From academic year 2017-18 all the courses are affiliated to Assam Science and Technology University (ASTU).

The Chemical Engineering Department was started in 1963 and had an annual intake capacity of 60 students in the B.Tech.

The laboratories of this department are for research work in chemical engineering leading to a Ph.D. degree.

The curriculum of the department is mainly oriented to cater for the needs of all types of industries, such as power, IT, and heavy and light electrical machinery.

The admission in this programme is through the PGCEE (Post-Graduate Common Entrance Examination) and a valid GATE score.

The course consists of load flow dynamics, advance topics in power systems, facts devices, artificial intelligence, reliability in Power system, advanced protection, and operation technology.

The head of the department Dr. Damodar Agarwal, and it has highly qualified faculty members.

Various lab facilities are available with an extra emphasis on digital, microprocessor and machine laboratories.

The department offers syllabus covering the major thrust areas in the field of electronics and telecommunication.

The department has well-equipped three laboratories with Pentium, AMD workstations, servers running under WindowsNT, Linux, UNIX providing the environment to work on standard C, C++, C#, VB, Java, ASP.NET, Oracle, Shell programming with high speed Internet connectivity.

The institute has a State Bank of India (SBI) branch inside the campus.

It provides assistance in opening savings account and depositing institute-related fees and dues.

There is an ATM of SBI installed within the campus for easy cash access for the students.

The institute has a market complex in the center of the campus which caters to all kinds of student necessities.

The AEC Hospital provides indoor and outdoor medical facilities for common ailments.

Complicated cases are referred for treatment to civic hospitals in the city.

Bus services have been provided for the students to connect city life from college.

Pyrokinesis is the annual national level cultural festival of Assam Engineering College.

There are events covering every technical department of the college namely, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication, Chemical, Computer Science, Instrumentation and Industrial Production Engineering.

But due to negligence of state government and college higher authority this demand has not been fulfilled.