IIT Gandhinagar: Cut Off, Placement, Ranking, Courses

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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (also known as IIT Gandhinagar or IITGN) is a public engineering institution located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It has been declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

 

Key Description:

Type: Public engineering school

Established: 2008 (12 years ago)

Parent institution: Indian Institute of Technology

Chairman: Vacant; to be appointed; functions currently being discharged by the director

Director: Prof. Sudhir K. Jain

Location: Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Acronym: IITGN

Website: www.iitgn.ac.in

Social Network: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube

 

 

History of IIT Gandhinagar

IIT Gandhinagar is one of the eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2008. The institute began operating in a temporary campus at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, mentored by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The first batch of students was admitted to three programmes: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.

IITGN was included in the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.

The permanent campus of IIT Gandhinagar is on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Palaj village.

In 2011, in his inaugural speech at the Amalthea technology summit, then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the land for the new permanent campus, saying, "[the] [s]tate government has decided to give land on 99 year lease with a token amount of just one rupee for setting up a campus of IIT-Gandhinagar." The institute took possession of over 400 acres of land in August 2012, and classes and other activities on the new campus began in July 2015.

 

 

Organization And Administration:

Board of Governors:

The institute is managed by a Board of Governors. The board comprises academicians, researchers, industrial leaders, and administrators. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar was the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of IITGN. Currently, the chairmanship is vacant.

Senate:

The Senate is a statutory body responsible for all the academic matters of the institute, including monitoring and making improvements in course structure and curriculum. The current Senate of the IIT GN was constituted on 5 April 2010. It hosts members of faculty, and advisers from academia and industry. Prior to its constitution, the functions of the Senate were being performed by an academic council comprising the heads of departments at IIT Bombay, the mentor institute.

Key Academic Officials

Key officials of the institute are the Director, assisted by the deans of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Faculty Affairs, Research and Development, and the coordinators of individual disciplines. Presently Prof. Sudhir Kumar Jain is heading the institution as the Director.

He is on deputation from IIT Kanpur. Prof Jain is one of India's leading earthquake engineers. He set up the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IITK and developed the National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE), supported by the Government of India. He is president-elect of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering.

 

 

Academics of IIT Gandhinagar:

IIT Gandhinagar offers Bachelor of Technology programs in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.

On 19 July 2011, IIT Gandhinagar inaugurated a five-week immersion program for all new undergraduate students. The program is meant to foster creativity, ethics, communication skills, teamwork, social engagement, and physical fitness.

Students take almost 20 percent of their coursework in the humanities and the social sciences, as well as compulsory courses in design and the life sciences. In April 2013, IITGN's undergraduate curriculum was awarded the World Education Award 2013 for innovations in higher education, by the World Education Summit.

Nearly a third of all IIT Gandhinagar undergraduate students receive study abroad opportunities during their time at the Institute.

 

 

Admission in IIT Gandhinagar:

Admission to these programs is through taking the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced). The institute also offers Masters and PhD studies in various fields in engineering, sciences and humanities, and social sciences. Admissions to these graduate programmes are through written test and/or interviews.

BTech – Chemical-, Civil-, Electrical-, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering

MTech – Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Earth System Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.

MSc – Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Physics

MA – Society and Culture

PhD – Engineering (Chemical, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, and Materials Science and Engineering), Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Earth Sciences) and Humanities &

Social Sciences: (Cognitive Science, English, Philosophy, Sociology, History, Language & Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Social Epidemiology and Sociology, and other disciplines).
In 2011, 117 undergraduate students were admitted to the 2012 batch, and 134 students were admitted to the 2013 batch. Admission to IIT Gandhinagar's postgraduate programmes are even more competitive than the undergraduate programmes, with a selectivity ratio of 0.5%.

Convocation:

On 22 July 2012, the first convocation of IIT Gandhinagar was held, within the temporary campus premises. 86 students graduated with Bachelor of Technology degrees in Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering.

The Chief guest for the occasion was N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys. The convocation attire for IITGN was designed by the National Institute of Design (NID).

 

 

Research

In 2011, IIT Gandhinagar and the Physical Research Laboratory signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that ensures research collaborations and exchanges between the two institutions at the level of advanced PhD programs in theoretical physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric sciences. The collaboration facilitates an exchange of research ideas between PhD students and the faculties of both institutions.

