The scenic Western Region Campus is located in the northern part of Mega-scenic Pokhara. Getting the assistance of refreshing roaring music of Seti river, continuous eying of Mt. Machhapuchhre along with other neighboring Himalayas feature WRC as a part of heaven. The contribution of surrounding green hills is no less in this regard.

   The initiation of the WRC is Pokhara under Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University can be considered as a revolutionary step towards meeting the demand of technical manpower in the field of engineering for the development of nation.

   In IOE, this campus is more popularly known as Pokhara Campus, after the name of the place where it is located. It is just about 200 Km west of Katmandu, which is accessible by road (5-6 hours drive) and air (20-25 minutes flight).

   WRC became operational from 1987 with assistance from the World Bank and UNDP/ILO. Initially, various trades and technician courses were offered at this campus along with diploma courses. At present, it is offering diploma courses in Civil, Electrical, Electronics, Automobile and Mechanical Engineering. From the academic year1999/2000 Bachelor's Degree program in Civil Engineering has been started.

Features

  WRC is served by highly qualified, experienced and devoted teaching professionals graduated from different universities in the world.

  WRC has Well-ventilated, lighted and furnished classrooms with nominal teacher student ratio.

  The campus has been making considerable effort to the development of outstanding library collection to serve the increasing needs of the students and teachers in the teaching learning activities. So far, the library has about 40000 books and journals.

  The campus has eight fully-equipped laboratories, six in Engineering and two in Science -

   Civil Engineering ( Engineering Materials Lab, Soil Lab, Hydraulic Lab and Structural Lab)

   Electrical (Power Lab, Electrical Measurement Lab and Machines Lab)

   Mechanical Lab

   Digital Electronics Lab

   Computer Lab

   General Electronics Lab

   Chemistry lab

   Physics Lab

  To cope with rapid advancement of science and technology and to be in touch with the international communication a language laboratory is also being established in the campus.

  There are twelve workshops in the campus. All of them are fully equipped with modern machines and facilities.

   Civil department has Carpentry, Wet-construction and Plumbing workshops. Electrical department has Electrical Installation, Basic Electrical and Repair and Maintenance workshops. Fitting Maintenance, Welding, Sheet-metal, Machining and Automotive workshops are under Mechanical/Auto department and a Repair and Maintenance lab is under Electronics department.

  WRC has a state-of-the-art computing center consisting of 50 computers.

  There are boy's hostel and girl's hostel in WRC with capacity of 400 and 42 respectively.

  WRC provides sporting facilities to its students and faculties. the facilities include Tennis courts, Volleyball courts, Badminton court, Football ground with a stadium.

  The student center in the campus has been serving as a common hall for various programs. The campus also has health center, guesthouse, transportation and audio-visual facilities.

Departments

Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Electronics Engineering

Auto/Mechanical Engineering

Science & Humanities

Courses

   The course offered in WRC and their capacity are as follows:

Faculty Strength

   WRC has sufficient teaching staff. It has qualified, experienced and trained teaching staff in various engineering disciplines like Civil, electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Automobile, Pure Science, Humanities and Social Sciences along with 123 supporting staff.

Services

   There are central  and departmental Research Training and Consultancy Unit (RTCU) in WRC, Pokhara.

Details:

Institute of Engineering
Western Region Campus
Lamachaur, Pokhara -16
P. O. Box No: 46
Phone: 00977-061-520462, 520463, 520465
Fax: 00977-061-521058
Email: wrc@ioe.edu.np

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