Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

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Motto	"Knowledge is Power"
Established	1994
Type of institution	Public
Endowment
Staff	152
Rector
Chancellor
President	Prof. Gautam Barua
Principal
Vice-Chancellor
Dean
Faculty
Students
Undergraduate	1300
Postgraduate	500
Doctoral
Location	Guwahati, Assam India
Campus setting	Urban
Alumni	http://www.alumni.iitg.org
Colours	Red (Power), Blue (Peace), Yellow (Perseverence)
Mascot
Affiliations
Website	iitg.ernet.in

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Introduction

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati or IITG), the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was established in 1994 and the academic programme commenced in 1995. It is one growing up fast to be one of the most promising engineering research centres in the world today and like other members of the IIT fraternity, it is mainly known for the quality of its undergradutate curriculum. IIT Guwahati campus is unarguably one of the most beautiful campuses in India. It is situated on the northern banks of the mighty river Brahmaputra and the sprawling 705 acres campus in the lands of "The Red River and Blue Hills" attracts many visitors by its spell-binding picturesque surroundings. The young IIT with its dynamic students and visionary faculty has produced many successful technologists and continues to develop and diversify each year, while maintaining the renowned 'IIT' standards in education and research. Location of IITs The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are tertiary educational institutes established by the Government of India to offer undergraduate, integrated postgraduate and postgraduate degrees and the Doctor of Philosophy in over 25 different engineering, technology and business/management disciplines. ... The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ...

Currently IIT Guwahati houses the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE), Biotechnology (BT), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Chemical Engineering (CHE), Civil Engineering (CE), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH) and Chemistry (CH). IIT-G is also currently home to a very unique Department of Design (DoD) and 6 Centers of Research. This community is for all IIT Guwahati Alumni, to share news, views and reviews about the unforgetable IIT-G times!

At present the Institute has eleven departments covering all the major engineering and science disciplines, offering B. Tech., B. Des., M. Tech., Ph.D. and M.Sc. programmes. Within a short period of time, IIT Guwahati has been able to build up the necessary infrastructure for carrying out advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art scientific and engineering instruments. Presently there are about 1300 students on rolls, 152 faculty members and 250 support staff. Unlike any other member of the IIT fraternity IIT Guwahati has the distinct achievement of having accomplished this rapid self dependence without collaboration or assistance from any foreign university or government. A Bachelor of Technology is an undergraduate academic degree in the UK, India, Ireland and other countries. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...

Campus

IIT Guwahati's campus is on a sprawling 3 km² plot of land on the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 km from the heart of the Guwahati city. The majestic Brahmaputra lies on one side of the campus, with hills and open spaces on the others. Though the campus is not yet fully developed, it has been able to construct most of the important buildings like the Academic Complex, Administrative building, Central Library and Computer Center and the Student Activity Center apart from faculty and staff residential buildings, guest house and student hostels. The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ... Guwahati is a city in India, often considered to be the gateway to the north-east part of the country. ... The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ...

Departments

• Biotechnology
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Design
• Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

Centers

• Computer Center
• Center for Educational Technology
• Center for Nanotechnology
• Center for Mass Media Communication
• Central Instruments Facility
• Center for Energy
• Center for the Environment

Student Life

IIT Guwahati is a fully residential campus. All the students live in hostels located in the campus. All these hostels have single seater spacious rooms and have all the amenities like food mess, canteen, lounges, campus wide lan with internet access etc. The hostels are named after various rivers and tributries of north-east India. Presently, the hostels are:

• Manas
• Dihing
• Kapili
• Siang
• Subhansiri
• Kameng

Many other hostels in the plan are rapidly coming up as a part of the campus construction.

Annual Festivals

Every year, two major national level festivals are organised by the students of IIT Guwahati. The science and technological festival, Techniche, is held in the odd semester (beginning of September) while the cultural festival, Alcheringa, is held in the even semester (end of January). Alcheringa is the biggest cultural festival of its kind in the entire north-east India and draws huge amounts of crowd from all over India. Apart from the two national level festivals, the students have an intra-iit cultural festival named Manthan, held every year during October. There is also an annual sports meet organised where many colleges from the north-east India participate. Alcheringa is the national level annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. ...

IIT Guwahati in pictures

IIT Guwahati Academic and Administrative Buildings

IIT Guwahati Hostels

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External links

• IITG Main Site (hosted on ac.in link)
• IITG Main Site (hosted on ernet.in link)
• IITG Alumni Website
• IITG Student Website
• Techniche - The Annual Knowledge Festival of IITG
• Alcheringa - The Annual Cultural Festival of IITG