Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (AKGEC), Ghaziabad is affiliated to Mahamaya Technical University and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. The college was established in 1998 and offers B.Tech Courses in Six disciplines of Engineering. The college also offers postgraduate course in Computer Applications (MCA) and M.Tech in Automation and Robotics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Power & Energy Systems and VLSI Design. The college is certified for ISO 9001-2008 by BSI, UK.

The college has been consistently maintaining excellent academic results and placements. The college has the distinction of being the first and only college in UP to receive the Academic Excellence Award for the Best Engineering College in UPTU from H.E. the Governor of UP for two successive years.

The college has the distinction of being the only Engineering College in the state of U.P. to have received approval from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for establishment of Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in the field of Automation & Robotics. The program with an outlay of about Rs. 9.4 Cr envisages a unique partnership between AKGEC and seven international industries to promote research, consultancy, project development and training in the emerging technological field of Automation and Robotics. The college has also set up an Industrial Robotic Training Centre in Collaboration with Kuka Robotics of Germany. The centre provides internationally valid certification for its Basic, Advanced and Expert level training programmes in this emerging technological area. The college is also the first institution in UP to establish a virtual lab for remote experimentation in collaboration with IIT, Delhi.

Spread over 40 acre campus, AKGEC has excellent infrastructure. Departmental laboratories have the latest equipment and the college has state-of-the-art computing facilities with over 850 computers networked through broadband for Internet access. The college has a fully automated central library with over 47,000 books and national/international journals including e-journals. The college also has an interactive satellite (EDUSAT) terminal with two way video conferencing facility.

Wi-Fi enabled campus includes faculty residences, three boys and two girls hostels accommodating over 1200 students. Hostels have a library, TV room, canteen, internet, general store, well equipped gymnasium as well as in-door and out-door sports facilities.

Intellectual property, which is reflected by the caliber of faculty, is a strong point for AKGEC. The present faculty strength is about 175, of which most senior faculty members are former professors or alumni of IITs. The Director, Dr R.K. Agarwal is a B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur, MS from C.I.T., Cranfield, U.K. and Ph.D from IISc, Bangalore. With such a strong intellectual capital, the college fosters and encourages a teaching methodology that has both a theoretical and practical approach. The Chairman, Shri Ashok Pal, an engineer and eminent educationist, says, “The college milieu encourages every student to develop respect for established norms and values and at the same time understand the importance of technical knowledge in human development.”

There is continuous college-industry interface. Special efforts are made to groom the students to meet the standards of the industry, both in technical knowledge and soft skills. Interactive seminars on emerging technologies and personality development programmes are arranged to provide wide ranging exposure to students. The college is part of the Campus Connect program with Infosys for training students in accordance with the needs of the Industry. The college also conducts specialist courses for CAD packages like Pro-E and CATIA V5.

During the academic year 2010-2011 over 600 students have been placed in reputed organizations like Infosys, HCL Technologies, L&T, L&T Infotech, Hyundai, Wipro Technologies, Jakson Engineers Ltd., NTPC, IBM, Indian Air Force and the Indian Army.

 

 

Placement

A.K.G Engineering College believes that each student is a valuable resource. The placement cell concentrates on each student to his/her right career prospectus and assists him/her in achieving the same. The students are placed through the campus recruitment programs. The Training and Placement Cell is committed to fulfilling the dreams of all those who graduate from A.K.G.Engineering College. Objective of the placement cell is to place the students in good companies. This is achieved through campus selections conducted in the college for which the students are trained in aptitude, technical and soft skills, much ahead of campus selections.The Cell believes in overall development of the students' personality, which will help them to achieve a rewarding career.

     The institute has exponentially grown in all dimensions over the last few years. It also has nearly reached the target of 100 percent placements for the batch passing out this year.

       

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2.36lpa