KONERU LAKSHMAIAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The Koneru Lakshmaiah Charities was established as a trust in the year 1980 with its official address at Museum road, Governerpet, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh 520 002 and started KL College of Engineering in the Academic year 1980-81. KL Deemed to be university was established in 1980-81, as KL College of Engineering, which was upgraded to KL College of Engineering Autonomous in 2006 by UGC, and was declared as a Deemed to be University in 2009 by UGC, MHRD Govt. of India. In 2012 as a Deemed to be University the institution was accredited by NAAC with A Grade and later in 2018, was re-accredited by NAAC with A++ grade. In 2019 UGC, MHRD declared this intuition as Category I Institution. The university was also ranked 41 under NIRF 2020.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING (Sponsered By DST-FIST)

Department of ECE was established in 1983. The department has strong back-up of 234 faculty members, specialized in core areas of ECE. Among 87 faculty members are PhD holders and 121 faculty members are pursuing PhD. Department houses several rich industry experience faculties to cater the industry needs into academics. The Department has a total of 7 State of the Art laboratories, 2 Centers of Excellence and 8 Research Centers which are well equipped to the highest level of sophistication and cater to the needs of UG, PG and PhD students. These labs have specific emphasis on Research and Development activities. The Students have full and free access to software/ tools like LabView, Xilinx, Mentor Graphics, Ansys HFSS, CST, Electric CCS, Octave, Logisim, Multisim, Code composer studio etc. There is an emphasis on PRACTICAL ORIENTATION of the students towards engineering field which has led to the concept of OPEN LABs and PROJECT BASED LABs in the Department. The students have OPEN access to all the laboratories from 7.00 A.M to 7.00P.M which they can utilize to explore beyond the curriculum and experiment on innovative thoughts/ideas.

The Department has 12 Crores worth of Sponsored projects from DST, DLRL, ISRO, DEAL etc. 2000+ International Journal papers, 600+ International Conference papers and 150+ National Conference papers by the faculty. Certificate courses in advanced areas are conducted every semester. Faculties from Foreign universities are involved in regular teaching activity. Department’s academic calendar is highlighted by regular seminars, group discussions, student paper contests, Industry Alliance and Student Personality Development Programs for all round development of students in National & International events. Student associations namely ‘Pulse’ to conduct technical events and ‘Hope’ to conduct social service activities. Placement in leading core communication companies like Amphenol Antennas, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, Tata Telecom, Hutch, Bharti Telecom, Nokia, CISCO, IBM, Intel, Agilent, Alcatel, AT & T Ericsson, Honeywell, Bosch, National Instruments, Texas Instruments, HCL and others.

About IETE

Founded in 1953,The Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers(IETE) is leading professional society devoted to the advancement of Science & Technology. IETE serves more than 60,000 members and 64 centres spread all over India. TO keep pace with technological development and achieve the mission of advancing the profession by organizing conferences and symposia,seminars, workshops, and brainstorming session for continued knowledge up-gradation of its members.

About IETE VIJAYAWADA

Vijayawada Centre of the IETE was established in 1986 as a sub-Centre and upgraded in to a Local Centre in 1992.The strength of the centre is above 400 Corporate members and more than 600 student members, and the centre have more than 4500ISF members.