(APE) goes back to mid sixties when an urgent need to establish a department of Applied Physics and Electronics was felt. As a matter of fact APE began its journey in 1966 with few teaching staff and some 20 post graduate students under the leadership of the late Prof. M. R. Sarkar ( later became the Vice-Chancellor of this University). Undergraduate honours course was introduced in 1972. As the only other center of the Applied Physics and Electronics in the country, APE gradually rose to become a full-fledged and prestigious center of excellence. Today APE has a team of highly qualified and professionally well experienced academic members who are actively engaged in research within and outside the country. APE boasts of having close research links with the institutions of countries like Sweden, China and Vietnam. Students entering APE leave with self-confidence of the subject to meet any challenges demanded by their jobs. In fact employment opportunities of APE are better than any other department of the University. The prestige of a degree often opens the first door to interviews for jobs in services related to Computer, Communication, Defense, Civil Aviation, Remote sensing, GSB, Petrobangla, Radio, TVand other R & D centers etc.

1. M. R. SARKAR THIN FILMS LABORATORY

2. COMMUNICATION LABORATORY

3. DIGITAL ELECTRONICS LABORATORY

4. GEOPHYSICS LABORATORY

5. MICROWAVE LABORATORY

6. POLYMER MATERIALS LABORATORY

7. RELIABILITY ENGINEERING LABORATORY

8. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LABORATORY

9. SOLAR ENERGY LABORATORY

COMPUTER CENTER:

APE boasts of having a computer center of its own. Computing facilities are recently upgraded to a full-fledged center serving the needs of students and academic staff. Present facilities include around 35 Computers, LAN and Internet Browsing. There are many opportunities to enhance computing skills.

LIBRARY:

APE has a departmental library of its own. The library is constantly being updated with reference books of various disciplines and other reading materials. There also exists a Rental Library since 1989 where books are rented to students against a nominal fee. The fund collected in this way used to purchase new books each year. At present the rental library has a modest collection of about 1200 volumes.

WORKSHOP:

APE has a well-equipped workshop that provides students to learn repairing and maintenance of electronic, electrical and mechanical instruments and equipment’s under the guidance of qualified instrument engineers.

The undergraduate courses are mainly basic physics with strong emphasis on electronics. The post-graduate courses include TV and Radio Engineering, Communication engineering, Computer Technology, Digital and Microelectronics, Industrial Electronics, Solid State Physics, Geophysics, Solar Energy Physics, Thin Film Physics, Biophysics and Medical Instrumentation. Specialization is offered in some of the above branches.

M. Phil and Ph. D. works are in full swing on the following fields.

1. Computer (Hardware and Software)

2. Dielectric and Thermal Properties of Oxides and Nitrides

3. ESR Studies

4. Geophysics

5. Reliability Engineering

6. Signal Processing

7. Superconductivity

8. Thin Film Physics (metal, semiconductor, dielectric, cermet etc.)

Courtesy: Official page