NTT Facilities, Japan, and Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), Gandhinagar, have each provided a 10 kW roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) system to the Institute.

The system provided by NTT Facilities consists of 64 thin-film modules (rated 150 W) made by Solar Frontier, Japan, while the system sponsored by GEDA consists of forty-four multicrystalline silicon modules (rated 230 W) produced by Jain Irrigation Systems, India. Each PV system is expected to generate about 15000 kWh of electricity every year and reduce total CO2 emissions by about 28 tonnes.

These systems have already started to reduce the energy bills of the Institute and are being used for research in collaboration with Underwriters Laboratories.

 

 

IGNITE

IGNITE is IIT Gandhinagar's annual tech fest, which was first held in the 2014–15 academic year. It is a state-level technological exhibition for students and faculty of the school, to showcase and share to the world their technical ideas through exhibitions and live demonstrations.

The event exhibits a wide range of applications of science and technology to day-to-day life and how complex problems can be solved in creative and imaginative ways. Around 120 students work on various projects throughout the year; and Ignite acts as a finale for all the clubs, individuals, faculty, and staff involved to showcase their efforts. Ignite instills a competitive spirit and desire for more innovations.

The latest edition of the tech fest, IGNITE 3.0, was a huge hit among students all over the state, and included prototyping workshops, technical debates and quizzes, Bot Wars, Hand Sensing interactive sessions, and hands-on science challenges. Marquee events included Air Shows, Lab Tours, Project Expo, and 3-D printing workshops.

IIT Colleges: List of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT’s)

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Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT's)
List of IIT's

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Colleges) are an autonomous public technical and research university located in India and are among the most reputable institutes of technology in the world.

They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, which has declared them as institutions of national importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance. The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists twenty-three institutes.

Each IIT is autonomous, linked to the others through a common council (IIT Council), which oversees their administration. The Minister of Human Resource Development is the ex officio Chairperson of the IIT Council. As of 2018, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs in all IIT Colleges is 11,279. The only major requirement to admit to these institutions is to pass the JEE Advanced.

 

List of Total IIT Colleges And Website

 

S.No. Name of the Organisation Website
1 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhi Nagar http://www.iitgn.ac.in/
2 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneshwar http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/
3 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras http://www.iitm.ac.in/
4 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati http://www.iitg.ernet.in/
5 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore http://www.iiti.ac.in/
6 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur http://www.iitk.ac.in/
7 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur http://www.iitj.ac.in/
8 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
9 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad http://www.iith.ac.in
10 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai http://www.iitb.ac.in/
11 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna http://www.iitp.ac.in/
12 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi http://www.iitd.ac.in/
13 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/
14 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi http://www.iitmandi.ac.in/
15 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee http://www.iitr.ernet.in/
16 Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi http://iitbhu.ac.in
17 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jammu http://iitjammu.ac.in
18 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Palakkad http://iitpkd.ac.in
19 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Tirupati http://iittp.ac.in/
20 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa http://www.iitgoa.ac.in
21 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhilai https://www.iitbhilai.ac.in/
22 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad http://www.iitdh.ac.in/
23 Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad http://iitism.ac.in/

 

 

List of IIT Colleges in India in 2020 And Their Location

 

