UVCE Mega Reunion-2011
UVCE plans year-long celebrations.Visvesvaraya’s birth anniversary, alumni meet are among the events on the cards.
The 150th birth anniversary of Sir M Visvesvaraya has set off a buzz at the prestigious University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore, an institution that the legendary engineer established in 1917.
Plan for a hi-tech sevenstorey Mechanical Engineering block, a get-together of alumni from across the world are among the several programmes lined up for the yearlong celebration.Apart from the Visvesvaraya’s birth anniversary celebration on September 15, preparations and registration are on for what is being dubbed as a mega reunion of more than 5,000 alumni.
An artist’s impression of the proposed Mechanical Engineering block at the UVCE.
REVISITING THE Past: M Visvesvaraya with faculty and student representatives of the UVCE
during his visit to the institution in January 1955.
The institution, the fifth engineering college in the country,started with 20 students in Civil and Mechanical Engineering branches and today it boasts of a total intake of 1,159 students including 400 in postgraduate studies spread across 20 branches of engineering. It all began in 1917, when Visvesvaraya as Diwan of Mysore felt that the State needed to have an engineering college of its own.
“Engineering colleges at Madras and Pune were not able to provide seats for the number of students for whom Mysore wanted provision. We wanted admissions for ten students annually but the authorities
in Madras and Poona would provide only for two or three. Thereupon we decided to establish a college of our own in Bangalore,”Vivesvaraya had told UVCE students in his address during his visit to the college in 1955.
The alumni of the college include top technocrats including Roddam Narasimha, M R Srinivasan, V K Aatre, Prahlad Rao and S Rame Gowda.UVCE engineers have contributed to society in various fields too - cine actor Ramesh Aravind, music director Mano Murthy to name a few.
The new buildings will cost around Rs 70 crore and is being proposed to be mobilised
through alumni contribution.Venugopal, an alumni of the UVCE himself, said a documentary on Visvesvaraya and a book on the association of M V with the institution, would also be brought out on the occasion.Alumni of UVCE who wish to register for the mega union can visit www.visionuvce.in
Please do register at Linked community too.
http://events.linkedin.com/UVCE-Mega-Reunion-150th-Birth/pub/155040
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