Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology

Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology
Established	2002
Director	R1
Location	Chandigarh, Punjab, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Punjab Technical University
Website	Chitkara.edu.in

govt. engineering school in Chandigarh, Punjab, north India. It was founded by Dr. Ashok Chitkara in 1998 and is approved by the All-India Council of Technical Education and affiliated to Punjab Technical University. It has a strong emphasis on networking and collaborating with regional technical corporations.

Chitkara Educational Trust initiated its higher education programs in the year 2002 on the Punjab campus which is around 30 km (19 mi) from Chandigarh and the same distance from Patiala and Ambala.

Engineering program

The institute offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (BTech) programs:

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering

CIET also offers:

• Three-year Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
• Three-year Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
• Three-year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
• Two-year Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Achievements

The institute was ranked 49th in the top 50 private engineering institutions in the country by MINT (Hindustan Times – Cfore survey for the year 2008-09.

Chitkara Educational Trust has been selected to be the regional partner in North India to represent “Indo – USA collaboration for Engineering Education” (IUCEE) which is an association of American universities' engineering schools.

Wipro Technologies accredited CIET as a Trusted Academic Partner by virtue of having met the qualifying standards of excellence in Wipro's Institutional accreditation framework.

Chitkara is one of the two institutes in India and one among five selected from the Asia Pacific region, including the Japan Region, that got the HP Innovations award of USD 170,000 for creating technology which is accessible to everyone.

Chitkara and Synopsys have joined to conduct an ME Program in Microelectronic Systems.

The institute has been nominated to the Infosys Campus Connect program which links up 400 engineering schools of the country.

Also a team named "The TrailBlazers" from the institute participated in the NASA 2nd Annual Luanabotics Mining Competition held at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.^[1]

A team of 8 from Chitkara won the Silver Medal in the 39th All India Engineering students Design Competition - 2008 conducted by National Design and Research Forum, Institution of Engineers (India) for their design of a "low cost, high efficiency, egronomic, electric wheelchair". The team consisted of Vaibhav Sharma, Vikas Chhabra, Simranjeet Singh, Prashant Mohan, Shashank Mankotia, Siddarth Kaul, Sushant Dhamija and Navjot Singh.

Notable alumni

References

1. ^ 2011, Lunabotics mining Competition. "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". Lunabotics homepage. NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/kennedy/technology/lunabotics.html. 

External links

• Official website

See also

Chandigarh portal