Motto | उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं |
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Motto in English
|
uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ (Elevate yourself through the power of your mind) [Gita-ch 6-5] |
Type | Government-Aided |
Established | 1960 |
Chairman | General Secretary, Nair Service Society |
Principal | Dr. Sudha T |
Government Nominee | Director of Technical Education |
Undergraduates | 2420 |
Postgraduates | 180 |
Location | Akathethara, Palakkad, Kerala, 678008, India |
Campus | 125 acres (500,000 m²) |
Acronym | NSSCE |
Affiliations | A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University, University of Calicut |
Website | nssce.ac.in |
NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad is the fourth engineering educational institution established in Kerala, India. It was founded in 1960 by Nair Service Society. The college is one among the only three Govt-Aided Engineering colleges in Kerala and the first Govt-Aided Engineering College accredited by NBA of AICTE. The college is affiliated to the Kerala Technological University.
The campus is situated in NSS Nagar at Akathethara, 9 km from Palakkad town, and 3 km from the Palakkad Railway Junction. The nearest airports are at Coimbatore (55 km) and Cochin International Airport(110 km). Spread over 100 acres, it includes an administrative block and other blocks, a library block and five hostels including two for women.
Founded in 1960 by Nair Service Society under the leadership of the late Bharatha Kesari Mannathu Padmanabhan, during the second five-year plan with the assistance of the Central and State Government under the Grant-in-Aid scheme. It is the fourth engineering institute and the second Govt-Aided engineering institute in Kerala. The college started with three branches of engineering viz, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering were started in 1980, 1986 and 1999 respectively. The institution offers M.Tech degree courses from 2011. The college was affiliated to University of Calicut till 2014.
The institution offers B.Tech degree courses of the A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University in the following branches of engineering
The institution offers M.Tech degree courses of the A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University in the following branches of engineering: