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BENGAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY, HOWRAH, WEST BENGAL

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HISTORY:

BENGAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY, HOWRAH, WEST BENGAL
Enrollment: 2,877 (2010)
Founded: 1856

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Bengal Engineering and Science University owes its origin to the erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, the history of which goes to the nineteenth century when industries in the sense we understand today, were practically absent. Prompted by the idea of meeting requirement of trained engineering personnel for the Public Works Department, the then council of Education, Bengal, decided to open Civil Engineering classes and a Professorship in Civil Engineering. A college was established on 24 November 1856 named Calcutta Civil Engineering College, training personnel for the Public Works Department, and located at the Writers' Building, Howrah. With the establishment of Calcutta University on January 24, 1857, the college was affiliated to this university in May 1857. The first degree examination in Bachelors of Civil Engineering was held in 1864 in which only 2 students graduated. In 1865, the college merged with Presidency College, Kolkata and from 1865 to 1869 the college functioned as the Civil Engineering Department of Presidency College. In 1880, the college was shifted to its present campus at Shibpur, Howrah, and was christened the Government College, Howrah, in the premises of Bishop's College.[3] The college became wholly residential from the year 1889.

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In 1906 Mining Engineering as a discipline was first started in India in this college to meet the requirements of statutory provision in Indian mines. After the establishment of the Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad in 1926, the entire infrastructure of this department was shifted. However, after independence, Dr. B. C. Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, took personal interest in revamping the department to satisfy the growing demand of qualified mining professionals, and the Department of Mining & Geology was reborn in 1956.

On 12 February 1920 the name was changed to Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur. The word Shibpur was deleted on 24 March 1921 and it became Bengal Engineering College.

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The Department of Electrical Engineering came into existence as a separate department from the year 1912. The B.E. degree course was introduced during the year 1935-36 with the first batch obtaining the degree from Calcutta University in 1936.

The inception of the Mechanical Engineering Department may be traced back to 1921 when a diploma course in Mechanical Engineering was started in this Institute. The first degree course in Mechanical Engineering was started from 18 July 1930.

The Department of Metallurgy started its journey at the Bengal Engineering College in the year 1939 with the introduction of a 3 year degree course in Metallurgy under the Calcutta University. The department is the second oldest metallurgy department of the country.

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CONTACT DETAILS:

Department of Human Resource Management
Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur
P.O. Botanical Garden
Howrah – 711 103
E-mail : hodhrm@becs.ac.in, hrmbesus@gmail.com

Phone : 2668 1073 (direct)
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