Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Motto	Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya
Established	1959
Type	Education and Research Institution
Staff	500 (approx)
Dean	Dr. S G Dhande
Undergraduates	2,000 (approx)
Postgraduates	2,000 (approx)
Location	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh India
Campus	1200 acres
Website	http://www.iitk.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the then-industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. Today, IIT Kanpur has grown into one of the top technological institutes in India, primarily focused on research in engineering and science, and the teaching of undergraduates. Image File history File links Logo of IIT Kanpur Obtained from IIT Kanpur website: http://www. ... A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social organisation. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... A graduate school or grad school is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelors) degree. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... Main Building of IIT Kharagpur The Indian Institutes of Technology (Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान) or IITs are a group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes established by the Government of India. ... Kānpur (known as Cawnpore before 1948) is the most populous city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

History

IIT Kanpur was established by an act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room borrowed in the Canteen Building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the Institute moved to its present location, on the historic Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district. During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme, where a consortium of 9 US universities namely M.I.T, University of California Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Yale University, Cornell University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Institute Of Technology and Purdue University helped set up the research laboratories and academic programmes. The first Director of the Institute was Dr. P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2003). The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Template:C20YearInnTopic 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... A view of Grand Trunk Road - a picture from Smithsonian Institute The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is the Indian Subcontinents first, largest and oldest major road, linking Sonargaon in Bengal (now in Narayanganj, Bangladesh) with Kabul in Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The Carnegie Institute of Technology was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. ... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... The Ohio State University is currently the third largest university in the United States and currently ranked by US News and World Report as the best public university in Ohio and the twenty-first best public university in the nation. ... See also Purdue University System. ...

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur was among the first Institutes in India to start Computer Science education. The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system, a novelty then even in many North American and European universities. Gradually, the Institute drew upon some of the brightest young Indians in Computer Science to serve on its faculty and initiated an independent academic program in 1971, leading to M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees.

Laboratories and other facilities

Tutorial Block of IIT Kanpur

The Institute has a number of facilities, including the National Wind Tunnel Facility. Spread in a sprawling campus of 420 hectares, IIT Kanpur has one of the best computational facilities in India. Apart from a large number of engineering laboratories, IIT Kanpur also has its own airfield, for flight testing and gliding activities. Other large research centres include the Advanced Centre for Material Science, one of the country's best Bio-technology centre, the Advanced Centre for Electronic Systems, and the Samtel Centre for Display Technology. The P K Kelkar Library has one of the most exhaustive collections of academic textbooks, peer-reviewed journals and other research material in the country, and boasts of an excellent reference section (where course material is reserved for students). In addition, the various departments have their own smaller libraries. Image File history File linksMetadata Tutorial_Block_IIT_Kanpur. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Tutorial_Block_IIT_Kanpur. ... PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur P K Kelkar Library (Formerly Central Library) is an academic Library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) with a collection of more than 3,00,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 1000 periodicals. ...

The Computer-Centre (referred to by the campus residents as "C-C") is quite an impressive facility in comparison to other academic institutions in the country. It has about 100-150 Linux terminals, about 50 Windows-NT terminals, and is continuously available to the students for academic work and recreation. Disk storage is provided using a networked file server system. Internet access is provided by the means of two proxy servers, one for students and another for faculty (the computer science department in IIT Kanpur has its own independent network). In addition, it hosts about 50 SUN workstations that are considered powerful workhorses for heavy computational tasks. It is a major intellectual, social and cultural hub for the technocrats on campus. The IITs' (and especially IIT Kanpur) are among the first large academic institutions in India to be extensively networked, with an institute-wide LAN and Ethernet access to every student room in the residence halls.

Students

PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur

The undergraduate students at IIT Kanpur are selected through the Joint Entrance Examination of the IITs. The graduate students (Masters) are mainly selected through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Presently, the institute has around 3800 students, with an equal distribution of graduate and undergraduate students. Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Joint Entrance Examination or JEE is a college entrance examination in India. ... Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an exam is the gateway for M.Tech. ...

Students at IIT Kanpur reside in the hostels, or 'halls of residence', most of which have their own unique history and lore. There are eight hostels for boys and two for girls called GH and hall 6.

The annual cultural festival is called Antaragni. It is held around the end of October every year. The annual science and technology festival, Techkriti, is held at the end of February each year. The annual sports festival, Udghosh/IIT Kanpur Sportsmeet, is held around the end of November each year and the annual film festival, Umang, the annual Film Festival is held in early January. All four are amongst the most popular college events in North India. A culfest (short for cultural festival) is an annual event organized by colleges in India. ... Antaragni is the cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, held annually in October, and is one of the biggest college fests in India. ... Techkriti is the annual science and technology festival of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT/K). ... Umang is annual inter collegiate festival hosted by Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics (populary called N.M.College). ...

Another highlight of the student community is the self governance achieved in the form of the Students' Gymkhana, which is a democratically elected body.

Alumni

• Ashoke Sen (String theorist)
• N.R. Narayana Murthy (founded the software corporation Infosys)
• Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved that the problem of checking primality has a polynomial time algorithm, a major result in theoretical computer science)
• Umang Gupta (Entrepreneur, wrote first business plan for Oracle, founded Gupta Technologies, and currently CEO of Keynote Systems)
• Raj Singh (Venture Capitalist, former billionaire, funded Teligent among others, married to Nita, also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur)
• Ambuj Goyal (VP/GM of IBM's Lotus business)
• Satish Kaura (Padma Shri and founder of Samtel Group)
• Umesh Mishra (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a leading expert on wide-band gap semiconductors)
• Pradeep Sindhu (Founder - Juniper Networks)
• Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Padma Shri and Profesor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras)
• Dr. S. Sivaram (Director, NCL Pune)
• Dr. S.P. Mehrotra (Director, NML Jamshedpur)
• Dr. K. Vijayraghvan ( Director, NBC Bangalore)

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Miscellaneous

• It was rated the no. 1 engineering institute in India by India Today in 2004.

• It was rated the no. 1 engineering college in India by Data Quest in 2005.

• First Academic Institute in India to have Smart Card based Security and Survillience.

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External links

• Official Website

• Alumni Website