No. Name Abbreviation Founded Established as IIT Campus Area State/UT
1 IIT Kharagpur IITKGP 1951 850 ha (2,100 acres) West Bengal
2 IIT Bombay IITB 1958 220 ha (550 acres) Maharashtra
3 IIT Madras IITM 1959 250 ha (617 acres) Tamil Nadu
4 IIT Kanpur IITK 1959 450 ha (1,100 acres) Uttar Pradesh
5 IIT Delhi IITD 1961 132 ha (325 acres) Delhi
6 IIT Guwahati IITG 1994 280 ha (700 acres) Assam
7 IIT Roorkee IITR 1847 2001 148 ha (365 acres) Uttarakhand
8 IIT Ropar IITRPR 2008 203 ha (501 acres) Punjab
9 IIT Bhubaneswar IITBBS 2008 379 ha (936 acres) Odisha
10 IIT Gandhinagar IITGN 2008 160 ha (400 acres) Gujarat
11 IIT Hyderabad IITH 2008 2015 233 ha (576 acres) Telangana
12 IIT Jodhpur IITJ 2008 345 ha (852 acres) Rajasthan
13 IIT Patna IITP 2008 203 ha (501 acres) Bihar
14 IIT Indore IITI 2009 208 ha (515 acres) Madhya Pradesh
15 IIT Mandi IITMandi 2009 218 ha (538 acres) Himachal Pradesh
16 IIT (BHU) Varanasi IIT (BHU) 1919 2012 530 ha (1,300 acres) Uttar Pradesh
17 IIT Palakkad IITPKD 2015[10] 2015 204 ha (505 acres) Kerala
18 IIT Tirupati IITTP 2015 221.81 ha (548.11 acres) Andhra Pradesh
19 IIT (ISM) Dhanbad IIT (ISM) 1926 2016 280 ha (680 acres) Jharkhand
20 IIT Bhilai IITBH 2016 2016 175 ha (432 acres) Chhattisgarh
21 IIT Goa IITGOA 2016 2016 130 ha (320 acres) Goa
22 IIT Jammu IITJMU 2016 2016 160 ha (400 acres) Jammu and Kashmir
23 IIT Dharwad IITDH 2016 2016 190 ha (470 acres) Karnataka

 

 

History of IIT's

The history of the IIT colleges system dates back to 1946 when Sir Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy's Executive Council set up a committee whose task was to consider the creation of Higher Technical Institutions for post-war industrial development in India.

The 22-member committee, headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, recommended the establishment of these institutions in various parts of India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with affiliated secondary institutions.

The first Indian Institute of Technology was founded in May 1950 at the site of the Hijli Detention Camp in Kharagpur, West Bengal. The name "Indian Institute of Technology" was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18 August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act, declaring it as an Institute of National Importance. Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, in the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956 said:

Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India.

On the recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, four campuses were established at Bombay (1958), Madras (1959), Kanpur (1959), and Delhi (1961). The location of these campuses was chosen to be scattered throughout India to prevent regional imbalance. The Indian Institutes of Technology Act was amended to reflect the addition of new IIT colleges.

Student agitations in the state of Assam made Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promise the creation of a new IIT in Assam. This led to the establishment of a sixth institution at Guwahati under the Assam Accord in 1994. In 2001, the University of Roorkee, India's oldest engineering college, was converted into IIT Roorkee.

Over the past few years, there have been a number of developments toward establishing new IITs. On October 1, 2003, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced plans to create more IITs "by upgrading existing academic institutions that have the necessary promise and potential".

Subsequent developments led to the formation of the S K Joshi Committee, in November 2003, to guide the selection of the five institutions which would be converted into IITs. Based on the initial recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, it was decided that new IITs should be spread throughout the country.

When the government expressed its willingness to correct this regional imbalance, 16 states demanded IITs. Since the S K Joshi Committee prescribed strict guidelines for institutions aspiring to be IITs, only seven colleges were selected for final consideration.

Plans are also reported to open IITs outside India, although there has not been much progress in this regard. Eventually in the 11th Five year plan, eight states were identified for establishment of new IITs. In 2008 and 2009, eight new IITs were set up in Gandhinagar, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Indore, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Ropar, and Mandi. Following same selection process since 1972, in 2012 the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University was made a member of the IITs.

In 2015 to 2016, six new IITs in Tirupati, Palakkad, Dharwad, Bhilai, Goa and Jammu, approved through a 2016 bill amendment, were founded, along with the conversion of ISM Dhanbad into IIT Dhanbad.

The entire allocation by the central government for 2017-18 budget for all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) was slightly over ₹70 billion (US$980 million). However, the aggregate money spent by Indian students for tertiary education in the United States was about six times more than what the central government spends on all IITs.

 

 

Organisational Structure of IIT Colleges

The President of India is the most powerful person in the organisational structure of Indian Institutes of Technology, being the ex officio Visitor, and having residual powers.

Directly under the President is the IIT Council, which comprises the minister-in-charge of technical education in the Union Government, the Chairmen of all IITs, the Directors of all IITs, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission, the Director General of CSIR, the Chairman of IISc, the Director of IISc, three members of Parliament, the Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource and Development, and three appointees each of the Union Government, AICTE, and the Visitor.

