Coordinates: 16°10′25.3″N 75°39′25.

9″E

Basaveshvara Engineering College

Basaveshwara Engineering College (Autonomous) (also known as
BEC) is a private co-educational engineering college in Bagalkot, Basaveshwara
Karnataka, India. Basaveshwara Engineering College was started in Engineering College
1963 in Bagalkot, in Karnataka, India. it is one of the oldest (Autonomous), Bagalkot
engineering colleges in karnataka, The college is affiliated with Motto Quality Technical
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. The college got its Education through
autonomy in the year 2007. It offers the degree programs in ten
Innovation
disciplines and ten post graduate programs. The college is a
Government aided institution affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological Type Autonomous
University, Belgaum in Karnataka and approved by the All India Established 1963
Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.
President Veeranna C.
The Institute is one of the 14 Engineering Colleges under the Charantimath
Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) a Principal Dr.
World Bank Project, administered by the Government of Karnataka in C.B.Shivayogimath
the state. The total campus is Wi-Fi enabled. The campus is equipped
Academic 350
with a guest house, placement cell, hostel, shopping complex, post
staff
office, health centre, etc.
Location Karnataka, India
16°10′25.3″N
75°39′25.9″E
Contents
Campus Urban, 150 acres
History (610,000 m2),
Campus 5 km from
Bagalkot city on
Departments
Raichur-Belgaum
Courses offered
Road
Undergraduate
Accreditation AICTE, NBA
Postgraduate
Nickname BECians
Library & Information Centre
Affiliations VTU
Administration
Sports basketball, cricket,
References
tennis, table
tennis, football
History
BEC was established by the Basaveshwar Veerashiva Vidyavardak Sangh (BVVS). 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 (NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

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.

Departments
Department of Physics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Maths
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Department of Automobile Engineering
Department of Bio Technology
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Information Science and Engineering
Department of Instrumentation and Technology
Department of Industrial Production and Engineering
Department of Electronics and Communication
Department of Electrical and Electronics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Management Studies (MBA)
Department of Computer Applications (MCA)

Courses offered

Undergraduate
Automobile
Bio-Technology
Civil
Computer Science
Information Science
Instrumentation Technology
Industrial Production
Electronics and Communication
Electrical and Electronics
Mechanical

Postgraduate
Environmental Engineering
Structural Engineering
Digital Communications
Master of Business Administration
 Master of Computer Applications
Machine Design
Production Technology
Power and Energy Systems
Computer Science and Engineering
Geo-Technical Engineering

The departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Computer Science Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering have been recognized by
VTU as research centres and offer M.Sc (Engg.) by research and Ph.D Programme.

Library & Information Centre

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 (144) and International (106) 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.

References

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