Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan (MCE)

Malnad College of Engineering (MCE) is a prestigious autonomous college in Hassan which was established in 1960, during the second 5 year plan of India, as a joint venture between the Government of India, Government of Karnataka and the Malnad Technical Education Society, Hassan. The MCE is now a reputed Institute which has also earned the “ISTE Award” as one of the Best Engineering Colleges in the Country, in the year 2007.

The Late Honorable Shree Chandappa Patil, (IAS) who was the then Hassan District Commissioner, was the brain behind the evolution of Malnad Engineering College, Hassan. A First graduate from his village, he was a gentleman of humble origins with a vision to bring education to the masses in the remotest areas of Karnataka, This was his first venture for which the Coffee Planters, local farmers and many others contributed financially to make this college a reality.

The Malnad College of Engineering campus is spread over an area of 41.28 acres and has all the facilities expected in a modern Engineering College.  It is located midway between Bengaluru (180 kms) and Mangaluru (170 kms) on NH-75 on Salagame Road, Hassan, Karnataka. World famous temples of Belur, Halebidu, Shravanabelagola, and The Master Control Facility for INSAT Satellites are located in Hassan District

MCE Hassan is affiliated with the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Belgaum.  It is recognized by the UGC, approved by the AICTE and accredited by NAAC and NBA, New Delhi. It is one of the few Engineering Colleges in the country recognized for conducting the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) sponsored by the World Bank.

With roughly 4000 students on its registers, the college offers B.E in 9 disciplines, M.Tech in 8 disciplines, M.Sc (Engg) by Research and Ph.D programs. Working professionals, Faculty and others with a postgraduate qualification in the related discipline and in exceptional cases and Professionals with B.E. are eligible to apply for a Ph.D. The required qualification for M.Sc. (Engg) by Research is any 4-year Engineering degree in the related discipline.

Malnad College of Engineering offers adequate infrastructure to ensure that students have a pleasant learning experience during their college years. The College facilities include separate Boys and Girls Hostels, Library, Laboratories, Outdoor and Indoor Sports facilities, Classrooms with smart boards, Wi-Fi enabled campus, Computer Lab, Gym, Medical, IT Infrastructure, Cafeteria, Auditorium, Alumni Assn., Swimming Pool, Convenience Store, Bank/ATM, etc. At the institute level, a language laboratory with 30+1 users is available. The English module, the career module, and the aptitude module are all part of the language lab.

The department of Training and Placement, established during the early nineties, has a full-fledged office in the campus which trains and assists the students in securing employment in reputed companies. This year, 74 multi-national and national companies hosted their Campus Recruitment drive in MCE Hassan. Indian Navy, Juspay, DBS Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, Protechsoft, EmberUR Systems, Kaar Technologies, IBM, Accenture, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, L&T, BEL, Fistchner, Builders’ Association of India are the few recruiters given dream status and Amazon was the major International recruiter. It is also worth mentioning that they have offered the highest CTC of INR 15 Lakhs Per Annum.

Vision and Mission

Vision

To be an institute of excellence in engineering education and research, producing socially responsible professionals.

Mission

1. Create conducive environment for learning and research

2. Establish industry and academia collaborations

3. Ensure professional and ethical values in all institutional endeavours

Candidates who qualify GATE need to fill the Malnad College of Engineering application form. Qualified candidates must apply for KEA counselling and select MCE Hassan as preferred college for admission. Seats are allocated based on their performance in the entrance exam, preferences given by candidates and counselling.

The department of Training and Placement, established during the early nineties, has a full-fledged office in the campus. Senior Professor with good experience is entrusted with the responsibility of the Training and Placement officer, with supporting staff to cater to the needs of industry and student community. The department has exclusive board room and 5-panel rooms with all facilities to carry out the campus hiring programs. Programs offered with details: The enrollment of the students for this department will be done during the beginning of V semester. The database of each of the enrolled candidates will be kept ready for any of the hiring programs. After the enrollment, a department-wise briefing will be done to students about the importance of placement and the related training.

