TEC may refer to: Education Technology, the subject itself of technology taught at schools Tertiary Education Commission (disambiguation) The East Carolinian, a campus newspaper of East Carolina University Governmental and public organizations The Episcopal Church (United States) Telecommunication Engineering Center, an Indian government agency Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, a coalition created to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Transatlantic Economic Council, an agreement between the US and EU Training and enterprise council, a former type of UK training program administrator Topographic Engineering Center, former name of the US Army Geospatial Center Treaty establishing the European Community, a former name for the principal EU Treaty Transitional Executive Council, a government body that helped facilitate South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994 Military TEC-3 or Technician third grade, United States Army rank TEC-4 or Technician fourth grade, United States Army rank TEC-5 or Technician fifth grade, United States Army rank I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee People Nechama Tec, Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut Roland Tec, American writer and movie director Schools and colleges Trichy Engineering College, in Konalai, Tamil Nadu, India Costa Rica Institute of Technology Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, in Monterrey, Mexico Science, engineering and medicine TEC (gene), a human gene Thermoelectric cooling, a process to create a heat flux between two different materials Time error correction (TEC) Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood, a medical condition Threshold Exceeds Condition, a value used in computer hard disk evaluation Total electron content, a descriptive quantity of the Earth's ionosphere Triethylcholine, a drug TEC, a Russian abbreviation for thermal power stations in Russia and Soviet Union with combined heat and power plant Other uses Tech (river) (, in Pyrénées-Orientales département, southern France TEC-9, a semi-automatic pistol SV TEC, a Dutch association football club Terik language (ISO 639:tec), spoken in Kenya Toshiba TEC Corporation, a subsidiary of Toshiba Tower en route control, a collection of air-traffic routes TRACE Expert City, an office complex in Sri Lanka Transport En Commun, a brand name of Belgian transport company Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport Turkish Engine Center Slang term for a detective