Asansol Engineering College's Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering program has an overall placement percentage of about 75% placement. In 2019, 60% of students got placed and the main recruiter has been TCS but other major recruiting partners were Cognizant, Cybertech, Johnson Controls, etc.

The table below will help students to understand the main features of the Asansol Engineering College and its AEIE program:

Other important features of the Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering program at AEC are as follows:

Admission Requirements

• Candidates seeking admission to the 1st year B-Tech Degree Course at Asansol Engineering College should have a minimum aggregate of 45% marks in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry.
• Students should also have pass marks in theory papers Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry.
• A suitable rank in WB JEE or JEE Mains must be submitted as well.

Faculty and Infrastructure

• Asansol Engineering College's assistant professor Mr. Bikas Mondal has been awarded 'The Institution of Engineers (India) R&D Grant-Aid-Scheme' award.
• The department conducts research in Process Control, Industrial Instrumentation and Microprocessor and Microcontroller.
• The Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering department has a library, 3 seminar rooms, and a computation lab with 30 computers.

Curriculum

• The AEIE department at Asansol Engineering College gives students opportunities to participate in special research projects funded by MHRD.
• The curriculum is designed in an industry-oriented syllabus format which includes design, configuration, and maintenance of automation process industries in the domain of electronics, electrical, hydraulics, and pneumatics.

Placement facts

• Govt or Private organizations, R&D organizations, Steel plants, Cement manufacturing companies, Thermal power plants, Chemical companies, Robotics manufacturing firms, defense and biomedical companies like Mindtree, Tata Consultancy, TVF etc are the major recruiters with around 60-75% recruitments.
• The highest package offered to BTech students in 2019 was 6.5 LPA by Persistent Systems Limited.

The AEIE department of Asansol Engineering College can be preferred because of its MHRD funded projects; placements with government organizations and award-winning faculty members.

VJTI Mumbai's E&TC program saw a 97% placement rate in 2019 and COEP's Department of Instrumentation and Control has a placement rate of 85% - 90% in general. Students at COEP get opportunities of working with PSUs like HPCL or BPCL. The highest package has gone up to INR 37 LPA.

The table below highlights the two programs as well:

Admission: Students will be considered for VJTI Admissions and COEP Admissions if they have 50-55% marks in 10+2 and graduation; and MAH-CET/GATE score, as per requirement.

Faculty

VJTI:

• There are 20 faculty members for the E & TC program including 5 members for the Diploma level and 7 for the Degree level.

COEP:

• There are 11 faculty members in the Instrumentation and Control Department; most of them have a Ph.D. from well-known national and international universities like the University of St Louis; University of Washington Seattle, IITR, etc.

Infrastructure

VJTI Mumbai:

• Under the TEQIP program, it has procured equipment for Communication, Virtual Instrumentation
• The High Voltage lab is funded by Siemens Germany and AICTE. The latest addition to its labs is the VJTI- L&T Low Voltage Switchgear Laboratory.

COEP Pune:

• There are department labs in the COEP Instrumentation department like the Johnson Control Lab, Advanced lab, etc.

Placements

VJTI:

• Most students from the E&TC department get jobs in consultancy firms, the finance sector,s and in IT companies.
• There are only a few core placements with Reliance, Airtel, etc. The major recruiters over the years have been Airtel, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc.
• The highest package offered in 2018 was INR 24 LPA and the average salary was 6.5 LPA.

COEP Pune:

• In 2018, the maximum package offered at COEP for instrumentation and control was INR 18 LPA and the major recruiters were Barclays and HP.

Also, 85% of seats are reserved for Maharashtra candidates at VJTI. Students must keep the above-mentioned features in mind when choosing.