APS College of Engineering

About APS College of Engineering

A.P.S. Engineering College is a privately funded engineering college. The evolution of the institute was brought about by Sri N. Ananthachar. An enterprising teacher with a Master's Degree, he started a primary school on 15th August 1935. Because of the quality of education, the Director of Public Instruction gave this school its recognition in quick time, in the very next year. Twelve years before the Indian independence, the APS institution was thus founded. Eleven years after independence, it forayed into technical education. The Acharya Patashala Polytechnic was founded in 1958 under the 2nd Five Year Plan of the Government of India and the Government of Mysore. Founded at a time when the country was experiencing acute shortage of trained technical men in the field of engineering it started imparting education in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Thus seeds of APS technical education were sown about in Somanahalli in Bangalore South Taluk with the founding of the Polytechnic on a 100 acre plot of which 90 acres were a generous grant by the Government.

The location of the College is on the lush and green outskirts of Bangalore city, enabling the students to study in cosy and calm atmosphere, away from the noise and pollution of the urban influence. Founded by the APS Educational Trust which has a glorious history of 65 years of service in the field of education through a chain of schools, pre-university and degree colleges is managed by men of academic eminence and dedicated to welfare of society. APSE Trust has always been keen and eager to offer any assistance for the students to prosecute their studies.

Location and Transportation - The College is 26 kms away from bangalore city. It takes about one hour from K R.Market, Bangalore. College provides Transportation bus facility which is opted by most of all the students as it is far away from Bangalore. College is located in the area called somanahalli to which BMTC provides good connectivity.

• Nearest Railway Station - Bangalore City Distance in Kms. (26 kms)
• Nearest Airport BIAS - Devanahalli Distance in Kms. (50 kms)

Departments and Faculties

• Department of Electronics & Communication (Electronics & Communication)
• Department of Computer Science (Computer Science)
• Department of Telecommunication Engineering (Telecommunication)
• Department of Information Science (Information Science)
• Basic Sciences (Basic Sciences)
• Mechanical Engineering

Facilities

Hostel - The campus has a boys' hostel which is a home for some 250 outstation students. There are72 rooms (25 single rooms, 33 double rooms, 14 triple rooms). Reasonably priced, with adequate leisure activity space such as library, guest rooms, television room and facilities for outdoor and indoor sports, the hostilities find the place a heaven   for study and development.

Library - At APSCE, it has been a trend that has set the being an index of technical excellence of technical excellence of facility, installed in about 4500 sq. ft. of floor area has more than 18,373 volumes covering every aspect of engineering from basics to specialties catering to the needs of the students and the teaching fraternity. Apart from the unique collection of CDs on various subjects and exercises, the library has subscribed to many national and international (168) journals that help update of knowledge. A separate convenience for audio visual learning has also been set up with projectors and play back devices.

Internet Lab - The state-of-art internet laboratory having systems connected to high-speed leased line is available to the students throughout the day. Students are encouraged to use the same for browsing technical academic sites and also help themselves to prepare many projects. The peripherals facilities such as input and output devices are attached to these terminals to help students.

Interaction Programmes - The APSCE students are constantly exposed to the realities of the corporate sector and industry through a series of interaction programmes such as visits, lectures, workshops, seminars etc, Apart from this, they also get to work at the industry on their projects which are challenging. Institutions, corporate and industrial houses in which the students have executed their projects include top notch organisations such as : LRDE,  ISRO ,  C-DAC,  IISc, WIPRO,  TCS,  BHEL,  HP,  NAL ,  SEIMENS,  PHOENIX, CPRI,  ITI,  BEL,  BSNL,  etc.

Placement - The college placement cell plays an active role in such academic exercises that have a bearing on student’s future career. It also helps in organising campus interviews, preparing the students presentations, etc. The Placement record of the college is highly commendable. Some of the companies that have hired students are WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Tata Infotech, TCS etc.

Transport - Though the college is situated 26 kms from the city, for the convenience of the students commuting, college is providing a fleet of buses which pick up the students from all major residential areas of the city and drop them back after college hours. The facility is also extended for students who participate in various academic events in the city and elsewhere around Bangalore. These apart, very large numbers of buses of city’s public transport system ply on this route regularly for commuters from the city.

Seminar Hall - Inspirational   engineering requires regular interaction with persons of eminence. A good congregational facility with comfortable seating and state-of-art audiovisual aids is as such a pre-requisite which is amply met at APSCE. A well equipped Seminar hall with 1800 sq. ft. with a seating capacity of 250 has been provided in the campus. Weekly seminars, paper presentations, technical workshops, guest lectures are arranged here regularly for the benefit of the students. These have been made available in the new computer block recently ushered in 16-3-06.

Extra Curricular Activities - APSCE provides opportunities to the students to discover and develop their innate talents through conduct of regular cultural and literary events. 'Manthan' the cultural forum of the college takes the initiative and prepares the students for participating in inter-collegiate competitions, events, etc. The students are also sensitised to the issues that concern the society through organising of blood-donation camps, visits to rural areas, NSS camps etc.