The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is located in Roorkee, a small township in Uttarakhand, India. Instituted as Thomason college of Civil Engineering in year 1847 by British, it was rechristened as University of Roorkee in year 1949.^[1] The Thomason college of Civil Engineering was the first engineering university of independent India. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Roorkee (Hindi: ) is a town and a municipal board in Haridwar District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. ... , Uttarakhand (Hindi: उत्तराखंड), known as Uttaranchal from 2000 to 2006, became the 27th state of the Republic of India on November 9, 2000. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Roorkee (Hindi: ) is a town and a municipal board in Haridwar District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. ... , Uttarakhand (Hindi: उत्तराखंड), known as Uttaranchal from 2000 to 2006, became the 27th state of the Republic of India on November 9, 2000. ... The Roorkee College was established in 1847 as the First Engineering College in the British Empire. ...

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

The oldest institute of technical education in India, IIT Roorkee celebrated its sesquicentennial (150th year) anniversary in October 1996. On September 21, 2001, an ordinance issued by the Government of India declared it as the nation's seventh Indian Institute of Technology. The ordinance was converted into an act by the Parliament to make IIT Roorkee an "Institution of National Importance".^{[citation needed]} is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Decree is an order that has the force of law. ... The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [1]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of... Sansad Bhavan, The Parliament of India The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. ...

IIT Roorkee main building

Roorkee offers Bachelor's degree courses in 10 disciplines of Engineering and Architecture and postgraduate degrees in 55 disciplines of Engineering, Applied Science, Architecture and Planning. IIT Roorkee also started Dual Degree Programs (B.Tech+M.Tech) in 2003.^[2] Presently these programs are offered in three Engineering disciplines. The Institute has facility for doctoral work in all departments and research centers. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 405 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) IIT Roorkee main building Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 405 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) IIT Roorkee main building Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version... For other degrees, see Academic degree. ...

Along with the engineering courses, IIT Roorkee also offers a 2 year residential MBA program. The Department of Management Studies also offers PhD in various disciplines. Admission for these courses are through JMET, a centralized entrance examination for the MBA programs at various IITs.

IIT Roorkee is also running a MCA programme. Typically, the MCA is a 3 year fulltime degree course consisting of six semesters. It covers various aspects of computing, accounting, finance, programming, design and managing networks and databases. Admission for this course is through JAM(joint admission test), a centralized examination fot two-year MSc programmes at all IITs, Three-year MCA and M Tech in Applied Geology/ Applied Geophysics at IIT Roorkee, MSc-PhD Dual Degree in Physics at IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur.

Prior to being converted into an IIT, the University selected students through an entrance exam, REE (Roorkee Entrance Exam) conducted on an All-India level. The selectivity of REE was close to 2%.^{[citation needed]} The Institute continues the legacy by admitting students to B.Tech. and B.Arch. courses through the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted at various centers all over India. The Institute is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... LAOTSE (Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange) is an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ...

Heritage

The College was established in year 1847 as the first engineering college in the British Empire.^[3] The College was renamed as The Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. It was given the status of University by Act No. IX of 1948 of the United Province (Uttar Pradesh) in recognition of its performance, potential and keeping in view the needs of post-independent India. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, presented the Charter in November 1949, elevating the erstwhile college to the First Engineering University of Independent India.^{[citation needed]} , Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: , Urdu: , translation: Northern Province, IPA: ,  ), [often referred to as U.P.], located in central-south Asia and northern India, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Republic of India. ... Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू) (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964), also called Pandit (Teacher) Nehru, was the leader of the (moderately) socialist wing of the Indian National Congress during and after Indias struggle for independence from the British... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the Government of India. ...

