Mar Athanasius College of Engineering pioneered engineering education in central Kerala in 1961. Managed by Mar Athanasius College Association, Aided by the Government of Kerala, the college was first in Asia under Christian Management. The college is affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University. MACE, as it is popularly known, has grown by leaps and bounds since. It now has six full-fledged departments apart from the two auxiliary departments of Mathematics and Science and Humanities.
ABOUT MACE
Management
Rivileged to be one of the five pioneers in Engineering education at the undergraduate level in Kerala state since 1961, this Government Aided institution is established, owned, and managed by the Mar Athanasius College Association. Mar Athanasius College Association is constituted as a Society registered under the Cochin Registration of Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act. The Institution is the second venture of this charitable society, the first being the Arts and Science College started in 1955. The Association also has Mar Athanasius International School and Mar Baselious College, Adimali, to its credit. Late Prof. M P Varghese, the great educational visionary, had been at the reins in this victory procession right from the founding.
A Governing body separately for MACE consists of representatives of Mar Athanasius College Association, All India Council for Technical Education, the State Govt., and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.
Dr. Winny Varghese, son of late Prof M P Varghese, is the secretary of the Association and the Chairman of the Governing Body.
