On this Engineers’ Day, we remember M. Visvesvaraya’s enduring bond with Pune, where the student became an engineer and began to see engineering as a means of nation-building. M. Visvesvaraya’s enduring association with Pune began as a student at the College of Science in 1881 and continued through his engineering career, including his pioneering work at Khadakwasla. The institution is today COEP Technological University. In 1881, a young man from Mysore arrived in Poona, now