The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, popularly known as KREC, is a premier autonomous university along the western shores of India. It was founded in July 1960, as a joint venture between the Government of Karnataka and the Government of India, originally under the name Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal (KREC). A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, 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. ... An unphonetic way to write center. ... Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... A director is the chief executive officer of a university or other educational institution. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Surathkal is a place in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India Surathkal Railway Station Surathkal is home to one of Indias best technical institutes - the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC). ... , Mangalore(Kannada:ಮಂಗಳೂರು, Mangaluru; Tulu:ಕುಡ್ಲ, Kudla; Konkani:ಕೊಡಿಯಾಲ್, Kodial; Beary:ಮೈಕಲ, Maikala)   is the chief port city of the state of Karnataka, India. ... Karnātakā   (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ) (IPA: ) is one of the four southern states of India. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...

History

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Karnataka Regional Engineering College began in 1960, through the efforts of U. Srinivas Mallya and V.S.Kudva. The foundation stone was laid on August 6, 1960. KREC began with three under-graduate courses in engineering: Mechanical, Electrical , and Civil, with affiliation to the University of Mysore. 1965 saw the beginning of undergraduate courses in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. Image File history File linksMetadata NITK.jpg‎ I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata NITK.jpg‎ I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... U Srinivas Mallya 1902 to 1965 U. Srinivas Mallya who was also called Malliah in North India or Sheenappa Mallya in Dakshina Kannada is the architect of Modern Canara District or master planner and a true politician. ... A Biographical Sketch of a Pioneer Mr. ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... Mechanical engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science (e. ... Metallurgical engineering- Designing, creating, or producing metals by various methods, for various applications, from metallic elements described on the Chemical Periodic Table of the Elements. ...

In 1966, the college started its post-graduate courses with a course in Marine Structures and Industrial Structures, following it up with post-graduate courses in Industrial Electronics (1969), Heat Power (1971), Hydraulics and Water Resources (1971), Chemical Plant Design Engineering (1971) and Process Metallurgy (1972).

Further under-graduate engineering courses were added: Electronics and Communication (1971), Mining (1984), Computer Science (1986) and Information Technology (2000). Chuquicamata, the largest open pit copper mine in the world, Chile. ... Computer scaence, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...

KREC came into the jurisdiction of Mangalore University when it was started in 1980. All the under-graduate courses were converted to four year terms (from five years earlier).

On June 26, 2002, KREC was renamed National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and awarded the status of a deemed university by the University Grants Commission, in a bid to provide increased autonomy in decision-making. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... NIT may stand for any of the following: National Invitation Tournament is a college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... Deemed University is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. ... The University Grants Commission of India is a central government body that provides funds for government-recognised universities. ...

Location

Located on National Highway 17, by the shores of Arabian Sea, NITK Surathkal is one of few universities in the world that boasts of a private beach. The campus is an idyllic spot covering an area of about 295 acres and is covered by lush green vegetation in many areas. The sylvan surroundings provide a lovely backdrop for serious academic pursuit and relaxation. National Highway 17 otherwise known as NH 17 is a highway connecting Mumbai to Ernakulam. ...

