Jabalpur Engineering College

Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC) is an institute located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the oldest technical institution in central India and the 15th-oldest in India. It is the first institute of India to have started the Electronics & Telecommunication engineering education in the country, and also the last educational institution to be set up by the British in India. The Government of Madhya Pradesh is in the process of converting it into a Technical University. History 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. It started functioning from the existing building of Robertson College, Jabalpur, which was constructed in the year 1916. The building now houses the Civil engineering department of JEC, and Robertson College has been shifted to its present and permanent campus in Pachpedi. 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. 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.