Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering (SCTCE), Thiruvananthapuram was established by the Govt. of Kerala in the year 1995 in memoriam of the Great Maharaja of Travancore and is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) of Kerala with AICTE approval.

The institution has the broad objective of grooming young men and women into technocrats through the process of engineering education, training and research. SCTCE offers 9 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate courses.

SCTCE is also a research centre under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological university since 2015 and offers PhD programmes under the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication and Computer Science and Engineering. The accreditation of its courses by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is a testimony to the quality of teaching learning process in the institute. The faculty members of the institute are highly experienced and most holding PhD degrees, thereby enhancing their ability to guide students to innovation and research. The Institute also encourages students to develop their organizational, team building, presentation and other soft skills through a host of activities promoted through chapters of IEEE, ASME, CSI,SAE, EDC, NSS, KBAIC etc. SCTCE also maintains MoUs with industry and research organizations providing opportunities for students to work on real time projects. The placement statistics of the institute is one of a kind and speaks volumes about the students that graduate from the institute. A fairly large number of students also pursue higher education in premier institutes in India and abroad. SCTCE also had the privilege of being one of the top seven colleges in Kerala, aided under the World Bank funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) – phase I of the Govt of India.