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Indian Institutes of Technology
A Presentation
Prepared By:
Mrs. Avanti Joshi
IIT Kanpur
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Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
IITs are a group of fifteen
autonomous engineering and
technology oriented institutes ofhigher education established and
declared as Institutes of National
Importance by the Parliament of
India.
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IITs were created to train scientistsand engineers, with the aim of
developing a skilled workforce to
support the economic and socialdevelopment of India after
independence in 1947.
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History
History of the IIT system dates back
to 1946 when Sir Jogendra Singh of
the Viceroys Executive Council setup a committee whose task was to
consider the creation of Higher
Technical Institutions for post-war
industrial development in India.
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History (Cont.)
The Sarkar committee recommendedestablishment of IITs in various parts
of India, affiliated to secondary
institutions with the aim of producingnot just undergraduates, but
researchers and academicians.
These institutes were expected to
maintain high educational standards.
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Original IITs
1. As a step towards this
direction, the first IIT was
established in 1951, in
Kharagpur (nearKolkata) in the state of
West Bengal.
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2. IIT Bombay was
founded in 1958 atPowai, Mumbai with
assistance from
UNESCO and the
Soviet Union, which
provided technical
expertise.
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3. IIT Madras is located in the city of
Chennai in Tamil Nadu. It wasestablished in 1959 with technical
assistance from the Government of
West Germany.
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4. IIT Kanpur was established in 1959
in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
During its first 10 years, IIT Kanpur
benefited from the KanpurIndo-
American Programme (KIAP),
where a consortium of nine USuniversities. Under the program,
faculty members from these
Institutions assisted the Institute inthe setting up of the academic
programs and development of
laboratories.
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5. Established as the College of
Engineering in 1961, located inHauz Khas was renamed as IIT
Delhi.6. IIT Guwahati
was established in1994 near the city
of Guwahati
(Assam) on thenorthen banks of
the Brahmaputra
River.
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7. IIT Roorkee, originally known as the
University of Roorkee, wasestablished in 1847 as the first
engineering college of the British
Empire. Located in Uttarakhand, the
college was renamed The Thomson
College of Civil Engineering in
1854. It became first technical
university of India in 1949 and wasrenamed University of Roorkee
which was included in the IIT
system in 2001.
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New IITs
Eight more IITs in the following States
have also been setup:Bihar (Patna)
Rajasthan (Jodhpur)
Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad)Himachal Pradesh (Mandi)
Orissa (Bhubaneshwar)
Madhya Pradesh (Indore)
Gujarat (Gandhinagar)
Punjab (Ropar)
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Admission to undergraduate B.Tech.,
M.Sc., and dual degree (BT-MT)
programs are through IIT Joint
Entrance Examination (JEE).
Admission
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Admission (cont.)
Admission to most of thepostgraduate courses in IITs is
granted through various written
entrance examinations: GATE (forM.Tech.), JAM (for M.Sc.) and CEED
(for M.Des.).
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Admission (cont.)
The admission for the Ph.D. program
is based primarily on a personal
interview, though candidates mayalso have to appear for written tests.
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IITs receive large grants compared to
other engineering colleges in India.
The amount varies between Rs.
9001,300 million per year for each
IIT. Other sources of funds include
student fees and research funding
from governmental agencies and theprivate industry.
Features
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Features (cont.)
The availability of resources hastranslated into superior infrastructure
and qualified faculty in the IITs and
consequently higher competitionamong students to gain admissions
into the IITs.
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Features (cont.)
IITs subsidise undergraduate student
fees by approximately 80% and
provide scholarships to all M.Tech.and doctoral students in order to
encourage them for higher studies.
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The various IITs function
autonomously, and their special status
as Institutes of National Importance
facilitates the smooth running of IITs,
virtually free from both regional as
well as student politics.
Features (cont.)
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Features (cont.)
IITs can create their own curricula
and adapt rapidly to the changes ineducational requirements, free from
bureaucratic hurdles.
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Features (cont.)
The government does not directly
control internal policy decisions of
IITs (such as faculty recruitment) but
has representation on the IIT Council.
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Features (cont.)
The academic policies, teaching,training and research activities of
each IIT are reviewed by its Senate
to maintain the highest standards.The senate comprises all
professors of the Institute and
student representatives.
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Features (cont.)
We follow the credit system of
performance evaluation, with
proportional weighting of coursesbased on their importance. Relative
grading is preferred by considering
the overall performance of the class.
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Success story
Among the factors contributing to the
success of IITs are stringent faculty
recruitment procedures and industry
collaboration.
This combination of success factors has
led to the concept of the IIT Brand.
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Success story (cont.)
IIT brand was reaffirmed when theUnited States House of
Representatives passed a resolution
honouring Indian Americans andespecially graduates of IIT for their
contributions to the American society.
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Success story (cont.)
Similarly, China also recognised thevalue of IITs and has planned to
replicate the model.
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Thank you.