The PEC Souvenir Archive
A nostalgic journey through the rich legacy and unforgettable memories of PEC.
Every batch had its own book — photographs, write-ups, addresses — and all 17,179 entries are searchable here, exactly as they were printed.
The oldest book in the archive
Souvenir Vol. I June 1962
Your academics, their reflections — a presentation by Aashita Technosoft Pvt. Ltd.
The books hold 17,179 people. These are a few of them.
Batch of 1982 · Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut — the first woman of Indian origin to fly in space. She flew on STS-87 in 1997 and on STS-107, from which Columbia did not return in 2003.
“One of the top scholars of the class Kalpana has a decent and charming personality. An editor of PECMAG for two years she was also the Secretary Aero & Astro Society (Chandigarh Chapter) in which capacity she really set the ball rolling.”Her own entry, 1982 souvenir
Batch of 1978 · Electrical Engineering
Satirist, comedian and film-maker; the television icon behind Flop Show.
PEC alumnus
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures.
Batch of 1975
Longtime CEO, President and Executive Chairman of Microchip Technology.
Batch of 1967 · Mechanical Engineering
Self-made American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder and CEO of Transtar Industries.
PEC alumnus
Retired IAS officer; former Chief Secretary of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.
Photographs: Kalpana Chawla — NASA, public domain · Jaspal Bhatti — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0 · Vinod Khosla — TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 · Steve Sanghi — supplied for this archive · Ramesh Inder Singh — supplied for this archive.
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Search a name
Type any part of it. The search also reads the printed descriptions and addresses, so a hometown or a nickname works too.
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Narrow it down
Filter by decade, batch year, department, or to the 16,440 entries that carry a photograph.
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Open the record
Every entry opens to the full printed text, and links back to the scan of the page it was read from. Signing in is required — the archive is not open to the web.
22,352 students · 1962–2026
