Nalanda College of Engineering


Nalanda College of Engineering is an government engineering college situated in Chandi near Nalanda, Bihar, India. It was inaugurated on 19 November 2008 by the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar.It is affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University. The college is managed by Department of Science and Technology, Bihar.

History

Nalanda College of Engineering is a Government Engineering College working under the Department of Science and Technology. It has been established by the Government of Bihar and its foundation laid by Nitish Kumar in 2008. It is situated on the holy land where Lord Buddha experienced enlightenment and Lord Vardhaman Mahavir embraced Nirvana. It belongs to the land of ancient Nalanda University where students across the world studied Buddhism.

Campus

NCE Chandi functions from a 51.64 acres campus in Chandi, Bihar.
It is located in 17.3 km distance from the District's main city Bihar Sharif and 42 km from the State main city Patna.

With a cost of around Rs 40 crore, five buildings including laboratory, workshops, girls’ and boys’ hostels and residence for the principal of the college have been constructed in the first phase while the tender process for the construction of another 22 major and nearly a dozen minor buildings at an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore, is being initiated. The initial cost of entire construction was estimated at around Rs 166 crore in 2012 which increased to Rs 220 crore in three years.

Admission

From 2019 and onwards admissions will be taken only by national level exam JEE merit list. Students desirous to take admissions must appear in IIT-JEE Exam that is conducted by National Testing Agency.
Earlier Undergraduate admissions are done through the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination conducting by Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board, Under Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Act, 1995 of Bihar government. The Entrance examination is of two stages: First stage is the screening test or preliminary test. The screened candidates have to appear in the main examination. Based on the merit list in the second stage, successful candidates allotted seats in different engineering colleges of Bihar.
Admission to postgraduate programmes is based upon score and rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering conducted by IITs/IISc.

Mentor Institute

is the mentor institute of NCE Chandi.
It agreed to become the mentor institution after going through the infrastructure facilities of the institute.
IIT-Bombay will provide training/orientation to teachers of the Nalanda College of Engineering.
With the mentorship third-year students of the college will get an opportunity to do a two-month internship at IIT-Bombay and during the internship they will stay in Mumbai.

Academics and list of faculty

Nalanda College of Engineering offers undergraduate courses in the field of engineering and technology. Its courses are recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education. Admission is through Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination. Vocational courses admission, directly to the second year, is through the BCECE Lateral Entry Competitive Examination.

List of faculty

S.NNameDepartmentDesignationRegular/Contracts
1Prof. Bhawesh MadhukarCivil EngineeringAssistant Professor & HeadRegular
2Prof. Sudeep KumarCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorRegular
3Prof. Garima yadavCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
4prof. Ishan jaminCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
5Prof. Saurabh AnandCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
6Prof. Shailesh KumarCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
7Prof. Keshav KumarCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
8Prof. Mukesh DhakaCivil EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
9Prof. Priyanka SinhaComputer Science EngineeringAssistant Professor & HeadRegular
10Prof. Saloni GargComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
11Prof. Raushan KumarComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
12Prof. Digember KumarComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
13Prof. Rajeev KumarComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
14Prof. Ravindra KumarComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
15Prof. Mahesh KumarComputer Science EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
16Prof. Alok KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant Professor & HeadRegular
17Prof. Md. Zishanur RahmanMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorRegular
18Prof. Rajesh BaithMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorRegular
19Prof. Pappu KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
20Dr. C. B. MahtoElectrical EngineeringAssociate Professor cum PrincipalRegular
21Prof. Nishit YadavMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
22Prof. Avinash KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
23Prof. Nishtha KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
24Prof. Rajesh KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
25Prof. Sonu KumarMechanical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
26Prof Rishi KeshElectrical EngineeringAssistant Professor & HeadRegular
27Prof. Ashish RanjanElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorRegular
28Prof. Varun KumarElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorRegular
29Dr. AmuthaElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
30Prof. Gourav SemwalElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
31Prof. Kuldeep Kumar DwivediElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
32Prof. Debabrata BiswalElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts
33Prof. Pothuraju Prabhu KumarElectrical EngineeringAssistant ProfessorContracts

Departments

The colleges includes the following departments:

Student societies

Chirag is a non profit organization which works to educate the needy children in society.This Organisation was initiated by students of NCE,Chandi.

Facilities

Nalanda College of Engineering, Chandi has a well-equipped computer Lab to cater to the needs of students and faculty in the College. It is housed, in a magnificent state-of-the-art building having specialized laboratories to provide a variety of platforms and computing environment for UG students.NCE computer center presently has around 180 computers connected into LAN in two floors providing internet access and programming facilities to all software related laboratories of all the departments of the college.
More than 10000 books covering almost all areas of different departments and more than 80 Journal collections. Every department has newsletter e-publication covering up the activities of every department and one college newsletter every month. Library has been divided into 3 sections: Lending section, Reading section and Reference section. Every department has its own departmental library loaded with a collection of books related to its specializations, soft version of project report of students and CDs of online course contents.
NCE provides state of the art hostel facility for its students. There are total two hostels including a newly built girls’ hostel. All the hostels are well maintained and are equipped with all the modern facilities like telephones, color television, common rooms, ward servants, in-house games room and canteens. With the intake of about 200 students, the total strength of students in the in-campus is 850. Both hostels are located within the campus. There are single seated rooms which are normally allocated to final year and pre-final year boarders. Multi-seated accommodation constitute 2-seated & 3-Seated rooms which are allotted to the students of 1st & 2nd year.
NCE Chandi is well connected from its ISP and Internet facility is provided in whole campus, labs and hostels using wired and Wi-Fi techniques. The computer center operates unremitting Wi-Fi Service for students for hassle free learning experience. It has broadband internet connectivity round the clock. Recently, another breed of 90 latest PCs have been installed in computer center. These are used mainly for learning various programming languages and research work.
There is a sports club in the college.This society has been functioning in full swing right from 2008 and college has provided many facilities to students for playing cricket, tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball, football, and other in-door games. The sports ground and various fields are well maintained. Annual sports are regularly organised in the college campus. Students keenly participate in various sports competitions and win awards.

Festivals

The major annual festival organised by NCEians every year are :