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National Institute of Technology Calicut
File:Nitc logo.png
MottoTamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya
Motto in English
From darkness, Lead us unto Light
TypeInstitute of National Importance
Established1961
Academic staff
150
Undergraduates3000
Postgraduates700
Location
Calicut
,
Kerala
,
India
Campus420 acres (1.7 km2), rural/semi-urban
DirectorSandeep Sancheti[1][2]
Websitewww.nitc.ac.in

The National Institute of Technology Calicut (Malayalam: നാഷണൽ ഇൻസ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ട് ഓഫ് ടെക്നോളജി കാലിക്കറ്റ്‌; Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कालिकट) (NITC) is a federally funded technical university and an institute of national importance governed by an act passed by the Parliament of India. NITC campus is situated 22 km north-east of Kozhikode (Calicut) city on the Calicut - Mukkam road.[3] It was established in 1961 and was known as Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC) until 2002. NITC is one of the 20 National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India for imparting technical education to students from all over the country. NITC is among the very few institutions in the country to host a Supercomputer of its own.[4]

History

Initial years

The Administrative Block

NITC was set up in 1961 as Regional Engineering College, Calicut (CREC) as the ninth of its kind and the first one to be established during the Third Five-Year Plan period. Until the formation of Calicut University in 1963, the institute was affiliated with Kerala University. It was largely due to the efforts of Pattom Thanu Pillai, then Chief Minister of Kerala, that the institute came into being. Prof. S. Rajaraman, first principal of Government Engineering College, Thrissur was appointed as the special officer in 1961 to organise the activities of the college until Dr. M. V. Keasva Rao took charge as the first principal of the college. The classes were initially held at the Government Polytechnic at West Hill, Calicut before it moved to its present campus in 1963. The college started with an annual intake of 125 students for the undergraduate courses, on a campus of 120 acres (0.49 km2).

Expansion

Lecture Hall

The intake for the undergraduate courses was increased to 250 in 1966, 150 for the first year and 100 for the preparatory course. The annual intake was reduced from 250 to 200 from the year 1968-69 on account of industrial recession.

After Prof S. Unnikrishnan Pillai took charge as principal in 1983, the Training and Placement Department was started to organise campus recruitments for students. The college moved into the area of Information Technology in 1984 with the commissioning of multi-user PSI Omni system and HCL workhorse PCs. In 1987 the college celebrated 25 years of its existence, and postgraduate courses were started. The CEDTI was established on the campus the following year.

In 1990 Shankar Dayal Sharma inaugurated the Architecture Department Block and construction of a computer centre was completed. In 1996, the institute website (the first in Kerala) was launched. The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode functioned from the NIT Calicut campus in its first few years of existence before moving to its new campus in Kunnamangalam in 2003.

Recent developments

The Electronics Lecture Hall Complex

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, accorded NIT status to REC Calicut in June 2002 granting it academic and administrative autonomy. It was a lead institute under the World Bank-funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) which began in 2002. In 2003, students were first admitted to the flagship undergraduate B.Tech through the All India Engineering Entrance Exam. With the passing of the National Institutes of Technology Act in May 2007, NIT Calicut was declared an Institute of National Importance.[5] The National Institutes of Technology Act is the second legislation for technical education institutions after the Indian Institutes of Technology Act of 1961. In 2007 NIT Calicut raised its annual intake for its undergraduate program to 570.[6]

Departments and academics

Engineering departments

School of Natural Sciences

Schools

Centres

Allied department

Courses

Program Specialization
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Engineering Physics and Biotechnology.
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Undergraduate Program in Architecture.
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Structural Engineering, Traffic and Transportation Planning, Offshore Structures, Environmental Geo-technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Security, Digital Systems and Communication Engineering, Electronics Design and Technology, Telecommunication, Microelectronics and VLSI Design, Instrumentation and Control Systems, Computer Controlled Industrial Power, Energetics, Power Electronics, Industrial Engineering and Management, Thermal Sciences, Manufacturing Technology, Energy Management, Materials Science and Technology and Nanotechnology.
Master of Computer Application (M.C.A.) Graduate Programme in Applied Computer Science.
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Graduate Programme in Management Studies
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) Graduate Programme in Architecture.
Master of Science (Technology) (M.Sc.(Tech.)) three year Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Polymer Science and Technology, and Photonics
Ph.D. All Engineering and Science disciplines.

