Jump to content

IIEST, Shibpur

Coordinates: 22°33′21″N 88°18′20″E / 22.55583°N 88.30556°E / 22.55583; 88.30556
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 14.139.69.34 (talk) at 21:56, 12 February 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur)
Former names
Calcutta Civil Engineering College
Government Engineering College, Howrah
Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur
Bengal Engineering College
Bengal Engineering and Science University
MottoUttiṣṭhita jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata (Sanskrit)
Motto in English
Arise, Awake, Obtaining worthy Teachers, Know the truth
TypePublic
Established24 November 1856; 167 years ago (24 November 1856)
ChairmanV. K. Aatre
DirectorParthasarathi Chakrabarti[1][2]
Location
Shibpur, Howrah
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°33′21″N 88°18′20″E / 22.55583°N 88.30556°E / 22.55583; 88.30556
CampusUrban , 123 acres
Websitewww.iiests.ac.in

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur) is a premier public engineering institution located at Shibpur, Howrah district, West Bengal. In engineering category, it is ranked 19th by the NIRF rankings among all the institutes of the country. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance[3] under MHRD by the Government of India along with IITs , NITs and other institutes.[4] Established in 1856 by Python Baba , IIEST Shibpur is the 2nd oldest engineering institution of the country, right after IIT Roorkee.

History

Establishment

Bengal Engineering College (1870)
Bengal Engineering College (1870)
The Clock Tower, IIEST

In 1906 Mining Engineering as a discipline was first started in India in this college to meet the requirements of statutory provision in Indian mines. After independence, Dr. B. C. Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, revamped the department to satisfy the demand for mining professionals, and the Department of Mining & Geology was reborn in 1956. On 12 February 1920 the name was changed to Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur. The word Shibpur was deleted on 24 March 1921 and it became Bengal Engineering College.[5] The Department of Electrical Engineering came into existence as a separate department from 1912. The B.E. degree course was introduced during 1935–36 with the first batch obtaining the degree from Calcutta University in 1936.The inception of the Mechanical Engineering Department may be traced back to 1921 when a diploma course in Mechanical Engineering was started in this Institute. The first degree course in Mechanical Engineering started in July 1930. The Department of Metallurgy started its journey at the Bengal Engineering College in the year 1939 with the introduction of a three-year degree course in Metallurgy under the Calcutta University. The department is the second oldest metallurgy department of the country.

Post-independence period

After the independence of India in 1947, the Department of Architecture, Town and Regional Planning was started on the recommendation of a committee appointed by Government of West Bengal. Two new courses were started at the same time – one with a five-year degree programme in Architecture another with a two-year part-time diploma programme in Town & Regional Planning. The Department of Architecture, Town and Regional Planning (established in 1949) that offered the First Degree in Architecture and the First Diploma in Town Planning in INDIA. This department has produced more than 800 graduates in Architecture and more than 300 postgraduates in Town Planning in the last fifty years. Its students also founded the National Association of Students of Architecture, briefly designated as NASA India, a non-political, non-profit Student Body Association for the Undergraduate Students of Architecture in India in 1957, with six other colleges. With the end of the Second World War, a 'Committee for the Development of Higher Engineering and Technical Education in Bengal' under the Chairmanship of the Director of Public Instruction recommended two plans – one 'Immediate' and the other 'Five Year Plan' for the college. The college celebrated its gala centenary function inaugurated by Dr. B.C. Roy on 25 December 1956, and the concluding session was attended by Pandit Jawarlal Nehru on 14 January 1957. The Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering started functioning as a separate discipline of engineering in July 1968. The college started its first Computer Centre in 1976 and a Microprocessor Laboratory in 1979. The 125th Anniversary of the college was celebrated on 11 December 1981, with inauguration by Sri N. Sanjiva Reddy, the then President of India. The Department of Computer Science and Technology was established in 1982. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses. Formal inauguration was done on 13 March 1993, by the then President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma. [5] School of Management Sciences (SMOS) and School of Information Technology were established in 1998 and 2000 respectively. It is the second youngest of the ten engineering departments in BESU. The School of Material Science and Engineering (2001), School of Community Science and Technology (2002) were introduced. On 1 October 2004 the institution was elevated to a full-fledged university with the present name.[5] It was formally inaugurated by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the President of India, on 13 July 2005.[citation needed] In 2010 Department of Aerospace Engineering started along with the Applied Mechanics department.

