National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

NITT Seal
Type	Institute of National Importance
Established	1964
Director	Dr. M. Chidambaram
Academic staff	200
Undergraduates	2,600(approx)
Postgraduates	1,200(approx)
Location	Tiruchirapalli , Tamil Nadu , India
Website	www.nitt.edu

The National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, NIT Trichy, (formerly known as Regional Engineering College (REC), Trichy) is situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of the river Cauvery. It was started as a joint and cooperative venture between the Government of India and Government of Tamil Nadu in 1964.

National Institute of Technology Trichy is one of the 20 National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India. Today, NITT is an autonomous co-educational technological institute, with 10 undergraduate and 22 graduate programs. Undergraduate programs lead to the B.Tech degrees, while the graduate students and postgraduate students earn M.Tech and Ph. D degrees respectively. NITT also has a management and architecture school. NITT is located in Thuvakudi on the Trichy-Tanjore national highway, some 17 km from Trichy Railway Junction.

History

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The entrance to the campus

The National Institute of Technology (formerly known as Regional Engineering College) Tiruchirappalli, situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of river Cauvery, was started as a joint and co-operative venture of the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1964 with a view to catering to the needs of man-power in technology for the country. The college has been conferred with autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development. Because of this rich experience, this institution was granted Deemed University Status with the approval of the UGC/AICTE and Govt. of India in the year 2003 and renamed as National Institute of Technology. NIT-T was registered under Societies Registration Act XXVII of 1975.

The Chairman of NIT-T is Mr. R Seshasayee (Managing Director, Ashok Leyland Ltd.) elected to office in 2005, and the Director of NIT-T is Prof. M Chidambaram from 2006.

Presently the institute is undergoing an accelerated growth phase through the World Bank funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)

Academics

Admissions to the undergraduate course is competitive, and done through the AIEEE. Admission to the post-graduate programs require competitive scores in both GATE and an All India Entrance Exam conducted by the admitting department. The alumni of the institution have excelled in various fields and are well positioned in a number of government and private sectors.

The Institute has several departments along with a faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical support staff and an effective administration.

The various departments in the institute are as follows :

• Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Computer Applications
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Instrumentation and Control Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
  • Production Engineering

• Science
  • Chemistry
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Computer Applications

• Humanities

• Management Studies

• Architecture

Vision

To contribute to India and the World through excellence in scientific and technical education; to serve as a valuable resource for industry and society; and increase the human values and sustain the heritage of India.

Mission

To promote academic growth by offering state-of-the-art undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes.

To generate new knowledge by engaging in cutting-edge research.

To identify, based on an informed perception of Indian, regional and global needs, areas of specialization upon which the Institute can concentrate.

To undertake collaborative projects which offer opportunities for long-term interaction with academia and industry.

To develop human potential to its fullest extent of intellectual capability.

Values

Academic integrity and Accountability

Equality

Social Relevance

Intellectual Excellence and Creativity

Entrepreneurship

Campus

Residential facilities are provided for most of the students and staff in the spacious college campus of about 900 acres (3.6 km²), one of the largest campuses in India. Essential and basic amenities including a hospital, post & telegraph facilities, a telecom Centre, fully computerized State Bank of India branch with ATM facility, a book shop, a reprographic Centre, canteens, Co-op. Stores are provided in the campus making it a self-contained mini-township.

Academic Zone The academic zone of the institute includes the ten departments buildings, laboratories, auditoria, a centralized lecture theatre building, the state-of-the-art computer centres that comprise the Octagon, and the main library.

A new digital library, a primary school building and a modern hospital are some of the many projects and buildings currently under construction in campus.

Residential Zone The residential zones primarily comprise of thirteen boys' and one girls' hostels. They accommodate 2507 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Committees consisting of staff representatives and elected student representatives manage them. The messes are equipped to serve both South Indian and North Indian dishes as the student fabric is of a truly national character. The institute has its own transport for procuring the raw materials for the messes.

Each hostel is managed by a Warden. The first year UG boys' hostels have two resident deputy wardens, while the girls' hostel has three resident deputy wardens. The Hostel Executive Committee headed by the Convener and the DCW coordinates the work among wardens and deputy wardens. Hostels are provided with amenities like televisions, DOT telephones, Intercom, water purifiers and coolers, indoor and outdoor sports kits, washing machines and student-managed amenity centres. The Hostel office consisting of Hostel Manager, one Senior Superintendent and supporting staff looks after the day-to-day operations. Hostels of NIT Trichy currently are:

1. Agate
2. Beryl
3. Coral
4. Diamond
5. Emerald
6. Garnet A
7. Garnet B
8. Jade
9. Lapis
10. Opal(Girls)
11. Pearl
12. Ruby
13. Sapphire
14. Topaz

Several hostels are presently under construction

Administration and Maintenance The administrative building, popularly referred to as the Ad-Block, and characterised by its clock tower houses the administrative centres of the institute as well as the offices of the director and deans.

