A
jay Kumar Garg Engineering
College (AKGEC), Ghaziabad,
Uttar Pradesh is approved by
AICTE and affiliated to Dr
APJ Abdul Kalam Technical
University, Lucknow. The college
was established in 1998 and offers
B.Tech Courses in nine disciplines of
Engineering. The college also offers
postgraduate courses in Computer
Application (MCA) and M.Tech in
five engineering disciplines. The
college is accredited by NAAC.
AKGEC has excellent
infrastructure with state-of-the-art
laboratories, computing facilities,
automated library with e-journals,
modern well furnished hostels for
1500 students and faculty residences
on its wi-fi enabled 40 acres campus.
The college also has highly
qualified and experienced faculty
lead by its Director,
Dr R.K. Agarwal, who is an
alumnus of IIT Kanpur, CIT, UK and
IISc Bangalore with vast teaching,
research and administrative
experience.
The college has been consistently
maintaining excellent results and
has 18 students in the 2017-18 top ten
AKTU merit lists with 3 Gold, 1
Silver and 2 Bronze medals. The
college students have also
received the Chancellor’s Gold
Medal for best performance
across all B.Tech branches for
three consecutive years, since its
inception. The college also
conducts a number of
industrially relevant programs
to make its students globally
competitive. During the year
2017-18 over 650 students have
been placed in reputedcompanies like Infosys, Cognizant,
Ashok Leyland, HCL, Hero Motocorp,
HSBC Software, TCS, Tech
Mahindra, Wipro, Samsung
Research Institute, NIIT
Technologies.
The college has established a
number of Centres of Excellence in
collaboration with eminent
multinational industries. These
include Industrial Robotic Training
Centre in collaboration with Kuka
Robotics, Centre of Competence in
Automation Technologies with
Bosch Rexroth, LabVIEW Academy
with National Instruments, Product
Life Cycle Management (PLM)
Centre with Siemens, Drive &
Control Lab with Mitsubishi Electric,
Industrial Pneumatic Knowledge
Centre with Janatics India and a
Competency Development Centre in
Integrated Automation with
Automation Industries Association
and industry partners like Pepperl &
Fuchs, B&R, Festo and Siemens. The
primary objective of these centres is
to provide industrially relevant
training in these inter-disciplinary
state-of-art technologies to bridge
the gap between academiccurriculum and industry needs.
These centres also promote research
and industrial consultancies.
To expand the outreach of this
facility and to align its objective with
“Skill India Mission”, AKGEC Skills
Foundation has been established as
a funded training partner of National
Skill Development Corporation
(NSDC), under Ministry of Skill
Development & Entrepreneurship.
Under this program Advance
Welding Technology and Advance
Manufacturing Centres have been
established.
The college has the unique
distinction of receiving the Academic
Excellence Award for Best
Engineering College in UPTU for
two successive years from His
Excellency the Governor of UP. The
college is also the recipient of ‘Best
Industry Institute Interface’ from
the Hon’ble Minister of Science &
Technology, U.P. Government, as
well as from Royal Academy of
Engineering, UK. The college has
been honoured with the prestigious
STEM awards for ‘Excellence &
Innovation in Robotics Education’ by
All India Council for Robotics &
Automation.
AKGEC believes in setting
audacious goals and infusing
fresh ideas to achieve the
same. The college plans to
promote collaborative industry
relevant projects, R&D, and
consultancy to raise the overall
academic standard as well as
to bridge the gap between
academic curriculum and
industry requirements to
make its students globally
competitive.Ajay Kumar Garg
Engineering College
SCALING THE ZENITH OF EXCELLENCE
Driven by its commitment to provide quality technical education, Ajay Kumar Garg
Engineering College has become one of the best Engineering Institutions in Uttar Pradesh
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