Mysore/Mysuru: The 1968-73 batch Civil Engineering Graduates of University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, celebrated ‘Golden Jubilee’ at Silent Shores in city recently.
On the occasion, they felicitated their English Professor Dr. C.N. Srinath.
Prof. M. Krishne Gowda was the chief guest. Engineer V.N. Prasad was the Celebrations Convener. High ranking professionals and batch-mates from India and Overseas attended.
UVCE was the brainchild of two of India’s greatest visionaries — Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar and Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya (Sir MV).
It was in 1916 – 17, Nalwadi extended full support to Sir MV for the creation of a Centre of Excellence in Engineering fields and thus came into existence the College — then called ‘Government Engineering College’ and later named after the visionary Sir MV.
“The College was the first Engineering College founded in the then ‘Mysore State’; now Karnataka; and only the fifth Engineering College in the entire country. It has produced umpteen luminaries spread all over the world today. Admissions were purely by merit and no capitation fees. Annual tuition fee was less than Rs. 400; nurtured by highly eminent Professors over ‘Five Years – Ten Semesters’ — with the intent of creating best Engineering Brains,” says V.N. Prasad.
“Thanks to the current political dispensation, UVCE is today an ‘Autonomous University — akin to the status of IITs or IIMs. The Karnataka Government took the decision on the 15th of September, 2022, when this historic transformation took place. The Autonomy ‘DELINKS’ the College from Bangalore University and the State is committed to providing annual budgetary allocation, an independent Governing Council and an expert body to prepare syllabi and employ competent teaching and supporting staff to keep up high standard of education in an effort to restore the past glory of the great institute,” Prasad added.
I belong to the 1965 – ’70 batch. The tution fee was Rs. 37.50 per month.
I was a student during 1961-66 and the monthly fee was Rs36.
My wife K H Sheshakamal studied for Electrical Engineering Degree from 2975 TO 2980 in UVCE. She remembers her time at UVCE fondly.
It is a great Engineering School of repute not only in Bangalore but also in India.
She got her MS (Eng) in High Voltage Engineering from IISc, Bangalore.
After obtaining Ph.D., ELectrical Engineering from University of Waterloo in Canada, she is working as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the University of Waterloo.
She is very proud of U VCE; a proud alumnus of it.