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The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is located in Roorkee, a 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] Prior to independence, it awarded the degrees of the University of Calcutta and the Allahabad University, to which it was successively affiliated, followed by its own diplomas. It was restructured in 1948 as the University of Roorkee, as the first engineering university of modern India.
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeThe oldest institute of technical education in Asia and the erstwhile British Empire to award its own degrees (as the College of Engineering, Guindy was not a degree granting institution since its inception in 1794), IIT Roorkee celebrated its sesquicentennial (150th year) anniversary in October 1996. On 21 September 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".[2] Building_IIT-Roorkee.JPG.html)
IIT Roorkee offers a wide range of academic programmes. It runs eleven Under Graduate, five Integrated Dual Degree, three Integrated M.Tech.,three integrated M.Sc., sixty one Post Graduate and several Doctoral Programmes.[3] 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 an 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 for 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. HeritageThe College was established in year 1847 as the first engineering college in the British Empire.[4] 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. 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).[5] Timeline
1842 Ganga canal construction begins 1847 Sir James Thomason proposes and NWP approves Engineering College on 25 November 1848 (1 January) 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 University of Calcutta 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 University 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 University 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, Telecommunication 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) 1963 Chemical Engineering Started. 1964 Humanities, Electronics & Communications 1964 The batch due to graduate in summer was accelerated to January and the batch of 1965 graduated in November 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 1983 Computer Science and Technology 1986 Bioscience and Biotechnology 1996 Information Superhighway Centre(ISC) 1998 Manangement Studies 2001 (21 September) UoR converted to IIT 2007 establishment of new CENTRAL LIBRARY Academics
ResearchThe Institute has several departments and advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and the pure sciences. 
The engineering departments of the institute include:
The departments dealing with pure sciences in the institute are:
In addition to them, there are also specialised centers, that are:
Academic CollaborationThe Institute has Academic Collaboration with the following universities:
CampusWith 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).[7] 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. IIT Roorkee also has a Saharanpur Campus of 25 acres (100,000 m2) which offers courses in Polymer Science, Process Engineering and Paper Technology.[8] Hostels(Bhawans)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 doctoral students. Students are assigned to hostels by the Institute Administration after their freshmen year. The hostels are named after eminent personalities of India and Britain during the Indian Freedom Struggle. The hostels are:
In addition to these hostels, there are four hostels for married students, doctoral students and foreign students:
Several new hostels are being constructed to accommodate an increasing intake of students. MessEach bhawan has its mess, which is run on the basis of tenders. Mess administration consists of a staff advisor and a chief advisor. Moreover a mess secretory, representative of students, is also in the body for decisions on various the mess-issues. Student life
The technical fest of IIT Roorkee is called "Cognizance", the cultural fest is called "Thomso"and the nature & hobbies fest is called SRISHTI. Also, 'Rave' is another cultural fest arranged by the students at the Saharanpur Campus. There are a annual magazine namely "LIONS" and two campus magazines brought out by the students of IITR namely "Watch Out" and "Kshitij". Also, the students at the Saharanpur Campus bring out a bi-annual campus magazine named 'Renaissance'. The institute 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, programme management, Audio Section and light section. It also 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. Hobbies ClubThe Hobbies Club is the only one of its kind amongst all the IITs. It aims at facilitating activities under its 8 sections: Electronics, Fine Arts, Gardening, Model Section, Philately and Numismatics, Photography, Star Gazing and Web Designing. The hobbies club council is headed by a Chief Advisor, who is well supported by two Deputy Chief Advisors (for administration and finance) and a council secretary (student representative). Further each section has its own personnel and technicians for proper working. The personnel consist of a Staff Advisor supported by one Secretary and a Joint Secretary, who are selected from amongst the members. This Administrative Hierarchy ensures active student participation as well as the smooth running of the Hobbies Club. The hobbies club also hosts India's some of the most talked about events like SRISHTI which is an all India contest encompassing technical institutes and educational institutions across the country. Information Management GroupOfficial website 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. Strong linkages of IMG with academia, workplace professionalism, and in-house training and learning have helped it to 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. Himalayan Explorers' ClubThe Mountaineering & Trekking Club founded in 1971 was the forerunner of the Himalayan Explorers' Club (HEC). Between 1971 & 1974 the Institute Sports Association nurtured the Mountaineering & Trekking Club which fostered all mountaineering, trekking and outward bound activities amongst science, engineering and professional student community of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. In July 1975 the first major high altitude expedition in the Himalayas was organized successfully in joint collaboration with the Nainital Mountaineering Club, Nainital. With effect from the academic session of 1975-76 , the Mountaineering and Trekking Club was rechristened as the Himalayan Explorers' Club (HEC). Between July 1976 and August 1977 , the HEC organized a series of three major expeditions in the Garhwal Himalayas (to Mt. Rudragaigra (19500 ft) in July 1976, to Mt. Thelu (20,000 ft) in October 1976 and to Mt. Kedar Dome (23,000 ft) in June 1977) in which as many as 35 students of the University of Roorkee participated. With effect from the academic session of 1978-79 , the Himalayan Explorers' Club was accorded the status of a separate functional body . As an independent body, HEC, was restructured and to start with had three different sections:
