Government Engineering College, Hassan (GECH) is an engineering college located in Hassan, Karnataka, India. A huge building with planned utilities has come up in forty acres land. The Government of Karnataka started this Government Engineering College with an objective - To Reach The Unreached. The institution is affiliated with the Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belgaum and approved by AICTE, New Delhi. History The Government of Karnataka under Department of Technical Education has established 10 engineering colleges in 2007–2008. GEC Hassan is one such college established with four branches of engineering, namely, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The institution, although having a rough start, is slowly evolving to become one of the elite technical institutes providing quality technical education. Facilities Library The college library acts as a knowledge center for students and faculty of the college. The collection consists of documents in engineering subjects. The library collection today stands at 2 books. Karnataka Examination Authority announced to provide necessary initial books grant to expand library's collection. Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Karnataka also assisting in building SC/ST Book Bank in the library. From recent past, the collection has also been enriching by donations of valuable books from students & faculty. Lab facilities The Computer Science and Engineering department has state of the art network of computers to cater the needs of students. There are two computer labs with total of around 50 Standalone machines and 2 Servers. Most of the lab courses are done using FOSS to enhance students knowledge for practical works as access to source code is access to knowledge. The libre software give full freedom to students to make full use of it. The Electronics and Communication Engineering department has well equipped lab for Advanced Digital-communication, Microprocessor, Micro-controller, C++, Analog-Communication, Digital Signal Processing and Logic Design Lab classes. Also other departments Civil, Mechanical, Physics and Chemistry have well equipped lab facilities. Other facilities The Students and Staff are provided Internet facility under the National Mission of Education scheme of Government of India. Academics GEC Hassan offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees across 4 disciplines in Engineering. About 40 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy. The college offers undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) programmes in four disciplines, namely: B.E in Civil Engineering B.E in Computer Science and Engineering B.E in