Global Academy of Technology

Global Academy of Technology

Motto	Growing Ahead Of Time
Type	Private un-aided engineering college
Founder	D.K. Shivakumar
Location	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	VTU
Website	gat.ac.in

Global Academy of Technology (referred to as GAT) is an engineering college located in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore, India.The institution started functioning in 2001.

It is managed by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee officebearer D.K. Shivakumar. ^[1]

History

The NATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (NEF) was established in the year 2000, in Bangalore, the IT capital of India. The primary focus of the Foundation is to cater to students of all strata across the country, starting from Primary to Post Graduate Education in all disciplines. NEF has a broad spread of educational institutions — National Hill View Public School (NHVPS), Global College of Nursing (GCN) and Global Academy of Technology (GAT) offering Engineering, Postgraduate MBA, M.Tech., M.Sc. Engg. and Ph.D. programs

Front view of college

Campus

Located in the Rajrajeshwari Nagar, approximately 10 km away from city center.

Academics

Under Graduate Courses

Global Academy of Technology offers Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) programs at the Under Graduate level.The Program spans over 4 years and is offered in 6 different branches. The Course structure is designed by the faculty of the college with the consultation of the faculty at VTU and IISc.

GAT offers courses in the following branches:

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Information Science and Engineering
• Civil engineering
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Today the college stands as one of the top 20 colleges in Bangalore and is producing one of the best engineering students in the IT capital of the country.

Post Graduate Courses

Master of Technology

The Institute offers 2-year Master of Technology (M.Tech) in the following branches:

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Civil engineering
• Thermal Engineering

Master of Science

The Institute offers 2-year Master of Science (M.Sc) in the following branches:

• Civil engineering
• Thermal Engineering

MBA

GAT also offers 2-year Master of Business Administration program.

Established in the year 2004 with an intake of 60, the Department caters to the current intake of 120 in the areas of Marketing, Finance and Human Resource Management.

Placement Cell

Inside view of college

The Placement Services of GAT work with a multi pronged strategy — Incampus recruitment, Off-campus enrolment, Pooled campus drive and Alumni referrarls.

Major companies visiting GAT include:

• Accenture
• Infosys
• TCS
• Wipro
• Toyota
• L&T
• Defence Research and Development Organisation
• Cisco Systems
• Mindtree
• HP
• Dell
• IBM
• Tech Mahindra
• HDFC Bank

Research Facilities

Global Academy of Technology has a Research and Consultancy Centre.

Research Areas@GAT:

• Water Resources Engineering, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
• Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Geophysical Investigations & Advanced Engineering Surveying
• Alternate & Green Energy Sources
• Hydroelectric projects, Tunneling and Environmental Impact Assessment
• Material characterization, Thermal Management and Tribological studies of Composites
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Web Enabled IT Services
• UWB Antenna Communication and RFID applications
• Image Processing
• Wholesale, Retail and Rural Marketing

Students Corner

Raghu Dixit performing in college during a music concert

Student Clubs

Every department has its own student club to host activities related to the domain in addition to hosting interdepartmental competitions and institution level competitions. Some the popular student clubs are:

• IT-VIRTUOSO — Dept of CSE
• INSPIRE — Dept of ISE
• HYSTERESIS — Dept of EEE
• RESONANCE -Deprt of ECE

The CSE student club - IT-Virtuoso is the oldest and is the largest student club in the institution, which conducts the activities such as computer programming, gaming, paper presentations, quiz etc. by students and for students. As part of the IT-club activity, monthly e-newsletter and bi-monthly e-magazine released and hosted on the college web-site for the benefit of students at large.^[2]

Interact'14

Interact is the annual college fest.Rock Band, Fashion Show, Drag Race, Computer Gaming, Dumb Charades, Folk Dance, Light Music, Ethnic Dressing and many others are few of the alluring events of this cultural extravaganza. With a mosaic of cultural & ethnic students, the Interact is always a feast for the Eyes & Ears.^[3]

Sports

Cricket Field, Basket Ball Court, Volley Ball Court and Tennis Courts are sports facilities.^[4]

• GAT hosted VTU Single Zone Inter Collegiate Basketball Women's Tournament,2014 from 8 to 10 May.

Gallery

References

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