An introductory talk will be given by TPO about the opportunities and about career growth and planning. Since most of the visiting companies emphasize on communication skills, it is now made mandatory that the students in the first year will undergo a credit course on Professional English and in the subsequent years on communications skills and other soft skills. A three-day program on FEEL EMPLOYABLE will be done with the assistance of CLHRD of Mangalore to enhance the soft skills. Two weeks course is conducted after the sixth semester exams by reputed trainers. This includes aptitude training the students on soft skills and aptitude. This too is a credit course and hence is mandatory for all the students. A crash course on C and C++ will be conducted for non circuit branch students to meet the demands of software industries. In between expert speakers from Industry will be invited to have interaction with students and also about the latest technological developments.

A full-pledged office with board room facility, panel rooms with all necessary accessories, seminar hall with audio-visual facility and computing facilities with suitable networking for conducting online tests are readily available. A departmental library with the latest books on soft skill development and reprographic facility is available for all the enrolled students. Any other information: The campus hiring programs of the first and second batch of the autonomous program were phenomenal and a record number of eligible students across all branches got placed in companies like TCS, HCL, Wipro Infrastructure, BEL, Accenture, Tech Mahindra, Tata Elxsi, Rane Industries, Goodrich Aerospace, Nokia Siemens Networks, Mind tree, Flow serve India controls, TDPS, Ramky Infrastructures, MEIL, L&T (IES), etc. in 2016 recorded number of placements happened, where 439 students got placed. Apart from placements, regular talks are arranged to educate the students about higher studies in India and across the globe. Importance of GATE is also informed through some expert lectures.

TPO has a question bank, where the previous years’ aptitude questions from various companies, puzzles asked during the interviews are included. Students are advised to make use of this question bank and prepare meticulously for the placements.

The laboratory is used for many competitive exams on Sundays and Saturdays on rental basis so that good revenue is also generated for the institute.

Placement office organizes “Best project of the year” every year. Jury members from industries and other reputed institutions will be invited for judging. At the end of eighth semester, the program is organized across the branches for the nominated projects. Students of the winning team from each branch and the project guide will be rewarded suitably with cash prize and a certificate.

Students are promoted to attend placement drives at other colleges (pool campus) and the ones organized through VTU. This has created more number of opportunities for the students to get placed.

Since 2018, placement awareness talk will be delivered by the TPO during induction program for newly admitted students. Here the various avenues after the graduation, placements, higher studies, and competitive exams like GRE, TOEFL, IELTS etc are highlighted. This may be very effective to increase the number of placements as the students put little bit efforts from the first year itself and by the time they come to final year, they will be industry ready.

Mr. B B Neelkantappa
Associate Professor and
Training and Placement Officer
Contact Details: E-mail:- tapmce@gmail.com
Cell No. :- 9480783006

Scholarship Details

Deserving students can avail of several scholarships awarded by the Government of Karnataka. Here is a list of the scholarships and the corresponding applications that can be obtained from the Admission and Scholarship section during the month of every year.

• Post Metric Scholarship to SC/ST
• Fee-reimbursements to SC/ST
• Fee- a concession to Category-l, IIA,IIIA,IIIB and GM
• Extra boarding and lodging allowance to Category-I, IIA,IIIA,IIIB and GM
• Defense Scholarship
• Minority Scholarship
• AICTE Pragati scholarship scheme for Girls students.
• Karntataka Labor welfare Board Scholarship.
• MHRD Scholarship (The Ministry of Human Resources Department)
• Prathibha Puraskara Scholarship (Department of Technical Education)
• Kittur Rani Channamma Prathibha puraskara Scholarship)
• Disability Scholarship or Physically Disabled Scholarship
• Arunachal Pradesh Scholarship (for  students living in the area)
• Indian Oil Scholarship (for Uttar Pradesh students only)
• Jindal Scholarship (by Sitaram Chandal Trust)
• Municipality Scholarship (for children of employees only)
• KSRTC Scholarship(for Employee Children Only)
• Teacher Scholarship(for Employee Children Only)
• Sri. Dharmasthala scholarship ( for employees children only)
• LIC Scholarship
• BSNL Scholarship
• Other Scholarships.

To view list of scholarships provided by Alumni members of this college

Any other issues related to Scholarship may contact the Student Dean-SA during working hours.

1. Library

The college has an exhaustive library with more than 96780 volumes and has a well furnished Reference section. The library gets several journals in various fields of Science, Engineering and Technology.It has ain-house browsing centre. E-library facility is also provided to the fellow students for the access of online journals. In addition to this, each department has an In-house libry.

