NITK Surathkal
The National Institute of Technology Karnataka formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College , is a public engineering college at Surathkal, about 20 kilometres north of Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while today, it is one of the 30 National Institutes of Technology in India and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance. It is a suburban campus, in close proximity to the Arabian Sea. National Highway 17 runs through the campus and serves as the major mode of access.HistoryThe foundation stone for Karnataka Regional Engineering College was laid on 6 August 1960, at Surathkal. It was made possible through the efforts of U. Srinivas Mallya and V. S. Kudva and the area is now called Srinivasnagar in his honour. KREC began with three under-graduate courses in engineering: Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil, with affiliation to the University of Mysore. 1965 saw the beginning of under-graduate courses in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. In 1966, the college started its first post-graduate course in Marine Structures and Industrial Structures, followed by post-graduate courses in Industrial Electronics , Heat Power , Hydraulics and Water Resources , Chemical Plant Design Engineering and Process Metallurgy .
