BAGALKOT

Basaveshwar Engineering College

(Autonomous)
[Govt. Aided Institution, AICTE Recognized, affiliated to VTU
Belgaum]
Vidyagiri, Bagalkot - 587 102, Karnataka State, India
Tel: 08354-234060, 234072, 234121, Fax:08354-234204
Website: http://www.becbgk.edu


1.0 Introduction
Basaveshwar Engineering College (BEC) is a premier technical institute located in northern part of
Karnataka on a scenic stretch of land spread over 184 acres in the new township of Bagalkot.
Basaveshwar Veerashaiva Vidyavardhak Sangha (BVVS) started the college in 1963, as a private college,
offering three UG programs and came into government grant in-aid code from 1968. The student intake
has grown to about 1100 and the total student strength on campus is about 4200. Buildings with
adequate amenities of nearly 45,000 sq.m is being built and about 1200 state-of-the-art computers are
networked through 20 Gbps backbone fiber network. The campus is WiFi enabled, with 20 Mbps
internet connectivity. The network facility on the campus is upgraded under TEQIP - II, with an
investment of 45 lakhs. Library is equipped 1,00,000+ volumes and around 50,000 titles.
Quality teaching-learning processes are emphasized by the highly qualified faculty with 50 plus
Doctorates and 150 plus Post-graduates and delighted student community. The proactive core research
activities have helped in securing research grants to the tune of 1.7 crore in the past three years. In
2004, the college was selected under TEQIP-I (Rs. 15 crore grant) & TEQIP-II in 2011 (Rs. 12.5 crores)
and gained autonomy and permanent affiliation to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU),
Belgaum, in 2007.
Presently, the college offers 10 undergraduate and 8 postgraduate programs in Engineering, MCA and
MBA programs in addition. Also, Eight departments have been recognized as research centers by VTU to
offer Ph.D and M.Sc in Engineerig (by research) programs. In a period of ten years (2003-2013) 70 plus
scholars have registered for Ph.D programs and 30 plus scholars have been awarded the doctorate
degree. The college persistently works for national development by producing high quality technical
graduates and proactively contributes to socially relevant technological services.
Over the years, the college has emerged as one of the leading technical educational institutions due to
the valuable contributions of its alumni who hold key positions in government, industrial and business
organizations across the globe. The feedback from the alumni and employers has been good and the
college has made a remarkable progress using the constructive feedback from all the stakeholders.
Vision
To be recognized as a premier technical
institute committed to developing exemplary
professionals, offering research based
innovative solutions and inspiring inventions for
holistic socio economic development


Table1. Programmes offered by the institution



2.0 Research, Development and Innovation activities in the institution
The institute has the credit of publishing 320 plus research papers in various national and international
journals, 12 plus technical books. Four patents have been filed. Two research base projects have been
commercialized. The institute is intensifying the interaction with industries to promote high quality
collaborative research activities. Effective utilization of highly qualified and experienced man power and
the state-of-art research laboratories the MoU between the academia and industry would result into
mutual benefit. With the excellent growth over the years and its overreaching performance the college
is now in a vantage position to expand its gamut of operations in national and global technical
education. The college has been selected under TEQIP phase-II, a World Bank assisted project to
enhance PG laboratories, and research and development activities in the institution. The institute has
upgraded the following laboratories.

Vision and Multimedia Computing
Wireless Networks
Data mining
VLSI
Bioprocess Engineering
Research and development lab(Mech.)
Signal Processing
Molecular Biology




Sl.No Department &Title of Programme Sl.No Department &Title of Programme
1 UG - Civil Engineering
PG - i) Structural Engineering,
ii) Geotechnical Engineering
iii) Environmental Engineering
Ph.D & MS by research
5 UG - Electronics & Communication Engg.
PG - Digital Communication
Ph.D & MS by research
6 UG - Industrial & Production Engineering
Ph.D & MS by research
4 UG - Automobile Engineering
2 UG - Mechanical Engineering
PG - i) Production Technology and
ii) Machine Design
Ph.D & MS by research
7 UG - Computer Science & Engineering
PG - Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D & MS by research
3 UG - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
PG - Power and Energy systems
Ph.D & MS by research
8 UG - Biotechnology
9 UG - Information Science & Engineering
10 UG - Instrumentation Technology


The major areas of research in various departments are mentioned in Table 2:

Table 2. Research areas in various departments
Department Research Areas Department Research Areas
Civil
Engineering
High Strength & High
Performance Concrete, Fiber
Reinforced polymer
Composites, Waste Water
treatment, Ground Water
Modeling, Soil Dynamics
Electrical and
Electronics
Engineering
Wind Solar Energy Systems,
Energy Conservation & Auditing,
Signal Processing, Biomedical
Instrumentation, Power
Electronic Applications
Mechanical
Engineering
Noise & Vibration Analysis,
Tribology & Wear Analysis,
Alternate Fuels for IC Engines,
Advanced Materials & Engg.
Development of Master
Alloys. Experimental stress
Analysis. Gear Engineering,

