IIT Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi
	IIT Delhi Logo
Type	Education and Research Institution
Established	1961
Director	Dr. S. Prasad
Undergraduates	2300
Postgraduates	2500
Location	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Campus	Urban, Area 320 acres (1.3 km2)
Acronym	IITD
Website	www.iitd.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (located at Hauz Khas) (formerly College of Engineering & Technology Delhi), commonly known as IIT-Delhi or IIT-D , is a major college of engineering in Delhi, India. It forms a part of the league along with other IITs in India: the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee.

History

The institute was established as College of Engineering & Technology, Delhi on August 21, 1961. Its foundation stone was laid by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and was inaugurated by Prof sudama, then Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs.

After less than two years of existence, Parliament of India amended Institutes of Technology Act, and upgraded the institute as Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The IIT Delhi main building was formally opened by Dr. Zakir Hussain, the then President of India, on March 2, 1978.

Campus

IIT Delhi is located in Hauz Khas, South Delhi. The longitudinal campus of 320 acres (1.3 km²) ^[1] is surrounded by the beautiful Hauz Khas area and monuments such as the Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple. The campus is also close to other educational institutions such as the Jawaharlal Nehru University. The inside of the campus resembles a well planned city with gardens, lawns, residential complexes and wide clean roads. The campus has its own water supply and backup electricity supply along with shopping complexes to cater to the daily needs of residents.

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A garden in IIT Delhi

The overall IIT-D campus is divided into four main zones:

Student Residential Zone
Faculty and Staff Residential Zone
Student Recreational Area, that includes the Student Activity Center (SAC), football stadium, cricket ground, basketball courts, hockey field, lawn tennis courts.
Academic Zone that includes department offices, lecture theaters, libraries and workshops.

The student residential zone is divided into two main sectors—one for men's hostels and another for women's hostels.

Hostels

There are, in total, 12 hostels (9 for boys and 3 for girls). Recently, a new eight story hostel has been constructed in front of main gate near Himadri House for girls only and the only hostel having lift facility.Many new ones are expected as the number of seats have jumped through the roof. Another new hostel is being constructed behind Satpura hostel. There are also apartments for married students. All the hostels (Known as Houses) are named after various mountain ranges in India—Shivalik, Aravali, Himadri, Jwalamukhi, Karakoram, Kailash, Kumaon, Nilgiri, Satpura, Vindhyachal and Zanskar. The residential apartments are named after ancient Indian universities—Taxila and Nalanda.

Each hostel has a capacity of around 400 students though some hostels can house 600 students^{[citation needed]}. However the women's hostels have a much smaller capacity. Each hostel has its own mess, a common room where residents can watch television and read magazine and newspapers and a visiting room where residents can receive their guests. In addition, each hostel has its own computer room facility, although its use has declined severely in past few years because increasingly, students now own personal computers in their rooms. All the hostel rooms are provided with an internet connection, a facility which has caused much debate among the faculty of the institute over the allegation that students spend much of their time on web-surfing and LAN gaming instead of completing their assignments and projects. No such facility is although provided in the residential apartments and their residents use the facilities of an assigned hostel.

Every hostel has a warden,who is a faculty of the college, and a caretaker. Hostels are in general self managed by students, with the warden not interfering in the hostel affairs, other than the clearing of bills and budget. A House Secretary is elected by the students for managing the affairs of the hostel, who is assisted by a mess secretary, a maintenance secretary, a cultural secretary(called cultu) and a sports secretary. Elections for the different positions are held in the end of March. The period of time surrounding these election processes is greatly popular among students, who delight in the joy of bitching around while campaigning and holding freshers captive for hours on end delivering what is commonly known as "fundae". There are 13 representatives(called reps) of the hostel, each representing one of the clubs of the Board for Cultural and Recreational Activities(BRCA), Board for Student Publication(BSP) and Board for Student Welfare(BSW). There are captains for each of the sports teams of the hostels that include Cricket, Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis, Hockey, Basketball, Badminton, Swimming, Athletics and Weightlifting.

There exists great inter hostel rivalry between hostels as they compete to win the trophies of the different boards by winning the various cultural and sports events that are held throughout the academic year. The BRCA and the BSA trophy are the most sought after trophies of the college.

Important inter hostel cultural events of the college are-

Music club (RHAPSODY)- Rock Night, Eastern Night, Western Night.

