Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College

Engineering College in Mumbai

Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College is an engineering college in Mumbai affiliated under University Of Mumbai. The college offers technical education to students. This college was established by the Mahavir Education Trust in 1985, making it one of the oldest technical institutes in the state. The college has been graded 'A' By NAAC for 5 years from 2021. Computer Engineering and Information Technology branches are accredited By NBA. Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering college was place in band 251 300 band in NIRF 2020

In 1983 the Mahavir Education Trust was established. The Bachelor of Engineering course offered by the University of Mumbai. Institute establishing a strong brand image for itself in the engineering domain. The funds for the development of the Engineering College are being augmented by donation from many other philanthropic business and industrialists. The Engineering College is run by the Mahavir Education Trust established for development of appropriate education in technical field.

Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College is located on Waman Tukaram Patil Marg, Chembur, Nearest railway station is Govandi. Deonar Bus Depot on Mumbai Pune Highway is within walking distance. All laboratories, class rooms, drawing hall, students room, sports hall, administrative office are situated in a seven storeyed building of the college.

Master of Engineering section in Shah and Anchor was affiliated by Mumbai University in the year 2011. Electronics Engineering – 9 seats It helps organize Nucleus, an annual intercollegiate technical symposium. It is the most active student body in the whole Bombay Section. Apart from organizing events in the college like international university fairs, technical and non technical seminars and workshops, it organizes a yearly industrial visit to parts of the country. IEEE SAKEC is a big milestone of this college.

ISTE SAKEC is the student chapter of the Indian Society for Technical Education, established in 2005. It organizes workshops, seminars and field trips. It helps organize Nucleus, the annual intercollegiate technical symposium.

CSI SAKEC is the student chapter of the Computer Society of India. It conducts workshops during holidays for SAKEC students. The students started a CSI website and CSI magazine, Cache in March 2010.

IETE SAKEC is the student chapter of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. The IETE SAKEC has been instrumental in bringing all the students of the college in the Electronics and telecommunication branch closer and making shah and anchor a closely knit family. It is a new organization and was made famous for its classy opening ceremony, wherein the inauguration of the organization's name (IETE SAKEC) was done by the chairman with the help of a remote controlled curtain raiser. This is just the beginning of the many more events that would be conducted successfully by the newly christened student organisation.

The college holds multiple events in its annual festival. They are broadly classified into six categories: Nucleus (the technical fest), R1 (national level robotics), Verve (the cultural fest), Marathon, Olympus (comprising all sports based events) and Portal.

R1 is a national level robotics event held annually in the college grounds. Sponsored by the memorial trust of the late student Monish Gala, it consists of racing events. The first edition of this event was held in 2009, and was conceived and organized by Monish. A dirt race consisting of both wired and wireless Internal combustion engine robotic cars is held at the college ground. Being a national level event, this event sees participation from engineering students all over India.

Verve is the annual inter collegian cultural festival of the college. It hosts events of widely varied genres. Harmonix: One of the main attractions of verve, Harmonix is a musical competition among student bands from across the city. Every year, prominent local bands are also invited to play in the event. Nrityanjali: Nrityanjali is an inter college dance competition. Model United Nations: SakecMUN is one of the few Model United Nations being hosted among Mumbai's schools and colleges. Intra Events: A variety of miscellaneous intra college events take place, such as a fashion show and The Apprentice.

The SAKEC Marathon began as an event held during the 2010 college festival, and has been repeated annually. Students from all over the city compete in running a mile through the roads of Chembur. This has become a key event of the SAKEC festival. The SAKEC Marathon began as an event marked to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the college, and was held during the 2010 college festival.

Olympus is the annual sports festival. Intercollegiate events range from football and table tennis to chess and Carrom. More than 60 teams from engineering and medical colleges participate in Olympus. Inter college competitions started in 2009 and have expanded since. Intra Olympus too consists of a variety of sports and games ranging from outdoor games like Cricket, football and volleyball to indoor games like chess and Carrom.

Nucleus also hosts a variety of web based games and events that require on line participation. These include Google Whack, CodeChef competitions, Web Hunt and Virtual Stock Exchange.

Recruiters include consulting, engineering and software development firms. Major recruiters include Tata Consultancy Services, Mastek, Wipro, Syntel, iGATE, Blue Star Infotech, Amdocs, Oracle Financial Services Software (Previously
iFlex), Indus Valley Partners, Mphasis, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Accenture, GE Energy, Vistaar, Webaroo (Now SMS GupShup),Godrej infotech.