GOPALAN COLLEGE OF ENGINNERING AND MANAGEMENT
About GCEM – COMEDK
The Gopalan College of Engineering and Management, Whitefield, Bangalore (GCEM) is an institute that provides quality education in a diverse and multi-cultural environment. GCEM celebrates the power of knowledge, cultivates vision and encourages new ideas, while also inculcating human values. Its transformative engineering education includes a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment, as well as special programs which allow students to realize their potential and make them competent, inspired and successful professionals.
Gopalan College of Engineering and Management (GCEM) was established in the year 2010, started by the Gopalan Foundation, which is part of the renowned Gopalan Group. The Gopalan Group was founded in 1984 by Mr. C.Gopalan, an architect, to develop and construct residential apartments in Bangalore. The company has developed some of the finest homes in Bangalore and has the enviable record of having completed all its projects on time. The Group is engaged in the promotion of Residential, Commercial, Shopping Malls, Townships, Special Economic Zones, Software Technology Parks, Biotech Parks, Organic Farms, Educational Institutions, Export of Culinary, Medical Herbs, Star Hotels, Hospitals, etc.
Gopalan College of Engineering and Management is Accredited by NAAC, NewDelhi, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, approved by AICTE, New Delhi and recognized by the Government of Karnataka. GCEM is an ISO 9001:2015 certified institution. Initially, GCEM started with four undergraduate programs with an annual intake of 240. The college is located in Hoodi with a campus area of about 7.17 acres. At present, the Institute has an annual intake of 300 students for undergraduate programs in 5 disciplines. Besides, the Institute has set up Research Centers in 5 departments to promote research activities
While students at Gopalan Engineering College, Whitefield, Bangalore immerse themselves in academics, the college has a lot in store for them outside the classroom. Student life includes participation in sports, recreational and co-curricular activities and cultural activities. In short, at Gopalan Engineering College, students will find an academic and social environment where everyone from faculty members to peers helps shape their future. With inputs from motivated and quality faculty, our students display consistently high academic performance which has helped us to reach a pioneer as ranked amongst the top 10 Engineering colleges in Bangalore, Karnataka.
The college is a member of a wide range of technological organizations like ICTACT, NALTECH Skill Development, IEI India, IETE, IIC, MSME Business Incubator, and UNISEC. Gopalan Research Innovation and Training Centre (GRIT) is established to promote innovation and research activities on the campus. It promotes undergraduate research, and innovation as well as provides training on the recent advancements in the different disciplines of engineering to aspiring young college students. G R I T closely works with industries under MOU to address R&D projects of mutual interest. Some of the key experimental facilities planned in GRIT include special-purpose Energy and Environment lab, Experimental Aero Lab, Design and Computation Lab, Fabrication and Testing, Sensors Lab, Virtual Instrumentation Lab.
GCEM has state-of-the-art infrastructure with physical facilities like well ventilated, spacious classrooms, tutorial room’s, discussion rooms, seminar halls, laboratories catering to the complete VTU syllabus and beyond, faculty rooms, restrooms, smart boards in every classroom, amphitheater, media center, computer labs, Wi-Fi connectivity, Centres of excellence, incubation Centre, language lab, computer center, a well-established training, and placement department, well-stacked college & department library with e-resources facility, sports, and health center facilities and Hostel accommodation for boys & girls. Football, badminton, Volleyball, etc., as well as a track-field for athletics, have been established. Facility for indoor games like table tennis, chess, carom, etc. are well Courts, playgrounds for various games inclusive of Cricket is organized. Students are provided with separate rooms to practice for cultural activities. Our library is automated by Libsoft (version 9.8.0) and has 3216 Titles, 12513 Volumes, and 247 books in SC/ST Book Bank. The library is a member of the DELNET for the last 5 years. It is being extensively used for searching the database of other member libraries. Our library is a member of VTU e-consortium and an institutional repository of NPTEL Video Lectures, Previous year question papers, project reports, manuals, etc. catering to different needs of the students and staff. Remote access is available for e-resources in the library. The inbuilt IT infrastructure enhances the learning process by supporting the entire building with Wi-Fi / LAN facilities for its students and faculty. The Wi-Fi is periodically updated as per the requirements. The college has a Leased line Internet Connectivity with a bandwidth of 100 Mbps. In short, at GCEM students will find an academic and social environment where everyone- from faculty members to peers helps shape their future.