Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Type	Private
Established	1979
Founder	R Dayananda Sagar
Chairman	D Hemchandra Sagar
Principal	C.P.S. Prakash
Location	Bangalore, Karnataka, India 12°54′30.4″N 77°33′58.5″E / 12.908444°N 77.566250°E / 12.908444; 77.566250Coordinates: 12°54′30.4″N 77°33′58.5″E / 12.908444°N 77.566250°E / 12.908444; 77.566250
Affiliations	VTU Campus = 44 acres
Website	dayanandasagar.edu

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (DSCE), started in 1979, was founded by Sri R Dayananda Sagar and is run by the Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Peeta Trust. It is on 28 acres (110,000 m²) of land on a hillock in Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore South. Research programmes sponsored by AICTE, AR&DB, KSCST are undertaken. The college organizes seminars, workshops, teaching talks, sports and extracurricular activities. With 1850 systems, student information system (SIS) and several digital classrooms, it was one of the first education centers to get WiFi in the country. The college is an autonomous institute under Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. Accredited by NAAC with A grade.^[1]

A secondary campus has been set up in the year 2011 under the name of Dayananda Sagar Academy Of Technology & Management in Kanakapura road, Bangalore.^[2]

Courses

The Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering was established in 1979 with the basic courses of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The college offers 16 undergraduate programs leading to 4/5 year bachelor's degree. It offers 16 post graduate programs leading to 2/3 year master's degree. It has 21 Research Centers offering 2/5 year MSc(Engg)/PhD degree. The Academic degrees are awarded by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum.^[3] The college provides almost all the branches of engineering such as automobile,aeronautical, biotechnology,computer science, civil,mechanical,e&e,e&c,telecommunication,medical electronics,electronics & instrumentation and much more

Undergraduate departments

Post-graduate programme (M.Tech)

Civil Engineering: Structural Engineering, Highway Engineering
Mechanical Engineering: Design Engineering, Computer Integrated manufacturing
Manufacturing Industrial Engineering & Management (IM): Master of Engineering & Management
Electronics & Communication Engineering: VLSI Design & Embedded Systems, Digital Electronics & Communication
Telecommunication Engineering: Digital Communication & Networking Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering: Computer Network Engineering
Information Science & Engineering: Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical Engineering: Power Electronics & System
Chemical Engineering (CH): Chemical Engineering
Medical Electronics: Bio Medical Signal Processing & Instrumentation
Instrumentation technology: Micro Electronics & Control Systems
Biotechnology: Bio Informatics
Master of Business Administration(VTU)^[7] — Marketing,Finance and HR — under VTU which is providing the degree with dual specialisation.
Computer Application (MCA, 3 years)
Master of Business Administration — Finance, Marketing, HR — under Bangalore University which is providing the degree with dual specialisation.
Master of Commerce (M.Com 2 years post graduation; affiliated with Bangalore University

Doctoral programs

PHD/MSc(Engg) by Research is available in the following departments:

Physics
Mathematics
Chemistry
Architecture
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Electronics & Communication
Telecommunication Engineering
Information Science & Engineering
Bio Technology
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Management
Aeronautical Engineering
Medical Electronics
Automobile Engineering
Construction Technology & Management
Master of Computer Applications
Master of Business Administration

Campus

View of DSCE Campus

There are landscaped gardens, trees lined pathways, and student rest places, amphitheatre, parking lot. Playgrounds and indoor sports facilities and a well equipped gym which help develop physical skills. There's an old temple of lord Shiva (Shavige Malleshwara Temple) in the campus. Cafe Coffee Day and Cuppa have an outlets in DSI.

Student activities

Apart from academics, the students of DSI are involved in extra-curricular activities and student collegiate clubs. The most notable ones are mentioned below.

