- Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology
-
Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology 
Established 1979 Admin. staff 300 Postgraduates 3500 Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India
12°57′52.9″N 77°30′22.81″E / 12.964694°N 77.5063361°ECoordinates: 12°57′52.9″N 77°30′22.81″E / 12.964694°N 77.5063361°ECampus 26 acres (110,000 m2), 15 km from Bangalore city on Outer Ring Road. Affiliations Autonomous, under VTU, affiliated with AICTE Website Dr.AIT Official website Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology (Dr. AIT) is an Autonomous engineering college located on Outer Ring Road, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, India.
Founded by M.H. Jayprakash Narayan in 1979, and named after Dr B. R. Ambedkar, the institute is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum and is accredited by AICTE.[1] The institute offers both graduate and postgraduate courses. The institute has been granted academic autonomy, which means the institute can frame its own syllabus and conduct its own examinations.
Dr. P Martin Jebraj is the principal of the college.
Courses
The institute offers Bachelor of Engineering degrees in
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Computer Science Engineering
- Information Science Engineering
- Telecommunication Engineering
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Medical Electronics
- Industrial Engineering and Management[2]
The college also offers Master of Technology courses in Computer Science & Engineering and VLSI Design & Embedded Systems.[3] The college also offers 2 years full time MBA[4] and 3 years MCA[5] courses.
Department of Electronics and Communication
It has an intake of 120 students. The department comes under the grant-in-aid scheme of the Government of Karnataka in 1992. The PG course M.Tech in VLSI Design and Embedded System was started in 2003 with an intake of 18. Prof G. V. Jayaramaiah is the head of the department. He pursued PhD degree in the field of power electronics from Indian Institute Of Technology. The students are doing project works in organizations such as IISc, NAL, HAL, ISRO, BEL, BHEL, WIPRO, LRDE, DRDO, C-DoT, etc. The department organizes guest lectures from industrial experts. Young Minds is the technical forum of the department.
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
The department of Industrial Engineering and Management was established in 1984. The department came under the grant-in-aid code of the Government of Karnataka in 1992 with an intake of 30 students per year. Dr. G. Rajendra heads the department.
ABIDE logo
ABIDE is the student group of the department, formed for the welfare of the students during the engineering course by providing industry interaction, student cultural and technical activities and mentoring.
Department of Information Science and Engineering
It has an intake of 60 students. The department came under the grant-in-aid scheme of the Government of Karnataka in 1992. Mrs. Prabha. R heads the department. Students have won at the VTU Fest (including a recent one at DSIT, Bangalore). The students do project works in organizations such as IISc, Siemens, NAL, HAL, ISRO, BEL, BHEL, WIPRO, LRDE, DRDO, and C-DoT. The department organizes guest lectures from industrial experts.
The department has also consistently won in the Maitri fest (welcoming fest for all departments) and has been adjudged the best 7 out of 12 times.
[6]==Department of Mechanical Engineering== Established in 1980, the Mechanical Engineering department provides education and training in mechanical engineering.
Dr. B.M. Nandeeshaiah heads the department. He holds a PhD from IIT Bombay.
The department is accredited by NBA and has received funding from DST, AICTE and TEQIP. It was the first to have a recognized R&D Center for pursuing research activities. Vijay Zaveri Research Centre for Composite Materials is the first of its kind among the local colleges.
A fest called mAITri in which AIT stands for Ambedkar Institute of Technology is conducted by the department's students every year for freshers.
Department of Civil Engineering
Established in 1980, Dr.C. Nanjundaswamy heads the department.
Students visits are arranged to industries like cement industry, waste management units, bridges and flyover construction sites. Staff are involved in consultancy work like design of structures, soil investigation, and material testing, and have been retained as consultants by agencies like Karnataka Land Army Corporation.
The Technological club of the Department conducts technical programmes. The department encourages sports activities. A fest called mAITri in which AIT stands for Ambedkar Institute of Technology is conducted by this department students every year for freshers.
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Established in 1980. Intake of students is 60. The department is headed by Dr & Prof. B V Sumangala. She obtained PhD in the field of 'high voltage engineering' from IISc. The department came under grant-in-aid scheme of Government of Karnataka in 1992.
The teaching staff consists of one professors, two assistant professors, six senior lecturers and two lecturers. The average professional experience of the staff is 10 years with the senior most staff of the department having 19 years of experience.
One staff member has completed PhD and four staff members are pursuing doctoral degree. All the staff members are members of prestigious professional bodies like ISTE and IEI.
The department has three laboratory halls with a total area of about 7,200 sq. ft. The department has modernized three labs at a cost of Rs. 19 lakhs with AICTE grants under MODROB Scheme.
The students are sent on industrial visit to various factories and power project sites. 'Power club' is the technical club of the department. Many students are presenting technical paper in various colleges.
The department organised a workshop for the final year students for the improvement of their skills for training and placement activity.
Sayantan Bhadra (placed at INFOSYS, Bangalore), of 2002–2006 batch has secured IX Rank (81.32%) in the VTU Exams.
Department of Instrumentation
Established in 1987, Dr. M. Meenakshi(PhD IISc) heads the department. This department has an intake of 30 student and also serves as the center for Virtual Instrumentation and ISA Bangalore Chapter.
Department of Telecommunication
Established in 1991, Prof. B. Sivakumar heads the department.
Department of Medical Electronics
Established in 1999, Prof. A. P. Manjunath heads the department.
Campus Placements
Prof. A. P. Manjunath heads the placement cell. TCS, HCL, MINDTREE, MPHASYS, TITAN, SASKEN, ORACLE hired students recently. A good number of students get placed in these companies each year.
References
- ^ AIT :: Affiliations
- ^ AIT :: Under Graduate
- ^ AIT :: Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
- ^ AIT :: Department of MBA
- ^ AIT :: Department of MCA
- ^ first internal test time table
External links
Categories:- India school stubs
- Engineering colleges in Karnataka
- Memorials to Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
