Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli Home Page

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The Institution
Location
Campus Life
RECT Alumni
News

The Institution

Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli (RECT), established in 1964, is now one of India's premier institutions for education in engineering. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in several fields :

Computer science and engineering
Electronics and communication engineering
Electrical and electronics engineering
Civil engineering
Chemical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Metallurgical engineering
Production engineering
Architecture

RECT also offers the MBA (Master of Business Administration) and MCA (Master of Computer Applications) degrees, and the M.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry, Applied Electronics and Operations Research.

Location

The RECT campus is located 17km (10mi) from Tiruchirapalli (or Trichy, as it is otherwise called) on the Thanjavur road. See a map of Tamil Nadu for details or visit the Tamil Nadu Home Page . Two of the most prominent landmarks are Rockfort and the Srirangam temple.

Campus Life - The lighter side

Entrance
Welcome to RECT! If you're looking for a paradise on earth, rule RECT out from the possibilities. Its so hot in summer, it burns. The campus is large (960 acres?) and it has about 10 trees. Ok, ok. 13 trees. Young plants rarely survive the combination of searing heat and the omnipresent hungry cows and bulls on campus (You read that right - cows and bulls on campus!). How they got there, no one knows. No one seems to mind, though - except the students. But then who cares about them anyway?

Library
This was the most popular spot on campus - for lover boys and girls, that is. And the few quizzing cats that we had.

The Octagon
Talk about refuge from the heat. The coolest building on campus - in more ways than one. The pride of RECT as far as facilities go.

Temple
I take back my earlier statement about the library being the most popular spot for lover boys to meet their girls: the temple is. With all this going on, it is rather difficult to actually pray in the temple. (Well, that's an exaggeration, but you get the point!)

Canteen
RECT has several "eateries" on campus apart from the messes. Small wonder though, that these eateries suck, too - but only in retrospect!! While we were at RECT, the food here was a welcome break from food at the mess. And the only problem was that everyone took too many "breaks from mess food" and soon were also bored of the food everywhere else on campus.

RECT Alumni - An Incomplete List

Please verify your alumni entry and mail corrections. Class of 'xx => Graduated in 'xx

Class of '96
Class of '95
Class of '94
Class of '93
Class of '92
Others

Amit Singhal's RECT Page. Some cool images on it.
The RECT MCA page.

The World Alumni Page . Are you on it?

News

RECT is now fully connected to the internet. Email ids are userid@rect.ernet.in

A Kumbhabishekam has been planned for the RECT temple in Jan 1997. More info and how you can help.

All RECTians are invited to contribute material for this page. Just send mail. Cheers!

Maintained by Ashwin Baskaran ( abaskaran@psu.edu )
and SundarRajan Kanthadai ( sundi@tamu.edu )
Class of '94