A PERSPECTIVE

The National Institute of Engineering (NIE) was started in the year 1946 with admission only to a diploma course in Civil Engineering. The first batch of 86 students answered their attendance call sitting in a rustic room with thatched roof in Laxmipuram. Later, the classes were held in a temporary shed in the Sharada Vilas High School campus. However, the untiring efforts of the retired senior engineer trio, Sri.S.Ramaswamy, Sri.D.V.Narasimha Rao and Sri.T.Rama Rao, the NIE founders, gave fruition when the NIE was securely established by 1950 with its own class rooms and workshops on a sprawling 6-acre land in Mysore South.

The students, who were preparing for AMIE in Civil Engineering (NIE had started AMIE also in 1948 for intermediate passed students), were permitted to change over to the regular degree course leading to B.E. Degree in Civil Engineering of the Mysore University. Thus, NIE became the second Engineering College in the state and the first in Mysore. In 1958-59, NIE got private-aided institution status under grant-in-aid code of Karnataka Government.

The NIE is being managed by a committee of President, Vice-President, Hon.Secretary and Hon.Treasurer besides six Directors. As per the statute of the AICTE, the Governing Council, which assists the NIE administration, has five NIE Directors, Principal and five nominated members of Government of India, Karnataka Government, AICTE and VTU, Belgaum.

The NIE Society is also running the National Industrial Training Institute, which offers a technical job oriented Diploma programme for S.S.L.C passed students, and the NIE College of Science, which offers Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Computer Science and the NIE Pre-University College.