2. Ground Floor

•  Issue counter

•  Librarian’s chamber

•  Reprographic facility                                                   

•  Reference Section with

•  Periodicals & Journals

•  Internet Browsing Center

Mezzanine Floor

•  SC/ST Book Bank

•  Merit Incentive Book Bank

•  Stack area for Books

The reference Library has a total seating capacity for 300 users at a time.

3. Library resources

Link to Acess Easy Lib:http://49.207.57.234:8018/mceh

•  Total collection of 98751 Volumes (including Book Banks). 20844 Titles.                                                    

• VTU Consortium – 2023-24

• International Journals E-Version –  6685 

• Elsevier Science - 298

• IEEE       100  E Cases

• Springer - 690

• Taylor & Francis – 585

• Emerald -212

• Pro Quest – 4900

• Drillbitplagiarism (Plagiarism Originality Online Check)

• News Papers Subscription - 13 Numbers.

• Magazines Subscription - 12 Numbers.

• 1700 CDs

• Encyclopedia, Handbooks, Dictionaries, Bound volumes of Periodicals, Students' Project Reports

• Subscription to e-journals 6685 International  Non-print technical journals

• Internet Facility

• Reprographic Facility

Sports

Indoor Games

Shuttle Badminton

A sport is of anything professional student find amusing or entertaining and the skilful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play. To have a sound mind in a sound body a fully furnished sports and game facilities are provided to the student community to enrich themselves.

•  MCE campus covers various infrastructure in sports.
• Shuttle Badminton - 3 Wooden courts, 1 Outdoor court
• Timings: Morning- 05:30 am to 07:30 am
• Evening- 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

Table Tennis

•  In the complex of Indoor games one Table tennis sport is available for Students and Staffs to play.
• Timings: Morning 05:30 am to 07:30 am
• Evening 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm.
• Evening- 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

Boys Hostel

Boys Hostel Malnad College of Engineering Boys Hostel started during the year 1961 cater to the needs of the students who are coming from far away places. Now, the hostel is very well equipped with modernized kitchen and huge dining hall which can accommodate nearly 260 students at a time for lunch/dinner. Hoysala, Hemavathi and Hasanambaare the 3 blocks which accommodate nearly 600 to 650 students in 324 rooms. All the rooms are provided with cots, tables, chairs and ceiling fans. Good and well maintained rooms, corridors, bath and Water closets.

Ragging free hostel campus in secured by security services, Internet browsing centre has been provided to all the boarders of the hostel. Generator facility, 24 hrs. Water supply, hot water for bathing and hygienic food, aquagard water for drinking is served to all the boarders of the hostel. Two TV rooms are made available and indoor games and sports are encouraged.

The hostel is running under the able leadership of the present Administrator/Warden Prof., G Manjunath. Very well managed office and disciplined staff are also an added quality to MCE Boys Hostel. For further information contact.

Girls Hostel

Girls Hostel The institute has an exclusive ladies hostel located outside the college campus. It was started during the year 1990. A four storied building accommodates about 250 students. A good boarding and lodging facilities are provided to the students. The students are provided with the Wi-Fi connectivity in the hostel premises. Also, the students are provided with bus facility from hostel to college. There are two resident wardens apart from the organizational structure as follows.

About the Language Lab:

A language Laboratory is available at the Institute level with 30+1 users.

The language lab software consists of the following modules.

• English module
• Career module
• Aptitude module

Students who are weak in English communication skills – reading, writing, and comprehension will be identified by the faculty. Teaching communication skills course and will be given the assignment to work in the language lab. In addition, faculty and students if interested can come to the language lab and work on the above modules.

One faculty from each Engineering department will officiate as department-level coordinators for language lab. The department coordinators will make a list of students in consultation with the Communication skills course faculty and the same will be forwarded to the institute coordinator.

The laboratory staff in the language lab will assign the user name and password for each student.

The students will work on the specified module and the report of their performance is generated which will be submitted to the department coordinator for further action.

Coordinator:

Prof. H S Murali,

Assistant professor,

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering.

Transport

Transport Services

MCE operates a few Buses to MCE Girls Hostel to pickup MCE students from the hostel and the same for dropping. Bus timings between MCE Girls Hostel and MCE Campus