GECT Thrissur: Courses, Fees, Admission

Government Engineering College, Thrissur, is a prestigious institutions in Kerala. Established in 1957, GEC Thrissur has marched ahead and one of the most sought after technical education centre in Kerala.

• GECT College is affiliated to University of Calicut & college campus is spread over an area of 75 acres and located at Ramavarmapuram, 5km from Thrissur town and 6km from the Thrissur railway station.
• All courses offered by college has been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.

Alumini Association:-

Alumni Association was launched in 1967.Under the leadership of the association, the silver Jubilee of the college was celebrated in 1983. The activities was revived in 2000 with the launch of its website.

The Trichur Chapter of the association (TECOSA) organizes an annual family get together on 15th August with the former Faculty Members.

Placements Records:-

Awards:

GEC Thrissur has won Second prize for Academic Excellence in Calicut University

Activities:-

SPIC MACAY: The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, often known by its initials (SPIC MACAY), is a voluntary youth movement which promotes Indian classical dance, Indian classical music, and other aspects of Indian culture. SPIC MACAY was established by Dr. Kiran Seth in 1977 at IIT Delhi.

TEQIP-II: TEQIP–II launched officially in GEC Thrissur from May 2012. An amount of Rs 8,00,00,000/- has been already sanctioned by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India for this project since inception.

NPTEL: NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Science, Engineering and humanities streams. NPTEL is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware.

Facilities:-

Library:

The library has more than 60,000 books and back volume Journals. Library is fully automated and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is available to students and staff. The Central library will remain open from 10 AM to 5 PM on all working days.

A collection of 10,000 books on technology and 20,00 back volumes of journals are available in the library for reference. In addition to this college library receives 45 periodical publications as free of cost.

CCF:

Centralized Computing Facility: This is for the staff and students of this college. This centre started in 2006. The objective of this centre is to give facilities like document preparation, browsing, taking printouts etc.

EDUSAT:

The college is equipped with Edusat Facility under MOU signed with Indian Space Research Organization. Two-way interactive sessions are possible using which live classes can be conducted. One channel is meant for beaming VICTERS programmes and the other under the Indo-US forum for receiving classes conducted in engineering stream by expert faculty, beamed from the Amritha University Campus in Coimbatore.

Ancillaries:-

Staff Club:

A staff club is functioning to facilitate improvement of the cultural and academic activities among the teaching staff of the college. It serves as the plat form for the interaction between the different departments as well as with the former professors of the college and their family.

National Service Scheme:

National Service Scheme has emerged as a powerful and dynamic youth movement in this country. NSS is as a catalyst to build up the right type of leadership in an Institution. This college has implemented the scheme from 1970.

Co-operative Society

The society supplies text books, note books, practical manuals, drawing instruments, laboratory records, surveying instruments and other stationary articles needed for the students, staff and other Government institutions, with discount rates.