History
On 3 July 1939, when war clouds were looming large over the skies of Asia, the college formally came into existence. The institution owes its foundation to the vision of His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore, Sree Chitra Tirunal Balarama Varma.
It had its birth in the congested housing in the former office and bungalow of the Chief Engineer (which is now the office of the PostMaster General (PMG)).
Maj. T. H. Mathewman was appointed as the first principal of the college with Vastuvidya Kushala Sri, Balakrishna Rao and Prof. D. L. Deshpande on the faculty. The college had an intake of 21 students each for the Degree courses in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical branches of Engineering, under the then Travancore University.
In 1960, the college was shifted to its present 45 hectare campus at Kulathoor. The undergraduate and postgraduate courses are accredited by AICTE. The college has a library,a central computing facility and a planetarium.
With the establishment of the Directorate of Technical Education in the late 1950s, the college administration came under the direct control of the Government.
A new department building for Computer Science Branch was inaugurated in 2008.
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