Conversion of BESU to IIEST

That is Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (BESU) has become the first IIEST of the country with effect from 4 March 2014. The conversion process of BESU to IIEST shall be mentored by IIT Kanpur[6]. It was upgraded to the status of Institutes of National Importance under the banner of Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology, thus renaming it IIEST Shibpur by suitably amending the National Institutes of Technology and Science Education and Research Act, 2007.[7]. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated The IIEST on 24 August 2014[8][9].

In June 2014, Govt. of West Bengal appointed IIEST Shibpur as the Mentor Institute for Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, the eleventh addition to the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) family of engineering institutes.[10][11] It was inaugurated by the President of India on 24 August 2014.

Academics

Admission Procedure

Admission to most undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IIEST Shibpur is granted through written entrance examinations. For UG programmes , currently it's JEE (Main) conducted by the National Testing Agency. For PG programmes admission is through GATE for M.Tech courses and Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. for MSc.

Library

The area of the library is 3,000 square meters. The collection of books is about 158,000 and 41,000 bound volumes of journals, and a collection of documents, such as patents, standards, technical reports and pamphlets. The library has old and rare books and journals of the nineteenth century. The library not only caters the information needs of faculty members,research scholars and students of the institute but also provides information services to research workers of neighboring universities and research institutes. It has procured integrated library management software LIBSYS-7 including WebOPAC and necessary state of the art hardwares. The Library subscribes seven subject collections of Elsevier’s Science Direct. The Library is a member of E-SHODH SINDHU: Consortium for Higher Education Electronic Resources (An Initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India).[12]

Fests

OIKOTAAN 5 performance
Guest performance in OIKOTAAN

IIEST Shibpur has festivals like REBECA, KRITI, INSTRUO , SCINTILLATIONS, OIKOTAAN.

  • REBECA(REunion and Bengal Engineering College Annuals), is the cultural fest of IIEST Shibpur. It is the oldest student-organised festival in India. From REBECA's very inception since 1932, it has been the annual reunion function of the then B.E. College, later on it has been transformed into an annual college fest cum reunion, being the biggest of its kind in eastern India. It is held in the even semester. REBECA consists of 4 nights: Classical Night (decorated with amazing performances by well known classical singers and dance groups such as Dipankar Roy, Violin Brothers), BEings Night (performances by the students of IIEST Shibpur portraying their talent including dance competitions followed by performance by bands like Fossils), Kolkata Night (spellbinding performances by artists and bands from Kolkata such as Underground Authority, Euphoria, The Local Train giving local artists a huge platform to show their talent) and Mumbai Night (sensational performances by various Bollywood sensations such as Mika Singh, Shreya Ghosal, Shaan, Javed Ali, KK, Benny Dayal and Shefali Alvares).
  • KRITI is organised by SCAGE( Society for Creative Arts and Green Environment).
  • INSTRUO is the technical fest of the institute. It is the largest technical fest of Kolkata.
  • SCINTILLATIONS is the E-Summit organised by EDC (Entrepreneurship Development Cell, IIEST Shibpur) and is one of the largest of its kind in Kolkata.
  • OIKOTAAN is the annual flagship event of Euphony, the Music Society of IIEST Shibpur.[13] It is an open and interactive music concert dedicated to original music.

Rankings

University and college rankings

IIEST Shibpur was ranked "19" among engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019[14] and "36" overall.[15] It was ranked 18th among engineering colleges in India in 2019 by The Week.[16]

Notable faculty

Notable members of the faculty include:

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ "Director". www.iiests.ac.in. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Director".
  3. ^ {{Cite web|url= https://mhrd.gov.in/institutions-national-importance }}
  4. ^ "The Gazette of India" (PDF). Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Bengal Engineering And Science University, Shibpur – The University". becs.ac.in. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  6. ^ "Pranab nod to Besu upgrade". www.telegraphindia.com.
  7. ^ "Press Information Bureau". pib.gov.in.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?1060
  10. ^ "Bengal's first IIIT in Kalyani to start from July – Times of India".
  11. ^ "IIIT Kalyani :: About IIIT".
  12. ^ "Ramanujan Central Library". library.iiests.ac.in. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Euphony- The Music Society of IIEST Shibpur". Euphony. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  14. ^ "MHRD, National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF)". www.nirfindia.org.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_NIRF_O_2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_WEEK_E_2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ "Narratives: J.S. Slater". Museum of the History of Science. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  18. ^ "Former Bengal power minister Sankar Sen passes away". Outlook. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  19. ^ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 84 Members and 22 Foreign Members" (Press release). National Academy of Engineering. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  20. ^ "Sir Rajen Mookerjee". Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  21. ^ Ahmed, Wakil (2012). "Sengupta, Jatindranath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IIEST,_Shibpur&oldid=940496154"