Aura: The student body under the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center (IEDC), DSI, is one of the most active student groups on campus.
Quest: The official quiz club of the Engineering College, founded during Furore 13, hosts inter- and intra-college level quizzes to discover the best minds in the college.^[8]
Techspark: The official student tech-forum, founded by Sachet Kadam, Avinash Chukka and Ankur Gupta under the direction of the vice-chairman and CEO, DSI, is one of the largest student organizations in DSCE.
SAE-DSCE: The SAE club in DSCE, founded by Shri Anand Bhate, is one of the largest student clubs by membership in India.^[9] The chapter experienced growth by many folds when Abhinav Gupta joined as student general secretary and went on to be the student vice-president. Abhinav was called the Best Manager of the college, a nickname given by the then principal, Dr. Nethaji S. Ganesan, for his outstanding strategies and conducting events successfully including Virtual Baja 2011 for which he worked as student coordinator.
IET-DSI: The student chapter of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) at the campus^[10] was established by Anubhav Gupta^[11] on March 20, 2012.^[12] The chapter hosted the Regional event of IET-PATW and then South Asia level PATW under the direction of Abhinav Gupta from students team in the year 2012. Anubhav is the first international author from the college and has represented India from Bangalore section at the South Asia level of a presentation competition.
Computer Society of India (CSI-DSCE)
Parivartan: A social welfare group founded by the Information Science department organizes many events to raise charity for the cause of education. The group practices the tradition of celebrating the festival of Diwali with children of Orphanages in and around the city.
GLUG-DSCE: GNU Linux Users' Group founded by ISE department in association with Free Software Movement of Karnataka in 2014. A student body co-ordinated by Jeevan MR and Vishal Verma conducts weekly seminars and workshops for students on promoting the use of Free Software.
IEEE DSCE
ASCE-DSCE
The Cultural Committee

The college boasts sports facilities ranging from soccer to tennis, from basketball to cricket. The college supports athletic facilities with our students bringing in laurels from various areas of athletics. Sagnik Das and other athletes in the college are among the best athletes in the state.

The clubs, each separately conduct a full calendar of events including industrial visits, the annual Entrepreneurship Week Celebrations, workshops, Tech-Talks, CEO-Connect programs, Nirmaana: The annual B-Plan Competitions and student cultural fests, etc.

Facilities

Hostel of DSCE

The Central Library serves the reference and study needs of students in the campus. Its 1,30,000 volumes represent a good and well-researched collection of top quality books. Technical journals of a wide range and from all parts of the world are well stocked with early back reference indexing facility. The library annex is more modern and ensures new features adding more space and ambience. Computers with hi-speed internet facilities and photocopying facilities make up for good add-on features in the library complex that is manned by professionally qualified librarians.
Sports: A football field, tennis court, basketball, squash court, gymnasium, aerobics hall and volleyball court are in the campus, apart from a host of other facilities for indoor and outdoor games.
The laboratories are state of the art and match the needs of all disciplines and sub specialties. An interesting feature of the labs is that one can see the evolution of each department with the labs having a full range of equipment that reflect the inception to the trends under each specialty.
Premachandra Sagar Centre for Performing Arts is an ultra-modern auditorium with 800-seat capacity with facilities of green room for arts rehearsal and dining facilities. It hosts many college events and cultural events of Bangalore city.
QuestDSCE, the official collegiate quiz club, conducts scores of inter-college quizzes. Thanks to efforts from Nadig and co., QuestDSCE is now a beacon to the quizzards around Bangalore.

Research facilities and industry interaction

Research forms one of the main thrust of Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. It has a Biochemical Engineering Laboratory with activities funded by All India Council Technical Education (AICTE), Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), and National Aviation Fuel Board (NAFB). It has tie-ups with German Research Center and research centers in Europe. Research projects from DST, AICTE, DBT and DRDO have been granted to departments of DSCE. Students are encouraged to publish research articles in national and international forums. Research internships are made available to students in institutes like IIT and ISI. Many departments have been declared as centers of excellence by VTU in recognition of the research contributions.

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