Dance and Dramatics Club(DnD)- Duo Dance, Group Dance, Stage Play, Street Play.

Quizzing Club(QC)- Various competitive and non-competitive quizzing events.

English Debating and Literary Club(EDLC)- Parliamentary Debate, other competitive and non-competitive events like word Games and Just a Minute(JAM).

Hindi Samiti(HS)- Parliamentary Debate, various other competitive and non-competitive events including word games.

Fine Arts Club(FAC)- Oil Painting, Mask Making, Charcoal Painting, clay Modelling Competition and other non-competitive events.

Film Series Committee(FSC)- Movie Making Competition. Screening of Popular and social awareness movies in the campus though getting low attendances.

Photography and Hobbies Society(PAHS)- Photography Competition, Skating Competition, Website building Competition, SuDoku Competition.

Indoor Sports Club(ISC)- Various competitions of indoor sports like snooker and chess.

Spic Macay- Various concerts of noted Indian artists in the campus.

Ragging at IIT Delhi

The college has been very vigilant on ragging issue and has taken serious steps to curb it. Particularly in the past few years, Institute has successfully endeavored in the direction of curbing this menace. The most notable cases took place during the summer of 2003 when several students from the hostels of Jwalamukhi and Karakoram among others were expelled for several semesters for incidents of mass ragging. The sentences were handed out after all-night sessions involving the then Dean of IIT (Prof HC Gupta) and the concerned students^{[citation needed]}. Another notable ragging case took place in August 2003 when a first year student Prakash Rajpurohit (of electrical engineering stream) fled(ran away) from IIT Delhi due to severe ragging. His father later registered a police complaint at the Hauz Khas police station. This later led to the arrest of four accused third year students. Later Rajpurohit returned to IIT Delhi after his safety was assured by the police.

Student Activity Center

The Student Activity Center or SAC is a part of the Student Recreation Zone in IIT Delhi. The SAC is mainly intended for extracurricular activities of the students. The SAC consists of a gymnasium, swimming pool, a pool room, three squash courts, two table tennis rooms, a music room, a fine arts room and a meeting room which is commonly used to organize quizzing and debating events. The SAC also consists of an Open Air Theater in which concerts of various kinds are hosted. Students can also use the radio broadcast facility in the SAC although its use has declined over the years.

Departments and Centers

IIT Delhi has 13 departments, 11 multi-disciplinary centers, and 2 schools of excellence. Together they offer around 700 courses every semester.^[2]

Departments

IIT Delhi has 13 departments. A department usually focuses on a single engineering or science discipline. Each department has its own administration structure with the Head of the Department (HoD) at the top of it. The HoD heads the department for a period of three years after which a new head is appointed. Each department offers a program (at the undergraduate or post-graduate level), some departments such as Mechanical Engineering Department, offer two or more undergraduate level programs and some departments collaborate with each other to offer a joint program. An example of the latter is the M.Tech in Optical Communications program which is offered by the Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering. The DMS (Department of Management Studies), IIT Delhi came into existence in 1993 by an amendment to IIT(D) statutes. The department offers a two year full time MBA programme with focus on Management Systems, a two year full time MBA with focus on Telecommunication Systems Management and a three year part time MBA programme with focus on Technology Management.

The academic departments in IIT Delhi include the following:

Inter-disciplinary centers

An inter-disciplinary center defers from a department in the fact that it deals with an overlap of two or more disciplines of engineering or science. Similar to the departments the centers also offer programs though they offer these courses only at the post-graduation level. The following multi-disciplinary centers are located in IIT Delhi:

Schools of excellence

A school of excellence is an externally funded (either from an alumnus or an organization) school functioning as a part of the institute. There are three such schools in IIT Delhi which are:

Academic Programmes

IIT Delhi, like all other Indian Institutes of Technology, is best known for its undergraduate program that include the Bachelor of Technology program , the Dual Degree Bachelor-cum-Master of Technology program and an Integrated Master of Technology Program. It also offers postgraduate level programs like Master of Technology, Master of Science, Master of Science (Research), Master of Business Administration, Master of Design (Industrial Design). Finally it also offers a Ph.D. program. The admission criteria for all these programs is different at the entry level. Throughout its history IIT Delhi has produced outstanding engineers and scientists through these programs.