Under the IIT Council is the Board of Governors of each IIT. Under the Board of Governors is the Director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT.

Under the Director, in the organisational structure, comes the Deputy Director. Under the Director and the Deputy Director, come the Deans, Heads of Departments, Registrar, President of the Students' Council, and Chairman of the Hall Management Committee. The Registrar is the chief administrative officer of the IIT and overviews the day-to-day operations.

Below the Heads of Department (HOD) are the faculty members (Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors). The Wardens come under the Chairman of the Hall Management Committee.

IIT Delhi: Campus, Jobs, Campus, Rankings, Cut Off, Fees

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The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (abbreviated IIT Delhi or IITD) is a public technical and research university located in Hauz Khas, Delhi, is one of the 7 old IITs in India.

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
IIT Delhi

Established in 1961, was formally inaugurated August 1961 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. First admissions were made in 1961.

The current campus has an area of 320 acres (or 1.3 km²) and is bounded by the Sri Aurobindo Marg on the east, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Complex on the west, the National Council of Educational Research and Training on the south, and the New Ring Road on the north,and flanked by Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments.

The institute was later decreed in Institutes of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Amendment Act, 1963 and accorded the status of a full University with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.

In 2018 IIT Delhi was also given the status of Institution of Eminence (IoE) by Government of India which granted almost-full autonomy, leaving this institute to make its own decisions.

According to a government statement issued earlier, these IoEs will have greater autonomy in that they will be able to admit foreign students up to 30% of the admitted students and recruit foreign faculty up to 25% of the faculty strength with enhanced research funding.

 

 

Key Description:

Other Name: IITD, IIT Hauz Khas

Type: Public Technical university

Established: 1961; 59 years ago

Chairman: Kumar Mangalam Birla

Director V. Ramgopal Rao

Academic staff: 654

Students: 8,703

Undergraduates: 3,793

Postgraduates: 2,141

Doctoral Students: 2,769

Location: Hauz Khas, Delhi, India

Campus: Urban, 325 + 50 acres (1.32 + 0.20 km2)

Official Website Link

Social Network: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook

 

 

History of IIT Delhi

The concept of IIT was first introduced by Sh. N.M.Sircar, then member of Education on Viceroy's executive council. Following his recommendations, the first Indian Institute of Technology was established in the year 1950 in Kharagpur.

In his report, Shri Sircar had suggested that such Institutes should also be started in different parts of the country. The Government having accepted these recommendations of the Sircar Committee decided to establish more Institutes of Technology with the assistance of friendly countries who were prepared to help.

The first offer of help came from USSR who agreed to collaborate in the establishment of an Institute through UNESCO at Bombay. This was followed by the Institutes of Technology at Madras, Kanpur and Delhi with collaborations with West Germany, United States and UK respectively. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati was established in 1994 and the University of Roorkee was converted into an IIT in 2001.

H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh during his visit to India, laid the foundation stone of the college at Hauz Khas on 28 January 1959. The first admissions were made in 1961.

The College of Engineering & Technology was registered as a society on 14 June 1960 under the Societies Registration Act No. XXI of 1860 (Registration No. S1663 of 1960–61).

The students were asked to report at the college on 16 August 1961, and the college was formally inaugurated on 17 August 1961 by Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. Initially, the college ran in the Kashmiri Gate campus of Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University) before shifting to its permanent campus in Hauz Khas.

The Department of Textile Technology of Delhi College of Engineering was shifted out en-block to mark the beginning of the IIT Delhi at its new campus at Hauz Khas. The college was later accorded the status of a university and was renamed as Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

In 2018, IIT Delhi was one of the first six institutes to be awarded the Institute of Eminence status.

 

 

Academics of IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi offers Bachelor of Technology programs in various fields as well as dual degree B.Tech-cum-M.Tech programs. The admission to these programs is done through Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced.

IIT Delhi also offers postgraduate programs awarding M.Tech (by coursework), M.S. (by research), M.Sc., M. Des., MBA under various departments and centres. The admission to M.Tech program is carried out mainly based on Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). M.Des ( Master of Design ) admissions are through Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED), M.Sc. admissions are through Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and MBA admissions are through Common Admission Test (CAT).

