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 are associated with laboratory with a view of transferring the knowledge gained in the laboratory into a full-fledged project at the end.