AKGEC: Scaling the zenith of excellence

Open Open | 31 Jul, 2022

Dr. R.K. Agarwal, Director General, AKGEC

Dr. R.K. Agarwal has an exceptionally brilliant academic background with B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, M.S. from CIT, Cranfield, UK and PhD from IISc Bangalore. During his illustrious career of nearly three decades in the Indian Air Force and DRDO, he has held various key appointments including Director (Engineering) at Air HQ and Project Director at Centre for Airborne Systems for the prestigious AWACS project.

He is the recipient of the coveted Royal Aeronautical Society (UK) award for academic excellence at CIT and a citation with cash award by DRDO.

Dr. Agarwal has been the Director of AKGEC since 2004. He has been persistently working towards setting new benchmarks in academic excellence. During his tenure, the college has not only been consistently maintaining exceptional results and placements but has also made significant progress in industry relevant training and consultancy projects.

He has been working towards promoting industry academia collaborations through deep involvement with various industrial associations. He has been the President of Ghaziabad Management Association, and Member of CII Western UP Zonal Council since 2012.

He has also contributed in bringing about a culture of corporate social responsibility in academic institutions. The social activities initiated by him include adopting a refugee camp with 108 families, running a free primary school in the college, adopting a municipal corporation school in a nearby village, donating computers to spread computer literacy and generously contributing for relief work after natural calamities.

He places special emphasis on all round development with focus on inculcating self discipline, good moral values, ethics, work culture and a positive attitude to make the students not just competent professionals but also good citizens and responsible members of the society.

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