Electronics &
Communications
Engineering.
Wireless Networks, Signal
Processing, VLSI Embedded
Systems & MEMS, Data
acquisition system
Industrial &
prod.
Material Science,
Management Science,
Advance Machining
Biotechnology Bio-fuels, Bioinformatics,
Molecular Techniques,
Environmental Biotechnolgy
Automobile
Engineering
Synthesis of Mechanism,
Heat Exchanger
HCCI Engines
Computer Science
& Engineering.
Image Processing, Intelligent
Systems, Adhoc Networks,
Knowledge Based Systems

3.0 Research Laboratories Proposed
It is proposed to establish few more research laboratories in specific domain to promote research
activities and expected to complete by the end of 2014. The details of the proposed laboratories and the
estimated cost are shown in Table 3.

Table 3 List of proposed research laboratories and budget allocated
Proposed Facility
Estimated
Cost (Rs in
lakhs)
Proposed Facility
Estimated
Cost (Rs in
lakhs)
Central Computing Facility 60.000 Vision computing and Intelligent Sys.
Laboratory
18.000
Structural Engineering Laboratory 60.000 Multimedia Computing Research
Laboratory
13.500
Environmental Engineering
Laboratory
15.000 Wireless & Mobile Computing Research
Laboratory
13.000
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory 9.600 Information retrieval and Data Mining
Research Lab.
13.000
Water Resources Laboratory 9.370 Advanced Machining Research
Laboratory
19.730
Tribology Laboratory
(Modernization)
8.400 Management Science Laboratory 4.850
NVH Laboratory (Modernization) 13.195 Signal Processing Laboratory 2.500
Fatigue life estimation Laboratory 24.605 Communication and Networking
Laboratory
27.500
IC engine and alternate fuel testing
Laboratory
16.800 VLSI and MEMS Laboratory 5.000
SCADA and Substation Automation
Laboratory
29.800 Data Acquisition and Measurement
Laboratory
25.000
Signals and FPGA-DSP Research
Laboratory
19.800 Molecular biology and Bio-
computational Research Lab.
10.500
Renewable Energy Research
Laboratory
5.890 Biochemical engineering Laboratory 15.000


The college is focusing on increasing the interaction with industries with an objective to engage in high
quality joint research activities and enhance the employability of the graduates. Considering this the
general objectives are specified in Table 4.
Table 4. General objectives of MoUs

Objective Category Objective
Number
General description of the objective
Curriculum design 1 Participation of industry personnel in Joint curriculum design so that
the syllabus meets the contemporary needs of industries
Student Project 2 Involvement of students and faculty in indentifying and finding
innovative solutions to live industrial problems having the potential
for UG and PG student projects
Research 3 Involvement of research scholars and research guides to indentify the
problems with research potential and finding an optimum solution
through research and development activities.
4 Establishment of Centre of Excellence (CoE) on a sharing basis in the
institution
Training/Placement 5 Guest lectures at institute by experts from industry
6 Short term in plant training to students and faculty
7
8
Industrial tour for students
Placement, Internship
Consultancy 9 Carryout the consultancy activity by utilizing the expert man power
and available infrastructure.
Many industries and institutes have signed the MoU with BEC and few of the industries/institution are
listed in Table 5.
Table 5. MoUs and collaborative agreements signed with leading industries and research institutions

Sl. Dept. MoU with Sl. Dept.
MoU with
1 Electrical and
Electronics
Engineering
PRDC, Bangalore
Flexitron Bangalore
5 Electronics and
Communicatio
n Engineering
KarMIC, Manipal
BOSH Rexroth, Bangalore
2 Civil
Engineering
kCUBE consultancy
services Chennai
Medini, Bangalore
6 Industrial
Production
Engineering
Gem Sugars, Bilagi
Karnataka
3 Computer
Science
Oracle, Bangalore 7 Automobile
Engineering
BOSH Rexroth, Bangalore
Microsoft, Bangalore BDK Valves, Hubli
Infosys Campus Connect Prosim Technology,
Bangalore Global Edge Software Ltd.
Bangalore
4 Mechanical
Engineering
NIC-Colab CAD, New Delhi 8 Institution
Level
Sagina Valley University,
USA SDS Bangalore

At present, a need is felt for collaboration between the industry and institution for their mutual benefit
and also progressive development of the nation. Hence, this proposal is to explore the possibilities of a
MoU between the aspirant industries and institute to carry out the objectives set forth in the proposal.
In lieu of this a centre of excellence can be setup with the matching grant from the industry and institute
on a sharing base. BOSH Rexroth, Bangalore and NOKIA have set up their CoE in our institute campus
and are functioning effectively.