National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

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website = [http://www.nitt.edu www.nitt.edu] The National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, NIT Trichy, (formerly Regional Engineering College (REC), Trichy) is situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of the Kaveri River. NITT is located in Thuvakudi on the Trichy-Tanjore national highway and 17 kilometers from Trichy Railway Junction. National Institute of Technology Trichy is one of the 20 National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India. Started in 1964 it is a leading engineering institution in the country and has consistently been rated as one of the top engineering schools in the nation. Today, NITT is an autonomous co-educational technological institute, with 10 undergraduate and 22 graduate programs. Undergraduate programs lead to the B.Tech. degrees, while the graduate students and postgraduate students earn M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees respectively. NITT also has a management and architecture school.

History

The NITT was started as a co-operative venture of the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1964 with a view to catering to the needs of man-power in technology for the country. The college has been conferred with autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development. Because of this rich experience, this institution was granted Deemed University Status with the approval of the UGC/AICTE and Govt. of India in the year 2003 and renamed as National Institute of Technology. NITT was registered under Societies Registration Act XXVII of 1975.

The Chairman, Mr. R. Seshasayee of Ashok Leyland Ltd. was elected to office in 2005 and the Director of NITT is Prof. M. Chidambaram from 2005. Presently the institute is undergoing an accelerated growth phase through the World Bank funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program.

The vision of NITT is "to contribute to India and the World through excellence in scientific and technical education; to serve as a valuable resource for industry and society; and increase the human values and sustain the heritage of India." The values include Academic integrity and Accountability, Equality, Social Relevance, Intellectual Excellence and Creativity, and Entrepreneurship. Its mission is:
*To promote academic growth by offering state-of-the-art undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs.
*To generate new knowledge by engaging in cutting-edge research.
*To identify, based on an informed perception of Indian, regional and global needs, areas of specialization upon which the Institute can concentrate.
*To undertake collaborative projects which offer opportunities for long-term interaction with academia and industry.
*To develop human potential to its fullest extent of intellectual capability.

Academics

Admissions to the undergraduate course is extremely competitive through the AIEEE, while the admission to the post-graduate programs requires competitive score in GATE. The alumni of the institution have excelled in various fields and are well positioned in a number of government and private sectors.

The Institute has several departments along with a faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical support staff and an effective administration. The various departments in the institute are:

*Engineering
**Chemical Engineering
**Civil Engineering
**Computer Science & Engineering
**Computer Applications
**Electrical and Electronics Engineering
**Electronics and Communications Engineering
**Instrumentation and Control Engineering
**Mechanical Engineering
**Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
**Production Engineering
*Science
**Chemistry
**Mathematics
**Physics
**Computer Applications

*Business and Humanities
**Humanities
**Management Studies
**Architecture Multicol-end

Rankings

The college has consistently been ranked as a top engineering schools in India. The following are recently published rankings by major indian magazines

*DataQuest Magazine - Best engineering schools in India - Rank 8 in 2005
*India Today - Best Engineering Schools in 2007 - Rank 10
*Outlook Magazine Survey - Best Engineering Schools in India in 2007 - Rank 12

Campus

Residential facilities are provided for most of the students and staff in the spacious college campus of about convert|800|acre|km2|1, one of the largest campuses in India. Essential and basic amenities including a hospital, post & telegraph facilities, a telecom center, fully computerized State Bank of India branch with ATM facility, a book shop, a reprographic center, canteens, A swimming pool, Co-op. Stores are provided in the campus making it a self-contained mini-township.

Academic buildings

The academic zone of the institute includes the ten departments buildings, laboratories, auditorium, a centralized lecture theater building, the state-of-the-art computer centers that comprise the Octagon, and the main library. A new digital library, a primary school building and a modern hospital are some of the many projects and buildings currently under construction in the campus.

Residential hostels

The residential zones primarily comprise thirteen boys and one ladies hostels. They accommodate 2507 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Committees consisting of staff representatives and elected student representatives manage them. The messes are equipped to serve both South Indian and North Indian dishes as the student fabric is of a truly national character. The institute has its own transport for procuring the raw materials for the messes.

Each hostel is managed by a Warden. The first year UG boys hostels have two resident deputy wardens, while the ladies hostel has three resident deputy wardens. The Hostel Executive Committee headed by the Convener and the DCW coordinates the work among wardens and deputy wardens. Hostels are provided with amenities like televisions, DOT telephones, Intercom, water purifiers and coolers, indoor and outdoor sports kits, washing machines, and student-managed amenity centres. The Hostel office consisting of Hostel Manager, one Senior Superintendent, and supporting staff looks after the day-to-day operations. The fourteen hostels are:
* Agate
* Beryl
* Coral
* Diamond
* Emerald
* Garnet A
* Garnet B
* Jade
* Lapis
* Opal (Ladies)
* Pearl
* Ruby
* Sapphire
* Topaz

Administration buildings

The administrative building, popularly referred to as the Ad-Block, and characterised by its clock tower houses the administrative centers of the institute as well as the offices of the Director and Deans.

The maintenance of the campus is carried out by the estate and electrical maintenance department, that carries out electrical and civil maintenance operations, the refrigeration maintenance department and the new hostel administrative office. The campus is provided with several security posts and a central security and surveillance centre. All department buildings and hostels have well trained and equipped security guards.

