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National Institute of Technology Calicut
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Motto Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya
Motto in English Lead from the darkness to the light
Established 1961
Type Institute of National Importance
Chairman S.C. Tripathi
Faculty 150
Undergraduates 1600
Postgraduates 700
Location Calicut, Kerala, India
Campus 420 acres (1.7 km2), Rural/Semi-Urban
Director Dr. G.R.C. Reddy
Website www.nitc.ac.in

National Institute of Technology Calicut (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कालिकट) or NITC is a federally funded technical university established by an act of the Indian Parliament, located at Kettangal in Chathamangalam which is situated about 22 km north-east of Kozhikode (Calicut) City in Kerala, India. It was formerly known as Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC). NITC is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technology - one in each major state of India - established by the Government of India for fostering national integration by imparting technical education to students from all over the country. NITC is among the very few institutions in the country to have a Supercomputer of its own.[1]

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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. Till the formation of the Calicut University in 1963 the institute was affiliated with the Kerala University. It was largely due to the efforts of Pattom Thanu Pillai, the Chief Minister of Kerala that the institute came into being. Prof.S.Rajaraman was appointed the special officer in 1961 to organise the activities of the college till Dr. M. V. Keasva Rao took charge as the first principal of the college. The classes were first 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 under-graduate courses, in a campus of 120 acres.

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 with a view to organise campus recruitments for students. The college moved into the area of Information Technology as early as 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 new postgraduate were started and the CEDTI was established in 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 inaugurated. 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

Aerial view of the Electronics Lecture Hall Complex (ELHC) at NITC.

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 has been declared an Institute of National Importance. [2] 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. [3]

Courses and Academics

Engineering Departments

Allied Departments

Schools

Centres

Courses

Programme Specialization
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Chemical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production and Management Engineering, Engineering Physics and Bio-Technology.
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Undergraduate Programme in Architecture.
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Structural Engineering, Traffic and Transportation Planning, Offshore Structures, Environmental Geotechnology, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Security, Digital Systems and Communication Engineering, Electronics Design and Technology,Telicommunication, 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

NIT Calicut has set up the School of Management Studies (SOMS), which will initially offer the two-year Master of Business (MBA) program. The admission to the MBA will be based on CAT scores.

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.[5]

International Liaison Office

The Institute has set up an International Liaison Office mainly to follow up the MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) signed between NITC and other Institutions in the world and also to guide the students from abroad currently studying and those interested in joining the Institute in future.

Facilities

Hostels

Ladies' Hostel

NITC is a fully residential institution and it has 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 3 Ladies Hostels (LH). A, B, and C Hostels are three-seated but currently accommodate four students per room due to increase in intake of students. 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 double seated rooms.

A-Hostel exclusively accommodates I Year B.Tech. students. II Year B.Tech. students are accommodated in the B and PG II Hostels. III Year B.Tech. students are accommodated in C-Hostel. Final year B.Tech. students are accommodated in D and F hostels. M.Tech. and MCA students reside in G-Hostel. Post graduate students and Research Scholars reside in PG I and PG II hostels.

The boys' hostels are situated close to the academic area, while ladies' hostels are within the residential campus. Total number of inmates of NITC Hostels is nearly 2245. A mini canteen is also 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. The type of food served in the Hostel Messes are as follows: A-Hostel - cosmopolitan, B-Hostel - non-vegetarian, C-Hostel - vegetarian, D-Hostel - non-vegetarian (Kerala), E-Hostel - vegetarian (North Indian), F-Hostel - vegetarian (North Indian), G-Hostel - cosmopolitan, PG I - cosmopolitan (Andhra), PG II - cosmopolitan (Kerala).

An extension counter for NITC Multipurpose Co-operative Society is functioning in A and D hostels. Students are permitted to use their own computers in their rooms. All Hostels except for the A-Hostel are connected by LAN. Each hostel also contains a common room where students can watch cable TV.

There are three hostels in NIT Calicut to accommodate lady students of Undergratuate, Post Graduate and Ph.D. Programmes. These hostels are located within the residential area of the campus. Two cosmopolitan messes are available within the ladies' hostel premises. Other facilities like Mini Canteen, Indoor Shuttle Court, Gymnasium, and Cooperative Store Extension Counter are also available in the Ladies' Hostel.

Sports

NITC has a well-equipped Gymnasium, a Swimming Pool, an Open Air Theatre (OAT), 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.[6]

Central Library, NALANDA & PURNA

The Central Computer Center

NITC's Central Library, with more than 100,000 books is one of the largest technical libraries in India. It also subscribes to more than 200 print journals.The institute has a digital library, NALANDA (Network of Automated Library and Archives), which houses a good collection of 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 also part of the INDEST consortium, which aims at networking the libraries at the important 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.[1]

Technology Business Incubator

The TBI at NIT Calicut was set up with the help of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB). Its primary objective is to help the development of start-up ventures in Electronics & IT.[7][8]

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 after which the normal academic session resumes.Tathva over the years has come to be regarded as one among the biggest technical festivals of South India.It has been held seven times since its inception in 2001. Aimed at inspiring innovation and technical interest among students and awareness among the public, Tathva has played host to various lectures, seminars, workshops, competitions, paper presentations, exhibitions, quizzes, model displays and robotics events in the previous editions.