Since its establishment, the University has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower, know-how and pursuit of research to the country. It ranks among the top technological institutions in the world and has contributed to all sectors of technological development. Before becoming an IIT, University of Roorkee was ranked 14th best in Asia by Asiaweek in 2000 (Behind only the IITs among Indian Universities and Institutes).^[4]

On 21 September 2001, the University was declared an "Institute of National Importance", by a bill passed in the Indian Parliament, changing its status from University of Roorkee to Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.^{[citation needed]} is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Timeline

1842 Ganga canal construction begins

1847 Sir James Thomason proposes and NWP approves Engineering College on Nov 25

1848 (Jan 1) Roorkee College starts functioning

1853 Sir James Thomason dies, renamed to Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Bengal Sappers and Miners move to Roorkee

1857 Entrance exam started

1861 Municipality of Roorkee established

1864 Affiliated to Calcutta U

1871 Engineering students mess

1872 Football & Polo

1873 Hockey & Athletic meet

1877 Tennis

1878 Military section abolished

1880 Gymnasium

1890 Swimming

1893 Telegraphy Engg

1894 Affiliated to Allahabad U

1896 Dome clock presented by Sir Bir Shamsher Jung Bahadur of Nepal

1896 Electrical and Mechanical apprentices

1897 Civil/Electrical degrees extended to three years

1898 Electricity comes to the college

1901 Fortnightly tests replaced by term exams

1905 Affiliation to Allahabad U ends

1909 Electrification of the college completed

1910 Textile Engg

1913 First Alumni association, Thomason College Engineers Association

1919 TCEA collapses

1923 Elec/Mech Engg closed

1927 Withdrawal of guaranteed appointments (depression)

1931 College magazine Lion started

1941 RUAA

1943 Military Engg

1946 Elec/Mech restarted, renamed Thomason College

1947 CBRI

1948 Roorkee University act passed

1949 Thomason College gains university status, 100 year inauguration by Pandit Pant

1955 Lion renamed Alumni Journal, WRDTC

1956 Adarsh Bal Niketan, Student Aid Loan Fund

1957 Hobbies club, Architecture, Telecommmunication Engg.

1958 Nehru honoured w/ D.Sc.

1959 Dr. Rajendra Prasad honored w/ D.Sc.

1960 Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Geophysics started, BE Courses increased to 4 years, consequently in 1963 no batch graduated

1961 First doctorate awarded

1962 The China war threw the BE courses out of gear.

1963 The centenary gate was remodeled, Commission for scientific and technical terminology set up to evolve Hindi technical terms(closed in 1967)

1964 Humanities, Electronics & Communications

1964 The batch due to graduate in summer was accelerated to January and the batch of 1965 graduated in Nov 1964.

1966 Entrance exam results processed by computer, Dr. Zakir Hussain honoured with D.Sc

1967 Indira Gandhi honored with D. Engg, inaugurates E&C S Block

1968 Mahila Work and Welfare Center

1969 25% seats reserved for direct admission

1971 Industrial Engg

1974 Mangal Ram Memorial Open Billiards Championship, RUSA Constitution passed

1975 E&C Tower completed

1976 All admission via exam reinstated

1978 DPT(Saharanpur), College Magazine renamed to Lion

1979 NIH, Roorkee University Regional Computer Centre

1980 Student violence

1983 Computer Science and Technology

1986 Bioscience and Biotechnology

1996 Information Superhighway Centre(ISC)

1998 Manangement Studies

2001 (Sept 21) UoR converted to IIT

Academics

• Degrees offered: The Institute offers Bachelor degree courses in 10 disciplines of Engineering and Architecture and Postgraduate degrees in 55 disciplines of Engineering, Applied Sciences, Architecture and Planning. The Institute has facility for doctoral work in all Departments and Research Centres. There are roughly 4200 students in the Institute across all programs. Around 375 faculty of international repute belonging to various science and engineering disciplines are engaged in teaching, research and consultancy activities here. With effect from 2003, integrated dual degrees are also offered, which means that students get both B. Tech and M. Tech degrees in 5 years rather than the customary 4+2 years.^{[citation needed]}

• IIT-JEE: The entrance examination for undergraduate courses conducted jointly by the seven IITs and two other institutes namely IT-BHU, Varanasi (Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University) and ISM, Dhanbad (Indian School of Mining). It is amongst the toughest entrance examinations in the world. About 4,000 students are chosen from about 250,000 candidates.

