Established in 1981 Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology (SGGSIET) Nanded is one of the promising leader institutions in technical education research and technology transfer. Since its inception the institute is dedicated to students’ centric learning and believes in pursuing academic excellence. It is having neat clean and green campus spread over land of 46 acres. It receives 100% grant-in aid from Government of Maharashtra.

In less than 25 years of its inception the Institute has made a mark in technical education and quality research which got endorsed by a third party survey constituted by Government of Maharashtra and headed by Dr. F. C. Kohli Chairman TCS. Through that survey conducted in 2004 SGGSIE&T Nanded is identified as an Institute which can be raised to the level of Center of Excellence along with three other well established organizations such as College of Engineering Pune; VJTI Mumbai and ICT Mumbai. The institute offers 10 undergraduate and 10 postgraduate programs. It also offers Ph.D. programs in most of the areas of Engineering under Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University Nanded and is also selected as research center for faculty under QIP of Ministry of HRD Government of India New Delhi. Schemes of NDF of AICTE Vishweshwarayya Ph. D. scheme of MeitY Maulana Azad Scheme and Institute research scholar scheme are the funded schemes for pursuing Ph. D. are available in the institute. The institute is granted autonomous status by the University Grants Commission since 2004. The Institute has state-of-art equipment and machinery for teaching research consultancy and extension services. It has received substantial financial assistance for laboratory development and research from various funding agencies like AICTE DST BARC NRB etc.. apart from funding received under the three phases of world bank assisted TEQIP and from Government of Maharashtra. Institute has established DST-FIST sponsored laboratories. Faculty research abilities and efforts have culminated into establishment of a Center of Excellence in the area of Signal and Image Processing under TEQIP. In addition the institute has established center of excellence in Metal Forming VLSI and Solar Energy. The Institute fosters very progressive and pragmatic approach in providing its services to all of its stakeholders.
The Institute has collaborations with a number of premier institutes (including foreign universities) and industries through which substantial opportunities like internships credit transfers and industry relevant projects. Recently institute has signed MoUs for academic collaboration with Foreign Universities like CUNY CREST and Civil Engineering Department The City University of New York USA Oakland University Michigan USA SAI Technologies USA and Universiti Teknologi Petronas Malaysia. MoU’s are also signed with Industry associations such as CMIA Aurangabad NIMA Nashik industries like TCS Indus Aviation Pune ChipSpirit Banglore Mentor Graphics (A Siemens Business) etc.

The institute has established the industry supported laboratories like E-PASS laboratory sponsored by Emerson Automation Solution Mumbai Center for VLSI Design and Verification by Mentor Graphics USA and NVDIA GPU Education Center Pune giving fillip to the research and skill development activities. The research culture of the institute has been proven through publication in peer reviewed journals and reputed international conferences.
Institute has excellent track record of publications with recent statistics as 1200+ peer reviewed publications 8000+ research citations 25 patents filed and two awarded. Many faculty members act as reviewers for international journals and have published 46 books. Establishment of Innovation Laboratory incubation center and participation of students in various innovation projects is a key feature of the institution. Institute organizes national level STTP.