P A College of Engineering

P. A. College of Engineering (P.A.C.E) is an engineering college located in Karnataka, India. It is situated at Konaje, 25 km from Mangaluru. P.A.C.E was founded in 1999 by the Kerala-based businessman Dr. P.A. Ibrahim Haji.^[1] Approximately 1,450 engineering students graduate each year. The univeresity sits on a 60 acres (24 ha) campus.

The college was established with a sanctioned intake of 240 students per academic year; 60 students in each of four disciplines: Electronics and Communication, Telecommunications, Computer Science, and Information Science. Since then, three additional disciplines have been added: Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, and Civil Engineering. With these additions, the student intake per academic year doubled to 480 students.

P.A.C.E. is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). It is affiliated with the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) accredited the college in 2009. P.A.C.E. has also been certified to the ISO 9001-2008.

P.A.C.E. offers six B.Eng programs: Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Postgraduate degrees include an M.B.A. and four M.Tech courses: Digital Communication Networks, Computer Science and Engineering, Thermal Engineering, and VLSI Design. The Electronics and Communication, Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Computer Science departments each have dedicated research centers.

The research programmes available are Biotechnology, Chemistry, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Management Studies. Research clusters include Drug Discovery (Synthesis and Biological Studies), VLSI Design and Fuzzy Logic, High Performance Computing and Embedded Systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow in Jet and Turbo Jet Engines, and Biotechnology.

A Pre-University College was opened in the academic year 2005–06 with 350 students in the Science and Commerce courses. This school was intended to be a feeder school into the university itself. P.A. Polytechnic was established in 2006. It offers Diploma education in Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering. In 2009 a Mechanical Engineering branch was added. P.A.C.E.'s collaborating institutions include Academia Sinica in Taipei, University of Tromsø in Tromsø, and Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

The trust also runs hostels to house students. Men live in one hostel, while women live in another. Approximately 1,200 students are fed each day. Professional societies ISTE, CSI, IEEE, and Linux Users Group all have student chapters on campus.

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