School of Management Studies

The School of Management Studies offers a two-year Master of Business (MBA) program for graduates in Engineering. The admission to the MBA will be based on CAT scores, performance in group discussions and interviews to be held in India.

IT Finishing School

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, has started IT finishing schools at NIT Calicut and seven other national institutions: the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) at Durgapur, Kurushetra, Jaipur, Surathkal, Trichy and Warangal. This school is supportd by NASSCOM and some of the major IT companies in India.[8]

International Liaison Office

The institute has set up an International Liaison Office to follow up the MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) signed between NITC and other institutions in the world. It also guides current students from abroad and those interested in joining the institute.

Academic Quality Management Initiatives

The institute has initiated an academic audit of all the programmes conducted based on a format prepared at a National Workshop on Academic Quality Management in which experts on technical education from IITs and other universities gave presentations. Academic audit has been conducted successfully during 2009 and 2010. A teacher evaluation by students has been place for the last several years and has been made online.

Facilities

Hostels

Ladies' Hostel

NITC is a fully residential institution with 12 hostels on the campus to accommodate students. The boys' hostels are named by letters A, B, C, D, E, F, F', G, PG I, PG II, and three girls' hostels (LH). A, B, and C hostels have triple rooms but accommodate four or five students per room due to increase in intake of students and shortage of hostel facilities. D, E, F, G, PG I, and PG II are single-seated but, due to high intake of students, some rooms are being used as doubles.

A hostel exclusively accommodates I year B.Tech students. II year B.Tech students are accommodated in the B and G hostels. III year B.Tech students are accommodated in C and G hostel. Final year B.Tech students are accommodated in D, E and F hostels. M.Tech. and MCA students reside in PG hostel. PG I hostel accommodates first-year students and some postgraduate students.

The boys' hostels are close to the academic area, while girls' hostels are in the residential campus. There are around 2200 students in NITC hostels. A mini-canteen is available in the hostel premises. STD/ISD facilities are available in almost all hostels.

Each hostel contains its own mess, and students are allowed to join the mess of any hostel. First years are allowed to join only A, PG I or PG II messes. The type of food served in the hostel messes are as follows:

  • Cosmopolitan: A, Gl, PG II (Kerala)
  • Vegetarian: C, E (North Indian), F (North Indian), PG I (Andhra)
  • Non-vegetarian: B, D, G.

There is an extension counter of the NITC Multipurpose Co-operative Society in A and D hostels. Students are permitted to use their own computers in their rooms. All hostels except A have their own LAN but hostels are not interconnected. Each hostel contains a common room with cable TV.

There are three hostels in NIT Calicut to accommodate female undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. programme students. Two cosmopolitan messes are available in the girls' hostel premises. Other facilities like mini-canteen, indoor shuttle court, gymnasium, and Cooperative Store Extension Counter are available in the girls' hostel.

Sports

NITC has a gymnasium, swimming pool, an open air theatre, an auditorium and facilities for outdoor sports like tennis, football, volleyball, badminton, roller blading, hockey and basketball. It also has a cricket ground where Ranji Trophy matches have been played.[9]

Central Library

The Central Computer Center

NITC's Central Library, with more than 100,000 books, is one of the largest technical libraries in India. It subscribes to more than 200 print journals. The institute has a digital library, Nalanda (Network of Automated Library and Archives), which houses online resources. Users from NITC and networked institutions can access around 17,000 journals, proceedings, databases, electronic theses, dissertations and online courses at Nalanda. It is part of the Indest consortium, which networks the libraries at technical institutions in India.

NITC has a supercomputer, Purna (Parallel Universal Remote Numerical Analyser), which is accessible from anywhere in the campus and is provided for the use of all students and faculty members. PURNA has a peak speed of 1.5 Tera Flops.[4]

Technology Business Incubator

The Technology Business Incubator (TBI) at NIT Calicut was set up with the help of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB). Its objective is to help the development of start-up ventures in electronics and IT.[10][11]

Culture and student life

NIT Calicut holds two major annual events, the techno-management festival Tathva, held in the monsoon semester and the cultural festival Ragam, which is held in the winter semester.

