Basaveshwara Engineering College is a private co-educationalengineering college in Bagalkot, Karnataka, India. Basaveshwara Engineering College was started in 1963 in Bagalkot, in Karnataka, India. it is one of the oldest engineering colleges in karnataka, The college is affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. The college got its autonomy in the year 2007. It offers the degree programs in ten disciplines and ten post graduate programs. The college is a Government aided institution affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum in Karnataka and approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. The Institute is one of the 14 Engineering Colleges under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme a World Bank Project, administered by the Government of Karnataka in the state. The total campus is Wi-Fi enabled. The campus is equipped with a guest house, placement cell, hostel, shopping complex, post office, health centre, etc.
History
BEC was established by the Basaveshwar Veerashiva Vidyavardak Sangh. It offers 10 undergraduate programs and 10 postgraduate programs besides research programs in three disciplines. It is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and its undergraduate programs are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the All India Council for Technical Education.
Campus
The campus is on an elevated stretch of land of over 100 hectares on the outskirts of the city, adjoining New Bagalkot town. The college has an administrative block, lecture hall complex, departmental buildings, library, hostels, staff quarters and cafeteria. An auditorium and a conference hall with seating capacities of 350 and 100 respectively are on the campus.
At present, it has a collection of over 29033 titles, 130000volumes related to all the branches of Science and Engineering. A large number of National and International journals and magazines are subscribed. Special volumes like Handbooks, Standard books, Manuals, Encyclopedias, Technical reports, ISTE Learning Materials, Project Reports, Non-Book materials and Conference Proceedings are also available to the students and teachers. The library has subscribed electronic resources accessed through AICTE- INDEST Consortium, the resources subscribed are ACM Digital Library, ASCE, IEEE, ASTM, ASME, Elsevier, Science Direct and McGraw-Hills. It also provide access to other journals, databases, institutional repositories, digital libraries, portals etc. The information centre provides services to the users through separate section like circulation, Reference, Journal Section and Book-Bank for Schedule Caste/ Schedule Tribes students. The Library and Information Centre had computerized its activates and provides the services like lending, over night issue and OPAC facility through touch screen monitor. The Digital Library has a large number of digital resources made available through digital library. The digital library collections includes old question papers, research articles, patents, standards, thesis, news clippings, theses and dissertations, reports, designs and drawings etc.
Administration
The Governing Council of BEC administers the functioning of the college. It comprises the chairman of B.V.V. Sangha as the chairman of the Council and other members include nominees from B.V.V. Sangha, AICTE, DTE and VTU. The principal is the ex-officio secretary.
