History of the Department

From its inception about a century ago, computing has become the defining technology of our age. The study of computing is the study of the process of abstraction and its power, the practice of design and implementation, mathematical theory of computation and its implications. Undergraduate programme in Computer Science and Engineering started in the year 1985 in the then Electrical Engineering Department. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) was formally established as an independent entity in the year 1997 as a result of trifurcation of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

The three-year MCA programme started in 1988. The two-year M.Tech. programme in Computer Science and Engineering started in 1998. The two-year M.Tech. programme in Computer Science and Engineering (Information Security) started in 2006. The two-year M.Tech. programme in Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics)started in 2023.  PhD programme started in 2002.