This department was established in 1984.This department came out as a an offspring of Electronics Engineering due to enormous development in the field of electronics and demand of Instrumentation Engineers in the city and its vicinity. Equipped with modern sophisticated instruments , it offers Under Graduate course (B.E. Programme) and it also contributes towards Post graduate course of Digital Techniques & Instrumentation of Electronics Department and M.Tech (Optoelectronics) of Applied Physics Department . A M. Tech. course Microelectronics & VLSI Design was started by this department in 2002.

The faculty is well qualified to accept the new Challenges in the Electronics and Instrumentation field. The department has been recognized as a center to conduct short term Programme for teaching faculty in the PC based a Electronics Instrumentation under UGC vocational courses .New ventures for research and product development in the area of Biomedical and Optical Engineering are being set up, under MHRD schemes .In 1995 & 1996 student of this department secured top position in GATE examination in the country. In year 2000 and 2004 student has secured first rank and fourth rank respectively in GATE examination in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering. 

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Department is also running special manpower development programme of ministry of Information & Communication Technology, Govt. of India. Department has setup a VLSI Design Laboratory under this project. Faculty members of the department have taken training at various IITs , IISc. and CEERI Pilani under this VLSI project.