Paavai Engineering College (PEC) was established in 2001 at Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India.

[2] 65% of the students are admitted through Anna University single window counseling and the rest are through entrance exams.

[citation needed] Vintage cars were displayed during the Mechanical Engineering department's symposium "Plasma 2008" in 2008.

[6] One company that conducted a recruitment drive at the campus in 2007 was Chennai-based Care Voyant Technologies.

[7] Paavai Engineering College is the "Champion of Champions" at The Anna University Sports Board competitions http://paavai.edu.in/campus-life/sports-games/ The ten BE departments are conducting national level technical symposium every academic year, namely Techfinix Techfinix'18 (academic year 2017-2018) http://pec.paavai.edu.in/Techfinix18 Techfinix'16 (academic year 2016-2017) http://paavai.edu.in/paavai-events/pec_symposium/