Ragam

Ragam is the cultural festival of NITC. Colleges and universities all over Kerala and outside the state compete with each other in events as wide ranging as trivia quizzes and dance competitions to be crowned champions of the festival. Ragam has seen rock shows and music concerts by major Indian performers in previous editions. Some of the notable performers who have lighted up the shows in previous years include Shaan, Shankar Mahadevan, Kartik, Benny Dayal, and Parikrama. 'Breathe Floyd' a Pink Floyd tribute band from UK performed during Ragam '09.

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.[9]

Student Organisations

The student organizations at NITC like the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) Students Chapter, Club Mathematica,the Literary & Debating Club (L&D), the Industrial & Planning Forum (IPF),Enquire (The NITC Quiz Club), the Nature Club and the Indian Cultural Association (ICA) organize various activities throughout the year. Professional bodies such as the Computer Society of India, the Indian Society for Technical Education, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and The Institution of Engineers (India) have Student Chapters at NIT Calicut. Social work is part of the NITC curriculum. NITC has four units of the National Service Scheme (NSS) functioning in its campus. Club Unwired is the recently started Radio Control(R/C) modelling club of NIT Calicut.

Admissions

Entrance to NIT Calicut

Students are taken in for the undergraduate courses is 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[10] 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. Besides this faculty from other institutes work as research scholars in NITC under the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP). It is also 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 also has nominees of the Central Government, the State Government, the NIT Council & the Institute Senate.

Rankings

  • In the Dataquest IDC-NASSCOM India T-School Rankings, NIT Calicut was ranked 9th in 2008.[11] It was ranked 14th overall in India in 2006[12] and 15th in 2007
  • 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-)

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 & Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona.[1]
  • Mahendra Lawoti - Asst. Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Western Michigan University & Author of 'Towards A Democratic Nepal'[2]
  • Dr Prabhakaran Paleri- Former Director General, Indian Coast Guard
  • Dinesh Kumar K.- Chief Engineer, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
  • Dr Mukesh Kashyap - Chairman, Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), East Midlands, UK.
  • Vivek Shenoy - Chief Technology Officer, Elina Networks
  • SS Raman(BTech 1974)- President, TVS Electronics & VP (MAIT)
  • Sanjeev Srivastava(BTech 1986)- Founder and Chairman of realty firm Assotech
  • 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 - He is the founder and lead facilitator of Benchmark Six Sigma, the leading Six Sigma training and certification organisation in India. He alo heads India operations of Benchmark Certification Australia
  • Tomy Sebastian - Chief Scientist at Delphi corporation.
  • Sandeep Pradhan - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Jishnu Suriyakumaran - Malayalam film actor.

Notable Faculty Members

  • P. M. Jussay - Historian. Author of 'The Jews of Kerala'.
  • Dr. C. B. Sobhan - Professor, School of Nano Science and Technology and Department of Mechanical Engineering. Visiting Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Colorado, Boulder. Author: Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer-Fundamentals and Engineering Applications (Taylor and Francis - CRC Press USA)
  • Dr. Mohammed Ameen, Professor of Civil Engineering. Author: Boundary Element Analysis, Theory and Programming (CRC Press USA) and Computational Elasticity (Alpha Science, UK)
  • Dr. S. Unnikrishna Pillai-Faculty (Royal Military College of Canada), Author: RCC Design in Canada (McGraw Hill-Ryerson), Founder-Director (Co-operative Academy of Professional Education), Fellow of ASCE

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Super Computing Facility at NITC
  2. ^ "National Institutes of Technology Bill" (PDF). http://www.prsindia.org/docs/bills/1167468390/1167468390_1161330652_national_institute_of_technology.pdf. 
  3. ^ Bablu, J.S. "Looking for the NIT Advantage", "THE HINDU", June 19, 2007. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  4. ^ "Breaking new paths in Nanotechnology". http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2006/05/02/stories/2006050200270300.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-10. 
  5. ^ "IT Finishing School". http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2007/04/03/stories/2007040300030100.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
  6. ^ "Regional Engineering College Cricket Ground". http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/ground/58257.html. Retrieved 2006-10-06. 
  7. ^ "Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in India". http://www.nstedb.com/institutional/tbi.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-22. 
  8. ^ "Spinning success stories in entrepreneurship". http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/06/01/stories/2004060109070500.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-22. 
  9. ^ "Ragam at NIT Calicut". 2006-02-23. http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/23/stories/2006022307230300.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-10. 
  10. ^ "All India Engineering Entrance Exam". http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/29/stories/2007042914810400.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-22. 
  11. ^ Chaturvedi, Shashwat. "India's Top T-Schools", "DATAQUEST", June 22, 2007. Accessed July 6, 2007.
  12. ^ "Dataquest Ranking of Indian T-Schools". http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/2006/106062707.asp. Retrieved 2006-10-06. 
  13. ^ "Webometrics Rankings of Universities in the Indian Subcontinent". http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=in. 

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