• Credit system: As in other IITs, IIT Roorkee follows a credit system for evaluating academic performance. The Grade Point Average (GPA) is on a scale of 0 to 10. Different courses are alloted different number of credits according to their importance.

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Research

The Institute has several departments and advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and the pure sciences.

The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department

The engineering departments of the institute include: Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 542 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 813 pixel, file size: 918 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 542 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 813 pixel, file size: 918 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU...

1. Architecture
2. Biotechnology
3. Chemical Engineering
4. Civil Engineering
5. Computer Science and Engineering
6. Earthquake Engineering (offers post-graduate level courses only)
7. Electrical Engineering
8. Electronics and Communications Engineering
9. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
10. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
11. Pulp and Paper Engineering

The departments dealing with pure sciences in the institute are:

1. Chemistry
2. Mathematics
3. Physics
4. Earth Sciences
5. Humanities and Social Sciences

In addition to them, there are also specialised centers, that are:

1. Management Studies
2. Hydrology
3. Water Resources Development and Management
4. Alternate Hydro Energy Center

Academic Collaboration

The Institute has Academic Collaboration with the following universities:

• University of Texas at Dallas
• National University of Singapore
• University of Waterloo
• Royal Institute of Technology(KTH),Stockholm

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Campus

With its serene and lush green campus, IIT Roorkee offers a good environment for learning and research. The campus is spread in an area of 360 acres (1.5 km²).^{[citation needed]} Various departments and hostels have very impressive architectures and there is hardly any repetition of design in the entire campus. The institute offers a variety of recreational activities for professional development. An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ...

IIT Roorkee also has a Saharanpur Campus of 25 acres which offers courses in Polymer Science and Paper Technology.^{[citation needed]}

Student life

The Hangar at IIT Roorkee. Most of the cultural events take place here

The technical fest of IIT Roorkee is called "Cognizance" and the cultural fest is called "Thomso". There are two campus magazines brought out by the students of IITR namely "Watch Out" and "Kshitij". It also has a Student Affair Council (SAC), which is the apex students body dedicated to the service of students in the campus and acts as an interface between the administration and the students' community.There are various sections which have been constituted under the cultural society(CULSOC)which include music,dramatics,chreography section,program management(PM),audio section and light section.It also has has an active SPICMACAY chapter which organizes various cultural programs and help to inculcate the spirit of Indian classical music and culture amongst the students,faculty,etc. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 289 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 289 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... Cognizance is an annual technical festival held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. ... Thomso is an annual cultural festival held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. ...

Thomso

Thomso is the annual cultural festival of IIT Roorkee. Held over a period of 4 days, it sees participation from many colleges in North India. Besides inter-collegiate competitions in many cultural events, there are also performances by professional musicians and rock bands. The 2007 edition of Thomso will be held from 25 - 28 October.

Information Management Group

IMG, an acronym for Information Management Group is a students’ group in IIT Roorkee. It provides technical solutions, tools, resources and knowledge for the enhancement of web applications and information resources, and other technical fields such as GIS, networking and security.

The Information Management Group, (IMG), is called so, because by concept, it works on various programs related to the intellectual and managerial application in diversified disciplines. The group currently is responsible for the development of Information Resources and for the promotion of electronic culture in Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

The team strongly believes in innovation, technology and networking. Strong linkages with academia, workplace professionalism, and in-house training and learning have helped IMG lay the foundation for growing into a big organization. As the intellectual horizons enlarged to understand better and address the opportunities of the IT era, the group grew in several directions.

Watch Out

Official website Watch Out is the official students' news magazine of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. It has its origin dating back to the year 1993 when Harjeet Singh Khanduja(Khandu), Anurag Gupta,Suttu and a few friends of his came up with a novel idea of a newsletter. First issue of Watch out was printed on Computer Stationery. Highlight of First issue was BJRU ke piche kya hai.

Ten years down, Watch Out is now a part of the IIT-R ethos with every event on campus, however insignificant, finding a place in its pages. In order to achieve these unparalleled results over the last decade, WONA (Watch out News Agency) clubs itself into 5 sections: Web Cell, The Editorial Board, The News Bureau, The Finance Section and The Design Board.

