Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering ,CUSAT


Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering located in Cochin, Kerala, India, is the first Marine engineering college in the state of Kerala. Located in the Cochin University of Science and Technology main campus, KMSME started its first batch of four-year B-Tech marine engineering programme in 2003 and opened its own campus in 2007. It is the only Marine Engineering training institute that is under the direct control of state owned Government University.

History

The B-Tech Marine Engineering course was started in CUSAT in 2003 as a division of the School of Engineering. However, due to the uniqueness of the course, an exclusive campus was devised later. The foundation stone of the campus was laid on February 2, 2006 and it was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan on October 28, 2007. Meanwhile, the university separated the course from the School of Engineering and called it Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering.
B-Tech Marine Engineering which is a compulsorily residential regimental course secured approval of both the AICTE and Director General of Shipping as it is a pre-sea course. B-Tech's enrolment increased from 40 to 80 in 2013. In 2017 Nila John from the institute became the first lady in Kerala to successfully complete the Marine Engineering course.

Administration

The current director of the institute is MP John who took over the office from Prof.Dr KA Simon on October 9, 2019.Dr Simon is the first director in the history of the institute.He joined KMSME in the year 2007 and was the director for 12 years.

Admissions

Admissions are available through a common admissions test administered by CUSAT. The college offers students courses in B-Tech and M-Tech Marine Engineering. M-Tech course was started in 2016.

In Sports

Students from KMSME has been a part of the CUSAT team in various games throughout the years,the major 2 being Volleyball and Football.

Volleyball

In 2018 KMSME volleyball team created history by winning the University championship for the first time under the captaincy of Nitheesh Sasankan popularly known as 'Ujee Nitheesh'.On seeing his performance,he was trialed by Kochi Blue Spikers for their 2018 season squad.He was picked but were on the reserves list in case of any injury backup.