People's Education Society Institute of Technology
People's Education Society Institute of Technology (PESIT) is a well known engineering college in Karnataka, India and is granted Autonomy academically from August 2007. It is headed by Dr. K N BalaSubramanya Murthy.
The College
PESIT is located in Bangalore. The campus is located 10 km from the City Railway Station, on the Ring Road, Banashankari 3rd Stage and can be approached via Mysore Road. The college consists of four major blocks : The Administrative Building, Tech Park, the Electronics Block and the Mechanical Block. A new college block, PES Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), a 10 storeyed building is under construction and scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007.
Undergraduate departments
- Computer Science And Engineering
- Electronics And Communication
- Telecommunication Engineering
- Electrical And Electronics Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Information Science And Engineering
- Bio-technology
Postgraduate departments
- Department of MCA
- Department of MBA
- M-Tech in CS,E&C and Mechanical Engineering
Faculty And Research
PESIT has currently over 35 Doctorates On-Campus in varied fields of specialisation in the engineering departments. Various Research Fields include Image Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Unstructured Data Management, Embedded Systems, VLSI Design, Computer Simulation, Networking And Mobile Applications, Knowledge Management. The Departments have also signed MoUs with companies like HP, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Global Edge Systems in pursuing the research activities. PESIT is heading towards becoming a fast and credible R&D and a Consultancy hub. The institution has also tied up with the PACE Partners notably the General Motors, Sun Microsystems, EDS and UGS with an investment of over $155 million. It is the first such tie-up between academia and the industry in India.
Placement Record
The students of PESIT find jobs through campus recruitment in companies like: Aditi, Amazon.com, Applied Materials, Aricent technologies(Flextronics), Atlantis computing, Capgemini, Cerner, CG-Core El, Cisco Systems, Citrix Systems, Cognizant Technology Solutions, EMC Corporation, Fiberlink, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs,Google, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, IBM AMS, IBM E&TS, IBM ISL, Infosys Technologies, Intel, Intuit Inc., Ittiam Systems, Kennametal, LSI Logic, Larsen and Toubro, Mindtree Consulting,Microsoft, Motorola, National Instruments, Novell, Novellus, Philips India, PI Corp, SAMSUNG,Sapient, Sasken,Schneider Electric, Siemens AG, Sinett Semiconductors, Sonim, Sterling Commerce, Symbian, Tata Consultancy Services, Texas Instruments, Trilogy,Wipro Technologies,Yahoo!
Alumni
PESIT has a strong, lively alumni association that extends across the globe. This thriving alumni network brings great value to everyone associated with PES - from spreading awareness and recognition of the PES brand to creating opportunities for and guiding current students. The PESIT Alumni, today, are highly respected and hold high positions in the Industry and some of them have done/are pursuing their Masters and Doctorates at Universities of California(UCLA,UCSB,Berkeley),Stanford, UT Austin, USC,University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Purdue, Georgia Tech,Carnegie Mellon, and other highly ranked universities in the USA, and IIMs,IITs and the IISc in India.
Cultural Activities
The PESIT cultural team is called Nupur. The cultural team organizes special events like
- Freshers' day: The seniors give the freshers A Warm Welcome
- Celesta: The college cultural day
- Aatmatrisha: The inter-collegiate techno-cultural fest, etc.
Many groups have been nurtured by the cultural team of which, the following are prominent:
- Phenom, a rock band, had its incubating times in PESIT and is now a well known band in the local circuit.
- Black Earth, a western band, who have released their 1st album, "Hallucination Theory".
- Pulse is a dance team of 7 members belonging to various disciplines of BE. This team was formed in 2006. In its first year itself, Pulse has won 9 intercollegiates.
- Sanskruthi is a troupe of 8 dancers. Formed in 2005, Sanskruthi is considered to be one the best contemporary Dance team (Engineering Level) in Bangalore. Last year, Sanskruthi has bagged 9 first prizes in intercollegiates all over Bangalore. Recently they bagged the first place in the national level intercollegiate fest organised by IIT Kanpur and BMC. Sanskruthi is famous in corporate world for the quality performances for corporate events.
- Full Dhool was one of the successful mad-ads and skit team of PESIT between 2000 and 2004 which won some 75 odd prizes all over the state and about 85 performances with victories at RVCE(Bangalore), BMSCE(Bangalore), SIT(Tumkur), SSIT(Tumkur), VTU(Belgaum and Tumkur), MIT(Manipal), BNMIT(Bangalore), MVIT(Bangalore), AIT(Chikmagalur), SJCIT(Chikballapur) , NIFT(Bangalore), SJCE(Mysore), MCC(Bangalore), Christ(Bangalore), St Josephs(Bangalore), MVJCE(Bangalore), IISc(Bangalore) and so on. Apart from winning the theatre events, Full Dhool also won a complete fest at AIT, Chikmagalur and PESIT's first outstation fest win at Manipal, Mangalore which was Full Dhool's last festival participation. Full Dhool meant more than theatre for members associated with it directly and indirectly. Full Dhool has gone international with a thread starting in the North Carolina State University in the US and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
- Complete Chaos is the current theatre team in the college. Complete Chaos formed in 2004, and in a span of just two years, Complete Chaos has won over 30 prizes in performances ranging from mad-ads to street-plays and skits. Complete Chaos has also performed "The Race of Life", a street-play, at the Ranga Shankara.
- Paradhwani, an Indian music band, has been a very successful Indian music band in the city.. Havin won a number of events, across the state, they are now concentrating on coming up with an album..
Sports and Games
The college has indoor facilities for Basketball and Badminton. A match standard cricket ground is situated right next to the Tech Park. Other facilities include a volleyball court,football ground, a tennis court, table tennis, carrom and chess rooms. Gym facilities are also provided.