The suburb of Mangalore, Surathkal is about two kilometers south of the college along the NH - 17. The college lies in the Mangalore City Corportion's jurisdiction. The temple town of Udupi is 40 kilometers to the north along the NH - 17. Access to NITK is most convenient by buses from Mangalore City Bus Stand and Udupi. Express buses to NITK depart from these bus stands at regular intervals. The Surathkal railway station on the scenic Konkan Railway line is about 3 kilometers from the college. The Mangalore Airport at Bajpe is about 14 kilometers away, and is served by Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Air Deccan for domestic passengers; Air India Express serves international destinations such as Sharjah, Dubai and Muscat. Surathkal is a place in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India Surathkal Railway Station Surathkal is home to one of Indias best technical institutes - the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC). ... Udupi (Kannada:ಉಡುಪಿ) is a temple town located in Udupi District, near Mangalore, Karnataka state, on the southwest coast of India. ... The Konkan Railway (Railway Symbol:KR) is a company of the Indian Railways which operates along the Konkan coast of India. ... Bajpe is a small town located in the city of Mangalore. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Air India. ... Jet Airways is a full-service scheduled airline based in Mumbai, India serving domestic and international routes. ... Kingfisher Airlines is a private airline based in Bangalore, India. ... Interior of Air Deccan Airbus A320 Air Deccan (Kannada: ; Hindi: ) is an airline based in Bangalore, India. ... Sharjah Central Souq - Shopping Mall The flag of Sharjah The Emirate of Sharjah (Arabic: الشارقة ash-shaariqah) extends along approximately 16 kilometres of the United Arab Emiratess Persian Gulf coastline and for more than 80 kilometres into the interior. ... Coordinates: Emirate Dubai Government  - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Area [1]  - Metro 4,114 km² (1,588. ... Classification City Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said Area 3,500 km² [1] Population  - Total (2005)  - Density  - Oman calculated rank 646,024 [2] 184. ...

Tourist spots near the institute include Mangalore, Udupi, Dharmasthala and Manipal. Udupi is famous for Udupi cuisine. Udupi and Dharmasthala also house famous temples. Sandy beaches close to the college include the NITK campus beach, Panambur Beach, Kaup beach, and the St. Mary's Island. , Mangalore(Kannada:ಮಂಗಳೂರು, Mangaluru; Tulu:ಕುಡ್ಲ, Kudla; Konkani:ಕೊಡಿಯಾಲ್, Kodial; Beary:ಮೈಕಲ, Maikala)   is the chief port city of the state of Karnataka, India. ... Udupi (Kannada:ಉಡುಪಿ) is a temple town located in Udupi District, near Mangalore, Karnataka state, on the southwest coast of India. ... Sri Manjunatheshwara Temple, Dharmasthala This place is of religious interest in the interiors of Dakshina Kannada (Karnataka, India). ... , Manipal is a university town situated in the state of Karnataka in India. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Panambur is the name of place where New Mangalore Port is situated. ...

Departments

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Humanities
• Civil Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
• Computer Science
• Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Mathematics and Computational Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Information Technology
• Office for Training and Placements
• Central Library

Admissions

Undergraduate

The B Tech admissions are based on the AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination). The exam consists of three sections on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and is one of the most competitive examinations in the country, with lakhs of students competing for the privilege of a few hundred seats. The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is organised by the CBSE in India for admisssion to various under-graduate courses in engineering and architecture. ...

Undergraduate admissions are on reciprocal basis regionwise. 50% of the seats are reserved for students from Karnataka. The remaining 50% are distributed over other NITs on a reciprocal basis. This state-wise allocation of seats is unique to Regional Engineering Colleges, set up as worthy successors to the renowned Indian Institutes of Technologys.While the efficacy of such distribution based on region has been hotly debated, there is no doubt that as a measure to provide quality education to students from all over the country, the move has been successful. In addition, it provides the students an opportunity to interact with other students from all over the country, giving them a unique perspective of India along with technical education. It is utmost important to maintain a cosmopolitan atmosphere at such a centre of excellence. The issue of reservations is a hotly debated topic on the campus. NIT or Nit or nit can refer to:- A common name for various types of lice eggs. ... Location of IITs The Indian Institutes of Technology, or IITs, are a group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India. ...

Graduate students are admitted to the program through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the Indian Institute of Technologies and the Indian Institute of Science. Graduate studies are offered in a variety of disciplines by various departments and students may specialize in fields of their choice. Graduate students are required to complete a minimum number of courses in addition to a thesis or dissertation that entails independent research under the guidance of faculty. Graduate and Doctoral students are also actively involved in teaching certain undergraduate courses. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an exam is the gateway for M.Tech. ...

