Walchand College of Engineering is a college in the city of Sangli, Maharashtra, India. The WCE campus is situated on nearly 90 acres of land in Vishrambag, roughly midway between the twin cities of Sangli and

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. The college was established in 1947 by the Dhondumama Sathe and began with an

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course in

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with a capacity of 60 students. It was affiliated with Bombay University in 1947. After

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was set up in 1948, the college became affiliated with Pune University. In 1955, the college was renamed after

Walchand Hirachand Walchand Hirachand Doshi (23 November 1882 – 8 April 1953) was an Indian industrialist and the founder of the Walchand group. He established India's first modern shipyard, first aircraft factory and first car factory; he also established con ...

, an industrialist. Since the establishment of

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, at Kolhapur in 1962, Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli has been affiliated with Shivaji University. Since 2007, it has been an ''autonomous college'' offering the B.Tech. degree in Maharashtra with 'financial and academic autonomy'. It is known for its vast campus and placement.

History

Walchand College of Engineering offered its first academic program, an undergraduate degree in

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(B.E.(Civil)) for up to 60 students in 1947. In 1955, an undergraduate degree in

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(B.E.(Elec)) was established, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree (B.E.(Mech)) was offered in 1956. Both programs had a 60-student capacity. Postgraduate coursework in all three engineering disciplines was first offered in 1971. Graduate and undergraduate degrees in computer science and electronics engineering were added in the 1980s and 1990s. WCE Main Building

Postgraduate courses in civil, mechanical and

and a diploma course in industrial electronics were introduced in 1971. In 1986, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in electronics engineering and an undergraduate course in computer science and engineering were introduced, and a postgraduate course in

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was introduced in 1997. In 2001, the college added a Bachelor of Engineering course in

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with a capacity of 60 students, and capacity for an additional 30 students was added to the computer science and engineering course. Departments of

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mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

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have been established. The placement record of the college shows 464 undergraduate students placed in organisations during 2010 and 2011. The college was selected under the World Bank funded Government of India scheme "Technical Education Quality Improvement Program"(TEQIP) in 2005. It received nearly Rs. 9 crores of funding under TEQIP which ended in March 2009. As reported in the survey conducted by Spectrum India, Walchand College ranked No. 2 all-India out of about 127 institutes that participated in TEQIP. In 2011, the college was selected under Phase II of TEQIP, focused on development of PG education. In 2017, Once again college was selected under Phase III of TEQIP under TWINNING Arrangement with

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Campus

The college campus spreads over an area of about . The college has different buildings for different departments. The central ''quadrangle'' (as it is called) has classrooms large enough to seat 60-70 students, and a few classrooms with a capacity of around 100 students. At the center of the ''quadrangle'' is an assembly hall called Tilak Hall and an open-air theatre. The newly constructed

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building also has a reading room. The library is named after Ajit Gulabchand as Ajit Gulbchand Central Library. It is one of the biggest libraries in Asia. The remainder of the campus is mostly covered with dense trees. The campus is famous as a mini peacock

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as you will find them everywhere in college.

Hostel

The college has had a hostel facility for males since 1958 and for females since 1987. There are eight hostel blocks (D1 to D8) with high speed internet connectivity through WiFi, and a capacity of 738 students. In response to the recent trend of increasing female enrollment, two hostel blocks were suitably modified and converted into women's hostels. At the initiative of the Chairman, Shri Ajit Gulabchand, another hostel block with a capacity of 46 students was converted into a cyber hostel with internet connectivity. Over 300 female students are presently inhabiting hostel accommodations. There is a plan to construct a new hostel for women, as per the new Campus Master Plan developed by the firm HOK (USA).

Lab Facilities

Various lab facilities are provided by IT department to students. #

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High Performance Computing High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a multid ...

Lab(For M-tech) #

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research center in Embedded system The IT department in WCE has various

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addresses. Students have direct access to these models. They can check their attendance, and can upload their assignments. Teachers can upload assignments for the students. Quizzes on some subjects are held on the moodle.

