The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering started during the academic  year 2001-2002 with the intake of 60 students.  This department boasts by well experienced and technically excelling faculty, to impart knowledge and skills to inculcate the professional responsibilities to play leadership role along their diverse career paths and develop capability to utilize engineering skills in industry, research centers, and national laboratories and entrepreneurship.  The primary objective of the department is to impart quality education, training and research at the undergraduate, postgraduate levels in various areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering with broad emphasis on design aspects of electronic systems.  Here the students are given more practical exposures and innovative methodologies for the design and development in the electronics field, the sincere effort of our faculty to motivate the students has produced remarkable achievements in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.  The dedication of our faculty and the keen interest exhibited by our students has produced a commendable academic record with university ranks every year.  We hold a privilege that, the laboratory infrastructure of the department is is excellent with state of art equipments and software related to the field of Engineering.  The role of a library is critical in making a knowledge society.  So the department functions with a library with a collection of standard books for the faculty and students to refer and enhance their knowledge.  The department library collection also includes CDs in various subjects as per the academic syllabus.

The laboratory needs for both courses are catered by following twelve laboratories well equipped with latest infrastructure.

1. Communication Lab :- The lab is fully equipped to make the students aware of analog and digital communication techniques. To explore the possibilities of further experimentation on latest digital communication technology in the communication field more and more experiments are added to match the latest developments in these fields. Software named as "COMMSIM" for simulation of various analog and digital communication systems and  Spectrum analyzer for measurement of communication signals in frequency domain are also available.

2. Microwave Measurements  Lab :-  This laboratory is  equipped with 9 microwave test benches with all necessary equipments and components, which can demonstrate  fundamental aspects of microwave engineering such as generation of microwaves, its propagation through various microwave devices, enables fundamental understanding  of various types of antennas through measurement of gain and radiation pattern.  Experiments have     been designed to demonstrate the basic fundamentals of transmission line theory such as VSWR, use of Smith chart and impedance measurements. It is planned to add the state of art experiments based on micro strip lines  which will demonstrate the advancement in the field of microwave engineering.

3. Electronics Devices and Circuit Laboratory :- This lab has all basic devices and components including fabricated experimental boards and breadboards to perform experiments to understand the basics of experimental  characteristic of devices, amplifiers, voltage regulators, rectifiers etc. By performing the experiments on  breadboard the performance of the circuits can be tested under different operating conditions. Computer is also available to undertake simulation experiments.   

4. Linear integrated Circuit Lab :- This laboratory has the infrastructure to enable the students to study various linear and non-linear circuit &  applications. The lab is equipped with all necessary trainer boards. Students would have opportunity to perform experiments on bread board in down-to-earth understanding mode. Lab is also equipped with computers to undertake simulation experiments. 

5. Digital Lab :- This lab is well equipped with all types of digital devices and IC's with experimental trainer boards, majority of which are fabricated in the lab itself. This enables the students to study various aspects of digital electronics and perform the experiments for digital circuit applications and testing of their performance. Thus the students can develop their own digital circuits in the lab and test the same. Lab is also equipped with computer to undertake simulation experiments.

6. Microprocessor Lab :- It also has all the facilities to test the programs in assembly language and machine language for 8085 and 8086. The lab has about sixteen 8085 kits, three 8086 kits with various I/O cards and 8051 microntrollers.

7. Electronics System Design Lab :- This lab has all the facilities like breadboard based experimental setups and advanced design kits to design and test various electronics circuits like voltage regulators, power amplifiers, oscillators, etc. Further, circuits are designed and tested using EDA tools like PSpice, the circuit simulation software, in the computer centre. Students would have opportunity to perform experiments on breadboard in down- to-earth understanding mode. This Hardware Lab is also equipped with one computer to undertake simulation experiments.  

8. Digital System Design Lab :- This lab has all the advanced softwares and hardware kits required for front end VLSI and Embedded Systems i.e. XILINX PROJECT MANAGER 8.1, MODELSIM, System Generator, ALTERA EDA Tool, ALDEC Simulator, XILINX Webpack, HDL Bencher, SPJ C-Compler/Assembler/Linker/Simulator for 8051 microcontroller family, Frontline Simulator and Programmer-B model for ATMEL and AVR Micro-controller family and EEPROM, debugger and chipscope module. This lab is well equipped with 22 Dual Core Intel processor and P-IV Computers (shareable with DSP Lab),FPGA-CPLD kits, 8096 microcontroller hardware kit, Motorola micro controller and 8051 kit. This lab has all the facilities required for research in VLSI and Embedded System domains besides  project work. VLSI, DSP, Xilinx software of ISE series and VLSI CPLD trainer kits are available.

