Editing Goa Engineering College (section)

=== Student clubs and associations ===
The students of Goa Engineering College call themselves Engicos. However, not all post-graduate students identify themselves with this term.

The college has many active clubs:
* The college has a Nature Club which organizes tree planting programmes in the surrounding regions and organizes treks to locations in Goa.
* The college Photography Club has been organizing Photoflare, an international photography festival, since 2010.<ref name="AkshayPhotoFlare">{{Cite book
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aI9LDwAAQBAJ&dq=gec%2520photography%2520club%2520photoflare&pg=PT110
 |title=What about Passion?: Journeys of 12 Engineers who in their 20s created Success stories towards Success
 |last=Dalvi
 |first=Priya
 |date=2018-02-12
 |publisher=Notion Press
 |isbn=978-1-64249-142-5
 |language=en
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://goa.me/photoflare/|title=Photoflare|date=2013-10-28|work=Goa.me|access-date=2018-12-03|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005712/https://goa.me/photoflare/|archive-date=2018-12-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The college Quiz Club organizes quizzes for the college events.
* The college Music Club conducts workshops and organizes open mike sessions at the college's festivals. It has its own music room with equipment in the Mining Department.
* The college Literary and Debate Club organizes many small activities and helps organize TEDxGEC.
* The college has a Coding Club.
* The college Drama (Theatre) Club was one of the oldest clubs, and has been restarted after a gap of almost seven years (in 2018).
* The college students founded the Astronomy Club in 2018, with the maiden event hosting Dr Vithal Tilvi, who discovered the furthest known galaxy in the Universe in 2013.<ref
name="GoanAstro2018">*The college recently started its very own Debate Club.
{{Cite news
 |url=http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=45996
 |title=India likely to face shortage of astronomers: Dr Tilve
 |date=Oct 6, 2018
 |website=The Goan
 |access-date=2018-12-26
}}</ref>
* The college also has active student chapters of the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]],<ref name="IEEE-AICSSYC">{{cite news
 |url=http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=64095&date=2018-11-09&pageid=1#
 |title=AICSSYC 2018 held at GEC
 |work=[[The Navhind Times]]
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118204335/http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=64095&date=2018-11-09&pageid=1
 |archive-date=November 18, 2018
 |url-status=live
}}</ref> [[Computer Society of India|CSI]], Goa Technology Association (GTA)<ref>{{Cite web
 |url=https://www.navhindtimes.in/gta-student-chapter-launched/
 |title=GTA student chapter launched
 |date=Nov 12, 2018
 |work = The Navhind Times
 |language=en-US
 |access-date=2018-12-16
}}</ref> and FSAI (Fire and Security Association of India).<ref>{{Cite news
 |url          = http://www.navhindtimes.in/a-thumbs-up-to-the-launch-of-fsai-student-chapter/
 |title        = A thumbs up to the launch of FSAI student chapter
 |date         = May 7, 2018
 |work         = The Navhind Times
 |access-date  = 2018-11-20
 |language     = en-US
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20180507164051/http://www.navhindtimes.in/a-thumbs-up-to-the-launch-of-fsai-student-chapter/
 |archive-date = 2018-05-07
 |url-status     = live
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
 |url          = https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/FSAI-installs-students%25E2%2580%2599-Chapter/130386.html
 |title        = FSAI installs students' Chapter
 |work         = oHeraldo
 |access-date  = 2018-11-20
 |language     = en
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20180505020901/https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/FSAI-installs-students%E2%80%99-Chapter/130386.html
 |archive-date = 2018-05-05
 |url-status     = live
}}</ref>
* The college also had a Robotics club and a Linux User Group (which hosted Stallman in 2003).{{citation needed|date= November 2021}}
* The college Coder's Club has been organizing various coding events and competitions, while developing college projects like the Tandav and Spectrum Website.
* The college has a new Robotics Club called ARM Society Of GEC (founded 2022) . It hosts workshops, talk sessions for students in and out of college. They also assisted in the organization of events like The Goa International Robotics Festival & Vibrant Goa-Global Tech Summit in 2023.

Student associations, based on their departments, are as follows:
* MESA – Mechanical Engineering Students Association<ref name="GoanAstro2018" />
* ENEXSA – Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students Association (previously known as ELECTRA)
* ACES – Association of Civil Engineering Students
* CURSOR – Association of Computer Engineering Students<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/technical-workshops-held-at-gec/|title=Technical workshops held at GEC|date=June 17, 2016|website=The Navhind Times|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref>
* INTENSA – Information Technology Students Association<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.uniindia.com/goa-can-make-niche-in-start-up-rohan-khaunte/states/news/1335581.html|title=Goa can make niche in start-up: Rohan Khaunte|date=Aug 30, 2018|work=United News of India}}</ref>
* ASSETS – Association of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Students
* MINESCO – Mining Engineering Students Council

These associations conduct events, technical and non-technical, once or twice per semester. They also come together to organise Spectrum, the college's technical festival.

The students also celebrate religious festivals [[Ganesh Chaturthi]] and [[Christmas]] every year on the campus.<ref>{{Cite news
 |url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/students-celebrate-ganesh-chaturthi-on-campus/articleshow/65934102.cms
 |title = Students celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi on campus
 |work = The Times of India
 |access-date=2018-11-20
 |language=en
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20181120083305/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/students-celebrate-ganesh-chaturthi-on-campus/articleshow/65934102.cms
 |archive-date = November 20, 2018
 |url-status     = live
}}</ref>