In its enlarged form as of today, HEC encompasses three more sections. They are:
In addition to organizing mountaineering and high altitude trekking expeditions, rock and ice craft training camps, HEC has during the last ten years pioneered in the field of organizing a new generation of Himalayan expeditions which seek to combine high adventure feats with a whole range of specialized creative endeavors in the Himalayas. NSSNational Service Scheme With the goal to work for the betterment of society and instill the spirit of social service among the young students, IIT Roorkee established NSS at institute level, headed by Dean of Students Welfare, IIT Roorkee. Currently, NSS, IIT Roorkee has over 200 active members from different disciplines, working rigorously for community health care, literacy drives, and environmental protection. Blood donation camps, AIDS awareness camps, informative lecture on Human values are organized regularly. As highlighted by the motto ' Not for me, but for the nation ' the aim of the organization is to produce engineers, who are socially responsible, and work for the development of nation.Recently,Right To Information (RTI) Cell was also formed under NSS,which would help in spreading awareness about RTI in campus and help students in drafting RTI applications.One Laptop per child(OLPC) initiative has also been taken up by NSS and IIT Roorkee chapter for the same has been formed which would work for the widespread publicity of this noble project. For more details ,visit http://www.iitr.ac.in/campus_life/web/nss/ Watch OutOfficial 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 a group of students came up with a novel idea of a newsletter. First issue of Watch out was printed on computer stationery. 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. AUDIO SECTION[1] AUDIO SECTION is the section which manages all types of sounds in the IITR campus, let it be soft and soothing tunes of the Classical night or the hard-hitting head banging songs of the Rock Show, Audio takes care of all. Audio Section with an efficient team from all the years, provide the acoustics for events all around the year like Pehla Nasha, Swaranjali, Rock Show, etc. Loaded with state-of-the-art Aural and Mega Speakers the main attraction of the Audio Section is its known DJ nights, which are recognized as the best DJ nights of the campus, even better than the one those organized during Thomso. But along with the core work of the section, Audio section has been evolving regularly and the latest feather in its already illustrious cap is its very own Online radio - CampusBeats @ http://192.168.122.123 which is first of its kind in all IITs, which is a step forward in the ultimate of bringing the campus its very own ON AIR radio. CampusBeats provides the students with an Online Radio where they listen to scheduled programs and all sorts of music. It provides info-tairment to the campus thus it has all featured programmes like TOP30 of d week, Chai with Chirkut, campus sansani and a lot more. Lastly, Audio Section is dedicated to provide the students of this IIT campus with magic of sound and the fun of mixing them and will always strive to give them the best output possible for years and years to come. SPIC MACAY[www.iitr.ac.in/spicmacay/] SPIC MACAY stands for Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth. It is a non profit, voluntary organization which aims at fighting deculturisation of India by promoting classical music. SPIC MACAY IIT Roorkee Chapter is managed by a group of student enthusiasts who are engaged in a constant endeavor to create further awareness and appreciation of our culture. By organizing classical dance, folks, vocals and lectures on campus as well as in the neighboring schools, IIT Roorkee chapter tries to contribute maximum to the rich Indian culture. EDCThe Entrepreneurship Development Cell of IIT-Roorkee , commonly known as EDC, has been established with the objective of creating, fostering and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth of the nation. Created in the early months of 2006, the cell has already taken rapid strides in cultivating entrepreneurial temper and has succeeded in carving a niche for itself. The cell has organized a plethora of events under its aegis in the few months since its inception and these events have witnessed healthy participation from students, not only from IIT-Roorkee but also from colleges all across the country. In pursuance of its goals, the cell has set up both short and long-term objectives. The short term objectives aim at bolstering an environment conducive for entrepreneurial thinking and action through the organization of a variety of entrepreneurship-oriented events such as business plan contests, case studies, business quizzes, social entrepreneurship issues' solutions and so forth. The long term objectives aim at setting up an incubator at IIT-Roorkee for aiding students who have a marketable idea or project and aspire to start their own ventures. RenaissanceRenaissance, a newly founded literary magazine of IIT Roorkee's Saharanpur Campus 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 6 October 2002. The magazine besides bringing out point of view of students also, serves as a forum to publish the achievements of the students of the campus to industry, the alumni of the institute and other academic institutions. In past the magazine has served as vital point of contact of the student to the other stakeholders of the erstwhile IPT Campus (now called Saharanpur campus).
Phoenix Students cultural SocietyPhoenix Students cultural Society is a group aimed to bring out the talent in students of IIT Roorkee Saharanpur Campus. Currently going transitions to replicate the structure as hobbies club of roorkee campus, it has all the clubs and sections which nurture to the needs of students. Visit its temporary website at http://www.phoenix_iitr.byethost18.com/ References
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