• ELECTRONICS
    Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering names block after Army martyr

    HYDERABAD: Hyderabad based Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME) on July 12 renamed one of its technical blocks after late Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhaundiyal, who laid down his life in post-Pulwama attack operations against terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. Major Dhaundiyal graduated from MCEME in December 2017 after obtaining Bachelor of Engineering Degree in […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Engineering institutes pull plug on electronics courses the most

    The electronics and telecommunication branch of engineering, also referred to as electronics and communication by some universities, has witnessed the highest number of closures across engineering colleges in the country this year. This branch of engineering involves designing and manufacturing the hardware and software systems that run communication devices such as radio, mobile, television and […]

  • ALL DEALS
    AICTE reduces land requirement for opening engineering schools

    National Institute of Industrial Engineering. Mumbai Students coming out of their classroom. Main building seen behind. New Delhi: Technical education regulator the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has reduced the land requirement to set up engineering schools, along with ushering in measures to improve quality, facilitate closure of ailing schools and tide over […]

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    Engineering admissions fall for first time since 2006

    Low capacity utilisation in labour-intensive manufacturing sector and fall in exports have to led to sluggish job creation in the economy. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint New Delhi: The growth of technical education in India since Independence has been phenomenal as the number of engineering seats increased from 3,200 seats in 1947 to 1.9 million in 2014-15. […]