In March 2018, IIT Delhi formally inaugurated a new Department of Design to bolster Research and Education on Design. The 25-year-old design course was earlier functioning under the ambit of IDDC (Instrument Design and Development Centre).

 

Campus of IIT Delhi

The primary campus of IIT Delhi is located in Hauz Khas, South Delhi, with Sonipat and Jhajjar being the two satellite campuses. The campus of 325 acres (132 ha) is surrounded by the Hauz Khas area and monuments such as the Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple.

The campus is also close to other educational institutions such as the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, National Institute of Fashion Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and Indian Statistical Institute.

The inside of the campus resembles a city, with gardens, lawns, residential complexes and wide roads. The campus has its own water supply and backup electricity supply along with shopping complexes to cater to the daily needs of residents.

The IIT-D campus is divided into four zones:

  • Student Residential Zone
  • Faculty and Staff Residential Zone
  • Student Recreational Area, that includes the Student Activity Center (SAC), football stadium, cricket ground, basketball courts, hockey field, lawn tennis courts and swimming pool
  • Academic Zone that includes department offices, lecture theatres, libraries and workshops.
  • The student residential zone is divided into two main sectors—one for boys hostels and another for girls hostels.

 

Hostels: There are 13 hostels (11 for boys and 2 for girls), There are also apartments for married students. All the hostels are named after mountain ranges in India. These are:

Boys

  • Jwalamukhi Hostel
  • Aravali Hostel
  • Karakoram Hostel
  • Nilgiri Hostel
  • Kumaon Hostel
  • Vindhyachal Hostel
  • Shivalik Hostel
  • Satpura Hostel
  • Zanskar Hostel
  • Girnar Hostel
  • Udaigiri Hostel

Girls

  • Kailash Hostel
  • Himadri Hostel

The residential apartments are named after ancient Indian universities.

  • Takshashila
  • Nalanda
  • Vaishali
  • Indraprastha
  • Vikramshila

Each Hostel has its own distinct characteristic of sports and cultural activities. The Hostels compete in inter-hostel events to bring home various trophies which include the BRCA trophy for cultural activities and GC for Sports.

The academic year ends with an annual function of hostels known as 'House day' in which the passing out batch and the freshers give various cultural performances and awards are distributed for outstanding contribution to various hostel activities.

 

 

Entrepreneurship Development Cell, IIT Delhi

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (eDC), IIT Delhi is a cell that aims to support and augment the efforts of budding entrepreneurs in the college, so as to get them established as successful and independent entrepreneurs.

The cell works to inculcate and enrich the entrepreneurial environment in India by creating an easily accessible and exhaustive set of resources for the entrepreneurs, which including the students, the budding professionals, mentors, angel investors and the venture capitalists through various fun-filled yet educating sessions such as Startup Showcases, competitions, e-Talks and so on and so forth.

 

E-summit:

One of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place in the IIT Delhi campus. The summit enables the participants to share their entrepreneurial endeavors and experiences and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales.

Technology Business Incubation Unit (TBIU), IIT Delhi

The Technology Business Incubator Unit (TBIU) is the incubation cell at IIT Delhi. It has been in active operation in the institute since the year 2000.

The objective of the TBIU is primarily to promote partnership with new technology entrepreneurs and start-up companies. Every year, startups are selected into the incubation program and provided support to create innovative technology companies.

 

Inter-Disciplinary Centres:

IIT Delhi has 11 multi-disciplinary centres. An inter-disciplinary centre differs from a department in the fact that it deals with an overlap of two or more disciplines of engineering or science. Similar to the departments the centres also offer programs though they offer these courses only at the post-graduation level. The following multi-disciplinary centres are located in IIT Delhi:

  • Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE)
  • Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS)
  • Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME)
  • Computer Services Centre (CSC)
  • Centre for Energy Studies (CES)
  • Educational Technology Services Centre (ETSC)
  • Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics and Maintenance Engineering (ITMMEC)
  • Sensors Instrumentation and Cyber Physical Systems (SeNSE)
  • Centre for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE)
  • Centre for Natural Resources and Environment
  • Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT)
  • National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering (NRCVEE)
  • Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP)

 

Externally funded schools

IIT Delhi has four externally funded schools functioning as a part of the institute:

  • Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management
  • Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology
  • Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
  • Centre of Excellence in Cyber Systems and Information Assurance

 

Sonipat Campus

Initially announced in 2012, the new IITD-Sonipat campus was unveiled in April 2018 by the Chief Minister of Haryana at the Technopark at Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonipat. The Technopark, of which this campus is part of, itself was established at a cost of INR175crore (1.75 billion).

