Jabalpur Public College, Jabalpur

Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC) is a technical institute in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, established on 7 July 1947 as the Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, during British rule. It is the oldest technical institution in central India and the 15th-oldest in India, and was the first institute in the country to offer B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering (from 1947), M.E. in several specialized fields (from 1953), and a PhD in Advanced Electronics (from 1955). It began functioning from the Robertson College building, constructed in 1916, and its first Principal was Dr. S. P. Chakravarti. JEC was initially affiliated with the University of Sagar, later the University of Jabalpur, and then the State Technological University of Madhya Pradesh; it gained autonomous institute status in 1997. The college offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across departments such as Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence & Data Science. It has academic collaborations, including with IIT Indore, and is involved in multiple government and industry-funded research projects.