Tathva

Main article: Tathva

Tathva is the annual techno-management fest organized by NITC. It is usually held during the month of September and lasts for four days. Tathva has come to be regarded as one among the biggest technical festivals of South India. It has been held every year since its inception in 2001. Aimed at inspiring innovation and technical interest among students and awareness among the public, Tathva has played host to lectures, seminars, workshops, competitions, paper presentations, exhibitions, quizzes, model displays and robotics events. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Dr. Harold Kroto, Dr. Johans Orphal, Dr. Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), Suhas Gopinath were some of the highlights of the previous editions of Tathva.

Ragam

Open Air Theater
Main article: Ragam (festival)

Ragam is the cultural festival of NITC. Colleges and universities all over Kerala and outside the state compete with each other in events such as trivia quizzes, dance competitions, rock shows and music concerts. Some of the performers who have performed in previous years include Shaan, Shankar Mahadevan, Kartik, Benny Dayal, and Parikrama. 'Breathe Floyd' a Pink Floyd tribute band from the UK performed during Ragam 2009. Ragam 2010 featured KK, Naresh Iyer and "Higher On Maiden" a tribute band to Iron Maiden.

Ragam is held in the memory of the former student P. Rajan. He died after being held (ostensibly for being a Naxalite) in police custody.[12]

Student organizations

The student organizations at NITC include The Industrial and Planning Forum (IPF),teamunwired, the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) Students' Chapter, Club Mathematica, Literary and Debating Club, The Forum for Dance and Dramatics, Enquire (the NITC Quiz Club), the Nature Club and the Indian Cultural Association.

Professional bodies with student chapters include the Computer Society of India, the Indian Society for Technical Education, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and The Institution of Engineers (India).

Social work is part of the NITC curriculum. NITC has four units of the National Service Scheme on the campus. Club Unwired is the Radio Control(R/C) Modelling Club of NIT Calicut. There is a Foss/Linux users group at the campus - FOSSCell NITC.

Club Unwired also known as team Unwired has been in the forefront of technical activities in this institution. It is likely to be the only team from the state of Kerala to participate in Baja SAE, a very prestigious intercollegiate vehicle design competition.

Admissions

File:NITC entrance.jpg
Entrance to NIT Calicut

Students are taken in for the undergraduate courses through the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) conducted by CBSE, New Delhi. Around one million students wrote this test in 2009 to gain admission to one of 20 NITs. This makes it one of the largest such examinations in the world.[13] Admission to some other autonomous national level technical institutes (called Deemed University) is also through AIEEE.

Admission to the graduate M.Tech and PhD courses are primarily based on scores in the GATE exam, conducted by the IITs. Admission to the MCA programme is done through the NIMCET conducted by the NITs. The first NIMCET in 2006 was conducted by NIT Calicut. Faculty from other institutes work as research scholars in NITC under the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP). It is the national coordination centre for the QIP of polytechnic institutes.

Administration

Under the constitution of the National Institutes of Technology Act 2007, the President of India is the Visitor to the institute. The authorities of the institute are Board of Governors and the Senate. The Board is headed by the Chairman, who is appointed by the Visitor. The Director, who is the secretary of the Board, looks after the day-to-day running of the institute. The Board of Governors has nominees of the Central Government, the State Government, the NIT Council and the Institute Senate.

Rankings

  • In the Dataquest IDC-NASSCOM India T-School Rankings, NIT Calicut was ranked 9th in 2008.[14] It was ranked 14th overall in India in 2006[15] and 15th in 2007.
  • In the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (as of July 2009), NIT Calicut is ranked 16th in India.[16] It was ranked 10th in January 2008.
  • NIT Calicut has figured among the top ten institutes in India based on the performance of its students in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.
  • NIT Calicut was ranked among the top twenty colleges for Engineering by the magazine India Today in 2008 and 2009.

NITC people

Chairpersons

  • P. Rama Rao (2001–2005)
  • S. C. Tripathi (2005-)

Principals/directors

  • M. V. Keasva Rao (1961–1969)
  • K.M. Bahauddin (1969–1980)
  • P. K. Charlu (acting 1980-1983)
  • S. Unnikrishna Pillai (1983–1996)
  • M.P. Chandrasekharan (1996–2003)
  • S.S. Gokhale (2003–2004)
  • B.N. Nagaraj (acting 2004-2005)
  • K.N. Dutta (acting 2005)
  • G.R.C. Reddy (2005–2010)
  • E. Gopinathan (acting 2010-2011)
  • T. L. Jose (acting 2011)
  • Sandeep Sancheti (2011-)

