About the College and Department

Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (AKGEC), Ghaziabad, established in 1998, is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and affiliated to the UP State Technical University, MTU. The college offers B. Tech. course in seven disciplines, M. Tech. courses in five disciplines of Engineering and MCA program. The college is accredited by NBA and is ISO 9001-2008 certified by BSI, UK. The college has been consistently maintaining excellent academic results and placements and has the distinction of being the first and only college in UP to receive the Academic Excellence Award for the Best Engineering College in UPTU from His Excellency the Governor of UP for two successive years.

The college has the distinction of being the only Engineering College in the state of U.P. to have received approval from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for establishment of Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in the field of Automation & Robotics. The college has also set up India’s first Industrial Robotic Training Centre in collaboration with Kuka Robotics of Germany. The college is also the first institution in UP to establish a Center of Competence in Automatic Technologies in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth and a LabVIEW Academy in collaboration with National Instruments, for conducting industrially relevant training programmes in Pneumatics, Hydraulics, PLC, Sensorics, Data Acquisition & Control, Embedded System and Mechatronics.

The college has also established a Microsoft IT Academy, preparing students for global Microsoft certification. The primary objective of these centres is to provide industrially relevant training in these inter-disciplinary state-of-art technologies to meet industry needs. The centres also promote research and industrial consultancies.

About the Department
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at AKGEC was formed in 1998. The department provides an outstanding research environment complemented by excellence in teaching. Ever since its inception, the department has been a pioneering academic centre for higher education, research, and innovation in key areas of Computer Science. The vision of the department is to enable India's excellence in the world of Computer Science and Engineering. The driving mission of the department is to advance the frontiers of research in Computer Science and Engineering and offer world-class pedagogical and research experience to its students.

The department is headed by Prof. B. M. Kalra, who has a total of 35 years of academia and industry experience in CSE and IT fields.

Academic Programmes:
The department offers B. Tech and M. Tech. courses in Computer Science & Engineering and has highly qualified and experienced faculty in the relevant fields. The department attracts talented students from all over India. At present, intake for B. Tech. students in the department is 120 and for M. Tech it is 18.

Faculty Members:
The department presently has 26 well qualified faculty members with vast teaching and research expertise in various field of computer science. Most of the faculty members are active members of reputed national and international societies like IEEE, CSI, ISCE. They are deeply involved in research publications and paper reviewing for many leading journals.

Facilities & Laboratories:
The department has seven state-of-the-art computer labs and one computer organization lab. All labs are equipped with latest machines having all requisite softwares. All machines are connected on college LAN. The department has a Computer Center exclusively for Internet access for students. The college boasts of 60 Mbps Internet bandwidth and Wi-Fi accessibility is available all around the college and hostels.

The department has its own library with a collection of essential text, reference books and computer magazines. Video CDs of various subjects are also available. The department has access to reputed online journals like IEEE, Springer, ScienceDirect, ASTM Digital Library, ACME, J-Gate, McGraw-Hill e-books and others which helps faculty to keep pace with the latest advancements and research.

Research Activities:
The department is actively involved in research in various fields of Computer Science and has initiated many steps for path breaking and innovative research. The research is being facilitated with support of the faculty, through published books, articles and research papers. The college is a member of IEEE, CSI and ISTE.

Various student societies like IEEE student Branch and CONATUS are actively involved throughout the year to explore the scope and excitement of Computer Science and related fields. CONATUS brings to the students the illumination of the knowledge glow in IT sphere with its marvelous events, workshops and seminars. CONATUS publishes a bi-monthly e-magazine ‘CONOSCENZA’.

The department also publishes its bi-annual technical journal “GLIMPSE” to have a comprehensive and concise account of recent trends and technological developments in computer science field. The department organizes special lectures, Seminars, Workshops, and FDPs regularly to keep the faculty and students updated with the latest in the field.

Placement & Other Activities:
All graduates of the department find excellent placements in research-oriented industries and top ranking global companies. Alumni of the department are occupying senior positions in PSUs, R&D organizations and eminent national / multinational companies including Infosys, NIIT Technologies, Maq Software, Tech Mahindra, Samsung, HPL, Patni Computers, Nucleus Software, Syntel, IBM, Birlasoft etc.

The department has collaboration with INFOSYS, Microsoft IT Academy and Networxx Academy for nurturing the students with latest technology and making them industry ready.