9. Digital Signal Processing Lab :- Work in this lab is supported with 22 Dual Core Intel processor and P-IV computers. It has latest licensed MATLAB software. It is enriched with DSP kit TMS320C5416 and TMS320C6713  processors. It has Bloom with DSP software (Audio-video) for beginners to step into the signal processing area. For Satellite Image processing, it has the latest ERDAS IMAGINE software  V.9.1.

10. Electronics Workshop/ Project  Lab :- This lab is used by the students of the II, III and final year of Electronics Engg., for various practicals, hobby circuit design, projects for final year and mini-projects of VI  semester. The students are made to learn the process of soldering techniques, winding and all processes involved in the fabrication of electronic circuits using PCB technology. Further, the lab provides all necessary infrastructure for making the PCBs for project work and other club activities including the winding machine, deep pitching machine, PCB baking oven, PCM film maker, ultra violet system illuminated scanner, etc.
The lab has three PCs with Software’s for Microcontroller based projects like Keil Cross compiler, Topview simulator, microcontroller burner, RIDE compiler and assembler which helps the students to understand the projects at simulation level.
The project Lab works up to 8.30 pm in the even semester to enable students of VI  & VIII semesters to work on their projects. 

11. Computer Center :- The Departmental Computer Center has 22 PC's with Dual Core Intel Processors. Out of these 12 systems are connected with Internet facility. These computers support DSP as well as DSD laboratories. The center is provided with various software required for communication engineering, circuit design and digital image processing.
The Computer Center works up to 8.30 pm in the even semester to enable students of VI & VIII semesters to work on their projects. 
This center also provides facility for E-based learning, for which CD's had been procured from IIT- Kharagpur and IIT-Delhi. These CDs cover Digital Signal Processing, Signal and Systems, Digital Image Processing, Digital Communication and VLSI fields.

12. Television Engineering Lab :- This lab has B/W and Colour T.V. trainer sets to study the basics of B/W and Colour T.V. reception. It also supports pattern generation and fault detection sections to study different faults in T.V. 

Electrical Technology being a subject at the first year level for all branches, a separate department of Electrical Engineering was formed. For the sake of administrative convenience this Department is combined with the Computer Technology Department. The Department has experienced teachers always at hand to clear the doubts of the students. The teachers are well versed in the academic needs of the students and their efforts are always directed towards fulfilling the same.

 LABORATORIES :

Electrical Technology, Electrical Machine, Power Electronics, Electrical Measurements and Control Systems labs are being managed by this Department for providing adequate practical training. They are fully established with necessary equipment. 

1. Electrical Technology : Sufficient number of kits are available to study Kirchhoff's laws and basic network theorems, series and parallel resonance and transformer characteristics. A separate kit is available to display the Hysterisis loop on CRO. Students are exposed to Electrical Machines and transformers at the first year level itself. Demonstration kits are available to teach basic functioning of various meters and shunts.

2. Electrical Machines Lab : Seven Electrical Machine setups are available to study various types of Electrical Machines. Students perform various tests to find out the efficiency and regulation of generators, alternators and speed- control of motors. Electrical machines demonstration kit is available to study the constructional details of machines.  

3. Electrical Measurements : The students are exposed to various measuring techniques to measure resistance, capacitance, inductance, etc. Well designed kits are available to study different types of `Bridge Circuits'. AC potentiometers and DC potentiometers are available to measure unknown voltages.   3-Phase inductive load is used for measurement of 3-Phase reactive Power.

4. Control System Lab : DC and AC position control systems units are available to study basic control mechanism for positioning load at the desired position using open loop and closed loop control systems. Units are available to study the basic control devices like synchronisers etc. A separate unit is available to study the speed control of DC motors using closed loop or open loop control systems. Units are available to find out the speed Vs torque characteristics of AC & DC servo motors. A well designed unit is available to study temperature control systems. Highly sophisticated control engineering trainer is available to simulate process control with different types of plants. The total cost of the equipment in Electrical Laboratories is about Rs.7.4 lakhs. MATLAB package and Microprocessor based stepper motor control is available.

5. Power Electronics Lab : The lab is equipped with different Power Electronics kits to study various aspects of Power Electronics Circuits for power conversion. Commutation Circuits, Triac Circuits, Half Controlled and Fully Controlled Converter Circuits, 3-Phase Controlled Rectifier, Parallel Inverter, Series Inverter, Chopper Circuit are available in the lab  in the form of experimental setup. The DC drive setup is also available to  control DC Shunt Motor.  The students are made exposed to various Power Electronic Devices, Circuits and the controlling techniques for power conversion.