The Government Engineering College Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, (short names: GEC, GECB) (Entrance Commissioner's Code: TRV), was founded by the Government of Kerala, India, in August 1999. The institution is located in Barton Hill, which is two kilometres from the city centre in Trivandrum. The institute has four major departments: Electronics and Communication, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. GECB offers four B.Tech courses in the streams of Mechanical Engineering (ME), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)and Information Technology (IT) each with an intake of 66 regular students and six lateral entry students per year. The college is affiliated to the University of Kerala and follows its curricula and syllabi. The new Mechanical Engineering block is nearing completion. Some classes have already commenced in the new block. The department has a workshop that caters to the need of the entire college. Apart from the mechanical workshop, the college has a Metrology Lab and Heat and Mass Transfer Lab and a high tech CAD Lab .