The maintenance of the campus is carried out by the estate and electrical maintenance department, that carries out electrical and civil maintenance operations, the refrigeration maintenance department and the new hostel administrative office.

The campus is provided with several security posts and a central security and surveillance centre. All department buildings and hostels have well trained and equipped security guards.

NITT's computer support facility is the Octagon_computer_center, this centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). This centre is open 24/7. Octagon mainly uses Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS as its preferred operating system, the web and email servers run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS OS. It has a new Sun sponsored lab running Solaris. NITT has a campus-wide Local Area Network with 10Gbit/s backbone and an 8 Mbit/s Internet connection through Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).

Notable Alumnus

• Guruswami Ravichandran, Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Satya Prabhakar Founder and CEO of Sulekha.com - the largest portal for Indian community
• Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan, Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan Technical Lighting Director of the Shrek Oscar winning team. Vanitha graduated from REC-Trichy with a bachelor degree in Architecture. Since her Oscar winning movie, she has spoken in NIT-Trichy in the A2 hall to proud faculty members of the Architecture department. She is an inspiration to many budding Architects in NIT-T.
• Ram Krishnamurthy, made it to the MIT Technology review magazine 2006, top 35 innovators list. He graduated from NIT-Trichy in Electrical engineering.
• Srikanth Padmanabhan, is Managing Director of the Cummins Power Generation business (NEWAGE AVK SEK) based in Lincolnshire, UK. Srikanth holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy (Class of 1986) and a Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1991.
• Seetharaman Narayanan, team member of Adobe's Photoshop software.
• Jana Kanyadan, is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer for American Public Media, based in Minneapolis/St Paul, USA. Jana graduated in 1991 from REC, Trichy (Mechanical Engineering), has a Masters from Iowa State University and MBA from Duke University
• S Janakiraman
• Dr.P.Raja Goundan, Shri T.Sankaralingam, Shri K. Ravi Kumar, Shri R.Ravimohan, Shri B.Kanaga Sabapathy, Shri T.Madhanagopal, Dr Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Shri R.Sriraman, Shri P.Swaminathan, Shri Shyam Chetty, Shri Babu Mandava
• Dr Meyya Meyyappan, is with NASA nanotechnology program.
• Y Sailendra who graduated from the institute in 1976 went on to do his Master's in Industrial Engineering at NPC and then set up a rubber retreading unit. He is now a professional photographer and also a great exponent of Buddha's teachings and his way of life

Student life

The spirit of being in NITT is the freedom one gets, to explore life, without compulsions, without any crushing force from academic pressures; generally people pursue one or more skills, join clubs and groups to work for their own self on something disconnected from academics.

The best part about NIT Trichy (specially engineering courses) is that the intake of students is from all over India. Each state has a fixed number of seats for each branch. The end result is that for any branch, there are students of different states/culture/language. As most of the students stay in hostel, it gives them a chance to really know about each other. Everyone learns to respect the different lifestyle of each individual.

Extracurricular activities include participation in NCC, NSS, literary clubs, trekking clubs, photographic clubs and students' chapters of IEEE, SPICMACAY, Entrepreneurship Cell, CRY. A modern gymnasium and other sports facilities are also available in the campus.

Festivals

Prominent events at NITT include Festember, a 3 day cultural extravaganza for colleges in the region. Technical symposiums are conducted by the departments, during the months of January to March, every year.

• Festember (Festember Website), an annual cultural and literary festival, held in the month of September.
• Pragyan (Pragyan Website), an annual technical festival (started in 2005).
• NITTFEST, an annual inter-departmental cultural and literary festival.

Student Organizations

• Entrepreneurship Cell of NITT

Technical Clubs

• ACM Student's Chapter(First Chapter in India)
• IEEE Student Branch, NITT
• Robotics and Machine Intelligence, NITT

Cultural Organisations

• Amruthavarshini
• Dance Troupe of NITT
• Music Troupe of NITT
• Cinema Paradiso

Social Clubs

• CRY Club of NITT
• Wisdom Club
• Rotaract Club of Rock City
• Rotaract Club of NITT
• UNESCO Club of NITT
• Leo Club of NITT

See also

• Official homepage
• Alumni Site
• Virtual Campus Tour
• ConnectNIT