Goa Engineering College or Goa College of Engineering (abbreviated and colloquially referred to as GEC) is a public college in

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

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, offering courses in engineering disciplines and affiliated to Goa University. Founded in 1967 and situated at Farmagudi plateau, Ponda, it is the oldest engineering college in

, with over 2,200 students.

Academics

Academic programmes

The college started in 1967 with

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courses in

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and

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. The

Electronics and Telecommunication Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

course was introduced in 1982,

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

in 1988,

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

in 2001 and

Mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

in 2011. All courses in the college are affiliated to

Goa University Goa University is a public state research university headquartered in the city of Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa. In addition to Panaji ( Taleigão Plateau Campus), it has a campus in Margao, Mapusa, Ponda, Old Goa and Vasco da Gama. Th ...

. It currently has eight masters programmes, the duration of each being two years: The college is recognized as a research institute under Goa University. The affiliation to Ph.D. programs in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science & Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering are recognized from academic year 2014–15 onwards. The college has a memorandum of understanding with IIT Bombay, and many of its faculty go there to pursue Ph.D. degrees. The Farmagudi campus also houses National Institute of Technology Goa (NITG) and

Indian Institute of Technology Goa Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT Goa) is an autonomous public university located in Goa. Ever since an IIT was allotted to Goa by the Central government in 2014, the new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Goa started functioning fro ...

(IITG).

Accreditation and ranking

The

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(NBA) has accredited four branches of the college – the Computer, Mechanical, Civil and Electronics and Telecommunications branches. 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 The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is a statutory body, and a national-level council for technical education, under the Department of Higher Education. Established in November 1945 first as an advisory body and later on in ...

(AICTE). A study conducted in 2006 by the magazine

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India ranked the college at 75th in India. In Dataquest's 2011 survey the college was unranked. As part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, it was announced that the college would soon house an Incubation Centre for boosting entrepreneurship on campus.

Campus

The college has one of the largest libraries in the state. It is home to over 86,000 books, journals, and magazines, catering to all the subjects taught in the college. The library has a multimedia section that houses electronic modes of information such as encyclopedias. The library has a book bank facility with which students can obtain books for the entire year and return after the completion of the year, by paying a small fee. With the largest campus in Goa, spread well over 285 acres atop Farmagudi hill, the college has five boys' and two girls' hostels, staff housing, and guest house facilities for visiting faculty and students. The campus also has bicycles, donated by the alumni, for use by the staff and students. Besides the main canteen and multiple mess facilities, the college has small stalls and a restaurant that are frequented by students. The campus shopping complex has a restaurant, as well as shops that cater to student needs ranging from photocopying to stationery and other day-to-day needs. The campus has a post office and a computer center. The college gymkhana houses a power gym, which is accessible to students during non-working hours. There is an indoor

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court, a

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court, and a full-length natural grass

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ground that can be used as a

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field. Notably, the Electronics and Telecommunications branch features a robotic arm - the

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, used in assembly lines across many industries, for training its students.

Student life

Student clubs and associations

The students of Goa Engineering College call themselves Engicos. However, not all post-graduate students identify themselves with this term. The college has many active clubs: * The college has a Nature Club which organizes tree planting programmes in the surrounding regions and organizes treks to locations in Goa. * The college Photography Club has been organizing Photoflare, an international photography festival, since 2010. * The college Quiz Club organizes quizzes for the college events. * The college Music Club conducts workshops and organizes open mike sessions at the college's festivals. It has its own music room with equipment in the Mining Department. * The college Literary and Debate Club organizes many small activities and helps organize TEDxGEC. * The college has a Coding Club. * The college Drama (Theatre) Club was one of the oldest clubs, and has been restarted after a gap of almost seven years (in 2018). * The college students founded the Astronomy Club in 2018, with the maiden event hosting Dr Vithal Tilvi, who discovered the furthest known galaxy in the Universe in 2013. * The college also has active student chapters of the

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, CSI, Goa Technology Association (GTA) and FSAI (Fire and Security Association of India). * The college also had a Robotics club and a Linux User Group (which hosted Stallman in 2003). Student associations, based on their departments, are as follows: * MESA – Mechanical Engineering Students Association * ENEXSA – Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students Association (previously known as ELECTRA) * ACES – Association of Civil Engineering Students * CURSOR – Association of Computer Engineering Students * INTENSA – Information Technology Students Association * ASSETS – Association of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Students * MINESCO – Mining Engineering Students Council These associations conduct events, technical and non-technical, once or twice per semester. They also come together to organise Spectrum, the college's technical festival. The students also celebrate religious festivals

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and

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every year on the campus.

Cultural events

Happenings

Happenings is the cultural festival organized by the college. Started in 1981, it is officially the oldest college festival in Goa. The college has rock shows by Zero and Millennium in 1997,

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in 1998, Pentagram (in both 1996 and 1999), Ezee Meat in 1997, Brahma in 2000, and Moksha, PDV, Psychomotor, Metakix, Sceptre in 2004. Rock machine, now known as

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, was the first band to ever play in GEC. In 2008, Happenings became the biggest youth festival in Goa so far, and the event was hosted at Farmagudi. The biggest attractions were

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from

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performing for the Pronite on 22 February and two bands, Decibel (from Delhi) and Fahrenheit performing for the rock show on 23 February. In 2009, two fresh and famous bands performed for the rock show, namely

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and Reverse Polarity, both from

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. After a break of six years, Happenings was organized again in 2014. Happenings 2015, a two-day event witnessed Pronite by local band Within Ceres and a DJ night featuring the GEC Alumni

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. In the year 2016 the venue of Happenings was shifted outside college campus for the first time in its history. Happenings 2016 was held at

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. The Happenings 2016 Pronite witnessed a performance by a local band, The 3 Horsemen, and the DJ night organized in association wit
Vh1 Supersonic
featured

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. The Happenings 2017 Pronite was organized in association with

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and featured Bollywood sensation

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, while the DJ night, in association with Vh1 Supersonic featured

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. Happenings 2018 had a Pronite witnessed a performance by Akash Mangueshkar, the Kingfisher Voice of Goa, 2014. The DJ night, in association with Vh1 Supersonic featured internationally acclaimed DJ Shaan. Happenings 2019, which was held on 16 and 17 march 2019 witnessed one of the biggest Pronites in its history, with a performance of Emiway Bantai and second day DJ night featured one of India's top DJ duo the Progressive Brothers.

Spectrum

Spectrum is the technical festival organized by the college. It was started in 2016, after a decision to merge the technical events organized by the individual student associations of each department. Spectrum 2017 Pronite featured Sapan Verma and

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from the comedy group EIC. Spectrum 2018 Pronite was held in association with

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and featured Sartek and The Unknown.

Tandav

Tandav is an annual inter-departmental cultural and sports event, in which all branches of the college compete across various events for a trophy.

TEDxGEC

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for his work in cleaning up the

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; Marietta Rodrigues e D'Souza, a clinical psychologist and counsellor from

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, who spoke about teenage love; and Somu Rao, President of Goa Science Forum and Former National Secretary of Federation of Indian Rationalists Associations, who spoke about godmen and rationality. Their second event open to the general public was a Salon event titled "TEDxGECSalon: ARTiculate". Held in 2017, it featured alumni DJ

and filmmaker Aditya Jambhale, along with noted artist Dr Subodh Kerkar.

Other notable events

* Richard M Stallman, founder of the

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and the

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, visited the college Linux User Group in November 2001. * The college celebrated its golden jubilee year in 2016-2017. A clock tower, funded by alumni, was erected on this occasion. * AICSSYC (All India IEEE Computer Society Students and Young Professionals Congress) 2018 was hosted by

GEC Chapter.

Notable people

Notable alumni

, DJ and

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producer * Ashank Desai, Founder & Managing Director of Mastek. * Sameer Naik, founders of NextBiT Computing Pvt Ltd. The company was, in 2009, voted on the list of top 25 emerging technology companies in India * Sidharth Kuncalienker, politician, ex-MLA of Panjim constituency *

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, cricketer

List of principals

* Vivek Kamat (2009-2013) * R.B. Lohani (2013-2014) * Vinayak N. Shet (2014-2018) * Mysore Sethuram Krupashankara (2018-2021) * R.B. Lohani (2021 onwards)

Gallery

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