Placements and Career choices

Nearly all eligible students from the senior batch are offered employment in multi-national firms through campus placement services. Placements at NITK reflect its proximity to the software hub of India, Bangalore. Every year, multi-national companies like GE,Cisco, Intel and IBM recruit students from campus, usually a year before they graduate. Last year also saw investment banks participate in the placement process, namely, Goldman Sachs. Ge may refer to: Gê, a group of indigenous Brazilian tribes and their Ge languages Ge (Cyrillic) (Г, г), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet Ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ), a letter of the Ukrainian alphabet Nikolai Ge, a Russian painter Gē, an ancient Chinese dagger-axe Ge (genus), a genus of butterflies Also... Cisco may refer to: Cisco Systems, a computer networking company Cisco IOS, an internet router operating system CISCO Security Private Limited, a security company in Singapore Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation, a statutory board in Singapore Abbreviation for San Francisco, California Cisco (wine) The Cisco Kid, a fictional character created... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Goldman Sachs offices at the Fraumünsterplatz in Zürich (the light-colored building on the left) The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ...

(A short list of companies that have selected students from campus:i2 Technologies, Samsung,Exeter, Ittiam Systems, Philips, Siemens, Cognizant,Trilogy, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Oracle Corporation, D.E. Shaw, Tata Motors, Novell, NVidia, Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Larsen and Toubro) i2 Technologies is a supply chain management industry company. ... Samsung Group is one of the largest South Korean business groupings. ... The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in the southwest of England, also known as the Westcountry. ... Ittiam Systems is a company developing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands. ... Siemens AG (ISIN: DE0007236101, FWB: SIE, NYSE: SI) is one of the worlds largest technology companies. ... Cognizant began its software services business in 1994 as the in-house technology development center for The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ... Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. ... Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), better known in the electronics industry (and popularly) as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA, renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Google, Inc. ... Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. ... The D. E. Shaw Group is a New York-based investment and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. ... Background Tata Motors Limited, formerly known as TELCO (TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company), is Indias largest passenger automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturing company. ... Novell Inc. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (pronounced ) is an American corporation and is the worlds largest GPU company and a worldwide leader in GPU technologies for video cards, graphics cards, workstations, desktop computers, handhelds and more. ... Infosys Technologies Ltd (BSE: 500209, NASDAQ: INFY) is an information technology (IT) services company founded in Pune, India in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy and six of his colleagues. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wipro Technologies. ... Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is one of the world’s largest providers of information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing which commenced operations in 1968. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Larsen & Toubro. ...

The placement process begins early in the 7th semester of the undergraduate course and 2nd year of the post graduate course. Students rank companies who have expressed interest in campus recruitment; on this basis, companies are allocated days on which they will test and interview candidates. Usually the entire placement effort lasts around 1 year, but most students are offered jobs within the first month. An academic term is the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...

Companies first present a pre-placement talk (PPT) with active participation of students. Tests, Group Discussions and a series of interviews are then conducted to select candidates . Until late 90s ,the policy of one-man one-job prevailed, but with increasing numbers of recruiting companies, students are allowed to entertain multiple offers. Placements form the career choice for a majority of the students, with some also opting to continue their education abroad or in the country.

Several NITK alumni have passed through the portals of the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Institutes of Management and various institutions outside the country. It is worth mentioning that some of the students from the erstwhile KREC and the present NITK Suratkal have gone on to do Masters and Ph.D in prestigious institutions such as UCLA, Georgia Tech, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley,Caltech,MIT,Yale,Columbia University,London School of Economics. “M.S.” redirects here. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. With over 16,000 students, Georgia Tech is one of four public research universities in the University System of Georgia. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

Most third year and final year students often prepare for GRE (for higher studies in science abroad), CAT (for the premier institutions for management in the country) and GMAT(for management studies aboard). The entrepreneur spirit among students of NITK is at par with institutions such as IIT. The Graduate Record Examination or the GRE, is a standardized test taken in order to get into graduate school in the United States. ... Graduate Management Admission Test, perhaps better known by its initialism GMAT, is a standardized test for determing aptitude in business management studies. ... IIT is an initialism of many institutes of technology, it may refer to: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Chicago Indian Institutes of Technology, premier technology institutes in India located at Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati and Roorkee Indiana Institute of Technology, also known as Indiana Tech, in Fort...

Student activities

The two most famous annual events held at NITK are, Engineer (the national level technical symposium) and Incident (the cultural festival).

