The Department has a long tradition of excellence in educating, mentoring, and inspiring future technology leaders and researchers in Electronics and Communication Engineering. The department offers undergraduate and post graduate programs and a recognized Research centre under Anna University where the students are involved in Industry collaborative Research, Consultancy, and State of Art Labs which contribute to social betterment.

The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) of MKCE was established in 2000 with an initial intake of 60 students to the Under Graduate (UG) program and enhanced to an intake of 120 students from 2005 and 180 students from 2011 and 240 students from 2012. The department offers one Postgraduate Programme “Communication Systems” from 2011 with an intake of 18 students. The department is also a recognized Research Centreby Anna University since 2017. With these activities onhand, the overall objective of the department is to contribute significantly to the realization of the Vision of MKCE. The department has formalized this objective in terms of its own Program Vision and Mission which are inline with the Vision and Mission of the college.