M. Sc Electronics

The University instituted the Department of Electronics in the year 1975. This is envisaged as a postgraduate Department with Master's Degree and Ph.D programmes in frontier fields of Electronics. The Department was inaugurated by Prof. M.G.K. Menon in 1975. Realising the growing needs of trained man-power in various fields of Electronics, the University decided to start teaching programmes in the Department, anticipating formal sanction and approval of the University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education, etc. in due course. Initially, an M.Tech. course was started with a student strength of 6. Subsequently it was raised to 20 in the general category and 5 in the sponsored quota. In 1983, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) extended financial support to the M.Tech. course. The Doctorate Programmes of the Department are mainly in the fields of Underwater Acoustics, Ocean Electronics, Microwave Propagation & Antennas, Pattern recognition, Microprocessor Applications, Signal processing and Display Devices. External agencies like the Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), C.S.I.R., Atomic Energy Commission, Defence Research and Development Organisation and the State Government are supporting this Department through various Research projects and Research Fellowships. In 1990, the Department started M.Sc. degree course in Electronics co-sponsored by UGC and Department of Electronics (Govt. of India).