commercial application. Also, it helps the industries to keep abreast with the developments in the field of Science, , Engineering and Technology. The cell is maintaining a close liaison with the District Industries Centre.
A Technology Business Incubator (TBI) was launched in the institution in 2005. TBI helps students to convert an innovative idea into a technological product. TBI is being implemented through Entrepreneurship Development Club (EDC) of the institution.
The college has lab and workshop facilities for all the four engineering disciplines along with labs for applied sciences.
The college has a computing facility with PC workstations. A LAN facility running on Linux Servers form the back bone of the centre. The centre is equipped with computing environments including Unix, Sun Solaris, and Linux, and software tools like MS Visual Studio, C++, C, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Java, Matlab, AutoCAD, Kylix VHDL, Innoveda VHDL, Nisa, and QT Designer A leased line connects the CCF to the internet. The centre offers free internet connectivity to the students and faculty members.
The Technical Library and Documentation Centre is computerized. International and national technical journals and periodicals are subscribed in the library. A computerized library information system with search facility is implemented. The audio-visual section maintains CD-ROMS on engineering subjects. The project and seminar reports of students are kept. A section is devoted to general reading books. Books to prepare for competitive examinations like GATE, GRE, and TOEFL are stocked.
The college has direct uplink with EDUSAT, and has six IT enabled smart class rooms with LCD projectors and laptops.
The college lacks enough facilities for sports and games. The college shares its college cricket and football ground with Govt Polytechnic. Facilities for Basket ball, Volley ball and badminton are avilable in the college.
The college provides transport facilities to all students staying in and aroung Kozhikode city through college buses. Also the college runs its own Cafeteria.
It is a technical fest in govt.Engineering College,kozhikode. It is 3 days program
One of the attraction in lakshya 11 was suspension bridge created by civil engineering students