offered by the institute are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA). Graduate programs The institute also offers two-year long postgraduate academic degrees with a sanctioned annual intake of 78 students in the following four specialisations: VLSI design and embedded systems: 24 seats Digital image processing: 18 seats Energy management: 18 seats Signal processing: 18 seats Students who successfully complete these academic programs from the institute will receive a Master of Technology (M.Tech) degree at the end. Admission The admission procedure and the fee structure for the academic programmes offered by the institute are decided by APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) and Institute of Human Resources Development (IHRD) respectively. Admissions to the undergraduate programs are based on the ranklist prepared after the performance of applicants in the KEAM Entrance Test conducted by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), Kerala. 15% of total seats to the programs offered by the institute are reserved for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). Admissions to postgraduate programs offered by institute are based on the ranklist of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs). The vacant seats are filled based on nativity, percentage of marks obtained, and reservation criteria of the students. Research MEC was the first engineering college in Kerala to be recognised by Cochin University of Science and Technology as the research centre of university in the branch of Electronics and communication engineering in the year 2010. The research areas in 2010 included Digital image processing, Signal processing, and Optical communication. Later, the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) extended the research into various specialisations including Microwave engineering, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, VLSI and Embedded systems, Reliability engineering, etc. In September 2022, the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) decided to establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) at MEC for advanced learning and research in the following fields of Computer engineering with industrial linkages: Artificial intelligence (AI) Machine learning (ML) Robotics Automation The university research centre will come up at a space of around 60,000 sq.ft in the institute. Traditions and student activities The foremost student body of the institute is the Senate, which consists of elected representatives from each stream. The institute has several students bodies, of both technical and non-technical nature. Technical bodies These include the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IEDC MEC), which is a fully functioning student body registered under the Technology Business