The Hyderabad Karnataka Education society founded by Late Shri Mahadevappa Rampure, a great visionary and educationist runs 46 educational institutions. Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga is the first institution established by the society in 1958. The college is proudly marching towards its golden jubilee year, setting new standards in the field of education and achieving greater heights.

The college was started with 50% central assistance and 50% state assistance, and a desire to impart quality technical education to this part of Karnataka State. The initial intake was 120 with degree offered in three branches of engineering viz, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Now, it houses 11 undergraduate courses, 8 post Graduate courses and 5 Research

The Hyderabad Karnataka Education society founded by Late Shri Mahadevappa Rampure, a great visionary and educationist runs 46 educational institutions. Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga is the first institution established by the society in 1958. The college is proudly marching towards its golden jubilee year, setting new standards in the field of education and achieving greater heights.

The college was started with 50% central assistance and 50% state assistance, and a desire to impart quality technical education to this part of Karnataka State. The initial intake was 120 with degree offered in three branches of engineering viz, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Now, it houses 11 undergraduate courses, 8 post Graduate courses and 5 Research centers, established in Civil Engg., Electronics & Communication Engg, Industrial & Production Engg, Mechanical Engg and Electrical Engg. All the courses are affiliated to Visveswaraya Technological University, Belgaum. At present the total intake at UG level is 660 and PG level 157.

The college receives grant in aid funds from state government. A number of projects have been approved by MHRD /AICTE, Govt. of India for modernization of laboratories. KSCST, Govt. of Karnataka is providing financial assistance regularly for the student's projects.

The National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi, has accredited the College in the year 2004 for 09 UG Courses out of which 08 courses are accredited for three years and 01 course is accredited for five years.

The college is one among the 14 colleges selected under TEQIP, sponsored by World Bank. It has received a grant of Rs 10.454 Crores under this scheme for its development.

Recognizing the excellent facilities, faculty, progressive outlook, high academic standards and record performance, the VTU Belgaum reposed abundant confidence in the capabilities of the College and the College was conferred Autonomous Status from the academic year 2007-08, to update its own programme and curriculum, to devise and conduct examinations, and to evaluate student's performance based on a system of continuous assessment. The academic programmers are designed and updated by a Board of Studies at the department level and Academic Council at the college level. These statutory bodies are constituted as per the guidelines of the VTU Belgaum. A separate examination section headed by a Controller of Examinations conducts the examinations.

At present the college has acquired the Academic autonomous status for both PG and UG courses from the academic year 2007-08 and it is one among the six colleges in the state of Karnataka to have autonomous status for both UG and PG courses.

One of the unique features of the college is, it is the first college in Karnataka State to start the Electronics and Communication Engineering branch way back in the year 1967, to join NIT Surathkal and IISc, Bangalore. Also, it is the only college in the state and one among the three colleges across the country, offering a course in Ceramic and Cement Technology. This is the outcome of understanding by faculty and management about the basic need of this region, keeping in view of the available raw material and existing Cement Industries.

In the year 2000, the college was awarded as Best College of the year by KSCST, Bangalore in the state level students projects exhibition.

The college campus is spread over 70 acres of land on either side of Mumbai-Chennai railway track and has a sprawling complex with gardens and greenery all around.

The College has an independent Training and Placement Office headed by a Professor designated as a Placement Officer and supported by a Placement Coordinator of each department. The Placement Office provides the best arrangements for visiting officials of various companies' coming for recruitment. Placement Office functions in a separate block with all audiovisual facilities for PPT, written test, group discussion and interviews. The Training and Placement Cell has been striving continuously for the placement of the students in reputed organizations. Placements are made by inviting a number of companies and organizing campus interviews for higher semester students. Also, assistance is given to students who are not placed through campus interviews, to take up jobs through off campus mode

The College has an independent Training and Placement Office headed by a Professor designated as a Placement Officer and supported by a Placement Coordinator of each department. The Placement Office provides the best arrangements for visiting officials of various companies' coming for recruitment. Placement Office functions in a separate block with all audiovisual facilities for PPT, written test, group discussion and interviews. The Training and Placement Cell has been striving continuously for the placement of the students in reputed organizations. Placements are made by inviting a number of companies and organizing campus interviews for higher semester students. Also, assistance is given to students who are not placed through campus interviews, to take up jobs through off campus mode. More than 50 reputed national and multinational companies visit the college for campus recruitment annually. Over 70% of the students secure job offers before they complete their courses. The T & P office also coordinates the placement activities for all the engineering colleges of VTU, Gulbarga region.

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Library:

The mission of the central library is to provide information service and access to bibliographic in order to support the institute march towards its vision. It strives to provide information to faculty and students so as to meet their expectations. It has barcode reading facility and well equipped with modern facilities such as Micro Film Reader, Audio Visual Video Cassettes. A separate facility for access of E-Journals is also available in the library. Under Indest Consortia, the faculty and students are able to access about 250 online journals. Through DELNET the students can access the Library facilities of many reputed organizations.

Departmental Facilities:

Each department has LCD proj

Library:

The mission of the central library is to provide information service and access to bibliographic in order to support the institute march towards its vision. It strives to provide information to faculty and students so as to meet their expectations. It has barcode reading facility and well equipped with modern facilities such as Micro Film Reader, Audio Visual Video Cassettes. A separate facility for access of E-Journals is also available in the library. Under Indest Consortia, the faculty and students are able to access about 250 online journals. Through DELNET the students can access the Library facilities of many reputed organizations.

Departmental Facilities:

Each department has LCD projectors, Smart boards, Lap Tops, Computer Center, Internet facility and department Library. Every department employs audiovisual equipments for teaching. The laboratories in each department are well equipped with latest equipments and other facilities. The major laboratories of individual departments are: Structural Lab, Material Testing Lab, Soil testing Lab and Environmental Lab (in Civil Engineering Department), CAD/CAM lab, IC engines lab, Machine shop, Metrology lab, Material science and testing lab, CFD Lab (in Mechanical Engineering Department), Electrical Machine Lab, High Voltage Engineering Lab, Analog and Digital Lab and Power Electronics Lab (in Electrical Engineering Department), Analog Circuit Lab, Digital circuit Lab, Advanced Communication Lab, VHDL Lab, Micro Controller & VLSI Lab and Advanced Microprocessor Lab (in E and CE Department),Industrial Engineering Lab, Advanced Manufacturing Lab and Software Development and application Lab (in IPE Department), Computer Based Process Control Lab, Microprocessor Lab, and DSP Lab. A Virtual Instrumentation Lab (in IT Department), Refractory and Glass lab, (in CCT Department) System Software and DBMS Lab, Wireless Lab, Hardware Lab, Network and Internet Lab and Programming Lab (in CSE Department), Automobile Servicing Lab, Automobile scanning and Reconditioning Lab and CAD/CAM Lab (in Automobile Engineering Department), Files Structure & Database Management and Multimedia & Network Lab (in ISC Department).

Available separately for Boys and Girls

Available separately for Boys and Girls

Dr. L. S. Biradar (Principal)

Dr. L. S. Biradar (Principal)