National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana (founded a Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra) is a premier Technical Institute of the region. The institution has been consistently ranked amongst the top engineering colleges in India. Since 1963, like other Regional Engineering Colleges of India this institution too, had been a joint enterprise of the State and Central Governments. This Institute was conferred upon status of Deemed University on June 26, 2002. Since then it has been renamed as National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. (Deemed University) 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. ... Kurukshetra may refer to: The Kurukshetra war described in the Mahabharata, an Indian epic The town and district of Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For the town in Hoshiarpur district, see Hariana. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or 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... Deemed University is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

History

The first admission to a five-year B.Sc. (Engg.) Degree Courses were made by the Institute in July, 1963 at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, with 60 student at each place.

The Institute started functioning in its present campus at Kurukshetra in 1965-66 with 120 students admitted in the first year of the Five-Year Courses of study for the B.Sc. (Engg.) Degree in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. The annual intake was increased to 250 students in 1966-67. B.Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering was added in 1971-72. in 1967-68 M. Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering was added in 1971-72. In 1967-68 M. Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and in 1971-72, a Postgraduate diploma in Scientific instrumentation were also started. In July 1976 Part-Time M. Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering and instrumentation were started. The First registration for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology was made in July 1967.

The Institute changed over to the 4-year B.Tech. Degree courses with effect from the academic year 1985-86. The new courses was designated as B. Tech. The annual intake at present is 540.

Special three-year degree courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, designated as 'Bachelor of Engineering for in-service engineering diploma holders were introduced from the session 1982-83.However These courses have been discontinued by the Govt. of Haryana since 2000-2001

The 2-year M. Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in various disciplines were redesignated as M. Tech. degree courses with effect form the session 1983-84.Now the duration of the Courses is 2 years.

From the Session 1987-88, the Institute introduced a four-year B. Tech. degree programme in Computer Engineering with an intake of 30 students. The institute also introduced a full time M. Tech. Degree courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering with and intake of 13. The intake of B. Tech. Electronics and communication Engineering degree courses was increased from 30 to 60 from the session 1987-88. Full time M. Tech. degree courses in Water Recourses (Civil Engineering Dept.) was introduced in 1989-90.

In addition to providing in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate level, the Institute offers excellent facilities for advanced research in the emerging areas of Science and Technology. The syllabus and the curricula are constantly being updated to meet the growing demands and need of the country in different areas of technology. The infrastructure is geared to enable the Institute to turn out technical personnel of a high quality.

NIT Kurukshetra

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Location

Kurukshetra, steeped in history, is a place of great spiritual significance, where Lord Krishna, delivered the divine message of "Shrimad Bhagwad Gita". The place from where knowledge spread far and wide was chosen as his capital by King Harshwardhana. It is one of the premier centres of pilgrimage attracting devotees in a steady stream all-round the year. Kurukshetra is a railway junction on the Delhi-Karnal-Ambala section of the Northern Railway. It is about 160 km. from Delhi. The Institute campus is about 10 km. from Pipli, a well known road junction on the Sher Shah Suri Marg and about 5km from Kurukshetra Railway station. Kurukshetra may refer to: The Kurukshetra war described in the Mahabharata, an Indian epic The town and district of Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the Hindu deity. ... Krishna to Arjuna: Behold My mystic opulence! Artwork © courtesy of The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit: भगवद् गीता - Bhagavad Gītā) is an ancient Sanskrit text comprising some 700 verses of the Mahabharata (Bhishma Parva chapters 23 – 40). ... For other uses, see Delhi (disambiguation). ... Karnal district, in Haryana, India, has an area of 1,967 sq km and its population is 8,85,000. ... , Ambala (Hindi: अंबाला) is a city and a municipal council in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India. ... Sher Shah Suri Sher Shah Suri (1486 – 1545) (Pashto/Persian: - Šīr-Šāh Ṣūrī) also known as Sher Khan and as The Lion King, was founder of the Sur Dynasty of northern Indian rulers. ...

Departments

• Civil
• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Electronics & Communications
• Computer
• Information Technology
• Industrial and Production Engineering
• Business Administration
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Humanities

Distinguished alumni

The contribution and achievements of the NIT alumni have always been somewhat lost in the glare and publicity of their counterparts from the IITs. NIT Kurukshetra boasts of a long list of distinguished alumni both in India and abroad who have gone on to make a name for themselves and for their alma mater. The long list of distinguished alumni includes

• P K Munjal, MD, Hero Honda
• Adesh Gupta, Chairman, Liberty Shoes
• Srini Raju, Chairman, I-LAbs
• Rakesh Bakshi, PadmaShree Awardee
• Sanjay Dhawan, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer of Aricent Technologies
• Biraj Adhikari, Deputy CM of Sikkim
• K K Agarwala, Vice-Chancellor, GGS Indraprastha University
• Rohit Sharma, Founder and CTO ONI systems (acquired by CIENA)

External links

• National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
• NIT alumni website - Largest database of all NIT'ians