Pillai College of Engineering (Erstwhile Pillai Institute of Information Technology until April 2016), established in 1999 under the patronage of Dr K M Vasudevan Pillai, is a reputed engineering college in Navi Mumbai. It is affiliated to the University of Mumbai, approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and is recognized by Government of Maharashtra. PCE is approved Research Centre of Mumbai University, which offers PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology. The institute is NAAC accredited with A+ grade by NAAC and three of its departments have been accredited by NBA. The institute strives to provide state of the art facilities conducive to effective teaching-learning, research and consultancy. It further takes every effort in inculcating in the minds of students the respect for the environment. Faculty of PCE is very active in R & D and have completed projects for government agencies such as DST, BRNS, ICSSR and UGC. PCE has also has undertaken and completed urbanization studies for UN office project on ‘Urban Expansion’ in collaboration with New York University and continues to provide consultancy in similar fields to Tata Consultancy Engineering (TCE) and CIDCO.