Maharaja Engineering College was established in November 1994 by the Paramasivam Palanisamy Charitable Trust, Erode with the unending efforts of a dedicated team led by our renowned chairman Thiru.K.Paramasivam,B.Sc.,to impart high quality technical education and activities to students, to bring out talented and efficient professionals in the industry, corporate sector and business.
Facilities
The college has excellent infrastructure facilities, buildings,labiratories and dedicated well-qualified faculties to provide good academic exposure to the students.The college has well-equipped laboratories to suit the requirements of the various courses offered , to provide good practical exposure to the students.The college has well-equipped computer lab having five LAN centers, one UNIX center, one CAD center and one internet center which consists of 300 terminals and is giving students experience on various software packages and exposure to latest IT trends . The college library is fully computerised with separate sections for all departments. It has 11,778 volumes on 5494 titles and also subscribes 65 journals and periodicals. The college operates ten buses which fly from Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Gopi and Avinashi. The college has separate hostel facilities for boys and girls with multigym centers and well maintained play grounds and canteens.The college offers various extra curricular activities like NSS, Youth Red Cross, etc.
University
The college established as per G.No.14809 dated 03/10/94 affliated to the Bharathiyar University and approved by A.I.C.T.E ( No. F:732-50-5/RC/94 ).
Location
The college is located at Avinashi about 12kms from Tirupur Railway Station . 40Kms from Coimbatore airport and 50kms from Erode on National Highway No.47.
Faculty
We have a band of well qualified faculty of 54 members and 42 non-teaching staff who constantly strive to improve the academic progress and other activities of the students.
Scholarship
During 1998-99 a sum of Rs.2,53,790 is sanctioned by the backward welfare department and Rs.1,56,820 is sanctioned by the Adidravidar and tribal welfare department.
Physical Education
Adequate facilities are provided for sports & games. The students can play Volleyball, Cricket, Tennis, Badminton, Football, Throwball and Ball Badminton. Facilities are also provided for indoor games. Many other sports and games events were conducted for the Annual Sports Day. The prizes were awarded to the winners on the occasion of SportsDayFunction. One of our student K.Gowrishankar has secured a Gold Medal for past two years in the TamilNadu Inter Engineering Sports.
National Service Scheme
Our college consists of 100 N.S.S. volunteers., Out of which 70 are boys and 30 are girls. They conducted blood donation camp, road cleaning camp, free medical camp, free eye camp, free Bloodsugar test etc., in and around Avinashi village.
Gold Medalist
It's happy to inform that Mr.K.SASI SEKAR(1994-1998 batch, EEE branch) has secured the First Rank in the Bharathiar University B.E. Degree Examinations. I would like to inform you, that Mr.KAZA NARASIMHA RAO (1994-1998 batch) has secured the Eight Rank in the Bharathiar University B.E. Degree Examinations.
Conclusion
The sole purpose of this institutions is to provide excellent education to the students and to promote their potential to the full extent. We would like to express our gratefulness and indebtness to our reversed chairman and Correspondent. We profusely thank them for their untiring efforts to make the institution as a model one.