Orissa Engineering College


Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar is a First private engineering college established in Odisha. It was set up in 1986. Orissa Engineering College is the Odisha Electronics Control Library result of the vision of Shri Kamini Kanta Patnaik. It was inaugurated by the then chief minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik. The college has alumni all across the world. The institute provides courses in B.Tech, M.Tech and MBA. The college is affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology and has been approved by AICTE. The college has received NBA for three departments; Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Dushyant Mohanty, Sanjam Patnaik, Dilip Tripathy and Sidhartha Dash are some of the notable alumni who have made significant contribution to the corporate world.

Academic Structure

The college offers four-year B.Tech degree in six engineering disciplines and a two-year M.Tech degree in a few disciplines. Its management school Center for Management Studies offers a two-year full-time MBA degree affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology, the technical university of the state of Orissa.

Courses Offered

Computer Science and Engineering

The department was started with an intake capacity of 60 Students. From 1994 onwards the intake was increased to 90 students and later on after 2010 again increased to 120 students. The students are guided by two professors, four assistant professors, and 14 full-time lecturers.
The department has merged into Computer Science and Engineering branch.

Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

The department has an intake capacity of 120 students. The students are guided by one professor, one assistant professor and 11 full-time lecturers.
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Electrical Engineering

The department can accommodate 120 students per batch. The students are guided by one professor, three assistant professors and 16 full-time lecturers.
It has computing facilities, power electronics laboratory, laboratories for electrical machines, microprocessor, relay and testing, instrumentation, control power system, network machine and design lab.

Mechanical Engineering

The department was established in 1986 ). It has an intake capacity of 120 students per batch. There are three assistant professors and 20 full-time lecturers.
The department has a block that includes classrooms, engineering drawing halls and faculty room. It has central workshops with carpentry, fitting, foundry, welding, smithy and machine shops. The labs are Heat Transfer, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Material Testing, Refrigeration, Air–conditioning, Metro-logy Lab, and Vibration and Stress Analysis.

Computer Aided Manufacturing Laboratory

The center is developing a robotic lab under partial assistance from AICTE.

Civil Engineering

Its intake capacity is 120 students. The department is guided by one professor, one assistant professor and ten lecturers.
The department has a Hydraulics Lab, Environmental Engineering Lab, Structural Engineering Lab, Civil Engineering Lab, Survey Lab, Geo-tech Engineering Lab, Transportation Engineering Lab, and Auto CAD Lab.

Humanities and Sciences

The department comprises the departments of Mathematics, English, Economics, Physics and Chemistry. Mathematics is taught in the first two years of the engineering course. Students are taught English under the programme of ESP.

Training and placement department

This department is the apex body of the institute. Many companies are coming to participate in the campus recruitment program. Few of them are mass recruiters. LnT, TCS, Vedanta, Capgemini, Cognizant, IBM, Infosys, HCL etc. are few of the companies recruiting engineers from this institute.

Admissions

Admissions conform to the regulations laid down by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, the technical university of the state of Orissa. The seats are filled up through counseling of Joint Entrance Examination, All India Engineering Entrance Examination.

Lateral entry

Students who have cleared diploma with minimum 60% mark in the corresponding subject are eligible for this scheme. They are enrolled directly into the third semester of the engineering courses.
It is mandatory for all candidates to appear in the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela or All India Engineering Entrance Examination conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi or Joint Entrance Examination conducted by Orissa Private Engineering College Association to get a seat either through counselling.

Facilities

The center of management studies is a part of Orissa engineering college that offers MBA degrees to the students taking admission into it through Common Admission Test. The center is located in front of the sports complex inside the campus. The classrooms have ample space and accommodate many students. All the classrooms are air-conditioned and well-furnished. It has separate lecture theaters and conference halls to create a fine environment to study the management subjects.

Location

Orissa Engineering College is on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. The institute is spread over of land along the Bhubaneswar – Jatni road at a place called Nijigarh – Kurki.

Student interaction programs

There are two main student interaction programs. One is the tech-fest called Zazen, and other is cultural fest called Zephyr.