Notable alumni

See also: List of notable NIT/REC alumni
  • Dileep Premachandran, cricket writer and journalist, The Times and Cricinfo (1992–1998)
  • Devadas D. Pillai - Intel Fellow, Director, Operational Decision Support Technology, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona, USA[1]
  • Mahendra Lawoti - Asst. Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Western Michigan University and Author of 'Towards A Democratic Nepal'[2]
  • Dinesh Kumar K.- Chief Engineer, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
  • Dr Mukesh Kashyap - Chairman, Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), East Midlands, England.
  • Dr Hari Harikumar /H.K Harikumar-Global Head,Vice President, Global Engineering, Ingersoll Rand, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Vivek Shenoy - Chief Technology Officer, Elina Networks
  • SS Raman(BTech 1974)- President, TVS Electronics and VP (MAIT)
  • Sanjeev Srivastava(BTech 1986)- founder and Chairman of realty firm Assotech
  • Avinash Agrawal (BTech ECE, 1999) - founder and CEO of software consulting firm Arosys Technologies Ltd.
  • Shanthi Padmanabhan - Vice-President (Worldwide), Philips Corp
  • Tarun Amla - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Isola Global
  • Manoj Agarwala - founder and Vice President, Business Development, GlobalLogic
  • Inderdeep Singh(BTech 1986) - Production Engineering Manager Ford Motor Company
  • P S Nair - Director (Satellites), Indian Space Research Organisation
  • Vishwadeep Khatri - Founder and lead facilitator of Benchmark Six Sigma, a Six Sigma training and certification organisation in India, heads India operations of Benchmark Certification Australia
  • Tomy Sebastian - Chief Scientist at Delphi Corporation
  • Manish Chakraborty - Director of Applications Development, Oracle Corporation
  • Sandeep Pradhan - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Jishnu Raghavan - Malayalam film actor.
  • Dr Prabhakaran Paleri, former Indian Navy and Coast Guard officer, scholar in national security studies, and Head, School of Management Studies, NIT, Calicut.
  • shareef teetees

Notable faculty members

  • Dr. S. Unnikrishna Pillai - Faculty (Royal Military College of Canada), author of RCC Design in Canada (McGraw Hill-Ryerson), Founder-Director (Co-operative Academy of Professional Education), Fellow of ASCE
  • P. M. Jussay - Faculty (Late) ,historian. Author of The Jews of Kerala.
  • Dr K P Mohandas, Professor Electrical Engineering (since Sept 1987), Visiting Professor, Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Cukurova University, Adana Turkey and European University of Lefke, North Cyprus, Senior Member IEEE, Chair, IEEE Malabar Subsection and Fellow Institution of Engrs India. Author of Modern Control Engineering, Pearson Sanguine.
  • Dr. Mohammed Ameen, Professor of Civil Engineering. Author of Boundary Element Analysis, Theory and Programming (CRC Press USA) and Computational Elasticity (Alpha Science, UK)
  • Dr. C. B. Sobhan - Professor, School of Nano Science and Technology and Department of Mechanical Engineering. Visiting Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Author of Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer-Fundamentals and Engineering Applications (Taylor and Francis - CRC Press USA)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Protests continue at NITC". The Hindu. August 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Administration National Institute of Technology Calicut
  3. ^ [www.optics.nitc.ac.in/LOCATION.html LOCATION - National Institute of Technology Calicut]
  4. ^ a b Super Computing Facility at NITC
  5. ^ "National Institutes of Technology Bill" (PDF).
  6. ^ Bablu, J.S. "Looking for the NIT Advantage", The Hindu, June 19, 2007. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  7. ^ "Breaking new paths in Nanotechnology". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
  8. ^ "IT Finishing School". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 2007-04-03. Retrieved 2007-05-09.
  9. ^ "Regional Engineering College Cricket Ground". Retrieved 2006-10-06.
  10. ^ "Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in India". Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  11. ^ "Spinning success stories in entrepreneurship". Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  12. ^ "Ragam at NIT Calicut". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 2006-02-23. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
  13. ^ "All India Engineering Entrance Exam". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  14. ^ Chaturvedi, Shashwat. "India's Top T-Schools", "DATAQUEST", June 22, 2007. Accessed July 6, 2007.
  15. ^ "Dataquest Ranking of Indian T-Schools". Retrieved 2006-10-06.
  16. ^ "Webometrics Rankings of Universities in the Indian Subcontinent".
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