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The discipline Automobile Engineering was established in the year 1980, and now it has gained expertise and contributing vitally to the Automobile Engineering community. The focus is to consistently pursue in providing innovative and quality training to the talented and dedicated students, to empower them in engineering the development of national economy, specialized in transport sector. We are the pioneers in Karnataka to introduce the Department of Automobile Engineering to impart sound automotive knowledge to the students with a passion towards Automobiles. We take honor in being recognized as a 'research centre' in Karnataka by VTU and Mysore University. In addition to these regular programmes, this department is also actively involved in conducting Faculty Development Programmes, Technical talks, Training programmes and technical visits to various industries & regular industrial traiinings for the benefits of students. The department has well qualified and well experienced faculty members to meet the present day curriculum requirements both in theory and practical.

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The department is being run by well qualified and experienced faculty members with several years of exposure in Automobile Engineering. The staff to student ratio now stands at 1:11. At present there are three faculties with Ph.D degree and one faculty submitted his thesis for Ph.D degree, specialized in various fields of Automobile engineering and three more faculties are either in the process of pursing/submitting the Ph.D thesis. The department activities are well supported qualified nonteaching staff.

The department has well developed laboratories such as, Automotive Engines Workshops, Automotive Chassis & Transmission Workshop, Engine Testing Lab, Diagnosis & Reconditioning Lab, Automotive Testing & Servicing Lab, CAD/CAM Lab with latest softwares, Material Testing Lab, Fuel Testing and Energy Conversion Lab, Metrology Lab etc. Other basic Workshops available for hands on training consists Carpentry, Fitting, Smithy, Foundry, Welding, Machine shop etc.

The department emphasize on imparting quality education, rigorous teaching-learning, hands- on expertise. It has collaborated with industrial training with Mico-Bosch, Bangalore, KSRTC Regional Workshop, Bangalore and Eicher Tractor Training Center , Chennai etc.,

Students from the department are recruited by Core Companies, I T –companies and Govt. Organizations. A large number of students have been obtaining admissions in reputed institutions for higher education in India and abroad. Our alumni are working in various Organizations and reputed Universities across the globe. The role of the Alumni is shaping our graduates to plan their future endeavor really commendable. The department also focuses on the holistic development of students.

Academic programs offered:

UG Program:

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Automobile Engineering Department (Auto) with approved intake of 60 students and a lateral entry of 20% from 2nd year.

Research Programme

Ph.D