Nalanda College of Engineering

Nalanda College of Engineering is an government engineering college situated in Chandi near Nalanda, Bihar, India. It was inaugurated on 19 November 2008 by the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar.[1] It is affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University.[2] The college is managed by Department of Science and Technology, Bihar.

Nalanda College of Engineering
TypePublic
Established2008 (2008)
PrincipalChandra Bhushan Mahto
Mentor InstituteIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
Students1000+
UndergraduatesBTech
PostgraduatesMTech
Location
Nalanda
,
Bihar
,
803108
,
 India
CampusRural 51.64 acres (208,979.7 m2)
NicknameNCE Chandi
AffiliationsAryabhatta Knowledge University
Websitewww.ncechandi.ac.in

History

Nalanda College of Engineering is a Government Engineering College working under the Department of Science and Technology. It has been established by the Government of Bihar and its foundation laid by Nitish Kumar in 2008. It is situated on the holy land where Lord Buddha experienced enlightenment and Lord Vardhaman Mahavir embraced Nirvana. It belongs to the land of ancient Nalanda University where students across the world studied Buddhism.

Campus
Entrance Gate of NCE Chandi
Proposed Campus Map of NCE,Chandi

NCE Chandi functions from a 51.64 acres (21 ha) campus in Chandi, Bihar. It is located in 17.3 km distance from the District's main city Bihar Sharif and 42 km from the State main city Patna.

With a cost of around Rs 40 crore, five buildings including laboratory, workshops, girls' and boys' hostels and residence for the principal of the college have been constructed in the first phase while the tender process for the construction of another 22 major and nearly a dozen minor buildings at an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore, is being initiated. The initial cost of entire construction was estimated at around Rs 166 crore in 2012 which increased to Rs 220 crore in three years.

Academics

Nalanda College of Engineering offers undergraduate courses in the field of engineering and technology. Its courses are recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Admission is through Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination (BCECE). Vocational courses admission, directly to the second year, is through the BCECE Lateral Entry Competitive Examination.[3]

Admission

From 2019 and onwards admissions will be taken only by national level exam JEE(Mains) merit list. Students desirous to take admissions must appear in IIT-JEE(Mains) Exam that is conducted by National Testing Agency(NTA).

Earlier Undergraduate admissions are done through the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination(BCECE) conducting by Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board, Under Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Act, 1995 of Bihar government. The Entrance examination is of two stages: First stage is the screening test or preliminary test. The screened candidates have to appear in the main examination (second stage). Based on the merit list in the second stage, successful candidates allotted seats in different engineering colleges of Bihar.

Admission to postgraduate programmes is based upon score and rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by IITs/IISc.

Mentor Institute

IIT Bombay is the mentor institute of NCE Chandi.[4] It agreed to become the mentor institution after going through the infrastructure facilities of the institute. IIT-Bombay will provide training/orientation to teachers of the Nalanda College of Engineering.

With the mentorship third-year students of the college will get an opportunity to do a two-month internship at IIT-Bombay and during the internship they will stay in Mumbai.

Departments

The colleges includes the following departments:[5]

Student life

Student societies
  • Training And Placement Cell
  • Internship Cell
  • Coding Club
  • Technical Club
  • Science Club
  • Sports Club
  • Civil Services Club
  • Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell)
  • Startup Cell
  • Institute Innovation Cell (IIC)
  • Photography Club (Spark)
  • NSS Club
  • Chirag(Social activity cell)

Chirag is a non-profit organization which works to educate the needy children in society.This Organisation was initiated by students of NCE,Chandi.

Facilities
  • Computer Center

Nalanda College of Engineering, Chandi has a well-equipped computer Lab to cater to the needs of students and faculty in the College. It is housed, in a magnificent state-of-the-art building having specialized laboratories to provide a variety of platforms and computing environment for UG students.NCE computer center presently has around 180 computers connected into LAN in two floors providing internet access and programming facilities to all software related laboratories of all the departments of the college.

  • Central Library

More than 10000 books covering almost all areas of different departments and more than 80 Journal collections. Every department has newsletter e-publication covering up the activities of every department and one college newsletter every month. Library has been divided into 3 sections: Lending section, Reading section and Reference section. Every department has its own departmental library loaded with a collection of books related to its specializations, soft version of project report of students and CDs of online course contents.

  • Hostels

NCE provides state of the art hostel facility for its students. There are total two hostels including a newly built girls' hostel. All the hostels are well maintained and are equipped with all the modern facilities like telephones, color television, common rooms, ward servants, in-house games room and canteens. With the intake of about 200 students, the total strength of students in the in-campus is 850. Both hostels are located within the campus. There are single seated rooms which are normally allocated to final year and pre-final year boarders. Multi-seated accommodation constitute 2-seated & 3-Seated rooms which are allotted to the students of 1st & 2nd year.

  • WI-FI

NCE Chandi is well connected from its ISP (Internet Service Provider) and Internet facility is provided in whole campus, labs and hostels using wired and Wi-Fi techniques. The computer center operates unremitting Wi-Fi Service for students for hassle free learning experience. It has broadband internet connectivity round the clock. Recently, another breed of 90 latest PCs have been installed in computer center. These are used mainly for learning various programming languages and research work.

  • Sports Facility

There is a sports club in the college.This society has been functioning in full swing right from 2008 and college has provided many facilities to students for playing cricket, tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball, football, and other in-door games. The sports ground and various fields are well maintained. Annual sports are regularly organised in the college campus. Students keenly participate in various sports competitions and win awards.

Festivals

The major annual festival organised by NCEians every year are :

  • ATISA : Atisa (Atisa NCE) is The Technical Fest of Nalanda College of Engineering.
  • PRARAMBHA : (Prarambha NCE) is The Annual Fest of Nalanda College of Engineering.

References
  1. 14 Aug, Farrukh Nadim | TNN | Updated; 2015; Ist, 1:20. "Nalanda engineering college gets own building | Patna News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 September 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "List of Engineering Colleges under AKU (Session 2017–18)". www.akubihar.ac.in. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  3. "Admission : Process". www.ncechandi.ac.in. Nalanda College of Engineering. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  4. "IIT-Bombay to mentor Nalanda tech cradle". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  5. "Department :Civil Engineering". www.ncechandi.ac.in. Nalanda College of Engineering. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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