PES (People's Education Society) University, Electronic City Campus (PESU EC) is a constituent college of

PES University People's Education Society University (PESU), is a private university in Bengaluru, India. Established in 1988, it is focused on the following educational areas: Engineering, Management, Law, Economics, Commerce, Architecture, Design, Psycholog ...

, a

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, located on

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, near Electronic City,

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. PESU EC Campus was established in 2005 as PES School of Engineering (PESSE), later called PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore South Campus (PESIT South Campus), and was affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University,

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. The college was included as one of the three campuses under

in 2018.

History

PES University, Electronic City Campus is managed by the

People‘s Education Society People's Education Society (PES) was founded in 1972 with just over 40 students in a rented gymnasium in Bangalore, Karnataka. Today, PES has more than 18,000 students spread across multiple campuses in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Andhr ...

(PES), which was founded in 1972, in a rented gymnasium in

, with around 40 students. PES currently manages over 45 educational programs in

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

and neighbouring

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focused on four main educational areas:

Engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

and

Life Sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, ...

. The college (formerly known as PESIT Bangalore South Campus and earlier as PES School of Engineering (PESSE)) was established with

AICTE 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 (India), Department of Higher Education. Established in November 1945 firs ...

approval in 2005 and was affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University. In August 2018, PESIT South Campus was included as a constituent college of

and was renamed as PES University, Electronic City Campus.

Campus

PES University, Electronic City Campus is located on

and is about a

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from Electronic City and is spread over an area of around 50 acres. PESU EC is the first academic campus on the IT Corridor of Bangalore City located around

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

companies such as

Wipro Wipro Limited () is an Indian multinational technology company based in Bengaluru. It provides information technology, consulting and business process services. It is one of India's Big Six IT services companies. Wipro's services include cloud ...

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation, multinational technology company that offers business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. Founded in 1981 in Pune, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru. On ...

, HCL, TCS,

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, etc. The campus is located adjacent to the

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ground and a

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ground near the entrance of the campus. There are also two

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courts, a

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court and two

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courts on campus. There are four blocks of which the main block houses the departments of

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

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 ...

, MCA and

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. The

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

block is located as a separate building directly behind the main block. The Pixel Park building, formerly hosted the interim campus of the Azim Premji University. It is located adjacent to the main building and directly overlooks the boys' hostel building. The construction of a medical college and hospital is currently underway within the campus for the PESU Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. The hospital will have 1,200 beds, including a 300-bed super-speciality wing, and will come up on a 10-acre plot. PES University, Electronic City Campus admits students to courses on basis of their merit in the Karnataka CET,

JEE Main The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. It comprises two different examinations: the JEE-Main and the JEE-Advanced. The Joint Seat Allocat ...

or through the PESSAT (People's Education Society Scholastic Aptitude Test), the all-India online entrance exam for admission to PES University. Students are also admitted through a management quota, which may not place any merit requirements. There is a lateral entry scheme in place, by which students holding diploma degrees can enter directly to the second year of study in engineering. Students, upon graduating, receive a

Bachelor of Technology A Bachelor of Technology (BTech) is an undergraduate degree that is awarded for a higher education program in engineering. Countries Australia In Australia, the Bachelor of Technology degree is offered by RMIT University, Edith Cowan Univ ...

degree.

Undergraduate programs

PES University, Electronic City Campus offers full-time, four-year undergraduate (

) programs in the following disciplines: *

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 ...

The college also offers

Bachelor of Business Administration A Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is an undergraduate degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of four years and typically 120 credits of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of busine ...

and

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom or B Com) is an undergraduate degree in commerce, accounting, mathematics, economics, and management-related subjects. The degree is mainly offered in Commonwealth nations. Structure Bachelor of Commerce The Bac ...

programs.

Graduate programs

PES university, Electronic City Campus offers postgraduate programs in the following disciplines : *

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular ...

* M. Tech. in

Data Science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

Student life

Events

The following events are conducted by PES University EC campus, annually: * Maaya (College Fest) – the flagship fest of PES which takes place in October * inGenius – 24 hour intercollegiate coding hackathon * TEDxPESUECC (formerly TEDxPESITBSC) * Esperenza (MCA Fest) * Kludge – 24-hour electronic hardware design challenge *

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Event - KALPANA

Clubs

TECHWARTS

Established in 2018, TECHWARTS is an consortium of four clubs/forums. * Predict This! – A club for machine learning enthusiasts. * onCreate() – A club for Android Application Development. * We_the_programmers – A competitive coding club. * PIXEL – AR/VR and Game development club.

The Pixelloid Club

The photography club of PESU-ECC is responsible for handling the professional photography for all campus events. Over the years, Pixelloid has covered events such as Maaya, Activity Day and TEDx-PESUECC amongst many others.

Team Enigma

SAE INDIA Club for design and fabrication of vehicles for participating in SAE BAJA and FORMULA SAE competitions.

Team Avions

Avions, the Aero Design Club at PESIT-BSC design, fabricate, and test micro unmanned aerial vehicles. Team Avions officially represents PESU-ECC at various national and international aero design events. They participated for the first time in SAE Aerodesign East 2013 (Micro Class) held at Fortworth, Texas and was placed 14th overall. More recently, Team Avions has been placed second overall SAE Aero Design West 2014 (Micro class). They participate in SAEISS Aero Design Challenge that takes place in Chennai every year, and have placed 1st overall in 2017 and 4th in 2018.

References

{{reflist Affiliates of Visvesvaraya Technological University Engineering colleges in Bengaluru Technical universities and colleges in India All India Council for Technical Education University and college campuses in India