Bapatla Engineering College
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Bapatla Engineering College (BEC) is a technical educational institution, located in Bapatla
, Andhra Pradesh
, India
.
, Mechanical Engineering
and Electronics and Communications Engineering branches. The college was initially affiliated to Andhra University
and, from 1984, to Nagarjuna University.
An additional section with an intake of 60 was sanctioned for the Mechanical Engineering branch in 1987. The college offers nine B.Tech degree courses with an intake of 630. An additional 10% intake is through admission in the second year. The college offers six postgraduate courses in sciences including MCA with a total intake of 234.
Quote from the Bapatla Education Society - "A significant step towards the fulfilment of the laudable objectives with which the Education Society was started, was taken in 1981 with the establishment of the Bapatla Engineering College, a gift to this area of Late Sri Kona Prabhakara Rao, Founder Secretary, Bapatla Education Society and former Governor
, Maharashtra
. With the starting of the Bapatla Public School in 1987 and later the opening of M.Sc.(Maths), M.Sc.(Electronics). The Bapatla College of Pharmacy
and The Bapatla Law College in 1995-96 the Society's unending quest for expansion acquired another memorable dimension, viz, that of having courses ranging from K.G to P.G under same management."
.
. A committee constituted by Acharya Nagarjuna University inspected the college on 15 June 2004 and recommended to AICTE the grant of autonomous status. The Institution of Engineers (India) accredited eight B.Tech. programmes offered by the college based on the recommend.
The college is one of the 17 colleges out of nearly 240 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, which is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation
(NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), New Delhi
. Technical courses which are accredited are Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering and Mechanical
. The college has been selected as a Network Institute for the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the World Bank
.
Apart from the courses in Engineering, the college offers six postgraduate courses - M.Sc.(Chemistry), M.Sc.(Computer Science), M.Sc.(Electronics), M.Sc.(Mathematics), M.Sc.(Physics) and MCA.
members, 26 have Ph.D. qualification and 86 have M.Tech qualification. Others have B.Tech./M.Phil./MCA/M.Sc. qualifications.
ranks out of 100. The college 1995-1999 batch students secured University I and III ranks. University I ranks during 1996-2000, 1999-2003 and 2000-2004 were also obtained by the college
students. The college secured the highest percentage of marks (92%) in the university final year in first appearance.
The college is known for its performance in GATE (Graduate
Aptitude
Test for Engineers) conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Sciences. Every year more than 200 of its students get admission into institutions all over the country for doing M.Tech. In 2009 the college obtained ranks like 12th(Chemical), 17th (Civil) and 26th (ECE).
has a floor area of nearly 22,000 square feet (2,000 m²). The Digital
Library
, equipped with 26 computers, offering free internet access to all students in addition to access to DELNET, SONET and online international Journals
.
The library has 45,000 books and 800 back volumes of periodicals. The college subscribes to 154 printed technical journals (including 70 foreign ones) and 300 journals (online), and magazines and newspapers. The book bank has 12,000 volumes.
and placement
cell provides assistance to graduate and post-graduate students to secure employment. This cell helps students to improve their skills in resume preparation, facing an interview, and career guidance.
The General Engineering block was inaugurated by Shri Daggubati Purandheshwari, MP.
Class work begins at 7.30 AM. The students can use the library, English Communication Skills Lab, computer labs and playfield facilities in the afternoons.
The college has a Digital Media System which enables students to view the lecture going on the studio from anywhere in the college. The classes are interactive such that students can ask doubts through telephones available in all the class rooms. They are also called Virtual
Class rooms. Lectures can be stored in the systems and can be viewed at any point from the college website
.
, tennis
, volley ball, basket ball, shuttle
badminton
etc., and athletics. A team from the college participates in the international software contest conducted by ACM every year and the college encourages students to present technical
papers in the national
and international
level technical symposia.
Bapatla
Bapatla, formerly known as Bhavapuri, is a town and mandal of Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located south of Guntur City on the East Coast.-Assembly constituency:Bapatla is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh....
, Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
History
Bapatla Engineering College was established in 1981 by MP Kona Prabhakar Rao, with an intake of 180 students in Civil EngineeringCivil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
, Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
and Electronics and Communications Engineering branches. The college was initially affiliated to Andhra University
Andhra University
Andhra University or Andhra Viswa Kala Parishad , located in Visakhapatnam, north east coastal Andhra Pradesh, is one of the older premier universities in India with a broad focus...
and, from 1984, to Nagarjuna University.
An additional section with an intake of 60 was sanctioned for the Mechanical Engineering branch in 1987. The college offers nine B.Tech degree courses with an intake of 630. An additional 10% intake is through admission in the second year. The college offers six postgraduate courses in sciences including MCA with a total intake of 234.
Quote from the Bapatla Education Society - "A significant step towards the fulfilment of the laudable objectives with which the Education Society was started, was taken in 1981 with the establishment of the Bapatla Engineering College, a gift to this area of Late Sri Kona Prabhakara Rao, Founder Secretary, Bapatla Education Society and former Governor
Governor
A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
. With the starting of the Bapatla Public School in 1987 and later the opening of M.Sc.(Maths), M.Sc.(Electronics). The Bapatla College of Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
and The Bapatla Law College in 1995-96 the Society's unending quest for expansion acquired another memorable dimension, viz, that of having courses ranging from K.G to P.G under same management."
