Netaji Subhash Engineering College

Netaji Subhash Engineering College
Motto

● प्रबोधोदय ● विवेकोदय ● उत्कृष्टत्व ●

Rise to Knowledge, Rise to Excellence
Type Self funded ; aided by World Bank under TEQIP (I & II) (Govt. of India)
Established 1998
Endowment INR ₹730 million (US$11 million)(2012)
Principal Dr. Amal K. Ghosh
Dean Dr. Sushanta Kr. Bhattacharya
Director Dr. Hrishikesh Mandal
Academic staff
 128
Administrative staff
 100+
Students 1000 (per academic year)
Undergraduates 820 (per academic year)
Postgraduates 180 (per academic year)
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Location Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaIndia
Campus Suburban
Approvals AICTE
UGC
Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
National Board of Accreditation
Colors Royal Blue & White
         
Nickname NSEC (pronunciation: énséc)
Affiliations

● B.Tech & M.Tech (West Bengal University of Technology)

● Basic Engineering Sciences & PhD (Techno India University)
Website www.nsec.ac.in

Netaji Subhash Engineering College (Bengali: নেতাজী সুভাষ ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিং কলেজ) or NSEC is a graduate and undergraduate engineering college of eastern India located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established in 1998, it is situated at Techno City, Panchpota, Garia in the southern part of Kolkata. The institute is noted for its strong academic foundations and ranks as one of the top engineering colleges in the state of West Bengal.[1]

History

Netaji Subhash Engineering College (NSEC) was set up, keeping in mind the ideals of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who contributed to the Indian Freedom Movement. Netaji believed that true independence could only stem from a strong base in education and technology. The college was set up in 1998 in collaboration with the Techno India Group and The Institute of Computer Engineers (India). The college started with three engineering courses and today is one of the largest self-aided engineering colleges in West Bengal. At its inception, the college was affiliated to the University of Kalyani. In 2002, the college was affiliated by the newly instituted West Bengal University of Technology.

Campus

Main Building and Administrative Building

Netaji Subhash Engineering College operates out of its suburban campus in Techno City, Kolkata, Garia in the southern part of Kolkata. The institute is connected to other parts of the city through both railways and roadways. The nearest railway station is the Garia railway station in the Sealdah-Sonarpur section of the Kolkata Suburban Railway and the nearest bus terminus is the Garia Station Bus Stand. The Dhalua Main Road connects the institute to Garia railway station. The Kavi Subhash metro station provides Kolkata Metro Rail connectivity to different parts of the city.

The Basic Engineering & Sciences block

Admission

The admission procedure for BTech is based on the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) and JEE(Main).

MTech admissions are offered through GATE examination and a personal interview. MCA admission entrants are required to qualify the state level entrance test named JECA (Joint Entrance for Computer Application).

PhD admissions are offered through personal interview of the Techno India University.

Organisational structure of NSEC

Administration

Academics

The college is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) and Techno India University. The courses offered by the college under WBUT are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and was accredited by the National Board of Accreditation(NBA).

West Bengal University of Technology

The departments in the college affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology are:

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

The Department of Electronics Engineering was established in 1998 and was accredited by the NBA in 2004.

Courses Offered:

Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

The Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering was formed under the Department of Electronics in 2006. It became a full-fledged separate department in 2009.

Course Offered:

Department of Bio-Medical Engineering

The Department of Bio-Medical Engineering was formed under the Department of Electronics in 2002. It became a full-fledged separate department in 2009 offering the B.Tech program in Bio-Med Engineering.

Course Offered:

Department of Computer Sciences

The Department of Computer Sciences was established in 1998 and was accredited by he NBA in 2004.

Courses Offered:

Department of Information Technology

The Department was established in 1998 and was accredited by the NBA in 2007.

Course Offered:

Department of Electrical Technology

The Department of Electrical Technology was instituted in 1998 and was accredited by the NBA in 2004.

Courses Offered:

Department of Civil Engineering

The Department of Civil Engineering was formed in 2012.

Course Offered:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was formed in 2012.

Course Offered:

Department of Computer Applications and Management

The Department of Computer Application was established in 2001.

Courses Offered:

Techno India University

The Techno India University is accredited by the University Grants Commission (India).[2] The departments in the college affiliated to the Techno India University are:

Department of Computer Sciences

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Basic Engineering Sciences

Accreditation

NSEC is approved by:[6]

NBA and TEQIP

In 2005 the college was given accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering. In April 2008 the same accreditation was given for information technology.[7] The college was also selected for an educational grant from the World Bank in its Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) as one of the few institutes in West Bengal.[8] NSEC ranked Second in Project Implementation of TEQIP (following Jadavpur University which achieved first place in West Bengal).[9] The institute is regarded as one of the best in West Bengal based on the number of students who prefer this college over other private engineering colleges of the state.[10]

Ranking

There is no formal ranking system among the engineering colleges of West Bengal. However, several unofficial ranking systems place NSEC among the leading engineering colleges of West Bengal.[1][11][12] The college is foreseen to become one of the better engineering colleges in India in near future. However, at present, the college does not feature among the top 50 engineering schools in India.

Notable Faculty Members

The college has a very healthy student to teacher ratio of 7:1. Faculty of the college are associated with various research institutes such as Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur University, University of Calcutta, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, etc. Some of the present and former well-known faculty members of the college are as follows. This list is not comprehensive.

● Emeritus Fellows:

● Emeritus Professors:

● Professors:

● Former Professors:

Industry Academia Partnership Initiative

In 2008, Infosys launched the Campus Connect program, an industry-academia partnership initiative, with 60 colleges in India. The college was one of the institutes that was selected for the program and as of 2015, the program is still active.[13]

Phoenix, the Official Tech Club

The history of PHOENIX, the official Tech Club of the college, dates back to 2006, when seven students formed a platform that would think beyond the academic courses that everyone studies in college. Thus began Phoenix — the Tech Club. Today, every student of NSEC is essentially a member of Phoenix and the Club is well known in other tech colleges of the state.

Phoenix – Tech Club, NSEC

The functioning of Phoenix stands on its various pillars: The PR Team, the Creative Team, the Database Team, the Web Team, the C Team, the Photography Team etc. Today, besides organising the three big events (Avenir – the annual Tech Fest, Brainstormer – The Inter College Quiz Competition and Kurukshetra – the Intra College Debate Competition) Phoenix holds forums. Presently these are: The C Forum, The Robotix Forum, The SSPD forum and the Web Designing Forum. "Come, Let's Rise", is the motto of the club[14]

Wiki Academy

The first Wiki Academy of Kolkata was set up at the college in collaboration with Wikimedia Foundation, India. The event witnessed large scale participation of students from colleges and universities.

Nixal

Nixal – the GNU/Linux user group of Netaji Subhash Engineering College (NSEC) was formed by the college. The group was the brainchild of a student of the Computer Science & Engineering Department, Mr.Asis Biswas. Nixal was inaugurated by Richard Stallman on 19 February 2003. The group was formed to learn about and contribute to GNU/Linux and spread the message of free software movement. The group follows Open Source Software ethics. After 2005 the activities of NIXAL saw a decline but now it is being revived. Nixal now exists as an open-ended user group and promotes the free software movement through seminars and workshops(FOSS).

Richard Stallman at the opening ceremony of NIXAL

Placements, Higher Studies and Entrepreneurial Activities

The majority of students from the college are placed in the software industry. A few students choose the core engineering sectors.[15] Many students opt for higher education, pursuing the likes of Masters/PhD or MBA in institutes of India and abroad. Through campus and off-campus drives, most students of NSEC get placed in multinational companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Ericsson, Idea Cellular, Oracle, CapGemini, SAP AG, HCL Enterprise, Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Mindtree, Tata Elxsi, Syntel and alike and in nationalised sectors such as National Thermal Power Corporation, Air India, Steel Authority of India Limited, BSNL, etc. Defence establishments like the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army visit the campus to take students from the college.[15] NSEC records the highest placements in the Techno India Group.

Alumni from the college can be found in many premiere universities around the globe such as: Arizona State University, Imperial College London, Iowa State University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Max Planck Society, McGill University, National University of Singapore, Ohio State University, Stanford University, University of Bristol, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Cincinnati, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Nottingham, University of Southampton, University of Southern California, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Tech etc. Many students have earned a place at the Indian Institutes of Management, Indian Institutes of Technology, XLRI, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Management Development Institute.

Several NSEC graduates have gone on to become successful entrepreneurs as well as be social change agents by joining the coveted Teach for India Fellowship Program and Child Rights and You (CRY). Some of the major start-ups have been Android software development company F11Labz co-founded by 2008 graduate Aniruddha Mukherjee and web and mobile-solution company TechBridge co-founded by another 2008 alumnus, Krishna Gaurav.

Student Activities

The students of the college take part in National Level Competitions. Some of the major competitions are

College Events

Apart from academic events, the college calendar has a number of other major events:

Freshers' Welcome

Blossoms, the Freshers' Welcome Party was instituted in 2002 to introduce first year students to college life. Blossoms had seen students' performances as well as bands like Fossils, Eshaan, Colors, Cactus and other Bangla Bands. It was discontinued in 2013 owing to lack of approval from the authorities. Since 2016, a small segment has been introduced in the annual cultural fest to welcome the first year undergraduate students.

