NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad (Commonly known as NSSCE) is the fourth engineering educational institution established in Kerala, India. It was founded in 1960 by Nair Service Society. The college is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University since its inception in 2015.
The campus is situated in NSS Nagar at Akathethara, 9 km from Palakkad town, and 3 km from the Palakkad Railway Junction. The nearest airports are at Coimbatore (55 km) and Cochin International Airport (110 km). Spread over 100 acres, it includes an administrative block and other blocks, a library block and five hostels including two for women and with good infrastructure.
History
The school was founded in 1960 by Nair Service Society. It is the fourth engineering institute and the second Govt-Aided engineering institute in Kerala. The college started with three branches of engineering viz, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering were started in 1980, 1986 and 1999 respectively. The institution offers M.Tech degree courses from 2011. The college was previously affiliated to University of Kerala from 1960 to 1968 and University of Calicut from 1968 to 2015 until the establishment of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.
Academics
The institution offers B.Tech and M.Tech degree courses of the A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University in the following 6 branches of engineering.
Mechanical Engineering (ME) Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) Civil Engineering (CE) Instrumentation & Control Engineering (IC) Electronics & Communication Engineering (EC) Computer Science Engineering (CSE)
The College started with three branches of Engineering viz, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical & Electronics Engineering, made long strides with the introduction of Instrumentation & Control Engineering course in 1980, Electronics & Communication Engineering in 1986 and Computer Science Engineering in 1999. The following courses are offered by the college.
Btech
Mtech
Admissions
The institute admits students based on the following entrance exams. Undergraduate Programs Kerala Engineering Entrance Examination, KEAM conducted by the Office of the Commissioner of Entrance Exams run by the Government of Kerala. The remaining seats are filled by other quotas including those reserved for the management. Postgraduate Programs Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology, IITs. and also students can get admission through previous academic marks (Non gate admission).
In addition to this, a 10% seats are provided for admission to the third semester classes for diploma holders (Lateral entry system).
Alumni
The alumni association has chapters in cities in India including Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Kozhikode, Palakkad and Kochi. The alumni chapters outside India include Bangalore (NECAB), Qatar (Anecx), Bahrain (NEXSA), UAE (NSSCE) and Kuwait (NSSCEAK) Chapters.
Notable alumni
Prakash Bare, actor, producer
M Sivasankar IAS
Murali Sreeshankar, Athlete
Ashok Alisheril Thamarakshan, Engineer
Manoj Balraj, Entrepreneur
Hari Kallikkat, IAS
Vivek Johnson, IAS
Facilities
There are three men's hostel blocks and two women's hostel block with a capacity of 483 and 500 students respectively. The hostels are under direct control of the warden and each hostel has one or two members of the staff of the college as assistant wardens and are responsible to matters connected with the hostel. The Principal is the Ex Officio Chief Warden. There is provision for vegetarian and non-vegetarian food at all the hostels. The hostel mess' are run by the students. The men's hostels are named MH-I(Ganga), MH-II(Yamuna) and MH-III(Kaveri). MH-III is the freshmen's hostel.The Ladies Hostel is named Nila. Female freshers have hosteling facilities in the Working Womens Hostel (WWH) run by Nair Service Society. All the hostels are equipped with high speed WiFi facility. Admissions to hostels are based on the internal marks obtained by the students applying in each semester(except for freshers).