The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering started in 1994, offers the following courses.

1. B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering
2. M.E. Communication Systems

Both these courses are affiliated to the Anna University. The department is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and is certified to ISO 9001:2000 from DNV, Netherlands. The highly-qualified faculty of this department include 2 faculty members with Ph.D. qualification and 11 members pursuing Ph.D. by undertaking research in the following areas.

• Digital Image Processing
• Mobile Computing
• VLSI
• Adhoc Networks
• Embedded systems
• Microstrip Antennas
• Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol(VOIP)
• Nano Technology

The department offers instruction in subjects relating to Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and promotes R&D activities in related areas, collaborating with industries, wherever possible. The students are exposed to the practical and industrial aspects of the subjects through laboratory work and periodic industrial visits. The students are encouraged to participate and present papers in national level technical seminars. Computer aided software packages with multiple-choice questions are used by the students for self-study and evaluation

The students are enrolled in professional bodies like Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommumication Engineers (IETE) and Institution of Engineers (IE). The following are the significant laboratories of this department:

• Electron Devices Lab

• Mobile Computing
• VLSI
• Adhoc Networks
• Embedded systems
• Microstrip Antennas
• Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol(VOIP)
• Nano Technology

The department offers instruction in subjects relating to Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and promotes R&D activities in related areas, collaborating with industries, wherever possible. The students are exposed to the practical and industrial aspects of the subjects through laboratory work and periodic industrial visits. The students are encouraged to participate and present papers in national level technical seminars. Computer aided software packages with multiple-choice questions are used by the students for self-study and evaluation.

The students are enrolled in professional bodies like Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommumication Engineers (IETE) and Institution of Engineers (IE). The following are the significant laboratories of this department

• Electron Devices Lab
• Electronic Circuits Lab
• Linear Integrated Circuits Lab
• Digital Lab
• Digital Signal Processing Lab
• Microprocessor Lab
• VLSI lab
• Communication Engineering Lab
• Microwave & Optical Lab
• Advanced Communication Lab
• Electronic System Design Lab
• Computer Lab

The department has the following technical software to cater to the needs of students’ projects and R&D activities.

• MATLAB 7 Release 2006
• Orcad – Pspice – Version 10
• DSP – Code Composer studio
• VLSI – Xilinx ISE8.2i
• Antenna simulation – IE3D
• MATHCAD

Several papers have already been published by the ECE department. In particular, there is considerable scope for R&D activities in the following areas:

• Communication Systems: Satellite Communication, Fibre-Optic commumication, Microwave Communication, Biomedical Telemetry.
• Digital Signal Processing: Image Processing, Image Compression, Speech Processing.
• Antennas and Propagation: Ionosphere studies, microwave and millimetric wave propagation, antenna studies at different frequencies.
• Neural Networks: Neural net-based character recognition.
• Biomedical Signal Processing.
• Wireless Networking.
• Electromagnetics.
• Asynchronous VLSI circuits.

The department has successfully executed the following 3 AICTE sponsored projects under MODROBS programme and R&D programme.

• Antennas for Satellite Communication Space Segment - Rs.7 Lakhs.
• Fibre Optic Modulation, Multiplexing, Transmission Characteristics – Rs.10 Lakhs
• Evaluation Multichannel ECG analysis using Neural Networks – Rs.10 Lakhs