Faculty of Technology and Engineering The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

The Faculty of Technology and Engineering of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is an engineering school in the state of Gujarat, India. It is housed in a palatial building. The building was a temporary palace of the Maharaja (king) of Baroda while his palace was being constructed. Hence is it located exactly opposite to the Laxmivilas palace. The Maharaja donated the palace to open the school of engineering.

It was founded by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda as the Kalabhavan Technical Institute in 1890.

Departments are:

• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Metallurgical and Material Science Engineering
• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Architecture
• Department of Textile Engineering
• Department of Pharmacy
• Department of Applied Mathematics

The department of Architecture is the second oldest school of architecture in India after Sir JJ School of Architecture in Mumbai. While this department was housed in Kalabhavan along with the rest of the Departments of the Faculty of Technology, it moved to its location at Dadabhai Naoroji Hall in Pratapgunj in 2000 when the first phase of its campus was completed with financial support from the Department's alumni association.

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