Former names |
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|---|---|
| Motto | श्रमं विना न किमपि साध्यम् (Sanskrit) |
Motto in English | Nothing can be achieved without hard work |
| Type | Public technical university |
| Established | 1847 |
| Affiliation | UGC |
| Director | Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi |
Academic staff | 514[1] |
| Students | 8,020[1] |
| Undergraduates | 3,598[1] |
| Postgraduates | 2,130[1] |
| 2,292[1] | |
| Location | , , 29°51′52″N 77°53′47″E / 29.86444°N 77.89639°E |
| Campus | Urban 365 acres (1.48 km2) |
| Language | English, Hindi |
| Website | www |
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a public technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
The oldest engineering institution in India,[2] IIT Roorkee was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in British India in 1847 by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, in order to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the Ganges Canal.[3] In 1854, after the completion of the canal and Thomason's death, it was renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering by Proby Cautley, the designer and projector of the canal.[4][5] It was renamed University of Roorkee in 1949, and again IIT Roorkee in 2001. The institution has 22 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with an emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.[6]
History edit
The institution was founded in 1847 by James Thomason, the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces (in which Roorkee then lay) to aid engineers and surveyors at work in the construction of the Ganges Canal. It offered instruction catered to a variety of students; this included an engineering class for the domiciled British and some Indians; an upper subordinates class for British noncommissioned officers; and a lower subordinates class for Indian surveyors. By the mid-1880s, "the school has a hundred students, substantial buildings, and a reputation as an important center for the study of hydraulic engineering."[3][2][5]
An Electrical Engineering department was added in 1897.[7] The architecture department instituted a master's degree course in Architecture (M. Arch.) in 1969–70.[8]
In 1978, the Institute of Paper Technology, Saharanpur was merged with the then University of Roorkee. The Institute of Paper Technology was established as School of Paper Technology by the Government of India in 1964, with an aid from the Royal Swedish Government. The school was renamed as the Institute of Paper Technology in July 1968 and subsequently Department of Paper Technology in July 1992.[9]
The first edition of Thomso, the institute's annual cultural festival was held in 1982.
On 21 September 2001, an ordinance issued by the Government of India declared it as the nation's seventh Indian Institute of Technology, renaming it to the current name, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The ordinance was converted into an act by the Parliament to make IIT Roorkee an "Institution of National Importance".[10]
Campus edit
The main campus in Roorkee has an area of 365 acres (1,480,000 m2).[11]
IIT Roorkee has a separate campus of 25 acres (100,000 m2) in Saharanpur which offers courses in Polymer Science, Process Engineering, Paper Technology & Packaging Technology [11] In addition to this, a new ten-acre campus has been established in Greater Noida, Knowledge Park II, which was inaugurated on 4 April 2011. The Noida extension centre has 16 lecture rooms, software laboratories, faculty offices, a library and a computer center.[12]
- ^ a b c d e "NIRF 2019" (PDF). IIT Roorkee.
- ^ a b Subramanian, Ajantha (2019), The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 30–31, ISBN 978-0-674-98788-3,
Before the 1854 despatch, there was already one engineering college in operation: the Thomason College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee. The college was founded in 1847 in response to the demand for civil engineers to aid the construction of the Ganges Canal in the North-west Provinces.
- ^ a b Headrick, Daniel R. (1988), The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 317, ISBN 0-19-505115-7,
The first engineering college was an outgrowth of the Ganges Canal. Named after the lieutenant governor of the North-Western Provinces who founded it in 1847, the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee trained employees for the irrigation branch of the Public Works Department. It offered different curricula for different types of students: an engineering class for domiciled Europeans and a few Indians, an upper subordinates class to train British noncommissioned officers as construction foremen, and a lower subordinates class to train Indian surveyors. By the mid-1880s, the school has a hundred students, substantial buildings, and a reputation as an important center for the study of hydraulic engineering.
- ^ Brown, Joyce (1980), "A Memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F.R.S., 1802–1871, Engineer and Palaeontologist", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 34 (2): 185–225, doi:10.1098/rsnr.1980.0008, JSTOR 531808, S2CID 145414793
- ^ a b Derr, Jennifer L. (2019), Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt, Stanford University Press, p. 44 (digital), ISBN 9781503609662,
–... the British government established the College of Civil Engineering, later renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, in the town of Roorkee in northern India. ... Engineers at Thomason assisted with the construction of northern India's largest canal, the Ganges Canal, begun in 1842 and completed in 1854. ... Little existed in Britain itself in the nineteenth century that would approach the standard of formalized civil engineering training in India.
- ^ "Departments, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". iitr.ac.in. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
technical institutions in the country having the largest number of academic units
- ^ "Department of Electrical Engineering". IIT Roorkee. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Department of Architecture and Planning". IIT Roorkee. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Department of Pulp and Paper Technology". IIT Roorkee Website. IIT Roorkee. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "About the Institute, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". Iitr.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Geography". Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ "IIT-Roorkee campus inaugurated in Greater Noida". The Indian Express. 4 April 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2012.