About the department
Established in 1979, the department has grown its intake from 30 to 120. Five faculty hold doctorates and seven more are registered for one. The programme is NBA accredited for 2021-24 and the institute NAAC 'A' since 2017; the final-year pass rate stays above 95%, and the department has taken 35 university ranks. Laboratories carry roughly Rs 2 crore of regularly upgraded hardware and software, and the departmental library holds 3,358 volumes across 515 titles.
Five projects have run under AICTE's TAPTEC and MODROB schemes, and KSCST has sponsored 138, of which 37 reached the state exhibition and four won Best Project of the Year. MoUs run with Whizchip Design Technologies, Test & Verification Solutions, VI Solutions, Fiabilite Network Solutions and Vidvath Technologies. The EC Forum runs seminars, the annual E-Utsav fest and PAPYRUS, a state-level paper presentation held since 2015, and one mentor is assigned to every fifteen students. Alumni work at Qualcomm, Cadence, Texas Instruments, ISRO, BEL and TCS among others.
Vision & mission
To be in the forefront in providing quality technical education and research in Electronics & Communication Engineering to produce skilled professionals to cater to the challenges of the society.
Mission
- 01To facilitate the students with profound technical knowledge through effective teaching learning process for a successful career.
- 02To impart quality education to strengthen students to meet the industry standards and face confidently the challenges in the programme.
- 03To develop the essence of innovation and research among students and faculty by providing infrastructure and a conducive environment.
- 04To inculcate the student community with ethical values, communication skills, leadership qualities, entrepreneurial skills and lifelong learning to meet the societal needs.
Objectives
Programme Educational Objectives(PEO)
- 01Demonstrate the knowledge in electronics and IT industry for successful professional career.
- 02Pursue higher education and to engage in research for professional development.
- 03Contribute to the societal needs with constitutional and ethical principles and demonstrate quality of lifelong learning.
Programme Specific Outcomes(PSO)
- 01Specify, design, build and test Analog, digital and Embedded systems.
- 02Understand and architect wired and wireless analog and digital communication systems as per specifications and determine their performance.
Head of department
BE from Government BDT College of Engineering (1990) and a Master's in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communication from KREC Surathkal (1996), with a doctorate from UBDT College of Engineering, Kuvempu University, in 2011. She joined BIET as a lecturer, became Professor in 2011 and has headed the department since 2013, with 31 years of experience.
She guides four doctoral scholars in information theory and coding, hardware description languages, digital signal processing and computer networking, and wrote AICTE course material on digital telephony and error control coding. A life member of ISTE, FIETE and FIE.
Faculty & staff
Infrastructure
Placement
| Year | Companies | Placed · In-campus | Placed · Off-campus | Total | Highest package |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 79 | 0 | 79 | 7.5 LPA |
| 2025 | 16 | 63 | 0 | 63 | 10 LPA |
| 2024 | 15 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 12 LPA |
| 2023 | 10 | 55 | 0 | 55 | 10 LPA |
| 2022 | 26 | 90 | 8 | 98 | 7 LPA |
Distinguished alumni
N.D. Vijay Kumar
Vinod Iyer
Ganesh Shamanur
Yathish Chandra G.H.
SWOT
The department’s own assessment of where it stands, as published for accreditation.
- Dedicated, supportive and qualified Staff
- Committed leadership, and good team work
- Participation in developmental activities, projects, and in extracurricular activities
- Excellent teaching-learning atmosphere and mentoring system
- Adequate Infrastructure with equipment’s and quite a good computing environment
- Recognized research Centre by VTU, Belagavi
- Departmental library with good number of titles, volumes and project reports
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with companies - Altilogic Technologies Pvt. Ltd., TMI Systems, Tessolve Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.
- Lesser publications and lack of research and consultancy activities
- Class rooms lack computing tools and smart boards
- Lack of alumni participation in the overall developmental activities of the department
- Lack of strong industry – institution interface
- Lack of funding and grants from national organization and agencies for research work and projects
- To enhance collaboration with academic institutions and industries
- To enhance research, project grant and consultancy activities
- To strengthen the involvement of alumni in the developmental activities
- To enhance community-based outreach activities
- To establish Center of Excellence
- To strengthen the placement and entrepreneurial activities
- Attracting better rank students into the program
- The competition from the peer institutions
- To keep pace with modern technological developments and advancements in educational policies
- To provide employment opportunities to graduates
- Attracting and retention of top educators