Kshitij

Kshitij, a literary student magazine of IIT Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee) was founded on 14th Sept 1992. It works as a platform for promoting and nurturing the literary talent of the student community of the institute. Kshitij started as a Wall-Magazine in the Central Library of the institute.Now it also publishes a printed magazine. The first issue of this magazine was launched on 30th April 2004.

It receives frequent appreciation and guidance of the faculty, students and the established literary icons of India like PADMSHRI GOPAL DAS NEERAJ, NAGARJUN, NAMVAR SINGH, DHANAJAY SINGH, AKSHAY KUMAR JAIN and many more.

Renaissance

Renaissance, a newly founded literary magazine of IIT Roorkee's Saharanpur Campus (Malviya Bhawan)is a platform for the students to lay bare their point of view on any topic on earth. It is a biannual magazine started on Oct 6th 2002.

Hobbies Club(http://www.hobbiesclub.sdslabs.org)

Hobbies club at IITR is one of the most famous activity centers among IIT's. It has seven sections :

1. Fine Arts
2. Electronics
3. Gardening
4. Modeling
5. Philately and Numesmatics
6. Photography
7. Star Gazing
8. Software Development(http://www.sdslabs.org)

Fine art section of IIT Roorkee gives an opportunity to all the students to explore and extol the various facets of human life and nature.

Gardening Section

In addition to gardening, the gardening section of IIT Roorkee also deals with pollution control. It has achieved this through involving students in its programs.

Philately And Numismatics

Philately and numismatics section deals with stamps and the coins. The Stanley gibbon's catalogue, the best for stamp issues and coin catalogues, magazines are available for reference.

Photography

Photography section of IITR instills in you the ability to know what objects may be, apart from receptivity of our senses.

Star Gazing

Star gazing section of IIT Roorkee is coherent group of young budding astronomers to disseminate the knowledge about the mysteries of the universe. SRISHTI-07 (http://www.sdslabs.org/srishti07) provides a platform for all unveiling the wonders of our cosmos, information to be learned and marveled at.

Model

Model section of IIT ROORKEE provides excellent platform for those who intend to make static or working models of various existing machines and plants.

Electronics

Electronics section of IIT ROORKEE is a group of enthusiastic and innovative hardware designers.

The Hobbies Club organizes an annual event called "Shrishti", which encourages the students of the IITR and other colleges as well to come together and share their experiences in their respective hobbies.

Hostels

Most students at IIT Roorkee live in the hostels, where a large number of extracurricular activities complement the hectic academic routine. The campus has nine hostels, of which two (Sarojini and Kasturba) are exclusively occupied by girls. Hostels in IIT Roorkee may accommodate undergraduate and graduate students along with Research Scholars. Students are assigned to hostels by the Institute Administration after their fresher year. The hostels are named after eminent personalities of India and Britain during the Indian Freedom Struggle. The hostels are:

1. Azad Bhawan
2. Cautley Bhawan
3. Ganga Bhawan
4. Govind Bhawan
5. Jawahar Bhawan
6. Malviya Bhawan(Saharanpur Campus)
7. Rajendra Bhawan
8. Ravindra Bhawan
9. Sarojini Bhawan
10. Kasturba Bhawan

In addition to these hostels, there are four hostels for married students and research scholars and foreign students:

1. Mulk Raj Chopra Bhawan
2. Ghanand Pandey Bhawan
3. A. N. Khosla Bhawan
4. Azad Wing

Several new hostels are being constructed to accommodate an increasing intake of students.

See also

• Thomso Cultural Festival of IIT Roorkee
• Cognizance Technical Festival of IIT Roorkee
• Rave Cultural Festival of IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur campus

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References

1. ^ http://www.iitr.ac.in
2. ^ http://jee.iitr.ernet.in/availability.htm
3. ^ IIT-Roorkee section at the website of Uttarakhand Government.
4. ^ Asiaweek Asia's Best Universities 2000.

External links

• Official website of IITR