The Octagon

NITT's computer support facility is the Octagon Computer Center, this center is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). Octagon mainly uses Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its preferred operating system, the web server runs on Fedora while email servers run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as OS. It has a Sun sponsored lab running Solaris. NIT-Trichy has a campus-wide-network Local Area Network with 10Gbit/s backbone and an 10 Mbit/s Internet connection through Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).

Notable alumni

* Shanmugam Nagappan, Senior Vice President - IT, Insight Enterprises, Dallas, USA.
* Guruswami Ravichandran, Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
* K.Ramesh, Professor and Head of Applied Mechanics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IITM);who helped found the Photoelasticity Lab in IITM, which is one of a kind in India
* Satya Prabhakar, Founder and CEO of Sulekha.com - the largest portal for Indian community.
* Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan, Technical Lighting Director of the Shrek Oscar winning team. Vanitha graduated from REC Trichy with a bachelor degree in Architecture. Since her Oscar winning movie, she has spoken in NIT Trichy in the A2 hall to proud faculty members of the Architecture department. She is an inspiration to many budding Architects in NITT.
* Ram Krishnamurthy, made it to the MIT "Technology Review" magazine 2006, Top 35 Young Innovators List. He graduated from NIT-Trichy in Electrical engineering.
* Srikanth Padmanabhan, is Vice President and General Manager of Cummins Emissions Solutions based in Columbus, IN, USA. Srikanth holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy (Class of 1985) and a Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1991.
* Jana Kanyadan, is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer for American Public Media, based in Minneapolis/St Paul, USA. Jana graduated in 1991 from REC Trichy (Mechanical Engineering), has a Masters from Iowa State University and MBA from Duke University.
* N. Chandrasekaran, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Tata Consultancy services
* R. Chandrasekharan , President and Managing Director , Cognizant Technology Solutions.
* Kumar Ramaswamy, Chief Technology Officer and ex-Worldwide Head of Research, Thomson Inc., a French Media and Entertainment Company. Kumar was also awarded the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award in 2000 by the IEEE Institute's Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society He has an MSEE from Vanderbilt, MS(Mathematics) and PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As of March 2008, he holds 56 US patents.
* Dr. KR Sridhar, Former advisor to NASA on Mars missions and nanotechnology. Fortune Magazine recognized him as "One of the Top Five Futurists that are inventing tomorrow, today".
* Jacob Kurien, Former Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Titan Industries's Jewellery Business Unit
* Shri T.Sankaralingam, Chairman & Managing Director of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited
* Shri R.Ravimohan, Managing Director & CEO of CRISIL. the India's first Electronic Stock Exchange and World fourth largest credit rating company. He is a member of technical advisory committee for the Reserve Bank of India and is an MBA from Harvard Business School
* S. Janakiraman, President & CEO of R&D Services of Mindtree Consulting
* Vice Admiral SKK Krishnan
*S.daniel, Founder and CEO at Gaea Global

tudent life

The spirit of being in NITT is the "freedom" one gets, to explore life, without compulsions, without any crushing force from academic pressures; generally people pursue one or more skills, join clubs and groups to work for their own self on something disconnected from academics.

The best part about NIT Trichy (specially engineering courses) is that the intake of students is from all over India. Students have to secure top ranks in the very competitive All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) to obtain admissions (50% of the seats are reserved for TamilNadu students and the other 50% of the seats are reserved for rest of India). The end result is that for any branch, there are students of different states/culture/language. As most of the students stay in hostel, it gives them a chance to get to know each other better. Everyone learns to respect the different lifestyles of each individual.

Extracurricular activities include participation in NCC, [http://www.nitt.edu/home/students/clubsnassocs/social/nss/ NSS] , literary clubs, trekking clubs, photographic clubs and students' chapters of IEEE, SPICMACAY, Entrepreneurship Cell, CRY. A modern gymnasium and other sports facilities are also available in the campus.

FestivalsProminent events at NITT include Festember, a 3 day cultural extravaganza for colleges in the region. Technical symposia are conducted by the departments, during the months of January to March, every year.
* FESTEMBER [http://www.festember.org/] , an annual cultural and literary festival, held in the month of September.
* PRAGYAN , an annual technical festival (started in 2005).
* [http://www.nitt.edu/home/students/events/nittfest/ NITTFEST] , an annual inter-departmental cultural and literary festival.

Student Organizations
*Entrepreneurship Cell of NITT

Technical Clubs
*ACM Student's Chapter (First Chapter in India)
*DELTA,NITT
*SAE, NITT
*IEEE Student Branch, NITT
*Robotics and Machine Intelligence, NITT
*SPIDER,NITT
*PSI, NITT

Cultural Organizations
* [http://www.nitt.edu/portal/carnatic Amruthavarshini]
*Dance Troupe of NITT]
*Music Troupe of NITT]
*The Thespians' Society of NITT]
*Balls by Picasso, the Literary Society of NITT
*Cinema Paradiso

Social Clubs
*AAYAM Club of NITT
*CRY Club of NITT
*Wisdom Club
*Rotaract Club of Rock City
*Rotaract Club of NITT
*UNESCO Club of NITT
*Leo Club of NITT
*Apekshaa Club of NITT
*Tamizh Mandram, NITT
*Karate Club, NITT

External links

* [http://www.nitt.edu/ Official homepage]
* [http://www.nitt.edu/tour/ Virtual Campus Tour]
* [http://www.connectnit.org/ ConnectNIT]
* [http://recal.nitt.edu/ RECAL] -NITT/REC Alumni Group