These events are entirely planned, organized and managed by the students themselves - from fund collecting drives to the final events. The intra-college events are organized by the students' activity clubs.

Local chapters of the Institution of Engineers, the Indian Society for Technical Education, the Rotaract Club, the Computer Society of India, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) organize their respective events during the academic semester, including diverse events such as blood collection drives, cricket tournaments and freshers' parties. Dance Dramatics & Fashion Club (DDFC) organises annual fest SPANDAN which provides students with a chance to come up with their skills in Dance, Dramatics and Fashion in front of whole college. This is the only event other than INCIDENT that almost always attracts full house audience all through the duration of the show. The Model Hunt title Mr/Ms GLAMOURANZA are the most desired title by students interested in Fashion Modelling. The Club routinely indulges in other activities like DANDIYA, DUSHERA Celebration, which are hugely applauded, and is responsible for college participation in the three kind of arts in and outside college events. The NITK Music Club Band routinely organizes music shows and play popular music at the outdoor auditoriums, which see wide attendance. A variety of musical styles are on display at these events, from Indian classical music to fusion to thrash metal, in keeping with the varied tastes of students. There is also an amateur astronomy club - Star Gazing Club, which conducts many night shows for the students and the faculty of the campus. Also appreciative are its efforts to spread astronomy across the region in the form of various workshops for the school students in the region.

The Quiz Club of NITK is one of the best in the country, having produced several quizzers of outstanding caliber who have participated in and won competitions all over the country. The excellent sports facilities on campus provide students the opportunity to hone their skills, and NITK boasts several fine sports teams that participate in events all over the country. The Press Club of NITK brings out a fortnightly wall magazine "Newswagon", providing a tongue-in-cheek look at life around the campus, besides bringing out the official yearbook, "The Vitruvian".

The Recreation Committee of the institute organizes all the recreational activities for the students and faculty on campus. Students compete in varied sports: Cricket, Hockey, Badminton, Table Tennis, Soccer, Swimming, Basket Ball to name a few. The much awaited inter year sports festival "PHOENIX" is organized during the even semester where the students battle for the gold, siver and bronze medals apart from the over-all shield.

While weekdays are spent in classrooms and labs, weekends are often spent indulging in these various activities organized by the clubs, leading to a healthy atmosphere of fun and work together, promoting the overall development of individuals at the institute.

Engineer

Engineer^[1] is the technical symposium of NITK Surathkal. It has, over the past years, consistently attracted participants from all over the country.

‘Engineer’ in its first edition in 2005 drew tremendous response. Engineer 2006 was planned on an even larger scale, with more innovative events. The events at Engineer 2006 included paper presentation competitions, project presentations, Shrishti, where participants are required to apply engineering for the greater good of society, robotics events (Perfect Machine, Automata), Hacking contests, Programming contests, Design problems for various disciplines and a variety of workshops and seminars. Guest speakers in the past have included Richard Stallman, Sam Pitroda, Dr. Devi Shetty, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Ankit Fadia and other personalities. Richard Matthew Stallman (often abbreviated as RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, better known as Dr. Sam Pitroda, born in Titlagarh, Orissa, is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. ... Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... Ankit Fadia is an Indian computer security and digital intelligence consultant. ...

As a forum for interaction between students and industry, Engineer has proved to be immensely successful, with several corporates providing sponsorship and conducting workshops and talks during the 3 day event. Previous sponsors and mentors included the GE,Indian Oil Corporation Limited, AMD, Tata Motors, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Reliance industries, Dell, Ansys, Novell, McAfee, the Indian Space Research Organization, Thoughtworks and Biocon. ... Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) (incorporated on June 23, 1993) is a public sector petroleum company based in Dehradun, India. ... Reliance Industries (NSE: RELIANCE) is Indias largest private sector company with a turnover of US $19. ... Dell Inc. ... ANSYS is a software package which used in finite element analysis. ... McAfee, Inc. ... The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is Indias national space agency. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The sponsors for Engineer 2007 are Hindustan Construction Co Ltd. (main sponsor), Thermax, GE, Accenture, Microsoft, IBM, Intuit , MRPL, ICICI, Sun Microsystems, Perot Systems, Exeter, Infosys, NVidia, SunGard, HP, PNB, HPCL and many more.

