Thursday, February 28, 2008

My college

The K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering, abbreviated as KJSCE, was established in 1983 at Somaiya Vidyavihar. It has the departments of Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering. KJSCE is affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
KJSCE was the engineering college in Maharashtra to get accreditation by the National Board of Accreditation (New Delhi) in 1997.

Campus
K.J Somaiya College of Engineering is located at Vidyavihar - a term meaning place of knowledge. It is one the largest educational campuses of Mumbai. The Vidyavihar station on the central railway line of Mumbai was also instantiated by one of its founders, for the benefits of the thousands of students pursuing varying programs in the campus. Besides housing the Engineering College Vidyavihar campus enjoys the distinction of housing a Science and Arts College, a Secondary School, a Management Institute [1], a Polytechnic Institute and a Commerce College. It thus represents to have a profile of all educational fields.Besides the campus at Vidyavihar Somaiya also has its Medical College -Hospital and another Institute of Information Technology at Sion in Mumbai.

Symphony
Symphony, the inter-collegiate cultural festival of KJSCE, has created its name and popularity among Engineering and Management institutes under Mumbai University for the last decade. Every year many students from various institutes participate in the programme. The main aim is to promote, encourage and exhibit the talents of the students on a common platform and create interest in the classical, vocal and instrumental music.

Kshitij
Kshitij is annual magazine of K J Somaiya College of Engineering. This magazine is an attempt to provide the students a platform to reveal their ideas and hidden talents.
The choice of articles from student's consideration range from a very scholarly exploration of ideas in order to whet student's intellectual curiosity , to a few techniques for aiding personality development and general issues.

You can visit my college site
http://www.somaiya.edu/kjsce/index.html