About Us

The Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology (PKCET) located 18 km South – East of Trivandrum Central Railway Station and Central Bus-Station, has been promoted by the Pankajakasthuri Herbal Research Foundation which has obtained deep roots in the Society and reputation World-over, and which is registered under the Travancore – Cochin Literary Scientific and Charitable Societies Act XII of 1955 (Reg.No. T 620 dt 31.01.2001 of District Registrar, Thiruvananthapuram). This nascent Co- educational Engineering College is administrated by its Founder Chairman Shri. J. Mahendran Nair, who has already proven his commitment to the Society, and administrative capability by bringing up the first self –financing Ayurvedic Medical College in this State 7 years ago, and establishing another 10 sister institutions. The PKCET campus is spread over 12 acres of land in the serene and lush green village of Maranalloor at Kandala, Trivandrum – 695 512, by the side of the Kattakkada – Balaramapuram/Neyyattinkara State Highway. This is a Wi-Fi enabled Campus. The College is approved by A.I.C.T.E. vide order No. F. 06/06/KER/ ENGG/ 2009-10/015 dt. 23.06.2009 and is sanctioned by Kerala Govt. vide G.O. (Ms) No.84/09/H. Edn. dt.06.07.2009. It is affiliated to University of Kerala vide order No : Ac/B /01/044815/2008 dt.31.07.2009.

Our Mission

The Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology shall be a lead institution in Engineering having national eminence and international visibility. With the ambience of a world - class institution, it will mould leading professionals in Engineering.

Our Vision

The Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering & Technology is committed to impart value-added education through state-of –the-art facilities which meets customer satisfaction and will generate future leaders in emerging fields of Engineering.

Quality Policy

Expert and Qualified faculty with academic freedom to pursue cutting edge technology, an all pervasive research culture, emphasis on development of personality, acceptance of a value system, empowerment at all levels and with a total quality approach, the College will develop the ambience of a world -class Institution.

Chairman's Message

Knowledge is power. Global recognition to India as an educationally emerging nation is acknowledged well.

In this endeavour the technical education in our Nation have important role in generating knowledge and to share and apply the same for the economic development / benefit of the country. Yesterday’s Science is being converted into the technology of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering & Technology is intending to impart quality education & personality development skills through the dedicated and sincere involvement of eminent scholars in the field. Career development, character building and disciplined life style development of deserving aspirants is the motto of PKCET management, enabling them to attune themselves to the global context. Apart from curricular activities, the students will be given chance and guidance to inculcate the age-old traditions and values of our great Nation, motivate them to become a knowledge based personality, who would enrich themselves and bring laurels to the Nation.

We intend to enrich our students with world-class education and shall elevate our Institution to the International Standards.

Principal

B. Somanathan Nair
B. Sc (Engg) (E&C), M. E. (ECE))

Principal's Profile

Prof. B. Somanathan Nair (born on 01-09-1950) is currently working as the Principal of the Pankajakasthuri College of Engineering and Technology, Kandala, Thiruvananthapuram. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Department of Optoelectronics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

Formerly, he was the Joint Director of Technical Education, Government of Kerala, and the Principal of various Government Engineering Colleges in Kerala. He was also a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA.

Prof. Nair was a Member of the Syndicate, the Senate, and the Academic Council of the MG University, Kottayam and was the first Controller of Examinations of Kannur University

He was a research collaborator with the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kayamkulam, for the development of ELECTRONIC PEST DETECTION methods. He is currently the Co-investigator of the project on APPLICATIONS OF THIN-FILM COIR FIBERS IN ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY, a research work sponsored by the Central Coir Board and undertaken by the Central Coir Research Institute, Alappuzha and M.G. University, Kottayam. He has published 4 papers on electronic pest detection methods.

He was a reviewer of the International Conference on Mobile Telephones-2009 at St. Petersberg, Russia. He was also a reviewer of the International Conference on Simulation and Modeling, MS 2009 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

He is the author of 19 textbooks in Electronics and related areas brought out by Publishers like John Wiley and Prentice-Hall.