Annual Tech Fest

The Annual Tech Fest Avenir is one of the earliest Tech Fests of Kolkata was set up with help from Kshitij of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.[16] The tech fest has seen participants from almost all major engineering colleges of West Bengal. It started in 2003 with a participation of 100 people. Over the years it has grown enormously with Avenir 2014 seeing participants count of over 4000 from all major engineering colleges of the state.[17]

Annual Techno-management fest of NSEC

Annual Cultural Fest

Mesmerizer, the annual cultural fest of NSEC was often regarded as one of the well-regarded college fests of Kolkata. It used to be a bigbudget show sponsored by MNCs like IBM, Wipro, Air India, Coca-Cola and Hero-Honda. The cultural program constituted of a blend of rock and classical music. Incepted in 2002, the first fest saw performances from Chandrabindoo, Nachiketa, Cactus and Bhoomi. Celebrities who have performed at the college include KK, Kunal Ganjawala, Neeraj Shridhar, Javed Ali, Euphoria, Bombay Vikings, Bangladeshi Band Miles, Bangla bands like Lakkichhara, Cactus, Fossils, Eeshaan, Prithibi, Morruddyan, Chandrabindoo, Bhoomi and Underground Authority. Lack of initiative saw the gradual decline of the fest and was suspended for a few years before being revived in 2016 as Mesmerizer Rebirth.

Reunions

In the 18 years since its inception, there has never been a formal alumni association of the college, nor any formal alumni reunions. However, since 2015, various departments, on their initiative, have set up formal alumni associations and have held reunions/interactions with alumni of the department.

The ECE Alumni Association
Aikatan - AEIE Alumni Association

Student Organisations

The college had once been a hotbed of student politics in the early years of the New Millennium. There was a prominent student body on the campus, affiliated to the Students' Federation of India who used to interact with the college management to negotiate student rights and general improvements on infrastructure and campus recruitment. Since 2011, there have been no student organisations, apart from the student-founded Tech Club Phoenix and the Departmental Alumni Associations formed by the students in some of the departments.

ECE Alumni Association

The ECE Alumni Association is a voluntary organization of the faculty, ex-students and present students of the Department. It was formed to foster enhanced interaction between the former and present students of the department. The association organizes seminars/workshops/talks all around the year where prominent ex-students from around the world are invited back to campus. The Association also organizes its annual reunion, "Homecoming" between February and April every year.

Aikatan: EIE Alumni Association

Aikatan, meaning 'Harmony', is the official Alumni association of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering department of Netaji Subhash Engineering College.[18] It was founded in 2014 to promote interaction among the alumni and the students of the Instrumentation department. The association organizes its annual reunion, "Samhar" in March every year since 2015.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Top Engineering Colleges In West Bengal. Inspirenignite.com (2011-02-03). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  2. ↑ University. Ugc.ac.in (2012-08-16). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  3. ↑ Netaji Subhash Engineering College. Nsecollege.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  4. ↑ Netaji Subhash Engineering College. Nsecollege.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  5. ↑ Netaji Subhash Engineering College. Nsecollege.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  6. ↑ Netaji Subhash Engineering College. Nsecollege.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  7. ↑ NBA Accreditation NBA Website in the article: List of New Accredited Programmes of Technical Institutions of 19 July 2008
  8. ↑ Techno India Group Techno India Group Website Archived May 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ The Telegraph Kolkata 12 February 2008 The Telegraph Website
  10. ↑ The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Metro | Students set tech standards. Telegraphindia.com (2010-08-02). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  11. ↑ » Top & Best Engineering Colleges in West Bengal. Myengg.com (2011-05-13). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  12. ↑ West Bengal's best engineering colleges 2012. Careers360.com (2013-09-16). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  13. ↑ The Infosys Campus Connect Programme | World Economic Forum - The Infosys Campus Connect Programme. Weforum.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  14. ↑ Phoenix. Phoenixnsec.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  15. 1 2 http://www.nsec.ac.in/pages/placement_details
  16. ↑ Chanda, Barsheekee (April 1, 2013). "Avenir - The Annual techno-management fest of Netaji Subhash Engineering College". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  17. ↑ 2K16, Avenir. "Avenir - The Annual Tech Fest of NSEC". Facebook. Facebook. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  18. ↑ Association, AEIE Alumni. "About Aikatan". aikatan.in. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

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