The Campus in Sonipat focuses on Executive MBA and Faculty Development programs for the engineering and technical colleges of Haryana state, as well as design and development of advanced technology, incubate more start-ups and promote industry collaboration.

Facilities include research & development labs set up by corporates jointly with IIT Delhi, business incubators, Impact Lab for Path, a global health innovation hub, high-end central research facility and Centre of Excellence in Smart manufacturing, training centers, and convention facilities. It can incubate and house 100 startups with residential facilities.

Jhajjar campus:

IITD-Jhajjar campus is located next to the AIIMS-Delhi's Jhajjar campus at Badsa village in Jhajjar district of Haryana. IIT-Delhi and AIIMS are jointly setting up a biomedical research park at this campus, including a joint PhD supervision program and provision for adjunct faculty. IITD-Jhajjar is funded by the IITD and managed by the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT).

 

 

Ranking of IIT Delhi

Internationally, IIT Delhi was ranked 182 in the QS World University Rankings of 2020, the top-ranked university in India. The same rankings ranked it 43 in Asia in 2020 and 18 among BRICS nations in 2019. It was ranked 401–500 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2020, 91 in Asia and 38 among Emerging Economies University Rankings in 2019.

IIT Delhi ranked first among government engineering colleges in India by India Today in 2018. It ranked second among engineering colleges by Outlook India in 2019 and first by The Week in 2019.

It ranked second among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019 and third overall. In the 2020 NIRF ranking released on June 11, 2020, it was ranked in the second position in the Engineering category and ranked third Overall.

The Department of Management Studies ranked ninth among management schools in India by NIRF in 2019, 17th by Business Today's "India's best B-schools 2019".

In the 2020 NIRF Rankings released on June 11, 2020, it was placed in the eighth position among Management schools.

 

Notable People:

 

Name Class

Year

 Degree Notability
Anurag Dikshit 1994 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Partygaming
Binny Bansal 2005 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Flipkart
Manvinder Singh Banga 1975 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) former chairman, Unilever
Mohit Aron 1995 founder and CEO of Cohesity and co-founder and former CTO of Nutanix
Padmasree Warrior 1982 B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) chief technology and strategy officer Cisco Systems; former chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc.
Patu Keswani 1981 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) founder of Lemon Tree Hotels
Sachin Bansal 2005 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Flipkart
Sameer Gehlaut 1995 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) co-founder of Indiabulls
Vikrant Bhargava 1994 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) co-founder of Partygaming
Vinod Khosla 1976 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems,s
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar 1968 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) chairman at ITC

IITK (IIT Kharagpur) : History, Cut Off, Latest News 2020

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The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur or IIT-KGP) is a public technical and research university established by the government of India in 1951.

It is the first of the IITs to be established and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance.

In 2019 it was awarded the status of Institute of Eminence by the government of India.

The institute was initially established to train scientists and engineers after India attained independence in 1947.

However, over the years, the institute's academic capabilities diversified with offerings in management, law, architecture, humanities, etc. IIT Kharagpur has an 8.5 square kilometres (2,100 acres) campus and has about 22,000 residents.

The students and alumni of IIT Kharagpur are informally referred to as KGPians.

 

Key Description:

Motto: योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् (Sanskrit)

Motto in English: Excellence in action is Yoga

Type: Public Technical university

Established: 1951; 69 years ago

Academic Affiliations: Institute of National Importance

Chairman: Sanjiv Goenka

Director: Virendra Kumar Tewari

Academic staff: 781

Administrative staff: 1,500

Students: 11,794

Undergraduates: 2,769

Postgraduates: 6,210

Doctoral Students: 2,815

Location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Campus: Urban 2,150 acres (8.7 km2)

Nickname: IITians, KGPians

Website www.iitkgp.ac.in

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History of

Foundation:

In 1946, a committee by Sir Jogendra Singh, Member of Viceroy's executive council, to consider the creation of higher technical institutions "for post-World War II industrial development of India".

