G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering is an autonomous engineering college within Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and is located in Nagpur. The college was established in 1996. The institute gained its autonomy from 2010 to 2015, and UGC renewed it until 2022. It was accredited with an "A" grade by the NAAC in 2012 and re-accredited in 2017 with an A+ grade. The college is run by Ankush Shikshan Sanstha.
The institute has a small campus, with facilities like a gymnasium, auditorium, two mini-auditoriums, a central library, an incubation centre, innovation lab, boys hostel, and indoor sports.
Fests
Antaragni is the annual cultural festival of GHRCE. It is held in January or February. Technorion is an intercollegiate technical event that hosts technical events, technical workshops, Robowar, Line-Following competition, and Lan Gaming.
IPR and Patents
The Indian Patent Office's annual reports ranks GHRCE in overall patent filing:
Year
Place
2012-13
9th
2013-14
6th
2014-15
5th
2015-16
5th
2016-17
5th
2017-18
8th
Incubation and e-Cell
To develop entrepreneurship and innovation, the college has an incubation center and an e-Cell. Business plan competitions like R-Idea and tech business plan competitions like "Best Innovation Awards" are organized every year. Students have founded six start-ups in the incubation center. The institute partnered with TiE Nagpur for the Campuspreneur program in 2016-2017 under which a few students were chosen for training on entrepreneurship and start-up foundation.
Internship
To graduate, every student must go through a six-week internship and six-month industry internship in the final year.
IEEE Student Branch and IEEE-[Eta Kappa Nu] (IEEE-HKN) Mu Pi Chapter
The branch was founded in December 1999 and is one of the largest student branches in region-10 in terms of IEEE students membership. The student's branch at GHRCE was awarded the Best IEEE students Branch Award by IEEE India Council in 2017. The Mu Pi Chapter was inaugurated on 25 April 2018 by Dr. Ramkrishna Kappagantu. It is the 3rd HKN Chapter in India. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu is the honour society of IEEE.
Conferences
The institute hosted fifteen international conferences, including nine IEEE International Conferences, one Elsevier International conference, and over 30 National conferences. In 2008, GHRCE started a series of IEEE conferences — International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology. The seventh conference was organized in 2015 at Kobe, Japan. The ninth ICETET conference was Signal and Information Processing ; ICETET-SIP was organized in November-2019 at GHRCE.
Ranking and accreditation
Rankings
The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 139 among engineering colleges in 2020. GHRCE ranked 69 in engineering category in the survey "The Best Colleges of India" conducted by India Today-MDRA for 2018. It was ranked among Top 10 Best Industry Linked Institutes by AICTE-CII Survey Report of 2013 It was ranked under the Platinum category for Best Industry linked institution by AICTE-CII Surveys of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. GHRCE has been accredited with "A" Grade in 2012 and re-accredited with "A+" grade in 2017 by NAAC. Currently, all seven undergraduate programs are NBA accredited under Tier-I.
