Student Life and Culture
The college organizes cultural and academic festivals. While the cultural festivals are a break from studies and comprise events such as music concerts and fashion shows, the academic festivals form a common platform for students and academicians across the country to meet and showcase research.
The cultural festival Engifest is held every year in February. Engifest plays host to a variety of events like star night, rock shows, plays, dances, drag shows and others. In the past Engifest has been celebrated by likes of Euphoria, Parikrama, and through performances by renowned artistes like Suraj Jagan, Hard Kaur, Shibani Kashyap etc.
The college also has a variety of technical festivals celebrated in the same month by various departments. The events see participation from all corners of the nation. Innova is the annual technical festival of DCE organised by the Civil and Mechanical Department in association with SEM and SAE. TROIKA is the festival organised by the IEEE student's branch. The IEEE student's branch also established www.dcetech.com, a student resource portal, for the benefit of the engineering student community. The Department of Computer Engineering and the Computers Society of India(CSI) have their annual technical fest Phoenix. Renaissance is a technical fest organized by the IET student chapter of DCE. Tatva is an annual technical symposium organised by the Department of Polymer Science and Chemical Technology in association with SPE. KARYON is the annual tech-fest of DCE organised by Biotechnology department.
E-Summit is an event aimed to advocate entrepreneurship among students, with leadership lectures and panel discussions involving various stalwarts from the industry. It is conducted by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of DTU, generally in February. Resonance is a collage of assorted literary and managerial events and serves as a stage for showcasing the talents of the students in fields other than science and engineering. Arena is the annual Sports Meet of the Delhi College of Engineering, and Virasat is the name for a host of cultural events organised by SPIC MACAY.
DCE has an Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) student branch, and a Professional Development Institute.
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