This was followed by the creation of a 22-member committee headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar. In its interim report, the Sarkar Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and consulting from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign along with affiliated secondary institutions.

The report urged that work should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the four-quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to be set up immediately.

On the grounds that West Bengal had the highest concentration of industries at the time, Bidhan Chandra Roy, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru (India's first prime minister) to establish the first institute in West Bengal.

The first Indian Institute of Technology was thus established in May 1950 as the Eastern Higher Technical Institute. It was located in Esplanade East, Calcutta, and in September 1950 shifted to its permanent campus at Hijli, Kharagpur 120 kilometres south-west of Kolkata (formerly called Calcutta). Hijli had been used as a detention camp during the British colonial rule in India, to keep Indian freedom fighters captive.

IIT Kharagpur is the 3rd oldest technical institute in the West Bengal state after Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur (1856) and Jadavpur University (established as Bengal technical institute in 1906) When the first session started in August 1951, there were 224 students and 42 teachers in the ten departments of the institute.

The classrooms, laboratories and the administrative office were housed in the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp (now known as Shaheed Bhawan), where political revolutionaries were imprisoned during the British rule.

The office building had served as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the U.S. 20th Air Force during World War II.

 

 

Campus

IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Kolkata. The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur Railway Station in West Midnapore district. The layout of the present campus and the design of the buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect.

The 2,100-acre (8.5 km2) campus is residence to about 22,000 inhabitants. In 2015, IIT Kharagpur had about 605 faculty members, 1,933 employees and approximately 10,010 students living on the campus. The campus has a total of 55 kilometres (34 miles) of roadways. The Institute plans to go Green by 2020.

The 22 student hostels are located on either side of Scholars Avenue, which extends from the institute gate to the B. C. Roy Technology Hospital. The three earliest halls—Patel, Azad, and Nehru—together constitute the PAN loop or Old Campus, which is located just next to Scholar's Avenue. There are ten hostels for undergraduate male students (MMM, LBS, RP, RK, MS, LLR, HJB, Patel, Azad and Nehru) and two for undergraduate female students (SN/IG and MT).

There are a few post-graduate students' hostels including four for women(RLB, Gokhle, Nivedita and SAM) and hostels for research scholars (BCR, VS, BRH and JCB) and a separate hostel for scholars from the armed forces. The Jnan Ghosh stadium and Tata Sports Complex host large-scale sports competitions.

The Tagore Open Air Theatre has a capacity of 6,000 people, and is used to host cultural programs. The Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park (STEP) provides infrastructure facilities to alumni who want to become entrepreneurs but lack infrastructure to start their own corporation.

In addition to the main campus at Kharagpur, the institute has an extension centre at Kolkata to provide venues for continuing education programmes, distance learning courses, and guesthouse accommodation. The institute plans to expand the Kolkata extension centre at Rajarhat, and use it to offer full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses from the 2008 session onwards.

The 10-acre (40,000 m2) Rajarhat campus will house 2,500 students, and will eventually expand to 250 acres (1.0 km2). The institute's plan for a similar branch campus of 200 acres (0.81 km2) in Bhubaneswar was scrapped following rejection by the Union Human Resource and Development ministry.
The Ministry of human resource development on 5 September 2019 awarded ''Institute of Eminence(IoE)'' status to IIT Kharagpur along with four public institution in India, which will enable to get full autonomy and special incentives.

 

 

Academics

Admission to most undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IIT Kharagpur is granted through written entrance examinations. Admissions to M.S.(by Research) and PhD programmes are based on written tests followed by personal interviews.

Admission to undergraduate programmes in all IITs was tied to the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE). Candidates who qualify for admission through IIT-JEE used to apply for admission in four-year BTech (Bachelor of Technology), five-year BArch degree, five-year Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology) and five-year integrated MSc (Master of Sciences) courses at IIT Kharagpur. Starting from 2013, admission was done on the basis of two exams; JEE Mains and JEE Advance. Students who qualified for JEE Mains got the opportunity to appear for JEE Advance and scores of this exams are considered for the admission into IITs. The admissions to postgraduate programmes (MTech) are made primarily through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Other postgraduate entrance exams include Joint Admission to MSc (JAM) for MSc, and Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by IIMs for management studies.

