The Government College of Engineering , Bargur is an engineering college in the

Krishnagiri Krishnagiri () is a city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and it serves as the administrative headquarters of Krishnagiri District formed in 2004. It is located at the bottom of Krishnadevaraya Hills, and the town is fully surrounded by hill r ...

district of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...

, India.

History

The Government College of Engineering was started in

Dharmapuri Dharmapuri is a city in the north western part of Tamil Nadu, India. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Dharmapuri district which is the first district created in Tamil Nadu after the independence of India by splitting it from ...

district in 1994. It started functioning in two of the buildings in Government Polytechnic campus, Krishnagiri. The college is affiliated to Anna University. of land in Madepalli village on NH46, west from Bargur was acquired for the college in 2004. A sum of RS.7.85 crores has been spent on the construction of an Administrative Block, Electronics and Communication Engineering Block, Electrical and Electrical Engineering Block, Computer Science Engineering Block, Mechanical Engineering Block, Library Block and Hostels for male and female students. The college is one of top among ten government engineering colleges in the state of

coexisting with nearly 500 plus private engineering colleges.

Location

It was started on 9 September 1994 and housed temporarily in two buildings of the Government Polytechnic,

. It was later shifted in July 2000 to its own campus in

Bargur Bargur is a selection-grade town panchayat in the Krishnagiri district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, that serves as the headquarters of Bargur taluk, one of the seven taluks in Krishnagiri district. History The town panchayat of Bargur was ...

, located at latitude = 12.548°, longitude =78.334° on a site surrounded by hills on the National Highway 46 (NH46) about east from

and between

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and

Affiliation

The college was originally affiliated to the

University of Madras The University of Madras is a public university, public State university (India), state university in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an ...

. From 1998 to 1999, it was affiliated to the newly started

Periyar University Periyar University is a university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1997. It is named after social reformer Thanthai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. The University Grants Commissions, New Delhi bestowe ...

. In 2002-03 it became a constituent college of

Anna University Anna University is a public state university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The main campus is in Guindy. It was originally established on 4 September 1978 and is named after C. N. Annadurai, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Histor ...

which is a statewide centralized engineering university. In January 2007 a bill was introduced to the Tamil Nadu State Assembly to retake the administration of the college while retaining its affiliation to Anna University.

Courses

The first batch of undergraduate students passed out in the academic year 1998–99 in

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

and

Electronics and Communication Engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that 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 flow ...

. Later Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering branches were introduced. Post-graduate courses in

Applied Electronics Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering is an advanced branch of engineering which deals with the application of existing or known scientific knowledge in electronics, instrumentation, measurements and control for any process, practical c ...

Power Electronics Power electronics is the application of electronics to the control and conversion of electric power. The first high-power electronic devices were made using mercury-arc valves. In modern systems, the conversion is performed with semiconduct ...

and

Computer Science and Engineering Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic subject comprising approaches of computer science and computer engineering. There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field of materials science ...

are also offered.

Departments

* Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering * Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering * Department of Computer Science and Engineering * Department of Mechanical Engineering * Department of Mathematics * Department of Physics * Department of Chemistry * Department of English

Admission

Admission is based on performance in the State higher secondary school examinations. Cutoff is calculated from the marks obtained in maths, physics and chemistry. Candidates are admitted by online counseling TNEA conducted by Department of Technical Education.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Government College Of Engineering, Bargur Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu Colleges affiliated to Anna University Krishnagiri district Educational institutions established in 1994 1994 establishments in Tamil Nadu Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras