Francis Xavier Engineering College
Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, is an Autonomous institution located in the town of Tirunelveli in the state of Tamil Nadu. Tirunelveli is often referred as the 'Oxford of south India' due to the larger number of educational institutions present
FX Engineering College | |
| Motto | Empowering Education... Global Leadership |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | Oct 2000 |
| Chairperson | Dr. S. Cletus Babu PhD |
| Principal | Dr. V. Velmurugan |
Administrative staff | About 300 |
| Students | 4000 |
| Undergraduates | 8 Depts |
| Postgraduates | 7 Depts |
| 4 Depts (CSE, ECE, EEE, IT, MECH) | |
| Location | , , 8.732087°N 77.724105°E |
| Campus | Tirunelveli -627003 |
| Affiliations | Anna University, Chennai |
| Website | www.francisxavier.ac.in |
FXEC, established in 2000 is now an Autonomous, NBA Accredited, DST-FIST Supported Institution run by St. Xavier’s Educational Trust with the vision of empowering the budding engineers with technical and entrepreneurial skill enabling them to contribute to the socio-economic augmentation of the nation. The college offers 8 UG Programmes,7 PG Programmes and Doctoral Programmes in EEE, ECE, CSE & IT.
The College holds the privileges of Section 2 (f) and 12(B) of UGC Act 1956. In the NIRF India Innovation Ranking 2023, the College is ranked in the Band "51-100" among all Higher Education Institutions in India under Innovation Category by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Govt. of India. The college is awarded with the topmost 4 star rating by MoE's Innovation Cell for building the culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship among the students. The college is awarded with PLATINUM Rating by AICTE-CII Survey of Industry Linked Technical Institutions.
The college has exclusive and high performance computing lab for R&D activities. More than Rs.3.5+ Crore research funding has been received from different Government Agencies like DST, AICTE, MNRE, ISRO, DRDO. The college offers International Certification programmes in Collaboration with CISCO, AUTO DESK, National Instruments, EMC2 and Oracle Academy. The college has active MoU with IBM, CDAC, HCL, Sutherland, ICT Academy, Fanuc, Texas Instruments, Trimetric Solutions, CADD Centre, Highway Authority of India and similar leading companies. It is a member of CII, BAI, FACEAT&P, BNI, YI, CSI, IE, ISTE, IEEE for Industry-Institute Interaction, Centre of Excellence for Big Data Analytics, Cyber Forensics and Cloud Computing. Further, funds have been received under STTP, PRERANA, SAMRIDHI schemes. The college is also a Mentor Institution for 11 Institutions under AICTE-Margdarshan Scheme. The College aims at developing high quality research, innovation, start-up ecosystem and entrepreneurship.
The college has 19 state-of-the art Industrial Applied Labs:
Advanced Communication Systems Industrial Applied Lab, Advanced Electronics System Design Industrial Applied Lab, Architecture and Design Industrial Applied Lab, Augmented and Virtual Reality Industrial Applied Lab, Cyber Forensics Industrial Applied Lab, Data Science Industrial Applied Lab, Design, Modelling & Analysis Industrial Applied Lab, Electrical Drives and Automation Industrial Applied Lab, Embedded and IoT Industrial Applied Lab, Hackathon Industrial Applied Lab, Ideation Industrial Applied Lab, Industrial Automation Industrial Applied Lab, Innovation & Product Development Industrial Applied Lab, Machine Learning Industrial Applied Lab, Mobile App Development Industrial Applied Lab, Next Generation Computing Industrial Applied Lab, Programming & Coding Industrial Applied Lab, Robotics and Automation Industrial Applied Lab, Web App Industrial Applied Lab.
Curriculum
The institute offers eight undergraduate and ten postgraduate programs.
Undergraduate
- B.E Civil Engineering
- B.E Computer Science and Engineering
- B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering
- B.E Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- B.Tech Information Technology
- B.E Mechanical Engineering
- B.Tech Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
- B.Tech Computer Science and Business Systems
Postgraduate
- M.E Communication Systems
- M.E Computer Science and Engineering
- M.E Power Electronics and Drives
- M.E Industrial Safety Engineering
- M.Tech Information Technology
- MCA - Master of Computer Application
- MBA - Master of Business Administration
Departments
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Department of Information Technology
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
- Department of Computer Science and Business Systems
- Department of Management Studies
- Department of Computer Application
Hostels
The College has a separate hostel for boys and girls inside the campus