Mechanical department

The Mechanical department of the college has various facilities available for students. Workshops include lathe machines, woodturning machines,

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s and a

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. The department also hosts a few large

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; some dating as far back as the 1930s. Though no longer in working condition, students can climb in the

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for study purposes. Separate workshops for

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ing and

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allow students to gain practical experience. The smithy workshop also has a

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in working condition. For

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study purposes, a

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is available in the laboratory. The main entrance grounds also have a demonstrator

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. Together with the Electronics department, a separate

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laboratory is under development along with a

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laboratory. A new demonstrator

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power plant has recently been set up.

SAE Activities

The college has been very prominent and active in participating in SAE India events, held every year. Team Aaryans is the official racing team of WCE which has been participating in E and M baja, Efficycle and Go-Kart - all events conducted by SAE India. Efficycle The team traces it success back to 2012 when it secured an All India Rank 3 and in subsequent events held in 2013 and 2015. BAJA Team Aaryans has been participating in BAJA for couple of years now. In the 2019 edition of E-BAJA, the team bagged prizes worth 90,000 rupees. Along with this the E-BAJA team won the best marketing presentation award in 2017. The M-BAJA team of Aaryans secured All India Rank 20 in the 2019 edition of M-BAJA. The team has also bagged 'Best CAE Award','Best Sales Presentation Award' and 'Best Design Award' over these consecutive years of participation.

Academics

Degrees offered

Undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of technology (B. Tech) *

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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 ...

Electronics Engineering 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 f ...

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 ...

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

Postgraduate Degrees: Master of Technology (M.Tech) * Computer Science and Engineering * Computer Science and Engineering

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 (IT s ...

* Electrical Engineering- Control Systems * Electrical Engineering- Power Systems *

Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering is a professional engineering discipline that encompasses broad scientific topics like chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, hydraulics, hydrology, microbiology, and mathematics to create solutions that will protect and a ...

* Heat Power Engineering * Mechanical Design Engineering * Mechanical Production Engineering *

Structural Engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...

Students Driven Clubs

Many Clubs are being driven and managed by students for academics and Personality improvement. Along with departmental clubs like EESA, ELESA, CESA, MESA, SAIT and ACSES, SOFTA, PACE, Rotaract, WLUG, WCE ACM Student Chapter are some of the clubs which strives for technical, social and soft skills advancement.

Rankings

It's ranked 168 in NIRF 2020 Rankings with NIRF score of 32.39

Gallery

File:WCE Sangli Campus.jpg, Walchand College campus File:WCE Sangli Library.jpg, Ajit Gulabchand Central Library File:WCE Sangli Shilp Chintamani.jpg, Saraswati Statue File:WCE Sangli EE.jpg , Department of Electrical Engineering

Alumni associations

Many alumni associations for the college have been formed in India and abroad. The Association of Past Students is a registered organization and the registered members date back to 1956. More recently, Walchand College of Engineering Alumni Silicon Valley Chapter (CA, USA), and Tri-State Chapter (NY, USA) were formed in 2015.

Notable alumni

Leena Nair Leena Nair (née Menon;born 1969) is a British-Indian business executive who is the Global CEO of Chanel. Nair previously served as the Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive. Nair was responsi ...

CEO Chanel , Ex Global senior vice-president for leadership and organization development at Unilever
Deepak Ahire
Algorithms Researcher. *Suumit Shah - Founder & CEO - Dukaan® *Niketan B. Kadam - Indian Police Service (UPSC 2019) , Maharashtra Cadre *Navjivanraje Vijay Pawar - IAS , MP Cadre *Prathamesh Rajshirke -IAS *Pradip Marathe - Founder CottonKing. *Mahadev Jankar-Politician. * *Abhaysingh Mohite-Deputy Collector Mpsc Rank 1 2016.

References

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