Undergraduate Programs

IIT Delhi offers a Bachelor of Technology in 9 different major areas that include Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering (Power), Engineering Physics, Production and Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Textile Technology. The dual degree B.Tech-cum-M.Tech program is offered in Biochemical and Bio-Technology, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The integrated M.Tech program is only offered in Mathematics and Computing. The admission to these programs is done through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is organized by all the seven Indian Institutes of Technology jointly.

Post-Graduate Programs

The institute offers post graduate level programs in every department of Engineering that exists in the institute with varied areas of specialization. There are a number of inter-disciplinary programs also available. The list grows so huge that it would be unwise to enumerate it here. The admission criteria for the post graduation programs vary from one program to other and are the subject matter of the concerned department(s).

Admission Exams

JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) - For admissions to Under Graduate Programmes (BTech), MSc Integrated Courses, MTech Integrated Courses and Dual Degree MTech programmes.
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) - For admissions to Postgraduate Programmes in Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Science and Pharmacy.
JMET (Joint Management Entrance Test) - For admissions to PG Degree Programme in Management (MBA).
JAM (Joint Admission Test) - For admissions to MSc and other post BSc Programmes.
CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design) - For admissions to Master of Design (MDes) Programmes.

Extra Curricular

Festivals

Rendezvous is the annual cultural and arts festival held in the month of September. It is one of the largest of its kind in India. This festival attracts a huge crowd from colleges all over Delhi and other parts of the country. Some of the main events are Pronite, Kaleidoscope (Lifestyle and Choreography), Spectrum (Group Dance)and Blitzkrieg (Rock Competition and Concert).
Tryst is the annual technical festival that is held generally towards the end of February. People from all over the country come to participate in it. Some of the major events are Diathlon, Robowars, Algorhythm, C-maphore. The official website is tryst2010.in.

Technocracy

Technocracy

Started in January 2009, Technocracy is a students' movement to improve the level of student research and innovation in IIT Delhi. Online database of all projects done in IIT Delhi, Industry-Academia-Student collaboration, and organizing advance technical workshops are some of its initiatives. It works in close association with FITT, IIT Delhi and IRD Unit, IIT Delhi.

Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)

EDC

It is aimed at building an exhaustive resource pool to aid potential student entrepreneurs.

Communities

LUG@IITD is an unofficial student driven GNU/Linux User Community at IIT Delhi. LUG@IITD organises community driven workshops similar in spirit to barcamps. Other Activities undertaken by the group include:-
- Provide Helpful articles on its wiki based site.
- internal repository management for some distros.
- providing GNU/Linux related materials including distro ISOs to students.
- promoting free software culture in the institute.
- Providing linux help on its official google mailing list [1].
NSS@IITD is an initiative taken up by IIT Delhi students to take part in service of humanity. We wish to work towards building a beautiful world. We work for education of under privileged, Voluntary blood donation, Tree plantation and range of social and environmental issues. Various clubs under NSS@IITD include:-
- Health and Wellness Club.
- Education and social awareness club.
- Energy and Environment Club.
- Outreach and publication club.'''''
Rhapsody, the Music Club of IIT Delhi is the finest cultural club and is going to organise its inaugural fest called Ensemble from 12 to 14 Feb 2010.

External links

"IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awards".

Notable alumni

Industry

Rajat Gupta - former Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.
Vinod Khosla- co-founders, Sun Microsystems
Padmasree Warrior - CTO, Cisco Systems
Rajendra S. Pawar - co-founders, NIIT
Vijay K. Thadani - co-founders, NIIT
Raghuram Rajan
Gunjan Sinha - chairman of MetricStream
Yash Talreja
Y C Deveshwar, ITC
Sameer Gehlaut
Krishan Sabnani
Chetan Bhagat
Anurag Dikshit, Co-founder Partygaming
Vikrant Bhargava, Co-founder Partygaming
Akhil Gupta - Chairman Blackstone India

Other

Tushar Raheja
Kiran Bedi
Dr. Alex Pothen, Director, Computing Research Institute & Professor, Deptt. of Computer Science, Purdue University
Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
Dr. Amarpreet S. Sawhney, President & CEO of i-Therapeutix, USA
Raj Aggarwal, Dean, and Frank C. Sullivan Professor of International Business and Finance at the University of Akron College of Business Administration
Dr. Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Senior Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Dr. Sunil Chopra, Acting Dean and Distinguished Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

References

[1] Campus and Location Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

[2] Academics Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

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