राजकीय इंजीनियरिंग कॉलेज बांदा
RAJKIYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE BANDA
(APPROVED BY AICTE & AFFILIATED TO DR. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, U.P., LUCKNOW. COLLEGE CODE 734)
Rajkiya Engineering College Banda (Formerly Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Engineering College of Information Technology: BRAECIT) was established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2010 with three branches Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Information Technology (IT) with annual intake of Sixty (60) in each branch. The college is affiliated to Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (Formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow). The college has moved to its own fully residential campus located at Atarra, Banda in the month of July 2015 and all academic activities from the session 2015-16 are being carried out at its own campus. Fully residential campus of college consists of Academic Building, Workshop, Five Hostels (Boys and Girls), Residential Apartments, Student Activity Centre, Gymnasium, Sport facilities, Library, Canteen, Grocery Store and other facilities for recreation.
Sate of the art infrastructures in excess of AICTE norms exist in the college. All offices are fully equipped with electronic infrastructure required for communication and reprographic facilities at par with any other institute of national importance. The colleges currently have a pool of thirty six outstanding faculty members in four academic departments, namely, Applied Science and Humanities, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Information Technology. All faculty members possesses either M.Tech or Ph.D from institutions of national importance such as IITs/IIITs/NITs and other prestigious universities.
Various state of the art laboratories in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Departement of Applied Science & Humanities, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Departement of Information Technology and a Central Workshop has been developed at the college. A state of the art language laboratory with thirty nodes along with necessary software and audio visual aid has been developed at the college. Computer centre consists of 180 high speed computers. All nodes are connected over a LAN to the state of the art high speed servers. Computer centre, Language lab and all computing laboratories are fully air-conditioned. All nodes in the computer center and servers are powered by centrally located on line UPS with battery bank capable of supplying power to all computers. BSNL has established an electronic exchange in the laboratory complex to provide 100 Mbps leased line connectivity for internet over optical fibre. College premises is now fully equipped with Jio wifi, CCTV and biometric enabled attendance
REC Banda is zonal centre for virtual labs, an initiative of MHRD. College has been declared as research centre by AKTU Lucknow. College has dedicated more than 10,000 square meter of area for Incubation centre which will provide support to the students and local entrepreneur to establish start-up in the fields like IoT and agriculture.
To improve the quality of technical education and equity in engineering institutions Rajkiya Engineering College Banda has been sanctioned grants under World Bank funded TEQIP-III project and AKTU Lucknow funded Deen Dayal Upadhyay Quality Improvement Program (DDUQIP)
The College has fully air-conditioned Smart Class Rooms equipped with modern teaching aid, such as, Touch Screen Podium, Interactive White Boards, Short Through Projector along with Audio Visual facilities. The college also has 500 KVA generator unit capable of providing electricity to whole campus.
Students are provided opportunities to go to institutes of national importance like IITs/NITs/NIE Mysuru for training and workshops. GATE coaching classes are provided to final year students along with regular classes in evening hours. Employability Skill training is given to third year students in evening hours to improve their communication skills and overall personality.
The college is situated on the Banda-Chitrakoot Road approximately 28 km from Banda and 05 km from Atarra. Both Banda and Atarra is well connected by train and road with direct train connectivity to major cities, such as, New Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Allahabad and Varanasi.