National Engineering College
National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India is a self financing Autonomous Institution. NEC was started in the year 1984, approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, India, and its courses are accredited by National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai. NEC offers six undergraduate degree programmes and five post-graduate degree programmes in Engineering and Technology. The institution runs under a trust formed by the Chairman Kalvi Thanthai Thiru.K. Ramasamy.
More than 10,000 engineers graduated during the past 35 years. It has Research Centre Status to run doctoral research programmes approved by Anna University, Chennai, through which more than 300 researchers have completed or are pursuing research in diverse fields.
Location
The college is located in Tamil Nadu in one of the southern districts. It's off of National Highway 44, the longest-running, major north–south National Highway that goes from Srinagar to Kanyakumari. Previously this part of the highway was numbered as National Highway 7 which was from Varanasi to Kanyakumari. Madurai is the closest metropolitan city, around 100 km away, while Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Trivandrum are the other major cities that are close by. The nearest railway station is in Kovilpatti. Tuticorin Airport is possibly the closest commercial domestic airport, while the Madurai Airport is the closest international airport. V.O.Chidambaranar Port or Tuticorin Port Trust is the closest major port.Courses Offered
| S.No | Courses | Current Intake | Year of Start |
| 01 | M.E. - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | 25 | 2001 |
| 02 | M.E. - ENERGY ENGINEERING | 18 | 2004 |
| 03 | M.E. - HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING | 18 | 2005 |
| 04 | M.E. - EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES | 18 | 2012 |
| 05 | M.TECH - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 18 | 2017 |
Rankings
The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 189 among engineering colleges in 2020.Electronics & Communication Engineering Department
The Department was established in 1984. It offers courses in B.E and M.E. R. Parthasarathy, a retired professor of Indian Institute of Technology Madras or IIT, Chennai and V. Krishnamurthi, a retired professor of College of Engineering, Guindy, have worked for a short period of time during the 1980s and 1990s as head of the department. Also, Rm. Chidambaram, a retired faculty from Annamalai University worked for a few years in the mid 1990s.The department has the following labs:
Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory,
Digital / LIC Laboratory,
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory,
Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Laboratory / e – Yantra Lab,
Networks Laboratory,
Microwave and Communication Laboratory,
VLSI Laboratory,
Advanced Communication System Laboratory,
Embedded System Laboratory,
Internet of Things Laboratory,
Semiconductor Chip testing Laboratory and
Product Development Center