Incident

Incident,^[2] the national level cultural festival is a celebration of the multitude of talents and experiences that are an essential part of life at the institute. Incident was first conducted in 1980 and has grown over the years to become one of the largest cultural festivals in South India and attracts student participation in huge numbers.

Held over five days, the festival encompasses a gamut of events, ranging from dance and dramatics, music, painting, fashion and quizzing. Incident provides an ideal platform for students to get together and display their considerable non-academic talents while still having fun. In addition, the Incident Pro-Nite features top Indian bands (Incident 2006 featured Euphoria whereas Incident 2005 featured Parikrama, Yell-O and Vinapra) and draws crowds from all around India. A large number of the events are conducted and judged by professionals. Incident also has a rich heritage of quality literary events, named QuizFest, that have produced some of the brightest and best quizzers and debaters in the country. Another thing that makes Incident unique are the Beach events which no other college in the country can boast of. It is a major attraction for students to have fun on the exotic Arabian Sea coast.

Other regular activities

Students regularly organise various treks and trips to numerous scenic hills and waterfalls nearby. Some of the waterfalls and treks include Sita Falls, Agumbe, Jog Falls, Joomla Theertha, Kodachadri, Arshinagundi falls, and Kumara parvata.Trips to mysore are also organised

Infrastructure

Hostels

The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal is a residential engineering college hence all attending students are required to enroll for hostel accommodation. Students from adjoining areas commute from home, however, with a permission from the institution. Separate hostels are provided for women's accommodation. Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ...

There are 11 hostel blocks in all - 6 for under-graduate boys, 2 for post-graduates and 3 for girls. There are a total of about one thousand four hundred (1400) undergraduate students, three hundred and ten (310) postgraduate students and two hundred (200) women students. Hostel life forms the basis of social life at NITK, with hostel parties, cricket matches and other events taking place continuously, in parallel with academic rigor. Seniors are offered single room accommodation while juniors, sophomores and freshmen are required to live with roommates.

The hostels are equipped with dining halls for the students, however these operate for only specific times of the day. The eight dining halls provide basic Indian cuisine, inclusive of both vegetarian and non vegetarian menu. (There are separate vegetarian and non vegetarian halls). The quality of mess food is not appreciated by any student. The only allure to eat dinner during the Grand Dinner which is held once in a month is ice cream which is served then. Large-scale nepotism can be sighted in the functioning of the messes. Adulteration of mess-food is a common feature. Insects and other rural pests find their way into the food. The infamous fourth block is famous for its perennial water supply ( the one of a kind in campus ) a cause de "magic tap" which dispenses bathing water around the clock - 365 days a year . NITK has been a subject of water controversy lately enticing the director to advance the vacations to combat the water shortage. Water is hard found inspite of rains on campus and neighbouring catchment areas.

In addition to the regular messes that function out of the hostel blocks, there also are two "Night Canteens". The dining hall in the eighth block, run by a private vendor doubles up as a night canteen. The night canteens are open until 2:00 A.M.

The hostels have been connected to the college network using optic fibre cables and 1 Gbit/s backbone connections.

Ranking

NITK Surathkal was ranked the 1st best institute in the country for engineering in 2002, and 8th best in 2006 by India Today (a popular weekly magazine). In another ranking by NASSCOM, IDC and Dataquest Magazine^[3]the college was ranked 3rd best for placements in India with an overall ranking of 11. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Indian chamber of commerce that serves as an interface to the Indian Software Industry and Indian BPO Industry NASSCOM’s member companies are in the business of software development, software services, and IT-enabled/BPO services. ... IDC is an initialism that can stand for: International Datacasting Corporation, provides solutions for digital content distribution, located in Ottawa, Canada. ...

References

External links

• NITK Surathkal's Official Website

• NITK Alumni Website
• NITK on Wikimapia
• NITK Placement Website