15% of the seats are reserved for students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (ST). As of 2008, 27% separate reservation exists for the Other Backward Classes.

IIT Kharagpur is a member of LAOTSE, a network of universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.

 

Undergraduate Education: IIT Kharagpur offers degrees as part of its undergraduate programmes. They include Bachelor of Technology (BTech.Hons), Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and the 5-year integrated Master of Science. The BTech degree is the most common undergraduate degree in IIT Kharagpur in terms of student enrolment. It is based on a four-year programme with eight semesters.

 

Postgraduate And Doctoral Education: IIT Kharagpur offers postgraduate programmes including Master of Technology (MTech), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (MSc). Some specialised post graduate programmes offered by IIT Kharagpur include Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST), Master of City Planning (MCP), LL.B in Intellectual Property Law (LL.B Honors in IP Law), and Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Operation and Management (PGDMOM).

The institute offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) as part of its doctoral education programme. The doctoral scholars are given a topic by the professor, or work on the consultancy projects sponsored by industry.

The duration of the programme is usually unspecified and depends on the discipline. PhD scholars submit a dissertation as well as conduct an oral defence of their thesis. Teaching assistantships (TA) and research assistantships (RA) are provided based on the scholar's academic profile. IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the MTech and M.S. being similar to the US universities' non-thesis (course-based) and thesis (research-based) master programmes respectively.

 

Sponsored Research:

The institute received 171 research revenue worth ₹417 million (US$5.8 million)—and 130 consultancy projects in the 2005–06 session. The institute transferred 15 technologies to industry during the same session. The institute has filed 125 patents and 25 of them have been granted. This does not include patents obtained by individual professors or students. During the same session, the value of the international projects was ₹9.9 million (US$140,000), and the revenue from transferred technologies was about ₹2.5 million (US$35,000). The institute earned ₹520 million (US$7.3 million) from research projects in the 2005–06 session.

Major sponsors for research include the Indian Ordnance Factories, Indian National Science Academy, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Microsoft Corporation, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) and Indian Space Research Organisation. IIT Kharagpur has had a cell known as the SRIC (Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy) cell since 1982. It handles sponsored research projects and industrial consultancy assignments, and has the infrastructure to simultaneously administer 600 R&D projects.

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research has entered into a collaboration with IIT Kharagpur to carry out research for the design and development of Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs). This is a major development that will boost the second stage of India's nuclear power programme.

 

Academic Units:

Departments

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Agricultural & Food Engineering
  • Architecture & Regional Planning
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
  • Geology & Geophysics
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
  • Physics
  • Centres
  • Rubber Technology
  • Steel Technology Centre
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Cryogenic Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
  • Rural Development Centre
  • Advanced Technology Development Centre
  • Centre for Educational Technology
  • Rekhi Centre for Science of Happiness
  • Deysarkar Centre Excellence in Petroleum Engineering
  • AI Centre of Excellence

 

Schools

  • School of Medical Science and Technology
  • G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
  • Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship
  • Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
  • Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and
  • Management
  • Medical Science & Technology
  • School of Water Resources
  • Vinod Gupta School of Management

 

Ranking:

Internationally, IIT Kharagpur was ranked 281 in the QS World University Rankings of 2020, 53 in Asia and 23 among BRICS nations. It was ranked 401–500 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2020, 55 in the Emerging Economies University Rankings of 2019 and 76 in Asia in 2019.

In India, IIT Kharagpur ranked 2nd among government engineering colleges by India Today in 2018, 4th among engineering colleges by Outlook India in 2019 and 3rd among engineering colleges by The Week in 2018, and fourth among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019, which also ranked it fifth overall. In the 2020 NIRF ranking released on June 11, 2020, IIT Kharagpur was ranked in the fifth position in the Engineering category as well as the Overall category.

The architecture department was ranked first among all architecture colleges in India by NIRF in 2019, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law was ranked fourth among law schools and Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) was ranked sixth among management schools. VGSoM was also ranked 22 by Business Today's "India's best B-schools 2019".

In the 2020 NIRF Rankings released on June 11, 2020, IIT Kharagpur was placed in the 5th position among Management schools