Jabalpur Engineering College

President of India at the Golden Jubilee function of JEC, along with the Chief Minister and the Governor of Madhya Pradesh

JEC was established as the Government Engineering College (GEC), Jabalpur, on 7 July 1947, during the British rule in India. It was inaugurated by the then Minister for Education of the Central Provinces, S. V. Gokhale.[6] It started functioning from the existing building of Robertson College, Jabalpur, which was constructed in the year 1916.[7] The building now houses the Civil engineering department of JEC, and Robertson College has been shifted to its present and permanent campus in Pachpedi.[8][9] Dr. S. P. Chakravarti, the then Head of the Electrical engineering department of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, was appointed as its first Principal.[10]

JEC is the first institute of India to award B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering, which it is offering since 1947, the first institute of India to award M.E. in Microwave engineering, Radio & UHF engineering, VF & Carrier Telephone engineering, and High Voltage engineering, which it is offering since 1953, and the first institute of India to award PhD in Advanced Electronics, which it is offering since 1955. JEC is the first institute of Madhya Pradesh to introduce BTech in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science and Mechatronics, and MTech in Defence technology. It has installed the first TV transmitter of India, and the first HV laboratory of India.[11][12][6][4][13][14]

The Silver Jubilee ceremony of the institute was celebrated in 1972, in the presence of the then Education Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Arjun Singh.[6] The institute celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997, while the President of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Governor of Madhya Pradesh, Mohammad Shafi Qureshi and the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh, graced the Golden Jubilee ceremony.[15][16] The Platinum Jubilee year was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Technical Education Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, and the Minister in-charge of Jabalpur, Gopal Bhargava, on 7 July 2021.[17]

It was funded since its inception by the Government of India, until the creation of the new state of Madhya Pradesh.[18] It was affiliated since its inception to the University of Sagar, until the creation of the University of Jabalpur, and then to the State Technological University of Madhya Pradesh. In 1997, it was granted an autonomous institute status,[19] and in the year 2017, a proposal has been sent by the Ministry of Technical Education to the Government of Madhya Pradesh, to declare it a technical university.[5]

1.6 million volt impulse generator at the High Voltage Lab, is the largest and oldest in Indian academic institutes

Fire-tube boiler of Mechanical engineering department

The ongoing projects at JEC:[24]

• CORE (Centre of Relevance & Excellence) by TIFAC (Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)
• CIIILP (Canada-India Institute Industry Linkage Project)
• Indo-Italian Research project
• DSP Lab, Texas Instruments
• Sun Microsystems Training Centre
• Cisco Regional Academy of Networking Programme
• Centre for National & Academic Networking for Continuing Education with AICTE
• Renewable Energy Park – Govt. of India
• Centre of Fuzzy Logic System by Govt. of India
• Microzonation of selected cities of India by Geological Survey of India
• STA (State Technical Agency) and Remote Sensing Centre of Prime Minister's Rural Road Project – Govt. of India
• Research Project of Robotics & Manufacturing, Ministry of Science & Technology
• Software Technology Park of India, 2 MBPS HSDC Node, Ministry of Information Technology
• Fuller Energy Awards (State level) Selection
• M.P. Chamber consultancy clinic of Katni with MPCON
• Mini Tool Room, Ministry of Commerce & Industries, Government of India
• ERNET- AICTE Facility for Distance Learning & Digital Library
• Remote Sensing Resource Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
• MOUs signed with national & international organisations e.g. Infosys, Wipro, TCS, IBM, Cisco etc., for promoting training of students.

• Ajai Chowdhry – Co-founder & former Chairman of HCL Technologies. Awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India. Chairman of IIT Patna and IIIT Naya Raipur, and former Chairman of IIT Hyderabad.
• Sharad Yadav – Former Union Cabinet Minister of India for Civil Aviation, Labour, Textiles, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Chairman of Janata Dal (United).
• K. S. Sudarshan – He was the fifth Sarsanghachalak (Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the world's largest voluntary non-governmental organisation.
• C. B. Bhave – IAS officer. Former Chairman & Managing Director of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
• Sharat Saxena – Veteran Indian film and television actor.
• Shyam Mardikar – Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Jio and former CTO, Bharti Airtel. Also served as an ITS officer.
• Prakash Naidu – Former Project Director, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Bangalore.
• Shreegopal Vyas – Member of Parliament of the Rajya Sabha.
• Hemchandra Kekre – Founding Head of department, Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Bombay. Also served as a professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT-B.
• Visva Mohan Tiwari – Retired Air Vice Marshal, Indian Air Force.
• Sudhir Kumar Mishra – DRDS officer. Director General at the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), CEO and managing director, BrahMos Aerospace.