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Eastern Region Campus Dharan

Eastern Region Campus (Purwanchal Campus) is situated in beautiful town Dharan of Sunsari district of eastern region of Nepal. This campus is one of the associate engineering campuses of Institute of Engineering under Tribhuvan University. It was established in 1978 under the loan agreement between the Asian Development Bank and His Majesty's Government of Nepal. The loan agreement was around five million US Dollars. The technical assistance was provided by the government of United Kingdom. The campus firstly started trade level courses in Mechanical, Electrical and Civil engineering subjects as specified in the loan and the project agreements. Presently, it is offering diploma courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering and from 2000/2001 academic year bachelor degree course in Agriculture Engineering has also been started.

Level Course Intake Capacity Total
Regular Full Fee
Diploma Civil 48 48 96
Electrical 48 48 96
Mechanical 24 - 24
Ref. & A. C. 24 - 24
Bachelor Agriculture 6 18 24


Purwanchal Campus is apart of IOE whose products have come out to be the topper in Asian Institutes in Thailand and Japan and the like. IOE has been listed third among the ten best Asian Institutes by Bangkok based Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).

Objectives The major objectives of Purwanchal Campus is to help IOE in achieving its objectives. other objective of this campus is to offer various types of training, sponsored courses, conduction problem oriented research and provide engineering consultancy services. This objective caters towards modification of the human and physical resources for the technical advancement of the nation. In addition to this, these activities help bridge the increasing gap between Purwanchal Campus financial needs and resources. Similarly, this objective can contribute to broaden the professional experience of the campus staff as well as to supplement the staff income so as to retain the staff within campus itself by offering them additional financial incentives.

Features

Faculties Purwanchal Campus has highly qualified, experienced and devoted teaching professionals in various disciplines. The faculty strength of Purwanchal Campus is listed in the table below
Department Masters   Bachelor Degree   Diploma Holders
Civil 1 9 9
Electrical 1 6 10
Mechanical 2 5 17
Ref. & A. C. 1 2 4
Science & Humanities 8 4
Agriculture N/A N/A N/A


Campus Premises and Class Rooms
Southern boundary of the campus is joined to the dense forest area and plenty of evergreen trees are grown within the campus it self which provides environmentally pleasant and tranquil atmosphere all around the campus premises. Similarly, well ventilated, lighted and furnished class rooms with nominal teacher student ratio gives a perfect academic environment for the students.

Library
The campus has been making considerable effort to the development of an outstanding library collection to serve the increasing needs of the students and teachers in their teaching learning activities. So far, the library has about 20 thousands volumes and journals.

Laboratories
The campus has six fully equipped labs, four in engineering and two in science. Civil Engineering department has Engineering materials, soil, hydraulics and structure labs. Electrical engineering department has power lab, electrical measurement lab, machine lab and repair./maintenance lab. Mechanical Engineering department has metrology lab and welding/testing lab. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning department maintains fully equipped sophisticated lab to meet domestic, commercial and industrial needs.

Apart from the above laboratories, there are other well equipped computers and science laboratories to cater the needs as required by the prescribed courses.

Workshops
In addition to the labs, the campus has fully equipped workshops under different departments. Civil department s has carpentry, plumbing and wet construction workshops. Electrical department has industrial and domestic electrical workshops. Mechanical department has fitting and maintenance, fabrications and machine workshops.
Facilities and Development Unit
Purwanchal Campus maintains a full-fledged facilities development unit headed by Assistant Campus Chief. This unit caters the entire repair and maintenance work in order to keep the equipment and campus premises up to date.


Industrial Liaison Unit

The Industrial Liaison Unit is established with a view to maintain contact with the industries in order to augment mutual relationship for the placement of industrial orientation and suitable jobs for the campus products. It also works to provide technical information to the industries related to the technical facilities which are available in the campus. It also arranges training, undertake technical jobs and consultancy services identifying the need of industries. It arranges seminars with industries at least once in a year in order to interact with the industrialists regarding campus curricula vis-àis industrial needs. Its another objective is to encourage the industrialists and business house to sponsor scholarships, medals etc for the deserving students.

Research Training and Consultancy Unit
Research, Training and Consultancy Services Unit (RTCU) has been providing engineering consultancy services and organizing technical training to the clients. The major services provided so far by the RTCU with different departments are:

Civil

  • Test: Cement, Aggregate, Sand, Compression Strength - Brick and Water Absorption.
  • Building design, estimating, survey and supervision.
  • Different types of furniture design, production and supervision
  • Design related to plumbing and sanitation, estimating and supervision.
  • Training in Bio-Gas equipment construction, supervision and management.


Electrical
  • House wiring
  • Industrial wiring
  • Motor Winding
  • Transformer oil testing
  • Pump-operator's training
  • Micro hydro power operation and maintenance
  • Peltric set operation and maintenance
  • Estimation, design and installation works of electrical systems


Mechanical
  • Fitting and machining job
  • Fabrication and welding jobs
  • Plant and maintenance jobs
  • Design, estimation and valuation in related fields
  • Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
  • Refrigerator and deep fridge repair and maintenance
  • Repair and maintenance of AC and coolers etc
  • Cold storage design, installation and supervision
  • Short-term course for Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Systems
  • Short Term courses for Solar Energy systems
  • Industrial and commercial AC plants maintenance services
Apart from these, any short term engineering related courses can be conducted according to the demand of the clients.

Details:
Institute of Engineering
Eastern Region Campus
Gangalal Marga, Teen Kune, Dharan
Phone: 25-20120,26304
Fax: 25-20405
Email: ioepc@sailung.com