Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology
Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology (SGGSIE&T) is technical college in Nanded, Maharashtra, India. The institute was accorded full autonomous status in June 2004. It offers training in ten undergraduate and ten postgraduate programs in various fields of technical education, research and technology transfer. It also offers a PhD programs under its affiliating university, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University and under Quality Improvement Programme of Ministry of Education, Government of India, New Delhi. The college is located at a campus of over . The land for the institute was  donated by the "Sant Baba Harnam Singh Langer Sahib Gurudwara trust", Nanded. The Institute is named after the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh. History. The project was approved by the AICTE on 17 December 1981. The institute was registered under the "Society's Act of 1960", and was fully funded by the Government of Maharashtra. The Sant Shri Baba Harnamji trust donated a 46 acres land for the institute. Hence the institute was named after the 10th Sikh Guru, Shri Guru Gobind Singhji. The Governing Board, with the Director of Technical Education at its helm, overlooked the completion of  the project. In 1983 Prof. B.M. Naik was appointed as the first full-time director. In 2004, a committee headed by Dr. F. C. Kholi conducted a survey which identified three engineering colleges with potential for excellence. SGGSIE&T was one of the three selected institutes. The Government of Maharashtra took the initiative of granting autonomous status to these engineering colleges under its TEQIP program. Sunil Raithatha, an eminent industrialist, was nominated by the Government of Maharashtra as Chairman of the Governing Board. The Government has also appointed renowned personalities form business and industry, academics and its senior administrative cadre on  the Governing Board. Governance. The Institute has autonomy in academic, financial and administrative matters. Prof. Yashwant V. Joshi became the director of the institute in 2018. In the Eligibility Criterion of NPIU, Institute secured 59 Marks out of 63 and is selected under TEQIP for assistance. Academics. Accreditation. The institute is an autonomous institute and is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education. In 2011 it had a first year intake capacity of 610 + 31(TFWS)+61(EWS) for its under-graduate courses which included seats under AICTE's tuition fee waiver scheme. Academic programmes. The institute offers both undergraduate  and postgraduate programs. The undergraduate coursework is offered in 10 disciplines with an intake capacity of 610. Master's degree programs are offered in 10 speciality fields with an intake capacity of ~200. Institute is recognized as a research center by the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded for doctoral programs. QIP centre for research (Ph.D.) since 2011-12: The seats sanctioned under QIP are 10. Two seats for each disciplines namely Civil Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Instrumentation and Control, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering. A "Center of Excellence in signal and image processing" was establishment in September 2013 and  formally inaugurated on 19 September 2015.