.
College profile
The Bapatla Engineering College, one of the seven educational institutions sponsored by the Bapatla Education Society, was established in 1981 affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityAcharya Nagarjuna University
Acharya Nagarjuna University is one of the Universities located in the region of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the major universities in the country covering many colleges and institutes of different districts in the region...
. A committee constituted by Acharya Nagarjuna University inspected the college on 15 June 2004 and recommended to AICTE the grant of autonomous status. The Institution of Engineers (India) accredited eight B.Tech. programmes offered by the college based on the recommend.
The college is one of the 17 colleges out of nearly 240 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, which is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation
National Board of Accreditation
The National Board of Accreditation , India was established by AICTE as an autonomous body under section 10 of AICTE act, 1987 for periodic evaluations of technical institutions & programmes basis according to specified norms and standards as recommended by AICTE council...
(NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education
All India Council for Technical Education
The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development...
(AICTE), New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
. Technical courses which are accredited are Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering and Mechanical
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
. The college has been selected as a Network Institute for the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
.
Courses
The four year B. Tech course is offered in nine branches - Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering, with a total annual intake of 900 students. Three M.Tech. courses are offered,, one in the Mechanical Engineering branch with CAD/CAM specialization, one in Computer Science and Engineering with Computer Science and Electronics specialization and one in the Electronics and Communication Engineering branch with Communications and Signal Processing specialization.From year 2010 civil engineering offers M.Tech with Structural Engineering specilization.Apart from the courses in Engineering, the college offers six postgraduate courses - M.Sc.(Chemistry), M.Sc.(Computer Science), M.Sc.(Electronics), M.Sc.(Mathematics), M.Sc.(Physics) and MCA.
Faculty
The teaching faculty consists of nine professors, 37 assistant professors, 138 lecturers and 127 non-teaching staff. Out of 184 facultyFaculty (university)
A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas...
members, 26 have Ph.D. qualification and 86 have M.Tech qualification. Others have B.Tech./M.Phil./MCA/M.Sc. qualifications.
Academic performance of students
The college students of 1995–1999 and 1996-2000 obtained 33 UniversityUniversity
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
ranks out of 100. The college 1995-1999 batch students secured University I and III ranks. University I ranks during 1996-2000, 1999-2003 and 2000-2004 were also obtained by the college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
students. The college secured the highest percentage of marks (92%) in the university final year in first appearance.
The college is known for its performance in GATE (Graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
Aptitude
Aptitude
An aptitude is an innate component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. Aptitudes may be physical or mental...
Test for Engineers) conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Sciences. Every year more than 200 of its students get admission into institutions all over the country for doing M.Tech. In 2009 the college obtained ranks like 12th(Chemical), 17th (Civil) and 26th (ECE).
Library
The college libraryLibrary
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
has a floor area of nearly 22,000 square feet (2,000 m²). The Digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
, equipped with 26 computers, offering free internet access to all students in addition to access to DELNET, SONET and online international Journals
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
.
The library has 45,000 books and 800 back volumes of periodicals. The college subscribes to 154 printed technical journals (including 70 foreign ones) and 300 journals (online), and magazines and newspapers. The book bank has 12,000 volumes.
Training and placement cell
The trainingTraining
The term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of...
and placement
Placement
Placement may refer to:* Placement , an essential step in electronic design automation* Placement exam, determines which class a student should take* Favored placement, the practice of preferentially listing search engine results for given sites...
cell provides assistance to graduate and post-graduate students to secure employment. This cell helps students to improve their skills in resume preparation, facing an interview, and career guidance.
Buildings and equipment
The college is housed on a 30 acres (121,405.8 m²) site with buildings of a total plinth area of about 400,000 sq ft (40,000 m²). The cost of buildings is over Rs.13.6 crores while that of the laboratory equipment comes to Rs.8.25 crores.The General Engineering block was inaugurated by Shri Daggubati Purandheshwari, MP.
Class work begins at 7.30 AM. The students can use the library, English Communication Skills Lab, computer labs and playfield facilities in the afternoons.
The college has a Digital Media System which enables students to view the lecture going on the studio from anywhere in the college. The classes are interactive such that students can ask doubts through telephones available in all the class rooms. They are also called Virtual
Virtual
The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.The term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the salient qualities of the real....
Class rooms. Lectures can be stored in the systems and can be viewed at any point from the college website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
.
Extracurricular activities
Facilities are available for sports such as cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, volley ball, basket ball, shuttle
Shuttlecock
A shuttlecock, sometimes called a bird or birdie, is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only, embedded into a rounded cork base...
badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
etc., and athletics. A team from the college participates in the international software contest conducted by ACM every year and the college encourages students to present technical
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
papers in the national
Nation
A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, and/or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government irrespective of their ethnic make-up...
and international
International
----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...
level technical symposia.
Girls hostel
The college has a campus hostel for girls. It is a three storeyed building of 87 rooms accommodating 400 students, a dining hall, TV and audio room, shuttle badminton court, standby generator, lawn and flower gardens. There is computer access with free internet facility, with a connection to the main computer centre of the college.External links
- http://www.becbapatla.ac.in College website
- http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/29/stories/2007112950950200.htm News article in the Hindu Newspaper
- http://www.university-directory.eu/India/Bapatla-Engineering-College.html Listed in University Directory